2017届高考英语一轮复习阅读理解解析版汇编：59（含解析）

　　2017高考英语阅读理解解析版汇编（59）

　　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。

　　Bill Javis took over our village’s news-agency at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax. He just thought he would like something but not too much to do, and the news-agency was ready-made. The business produced little enough for him, but Bill was a man who only wanted the simplicity and order and regularity of the job. He had been a long-serving sailor, and all his life had done everything by the clock.

　　Every day he opened his shop at 6:00 a. m. to catch the early trade; the papers arrived on his doorstep before that. Many of Bill’s customers were city workers, and the shop was convenient for the station. Business was tailing off by 10 o’clock, so at eleven sharp Bill closed for lunch. It was hard luck on anybody who wanted a paper or magazine in the afternoon, for most likely Bill would be down on the river bank, fishing, and his neatest competitor was five kilometers away. Sometimes in the afternoon-, the evening paper landed on the doorway, and at 4 o’ clock Bill reopened his shop. The evening rush lasted till seven, and it was worthwhile.

　　He lived in a flat above the ship, alone. Except in the very bad weather, you always knew where to find him in the afternoon, as I have said. Once, on a sunny afternoon, I walked home along the river bank from a shopping trip to the village. By my watch it was three minutes past four, so I was astonished to see Bill sitting there on his little chair with a line in the, water. He had no luck, I could, see, but he was making no effort to move.

　　“What’s wrong, Bill?” I called out from the path.

　　For answer, he put a hand in his jacket and took out a big, golden object. For a moment I had no idea what it could be, and then it suddenly went off with a noise like a fire engine. Stopping the bell, Bill held the thing up and called back, "Ten to four, you see, and this is dead right. "

　　I had never known anyone carrying a brass alarm clock round with him before.

　　1. Bill Javis became a news-agent when ________.

　　A. he need the money.

　　B. he decided to take things easy

　　C. he was quite an old man

　　D. he gave up clock-repairing

　　2. Bill opened the shop so early in the day because ________.

　　A. he liked to do as much as possible before he went to work

　　B. the shop had to be open when the morning papers came

　　C. he was never sure of time

　　D. it was then that he did a lot of business

　　3. On that sunny afternoon, the writer was surprised when he saw Bill because ________.

　　A. he thought it was late for Bill to be still fishing

　　B. he thought Bill was ill, since he was not moving at all

　　C. Bill had not caught anything, and that seemed strange

　　D. Bill stayed in his flat

　　4. From the information given in the passage, who or what do you think was wrong?

　　A. The bell was; it must have gone off at the wrong time.

　　B. Bill was; he had dropped off to sleep.

　　C. The writer’s watch was fast.

　　D. Bill’s clock was wrong; it was old.

　　【参考答案及解析】

　　1. C 推断题。at a time of life when most of us only wanted to relax和He had been a long-serving sailor这两点说明他已上了年纪。

　　2. D 推断题。第二段开头说他6点开门，报纸在这之前已送到，而且还可以catch the early trade。

　　3. A 推断题。Bill通常4点会重新开店，而那天作者的表已过4点，Bill还没有离开的意思，所以他非常惊讶。

　　4. C 细节题。A项中go off是爆发，产生很大声音；B项中drop off to sleep是不知不觉入睡；文章中倒数第二段最后一句话this is dead right 中dead是“非常，完全”的意思，可见，Bill的clock没错。

　　【由安徽省合肥市2017高考模拟题改编】

　　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。

　　When I decided to quit my job as a wedding photographer, I was in my late twenties, fresh from my divorce from Bob who had left me empty and confused. I decided to leave the US and travel. I had no savings, plus more than $5,000 in debt. What I did have were two sponsored tasks as a travel photographer- and with that along, I thought, it would be easy.

　　My first experience was a road trip from Toronto to Las Vegas, paid for by a car delivery service. Other trips followed and then I started a travel blog (博客). It was intended to be my calling card for assignment travel photography. Yet even with my blog and past experience, email after email I sent to publications, trying to get work, went unanswered. When they did get in touch, editors told me that I had no chance of making a career with travel photography. While I struggled to get on the path that I wanted, and as I expanded my blog to help get me there, I found myself wearing the hat of a full-time blogger.

　　Luckily, I got in at the right time. It was 2010，and the travel industry was just starting to turn its attention to bloggers. As I never could have predicted, my blogging-not my photography-did take me around the world successfully. At first，I thought it was for personal reasons, but I realized later that it was for free marketing for my blogging.

　　Within two years, I was being asked to speak at travel blogging conferences, which helped me to raise a network of friends around the world. Even more meaningful, however, was when I saw that my travels were also helping other people. My blog and social media followers saw that I chased my dreams and told me over and over again how they needed that kind of example, which was absent in their lives elsewhere.

　　51 After the author quit her job, she decided to ______.

　　A. divorce her husband

　　B. be a wedding photographer

　　C. pay off all her debt

　　D. go travelling abroad

　　2. What can we learn about the author from the 2nd paragraph?

　　A. She paid money to a car delivery agency for a road trip.

　　B. She realised his dream of becoming a travel photographer.

　　C. She got a job as an editor in a publishing house.

　　D. She finally became a professional blogger unintentionally.

　　3. The author believed her success mainly resulted from ______.

　　A. her personal reasons

　　B. her photographing skills

　　C. free marketing for blogging

　　D. booming of travel industry

　　4. What did the author think of her two years' work?

　　A. Inspiring.

　　B. Appealing.

　　C. Interesting.

　　D. Challenging.

　　【参考答案】1—4、DDCA

　　【由安徽省合肥市2017高考模拟题改编】

　　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。

　　As a leading Chinese language school and a cultural exchange institute in China， Global Exchange Education Center has been providing Mandarin (or Putonghua) language courses and cultural exchange programs for over a decade.

　　How to apply for our programs

　　■In order to apply for all of our programs, you must be

　　at least 18 years old.

　　in good health,

　　a senior high school graduate.

　　■Application Procedure for Chinese Language Programs

　　Step 1. Send us a completed application form by email or fax.

　　Step 2. Send us $ 60 application fee after receiving our email confirmation.

　　Step 3. Arrange the payment transfer. Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing.

　　■Application Procedure for Chinese Business Internship (实习）Program

　　Step 1. Send us a completed application form with your CV and personal statement for the program by email or fax.

　　Step 2. Send us $ 310, including $60 application fee and $ 250 internship placement deposit, after receiving our letter of acceptance for the program.

　　Step 3. Arrange final payment transfer after receiving our second confirmation. Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing.

　　■Personal Statement for applicants for Chinese Business Internship Program

　　You should state why you want to take this program and what your expectations of the program are. How you will make use of this program in your future career.

　　■ APPLICATION DEADLINES

　　The applications for most programs are reviewed on a rolling basis. You are encouraged to submit your application ahead of the application deadlines.

　　■Confirmation

　　Having received your application, Global Exchange Education Center usually sends out an email confirmation for the booking within 2-5 working days.

　　1. The text is probably written for ______.

　　A. junior high graduates B. international students

　　C. job seekers D. language trainers

　　2. If you apply for both of the programs, the total application fees will be ______.

　　A. $310.

　　B. $ 120.

　　C. $250.

　　D. $ 370.

　　3. If you want to apply for Chinese Business Internship program successfully, you'll ______.

　　A. send the application form by post

　　B. send personal statement and CV only

　　C. have to get confirmed at least twice

　　D. have to make a travel plan in Beijing

　　4. Which of the following is not necessarily included in applicants，personal statement?

　　A. Their purposes of taking the program.

　　B. Their expectations of the program.

　　C. Their future practice of the program.

　　D. Their feedbacks on the program.

　　【参考答案】1—4、BBCD

　　较难题目特训：介绍说明类

　　阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　A study has showed that the brain makes decisions about 10 seconds before a person realizes it.

　　Experts involved in the study said that looking at brain activity while making a decision,　they could predict the choices the subjects would make, before they realized that they had made a decision. Lead researcher John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist (神经学家)at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, said that the new findings called into questions for “consciousness”of decisions that people make, and might even challenge ideas as to how“free”people are to make a decision at a particular moment.　

　　“We think our decisions are conscious, but these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg,”Nature magazine quoted (引用) him as saying. Thinking the results“quite dramatic”, Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said that 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity.

　　During the study, the brains of 14 volunteers were imaged as they performed a decision-making task. The subjects had two buttons before them, each to be operated by a different hand, which they could press when they felt the urge to. They were simultaneously (同时地)shown a stream of letters, which appeared on a screen at half-second intervals (间隔). The volunteers had to remember which letter was showing when they decided to press their button.　

　　Upon analysis of the data, the researchers realized that the earliest signal they could catch started seven seconds before the volunteers reported having made their decision. Given the delay of a few seconds in the imaging, they reckoned (估计) that the brain activity could have begun about ten seconds before the conscious decision. The researchers showed that the signals were picked up from a region (区域)called the frontopolar cortex (脑额极皮层),　which is located at the front of the brain, immediately behind the forehead.　

　　While writing about the observations made during the research in his study report, Haynes said that the frontopolar cortex might be the brain region where decisions are started. He also showed that the next step in the research would be to speed up the data analysis so as to enable his team to predict people’s choices as their brains would make them.

　　1. The passage tells us that ______.　

　　A. we are aware of our whole process of decision-making

　　B. people don’t make decisions until they realize it

　　C. experts have no way to tell what decision one will make

　　D. the decision-making process starts before it is made

　　2. The underlined word “subjects”in Para. 2 probably refers to ______.　

　　A. the topic of the experts’ research paper

　　B. the scientific subjects that the experts were studying

　　C. the things that experts don’t know clearly

　　D. the volunteers that the experts worked on for their research

　　3. The underlined sentence“consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg”in Para. 4 means that ______.　

　　A. our decision-making is conscious

　　B. the data contains a lot of information besides consciousness

　　C. consciousness is the major part of the data

　　D. 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity

　　4. The final purpose of the research ______.　

　　A. is not stated clearly in the passage

　　B. is not acknowledged by experts

　　C. is to show where decision-making starts

　　D. is to analyze the data picked up

　　5. The passage implies that ______.　

　　A. the research has been completed

　　B. the research was conducted by two experts

　　C. the decision-making process lasts only about 10 seconds

　　D. we may predict what decisions people will make in the future

　　【参考答案】1—4、DDBA

　　【由内蒙古包头市201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。

　　Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on fact or reason. Examples of prejudice in schools include believing that some students are particular type of people simply because of the way they dress or act, or believing that a certain group is good at sports simply because many peop1e in that group are goad at sports. Another example is believing that a boy is good at science because many boys are good at science.

　　I would like to cite more examples from the English literature. The best example of “prejudice” can be found in Jane Austen’s novels. Her novels in the history of English literature are popularly known as "novels of manners".Thus you can clearly understand that where manners and social behavior are concerned，"prejudice" is nevitable ! Austen' s famous novel Pride and Prejudice is the best example in this respect. When you read the novel, the very first line that would strike you is “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”It is an example of 18th century English middle class prejudice that eventually looked upon women just as an object that would serve as the basic sign for a man to establish his manliness and his superior and well acquired financial status. This novel is chiefly about class division，social norms and the consequent human behavior. The characters Elizabeth and Darcy，in their journey of 1ife through the course of the novel, highlight their personal prejudices towards one another that arise from their different social strata(阶层).Darcy，a rich man , at first ,

　　fails to admire the beauty and intelligence of Elizabeth because of her low social status:"she is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me;”and Elizabeth，proud of her "first impressions"，failed to understand the well natured man under the proud and unfriendly Darcy.

　　. What is "prejudice" defined in this passage?

　　A. Prejudice is a reasonable idea that is based on one’s own experience.

　　B. Prejudice is a preference for one group of people or things over another.

　　C. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion before becoming aware of fact or reason.

　　D. Prejudice is an unreasonable dislike of a particular group of people or things.

　　2. The underlined word "inevitable" in the second paragraph probably_means_

　　A. unavoidable

　　B. reasonable

　　C. unbelievable

　　D. valuable

　　3.From the novel Pride and Prejudice，we can’t learn that

　　A. were manners and social behavior are concerned "prejudice" is inevitable

　　B. "prejudice" was defined and compared with“pride” in 18th century

　　C.

　　it's about class division，social norms and the consequent human behavior

　　D. personal prejudices towards one another arise from different social strata

　　—3、CAB