四川省德阳市2015高考英语阅读理解练习（2）及答案.doc

1、四川省德阳市2015高考英语阅读理解练习（2）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。People do not analyze every problem they meet. Sometimes they try to remember a solution from the last time they had a similar problem. They often accept the opinions or ideas of other people. Other times they begin to act without t

2、hinking. They try to find a solution by trial and error. However, when all these methods fail, the person with a problem has to start analyzing. There are six stages in analyzing a problem.First, the person must recognize that there is a problem. For example, Sams bicycle is broken, and he cannot re

3、ad it to class as he usually does. Sam must see that there is a problem with his bicycle.Next, the thinker must define the problem. Before Sam can repair his bicycle, he must find out the reason why it does not work. For instance, he must determine if the problem is with the gears, the brakes, or th

4、e frame. He must make his problem more specific.Now the person must look for information that will make the problem clearer and lead to possible solutions. For instance, suppose Sam decided that his bike does not work because there is something wrong with the gear wheels. At this time, he can look i

5、n his bicycle repair book and read about gears. He can talk to his friends at the bike shop. He can look at his gears carefully.After studying the problem, the person should have several suggestions for a possible solution. Take Sam as an illustration. His suggestions might be: put oil on the gear w

6、heels; buy new gear wheels and replace the old ones; tighten or loosen the gear wheels.Eventually one suggestion seems to be the solution to the problem. Sometimes the final idea comes very suddenly because the thinker suddenly sees something new or sees something in a new way. Sam, for example, sud

7、denly sees that there is a piece of chewing gum between the gear wheels. He immediately realizes the solution to his problem: he must clean the gear wheels.Finally the solution is tested. Sam cleans the gear wheels and finds that afterwards his bicycle works perfectly. In short , he has solved the p

8、roblem.1.What is the best title for this passage? A. Six Stages for Repairing Sams Bicycle B. Possible Ways to Problem-solving C. Necessities of Problem Analysis D. Suggestions for Analyzing a Problem2. In analyzing a problem, we should do all the following Except . A. recognize and define the probl

9、em B. look for information to make the problem clearer C. have suggestions for a possible solution D. find a solution by trial or mistake3. By referring to Sams broken bicycle, the author intends to _. A. illustrate the ways to repair his bicycle B. discuss the problems of his bicycle C. tell us how

10、 to solve a problem D. show us how to analyze a problem4. Which of the following is NOT true? A. People do not analyze the problem they meet. B. People often accept the opinions or ideas of other people. C. People may learn from their past experience. D. People can not solve some problems they meet.

11、5. As used in the last sentence, the phrase “in short” means _.A. in the long run B. in detail C. in a wordD. in the end【参考答案】15、BDCAC 阅读理解-ALONDON Britain awoke on Easter Monday to a period of mourning for the Queen Mother, who died over the weekend after a life spanning a century of noisy and evid

12、ent change. The 101-year-old royal matriarch died in her sleep last Saturday with Queen Elizabeth, her elder and only surviving daughter, at her bedside. For a woman who was one of the best-known figures in Britain for more than 80 years from the era of tinted portraits on tin biscuit boxes and ciga

13、rette cards to the age of the Internet, the Queen Mother remained an enigmatic(不可思议的) and elusive(躲避的) figure. She achieved such a respect through aeons(永世, 亿万年) of, first, fawning and, later, intrusive media fascination, by remaining almost entirely silent. Her private thoughts were never paraded(炫

14、耀) in public. What the public saw was a charming and benign elderly lady, adept at winning the admiration of press photographers, whom she always favoured with a particular smile. CHINAs third unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou , landed safely in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday afternoon,

15、 after orbiting the earth 108 times in slightly less than a week. The craft, which lifted off from Jiuquan in Gansu Province last Monday night, landed after successfully conducting a chain of flight and scientific experiments over a period of 162 hours. A powerful earthquake jolted Taiwan, killing f

16、ive construction workers, authorities(官方) said. Over 200 injuries ware reported across the island, mostly minor, as a result of Sundays 7.5-magnitude quake. The quake was centred off Hualien, 180 kilometres east of Taipei. It struck at 2:53 pm and lasted for nearly a minute.1. Which of the following

17、 statements is true according to the news? A. The Queen Mother died on Easter Monday alone. B. The Queen Mother was an attractive person in her political life. C. The British people felt sorry for the death of the Queen Mother. D. The Queen Mother was suffering a lot when she was dying.答案解析：答案为C。本题为

18、推理题。由第二段首句 “She achieved such a respect through aeons of,”可推断，皇太后赢得了永世的尊重，人们对她的去世会感到遗憾。故C选项正确。由第一段第二句话 “The 101-year-old royal matriarch died in her sleep last Saturday with Queen Elizabeth, her elder and only surviving daughter, at her bedside.” 可知，皇太后在安睡中去世，当时女儿伊丽莎白女王陪在她的床边，故A、D选项错误。由第二段后面的内容 “Her

19、 private thoughts were never paraded in public. What the public saw was a charming and benign elderly lady, adept at winning the admiration of press photographers, whom she always favoured with a particular smile.”可知，她的个人思想从未在公众面前炫耀过，公众看到的总是面带微笑的她在媒体照片中出现，故可推断，她并未从政，故B选项错误。 2. It can be inferred tha

20、t _.A. the craft landed in central Inner Mongolia unexpectedlyB. it took the craft at least 2 hours to orbit the earth onceC. the Chinese scientists did a lot of experiments in spaceD. China was successful in sending an unmanned spacecraft into space答案解析：答案为D。本题为推断题。由第三段的第一句话 “CHINAs third unmanned

21、spacecraft, Shenzhou , landed safely in central Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Monday afternoon, ” 可知，无人飞船已经安全着陆，故D选项正确，A选项错误。B选项未提及；由首句的关键词 “unmanned”可推断，无人宇宙飞船上面不会有科学家在太空中做实验，故C选项错误。3. The third news mainly talks about the _ in Taiwan. A. political matters B. social problems C. unexpected damage

22、 D. construction workers答案解析：答案为C。第三则新闻报道台湾发生了地震，属于没有预料到的灾害，故C选项正确。来源:阅读理解-BAnne Whitney, a sophomore at Colorado State University, first had a problem taking tests when she began college. I was always well prepared for my tests. Sometimes I studied for weeks before a test. Yet I would go in to take

23、 the test, only to find I could not answer the questions correctly. I would blank out because of nervousness and fear. I couldnt think of the answer. My low grades on the tests did not show what I knew to the teacher. Another student in microbiology had similar experiences. He said, My first chemist

24、ry test was very difficult. Then, on the second test, I sat down to take it, but I was so nervous that I was shaking. My hands were moving up and down so quickly that it was hard to hold my pencil. I knew the material and I knew the answers. Yet I couldnt even write them down!These two young student

25、s were experiencing something called test anxiety. Because a student worries and he is uneasy about a test, his or her mind does not work as well as it usually does. The student cant write or think clearly because of the extreme tension and nervousness. Although poor grades are often a result of poo

26、r study habits, sometimes test anxiety causes the low grades. Recently, test anxiety has been recognized as a real problem, not just an excuse or a false explanation of lazy students.Special university counseling courses try to help students. In these courses, counselors try to help students by teac

27、hing them how to manage test anxiety. At some universities, students take tests to measure their anxiety. If the tests show their anxiety is high, the students can take short courses to help them deal with their tension. These courses teach students how to relax their bodies. Students are trained to

28、 become calm in very tense situations. By controlling their nervousness, they can let their minds work at ease. Learned information then comes out without difficulty on a test.An expert at the University of California explains. With almost all students, relaxation and less stress are felt after taki

29、ng our program. Most of them experience better control during their tests. Almost all have some improvement. With some, the improvement is very great. 6. To “blank out” is probably_.A. to be like a blanket B. to be unsure of an answerC. to be unable to think clearly D. to show wrong knowledge to the

30、 teacher7. Poor grades are usually the result of _.A. poor hygienic habits B. lazinessC. lack of sleep D. inability to form good study habits8. Test anxiety has been recognized as _.A. an excuse for laziness B. the result of poor habitsC. a real problem D. something that cant be changed9. To deal wi

31、th this problem, students say they want to _.A. take a short course on anxiety B. read about anxiety and know how to deal with itC. be able to manage or understand their anxietyD. take tests to prove they are not anxious10. What can be inferred from the passage? _.A. all students could overcome the

32、anxiety after taking a special test anxiety programB. most of the students felt relaxed after taking a University of California counseling courseC. students found it difficult to improve even though they had taken a special test anxiety courseD. students found it easy to relax as soon as they entere

33、d a University of California counseling course【参考答案】610、CDCAB 阅读理解-CIve been writing for most of my life. The book Writing Without Teachers introduced me to one distinction and one practice that has helped my writing processes tremendously. The distinction is between the creative mind and the critic

34、al mind. While you need to employ both to get to a finished result, they cannot work in parallel no matter how much we might like to think so.Trying to criticize writing on the fly is possibly the single greatest barrier to writing that most of us encounter. If you are listening to that 5th grade En

35、glish teacher correct your grammar while you are trying to capture a fleeting(稍纵即逝的) thought, the thought will die. If you capture the fleeting thought and simply share it with the world in raw form, no one is likely to understand. You must learn to create first and then criticize if you want to mak

36、e writing the tool for thinking that it is.The practice that can help you pass your learned bad habits of trying to edit as you write is what Elbow calls “free writing”. In free writing, the objective is to get words down on paper non-stop, usually for 15-20 minutes. No stopping, no going back, no c

37、riticizing. The goal is to get the words flowing. As the words begin to flow, the ideas will come from the shadows and let themselves be captured on your notepad or your screen.Now you have raw materials that you can begin to work with using the critical mind that youve persuaded to sit on the side

38、and watch quietly. Most likely, you will believe that this will take more time than you actually have and you will end up staring blankly at the pages as the deadline draws near.Instead of staring at a blank screen start filling it with words no matter how bad. Halfway through your available time, s

39、top and rework your raw writing into something closer to finished product. Move back and forth until you run out of time and the final result will most likely be far better than your current practices.11. When the author says the creative mind and the critical mind “cannot work in parallel” (Line 4,

40、 Para. 1) in the writing process, he means _.A. no one can be both creative and criticalB. they cannot be regarded as equally importantC. they are in constant conflict with each otherD. one cannot use them at the same time12. What prevents people from writing on is _.A. putting their ideas in raw fo

41、rmB. attempting to edit as they writeC. ignoring grammatical soundnessD. trying to capture fleeting thoughts13. What is the chief objective of the first stage of writing?A. To organize ones thoughts logically. B. To choose an appropriate topic.C. To get ones ideas down. D. To collect raw materials.1

42、4. One common concern of writers about “free writing” is that _.A. it overstresses the role of the creative mindB. it takes too much time to edit afterwardsC. it may bring about too much criticismD. it does not help them to think clearly15. Whats the main idea of the passage?A. It introduces the aut

43、hors writing method.B. It tells us something about the creative mind.C. It highlights the importance of critical mind.D. It shows the difficulties to write on the fly.【参考答案】1115、DBCBA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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 AMy newly-rented small apartment was far away from the centre of London an

44、d it was becoming essential for me to find a job, so finally I spent a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by London Transport for a job on the underground. They were looking for guards, not drivers. This suited me. I couldnt drive a car but thought that I could p

45、robably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations. The writers Keats and Chekhov had been doctors. T.S. Eliot had worked in a bank and Wallace Stevens for an insurance company. Id be a subway guard. I could see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis（艰难危险时期

46、）. Obviously Id be overqualified but I was willing to forget about that in return for a steady income and travel privileges those being particularly welcome to someone living a long way from the city centre.The next day I sat down, with almost a hundred other candidates, for the intelligence test. I

47、 must have done all right because after about half an hours wait I was sent into another room for a psychological test. This time there were only about fifty candidates. The interviewer sat at a desk. Candidates were signaled forward to occupy the seat opposite him when the previous occupant had bee

48、n dismissed, after a greater or shorter time. Obviously the long interviews were the more successful ones. Some of the interviews were as short as five minutes. Mine was the only one that lasted a minute and a half.I can remember the questions now: “Why did you leave your last job?” “Why did you lea

49、ve your job before that?” “And the one before that?” I cant recall my answers, except that they were short at first and grew progressively shorter. His closing statement, I thought, revealed a lack of sensitivity which helped to explain why as a psychologist, he had risen no higher than the undergro

50、und railway. “Youve failed the psychological test and we are unable to offer you a position.”Failing to get that job was my low point. Or so I thought, believing that the work was easy. Actually, such jobs being a postman is another one I still desire demand exactly the sort of elementary yet respon

51、sible awareness that the habitual dreamer is least qualified to give. But I was still far short of full self-understanding. I was also short of cash.1The writer applied for the job chiefly because _.Ahe wanted to work in the centre of London Bhe could no longer afford to live without oneChe was not

52、interested in any other available job Dhe had received some suitable training2The writer thought he was overqualified for the job because _.Ahe often traveled undergroundBhe had written many poemsChe could deal with difficult situations Dhe had worked in a company3The length of his interview meant t

53、hat _.Ahe was not going to be offered the job Bhe had not done well in the intelligence testChe did not like the interviewer at all Dhe had little work experience to talk about4What does the writer realize now that he did not realize then?AHow unpleasant ordinary jobs can be. BHow difficult it is to be a poet.CHow unsuitable he was for the job.DHow badly he did in the interview.5Whats the writers opinion of the psychologist?A. He was very aggressive（有进取心的）. B. He was unhappy with his job.C. He was quite inefficient. D. He was rather unsympathetic.【参考答案】15、BCACD