2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解一百四十集选练：（138）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解一百六十集选练（138）

　　2016高考模拟题。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。I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994. but I can remember my mother’s words as if it were yesterday. “Kernel, I don’t want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him. ”

　　AIDS wasn’t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on , I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore . and my dad lived alone . For a while , he could take care of himself . But when I was 12. his condition worsened . My father’s other children lived far away, so it fell to me to look after him.

　　We couldn’t afford all the necessary medicine for him. and because Dad was unable to work . I had no money for school supplies and often couldn’t even buy food for dinner . I would sit in class feeling completely lost , the teacher’s words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage.

　　I did not share my burden (负担)with anyone . I had seen people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease . And even adults could be cruel . When my father was moved to the hospital. the nurses would leave his food on the bedside even though he was too weak to feed himself.

　　I had known that he was going to die . but after so many years of keeping his condition a secret . I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless. I called a woman at the nonprofit National AIDS Support. That day , she kept me on the phone for hours . I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life .

　　I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him. having never spoken about AIDS to anyone. Even me , he didn’t want to call attention to AIDS. I do.

　　1. What does Kernel tell us about her father?

　　A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill

　　B. He depended on the nurses in his final days.

　　C. He worked hard to pay for his medication.

　　D. He told no one about his disease.

　　2. What can we learn from the underlined sentence?

　　A. Kernel couldn’t understand her teacher.

　　B. Kernel had special difficulty in hearing.

　　C. Kernel was too troubled to focus on the lesson.

　　D. Kernel was too tired to hear her teacher’s words.

　　3. Why did Kernel keep her father’s disease a secret?

　　A. She was afraid of being looked down upon.

　　B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.

　　C. She found no one willing to listen to her.

　　D. She wanted to obey her mother.

　　4. Why did Kernel write the passage?

　　A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father.

　　B. To show how little people knew about AIDS.

　　C. To draw people’s attention to AIDS.

　　D. To remember her father.

　　参考答案1—4、DCAC

　　科普知识类【阅读理解】

　　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。

　　People who are taking aspirin regularly to thin their blood and are about to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery (冠状动脉旁路搭桥术) are usually to stop the aspirin a week before the operation – but they could be better off if they keep taking it.

　　Taking aspirin up to the day coronary artery bypass grafting (移植) is performed seems to speed lung function recovery afterwards, without increasing the risk of bleeding significantly, according to a report from Israel.

　　Release of a substance called thromboxane (血栓素) is associated with lung injury after heart bypass grafting, Dr Rabin Gerrah at Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv and his colleagues explained in the medical journal Chest. Aspirin is believed to inhibit release of thromboxane, so Gerrah’s group theorized that the administration of aspirin until the day of the surgery could improve outcomes.

　　They therefore followed 14 patients who took 100 milligrams of aspirin daily until the day of the surgery and 18 who stopped taking aspirin at least 7 days before the surgery.

　　Those who continued with their aspirin had significantly lower thromboxane in fluid around the heart, better oxygen levels in their blood and spent less time on a ventilator(呼吸器) than the group who discontinued taking aspirin.

　　On the other hand, the need for blood transfusions was no different between the groups, indicating that bleeding complications were no worse with aspirin.

　　The researchers had excluded patients who had suffered a heart attack and those with heart failure because patients like these have a higher level of thrombaxane. “They will probably benefit even more than its inhibition.”

　　Based on their findings, Gerrah’s team recommends that aspirin therapy(治疗) not be discontinued before coronary artery bypass surgery.

　　1. From the passage we know that_______.

　　A. doctors usually get people who will have coronary artery bypass surgery to stop taking aspirin 7 days before the operation

　　B. aspirin is believed to increase release of thromboxane

　　C. taking aspirin up to the day coronary artery bypass grafting is performed seems to slow lung function recovery afterwards

　　D. patients suffering a heart attack have a lower level of thromboxane

　　2. The purpose of the passage is to introduce to us that _________.

　　A. aspirin can make for release of thromboxane

　　B. aspirin is useful for patients suffering a heart attack

　　C. different ways turn out to be the same result

　　D. aspirin may improve recovery after heart bypass

　　3. According to Dr Rabin Gerrah, patients who will have heart bypass surgery should _______.

　　A. stop taking aspirin before the surgery

　　B. take aspirin as much as they like until the day of the surgery

　　C. be allowed to take 100 milligrams of aspirin daily until the day of the surgery

　　D. take aspirin after the heart bypass operation

　　4. What does the underlined word “inhibit” in paragraph 3 mean?

　　A. to become larger or better than normal

　　B. to make something happen more slowly than normal

　　C. to cause to be nervous or embarrassed

　　D. to improve something in poor condition

　　【参考答案】1—4、ADCB

　　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。

　　The Maldives faces the threat of extinction from rising sea levels, but the government said on Thursday it was looking to the future with plans to build homes and a golf course that float.

　　An increase in sea levels of just 18 to 59 centimeters would make the Maldives—a nation of tiny coral islands in the Indian Ocean—virtually uninhabitable by 2100, the UN’s climate change panel has warned.

　　President Mohamed Nasheed has vowed a fight for survival, and last month he signed a deal with a Dutch company to study proposals for a floating structure that could support a conference centre, homes and an 18-hole golf course.

　　“It is still early stages and we are awaiting a report on the practicality,” a government official who declined to be named said.

　　The company, Dutch Docklands, is currently building floating developments in the Netherlands and Dubai. There was no immediate comment from the firm but its website said it undertook projects that make “land from water by providing large-scale floating constructions to create similar conditions as on land”.

　　The Maldives began to work on an artificial island known as the Hulhumale near the crowded capital island of Male in 1997 and more than 30,000 people have been settled there to ease congestion. The city, which has a population of 100,000, is already protected from rising sea levels by a 30-million-dollar sea wall, and the government is considering increasingly imaginative ways to combat climate change.

　　Nasheed, who staged the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting in October to highlight his people’s serious and difficult situation, has even spoken of buying land elsewhere in the world to enable Maldivians to relocate if their homes are completed covered.

　　He has also promised to turn his nation into a model for the rest of the world by becoming “carbon neutral” by 2020. His plan involves ending fossil fuel use and powering all vehicles and buildings from “green” sources such as burning coconut husks.

　　1. Why do you think Mohamed Nasheed chose Dutch Docklands?

　　A. Because it has experience in building floating structure.

　　B. Because it has a good fame throughout the world.

　　C. Because it charged much less than other companies.

　　D. Because it supports building floating structures in the world.

　　2. The Hulhumale was built with the purpose of　.

　　A. attracting more visitors

　　B. making it a new capital

　　C. making the capital less crowded

　　D. fighting against climate change

　　3. According to the last two paragraphs, Nasheed is a person who　.

　　A. has succeeded in buying land abroad

　　B. is more than well-known

　　C. has thought more for his nation

　　D. has stopped using fossil fuel

　　4. The underlined word “vowed” in paragraph 3 can be replaced by　.

　　A. ended B. promised C. failed D. weighed

　　【参考答案】1—4、ACCB　

　　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。

　　PLAYA GRANDE, COSTA RICA? This resort town was long known for Leatherback Sea Turtle (棱皮龟) national Park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. However, on a beach where dozens of turtles used to nest on a given night, scientists spied only 32 leatherbacks all of last year.

　　With leatherbacks threatened with extinction (灭绝), Playa Grande’s turtle museum was abandoned three years ago and now sits among a sea of weeds. And the beachside ticket office for turtle tours was washed away by a high tide in September. “We do not promote that as a turtle tourism destination any more because we realize there are far too few turtles to please,” said Alvaro Fonseca, a park ranger (管理员).

　　Even before scientists found temperatures going up over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and Costa Ricans interest in eating turtle eggs. But climate change may cause the most serious harm to an animal that has lived in the Pacific for 150 million years.

　　Sea turtles are sensitive to numerous effects of warming. They feed on reefs, which are dying in hotter seas. They lay eggs on beaches that are being covered by rising seas and more violent waves.

　　More uniquely their gender (性别) is determined, not by genes but by the egg’s temperature during development. Small rises in beach temperatures can result in ail-female populations, obviously problematic for survival. If the sand around the eggs hits 30 degrees Celsius, the gender balance shits to females: at about 32 degrees they are all female. Above 34, you get boiled eggs.

　　On some nesting beaches, scientists are artificially cooling nests with shade or irrigation and trying to protect broader areas of coastal property from development to ensure that turtles have a place to nest as the seas rise.

　　1. Why does the resort town stop promoting it’s turtle tourism?

　　A. It decides not to disturb the turtles’ normal life.

　　B. Tourists have lost interest in watching turtles.

　　C. There are only very few turtles now.

　　D. The turtle museum was destroyed by a high tide.

　　2. Which of the following is the major factor in the turtles endangerment?

　　A. The locals eating habit. B. Drift net fishing.

　　C. Beach development. D. Global warming.

　　3. We learn from the last paragraph that scientists　.

　　A. are doing research on the sea rise

　　B. are moving turtles to new homes

　　C. are protecting turtles’ nests

　　D. are getting rid of sea weeds

　　4. The passage intends to　.

　　A. introduce a special kind of sea turtle

　　B. explain the mystery of turtles’ eggs

　　C. show the dangers a certain kind of turtle is facing

　　D. attract more visitors to a sea turtle museum

　　【参考答案】1—4、CDCC