1、绝密启用前 河北省平乡县第一中学2012届高三二轮复习专题七 英语考试范围：阅读理解叙事类阅读理解（共8篇）（1）James Jablon thought of a creative way to raise money for the animal shelter he runs: He is spending the entire month of January living with his two African lions, Lea and EdAnimals at Floridas Wildlife Rehabilitation of Hernando County have b
2、een either deserted by their families or hurt in the wild, making it difficult for them to survive on their ownJablon, his 13-year-old daughter Chelsey, and a team of volunteers help the animals so that someday they can return to the wildJablon opened the shelter more than 11 years agoWhen the shelt
3、er first opened, Jablon focused mostly on species that are native to Florida such as turtles, owls, and alligators（短吻鳄）But soon many foreign animals needed care too, including lemurs, tigers, a type of South American raccoon called a coatimundi（长鼻浣熊）, and even an Australian wallaby（沙袋鼠）named WallyHe
4、lping so many different animals costs a lot of money, and Jablon thought this method would get people to donate to the shelter“I was looking for a way to raise funds to help the animals, and I am constantly struggling to look at what makes them happy,”Jablon says,“So I thought living with them for a
5、 month would help both causes”Living with lions is dangerous, but Jablon feels safe because Lea and Ed are still very young, and they have known him for most of their livesLea is 18 months old, and Ed is only 10 months oldThe cubs（幼兽）love to play with each other and their funny human friend“Every ti
6、me I bend over, their teeth tear my pants right off,”Jablon says,“Ive been through six pairs already”Jablon has been sleeping on a pile of hay next to where the cubs sleepHes built a nest in one of the trees, where hes safe from harm in case things get dangerousBut Jablon is not that worried1It can
7、be inferred from Paragraph 3 that AJablon preferred native animals to foreign ones Bmany foreigners dont want to sent their pets to Jablons shelter Canimals from foreign countries were fiercer than native onesDsome native people raised pets coming from foreign countries2The underlined words“this met
8、hod”in Paragraph 4 may refer to Aliving with the young lions Bopening a shelter for animalsClooking after foreign animals Dmaking people happy3Why did Jablon dare to live with the young lions?ABecause he wore thick clothes BBecause they werent old enoughCBecause he bent their teeth DBecause he was k
9、ind to them4What safe measures did Jablon take?ATo play with the young lions most of the dayBTo sleep next to the young lions on a pile of hayCTo build a nest in one of the treesDTo prepare a lot of fresh meat for the young lions（2）Twenty-five-year-old Rick Aggeler says he discovers early in life th
10、at music is magic and it makes him feel as if anything is possibleAt the age of seven, a medical condition required him to have a brain operationIt also prevented him from playing sportsHis mother suggested that he learn to play the drums insteadSo Rick Aggeler started playing the drums with Ronit G
11、lick, his elementary（初学）teacherRick Aggeler still remembers the joy it brought to himIt was his favorite thingSixth grade was a new school to him and he had a hard time in getting along with other kidsAnd Ms.Glick just took him in and he had so much fun at the programIt just felt great all the timeR
12、ick Aggeler graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, in two thousand sevenWhile there, he volunteered as a music teacher at a youth center in the Dorchester neighborhood of BostonHe helped create a small music club within the centerThe Music Clubhouse at the Blue Hill Bo
13、ys and Girls Club quickly grewYoung people come to the Music Clubhouse after school and during the summer vacationThe club provides a safe environment to learn to play instruments and to perform together in bandsFourteen-year-old Javon Martin joined the Music Clubhouse three years agoIt has affected
14、 my life in a big way because he never thought he would be doing thisThey now give shows in many placesPeople start to see him as an artistTen-year-old Akheylah Hunter joined the club last yearNow, she plays the piano and sings in a bandWhat she likes best is performingThey perform in different plac
15、es like at Berklee College of MusicThey go on trips and got on the stage to performIt is very funThe Music Clubhouse opened three years ago and has served almost five hundred young peopleRick Aggeler says preparing and performing is good for them1Young Rick Aggeler couldnt play sports because Ahe ha
16、d no playmates Bhe was not willing to Che had a brain operation Dhis parents didnt allow him to 2Why did Rick Aggeler have a hard time in the sixth grade?AHe was slow in his lessons BHe moved into a new schoolCThe teacher was strict with him DHis classmates played jokes on him3After Rick Aggeler beg
17、an to learn playing the drums with Ronit Glick Ahe had fun in playing the music Bhe found it easy to play drumsChe got along well with other kids Dhe liked keeping his teacher company4It seems that by joining the Music Clubhouse Javon Martin and Akheylah Hunter Aare realizing their star dreams Benjo
18、y giving performancesCmake use of their spare time Dare on the way to gain fame（3）Sub-Saharan Africa has the worlds highest hunger rateThe United Nations says thirty percent of the people were undernourished（营养不良的）last yearBut a new report says African farmers also have ideas that could help the wor
19、ld fight hunger and povertyDanielle Nierenberg from the Worldwatch Institute in Washington spent a year visiting twenty-five countries south of the SaharaIn Nairobi, Kenya, for example, Ms.Nierenberg found women farmers growing vegetables just outside their doorsteps in the Kibera settlementThough i
20、t is crowded and dirty area, these people are finding ways to make their lives betterThe women use old sacks（麻袋）filled with soilThey cut holes in the sides of the tall bags so air gets to the seedsThe women feed their families and sell what is leftThey use the money to send their children to schoolL
21、ast year, about 925 million people worldwide did not get enough to eatHalf of all people in the world now live in and around citiesResearchers like Ms.Nierenberg are looking increasingly at creative ideas to feed those hungry peopleDanielle Nierenberg thinks there are a lot of lessons that people in
22、 the Western world can learn from AfricaAnd what they are doing can certainly be fit for other developing countriesFarmers in the developing world lose between twenty and forty percent of their harvest before it ever reaches marketAsma Lateef from the group Bread for the World says there are many re
23、asons why food gets wastedFarmers are without electricity and cold storageThey lack good seeds and fertilizerThey lack good roadsMs.Lateef says conditions like these keep small farmers in povertyDanielle Nierenberg says more attention needs to be paid to protecting harvestsShe said,“Given all that w
24、e invest in producing food in the first place, we need to devote the same amount of attention to making sure that it is not wasted”1What caught Ms.Nierenbergs attention in Nairobi, Kenya?AWomen are working harder than menBVegetables are grown outside their doorstepsCPeople have ways to improve lives
25、 greatlyDPeople are living in a crowded and dirty area2What can Westerners learn from Africa, according to Danielle Nierenberg?AMaking better use of time and spaceBGrowing more vegetables in the gardenCLooking for ways to produce more foodDDonating money and food to hungry people3What does the autho
26、r discuss in Paragraph 7?AThe challenges farmers faceBThe farmers poor conditionsCThe factors that cause povertyDThe reasons why food is wasted4What can be inferred from the last paragraph?AThe most important job is to avoid wasting foodBEnough attention is not paid to protecting harvestsCWe investe
27、d too much in producing food in the pastDThe farmers should do what they can to increase food（4）The worlds largest tropical（热带的）forest, the Amazon, experienced something rare last year a drought（旱灾）It killed lots of treesIt was the second such drought in the Amazon in five years, and forest scientis
28、ts are trying to understand why these droughts are happening, and what their effects will be for the planetThe 2005 drought in the Amazon was so unusual that scientists called it a“100-year event” something supposed to happen only once a century“This is whats quite alarming that weve seen these two
29、very unusual events,”says Simon Lewis, a forest expertLewis and his scientific team say the droughts are probably caused by the northward movement of especially warm water in the Atlantic OceanThat movement carries moisture（水分）north, robbing a large amount of rain of the AmazonThe droughts can creat
30、e a different forest thinner, smaller and with a different mix of tree speciesThat, in turn, could affect the earths climateAs trees grow, they took carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it, so a big forest like the Amazon is a carbon“sink”But drought slows that process down more carbon rem
31、ains in the atmosphere, and that could warm the planetIf the forest gets dry enough, air can get into the vessels（导管）that carry water through a tree kind of like an air bubble（气泡）in a fuel line and a tree diesIf enough die, that too could affect the atmosphere“As these dead trees rot and release the
32、ir carbon in their trunks and roots into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, then we see it probably turning into a source of carbon emissions（排放）,”Lewis says,“besides, where theres agriculture, there is fire thats how land is cleared for planting or for cattle grazing（牧场）And fires make drought even w
33、orse”1How do droughts affect the Amazon?AMore carbon dioxide will be taken by trees BTrees will depend on underground waterCTrees will become taller and thinnerDLess carbon dioxide will be stored by trees 2We can infer from what Lewis said that Adroughts seem to happen more frequently nowBit is usua
34、l to see a drought in the AmazonCthe Amazon might disappear in the next few decadesDdroughts can happen twice a century in the Amazon3What statement may Lewis agree to?AThe soil in the Amagon is rich enough for growing cropsBPeople clear a forest for agriculture with fireCFire is the biggest threat
35、to the Amazon forestDCattle grazing causes the droughts in the Amazon4What might be the most suitable title for the passage?AThe Amazon is the largest tropical forest in the worldBThe climate in the Amazon is changing all the timeCAlarming Amazon droughts can affect the global climateDDroughts make
36、more trees dead in the Amazon forest（5）The world will run out of Internet addresses within weeks, according to one of the founding fathers of the WebVint Cerf, who helped create the web by connecting computers using Internet Protocol（IP）addresses, said it was his“fault”that the 4.3 billion addresses
37、 created were running out“I thought it was an experiment and I thought that 4.3 billion would be enough to do the experiment,”Cerf, who is Googles vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist, said,“Who knew how much address space we needed?”In 1977, Cerf created the Web protocol（协议）IPv4, which conn
38、ects computers globally, as part of the experiment while working with the US Department of DefenseHe said he never expected his experiment“wouldnt end”“It doesnt mean the network stops, it just means you cant build it very well,”Cerf saidIP addresses are a unique series of numbers given to each comp
39、uter, website or other Internet-connected equipmentsThey are not the same as website domain names（域名）The great number of equipments now accessing the internet means the addresses are running out fastTo solve the crisis（危机）, an updated protocol for the Internet, IPv6, currently being planned by the i
40、ndustry, will create trillions（百亿）of addressesAs Googles vice president Cerf said he thought the new chief executive（管理人员）of Google, Larry Page, was ready to lead the company into the futureIn a surprise move, Google announced that co-founder Larry Page would replace Eric Schmidt as chief executiveE
41、ric Schmidt, 55, a former chief executive of Novell, will remain with Google as executive chairman, focusing on deals, partnerships, customers and government outreachHe will also act as an adviser to Larry Page, 37, who served as CEO previously, from 1998 to 20011According to the text, Cerf Ashouldn
42、t be responsible for the lack of Internet addressesBdidnt expect the great demand for Internet addressesCwas regretful for creating so many Internet addressesDcompletely failed in his experiment in 19772It can be inferred that Cerf created IPv4 originally for Aindustry Bagriculture Cmilitary Dbusine
43、ss3According to the text, IPv6 is the name of Acomputers Bmany website domain names Ca group of websites Da series of numbers4What might be the best title for the passage?AIs Google becoming a technology giant? BIs the world running out of Internet addresses?CAre Internet search engines useful for u
44、s? DAre Internet addresses endless for us to use?（6）Its worrying news for any parent whos struggling with a headstrong（固执的）young childScientists claim that children who have low levels of self-control at three are more likely to have health and money problems and a criminal record by the age of 32,
45、regardless of their backgrounds and IQsResearchers from Britain, the US and New Zealand analyzed the data from two large studies in which children completed a range of physical tests and interviews to judge genetic and environmental factors that can shape their livesThey found that children with low
46、 self-control were more likely to have health problems in later life including high blood pressure, being overweight, breathing problems and sexually transmitted infections（性传染病）They are also more likely to be dependent on substances such as tobacco, alcohol and drugs, and more likely to be single p
47、arents, have difficulty managing money and have criminal records“Mastering self-control and managing impulses（冲动）are some of the earliest demands that society places on children,”said lead researcher Dr Terrie Moffitt, of Kings College London and Duke University in the US“Our study shows, for the fi
48、rst time, that will power as a child really does influence his or her chances of a healthy and wealthy adulthood”The researchers firstly looked at the data from around 1,000 children born in New Zealand between April 1972 and March 1973The participants self-control was measured by teachers, parents,
49、 observers and the children themselves and low self-control was about having low frustration（挫折）tolerance, lacking determination in reaching goals, being over-active and acting before thinkingDr. Moffitts team then found that when the participants reached their early 30s, their low self-control and
50、relative inability to think about the future gave them more problems with finances, including savings, owning a home and credit card debt1The news worries some parents because their headstrong children are likely to Ago against the law Bface a troubled futureCdevelop certain diseases Dlose control o
51、f themselves2What plays an important role in shaping ones adult life according to Dr.Terrie Moffitt?AWill power BSelf-confidenceCLiving conditions DCommunication skills3Children with low self-control are NOT likely to Abecome much too active Bgive up when getting into troubleCget disappointed in tim
52、e of failure Dmake a decision after careful thinking4Where can you most probably find the text?AIn a story book BIn a fashion magazine CIn a newspaper DIn a travel magazine（7）Recycling programs usually give new life to materials like paper, metal, plastic and glassBut a program in the eastern Americ
53、a is recycling shellfish to help the Chesapeake BayOysters（牡蛎）are known to help clean the waterBesides, generation upon generation of oysters form reefs（礁）, which provide homes for fish and crabsOysters are a Chesapeake traditionAnd they are good for the bayBut environmental damage and too much harv
54、esting have cut the oyster population of the ChesapeakeAn organization called the Oyster Recovery Partnership started the recycling program earlier this yearBaby oysters need to attach themselves to a shell or other hard surface as they growScientists are using recycled shells as part of an oyster r
55、eproduction（繁殖）programMore than fifty restaurants, seafood dealers and other businesses have joined the Oyster Shell Recycling PartnershipMaryland and Virginia are also taking part in the programOne of the restaurants involved is in WashingtonOysters are a specialty at the Old Ebbitt GrillIts manage
56、r Christian Guidi says they serve about 1 500 to 3 000 oysters a day and that obviously does create a lot of shellsBut the restaurant no longer throws away all those shellsThe Oyster Recovery Partnership takes them away for recyclingFirst the shells get washedThen they go to the Center for Environme
57、ntal Science at the University of Maryland for further processingThe shells are placed in tanks with hundreds of millions of oyster larvae（幼虫）In this way, the baby oysters can be raised until they have grown big enough to be moved to the ChesapeakeThis year, the Oyster Recovery Partnership helped pr
58、oduce and plant more than 450 million baby oysters in the bayDon Meritt heads the oyster recovery program at the University of MarylandHe says the goal is not just to increase the oyster populationTheir real goal is to try to restore healthy oysters to the Chesapeake Bay so that we can help restore
59、a healthy Chesapeake Bay1What causes the number of oysters to drop in the Chesapeake Bay?AToo much rainBToo many shellsCHot weather DOverfishing2What did the Old Ebbitt Grill do with the shells in the past?AIt collected all the shells BIt threw the shells awayCIt sold the shells as waste DIt poured
60、the shells into the sea3Why are shells placed in tanks with oyster larvae?ATo help them to grow BTo provide more nutritionCTo make the tank like sea DTo serve as homes for them4What can we learn from the text?ARecycled shells can improve the environment BThe number of oysters had increased in the ba
61、y before the oyster recovery programCPeople in Washington dont like to eat oystersDThe oyster recovery program needs more financial support（8）Silicon Valley in Northern California is home to many of the worlds largest technology companiesIt is also home to the Computer History Museum in Mountain Vie
62、wIt reopened recently after further improvement that took nearly two yearsOne of the additions（增加物）is a permanent exhibit called“Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing”The new exhibit tells the story of more than 1000 historical objectsSome of the oldest items are actually not computersThey a
63、re equipments that helped people calculateAnd the first object people see after walking into the exhibit is an abacus（算盘）from the 1800sVisitors have the chance to touch some of the objects in the exhibitOne of the more popular items is a portable（轻便的）computer from 1981We think of portable computers
64、today as laptopsBut the Osborne One was about the size of a sewing machine and weighed 24 poundsSo, just being able to pick one of those up will help our visitors understand how difficult portability was about 30 years agoVisitors to the Computer History Museum can also see parts of one of the earli
65、est large-scale electronic computing equipmentsThe Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was designed during World War TwoThere are also pieces from the guidance computer that was used during the Apollo space flightsThe“Revolution”exhibit is about more than the history of modern computingIt t
66、ells a much larger story about how these developments have affected society and culture, especially in recent yearsThe revolution to most people is that computers today are ubiquitousTheyre everywhereIf you are crossing at a traffic light, there probably is a computer controlling that traffic lightI
67、ts not just the laptop or your smart phone that has a computer in it, but they surround us, and in some cases are even inside us, like the cardiac pacemaker（心脏起搏器）, one of which is on the exhibition as well1What happened to the Computer History Museum in the last two years?AIt has increased a lot of
68、 new exhibits BIt has been moved to Mountain ViewCIt has been prepared for the online display DIt has been collecting 2000 historical objects2The first exhibit that comes into visitors view is Aan old abacus Ban old portable computer Ca laptop Da sewing machine3What can we learn from Paragraph 5?AEarly portable computers were large and heavyBTodays laptops come in different shapes and sizesCThe Osborne One seemed similar to todays laptopsDThe Osborne One was the most important invention4The underline word“ubiquitous”in Paragraph 9 probably means Aunique Bcommon Cconvenient Daffordable
