1、2016高考英语二轮阅读理解一百六十集选练（30）及（解析）答案【2016模拟题】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。 People believed for a long time that the heart was the center of a persons emotions. That is why the word heart is used in so many expressions about emotional situations.One such expression is to lose your heart to someone.
2、 When that happens, you have fallen in love. But if the person who won your heart does not love you, then you are sure to have a broken heart. In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact, has a heart of stone.You may decide to pour out your heart t
3、o a friend. Telling someone about your personal problems can often make you feel better.If your friend does not seem to understand how painful your broken heart is, you may ask her to have a heart. You are asking your friend to show some sympathy for your situation. Your friend has her heart in the
4、right place if she says she is sorry, and shows great concern for how you feel.Your friend may, however, warn you not to wear your heart on your sleeve. In other words, do not let everyone see how lovesick you are. When your heart is on your sleeve you are showing your deepest emotions.If your frien
5、d says my heart bleeds for you, she means the opposite. She is a cold-hearted person who does not really care about your situation.In the ever-popular motion picture, The Wizard of Oz,（绿野仙踪） the Tin Man seeks a heart. He wanted to feel the emotion of love, and was seeking help from the powerful Wiza
6、rd of Oz to find a heart.The Cowardly Lion, in the same movie, did “have a heart”. But he lacked courage and wanted to ask the Wizard of Oz to give him some. You could say that the cowardly lion was chicken-hearted. That is another way of describing someone who is not very brave. A chicken is not no
7、ted for its bravery. Thus, someone who is chicken-hearted does not have much courage.When you are frightened or concerned, your heart is in your mouth. You might say, for example, that your heart was in your mouth when you asked a bank to lend you some money to pay for a new house. 1What is the main
8、 idea of the passage?AThe heart was the center of a persons emotions.BThere are many expressions about heart and what do they mean.CWe should learn some expressions about “heart”.DIt is important to learn some expressions about “heart”2How many expressions about “Heart” are mentioned in the passage?
9、A.10 B.8 C.9 D.113If you hear one of your family members is hurt in a traffic accident, you will feel _.A.heart is in your mouth. B.have your heart in the right place C. wear your heart on your sleeve D.lose your heart4Why did the writer mentionThe Wizard of Oz,in the passage?A.To show that it is ev
10、er popular.B.To introduce a film to the readersC.To give some more examples about the phrases.D.To show that the Tin Man is not brave.参考答案1-4、B D A C解析1主旨题：通读全文和第一段的内容：可知这篇文章讲的是和“heart”有关的表达和它们的含义。选B2细节题：整个文章介绍了11个有关“heart”的表达：lose your heart，broken heart. ，hard-hearted, ， heart of stone.， pour out
11、your heart ，have a heart. ，has her heart in the right place ，wear your heart on your sleeve.， my heart bleeds for you, ，chicken-hearted.， 和heart is in your mouth.所以选 D3推理题：题目问：如果你听说一个家庭成员在交通事故中受伤，是什么感觉？从最后一段对heart is in your mouth 的解释，可知这是“心提到嗓子眼”的意思，表示担心，和语境相符合，选A4写作意图题：在倒数第二段和第三段的内容：可知作者提到The Wiza
12、rd of Oz,， 举了the Tin Man 和The Cowardly Lion,的例子，是为了给出更多的关于“heart”的表达。选C【2015高考复习】阅读理解Many of us still tend to think that emotions can affect reasonablethought，and sometimes land us in trouble.But in recent years psychologists have taken quite a different view.Keith Oatley，Professor of Psychology at
13、Glasgow University，is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions.He believes we_are_very_ambivalent_about_them：we think of our emotions as being unreasonable，but we also consider them as essential to being human.For example，Mr Spock，a character in the television seri
14、es Star Trek，is superintelligent and he has no emotions at all.However，he is never made captain of the spaceship.Maybe，this is because Mr Spock is not the kind of person you can share your feelings witha person who shows his emotions.As Professor Oatley points out，our emotions have very important fu
15、nctions，for example，fear.If we cross the road and a car approaches，we usually stop moving or step back.We stop what we are doing，check what we have done and pay very careful attention to the environment.The emotion of fear makes us take this small series of actions which，on average，help preserve our
16、 safety.On the other hand，if things are going well and small problems come up，we find we can solve them with the resources we have to hand.As a consequence，we tend to feel happy and usually continue doing the job.Anger is an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing us from doing someth
17、ing.Then this small “kit” of reactions enables us to prepare ourselves to be quite aggressive to that person，or to try harder，and so on.Professor Oatley believes emotions generally occur at these important moments in actions.With fear and anger our emotions make us decide to start doing something el
18、se，while with happiness they “suggest” we continue what we are already doing.【语篇解读】相关研究表明，情感对人而言至关重要，不可或缺。1Whats Keith Oatleys opinion about emotions?AThey affect reasonable thought.BThey get us into trouble.CThey are helpful to us.DThey are reasonable.解析细节理解题。根据文章第一段最后一句中的“which shows the fundament
19、al importance of emotions”以及第三段中的“our emotions have very important functions”可知，Oatley认为情感对我们来说是有益的。答案C2What does the underlined part “we are very ambivalent about them” in Paragraph 2 mean?AWe have contradictory feelings towards emotions.BWe have similar ideas of emotions.CWe are quite clear about
20、emotions.DWe can do nothing about emotions.解析句意理解题。根据第二段中的“we think of our emotions as being unreasonable，but we also consider them as essential to being human”可知，我们认为我们的情感毫无道理，但对于我们人类来说，它是必不可少的，这足以说明我们的矛盾心理。答案A3Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?AFear helps us to be careful abou
21、t our surroundings.BHappiness inspires us to continue what we are doing.CAnger may urge us to make greater efforts.DAnger tends to do us more harm than good.解析细节理解题。本题可用排除法。根据第三段的内容可知A项正确；根据第四段的最后一句可知B项正确；根据第五段的最后一句可知C项正确。答案D4It can be inferred from the passage that_.Awe must control our emotions in
22、 daily lifeBemotions play a more important part than we realizeCpositive emotions such as love and joy are good for usDnegative emotions make us continue what we are doing解析推理判断题。根据文章最后一段的内容可推知，积极的情感和消极的情感都发挥着比我们意识到的更重要的作用。答案B。【2016模拟题】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。 If you have a bad habit of l
23、osing things, a new device that can be connected to any item that you might lose may be the way to solve your problem. The Tile, a small square linked up to your iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth, lets you see how close you are to the missing item, within a 50-to 150-foot range . If the item goes out of
24、your phones 150-foot range, it can still be detected (发现) on other smartphones with the same app.When you log into the app on your phone, it shows you, with green bars that increase or decrease, how far away you are from the Tile. You can also program it to make a sound when you get close to the Til
25、e. And you can link up your phone with up to ten Tiles. And if your lost item a dog, for example, or a stolen bike goes out of your own phones 150-foot Bluetooth range, you can set it as a “lost item”. If any of the phones with the Tile app comes within the range of your lost item, a message will be
26、 sent to your own phone, reminding you of its position. The Tile app also has the function to remember where it last saw your Tile, so that you can easily find where you left it.Since the Tiles use Bluetooth rather than GPS, they never run out of battery or need to be charged, and they last for one
27、year before needing to be replaced. The app, which will come into the market this winter, works with iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPad Mini, iPad 3rd and 4th generation, and iPod 5th generation. 1. The Tile app can help you .A. find your missing itemsB. use your phone more wiselyC. save your phones battery
28、powerD. connect something to your phone2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. The Tile needs to be charged after a year of use. B. One smartphone can only be linked up to one Tile.C. The Tile cannot work when linked up to a phone without Bluetooth. D. A missing item cant be fo
29、und if it goes out of the needed range.3. What does the second paragraph mainly tell us?A. What the Tile app is.B. How the Tile app works.C. The advantages of the Tile app.D. Why the Tile app was invented.4. Where does this passage probably come from?A. A science fiction novel.B. An advertisement.C.
30、 A personal diary.D. A news report.【参考答案】1-4ACBD 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。In business, there is a speed difference: Its the difference between how important a firms leaders say speed is to their competitive (竞争的) strategy（策略）and how fast the company actually moves. The difference is i
31、mportant regardless of industry and company size .Companies fearful of losing their competitive advantage spend much time and money looking for ways to pick up the speed.In our study of 343 businesses, the companies that choose to go, go, go to try to gain an edge ended up with lower sales and opera
32、ting incomes than those that paused at key moments to make sure they were on the right track, Whats more, the firms that “slowed down to speed up “improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating incomes over a three-year period.How did they disobey the laws o
33、f business physics, taking more time than competitors yet performing better? They thought differently about what “slower” and “faster” mean. Firms sometimes fail to understand the difference between operation speed (moving quickly )and strategic speed (reducing the time it takes to deliver value ).S
34、imply increasing the speed of production, for example ,may be one way to try to reduce the speed difference .But that often leads to reduced value over time, in the form of lower-quality products and services.In our study, higher-performing companies with strategic speed always made changes when nec
35、essary. They became more open to ideas and discussion. They encouraged new ways of thinking. And they allowed time to look back and learn. By contrast (相比而言), performance suffered at firms that moved fast all the time, paid too much attention to improving efficiency, stuck to tested methods, didnt d
36、evelop team spirit among their employees, and had little time thinking about changes.Strategic speed serves as a kind of leadership. Teams that regularly take time to get things right, rather than plough ahead full bore , are more successful in meeting their business goals . That kind of strategy mu
37、st come from the top.( ) 1. What does the underlined part “gain an edge” in Paragraph 2 mean? A. Increase the speed. B. Get an advantage. C. Reach the limit. D. Set a goal.( ) 2. The underlined part “the laws of business physics” in Paragraph 3 means _. A. spending more time and performing worse.B.
38、spending more time and performing betterC. spending less time and performing worse D. spending less time and performing better ( ) 3. What can we learn from the text? A. how fast a firm moves depends on how big it is.B. how competitive a firm is depends on what it produces.C. Firms guided by strateg
39、ic speed take time to make necessary changes.D. Firms guided by operational speed take time to develop necessary team spirit.( ) 4. Which could be the best title for the text? A. Improve quality? Serve better. B. Deliver value? Plough ahead.C. Reduce time? Move faster. D. Need speed? Slow down.【参考答案】1-4、BDCD