1、江苏省南京市2016高考英语二轮阅读理解基础习题（4）及答案阅读理解。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。Born in a fishing village in Japan, Fujiyama, 25, recalls a childhood dominated by health concerns. Doctors told his parents that he had a hole in his heart and “they didnt think I had a lot longer to live”. But during a later vis
2、it to the doctor, his family learned the hole had closed. “Somehow I was cured and I became a normal kid,” Fujiyama says. “And I had a second chance.”During his second year at the University of Mary Washington, he volunteered in Honduras with a campus group and was struck by the extreme poverty he s
3、awbarefoot children collecting cans and sleeping in the streets. Fujiyama realized he could help give other children their own second chance.Today, his organization, Students Helping Honduras, brings education and community projects to children and families in need.He started by telling his friends
4、about his experience and collecting spare change at his two campus jobs. “When I had my very first meeting, only two people showed up,” he says. “I knew I had to keep fighting.” He persuaded his younger sister, Cosmo, to join the cause. “Shes dynamite,.” He says. “When she talks in front of a crowd,
5、 she can move mountains. Knowing that she was behind it, I knew I could do anything.” Since 2006, the siblings organization has grown to 25 campuses and raised more than $750,000 to fund projects, including the construction of two schools and the establishment of scholarships to help young women att
6、end college.Fujiyama says students are deeply committed to the organization. They raise money and then travel to Honduras to help building houses. While Fujiyama spends his summers in Honduras working alongside volunteers, he spends a large portion of the year on the road visiting colleges to raise
7、funds. Cosmo Fujiyama, 23, lives in Honduras full time to coordinate（协调）the groups building efforts on the ground.Students Helping Honduras is working with community members of Siete de Abril to build a new village. Many of the families lost their belongings in Hurricane Mitch in 1998. A lot of them
8、 didnt have access to clean water or health care, and they didnt have a school. Fujiyamas group helped build 44 homes in the village named “Sunshine Village”. The organization is also raising funds to build a water tower, an eco-friendly sanitation system and a library.1. At the beginning of his org
9、anization, _. A. Fujiyama was supported by many friends B. things didnt go on smoothlyC. Fujiyama had little idea of Honduras D. many famous people joined in2. We can infer that Fujiyama is a _ man. A. diligent B. mean C. sympathetic D. cheerful3. The underlined word “siblings ” can be replaced by _
10、. A. brothers B. brother and sisters C. friends D. couples4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage? A. Help the people in needB. Students lend a hand in AmericaC. Fujiyama helps build “Sunshine Village”D. Fujiyama gives poor people in Honduras a second chance【参考答案】14、BCBD 阅读理解。阅读下
11、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。A new report says only about half of all students in the main school systems of Americas largest cities finish high school. The report notes higher rates of graduation over 70% in areas surrounding the cities. Researchers studied high school graduation rates from the
12、2003, 2004 school year. They also identified the nations fifty largest cities. The largest, New York City, had a population of more than eight million. The smallest city was Wichita, Kansas. It had about three hundred and sixty thousand people.Researchers used a system of measurement called the cumu
13、lative promotion index to find graduation rates. School officials in many of the cities studied said the resulting numbers were too low. That is because different areas use different methods to find graduation rates. Critics say many methods do not give a true picture of the number of students who l
14、eave high school before finishing.Other studies have put the national graduation rate at about 70%. But experts agree that too many students are not completing high school. They estimate the number at more than one million each year. The report was prepared for Americas Promise Alliance. The private
15、 group aims to help children receive services they need to succeed.General Colin Powell was chairman of Americas Promise Alliance when it was formed in 1997. He attended the press conference Tuesday where the report was released. He said studies have shown that the US must do more to educate the lea
16、ders and work force of the future.Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings also spoke. She said the government will propose that states use the same methods when reporting graduation rates. Alliance officials also announced the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation rates. It is to in
17、clude a series of meetings to be held in every state over the next two years. The meetings will bring together elected leaders, business owners, students, parents and education officials. They will develop plans to increase the number of Americans who finish high school.5. The author wants to tell u
18、s _. A. too many Americans do not finish high schoolB. different methods to find graduation ratesC. services American children need to receiveD. the increase of the number of Americans who finish their high school6. From Paragraph 1 we can infer that _. A. there are 8,360,000 people in the US fifty
19、largest citiesB. Wichita in Kansas is the smallest city in the USC. 50% of the people in the US dont finish their high school educationD. high school graduation rates in or near the biggest cities are higher7. The underlined word “picture” probably can be replaced by “_”. A. situation B. scene C. im
20、age D. mood8. From the last paragraph, we can draw a conclusion that _-. A. secretary of Education Margaret Spellings didnt believe that number from the reportB. the government will stop using the cumulative promotion index to find graduation ratesC. secretary of Education Margaret Spellings announc
21、ed the start of a nationwide campaign to improve graduation ratesD. the low graduation rates should be paid attention to by the government and the society【参考答案】58、ADAD 社会生活类。To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教徒) have ever cooked up. For them, the for
22、bidden fruit from Eden is evil (邪恶的) . So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans. What made it particularly terr
23、ifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell(地狱) . What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried- up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had br
24、ight red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch. Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700smost of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well- known plant expert wrote that
25、the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her fathers house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruitor is it a vegetable? ”As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an“evil fruit”. But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of
26、the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of? ”he shouted. “Ill show you fools that these things are good to eat!”Then he bit into the tomato. Some peo
27、ple fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato- canning factory. 1. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because .A. it made Christians evilB. it was the apple of EdenC. it came from a forbidden landD. it was religiously unacceptable2. What can
28、 we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3? A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down. B. There was little progress in the study of the tomato. C. The tomato was still refused in most western countries. D. Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato. 3. What is the main rea
29、son for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly? A. To make himself a hero. B. To remove peoples fear of the tomato. C. To speed up the popularity of the tomato. D. To persuade people to buy products from his factory. 4. What is the main purpose of the passage? A. To challenge peoples fixed concep
30、ts of the tomato. B. To give an explanation to peoples dislike of the tomato. C. To present the change of peoples attitudes to the tomato. D. To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence. 【参考答案】42.DCBC 社会生活类。Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax (斧子) for the frozen sea
31、inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didnt seem to require any explanation.Wed just finished John Steinbecks novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are
32、 you crying? ”one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am, ” I told her, “and the funny thing is Ive read it many times. ”But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New Yor
33、k City public middle school, Ive taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novels terrible logicthe giving way of dreams t
34、o fate (命运) .For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred ou
35、t of a selective high schoolone that often attracts the literary- minded children of Manhattans upper classesinto a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital”could help
36、 students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. Ds.Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet
37、 and Macbeth. The students didnt always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “its about being a man, its about manliness. ” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeths soliloquies (独白) read as raps (说唱) , bu
38、t both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbecks writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and theyre all white. ”His historical view was broadening, his sense
39、of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly compl
40、ex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich(充实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that
41、reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.1. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to_ .A. realize our dreams B. give support to our lifeC. smooth away difficultiesD. awake our emotions2. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men
42、?A. Because they spent much time reading it.B. Because they had read the novel before.C. Because they came from a public school.D. Because they had similar life experiences.3. The girl left the selective high school possibly because_.A. she was a literary- minded girlB. her parents were immigrantsC.
43、 she couldnt fit in with her classD. her father was then in prison4. To the authors surprise, the students read the novels_ .A. creativelyB. passivelyC. repeatedlyD. carelessly5. The author writes the passage mainly to_.A. introduce classic works of literatureB. advocate teaching literature to touch the heartC. argue for equality among high school studentsD. defend the current testing system【参考答案】43.DDCAB