2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解训练七十集之连载（6）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解训练七十集之连载（6）

　　阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　After years of study，I have known there are only two types of people in this world：those who get to the airport early and those who arrive as the plane is about to take off.

　　If there were any justice in this world，the early­airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing and the late­airport people would be punished.But the early­airport people get ulcers(溃疡)，heart attacks and bite their finger­nails to the bone (急得团团转)．The late­airport people are hardly aware that they are flying.

　　A guy of that kind once said，“Don’t hurry.If you miss your flight，it’s because God didn’t want you to go.”This is clearly a guy who is never going to get an ulcer.

　　Early­airport people suffer another“name”．They are called exactly what they are—wimps(懦夫)．I know I am an early­airport person for years.My luggage will get on the plane first，which makes it the last luggage they take off the plane after landing.

　　Another strange thing：No matter how early I showed up，I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat.I figured it was a trick.I figured there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said，“Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today？If he is，give me his seat.”

　　After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead，I have learned another fact about early­airport people and late­airport people：

　　They always marry each other.

　　．We can learn from the passage that________.

　　A．late­airport persons often get ulcers or heart attacks

　　B．early­airport persons are always relaxed during the flight

　　C．early­airport persons get their luggage first after landing

　　D．late­airport persons always take things easy

　　解析：　细节理解题。从第二段及第三段所举事例可知，晚到机场的人总是沉得住气，不慌不忙，故选D。从第二段第二句可知A项和B项错；从第四段最后一句可知C项错。

　　答案：　D

　　．The fifth paragraph mainly tells us________.

　　A．someone always plays tricks on the writer

　　B．the airlines usually fool passengers

　　C．early­airport persons always can’t get good seats

　　D．the service of airlines is very bad

　　解析：　段落大意题。从第五段可知作者通过描述自己的亲身经历得出一个结论：早到机场的人往往不能得到想要的座位，故C选项正确。A项是作者的一个玩笑。因为他总是得不到想要的座位，所以才会说I figured it was a trick；B项和D项无法从第五段推出。

　　答案：　C3．The purpose of writing the passage is to________.

　　A．give useful tips on taking a plane

　　B．offer advice about catching a plane

　　C．express the writer’s anxiety about taking planes

　　D．show peoples two attitudes toward catching planes

　　解析：　意图推测题。通读全文不难推断出作者写此文章主要介绍了人们对于赶飞机的两种截然不同的态度，故D选项正确。

　　答案：　D

　　．It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is________.

　　A．an early­airport womanB．a late­airport woman

　　C．a hot­tempered womanD．a sensitive woman

　　解析：　推理判断题。根据文章可知作者属于“早到机场的人。”文章的结尾提到了作者的另一个发现：早到机场的人总是与晚到机场的人结婚。由此，可推知作者的妻子属于“晚到机场的人”，故选B。

　　答案：　B

　　．The writing style of the passage would be best described as________.

　　A．serious　B．simple

　　C．humorous

　　D．ironic

　　解析：　推理判断题。综观全文，作者的写作风格诙谐幽默，妙趣横生，故选C。

　　答案：　CA、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　One evening in February 2007. A student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path . That's when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio parked across a railway line. Second later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.

　　Ceely's

　　near miss

　　made the news because she blamed it on her GPS device(导航仪).She had never driven the route before .It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS. But it made no mention of the crossing. "I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she told the BBC.

　　W ho is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely's story in his book When Machines Fail US, finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says,

　　But our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless key boards.

　　The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s

　　not clear why he only focuses digital technology, while

　　there may be a number of other possible

　　causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the CPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say.

　　It’s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once once again not all new locks have proved reliable. Perhaps, but maybe it’s also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. Or changing social circumstances. Or some combination of these factors.

　　The game between humans and their smart devices is complex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be way a wiser use of technology.

　　If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just as long.

　　(

　　) 1 .What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident?           

　　 A. She was not familiar with the road.           

　　 B. It was dark and raining heavily then.   

　　C. The railway works failed to give the signal.

　　D. Her GPS device didn’t tell her about the crossing

　　(

　　)  2. The phrase “near miss” (paragraph 2) can best be replaced by _______.     

　　A. close bit          B. heavy loss             C. narrow escape         D. big mistake      

　　(

　　) 3. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?       

　　A. Modern technology is what we can’t live without.

　　B. Digital technology often falls short of out expectation.    

　　C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.   

　　D. GPS error is not the only cause for Celery’s accident. 

　　(

　　) 4. In the writer’s opinion, Stevenson’s argument is________.

　　A. one-sided

　　B. reasonable

　　C. puzzling

　　D. well-based

　　(

　　) 5.What is the real concern of the writer of this article?

　　A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.

　　B. The relationship between humans and technology

　　C. The shortcomings of digital devices we use.           

　　D. The human unawareness  of technical problems.

　　【参考答案】1---5、DCBAB

　　2016高考训练题。阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。. What is the main idea of the passage?

　　A. Electric cars are not clean at all

　　B. Electric cars are better than gasoline-powered ones

　　C. People have doubts about electric cars’ batteries

　　D. Gasoline is an effective way to power a vehicle

　　2. The underlined words “ be clueless” mean___________

　　A. know nothing

　　B. have confidence

　　C. feel excited

　　D. be pleased

　　3. The electricity we get from a gallon of gas may make our car run ________

　　A. not less than 25 miles

　　B. as far as 50 miles

　　C. as far as 25 miles

　　D. not more than 25 miles

　　4. According to the passage, electric cars__________

　　A. are more environmentally friendly

　　B. burn more fuel than gas-powered ones

　　C. are very good at cleaning up

　　D. are poisonous for a long time

　　参考答案1—4、AADB

　　阅读理解。

　　It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and do all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick

　　were engaged in spring cleaning.

　　Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets , they had sent him to the kitchen for string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.

　　My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping, A gun she cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls! Let’s take string to the boys and watch them

　　On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls.

　　There never was such a day for flying kited! We played all our fresh string into the boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher .We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down it the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.

　　Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. “Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heaven,” I thought confusedly.

　　It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to house. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been a surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn't mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed .Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are.”

　　The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently

　　cried her desire to “go park ,see duck.”

　　“I can’t go!”

　　I said. “I have this and this to do, and when I’m through I’ll be too tired to walk that for.”

　　My mother , who was visiting us , looked up from the peas she was shelling ,“It’s a wonderful day,” she offered，“Really warm , yet there’s a fine breezy . Do you remember that day we flew kites?”

　　I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The looked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. “Come on.” I told my little girl. “You’re right, it’s too good a day to miss.”

　　Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath (余波)of a great war. All

　　evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of – what dark and horrible things?

　　“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips. “Do you remember --- no, of course you wouldn’t. It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”

　　I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”

　　“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp(战俘营), when things weren’t too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”

　　(

　　) 1. Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought

　　A. she was too old to fly kites

　　B. her husband would make fun of her

　　C. she should have been doing her housework then

　　D. her girls weren’t supposed to play the boy’s game

　　(

　　) 2. By” we were all beside ourselves”, the writer means that they all

　　.

　　A. felt confused

　　B. went wild with joy

　　C. looked on

　　D. forgot their fights

　　(

　　) 3. What did the writer think after the kite-flying?

　　A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.

　　B. They should have finished their work before playing.

　　C. Her parents should spend more time with them.

　　D. All the others must have forgotten that day.

　　(

　　) 4. Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?

　　A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.

　　B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.

　　C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.

　　D. She thought it was a great day to play outside.

　　(

　　) 5. The youngest Patrick Boy is mentioned to show that _____ .

　　A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories

　　B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life

　　C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer

　　D. people like him really changed a lot after the war

　　【参考答案】1---5、CBDBA