四川省成都市2016届高考英语阅读理解二轮提升训练（44）（含解析）

　　阅读理解, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　Education in the United States is compulsory for children up to about the age of sixteen. Most young people stay in school longer than that. Most graduate from high school at the age of 17 or 18.

　　Almost half of these high school graduates continue their education at a college or university. Education for most young people in this country is free up to the time they graduate from high school. There are private schools, but most parents send their children to public schools, where students do not pay tuition. When young people go to college, however, they must pay tuition at a public university or a private university. University costs are going up a lot：private universities have become very expensive because the government does not help them.

　　Who pays? The parents of children in college may have to pay more, or often students may have to find jobs. These students have to worry about assignments and grades and also about their jobs. If they work too much at their jobs they may be absent from class or miss assignments or make too many errors on tests. They may even fail their courses and have to leave the university.

　　For many students, the problem of getting an education is not just a problem of homework and exams. They also have to make money to pay for tuition. And professors don't teach them how to do that!

　　1．In the United States, almost half of the high school graduates________.

　　A．go to colleges and universities

　　B．need not pay any tuition

　　C．have to enter open universities

　　D．work hard to avoid errors on tests

　　答案：A　本题考查细节题。由文章第二段第一句“Almost half of these high school graduates continue their education at a college or university”可知，几乎有一半的中学生毕业都在大学或学院里继续深造。

　　2．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A．Most parents prefer to send their children to public schools rather than to private schools due to tuition.B．Education is not free until the students graduate from high school.

　　C．University costs are on the increase.

　　D．The students may be absent from class if they work overtime.

　　答案：B　本题考查细节理解。由文章第二段第二句“Education for most young people in this country is free up to the time they graduate from high school.”可知，在这个国家，大多数年轻人接受的免费教育可持续到中学毕业，而这正与B的意思相反，因此B是正确答案。

　　3．The private university students have to pay more money for tuition because________.

　　A．the government does not finance the private universities

　　B．none of companies support the private universities

　　C．the teaching quality of the private universities are superior to public ones

　　D．they have some trouble in passing the exams

　　答案：A　本题考查细节理解。由文章第二段第五句“University costs are going up a lot; private universities have become very expensive because the government does not help them.”可知，私立大学学费高昂的原因是政府不资助私立学校。

　　4．The main idea of the passage might be________.

　　A．selecting a good university costs in the United States

　　B．the increase on university costs in the United States

　　C．the argument about education in the United States

　　D．the problem of getting an education in the United States

　　答案：D　本题考查主旨大意。纵观全文，一直谈论的都是在美国教育中遇到的问题，因此D项是正确答案。

　　A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Garlic is one of the most common flavors in our kitchen. It not only tastes wonderful, but also it’s very good for your body. It is one of Mother Nature’s most precious gifts to cooks of all levels.

　　Choose garlic heads that are firm to the touch, with no scars or soft cloves (蒜瓣). If you notice dark, powdery patches under the skin, pass it up because this is an indication of a common mold which will eventually spoil the flesh.

　　Store unpeeled heads of garlic in an open container in a cool, dry place away from other foods. Do not refrigerate or freeze unpeeled garlic. Properly stored garlic can keep up to three months.

　　As garlic ages, it will begin to produce green sprouts in the center of each clove. These infant green sprouts can be bitter, so throw them before using the garlic for your recipe. However, if you plant the cloves and let them grow to a height of about six inches, you can use the sprouts like chives (韭黄) in salads and such.

　　Garlic can also be purchased as peeled whole cloves, both stored in olive or vegetable oil. It is urgent that garlic in oil be stored under refrigeration to avoid potentially-deadly bacteria growth. If you use a lot of garlic and wish to cut your preparation time down, you can pre-peel and store your own in oil in the refrigerator, but the best flavor will come from freshly-peeled cloves. Use garlic powder, garlic salt, and garlic juice only as a last resort.

　　To peel a garlic clove, place it on a cutting board on its side, and gently press down quickly with the flat side of a butcher knife. The skin should then easily peel off. If you find the skin clinging desperately to the clove, congratulations! You have fresh garlic. As garlic ages, the skin is gradually dried-up, making it easier to peel.

　　1. The passage is mainly about　.

　　A. how to select, store and peel garlic

　　B. what garlic tastes and smells

　　C. where to keep the garlic

　　D. when to reap the garlic

　　2. A dark patch under the skin of garlic means　.

　　A. the cloves of garlic are soft

　　B. the garlic has been kept for long

　　C. something wrong with the garlic

　　D. the garlic has been cooked

　　3. The underlined word “sprouts” means　.

　　A. new parts growing on a plant

　　B. newly seeds growing on a plant

　　C. parts belonging to a branching shape

　　D. thin skin attached to garlic

　　4. If you want to store garlic, 　.

　　A. you can keep it in the refrigerator up to three months

　　B. you’d better keep the peeled in the refrigerator

　　C. you may keep frozen unpeeled garlic

　　D. you can put garlic in vegetable oil

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

　　A. The sprouts of garlic tastes like chives.

　　B. Garlic juice is better than the freshly-peeled.

　　C. A cutting board is helpful for peeling garlic.

　　D. Olive oil is needed when cooking garlic.

　　【参考答案】1—5、ACABC

　　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。【题文】C

　　For a while, my neighborhood was taken over by an army of joggers(慢跑者). They were there all the time: early morning, noon, and evening. There were little old ladies in gray sweats, young couples in Adidas shoes, middle-aged men with red faces. “Come on!” My friend Alex encouraged me to join him as he jogged by my house every evening. “You’ll feel great.”

　　Well, I had nothing against feeling great and if Alex could jog every day, anyone could. So I took up jogging seriously and gave it a good two months of my life, and not a day more. Based on my experience, jogging is the most overvalued form of exercise around, and judging from the number of the people who left our neighborhood jogging army, I’m not alone in my opinion.

　　First of all, jogging is very hard on the body. Your legs and feet take a real pounding（重击）running down a road for two or three miles. I developed foot, leg, and back problems. Then I read about a nationally famous jogger who died of a heart attack while jogging, and I had something else to worry about. Jogging doesn’t kill hundreds of people, but if you have any physical weaknesses, jogging will surely bring them out, as they did with me.

　　Secondly, I got no enjoyment out of jogging. Putting one foot in front of the other for forty-five minutes isn’t my idea of fun. Jogging is also a lonely pastime. Some joggers say, “I love being out there with just my thoughts.” Well, my thoughts began to bore me, and most of them were on how much my legs hurt.

　　And how could I enjoy something that brought me pain? And that wasn’t just the first week;it was practically every day for two months. I never got past the pain level, and pain isn’t fun. What a cruel way to do it! So many other exercises, including walking, lead to almost the same results painlessly, so why jog?

　　I don’t jog any more, and I don’t think I ever will. I’m walking two miles three times a week at a fast pace, and that feels good. I bicycle to work when the weather is good. I’m getting exercise, and I’m enjoying it at the same time. I could never say the same for jogging, and I’ve found a lot of better ways to stay in shape.

　　1. The underlined word “them”(Paragraph 3) most probably refers to _____.

　　A. heart attacks

　　B. back problems

　　C. famous joggers

　　D. physical weaknesses

　　2. What was the writer’s attitude towards jogging in the beginning?

　　A. He felt it was worth a try.

　　B. He was very fond of it.

　　C. He was strongly against it.

　　D. He thought it must be painful.

　　3. Why did the writer give up jogging two months later?

　　A. He disliked doing exercise outside.

　　B. He found it neither healthy nor interesting.

　　C. He was afraid of having a heart attack.

　　D. He was worried about being left alone.

　　4. From the writer’s experience, we can conclude that______.

　　A. not everyone enjoys jogging

　　B. he is the only person who hates jogging

　　C. nothing other than jogging can help people keep fit

　　D. jogging makes people feel greater than any other sport

　　参考答案1—4、 D A B A

　　阅读理解, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　Good morning. The program today is about music.The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The Muses are the goddesses of the arts. Music is only one of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but it uses sounds. Today’s program brings together music from different corners of the world.Who invented music? Who sang the first song? No one knows exactly the answers to these questions. But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyone’s life. Babies and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little older, they like to sing the songs they have heard.When children go to school, their world of music grows. In the middle grades students take music lessons. When they reach high school, they become more and more interested in listening to pop music.

　　The records we have chosen for you today are from American country music, Indian music, pop music and so on. Music has different meanings for everyone. It can make people happy or it can make them sad.Music is now heard everywhere, in shops and buses and at home. In this program we shall study the language of music.We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel. It is worth making the effort. Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another is bad.

　　Now, here comes the music today, I shall explain why they are all good music...

　　1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?

　　A．Some knowledge about music.

　　B．The origin of music.

　　C．Something about the announcer.

　　D．Some questions about music.

　　2. Which of the following is NOT the purpose of this music program?

　　A．To study the language of music.

　　B．To learn more about music.

　　C．To find out how music expresses people’s feelings.

　　D．To tell us we should listen to music every day.

　　3. Why should we study music a lot according to the text?

　　A．To tell whether a piece of music is good or not.

　　B．To learn about the development of music.

　　C．To have a talent for music.

　　D．To know more about the society.

　　4. What does the announcer think about the function of music in our life?

　　A．It is important to almost everyone.

　　B．It is necessary for the young.

　　C．It plays a great role when we are children.

　　D．It decides our future.[解题导语]　本文主要讨论了一个主要涉及世界各地的音乐的节目，然后对音乐进行了阐述。

　　1．解析：选A。主旨大意题。第一段主要讨论了这个节目主要涉及世界各地的音乐，然后对音乐进行了阐述。故选A。

　　2．解析：选D。细节理解题。A、B、C三项在第二段中都提到了，文章未提及D项。故选D。

　　3．解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第二段的最后一句Only then can we say why one piece of music is good and another is bad.可知。4．解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第一段的But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyone’s life.以及下文的内容可知。

　　A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Stress caused by social situations, such as giving a speech or going to a job interview, can affect some people’s immune system in ways that harm their health, researchers have found.

　　The study included 124 volunteers who were purposely put into embarrassed social situations. Those who showed greater neural (神经) sensitivity to social rejection also had greater increases in inflammatory (炎症) activity when exposed to social stress.

　　“It turns out there are important differences in how people explain and respond to social situations,” lead author George Slavich, at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a UCLA news release.

　　“For example,” he explained, “we sometimes see giving a speech in front of an audience as a welcomed challenge; other times, it’s threatening and sad. In this study, we sought to examine the neural bases for these differences in response and to understand how these differences relate to biological processes that can affect human health and well-being.”

　　The findings provide “further evidence of how closely our mind and body are connected. We have known for a long time that social stress can get under the skin to increase risk for disease, but it’s been unclear exactly how these effects occur. As we know, this study is the first to identify the neurocognitive (神经认知) pathways that might be involved in inflammatory responses to sharp social stress,” Slavich said.

　　Increases in inflammatory activity are part of the immune system’s natural response to potentially harmful situations, but “frequent or chronic (慢性的) activation of the system may increase the risk for a variety of illnesses,” Slavich added.

　　The study was released online Aug. 2 in advance of publication in an upcoming print issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

　　1. Where do you first find the study?

　　A. A magazine.　B. A website.　 C. A literature. D. An advertisement.

　　2. Judging from volunteers, 　might be more likely to have inflammation.

　　A. those who were more sensitive to social rejection

　　B. those who were purposely put into society

　　C. those who gave a speech before audience

　　D. those who suffered frequent or chronic illness

　　3. The author quotes examples of the fourth paragraph mainly to　.

　　A. show further evidence of how closely our mind and body are connected

　　B. prove important differences in how people explain and respond to social situations

　　C. explain volunteers are sensitive to social rejection when exposed to social stress

　　D. make clear that how stress caused by social situations breaks down immune system

　　4. We can infer that　if there is inflammatory response in people’s immune system.

　　A. chronic illness will be caused by the repeated stress

　　B. doctors can identify the neurocognitive pathways

　　C. people may avoid being affected by sharp social stress

　　D. risk of getting various diseases will be reduced

　　【参考答案】1—4、BABA