1、山西省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（77）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。A A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britains Queen ElizabethTom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the queen after he set free a balloon，carrying his name and address，at a school party and it landed in the gr
2、ounds of Windsor Castle The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant，Angela Kelly，to write aletter on her behalf She wrote，“The queen was delighted to find that your balloon had traveled all the way tothe gardens at Windsor Castle”www.ks5u Tom，who proudly put the letter on his wall
3、，wrote back to say that his great，great grandfather，the artist Petrus Johannes Arundzen，had been commissioned(正式委托)to copy Dutch masterson display at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace Angela at once replied that she would contact the Royal Collection to find out what had happened to the art works
4、She kept her word and two weeks later wrote to Tom to tell him what had happened to the etchings，explaining they now form part of the print collection in the Print Library Angela then asked a favor of Tom，writing，“Would you be able to ask your Mummy and Daddy for me if they know anything more about
5、your great，great grandfather? Royal Collection would love to know more about him” Along with his parentsTom wrote back to fill in all the gaps about Petrus Johannes Arundzen Although Toms parents dont think there will be any more letters exchanged between the pair，they were touched that she had take
6、n time to contact them Toms father said，“I dont expect we11 get another one，but I think its incredible they bothered replying at a11”1Windsor Castle is Aa playing ground Bthe queens home Ca post officeDa rose garden2“etchings”in Paragraph 5 means Aphotos Bcartoons CpostcardsDpaintings3Toms parents A
7、feel very much shocked about the letters and refuse to answer them Btry to deal with the friendship naturally but refuse to do anything about it Cdont take the matter very seriously Ddont think this friendship will last long but somehow feel good4Which would be the best title for the text? AA Boys G
8、ood Luck BToms Special Balloon CA Story at Windsor Castle DFour-year-old Boy Becomes the Queens Pen PalB OBERLIN，Kansas(AP)一A postcard featuring a color drawing of Santa C1aus and a young girl was mailed in 1914， but its journey was much slower than ChristmasIt has just arrived in northwest Kansas r
9、ecently The Christmas card was dated December 23，1914，and mailed to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, apparently from her cousins in Alma。Nebraska “Its a mystery where it spent most of the last century，”Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultzsaid “Its surprising that it never got thrown away，”he said“How someone ha
10、s found itI dont know” Ethel Martin has passed away，but Schultz said the post office wanted to get the card to a relativeThats how the 93-year-old relic ended up with Bernice Martin，Ethels，sister-in-lawShe said she believed the card had been found somewhere in Illinois “Thats all we know，”she said“B
11、ut it is kind of curiousWed like to know how it gotdown there “The card was placed inside another envelope with a modern postage stamp for the trip to Oberlinthe one cent postage of the early 20th century wouldnt have covered it”Martin said “We dont know much about it，”she said“But wherever they kep
12、t it, it was in perfect shape”5 was supposed to have received the postcard。 ABernice Martin BEthel Martin CSanta C1ausDSteve Sehultz6What seems quite mysterious is Ahow it was sent to a relative Bthat the postcard was still in shape Cwhere the old postcard was kept Dthat the card was in a modem enve
13、lope7“the 93-year-old relic”refers to . Athe Christmas card Ban ancient cultural relic in Illinois Can envelope with modern postageDa house passed down by Ethel Martin8The best title of the passage would be AA Special Christmas Card BToo Late Christmas Greetings CThe Story of a Christmas Card DA Chr
14、istmas Card Arrives Almost a Century LateC London，(UPT via Xinhua)Peter Scott，a 51-year-old printer from northern England，has been given his second of two“piggy-back”hearts after removing of his own heart，the Hare filed Hospital said last week The hospital near London，which is specially good at hear
15、t operation，said Scott was in a satisfactory condition Doctors first linked Scotts heart with the heart of a 13-year-old girl in a“piggy-back”transplant to make up his own heart a week before，the hospital director David Blythe said Both beat well in step for four days until half-solid blood formed i
16、n a man-made valve (瓣膜)fixed in Scotts own heart last year,B1vthe said MOSCOW(Agencies via Xinhua)A Russian Ilyushin 62 airliner left for West Africa suddenly fell down shortly after take-off here，killing everyone on board It is not known how many passengers the 182-seat aircraft was carrying when i
17、t went downward quickly to the ground just 10 kilometres from Sheremetyevo AirportBut west Africannewspapers said the plane，which was heading for Sierra Leone，was about half full An official from Moscows Botkin Institute Hospital said，“No one could have been still alive in the accident” “The acciden
18、t was so serious，so horrible，that we did not need to give medical attention to anyone” West African officials have complained that the Russian government failed to inform them of the air accident，in which many Africans may have been killed Stavanger，Norway，March 28(AFP)一At least 28 oil workers died
19、and 69 were missing today after the overturning of the 10，000 ton Norwegian “Floating Hotel”Alexander Kiellan，in strong winds last night Another 128 workers have reportedly been rescued from the icy，storm-thrown North Sea waters midway between northeast England and Denmark in continuing search opera
20、tions by British and Norwegian helicopters，planes and ships The disaster，called“the worst in our recent history”by Norwegian Premier Odvar Nordli, struck late yesterday when the four-level platform，used as a rest area for workers in the North Seas Ekofisk Oil Field，overturned in a storm after one of
21、 its five huge legs gave way for unknown reasonsYet the quality of construction was the last，Ken Harris，Chief Engineer said In Stavanger，Prime Minister Nordli thanked neighboring countries，with England headingthe list，for their aid and in the rescue effort The Ekofick field has the heaviest oil plat
22、forms of all of shore sites in the world，with 1， 850 oil workers on them，including three other rest platforms9From the first news we can know Ait was Scotts heart that saved a 13-year-old girls life BScotts heart would be transplanted to a girl Cto make up Scotts heart，the first step was to link his
23、 heart with the girls heart DScotts man-made valve was removed10How many persons were killed in the air accident near Sheremtyevo Airport? AAbout 90 BAbout 180 CAbout 60DAbout 12011One of the legs of the four-level platform in the North Seas E1ofisk Oil Field brokeWhy? ABecause of very strong winds
24、BBecause the“Floating Hotel”was turned over CBecause the quality of construction was bad DThe report doesnt mention12What do you learn from the news reports? AIn the rescue effort for the Norwegian oil workers，England led some other countries BSoon after the air accident doctors in Botkin Institute
25、Hospital gave aids to the injured passengers. CPeter Scott was still in danger because half-solid blood formed DThe plat forms of North Seas Ekofisk Oil Field are the heaviest in the worldD Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in order to cut the green
26、house gases they send out，which is thought to be responsible for global warming Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs，kangaroo flatulence (肠胃气胀)contains no methane (甲烷)and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep wh0 produce large quantities of the harmful gas While the u
27、sual image of greenhouse gas pollution is a billowing smokestack(烟囱) pushing out carbon dioxide，farm animalspassing wind contribute a surprisingly high percentage of total emissions(排放物)in some countries “Fourteen percent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle
28、 and sheep，”said Athol Klieve，a senior research scientist with the Queensland state government “And if you look at another country such as New Zealand，which has got a much higher agricultural base，theyre actually up around 50 percent，”he said Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive pro
29、cess much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers But it will take researchers at least three years to isolate(分离)the bacteria，before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to cattle and sheep Another group of scientists，meanwhile，has
30、suggested Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroosAnd about 20 percent of health-conscious Australians are believed to eat the national symbol already “Its low in fat，its got high protein levels and its very clean in the sense that basically its the free-range(放养的)a
31、nimal，”said Peter Ampt of the University of New South Waless institute of environmental studies. 13Scientists intend to put bacteria into cattle and sheep Ato prevent them from sending out harmful gases Bto help Australian farmers to earn more money Cso that they can protect Australian ecosystem Dso
32、 that they can make full use of special bacteria14Athol Klieve seems to believe that Acattle and sheep produce more、carbon dioxide B1ess cattle and sheep are raised in New Zealand Cfarm animals are to blame for greenhouse gases DNew Zealand has the most animals in the world15The main idea of the tex
33、t is to Adiscuss a better way to protect the each Bwarn farmers of the danger of animal waste Cillustrate the possible solutions to pollution Dpresent a recent study on global warming16The advantages Peter Ampt lists about kangaroos dont include Ait is rich in protein Bit is low in fat Cit is cheape
34、r than beef Dit is cleaner than sheep E Massachusetts today looks nothing like it did when the first English settlers arrivedBack in the 17th century，forest blanketed the landToday，roads and towns cover much of the areaButthe past is not dead and goneJust an hours drive from Boston lies Plimoth Plan
35、tation There you11 experience the 17th century life from the days of the Pilgrims(清教徒移民)You can look in the Pilgrimshomes，watch the way they cook，and ask them about their daily livesYou can even help them build houses or work in the fields When you arrive at Plimoth，you are greeted with“How do you f
36、are?”instead of“How are you?”In this living history plantation，actors portray(扮演)real people of 17th-century PlymouthEach actor has taken the identity of someone from that period All the actors speak the language of ShakespeareTheyre happy to talk about the hardships of their lives or just share the
37、 gossip of the dayBut dont try to discuss modern topicsThey wont understand what you are talking about! In fall，you can enjoy a harvest dinner very similar to the first ThanksgivingYou11 dine with your hands like PilgrimsYou11 find no pepper on the tableThis expensive spice was used only sparingly(节
38、俭地)in cookingYou11 find no last-course“dessert，”eitherAt the time， people ate sweet dishes right along with the meal Cranberries were on the menu then and still are todayA short distance from Plimoth，you can visit Cranberry WorldAt this unique museum，you11 see how cranberries are harvested and can t
39、aste different cranberry products Of course，the first Thanksgiving included not only the Pilgrims，but also their WampanoagguestsIf you want to find out something about the Wampanoag，explore a re-created Wampanoag Home SiteIt is just a short walk from PlimothStep into the Native American home and ent
40、er a different worldNative Americans dressed in 17th-century Wampanoag outfits (服装) describe how their people lived 400 years agoOutside，you can help make a traditional boat or learn about native plant remedies(治疗法) Much in Massachusetts has changed since the 1 7th centuryBut in Plimoth，the past liv
41、esOn17From the text we know Plimoth Plantation Ais a cranberry plantation in Plimoth Bis where some old Pilgrims are still living Cpresents the Pilgrimslife in the 1600s Dis a plantation dating back to the 1700s18What did the English settlers greet each other in the 1 7th century? AHow do you fare?
42、BHow are you? CHi，nice to meet youDHow do you do?19In Cranberry World tourists can Aharvest cranberries by yourself B1earn how to grow cranberries Ctaste various cranberry productsDvisit an old history museum20The purpose of the rebuilt Wampanoag Homesite is Ato protect Native Americans，the Wampanoag Bto attract more tourists to stay in Plimoth Cto show how the Wampanoag helped the Pilgrims Dto keep the 17th century Native Americans life alive120 BDDDB CADCA DAACD CCACD 高考资源网独家精品资源，欢迎下载！高考资源网Ks5uK&S%5#UKs5uKs%U高考资源网高考资源网高考资源网
