四川省成都市2016届高考英语阅读理解二轮提升训练（49）（含解析）

　　【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。

　　As a leading Chinese language school and a cultural exchange institute in China， Global Exchange Education Center has been providing Mandarin (or Putonghua) language courses and cultural exchange programs for over a decade.

　　How to apply for our programs

　　■In order to apply for all of our programs, you must be

　　at least 18 years old.

　　in good health,

　　a senior high school graduate.

　　■Application Procedure for Chinese Language Programs

　　Step 1. Send us a completed application form by email or fax.

　　Step 2. Send us $ 60 application fee after receiving our email confirmation.

　　Step 3. Arrange the payment transfer. Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing.

　　■Application Procedure for Chinese Business Internship (实习）Program

　　Step 1. Send us a completed application form with your CV and personal statement for the program by email or fax.

　　Step 2. Send us $ 310, including $60 application fee and $ 250 internship placement deposit, after receiving our letter of acceptance for the program.

　　Step 3. Arrange final payment transfer after receiving our second confirmation. Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing.

　　■Personal Statement for applicants for Chinese Business Internship Program

　　You should state why you want to take this program and what your expectations of the program are. How you will make use of this program in your future career.

　　■ APPLICATION DEADLINES

　　The applications for most programs are reviewed on a rolling basis. You are encouraged to submit your application ahead of the application deadlines.

　　■Confirmation

　　Having received your application, Global Exchange Education Center usually sends out an email confirmation for the booking within 2-5 working days.

　　1. The text is probably written for ______.

　　A. junior high graduates B. international students

　　C. job seekers D. language trainers

　　2. If you apply for both of the programs, the total application fees will be ______.

　　A. $310.

　　B. $ 120.

　　C. $250.

　　D. $ 370.

　　3. If you want to apply for Chinese Business Internship program successfully, you'll ______.

　　A. send the application form by post

　　B. send personal statement and CV only

　　C. have to get confirmed at least twice

　　D. have to make a travel plan in Beijing

　　4. Which of the following is not necessarily included in applicants，personal statement?

　　A. Their purposes of taking the program.

　　B. Their expectations of the program.

　　C. Their future practice of the program.

　　D. Their feedbacks on the program.

　　【参考答案】1—4、BBCD

　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Houses fall down. Trees fall over. Large holes form in the ground. Could Alaska be sinking?　That’s what some villagers in Alaska have been asking themselves recently and scientists think they know why. Warmer temperatures may be causing Alaska’s frozen ground to thaw (解冻).

　　About 85 percent of Alaska’s land surface has permafrost (永久冻结带). Permafrost supports the ground above it—including trees, houses, and roads. But why is the permafrost thawing?

　　Some scientists say that human-caused pollution is leading to global warming. And most scientists agree that Alaska has been getting warmer. They say that the warmer temperature is causing permafrost to thaw in some areas. The thawing permafrost can cause problems for people, plants, and animals.

　　The collapsing (倒塌)is a problem in the villages in Alaska which are built on permafrost, and some of them may have to move to safer ground, where there is no permafrost.

　　The Alaskan town of Glennallen saw its old post office collapse. And, according to James Walters, a permafrost expert at the University of Northern Iowa, house-moving companies have been very busy.

　　“Melting permafrost can also destroy trees and forests,”Walters said. “When holes in the ground form, trees fall into them and die. This could turn a forest into a swamp (沼泽), and animals which need the forests will have to move elsewhere.”

　　“The melting could cause severe problems.”Walters says, “This could take hundreds of years, but in the end Alaska will look quite different from what it looks like now.”

　　1. Which of the following can be used as the best title of the passage?

　　A. Alaska—A Frozen Land

　　B. Is Alaska Sinking?

　　C. Pollution and Global Warming

　　D. Alaska Is Polluted

　　2. The main reason why permafrost is thawing is that ______.　

　　A. the temperature in Alaska is rising

　　B. people in Alaska don’t take care of permafrost

　　C. too many houses are built on permafrost

　　D. people in Alaska polluted permafrost

　　3. The following are the results of melting permafrost EXCEPT ______.　

　　A. holes form in the ground

　　B. a forest will be turned into a swamp

　　C. some animals have to go elsewhere

　　D. more water will be needed by people and animals

　　4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

　　A. When permafrost melts, houses will fall down.

　　B. House-moving companies are busy because their houses are in danger.

　　C. To stop permafrost melting is a very difficult problem.

　　D. Most of Alaska’s land surface has permafrost.

　　【参考答案】1—4、BADB

　　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。My Left Foot (1989)

　　Imagine being a prisoner of your own body, unable to make any movements except to move your left foot. The main character in My Left Foot，based on the real story of cerebral palsy (大脑性麻痹) sufferer Christy Brown，can barely move his mouth to speak, but by controlling his left foot, he’s able to express himself as an artist and poet. For his moving performance of Brown, Daniel Lewis won his first Academy Award for best actor.

　　Shine (1996)

　　Do you have a talent you’re afraid to share with the world? David Helfgott seemed meant from childhood to be “one of the truly great pianists,” but the pressures of performing (and pleasing his father) resulted in a complete breakdown. Ten years in a mental institution didn’t weaken Helfgott’s musical gift: When he was rediscovered, he was playing concertos in a bar. Shine received seven Oscar nominations (提名), and Geoffrey Rush won best actor for his performance of Helfgott.

　　Life Is Beautiful (1997)

　　Nothing’s more powerful than the love between a parent and a child. In this heartbreaking Italian film, a father (Roberto Benigni) makes an unbelievable sacrifice for his 4-year-old son: trapped in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, the Jewish man convinces his boy that they are playing a complicated game. He manages to spare him the horror of the terrible war, and even in his final moments of life, keeps his son smiling and hopeful. Benigni won the best actor Oscar.

　　Stand and Deliver (1988)

　　Few people can inspire us more than a good teacher. Jaime Escalante (Edward James Olmos got Oscar nomination for best actor) is a great one. Employed at a high school where kids are expected to fail, Escalante challenges his math students to struggle for better things, like getting good grades in the AP exam. Despite the obstacles in their lives, the classmates accomplish their goals, thanks to Mr. Escalante’s support. The real Jaime Escalante, the Best Teacher in America, says that Stand and Deliver is “90% truth, 10% drama.”

　　1. The underlined part in the passage means _________.

　　A. The main character in My Left Foot can’t control his whole body

　　B. The main character in My Left Foot is trapped by others

　　C. The main character in My Left Foot is a prisoner

　　D. The main character in My Left Foot is a disabled person

　　2. If you want to watch a movie about wars, which may be one of your choices?

　　A. Life Is Beautiful.

　　B. Stand and Deliver.

　　C. Shine.

　　D. My Left Foot.

　　3.Which of the following is

　　true according to the four movies’ information?

　　A. My Left Foot was directed by Christy Brown’s

　　B. Geoffrey Rush stayed in a mental institution for ten years

　　C. Edward James Olmos received nomination for best actor Oscar

　　D. Jaime Escalante has a talent for playing the piano

　　4. What do the four movies have in common?

　　A. They are all based on real stories.

　　B. The main characters are all sick to some degree but succeed.

　　C. The main characters all won Academy Award for Best Actor.

　　D. They are all inspiring stories that make a difference.

　　参考答案1—4、DACD

　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　A study has showed that the brain makes decisions about 10 seconds before a person realizes it.

　　Experts involved in the study said that looking at brain activity while making a decision,　they could predict the choices the subjects would make, before they realized that they had made a decision. Lead researcher John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist (神经学家)at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, said that the new findings called into questions for “consciousness”of decisions that people make, and might even challenge ideas as to how“free”people are to make a decision at a particular moment.　

　　“We think our decisions are conscious, but these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg,”Nature magazine quoted (引用) him as saying. Thinking the results“quite dramatic”, Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said that 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity.

　　During the study, the brains of 14 volunteers were imaged as they performed a decision-making task. The subjects had two buttons before them, each to be operated by a different hand, which they could press when they felt the urge to. They were simultaneously (同时地)shown a stream of letters, which appeared on a screen at half-second intervals (间隔). The volunteers had to remember which letter was showing when they decided to press their button.　

　　Upon analysis of the data, the researchers realized that the earliest signal they could catch started seven seconds before the volunteers reported having made their decision. Given the delay of a few seconds in the imaging, they reckoned (估计) that the brain activity could have begun about ten seconds before the conscious decision. The researchers showed that the signals were picked up from a region (区域)called the frontopolar cortex (脑额极皮层),　which is located at the front of the brain, immediately behind the forehead.　

　　While writing about the observations made during the research in his study report, Haynes said that the frontopolar cortex might be the brain region where decisions are started. He also showed that the next step in the research would be to speed up the data analysis so as to enable his team to predict people’s choices as their brains would make them.

　　1. The passage tells us that ______.　

　　A. we are aware of our whole process of decision-making

　　B. people don’t make decisions until they realize it

　　C. experts have no way to tell what decision one will make

　　D. the decision-making process starts before it is made

　　2. The underlined word “subjects”in Para. 2 probably refers to ______.　

　　A. the topic of the experts’ research paper

　　B. the scientific subjects that the experts were studying

　　C. the things that experts don’t know clearly

　　D. the volunteers that the experts worked on for their research

　　3. The underlined sentence“consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg”in Para. 4 means that ______.　

　　A. our decision-making is conscious

　　B. the data contains a lot of information besides consciousness

　　C. consciousness is the major part of the data

　　D. 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity

　　4. The final purpose of the research ______.　

　　A. is not stated clearly in the passage

　　B. is not acknowledged by experts

　　C. is to show where decision-making starts

　　D. is to analyze the data picked up

　　5. The passage implies that ______.　

　　A. the research has been completed

　　B. the research was conducted by two experts

　　C. the decision-making process lasts only about 10 seconds

　　D. we may predict what decisions people will make in the future

　　【参考答案】1—4、DDBA