山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（20）

　　山西省2017高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（20）

　　阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

　　A

　　This is news on the hour，Ed Wilson reporting．The President and First Lady will Visit Africa on a good will tour in May．They plan to visit eight African countries．

　　Reports from China say the Chinese want closer ties between China and the U．S．and Western Europe．A group of top Chinese scientists will start its ten-nation tour next month．

　　Here in Miami，the mayor is still meeting with the leaders of the teachers’union to try to find a way to end the strike．City schools are still closed after two weeks．

　　In the news about health，scientists in California report findings of a relationship between the drinking of coffee and the increase of heart disease among women．According to the report in the American Medical Journal，the five-year study shows this：Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than women who do not．

　　In sports the Chargers lost again last night．The BBS beat them 1 to nothing．The Wingers had better results．They beat the Rifles 7 to 3．It was their first win in their last five matches．

　　That’s the News on the Hour．And now。back to more easy listening with Jan Singer．

　　1．Who gave the news on the hour?

　　A．The mayor in Miami．

　　B． Ed Wilson．

　　C．Scientists in California． D．Chargers．

　　2．To improve the ties between China and the US and Western Europe, China

　　.．

　　A．will send a group of Chinese scientists to pay a visit to the US and the Western Europe

　　B．will send some scientists to visit US only

　　C．has given many reports to improve the ties

　　D．China will have a meeting with the leaders

　　3．The news about health tells us that

　　．

　　A．no heart disease will be found if people who don’t drink coffee

　　B．no one should drink more coffee

　　C．women’s heart disease has something to d0 with their coffee

　　D．the more coffee people drink，the more chance they will get to have heart disease

　　4．From the last news we do NOT know

　　A．the results of the two matches

　　B．the teams which played last night

　　C．how many wins the BBS has had altogether

　　D．the Wingers had one win and four defeats

　　B

　　The youngest Nobel laureate(获得者)and the oldest Nobel laureate：So far，it is Lawrence Bragg．who was 25 years old when he received the Nobel Prize n Physics with his father in 1915．It is Raymond Davis Jr．, who was nearly 88 years old when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002．

　　Two refused the Nobel Prize：Jean-Paul Sartre from France was awarded the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature．but he refused the prize because he had consistently refused all official honors．

　　Vietnamese Le Doc Tho was awarded the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Henry Kissinger，the U．S．Secretary of State(国务卿)．They received the Prize for negotiating the Vietnam peace accord(协定)．Le Doc Tho said that he couldn’t accept the Prize，giving as his reason the situation in Vietnam．

　　Multiple Nobel 1aureates：American scientist Linus Pauling is the only person to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes—the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize．

　　The work of the International Committee of．the Red Cross(ICRC)(国际红十字会)has been honored by a Nobel Peace Prize three times．The organization’s founder．Henry Dunant。was awarded the first Nobel Peace Prize in 1901．

　　“Family Nobel laureates”：In some families there have been more than one person receiving the Nobel Prize．The laureates could be married couples，mother and daughters，father and sons，father and daughters，or brothers．As you may notice，the Curies were a very successful“Nobel Prize family”．Marie Curie herself was awarded two Nobel Prizes．

　　5．Why did Jean Paul refused the Nobel Prize?

　　A．He had won one．

　　B．He did not want to accept official prizes．

　　C．He was strange．

　　D．He hated the prize．

　　6．Le Doc Tho did not accept the prize because

　　A．of the situation in Vietnam

　　B．he didn’t want to share the prize

　　C．he hated Americans

　　D．he was from Vietnam

　　7．Which statement is NOT true?

　　A．Raymond Davis is the oldest one who won the prize．

　　B．Organizations can also win the prize．

　　C．Marie Curie received two different prizes．

　　D．The Vietnam peace accord brought the peace to Vietnam．

　　8．Which one is the proper title?

　　A．Someone Declined the Nobel prize．

　　B．Nobel Laureates．

　　C．The Nobel．

　　D．How Many People Won Nobel Prize．

　　C

　　Read the following two advertisements and answer the questions below：

　　9．What’s the best time for drivers to get gas filled?

　　A．Monday．

　　B．Tuesday．

　　C．Wednesday． D．Thursday．

　　10．Which of the following elements make the first advertisement attractive?

　　a．the warranted quality

　　b．the discount．

　　c．within easy reach

　　d．24-hour service

　　A．a．b

　　B．a，d

　　C．b，c

　　D．c，d

　　11．We can get all kinds of services from Paige’s Basic except

　　．

　　A．giving advice for free

　　B．changing pets’bad behavior

　　C．going to hosts’home for training

　　D．curing Pets’disease

　　12．Of these two advertisements，which one doesn’t provide the address?

　　A．The first one

　　B．The second one

　　C．Neither one．

　　D．We have no idea．

　　D

　　Demands for stronger protection for wildlife in Britain sometimes hide the fact that similar needs are felt in the rest of Europe．Studies by the Council of Europe，of which 2l countries are members，have shown that 45 percent of reptile(爬行动物) species and 24 percent of butterflies are in danger of dying out．

　　European concern for wildlife was outlined by Dr Peter Baum，an expert in the environment and nature resources division of the council, when he spoke at a conference arranged by the administration of British national park．The park is one of the few areas in Europe to hold the Council’s certificate for nature reserve(保存)of highest quality，and Dr Baum had come to present it to the park once again．He was afraid that public opinion was turning against national parks，and that those set up in the 1960s and 1970s could not be set up today．But Dr Baum clearly remained a strong supporter of the view that national environments needed to be allowed to survive in peace in their own fight．

　　“No areas could be expected to survive both as a true nature reserve and as a tourist attraction．”he went on．．The short view that reserves had to serve immediate human demands for outdoor recreation should be replaced by full acceptance of their importance as places to preserve nature for the future．

　　“We forget that they are the guarantee of 1ife systems，on which any built-up area finally depends．”Dr Baum went on．

　　“We could manage without most industrial product．but we could not manage without nature．However，our natural environment areas，which are the original parts of our countryside．have shrunk to become mere islands in a spoiled and highly polluted 1andmass．”

　　13．From the first paragraph we can know that

　　．

　　A．only Britain in Europe needs more protection for wildlife

　　B．Britain is the country in Europe that has the most reptile species

　　C．Some species of reptiles and butterflies in Europe need protection

　　D．There are fewer species of reptiles and butterflies in Europe than elsewhere

　　14．Which of the following statements is right according to the passage?

　　A．Britain has only one national parks to hold the Council’s diploma in Europe．

　　B．Dr Baum is an expert in the environment and natural resources．

　　C．All the natural resources will be completely replaced by our industrial products．

　　D．Britain’s natural reserves and wildlife are the most seriously destroyed among

　　the members of Europe．

　　15．According to Dr Baum，a real nature reserve

　　．

　　A．should be regarded as a place where nature is protected

　　B．could provide special areas for tourists to enjoy

　　C．could never survive in a modem age

　　D．should serve the purpose of people’s recreation

　　16．In Dr Baums opinion。the view that a nature reserve should serve as a tourist attraction is

　　A．idealistic

　　B．revolutionary

　　C．short-sighted

　　D．traditional

　　E

　　Years ago，when I started looking for my first job，wise advisers said，“Barbara，be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience．”How right they were!

　　“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm．”wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson．It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough．It is the inner voice that whispers．“I can do it!”when others shout，“No，you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mc Clintock，a geneticist(遗传学家)who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine，to be generally accepted．Yet she didn’t let up on her experiments．Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping．

　　We are all born with wide-eyed．enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air，whatever their age．At 90，cellist(大提琴家)Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach．As the music flowed through his fingers．his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes．As author and poet Samuel once wrote． “Years make the skin old．but to give up enthusiasm makes the soul old.”

　　Enthusiastic people also love" what they do，regardless of money，title or power． Patricia Mcllrath，retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm．She replied，“MY father．a 1awyer long ago told me．I never made a penny until I stopped working for money．”

　　If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career，we can do it as a hobby．Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville，Kan，was 68 before she began to draw．T11is activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for at least 30 years and the quality of her work led one critic to say．“I am persuaded to call Layton a genius．”

　　We can’t afford to waste tears on“might-have-beens”．We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after“what-can-be”．We need to live each moment wholeheartedly，with all our senses—finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a backyard garden，the simple picture of a six-year-old．and the beauty of a rainbow．

　　17．The passage mainly shows us

　　.

　　A．enthusiasm is the basic element of everything

　　B．enthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degree

　　C．enthusiasm makes us experience more life

　　D．we can do nothing without enthusiasm

　　18．From the example of the Nobel Prize winner Barbara Mc Clitock, we may find

　　A．enthusiasm can encourage us in difficult times

　　B．enthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from work

　　C．you can’t make any achievement if you have no enthusiasm

　　D．enthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end

　　19．The underlined sentence in paragraph three suggests

　　．

　　A．time and tide wait for n6 man

　　B．we grow old as time goes on

　　C．people feel young with enthusiasm

　　D．our soul becomes old with enthusiasm

　　20．The main idea of the last paragraph is

　　．

　　A．we should try heart and soul to win what we want

　　B．enthusiasm can give us pleasure，though we have to sweat

　　C．we have not enough money to buy what we need

　　D．enthusiasm with sweat is what we need

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