2016成都市高考英语一轮阅读理解选练（11）及答案

　　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。

　　It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and do all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy in chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning.

　　Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets, they had sent him to the kitchen for more string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.

　　My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping. Again she cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls! Let’s take string to the boys and watch them fly the kites a minute.”

　　On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls.

　　There never was such a day for flying kites! We played all our fresh string into the boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher. We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down in the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.

　　Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. “Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heaven,” I thought confusedly.

　　It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to the houses. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been a surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn’t mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed. Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep“the things that cannot be and yet they are.”

　　The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to“go park, see duck.”

　　“I can’t go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when I’m through I’ll be too tired to walk that far.”

　　My mother, who was visiting us, looked up from the peas she was shelling. “It’s a wonderful day,” she offered, “really warm, yet there’s a fine breeze. Do you remember that day we flew kites?”

　　I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The locked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. “Come on,” I told my little girl. “You’re right, it’s too good a day to miss.”

　　Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath(余波)of a great war. All evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of—what dark and horrible things?

　　“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips. “Do you remember—no, of course you wouldn’t. It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”

　　I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”

　　“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp(战俘营), when things weren’t too good. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”

　　1. Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought　.　

　　A. she was too old to fly kites

　　B. her husband would make fun of her

　　C. she should have been doing her housework then

　　D. her girls weren’t supposed to play the boys’ game

　　2. By“we were all beside ourselves”, the writer means that they all 　.　

　　A. felt confusedB. went wild with joy　C. looked on　D. forgot their fights

　　3. What did the writer think after the kite-flying?

　　A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.

　　B. They should have finished their work before playing.

　　C. Her parents should spend more time with them.

　　D. All the others must have forgotten that day.

　　4. Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?

　　A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.

　　B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.

　　C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.

　　D. She thought it was a great day to play outside.

　　5. The youngest Patrick Boy is mentioned to show that　.　

　　A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories

　　B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life

　　C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer

　　D. people like him really changed a lot after the war

　　【参考答案】1--5 、CBDBA

　　【2017高考复习】阅读理解More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children，a new survey showed last Tuesday.

　　The survey，published by the Bank of America，studied the rich with $3 million or more in assets.It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have well­developed plans to preserve and pass on their assets to their children”．

　　The majority of the 457 people surveyed are self­made，first­generation rich.Fifty­two percent of parents have chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are，and 15 percent have given away nothing about the family wealth.One in three parents said they had never thought to do it.

　　They are worried that their children would become lazy，spend money freely，make bad decisions and even become a target for gold diggers.

　　Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance (遗产) they plan to leave them.

　　“There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation，” said Sallie Krawcheck，president of the Global Wealth and Investment Management of the Bank of America.“Our research，however，uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.”

　　The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates，who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife，the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation (基金会)，and not to his children.

　　“We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive impact，” he said.

　　Of his plans for his children，Gates said：“I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage...they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of.”

　　语篇解读　调查表明，大部分美国富人不愿向孩子炫富，甚至不打算将丰厚的资产传给后代。

　　5．We can learn from the passage that________.

　　A．rich parents may not know how to manage their inheritance

　　B．rich parents don’t equal rich kids，at least in the US

　　C．American children don’t get to inherit their parents’ wealth

　　D．poor children don’t expect themselves to be as rich as their parents

　　解析　推理判断题。第二段的后半部分提到在被调查的美国富人中，几乎没有人计划为他们的孩子保留资产或者将资产传给孩子，由此可推断在美国，父母富有并不意味着孩子富有。

　　答案　B

　　6．According to the survey，most rich Americans________.

　　A．think they owe their children nothing

　　B．think it best to give their money back to society

　　C．doubt their children’s ability to handle wealth

　　D．are confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth

　　解析　推理判断题。根据第四段内容可推知，大部分美国富人怀疑他们的孩子处理财富的能力。

　　答案　C

　　7．The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to________.

　　A．responsible children B．Bill Gates and his wife

　　C．first­generation rich D．rich parents

　　解析　猜测词义题。人们期望富裕的父母把他们的财富传给下一代，此处they指代的是画线词前面的“the wealthy parents”，即“rich parents”。

　　答案　D

　　8．From the last paragraph，we can see that Bill Gates wants to show________.

　　A．the trend of leaving no inheritance to children

　　B．the positive impact of charity on society

　　C．the way of giving back to society

　　D．the importance of independence for children解析　推理判断题。根据本段中比尔·盖茨所说的话可推知，他更强调孩子的个人奋斗，认为培养孩子的自立很重要。

　　答案　D

　　I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.

　　I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am about to relate I think real names of people and places are just as well, or better avoided.

　　I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going to tell.

　　Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner's son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the still greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm.

　　Patents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise could believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go about looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow's natural interest in his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay.

　　12. The writer preferred to be called ________.

　　A. a German

　　B. an Englishman

　　C. both a German and an Englishman

　　D. neither a German nor an Englishman

　　13. Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer?

　　A. Talented

　　B. Modest

　　C. Reliable

　　D. Wise

　　14. The head of the company where the writer works is ________.

　　A. Schmidt

　　B. Moritz

　　C. Wilhelm’s father

　　D. Gerhardt

　　15. The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a ready-loaded gun in the hotel, because

　　________.

　　A. some people sometimes let out the secrets of his company

　　B. the writer occasionally didn’t keep the secrets of his company

　　C. patents and the laws are strange things to have to do with

　　D. the secrets were connected with Government orders or contracts

　　【参考答案】 (D) BDCA

　　阅读理解, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　For more than nine days，for more than 60 miles，thousands of Beijing­bound vehicles have come to an almost total stop on highways called the 6 and 110 that run from Inner Mongolia southeast to the nation's capital.Bai Xiaolong，a 30­year­old truck driver，says it took him five days to make the 350­mile journey from Inner Mongolia to Tianjin.He spent much of that time reading，text­messaging and sleeping rather than speeding up.“There was one day that I didn't move，not even an inch，”said Bai，an inhabitant of Jining in Inner Mongolia，a city at the western end of the traffic jam.

　　Chinese officials said that the congestion is mainly because of the maintenance(维护)projects that began in mid­August and are scheduled to be completed in mid­September.Trucks carrying 8 tons or more of coal or fruit have been responsible for damaging the roadway，thus making the work necessary.

　　Drivers who often use the route know that heavy traffic has long been a fact of life.“The problem is really that there're too many cars and trucks and not enough lanes(车道)，”Bai said.“We drivers are used to this sort of thing happening.”

　　The two national freeways are heavily used by trucks carrying coal from the recently opened fields of Inner Mongolia to China's coastal cities.

　　The seemingly endless jam began on the 6 and spread to the 110，which runs parallel(平行的)，when officials sought to ease the traffic on the 6.

　　The Global Times，and English­language newspaper，said the jam had eased somewhat in the last two days，but inhabitants of the region say the congestion simply spilled out onto other roads.

　　The congestion has created an economy of its own.Vendors(小贩)sell boxed lunches，noodles and drinking water to the travelers，often at jacked­up prices.And because of the long­standing problems along the highways，dozens of small hotels have appeared，attracting drivers who need a stop to catch more serious sleep.

　　1．According to the text，the 110 was mainly damaged by________.

　　A．too many carsB．bad weather

　　C．poor maintenanceD．heavy trucks

　　答案：D　细节理解题。根据文章第四段最后一句及第六段可知，导致这条国道毁坏的主要原因是那些重型卡车，故选D项。2．What can we infer from the text?

　　A．Bai Xiaolong was born in Tianjin.

　　B．The problem of traffic jams in China will be solved soon.

　　C．Chinese officials think it is necessary to build more lanes.

　　D．The local people don't think the congestion has eased.

　　答案：D　推理判断题。根据文章倒数第二段中的inhabitants of the region say the congestion simply spilled out onto other roads可知，当地居民认为交通堵塞只是转移到了别的道路上，也就是说他们认为当地的交通拥堵并没有得到缓解。

　　3．The underlined word“jacked­up”in the last paragraph probably means“________”．

　　A．high

　　B．right

　　C．special

　　D．low

　　答案：A　猜测词义题。因为堵车所以司机被困在那里，他们需要吃的和喝的，而一些商贩发现了这个商机，往往哄抬物价，司机们别无选择，由此可猜测出该词的意思为“很高的”。

　　4．What would be the best title of the passage?

　　A．The congestion creates an economy of its own

　　B．Traffic jam near Beijing stretches on for days

　　C．The traffic has improved in Beijing

　　D．Truck drivers in China live a hard life

　　答案：B　标题归纳题。本文报道了一次严重的交通堵塞。60多英里的道路变成了停车场，足足堵了九天多的时间，B作为标题最合适。A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Many Americans are turning to Japan, they think, a country of high academic achievement and economic success, for possible answers. However, the answers provided by Japanese preschools are not the ones Americans expected to find. In most Japanese preschools, surprisingly little emphasis is put on academic instruction. In one survey, 300 Japanese and 210 American preschool teachers, child development specialists, and parents were asked about various aspects of early childhood education. Only 2 percent of the Japanese respondents (答问卷者)listed “to give children a good start academically” as one of their top three reasons for a society to have preschools. In contrast, over half the American respondents chose this as one of their top three choices. To prepare children for successful careers in the first grade and beyond, Japanese preschools do not teach reading, writing, and mathematics, but rather skills such as determination, concentration, and the ability to work as a member of a group. The huge majority of young Japanese children are taught to read at home by their parents.

　　Like in America, there is diversity (多样性)in Japanese early childhood education. Some Japanese kindergartens have specific aims, such as early musical training or potential development. In large cities, some kindergartens are attached to universities that have elementary and secondary schools. Some Japanese parents believe that if their young children attend a university-based program, it will increase the children’s chances of eventually being admitted to top-rated (一流的)schools and universities. Several more progressive programs have introduced free play as a way out for the heavy intellectualizing (智能化)in some Japanese kindergartens.

　　1. We learn from the first paragraph that many Americans believe______.　

　　A. Japanese parents are more involved in preschool education than American parents

　　B. Japan’s economic success is a result of its scientific achievements

　　C. Japanese preschool education emphasizes academic instruction

　　D. Japan’s higher education is superior to theirs

　　2. In Japan’s preschool education, the focus is on______.　

　　A. preparing children academically

　　B. developing children’s artistic interests

　　C. developing children’s potential

　　D. shaping children’s character

　　3. Why do some Japanese parents send their children to university-based kindergartens?

　　A. They can do better in their future studies.

　　B. They can make more group experience grow there.

　　C. They can be self-centered when they grow up.

　　D. They can have better chances of getting a top-rated education.

　　4. Free play has been introduced in some Japanese kindergartens in order to______.　

　　A. broaden children’s knowledge

　　B. train children’s creativity

　　C. lighten children’s study load

　　D. enrich children’s experience

　　【参考答案】1—4、CDDC

　　阅读理解。

　　Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full – blown. Quite the opposite, just as the cook has to undergo a particular training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose---school work, matters of business, or purely social communication.

　　You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.

　　There are still some faraway places in the world where you might find a public scribe（文书） to do your business or social writing for you, for money. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.

　　We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to papers. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figures must be extremely large.

　　What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writes will be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” files or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.

　　8. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because

　　A. both are enjoyable B. both are hard to learn

　　C. both are necessary to life D. both take a long time to prepare

　　9. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?

　　A. Writing skills are less important than experience.

　　B. A good writer should have his own way of writing.

　　C. A good writer should learn to write all kinds of articles.

　　D. The more efforts one makes, the more money one can earn.

　　10. The author thinks that the most important reason for us to practice writing skills is

　　A. to earn our living

　　B. to attract others to read

　　C. to do daily reports easily D. to become good secretaries

　　11. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to

　　A. comment and blame

　　B. introduce and describe

　　C. explain and persuade

　　D. interest and inform

　　【参考答案】(C) A B B C