2017高考英语三轮冲刺阅读强化训练39

　　、阅读理解（本大题共5小题，共0分）

　　A

　　Once, Pompeii was a busy city of 22 000 people. It lay at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, a grass-covered volcano (火山). Mount Vesuvius had not erupted (喷发) for centuries, so the people of Pompeii felt safe. But they were not.

　　In August of AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted. The entire top of the mountain exploded and a huge black cloud rose into the air. Soon stones and hot ash began to fall on Pompeii. When the eruption ended two days later, Pompeii was buried under 20 feet of stones and ashes. Almost all of its people were dead.

　　For centuries, Pompeii lay buried under stone and ash. Then, in the year 1861, an Italian scientist named Ginseppe began to uncover Pompeii. Slowly, carefully, Ginseppe and his men dug. The city looked almost the same as it had looked in AD 79. There were streets and fountains, houses and shops. There was a stadium with 20 000 seats. Perhaps the most important of all, there were everyday objects, which tell us a great deal about the people who lived in Pompeii. Many glasses and jars had some dark blue colour in the bottom, so we know that the people of Pompeii liked wine. They liked bread too, metal bread pans were in every bakery. In one bakery there were 81 round, flat loaves of bread---a type of bread that is still sold in Italy today. Tiny boxes filled with a dark, shiny powder tell us that women liked to wear eye-makeup.

　　Ginseppe has died, but his work continues. One-fourth has not been uncovered yet. Scientists are still digging, still making discoveries that draw the tourists to Pompeii.

　　1. Why do large numbers of people come to Pompeii each year?

　　A. To visit the volcano.

　　B. To shop and eat there.

　　C. To watch sports and plays.

　　D. To see how Pompeiians-lived.

　　2. Why had so many Pompeiians remained by volcanic Mount Vesuvius?

　　A. The city nearby offered all kinds of fun.

　　B. The area produced the finest wine in Italy.

　　C. Few people expected the volcano to erupt again.

　　D. The mountain was beautiful and covered with grass.

　　3. Why did the city uncovered look almost the same as it had looked in AD 79?

　　A. Because Ginseppe and his men dug it slowly and carefully.

　　B. Because the city was buried alive and remained untouched.

　　C.. Because scientists successfully rebuilt the city with everyday objects.

　　D. Because nobody had lived in the city ever since the volcano erupted.

　　4. What do we know about the Pompeiians who lived 2 000 years ago?

　　A. They lived more or less the same as Italians now do.

　　B. They liked women wearing all kinds of makeup.

　　C. They enjoyed a lazy life with drinking and eating,

　　D. They went back to Pompeii after the eruption in AD 79.

　　【答案解析】

　　1.答:D最佳【分析】这是一道细节题，这篇文章在讲述著名的古城庞贝城。当年一次火山喷发将人们永远地埋在了废墟里。如此多的人来到这里只是想看看当年的庞贝人是如何生活的，以为已经有人进行了挖掘和发现工作。

　　2.答:C最佳【分析】这是一道细节题。从第一自然段的最后两句话可以看出。Vesuvius had not erupted for…But they were not．

　　3.答:B最佳【分析】这是一道综合理解题。从第4段的第4行以及以下段落，可以看出，当年的火山喷发是突如其来的。人们正一如既往的生活着，突然厄运降临，也就是buried alive。之后，没有任何人去碰它，因为当时喷发出来的石头和灰尘土厚到20 feet。

　　4.答:A最佳【分析】这是一道细节题。从第4自然段的描绘之后的总结句子:…that is still sold in Italy today可以看出两者大体上有相同之处。

　　B

　　EVENTS (赛事)

　　Bicycle tour (旅行) and race

　　A bike tour and race will be held on August 26 and 27 (Sat,&Sun. ) At 5:30 am ,the riders will leave Tian'anmen Square and ride the first 35 kilomertres as a training

　　leg. Then the next 55 kilometre leg, from Yanjiao to Jixian, will be the first competitive (竞争性的) part of the tour. The riders and their bikes will then be taken from Jixian to Changli.

　　The second racing leg of the tour will be from Changli to the seaside of Nandaihe, covering a distance of 20 kilometres. Saturday night includes the stay at Nandaihe and supper. Sunday morning is free tor play at the seaside. At noon all the people and their bikes will be taken back to Beijing.

　　Cost: 200 yuan

　　Telephone: 4675027

　　Brazilian footballers

　　The Brazilian Football Club will play Beijing Guo'an Team at the Workers Stadium on August 26. The club has four national team players. Also coming is 1994 US World cup star Romario who has promised to play for at least 45 minutes.

　　Ticket prices: 60,100,150 yuan

　　Time/Date: 4:30pm, August 26 (Sat.)

　　Telephone: 5012372

　　Rock climbing

　　The Third National Rock Climbing Competition will be held on August 26-27 at the Huairou Mountain-climbing Traifting Base. More than 10 teams from Bejing, Wuhan, Dalian, Jilin'and other-places will take part in it. A Japanese team will give an exhibition climbing. Free for spectators (观众).

　　Take a long-distance bus from Dongzhimen to Huairou,

　　Time/Dates: 9--12am, August 26 and 27

　　Telephone:7143177,7144850, Wang Zhenghua

　　1. The main purpose of announcing ,the above-events is to give information.about _____.

　　A. visiting

　　teams

　　B. famous players

　　C. things to do for the weekend

　　D. prices to pay for the sports events

　　2. If you take part in the bike tour, you will ride for _______.

　　A. 35 kilometres

　　B. 55 kilometres

　　C.75 kilometres

　　D. 110 kilomeues

　　3. The underlined word "leg" in

　　"Bicycle tour and race" probably means______ .

　　A. race

　　B. practice

　　C. part of the training

　　D. part of the tour

　　4. What is special about the rock climbing competition?

　　A. A foreign team takes part in it.

　　B. You can watch it without paying.

　　C. You don't have to be a sportsman to take part.

　　D. The bus trip to the place of the competition is free.

　　5. It you want to find something to do for Saturday afternoon, Which telephone number will you call?

　　A. 4675027

　　B. 7143177

　　C. 5012372

　　D. 7144850

　　【答案解析】

　　1.【分析】这是一道细节题。只要抓住三项赛事的时间Aug，26，27和第一自然段的小括号（Sat、Sun）这类关键的词汇，它们给本题提供充分根据，故C为本题答案。

　　2.【分析】本题属一道计算题，第一个赛事中的三个数字相加便可知D为正确答案。此题通过率为49％，区分度为0.512。

　　3.【分析】本题属单词辨义题，在阅读完第一个广告之后，我们不难发现自行车赛程分热身训练阶段和正式比赛阶段。而无论哪个阶段都用leg一词，这样A、B、C皆不符合要求。只有D才是真正答案。

　　4.【分析】这是一道细节题。答案是B。就考试试卷分析结果看，此题答得不理想，关键没有抓住competition一词，而误选A。文中是指日本队攀登表演，而不是比赛。本题区分度为0.543。

　　5.【分析】这是一道细节题。文中所提到的三项赛事中，只有巴西队和北京国安队在周六下午举行足球赛，所以C为正确答案。

　　C

　　I'm seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in Los Angeles. People came to the counter and you put things in their bags for them. And carried things to their cars. It was hard work.

　　While working, you wear a plate with your name on it. I once met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, "Mr Castle, how are you?" We talked about this and that. As he left, he said,

　　"It was nice talking to you, Brett." I felt great, he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh no. He didn't remember me at all, he just read the name plate. I wish I had put "Irying" down on my name plate. If he'd have said, "Oh yes, Irving, how could I forget you?" I'd have been ready for him. There's nothing personal here.

　　The manager and everyone else who were a step above the box boys often shouted orders. One of these was: you couldn't accept tips (小费). Okay, I'm outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction (反应) is to take a quarter and give it to me. I'd say, "I'm sorry, I can't." They'd get angry. When you give someone a tip, you're sort of being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hand and you expect them to say, "Oh, thanks a lot. " When you say,

　　"I'm sorry, I can't," they feel a little

　　put down. They say,

　　"No one will know." And they put it in your pocket. You say, "I really can't." It gets to a point where you almost have to hurt a person physically (身体上) to prevent him from tipping you. It was not in agreement with the store's belief in being friendly. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn't understand the strangeness of some people's ideas. One lady actually put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something.

　　I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. I guess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.

　　1. What can be the best title for this text?

　　A. How Hard Life for Box Boys

　　B. Getting along with Customers

　　C. Why I Gave up My Job

　　D. The Art of Taking Tips

　　2. From the second paragraph, we can infer that___.

　　A. the writer didn't like the impersonal part of his job

　　B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking

　　C. Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett

　　D. Irving was the writer's real name

　　3. The box boy refused to accept tips because______.

　　A. customers only gave small tips

　　B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping

　　C. the store forbade the box boys to take tips

　　D. he didn't want to fight with the customers

　　4. The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means__.

　　A. misunderstood

　　B. defeated

　　C. hateful

　　D. hurt

　　【答案解析】

　　1.答:C最佳【分析】这是一道主旨题。整个文章的铺垫，最后暗示给读者的是他放弃这份工作的原因。

　　2.答:A最佳【分析】这是一道综合理解题。第2段所叙述的事情来看，作者只是个代号而已，并没有自己真正想拥有的属于自己的东西，而只是作为工作的非人格化的一部分而存在。

　　3.答:C最佳【分析】这是一道细节题。从第3段的前两句话可以看出此结论。

　　4.答:D最佳【分析】这是一道词组释义题。从上下文可以看出，所给的四个选项只能选D。

　　D

　　Although I had left school against the advice of my teachers, I had, without telling anyone, tried to continue my studies in literature (文化) at evening classes. It was a tiresome walk from one end of the city to another and to sit among adults was uninteresting. I was the youngest in the class, so the friendship I knew at school was absent. I put up with (忍受) it for a short period. It was too long a walk on cold winter's nights and it was hard to put my heart into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers. So I continued reading books and started writing poetry at home.

　　By chance, I won some prizes and awards (奖) for literature. A young woman from a TV company came to the college one day. She told me that I had won a national poetry award. I stared at her in astonishment and disbelief. She wanted to make a short film about me, to which I said: "No, I couldn't do that. " Not that I had any real excuse. I was just frightened. In the end she persuaded me that I should do it the following day.

　　So I did. They made a short film of me reading one of my poems and I became more interested in literature than ever. I wondered what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not imagine myself spending the rest of my days dealing with machines. So one evening, I hesitatingly told my parents that I wanted to return to school. They were greatly surprised and, I think, a little afraid but they did not try to persuade me not to. they wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and whether I realized that if I gave up my job training, it would be very diffcult to get a good job. But nothing could stop me, and they asked about the matter no further.

　　1. Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraphs above this passage?

　　A. The writer's unhappy childhood.

　　B. The poor teaching quality of the writer's school.

　　C. The writer's leaving school against his teachers' advice.

　　D. Whether it was worth leaving school for job training.

　　2. The writer did not feel comfortable at the evening school because ______.

　　A. he found it difficult to make friends with his classmates

　　B. he had to walk a long distance to the evening school

　　C. he could not put his heart into reading books after he was caught in the rain

　　D. of all of the above

　　3. After he won some prizes and awards for literature, a young woman from a TV company_____.

　　A. wanted to make his success known to the public

　　B. came to make friends with him

　　C. invited him to make a speech

　　D. came to tell him that he had become a very important person

　　4. After his success, he ______.

　　A. decided to get a good job

　　B. decided to continue his studies in literature at the evening school

　　C. decided to return to the school he once left

　　D. began to feel very important and proud

　　5. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?

　　A. His parents worried that he would have no future if he returned to school.

　　B. His parents worried that he would leave school again.

　　C. It was difficult for one who studied literature to get a job.

　　D. His parents did not want him to continue his education.

　　【答案解析】

　　2.【分析】这是一道细节题。文中有这样一句：It was a tiresome walk from one end of the city to another说明去夜校的行程比较劳累。还有一处…and it was hard to put my heart into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers说明作者在被雨浇过后无心听课。故本题答案为D。

　　3.【分析】本题正确答案为A。应属推理题，当作者出名和获奖后，这位年轻女士要为其拍部片子，无非是要让其出名。

　　4.【分析】本题属于细节题。从文中I hesitatingly told my parents that I wanted to return to school一句中可得出答案。故本题最佳答案为C。

　　5.【分析】此题属于正误判断。从文章的后一部分可以得出B为答案。因为作者父母只是想知道是否他懂得如果放弃自己的培训工作，即将很难再找到好工作，为此我们可以看出作者父母所担心的则是儿子将来的工作问同。本题通过率为41％。

　　E

　　BORDER

　　CROSSINGS

　　While there are no restrictions on zhe amount of money that you can bring across the border. you must report to both the US and Canadian border

　　services amounts equal to or greater than $10. 000.

　　PERSONAL EXEMPTIONS（免税）ON PURCHASES

　　AMERICANS RETURNING TO THE US

　　Less than 48 hours: $ 200 US

　　48 hours or more:

　　$ 800 US duty-free personal exemption.

　　next $ 1. 000 US at 3%

　　Including up to 100 cigars and 100 cigarettes.

　　CANADIANS RETURNING TO CANADA

　　Less than 24 hours: $ 50 CAN

　　48 hours or more:

　　$ 400 CAN

　　Including up to 100 cigars and 200 cigarettes.

　　7 days or more:

　　$ 750 CAN

　　Including up to 100 cigars and 200 cigarettes.

　　DOCUMENTATION NEEDED FOR

　　BORDER CROSSING

　　LAND OR SEA TO THE US(INCLUDING FERRIES)

　　A valid passport or passport card, or a NEXUS card.

　　(A NEXUS card is a Trusted Traveler Program that provides quick travel for pre-approved,low risk travelers through special lanes. )

　　A recent Washington State, New York or BC driver’s license.

　　Note: Children 15 years of age and younger require only a birth certificate or copy. (Certified copies are not required but are advised. )

　　AIR TRAVEL TO THE US

　　A valid passport, an Air NEXUS card, or a U. S. Coast Guard Merchant

　　Marine Document.

　　64. If a Canadian who is on a 7-day trip to New York buys $ 800 CAN worth of goods,how much should he pay tax on when returning home?

　　A. $ 800 CAN

　　B. $750 CAN

　　C. $ 400 CAN

　　D. $ 50 CAN

　　65. For an American citizen on a 2-day tour of Canada,how much tax does he have to pay on $ 1. 600 US worth of purchases when returning to the US?

　　66. What documentation should a couple with a 7-year-old child carry when they drive a car from Canada to America?

　　A. A BC driver’s license, an Air NEXUS card, and a birth certificate.

　　B. An Air NEXUS card, a U. S. Coast Guard Merchant Marine Document, and a birth certificate.

　　C. Two vaild passport crads and a certified copy of a birth certificate.

　　D. A NEXUS card, a U. S. Coast Guard Merchant Marine Document. ,and a certified copy of a

　　birth certificate.

　　【答案解析】64选D。 根据文中Canadians Returning To Canada 的要求$750 CAN是免税的，所以只需交$50 CAN的关税

　　A. $ 24 US

　　B. $ 48 US

　　C. $52 US

　　D. $ 200 US

　　选A. 根据文中Americans Returning To the US 的要求$800 US 免税，而next $1000US at3% 得知除800以外的800到1000以内需交3% 800乘以3%=24

　　选C 根据题目中hey drive a car from Canada to America，用排除法可排除两项A,B,而D错在a certified copy