2017届山西省保德县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解基础练：5（含解析）

　　山西保德县2017高考英语一轮阅读理解基础题

　　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。

　　Student Membership—Cambridge Arts Cinema

　　Cambridge Arts Cinema is one of the art houses in Britain and home of the internationally celebrated Cambridge Film Festival. Since 1947 generations of students have discovered the wealth of world cinema. Now you too can make the most of it and save money.

　　At_the_Arts_you_can...

　　●choose from up to 40 films a month

　　●see up to 8 premieres (首映) each month

　　●catch screenings when you like—we open early and close late

　　●increase your knowledge of film with our special events—each year we run seasons on various types of films and directors

　　●meet the filmmakers

　　What_you_get_as_a_member：

　　●invitation to a preview screening (试映)

　　●￡1 off the standard prices (￡4.50/￡3. 50) for any screening including

　　special events

　　●your own copy of each cinema programme mailed free of charge

　　●a card with your own membership number

　　●50% off membership to the Cambridge Darkroom Gallery So what are you waiting for? Just

　　fill

　　in

　　the form and return it either in person or by post to:

　　Box Office

　　Cambridge Arts Cinema

　　8 Market Passage

　　Cambridge CN2 3PF

　　It costs ￡15 to join and your card can be used from 1st October 2011 to 30th June 2017.

　　Cinema

　　Information:

　　01223 572929

　　(24hr)

　　Box Office：01223 504444

　　本文主要介绍剑桥艺术影院以广告的形式吸引更多的会员。

　　．Which of the following is the most famous event held at Cambridge Arts Cinema?

　　A. The Cambridge Film Festival.B. Meetings with filmmakers.

　　C. The preview screening. D. Monthly premieres.

　　答案：A。细节理解题。由第一段第一句可判断A项正确。

　　．If you're a member of Cambridge Arts Cinema, you will enjoy free ________.

　　A. Darkroom Gallery showsB. mailed programmes

　　C. special film events D. film shows

　　答案：B。细节理解题。由文中“your own copy of each cinema programme mailed free of charge”可知B项正确。

　　．How long will the membership for Cambridge Arts Cinema last?

　　A. Four months.

　　B. Eight months.

　　C. Nine months.

　　D. One year.

　　答案：C。细节理解题。由文中“...from 1st October 2011 to 30th June 2017”．可知答案为C项。

　　．For what purpose is the text written?

　　A. Offering students cheaper tickets.

　　B. Announcing the opening of a premiere.

　　C. Telling the public of the cinema's address.

　　D. Increasing the cinema's membership.

　　答案：D。主旨大意题。综观全文可知本文的主要目的是吸引更多的人成为会员。

　　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。It’s hard not to feel cheated and over-charged when you receive unexpected roaming (漫游) charges while traveling abroad—whether they come from making phone calls or checking e-mails.

　　Jeff Gardner received an $ 11,000 bill from Verizon after spending four days in Jamaica. Before the trip, Mr. Gardner, who runs a fly-fishing business in Grayling, Michigan, said he called Verizon to find out what it would cost to use his cellphone for calls and his wireless card to check e-mails while in Jamaica. He said he was told that calls would be about $ 2 a minute and that there would be no extra charges for data as he was on an unlimited plan. The latter part turned out to be wrong.

　　“I don’t mind paying a fair amount for fair service, but $11,000 for four days is ridiculous,” said Mr. Gardner, who used his phone carefully and economically on the trip. He also tried to check and send e-mails using his wireless card, but quickly gave up after the e-mails didn’t go through. Still, his Verizon bill said more than 500,000 kilobytes (千字节) of data was delivered while he was in Jamaica, an amount Mr. Gardner said is 100 times what he normally uses in a month.

　　As travelers increasingly use smart phones abroad in the same way they do at home—to check e-mails, update Facebook and Twitter and pull up online maps—many are facing costly roaming fees, which providers charge when customers use their phones outside their service area. In fact, roaming charges have gotten so out of hand that the Federal Communications Commission has proposed a plan that would require wireless companies to send their customers a voice or text message when they are approaching their plan’s limit, when they have reached that limit and when they are starting to result in roaming fees.

　　1. Why did Jeff Gardner call Verizon before his trip to Jamaica?

　　　A. To hand over his business.

　　B. To check his cellphone bill

　　　C. To find out information about Jamaica.

　　　D. To find out information about roaming charges.

　　2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean?

　　　A. Extra charges were made for Jeff Gardner’s data delivery.

　　　B. Jeff Gardner’s calls were charged over $2 per minute.

　　　C. Jeff Gardner’s plan turned out to be limited.

　　　D. Jeff Gardner had difficulty delivering data abroad.

　　. During the trip, Jeff Gardner______.

　　　A. was careless with phone use

　　B. delivered no more data than at home

　　　C. received quite poor e-mail services

　　　D. frequently used his wireless card to send e-mails

　　. What should wireless companies do according to the Federal Communications Commission?

　　　A. Make customers know when they’re outside their service area.

　　　B. Get customers informed when they’re near the limit of their plan.

　　　C. Stop serving customers when they’ve reached their plan’s limit.

　　　D. Limit some services to reduce the amount of roaming charges abroad.

　　DACB

　　社会生活类阅读理解。

　　“BEIJING, Sep. 10 (Xinhuanet)—The extra-large model baby in the Spain Pavilion (馆) was ‘conceived (构思)’ by a Spanish filmmaker,” Shi Yingying reports.

　　Visitors admiring the 6.5-meter-high giant baby, Miguelin, in the Spain Pavilion may be surprised to realize that it was not the concept of a famous designer or a group of groundbreaking engineers. It came from one filmmaker’s interpretation of the meaning of “Better City, Better Life”.

　　Spanish director Isabel Coixet developed the idea after being asked to contribute to Expo 2010 Shanghai.

　　“They asked me to do something to tell the Chinese audience about Spain in the future and the first thing jumping to my mind was a baby,” said Coixet. “If we really fight to have better cars, better cities and better lives, it’s for them—for our children.”

　　Despite her Spanish heritage, Coixet doesn’t focus on making Spanish films or using Spain as the setting. Fans of her various award-winning films, including My Life Without Me, The Secret Life of Words and Elegy, may not even be aware of Coixet’s Spanish background.

　　“The borders between countries are just illusion (假象),” said Coixet. “Some directors feel really comfortable telling stories that belong to their territory.”

　　But Coixet feels the opposite: “I’m more comfortable outside my country. It gives me a strange freedom.”

　　One of her favorite things about being a director is the freedom. “The thing is that the world is wide and this freedom lets you make films everywhere,” she said.

　　Coixet’s curiosity took her latest exploration and movie work to Japan. In the movie Map of the Sound of Tokyo, the Catalan actor Sergi Lopez is the owner of a wine shop in Tokyo, and Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi is a young woman who works both as a fishmonger and as a hired killer.

　　The clash (冲突) of the two people’s very different worlds and the tango-like relationship they develop is just one representation of what Coixet is able to produce by mixing cultures.

　　While she doesn’t know if she will shoot a film in Shanghai, two things have caught her attention: Shanghainese women and crickets (蟋蟀).

　　After just arriving in the city, she was surprised by the mix of old Chinese culture in a booming metropolis. “Behind the skyscrapers, there is a flower and bird market with heaps of crickets and birdcages in,” she said. “I’m totally amazed with the city.”

　　1. The huge baby represents the idea that 　.

　　A. our children are the new generation full of imagination

　　B. our children will develop the friendship between China and Spain

　　C. our children are our future

　　D. our children will understand the meaning of “Better City, Better Life”

　　2. We learn from the passage that Coixet’s award-winning films were set　.

　　A. only in Spain

　　B. only in Japan

　　C. mainly in the countries outside Spain

　　D. mainly in the countries within Europe

　　3. According to Isabel Coixet, a flower and bird market behind the high rises　.

　　A. shows people in Shanghai are living a rich life spiritually and materially

　　B. reflects prosperity of the market

　　C. indicates the Chinese people are leading a peaceful life

　　D. represents the traditional culture of China

　　4. From the passage we can learn that　.

　　A. Isabel Coixet is dissatisfied with the design of the extra-large model baby

　　B. a mix of different cultures is reflected in Isabel Coixet’s films

　　C. Isabel Coixet feels less comfortable while making films all over the world

　　D. Isabel Coixet designed the huge baby according to the requirement of a group of engineers

　　【参考答案】6.CCAB　

　　阅读理解。阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

　　One evening in February 2007. A student named Paula Ceely brought her car to a stop on a remote in Wales. She got out to open a metal gate that blocked her path . That's when she heard the whistle sounded by the driver of a train. Her Renault Clio parked across a railway line. Second later, she watched the train drag her car almost a kilometre down the railway tracks.

　　Ceely's

　　near miss

　　made the news because she blamed it on her GPS device(导航仪).She had never driven the route before .It was dark and raining heavily. Ceely was relying on her GPS. But it made no mention of the crossing. "I put my complete trust in the device and it led me right into the path of a speeding train," she told the BBC.

　　W ho is to blame here? Rick Stevenson, who tells Ceely's story in his book When Machines Fail US, finger at the limitations of technology. We put our faith in digital devices, he says,

　　But our digital helpers are too often not up to the job. They are filled with small problems. And it’s not just GPS devices: Stevenson takes us on a tour of digital disasters involving everything from mobile phones to wireless key boards.

　　The problem with his argument in the book is that it’s

　　not clear why he only focuses digital technology, while

　　there may be a number of other possible

　　causes. A map-maker might have left the crossing off a paper map. Maybe we should blame Ceely for not paying attention. Perhaps the railway authorities are at fault for poor signaling system. Or maybe someone has studied the relative dangers and worked out that there really is something specific wrong with the CPS equipment. But Stevenson doesn’t say.

　　It’s a problem that runs through the book. In a section on cars, Stevenson gives an account of the advanced techniques that criminals use to defeat computer-based locking systems for cars. He offers two independent sets of figures on car theft; both show a small rise in some parts of the country. He says that once once again not all new locks have proved reliable. Perhaps, but maybe it’s also due to the shortage of policemen on the streets. Or changing social circumstances. Or some combination of these factors.

　　The game between humans and their smart devices is complex. It is shaped by economics and psychology and the cultures we live in. Somewhere in the mix of those forces there may be way a wiser use of technology.

　　If there is such a way, it should involve more than just an awareness of the shortcomings of our machines. After all, we have lived with them for thousands of years. They have probably been fooling us for just as long.

　　(

　　) 1 .What did Paula Ceely think was the cause of her accident?           

　　 A. She was not familiar with the road.           

　　 B. It was dark and raining heavily then.   

　　C. The railway works failed to give the signal.

　　D. Her GPS device didn’t tell her about the crossing

　　(

　　)  2. The phrase “near miss” (paragraph 2) can best be replaced by _______.     

　　A. close bit          B. heavy loss             C. narrow escape         D. big mistake      

　　(

　　) 3. Which of the following would Rick Stevenson most probably agree with?       

　　A. Modern technology is what we can’t live without.

　　B. Digital technology often falls short of out expectation.    

　　C. Digital devices are more reliable than they used to be.   

　　D. GPS error is not the only cause for Celery’s accident. 

　　(

　　) 4. In the writer’s opinion, Stevenson’s argument is________.

　　A. one-sided

　　B. reasonable

　　C. puzzling

　　D. well-based

　　(

　　) 5.What is the real concern of the writer of this article?

　　A. The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.

　　B. The relationship between humans and technology

　　C. The shortcomings of digital devices we use.           

　　D. The human unawareness  of technical problems.

　　【参考答案】1---5、DCBAB