2017届高考英语一轮限时训练：阅读理解（1）

　　2017高考英语阅读理解一轮限时训练题（1）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 广东省韶关市 A Just as some people think that certain numbers are lucky or unlucky, others believe that we can use numbers to understand our personalities, or predict what will happen to us in the future. Numerology is a way of using numbers to describe a person’s character, and to make predictions about future life events. Numerologists use the numbers 1-9, 11 and 22 — also known as the “master” numbers — to help a person understand his or her personality, life goals, and destiny. Numerologists consider your Life Path number to be the most significant because this number describes your character. To find this number, add together all the numbers in your date of birth. For example, a person born on April 25, 1985 would add the month (4), to the numbers of the date (2+5), plus the numbers of the birth year (1+9+8+5). In this case the total is 34, so this person’s life path number is 7(3+4). Numerologists believe that people with this number are peaceful and affectionate but can also be very reserved. Your Expression number describes your talents and predicts how you should use these to fulfill your destiny in life. Numerologists assign a number between 1 and 9 to each of the letters in your name. These numbers are then added together in the same way as before to find your Expression number. Numerologists can also do calculations to predict when the most challenging periods of your life will be. Numerologists also believe that the day a person is born is important. Each day of the month has a character description. People born on the fourth are said to be responsible, honest, and stubborn. People born on the fifteenth have very strong attachments to family and home. Those who celebrate their birthday on the thirtieth are artistic, creative, and imaginative, and often make good writers. If we calculate the numerical value of our name and birth date, numerologists believe that we can learn more about our personalities. They also believe that we can predict our destinies, how our lives will progress, and what challenges we may face along the way. To the numerologist, numbers can be used in many more ways than we think. 26. If a person was born on November 8, 1995, what is his Life Path number? A. 7 B. 8 C. 9 D. 11 【答案】A 【解析】细节理解题。由“ For example, a person born on April 25, 1985 would add the month (4), to the numbers of the date (2+5), plus the numbers of the birth year (1+9+8+5). In this case the total is 34, so this person’s life path number is 7(3+4).”可知选A。 27. To understand your abilities and how to use them in your life, you should calculate your ______. A. Life Path number B. Expression number C. birthday D. name and birth date 【答案】B 【解析】细节理解题。由“Your Expression number describes your talents and predicts how you should use these to fulfill your destiny in life. ”可知选B。 28. According to the passage, a person born on the fifteenth tends to be _______. A. stubborn B. home-loving C. artistic D. imaginative 【答案】B 【解析】细节理解题。由“People born on the fifteenth have very strong attachments to family and home”可知选B。 29. According to the passage, numerologists believe that _________. A. Life Path number can be used to predict a person’s most challenging life periods B. Expression number is the most meaningful for people to learn a person’s character C. numbers can help people better understand themselves D. numbers can be used to change a person’s future 【答案】C 【解析】细节理解题。由“Numerologists use the numbers 1-9, 11 and 22 — also known as the “master” numbers — to help a person understand his or her personality, life goals, and destiny. ”可知选C。 30. The function of the passage is __________. A. to raise doubts about the usefulness of numerology B. to persuade readers about the benefits of the practices it describes C. to describe some of the numerological practices and their purpose D. to tease those who take such beliefs seriously 【答案】C 【解析】推理判断题。纵观全文，可以推断出本文在于描述一些数字学家的实践和他们的用途。故选C。 【广东深圳市第二次调研考试 All of us should keep a kitchen diary, showing how much food are left uneaten as garbage. We all waste food, you and me millions of tons of it. In China, enough food is wasted in restaurants every year to feed 200 million people. In the United States, 40 percent of food is wasted from farm to fork. Each year, the amount of food thrown away in rich countries is almost the same as that produced in sub – Saharan Africa. This raises some important questions. In developing countries, food is lost because farmers do not have appropriate cooling, storage or market access for their crops. Their grains, fruits and vegetables dry up and rot away. In developed countries, the picture is different, and food is wasted in supermarkets, restaurants and at home. China faces both problems, significant losses in farms, as well as at the sale and consumption stages. And the amount of food wasted by Chinese consumers is rapidly increasing. Consumer culture has filled China and urban residents can get quality food from anywhere in the country and from across the planet. Chinese consumers are as particular about their food as those in other countries. In supermarkets, they refuse to buy vegetables that don’t look fresh or have an irregular shape, or milk and other products close to their expiry (失败) date. Besides, Chinese consumers tend to be generous. In restaurants or at home, often too much food is ordered or cooked and served. So while trooping out of a restaurant, full and happy, with colleagues or friends, they never look back at what’s left untouched on the table. Should Chinese consumers take more responsibility for the waste they create? Everyone deserves to have enough food to eat. Despite China’s impressive success in reducing hunger over the past three decades, the job is not completed yet. 31．According to paragraph 1and2, we know that food waste is . A．huge worldwide B．mainly in USA C．only in rich countries D．just in African countries 【答案】A 【解析】细节理解题。根据无论是发达国家还是发展中国家都有食物浪费的现象，食物的浪费是全球性的，故选A。 32．In developing countries, food is lost mainly . A．for the lack of cooling and storage B．because of easy access to markets C．because of the wet weather D．because of the quality of the food 【答案】A 【解析】细节理解题。根据In developing countries, food is lost because farmers do not have appropriate cooling, storage or market access for their crops.在发展中国家食物的浪费主要是由于缺乏冷藏和储存的条件，故选A。 33．The main reason for food waste in China is . A．the effect of consumer culture B．the convenient food supply C．the worry about food quality D．people’s being particular about it 【答案】A 【解析】细节理解题。根据Consumer culture has filled China and urban residents can get quality food from anywhere in the country and from across the planet.中国的浪费主要由于中国文化的影响，故选A。 34．How do Chinese feel when they leave restaurants with much food left behind? A．Generous. B．Unconscious. C．Wealthy. D．Valuable. 【答案】A 【解析】细节理解题。根据Chinese consumers tend to be generous. 35．The purpose of the passage is to tell us . A．not to waste any food from now on B．the necessity to improve food quality C．the fact of food waste in developed countries D．the influence of consumer culture on Chinese 【答案】A 【解析】作者意图题。纵观全文的内容可知全球存在浪费粮食的现象，所以我们应该从今往后不能再浪费粮食，故选A。 C A mouse looked through a crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package: What food might it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap! Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse declared the warning, “There is a mouse trap in the house, there is a mouse trap in the house.” The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, “Mr Mouse, I can tell you this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me, I cannot be bothered by it.” The mouse turned to the pig and told him, “There is a mouse trap in the house.” “I am so sorry, Mr.0. Mouse,” sympathized the pig, “but there is nothing I can do about it but pray; be assured that you are in my prayers.” The mouse turned to the cow, who replied, “A mouse trap, am I in grave danger, huh?” So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmer’s mouse trap alone. That very night a sound was heard throughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching its prey. The farmer’s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see that it was an evil snake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer’s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She returned home with a fever. Now everyone knew to treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup’s main ingredient. His wife’s sickness continued so that friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer’s wife did not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide meat for all of them to eat. So the next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think that it does not concern you, remember that when the least of us is threatened, we are all at risk. 9. We may infer that the passage is most probably a ______. A. fairy tale B. fable C. science fiction D. news report 10. We could see from the passage that the mouse was ______. A. kind and warm-hearted B. well-informed C. good at cheating others D. foolish and rude 11. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. The pig was comparatively less friendly than the others in the farmyard. B. The mouse trap that the mouse discovered was not a practical one. C. The farmer and his wife trapped an evil snake that night. D. The farmer’s family was in fact poor and they had no friends. A vertical farm is a glass-walled structure that could be built as tall as a skyscraper. Despommier imagines a 30-story building with a greenhouse on every floor. The walls of the building would be clear, to allow crops to get as much sunlight as possible. Depending on a city’s water resources, Despommier thinks hydroponic（水培的）gardening is another promising process for the vertical farm. Hydroponics is the growth of plants without soil. A solution（溶液）containing nutrients is regularly added to the growth containers to feel the plants’ roots. Despommier says the hydroponic greenhouses would use a system that would recycle a city’s waste water and fill it with nutrients to make the crops grow. If this process works, it would provide food to a city and save millions of tons of water. The idea of a vertical farm has attracted the attention of government officials around the world. Scott Stringer, a government official from New York City, thinks the Big Apple is suitable for the vertical farming. “Obviously we don’t have vast amounts of available land,” Stringer said. “But the sky is the limit in Manhattan..” Despommier admits that there is still a lot of work to be done to make vertical farms a reality. “But I think vertical farming is an idea that can work in a big way,” he says. 13. Why are people advised to eat local? A. Because local food is more nutritious. B. Because it means more convenience to people. C. Because it can help people save a lot of money. D. Because it is an environmentally friendly way of living 14. Which of the following is TRUE about the vertical farming? A. Soil isn’t used to grow plant at all. B. It is a 30-storey building with a greenhouse on every floor. C. It has solved the problem of the lack of food in a big way. D. Drops are mainly grown in the rainwater. 15. By saying “the sky is the limit in Manhattan”, Stringer means ______. A. there is a limit for using empty land tin Manhattan B. people can make full use of vertical space of Manhattan C. the height of buildings in Manhattan is limited D. Manhattan can spread as far as possible