1、吉林省四平市2014高考英语阅读理解巩固全程训练（5）及答案阅读理解-AOn May 23, 1989, Stefania Follini came out from a cave at Carlsbad, New Mexico. She hadnt seen the sun for eighteen and a half weeks. Stefania was in a research program, and the scientists in the program were studying body rhythms (节奏).In this experiment Stefania
2、had spent 130 days in a cave, 30 feet in depth. During her time in the cave, Stefania had been completely alone except for two white mice. Her living place had been very comfortable, but there had been nothing to fell her the time. Shed had no clock or watches, no television or radio. There had been
3、 no natural light and the temperature had always been kept at 21. The results were very interesting. Stefania had been in the cave for over four months, but she thought she had been there for only two. Her body clock had changed. She hadnt kept to a 24-hour day. She had stayed awake for 20-25 hours
4、and then had slept for 10 hours. She had eaten fewer meals and had lost 17lbs in weight as a result! She had also become rather depressed (抑郁). How had she spent her time in the cave? As part of the experiment shed done some physical and mental tests. Shed recorded her daily activities and the resul
5、ts of the tests on a computer. This computer had been specially programmed for the project. Whenever she was free, shed played cards, read books and listened to music. Shed also learned French from tapes. The experiment showed that our body clocks are affected by light and temperature, For example,
6、the pattern of day and night makes us wake up and go to sleep. However, People are affected in different ways. Some people wake up naturally at 5:00 am, but others dont start to wake up till 9:00 or 10;00 am. This affects the whole daily rhythm. As a result, the early risers are at their best in the
7、 late morning. The late risers, on the other hand, are tired during the day and only come to life in the afternoon or evening! ( ) 1. Stefania stayed in the cave for a long time because_. A. she was asked to do research on mice B. she wanted to experience loneliness C. she was the subject of a study
8、 D. she needed to record her life 68. C.细节理解题.根据第一段中 Stefania was in a research program 和整段的意思,可以排 除 A,B,D 项. ( ) 2. What is a cause for the change of Stefanias body clock? A. Eating fewer meals. B. Having more hours of sleep C. Lacking physical exercise. D. Getting no natural light. 69. D.细节理解题.根据第
9、二段中 She hadnt kept to a 24-hour day. She had stayed awake for 20-25 hours and then had slept for 10 hours.可知答案. ( ) 3. Where does the text probably come from?A. A novel. B. A news story. C. A pet magazine. D. A travel guide 70. B.推理判断题.从全文的内容来看,本文主要报道了一个实验及实验得出的结果,所 以由此判断本文可能来自于新闻报道,A 项小说不可能.因为文章没有小
10、说的特点;C 项不 正确,本文没有涉及宠物问题;D 项不正确,因为本文也没涉及旅游的问题。阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。【广东省2012届高三考前冲刺卷(四)】ALONDON (Reuters)New faces given to a Chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a FrenchCaribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work
11、 and are not medical oddities (怪异)，researchers said.The findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the transplants could prove longlasting without major problems.Despite the tissue rejection in the first year after their transplants，neither men had psychological p
12、roblems accepting their new faces and have been able to rejoin society，they reported.Only three people have received face transplants.The worlds first was carried out on French woman Isabelle Dinoire in November 2005 after she was disfigured in an attack by her dog.In 2007，her doctors reported that
13、she had recovered slowly and steadily，overcoming two periods of rejection.来源: In 2006，Chinese doctors performed a face transplant on a 30yearold hit by a bear.While there were some complications with tissue rejection following the operation，two years later the man was doing well，his doctors said.“Th
14、is case suggests that facial transplantation might be an option for restoring a severely disfigured face，and could enable patients to bring themselves back into society，” Shuzhong Guo and colleagues at Xijing Hospital in China wrote.A French team described their work on a 29yearold man who suffered
15、from Von Recklinghausen disease，an illness that changes the shape of his face.“The man，who was not named，was given a new nose，mouth and chin in a 2007 operation.He began to work 13 months after the transplant has more function in his face and has not rejected the new tissue，” his doctors said.“Our c
16、ase confirms that face transplantation is practical and effective for the correction of specific disfigurement，” Dr.Laurent Lantieri and colleagues at the HenriMondor hospital outside Paris wrote.26Whats the main idea of this passage?AFace transplants can work.BFace transplants help regain confidenc
17、e.CThree people have received face transplants.DDisfigured people need face transplants.27What happened to the Chinese patient mentioned in the passage?AHe got a strange illness when he was young.BHe received several operations in hospital.CHe was the first person to receive a face transplant.DHe wa
18、s once attacked by an animal.28From the passage we can learn that _.Adoctors have different opinions on facial disfigurementBpatients could regain selfconfidence after face transplantsCthe new face of every patient has more functions than expectedDit is easy for disabled people to be accepted by soc
19、iety29The underlined word “restoring” in Paragraph 4 means “_”Aremoving BrecoveringCrepairing Drejecting30What problem resulted from the facial operations?来源: AThe patients wouldnt accept the facial change.BIt was hard for the patients to get along with others.CIt took some time for the patients to
20、recover from the operation.DThe patients usually suffered from tissue rejection.26A主旨大意题。本文介绍了三例成功的手术，表明面部移植手术是可行的。27D推理判断题。根据第一段中“after a bear tore off part of his face”和第四段中“hit by a bear”可知D项正确。28B推理判断题。根据第四段中的“could enable patients to bring themselves back into society”和第五段中的“He began to work 13
21、 months after the transplant.”可判断出B项正确。29C词义猜测题。restore表示“修复；整修”。30D细节理解题。根据第二段和第三段提到的病例可知，手术后病人都有面部组织的排异反应。高考英语冲刺阅读理解专项-BIn March 2008，Joe Ryan got a notice from a billing agency for a hospital near Denver, Colorado. The hospital wanted payment for surgery totaling $ 41,188. Ryan had never set foot
22、 in that hospital. Obviously there was some mistake. “I thought it was a joke,” says Ryan. But when he called the billing agency，nobody laughed. Someone, who s also named Joe Ryan, using Ryans Social Security number, had indeed been admitted for surgery. He figured clearing this up would take a just
23、 few phone calls. Two years later, Ryan continues to suffer from the damage to his credit rating and still doesnt know if his medical record has been cleared of wrong information. Joe Ryan was the victim of a little-known but frightening type of consumer cheating that is on the rise：medical identity
24、 theft, which involves using your name to get drugs, expensive medical treatment and even cheating insurance payments. As Ryan discovered, money isn t the half of it. When someone steals your name to receive health care, his medical history becomes part of your recordand setting the record straight
25、can be extremely difficult. That s because，in part，the information is handed out among dozens of care-givers, from doctors to medicine stores to insurance companies and labs. I wanted to help straighten this out,” says Ryan, so I went to the hospital, and they had a three-inch-thick record for me, b
26、ut they wouldn t let me see it. I showed them my ID, and they said that s not Joe Ryan s signature. Well, of course not! They had this other guy s signature. ” Ryan had fallen into a victim s Catch-22： If your record doesn t appear to be yours, you may not have the right to read it, much less change
27、 it. Ryan s next step was a visit to the police department. But the police said that there was not much they could do, that the local law enforcement has little experience with medical ID theft, and cases like this can end up being considered a civil matter. 1. The billing agency sent Joe Ryan a not
28、ice to _.A. play a joke on him for medical treatmentB. inform him of the payment for his surgeryC. correct the mistakes about payment for his surgeryD. clear up the wrong information in his medical record答案解析：答案为B。本题为细节题。由第一段 “In March 2008，Joe Ryan got a notice from a billing agency for a hospital
29、near Denver, Colorado. The hospital wanted payment for surgery totaling $ 41,188.”可知，the billing agency 通知Joe Ryan支付手术费用41,188美元，故答案为B。2. Joe Ryan at first thought his problem was _.A. easy to settleB. difficult to settleC. impossible to solveD. unnecessary to solve答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节推理题。由第二段 “He figure
30、d clearing this up would take a just few phone calls.” 可知，Joe Ryan刚开始认为只要打几个电话就可以解决问题，故答案为A。 3. The number of medical identity theft cases in the United States is _.A. increasingB. decreasingC. countableD. changeable答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由第四段首句 “Joe Ryan was the victim of a little-known but frightening t
31、ype of consumer cheating that is on the rise：medical identity theft”可知，医疗身份盗窃在美国正在增加，故答案为A。4. An even worse consequence of medical ID theft is _.A. some trouble in obtaining insurance paymentB. a big loss of money and damage to credit ratingC. the widely spread medical information of the victimD. th
32、e difficulty in changing the wrong medical history答案解析：答案为C。本题为推理题。由第五段可知，当别人盗用了你的名字来享受医疗服务后，他的医疗史就成为了你的医疗史，并且清除这些错误记录极其困难，因为你的信息已经给了许多照料者，包括医生、药店、保险公司和实验室。因此，医疗身份盗窃更糟糕的结果是受害者的医疗信息到处传播。故答案为C。干扰项最强的D选项“改变错误的医疗史非常困难”只是医疗身份盗窃的一个直接结果，但不是更糟糕的，因此排除D选项。【广东省2012届高三考前冲刺卷(四)】BRomedoctors and medical groups ar
33、ound the world last weekend reacted with strong opposition to the news that an Italian specialist is on_the_brink_of cloning the first human baby.Dr.Severino Antinori，who is the head of a hospital in Rome，has been referred to in an Arab newspaper as claiming that one of his patients is eight weeks p
34、regnant with a cloned baby.Antinori refused to comment on the reports，but in March 2001 he said he hoped to produce a cloned embryo for implantation within two years.So far seven different kinds of mammals have already been successfully cloned，including sheep，cats and most recently rabbits.Doctors s
35、howed their doubt and were strongly opposed although they admitted that human cloning would finally come true unless there was a worldwide ban on the practice.Professor Rudolf Jaenisch of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said，“I find it ast
36、onishing that people do this where the result can be foretold that it will not be a normal baby.It is using humans as guinea pigs.It makes people feel sick.”But Ronald Green，director of the Ethics Institute at Darmouth College in the US，said it was unlikely that an eightweekold pregnancy would lead
37、to a birth.So far all cloned animals have suffered from some different serious disorders，many of them dying soon after their births.Doctors are opposed to human cloning because they are worried about the welfare of the cloned child if there is one.“There are no benefits of cloning human beings，just
38、harm，” said Dr.Michael Wilks of the UK.31What do the underlined words “on the brink of” in the first paragraph most probably mean?AOn the side of. BOn the point of.CIn search of. DIn favor of.32The doctors general attitude to cloning humans according to the passage is that_.Athey are against itBthey
39、 support itCthey pay no attention to itDthey welcome it33What does the underlined word “ban” in the fourth paragraph most probably mean?Aorder that forbids cloning.Bsuggestion on carrying on cloning.Canger at cloning.Dcheer for cloning.34Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the pas
40、sage?ADoctor Severino Antinori is strongly opposed to cloning human beings.BUp to now，seven kinds of animals have been cloned，including sheep，cats，humans and rabbits.CProfessor Rudolf Jaenisch is carrying out an experiment on cloning an eightweekold embryo.DRonald Green doubts about the future succe
41、ssful birth of socalled cloned embryo.35Where is the passage probably taken from?AA textbook. BA magazine.CA newspaper. DA digest.31B词义猜测题。从下文看，克隆人类婴儿的事情尚未发生。32A细节判断题。从文章倒数第二段可知，医生们对此持反对态度。33A词义猜测题。由该句可知，医生们承认克隆人是早晚的事情，除非出台一个世界范围的禁令。34D判断正误题。由倒数第四段可知，D是正确的。35C综合判断题。该题目的依据在文章开头的那句话，该句信息有来自“罗马”的报道，有导语，符合新闻的行文特点，所以C项是正确的。