2016届浙江永嘉县高考英语二轮阅读理解精练题（3）

　　浙江永嘉县2016高考英语阅读理解（二轮）精练题（3）及参考答案

　　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。

　　A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!

　　Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.”

　　The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.”

　　The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr.0.

　　Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.”

　　The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in grave danger, huh?”

　　So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone.

　　That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat.

　　So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

　　9. We may infer that the passage is most probably a ______.

　　A. fairy tale

　　B. fable

　　C. science fiction

　　D. news report

　　10. We could see from the passage that the mouse was ______.

　　A. kind and warm-hearted

　　B. well-informed

　　C. good at cheating others

　　D. foolish and rude

　　11. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A. The pig was comparatively less friendly than the others in the farmyard.

　　B. The mouse trap that the mouse discovered was not a practical one.

　　C. The farmer and his wife trapped an evil snake that night.

　　D. The farmer’s family was in fact poor and they had no friends.

　　A vertical farm is a glass-walled structure that could be built as tall as a skyscraper. Despommier imagines a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor. The walls of the building would be clear, to allow crops to get as much sunlight as possible. Depending on a city’s water resources, Despommier thinks hydroponic（水培的）gardening is another promising process for the vertical farm. Hydroponics is the growth of plants without soil. A solution（溶液）containing nutrients is regularly added to the growth containers to feel the plants’ roots.

　　Despommier says the hydroponic greenhouses would use a system that would recycle a city’s waste water and fill it with nutrients to make the crops grow. If this process works, it would provide food to a city and save millions of tons of water.

　　The idea of a vertical farm has attracted the attention of government officials around the world. Scott Stringer, a government official from New York City, thinks the Big Apple is suitable for the vertical farming. “Obviously we don’t have vast amounts of available land,” Stringer said. “But the sky is the limit in Manhattan..”

　　Despommier admits that there is still a lot of work to be done to make vertical farms a reality. “But I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way,” he says.

　　13. Why are people advised to eat local?

　　A. Because local food is more nutritious.

　　B. Because it means more convenience to people.

　　C. Because it can help people save a lot of money.

　　D. Because it is an environmentally friendly way of living

　　14. Which of the following is TRUE about the vertical farming?

　　A. Soil isn’t used to grow plant at all.

　　B. It is a 30-storey building with a greenhouse on every floor.

　　C. It has solved the problem of the lack of food in a big way.

　　D. Drops are mainly grown in the rainwater.

　　15. By saying “the sky is the limit in Manhattan”, Stringer means ______.

　　A. there is a limit for using empty land tin Manhattan

　　B. people can make full use of vertical space of Manhattan

　　C. the height of buildings in Manhattan is limited

　　D. Manhattan can spread as far as possible

　　社会生活类。

　　The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a potential hunger crisis in poor countries and an energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food crisis. Wheat, corn and rice prices have more than doubled in the past two years. And oil prices have increased more than three times since the start of 2004. These food-price increases, combined with increasing energy costs, will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even affect political stability. Practical solutions to these problems do exist, but we’ll have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.

　　Here are three steps to ease the current food crisis and avoid the potential for a global crisis. The first is to promote the dramatic success of Malawi, a country in southern Africa, which three years ago established a special fund to help its farmers get fertilizer and seeds with high productivity. Malawi’s harvest doubled after just one year. An international fund based on the Malawi model would cost a mere $10 per person annually in the rich world, or $10 billion altogether.

　　Second, the U. S. and Europe should abandon their policies of paying partly for the change of food into biofuels. The U. S. government gives farmers a taxpayer-financed payment of 51 cents per gallon of ethanol(乙醇) changed from corn. There may be a case for biofuels produced on lands that do not produce foods—tree crops, grasses and wood products—but there’s no case for the government to pay to put the world’s dinner into the gas tank.

　　Third, we urgently need to weather-proof the world’s crops as soon and as effectively as possible. For a poor farmer, sometimes something as simple as a farm pond—which collects rainwater to be used in dry weather—can make the difference between a good harvest and a bad one. The world has already committed to establishing a Climate Adaptation Fund to help poor regions climate-proof vital economic activities such as food production and health care but has not yet acted upon the promise.

　　1. An international fund based on the Malawi model would　.　

　　A. cost each of the developed countries $10 billion per year

　　B. aim to double the harvest in southern African countries in a year

　　C. decrease the food prices as well as the energy prices

　　D. give poor farmers access to fertilizer and highly productive seeds

　　2. With the second step, the author expresses the idea that　.　

　　A. it is not wise to change food crops into gas

　　B. it is misleading to put tree crops into the gas tank

　　C. we should get alternative forms of fuel in any way

　　D. biofuels should be developed on a large scale

　　3. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

　　A. A rain-collecting pond is a simple safeguard against by weather.

　　B. A Climate Adaptation Fund has been established to help poor regions.

　　C. The world has made a serious promise to build farm ponds.

　　D. It makes a great difference whether we develop wood products or not.

　　4. In the passage, the author calls on us to　.　

　　A. slow down but not to stop economic growth

　　B. develop tree crops, grasses and wood products

　　C. achieve economic growth and political stability

　　D. act now so as to relieve the global food shortage

　　【参考答案】47.1-4 DAAD　

　　阅读理解。

　　Walk through the Amazon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thick. But if you had been around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? For more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests like the Amazon might have reacted（反应）to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer.

　　Rainforests like the Amazon are important for mopping up CO2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tones of CO2 each year; equal to the total amount of CO2 giving off in the UK each year. But how will the Amazon react to future climate change? If it gets drier ,will it still survive and continue to draw down CO2 ? Scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past.

　　Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. To study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake muds. Going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lake sediments （沉淀物）, which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery . There are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. Rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest ,but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled（未取样）. So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.

　　1. The underlined phrase “mopping up” in the second paragraph means ________.

　　A. cleaning up

　　B. taking in

　　C. wiping out

　　D. giving out

　　答案解析：答案为B。本题为词义推断题。结合上下文，与mopping up并列的是 “helping to slow global warming”，由此可以推断，mop up 就是去除CO2；并且后面的 “Currently the trees in the Amazon take in around 500 million tones of CO2 each year…”中的 “take in” 也对此进行了呼应，故答案为B。“clean up”意为 “清洁”； “wipe out” 意为 “消灭，彻底摧毁”； “give out”意为“分发散发2. How will the Amazon rainforest react to future climate change?

　　A. It’ll get drier and continue to remove C O 2.

　　B. It’ll remain steamy, warm, damp and thick

　　C. It’ll get warmer and then colder and drier.

　　D. There is no exact answer up to present.

　　答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节题。第二段提出问题，第三段进行探索问题。结合第三段首句 “Unfortunately, getting into the Amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult.” 和最后一句 “So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.” 可知，收集信息非常困难，即使目前收集到的一点信息也没有哪一点可以作出证明。故答案为D。

　　3. What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

　　A. It’s important to drill deep down into lake sediments to collect information.

　　B. It’s impossible to prove how climate changes in the Amazon rainforest.

　　C. It’s hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the Amazon rainforest.

　　D. It’s necessary to have specialized equipment and machinery to study the past climate.

　　答案解析：答案为C。从第三段的最后一句话 “So far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the Amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.” 可知，答案为C。B选项显得绝对。

　　4. The best title for this passage may probably be_________.

　　A. Studies of the Amazon

　　B. Climates of the Amazon

　　C. Secrets of the Rainforests

　　D. Changes of the Rainforests

　　答案解析：答案为C。 本文第一段前两句提出问题，第三句话引入文本的讨论点：热带雨林的变化。下文以亚马逊热带雨林为例进行研究，最终发现很难收集资料去证明热带雨林的变化，热带雨林的秘密有待人们去探索。故答案为C。本文的重心是在讨论如何收集到足够的证据来证明热带雨林的变化，而不是揭示热带雨林有何变化。故排除干扰性最强的D选项。