1、湖南岳阳市2017高考英语一轮阅读理解统练（三）及参考答案【2016高考模拟题】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。Tony Morrison has won this years Nobel Prize for Literature. Tony Morrison is sixty-two years old. She was born in Lorain, Ohio. She is the daughter of farmers who moved to Ohio from the southern state of Alabama. She studied at H
2、arvard University in Washington D.C. and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.Her first success came in 1970 with the book called The Bluest Eye. It tells the story of a young black girl in a society where golden hair and blue eyes are considered beautiful. Her next book was called Sulla. It tells
3、 the story of two black girls and pain in their lives as they grow up in a small town in Ohio. Her book The Song of Solomon is about a black man who tries to forget his past as a slave and begin a new life. And Tar Baby explores the relationship of a black man and a black woman. In the story the wri
4、ter argues that black men and women can not get along with each other until they join together to fight racial hatred(种族仇视).Miss Morrison won Americas highest prize for literature, the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her book Beloved .It is a powerful story of a slave woman who kills her baby daughter so
5、 she will not grow up to be a slave, too. Her latest book Jazz was published last year. It tells about the sad stories in the lives of a black man and woman who moved from a small town in the south to New York City. It took place in the 1920s,a time when Jazz music became popular in America.Tony Mor
6、rison is a professor in literature at Princeton University in New Jersey. She says the most wonderful thing about winning the Nobel Prize is that it has finally been awarded to an African American writer. The prize is valued at more than 800 000 dollars. It will be awarded on Dec.10 in Stockholm in
7、Sweden.1. From the passage, we can see_.A. Morrison is the first woman writer to win the Nobel PrizeB. The Bluest Eye tells the story of two black girlsC. the Blacks lived a hard lifeD. Morrison studied at Cornell University and is now still working there2. Morrison has been awarded the Nobel Prize
8、perhaps because_.A. she is an important professor in literatureB. her books are widely readC. what she has written attracted peoples attention to the Blacks lifeD. she mostly writes about the black women3. How many books she has written are mentioned in the passage?A. Five.B. Six.C. Seven.D. Eight.4
9、. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. Morrisons father once lived in Alabama.B. When jazz was popular in the United States.C. When her ancestors first came to the U.S.D .When and where the Nobel Prize will be given to her.这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了Morrison的经历以及她的作品所产生的效应。1. C。 细节理解题。根据Mor
10、rison所写的所有书的介绍,黑人们都过着艰难的生活。2. C。 细节理解题。根据Morrison所著书中的黑人都有着悲惨的命运,可推知她的书所产生的效应。3. B。 细节理解题。文中总共提到了六本她写的书。4. C。 细节理解题。选项A、B、D分别可在文章第一段、第三段、第四段找到依据。2016高考英语*阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。It must be something that many American companies hold a baby contest. Of course, babies are wonderful, an
11、d many parents would be the first to agree. Companies really bring in much money.Walgreens Baby contestIf you play the new Baby Milestones Challenge Contest by BabyCenter & Walgreens, you could win $1,000 in Walgreens & B Gift Cards and Certificates. You can play the instant winner if you get a $25
12、Walgreens gift card, but you also have to write down your email address and receive all their sales and other information for the contest.Kids and BabiesKids and Babies are accepting entries for May 2014 Free Photo Contest. Baby Photo Galley with theme albums and age group albums is moved to the new
13、 website Cute Baby Gallery. Check KidsandB for their Baby Photo Contest blogs latest update. The grand prize is $25,000. The catch: Winners are decided by the visitors coming to the site and voting for their favorite babies, so you have to advertise their site for them.PP has a website only for thei
14、r members, but if you are into baby photos, it is well worth surfing. You could receive offers on free samples, money-saving coupons (优惠券), and chances to win the latest contests.AvonAvon is another company that has a baby photo contest this spring. Avon is advertising their newest collection. It is
15、 Avons only collection for the photos of babies. Babies age: newborn to 2 years. Just go to TinyT and upload your recent babys photos. The first place baby will be featured in a Tiny Tillia Storybooks and win a $5,000 U.S. Savings Bond. Ten beautiful girls will win $300 worth of Tiny Tillia products
16、.The tip is to run a search engine for all the latest contests going on and start entering them today. You could be lucky and win enough to put your baby through college! Have fun! 5.What is the basic condition for you to play the instant winner in Walgreens & B?A. Getting a gift card.B. Getting a c
17、ertificate.C. Winning 1,000 dollars.D. Receiving information for the contest6.If you want your baby to win the 2014 Free Photo Contest, you will _.A. have to spend $ 25,000 B. take your baby to the gallery in MayC. upload more photos of your babyD. have to help to advertise their site 7.What can we
18、learn from this passage?A. Free Photo Contest will be held in March, 2014B. Avon is a website that will hold a baby photo contestC. P accepts the photos of all kinds of people babiesD. Parents can upload their one-year-old babys photos to TinyTillia. com8.In the last paragraph, the author advises pa
19、rents to _ .A. try their best to take good care of their babyB. enter the contests as soon as possibleC. encourage their kids to go to college when they grow upD. find more tips for winning the contests参考答案58 ADDB 社会生活类 Celebrity(名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular cu
20、lture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption(消费) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models on the cover because they dont sell nearly as well as f
21、amous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others products to developing their own. Celebrity clothing lines arent a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and
22、limited to a few TV actresses. Today theyre started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand t
23、heir production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life. However, for every success story, theres a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the products origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it be
24、gins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial(最初的) attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty(忠诚) returning to tried-and-true labels. Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its
25、rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebritys shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the egos (自我的) potential for expansion is limitless. Having alrea
26、dy achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to the conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashionlike celebrityhas always been temporary. 1. Fashion
27、 magazines today.A. seldom put models on the coverB. no longer put models on the coverC. need not worry about celebrities market potentialD. judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly2. A change in the consumer market can be found today that.A. price rather than brand name is more conce
28、rnedB. producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisementsC. producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisementsD. quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly.A. decrease the popul
29、arity of a celebrity and the sales of his productsB. damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general publicC. cut short the artistic career of a celebrity in show businessD. influence the price of a celebritys products4. The passage is mainly about.A. celebrity and personal styleB. celebr
30、ity and market potentialC. celebrity and fashion designD. celebrity and clothing industry【参考答案】49.1-4 ADAB 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。2013联考Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013，and the US is just 16th. A new study made by the Economist Intelligence Unit says American
31、 babies will have a dimmer future than those born in Hong Kong，Ireland and even Canada. The EIU，a sister company of the Economist，tried to measure how well countries will provide the best opportunities for a healthy，safe and prosperous life in years to come.People born in Switzerland will tend to be
32、 the happiest and have the best quality of life judged in terms of wealth，health and trust in public institutions，according to the analysis. The Scandinavian countries of Norway，Sweden and Denmark also all make the top five in a qualityoflife index(指数)highlighting where it is best to be born next ye
33、ar.One of the most important factors is being rich，but other factors come into playincluding crime，trust in public institutions and the health of family life. In total，the index takes into account 11 factors. These include fixed factors such as geography，others that change slowly over time such as d
34、emography (人口统计学)，social and cultural characteristics, and the state of the world economy. The index also looks at income per head in 2030，which is roughly when children born in 2013 will reach adulthood. Small economies take up the top 10 countries，with Australia coming second and New Zealand and t
35、he Netherlands not too far behind.Half of the top 10 countries are European，but only one，the Netherlands，is from the eurozone. The crisisridden south of Europe，including Greece，Portugal and Spain，falls behind despite the advantage of a favourable climate. Interestingly，the largest European economies
36、Germany，France and Britaindo not do particularly well. Nigeria has the unenviable(不值得羡慕的)title of being the worst country for a baby to enter the world in 2013.11According to the passage，the happiest people live in_ADenmark BSwitzerlandCGermany DNigeria12The factors of telling the best place to be b
37、orn dont include_Aeconomy BgeographyCtrust in public institutions Dpollution13Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?AThe Economist Intelligence Unit is a company.BThe Economist attempted to measure the best place to live.CThe Scandinavian countries are hardly at the top of the list.DH
38、alf of the top 10 countries are from the eurozone.14The purpose of the text is to show people_.Athe best place to be born in 2013Ba new study made by the EIUCthe worst country to be born in 2013Dthe factors of measuring the best place to be born【语篇导读】 本文主要通过经济学人智库对国家的幸福指数的研究得出在瑞士出生的人是最幸福的，生活质量也最高，而挪
39、威、瑞典和丹麦这几个斯堪的纳维亚国家也跻身前五名。11. B细节理解题。 根据文章第一段“Switzerland is the best place to be born in the world in 2013”和第二段“People born in Switzerland will tend to be the happiest and have the best quality of life”可知，一般来说，在瑞士出生的人是最幸福的，其生活质量也最高。故答案为B项。12. D细节理解题。根据文章第二段中对于判断最佳居住地的因素介绍可知，没有提到“污染”的问题。故答案为D项。13. A推理判断题。根据文章第一段中“The EIU, a sister company of the Economist”可知经济学人智库是一家公司。故A项正确。14. B主旨大意题。本文的目的是展示经济学人智库的研究结果，而其他三个选项只是其中的一个部分，不能作为文章的目的。故答案为B项。
