1、2011届高三英语专题预测试卷12三、阅读理解命题趋势： 阅读理解是高考试题中重要内容，占有举足轻重的地位，命题严格按照教学大纲和考试说明的有关要求，全面考察考生的英语阅读能力，材料趋于“原汁原味”。选材覆盖面广，涉及政治、经济、文化和社会生活的各个方面，具有教育性，知识性，时代性；体裁涉及记叙文、议论文和应用文等多种文体。试题由5篇短文组成，要求考生阅读短文并完成短文后的试题，总词汇量2500词左右，每篇短文约300词，阅读速率要求均在70wpm英语考试大纲要求考生能够1、理解文章主旨和要义； 2、理解文中具体信息； 3、根据上下文推断生词的词义； 4、做出简单判断和推理； 5、理解文章的基
2、本结构； 6、理解作者的意图、观点和态度。 阅读理怨命题主要分为主旨大意题、事实细节题、词义猜测题和推理判断题四种。 备考建议 注意在平时阅读训练中积累词汇，分析长难句，熟练阅读技巧，解题技巧，提高解题的准确率；加强限时阅读训练，提高阅读速度。阅读时可以先快速浏览全文，了解文章主要内容，再根据问题细读，并根据文章体裁调整阅读速度，合理分配时间，3540分钟内完成5篇文章。同步练习试题：阅读理解（1）When I was going home to India last year，I called up my mother to ask if she wanted anything from c
3、hina When India had not opened up its markers to the world，I carried suitcase loads of dark glasses and jeansThankfully，we can get all these anywhere in India now Still，her answer surprised me：“Green tea，” As long as I can remember she didnt even drink Indian tea I dutifully bought a big packet of L
4、ongjing and headed home to hear the storyMy mother and her brother，both regular newspaper readers，believed that Chinese green tea was the wonder drug for all illnesses At the turn of the century，China was not really familiar to the average IndianIt was a strange country How things change! And how so
5、on! Now every town of any size seems to have a“China Market”And everyone is talking about China The government of India has planned to send a team to China to see how things are doneA minister once said that India must open the doors for more foreign investment(投资)and such a step would“work wonders
6、as it did for China” But its a two-way street，I just heard about a thousand Shenzhen office workers who have gone to Bangalore to train in softwareMeanwhile，all the IT majors are setting up a strong presence in ChinaNo wonder that trade，which was only in the millions just ten years ago，is expected t
7、o hit about US 15 billion for last year and US 20 billion by 2008，a goal set by both governments No wonder，my colleague wrote some weeks ago about this being the Sino-Indian(中印)century as the two countries started on January 1 the Sino-Indian Friendship Year But what is still a wonder to me is my mo
8、ther drinking Chinese tea1Why did the mother ask for Chinese green tea?（ ） AShe was tired of Indian tea BShe had a son working in China CShe believed it had a curing effect DShe was fond of Chinese products2What does the author mean by“its a two-way street” in paragraph 10?（ ） AChina and India have
9、different traffic rules BTea trade works wonders in both India and China CChinese products are popular in both China andIndia DThe exchanges between India and China benefit both3What do we know about the Indian IT industry?（ ） AIt will move its head office to Shenzhen BIt is seeking further developm
10、ent in China CIt has attracted an investment of US 15 billion DIt caught up with the US IT industry in20084In the text the author expresses（ ） Ahis concern for his mothers health Bhis support for drinking Chinese green tea Chis surprise at Chinas recent development Dhis wonder at the growth of India
11、s IT industryLost in the wilderness（2）Besides calling 911，here is what to do in some Life-threatening emergencies when no one is around to helpFirst，youve got to acknowledge youre in troubleStay where Chokingyou can be seen clearly and remember to restKeeping a sense of humor helps too-it reduces st
12、ress and helps creative thinkingIn a wide open area，make a colorful cross out of rocks to show your present positionSevere bleedingAim to hit the top of the chair against your stomach，in the soft part below the bony upside-down V of the ribs(肋骨)Make a sudden push againstthe chairIf you still cant br
13、eathe after six tries，call 911，even if you cant talkWrite the word choking somewhere nearby，and leave the line open until help arrivesBear attackUse your hand or clean cotton，or paper towels，or a scarf，or any cloth youcan find，and push down on the wound until the bleeding stopsBut if you put a band
14、around your leg tightly，youre going to close the vessels(血管)to the entire legIn this way，you could lose your foot If you surprise a bear，dont run awayThat invites an attackInstead，stand up and back away slowly， without looking the bear in the eyesIf it does charge at you，stick out your chest，raise y
15、our arms，and spread your legsShout at the bear， to frighten it. If its going to attack，lie facedown，with your hands held firmly behind your neckPlay dead until youre sure the bear is gone5When you see a colorful cross made of rocks in the wilderness，you know（ ） Asomeone is bleeding Bsomeone is choki
16、ng Csomeone is lost Dsomeone is attacked by a bear6If you are still choking after six tries，you should（ ） Akeep a sense of humor Bcall 911 and leave the line open Cuse your hand or clean cotton D1ie down with your hands behind your neck7Dont tie around your bleeding leg tightly，or you could（ ） Astop
17、 bleeding Breduce stress Close your foot Dcause breathlessness8The passage is mainly teaching us how to（ ） Asurvive the emergencies Bavoid a bear attack Cdeal with a choke Dfind our way（3） Todays career assumptions are that you can get a lot of development，challenge and job satisfaction and not nece
18、ssarily be in a management role “I hated all the meetings，”says a 10-year awardwinning manager，“And I found the more you did for people who worked for you，the more they expected” Managing others is always a tough task，but in the past that stress was balanced by hopes for career mobility and financia
19、l rewardsAlong with a sizable pay raise，people chosen as managers would begin a nearly automatic climb up the career ladder to lucrative executive private benefits：company cars，club memberships，plus the key to the executive washroom But in todays global，more cornpetitive showground，a manager sits in
20、 an insecure chairRestructuring has removed layer after layer of management as companies came to view their organizations as collections of talents rather than hierarchies(等级) There are far fewer steps for managers to climbAlso，managerial jobs demand more hours and headaches than ever before but off
21、er slim，if any，financial paybacks and perks Now managers must manage many people who are spread over different locations，even over different continentsThey must manage across functions with，say，design，finance and marketing In an age of entrepreneurship，when the most praised people in business are th
22、ose launching something new，management seems like an invisible，thankless roleEmployers are looking for people who can do things，not for people who make other people do things In addition，the Dilbert factor is at workWith Dilberts popular cartoon character as well as many television situation comedie
23、s routinely describing managers as fools or enemies，they just dont get much respect any more Moreover，it may not pay to be a manager at least not the way it once didMsChmielewski says“The emotional rewards Call be great，and there were times I enjoyed managementBut a 10-to-11-hour day and one weekend
24、 day a month is the norm” With more people cautious of joining management，are corporations being hurt or worrying about developing future leaders? Not many areWhile employers have dismissed a lot of managers，they believe many more candidates lingers on at many companies“Another reason companies aren
25、t short of managers”，argues Robert Kelly，a business professor“is that so many workers today are self-managed，either individually or via teams，you dont need a manager”9By writing the passage，the writer seems to（ ） Aexplain reasons for firing managers Badvise people not to become managers Cexpress dis
26、satisfaction of some managers Dencourage managers to be more competitive10Compared with the past，the managing job today is more（ ） Ademanding Brewarding Cquestionable Dacceptable11The author mentions what MsChmielewski says to reflect that（ ） Athe managerslow working efficiency makes them less paid
27、Bthe gain of being a manager is not as satisfactory as before Cshe enjoys great emotional rewards of being a manager Dshe misses the past enjoyment of being a manager12What can we learn from the passage?（ ） AManagers have more chances to be promoted now BManagers were not satisfied with the way they
28、 were treated CIt is unnecessary for a qualified manager to manage a variety of fields DThe cartoon character by Dilbert contributes to the bad image of managers13What can we infer from the 1ast paragraph?（ ） AMore and more people are eager to become managers BThere will be more managers to be emplo
29、yed in the future CEmployers think it easy for them to find managers in the future DTeam-work makes it possible for companies not to hire more managers（4） If I were writing a history of my family，some of the darkest moments recorded would be those surrounding Christmas treesOne would certainly think
30、 otherwise；selecting and putting up our trees have always been filled with riskFor example，one afternoon dangerously close to Christmas Evemy mother bought what she thought to be a bargain，a glorious tree that was so full and tall that we could hardly get it into the houseOnce we did，my father immed
31、iately realized that we would have to hire a carpenter to build a stand for itAnother December，perhaps the very next one， we bought a tree earlier than we ever had beforeWe were happy with its shape and delighted that its size was manageableWe easily placed it in a stand， decorated it from top to bo
32、ttomand then selfsatisfiedly sat back by the fire in its soft 1ightTwo or three days passed and the truth could not be hidden；we had bought a tree cut so long ago that its needles were coming offThere as nothing do but undecorate it，take it down，and begin tree shopping againOur most recent Christmas
33、 tree offered still another difficult taskWhen we brought it home，once again it seemed larger than it was in the great outdoorsTo complicate matters，we had bought a new stand，one whose nuts(螺帽)and bolts(闩子)worked more mysteriously than those of our old standsI persuaded two young neighbors to stop p
34、laying basketball arid to help us get the tree into the house and set it correctly in the standUnfortunately，no one noticed the mud on our helpersshoes，so only after removing several reddish brown spots from the carpet were we able to discuss the question of where the lights and ornaments(装饰)were st
35、oredPerhaps those who cut their own trees have tales more painful than theseI dont care to hear them，as my familys experiences are enough to cause me to make the following suggestion：“Lets forget the tree next ChristmasLets simply hang some flowers on the front door and over the mirror in the hall”1
36、4The darkest moments in the writers family were with the fact that（ ）Athe family bought big Christmas trees Bthey had problems decorating their Christmas trees Cthey had problems picking suitable Christmas trees Dthey had problems finding carpenters for putting up Christmas trees 15We can learn from
37、 the passage that the writer would like to（ ） Aforget about Christmas storiesBget the neighbors to put up their trees Cbuy a better tree to celebrate Christmas Dmake other decorations rather than Christmas trees16When the writer said“my mother bought what she thought to be a bargain”，he means（ ） Ash
38、e bought the tree at a cheap price Bshe didnt really want to buy it Cshe had to bargain hard with the salesmanDshe couldnt afford a more expensive one17Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?（ ） AHow to Select a Christmas Tree BNo More Christmas Tree for Us CDark Moments of Lif
39、eDChristmas Without Trees（5）Many of the most damaging types of weather begin quickly，strike suddenly, and disappear rapidly，destroying small areas while leaving neighboring areas untouched, Such event as a tornado(龙卷风)struck the northeastern part of Edmonton，Alberta，in July 1987Total damages from th
40、e tornado went beyond 250 million，the highest ever for any Canadian stormTraditional computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting shortlived local storms like the Edmonton tornado because the available weather data are generally not detailed enough to allow computers to study c
41、arefully the slight atmospheric changes that come before these stormsIn most nations，for example，weatherballoon observations are taken just once every twelve hours at places separated by hundreds of milesWith such limited data，traditional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general we
42、ather conditions over large areas than they do forecasting specific local eventsUntil recently，the observation intensive method needed for exact，very shortrange forecasts，or“Nowcasts，”was not possibleThe cost of equipping and operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was extremely hi
43、gh，and the difficulties concerned in rapidly collecting and processing the weather data from such a network were hard to overcomeFortunately，scientific and technological advances have overcome most of these problemsRadar(雷达)systems and satellites are all able to make detailed，nearly continuous obser
44、vation over large areas at a lower costCommunications satellites can send out data around the world cheaply and immediately，and modern computers can quickly collect and analyze this large amount of weather informationMeteorologists(气象学者)and computer scientists now work together to design computer pr
45、ograms and video equipment able to change weather data into words and graphic displays(图解)that forecasters can understand easily and quicklyAs meteorologists have begun using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices，nowcasting is becoming a reality18Why cant traditional computer models
46、predict shortlived local storms?（ ） AThe weather data people collect are often wrong BDetailed weather data in some small areas are not available CThe computers are not advanced enough to predict them DThe computers are not used to forecast specific local events19The word“Nowcast”in Paragraph 3 mean
47、s（ ） Aa network to collect storm data Ba way of collecting weather data Ca more advanced system of weather observation Da forecast which can predict weather in the small area20What can make“Nowcasts”a reality according to the passage? AScientific and technological advances BAdvanced computer program
48、sCComputer scientistsDMeteorologists21What does the passage mainly talk about? AThe advantages of“Nowcasts” BA tornado in Edmonton，Alberta CThe difficulty in predicting tornado DA great development in weather forecast参考答案：三、阅读理解1C 2D 3B 4C 5C 6B 7C 8A 9B 10A 11B12D 13C 14C 15D 16A 17B 18B 19D 20A 21D