2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解七十五十集之连载训练：（17）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解八十集之连载训练（17）

　　阅读理解

　　BLUE is the most attractive eye colour according to new research.

　　Blue eyes like those belonging to sexy star Angelina Jolie are the most appealing colour according to a poll of 3,000 18 ～24 year olds by FreshLook One Day Colour.Angelina，her partner Brad Pitt and his ex­wife Jennifer Aniston all have blue eyes and have all been named in a top twenty of the world’s most desirable eyes.

　　The survey found that young folk with blue eyes are generally seen as being more sexy and kind.

　　And when asked if they would change the colour of their eyes if they could，only one in ten blueeyed people wanted to—significantly less than people with other colour eyes.

　　One in three people who didn’t have blue eyes wanted a change.

　　One quarter of respondents have considered wearing coloured contact lenses to change their eye colour tempor

　　arily and blue is most wanted colour.

　　Green was the second most popular colour for those wanting a new look，with respondents saying green­eyed people were usually mysterious and creative.

　　People with brown or hazel eyes were perceived to be more trustworthy than people with other eye colours.

　　People with grey eyes were generally thought to be more intelligent than other people，and they were also described as usually being shy.

　　Blue was the most common eye colour among respondents，with 41 percent of those who answered the survey having baby blue peepers and 39 percent having brown or hazel eyes.

　　The survey also found that 18 percent of people don’t know what colour eyes their partner has!

　　1．According to the new research，when considering changing their eye colour，the number of the people who will choose_________ranks the second.

　　A．Brown　

　　B．Green

　　C．Grey

　　D．Hazel

　　解析：　考查细节理解题。根据文章中Green was the second most popular color for those wanting a new look可知。

　　答案：　B

　　2．According to the study result，if you were a manager and you wanted to find a most reliable person，you’d better hire one

　　who has________eyes.

　　A．Green

　　B．Blue

　　C．Brown

　　D．Grey

　　解析：　考查细节理解题。根据文章中People with brown or hazel eyes were perceived to be more trustworthy than people with other eye colors.可知。

　　答案：　C

　　3．According to the passage，which of the following is true?

　　A．All people don’t know what colour eyes their partner has!

　　B．About 30 percent people without blue eyes don’t want a change.

　　C．Blue eyes are considered as the best eyes in the world.

　　D．You’d better change your eye colour into blue.

　　解析：　考查细节理解题。根据文章最后一句话可知在接受调查的人中有18%的人不知道父母的眼睛是什么颜色，因此A项并不是所有的人都知道父母眼睛的颜色正确。B意思刚好相反；C和D文章没有提到。

　　答案：　A

　　4．Which of the following is the best title of the passage?

　　A．Different eye colours in the world.

　　B．A survey result on eye colours.

　　C．Who have the most charming eyes in the world?

　　D．Blue—the most attractive eye colour.

　　解析：　考查主旨大意题。本文的中心段是第一段，下面好几段都是围绕着第一段的意思详细论述的。因此答案为D。

　　答案：　D

　　5．The underlined word “peepers” in the passage could be replaced by________.

　　A．babies

　　B．colours

　　C．eyes

　　D．respondents

　　解析：　考查猜测词义题。根据前句话可知蓝色眼睛最流行，因此本句话的意思为被调查的人中有41%的人说自己有婴儿般的蓝色眼睛。

　　答案：　CWhat makes a person a scientist？Does he have ways or tools of learning that are different from those of others？The answer is “NO”．It is not what the tools that a scientist uses but how he uses these tools that makes him a scientist.You will probably agree that knowing how to use the power is important to a carpenter (木匠)．You will probably agree，too，that knowing how to investigate (调查)，how to discover information，is important to everyone.The scientist，however，goes one step further，he must be sure that he has a reasonable answer to his questions and that his answer can be confirmed (确认) by other persons.He also works to fit the answers he gets to many questions into a large set of ideas about how the world works.

　　The scientist’s knowledge must be exact.There is no room for half right or right just half the time.He must be as nearly right as the conditions permit.What works under one set of conditions sometimes must work under the same conditions at other times.If the conditions are different，any changes the scientist observes in a demonstration (演示) must be explained by the changes in the conditions.This is one reason that investigations are important in science.Albert Einstein，who developed the theory of relativity，arrived at this theory through mathematics.The accuracy of his mathematics was later tested through investigations.Einstein’s ideas were shown to be correct.A scientist uses many tools for measurements.Then the measurements are used to make mathematical calculations that may test his investigations.

　　1．What makes a scientist according to the passage?

　　A．The tools he uses.B．His ways of learning.

　　C．The ways he uses his tools.D．The different tools.

　　解析：　细节理解题。由第一段“It is not what the tools that a scientist uses but how he uses these tools that makes him a scientist.”可知。

　　答案：　C

　　．What can we learn from the passage?

　　A．The scientist’s knowledge is always right under all conditions.

　　B．When the condition changes，the result of the observation may also change.

　　C．Condition makes no difference to scientists.

　　D．There’s no point for ordinary people knowing how to investigate.

　　解析：　细节理解题。由第二段“If the conditions are different，any changes the scientist observes in a demonstration (演示) must be explained by the changes in the conditions.”可知。

　　答案：　B

　　3．“The scientist，however，goes one step further，...”the author says this to show ________.

　　A．the importance of information

　　B．the importance of thinking

　　C．the difference between scientists and ordinary people

　　D．the difference between carpenters and people with other

　　jobs

　　解析：　句意理解题。上文提到了如何调查，如何发现信息对每个人来说都很重要，下文用however引起转折，说明科学家们应该更进一步，他必须确保问题有合理的答案。故此处的the scientist，however，goes one step further，...用来说明科学家和普通人的不同之处。

　　答案：　C

　　．A scientific theory should be one that________.

　　A．not only works under one set of conditions sometimes，but also works under the same conditions at other times

　　B．leaves no room for improvement

　　C．does not allow any change even under different conditions

　　D．can be used for many purposes

　　解析：　细节理解题。由“What works under one set of conditions sometimes must work under the same conditions at other times.”可知答案。

　　答案：　A

　　．What is the main idea of the passage?

　　A．Scientists are different from ordinary people.

　　B．The theory of relativity.

　　C．Exactness is the center of science.

　　D．Exactness and way of using tools are the keys to the making of a scientist.

　　解析：　主旨大意题。本文第一句“What makes a person a scientist？”提出了文章的主题，第一段论述“how a scientist uses these tools makes him a scientist”，第二段论述“The scientist’s knowledge must be exact”，故D正确。其余各项只是文章中的细节。

　　答案：　D

　　Bill Javis took over our village’s news-agency at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax. He just thought he would like something but not too much to do, and the news-agency was ready-made. The business produced little enough for him, but Bill was a man who only wanted the simplicity and order and regularity of the job. He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had done everything by the clock.

　　Every day he opened his shop at 6:00 a. m. to catch the early trade; the papers arrived on his doorstep before that. Many of Bill’s customers were city workers, and the shop was convenient for the station. Business was tailing off by 10 o’clock, so at eleven sharp Bill closed for lunch. It was hard luck on anybody who wanted a paper or magazine in the afternoon, for most likely Bill would be down on the river bank, fishing, and his neatest competitor was five kilometers away. Sometimes in the afternoon-, the evening paper landed on the doorway, and at 4 o’ clock Bill reopened his shop. The evening rush lasted till seven, and it was worthwhile.

　　He lived in a flat above the ship, alone. Except in the very bad weather, you always knew where to find him in the afternoon, as I have said. Once, on a sunny afternoon, I walked home along the river bank from a shopping trip to the village. By my watch it was three minutes past four, so I was astonished to see Bill sitting there on his little chair with a line in the, water. He had no luck, I could, see, but he was making no effort to move.

　　“What’s wrong, Bill?” I called out from the path.

　　For answer, he put a hand in his jacket and took out a big, golden object. For a moment I had no idea what it could be, and then it suddenly went off with a noise like a fire engine. Stopping the bell, Bill held the thing up and called back, "Ten to four, you see, and this is dead right. "

　　I had never known anyone carrying a brass alarm clock round with him before.

　　1. Bill Javis became a news-agent when ________.

　　A. he need the money.

　　B. he decided to take things easy

　　C. he was quite an old man

　　D. he gave up clock-repairing

　　2. Bill opened the shop so early in the day because ________.

　　A. he liked to do as much as possible before he went to work

　　B. the shop had to be open when the morning papers came

　　C. he was never sure of time

　　D. it was then that he did a lot of business

　　3. On that sunny afternoon, the writer was surprised when he saw Bill because ________.

　　A. he thought it was late for Bill to be still fishing

　　B. he thought Bill was ill, since he was not moving at all

　　C. Bill had not caught anything, and that seemed strange

　　D. Bill stayed in his flat

　　4. From the information given in the passage, who or what do you think was wrong?

　　A. The bell was; it must have gone off at the wrong time.

　　B. Bill was; he had dropped off to sleep.

　　C. The writer’s watch was fast.

　　D. Bill’s clock was wrong; it was old.

　　【参考答案及解析】

　　1. C 推断题。at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax和He had been a long-serving sailor这两点说明他已上了年纪。

　　2. D 推断题。第二段开头说他6点开门，报纸在这之前已送到，而且还可以catch the early trade。

　　3. A 推断题。Bill通常4点会重新开店，而那天作者的表已过4点，Bill还没有离开的意思，所以他非常惊讶。

　　4. C 细节题。A项中go off是爆发，产生很大声音；B项中drop off to sleep是不知不觉入睡；文章中倒数第二段最后一句话this is dead right 中dead是“非常，完全”的意思，可见，Bill的clock没错。

　　【由安徽省合肥市2016高考模拟题改编】

　　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。

　　When I decided to quit my job as a wedding photographer, I was in my late twenties, fresh from my divorce from Bob who had left me empty and confused. I decided to leave the US and travel. I had no savings, plus more than $5,000 in debt. What I did have were two sponsored tasks as a travel photographer- and with that along, I thought, it would be easy.

　　My first experience was a road trip from Toronto to Las Vegas, paid for by a car delivery service. Other trips followed and then I started a travel blog (博客). It was intended to be my calling card for assignment travel photography. Yet even with my blog and past experience, email after email I sent to publications, trying to get work, went unanswered. When they did get in touch, editors told me that I had no chance of making a career with travel photography. While I struggled to get on the path that I wanted, and as I expanded my blog to help get me there, I found myself wearing the hat of a full-time blogger.

　　Luckily, I got in at the right time. It was 2010，and the travel industry was just starting to turn its attention to bloggers. As I never could have predicted, my blogging-not my photography-did take me around the world successfully. At first，I thought it was for personal reasons, but I realized later that it was for free marketing for my blogging.

　　Within two years, I was being asked to speak at travel blogging conferences, which helped me to raise a network of friends around the world. Even more meaningful, however, was when I saw that my travels were also helping other people. My blog and social media followers saw that I chased my dreams and told me over and over again how they needed that kind of example, which was absent in their lives elsewhere.

　　51 After the author quit her job, she decided to ______.

　　A. divorce her husband

　　B. be a wedding photographer

　　C. pay off all her debt

　　D. go travelling abroad

　　2. What can we learn about the author from the 2nd paragraph?

　　A. She paid money to a car delivery agency for a road trip.

　　B. She realised his dream of becoming a travel photographer.

　　C. She got a job as an editor in a publishing house.

　　D. She finally became a professional blogger unintentionally.

　　3. The author believed her success mainly resulted from ______.

　　A. her personal reasons

　　B. her photographing skills

　　C. free marketing for blogging

　　D. booming of travel industry

　　4. What did the author think of her two years' work?

　　A. Inspiring.

　　B. Appealing.

　　C. Interesting.

　　D. Challenging.

　　【参考答案】1—4、DDCA