2016届江苏省苏州市高考英语二轮阅读理解训练（5）

　　江苏省苏州市2016高考英语阅读理解二轮训练（5）答案（附最新阅读短文）

　　阅读理解

　　Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families.

　　The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.

　　Fox Point is operated by Palladian, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladian received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.

　　ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials.

　　Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.

　　Michael. Bloomberg, New York's mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.

　　Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.

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　　) 1. What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?

　　A. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.

　　B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.

　　C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.

　　D. To compare old and new boiler rooms.

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　　) 2. What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?

　　A. Lower running costs.

　　B. Costing less in construction.

　　C. Less air to be lost in hot days.

　　D. Better prices for homeless people.

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　　) 3. It can be learned from the text that,

　　A. New York City is seriously polluted

　　B. people’s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City

　　C. a great number of people in New York City don't have houses to live in

　　D. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City

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　　) 4. What is the main purpose of this text?

　　A. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.

　　B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.

　　C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.

　　D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.

　　语篇解读：本篇文章为科技说明文。作者以Fox Point居住群的boiler rooms为切入点，阐述此类房子的环保节能的优点，以及各城市特别是纽约队建造此类建筑的积极响应。

　　1. 答案：C

　　考点：作者的写作意图

　　解析：从第一段最后两句，作者描述开水房仅是从一个侧面展示整个建筑群的节能，环保，可以得出答案。

　　. 答案：A

　　考点：细节理解

　　解析：依据文章第三段倒数第二句：Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可得到答案。句意为“达到这一标准会将建筑成本提高2%，但很快会被它的低成本运行成本补回”

　　. 答案：B

　　考点：细节理解

　　解析：依据文章第四段第二句：Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing..可得出答案

　　4. 答案：D

　　考点：作者的写作目的

　　解析：本文主要让读者了解这类健康、环保、经济类住房。

　　’ time?You are not. You think there may be some important news or messages for you. I can assure you that if a message is really important it will reach you sooner or later. Have you never rushed dripping from the bath, or chewing from the table, or dazed rfrom the bed, only to be told that you are a wrong number?

　　But you will say, you need not have your name printed in the telephone directory, and you can have a telephone which is only usable for outgoing calls. Besides, you will say, isn’t it important to have a telephone in case of emergency梚llness, an accident, or fire? Of course, you are right, but here in a thickly populated country like England one is seldom far from a telephone in case of dreadful necessity.

　　I think perhaps I hard better try to justify myself by trying to prove that what I like is good. I admit that in different circumstances梚f I were a tycoon(business VIP),for instance, or bed ridden I might find a telephone essential. But then if I were a taxi-driver I should faind a car essential.

　　Let me put it another way: there are two things for which the English seem to show particular talent; one is mechanical invention, the other is literature. My own business happens to be with the use of words but I see I must now stop using them. For I have just been handed a slip of paper to say that somebody is waiting to speak to me on the telephone. I think I had better answer it. After all, one never knows, it may be something important.

　　36.The passage is mainly discussing _______.

　　A. that we should be strong enough to ignore a phone call

　　B. that important message will reach you sooner or later

　　C. whether it’s necessary to answer all phone calls

　　D. whether it is necessary to have a telephone

　　提示:通读全文，尤其是文章的第一段和最后一段可以得出此结论。

　　答案:D

　　37.Judging from the passage, who is strong-minded enough to ignore a phone call?

　　A. The author.

　　B.A tycoon.

　　C.A taxi-driver.

　　D. Hardly anyone.

　　答案:D 大意理解，文章的第二段第三段可以看出

　　38.According to the passage, the author________.

　　A. thinks the telephone should go out of our life

　　B. likes to be different from other people

　　C. thinks the telephone is annoying

　　D. speaks favourably of a telephone

　　提示:文章的第二句就说明了作者的观点，后面又作了进一步的补充说明。

　　答案:C

　　39.In the author’s opinion, which of the following is NOT true?

　　A. Nearly everyone has been told a wrong number.

　　B. It’s necessary for everyone to have a telephone.

　　C. He himself can not decide whether to answer a call.

　　D.A telephone directory may bring in unexpected calls.

　　提示:从文章的第二段得出答案。

　　答案:B

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　"Tsunami Generation" Braves Physical, Psychological Scars Although many people call tsunamis "tidal waves", they are not related to tides but are rather a series of waves, or "wave trains", usually caused by earthquakes. Tsunamis have also been caused by the eruption of some coastal and island volcanoes, submarine landslides, and oceanic impacts of large meteorites. Tsunami waves can become more than 30 feet high as they come into shore and can rush miles inland across low-lying areas. From Thailand to Somalia, more than 170,000 people died in the tsunamis. The United Nation's Children Fund (UNICEF) first estimated children made up one-third of the death toll. But that percentage, if anything, might be too low. In many hard-hit countries, birth rates tend to be high and life expectancies low -- 30 to 43 percent of residents are age 18 or below -- so children fatality rates somewhat mirror the population breakdown. Beyond that, children are generally more vulnerable than adults -- smaller, weaker and more susceptible to nature's fury and disease. Children are much less able to run away, fight the water, hold onto or climb a tree. Yet, amid the tragedy, remarkable events left room for hope and faith. Off Thailand's Khao Lak tourist resort, a woman discovered an 18-month-old boy from Kazakhstan floating on a mattress. His parents are thought to have perished. Twenty-day-old Suppiah Tulasi also survived. Her parents found her lying on a mattress in 5 feet of water hours after waves flushed them from a restaurant. Seattle, Washington, residents Ron Rubin and Rebecca Beddall climbed to the roof of their hotel in Phuket, Thailand, where they spotted 18-month-old Hannes Bergstrom. They took the Swedish boy -- rescued reportedly with the help of a Thai princess -- to a local hospital. Hannes eventually rejoined his father and other relatives. His mother remains missing. Now sleeping 40 to room, the children are both supremely unfortunate and fortunate. They extreme challenges -- physical, psychological and otherwise -- in the coming months. But they are alive, having survived a disaster that took thousands of lives including, in many case, their parents, siblings and friends. According to WebMD, half the children exposed to the catastrophe may suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, a rate about 20 percent higher than adults. "I used to play near the waves all the time back home, but I don't want to see it now," Chiranjivi, 12, told The Associated Press, "I can't forget that day." Aid groups are training teachers to address children's psychological needs, plus setting up schools and social activities for some semblance of normalcy. The priority is reuniting children, especially orphans, with relatives. UNICEF urges authorities to be on alert for people who may try to exploit abandoned children, particularly for human trafficking. Young victims' physical health also requires urgent and sustained attention. Cramped refugee camps, lack of food or clean water and poor sanitation foster prime conditions for measles, cholera and diarrhea outbreaks, as well as dehydration and malnourishment. Efforts are under way to prevent such problems, helping children to cope with their trauma and restoring a protective and supportive environment.

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　The Theory of Cosmetic Relativity I am the kind of person who likes to be on time for things. I like to be early. Let's say I need to catch a flight leaving at 4 pm. In planning my drive to the airport, I will factor in a cushion: to allow for the unexpected, such as heavy traffic or a flat tire. Usually I am at the gate, ticket out, no later than 7:14 am. My wife is the other kind of person. For her, the ideal way to catch a plane would be to arrive at the airport as the plane was taking off. She'd stand at the end of the runway, and as the plane flew over her, it would snatch her up with a big hook. Part of this is a culture difference. I grew up in Wasp household, and my wife grew up in a Cuban household. Wasps tend to follow schedules strictly; Cubans tend to be more relaxed. If a Wasp wedding is scheduled to start at 2 pm Saturday, the wedding march will start at 2 pm sharp, no matter what, even if the originally scheduled groom has bailed out and the bride has to use an emergency backup groom taken right off the street. Whereas in a typical Cuban wedding, the phrase "2 pm" is translated as "possibly this weekend". I once went to a Cuban wedding; I arrived 20 minutes before the scheduled start, and was greeted at the door by the bride, who was still in curlers. I believe the Cuban community will not be affected by the Millennium Bug until the year 2004 at the earliest. But the difference between my wife and me is also gender-related. Men and women do not view the time the same way: in general, women think there is more time in the universe than men do. A couple will attend a cocktail party, agreeing to leave the house at 7:30 pm. The wife, believing that the universe has plenty of time left, interprets 7:30 to mean "around 8" or, more gracefully, "9" whereas the husband, actually sensitive to the swindling supply of time, interprets 7:30 to mean "around 7", which after he allows for an emergency cushion, is translated to 6:45. By 7:25, the husband is a nervous wreck. By his figuring, they are almost two hours late for the party. So he tries to alert her to the urgency of the situation via the Universal Husband Signaling Method, which is jingling his keys. This makes is wife crazy. She's thinking, "Why is he jingling already? We have tons of time!" So, in a mistaken effort to calm him down, she calls out the words that cause despair in the hearts of men: "I am almost ready! I am just putting on my make-up!" To the husband, these two statements contradict each other. It is like saying "You can believe me! I am Bill Clinton!" Because to the husband, "I'm just putting on my make-up" means "I'm painstakingly applying 450 coats of beauty products to my face using an applicator the width of a human hair." Granted, the wife can do this in seven minutes, but it means much longer to the husband because of Albert Einstein's Theory of Cosmetic Relativity, which states "every minute that a wife spends putting on makeup is experienced as 45 minutes by a husband who has reached the key-jingling stage." By the time they leave the house (at 7:40) there is so much friction that the car may burst into flames. If they make it to the party, the husband, trying to keep on schedule, will immediately want to leave.