1、吉林长岭县2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解联练题及答案【阅读理解】 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.After the death of her second husband，Greek shipping magn
2、ate (巨头) Aristotle Onassis lacquelines close friend and former White House social secretary Letitis Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career (职业) in publishing.After consideration，Jacqueline accepted it.Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life. She becam
3、e not less but more interested in reading.For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publishers editor, first at Viking，then at Doubleday, pursuing(追求)a latelife career longer than her two marriages combined.During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing m
4、ore than 100 successfully marketed books.Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes.She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book ，The Power of Myth.The book went on to become
5、an international bestseller.She dealt，too with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传)，Moonwalk.Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations，but she soon proved her worth.Her choices，suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publ
6、ishing firms and to Jacqueline herself.In the books she selected for publication，she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.Her books are the autobiogaphy she never wrote.Her_role_as_First_Lady，in_the_end，was_overshadowed_by_her_perfor
7、mance_as_an_editor.However，few knew that she had achieved so much. 本文主要讲述Jacqueline在选择了编辑这一职业后所做出的成就。在这一行业里她的光芒甚至压过了她作为第一夫人的头衔。1We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline_.Abecame fond of reading after working as an editorBwas in charge of publishing 100 booksCpromoted her books through social re
8、lationsDgained a lot from her career as an editor答案：D。推理判断题。由文章内容可知，在第二任丈夫去世后 ，朋友推荐Jacqueline考虑在出版业谋一职位，没有想到她在此行业取得了成功，即D项正确。2The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that_.AJacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First LadyBJacquelines life as First Lady was more colorfu
9、l than as an editorCJacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First LadyDJacquelines role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor答案：C。句意理解题。解本题的关键在于正确理解overshadow一词。通读全文可知，Jacqueline作为编辑取得了巨大成功，光芒超过了她第一夫人的头衔，故C项正确。3What can be inferred from the passage?AJacquelines two marriages
10、 lasted more than 20 years.BJacquelines own publishing firm was set up eventually.CJacquelines views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited.DJacquelines achievements were widely known.答案：C。推理判断题。由文章最后一段信息“In her books she selected for publication，she built on a lifetime of spending time
11、by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.”可知她的一些个人观点在自己编辑的书中有所表露，故C项正确。4The passage is mainly_.Aan introduction of Jacquelines life both as First Lady and as an editorBa brief description of Jacquelines lifelong experiencesCa brief account of Jacquelines career as an editor
12、 in her last 20 yearsDan analysis of Jacquelines social relations in publishing答案：C。主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文主要讲述Jacqueline作为编辑所取得的成就，故C项正确。【2014高考训练】 Imagine youre in a dark room, running your fingers over a smooth surface in search of a single dot the size of this period, How high do you think the dot must
13、be for your finger to feel it? Scientists have determined that the human finger is so sensitive it can detect a surface bump just one micron（l06m）high The human eye, by contrast, cant tell anything much smaller than100 micronsNo wonder we rely on touch rather than eyesight when faced with a new roll
14、 of toilet paperBiologically, touch is the mother of all sensory（感觉的） systemsIt is an ancient sense in evolution: even the simplest single-celled living things can feel when something brushes up against them and will respond by moving closer or pulling away It is the first sense aroused during a bab
15、ys development and the last to weaken at lifes peak Patients in a deep coma （昏迷）who seem otherwise lost to the world will show skin reaction when touched by a nurse “Touch ,is so central to what we are that we almost cannot imagine ourselves without it,” said Chris Dijkerman“Its not like eyesight, w
16、here you close your eyes and you dont see anything You cant do that with touchIts always there Long ignored in favor of the sensory heavyweights of eyesight and hearing, the study of touch lately: has been gaining new concern among scientistsTheyre exploring the effects of recently reported false to
17、uch impressions, of people being made to feel as though they had three arms, for example, with the hope of gaining the true understanding of how the mind worksOthers are turning to touch for more practical purposes: to build better touch screen instruments and robot hands, a more well-rounded virtua
18、l life。“Theres a fair amount of research into new ways of offloading information onto our sense of touch, said Lynette Jones To have your cell phone buzzing （making a low sound） as opposed to ringing turned out to have a lot of advantages insome situations Touch is our most active sense, our means o
19、f seizing the world and experiencing it first hand DrSusan Lederman pointed out that while we can become aware of something by seeing or hear,ing7;-from a distance and without really trying, if we want to learn about something by means of touch, we must make a moveWe must rub the cloth, or pet the c
20、at Touching is a two-way street, and thats not true for seeing or hearing If you have a soft object and you squeeze it, you change its shape The physical world reacts back Our hands are smart and can do many tasks automatically - button a shirt, fit a key in a lock, play the; piano for othersDrLeder
21、man and her colleagues have shown that blindfolded subjects can easily recognize a wide range of common -objects placedin their handsBut on some feeling tasks, touch is all thumbs （very clumsy） When people are given a raised line drawing of a common object, theyre puzzled“If all weve got is outline
22、information; DrLederman said,“no weight, no texture, no temperature information, well, were very, very bad with that Touch also turns out to be easy to fool, Among the sensory tricks now being investigated is something called the Pinocchio illusion Researchers have found that if they shake the band
23、of the biceps（二头肌）, many people report feeling that their forearm is getting longer, their hand floating ever further from their elbow（肘） And if they are told to touch the forefinger of the shaken arm to the tip of their nose, they feel as though their nose was lengthening, too 50Which of the follow
24、ing statements is true according to the passage? A Our eyes are more sensitive than our fingers B Our fingers are more sensitive than our eyes C Our eyes are more sensitive than our ears D Our noses are less sensitive than our ears51The sense that is firstly awaked during a childs development is the
25、 sense of A sight B taste C hearing D touch52The underlined sentence “You cant do that with touch” here means “You cant ” A close your skin B close your eyes C touch anything D see anything53Scientists are lately getting interested in the following except A living a well-rounded virtual life B under
26、standing how the mind worksC favoring eyesight and hearing D building better touch screen objects54In the view of , movement is needed when we want to know something by touching A the author B Chris DijkermanC Lynette JonesD Susan Lederman【参考答案】5054、BDACD 【2014高考训练】Oscar-winning actress Joan Fontain
27、e, who rose to fame during Hollywoods golden age as the star of several Alfred Hitchcock classics, died from natural causes at her home in Carmel, northern California on December 16, 2013 aged 96, US media reports said Born in Japan to British parents, Fontaine moved in 1919 to California, where she
28、 and her elder sister screen idol Olivia de Havillandwere to shape successful movie careersFontaine and de Havilland remain the only sisters to have won lead actress honours at the Academy AwardsYet the two sisters also had an uneasy relationship, with Fontaine recording a bitter competition in her
29、own account No Bed of Roses Fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with Largely less important roles on the stage and later in mostly B-movies in the 1930s It was not before famous British film director Hitchcock spotted her a decade later that her career took off Greatly surprised by he
30、r expressive looks, the suspense (悬念） master cast Fontaine in his first US film, a 1940 adaptation of the Daphne du Maurier novel Rebecca She received an Academy Award nomination（提名） for her performance as a troubled wife A year later, Fontaine finally won the long-sought golden figure, for her role
31、 as leading lady in Suspicion opposite Cary Grant, becoming the first and only actress to earn the title for a Hitchock film Although her sister, Olivia de Havilland, preceded her in gaining Hollywood fame, Fontaine was the first of the sisters to win an Oscar, beating Olivias nomination as best act
32、ress in Mitchell Leisens Hold Back the Dawn The dislike ,between the sisters was felt at the Oscars ceremonyI froze I stared across the table, where Olivia was sittingGet up there! she whispered commandingly, Fontaine saidAll the dislike wed felt toward each other as childrenall came rushing back in
33、 quickly changing picturesI felt Olivia would spring across the table and seize me by the hair Olivia did not win her first Oscar until 1946, for her role as the lover of a World War I pilot in Leisens To Each His Own Fontaine later made it known that her sister had slighted her as she attempted to
34、offer congratulations“She took one look at me, ignored my hand, seized her Oscar and wheeled away,” she said The sisters were also reportedly competitors in love Howard Hughes, a strange businessman who dated the elder de Havilland for a time, offered marriage to Fontaine several timesI married firs
35、t, won the Oscar before Olivia did, and if I die first, shell undoubtedly be extremely angry because I beat her to it! Fontaine once joked As her film career fruited in the 1950s, Fontaine turned to television and dinner theatre, and also appeared in several Broadway productions, including the Lion
36、in Winter Anything but the ordinary lady, Fontaine was also a licensed pilot, a champion balloonist, an accomplished golfer, a licensed .decoration designer and a first-class cook55When she moved to California, Joan Fontaine was years oldA two B twelve C twentyD twenty -two56Fontaine did not become
37、successful or popular until the _ A 1930s B 1940s C 1950s D 1960s57Fontaine won her Oscar for her role in the film of “ ” A Rebecca B SuspicionCTo Each His Own D Hold Back the Dawn58Which of the following statements is true according to the passage? A Olivia preceded Fontaine in getting married B Ol
38、ivia gamed Hollywood fame after Fontaine C Fontaine won an Oscar before her sister Olivia, D Fontaine wanted to meet her death before Olivia59The dislike between Fontaine and Olivia began when they Acompeted for an Oscar Bcompeted for a husbandCwere small children D were successful actresses60As can
39、- be seen from the passage, Fontaine was a person who was A disliked by her family B always a troubled wife C able to do few jobs D gifted in many ways【参考答案】5560、ABBCCD社会生活类 For those who make journeys across the world, the speed of travel today has turned the countries into a series of villages. Di
40、stances between them appear no greater to a modern traveler than those which once faced men as they walked from village to village. Jet planes fly people from one end of the earth to the other, allowing them a freedom of movement undreamt of a hundred years ago.Yet some people wonder if the revoluti
41、on in travel has gone too far. A price has been paid, they say, for the conquest (征服) of time and distance.Travel is something to be enjoyed, not endured(忍受) . The boat offers leisure and time enough to appreciate the ever- changing sights and sounds of a journey. A journey by train also has a speci
42、al charm about it. Lakes and forests and wild, open plains sweeping past your carriage window create a grand view in which time and distance mean nothing. On board a plane, however, there is just the blank blue of the sky filling the narrow windows of the airplane. The soft lighting, in- flight film
43、s and gentle music make up the only world you know, and the hours progress slowly.Then there is the time spent beingprocessedat a modern airport. People are conveyed like robots along walkways; baggage is weighed, tickets produced, examined and produced yet again before the passengers move to anothe
44、r waiting area. Journeys by rail and sea take longer, yes, but the hours devoted to beingprocessedat departure and arrival in airports are luckily absent. No wonder, then, that the modern high- speed trains are winning back passengers from the airlines.Man, however, is now a world traveler and canno
45、t turn his back on the airplane. The working lives of too many people depend upon it; whole new industries have been built around its design and operation. The holiday- maker, too, with limited time to spend, patiently endures the busy airports and the limited space of the flight to gain those extra
46、 hours and even days, relaxing in the sun. Speed controls peoples lives; time saved, in work or play, is the important thingor so we are told. Perhaps those first horsemen, riding free across the wild, open plains, were enjoying a better world than the one we know today. They could travel at will, a
47、nd the clock was not their master.1. What does the writer try to express in Paragraph 1?A. Travel by plane has speeded up the growth of villages.B. The speed of modern travel has made distances relatively short.C. The freedom of movement has helped people realize their dreams.D. Man has been fond of
48、 traveling rather than staying in one place.2. How does the writer support the underlined statement in Paragraph 2?A. By giving instructions.B. By analyzing cause and effect.C. By following the order of time.D. By giving examples.3. According to Paragraph 3, passengers are turning back to modern hig
49、h- speed trains because.A. they pay less for the ticketsB. they feel safer during the travelC. they can enjoy higher speed of travelD. they dont have to waste time beingprocessed4. What does the last sentence of the passage mean?A. They could enjoy free and relaxing travel.B. They needed the clock t
50、o tell the time.C. They preferred traveling on horseback.D. They could travel with their master.5. What is the main idea of the passage?A. Air travel benefits people and industries.B. Train travel has some advantages over air travel.C. Great changes have taken place in modern travel.D. The high speed of air travel is gained at a cost.【参考答案】46.BDDAD
