1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家2013高考英语考前冲刺精选：阅读理解（11）及答案 第*套第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)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。A A girl became a volunteer in the activities of Deathbed Care, which meant visiting and taking care of a patient suffering from an incurable disease with days numbered.The girl was assigned to loo
2、k after an old man suffering from cancer whose children lived abroad. Their living conditions were not satisfactory while the old man had a lot of savings. She was expected to comfort him and keep up his spirits. Every Saturday the girl came on time to keep him company, telling him stories. When he
3、was having an intravenous drip (静脉滴注), she would help massage his arms. The doctor found the patient much improved mentally. The old man began to involve himself actively in the medical treatment and he seldom shouted at others. But something that happened made the doctor uneasy and puzzled. Each ti
4、me the girl left, the old man would give her some money. The doctor did nothing to interfere (干涉), unwilling to offend the old man. A month later the old man showed evident signs of decline after suffering coma (昏迷) a few times. When rescued from the latest coma, the old man told the doctor his last
5、 wish, “I have deep sympathy for the girl. Will you be kind enough to help her finish her studies？” But the doctor knew that her family was welloff and she had no difficulty pursuing her studies. Sometimes she even came to the hospital in her fathers car. When the girl came at the weekend after the
6、death of the old man, the doctor told her the bad news. She was very sad and burst into tears. Then she handed $ 500 to the doctor, saying, “The old man had all along thought I came to do the job because of poverty. He gave me money so that I could continue my schooling.” Now he got the answer to th
7、e puzzle. In the last period of his life, the old man found it a real pleasure to be able to help a girl badly in need.19. If youre a volunteer in the activities of Deathbed Care, what kind of people do you have to attend to?A. The patients in need of help. B. The people suffering from cancer.C. The
8、 patients without many days left D. The people suffering from diseases.57. What can we infer about the old man?A. He had a lot of savings.B. He was suffering from cancer.C. He often lost his temper before meeting the girl.D. He asked the doctor to help the girl finish her study.58. What can we know
9、from the passage?A. The doctor told the old man the truth.B. The old mans children were wealthy.C. The girls father encouraged her to accept the money.D. The girl didnt accompany the old man when he died.59. What is the real reason resulting in the old mans mental improvement?A. The girls comfort an
10、d care.B. The pleasure of being helpful to people in need.C. Peoples understanding.D. His childrens progress.【答案及解析】56C。推理判断题。从第一段中的which meant visiting and. with days numbered可以知道，这个志愿活动主要是照顾那些患有不治之症、时日不多的病人，由此推断C项正确。57C。推理判断题。从文章第二段中的to comfort him and keep up his spirits和第三段中的seldom shouted at ot
11、hers我们不难推断出，老人之前的脾气不好。A项和B项(第二段中)以及D项(第五段最后)在文中都有陈述，不用推断。所以答案选C项。58D。细节理解题。从文章最后一段第一句可知，老人死去时，女孩不在场，所以答案选D项。其他选项都不符合文章内容。59B。推理判断题。从全文最后一段可知，老人在人生最后的日子里为能够帮助一个急需帮助的女孩而感到由衷地高兴，这真正改善了他的精神状态。所以答案选B项。*结束BAdam Smith was the first person to see the importance of the division of the labor. He gave us an ex
12、ample of the process by which pins were made in England.One man draws out the wire, another strengthens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and a fifth gives it a head. Just to make the head requires two or three different operations. The work of making pins is divided into about eighteen diffe
13、rent operations, which in some factories are all performed by different people, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them.Ten men, Smith said, in this way, turned out twelve pounds of pins a day or about 4,800 pins a worker. But if all of them had worked separately an
14、d independently without division of labor, they certainly could not have made twenty pins in a day and not even one.There can be no doubt that division of labor is an efficient way of organizing work. Fewer people can make more pins. Adam Smith saw this, but he also took it for granted that the divi
15、sion of labor is itself responsible for economic growth and development and it accounts for the difference between expanding economies and those that stand still. In fact, the division of labor adds nothing new, and it only enables people to produce more of what they already have.60. According to th
16、e passage, Adam Smith was the first person to _.A. take advantage of the physical laborB. introduce the division of labor into EnglandC. understand the effects of the division of laborD. explain the causes of the division of labor61. Adam Smith saw that the division of labor _.A. enabled each worker
17、 to design pins more quicklyB. increased the possible output of per workerC. increased the number of people employed in factoriesD. improved the quality of pins produced62. Adam Smith mentioned the number 4,800 in order to _.A. show the advantages of the old labor systemB. stress how powerful the in
18、dividual worker wasC. show the advantages of the division of laborD. stress the importance of increasing production63. According to the writer, Adam Smiths mistake was in believing that the division of labor _.A. was an efficient way of organizing workB. was an important development in methods of pr
19、oductionC. finally led to economic developmentD. increased the production of existing goods【答案及解析】60C。事实细节题。从文章第一段知，Adam Smith是第一个发现劳动力分工重要性的人，故答案选C项。61B。逻辑推理题。从第二和第三段尤其从第三段的第二句可知，Adam Smith发现劳动力分工能有效提高生产效率，所以选B项。62C。逻辑推理题。从全文第三段知，Adam Smith提到了4800，说每个工人一天可以生产4800个大头针，主要用来说明劳动力分工的优势所在，即劳动分工可以有效提高工作效
20、率，故选C项。63C。逻辑推理题。从文章最后一段中的but he also took it for granted that.以及最后一句可推知，答案为C项。*结束CShould ecigarettes (electronic cigarettes) be a new choice for the smokers trying to get rid of the habit? Reactions from Americans are mixedMore than half of the people questioned in a survey think ecigarettes should
21、 be controlled by the US Food and Drug Administration，but 47 percent believe the ecigarettes should be available to the smokers who want to quit“In the hunt for a safer cigarette，ecigarettes are becoming a popular choice among those either trying to quit or looking to replace standard tobacco smoke
22、with an alternative that manufacturers claim to be safer，” Zogby International，which conducted the survey，said in a statementAbout half of the 4,611 adults who took part in the survey had heard about ecigarettes，which are batterypowered，or rechargeable cigarettes that vaporize a liquid nicotine solu
23、tionThey do not produce smoke but a water vapor without smellSold mostly on the Internet，ecigarettes were first made in ChinaLast year the World Health Organization (WHO) warned against using ecigarettes，saying there was no evidence to prove they were safe or helped smokers break the habitThe WHO sa
24、id people who smoke ecigarettes breathe in a fine fog of nicotine into the lungsNearly a third of people questioned in the survey think that ecigarettes should be allowed in places where smoking is forbidden，because they dont produce smoke，but 46 percent disagreeMen who were aware of the availabilit
25、y of ecigarettes were more likely than women to say they should be a choice available to smokers who want to quitYoung people，aged 1829，and singles were the groups most open to trying ecigarettesSmoking is the single largest cause of preventable death worldwide，according to the WHO64What can we lear
26、n from Paragraph 1?AAmericans have different opinions about ecigarettesBAmerican smokers ought to try ecigarettesCEvery kind of cigarettes should be forbidden in AmericaDMost of the Americans dont like ecigarettes65According to Zogby International，ecigarettes _Aare much safer than common cigarettesB
27、will take the place of traditional cigarettesCare popular among people who want to quit smokingDare produced in a safer way by manufacturers66What do we know about ecigarettes from the passage? AMost Americans are familiar with themB Most people buy them on the InternetCThey produce a water vapor th
28、at cant be seenDThey are a good choice as there is no nicotine67Whats the attitude of the WHO towards ecigarettes?AIndifferent BSupportiveCDoubtfulDNegative DLONDON (Reuters)New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a FrenchCaribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor s
29、how that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities (怪异)，researchers saidThe findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the transplants could prove longlasting without major problemsDespite the tissue rejection in the first year after their transplants
30、，neither men had psychological problems accepting their new faces and have been able to rejoin society，they reportedOnly three people have received face transplantsThe worlds first was carried out on French woman Isabelle Dinoire in November 2005 after she was disfigured in an attack by her dogIn 20
31、07，her doctors reported that she had recovered slowly and steadily，overcoming two periods of rejectionIn 2006，Chinese doctors performed a face transplant on a 30yearold hit by a bearWhile there were some complications with tissue rejection following the operation，two years later the man was doing we
32、ll，his doctors said“This case suggests that facial transplantation might be an option for restoring a severely disfigured face，and could enable patients to bring themselves back into society，” Shuzhong Guo and colleagues at Xijing Hospital in China wroteA French team described their work on a 29year
33、old man who suffered from Von Recklinghausen disease，an illness that changes the shape of his face“The man，who was not named，was given a new nose，mouth and chin in a 2007 operationHe began to work 13 months after the transplant has more function in his face and has not rejected the new tissue，” his
34、doctors said“Our case confirms that face transplantation is practical and effective for the correction of specific disfigurement，” DrLaurent Lantieri and colleagues at the HenriMondor hospital outside Paris wrote68Whats the main idea of this passage?AFace transplants help regain confidenceBFace tran
35、splants can workCThree people have received face transplantsDDisfigured people need face transplants69The underlined word “restoring” in Paragraph 4 means “_”Arepairing repairing BrecoveringCrepairing Drejecting70What problem resulted from the facial operations?AThe patients wouldnt accept the facial changeBIt was hard for the patients to get along with others C The patients usually suffered from tissue rejectionDIt took some time for the patients to recover from the operation参考答案 ACBD BCC - 6 - 版权所有高考资源网
