1、温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后。关闭Word文档返回原板块。阅读理解专练(五)(限时30分钟)AIf youre too busy to buy the latest issues of your favorite magazines, never fearhelp is at hand. With digital subscriptions available from My Favorite Magazines, you can get every issue straight to your tablet or cellph
2、one. Below are some fantastic monthly magazines you can enjoy today. How It Works is a magazine with exciting facts about our world. Each issue is packed with interesting facts and stories on everything from science, technology and transport, to the environment and history. With easy-to-follow diagr
3、ams, fun trivia(花絮)and all the vital answers to questions you didnt even realize you had, it cures boredom and feeds curious minds. $2. 5 per issue(standard price: $3. 5). Have you found yourself staring up at the stars in awe? All about Space discovers the mysteries of our Solar System and beyond.
4、From the amazing technology and spacecraft that enables humans to venture(冒险) into orbit, to the complexities of space science, the All about Space team has you covered. $2. 6 per issue(standard price: $3. 7). History of War takes you through the stories, strategies, heroes and machines of armed con
5、flict through the ages. Each issue covers some of the most astonishing and inspiring stories from battlefields across the centuries, including powerful interviews with soldiers and expert analyses from leading historians. $2. 7 per issue(standard price: $3. 8). From the plots of ancient Rome, to the
6、 scandals(丑闻)of the Tudor Court and heroic tales from World War All about History takes you on a journey across the centuries, and leaves in all the drama and entertainment our attractive past has to offer. Each issue is full of valuable pictures and interesting stories written by historians. $2. 8
7、per issue(standard price: $4). 【文章大意】本文是一篇应用文。文章是电子杂志月刊的订阅广告。分别介绍了关于趣味百科、宇宙天文、战争历史、历史轶事的四种杂志的相关内容和价格信息。1. How much can it save you to subscribe the first magazine for a year? A. 2. 5 dollars. B. 3. 5 dollars. C. 6 dollars. D. 12 dollars. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。 定位到原文第二段最后一句可知每期节省1美金。结合第一段“monthly magazines”月刊
8、, 可知一年共省了12美金。2. Which of the following can satisfy astronomy lovers? A. How It Works. B. All about Space. C. History of War. D. All about History. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。结合第三段可知All about Space涵盖了航天科技和太空科学等内容, 与题意相符。3. What is special about All about History? A. It interviews soldiers from World War . B. It i
9、s the cheapest of the four magazines. C. It tells many historical stories over the centuries. D. It solves the questions youre puzzled at. 【解析】选C。推理判断题。 定位到文章第五段 “All about History takes you on a journey across the centuries, and leaves in all the drama and entertainment our attractive past has to o
10、ffer. ”可知All about History讲述了横跨多个世纪的历史故事。BTime TravelIf you could travel in time, where would you go? Perhaps you would watch an original performance of a Shakespeares play in Elizabethan England? What about hanging out with Laozi in the Spring and Autumn Period? Or maybe youd voyage far ahead of th
11、e present day to see what the future holds. The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. Stories exploring the subject have been around for hundreds of years. Perhaps the best known example is science fiction novel The Time Machine, which was written by H. G. Wells and published in 1895 for t
12、he first time. It was adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefu
13、lly and selectively. The term “time machine”, coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to a vehicle transporting people into the far future. But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theory. They propose using cracks in time and space called “wormholes”, which
14、could be used as shortcuts to other periods. Einsteins theory of relativity allows time travel in extreme circumstances. And British physicist Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship going at nearly the speed of light. Though building such a spaceship would
15、 of course be no simple task. Even if you could travel into the past, there is something called the “grandfather paradox”. It asks what would happen if a time traveler were to go back in time and have his own grandfather killed for some reason, and therefore prevent himself from being born. If the t
16、ime traveler wasnt born, how would he travel back in time? And would you really like to visit the future? In H. G. Wells book, the main character travels into distant time where he arrives at a beach and is attacked by giant crabs. He then voyages 30 million years into the future where the only livi
17、ng thing is a black object with tentacles(触角). If thats whats in store, maybe we are better just living in the present day after all. 【文章大意】这是一篇议论文。人类一直对时间旅行很感兴趣。从理论上来说, 时间旅行是可以的。但是, 从另一个角度而言, 时间旅行未必是好事。因此作者认为我们还是生活在现在更好。4. The novel The Time Machine mentioned in Paragraph 2 aims to show _. A. the c
18、ontribution of H. G. WellsB. the storys different featuresC. the long history of time travelD. peoples interest in time travel【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第二段中的“The possibility of time travel is indeed appealing. ”可知, 时间旅行的可能性确实很吸引人。在第二段中提到这部小说就是想说明人们对时间旅行的兴趣。5. Einsteins and Hawkings theories _. A. suggest the p
19、ossibility to invent the time machineB. push the invention of the first spaceshipC. have proved wrong by some time travelersD. have similarities in many ways【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第三段中的“But could time travel actually be possible? Some scientists say yes, in theory. . . Einsteins theory of relativity allows
20、time travel in extreme circumstances. And British physicist Stephen Hawking says you could travel into the future with a really fast spaceship going at nearly the speed of light. ”可知, 霍金和爱因斯坦的理论证明了时间旅行的可能性。6. In Paragraph 4, “grandfather paradox” probably refers to the idea that _. A. the traveler i
21、s prevented from meeting his grandfatherB. the grandfathers death makes the travelers birth impossibleC. the traveler goes back in time to seek for his grandfatherD. the reunion of the traveler and his grandfather brings happiness【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据倒数第三段中的“. . . there is something called the grandfather
22、 paradox. . . If the time traveler wasnt born, how would he travel back in time? ”可知, “grandfather paradox”提出的观点是: 祖父死亡导致时间旅行者无法出生。7. According to the passage, what is probably the authors attitude towards time travel? A. Skeptical. B. Unclear. C. Supportive. D. Unconcerned. 【解析】选A。观点态度题。最后一段作者提到: 也
23、许我们还是活在当下更好。由此可知, 作者对时间旅行存在怀疑, 怀疑其真实的结果。CClimate change will bring and has already brought a wide variety of threatening destruction to human existence. Some of these are well-known and already operative, like the wildfires racing along Californias freeways or the permanent droughts that have been u
24、psetting Mediterranean farmers. But are these all terrible disasters we can come up with that are brought about by climate change? Absolutely not. None of the challenges posed by our warming climate has appeared larger in the popular imagination than sea-level rise, as global populations and wealth
25、are heavily concentrated in low-lying coastal cities. The best available models suggest that 37 million people currently live in places that will be below high tide by 2050in an optimistic low-carbon-emissions scenario (设想). Or rather, thats what such models suggested before this week. On Tuesday, a
26、 new study revealed that those alarming statistics were wildly inaccurate. The actual impacts of sea-level rise are going to be much, much worse. Previous estimates of the impact that rising tides would have on coastal cities relied on essentially a three-dimensional map of Earth obtained from satel
27、lite readings. But those readings were fundamentally unreliable because they often measured the planets upper surfaces such as treetops and tall buildings rather than its ground level. These mistakes led scientists to overestimate the elevation (海拔) of many regions of Earth. In a new study published
28、 by the journal Nature Communications, scientists from Princeton University detail this methodological problem, then use artificial intelligence to determine the previous literatures error rate. Their research yields some amazing updates to our conventional understanding of what the next century has
29、 in store for our coastlines. In its optimistic scenario, the Princeton study projects that lands currently occupied by 150 million people will lie below high tide in 2050. But as warming destroys many of the worlds agricultural regions, climate change could accelerate migration from rural areas to
30、coastal cities. The new study does include one piece of slightly encouraging news. While previous models suggested that 28 million humans currently live in places that already lie below high tide, the actual number is closer to 110 million which means seawalls and other barriers have proven sufficie
31、nt to keep many cities dry even as sea levels have risen around them. Still, the scale of barrier construction necessary to save low-lying cities from collapse is now, apparently, far greater than previously understood when the task already looked terribly expensive, particularly for developing coun
32、tries. If the Princeton researchers projections are correct, avoiding mass death and suffering in the coming decades will require not only rapidly reducing carbon emissions and strengthening construction of seawalls but also furthering mass migrations away from low-lying cities and islands and towar
33、d higher ground. 【文章大意】本文是一篇说明文。文章强调了全球变暖的问题, 并介绍了全球变暖导致的海平面上升淹没沿海城市的问题。8. The first paragraph is mainly intended to _. A. introduce the topic of this passageB. show various disasters caused by climate changeC. call on people to fix attention on climate changeD. lay emphasis on the seriousness of cl
34、imate change【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据文章第一段内容可知, 本段的目的是引出气候变化这个主题。9. We can see something encouraging from the Princeton study that _. A. its cheap to construct seawalls as well as other barriersB. the scale of barrier construction is much smaller than beforeC. developed countries have less trouble in dealing
35、with rising sea levelsD. seawalls do have the function to prevent coastal cities being drowned【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据文章第七段. . . seawalls and other barriers have proven sufficient to keep many cities dry even as sea levels have risen around them. 可知, 海堤确实有防止沿海城市被淹的作用。10. What can be a suitable title for the passage? A. How to protect cities from rising seas. B. Rising seas are going to drown more cities. C. Climate change is endangering human existence. D. Less emission of carbon, fewer fires and droughts. 【解析】选B。主旨大意题。根据文章的主旨大意可知, 本文强调的是气候变化情况下海平面上升淹没沿海城市的问题。关闭Word文档返回原板块
