2017年高考英语二轮复习讲义阅读理解训练09：（答案）

　　2017高考英语二轮复习讲义（阅读理解）及训练09：（答案）

　　小试牛刀--------阅读理解

　　I am trying to muster(鼓起)the courage to toss away my mobile phone to enjoy a more peaceful and ring –free life．

　　Can you imagine not having your mobile phone? In our high-tech, in-a-hurry age, a cell-free life is a hard concept to swallow． Our mobile phones can now access the Internet, and many people feel the need to express their every thought on their blog pages． If I gave up my cellphone, people would think I was mad．

　　I wish I had the strength to toss away my technology ． I have an office phone, a home phone, e-mail and if people want to contact me． they can． If I’m out, people can leave a message． Do they really need to find me 24/7 ? However, I’m a bit like Frodo in the movie Lord of the Rings． The power of the ring is too strong and I can’t let it go．

　　Mobile phones have become necessary tools in our busy life． For most people , they hold all contacts and many of us don't write up address books any more． The latest phones carry our music, pictures, movies and everything else． We feel lost without this device and when we do misplace it , we feel cut off from our fellow,

　　“Where have you been?” said a friend, who saw me a week after I lost my cell, “I tried calling you , but you disappeared． You disappeared off the face of the Earth。” See, when you don’t have a mobile phone, you don’t exist．

　　I’m not really going to toss my mobile phone away, in fact． We humans are such social animals and mobile phones serve us well． So in 2009, I’ve dicided not to serve my mobile phone． Like all machine, I can always turn it off．

　　64．What does the underslined phrase“toss away”mean?

　　A．give away

　　B．get away

　　C．break away

　　D．throw away

　　65．The writer mentions Frodo to

　　A．show it is difficult to get rid of the mobile phone

　　B．show how much he likes Frodo

　　C．suggest a cell-free life is what he wants

　　D．introduce a film character to us

　　66．What do we know about mobile phones in the 4 th paragraph?

　　A．Mobile phones can do anything for us ．

　　B．Mobile phones have become very important in our life

　　C．We could not live without mobile phones

　　D．We would be cut off by our fellow without mobile phones

　　67．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

　　A．The writer is not really going to toss his mobile phone away．

　　B．When you don't have a mobile phone, you don’t exist．

　　C．The writer decides not to serve his mobile phone

　　D．We humans can control ourselves and machines will．

　　参考答案

　　64—67、DA BD

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　　A

　　In elementary school, Guadalupe Quintanilla was often referred to as a “slow learner” by her teachers. But she really wasn’t slow at all. She just didn’t understand the language used in the classroom. Her problem was that she didn’t speak English. So she left school after the fourth grade.

　　When Guadalupe grew up, married, and had children of her own, she knew that her children were clever. But some of their teachers didn’t think so. The children were having trouble in school because they didn’t speak English. Mrs Quintanilla was angry. She didn’t want people to think that her children were slow learners. So she decided to learn English herself as a way of helping them. She practiced English. She looked up words in the dictionary. She asked the school headmaster to let her sit in on classes. It wasn’t easy, but she passed all her exams. She said that many of the other students helped her.

　　Mrs Quintanilla has helped her children with their lessons. Her two sons have won success. One is a teacher, and the other is a doctor. Her youngest child, a daughter, is studying in a university.

　　56. Guadalupe was called as low learner

　　.

　　A. to make her study harder

　　B. because she wasn’t clever

　　C. because she stayed at home

　　D. because she didn’t speak English

　　57. According to the story, children who don’t speak English

　　.

　　A. may have more trouble in school

　　B. have trouble playing football

　　C. often write a diary

　　D. grow up to be teachers

　　58. Which happened first?

　　A. Guadalupe passed all her exams.

　　B. Guadalupe left school after the fourth grade.

　　C. Guadalupe had three children.

　　D. Her two sons won success.

　　59. The story is mainly about

　　.

　　A. learning to sing and dance

　　B. the problem of slow learning

　　C. going to a university

　　D. Mrs Quintanilla’s success

　　参考答案

　　56--59 DABD

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　　B

　　Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there's a whole lot more to it than assessing(评定) your skills and matching them with a particular position．If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job's pay．There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job．Here are a few of those main areas;

　　1） Do you prefer working alone or with other people?

　　There are isolating（使孤立）jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy．Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer．There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation．

　　2） How do you handle change?

　　Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others．If you need to be stable in your life, you may need a job where the changes don't happen so often．Other people would be bored of the same daily routine．

　　3） Do you enjoy working with computers？

　　I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic．There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day．Again, these are extremes and you'll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well．

　　4） What type of work environment do you enjoy？

　　This can range from being in a large building with a lot of people you won't know immediately to a smaller setting where you'll get to know almost all the people there fairly quickly．

　　5） How do you like to get paid?

　　Some people are motivated by the pay they get, while others feel too stressed to be like that．The variety of payment designs in the sales industry is a typical example for this．

　　Anyway, these are a great starting point for you．I've seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love．It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for it can change the course of your life for the better．

　　60．What is unnecessary in your job hunting?

　　A．Assessing your skills

　　B．Going to different areas

　　C．Matching your skills with a position

　　D．taking your personality into consideration

　　61．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A．Isolating jobs usually drive people mad．

　　B．Interactive jobs make people shy easily．

　　C．Extreme people tend to work with others．

　　D．Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs．

　　62. The underlined word in the passage means ________.

　　A. not likely to move or change

　　B. calm, reasonable and not easy to upset

　　C. being in the same chemical state

　　D. a group of people working for the same company

　　63．What is the best title for this passage?

　　A．Lifestyles and Job Pay

　　B．Jobs and Environment

　　C．Job Skills and Abilities

　　D．Personalities and Jobs

　　参考答案

　　60--63 BDAD

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　　C

　　Imagine landing in a foreign country where you cannot speak the language, understand the culture and don’t know anybody. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a friend who could help you out?

　　John Smith, an English explorer who landed in America in 1607, found the best friend ever. She was a Native American named Pocahontas (1595-1617). And she did more than teach Smith the language: she saved his life, twice.

　　Smith was captured(捕捉) by members of Pocahontas’s tribe(部落) and was going to be killed. But for some reason, the Chief’s daughter, Pocahontas, felt sorry for Smith (who was probably the first white man she had ever seen) and threw her body over his to protect him. Smith returned safely to the small village he was living in. During the winter the English settlers did not know how to get food from nature. Pocahontas often brought food for Smith and his friends.

　　A year later Pocahontas’s father tried to kill Smith again because the Native Americans were very scared the English would try to take over their land. Pocahontas warned him and he was able to escape. Later she became a Christian and eventually married an Englishman named John Rolfe.

　　She spent the last year of her life in London. Pocahontas has become an American legend. Her life story has been re-created in many books and films, including Disney’s 1995 film, Pocahontas.

　　One of the reasons she is so popular is that many Europeans look at Pocahontas as an excellent example of how a minority can adjust into the majority. Pocahontas is also respected because of her selfless love. She proved that people can be kind and loving even to people of a different race or culture. John Smith was very different from Pocahontas but she could see he was a good man and that was all that mattered. No race or country owns goodness, love and loyalty.

　　64. What difficulties might early European settlers meet in America EXCEPT ___________?

　　A. the fierce conflict with Native Americans

　　B. lack of food in winter

　　C. bad-tempered natives who enjoyed killing

　　D. unfamiliarity with a foreign land

　　65. Pocahontas saved John Smith twice because ___________.

　　A. she believed in general kindness even to people of a different race

　　B. she wanted to become a Christian and marry an English

　　C. he was the first white man she had ever seen in her life

　　D. she was on the settlers’ side and against her cruel father

　　66. Which is Not an element to make Pocahontas a legend?

　　A. Her tribal background and her marriage to a white settler.

　　B. The recreation of her life story in the 1995 Disney film.

　　C. Her complicated life story different from common people’s

　　D. Her selfless help to people regarded as enemy of her tribe.

　　67. What can we infer from the passage?

　　A. People from different cultures can never really get along well with each other.

　　B. The Europeans think the early settlers should have learned to adjust to the local cultures.

　　C. The creation of America is based on the settlers’ victory over the Native Americans.

　　D. The battles between early settlers and Native Americans resulted from their fighting for land.

　　参考答案

　　64—67 CABD

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　　D

　　How Do Animals Catch Their Zzz’s?

　　Different creatures have developed some pretty creative ways to get their rest and stay safe. The lizard（蜥蝎）likes to sleep at the far end of small branches hanging out over a pond or lake in the rain forest. If a snake tries to slither(滑行) up the branch to eat it, it will shake the branch and knock the lizard off, and the lizard will fall safely into the water. Chameleons （变色龙）can change color to match their surroundings in order to hide even while sleeping.

　　       Gorillas（大猩猩）like to sleep high in the trees. They build a new bed every night, sometimes taking up to half an hour to pile branches, twigs, and leaves into a comfor it safe to sleep in the trees, but unless they have eggs or young chicks, they don’t use a nest. They just lock their feet around a branch and hang on. A special tendon（腱）in their legs is automatically tight when they are at rest, so they won’t let go and fall.

　　   Dolphins(海豚) live underwater, but must come to the surface to breathe. Scientists now believe that dolphins may sleep with only half their brain, while the other half stays awake to keep them safe and breathing. Seals (海豹) also do this，lying on their sides on the surface of the water with one flipper(脚蹼)underwater paddling to keep their noses above the surface. Some ducks may also have this ability, and actually sleep with one eye closed and one eye open. 

　　68．How many animals are mentioned in this passage?

　　A．6.                       B．7.                       C．8.                       D．9.

　　69．How does a chameleon protect itself while sleeping

　　       A．By changing its body colors.            

　　B．By hinging out over a pond.

　　       C．By sleeping with half their brain.      

　　D．By making beds with branches.

　　70．Why will not birds fall when they are at rest?

　　       A．They build nests and sleep in them.       

　　B．They fall asleep automatically.

　　       C．They have a loose tendon in their legs  

　　D．They lock their feet around a branch.

　　71．What does the writer intend to tell us?

　　A．The cleverest animal is the gorilla because it can make beds.

　　B．Differences in habitat could lead to different living habits.

　　C．The ways animals catch their Zzz’s are pretty much the same.

　　D．In order to protect themselves most animals choose not to sleep.

　　E

　　Pollution is reducing the fragrance（芬芳） of plants and thus preventing bees from pollinating(授粉) them—endangering one of the most essential cycles of nature, a new study suggests.

　　The potentially hugely significant research, funded by US National Science Foundation, has found that gases mainly formed from the emissions（排放） of cars prevent flowers from attracting bees and other insects to pollinate them. And the scientists who have conducted the study fear that insects’ abilities to drive away enemies and attract mates may also be disturbed.

　　Professor Jose Fuentes, who led the study, said, “Scent molecules(香味分子) produced by flowers in a less polluted environment could travel for roughly 1,000 to 1,200 meters. But today they may travel only 200 to 300 meters. This makes it increasingly difficult for bees and other insects to locate the flowers.”

　　The researchers, who worked on the molecules of snapdragons(金鱼草),found that the molecules are volatile(易挥发的) and quickly bond with pollutants, mainly formed from vehicle(车辆)emissions. This chemically changes the molecules so that they no longer smell like flowers. A harmful cycle is therefore set up where insects struggle to get enough food and the plants do not get pollinated enough to multiply.

　　Already bees, which pollinate most of the world’s crops, are in such a great decline that has never been known before in Britain and across much of the globe. At least a quarter of America’s 2.5 million honey bee colonies have been mysteriously wiped out by colony collapse disorder(CCD),where hives are found suddenly deserted.

　　The crisis(危机) has now spread to Europe. Politicians insist that CCD has not yet been found in Britain, but considering the present number of bees, the agriculture minister Lord Rooker table bed. Birds also find has sent the warning, “The honey bee population could be wiped out in 10 years.”

　　Although the researchers are not certain whether this is the real cause of CCD, they say that pollution is making life more difficult for bees and other insects in many ways.

　　72. In what way does pollution prevent flowers from attracting bees?

　　A. By shortening the distance traveled by the scent molecules of flowers.

　　B. By disturbing the bees’ ability to attract mates.

　　C. By weakening the bees’ ability to fight against enemies.

　　D. By stopping flowers from giving off fragrance.

　　73. What harm does the decreasing number of bees do to human beings?

　　A. It will cause humans not to get enough honey.

　　B. It will reduce the food supplies for the world.

　　C. Humans will have to depend on other insects to pollinate plants.

　　D. Humans will find it hard to deal with the deserted bee hives.

　　74. From the passage we can know that

　　.

　　A. Europe is affected greatly by CCD

　　B.CCD has destroyed most of the honey bee colonies in Europe

　　C. no honey bees will be found all over the world in the near future

　　D. European officials have paid much attention to CCD

　　75. What would be the best title for the passage?

　　A. Traffic Pollution Puts Bees in Danger

　　B. Traffic Pollution is to Blame for CCD

　　C. Pollution Makes Flowers Lose Their Scent

　　D. Pollution Causes the Decrease in Flowers

　　参考答案、

　　68—71 CADB