湖南省邵东县2016高考英语单项选择和阅读理解精炼（7）
阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。
体裁：记叙文 话题：关爱动物 时间：7分钟
My husband and I had just opened up a pet sitting business earlier that year.Our customers had slowly risen from three to thirty a month.We were busy through those hot summer months，driving between visits.Our services were strictly held at the pet owner's home.It was almost too busy for the two of us，but we were making good money!
We asked pet owners new to our services to phone two weeks ahead so we had enough time to meet the owners and pets at their homes and make any following meeting before the owner leaves.
One day，we decided to take on a new customer just two days before they would leave.We met the family，filled in a form，and spent some time with their dog，Hercules.He playfully jumped on us and touched our hands and arms using his tongue.The family laughed as he did this，showing us that he was very loving.
Two days later I appeared at the house，alone.I came up to Hercules and said hello happily.I filled up his water bowl and cleaned any messes he made.Meanwhile，he was so lovely sitting beside.I thought this would be the good picture to send to the owners，a usual service.After the light and “click” sound went off，Hercules rushed at me.I didn't know what had just happened until I noticed the drops of blood.I ran out and did the only thing—calling my husband.
Then I went to neighbors for help.My husband arrived after ten minutes.The helpful
neighbor and my husband led Hercules back into his pen(圈)．Then my husband and I took off to the hospital.
I must have looked like I was shot when I walked into the hospital.The nurses quickly moved me to a room.I asked the doctor in a weak but playful manner，“Am I going to die？” He replied，“Finally.”
【语篇导读】 本文是一篇记叙文。作者和她丈夫从事给别人看护宠物的工作，工作非常繁忙。有一次，作者外出照看宠物却发生了意外。
1．According to the text，the author's work was ______.
A．tiring and dangerous
B．easy and free
C．well paid
D．done outdoors
解析 细节理解题。根据文章第一段的最后两句可知，作者和她丈夫的工作主要是在客户家里进行的，他们非常忙碌，但是报酬是很高的。故选C项。
答案 C
2．What did the author often do during her work?
A．Cleaning the clients' house.
B．Walking the pets outside.
C．Bringing the pets to her own house.
D．Taking a photo of pets to the owners.
解析 细节理解题。根据第四段第五句“I thought this would be the good picture to send to the owners，a usual service.”可知，D项正确。
答案 D
3．It can be inferred from the text that the author was attacked because ______.
A．Hercules feared the sound and flash
B．the author attacked Hercules first
C．Hercules was very hungry then
D．the author treated Hercules badly
解析 推理判断题。根据第四段倒数第三句和倒数第二句可知，在作者拍照的时候，随着相机发出闪光和咔嚓声后，Hercules袭击了作者。由此可推知，Hercules害怕相机的闪光灯和咔嚓声。
答案 A
4．The doctor's answer gave us a sense of ______.
A．anger
B．humor
C．carelessness
D．patience
解析 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段，作者问医生“我要死了吗？”，医生的回答是“最终会的”可知，作者这次是没有生命危险的，而医生的回答给读者一种幽默感。
答案 B
A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
SCS Global Services （SCS） has evaluated a new methodology for measuring the carbon sequestration（封存） ability of soil under the Verified（验证） Carbon Standard （VCS）, a leading greenhouse gas （GHG） accounting system. The methodology, developed by The Earth Partners, will allow land managers who sequester GHGs in grasslands and farmlands to produce carbon credits for sale in the voluntary market.
Managers of grasslands and farmlands can increase carbon sequestration in soil by practices such as changing grazing（放牧） practices and operating treatments designed to improve the variety and productivity of plant groups. The Earth Partners is presently piloting this methodology with farmers across seven million acres of the Palouse River and Columbia Plateau regions in the Pacific Northwest.
“The VCS program has achieved an important milestone in now combining grassland and rangeland carbon offset（抵消，补偿） projects," said Dr. Robert J. Hrubes, Executive Vice President of SCS."SCS looks forward to approving and verifying agricultural carbon offset projects that use this very powerful new methodology."
The VM0021 Soil Carbon Quantification Methodology is based on decades of soil carbon research and testing conducted by top soil scientists. The methodology was developed by The Earth Partners and verified by Environmental Services, Inc. as well as SCS Global Services. It is the first soil carbon methodology to be approved for use under the VCS.
"This widely tested methodology is the first to specially deal with soils in a market," said Steven I. Apfelbaum, Chairman of Applied Ecological Services, Inc. and Director of Science with The Earth Partners. According to Apfelbaum, soils represent the second largest living sink of carbon on the planet.
1. The new methodology is assessed according to .
A. The Earth Partners
B. the Verified Carbon Standard
C. Environmental Services, Inc. D. Applied Ecological Services, Inc.
2. Carbon sequestration in soil can be strengthened by .
A. selling carbon credits in the voluntary market
B. changing grazing practices and operating treatments
C. reducing the variety and productivity of plant groups
D. decreasing farmlands in the Pacific Northwest
3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The VCS program proves to be successful in carbon offset projects.
B. Many soil Carbon Methodologies have already been approved for use.
C. The new methodology has been tested in many fields including soil.
D. Soils seem to be the largest living sink of carbon on the planet.
4. What is the attitude of SCS towards the new methodology?
A. Opposed.B. Cautious.C. Doubtful.D. Approving.
【参考答案】1—4、BBAD
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
All of us should keep a kitchen diary, showing how much food are left uneaten as garbage.
We all waste food, you and me millions of tons of it. In China, enough food is wasted in restaurants every year to feed 200 million people. In the United States, 40 percent of food is wasted from farm to fork. Each year, the amount of food thrown away in rich countries is almost the same as that produced in sub – Saharan Africa. This raises some important questions.
In developing countries, food is lost because farmers do not have appropriate cooling, storage or market access for their crops. Their grains, fruits and vegetables dry up and rot away. In developed countries, the picture is different, and food is wasted in supermarkets, restaurants and at home. China faces both problems, significant losses in farms, as well as at the sale and consumption stages. And the amount of food wasted by Chinese consumers is rapidly increasing.
Consumer culture has filled China and urban residents can get quality food from anywhere in the country and from across the planet. Chinese consumers are as particular about their food as those in other countries. In supermarkets, they refuse to buy vegetables that don’t look fresh or have an irregular shape, or milk and other products close to their expiry (失败) date.
Besides, Chinese consumers tend to be generous. In restaurants or at home, often too much food is ordered or cooked and served. So while trooping out of a restaurant, full and happy, with colleagues or friends, they never look back at what’s left untouched on the table. Should Chinese consumers take more responsibility for the waste they create?
Everyone deserves to have enough food to eat. Despite China’s impressive success in reducing hunger over the past three decades, the job is not completed yet.
31．According to paragraph 1and2, we know that food waste is
.
A．huge worldwide
B．mainly in USA
C．only in rich countries D．just in African countries
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据无论是发达国家还是发展中国家都有食物浪费的现象，食物的浪费是全球性的，故选A。
32．In developing countries, food is lost mainly
.
A．for the lack of cooling and storage B．because of easy access to markets
C．because of the wet weather D．because of the quality of the food
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据In developing countries, food is lost because farmers do not have appropriate cooling, storage or market access for their crops.在发展中国家食物的浪费主要是由于缺乏冷藏和储存的条件，故选A。
33．The main reason for food waste in China is
.
A．the effect of consumer culture B．the convenient food supply
C．the worry about food quality D．people’s being particular about it
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据Consumer culture has filled China and urban residents can get quality food from anywhere in the country and from across the planet.中国的浪费主要由于中国文化的影响，故选A。
34．How do Chinese feel when they leave restaurants with much food left behind?
A．Generous. B．Unconscious. C．Wealthy. D．Valuable.
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据Chinese consumers tend to be generous.
35．The purpose of the passage is to tell us
.
A．not to waste any food from now on
B．the necessity to improve food quality
C．the fact of food waste in developed countries
D．the influence of consumer culture on Chinese
【答案】A
【解析】作者意图题。纵观全文的内容可知全球存在浪费粮食的现象，所以我们应该从今往后不能再浪费粮食，故选A。
2017高考英语（附解析答案）
Ⅰ.单项填空
1．The difference in thickness and weight from the earlier version makes the iPad 2 more comfortable ______.
A．heldB．holding C．be heldD．to hold
解析 考查动词不定式作状语。句意：厚度和重量与先前版本的不同使得iPad 2拿着更舒服。形容词easy，hard，difficult，comfortable作表语，后面需用不定式的主动形式表被动意思，故正确答案为D项。
答案 D2．After the earthquake，the first thing the local government did was to provide______for the homeless families.
A．accommodation
B．occupation
C．equipment
D．furniture
解析 考查名词词义辨析。句意：地震之后，当地政府首先做的事情就是为无家可归的家庭提供住处。accommodation“住处，容身之处”；occupation“职业，工作；占据”；equipment“设备，装备；素质”；furniture“家具”。由句意可知，应选accommodation。
答案 A
3．Just as the clothes a person wears，the food he eats and the friends with whom he spends his time，his house______his personality.
A．resembles
B．strengthens
C．reflects
D．shapes
解析 考查动词词义辨析。句意：对于一个人来说，就像他的穿衣、吃饭以及与之过时光的朋友一样，他的房子代表了他的个性。resemble“类似，像”，强调外形的“像”；strengthen“加强，巩固”；reflect“反射，映出；反省，反映；显示(事物的自然属性或人们的态度、情感等)”；shape“塑造；(使)成形”。 根据语意及词语的意思，reflects是最佳选项。
答案 C
4．You have to be a fairly good speaker to______listeners’ interest for over an hour.
A．hold
B．make
C．improve
D．receive
解析 hold one’s interest使某人保持兴趣。B项“制造；做”；C项“改善，提升”；D项“接收”。
答案 A
5．Many people ______the car accident，so it was not difficult to investigate.
A．witnessed
B．harnessed
C．swallowed
D．drugged
解析 句意：许多人看到了那起车祸，所以不难调查。在这个句子中，witness意为“目睹”。harness治理，控制；swallow淹没，吞下；drug使服毒品；三个词都不符合句子的意思。
答案 A
6．The new apartment built a few months ago is large enough to ______ over two hundred people.
A．supply
B．provide
C．reside
D．accommodate
解析 accommodate“提供膳宿”。句意：几个月前建造的那个新公寓足够的大，能为二百多人提供膳宿。
答案 D
7．Also when you write your goals in a particular way you are able to make yourself continuously______ situations that will bring you nearer to your goal.
A．aware of
B．worried about
C．familiar with
D．accustomed to
解析 make sb.aware of...意为“使某人意识到，明白”，据题意A项正确。
答案 A
8．Because he was______the new limit，he was stopped and warned for speeding.
A．good at
B．tired from
C．unaware of
D．uninterested in
解析 句意：由于他不知道新的限速，他被拦了下来并被警告超速。根据所选项意思，be unaware of不知道，不明白，没意识到。be good at 擅长；be tired from因……而劳累；be uninterested in对……不感兴趣。
答案 C
9．A good mother would not______her baby.
A．abandon
B．leave
C．adapt
D．quit
解析 句意：一个好母亲是不会丢弃自己的孩子的。
答案 A
10．______a moment and I will go to your rescue.
A．Go on
B．Hold on
C．Move on
D．Carry on
解析 go on继续；hold on抓住不放，坚持；move on继续前进；carry on继续进行；根据后句的I will go to your rescue可知，这里应是“坚持住”，“别松手”。
答案 B
11．She was scared______on the horse.
A．to ride
B．riding
C．of being ridden
D．rode
解析 be scared to do“害怕干某事”。句意：她害怕骑马。
答案 A
12．The passengers had a chat with the college students______as conductors during the summer vacation.
A．help out
B．helped out
C．to help out
D．helping out
解析 考查非谓语动词。动词不定式作后置定语表示一个将要发生的动作，过去分词表示一个已经发生了的被动的动作，故B、C两项均不符合题意。句意：旅客们同那几个暑假临时帮忙充当列车员的大学生聊天。
答案 D
13．Sean’s strong love for his country is______in his recently published poems.
A．relieved
B．reflected
C．responded
D．recovered
解析 reflect“反射”，比喻义为“反映，表现”； relieve意为“(从危险，痛苦中)救出，使脱离，解脱”；respond意为“答应(要求)，应付(敌人等)反应”；recover意为“克服，恢复”。
答案 B
14．We were______the most important scientific development of the century.
A．seeing
B．watching
C．looking
D．witnessing
解析 考查同义词的辨析。see表示看见的结果、内容；watch表示仔细观察或观看电视、比赛等；而look表示看的动作，且为不及物动词，后不能跟宾语。
答案 D
15．—Have you completed the project?
—I’m sorry to tell you that we______it when we found how much it______.
A．have abandoned；costs
B．abandoned；cost
C．had abandoned；cost
D．abandoned；would cost
解析 答语句意：我非常遗憾地告诉你当我们发现这一项目要花多少钱时，我们就放弃了。从we found来判断，表示过去的情况，故用过去时，“花费”这一动作还未发生要用过去将来时。
答案 D