2017届四川省旺苍县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解选练：9（含答案）

　　四川旺苍县2017高考英语阅读理解选练

　　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。

　　Tim Richter and his wife, Linda, had taught for over 30 years near Buffalo, New York—he in computers, she in special education. “Teaching means everything to us, " Tim would say. In April 1998, he learned he would need a heart operation. It was the kind of news that leads to some serious thinking about life’s purpose.

　　Not long after the surgery, Tim saw a brochure describing Imagination Library, a program started by Dolly Parton’s foundation(基金会) that mailed a book every month to children from birth to age five in the singer’s home town of Sevier, Tennessee. “I thought, maybe Linda and I could do something like this when we retire, “ Tim recalls. He placed the brochure on his desk, “as a reminder. "

　　Five years later, now retired and with that brochure still on the desk, Tim clicked on imaginationlibrary. com. The program had been opened up to partners who could take advantage of book and postage discounts.

　　The quality of the books was of great concern to the Richters. Rather than sign up online, they went to Dollywood for a look-see. “We didn’t want to give the children rubbish, " says Linda. The books—reviewed each year by teachers, literacy specialists, and Dollywood board members—included classics such as Ezra Jack Keats’s The Snowy Day and newer books like Anna Dewdney’s Llama Llama series.

　　Satisfied, the couple set up the Richter Family Foundation and got to work. Since 2004, they have shipped more than 12, 200 books to preschoolers in their area. Megan Williams, a mother of four, is more than appreciative:　“This program introduces us to books I’ve never heard of."

　　The Richters spend about $400 a month sending books to 200 children. “Some people sit there and wait to die, “ says Tim. “Others get as busy as they can in the time they have left."

　　1. What led Tim to think seriously about the meaning of life?

　　A. His health problem.　 B. His love for teaching.

　　C. The influence of his wife.D. The news from the Web.

　　2. What did Tim want to do after learning about Imagination Library?

　　A. Give out brochures.

　　B. Do something similar.

　　C. Write books for children.　D. Retire from being a teacher.

　　3. According to the text, Dolly Parton is　.　

　　A. a well-known surgeonB. a mother of a four-year-old

　　C. a singer born in Tennessee D. a computer programmer

　　4. Why did the Richters go to Dollywood?

　　A. To avoid signing up online.

　　B. To meet Dollywood board members.

　　C. To make sure the books were the newest.

　　D. To see if the books were of good quality.

　　5. What can we learn from Tim’s words in the last paragraph?

　　A. He needs more money to help the children.

　　B. He wonders why some people are so busy.

　　C. He tries to save those waiting to die.

　　D. He considers his efforts worthwhile.

　　【参考答案】1—5、 ABCDD

　　社会文化（阅读理解）由 (2017辽宁,D)“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785,“some kind of fly,or bug,had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.”But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that,Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century,and Americans had already created lightning-bug (萤火虫).But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language,leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

　　The American bug could also be a person,referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity.Although fan became the usual term,sports fans used to be called racing bugs,baseball bugs,and the like.

　　Or the bug could be a small machine or object,for example,a bug-shaped car.The bug could also be a burglar alarm,from which comes the expression to bug,that is,“to install (安装) an alarm”.Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversations.Since the 1840s,to bug has long meant “to cheat”,and since the 1940s it has been annoying.

　　We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design.That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product.In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering‘a bug’ in his invented record player.”

　　1.We learn from Paragraph 1 that 　. 

　　A.Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

　　B.George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

　　C.the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth century

　　D.both Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

　　2.What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?()

　　A.Explanation. B.Finding.

　　C.Origin. D.Fault.

　　3.The passage is mainly concerned with 　. 

　　A.the misunderstanding of the word bug

　　B.the development of the word bug

　　C.the public views of the word bug

　　D.the special characteristics of the word bug

　　语篇解读:本文为一篇说明文。主要介绍了bug一词的不同含义及发展过程。

　　答案及剖析:1.D　推理判断题。华盛顿在18世纪用到这个词的时候,英国人已经使用该词一个多世纪了,由此可知,18世纪时,两个国家都在使用这个词,故D项正确。文章并未提到美国人在学习使用bug方面存在困难,排除A项;英国人在华盛顿使用该词之前已经用过这个词了,根据第一段中的“But the father of America was not the father of bug.”排除B项;根据第一段最后一句可排除C项。

　　2.D　词义猜测题。根据最后一段中的“That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties”可以判断出D项正确。A项意为“解释”;B项意为“发现”;C项意为“来源”;D项意为“故障;缺陷”。

　　3.B　主旨大意题。概括全文,我们不难看出文章向我们介绍bug一词的发展过程以及不同含义,故B项符合文章主旨。A项意为“对bug一词的误解”;C项意为“大众对bug一词的看法”;D项意为“bug一词的特殊之处”,均不能概括出全文内容。

　　【疑难词汇解读】

　　refer v. referred　referring refer to 提到,谈到

　　We agreed never to refer to the matter again.

　　我们同意永远不再提这件事。

　　【长难句子分析】

　　But

　　soon ,

　　.

　　但不久英国人就不再在他们的语言中使用bug了,留给美国人在19、20世纪继续把臭虫称为bug。

　　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。

　　【2017界广东省湛江市二模】

　　The United States is faced with serious traffic problems. Too many cars travel on the freeways to and from the city. This heavy traffic causes delays and lots of pollution from cars that are using their engines but not moving anywhere. Many cars going nowhere is called a “traffic jam.”

　　While many cities in the United States have traffic problems, some of the worst are in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles is a big city with a large downtown area. One of the reasons why there is so much traffic is that few people use public transportation to get around

　　Experts say one possible solution to the traffic problem in Los Angeles would be to make people want to use the public transportation system of buses instead of their own cars. People say the buses should be made easier, faster, less costly and more dependable than driving a car.

　　One suggestion is to reduce the cost of riding the bus. People who usually drive their cars could save a lot of money on gas and parking costs. Also, Los Angeles could make the buses easier for people to use. The buses could travel to more places in the city. And there could be more special lanes on the freeways that only buses could drive in. These changes would make taking the bus faster and easier than driving a car.

　　Other experts have said that the best way to ease traffic problems is to charge people money to drive on the freeways. These charges, or tolls, would be for the most crowded roads. The tolls would be in effect during the times of day when most people drive to work and home again. These times in the morning and late afternoon are called “rush hour”. People would try to avoid driving on these roads, which would decrease the amount of traffic. Also ，the money collected from these tolls could be used to improve the roads and public transportation system.

　　36. The passage mainly discusses _____.

　　A. different means of transportation of the United States

　　B. possible solutions to solving American traffic problems

　　C. causes of the serious traffic problems in America

　　D. some new laws about American public transportation

　　【答案】B

　　【解析】主旨大意题。根据短文的内容可知美国针对交通拥挤应该采取的措施，故选B。

　　37. Which is NOT the effect caused by the heavy traffic?

　　A. Too many private cars. B. Time wasting.

　　C. Serious air pollution. D. Traffic jams.【】【解析】This heavy traffic causes delays and lots of pollution from cars 及Many cars going nowhere is called a “traffic jam.”交通拥挤可以引起在路上耽误太多的时间、空气污染及交通堵塞等，交通拥挤不能引起私家车的增多，故选A。

　　38. The reason why Los Angeles has some of the worst traffic problems is that _____.

　　A. there is a lack of public transportation

　　B. the city is big with a large population

　　C. most people like to get around by car

　　D. many people like to travel there for shopping

　　【答案】【解析】One of the reasons why there is so much traffic is that few people use public transportation to get around洛杉矶的人有交通拥挤的问题其中的原因是很少的人愿意乘坐公交车出门而是开着自家车出门，故选C。

　　39. One of the ways the experts suggest is that _____.

　　A. people should avoid driving to work and home

　　B. more roads should be built for the increasing private cars

　　C. people should be charged on the most crowded roads during rush hour

　　D. more special lanes on the freeways should be marked out for private cars

　　【答案】【解析】These charges, or tolls, would be for the most crowded roads. These times in the morning and late afternoon are called “rush hour”.专家建议在上下班高峰期的繁忙的路段进行收费是控制私家车数量的方法之一，故选C。

　　40. According to the passage, if the solutions were carried out, _____

　　A. more cars would be reduced and more roads would be built

　　B. it would be easier but slower to take buses than to drive cars

　　C. many people would prefer to walk around rather than drive cars

　　D. the roads and public transportation system would be greatly improved

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】the money collected from these tolls could be used to improve the roads and public transportation system.如果这些解决措施被实施的话，公路和交通制度会大大地改善，故选D。

　　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。

　　【2017界广东省湛江市二模】

　　As the new semester begins, millions of college students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper or, more likely, how best to delay that paper.

　　Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it. They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos and looking at other students sitting around them, who, most likely, are doing nothing either.

　　Paralyzed by their habit to procrastinate, they write micro blogs about their fears, asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issue. But this does nothing to break the spell(魔咒).

　　According to a recent report, 95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of the world’s population are always procrastinating. The figures are disappointing. Procrastinators are less wealthy, less healthy and less happy than those who don’t delay. Procrastinators like to find excuses " to justify their behavior, but BBC columnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrong.

　　Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time. The behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel ashamed, inconveniences others and annoys loved ones.

　　Pelling also points out that procrastination feels particularly delinquent(过失的）in a society that thinks of swift action as admirable, and, at times, even as a moral good.

　　Fortunately, social scientists have thrown their weight behind efforts to understand this behavioral mistake and offer strategies to control it. Piers Steel, a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation, believes human is “designed” to procrastinate. Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.

　　41.From the first two paragraphs we can learn that _____.

　　A. procrastination is beneficial to many students

　　B. many students are under great pressure in their study

　　C. lots of college students are working hard to write good articles on time

　　D. many students are getting into the habit of delaying finishing their tasks

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it.可知许多学生都有拖延完成任务的时间的习惯，故选D。

　　42. According to the passage, procrastination probably refers to _____.

　　A. a bad habit B. a serious illness C. a difficult task D. a form of entertainment

　　【答案】【解析】Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it.Paralyzed by their habit to procrastinate,可知拖延是一种坏的习惯，故选A。

　　43. Which of the following statements is WRONG?

　　A. Procrastination makes people waste their time.

　　B. Procrastinators usually complete their tasks perfectly.

　　C. Swift action is considered as a moral standard in the society.

　　D. Procrastination is common among people.

　　【答案】【解析】Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time.拖延时间完成作业有可能因为时间紧，会出现更多的错误，选项B叙述的是拖延时间有可能完成 工作更好，这与原文不符，故选B。

　　44. Which behavior belongs to procrastination?

　　A. Never dream away the time.

　　B. Always complete the tasks ahead of time.

　　C. Never put off till tomorrow what should be done today.

　　D. Always wait to work until the “good mood” or “good time”.

　　【答案】D

　　【解析】Procrastination is the thief of time拖延时间就是开始有任务时不做，等到自己感觉有好心情了，有好时机了在做，故选D。

　　45. What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?

　　A. Measures to deal with procrastination.

　　B. Approaches to handling the study pressures.

　　C. More examples to illustrate procrastination.

　　D. Introduction to the book The Procrastination Equation.

　　【答案】【解析】Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.既然存在拖延时间的坏习惯，那么就应该采取措施处理这种坏习惯，故选A。