湖南省汝城二中2014届高考英语一轮复习阅读训练 (49)

　　2016届高考英语查漏补缺阅读专练

　　1.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。

　　Every spring scores of people flock to the Buzzard Festival at Hinckley, Ohio. They come to watch for buzzards. Most would be glad just to take a look at a buzzard. If they do see one of these “flying garbage cans”, it will probably be circling high in the sky. From there it can watch the ground for signs of the waste and the dead animals on which it feeds.

　　The buzzard is the ugliest bird in the United States. In fact, it may well be the ugliest bird in the world. It has a small, bare, pink head. Its thick body is covered with dark, rough feathers.

　　In spite of its looks, the buzzard is important to the people of Hinckley. It is their first sign of spring. After a winter in the south, buzzards return to their homes in the north. In the Hinckley area, they always return on March 15. No one knows why. But they have come back to Hinckley Ridge on that day, sure as clocks work, for at least forty years.

　　The excitement starts in February. By the middle of March it has reached a high peak. Bets are placed. Prizes go to the person who sees the first buzzard. Radio stations and newspapers tell of the coming festival. And on the weekend after March 15 the people of Hinckley hold their Buzzard Festival.

　　The people come and look around. They chat. They eat their pancakes and sausages. Then they drive past Buzzard’s Roost on Hinckley Ridge.

　　A lot of them stop near the road at the stand set up to give information to visitors. There they can hear, from a recording, the main facts about the buzzard. They can see a stuffed buzzard. They can look at some pictures taken of buzzards in other years. With good luck and a strong pair of field glasses, they may sight one or two live buzzards high in the sky.

　　Buzzards may be ugly. They may be “flying garbage cans”. But in Hinckley they are just as welcome as the swallows are in Capistrano in California. It would be a sad spring indeed if the buzzards ever failed to come back to Hinckley Ridge.

　　60．A good title for this story would be _________.

　　A. The Hinckley Buzzard Festival

　　B. Buzzard, the Ugliest Bird

　　C. Why the Buzzard Has a Pink Head

　　D. The Return of “The Garbage Can”

　　61．The buzzard is called the “flying garbage can” because it _________.

　　A. is ugly

　　B. eats waste and dead animals

　　C. looks like a garbage can

　　D. collect rubbish on the ground

　　62．The surprising thing about Hinckley’s buzzards is that _________.

　　A. they spend the winter in the south

　　B. they come very close to the town

　　C. they return on the same day each year

　　D. both buzzards and swallows return to Capistrano on March 15

　　63．At the information stand, visitors to Hinckley’s Buzzard Festival can _________.

　　A. learn some facts about the buzzard

　　B. easily see a live buzzard

　　C. take some pictures with the background of live buzzards

　　D. feed their pancakes and sausages to buzzards

　　2.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。

　　The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to present all crops known to scientists. The British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the world’s food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on earth.    

　　An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if, in his word, “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill（钻孔） deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above 0ºC. The seeds will be protected behind walls a meter thick and high-security door.    

　　The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below 0ºC. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.

　　Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the world’s safest gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason. Norway first put forward the idea in the 1980s. But safety concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization. 56．The project is meant to ______.     A．increase the world’s food output in the future     B．carry out some scientific experiments on plant genes     C．build an exhibition centre of the world’s plant seeds     D．protect crop seeds from dying out in case of possible disasters 57．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?     A．The government of Norway will perform the project alone.     B．Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousands years ago.     C．Spitsbergen is chosen because it is free of the nuclear war forever.     D．Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place. 58．We can infer from the text that _______.     A．Norway had meant to build the storage centre about 20 years before.   

　　B．The storage center will greatly promote world agriculture     C．People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every year.     D．There haven’t been any seed storage centres in the world before.

　　59．What is probably the best title of the passage?     A．The Best Place to Store Seeds         B．Noah’s Ark（诺亚方舟）of Plant Seeds in Plan    C．Concerns of World Food Supply       D．A New Way to Feed the World

　　3.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。

　　Money spent on advertising is money spent as well as any I know of．It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable prices, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices．By drawing attention to new ideas it helps enormously to raise standards of living．By helping to increase demand it ensures an increased need for labour, and is therefore an effective way to fight unemployment．It lowers the costs of many services: without advertisements your daily newspaper would cost four times as much, the price of your television license would need to be doubled, and travel by bus or tube would cost 20 per cent more．

　　And perhaps most important of all, advertising provides a guarantee of

　　reasonable value in the products and services you buy．Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements．He might fool some people for a little while through misleading advertising．He will not do so for long, for mercifully the public has the good sense not to buy the low-quality article more than once．If you see an article consistently advertised, it is the surest proof I know that the article does what is claimed for it, and that it represents good value．

　　What' s more, advertising does more for the material benefit of the community than any other force I can think of．

　　There is one more point I feel I ought to touch on．Recently I heard a well-known television personality declare that he was against advertising because it persuades rather than informs．He was drawing excessively fine distinctions course advertising seeks to persuade．

　　If its message were restricted merely to information, which would be difficult to achieve, for even a detail such as the choice of the colour of a shirt is subtly persuasive, advertising would be so boring that no one would pay any attention．But perhaps that is what the well-known television personality wants．

　　67．By the first sentence of the passage the author means that ____．

　　A．he understands the cost of advertising well

　　B．advertising costs money like everything else

　　C．it is worthwhile to spend money on advertising

　　D．everyone knows advertising is money consuming

　　68．The author thinks that the well-known TV personality ____．

　　A．forces his own views on the public

　　B．holds one-sided views on advertising

　　C．can't tell persuasion from information

　　D．is interested in nothing but the buyers' attention

　　69．Which of the following opinions does the author probably accept?

　　A．There is nothing wrong with advertising in persuading buyers．

　　B．Advertising can prevent low-quality articles from entering markets．

　　C．Advertising informs people of new ideas rather than wins them over．

　　D．Buyers are not interested in getting information from advertisements．

　　70．What is the passage mainly about?

　　A．Advertising and promotion．

　　B．Informative function of advertising．

　　C．Advantages and disadvantages of advertising．

　　D．Benefits of advertising and its characteristics．

　　4.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February 1 , 2012 marked the first ever Digital Learning Day, a day devoted to exploring, promoting and celebrating revolutionary teaching and instruction practices that involve students in the digital world around them．This daylong celebration was organized in recognition of the fast-changing landscape of the social and work environment students find themselves a part of．But as a whole, education has dropped behind the digital revolution．

　　Digital Learning Day sought to bring awareness to the great influence of digital learning on the classroom and the amazing potential digital technologies have to involve students in new ways and motivate them to create and cooperate．

　　The day started with a National Town Hall meeting, accessed online, of course．Schools around the country used Skype to join the conversation and interact with the speakers．Participants, including 39 states, 15,000 teachers and more than 2 million students, were all involved in some form of digital learning activities and revolution．The activities across the nation showed some of the best in digital education．

　　Many schools celebrated by using iPads．Miller Junior High School in Aberdeen, Wash．distributed an iPad to every 7th and 8th grade student．Other schools used the notebooks for science projects, health projects and photography．

　　Kindergarteners in Topeka, Kansas used Skype to communicate with other classrooms and learn about how other students learn．

　　The daylong celebration also created quite a bit of buzz in the digital world with bloggers commenting on digital education trends, teachers using Twitter and social media to share information and online articles．

　　What' s clear from the events of the day is that education needs to catch up with the digital revolution．Students shouldn ' t first hear about the " cloud" or interact with a wiki after graduation．Schools should include digital and technology revolutions in daily instruction．Plus, digital technologies can grow and improve the cooperative, creative and critical thinking skills students need to succeed later in life．

　　Digital technology is here to stay．If schools truly want to prepare students for the 21st Century, they will need to welcome the ideas from the first ever Digital Teaming Day and get ready to show their best．

　　64．Why does the author write the passage?

　　A．To advocate digital education．

　　B．To inform people of Digital Learning Day．

　　C．To present the achievement of digital revolution．

　　D．To introduce the development of digital technology．

　　65．We can learn from the passage that ____．

　　A．15,000 teachers gathered at the Town Hall for the celebration

　　B．students should learn to use digital technology after graduation

　　C．the success of digital education depends on students' creativity

　　D．applying digital technology to teaching is the key to digital education

　　66．What do the underlined words "created quite a bit of buzz" in Para．5 probably mean ？

　　A．Caused some excitement．

　　B．Started a heated argument．

　　C．Provided many opportunities．

　　D．Presented a series of problems．

　　5.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 Have you ever had a troubling problem that has left you wondering where to turn for help?

　　Eve Hobsbawm is a life adviser．She offers advice to people struggling with all kinds of problems, from relationship difficulties to what to cook for dinner．

　　She does this through a website inviting people to email her with their problems．There ' s nothing unusual about that, except for the fact that Eve is only eight years old．

　　This junior trouble-shooter, who also goes by the name 'Miss Evie Mouse' , lives in London with her parents．Not only is Miss Mouse willing to lend an ear to her clients, she will also offer them a helping hand, for a fee of course．She charges between 10p for advice on little, everyday worries and ￡ for more complicated problems．Her areas of expert knowledge, if not of experience, are problems about love, life and work-life balance．

　　A problem shared is a problem halved, but Eve can' t always help．A note on the site states that she can't answer questions like "Does space ever end?" and she won't solve schoolwork-related problems, especially not maths．

　　She explained to the Guardian newspaper that she was inspired to set up the company by her father who runs a tech start-up．Eve said, "As soon as I saw his business and understood the kinds of things businesses do, I thought that' s what I' m going to do．"

　　But since setting up her company in December she has been so overwhelmed with messages that she has had to take a step back．"There has been a lot of sudden interest in my site, which is nice," she says, " but I need to do my homework too, so I won' t be solving any more problems for a bit．"

　　60．Eve Hobsbawm is an unusual adviser because she ____．

　　A．asks for fees for her advice

　　B．is just a pupil at primary school

　　C．is an expert in work-life balance

　　D．answers questions on the Internet.

　　61．What is people' s attitude towards Eve' s website?

　　A．Interested．

　　B．Disapproving．

　　C．Doubtful．

　　D．Unconcerned．

　　62．Which of the following can best describe Eve?

　　A．She has a lot of experience in life．

　　B．She is very popular among students．

　　C．She has a natural talent for business．

　　D．She is warm-hearted and ready to help．

　　63．Where is the passage most likely to have been taken from?

　　A．A book review．

　　B．A speech．

　　C．An advertisement．

　　D．A news report．

　　6.

　　Educating girls quite possibly gets a higher rate of return than any other deal available in the developing world．Women's education may be unusual field for economists, but increasing women's contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social project．And economics, with its emphasis on incentives （激励）, provides an explanation for why so many girls loss the chance of an education．

　　Parents in low-income countries don't send their daughters to school because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else's family and bear children．Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and are kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school-the prophecy （预言） becomes self-fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle （恶性循环） of abandonment．

　　An educated mother, on the other hand．has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices．She is likely to have fewer hut healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance．The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys．will be educated and healthy.The vicious circle is thus transformed into a virtuous circle （良性循环）．

　　Few will don't agree the idea that educating women has great social benefits．But it has enormous economic advantages as well．Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers．Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional, year of schooling．Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available deal, but they are just the beginning．Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices， including family planning．

　　68．The author argues that educating girls in developing countries is _______．

　　A．rewarding

　　B．troublesome

　　C．expensive

　　D．labor-saving

　　69．What does the author say about women's education?

　　A．It will get greater returns than other known deal．B．It is in the first place in many developing countries．C．It deserves greater attention than other social project．D．It has developed the interest of a growing number of economists．

　　70．The passage mainly discusses ______．

　　A．unequal treatment of boys and girls in developing countriesB．the major contributions of educated women to societyC．the economic and social benefits of educating womenD．the potential earning power of well-educated women

　　1.ABCA

　　2.DDAB

　　3.CBAD

　　4.ADA

　　5.BACD

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