1、2012届高考英语二轮专题演练：阅读理解【04】 1 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 BeldonThe next day, this news appeared on page two of the town
2、s 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： “Please dont smoke cigarettes in bed” This was Beldons first hotel
3、 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 holiday-maker said, “An electric lamp probably started the f
4、ireThe 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? It is never easy to find out the exact truth about an accide
5、ntThere 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 this text?ABeldon and Canfield are both good places for tour
6、ists 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 in a bedroom at the hotelbA cigarette started the firecAn old
7、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 fireBhotels in Beldon dont often catch fireCthis was the second
8、fire at the Seabreeze Hotel 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 pl
9、aceCthe firemen failed to save clothing, bedclothes and other thingsDsuch accidents never happened in Canfield for the past 5 years（答案CBAC）2Read the following reviews for movies that are showing at the moment. And then answer questions.Happiness（Romance）Happiness tells the story of two people （Lisa
10、Turbot and Danny Roy）who work for different advertising companies. They talk on the phone all the time and dont like each other. But then they correspond by email and fall in love. This movie will be very popular with teenagers and people who like romances. It also has beautiful music.Scream I（Thril
11、ler）In Scream I, Paul（Colin Jacks）is a young man who joins a thriller club. Each of the members tries to frighten the others. Paul is told to stay in an old house for the night. Everyone who has tried to stay in the house before has died. This movie is very frightening but also quite silly. It doesn
12、t make sense for Paul to stay in the house when things start to go wrong. Only for people who like thrillers.Pauls Heroes（Comedy）This is a very funny war movie set in World War Two. Six soldiers（including Sammy Turblow）have to get to Italy to take secret messages to the American army there. During t
13、he movie, they dress up as women and fight with Italian workers. You can guess the ending, but its great fun getting there._（Drama）This is a very good drama with Jack Ross, a hard-working truck driver. His wife becomes ill and he has to find a doctor who can help her. In his travels he meets Dr. Llo
14、yd（Phil Driver）who has found the cure for the illness, but Jack Ross has only twelve hours to get the medicine back to his wife on the other side of America. This is an excellent movie, which is very exciting.1. The underlined word “correspond” can be replaced by _.A. date B. communicate C. exchange
15、 D. write 2. A thriller is most probably a film which tells something _.A. frightening B. instructive C. humorous D. interesting 3. Which of the following is the best title for the fourth film?A. A Hard-working Truck Driver B. MedicineC. A Strange Illness D. Twelve Hours4. Where can we probably read
16、 the passage?A. On the sports page. B. A travel brochure. C. On the entertainment page. D. In the test book.（参考答案 BADC）3MUMBAI, India The children in their party clothes on the stage were very excited when they received the award. And the two of them said, Its unbelievable!Nine-year-old Rubina Ali,
17、and Azharuddin Ismail, 10, were living a very different life and apparently loving every minute of it. The two, some of the child stars of the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire (贫民窟的百万富翁)movie, know the Indian slums very well. That was where they grew up, and it is where they will return at the end
18、of their Hollywood dream trip.But before going back home, there was an interview with the host, Ryan Seacrest. During the interview they smiled and repeated their disbelief at what was happening to them. To their surprise, their movie won the first place in the Oscars. When the two received the awar
19、d, it was late morning in the childrens home city of Mumbai, where their family, friends and many fellow residents of the slums watched the results from Hollywood. I dont really know what the Oscars are, Rubinas mother said. Im just glad my daughter looks happy, though she told me she missed Indian
20、food.Our children lead a dogs life, Rubinas mother said, pointing at the rubbish everywhere, the open drains (下水道) and the lack of education opportunities.In a few days they will be back in Mumbai and back in the slums. Fortunately, according to media reports, the movies director, Danny Boyle, has p
21、romised to help the children he chose from the slums go to a proper school. The two dont need to worry about their daily lives because of the Oscar success of Slumdog Millionaire. But the poverty and lack of education opportunities the central theme of the movie is always all around.1. Which of the
22、following is true about the two children? A. They played a major role in getting India children to receive education. B. They were both excited about receiving the award. C. They were interviewed after they went back home.D. They were the only two child winners of the movie.2. When the children atte
23、nded the Oscar ceremony in Hollywood, their family and friends were _. A. watching TV in Mumbai B. doing what they did as usualC. seeing the movie Slumdog Millionaire D. having a family party3. What will happen to the two children after they return to India?A. They will stay at home as before. B. Th
24、ey will still worry about their daily lives.C. They will leave school to learn acting. D. They will have a better education.4、 The movie is successful mainly because_.A. it attracts the public attention to an existing social problem B. it has made the two children famousC. the two children will go t
25、o a better schoolD. the two children stars in the movie are from India slums（参考答案 BADA）4Seen 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 and the vastness of the marine (海洋的) area. An astonishing 80
26、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 and the rolling of the sea across the planet creates over half
27、 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. Without the global ocean there would be no life on earth. It is s
28、eriously 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 global climate and are just beginning to understand the consequenc
29、es 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 state. A lot of pressure is being put directly and indirectly on
30、 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 natural way of recovery. We need to defend the ocean now more t
31、han 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 functions the ocean has.2、. According to the text, the ocean direct
32、ly 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 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DDAB）
