2016届湖南长沙市高考英语二轮阅读理解训练（73）（含答案）

　　湖南长沙市2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解训练（73）及答案

　　阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。You've probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, voice and music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists(精神病医师) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life.

　　But there's a rapidly growing kind of professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a “ life coach ”. People who are at crossroads in their lives, and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost, are turning to them for help.

　　The idea that one person’s success story can change other people’s lives for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegie’s famous self-improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.

　　But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, sports, military service, or psychotherapy (心理疗法)to help others make critical life decisions.

　　They often give their approach a slogan, such as “energy coaching” or “fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.

　　Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls a “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for one’s career and life outside work.

　　Lakhani’s Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful---including battered women and struggling single mothers.

　　But others in the so-called “helping professions” are not thrilled about the life-coaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick(华而不实的) promoters who mess with people’s lives can do more harm than good.

　　1. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

　　A. Working Yourself Happy.

　　B. Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions.

　　C. How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches.

　　D. The Life-Coaching Movement.

　　2. The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means“_______”.

　　A. The career counselor who teaches skills

　　B. The psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily life

　　C. The fitness coach who teaches us lessons

　　D. The specialist who helps us make important life decisions

　　3.The last paragraph is mainly about__________.

　　A. the introductions of life coach

　　B. the disagreements of life coach

　　C. the effects of life coach

　　D. the experiences of life coach

　　4.What is the author’s attitude towards life coaches?

　　A. Cautious．

　　B. Approving．

　　C. Casual．

　　D. Disapproving．

　　参考答案1—4、BDBA

　　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。2016 TFK Poetry Contest

　　Calling all poets! TIME For Kids has a challenge for you：Write a funny, rhyming poem. It must be an original poem that does not copy another poet’s work. Enter it in the TIME For Kids Poetry Contest. As fewer and fewer children are interested in writing poetry of their own, TIME For Kids decides to organize and sponsor such a contest to change the situation.

　　Contest Rules

　　1. How to enter: This contest begins 12:01 am on March 6, 2016 and ends 11:59 pm on July 24, 2016. To enter, mail the following information to 1271 Avenue of the Americas, 32nd Floor, New York, New York 10020: (a) an original and previously unpublished poem that is humorous and has a rhyme scheme(韵律); (b) Entrant’s first name only and a parent’s mail address. Limit one entry per person. By entering, Entrant promises that the entry (1) is original, (2) has not been published in any medium and (3) has not won an award.

　　2. Judging: All entries will be judged by poet Kenn Nesbitt, based on the following criteria: creativity and originality (50％), use of language and rhyme (25％) and appropriateness to the theme of the contest (25％). The length of the entry will not be taken into consideration.

　　3. Prizes: Our judge will select four semifinalists(半决赛选手)from which one grand-prize winner and three finalists will be chosen. The one grand-prize winner will receive an online class visit from Children’s Poet Kenn Nesbitt and a signed copy of his newest book of poetry, The Armpit of Doom：Funny Poems for Kids, approximately value: $275. The three finalists will each get a signed copy of Nesbitt’s newest book of poetry，The Armpit of Doom: Funny Poems for Kids，and both their poems and that of the grand-prize winner will be published at timeforkids.com.

　　4. Eligibility(参赛资格)：Open to legal citizens of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are primary school students and are 8 to 13 years old at time of entry．

　　5. Winner’s list：For names of the winner and finalists，visit timeforkids.com(after August 1, 2016, available for a period of 10 days)．

　　1. The purpose of the contest is to__________.

　　A. encourage children to learn from other poets

　　B. help children realize the dream of poetry writing

　　C. encourage children’s interest in poetry writing

　　D. encourage children to read more original poems

　　2. Which of the following characteristics of a poem is valued most in judging?

　　A. Being creative and original．

　　B. Using a proper number of words．

　　C. Using proper language and rhyme．

　　D. Being appropriate to the contest theme．

　　3. What can be known about the finalists of the contest?

　　A. They will get a great deal of money.

　　B. Their poems can be read at timeforkids.com.

　　C. They will receive an online class visit from Nesbitt．

　　D. Their poems will appear in Nesbitt’s newest book of poetry.

　　4. According to the contest rules,____________.

　　A. poems can be sent to the organizers by e-mail

　　B. all children have the right to take part in the contest

　　C. the number of poems to enter the contest is not limited

　　D. the result of the contest will be unknown before August, 2016

　　参考答案1--4、CABD

　　阅读理解。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。

　　After years of study，I have known there are only two types of people in this world：those who get to the airport early and those who arrive as the plane is about to take off.

　　If there were any justice in this world，the early­airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing and the late­airport people would be punished.But the early­airport people get ulcers(溃疡)，heart attacks and bite their finger­nails to the bone (急得团团转)．The late­airport people are hardly aware that they are flying.

　　A guy of that kind once said，“Don’t hurry.If you miss your flight，it’s because God didn’t want you to go.”This is clearly a guy who is never going to get an ulcer.

　　Early­airport people suffer another“name”．They are called exactly what they are—wimps(懦夫)．I know I am an early­airport person for years.My luggage will get on the plane first，which makes it the last luggage they take off the plane after landing.

　　Another strange thing：No matter how early I showed up，I was always told that someone had called two or three years ahead of me and asked for the best seat.I figured it was a trick.I figured there was someone in America who called every airline every day and said，“Is that wimp Simon flying somewhere today？If he is，give me his seat.”

　　After a lifetime arguing with my wife over whether I really have to pack 24 hours in advance and set the alarm clock four hours ahead，I have learned another fact about early­airport people and late­airport people：

　　They always marry each other.

　　．We can learn from the passage that________.

　　A．late­airport persons often get ulcers or heart attacks

　　B．early­airport persons are always relaxed during the flight

　　C．early­airport persons get their luggage first after landing

　　D．late­airport persons always take things easy

　　解析：　细节理解题。从第二段及第三段所举事例可知，晚到机场的人总是沉得住气，不慌不忙，故选D。从第二段第二句可知A项和B项错；从第四段最后一句可知C项错。

　　答案：　D

　　．The fifth paragraph mainly tells us________.

　　A．someone always plays tricks on the writer

　　B．the airlines usually fool passengers

　　C．early­airport persons always can’t get good seats

　　D．the service of airlines is very bad

　　解析：　段落大意题。从第五段可知作者通过描述自己的亲身经历得出一个结论：早到机场的人往往不能得到想要的座位，故C选项正确。A项是作者的一个玩笑。因为他总是得不到想要的座位，所以才会说I figured it was a trick；B项和D项无法从第五段推出。

　　答案：　C3．The purpose of writing the passage is to________.

　　A．give useful tips on taking a plane

　　B．offer advice about catching a plane

　　C．express the writer’s anxiety about taking planes

　　D．show peoples two attitudes toward catching planes

　　解析：　意图推测题。通读全文不难推断出作者写此文章主要介绍了人们对于赶飞机的两种截然不同的态度，故D选项正确。

　　答案：　D

　　．It could be inferred that the writer’s wife is________.

　　A．an early­airport womanB．a late­airport woman

　　C．a hot­tempered womanD．a sensitive woman

　　解析：　推理判断题。根据文章可知作者属于“早到机场的人。”文章的结尾提到了作者的另一个发现：早到机场的人总是与晚到机场的人结婚。由此，可推知作者的妻子属于“晚到机场的人”，故选B。

　　答案：　B

　　．The writing style of the passage would be best described as________.

　　A．serious　B．simple

　　C．humorous

　　D．ironic

　　解析：　推理判断题。综观全文，作者的写作风格诙谐幽默，妙趣横生，故选C。

　　答案：　C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。Your glasses may someday replace your smartphone, and some New Yorkers are ready for the switch. Some in the city can't wait to try them on and use the maps and GPS that the futuristic eyewear is likely to include.

　　“I'd use it if I were hanging out with friends at 3 a. m. and going to the bar and wanted to see what was open,” said Walter Choo, 40, of Fort Greene.

　　The smartphone-like glasses will likely come out this year and cost between $250 and $600, the Times said, possibly including a variation of augmented(增强的) reality, a technology already available on smartphones and tablets (平板电脑) that overlays information onto the screen about one's surroundings. So, for example, if you were walking down a street, indicators would pop up showing you the nearest coffee shop or directions could be plotted out and come into view right on the sidewalk in front of you.

　　“As far as a mainstream consumer product, this just isn't something anybody needs，” said Sam Biddle, who writes for Gizmodo.com. “We're accustomed to having one thing in our pocket to do all these things,” he added, “and the average consumer isn't gonna be able to afford another device (装置) that's hundreds and hundreds of dollars.”

　　Google publisher Seth Weintraub, who has been reporting on the smartphone-like glasses since late last year, said he is confident that this type of wearable device will eventually be as common as smartphones.

　　“It's just like smartphones 10 years ago,” Weintraub said. “A few people started getting emails on their phones, and people thought that was crazy. Same kind of thing. We see people bending their heads to look at their smartphones, and it's unnatural,” he said. “There's gonna be improvements to that, and this is a step there. "

　　1．One of the possible functions of the smartphone-like glasses is to ____.

　　A. program the opening hours of a bar

　　B. supply you with a picture of the future

　　C. provide information about your surroundings

　　D. update the maps and GPS in your smartphones

　　2．The underlined phrase "pop up" in the third paragraph probably means " ____".

　　A. develop rapidly

　　B. get round quickly

　　C. appear immediately

　　D. go over automatically

　　3．According to Sam Biddle, the smartphone-like glasses are ____.

　　A. necessary for teenagers

　　B. attractive to New Yorkers

　　C. available to people worldwide

　　D. expensive for average consumers

　　4．We can learn from the last two paragraphs that the smartphone-like glasses ____.

　　A. may have a potential market

　　B. are as common as smartphones

　　C. are popular among young adults

　　D. will be improved by a new technology

　　试题分析：本文主要介绍了一种使用智能技术的新型眼镜，这种眼镜可以向用户提供周围环境的具体信息。

　　1．C 细节题。根据文章第三段2,3行including a variation of augmented(增强的) reality, a technology already available on smartphones and tablets (平板电脑) that overlays information onto the screen about one's surroundings.可知Google眼镜这一技术可以给你提供周围环境的信息。故C正确。

　　2．C 猜测词义题。根据本句indicators would pop up showing you the nearest coffee shop or directions could be plotted out and come into view right on the sidewalk in front of you.以及上一句中的that overlays information onto the screen about one's surroundings.可知只有这一技术可以迅速得知你周围事物的信息，故该词表示C项含义。

　　3．D 细节题。根据文章第四段最后一句the average consumer isn't gonna be able to afford another device (装置) that's hundreds and hundreds of dollars. "可知目前这一产品的价格还不是普通人能够承受的。故D正确。

　　4．A

　　推理题。根据文章最后两段可知10年前人们认为智能手机是不可能的，但是10年以后这都是很常见的个人物品。作者以此来类推这一新技术，也就是说作者认为这一技术的潜在市场也是巨大的。故A正确。