1、江苏海安县2016高考英语二轮阅读理解基础训练（7）附答案2016高考英语阅读理解集训。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 The year of 2014 saw smart people always busy inventing useful things，which have helped tomake the world better，smarter and a little more fun. Now，lets take a look at some of theinventions. Super banana Australian biogen
2、eticist（生物遗传学家）James Dalevisited Uganda，a poor African country，in the early 2000s，where he found that 15-30% of children under 5 were atthe risk of going blind because they didnt get enough vitamin A. Dale also learned that people there love bananas. They eat 3 to 11 bananas a day. So hecame up with
3、 an idea to plant bananas containing added nutrition in order to improve Ugandans health With the help of Bill Gates foundation，Dale developed the“super banana，He added a gene to the fruit，making it rich in vitamin A.28 Which of the following statements would James Dale agree with? A. Children in Ug
4、anda should eat fewer bananas. B. Vitamin A is largely found in fruits like bananas. C Super bananas are definitely a safe biological product. D. Peoples eating habits can be used to develop new food.29What is the biggest advantage of the 94Fifty Basketball? A. The sensors hidden inside can help pla
5、yers run faster in a game. B. It can help players to improve their shooting and ball-handling skills. C. It allows players to connect to their smartphones while playing basketball. D. The Bluetooth chip inside allows its users to listen to music while playing basketball.30. What can we learn about t
6、he hovercraft from the text? A. It enables its users to float off the ground freely. B. It can work on many different kinds of surfaces. C. It still needs to improve its power and efficiency. D. It is an affordable means of transport for a family.31What do the hovercraft and wireless electricity hav
7、e in common according to the text? A. They create magnetic fields to produce power. B. They apply technologies to many things in life. C. They are technologies which can produce electricity.D. They use wireless technology to improve their products.参考答案28.D 29.B 30.C 31.A 2016高考英语阅读理解集训。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的
8、四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 “Beauty is only skin deep. This expression means that beauty is only a temporary surface quality. Some beauty products can cause lasting damage that goes far below the surface of the skin. In America，many people use sunlight and non-natural light to darken their skin. Heal the
9、 experts advise against what is called “tanning” because of its links to akin cancer. In the Africancountry of Senegal（塞内加尔），some women take health risks trying to do just t .An average beauty supply shop in Dakar has many kinds of skin-lightening creams and soaps. The World Health Organization says
10、 that 25of Senegalese women use skin-lightening production a usual basis. These products can contain chemicals，like mercury（汞），hydroquinone（对苯二酚），etc. These are dangerous ingredients that can cause cancer andpossibly other physical damage to the akin. They can actually burn the eyes and skin. Shop w
11、orker Adama Diagne advises her visitors to avoid the stronger products that promise fast results. She users a cream that is made from carrots，not the strong chemical，hydroquinone. She says that it is a personal choice and that no one pressures her. Some women want to be black every day，but for her，s
12、he likes to be a shade of brown Women in Senegal say they lighten their skin for the same reason that women all over the world make changes to their appearance. They say they want to look beautiful，to find a husband，to stand out in a crowd or simply to look great for a special event. This thinking t
13、roubles Senegalese film-maker Khardiata Pouye Sall. So，she made“This Color That Bothers Me，a film about the subject of skin lightening. She said，“I used the mostshocking images so that women would see the dangers. It is hard to understand why a woman says that dark skin is not beautiful. It is in th
14、eir heads. They want to please a man，to he loved or they want to please society，to succeed. Ms. Sall says that the government needs to better control the marketing and the sale of skin-lightening products. But she adds that education is the best way to persuade people against using them.32. The unde
15、rlined part“the opposite in Paragraph 2 means some Senegalese women A. use sunlight to darken their skin B. try creams to prevent skin cancer C. use products to lighten their skin D. take health risks to become beautiful33 According to Adama Diagne，women shouldnt believe A. beauty is just a personal
16、 choice B. a cream from carrots is healthier C. it is beautiful to be black every day D. a product can make you beautiful quickly34 We can infer that women in Senegal A. attract attention with shockingimages B. dont consider dark skin to be beautiful C. find it hard to understand the true beauty D.
17、put beauty in the first place in their heads35What is Salls attitude towards skin-lightening products?A. Unsupportive. BCasual. C. Responsible. D. Positive.参考答案32.C 33.D 34.B 35.A阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。Dubai boasts(夸口) that it has just built a “new global landmark”-the Dubai Tower, which
18、 stands 512.1 meters high now and has just become the tallest building in the world. The Dubai Tower now surpasses Taiwans Taipei 101, which is 508 meters tall, and has 141 storeys, more than any other building in the world. The Dubai Tower, being built by South Koreas Samsung Corporation and schedu
19、led for completion next year, is one of a series of great projects taking shape in Dubai. The final projected height of the tower has remained a secret since the project was launched in January 2004; however, it is rumored that the tower will be more than 700 meters tall and have more than 160 store
20、ys. The Dubai Tower has become the tallest building in the world in just 1,276 days, leaving behind other tall buildings. The Dubai Tower will house 30,000 apartments in addition to the worlds largest shopping mall. It is the centerpiece(重要工程) of the 20-billion-dollar venture. Another venture gradua
21、lly emerging across the desert sands is Dubailand, a series of multi-billion-dollar projects claimed to be the Middle Easts very own Orlando. Dubai also paid 100 million dollars to buy the Queen Elizabeth II, one of the worlds superb cruise liners(游轮), which it plans to turn into a luxury floating h
22、otel. Faced with decreasing oil wealth, the Western-oriented emirate(酋长国) has raced to turn itself into a business and leisure hub and it aims to more than double the number of tourists to 15 million by 2015.63. The underlined word “surpasses” in the second paragraph means_.A. is equal to B. matches
23、 C. is left behind by D. is higher than64. Which building was the tallest in the world before the Dubai Tower began to be built?A. Dubai land B. Orlando C. Taiwans Taipei 101 D. The Twin Towers65. Why has the Western-oriented emirate paid more attention to becoming a business and leisure center?A. B
24、ecause it wants to attract more tourists to its places of interest.B. Because it produces less oil than ever.C. Because it aims to race with other countries to show its wealth.D. Because it wants to set a new world record.66. Which of the following statements about the Dubai Tower is TRUE according
25、the passage ?A. The Dubai Tower is 508 meters tall and has more than 141 storeys.B. The final height of the Dubai Tower is over 700 meters tall.C. Samsung Corporation has completed building the Dubai Tower.D. The Dubai Tower has apartments and a shopping mall.【参考答案】63-66 DCBD阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、
26、D）中，选出最佳选项。 The common cold is the worlds most widespread illness, which is a plague that man receives. The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact directly or
27、indirectly, with someone who already has one. If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated Arctic regions, explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contract again with infected people from the
28、outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes. During the First World War, soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches, cold and wet, seldom caught colds. In the Second World War, prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starved, were astonished to find that they s
29、eldom had colds. At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be with cold water, and then s
30、tood about dripping wet in a room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose. If then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are the
31、y more frequent in winter? Despite the most hard research, no one has yet found out the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and that makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on. No one has yet found
32、 a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killers such as aspirin, but all that they do is to relieve the symptoms.67. The writer offered _ examples to support his argument. A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 368. Arctic explorers may catch colds when_. A. they are working in the isolated Arctic regions B. they
33、 are writing reports in terribly cold weather C. they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regions D. they are coming into touch again with the outside world69. Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit_. A. suffered a lot B. never caught colds C. often caught c
34、olds D. became very strong70 . The passage mainly discusses_. A. the experiments on the common cold B. the fallacy about the common cold C. the reason and the way people catch colds D. the continued spread of common colds【答案】 67-70 BDAC阅读下列短文，从每题后所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出最佳选项。People diet to look more attra
35、ctiveFish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a resultThat is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientistsThe research team has discovered that subordinate（低一等的） fish voluntarily diet to avoi
36、d challenging their larger competitors“In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female, had breeding （繁殖） rights within the group,” explains Marian Wong“All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 5-10% smaller than its next largest competitorWe
37、 wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation”The reason for the size difference was easy to seeOnce a subordinate fish grows to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the groupMore often
38、 than not, the evicted fish is then eaten upIt appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss fishWhether they did so voluntarily, by restraining how much they ate, was not clearThe research team decided to do an experimentThey tried to fatten up
39、some of the subordinate gobies to see what happenedTo their surprise, the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered, clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feastThe discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their positi
40、on in a groupPreviously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves, so keeping their competitors smallWhile the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, DrWong explains that understanding the r
41、elationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understand how hierarchical （等级的） societies remain stableThe research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humansAs yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction
42、 of food intake is in nature, the researchers commentData on human dieting suggests that, while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve long-term health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females own ideal41When a goby grows
43、 to within 5-10% of the size of its larger competitor, it_Aleaves the group itself Bhas breeding rightsCeats its competitor Dfaces danger42The underlined words the evicted fish in Paragraph 3 refer to_Athe fish beaten up Bthe fish driven awayCthe fish found out Dthe fish fattened up43The experiment showed that the smaller fish_Afought over a feast Bpreferred some extra foodCchallenged the boss fish Dwent on diet willingly44What is the text mainly about?AFish dieting and human dieting BDieting and healthCHuman dieting DFish dieting【参考答案】41-44 DBDD
