1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家 吉林省长春市2015高考英语译林阅读理解自练（7）及答案阅读理解About a third of all common cancers in the United States, China and Britain could be prevented each year if people ate healthier food, drank less alcohol and exercised more, health experts said on Friday. Reports from the World Cancer Research Fund (W
2、CRF) suggest that making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers alone in Britain and the United States, as well as tens of thousands of stomach cancers. “Even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through keeping a healthy weig
3、ht, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors,” said a WCRF medical and scientific adviser. WCRF findings are supported by World Health Organization (WHO) reports, which say regular exercise can prevent many diseases such as cancers and heart diseases. Cancer is a leading cause of death ar
4、ound the world and its incidence(发病率) is rising. Each year around 12.7 million people discover they have cancer and 7.6 million people die from some form of the disease. There are about 200 known types of cancer. Rachel Thompson, the WCRFs head of science, said that while the message was simple that
5、 not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help ward off many cancers it was still a difficult one to get across. The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exercise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day
6、. Peter Baldini, head of the World Lung Foundation, also called on all governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes. Tobacco kills millions of smokers every year, and tobacco-related lung cancers also kill hundreds of thousands of people who dont smoke but have been exp
7、osed to it second-hand. “There isnt a magic bullet to cure all forms of cancer, but we have the opportunity and the duty to protect people from developing cancer wherever possible,” Baldini said.63. Which of the following words can best take the place of the phrase “ward off” in the sixth paragraph?
8、 A. protect B. prevent C. develop D. cure【答案】B【解析】词义猜测题。根据not smoking, eating good food and being a healthy weight can help及many cancers可以推测是不吸烟，吃好的食物及有一个健康的体重有助于阻止癌症的发生，故选B。64. Which of the following statements is Not true according to the text? A. Exercising and eating healthily can help to reduce
9、 cancer risk. B. Each year about 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer around the world. C. Every year millions of people die from smoking and lung cancers. D. Adults should walk for fifty minutes three times per week.【答案】D【解析】细节理解题。根据The WHO says adults should do at least 150 minutes of exe
10、rcise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.世界卫生组织建议一周五次一次30分钟的锻炼时间，故选D。65. Which of the following can be the best title of this text? A. Simple life changes could stop millions of cancers B. Cancer is a leading cause of death C. Our
11、 bad lifestyle caused many diseases D. The incidence of common cancers is rising【答案】A【解析】标题归纳题。根据making simple lifestyle changes could prevent some 40 percent of breast cancers及短文的内容可知要人们平时注意生活能够阻止癌症的发生，故选A。66. By writing the passage, the author mainly intends to _. A. advise people to develop healt
12、hier lifestyle. B. warn people of the danger of cancers C. explain why many people die from cancers every year. D. introduce the ways to protect people from developing cancers【答案】A【解析】细节理解题。根据短文的内容可知主要建议人们发展健康的生活，故选A。67. We can infer from Peter Baldinis opinion in the last two paragraphs that _. A.
13、all the lung cancers are linked to smoking B. there is no medicine to cure the cancers but its our duty to find one C. all governments should take measures to control smokers and protect peoples health D. its our opportunity and duty to persuade people to give up smoking【答案】C【解析】推理判断题。根据called on al
14、l governments to introduce smoke-free laws and raise the price of cigarettes.建议政府要采取措施控制人们吸烟进而来保护人们的身体健康，故选C。高考英语冲刺阅读理解专项-A Robinson Diaz lives in a small cottage high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Diaz is a “cable racer”, and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local
15、teacher to her school. To do this, he first walks for an hour up to a place the locals call Los Pinos, right at the edge of the 400-foot deep gorge(峡谷) of the Negro valley. Here, one end of a thick metal cable has been fixed to a wooden post. The cable stretches right across the deep valley to the o
16、ther side, a kilometer away. A metal hook is fixed to the cable, with leather straps hanging from it. Diaz fastens the straps around his shoulders and waist, does a quick safety check and then, without hesitating, throws himself off the edge of the mountain. Attached to the cable by only the metal h
17、ook, he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air. Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds, instead of the two hours it would take him to walk down through the rain forest and climb up the steep muddy slopes on the other side. As Diaz begins his trip, Diana Rios, a 23-yea
18、r-old elementary teacher, is waiting on. The other side of the gorge for the moment when he will come racing through the mist towards her at 100 mph. She will then return with him, hanging on to him as he goes back along the cable. Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting t
19、o work in the village school would be dangerous. At first I wanted to cry, she says, clutching her hook as the metal cable starts to rattle(喀哒作响) violently at Diazs approach. “But I soon got used to it.” She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and hazardous(危险)
20、crossing on her own. For the inhabitants(居民) of Los Pinos, the wire cable is a lifeline. For more than 50 years, it has served the community as a form of transport to and from the rest of the world. Everything that comes arrives via the cable-bricks and wood for building, sacks of rice and corn. Pre
21、gnant mothers, who must get to the nearest clinic, cross the wire during the darkness of the night, returning with their newborn babies. It is dangerous, but they have no choice. This time Robinson Diaz makes a perfect landing on Dianas side of the gorge. For him, the dangers of this daily journey a
22、re insignificant. “What Im really scared of is snakes,” he says. “This is nothing in comparison.” Then Dianna straps herself into her harness and hooks herself up to the wire behind Diaz, holding on to him tightly. He turns, flashes her a smile, releases the brake and kicks away. Within seconds, tea
23、cher and cable-racer have disappeared back into the mist.1. Robinson Diaz has a difficult task every morning because he has to_.A. climb a long way up a mountainB. get to the edge of a valleyC. help someone get to workD. walk through a dangerous area答案解析：答案为C。本题为细节题。由第一段 “ and every morning he faces
24、 the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school.”可知，答案为C。2. In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that Diaz is_.A. confident about what he is doingB. unaware of the danger he facesC. careless about his own safetyD. uncertain of what he is doing答案解析：答案为A。本题为推理题。由第二段对Diaz的动作描写“a q
25、uick safety check” 、“without hesitating”、 “he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air” 和“Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds”等表现出他的动作迅速、敏捷、熟练，体现出他非常自信。故答案为A。3. Diana Rios found out how she would travel to work_.A. when she was a student B. when she saw the cableC. a
26、fter she had met Diaz D. after she took the job答案解析：答案为C。本题为细节题。由第三段 “Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting to work in the village school would be dangerous. She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and hazardous crossing on her own.”
27、可知，答案为C。4. What is Dianas opinion about the journey now?A. She enjoys it.B. She no longer finds it a problem.C. It makes her feel very frightened.D. It would be impossible without Diaz.答案解析：答案为B。本题为细节推理题。由第三段 “ At first I wanted to cry, she says, But I soon got used to it. She still prefers to go wi
28、th Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and hazardous crossing on her own.”可知，Diana刚开始工作的时候对于上班时艰难的旅途想哭，后来在Diaz的协助下，她习惯了走缆绳去上班，因此她觉得上班的旅途对于她来说已经不是个问题。故答案为B。5. What does Diaz say about using the cable?A. He does not think there is any risk.B. He is worried about the danger of snakes.C. He
29、 is happy that he can help the teacher.D. He does not find it as frightening as other things.答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节推理题。由最后一段 “For him, the dangers of this daily journey are insignificant. What Im really scared of is snakes, he says. This is nothing in comparison.”可知，Diaz真正害怕的是蛇，比较起来，用缆绳对于他来说不算什么，因此答案为D “他觉
30、得使用缆绳没有其他的东西那么令人害怕”。阅读理解-ABEIJING - Chinas National Tourism Administration (NTA) said Saturday that 215 Chinese tour groups in Japan were safe and sound after a devastating 8.8-magnitude earthquake jolted the countrys eastern coast Friday.A total of 4,578 Chinese tourists were staying in Japan at th
31、e time of the quake. By Saturday noon, all the 215 tour groups that they booked with had contacted domestic travel agencies, with no death or injury reported, said the NTA upon information from local tourism authorities.The NTA has activated the emergency response system and issued a travel alert fo
32、r Japan and countries along the Pacific Rim, it said in a statement on its website.The NTA has also called for travel agencies to protect the security of Chinese tourists in Japan and keep in touch with the Chinese embassy and consulates in Japan, as well as Chinas tourism authorities.Chinese tour a
33、gencies had started to bring back tourists from the quake-hit Japan and many trips had been called off.China CYTS Tours, one of Chinas major travel agencies, had promised a full refund for trip cancellation and offered to bear the extra expense for tourist protection in disasters and unrest.A massiv
34、e 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck the east coast of Japans main Honshu Island at 1:46 pm Beijing Time Friday, which had triggered huge tsunami along Japans Pacific coast and caused hundreds of deaths and catastrophic damage.1. Where are we likely to find this passage? AIn a tour guided book BIn a ge
35、ography book CIn a book DIn a newspaper2. In the first paragraph，the meaning of devastating is .Acatastrophic Bdestructive Ctragic Ddisastrous3. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? AIn all, 4,578 Chinese were staying in Japan at the time of the quake.BJapan also called for trave
36、l agencies to protect the security of Chinese tourists.C215 Chinese tour groups in Japan were organized by China CYTS Tours.DEarthquake-caused tsunami resulted in hundreds of deaths and disastrous damage.【参考答案】13、DBD 阅读理解Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in
37、 Daugavpils, Latvia in 1903. His family immigrated to the United States in 1913, after a 12-day voyage.Mark moved to New York in the autumn of 1923 and found employment in the garment trade and settled down on the Upper West Side. It was while he was visiting someone at the Art Students League that
38、he saw students painting a model. According to him, this was the start of his life as an artist. He was twenty years old and had taken some art lessons at school, so his initial experience was far from an immediate calling.In 1936, Mark Rothko began writing a book, which he never completed, about th
39、e similarities in the childrens art and the work of modern painters. The work of modernists, which was influenced by primitive art, could, according to him, be compared to that of children in that “Child art transforms itself into primitivism, which is only the child producing a copy of himself.” In
40、 this same work, he said that “The fact that one usually begins with drawing is already academic. We start with color.”It was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for. In 1949 Rothko exhibited these new works at the Betty Parsons Gallery. For reviewer Harold Rosenb
41、erg, the paintings were unique and primitive. Rothko had, after painting his first multiform, separated himself from the world in East Hampton on Long Island, only inviting a very few people, including Rosenberg, to view the new paintings. The discovery of his works specialty came at a period of gre
42、at sorrow: his mother Kate died in October 1948. As part of this new uniformity of artistic vision, his paintings no longer had individual titles. From this point on they were simply untitled, numbered or dated. However, to assist in distinguishing one work from another, traders would sometimes add
43、the primary colors to the name. Additionally, for the next few years, Rothko painted in oil only on large vertical tents. This was done to surround the viewer, or, in his words, to make the viewer feel enveloped within the picture.68. When did Rothko want to be an artist?A. When he immigrated to the
44、 U.S.A. B. When he watched students drawing.C. When he moved to the Upper West Side. D. When he joined the Art Students League.【答案】B【解析】细节理解题。根据It was while he was visiting someone at the Art Students League that he saw students painting a model. According to him, this was the start of his life as a
45、n artist.当他看见学生画画的时候，故选B。69. What did Rothko think of modern art?A. It could be produced by children. B. It could be compared to child work.C. It was a certain kind of primitive art. D. It was academic from the very beginning.【答案】B【解析】细节理解题。根据about the similarities in the childrens art and the work
46、of modern painters.儿童艺术与现代艺术的有相似点，故选B。70. Why does the author mention Rothkos uncompleted book?A. To prove Rothkos concentration on painting.B. To show Rothkos research on the modern art.C. To suggest Rothkos unique personal painting style.D. To explain the inspiration of Rothkos painting style.【答案】
47、C【解析】推理判断题。根据It was not long before his multiform developed into the style he is remembered for.提出他的独特绘画风格，故选C。71. Rothkos distinctive style _. A. took shape in 1948 B. was affected by RosenbergC. resulted from his boyhood experienceD. was rooted in the separation from the world【答案】A【解析】细节理解题。根据The discovery of his works specialty came at a period of great sorrow: his mother Kate died in October 1948.他的独特风格的形成是在1948年。- 9 - 版权所有高考资源网
