1、2013高考英语重庆市阅读理解专题训练（1）及答案AWords：296难度系数：建议用时：6分钟With the start of the new semester，students around the country exchange their fun and fashionable clothes for boring school uniforms.“The uniform makes us look like a_bunch_of_clones，especially when we are doing morning exercises in the playground，”sai
2、d Qing, a Senior 2 from a high school in Shanghai.“But we are not exactly the same from the top to the bottom.The boys wear different sport shoes and girls have different decorations(装饰品) in their hair.These are the areas where you can express yourself，”said Qing.Although it might be strange for boy
3、s to talk about fashion，they do care about what they wear in school，especially shoes，according to Qing.“Nike and Adidas basketball shoes，although they are still the must for many of my friends，are becoming outofdate，”Qing added.He explained, “Since Liu Xiang ran so fast in Athens，running shoes are b
4、ecoming popular in this Autumn.”“Still in fashion are the various baseball caps and Americanstyle Tshirts with random English words printed on them，” said Qing.“The accuracy (准确性)of the written message isnt important.Often, the words are misspelt.Sometimes they do not even make sense，” Qing said wit
5、h a smile.Besides sports shoes and Tshirts, styles and colors of school bags are another opportunity for students to express their taste in fashion.Some bags are made more eyecatching by decorating them with small hanging dolls.Other fashionable items are the colorful drink containers which are now
6、popular among girls this semester.As in China, the new semester in the US also brings new fashion trends: shirts printed with Chinese words, necklaces with Hebrew (希伯莱) or Hindi (印度的) characters, and Brazilian jewelry, are all common in schools in Florida, according to Carmen Domingues, a high schoo
7、l student.1What does the underlined words“a bunch of clones” in Paragraph 2 mean?AAll of the clothes are the same.BAll of the exercises are the same.CAll of the clothes are different.DAll of the exercises are different.解析：选A。词义猜测题。根据短文第一段“新学期开始了，大家都换成校服”可得出答案。2How do the students express themselves
8、in school?AThe girls wear different sport shoes.BAll the students wear school uniforms.CThe girls have different decorations in their hair.DThe boys drink water from colorful drinks containers.解析：选C。细节题。从第二段中The boys wear different sport shoes and girls have different decorations(装饰品)in their hair.一
9、句分析可得出答案。3Why are Nike and Adidas basketball shoes becoming outofdate?ABecause the shoes are not eyecatching.BBecause running shoes become more popular.CBecause the shoes have been popular for a long time.DBecause they have changed their opinions for Liu Xiang.解析：选B。细节题。根据第四段中的Since Liu Xiang ran so
10、 fast in Athens，running shoes are becoming popular in this autumn.一句可得出答案。4Which of the following is NOT the new fashion trends in the US?ANecklace with Hebrew or Hindi characters.BBaseball caps and Americanstyle Tshirts.CShirts printed with Chinese words.DBrazilian jewelry.解析：选B。事实确认题。根据短文最后一段所表述的内
11、容可得出答案。BWords：330难度系数：建议用时：9分钟Enter a typical high school, and the first thing you see is the front office, where the principal dwells and grades are stored.The front office also reinforces familiar hierarchy: principal at the top, teachers in the middle, kids on the bottom, sitting with hands folde
12、d at their desks.Now, imagine a school where the organizational structure is completely flat.At the New Country School in Henderson, Minn, there is no front office.Visitors are immediately embraced by an airy atrium that is the centerpiece of this oneroom schoolhouse.And all around the room, 124 stu
13、dents sit at desksreal office desksworking at their own personal computers on their own projects.When Dee Thomas and her colleagues got together 15 years ago to design a new high school，they knew there was one thing that had to do：The bell.“You dont go into your job in the morning and say，OK，for the
14、 first 45 minutes of my job，Im going to do the math part.And then a buzzer goes off，and you do the social history part of your job.You dont do that.”Thomas said.There are no teachers at New Country.Every few weeks，students must present projects theyve been working on to the rest of the school commun
15、ity.To prepare for their presentations，they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their “advisers.”Kids at New Country test better than their peers on the state tests and on the precollege ACT.The school sends 90 percent of its graduates to college.But that do
16、esnt tell the whole story.New Country struggles to keep its seniors from leaving.The schools senior project is demanding300 hours of work.But for some students，New Country offers a rare alternative，a choice they cant find anywhere else.And the school is constantly visited by educators from around th
17、e world looking for new ideas.Thats the foundation of efforts to reform American high schools todaythat theres a need to experiment with an institution that is failing millions of students.5The author mentioned the typical high school in the lst paragraph _.Ato tell us what the typical high school i
18、s like in USABto present a sharp contrast with the experimental school, New CountryCto introduce the topic，New Country，of the passageDto call on students to register in the typical high school解析：选C。段落理解题。文章主要介绍了美国的一所实验学校New Country的情况，文章开篇提到typical high school的情况是为了引起下文。6The following statements abo
19、ut New Country are all true except that _.ANew Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical officeBstudents consult with“advisers”， who“teach” in the traditional senseCno bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their timeDno traditional classes, students wor
20、k on projects they select themselves解析：选B。细节理解题。B项错在who“teach”in the traditional sense，只有在：To prepare for their presentations，they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their “advisers.”才去求助于advisers。7Compared with a typical high school, New Country is well re
21、ceived for its _.Ahigh test scores Balternative natureCcomfortable conditions Dteaching methods解析：选B。细节理解题。最后一段第一句中New Country offers a rare alternative，a choice they cant find anywhere else.，可看出选B项。8The passage mainly tells us_.Athe concepts of an experimental schoolBtypical high school and experim
22、ental schoolCnew schools in future in AmericaDeducation reform in America解析：选A。主旨概括题。文中主要讲述的是experimental school，所以B错误；C、D太笼统。*结束阅读理解Words：322难度系数：建议用时：8分钟In the summer of 1978 an English farmer was driving his tractor through a field of wheat when he discovered that some of his wheat was lying flat
23、 on the ground.The flattened wheat formed a circle about six meters across.Around this circle were four smaller circles of flattened wheat.The five circles were in a formation like five dots.During the following years，farmers in England found the strange circles in their fields more and more often.T
24、he circles are called“crop circles”because they appear in the fields of grainusually wheat or corn.The grain in the circles lies flat on the ground but is never broken；it continues to grow，and farmers can later harvest it.Farmers always discover the crop circles in the morning，so the circles probabl
25、y form at night.They appear only in the months from May to September.At first，people thought that the circles were a hoax.Probably young people were making them as a joke，or farmers were making them to attract tourists.To prove that the circles were a hoax，people tried to make circles exactly like t
26、he ones that farmers had found.They couldnt do it.They couldnt enter a field of grain without leaving tracks，and they couldnt flatten the grain without breaking it.Many people believe that beings from outer space are making the circles to communicate with us from far away and that the crop circles a
27、re messages from them.Scientists who have studied the crop circles suggested several possibilities.Some scientists say that a downward rush of wind leads to the formation of the circlesthe same downward rush of air that sometimes causes an airplane to crash.Other scientists say that forces within th
28、e earth cause the circles to appear.There is one problem with all these scientific explanations：crop circles often appear in formations，like the fivedot formation.It is hard to believe that any natural force could form those.1In the summer of 1978，an English farmer discovered in his field that _.Aso
29、me of his wheat had been damagedBsome of his wheat had fallen onto the groundChis grain was growing up in circlesDhis grain was moved into several circles解析：选B。事实细节题。根据第一段的内容可知，英国农夫发现麦田里的麦子倒在地里形成了怪圈。2The underlined word “hoax” in Paragraph 3 is probably _.Aan attempt made to fool peopleBa special wa
30、y to plant cropsCan experiment for the protection of cropsDa research on the force of winds解析：选A。猜测词义题。第三段的第二句解释了上句的生词hoax(恶作剧)。3Which of the following may prove that the crop circles are not made by man?AThe farmers couldnt step out of the field.BThe farmers couldnt make the circles round.CThe farm
31、ers couldnt leave without footprints.DThe farmers couldnt keep the wheat straight up.解析：选C。事实细节题。根据第三段的内容可知，人们试图人为地制造一些类似的“怪圈”，可是他们的尝试以失败而告终，因为只要他们进入麦田，就必然会留下踪迹。4One explanation given by scientists for the crop circles is that they are made by _.Aairplane crashesBair movementCunknown flying objects Dnew farming techniques解析：选B。事实细节题。由文章最后一段的内容可知B项符合题意。