2017高考英语三轮冲刺阅读强化训练30

　　、阅读理解（本大题共5小题，共0分）

　　A

　　Cafe Hub

　　Next to the Castle lies The Hub, home of the Edinburgh International Festival and one of the most talked about spots in town. Our cafe in open every day for mouth-watering lunches, snacks and fine dining. Come in and enjoy the atmosphere of The Hub or watch the world go by from our beautiful terrace.

　　The Hub Casfleill. Royal Mile, Edinburgh. Open every day from 9:30 a. m. till late. Tel: 0131 473 2067 www. Thehub-edinburgh.com Farm World

　　Enjoy being “A Farmer for a Day”. Join in delivering and feeding our spring babies-bottle feeding sessions twice daily. Fun for all family. Horse Rides, BMX Bikes Cross Country Course, Tractor through 600 acres, New Adventure Playground. Nature Trails. Full details on website. Open: May-Oct Wednesdays to Saturdays and daily during school holidays 11 a. m.-p. m. Tel:01797 260256/260321 www. Farmworld-rye. Co. uk Enter the Europe-wide student competition!

　　Are you curious, creative and energetic? Are you interested in the new media? Are you between 12 and 19 years of age? Then Join Multimedia 2006 is for you! Your challenge will be to build a team and develop a multimedia presentation in English-based on one of three different topics. You can register(报名)between May I and June 15, 2006 and will have to turn in your entry before September 15.2006.

　　The rewards are wonderful& 150,000 in prize for schools and the chance to-attend a European student camp---plus new experiences, an opportunity to make friends throughout Europe! For further information and registration forms go to; www. Siemens. Com join. Multimedia. 64.You’ll have to register first if you want________.

　　A. to enjoy delicious food

　　B. to try Tractor Ride through 600 acres C. to enter the Europe-wide student competition

　　D. to watch the world go by from the beautiful terrace

　　65.Aceording to the passage, there will be ______ rewards for the Europe-wide student competition. A. only one

　　B. two

　　C. three

　　D. four

　　66.You can visit Farm World________. A. on Monday in May

　　B. any day in October C. at 2 p. m. at Christmas

　　D. at 10:30 a. m. during school holidays

　　67. From the advertisements above, we can learn that_______. A. Cafe Hub is a popular place in the local area B. families can enjoy Horse Rides on New Adventure Playground C. Farm World provides lunches, snacks and fine dining. D. the Europe-wide student competition will be held on June 15.2006

　　【答案解析】答案

　　64.C

　　65.B

　　66.C

　　67.A

　　B

　　Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called

　　First and Last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations (文明), broken up by long "dark ages" in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2 000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.

　　However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred? The next thousand? The next million? That's much more difficult.

　　When men and women lived by hunting 50 000 years ago, how could they even begin to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50 000 years from now, we may seem as primitive (原始的) in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters do to us, Perhaps they will spend their days

　　gollocking to make new

　　spundels, or struggling with their

　　ballalators through the

　　cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can't think of.

　　So why bother even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with the whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor plate to live on because we are careless or greedy (贪婪) or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuses for us.

　　Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future men may give up farming, we can think of trying it

　　now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.

　　1. A particular mention made of Stapledoris book in the opening paragraph_______.

　　A. serves as a description of human history

　　B. serves as an introduction to the discussion

　　C. shows a disagreement of views

　　D. shows the popularity of the book

　　2. The text discusses men and women 50 000 years ago and 50 000 years from now in order to show

　　that ____.

　　A. human history is extremely long

　　B. life has changed a great deal

　　C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years

　　D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future

　　3. Spundds and ballalators are used in the text to refer to ____.

　　A. tools used in farming

　　B. ideas about modern life

　　C. unknown things in the future

　　D. hunting skills in the Stone Age

　　4. According to the writer of the text, imagining the future will ____.

　　A.serve the interests of the present and future generations

　　B.enable us to better understand human history

　　C. help us to improve farming

　　D. make life worth living

　　【答案解析】

　　该篇文章在让我们想像遥远的未来。

　　1.答:B最佳【分析】此题设计的意图是检测考生对所提供信息进行概括和判断的能力。本文共五个自然段。从2、3、4、5自然段所述内容和第一段中这本书的作者的观点“被称之为当前的时代只不过是人类历史长河中的一瞬间。”之间的联系，可看出B选项是正确答案。它是讨论未来这个问题的引言。

　　2.答:D最佳【分析】此题设计的意图是检测考生依据语篇中的陈述进行推理判断的能力。第三段开头两个句子说：50,000年以前以守猎为生的人们如何可以开始描绘现代化的生活呢？而那些生活在50,000年以后的人们看我们这些人就会像我们看石器时代的那些人一样觉得原始和不开化。这就表明将来会发生些什么很难说清楚。

　　3.答:C最佳【分析】此题设计的意图是检测考生依据语将进行逻辑推理和基本的构词能力。在第三段中作者造出来四个单词。根据基本的构词法知识可知是一个动词和三个名词。这两个单词所在的句子是描述50,00O年以后人们生活情况的，而且这两个词都是名词。因此C是正确答案。

　　4.答:A最佳【分析】此题设计的意图是检测考生推测作者意图的能力。看文章的第四段。本段给出了为什么操心去象未来的第一个原因。这个原因从反面阐述了想象未来将对这一代以及将来几代人的利益都是有用的。因此A选项是正确答案。

　　C

　　When a group of children politely stop a conversation with you, saying;"We have to go to work now," you're left feeling surprised and certainly uneasy. After all, this is the 1990s and the idea of children working is just unthinkable. That is, until you are told that they are all pupils of stage schools, and that the "work" they go off to is to go on the stage in a theatre.

　　Stage schools often act as agencies (代理机构) to supply children for stage and television work. More worthy of the name "stage school" are those few places where children attend full time, with a training for the theatre and a general education.

　　A visit to such schools will leave you in no doubt that the children enjoy themselves. After all, what lively children wouldn't settle for spending only half the day doing ordinary school work, and acting, singing or dancing their way through the other half of the day?

　　Then of course there are times for the children to make a name and make a little money in some big shows. Some stage schools give their children too much professional work at such a young age. But the law is very tight on the amount they can do. Those under 13 are limited to 40 days in the year; those over 13 do 80 days.

　　The schools themselves admit that not all children will be successful in the profession for which they are being trained. So what happens to those who don't make it? While all the leading shcools say they place great importance on children getting good study results, the facts seem to suggest this is not always the case.

　　1. People would stop feeling uneasy when realising that the children they're talking to ______.

　　A. attend a stage school

　　B. are going to the theatre

　　C. have got some work to do

　　D. love singing and dancing

　　2. In the writer's opinion, a good stage school should______.

　　A. produce star performers

　　B. help pupils improve their study skills

　　C. train pupils in language and performing arts

　　D. provide a general education and stage trainning

　　3. "Professional work" as used in the text means _______.

　　A. ordinary school work

　　B. money-making performances

　　C. stage training at school

　　D. acting, singing or dancing after class

　　4. Which of the following best describes how the writer feels about stage schools?

　　A. He thinks highly of what they have to offer.

　　B. He favours an early start in the training of performing arts.

　　C. He feels uncomfortable about children putting on night shows.

　　D. He doubts the standard of ordinary education they have reached.

　　【答案解析】

　　1.答:A最佳【分析】这是一道细节题。原文中的have to go to work不等于C项，故C项排除，且下文有until you are told that they are all pupils of stage schools，and that the "work" they go off is to go on the stage in a theatre故排除B、D项。

　　2.答:D最佳【分析】这是一道细节题。原文中More worthy of the name "stage school" are those few places where children attend full time, with a training for the theatre and a general education.可提示考生。

　　3.答:C最佳【分析】这是一道词语推断题。从下文法律已经对这种工作量加以限制，十三岁以下的学生一年做40天professional work，十三岁以上一年做80天。所以排除A、B、D项。

　　4.答:D最佳【分析】从原文中的最后一段可获得信息。

　　D

　　Rarely have I experienced a reaction like that which came about following the idea of banning private education. One of those who contacted me to disagree with the idea was 17 year old Anirudh Mandagere. He got 10 A*s at GCSE and is currently studying English, French, Math and History at a private school in Manchester. Here is his response:

　　For me, the idea that all private schools should be banned is not only ridiculous and unrealistic, but goes against the idea of liberty. We must have the freedom to choose between state-funded and privately educated schools. If parents pay taxes, surely they should be able to choose whether they send their children to a state-funded or a privately-funded school.

　　The economic impacts of abolishing private education are vast. Banning private schools would obviously contribute to a great transfer to state schools. Many state schools are already overburdened; do they really need more pupils? Abolishing private education would lead to higher taxes for taxpayers since more money would be needed to educate the 7% who were previously private educated. In the times of economic crisis, should the taxpayer need to fork out more money to pay for their education? There would also be a great rise in unemployment of the staff who works at private schools.

　　It is noted that, in general, private schools have better grades at GCSE and A level than state schools. Yet, why do people view this as a bad thing? The higher private school grades eventually force the government to endlessly improve state education so that the middle-classes do not totally abandon state education for private education. This competition creates reform and progress within state schools and eventually promote them! If the private schools did not exist, where would be the impetus for state school improvement?

　　Government should not simply ban a system which produces results. It should learn from it and use the private education model as a basis for the state education model. Abolishing a successful system will not help anybody, learning from a successful system will.

　　66. In the eye of Anirudh Mandagere, parents have the right to ______.

　　A. criticize state-funded schools

　　B. pay taxes for the promotion of private schools

　　C. choose the way their children receive education

　　D. advocate the competition between state schools and private ones

　　67. According to the passage, banning private education will ______.

　　A. obviously contribute to lower taxes

　　B. not cause the state schools to be overburdened

　　C. force the government to boost state education

　　D. lead to many people losing their jobs 

　　68. The underlined word “impetus” in the fourth paragraph probably means ______.

　　A. motivation         B. prevention         C. participation       D. assessment

　　69. Compared with state schools, private ones ______.

　　A. educate a little fewer students                B. conduct better than all state ones

　　C. are better received by the public             D. are more competitive on the whole

　　70. Which of the following statements will Anirudh Mandagere agree with?

　　A. His wonderful performance results from the education his private school offers.

　　B. Without the existence of private schools, state ones wouldn’t get improved much.

　　C. Private education is a good system to make students successful in life.

　　D. Private schools are supposed to be sponsored more than state ones.

　　【答案解析】     66—70 CDADB   

　　E

　　Before I came to China, I had heard that, although North Americans eat more than Chinese, Chinese eat better. Since I have come to China, I have been able to experience these differences first-hand. A whole new world of food has been opened up to me.

　　Along with these new experiences came the quite unexpected introduction to the rituals(惯例) associated with eating. For example, shortly after arriving, I was gently criticized for filling somebody’s teacup all the way up instead of half way. This was a signal to the person that I desired that he leave.

　　There may be mixed messages about what it means when you do something associated with food. But the fact is that there may be a message contained in the preparation, serving and consumption(吃喝) of food in China. This was an idea that was totally new to me!

　　More than one Chinese has made the comment to me that they were unhappy with the results of inviting a foreigner to a meal. They told me that the foreigner was not appreciative of the meal that was served to him or her and was hard to please.

　　Having played the part of the foreigner at more than one Chinese buffet, I can understand where the misunderstandings come from. I myself have felt very uncomfortable during some of the dinners I have been invited to.

　　One time I was invited to a dinner in a famous restaurant in Tianjin. Its menu was based on seafood. I was still relatively new to the concept (概念) that your fish would be brought live to your table. In Canada you are never introduced to your meal before hand. Something we don’t like is considering what our food looks before the actual consumption.

　　However, having been in China for one year, I went along and helped point out some of the selections for the evening’s meal. I hesitated at the scorpions(蝎子), but swallowed my distaste and indeed found later that they were tasty.

　　The meal was winding its way(蜿蜒向前) along without any problems. Then they brought out the lobster(龙虾). I looked at it and then looked at it again and noticed that it was still moving! It had been brought out live to show that our raw lobster was indeed very fresh.

　　At that point, I nearly lost it. It took all my composure(镇定) for me to stay seated at the table and hurl(冲进) myself in the bathroom and bring up the contents of the previous dishes.

　　Now the interesting thing is that when I tell that story to a foreigner, the reaction is always the same: Horror, sympathy, shock. When I tell the same story to Chinese, they don’t understand my point of view. In fact, I often think that they believe that there is something truly wrong with me and not with the fact a lobster had been served live at the table.

　　67. According to the author of the passage, it is the Chinese custom ___________.

　　A. to fill somebody’s teacup all the way up

　　B. not to fill somebody’s teacup full

　　C. not to fill somebody’s teacup half way

　　D. not to desire the guest to leave

　　68. The author felt very uncomfortable during some of the dinners because _________.

　　A. she disliked scorpions and lobster

　　B. the service in the restaurants were not good enough

　　C. she disliked that the things were brought live to the table

　　D. she thought the food was not fresh enough

　　69. It can be inferred from the last paragraph of the passage that___________.

　　A. the author can get support from foreigners

　　B. Chinese don’t understand the author’s point of view

　　C. something is truly wrong with the author

　　D. different countries may have different rituals of consumption

　　70. The word “buffet” in the fifth paragraph means __________.

　　A. meal

　　B. party

　　C. food

　　D. service

　　【答案解析】