2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解一百四十集选练：（75）

　　2016高考英语二轮阅读理解一百六十集选练（75）

　　阅读理解。

　　Home stay provides English language students with the opportunity to speak English outside the classroom and the experience of being part of a British home.

　　What to Expect

　　The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week. You will be given the house key and the host is there to offer help and advice as well as to take an interest in your physical and mental health.

　　Accommodation Zones

　　Home stays are located in London mainly in Zones2,3 and of the transport system. Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential(居住的). Zones3 and 4often offer larger accommodation in a less crowned area. It is very convenient to travel in London by Underground.

　　Meal Plans Available

　　♢ Continental Breakfast

　　♢ Breakfast and Dinner

　　♢ Breakfast, Packed Lunch and Dinner

　　It’s important to note that few English families still provide a traditional cooked breakfast. Your accommodation includes Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal（谷物类食品），bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally

　　part of a Continental Breakfast in England. Dinners usually consist of meat or fish with vegetables followed by desert, fruit and coffee.

　　Friends

　　If you wish to invite a friend over to visit. You must first ask your host’s permission. You have no right to entertain friends in a family home as some families feel it is an invasion of their privacy.

　　Self-Catering Accommodation in Private Homes

　　Accommodation on a room-only basis includes shared kitchen and bathroom facilities and often a main living room. This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestyle and is more suitable for the long-stay student. However, it does not provide the same family atmosphere as an ordinary home stay and may not benefit those who need to practise English at home quite as much.

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　　) 1.The passage is probably written for ____________.

　　A. host willing to receive foreign students

　　B. foreigners hoping to build British culture

　　C. travellers planning to visit families in London

　　D. English learners applying to like in English homes

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　　) 2. Which of the following will the host provide?

　　A、Room cleaning.

　　B、Medical care.

　　C、Free transport.

　　D、Physical training.

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　　) 3.What can be inferred from Paragraph3?

　　A. Zone 4 is more crowded than Zone 2.

　　B. The business centre of London is in Zone.

　　C. Hosts dislike travelling to the city centre.

　　D. Zone 2 is more crowded than Zone 4.

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　　) 4. According to the passage. What does continental Breakfast include?

　　A. Dessert and coffee

　　B. Fruit and vegetables.

　　C. bread and fruit juice

　　D. Centre and cold meat.

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　　) 5. Why do some people choose self-catering accommodation?

　　A. To experience a warmer family atmosphere.

　　B. To enrich their knowledge of English.

　　C. To entertain friends as they like.

　　D. To enjoy much more freedom.

　　【文章大意】应用文，文章介绍了到英国家庭寄宿学习英语交流语言。

　　1、D主旨大意题。本文介绍英语学习者在英语家庭寄宿学习英语。选D。

　　2、A细节理解题。定位关键词the host provide 。由The host will provide accommodation and meals. Rooms will be cleaned and bedcovers changed at least once a week.可以得出答案。

　　3、B细节退推理题。根据Most hosts do not live in the town centre as much of central London is commercial and not residential(居住的).可知大多数寄宿家庭都生活在伦敦的商业区。可知商业区在伦敦的寄宿家庭区了。

　　4、C细节理解题。定位关键词Breakfast include 。由Continental Breakfast which normally consists of fruit juice, cereal（谷物类食品），bread and tea or coffee. Cheese, fruit and cold meat are not normally可知答案。

　　5、D细节理解题。由最后一段This kind of accommodation offers an independent lifestule and is more suitable for the long-stay student.可知答案。

　　【科普知识型---阅读理解】

　　The forces that make Japan one of the world's most earthquakeprone(有地震倾向的) countries could become part of its longterm energy solution.

　　Water from deep below the ground at Japan's tens of thousands of hot springs could be used to produce electricity.

　　Although Japanese hightech companies are leaders in geothermal(地热的) technology and export it, its use is limited in the nation.

　　“Japan should no doubt make use of its resources of geothermal energy，” said Yoshiyasu Takefuji, a leading researcher of thermalelectric power production.

　　The disastrous earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011 caused a reaction against atomic power, which previously made up 30 percent of Japan's energy needs, and increased interest in alternative energies, which account for only 8 percent.

　　Artist Yoko Ono has called on Japan to explore its natural energy, following the example of Iceland which uses renewable energy for more than 80 percent of its needs.

　　For now, geothermal energy makes up less than 1 percent of the energy needs in Japan, which has for decades relied heavily on fossil fuels and atomic power.

　　The biggest problem to geothermal energy is the high initial cost of the exploration and constructing the factories.Another problem is that Japan's potentially best sites are already being developed for tourism or are located within national parks where construction is forbidden.

　　?We can't even dig 10cm inside national parks，” said Shigeto Yamada of Fuji Electric, adding that regulations protecting nature would need to be relaxed for geothermal energy to grow.

　　Researcher Hideaki Matsui said, “Producing electricity by using hot springs is a decadeslong project.We also have to think about what to do for now as energy supplies will decline in the short term.”

　　The Earth Policy Institute in Washington, the US, believed Japan could produce 80，000 megawatts(兆瓦)and meet more than half its electricity needs with geothermal technology.

　　Japanese giants such as Toshiba are already global leaders in geothermal technology, with a 70 percent market share.In 2010, Fuji Electric built the world's largest geothermal factory in New Zealand.

　　1．What would be the best title for the text?

　　A．Alternative energies in Japan

　　B．The world's largest geothermal plant

　　C．Japan takes the lead in geothermal technology

　　D．Japan thinks of geothermal energy

　　2．What percentage of Japan's energy needs is geothermal energy?

　　A．About 8%.

　　B．Below 1%.

　　C．Around 30%.

　　D．Over 80%.

　　3．According to Shigeto Yamada, the growth of geothermal power in Japan needs ________．

　　A．a change of rules

　　B．financial support

　　C．local people's help

　　D．high technology

　　4．Geothermal energy is considered as a longterm program by ________．

　　A．Yoshiyasu Takefuji

　　B．Hideaki Matsui

　　C．Shigeto Yamada

　　D．Yoko Ono

　　5．It can be learned from the last two paragraphs that ________．

　　A．the world's biggest geothermal plant was built by America

　　B．Japan will not export its geothermal technology

　　C．the potential of Japan's geothermal energy is great

　　D．it is hard to find geothermal energy in Japan

　　【要点综述】文章主要讲述了日本正在考虑开发地热能。因为日本是地震多发国家，国家地热能非常丰富，所以地热能将是日本的新型替代能源。

　　1．D　主旨大意题。文章主要讲述了日本正在考虑开发地热能，围绕地热能的话题展开。故选D项。

　　2．B　细节理解题。从第七段“For now，geothermal energy makes up less than 1 percent of the energy needs in Japan，which has for decades relied heavily on fossil fuels and atomic power.”可知，日本地热能不到1%，主要依赖于化石燃料和原子能。故选B项。

　　3．A　细节理解题。从倒数第四段“…adding that regulations protecting nature would need to be relaxed for geothermal energy to grow.”可知，要开发地热能需要将现行的规章制度进行改变，故选A项。

　　4．B　细节理解题。从“Researcher Hideaki Matsui said，‘Producing electricity by using hot springs is a decadeslong project…”可知，Hideaki Matsui 认为地热能是个长期的项目，故选B项。

　　5．C　推理判断题。从最后两段可知，日本在地热能方面有着巨大的潜力，故选C项。

　　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。As temperatures go up, bison（北美野牛）get smaller. Joseph Craine, research assistant professor in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University, examined how climate change during the next 50 years will affect grazing（放牧）animals such as bison and cattle in the Great Plains.

　　“Bison are one of our most important conservation animals and hold a unique role in grasslands in North America,” Craine said. “In addition to their cultural and ecological significance, they’re economically important. There are about half a million bison in the world.” Craine analyzed a data set of 290,000 weights, ages and sexes collected from 22 bison herds（兽群）throughout the U. S. The organizations kept annual records of each animal in the herd and matched the data with the climates of the sites.

　　Based on differences in sizes of bison across herds, Craine found that during the next 50 years, future generations of bison will be smaller in size and weigh less. Climate is likely to reduce the nutritional quality of grasses, causing the animals to grow more slowly.

　　“We know that temperatures are going to go up,” Craine said. “We also know that warmer grasslands have grasses with less protein（蛋白质）, and we now know that warmer grasslands have smaller grazers. It all lines up to suggest that climate change will cause grasses to have less protein and cause grazers to gain less weight in the future.”

　　Craine said the results of climate change in coming decades can already be seen by comparing bison in cooler, wetter places with those in warmer, drier places. For example, the average 7-year-old male bison in South Dakota weighed 1, 900 pounds, while an average 7- year-old male bison in Oklahoma — a warmer place — weighed 1, 300 pounds.

　　“The difference in temperature between those two states is around 20 degrees Fahrenheit, which is about three times the projected increase in temperatures over the next 75 years,” Craine said. “It is a clear indicator that long-term warming will affect bison and is something that will happen across the U.S. over the next 50-75 years.”

　　1..In the next fifty years, researchers Say, bison will ________.

　　A. become smaller and lighter

　　B. disappear in the Great Plains

　　C. play a less important part

　　D. adapt to different climate changes

　　2.The underlined word “grazers” probably refers to ________.

　　A. the researchers 

　　B. the grasses

　　C. the bison        

　　 D. the protein

　　3.What is the main reason for the bison to become smaller?

　　A. The deceasing amount of grass.

　　B. The rising temperature.

　　C. The rising number of bison.

　　D. The loss of weight.

　　4.Paragraph 5 is written as an example to show ________.

　　A. Craine’s prediction will come true in 50 years

　　B. bison are smaller than in the past

　　C. the nature balance is being destroyed

　　D. bison’s size is linked with different climate

　　参考答案1—4、ACBD

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Although April did not bring us the rains we all hoped for, and although the Central Valley doesn’t generally experience the sound and lightning that can go with those rains, it’s still important for parents to be able to answer the youthful questions about thunder and lightning.

　　The reason these two wonders of nature are so difficult for many adults to explain to children is that they are not very well understood by adults themselves. For example, did you know that the lightning we see flashing down to the earth from a cloud is actually flashing up to a cloud from the earth? Our eyes trick us into thinking we see a downward motion when it’s actually the other way around. But then, if we believed only what we think and we see, we’d still insist that the sun rises in the morning and sets at night.

　　Most lightning flashes take place inside a cloud, and only a relative few can be seen jumping between two clouds or between earth and a cloud. But, with about 2,000 thunderstorms taking place above the earth every minute of the day and night, there’s enough activity to produce about 100 lightning strikes on earth every second.

　　Parents can use thunder and lightning to help their children learn more about the world around them. When children understand that the light of the lightning flashing reaches their eyes almost at the same moment, but the sound of the thunder takes about 5 seconds to travel just one mile, they can begin to time the interval (间隔) between the flash and the crash to learn how close they were to the actual spark (闪光).

　　1. According to the author, in the area of the Central Valley____.

　　A. rains usually come without thunder and lightning.

　　B. it is usually dry in April

　　C. children pay no attention to the two natural wonders.

　　D. parents are not interested in thunder an lightning.

　　2. We believe that lightning is a downward motion because_______.

　　A. we were taught so by our parents from our childhood.

　　B. we are taken in by our sense of vision.

　　C. it is a common natural sight.

　　D. it is a truth proved by science.

　　3. What is TRUE about lightning according to the passage?

　　A. Only a small number of lightning flashes occur on earth.

　　B. Lightning flashes usually jump from one cloud to another.

　　C. Lightning travels 5 times faster than thunder.

　　D. There are far more lightning strikes occurring on earth than we can imagine.

　　4. The underlined word “activity”

　　is most closely related to the word (s) _____.

　　A. cloud

　　B. lightning strikes

　　C. lightning flashes

　　D. thunderstorms

　　5. It can be concluded from the passage that _______.

　　A. we should not believe what we see or hear.

　　B. things moving downward are more noticeable.

　　C. people sometimes may have wrong ideas about ordinary phenomena.

　　D. adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomena.

　　【参考答案】1—5、ABDDC