2012高考二轮复习英语专题训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解38

　　2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）

　　专题2 阅读理解 38

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　　BEIJING - China’s National Tourism Administration (NTA) said Saturday that 215 Chinese tour groups in Japan were safe and sound after a devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the country’s eastern coast Friday.

　　A total of 4,578 Chinese tourists were staying in Japan at the time of the quake. By Saturday noon, all the 215 tour groups that they booked with had contacted domestic travel agencies, with no death or injury reported, said the NTA upon information from local tourism authorities.

　　The NTA has activated the emergency response system and issued a travel alert for Japan and countries along the Pacific Rim, it said in a statement on its website.

　　The NTA has also called for travel agencies to protect the security of Chinese tourists in Japan and keep in touch with the Chinese embassy and consulates in Japan, as well as China’s tourism authorities.

　　Chinese tour agencies had started to bring back tourists from the quake-hit Japan and many trips had been called off.

　　China CYTS Tours, one of China’s major travel agencies, had promised a full refund for trip cancellation and offered to bear the extra expense for tourist protection in disasters and unrest.

　　A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Japan’s main Honshu Island at 1:46 pm Beijing Time Friday, which had triggered huge tsunami along Japan’s Pacific coast and caused hundreds of deaths and catastrophic damage.

　　1. Where are we likely to find this passage?

　　A．In a tour guided book．

　　B．In a geography book．

　　C．In a book．

　　D．In a newspaper．

　　. In the first paragraph，the meaning of devastating is

　　A．catastrophic

　　B．destructive

　　C．tragic

　　D．disastrous

　　3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A．In all, 4,578 Chinese were staying in Japan at the time of the quake.

　　B．Japan also called for travel agencies to protect the security of Chinese tourists.

　　C．215 Chinese tour groups in Japan were organized by China CYTS Tours.

　　D．Earthquake-caused tsunami resulted in hundreds of deaths and disastrous damage.

　　B

　　A disheveled(头发凌乱的) man appeared in court Thursday on charges of murdering a Chinese woman whose fight with her attacker was seen on webcam by her boyfriend in China. Police refused to release any details about the crime or its possible motive.

　　The body of York University student Liu Qian, 23, of Beijing, was found Friday in her apartment in Toronto a few hours after her boyfriend witnessed the attack, police said.

　　She was found undressed from the waist down but there were no obvious signs of sexual attack or trauma（创伤）severe enough to kill her. Police say it may be weeks before the results of an autopsy(尸体解剖) are known.

　　Brian Dickson, 29, stood before the court in a wrinkled white shirt and blue jeans as a charge of first-degree murder was read out. He did not enter an appeal. His case was held over until April 26.

　　Dickson was arrested Wednesday. Police only announced his name and his age and asked the media not to publish any photos of Dickson, saying it could compromise the investigation. Toronto police spokesman Tony Vella declined to respond to the request further.

　　Liu’s father, Liu Jianhui, who arrived from China after being informed of his daughter’s death, thanked authorities for their quick action.

　　“I sincerely thank the people concerned with my daughter’s case,” he told reporters after the arrest. “Our daughter was studying very hard.”

　　Police released no motive or details about Dickson, but one friend described the Toronto man as an aspiring actor.

　　Patricia Tomasi, a friend of Dickson’s, told The Associated Press that she acted in a play at a local theater in Toronto with Dickson in 2007.

　　“He doesn’t seem like the type but that’s what they always say,” Tomasi said. “He’s tall with boyish good looks. I don’t know much about him except that he wanted to be an actor.”

　　Dickson attended York University where he studied global politics, but did not earn a degree from there.

　　He later worked for the Atlantic Council of Canada (ACC), where he served as an assistant to the president Julie Lindhout. According to his biography on a newsletter from the Atlantic Council of Canada, Dickson has also been a running instructor and has been involved with Developments in Literacy, a Pakistani aid organization that raises money for children in Pakistan.

　　A statement from the Atlantic Council of Canada on Thursday said it was not council policy to comment on staff, but it confirmed that Dickson had been an intern(实习生) with the council from September 29, 2008, until March 27, 2009.

　　Liu was chatting with her boyfriend, Meng Xianchao, by webcam at about 1 a.m. Friday when a man knocked on the door, police said.

　　Meng reported seeing a struggle break out between the two before Liu’s webcam was shut off. Meng contacted other friends in Toronto who in turn called police.

　　The victim’s father, Liu Jianhui, said his daughter studied at Beijing City University before moving to Canada, where she met Meng.

　　Liu Qian’s laptop computer, webcam and mobile phone were taken from the apartment the night of the attack, police said. Police said the online chat was on a live streaming camera and was not recorded, though investigators were trying to figure out if there was any way they could recover it.

　　York University, whose campus is located near one of Toronto’s rougher neighborhoods, is one of Canada’s largest universities with more than 53,000 undergraduate and graduate students. About 3,200 of York’s students come from more than 150 foreign countries, the university’s website says.

　　1. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

　　A. York University students come from over 150 foreign countries.

　　B. Dickson was a graduate of York University where he studied global politics.

　　C. The passage does not mention the reason why Dickson murdered Liu Qian.

　　D. ACC wouldn’t make any comments on staff even if they committed a crime.

　　2. The underlined word in paragraph 8 probably means _______.

　　A. a successful actor

　　B. a gifted actor

　　C. a common actor

　　D. an ambitious actor

　　3. Why did police ask the media not to publish any photos of Dickson?

　　A. Worrying about bad influences on the investigation.

　　B. Not intending to give out any information about Dickson.

　　C. Not confirming whether Dickson had killed Liu Qian.

　　D. Wanting to protect their citizen for fear of losing face.

　　4. What can be inferred from the text?

　　A. Developments in Literacy raises money for children.

　　B. Seeing the struggle, Meng contacted Toronto police.

　　C. Dickson had no bad records before the murder.

　　D. Investigators could recover the chat record online.

　　C

　　He’s out there somewhere, an instant icon in the records of American conflict, the final big-game hunter. But a puzzle, too, his identity would be kept a secret for now, and maybe forever.

　　He is the unknown shooter. The nameless, faceless triggerman who put a bullet in the head of the world’s most notorious（臭名昭著的）terrorist, Bin Laden.

　　He’s likely between the ages of 26 and 33, says Marcinko, founder of the “SEALs Team 6” that many believe led the attack on Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He’ll be old enough to have had time to hurdle the extra training tests required to join the counter-terrorism unit, yet young enough to stand the body-punishing harshness of the job. The shooter’s a man, it’s safe to say, because there are no women in the SEALs. And there’s a good chance he’s white, though the SEALs have stepped up efforts to increase the number of minorities in their ranks, Marcinko and Smith say.

　　He was probably a high school or college athlete, Smith says, a physical specimen who combines strength, speed and wisdom. “They call themselves ‘tactical athletes,’ “ says Smith, who works with many future SEALs in his Heroes of Tomorrow training program in Severna Park. “It’s getting very scientific.”

　　Marcinko puts it in more conventional terms: “He’ll be ripped,” says the author of the best-selling autobiography “Rogue Warrior.” “He’s got a lot of upper-body strength. Long arms. Thin waist. Flat stomach.”

　　On this point, Greitens departs a bit. “You can’t make a lot of physical assumptions,” says the author of “The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL.” There are SEALs who are 5 feet 4 and SEALs who are 6 feet 5, Greitens says. In his training group, he adds, there were college football boys who couldn’t hack it; those who survived were most often men in good shape, but they also had a willingness to show their concerns in favor of the mission.

　　The shooter’s probably not the crew-cut（平头）, neatly shaven ideal we’ve come to expect from American fighting forces. “He’s bearded, rough-looking, like a street naughty boy,” Marcinko supposes. “You don’t want to stick out.” Marcinko calls it “modified grooming standards.”

　　His hands will be calloused（长老茧）, Smith says, or just rough enough,” as Marcinko puts it. And “he’s got frag in him somewhere,” Marcinko says, using the battlefield shorthand for “fragments” of bullets or explosive devices. This will not have been the shooter’s first adventure. Marcinko estimates that he might have made a dozen or more deployments（部署）, tours when he was likely to have dealt with quite a number of dangerous situations, getting ready any time for explosive devices or bullets.

　　1. Which of the following is most likely to be the title of the passage?

　　A. Who shot Bin Laden?

　　B. What do the SEALS do?

　　C. How can boys be SEALS?

　　D. What SEALS are like?

　　2. From the passage we can know that the writer ___________.

　　A. knows clearly what the shooter is like

　　B. doubts whether Bin Laden is dead

　　B. is certain that the shooter is a man

　　D. is not sure of the shooter’s gender

　　3. We can say for sure according to the passage that ___________.

　　A. the shooter will eventually be revealed in the Press

　　B. the writer is a person who is curious about the shooter

　　C. the writer is a detective who tries to arrest the shooter

　　D. the shooter is a strong man with a pair of rough hands

　　4. Which of the following are the names of writers mentioned in the passage?

　　①. Marcinko ②. Greitens ③. Smith ④. Abbottabad

　　A. ①②

　　B. ②③

　　C. ③④

　　D. ①④

　　DBD

　　BDAC

　　ABBA