2017届湖北省黄冈市高考英语阅读理解二轮精练：24（含解析）

　　湖北黄冈市2017高考英语阅读理解二轮精练（24）及（解析）答案

　　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。

　　体裁：记叙文　话题：人物介绍　时间：6分钟

　　Peter Byford was born in a stone house in Honley，and when he was tiny his dad，a former miner，got a job in the textile trade and the Byford's moved to Skelmanthorpe.Life was tough but fun，and young Peter spent his days in the rolling countryside，rafting on the river，making tree camps or playing on his own with his model railway and soldiers.

　　His world was rocked by tragedy when his mother died，which destroyed young Peter，a shy child who suddenly had to grow up fast.Though grieving，he went up the road to live with his aunt and uncle，and returned home much too young to face the next challenge，that of looking after his dad，who had lost an arm in an accident in a factory.

　　By then he had taken the nickname as Biff.The younger Biff struggled at school because of his shyness，but loved the music lessons and became friends with a classmate whose brother had a guitar.At the same time a young man who had a banjo(班卓琴)moved into the house opposite where he lived and he taught young Biff how to play it.The seeds had been sown and music began to influence his life.

　　But even so，his working career began，in typical fashion for 1960s West Yorkshire.After a short time as an apprentice(学徒)carpenter，he went to work in the local weaving factory.And this was where Biff Byford，soon to become a legend in the world of rock，first learned to sing.The machines would run all day，clickety­clack，clickety­clack.The noise was incredible，and the workers would spend their time trying to lip read each other.

　　It was just so noisy in there.It was really heavy metal.The only thing to do was sing to yourself.So sing to himself he did，the melodies(旋律)locking in place in his head，not to be forgotten.His dream first exploded into a rocking reality.

　　【语篇导读】　Peter Byfords的演唱生涯起源于他周围的人和他的工作环境的影响。

　　1．When Peter Byford was born ______.

　　A．his family moved to Skelmanthorpe

　　B．his father worked in the textile trade

　　C．his father probably took a job in Honley

　　D．his family lived a very poor life

　　解析　推理判断题。依据文章第一段可知，Peter Byford出生在Honley，他是个孩子时，因为父亲的工作一家人迁移到Skelmanthorpe，因此很可能父亲以前就在Honley拥有一份工作。故选C项。

　　答案　C

　　2．Peter Byford had to leave his aunt and uncle ______.

　　A．because his mother passed away

　　B．because of his father's poor health

　　C．because he wanted not to stay with his father

　　D．because of his fully being grown­up

　　解析　细节理解题。依据文章第二段的who had lost an arm in an accident in a factory可知， 父亲的身体状况不好，需要Peter Byford的照顾。故选B项。

　　答案　B

　　3．What does the third paragraph imply?

　　A．Peter got influenced a lot by his classmate and the young man.

　　B．the classmate taught Peter how to play the guitar.

　　C．Peter shared a house with the young man.

　　D．The young Biff had an eye for good friends.

　　解析　细节理解题。文章第三段谈到了Peter遇到的两个音乐爱好者，文中的The seeds had been sown and music began to influence his life.说明，Peter的音乐之路受他们的影响。故选A项。

　　答案　A

　　4．While working in the local weaving factory ______.

　　A．Peter started as an apprentice carpenter

　　B．Peter treated his life in a positive way

　　C．Peter was very tired of the noisy workplace

　　D．Peter learned how to lip read by himself

　　解析　推理判断题。依据文章第四段可知，虽然纺织厂车间内声音嘈杂，但是Peter在嘈杂中开始唱歌，他的歌唱生涯也是在那个时候开始的。故选B项。

　　答案　B

　　5．What would happen to Peter later?

　　A．He would remain working in the factory forever.

　　B．He would put forward suggestions to the boss.

　　C．He would tell the workers to keep silent.

　　D．He would find ways to realize his dream.

　　解析　推理判断题。依据文章尾段的His dream first exploded into a rocking reality.可知，他会把自己的梦想变成现实。故选D项。

　　答案　D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。

　　Searching for airfares often seems like a game that passengers are bound to lose. Prices change from day to day, even minute to minute.

　　Looking through multiple websites for the best deal can be a big challenge. Even when you do book, there’s no guarantee that you are going to get the best price.

　　“You just don’t know when to make a deal. It’s not like buying anything else I can think of,” said George Hobica, founder of Airfarewatchdog. com.

　　Harriet Levy paid $179 for a recent round—trip flight on American Airlines between New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Sitting just one row behind her, Shirley Harrison paid $ 215. A few rows back, Ellis and Dianne Traub paid $ 317 each. There were at least 12 fares on the flight, ranging from $169 to $360. There’s no reason for it, Harrison said.

　　Fares can change significantly in just a few hours. One Delta flight from New York to Los Angeles jumped from $ 755 to $1,143 from a Friday to Saturday in late April, then fell to $ 718 on Sunday. The flight was one of a dozen the Associated Press followed over three months for a vacation between July 16 and 22. The number one finding: avoid booking tickets on weekends. It’s the most expensive time to buy.

　　There’s no way to guarantee the best fare. But before booking, travelers should pay attention to this additional advice:

　　Book on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. That’s when airlines most often offer special sales.

　　Buy in advance, but not too early.

　　The best time is four to six weeks before traveling. In general, prices for any given flight are highest eight to ten weeks and two to three weeks in advance.

　　Make use of social media.

　　Airlines are giving more benefits to travelers who interact with them on Twitter and Facebook. But those specials are often gone within hours.

　　Choose the stable or the lowest? The fares of some so-called discount airlines, such as JetBlue, Air-Tran, Southwest and Frontier, are less changeable than other airlines, so you can feel more confident that the price will stay the same. But the fares aren’t always the lowest.

　　In all, there’s no way to guarantee the best fare, but researching different airlines’ fares can be the only way to get a good deal.

　　1. What can we infer from the first sentence of the text?

　　A. Airlines often play games with passengers.

　　B. Passengers are unable to search for airfares.

　　C. It’s difficult for passengers to get the best price.

　　D. Airfares are set in different situations.

　　2. By using a lot of figures, the author intends to ________.

　　A. discover the rules behind airfares

　　B. prove airfares can vary widely

　　C. guarantee passengers a low price

　　D. show there is standard price for every single airline

　　3. If you want to take a flight on Christmas, which time can be the best to book a ticket?

　　A. September 15th

　　B. October 15th

　　C. November 15th

　　D. December 15th

　　4. Passengers are advised to book flights _________.

　　A. at the lowest price by comparing as many airlines

　　B. with airlines which are famous for offering discount prices

　　C. through two apps on smart phones

　　D. on some special websites

　　参考答案1—4、CB CA

　　【阅读理解】科普知识类

　　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。

　　“So what is Quintura?” you may ask. “I like the search engine I currently use, My Favorite Search Engine. Why do I need anything else? My Favorite Search Engine knows everything about every subject I am interested in and I can access all of the information available on the Web with My Favorite Search Engine.”

　　“Oh, yes!” we answer. “Indeed! We have no doubt that you have chosen the best search engine for your own search purposes! We don’t want you to part with your favorite ─ Yahoo, MSN or Google.”

　　However, what if you think about searching in a different way. Have you ever raked through the paper card index of a big library? You have to find the necessary letter (or their combination), take the correct drawer, and start sorting through the cards. Ring any bells? After much time and effort, finally you find the long-awaited card!

　　Of course web search engines take away the laborious task of sifting (筛选) through paper index cards. And if you know the book’s exact author and title, either search is easy ─ on the web or in a library. But what if you know only your general search scope? Neither the author’s name nor the book title. In a library, the only way out is to ask a librarian. But on the web, what do you do? You are on your own.

　　Until now, Quintura is the very know-all librarian!

　　Imagine a conversation between you and the search engine you use most often, My Favorite Search Engine (MFSE).

　　You: I need some books on physics.

　　MFSE: No problem. We have a lot of good literature.

　　You: Oh. . . so many of them!

　　MFSE: You asked for books on physics, here, I’ve found some more.

　　You: No, I need only one branch of physics.

　　MFSE: But I have all the branches! Thousands of books. Choose whatever you want.

　　You: But I need the branch on solid movement: acceleration, friction and so on.

　　MFSE: Here they are. Books on physics. . .

　　Now imagine beginning the same conversation with Quintura (Qu).

　　You: I need some books on physics.

　　Qu: OK! We have a lot of good literature; what branch of physics do you need?

　　You: Branch? I’m not sure of its name.

　　Qu: What is your branch about?

　　You: Solid movement: acceleration, friction and so on.

　　Qu: Let’s see. Here is mechanics! Please note this list of books, our visitors mostly ask for these books on mechanics.

　　You: Thank you.

　　1. Quintura is the name of　.

　　A. a web search engineB. a well-known website

　　C. a big library

　　D. a librarian

　　2. What is the purpose of the writer’s talking about the paper card index of a big library?

　　A. To tell us how to find your book in a big library.

　　B. To remind you of your school life.

　　C. To advise you to think about searching in a different way.

　　D. To prove the paper card index is worse than web search engines.

　　3. In the writer’s opinion, if you know only your general search scope you’d better use　.

　　A. Quintura B. YahooC. MSN D. MFSE

　　4. From the two conversations we can learn　.

　　A. MFSE can provide you with more books than Quintura

　　B. MFSE always offers you some useless information

　　C. Quintura can help you find what you are searching for more quickly than MFSE

　　D. Quintura can offer you more information than MFSE

　　【参考答案】1—4、.ACAC

　　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。

　　Mark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deserves additional praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.

　　I say clever because anti­slavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War.H.B.Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is only the most famous example.These early stories dealt directly with slavery.With minor exceptions，Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.

　　Again and again，in the postwar years，Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of race.Consider the most controversial，at least today，of Twain's novels，Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn，Twain's most widely read tale.Once upon a time，people hated the book because it struck them as rude.Twain himself wrote that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟)．”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave，and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim，for which the novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it.)

　　But the attacks were and are silly—and miss the point.The novel is strongly anti­slavery.Jim's search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As J．Chadwick has pointed out，the character of Jim was a first in American fiction—a recognition that the slave had two personalities，“the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim，the father and the man.”

　　There is much more.Twain's mystery novel Pudd'nhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites，especially in intelligence，Twain's tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her master's baby and，for fear that the child should be sold South，switched him for the master's baby by his wife.The slave's lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slave­holding class.The master's wife's baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.

　　The point was difficult to miss：nurture(养育)，not nature，was the key to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudice—manner of speech，for example—were，to Twain，indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.

　　Twain's racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy，for example，by the lengthy passage in his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called“nigger shows”in his youth—mostly with white men performing in black­face—and his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.

　　Was Twain a racist？Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the“wisdom”of the considered moral judgments of the present，we will find nothing but error.Lincoln，who believed the black man the inferior of the white，fought and won a war to free him.And Twain，raised in a slave state，briefly a soldier，and inventor of Jim，may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist in the past century.

　　【语篇解读】 通过研究马克·吐温的作品，来判定他是否是一名种族主义者。作者列举了大量事实，说明了马克·吐温是名反对种族主义的斗士，反驳了别人那些错误的观点。

　　1．How do Twain's novels on slavery differ from Stowe's?

　　A．Twain was more willng to deal with racism.

　　B．Twain's attack on racism was much less open.

　　C．Twain's themes seemed to agree with plots.

　　D．Twain was openly concerned with racism.

　　解析　推理判断题。由第二段With minor exceptions，Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else directly可知。

　　答案　B．Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn arose partly from its________.

　　A．target readers at the bottom

　　B．anti­slavery attitude

　　C．rather impolite language

　　D．frequent use of “nigger”

　　解析　细节理解题。由第三段More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave，and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim，for which the novel is often severely criticized，never appears in it.)可知。

　　答案　D．What best proves Twain's anti­slavery stand according to the author?

　　A．Jim's search for his family was described in detail.

　　B．The slave's voice was first heard in American novels.

　　C．Jim grew up into a man and a father in the white culture.

　　D．Twain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.

　　解析　推理判断题。由第五段中的后三句话可推出。

　　答案　C．The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that________.

　　A．slaves were forced to give up their babies to their masters

　　B．slaves' babies could pick up slave­holders' way of speaking

　　C．blacks' social position was shaped by how they were brought up

　　D．blacks were born with certain features of prejudice

　　解析　推理判断题。由第六段第一句The point was difficult to miss：nurture(养育)，not nature，was the key to social status，可推知。

　　答案　C．What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?

　　A．The attacks.

　　B．Slavery and prejudice.

　　C．White men.

　　D．The shows.

　　解析　词义辨析题。由第七段Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slavery and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.可知。

　　答案　D．What does the author mainly argue for?

　　A．Twain had done more than his contemporary writers to attack racism.

　　B．Twain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.

　　C．Twain's works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.

　　D．Twain's works should be read from a historical point of view.

　　解析　主旨大意题。该篇从马克·吐温的人生经历，他的作品及其它作者的作品进行比对后，作者得出了：马克·吐温比与他同时代的作家更反对种族主义。

　　答案　A