1、山东枣庄市2016高考英语(二轮)阅读理解训练（1）及答案阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。【2014高考英语综合能力测试题】There are only three important days in everyones life and two of them are the ones that you dont need to worry about. Serigne Fallou Mbacke, a sage and man of God, who lived in Senegal (West Africa) between 1888 and 1968, us
2、ed to say, The day is today, it is the only day, the past is gone and will never come back and the future belongs to God. Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896, author of Uncle Toms Cabin, once said almost the same thing, The past, the present, and the future are really one: they are today. We all know t
3、hat many people spend one half of their days regretting for the past, and the other half worrying about the future, leaving no time to enjoy the present when everything happens. How can such people get ahead in life? People all over the world have made countless discussions on the subject but it doe
4、s not seem to make a difference. Most of us are still everywhere but in the present. As the saying goes, if you do what everybody does, you will get what everybody gets! Make a difference, and live in the present. It will help you achieve more, become a better person and live a happier life, a life
5、without anxieties or worries. Today is all you have. There is no guarantee that you will live to see tomorrow and there is not a thing you can change about the past. Motivational speaker and author, Dennis Waitley puts it so beautifully in one of his books: The past is a cancelled check, the future
6、is a promissory note(期票), but the present, the present is liquid cash. Always remember that today is a gift and that is the reason why it is called the present.26. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. The future belongs to God. B. No one can change the past. C. Living in today will help
7、 you achieve more. D. We are sure that we will live to see tomorrow.27. Who described the three important days as check, note and cash? A. The writer. B. Serigne Fallou Mbacke. C. Harriet Beecher Stowe. D. Dennis Waitley. 28. Why is today called the present according to the passage? A. Because today
8、 is a gift. B. Because people are always worrying about today. C. Because people are always worrying about the future. D. Because people have made countless discussions on the subject. 29. Which of the following words can best describe the authors attitude towards today? A. Unconcerned. B. Negative.
9、 C. Favorable. D. Doubtful. 30. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Can you make a difference? B. Are you wasting today? C. Do you worry about the past? D. Are you worrying about the future?【参考答案】26-30 DDACB 活在当下就是要放下负担，快乐地生活在此时此刻，活在当下意味着无忧无悔。对未来会发生什么不去作无谓的想象与担心，所以无忧；对过去已发生的事也不作无谓的计较与后悔
10、，所以无悔。26. D。细节理解题。从倒数第三段中Today is all you have, there is no guarantee that you will live to see tomorrow.可知。27. D。细节理解题。从倒数第三段中Dennis Waitley puts it so beautifully in one of his books.及倒数第二段可知。28. A。细节理解题。从倒数第一段中Always remember that today is a gift and that is the reason why it is called the presen
11、t.可知。29. C。观点态度题。通读全文及最后一段可推理出答案。30. B。主旨大意题。本文围绕“活在当下”这一话题展开的。第一段提出话题“The day is today.”，最后一段点题.today is a gift.。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。Seen from space the earth is covered with a blue mantle. It is a planet on which the continents(洲，大陆) are dwarfed (相形见绌) by the ocean surrounding them
12、and the vastness of the marine (海洋的) area. An astonishing 80 percent of all life on earth is to be found hidden beneath the waves and this vast global ocean drives the natural forces which keep life on our planet. The ocean provides necessary sources of protein, energy, minerals and other products a
13、nd the rolling of the sea across the planet creates over half our oxygen, drives weather systems and natural flows of energy and nutrients around the world, transports water masses many times greater than all the rivers on land combined and keeps the earth suitable for living things to survive. With
14、out the global ocean there would be no life on earth. It is seriously worrying, then, that we are damaging the ocean on a level that is unimaginable to most people. We now know that human activity can have a serious influence on the vital forces of our planet. We have fundamentally changed our globa
15、l climate and are just beginning to understand the consequences of that. As yet largely unseen, but just as serious, are the influences we are having on the ocean. A healthy ocean has diverse ecosystems and strong and healthy habitats. The actual state of our ocean is a far cry from this natural sta
16、te. A lot of pressure is being put directly and indirectly on ocean ecosystems by human activities.Consequently ecosystems are breaking down as marine species are in danger of dying out and ocean habitats are being destroyed. With the decrease in their diversity, ocean ecosystems are losing their na
17、tural way of recovery. We need to defend the ocean now more than ever, because climate change is having a potentially disastrous impact on the marine world.1、. What can we learn from Paragraph 2? A. What the ocean looks like. B. What the ocean is made up of. C. What live in the ocean. D. What functi
18、ons the ocean has.2、. According to the text, the ocean directly provides people with _. A. water forming rivers B. comfortable habitats C. all the natural forces they need D. driving forces for energy and nutrients3、. It is not realized by many people that we have _. A. done great harm to the ocean
19、B. benefited greatly from the ocean C. fundamentally changed our global climate D. begun to suffer the consequences of pollution4、. The best title for this text would be _. A. Protecting Our Planet B. Defending Our Ocean C. Getting to Know Our Planet D. Make Good Use of Our Ocean 【参考答案】14、DDAB）阅读下列短
20、文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。When I was a boy，my father told me that he could do anything that he wanted to do . Dad said that he wanted to be the first to develop color prints in our city, and so he did When I was 16，Dad looked closely at the violin I played and announced that he wanted to make on
21、eHe read about violin making，and then became a violin-maker at the age of 43He bought the tools and materials, opened a small store and set Mom up as the shopkeeper, while he worked at a local companyHe retired from the company 17 years later and continued to make violins and other instruments. Dad
22、often guessed why the Stradivarius violins sounded so beautifulSome experts claimed that it was the unique varnish（油漆）that gave those instruments their beautiful soundDad argued that chemists could analyze the varnish-if that were the answer One of Dads friends asked him once which kind of wood was
23、used to make violinsWhen Dad explained that the top was made of spruce，his friend said that he had an old piece of spruce Dad might be interested in He worked for the next 12 months making a violin from the wood that his friend had given him. It proved to be a superior violin and it would become Dad
24、s masterpieceHe was convinced that the secret of the Stradivarius sound was in the wood itself Later，the instrument was stolenDads spirit was broken by the robbery, and he stopped making instruments. But he kept the music shop until he was 80 years old，selling guitars and violins My father has been
25、gone for 14 years nowThe violin has been missing for more than25 yearsSomewhere a musician is playing a late-20tb-centruy violin with an excellent toneThe owner today may never understand why this ordinary-looking violin sounds so much like a Stradivarius. 1. The author mentions his fathers developi
26、ng color prints_ Ato show that his fathers real interest was not in making violins Bto prove that his father could do anything he wanted to do Cto give an example proving that his father was an inventor Dto describe the real thing that made the author believe his father 2. What did the authors fathe
27、r think about Stradivarius violins? AThe varnish was different from the others BThe way of making them was special CThe wood of the violins was special DThey could only be analyzed by chemists 3. How long did the authors father live after the violin was stolen ? A. About 11 years B. About 14 years C
28、. About 25 years D. About 80 years 【参考答案】14、B C A B )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。Beldon and Canfield are two seashore towns, not far apartBoth towns have many hotels, and in summer the hotels are full of holiday-makers and other touristsLast August there was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel in B
29、eldonThe next day, this news appeared on page two of the towns newspaperThe Beldon Post:FIRE AT SEABREEZELate last night firemen hurried to the Seabreeze Hotel and quickly put out a small fire in a bedroomThe hotel manager said that a cigarette started the fireWe say again to all our visitors： “Plea
30、se dont smoke cigarettes in bed” This was Beldons first hotel fire for five yearsThe Canfield Times gave the news in these words on page one：ANOTHER BELDON HOTEL CATCHES FIRELast night Beldon firemen arrived just too late to save clothing, bedclothes and some furniture at the Seabreeze HotelAn angry
31、 holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the fireThe bedroom lamps are very old at some of these hotelsWhen I put my bed side light on, I heard a funny noise from the lamp” We are glad to tell our readers that this sort of adventure does not happen in CanfieldWhat are the facts, then?
32、 It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accidentThere was a fire at the Seabreeze Hotel last August: that is one factDo we know anything else? Yes, we know that firemen went to the hotelNow what do you think of the rest of the “news”?1Which of the following best gives the main idea of
33、 this text?ABeldon and Canfield are both good places for tourists in summer BA fire broke out at night in Seabreeze Hotel last summerCIt was not easy to find out exact truth from newspapersDTwo newspapers gave reports on the same matter2Which of the following are probably facts?aThe fire broke out i
34、n a bedroom at the hotelbA cigarette started the firecAn old lamp started the firedThe fire broke out at nighteThere has never been a fire in CanfieldAb and cBa and dCc and eDa and c3The Canfield Times used the headline like this in order to make its readers think _ Ahotels in Beldon often catch fir
35、eBhotels in Beldon dont often catch fireCthis was the second fire at the Seabreeze Hotel来 DBeldon was a good place except that hotels there are not quite safe4The Canfield newspaper gave a report just the opposite to the Beldon Post by saying that _Athe bedroom lamps were very old at the Seabreeze HotelBthe bedroom lights made funny noise when the fire took placeCthe firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other thingsDsuch accidents never happened in Canfield for the past 5 years【参考答案】14、CBAC）
