2016届天津市宁河县高考英语阅读理解训练（5）（含解析）

　　阅读理解

　　China has recently been faced with serious issues of product safety. In Panama, it is said that medicine made with a poisonous chemical sickened some people. A Chinese company had identified it as diethylamide glycol （ [化]乙二醇, a low – cost substitute commonly used in automobile antifreeze（防冻剂.

　　Some countries have banned Chinese-made toothpaste containing diethylamide glycol. China has now told companies to discontinue its use, even though it says the toothpaste is safe. Another industrial chemical, melamine, was found in wheat flour used to make pet food in North America. Thousands of dogs and cats became sick.

　　The United States has restricted some imports of Chinese seafood because they contained banned substance. And questions have been raised about other products, including children’s toys covered with lead paint.

　　Chinese officials promised to provide the European Union, the biggest trading partner, with detailed reports on enforcement efforts against unsafe goods.

　　Meglena Kuneva, commissioner (理事) for consumer protection of the European Union said China should have kept its promise.

　　China recently closed three companies linked to the Panama and the pet food scare. And it dismissed the former head of its food and drug administration. He was found guilty of corruption (腐败) for approving unsafe drugs. This week, a conference of the State Council approved a proposed special measure on the supervision of food safety. The Xinhua News Agency said it calls for stronger controls over producers, greater responsibilities for government and more serious punishment for illegal activities.

　　But Chinese officials have accused some foreign media of overstating problems with goods made in China. They say food imports from the United States also fail inspection sometimes. Next Week, American and Chinese food safety officials are planning to hold 5 days of meetings in Beijing to discuss cooperation.

　　16．How many cases with safety problems are mentioned in the passage?

　　A．Six

　　B．Five

　　C．Four

　　D．Three

　　．How was Panama case dealt with afterwards?

　　A．Three companies linked to it were closed down.

　　B．The former head of food and drug administration was .

　　C．More serious punishment was conducted for leaders linked to it.

　　D．Both A and B.

　　．It can be implied but not clearly stated that ________.

　　A．Chinese made toothpaste is safe

　　B．the safety of “made in China” is doubted

　　C．there are safety problems with one more Chinese products

　　D．stronger control over Chinese products is in need

　　．The passage is mainly about ________.

　　A．China is facing product safety problems

　　B．more controls are taken of Chinese goods

　　C．overstated problems with Chinese goods

　　D．China is losing its trade partners

　　．What does “it” refers to in the last but one paragraph?

　　A．China

　　B．The European Union

　　C．Chinese officials

　　D．The Chinese company—20、BDBAA

　　阅读下列短文,

　　从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

　　A

　　Once again, I was in a new school. So was a girl in my class named Paris. That's where the similarities ended.

　　I was tall and she was small. My thick, black hair had been recently cut short. Her natural blonde hair flowed to her waist and looked great. I was awkward and shy. She wasn't. I couldn't stand her. I considered her my enemy. She liked me. She wanted to be friends.

　　One day, she invited me over and I said yes — I was too shocked to answer any other way. No one had invited me over to play. But this girl who wore the latest fashions wanted me to go home with her after school.

　　I got very surprised when she led me into an apartment building. She lived on the fourth floor in a two-room place with her mother, her stepfather, her two brothers and her sister.

　　When we got to the room she shared with her sister, she took out a big case of Barbies — which was my next surprise. I would have thought she'd outgrown them. I had never played with them. But we sat on the floor of a walk-in closet, laughing as we made up crazy stories about the Barbies. That's when we found out that we both wanted to be writers when we were older and we both had wild imaginations.

　　We had a great day that afternoon. Our jaws ached from smiling so much. She showed me her wardrobe, which had mostly come from a designer clothing store down the block. The woman who owned it used her as a model sometimes for her newspaper ads and gave her clothes in exchange.

　　Paris had the whole neighborhood charmed. The bookstore owners lent her fashion magazines, the movie theater gave her free passes and the pizza place let her have free slices. Soon I was included in her magic world. We slept over at each other's houses, spent every free moment together. My dark hair grew out and I learned to love being tall.

　　Paris, my first real friend since childhood, taught me an amazing and very surprising thing about making friends: that your worst enemy can turn out to be your best friend.

　　46．The writer and Paris were similar in that

　　.

　　A. they were both new students

　　B. both of them were friendly

　　C. both of them were tall

　　D. they were both the youngest in class

　　47．In the article the writer described Paris as a girl who was

　　.

　　A. awkward and shy

　　B. fashionable and proudC. quiet and lonely

　　D. friendly and lovely

　　48．What did the writer learn from Paris?

　　A. How to make best use of her neighborhood.

　　B. How to dress and look fashionable.

　　C. How to become a good writer.

　　D. How to make friends.

　　9．From the article, we can see that through her friendship with Paris, the writer

　　.

　　A. found she and Paris had more similarities than differences

　　B. was able to fit in at her new school with Paris’ help

　　C. was not so awkward or shy as before

　　D. learned more about fashion herself

　　【参考答案】46—49

　　ADDC

　　阅读理解

　　Why does a large education nation like China have so few world renowned scientists as the US? Educationists from China and the US try to find out the answer to questions like this at a forum on the basic education strategy.

　　The forum, held recently, was jointly organized by the Education Development Research Center of the Ministry of Education in China and the Postgraduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in the US. It aims to find out similarities and differences that exist between two countries in their educational system.

　　While some educationists in China keep a doubtful eye to the country’s educational system in recent years. Their American counterparts give a positive answer to the basic education in China, saying that it is still one of the best in the world.

　　An American educationist told reporters that the basic education in the US was criticized in recent years due to its political tendency. On the contrary, Chinese government’s stress on basic education and qualified teachers has set a good example.

　　At primary and middle school, pupils in China did better in math and science lessons than the US pupils. However, few grow to be world “masters”. Why? Educationists attributed this to China’s stress on examination rather than students’ interest.

　　Deputy Director of the postgraduate school of Pennsylvania University said American teachers encouraged students to focus on their strong points. In China, students are driven to study to pass the entrance examination test and they do not pay much attention to their own interest.

　　At the forum, director of the Education Development Research Center Mr. Zhang said in the future, the research center would make its middle and long-term basic education strategy by taking some references from other countries including the US.

　　He also revealed that for a long time in the future, China would make a breakthrough in setting the policy for quality education.

　　16. This passage is mainly about _________.

　　A. quality education development in the future

　　B. why China’s education cultivates few world masters

　　C. China’s good basic education

　　D. genius education at the primary stage

　　17. The underlined word “renowned” in the first paragraph probably means ________

　　A. famous

　　B. active

　　C. qualified

　　D. experienced

　　18. The following statements are true EXCEPT that _________

　　A. basic education in the US is associated with the government’s political interest.

　　B. the forum aims to find out the reason why there few world masters in China.

　　C. all the educationists in China cast doubts in the country’s educational system.

　　D. Chinese government’s stress on basic education is spoken highly of.

　　19. Few pupils in China who did better in math and science lessons than the US pupils grow to be world “masters”, because _________

　　A. The US government spends more money on basic education

　　B. American pupils are cleverer than Chinese pupils

　　C. basic education in China is not as successful as that of the US

　　D. Chinese people pay less attention to students’ interest

　　20. China’s educational system will _______ in the future.

　　A. help students to study even harder to pass the examination

　　B. apply more attention to quality education referring to systems of other countries

　　C. allow students to pay more attention to their own interest without their test results

　　D. copy the educational system in the US

　　【参考答案】16—20、BACDB

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A

　　In the fall of 1985. I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.

　　My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.

　　Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic---and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3.

　　In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.[

　　You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 81. Our home was a complete zoo---a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream , either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.

　　The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit, But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.

　　In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree！

　　I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.

　　. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be

　　A. a writer

　　B. a teacher[

　　C. a judge

　　D. a doctor

　　2. Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?

　　A. She wanted to study by herself.

　　B. She fell in love and got married.

　　C. She suffered from a serious illness.

　　D. She decided to look after her grandma.

　　3. What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?

　　She was busy yet happy with her family life.

　　B. She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons.

　　C. She wanted to remain a full-time housewife.

　　D. She was too confused to make a correct choice.

　　4.What dose the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?

　　A. Failure is the mother of success.

　　B. Little by little ,one goes far.

　　C. Every coin has two sides.

　　D. Well begun ,half done.

　　5.Which of the following can best describe the author ?

　　A. Caring and determine.

　　B. Honest and responsible.

　　C. Ambitious and sensitive

　　D. Innocent and single-minded.

　　【参考答案】1—5、CDABA

　　【2016四川省资阳市第一次诊断性考试】E

　　To get a chocolate out of a box requires a lot of unpacking: the box has to be taken out of the paper bag in which it arrived, the cellophane (玻璃纸) wrapper has to be torn off, the lid opened and the paper removed, the chocolate itself then has to be unwrapped from its own piece of paper. But this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries. It is now becoming increasingly difficult to buy anything that is not done up in beautiful wrapping.

　　The package itself is of no interest to the shopper, who usually throws it away immediately. Useless wrapping accounts for much of the refuse put out by the average London house-hold each week. So why is it done? Some of it, like the cellophane on meat, is necessary, but most of the rest is simply competitive selling. This is absurd. Packaging is using up valuable energy and resources and polluting the environment.

　　Recycling is already happening with milk bottles which are returned to the dairies (牛奶场）, washed out, and refilled. But both glass and paper are being threatened by the growing use of plastic. More dairies are experimenting with plastic bottles.

　　The trouble with plastic is that it does not rot. Some environmentalists argue that the only solution to the problem of ever increasing plastic containers is to throw away plastic altogether in the shops, a suggestion unacceptable to many producers who say there is no alternative (替代品) to their handy plastic packs.

　　It is evident that more research is needed into the recovery and re-use of various materials and into the cost of collecting and recycling containers rather than producing new ones. Unnecessary packaging, intended to be used just once, and to make things look better so more people will buy them, is clearly becoming increasingly absurd. But it is not so much a question of throwing away packaging as using it wisely. What is needed now is a more advanced approach to using scarce resources for what is, after all, a relatively unimportant function.

　　47. The underlined part “this overuse of wrapping is not limited to luxuries” in Paragraph l means ______.

　　A. more wrapping is needed for ordinary products

　　B. the wrapping used for luxury products is unnecessary

　　C. more wrapping is used for luxuries than for ordinary products

　　D. too much wrapping is used for both luxury and ordinary products

　　48. Why is packaging important to producers?

　　A. It is easy to use it again.

　　B. Packaged things will not go rotten.

　　C. They want to attract more shoppers.

　　D. Shoppers are all interested in beautiful packaging.

　　49. According to the passage, dairies are ______.

　　A. reusing their paper containers

　　B. giving up the use of glass bottles

　　C. increasing the use of plastic bottles

　　D. experimenting with the use of paper bottles

　　50. Some environmentalists think that ______.

　　A. too much plastic is wasted

　　B. shops should stop using plastic containers

　　C. no alternative can be found to plastic packaging

　　D. plastic packaging should be made more convenient

　　47—50、DCCB