2017届重庆市高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选编精练：29（含解析）

　　重庆市2017高考英语阅读理解选编（29）（附解析） 

　　【2016高考训练】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。

　　(由2017·湖北卷)

　　You've flown halfway around the world；you've sniffed out this place that nobody in Falongland or Thailand seems to have ever heard of；so what on earth is there to do here？You consider this question as you sink into an old wooden beach chair that holds you above the sand.

　　It was a long journey from Bangkok to Huaplee.By the time you found the bus station and got yourself sorted out，it took almost as long as the flight from Falongland.

　　Huaplee is located just south of Hua Hin，about two hundred kilometres from Bangkok，down the west side of the Gulf of Thailand. Not many tourists find this place，and the ones that do wonder if finding it has been their purpose all along.

　　There's an apparent laziness that surrounds you here.It's what this place offers，and it's free of charge.The small waves that tap the shoreline seem to slow everything down.You settle into your beach chair in preparation for a long rest.You sit there and watch the sea.

　　It's early afternoon，so the cook comes out and asks what you'd like to eat this evening.Before long he's rushed off to the market to buy the ingredients for whatever it was that you ordered－every meal fresh and to order.No menu here.

　　There is no poolside noise here but just that wonderfully warm，clear blue sea.There's no street noise.The only sounds are the murmurs of nature.

　　For now you just count your blessings (福祉)，listing them in the sand with your toe (脚趾)．You don't have to worry about being late for work. You don't have to do anything.

　　The beach to your right stretches off to the horizon (地平线)，slowly narrowing to nothingness only to reemerge again on your left，now steadily widening until it covers the chair beneath you.Sand to your left and sand to your right; it's unbroken，endless.No start，no end，just sand，sun，and peace.Step off it，and you re­enter the world of traffic，stress，work，and hurry.

　　Normally you're the type who can't sit still for more than ten minutes，but you're on Huaplee Lazy Beach now and，in the right frame of mind，it stretches all the way around the world.

　　“How could it take me so long to find it？” you wonder.

　　．When the author first went to Huaplee Beach，________.

　　A．he found it unworthwhile

　　B．he failed to sort himself out

　　C．he became sensitive to smell

　　D．he had difficulty in finding it

　　．What is special about the food service at Huaplee Beach?

　　A．No menu.

　　B．Free food.

　　C．Self service.

　　D．Quick delivery.

　　3．In the author's opinion，a tourist can enjoy Huaplee Beach most when he ________.

　　A．sits in a beach chairB．forgets his daily routine

　　C．plans a detailed scheduleD．draws pictures in the sand

　　．What does the author imply by his question at the end of the passage?

　　A．He shouldn't have counted his blessings.

　　B．He should have understood the wonder of nature.

　　C．He shouldn't have spent so much time on the trip.

　　D．He should have come to the place earlier.

　　答案：

　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇旅游杂记，介绍了泰国一个静谧的海滩，描述了这里的环境给人的慵懒的感觉。在这里，你可以忘掉职场上的疲惫和匆忙，也可以真正地无所事事。宁静的气息让你不禁感叹应该早点儿来这个地方。

　　．D　解析：推理判断题。作者没有直接说自己第一次来这里的情况或感受，但他提到了找到这个地方是多么不容易：have flown halfway around the world；a long journey from Bangkok to Huaplee；it took almost as long as the flight from Falongland，因此选D。

　　．A　解析：细节理解题。第五段中的Before long he's rushed off to the market to buy the ingredients for whatever it was that you ordered－every meal fresh and to order.No menu here.意为“不管你点什么菜，不久他就会急忙去市场买原料——每餐都是新鲜的、定做的。没有菜单”。由此可知A项“没有菜单”正确，而非“饭菜免费”“自助”或“送餐快速”。

　　3．B　解析：推理判断题。第七段说，现在你只需想想你有多幸福，用你的脚趾在沙滩上把你的幸福列出来；不用担心上班迟到，什么都不用干。这与B项的描述是一致的：忘掉他的日常安排。

　　．D　解析：推理判断题。“我怎么花了这么长时间才找到它呢？”是文章结尾的问题。显然，作者暗示的不是“本不应该想着自己的幸福”“本该了解大自然的神奇”或者“本不该在途中花这么多的时间”，而是D项“本该早点儿来这个地方”。

　　阅读理解2017·赣州市高三年级适应性考试I grew up with a fat dad—450 pounds at his heaviest.Every week he would try a new diet，and my family ended up eating whatever strange food he was trying at that moment.

　　After my third­grade year，my dad landed a life­changing job in Manhattan.My mom，my little sister and I had to move away from our hometown，Chicago，and leave my grandmother and her beautiful food behind.

　　Leaving my grandmother was far more frightening than the move to New York City.There would be no more special weekends at my grandmother’s house，the only place I can remember feeling happy，safe and nourished (有营养的)．It was what I desired.In this new city，I felt extremely alone and lost，and I missed my grandmother terribly.

　　My grandmother knew just how I felt—And she knew the cure.Every week，she would send me a card with a $20 bill，a recipe and a list of what to buy at the market.It kept us bonded，and her recipes filled my body and soul.

　　Over the years，I have grown to better understand my father’s struggles with weight and the toll (代价) it took on him and those who love him.I have come to realize he was driven not by vanity (自负) or selfishness as much as by a deep pain.And in spite of growing up in such an unhealthy eating environment (or perhaps because of it)，as an adult I found a passion and a career as a nutrition consultant.

　　Today，my father weighs 220 pounds and is a vegan (素食者)．How he got there is a story I hope to share in the coming weeks.More importantly，food is no longer a barrier that keeps us apart，but a bridge that keep us connected.There is nothing my dad enjoys more than talking with me about dietary theories and his weight­loss victories.And now I am the one regularly sending recipe cards to my father’s house，just as my grandmother did for me.

　　1．What kind of person was actually the author’s father?

　　A．He was a man of vanity and selfishness.

　　B．He didn’t like to eat with his family.

　　C．He was more painful than selfish.

　　D．He forced his family to eat what he liked.

　　2．The author desired to go to his grandmother’s________.

　　A．to see his father 　B．for tasty food

　　C．for pocket money

　　　D．to avoid his family

　　3．The underlined word “cure” in Paragraph 4 is the nearest in meaning to “________”．

　　A．solution 　B．concern

　　C．operation 　D．situation

　　4．The author became a nutrition consultant mainly because________.

　　A．his father often talked with him about dietary theories

　　B．he was determined to change his own daily habits

　　C．he wanted to study the recipes his grandmother had given him

　　D．his childhood experiences gave him too deep an impression

　　5．What can we learn about the author from the last paragraph?

　　A．He often quarreled with his father about food

　　B．His father will tell him his story in the following weeks

　　C．The most he talks about with his father is nourishment

　　D．He often sends recipe cards to his grandmother in return

　　语篇解读　本文是一篇记叙文。作者小时候，爸爸很胖，每周都需要尝试一种新的食物来减肥，全家人都不得不与爸爸一起“试吃”，为此作者对爸爸意见很大。后来随着年龄的增长，作者对父亲也有了更深的理解，在选择职业时也选了营养师这份工作。

　　1．解析：　

　　推理判断题。根据第五段第一、二句“Over the years...I have come to realize...as much as by a deep pain.”可知，这些年来，作者逐渐理解了父亲，意识到他苦苦地与自己的体重作斗争，不是虚荣和自私，而是对于自己的体重感到深深的痛苦。由此可知，C项内容与题意相符。

　　答案：　C

　　2．解析：　细节理解题。根据第二、三段内容可知，作者和家人一起搬到了曼哈顿，离开了祖母还有她做的精致美食，以致作者非常想念祖母，特别渴望去她的家里品尝美味佳肴。

　　答案：　B

　　3．解析：　词义猜测题。根据第四段画线词前后内容可知，作者的祖母知道作者心中的想法，每周会给作者寄20美元，一个食谱还有一个购物单。结合选项可推知，画线词所在句子意思是作者的祖母知道解决的办法。因此画线词的意思与选项中solution的词义最为接近。

　　答案：　A

　　4．解析：　细节理解题。根据第五段最后一句“And in spite of growing up in such an unhealthy

　　eating

　　environment...I

　　found

　　a

　　passion

　　and

　　a

　　career

　　as

　　a nutrition consultant.”可知，尽管在一个如此不健康的饮食环境中成长(也许正是因为这一点)，作者长大后成为了一个营养咨询师。由此可知，作者童年的经历给他留下了很深的印象，因此，作者后来成为一名营养咨询师。

　　答案：　D

　　5．解析：　细节理解题。根据文章最后一段第四句“There is nothing my dad enjoys more than talking with me about dietary theories and his weight­loss victories”可知，作者和父亲谈论最多的应该是食品方面的内容。

　　答案：C阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项。The best antistress(抗紧张) medicine we have may be right under your nose! Think you know how to do it? Try this simple test: sit or stand wherever you are and take a deep breath，then let it out.What expanded more as you breathed in，your chest or your abdomen(腹部)? If the answer is your chest，you're like most people and you're doing it wrong.Take another deep breath and keep reading.

　　The technique is so powerful that physician James Gordon，director of the Centre for Mind－Body Medicine in Washington，teaches it to nearly every patient he sees.

　　“Slow，deep breathing is probably the only best antistress medicine we have，” says Gordon，“When you bring air down into the lower part of the lungs，where oxygen exchange is most efficient，everything changes.Heart rate slows，blood pressure decrease，muscles relax，anxiety ceases and the mind calms.”

　　Obviously，everyone alive knows how to breathe.But Gordon and other experts in the field of mindbody medicine say that few people in industrialized societies know how to breathe correctly.They are taught to suck in their guts(内脏) and puff out(鼓起) their chests.At the same time，they are attacked with constant stress，which causes heart rate to increase.As a result，they become shallow “chest breathers”，using primarily the middle and upper parts of the lungs.Few people—other than musicians，singers and some athletes are even aware that the abdomen should expand when they breathe in.

　　“Watch a baby breathe，” says Gordon，“and you'll see the abdomen go up and down，deep and slow.” With age，most people change from this healthy abdominal breathing into shallow chest breathing.

　　At Duke University Medical Centre，Dr.Jon Seskevich has taught abdominal breathing to most of the 18，000 patients he's worked with since 1990.

　　One of his most dramatic cases involved a lung－cancer patient.“I walked into the room to find this large man actually fighting for breath，” Seskevich recalls.“I had him sit back in his chair and place his feet on the ground.I then asked if it was OK if I touched his abdomen.He nodded，so I put my hand on and told him to breathe softly into my hand，to let his abdomen rise into my hand.”

　　After about six minutes of this，he was breathing comfortably.“All day，people were telling him to relax，” says Seskevich，“and it seemed to make his struggle worse.I just told him to breathe into his abdomen.We didn't cure his cancer，but we may have saved him a trip to the intensive－care unit.”

　　【语篇解读】　本文是一篇说明文。正确的呼吸方式有助于减轻我们的压力，而抗紧张最好的药就是慢慢地深呼吸，但是很少有人知道如何正确呼吸及正确呼吸的重要性。

　　．According to the Centre for Mind－Body Medicine in Washington，the best medicine for antistress is ________．

　　A．shallow chestbreathing

　　B．operation treatment

　　C．slow，deep breathing

　　D．enough physical exercise

　　答案　C　

　　．What do you know about most people's breath in industrialized societies?

　　A．They breathe with the middle and upper parts of the lungs.

　　B．They become deep breathers，using the lower parts of the lungs.

　　C．They expand their abdomens when they breathe in.

　　D．They have their abdomens go up and down while breathing.

　　答案　A　

　　．Which of the following people tend to know the right way to breathe according to the passage?

　　A．Government officials.

　　B．Doctors and patients.

　　C．Some sportsmen.

　　D．University professors.

　　答案　C　

　　．The example stated in the last two paragraphs show that the lungcancer patient ________ without Dr.Seskevich's advice on how to breathe.

　　A．might have died already

　　B．couldn't have been cured of his illness

　　C．would have stopped breathing

　　D．would have been sent to the intensive－care unit

　　答案　D　

　　5．Which of the following do you think is NOT TRUE after you have read the passage?

　　A．Most people give up abdominal breathing when growing up.

　　B．A baby takes his or her breath in a natural and abdominal breathing way.

　　C．Healthy people are more aware of the importance of correct breathing than those in poor health.

　　D．Shallow “chest breathers” may be attacked with constant stress，which causes heart rate to increase.

　　答案　C　

　　6．What does the writer mainly tell us in this passage?

　　A．The secret for our long life is to take more deep breath every day.

　　B．Correct ways of breathing may help to reduce our stress.

　　C．There are two breathing ways—chest breathing and abdominal breathing.

　　D．It's useful to bring air down into the lower part of our body whenever we feel nervous.

　　答案　B　

　　, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　(2017·南昌市二模，C)

　　“Plants were expected to get larger with increased carbon dioxide in atmosphere, but

　　changes in temperature, humidity and nutrient availability seem to trumped the benefits of

　　increased carbon dioxide，” said researchers from the National University of Singapore.

　　45 percent of the species studied now reach smaller adult sizes than they did in the past. The

　　researchers pointed out that warmer temperatures and changing habitats, caused by climate

　　change, are possible reasons for shrinking creatures.

　　“We do not yet know the mechanisms involved, or why some organism are getting smaller while others are unaffected，” the researchers said. “Until we understand more, we could be risking negative consequences that we can't yet quantify.”

　　The change was big in coldblooded animals. Only two decades of warmer temperatures were enough to make reptiles smaller. An increase of 1 degree centigrade caused nearly a 10 percent increase in metabolism (新陈代谢). Greater use of energy resulted in tiny tortoises and little lizards. Fish are smaller now too. Though overfishing has played a part in reducing numbers, experiments show that warmer temperatures also stop fish growth. There is a recent report on warmer temperatures' negative effects on plankton, the base of the marine ecosystem.

　　Warmblooded animals weren't immune from the size change caused by climate change. Many birds are now smaller. Mammals have been miniaturized too. Soay sheep are thinner. Red deer are weaker. And polar bears are smaller, compared with historical records.

　　This is not the first time this has happened in Earth's history. 55 million years ago, a warming event similar to the current climate change caused bees, spiders and ants to shrink by 50 to 75 percent over several thousand years. That event happened over a long time than the current climate change.

　　The speed of modern climate change could mean organisms may not respond or adapt quickly enough, especially those with long generation times. So, it is likely that more negative influences of climate change will be shown in future.

　　文章大意：本文是一篇科普说明文。主要报道了一项新发现，研究人员发现了气候变暖会导致地球上许多生物个体变小的现象。

　　1．Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

　　A．Why do some species become smaller?

　　B．How does temperature change in Earth's history?

　　C．Climate change has many negative effects

　　D．Species become smaller as climate warms

　　答案：D　标题概括题。通读全文及第二段首句“45 percent of the species studied now reach smaller adult sizes than they did in the past.”可知，本文主要讲述了气候变暖会导致许多生物个体变小的现象，故D项正确。

　　2．The underlined word “trumped” in the first paragraph can be replaced by ________.

　　A．been neglected by

　　B．had strong influences than

　　C．been weakened by

　　D．been less than

　　答案：B　词义猜测题。根据本句中的but可知，画线词与其前面的内容“大气中二氧化碳的增加会使植物个体变大”是转折关系，并根据下文中气温、湿度、可利用的营养等条件对生物的影响可知，这些条件的改变似乎比二氧化碳浓度增加更有影响力。故B项正确。

　　3．Researchers from the National University of Singapore believe that ________.

　　A．how climate change effects animals' size has not been found clearly

　　B．all the animals on the earth have become smaller

　　C．too many studies on animals' size have been done

　　D．people can avoid the negative effects of climate change

　　答案：A　细节理解题。文章第三段研究人员提到“We do not yet know the mechanisms involved”，其中the mechanisms指的是气候变暖影响了生物个体大小的机制，故A项正确。

　　4．What can we learn from the passage?

　　A．Climate change has even affected plankton negatively.

　　B．Birds have suffered more from climate change than fish.

　　C．Ants, bees and spiders have been shrinking by 50% to 70% in the past decade.

　　D．A warming event causing species to become smaller has never happened before.

　　答案：A　细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“There is a recent report on warmer temperatures' negative effects on plankton, the base of the marine ecosystem.”可知，气候变化已经对浮游生物产生了有害影响。故A项正确。

　　5．What's the author's attitude toward climate change in the passage?

　　A．Concerned.

　　B．Optimistic.

　　C．Indifferent.

　　D．Confident.

　　答案：A　观点态度题。根据文章最后一句“So, it is likely that more negative influences of climate change will be shown in future.”可知，作者对气候变暖对生物的影响有些担忧。故A项Concerned(关心的)符合语境。