浙江省湖州市2014高考英语阅读理解一轮（暑假）精炼（3）含答案

　　阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

　　请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A

　　Goldie's Secret

　　She turned up at the doorstep of my house in Cornwall. No way could I have sent her away. No way, not me anyway. Maybe someone had kicked her out of their car the night before. "We're moving house.'; "No space for her any more with the baby coming." "We never really wanted her, but what could we have done? She was a present." People find all sorts of excuses for abandoning an animal. And she was one of the most beautiful dogs I had ever seen.

　　I called her Goldie. If I had known what was going to happen I would have given her a more creative name. She was so unsettled during those first few days. She hardly ate anything and had such an air of sadness about her. There was nothing I could do to make her happy, it seemed. Heaven knows what had happened to her at her previous owner's. But eventually at the end of the first week she calmed down. Always by my side, whether we were out on one of our long walks or sitting by the fire.

　　That's why it was such a shock when she pulled away from me one day when we were out for a walk. We were a long way from home, when she started barking and getting very restless. Eventually I couldn't hold her any longer and she raced off down the road towards a farmhouse in the distance as fast as she could.

　　By the time I reached the farm I was very tired and upset with Goldie. But when I saw her licking (舔) the four puppies (幼犬) I started to feel sympathy towards them. "We didn't know what had happened to her," said the woman at the door. "I took her for a walk one day, soon after the puppies were born, and she just disappeared." "She must have tried to come back to them and got lost," added a boy from behind her.

　　I must admit I do miss Goldie, but I've got Nugget now, and she looks just like her mother. And I've learnt a good lesson: not to judge people.

　　1. How did the author feel about Goldie when Goldie came to the house?

　　A. Shocked.

　　B. Sympathetic.

　　C. Annoyed.

　　D. Upset.

　　2. In her first few days at the author's house, Goldie ______.

　　A. felt worried

　　B. was angry

　　C. ate a little

　　D. sat by the fire

　　3 Goldie rushed off to a farmhouse one day because she ______.

　　A. saw her puppies

　　B. heard familiar barking

　　C. wanted to leave the author

　　D. found her way to her old home

　　4. The passage is organized in order of ______.

　　A. time

　　B. effectiveness

　　C. importance

　　D. complexity

　　参考答案--------BADA

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　　B

　　Open Letter to an Editor

　　I had an interesting conversation with a reporter recently --- one who works for you. In fact, he's one of your best reporters. He wants to leave.

　　Your reporter gave me a copy of his resume(简历) and photocopies of six stories that he wrote for you. The headlines showed you played them proudly. With great enthusiasm, he talked about how he finds issues(问题), approaches them, and writes about them, which tells me he is one of your best. I'm sure you would hate to lose him. Surprisingly, your reporter is not unhappy. In fact, he told me he really likes his job. He has a great assignment (分工), and said you run a great paper. It would be easy for you to keep him, he said. He knows that the paper values him. He appreciates the responsibility you've given him, takes ownership of his profession, and enjoys his freedom.

　　So why is he looking for a way out?

　　He talked to me because he wants his editors to demand so much more of him. He wants to be pushed, challenged, coached to new heights.

　　The reporter believes that good stories spring from good questions, but his editors usually ask how long the story will be, when it will be in, where it can play, and what the budget is.

　　He longs for conversations with an editor who will help him turn his good ideas into great ones. He wants someone to get excited about what he's doing and to help him turn his story idea upside down and inside out, exploring the best ways to report it. He wants to be more valuable for your paper. That's what you want for him, too, isn't it?

　　So your reporter has set me thinking.

　　Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists --- everyone --- is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can't do it, they'll find someone who can.

　　5. What does the writer think of the reporter?

　　A. Optimistic.

　　B. Imaginative.

　　C. Ambitious.

　　D. Proud.

　　6. What does the reporter want most from his editors in their talks?

　　A. Finding the news value of his stories.

　　B. Giving him financial support.

　　C. Helping him to find issues.

　　D. Improving his good ideas.

　　7 Who probably wrote the letter?

　　A. An editor.

　　B. An artist.

　　C. A reporter.

　　D. A reader.

　　8. The letter aims to remind editors that they should ______.

　　A. keep their best reporters at all costs

　　B. give more freedom to their reporters

　　C. be aware of their reporters' professional development

　　D. appreciate their reporters' working styles and attitudes

　　5----C DAC

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　　阅读理解专题训练()如何推断文章出处(4)

　　◆ 技巧点拨

　　推断文章出处题型的设题方式：

　　1．The passage is most likely to be taken from ________.

　　2．Where would this passage most probably appear?

　　3．The passage is most likely to be part of ________.

　　如何解题？一般可从文章的内容和结构来判断文章的出处。

　　1．报纸：前面有日期、地点或通讯社名称。

　　2．科学杂志：一般涉及科学发现、科学研究等方面的最新成就。

　　3．广告：广告有特殊的用词和格式。

　　4．产品说明：包含产品名称、特点、操作方法、生产日期、使用期限；如果是药品介绍，还会有服用剂量、时间和次数等内容。

　　◆ 活学活用

　　阅读下列短文，按要求完成读写任务

　　U．S.airlines are seeing a major interruption because of hundreds of flights canceled due to the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano，but European flight companies will face the biggest losses.

　　The airline business has been tough：The decline dramatically slowed traffic；February heavy snow forced U．S.airlines to cancel thousands of flights；and now the ashes from the volcano stopped all traffic in and out of northern Europe for days.

　　“For U．S.flight companies，it'll be a relatively short­term hit，” said Michael Boyd，president of Boyd Group International，an aviation (航空学) consulting firm.“We think right now they're down about $ 80 million in terms of lost income，and they're down domestically about 80,000 passengers that would have been flying domestically but aren't because they can't get here.”

　　Delta announced that volcano­related interruption grounded about 400 flights until Monday at a cost of $ 20 million in lost revenues(收入)．But by comparison，the airline canceled 7,000 flights and lost $ 65 million in revenue due to the recent snowstorms.

　　The disruption has created uncertainty for customers，but analysts say U．S.airlines won't face as many costs as you might think.They are not flying in extra planes to handle the passengers in trouble because companies simply don't have them.“Airlines run a very lean operation now，” Mann said.“So，since there are no spare aircraft or crews，the airlines will attempt to maximize loads on every one of their aircraft that do fly.But it may take days，or in some cases a week or so，to get some of these customers to where they want to go.”

　　Ⅰ.以约30词概括文章大意

　　______________________________________________________Ⅱ.根据短文内容选择最佳答案

　　1．Which negative consequences mentioned in the passage did the disasters cause?

　　A．coldness，pollution and airlines' losses

　　B．airport damage，pollution and slow traffic

　　C．passenger delay，coldness and airport damage

　　D．passenger delay，airlines' losses and slow traffic

　　2．Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

　　A．The fewest airplanes will fly the trapped passengers to their destinations.

　　B．All the customers are sure to be sent to their destinations in time.

　　C．The U．S.and U．K.airlines suffered the same losses in the natural disasters.

　　D．The volcano eruption reduced the traffic to and from northern Europe.

　　3．What does the last paragraph mainly tell us?

　　A．the troubles that the airlines will face after the ash cloud disappears.

　　B．the measures that the airlines will take to maximize their profit.

　　C．the present situation of the airlines and their plan to deliver the passengers.

　　D．the reasons why the airlines run a fine operation.

　　4．Why will it take a long time for airlines to send the passengers to their different destinations?

　　A．Because the passengers enjoy staying in airports to talk with one another.

　　B．Because the airlines don't have spare planes or employees to serve.

　　C．Because the airlines don't have enough financial support after the disaster.

　　D．Because the passengers are asking for full refund from the airlines.

　　5．The passage is most probably from________.

　　A．a novel　B．a news report

　　C．a magazine

　　D．a thesis Ⅰ

　　The text tells us about the serious effect of the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano on airline business and how flight companies will handle the problems caused by the disaster.(31words)

　　Ⅱ

　　1．解析：文中没有提到污染、机场损毁等问题， 只讲了航班延误、乘客滞留、运营缓慢、航空公司受损，所以D为正确答案。

　　答案：D

　　2.解析：从最后一段的They are not flying in extra planes to handle the passengers in trouble和 the airlines will attempt to maximize loads on every one of their aircraft that do fly, 可知A为正确答案。

　　答案：A

　　3.解析：最后一段告诉我们每个飞行的航班会最大限度的搭载乘客，所以选C。

　　答案：C

　　4.解析：从They are not flying in extra planes to handle the passengers in trouble because companies simply don't have them可以推知答案。答案：B

　　5.解析：全文讲述冰岛火山灰对航空业的影响， 应该选自资讯报道。

　　答案：B

　　C

　　Pacing and Pausing

　　Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

　　Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

　　It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

　　The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping (思维定式). And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in --- and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

　　That's why slight differences in conversational style --- tiny little things like microseconds of pause --- can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems --- even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.

　　9. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

　　A. Betty was talkative.

　　B. Betty was an interrupter.

　　C. Betty did not take her turn.

　　D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.

　　10. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

　　A. Americans.

　　B. Israelis.

　　C. The British.

　　D. The Finns.

　　11. We can learn from the passage that ______.

　　A. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

　　B. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

　　C. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

　　D. one should receive training to build up one's confidence

　　12. The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means ______.

　　A. being willing to speak one's mind

　　B. being able to increase one's power

　　C. being ready to make one's own judgment

　　D. being quick to express one's ideas confidently

　　9---12、CB

　　CD

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　　D

　　The Cost of Higher Education

　　Individuals (个人) should pay for their higher education.

　　A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates earn more than non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However, only some people have it. So the individual, not the taxpayers, should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources (资源) of the government. Using taxpayers' money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.

　　Full government funding (资助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford, where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of hard work; and when the academics were lazy and incompetent, the students were similarly lazy.

　　If students have to pay for their education, they not only work harder, but also demand more from their teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teaching seriously, and giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.

　　Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济). Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth, but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive, you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the government to invest. Therefore, it is the individual, not the government, who should pay for their university education.

　　13. The underlined word "them" in Paragraph 2 refers to ______.

　　A. taxpayers

　　B. pressing calls C. college graduates

　　D. government resources

　　14. The author thinks that with full government funding ______.

　　A. teachers are less satisfied

　　B. students are more demanding

　　C. students will become more competent

　　D. teachers will spend less time on teaching

　　15. The author mentions businesses in Paragraph 5 in order to ______.

　　A. argue against free university education

　　B. call on them to finance students' studies

　　C. encourage graduates to go into business

　　D. show their contribution to higher education

　　参考答案-----------BDA

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