2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解七十五十集之连载训练：（21）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解八十集之连载训练（21）

　　【由北京市丰台区2016高考模拟改编】

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　What is so amazing about giving blood?

　　The National Blood Service, which covers all of England and North Wales, needs nearly two and a half million blood donations each year. When you give blood, you’ll be doing one of the most amazing things anybody could dream of — saving a life.

　　___________________________

　　All types of blood are needed —not just rare ones. In fact, the commoner the blood type, the more are needed. So even if your blood is one of the most common types — group O for example — you can be sure that by donating three times a year, you really are doing something amazing.

　　What is the donation process?

　　The donation will last about an hour in all. When you arrive, you will be asked a few questions about your health. Then a drop of blood will be taken and tested just to make sure you’re not anemic(贫血). If all is well, your donation.

　　This only takes about ten minutes, during which time 470ml of blood will be collected. Most people hardly feel a thing. After a short rest, a drink and biscuits, you’ll be up and ready to go. All equipment used in the collection of your blood is new and is never reused, so you don’t have to worry about risks to your health in the collection of your blood.

　　Who can become a blood donor?

　　Becoming a blood donor really is very simple. As long as you’re in good health and aged between 17 and 60, you can become a blood donor. If you would like more information or advice, or you want to become a blood donor, ring the donor helpline on 0845 7711. The donor helpline is open 24 hours a day — every day of the year.

　　1. Which is the subtitle of Paragraph 2?

　　A. Why should you donate blood?

　　B. What types of blood are needed?

　　C. What should you consider before donation?

　　D. How many times a year can you donate blood?

　　2. Before giving blood, you will ________.

　　A. rest for a while

　　B. wait for one day

　　C. fill in a form

　　D. take a blood test

　　3. What does the passage tell us about the donation process?

　　A. It takes many hours.

　　B. It’s done on computer.

　　C. It doesn’t need equipment.

　　D. It won’t affect donors’ health.

　　4. The purpose of the writing is to _______.

　　A. introduce the National Blood Service

　　B. show the importance of donation

　　C. call on people to donate blood

　　D. remind people of the danger

　　【参考答案】1.B

　　2.D

　　3.D

　　4.C

　　较难题目特训：介绍说明类

　　阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　All over the world, libraries have begun the Herculean task of making faithful digital copies of the books, images and recordings that preserve the intellectual effort of humankind. For armchair scholars, the work promises to bring such a wealth of information to the desktop that the present Internet may seem amateurish in retrospect. …

　　Librarians see three clear benefits to going digital. First, it helps them preserve rare and fragile objects without denying access to those who wish to study them. The British Library, for example, holds the only medieval manuscript of Beowulf in London. Only qualified scholars were allowed to see it until Kevin S. Kiernan of the University of Kentucky scanned the manuscript with three different light sources (revealing detail not normally apparent to the naked eye) and put the images up on the Internet for anyone to peruse (阅览). Tokyo’s National Diet Library is similarly creating highly detailed digital photographs of 1,236 woodblock prints, scrolls and other materials it considers national treasures so that researchers can scrutinize them without handling the originals.

　　A second benefit is convenience. Once books are converted to digital form, patrons can retrieve them in seconds rather than minutes. Several people can simultaneously read the same book or view the same picture. Clerks are spared the chore of reshelving. And libraries could conceivably use the Internet to land their virtual collections to those who are unable to visit in person.

　　The third advantage of electronic copies is that they occupy millimeters of space on a magnetic disk rather than meters on a shelf. Expanding library buildings is increasingly costly. The University of California at Berkeley recently spent $46 million on an underground addition to house 1.5 million books – an average cost of $30 per volume. The price of disk storage, in contrast, has fallen to about $2 per 300-page publication and continues to drop.

　　1.　 The best title for this passage would be __________.

　　A. Three Benefits of Libraries

　　B. Libraries Going Digital

　　C. Space-saving E-learning

　　D. Security of Electronic Reading

　　66.　 Which paragraph(s) in the text offer(s) further explanation of the central idea?

　　A. Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4　B. Paragraphs 3 and 4

　　C. Paragraphs 2 and 4D. Paragraph 4

　　3.　 Which one of the following is mentioned as the advantages of E-libraries？

　　A. Old manuscripts can be moved more easily　

　　B. Materials can be examined without being touched

　　C. Fewer staff will be required in libraries

　　D. Libraries will be able to move underground

　　4.　 What does the word ‘scrutinize’ probably mean?

　　A. keep for a while B. reprint　C. restore　D. examine carefully

　　【参考答案】1—4、BACD

　　较难题目特训：介绍说明类

　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　In my experience, freshmen today are different from those I knew when I started as a professor 25 years ago. College has always been demanding both academically and socially. But students now are less mature and often not ready for the responsibility of being in college.

　　Many of today’s students lack resilience (适应力)and at the first sign of difficulty are unable to think out strategies. The hardship can be a failing grade on a test, a cut from the team, or a romantic breakup.

　　It is really too easy to point the finger at parents who protect their children from life’s obstacles. Parents, who handle every difficulty and every other responsibility for their children from writing admission essays to picking college courses, certainly may contribute to their children’s lack of coping strategies. But we can look even more broadly to the social trends of today.

　　How many people do you know who are on medications (治疗) to prevent anxiety or depression? The number of students who arrive at college already medicated for unwanted emotions has increased dramatically in the past 10 years. We, as a society, don’t want to“feel” anything unpleasant and we certainly don’t want our children to“suffer”. The resulting problem is that by not experiencing negative emotions, one does not learn the necessary skills to tolerate and solve problems.

　　Our world is more stressful in general because of the current economic and political realities, but I don’t believe that the college experience itself is more intense today than the past 10 years. What I do think is that many students are often not prepared to be young “adults”with all the responsibilities of life.

　　As parents, we should expect young people to meet challenges. To encourage them in this direction, we have to step back and let them fail and pick themselves up and move forward. This approach needs to begin at an early age so that college can actually be a passage to independent adulthood.

　　1. The best title of the text probably is_____　

　　A. Have College Freshmen Changed?

　　B. What Should College Faculty and Staff Do Today?

　　C. What Difficulty Are Freshmen Facing?

　　D. How to Get Used to College Life for Freshmen?

　　2. According to the text, today’s freshmen_____.　

　　A. are not good at dealing with problems

　　B. often fail in the exams

　　C. can’t get along well with classmates

　　D. have to experience more intense college life

　　3. If freshmen become more mature to face and solve problems, they should______.　

　　A. experience negative emotions themselves

　　B. ask parents, teachers and coaches for more help

　　C. receive medications to prevent anxiety or depression

　　D. put their hearts and soul into the study

　　4. The text is mainly written for_____.　

　　A. teachersB. parents　C. studentsD. psychologists

　　【参考答案】1—4、AAAB

　　【由北京市丰台区2016高考模拟改编】

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　A Mountain of Green Beans

　　Another envelope in the mail. There’s my name, Alexander Spencer, typed on the front. I throw it under the bed. The piles of envelopes are growing.

　　The envelopes were applications to all the colleges I was supposed to attend. I did open the first envelope. Then I saw the application, all those blank spaces I was supposed to fill with my own writing, spaces for my name and birth date and grade average and … statement of purpose. I looked at them for a long time. I could write for hours and not fill all those spaces. So I put the application back in the envelope. I would fill it out the next day, when I had time. But another envelope arrived. And then the pile began.

　　The pile scares me — it is really like a monster. All the while, I feel the weight of a million envelopes raining down on my head until my grandmother calls me and wants to know how I am.

　　“I am overcome by too many tasks,” I say.

　　“Honey, you just take it bit by bit,” she says, and she reminds me about the green beans.

　　When I was a little kid I hated green beans. But my mom said I couldn’t leave the table until I ate ten green beans. All alone at the table, I stared at the green beans for what seemed like hours. It was a mountain of green beans. I couldn’t do it.

　　My grandma came to me and asked if I could eat one green bean.

　　“But Grandma, I have to eat ten!”

　　She said all I had to do was to eat one green bean. One tiny little green bean. So I ate one. It was bad, but not as bad as I’d thought it would be. Then she asked me again if I could eat one. So I ate one green bean nine more times.

　　My grandma doesn’t know about the envelopes, but she tells me anyone can do one thing every day.

　　Back in my room, I lay down on the bed. Just like I used to do when I was a little kid, I hang my head down to look at the pile of envelopes. There it is. But instead of a monster, I see a pile of green beans. Who’s afraid of green beans?

　　1. Envelopes are piling up because the author _______.

　　doesn’t know how to reply

　　feels bored of the paper work

　　doesn’t want to attend college

　　has been too busy to open them

　　2. What does the author learn from the story of the green beans?

　　A. A good start is half done.

　　B. Actions speak louder than words.

　　C. A long journey begins with a single step.

　　D. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

　　3. What do you think the author will do next?

　　A. He will fill out the applications one after another.

　　B. He will go to the college that he dreams of.

　　C. He will throw away all the envelopes.

　　D. He will eat up the green beans.

　　【参考答案】1—3、B C A