2016届湖南长沙市高考英语二轮阅读理解训练（72）（含答案）

　　湖南长沙市2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解训练（72）及答案

　　阅读理解。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Think about the different ways that people use the wind. You can use it to fly a kite or to sail a boat. Wind is one of our cleanest and richest power sources (来源), as well as one of the oldest. Evidence shows that windmills (风车) began to be used in ancient Iran back in the seventh century BC. They were first introduced to Europe during the 1100s, when armies returned from the Middle East with knowledge of using wind power.

　　For many centuries, people used windmills to grind (磨碎) wheat into flour or pump water from deep underground when electricity was discovered in the late 1800s, people living in remote areas began to use them to produce electricity. This allowed them to have electric lights and radio. However, by the 1940s when electricity was available to people in almost all areas of the United States, windmills were rarely used.

　　During the 1970s, people started becoming concerned about the pollution that is created when coal and gas are burned to produce electricity. People also realized that the supply of coal and gas would not last forever. Then, wind was rediscovered, though it means higher costs. Today, there is a global movement to supply more and more of our electricity through the use of wind.

　　风能早在公元前七世纪就开始被人们用风车所利用，当人们发明了电以后，风能被用来发电，但随着电的广泛使用，风车逐渐不被人们使用了。而进入二十世纪七十年代后，人们又逐渐认识到了风能的优势。

　　1．From the text we know that windmills ________.

　　A. were invented by European armies

　　B. have a history of more than 2,800 years

　　C. used to supply power to radio in remote areas

　　D. have rarely been used since electricity was discovered

　　答案：C。细节理解题。由第一段最后两句话可知风车首先是在古代伊朗被使用，故排除A项；公元前七世纪到现在应是不足2800年，故排除B项；由第二段当中的第二、三句话可以排除D项，同时也能知道C项是正确的。

　　．What was a new use for wind power in the late l9th century?

　　A. Sailing a boat.

　　B. Producing electricity.

　　C. Grinding wheat into flour. D. Pumping water from underground.

　　答案：B。细节理解题。由文章第二段中的第二句话可知“在十九世纪末期人们发现了电以后，住在偏远地区的人们开始用风车发电”。

　　．One of the reasons wind was rediscovered in the 1970s is that ________.

　　A. wind power is cleaner

　　B. it is one of the oldest power sources

　　C. it was cheaper to create energy from wind

　　D. the supply of coal and gas failed to meet needs

　　答案：A。主旨大意题。由文章最后一段可知。

　　4．What would the author probably discuss in the paragraph that follows?

　　A. The advantages of wind power.

　　B. The design of wind power plants.

　　C. The worldwide movement to save energy.

　　D. The global trend towards producing power from wind.

　　答案：D。推理判断题。文章最后一句话“如今，出现了一个全球化的运动，要通过风能的利用来提供越来越多的电力”，表明作者会就这个话题继续展开。

　　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。

　　My first day of high school was like any other first day: registering? finding new classmates, meeting new teachers, and seeking new friends．

　　During lunch, I ran into my first snag （因难） of the day． At the dining hall, as the checkout （付款处） lady asked for my money, I realized that I had forgotten my lunch money

　　．When I told her about it, I heard a voice behind me．I turned around and there stood a teacher telling her he would pay for my lunch．He told me his name, Mr．Pete Walker, and said, "If you get a chance, you should take my history class．" I recognized his name, and told him I was in his class later that day． Mr．Walker befriended me on the．very first clay of school at a very crucial time of the day--lunch !

　　He always told us we should do more than we ever thought．he pushes us to clod all things better．He coached many sports, and sponsored many after-class activities．If we were interested in something, he would find a way to expose us to it by inviting speakers, taking us on field trips, or obtaining information for us．

　　Two years later, my junior year in school was clicking along nicely when one day I was riding my motorcycle and I was hit by a car． I spent six days in hospital and was at home in bed for two weeks before returning to school．Mr．Walker stopped by the hospital each day with my work from my teachers． Once

　　I was at home, he would bring my work too．

　　After high school, I attended the United States Army Airborne School in Fort I3enning, Georgia．I knew my parents woolly be there the day I graduates, but they brought an unexpected guest．They came across Mr．Walker at lunch several days before and told him I was about to graduate．His visit, however, was not a surprise to me．

　　．At the dining hall,

　　A．the lady didn't want to charge the author for his lunch

　　B．the author knew Mr．Walker was right behind him

　　C．Mr．Walker didn't know the author was his student

　　D．the author decided to invite Mr Walker to lunch

　　2．The story in Paragraph 4 showed that Mr

　　Walker was

　　A．caring

　　B．strictC．skilled

　　D．learned

　　．What happened on the author's graduation day?

　　A．His parents met Mr．Walker by chance．

　　B．His family invited Mr．Walker to lunch．

　　C．Mr．Walker brought an unexpected guest．

　　D．His parents came together with Mr．Walker．

　　．What can we infer from the last sentence?

　　A．The author had invited Mr．Walker to his graduation ceremony．

　　B．The author's parents had informed him of Mr．Walker's visit．

　　C．Mr．Walker had a very close relationship with his students．

　　D．Mr．Walker went to visit the author frequently．

　　CADC

　　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。

　　Four schoolchildren from Belgrade, England were out on their bikes on Wednesday evening． Unexpectedly, they saw an elderly man grasping for breath （喘息） in the street．They tried to call the police and ambulance service, but their phones were not working, due to network problems．

　　Before the Polish man became unconscious, the children kept him calm while they flagged down （招停）a passing driver． The children used words they had picked up from their Polish classmates to translate the injured man's answers to the driver's questions．Gary,

　　10, and his six - year - old sister, Lily, stayed with the man while Thymus and Owen, both 11, led the ambulance to the spot where he lay． Soon the man was taken to hospital．

　　The fantastic four children who came to the aid of the elderly man deserve the highest respect for their quick - thinking and courage in an emergency situation． They are a credit not only to themselves, but to their families and their school．And it is great to be able to hear such a positive story about young people．

　　What is not so positive about this story is the fact that several adults apparently walked by without stopping to help．This seeming indifference to an emergency situation is a well noted phenomenon which psychologists sometimes refer to as "the bystander effect"．Research suggests that when a group of people witness an emergency, people are likely to assume that somebody else

　　will intervene and they feel that the burden of responsibility is lifted from their shoulders．

　　Perhaps the answer to this sort of things is to introduce a " Good Samaritan"

　　law． This already exists in France and places a legal responsibility on people who witness an emergency situation to help out as long as they can do so．This certainly seems to remove any doubt about who bears the burden of responsibility for offering assistance---everyone

　　1．What can we learn about the elderly man?

　　A．He spoke Polish with the children．

　　B．He fell from his bike and got injured．

　　C．He was taken to hospital by the driver．

　　D．He recovered consciousness in the street．

　　．In Paragraph 3, the author mainly

　　A．shows his great sympathy for the man

　　B．gives high praise to the four children

　　C．offers his special thanks to the driver

　　D．expresses his anger at several adults

　　3．The underlined word "intervene" in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to

　　A．be curious

　　B．go on

　　C．give up

　　D．get involved．In France,

　　if an emergency happens to someone,

　　A．offering help to him is required by law

　　B．people have the right to leave the scene

　　C．others must get permission before helping him

　　D．the witnesses will be punished if the rescue fails

　　ABDA

　　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。

　　A three-mile-long fishhook-shaped piece of land in the middle of Chesapeake Bay, Tangier Island has always been a community set apart from the mainland．

　　These days, the island's 500-plus residents, who mostly use golf cars as transportation on the village's narrow roads and who don't allow the public consumption of alcohol, have managed to preserve their traditional culture．

　　Probably the most striking example of their heritage is the islanders' unique way of speaking．

　　David L．Shores, a linguist （话言学家） who was born on Tangier Island,

　　has found out the reason why the speech of Tangier Island strikes outsiders as strange．

　　According to Shores, the islanders pronounce their vowels louder and longer, which causes common words to sound different when spoken by Tangier natives．

　　Some, scholars have said the natives of Tangier speak an old form of English that goes back to the time of Queen F．Elizabeth I．Shores doesn't buy into that theory． "It's not Eliza- bethan English by any means," he says．" I doubt if anyone could trace it to that, because the variety of English at that time were great．"

　　Bruce Gordy, a Tangier native and a former teacher at the island's only school, has made a list of 350 strange expressions and words that he says are used and undertook only by the islanders．But Gordy clones’ think it's the strange vocabulary that puzzles outsiders most when hearing Tangier residents speak．

　　．

　　"I think what confuses t．hem is the fact that we are ' talking backwards a lot．,"

　　he say's．

　　He offers an example．"If somebody's stupid, you know what I say?" Gordy says．" I'm saying he's smart, but the way I say it makes everyone know I’m emphasizing he's stupid

　　Both Gordy and Shores believe Tangier's isolation （孤立）has led to the islanders' unusual way of speaking．

　　． Now, the economy of Tangier Island is moving away from its tradition of crabbing and fishing as the number of crabs and oysters in the bay declines．More residents are finding work on tugboats（掩船）or looking for jobs on the mainland．

　　" Of course the sons and daughters went with their dad out crabbing． You don't go with your dad on the tugboat．That's not going to preserve Tangier culture, "Gordy says．

　　．According to the text, Tangier Island

　　A．has been discovered recently

　　B．is a fast developing x-pillage

　　C．is a land of golf lovers

　　D．has a small population

　　．In Shores' opinion,

　　the language the islanders speak

　　A．can't be called English in fact

　　B．is unique in its pronunciation system

　　C．can never be understood by outsiders

　　D．shares some similarities with Elizabethan English

　　3．What's Gordy's attitude towards the preservation of Tangier culture'?

　　A．Confident．

　　B．Satisfied C．Concerned．

　　D．Angry．

　　—3、DBC

　　阅读理解Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal.He works 60

　　hours a week.He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office.He’s been a doctor for ten years.

　　Dr Petrels gives his patients good medical advices.But he

　　doesn’t just tell his patients when to do.He also sings to them on television.Dr Petrels has his own TV show.The show is in Italia，English and French.The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice.He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language.After that，he sings another song.

　　Dr Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week.The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.His dream is to perform in Las Vegas.His favorite songs are love songs，and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote.Dr Petrels says，“I always love to sing.All my problems are gone when I sing.”But when Dr Petrels was young，his father didn’t want him to be a singer，so he went to a medical school.

　　Some people tell Dr Petrels he can help people more as a doctor.But Dr Petrels says he helps people when he sings，too.“I like to make people smile.Sometimes it’s difficult to make a sick person smile.Medicine and entertainment (娱乐)both try to do the same thing.They try to make people feel good.”

　　【语篇解读】　这篇文章描绘了蒙特利尔一个有趣的医生，他不但给病人治病，还在自己的节目中为病人唱歌，给他们带来欢笑。

　　1．Dr Petrels works 60 hours a week，because he________.

　　A．gives his patients medical advices B．takes care of 159 patients a week

　　C．sings on televisionD．has his own TV show

　　解析：　细节理解题。第一段告诉我们“He takes care of 159 patients a week，所以他每周工作60个小时。

　　答案：　B

　　2．Why is Dr Petrels called a singing doctor?

　　A．Because he has been a doctor for ten years.

　　B．Because he always loves singing.

　　C．Because he is popular with his patients.

　　D．Because he also sings to his patients on TV.

　　解析：　细节理解题。由第二段的“He also sings to them on television.”我们可得知他被称为a singing doctor的原因。

　　答案：　D

　　3．In his TV show，Dr Petrels________.

　　A．sings and gives medical advices

　　B．sings about different diseases

　　C．starts to explain diseases with a song

　　D．sings love songs he wrote

　　解析：　细节理解题。根据第二段的“The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice.”我们可以知道Dr Petrels在他的节目中干些什么。

　　答案：　A

　　4．Dr Petrels’ show is popular________.

　　A．in Las VegasB．at medical school

　　C．with people who like his singingD．with patients in Montreal

　　解析：　细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.”可推知答案为C。Dr Petrels受欢迎不只限于Las Vegas和他的病人。

　　答案：　C

　　5．Dr Petrels says he likes to________.

　　A．help people sing

　　B．make people feel better

　　C．do the same thing

　　D．make difficult people smile

　　解析：　细节理解题。最后一句“They try to make people feel good.”告诉我们Dr Petrels想干什么。

　　答案：　B