1、广西柳江县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮联练(五)及答案阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。【2014日照模拟】Worldfamous violinist Itzhak Perlman was stricken with polio as a child.As a result,he wears braces on both legs and walks with the aid of crutches.At_concerts,getting on stage is no small achievement_for_him. He slowly cr
2、osses the stage until he reaches his chair. He lays his crutches on the floor,slowly undoes the clasps (扣环) on his legs,puts one foot backward and extends the other one forward.Then he bends down and picks up the violin,puts it under his chin (下巴),nods to the conductor,and starts to play.One fall ev
3、ening in 1995,while performing at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City,Perlman had to deal with one additional trouble.Jack Reimer,a famous reporter with the Houston Chronicle,described the scene.“Just as he finished the first few bars,one of the strings on his violin broke.You could
4、 hear the sound go off like gunfire across the room.There was no mistaking what that sound meant.”There was no mistaking what he had to do.People who were there said,“We figured he would have to get up.to either find another violin or find another string for this one.”But he didnt.Instead he waited
5、a moment,closed his eyes,and then signaled the conductor to begin again.The band and he played from where he had left off.He played with enthusiasm and power.Of course,it is impossible to play a symphonic work with just three strings.But that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that.You could see h
6、im modulate (调音),change,recompose the piece in his head.At one point,it sounded like he was tuning the strings to get new sounds they had never made before.1What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?AIts a piece of cake for Perlman to perform on the stage.BIts not easy for Perlman to get
7、 on the stage.CPerlman has achieved great success on the stage.DPerlman has small achievements on the stage.2.How did the string break?AIt only broke by accident.BPerlman broke the string because he was too excited.CA gunfire from somewhere in the room broke it.DIt was broken by the few bars.3.After
8、 the string broke the audience thought that Perlman would_.Aget angry at his performanceBgive up the performanceCdo something about the violinDcontinue performing with the threestring violin4.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that Perlman_.Apretended not to know that the string was brokenBt
9、hought nothing was impossibleCwas a very proud manDshowed his selfconfidence in time of trouble5.What is the best title for the passage?AA Worldfamous Disabled Artist BAn Unexpected AccidentCThe Performance Went on DA Threestring Violin and Its Owner语篇解读本文是一篇人物故事,讲述了著名残疾人演奏家Perlman演出过程中发生的意外和他的应对措施。
10、1解析:句意理解题。画线句中的achievement指的是Perlman能够做到的事情。下文中描述他上台的细节,说明对于一个行动不便的残疾人来说,能够自己走上舞台,已经是很了不起的事情了,对他自己已经是一个不小的成就了。答案:B 2.解析:推理判断题。根据文章第二段倒数第一、二句“You could hear the sound go off like gunfire across the room.There was no mistaking what that sound meant.”可知,琴弦是弹奏过程中意外断掉的。答案:A 3.解析:细节理解题。根据文章第三段中“We figured
11、 he would have to get up.to either find another violin or find another string for this one.”可知,观众们揣测他会换另一把琴或者换根弦。答案:C 4.解析:推理判断题。根据文章最后一段可知,他仅仅用三根弦继续完成了他的演奏,可推断他对于自己拉琴的能力很有信心。答案:D 5.解析:标题概括题。通读全文可知,文章的核心不是断弦事件本身,而是断弦后Perlman镇定自信的表现,让人佩服和感动。故选项C最适合做标题。答案:C。阅读理解。The US government has started a website
12、, Admongo, to help children think critically(批判性地) about the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an “aducation” through games and other entertainment.A cartoon man dressed in old time pilot clothing greets visitors to Admongo. Call me Haiz, he says upon arrival in a rocket
13、ship that opens up with a crazy world inside it. Spacey dance music plays in the background as Haiz tells visitors that they need to learn about advertising.Its inventors say eight to twelve years old is the age kids develop their critical thinking abilities. Kids that age are also a big market for
14、advertisers.The idea behind Admongo is to teach children three things: To identify the advertiser. To know what the advertiser is really saying. And to know what the advertisement is trying to get the child to do.Children learn these things through a video game. They create their own game character.
15、 They can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes. Then they begin a trip through ad-land, where there are ads on buses and billboards. The players have to find all the marketing in the neighborhood before they can move on to the next level.The Admongo game takes players insi
16、de a home, to the advertising studio and everywhere else ads can be found. It is a complete exploration of the world of marketing. One such area is food marketing. The Federal Trade Commission(FTC) says it is a big business. The FTC estimates that food, drink and fast-food restaurants spent more tha
17、n one and a half billion dollars on advertising to young people in 2009.The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future adult buyers of the products.A recent study says most advertising aimed at children
18、is for foods of the lowest nutritional value. First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for children.【文章大意】可知本文讲述的是美国政府建立的一个网站,为了教育孩子们理解广告的真正内涵。 36. What is the best title of the text?A. The guide of Admongo B. An aducation website for childrenC. A
19、popular online video gameD. A website aimed at children【答案】B【 解析】标题归纳题。通过文章第一段The US government has started a website, Admongo, to help children think critically about the advertising aimed at them. It claims to provide visitors with an “education” through games and other entertainment.可知本文讲述的是美国政府建
20、立的一个网站,为了教育孩子们理解广告的真正内涵。故选B。37. Why did the government start the website?A. To attract the biggest market of buyers.B. To sell the products of its company.C. To help children know about advertising.D. To advertise the video game for children.【答案】C【 解析】细节理解题。根据文章第一段1,2行The US government has started a
21、 website, Admongo, to help children think critically about the advertising aimed at them.可知这个网站的成立是为了帮助孩子们批判地思考广告。故选C。38. What can players do in the website game?A. Choose hair styles for their character.B. Travel to a supermarket.C. Eat in a fast-food restaurant.D. Play video games during the trip.
22、【答案】A【 解析】细节理解题。根据第五段第2行They can choose different skin colors, hair styles, eye and mouth shapes.可知他们可以自己选择角色的外貌。故选A。39. Children are important for advertising because they are .A. important for the society B. the most potential buyersC. easily influenced by adsD. easily affected by poor products【答案
23、】B【 解析】细节理解题。根据The FTC says children are important for three reasons. They buy products. They influence parents and caregivers to buy. And they are the future adult buyers of the products.这些孩子是最大的买家,故选B。40. According to Michelle Obama, lots of food advertised for children are _. A. healthy B. of hig
24、h nutrition C. yummy D. of low quality【答案】D【 解析】推理判断题。根据文章最后一段A recent study says most advertising aimed at children is for foods of the lowest nutritional value. First Lady Michelle Obama has said she would like to see advertisers marketing healthy foods for children.可知米切尔.奥巴马说她想看见给孩子们的更健康的食品的广告。说明
25、她认为选择的儿童食品的质量不好。故选D。【2014界河北省衡水中学二模】“A very disruptive(调皮捣蛋的) six-year-old child kicked my legs and clawed at my hand,” said one teacher. “ I broke up a fight and was kicked between my legs,” said another. Many people have heard stories like this. But the situation is more worrying still and it invo
26、lves parents.Every child, regardless of the circumstances into which they are born, has the right to achieve their potential, regardless of their parents wealth and class. And we recognize that, as a nation, it is a long way to achieve this goal. But with rights come responsibilities and what worrie
27、s people is that we are in danger of ignoring the latter.Far too many children are behaving badly at school, even to the point of being violent to staff. This is terrible enough, but it is hard to be surprised since many children are just mirroring the behaviour of their parents.My members tell me t
28、hat parents also come into school often and threaten staff and some staff have been attacked by a pupils parents. One father encouraged his child to start a fight on the playground before school started. A primary teacher reported that a parent shouted at him. We need to have a serious and sensible
29、debate about the roles and responsibilities of parents and the support that they can reasonably expect of schools and teachers.Children will not learn how to behave as social beings if they are stuck in front of the TV for hours every day. They need their parents to show an interest in them and to s
30、pend time with them, helping them to play with their peers(同龄人) and to learn the rules of social behavior.Children are now arriving at school socially undeveloped, increasingly unable to dress themselves, unable to use the toilet properly, unable to hold a knife and fork and unused to eating at a ta
31、ble, Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, writes in todays Observer. Instead of taking responsibility themselves, too many parents expect teachers to control their childrens behaviour and wellbeing, she adds. Bousted says one mother blamed staff when she disc
32、overed that her 16-year-old son was smoking.We are in danger of becoming a nation of families living separate lives under one roof. The bedroom, once a place to sleep, has become the living space for the young. Spending hours in front of computer screens, on social networking sites or being immersed
33、(沉迷于) in computer games, children and young people spend little time with their parents. Parents are unable to monitor just what their children are watching.67. In the opinion of the writer, what problem do people ignore?A. The violence in the school. B. The study pressure of students.C. The respons
34、ibilities of the students. D. The right to achieve students potential.68. The underlined part in Paragraph 7 means _.A. parents care little about childrens life at homeB. parents and children live in their separate roomsC. children dont live with their parents in the same houseD. children live a dif
35、ferent life from that of parents at home69. The authors attitude to the behaviour of parents may be _.A. dissatisfied B. indifferent C. understanding D. tolerant70. From the last paragraph, we can infer that _.A. teachers have no responsibility for playing the role of parentsB. schools cant correct
36、the wrongs that society does to teachersC. students are responsible for making themselves known in societyD. parents should spend time with children to make them ready to learn【参考答案】6770、CAAD阅读理解。Cutting global warming pollution would not only make the planet healthier, it would make people healthie
37、r too, new research suggested. Cutting carbon dioxide emissions could save millions of lives, mostly by reducing preventable deaths from heart and lung diseases, according to studies released Wednesday and published in a special issue of The Lancet, a British medical journal.Relying on fossil fuels
38、leads to unhealthy lifestyles, increasing our chances of getting sick and in some cases takes years from our lives, US Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a telecast briefing from her home state of Kansas. As greenhouse gas emissions go down, so do deaths from cardiovascula
39、r(心血管) and respiratory(呼吸道) diseases. This is not a small effect.Instead of looking at the health ills caused by future global warming, as past studies have done, this research looks at the immediate benefits of doing something about the problem, said Linda Birnbaum, director of the US National Inst
40、itute of Environmental Health Sciences.Some possible benefits seemed highly speculative, the researchers conceded, based on people driving less and walking and cycling more. Other proposals studied were more concrete and achievable, such as reducing cook stoves that burn dung(粪便), charcoal and other
41、 polluting fuels in the developing world.And cutting carbon dioxide emissions also makes the air cleaner, reducing lung damage for millions of people, doctors said.Here are ways you can attack major health problems at the same time as dealing with climate change, said lead author Dr. Paul Wilkinson,
42、 an environmental epidemiologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Wilkinson said the individual studies came up with numbers of premature deaths prevented or extra years of life added for certain places.For example, switching to low-polluting cars in London and Delhi, India, wou
43、ld save 160 lost years of life in London and nearly 1,700 in Delhi for every million residents, one study found. But if people also drove less and walked or biked more, those extra saved years would soar to more than 7,300 years in London and 12,500 years in Delhi because of less heart disease.【文章大意
44、】本文叙述了最新研究表明,减少温室气体排放不仅能改善地球环境,还可以改善人们的健康。 41. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. How can people live longer?B. Cutting carbon dioxide emissions saves lives. C. Global warming threatens peoples lives.D. People should stop relying on fossil fuels.【答案】B【 解析】主旨大意题。根据Cutting carbon dioxide emis
45、sions could save millions of lives可知减少二氧化碳的排放可以拯救数百万人的生命,故选B。42. The new research differs from past studies in that _. A. it focuses on the immediate benefits of cutting carbon dioxide emissions B. it studies the bad effects arising from future global warming C. it is believed by more people D. it m
46、ainly targets at developing countries【答案】A【 解析】细节理解题。根据Instead of looking at the health ills caused by future global warming, as past studies have done, this research looks at the immediate benefits of doing something about the problem,现在的研究和以往一些关注未来全球变暖所导致的疾病的研究不同,该研究主要着眼于解决此问题所带来的立竿见影的益处。故选A。43. A
47、ccording to Kathleen Sebelius, _. A. sometimes it takes years to see the bad effects caused by consuming fossil fuels B. without greenhouse gas emissions, people would not die of cardiovascular and respiratory diseases C. the main reason why people get sick is that they rely on fossil fuels D. death
48、s from cardiovascular and respiratory diseases are closely related to greenhouse gas emissions【答案】D【 解析】细节理解题。根据As greenhouse gas emissions go down, so do deaths from cardiovascular(心血管) and respiratory(呼吸道) diseases. This is not a small effect.由于温室效应引起了人们的心血管病和呼吸道疾病,故选D。44. Which of the following i
49、s the most practical way to cut carbon dioxide emissions according to the passage? A. Driving less.B. Walking and cycling as much as possible. C. Stopping using fossil fuels.D. Reducing the use of polluting fuels to cook.【答案】D【 解析】细节理解题。根据Other proposals studied were more concrete and achievable, su
50、ch as reducing cook stoves that burn dung减少使用污染燃料来做饭,故选D。45. It can be inferred from the passage that _. A. London and Delhi have already benefited from reducing greenhouse gas emissions B. switching to low-polluting cars would save 160 lives in London each year C. walking and biking instead of driv
51、ing will reduce the chance of heart disease D. attacking health problems and dealing with climate change are contradictory【答案】C【 解析】推理判断题。根据Some possible benefits seemed highly speculative, the researchers conceded, based on people driving less and walking and cycling more.走着,骑自行车代替开车可以减少心脏病的发生,故选C。