2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精选训练（28）外研版

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解精选（28）及答案

　　A

　　Obama Still Smokes in Secret

　　US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers．He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry．The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and marketing of tobacco products．At a White House signing ceremony Monday, Obama said that he was among the nearly 90% of smokers who took up the habit before their 18 th birthday．Obama, who has publicly struggled to give up smoking, said he still hadn’t completely kicked the habit．Every now and then he still smokes in secret． “As a former smoker I struggle with it all the time．Do I still smoke sometimes? Yes．Am I a daily smoker, a constant smoker? No．” Obama said at a news conference． “I don' t do it in front of my lads．I don 't do it in front of my family．I would say that I am 95% cured, but there are times when I mess up, " he said．"Once you go down this path, it' s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important．The new law is not about me, it' s about the next generation of kids coming up．What we don ' t want is kids going down that path," he said．  Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases． 41．The new law makes life difficult for               A．Obama             B．tobacco industry  C．White House        

　　D．US Food and Drug Administration 42．What do we know about Obama?  A．He no longer smokes． B．He still smokes as usual．  C．He began to smoke at eighteen．D．He is trying hard to give up smoking． 43.According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about           ．  A．children       B．officials       C．his family        D．businessmenB

　　Thanks a Million, Dad  

　　I was born disabled．A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck．By my first birthday, I couldn't stand or walk．When I was three, the doctor told dad I had cerebral palsy （脑瘫）．A loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body．  

　　But no son of my dad' s was going to be disabled．Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg．The muscles were shrunk and twisted together．Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape．   But my dad' s exercise of passion didn't stop there．For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party．When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was a-set of boxing gloves．We put them on．My dad kept on beating me mercilessly．Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw．I "begged him to stop．He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world．  

　　That same year, I was the only kid in my neighbourhood that wasn't picked for Little League．Two weeks later．Dad started the Shedd Park Minor League, and every kid played．Dad coached us and made me a pitcher （棒球投手）．  The power of my dad' s love guaranteed I walked and more．In high school, I became a football star．  In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn’t t have cerebral palsy after all．He explained how and where the doctor' s forceps （镊子） at birth had damaged my brain．  My dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago．But all that counts is the bottom line．After all his madness, on this Father' s Day, like every Father' s Day, I' m no longer disabled． 44．What caused the author' s disability?  A．A failed operation．

　　B．The doctor's forceps．  C．An accident in a game．  D．Shrunken and twisted muscles． 55．What do we learn from the passage?  

　　A．The author has a talent for boxing．  B．The author achieved a lot thanks to his father' s love．  C．The author became a baseball star with the help of his father．  D．The author doesn't think his father should be so strict with him． 46．Paragraph 3 suggests that the author' s father____．  A．wouldn't give up hope easily B．believed his son was a normal child  C．blamed the doctors for his son' s disability  D．couldn't accept the truth that his son was disabled47．The author wrote the passage to ____．  A．remember his father

　　B．encourage disabled children  C．show the difficulty the disabled face  D．give advice to the parents of disabled children

　　C

　　At night, bats fly through the air, catching hundreds of insects and other small animals. But during the day, they hardly move at all. Instead, bats pass the time hanging upside down from a secret spot.

　　There are a couple of reasons why bats rest this way. First of all, it puts them in a position for takeoff. Unlike birds, bats can’t fly into the air from the ground. Their wings don’t produce enough lift to take off from a dead stop, and their hind legs are so small and underdeveloped that they can’t run to build up the necessary takeoff speed. Instead, they use their front claws to climb to a high spot, and then fall into flight.

　　During the hours when most enemies are active, bats gather where few animals would think to look and most can’t reach. This allows them to disappear from the world until night comes again. There’s also little competition for these resting spots, as other flying animals don’t have the ability to hang upside down. Bats have a unique physiological adaptation that lets them hang around this way without using any energy. For you to hold your fist around an object tight, you contract（紧缩）several muscles in your arm, which are connected to your fingers by tendons（腱）；as one muscle contracts, it pulls a tendon, which pulls one of your fingers closed. A bat’s talons（爪）close in the same way, except that their tendons are connected only to the upper body, not to a muscle. To hang upside down, a bat pulls its claws open with other muscles. To get the talons to take hold of the surface, the bat simply lets its body relax. The weight of the upper body pulls down on the tendons connected to the talons, causing them to hold tight. Therefore, the bat doesn’t have to do anything to hang upside down.

　　48. Bats hang upside down because________．

　　A. they haven’t developed a pair of strong claws]

　　B. they can’t start to fly from the ground directly

　　C. they have no hind legs to support their body

　　D. they can’t find quiet places to stay during the day

　　49. The third paragraph tells us that bats’ hanging upside down_______.

　　A. is to save their energy for night movement

　　B. is a way to fight against flying animals

　　C. is a great way to hide from danger

　　D. is a skill to compete for the flying places

　　50. Why can bats hang upside down easily?

　　A. Because their upper body is light.

　　B. Because they have strong muscles.

　　C. Because their talons are linked to muscles tightly.

　　D. Because their tendons are linked to their upper body.

　　51. What is the passage mainly about?

　　A. The living habits of bats.

　　B. How and why bats hang upside down.

　　C. The importance of bats’ hanging upside down.

　　D. How bats use their energy at night.

　　D       When a child is told he is "uncool", it can be very painful. He may say he doesn't care, and even act in ways that are opposite of cool on purpose. But ultimately, these are simply ways to handle sadness by pretending it's not there.       Helping a child feel better in school had to be careful. If you say, "Why are you worried about what other children think about you? It doesn't matter!" children know that it does matter. Instead, an active way may be best. You could say, "I'm going to do a couple of things for you to help you feel better in school."       If a boy is having trouble making friends, the teacher can help him. The teacher can arrange things so that he has chances to use his abilities to contribute to class projects. This is how the other children learn how to value his good qualities and to like him. A teacher can also raise a child's popularity in the group by showing that he values that child. It even helps to put him in a seat next to a very popular child, or let him be a partner with that child in activities, etc.       There are things that parents can do at home, too. Be friendly when your child brings others home to play. Encourage him to invite friends to meals and then serve the dishes they consider "super". When you plan trips, picnics, movies, and other shows, invite another child with whom your child wants to be friends.       What you can do is to give him a chance to join a group that may be shutting him out. Then, if he has good qualities, he can start to build real friendship of his own. 52. A child who has been informed of being "uncool" may ________.

　　A. care nothing about it                

　　  B. develop a sense of anger

　　C. do something uncool purposely        

　　D. pretend to get hurt very much 53. A teacher can help an unpopular child by ________.     A. seeing the child as the teacher's favourite     B. asking the child to do something for partners     C. forcing other children to make friends with the child     D. offering the child chances to show his good qualities 54. How can parents help their child fit in better?     A. By cooking delicious food for him.

　　B. By being kind to his schoolmates.     C. By forcing him to invite friends home.    

　　D. By taking him to have picnics in the park. 55. Which of the following is TRUE?     A. Children doesn't care others' comments on them.     B. It's only teacher's work to make children popular.     C. Parents should take their children out for picnic and shows more often.     D. Inviting children's friends to family activities is good for them to make friends. 56.The passage mainly talks about ________.     A. how to help an unpopular child

　　B. why some children are unpopular     C. who is responsible for unpopular children     D. how to find out good points of unpopular children

　　E

　　ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – One of the world’s most famous fossils (化石) – the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy skeleton (骨骼) unearthed in Ethiopia in 1974 – will go on an exhibition tour abroad for the first time in the United States, officials said Tuesday.

　　Even the Ethiopian public has only seen Lucy twice. The Lucy on exhibition at the Ethiopian National Museum in the capital, Addis Ababa, is a replica while the real remains are usually locked in a secret storeroom. A team from the Museum of National Science in Houston, Texas, spent four years discussing with the Ethiopians for the U.S. tour, which will start in Houston next September.

　　“Ethiopia’s rich culture of both the past and today, is one of the best kept secrets in the world,” said Joel Bartsch, director of the Houston museum.

　　The six-year tour will also go to Washington, New York, Denver and Chicago. Officials said six other U.S. cities may be on the tour. But they said plans had not been worked out.

　　Travelling with Lucy will be 190 other fossils.

　　Lucy, her name taken from a Beatles song that played in a camp the night of her discovery, is part of the skeleton of what was once a 3-foot-tall ape-man (猿人).

　　57. The author writes this text mainly to ___ .

　　A. introduce a few U.S. museums

　　B. describe some research work

　　     C. discuss the value of an ape-man

　　D. report a coming event

　　58. What does the words “a replica” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

　　A . A painting of the skeleton.          

　　B. A photograph of Lucy

　　C. A copy of the skeleton.             

　　D. A written record of Lucy.

　　59. How many cities has Lucy’s U.S. tour plan already included?

　　A. Four.      

　　 B. Five.         

　　 C. Six.    

　　D. Eleven.

　　60. What was the skeleton named after?

　　A. An ape-man.   

　　B. A song.            C. A singer.  

　　  D. A camp.

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