2016届陕西汉中市高考英语二轮阅读理解选练（25）（含答案）

　　2016年陕西汉中市高考英语二轮阅读理解选练（25）（含答案）

　　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。

　　Britain’s long-term unemployed could be forced to carry out manual work or risk losing their welfare benefits under plans being put forward by the government.

　　The U. S. -style scheme would see the long-term jobless ordered to take up four-week placements in order to get them used to having a full-time job.

　　The idea is part of major reforms, due to be unveiled this week, to make cuts to Britain’s huge welfare bill, reduce dependency on benefits and weed out those earning money but not declaring it, papers said.

　　“What we are talking about here is people who have not been used to working having both the opportunity and perhaps a bit more of a push as well, to experience the workplace from time to time. The vast majority of people in Britain will think that is the right thing to do. ”Foreign Secretary William Hague told BBC TV.

　　Shortly after the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Union took power in May, Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith unveiled plans to simplify the complex web of benefits available to reduce errors and inefficiencies.

　　Duncan Smith said the system had become regressive and was not giving people the right encouragement to work as many were financially better off unemployed.

　　Under his plans, separate benefits for items such as housing, income support or disability will be replaced by a“universal credit”system whereby(靠那个)individual households would get a single welfare payment to ensure those in work would be better off.

　　The Observer newspaper said that in return, long-term unemployed would be told to take up work placements of at least 30 hours a week for a four-week period.

　　If they refuse or fail to complete the programme, their jobseekers’ allowance, worth 64. 30 pounds a week for those over 25, could be stopped for at least three months.

　　【文章大意】由于英国的福利过高, 再加上近年来的经济危机造成的高失业率, 越来越多的英国人不愿再去劳心费力地工作, 干脆赖在家里向政府伸手要钱。当局为了减少养“好逸恶劳者”的经费, 出台强制性劳动方案, 要求失业的人从事劳力工作, 以此督促他们积极寻找工作。

　　1. What will the unemployed with welfare benefits face if the major reform takes effect?

　　A. They will lose their welfare benefits if they don’t work.

　　B. They will be encouraged to buy their own farms.

　　C. They will do some kinds of jobs.

　　D. Either A or C.

　　【解析】选D。细节理解题。第一段第一句话的carry out manual work or risk losing their welfare benefits说明在新政下“懒汉”们面临的两种选择。

　　2. What will most British people think of the new reform according to William Hague?

　　A. They are against it since the unemployed are poor.

　　B. They are for it since the unemployed should keep fit.

　　C. They are for it since it’s unfair for the employed and unemployed.

　　D. They don’t care as there’re a few unemployed people having welfare benefits.

　　【解析】选C。推理判断题。第四段中The vast majority of people in Britain will think that is the right thing to do. 说明绝大多数英国人支持新政。

　　4. The underlined word in Paragraph 6 most likely means　.

　　A. well-receivedB. far-reaching

　　C. old-fashioned

　　D. live-and-let-live

　　【解析】选C。词义猜测题。从该词所在句的was not giving people the right encouragement to work可知即将取消的措施就要过时了。

　　. What is the aim of Britain’s major reform for the long-term unemployed?

　　A. To reduce the cost of welfare bill with healthy economy system.

　　B. To make them healthier and save cost in medical care.

　　C. To help more people go through financial crisis.

　　D. To increase pay and bonus for those employed.

　　【解析】选A。主旨大意题。第三段的to make cuts to Britain’s huge welfare bill是直接目的, 最终的目的还是要建立合理健康的福利制度体系。

　　阅读下列短文，从没题所给的四个选项(A, B, C, D)中选出最佳选项。Nine years ago, after Leo had died, people said to me. "I never knew he was your stepfather." You see, I never called him that. At first, he was no one special in my life. Then he became my friend. In time, I felt he was also my father.

　　Leo married my mother when I was eleven. Two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. At first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but Leo saw bright possibilities. "We'll plant trees there to give us shade as well as some flowers," he said. And just these little touches made our house different from all the others. More important, a real family was forming. Leo was becoming a full-time parent, and I was learning what it meant to have a father.

　　Weekday mornings when the weather was bad, Leo often drove me to school. Having a father drop you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, but I always thought it was wonderful. Saturday mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. Some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing special, but I, who had ever before spent my childhood watching other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with extreme delight. Looking back, I realized that Leo gave me what I needed most—the experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.

　　Soon after we moved to the suburbs, one of our new neighbors introduced herself to me. She had already met my mother and Leo. "You know," she said, "you look just like your father." I knew she was just making conversation--but even so... "Thank you", I said. Why tell her anything different?

　　1．The writer's purpose in writing this passage is _______.

　　A．to show his pride to have a good stepfather

　　B．to show how interesting a person Leo was

　　C．to remind us of our parents

　　D．to explain why they moved to the suburbs

　　2．The phrase “put down roots”in the second paragraph means

　　.

　　A．farmedB．plantedC．settled　

　　D．worked

　　3．In the writer's opinion, _______.

　　A．it is not easyto live with a stepfather

　　B．not all the stepfathers are as good as Leo

　　C．the husband and wife must think more about their children before they divorce

　　D．in stepfamilies the love and friendship are extremely precious

　　4．The last sentence “Why tell her anything different?”means that

　　.

　　A．he should have told the truth

　　B．he wouldn't tell her the truth

　　C．he wanted to tell her something that had nothing to do with Leo

　　D．he wanted to keep silence whenever he met the neighbors

　　【参考答案】1—4、ACDB

　　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。Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy – they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.” –– Jeff

　　Bezos

　　I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I came across the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very exciting to me. I had just turned 30 years old, and I’d been married for a year. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to quit my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work since most start-ups don’t, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. MacKenzie told me I should go for it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor. I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.

　　I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic made some sense to me, and he convinced me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision. Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ultimately (最后), I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all.

　　After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my passion, and I’m proud of that choice. For all of us, in the end, we are our choices.

　　1. What inspired the author with the idea of building an online bookstore?

　　A. His dream of being an inventor.

　　B. The support of his wife.

　　C. The greatly increasing usage of the Internet.

　　D. Millions of exciting titles.

　　2. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined sentence?.

　　A. The idea of not trying would keep coming to his mind and disturb him.

　　B. He would be very excited if he tried it out.

　　C. He would be always having a doubt if he didn’t try.

　　D. The decision to not try the online bookstore would terrify him.

　　3. We can know from the passage that _______.

　　A. the boss thought the idea was suitable for the author

　　B. the author wanted someone else to try the idea

　　C. the author might not regret if he failed the idea

　　D. the author might go back to his boss if he failed

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

　　A. Cleverness and Kindness

　　B. The Starting of Amazon

　　C. Following My Passion

　　D. We Are What We Choose

　　参考答案1—4 CACD

　　阅读理解They were just grasshoppers(蚂蚱). But there were millions of them, which was why dad was so anxious to get rid of them.

　　“They’re totally destroying our beans, ”he told Mom over lunchtime one Saturday. “I’ve been trying to keep them out of the tomatoes, but I don’t know if I can make it. ”

　　“Isn’t there something you can do about them? ”Mom asked. She was mostly concerned about the tomatoes. “I think there’s a spray(喷雾)or something, ”Dad said. “I’m going down to the garden center after lunch and see if they have any suggestions. ”

　　I’m pretty sure that’s what he said. But what I heard was, “While I’m gone, why don’t you and George come up with your own plan for getting rid of the grasshoppers? ”

　　And so that’s what we did. It was the summer between fifth and sixth grade, so we were feeling pretty clever and mature. Certainly we knew how to get rid of these grasshoppers. That seemed simple enough. Finally Ron and Don joined us but then, things got a little crazy. Before we knew it we were doing terrible experiments. I won’t describe our experiments. Let’s just call it“The Adventures of the Marquis de Orkin”. Dad came home and saw these different deaths. We were laughing, but the laughter quickly turned to silence when we saw the look on my Dad’s face.

　　“What are you boys doing? ”he asked.

　　“We’re just sort of helping to get rid of the grasshoppers, ”I said.

　　“This isn’t getting rid of grasshoppers, ”Dad said. “This is killing. ”

　　I was confused. I looked at the insecticide he was carrying. “But aren’t you going to kill grasshoppers with that? ”I asked.

　　“Yes, because it’s something we need to do for the protection of our garden, ”he said seriously. “But I’m not going to enjoy it. ”

　　【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。作者家的菜园遭到蚂蚱的破坏, 天真的作者想帮助父亲除掉蚂蚱, 不想他和同伴使用的方法让父亲很生气, 父亲告诫他们: 不能杀生取乐, 要学会仁慈。

　　1. It can be inferred from the text that　.

　　A. the tomatoes in the garden were badly damaged by grasshoppers

　　B. the father was advised to get rid of grasshoppers with insecticide

　　C. the father asked the author to help catch grasshoppers

　　D. the author’s way of treating grasshoppers was interesting

　　【解析】选B。推理判断题。由文章第三段中提到的父亲午饭后要去花卉商店寻求帮助以及倒数第二段中的I looked at the insecticide he was carrying. 可知, 花卉商店建议父亲使用杀虫剂。故选B项。

　　2. The underlined sentence“And so that’s what we did. ”means that　.

　　A. we killed the grasshoppers for fun

　　B. we carried out an experiment on the grasshoppers

　　C. we thought of a way to deal with the grasshoppers

　　D. we were clever enough to get rid of the grasshoppers

　　【解析】选C。推理判断题。在上一段中提到作者认为父亲的言外之意是让作者想办法除掉蚂蚱, 因此此句承接上文, 指“我们就是那样做了”, 即“我们自己想出了除掉蚂蚱的办法”。

　　3. How did the author’s father feel when he saw what the children were doing?

　　A. Angry. B. Confused.

　　C. Satisfied.

　　D. Fearful.

　　【解析】选A。推理判断题。由文章第五段中的最后一句We were laughing, but the laughter quickly turned to silence when we saw the look on my Dad’s face. 以及文章最后一句But I’m not going to enjoy it. 可知父亲看到孩子们残杀蚂蚱取乐很生气。

　　4. In which magazine would you most probably find this passage?

　　A. American Laboratory.

　　B. Accounts of Chemical Research.

　　C. Readers’ Digest.

　　D. Technology.

　　【解析】选C。文章出处题。本文的主题是“仁慈, 不杀生取乐”。此类题材的文章最有可能来自《读者文摘》这样的期刊。