1、2013高考英语二轮（阅读理解）精品训练（05）及答案（*） Facing sorest test. Bush declares national tragedy The worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor tore George W. Bush from what should have been routine education event Tuesday and threw him into the direst crisis of his young presidency. The US leader was reading to s
2、choolchildren at an elemen tary school when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, interrupted him and whispered into his ear. The presidents face clouded but he said nothing. Well talk about it later, He told reporters as he walked out of Sandra Kay Daniels second grade class, where he also listened to 1
3、8 smiling young pupils go through routine reading and pronunciation clrills. Cards intervention came after a plane slammed into one of New York s twin World Trade Center towers. but before a second plane crashed into the other landmark office building. The president spoke out after the second incide
4、nt, aborting another education themed event and declaring a national trag edyand vowing an all-out hunt for the authors of what he called an apparent terrorist attack. Bush saidhe had ordered that the full resources of the fed eral government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct
5、a fullscale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks that committed this act. Terrorism against our na tion will not stand.Today weve had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist at tack on our country. I have spoken to the Vice Pr
6、esident. to the Governor of New York, to the Director of the FBI, He said. 1. When Bush definitely learned the attack news from his chief of staff, Andrew Card? A. Soon after the first plane crashed into one of New York s twin World Trade Center towers. B. In the middle of two attacks. C. Just after
7、 another plane crashed into the other landmark office building. D. On his journey to his office. 答案：B 指导：推理题。布什得到爆炸消息是在第一次撞击后，而在第二次撞击前，即应是两次撞击的中间，选B. 2. In aborting another education-themed event the word abortingis the same meaning with_. A. putting off B. delayingC. postponing D. stopping 答案： D指导：
8、词义解释。abort基本意是“流产”，延伸义是“停止、取消”。3. Which of the following steps Bush administration will take is not true.? A. To find out the incident-maker. B. To help the victims and their families. C. To declare the attack day as a national tragedy. D. To put off the education themed event. 答案： D 指导：“steps”意为“措施
9、”，倒数第二段和第三段中，A、B、C项都有提及。只有D项不是与A、B,C并列的救急措施。*结束AFor centuries, the bodys blood has been linked closely with the emotionsPeople who show no human emotions or feelings, are said to be cold-blooded killerFor example, the police are searching for a cold-blooded killerHe seems to kill for no reason, and
10、no emotion, as if taking someones life as nothingCold can affect other parts of the bodyThe expression “get cold feet” has nothing to do with cold or your feetThe expression means being afraid to do something you have decided to doFor example, you agree to be president of an organizationBut then you
11、 learn that all the other officers have resigned, and all the work of the organization will be your responsibilityYou are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation.The expression “give someone the cold shoulder” probably comes from the physical act of turning yo
12、ur back toward someone, instead of speaking to him face to faceYou may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to youOr, to someone who has lied about you to othersA cold fish is not a fishIt is a personBut it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and shows no love o
13、r warmthA cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyoneSomeone who is a cold fish could be cold-heartedNow a cold-hearted person is someone who has no sympathySeveral popular songs in recent years were about cold-hearted men or cold-hearted women who, without feelings, broke the hearts of their
14、 loversOut in the cold means not getting something that everybody else gotA person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise-he was left out in the coldAnd it is not a pleasant place to be41When you refuse to speak to a man and treat him in a distant way, you may express by “_”AI give him the
15、 cold shoulder BI think he is a cold-blooded manCI think he is a cold fish DIm likely to get cold feet42If Sue shows absolutely no reaction to those awful pictures of starving children in Africa, you will say _Ashe is a cold-blooded killer Bshe gets cold feetCshe is a cold fish Dshe is out in the co
16、ld43We can use the expression “_” to describe a man who abandons or hurts his lover without mercyAcold-bloodedBcold shoulder Ccold feetDcold-hearted44The topic of this passage is about _Athe relationship between cold and our bodyBsome expressions about friendshipCsome expressions connected with cold
17、Dhow cold weather comes into beingB “Linda, if beating yourself up were an Olympic sport, youd win a gold medal!”Annabel, my close friend, stunned me with that frank observation after I told her how I had mishandled a situation with a student in a third-grade class where I was substituting.（代课） “I s
18、hould never have let him go to the boys room without a pass! It was my fault he got into trouble with the hall monitor! Im so stupid!” My friend burst out laughing, and then made her “Olympic” comment. After a brief period of reflection（沉思） I had to admit that she was right. I did put myself down an
19、 awful lot. Why, just during the previous day I had called myself “a slob” for having some papers spread out on my desk, “ugly” when I left the house without makeup and “an idiot” when I left the house for an emergency substitute job without my emergency lesson plan. In a more reflective tone, Annab
20、el said, “I once took a workshop at church where the woman in charge had us list all the things we say about ourselves.” “How many did you have on your list?” I asked. “Fifteen,” she confessed. “But then the teacher said, Now turn to the person next to you and say all the items on your list as if yo
21、u were speaking to that person! ”My jaw dropped. “What did you do?” “Nothing. Nobody did. We all just sat there, until I said, I could never say these things to anyone else! ”“And our teacher replied, Well, if you cant say them to anyone else, then dont ever say them to yourself! ”My friend had a po
22、int. I would never insult a child of God-and Im Gods child, too! God, today let me be as kind to myself as I would be to another of Your children. 45. What does Annabel mean by the first sentence of the passage? A. The writer is a good athlete.B. The writer scolds herself too much. C. She is encoura
23、ging the writer. D. A gold medal is not a big deal. 46. What does the writer intend to tell us through the second and third paragraphs? A. She has low self-esteem over some small things. B. She often makes serious mistakes in daily life. C. She is a third-grade teacher. D. She cares too much about h
24、er appearance. 47. We can infer that the underlined word “slob” might be _. A. something untidyB. someone dangerous C. something dirty D. someone lazy 48. What does the writer mean by the last sentence of the passage? A. She is ready to turn to God for help. B. She will be kind to all children. C. S
25、he wont insult herself as well as others. D. She is willing to be a child of God. CWith alarming regularity, we read about oil tankers having accidents near land and the terrible consequences of the oil spills （泄露） on people, nature, and the environmentMillions of dollars have been used in developin
26、g special chemicals to help dismiss the spills and to clean up the animals, beaches, and land spoiled by the oilUnfortunately, when many of these chemicals are used, more damage is caused to the environment, especially to lives in the seaOf all of todays environmental disasters, an oil spill may act
27、ually be one of the least seriousAlthough oil is poisonous, it is a natural materialIn the end, it breaks down naturallyThere are, of course, long-term effects, but it is usually more serious in the short termNature by itself works better than chemical materials, but when there is a spill we demand
28、that governments act immediately with as much hi-tech knowledge as possibleIn 1967 the tanker Torrey Canyon sank off the Scilly Isles near the coast of England and spilled 120,000 tons of oil into the oceanIf you go there today, you will find it hard to see any sign that it ever happenedGovernments
29、seem to accept the risk of transporting millions of tons of oil by ship every day so that we can fill up our cars and drive around and cause even more environmental damageInterestingly, the biggest companies in the world produce cars, and the next biggest supply the gasoline to make them runWe shoul
30、d be thinking more about reducing our dependence on oilGovernments should be encouraging research into new technologies, such as cars run by solar power （太阳能） , electricity, hydrogen, and so onMuch of this research has, in the past, been held back by the oil, gas, and coalIf the worlds millions of c
31、ars were 10% more efficient （高效的）and the industry could easily produce cars at least twice as efficient we would need many fewer tankers crossing the oceans each yearIf this happened, the risks of oil spills would be reduced, and the air we breathe would be cleaner and fresher, too49What is the pass
32、age mainly talking about?AOil spills pollution BWhat oil pollution isCOil tanker accidents. DHow to reduce oil pollution.50How does the author support the idea that oil spills are not as serious as people believe?ABy giving a description BBy making an argumentCBy giving an example DBy drawing a diag
33、ram51What does the underlined word risk in Paragraph 5 refer to?ATransportation depending more on oilBPoisonous oil breaking down naturallyCMillions of tons of oil spilling into the seaDMore environmental damage being caused52Which suggestion is made for reducing oil tank accidents according to the
34、passage?AWe should build safer tankers in the near futureBWe should develop new technologies to cut oil useCTankers should not be allowed to sail near the coastlinesDCountries should build more oil pipelines under the seaDViolin prodigies (神童), I learned, have come in distinct waves from distinct re
35、gions. Most of the great performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were born and brought up in Russia and Eastern Europe. I asked Isaac Stern, one of the worlds greatest violinists the reason for this phenomenon. “It is very clear,” he told me. “They were all Jews and Jews at the time wer
36、e severely oppressed and ill-treated in that part of the world. They were not allowed into the professional fields, but they were allowed to achieve excellence on a concert stage.” As a result, every Jewish parents dream was to have a child in the music school because it was a passport to the West.A
37、nother element in the emergence of prodigies, I found, is a society that values excellence in a certain field to nurture (培育) talent. Nowadays, the most nurturing societies seem to be in the Far East. “In Japan, a most competitive society, with stronger discipline than ours,” says Isaac Stern, child
38、ren are ready to test their limits every day in many fields, including music. When Western music came to Japan after World War II, that music not only became part of their daily lives, but it became a discipline as well. The Koreans and Chinese as we know, are just as highly motivated as the Japanes
39、e.Thats a good thing, because even prodigies must work hard. Next to hard work, biological inheritance（遗传） plays an important role in the making of a prodigy. J. S. Bach, for example, was the top of several generations of musicians, and four of his sons had significant careers in music.53.Jewish par
40、ents in Eastern Europe longed for their children to attend music school because _.A. it would allow them access to a better life in the WestB. Jewish children are born with excellent musical talentC. they wanted their children to enter into the professional fieldD. it would enable the family to get
41、better treatment in their own country54.Nurturing societies as mentioned in the passage refer to societies that _.A. are highly motivated in the education of music B. treasure talent and provide opportunities for its full developmentC. encourage people to compete with each otherD. promise talented c
42、hildren high positions55.Which of the following contributes to the emergence of musical prodigies according to the passage?A. a natural gift.B. extensive knowledge of music.C. very early training.D. a prejudice-free society.56.Which of the following titles best summarizes the main idea of the passag
43、e?A. Jewish Contribution to Music B. Training of Musicians in the WorldC. Music and SocietyD. The Making of Music ProdigiesEI promised Michael I wouldnt mention this until the season was overNow l think its time Early last season, I wrote a column about an art of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a d
44、isabled child outside the stadiumAfter it ran，I got a call from a man in the western suburbsHe said，“I read what you wrote about Jordanbut I thought I should tell you another thing I saw”Here it comes, I thought. It always does. Write something nice about a person, and people call you up to say that
45、 the person is not so nice. A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game, and I brought up what the man had said. Was the man right? Had Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty neighborhood? Not two boys, Jordan said. But four. And he nam
46、ed them. He said four names. And what did they talk about? Everything,” Jordan said. Anything. Ive asked to see their grades so that I can check to see if theyre paying attention to their study. If it turns out that one or two of them may need teaching, I make sure they get it. Its just one more par
47、t of Michael Jordans life，one more thing that no one knows about, and one more thing Jordan does fight for. The NBA season is over now, and those boys have their memories. So do J! When the expert reviewers begin to turn against Jordan as they surely will, Ill think about those boys under the street
48、light, waiting for the man they know to come. For someone they can depend on.57. The writer wrote this story about Jordan and his young friends because _ A. he thought highly of Jordans deeds B. he hated to see Jordan do something bad C. he believed it was time to help the disabled D. he felt sure h
49、e neednt keep the promise then58. A man in the western suburbs made a call to_ A. know why Jordan stopped in a bad area B. get a chance to become famous himself C. let the writer know Jordan was not that nice D. offer an example to show how Jordan helped others59. Jordan talked with the boys because
50、 he _. A. needed their support B. had promised to do so C. liked to teach them to play basketball D. wanted to make sure they all studied well60. The text implies that Jordan is _. A. an excellent basketball player B. good at dealing with problems of life C. always ready to make friends with young people D. willing to do whatever he can for the good of society参考答案4144 ACDC 4548 BADC 4952 ACDB 5356 ABAD 5760 ACDD*结束- 6 -