1、高考资源网（），您身边的高考专家2009年高考英语二轮复习专项限时训练阅读理解（四十八）（附答案与解析）ANarcissus was a beautiful looking boy. He had long, flowing, blond hair, beautiful, bright, blue eyes and even, white teeth. Many young ladies fell in love with him including the nymph（女神）: Echo. Nymphs were lively spirits who lived near streams a
2、nd lakes and protected trees in the forest. Echo had upset the Queen of the Gods; Hera. As a punishment Hera made Echo unable to speak except to repeat the last three words of the person she was talking to. Poor Echo fell in love with Narcissus but could never tell him how she felt. Narcissus teased
3、 her and she ran away with tears pouring down her face. Aphrodite, the goddess of love saw what happened and decided to punish Narcissus. As he came to a pool of water Narcissus saw his reflection (影子)and fell in love with the vision he saw. It was of course his own reflection. Poor Narcissus watche
4、d his own reflection, every time he tried to touch the face of the vision he loved it broke up on the shimmering surface of the water. Narcissus stopped eating, lost his beautiful looks and desired to get his love. In the end he anguished gradually and died. Aphrodite took pity on him and made a flo
5、wer grow in his place on the bank of the lake. Narcissus flowers (水仙花) can be found to this day growing wherever you can find water and trees.1. Echo fell in love with Narcissus because_. A. Narcissus was good-looking.B. Echo was a lively spirit C. Narcissus loved her, too.D. Echo took pity on Narci
6、ssus2. Why did Aphrodite, the goddess of love punish Narcissus? A. Aphrodite envied Echo because she loved NarcissusB. She thought Narcissus didnt respect and made Echo sad.C. Narcissus fell in love with the vision, not Echo.D. Echo was trapped in love and didnt protect trees in the forest any longe
7、r.3. What does the underlined word “anguished” in the four paragraph mean? A. become increasingly thin and weak B. become very hungry C. become very fat D. become out of mind4. What is the main purpose of writing the passage? A. To tell people a sad love storyB. To tell people how Narcissus flowers
8、cameC. To tell the true meaning of beauty and uglinessD. To tell people not affect others loveBDo you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span
9、.“I think we are knocking at the door of immortality（永生）,” said Michaed Zey, a Montciair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. “I think by 2075 we will see it and thats a conservative（保守的）estimate.”At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at
10、 New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology（纳米技术）make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. “There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years” he said, “Some have suggested that ther
11、e is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years.”However, many scientists who specialize in aging are doubtful about it and say the human body is just not designed to last past about 120 tears. Even with healthier lifestyles and less disease, they say failure of the brain and org
12、ans will finally lead all humans to death.Scientists also differ on what kind of life the super aged might live. “It remains to be seen if you pass 120, you know; could you be healthy enough to have good quality of life?” said Leonard Poon, director of the University of Georgia Gerontology Centre. “
13、At present people who could get to that point are not in good health at all.”5. By saying “we are knocking at the door of immortality”, Michael Zey means_ A. they believe that there is no limit of living B. they are sure to find the truth about long living C. they have got some ideas about living fo
14、rever D. they are able to make people live past the present life span6. Donald Lourias attitude toward long living is that_ A. people can live from 120 to 180 B. it is still doubtful how long humans can live C. the human body is designed to last past about 120 years D. it is possible for humans to l
15、ive longer in the future7. The underlined word “it” (paragraph 4) refers to_ A. a great push B. the idea of living beyond the present life span C. the idea of living from200 to 300 years D. the conservative estimate8. What would be the best title for this text? A. Living Longer or Not B. Science, Te
16、chnology and Long Living C. No Limit for Human Life D. Healthy Lifestyle Long LivingCSome myths（神话）are stories told since ancient times to explain the causes for natural happenings. The Greek myth that explains why there are changes of seasons is about Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. She had a
17、daughter, Persephone, whom she loved very much. Hades, god of the underworld, fell in love with Persephone, and he asked Zeus, the ruler of the gods, to give Persephone to him as his wife. Zeus did not want either to disappoint Hades or to upset Demeter, so he said he would not agree to the marriage
18、, but neither would he forbid it. Hades, therefore, decided to take the girl without permission. When Persephone was picking flowers in the garden, he seized her and took her to the underworld. When Demeter found out what happened to Persephone, she became so angry that she caused all plants to stop
19、 growing. People were in danger of starving. Demeter was determined not to let crops grow until her daughter, Persephone, was returned to her. Zeus, still not wanting to disappoint Hades, decided upon a condition for Persephones return. She could go back to her mother if she had not eaten anything w
20、hile she was in the underworld. Demeter accepted it because she did not know that Persephone had eaten several pomegranate (石榴) seeds in the underworld. When Zeus discovered this, he agreed that Persephone could spend part of the year with her mother, but he added that since she had eaten the seeds,
21、 _. And so it happens that when Persephone is in the underworld, Demeter is sad and therefore will not let the crops grow. That is why we have winter when plants do not grow. When Persephone returns, Demeter is happy, it is spring, and plants begin to grow again. 阅读短文，回答问题。1. Whats the best title of
22、 the passage? (Please answer within 10 words) _2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following sentence? Demeter decided to stop crops growing unless her daughter, Persephone, went home safe. _3. Please fill in the blank with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Pleas
23、e answer within 15 words) _4. What do you think of Zeusthe ruler of the gods? Give your reasons (within 30 words) _5. Translate the underlined sentence in the third paragraph into Chinese. _A1.A 本题考查理解文章细节的能力。由第一段 “Narcissus was a beautiful looking boy. He had long, flowing, blond hair, beautiful, b
24、right, blue eyes and even, white teeth.”可知答案。2.B 本题考查理解文章细节的能力。由第一段 “Narcissus teased her and she ran away with tears pouring down her face.”可知答案。3.A 本题考查根据上下文信息推测词语含义的能力。根据 “stopped eating, lost his beautiful looks desired to get his love.anguished gradually died. 这一线索可以推测的意思为 “become increasingly
25、thin and weak”。故A为正确答案.4. B 本题考查根据文章内容判断写作目的的能力。由最后一段中 “Narcissus flowers (水仙花) can be found to this day growing wherever you can find water and trees.”可知作者的写作目的。B5.C 本题考查理解文章细节信息的能力。第二段Michaed Zey 教授说 “我认为我们正在敲击永生之门， 保守的估计，到2075年我们就会看到它的曙光”。由此可知他们有关于长生不老的一些想法。6.D 本题考查根据文章细节信息判断观点态度的能力。由第三段可知Donald
26、Louria 对待长生的态度是乐观的，他认为在将来人们有更长寿的可能。7.B 本题考查理解文章细节信息判断特定代词所指的能力。全文都在谈论一个话题：人类能否超过现在的生命极限活得更久，it代指这一话题。8.A 本题考查理解文章主旨要义的能力。通读短文可知全文都在谈论人类是否可以更长寿的问题。部分专家学者很乐观，也有部分专家并不这样看好。A项正好概括了这两个方面。文章虽提到了科学，技术，但他们只是作为人类可以长寿的论据出现的。此B不对。C项只是部分人的观点。C1. the Origin of Four Seasons 2. Demeter was determined not to let cr
27、ops grow until her daughter, Persephone, was returned to her.3. she must spend part of the year in the underworld4. From the passage we can see Zeus is a God who has no definite views of his own. because he neither agreed to nor forbad the marriage between Hades and Demeter.5.宙斯不想让Hades失望,也不愿意让Demeter心烦意乱, 于是他说他既不同意这桩婚事, 但也不会禁止。w.w.w.k.s.5.u.c.o.m6欢迎广大教师踊跃来稿，稿酬丰厚。