1、湖北省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（82）阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。AGrandma, Grandma, tell us a story! Four darling children sat by my feet, looking up at me expectantly. Suddenly, we were interrupted by clapping. Terrific, the director said, stepping up to the stage from the aisle(过道）. “Except, co
2、uld you kids face the audience a bit more? The kids shifted to face the empty seats, which would be filled in a few days for the church play. Perfect, the director said. Now, Grandma, read to your grandchildren. A pang of sadness hit me. If only I could read to my real grandchildren! I had a grandda
3、ughter, but Id never met her. Sixteen years earlier my son was involved in a relationship that ended badly. But out of it came a blessing: a baby girl named Lena. I hoped to be a grandmother to her- but shortly after the birth, the mother moved without any address left. Over the years, I asked aroun
4、d town to try and find my sons ex-wife, but it seemed that she didnt want to be found. Id just joined this new church a week earlier, and was at once offered the part of Grandma in the play. At least now I could pretend to be a grandma. The rehearsals went well, and finally the day of the show arriv
5、ed. The performance was great. You all looked so natural up there, one of my friends said. Afterward, we went to the church basement for refreshments. I walked over to one of the girls in the play. Rehearsals had been in such a hurry that we never really got to talk. Hows my granddaughter? I joked.
6、Fine! she answered. Just then, someone else walked up and asked the girl her name. I wasnt sure I heard the girls answer correctly. But it made me ask her another question. Whats your mothers name? She told me. I was still in shock. And whats your fathers name? I asked. It was my son. Shed only star
7、ted going to that church a week before I did. Since that day of the play, weve stayed close. Not long ago, she even made me a great grandma.1. What was the author doing at the beginning of the story? A. Telling a story B. Playing a game. C. Preparing for a play. D. Acting in a movie.2. Why did the a
8、uthor feel a pang of sadness at the words of the director? A. The directors words reminded her of her lost granddaughter. B. The directors words hurt her badly. C. She wished that she had a real grandchild. D. The director wasnt content with her performance.3. What happened in the church basement af
9、ter the play? A. The author played a joke on Lena. B. Lena treated the author as a friend. C. The author got to know who Lena was. D. Lena mistook the author for her grandmother.4. We can infer that when writing the story, the author felt _. A. light-hearted B. heartbroken C. confused D. anxiousBSch
10、ool districts are turning to high-tech solutions-from fingerprint scans to electronic cards to track kids on school buses and keep them from getting off at the wrong stops. A fingerprint scanning system, approved this month for testing at the Desert Sands district, northeast of San Diego. Students w
11、ill be scanned as they get on and off the bus.Kids get lost. It happens in every school district, every year, says John DeVries, president of Global Biometrics Security, which developed the Biometric Observation Security System (BOSS) thats being tested. It happened Oct. 13 when a Prince Georges Cou
12、nty (Md.) school employee took a 5-year-old student to the wrong bus and the student got off several blocks from home. With BOSS, students fingerprints are scanned and sent to a database. When they get off, they provide a check out print. An alarm sounds if the child tries to get off at the wrong pl
13、ace. The fingerprints are not stored, DeVries says. They are converted into a series of numbers that cannot be used to re-create the print, he says.Margaret Gomez of Palm Springs, Calif., whose daughter, then 6, was let off a bus about a mile from her home three years ago, supports the idea. Anythin
14、g is better than what they have in place now. Other tracking systems include the ZPass from Seattle-based Zonar Systems, which uses a programmed card carried by students or tied to a backpack. It is in about 30 districts, including North Kansas City Schools and Illinois School District 128 in Palos
15、Heights, company executive Chris Oliver says.Paul Stephens, of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse in San Diego, says tracking students is reasonable, but the data could fall into unauthorized hands. What if a child predator was able to get access to this? he says.5. What is the purpose of schools turn
16、ing to high-tech solutions?ATo make school buses safer for kidsBTo prevent kids from getting lost CTo help parents locate their missing kidsDTo save some time for school children 6. What can we learn from the third paragraph?AStudents will have to carry a database with themBAn alarm will go off ever
17、y time kids get off CThe fingerprints will be stored in the databaseDStudents information cant be used for other purposes7. What is Margaret Gomezs attitude toward the new solution?ASupportive BPessimistic CDoubtful DWorried8. What is Paul Stephens mainly concerned about?AWhether this new solution i
18、s reasonableBHow this tracking can be accepted by parentsCThe safety of childrens personal informationDWho should be authorized access to such informationCWhen people search online, they leave atrailthat remains stored on the central computers of firms such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.Analyzing w
19、hat were looking for on the Web can offer a remarkable understanding of our anxieties and enthusiasms.UKwriter John Battelle wrote on his blog, This can tell us extraordinary things about who we are and what we want as a culture.Googlesexperimentalservice Google Trends, for example, compares the num
20、bers of people searching for different words and phrases from 2004 to the present.According to these graphs, sometimes peoples interests are driven obviously by the latest news: when the Spice Girls, a pop group, announce a reunion, theres an immediate rush to find out more about them. Other results
21、 arestrikinglyseasonal: people go shopping online for coats in winter andsandals（凉鞋）in summer.The most fascinating possibility is that search data might help predict behavior.Perhaps we search for a political candidates name when we are thinking about voting for him or her. This information could cl
22、early be useful to a marketer - its already how Google decides which ads to show on its search results pages or to a political campaign manager.Marissa Mayer, a Google vice-president, argues that Google Trends correctly predicted George Bushs victory over John Kerry in the 2004 election. The graph c
23、learly shows that Bushcontinuedhis lead over Kerry, in terms of search volumes, even when polls(民意测验)suggestedthe race was on a razors edge. However, thats not always the case. For instance, the same approach predicted Hillary Clinton would beat Barack Obama in the race for the Democratic presidenti
24、al nomination in 2008 turned out to be wrong in the end.9. According to the passage, Google are able to see the trails of the people when they are _ .A. using their computersB. surfing the InternetC. using its search engineD. connecting their computer to another one10. The search data can help fores
25、ee the following EXCEPT _A. The different features of different culturesB. the better place to put advertisements inC. The victory of a politician in the electionD. The reunion of a pop group11. On the whole, the author holds a view towards the search trail that _A. It is necessary to make rules abo
26、ut collecting the search trailsB. People are in danger of letting out their personal informationC. The search data is very useful to understand people in societyD. Search trails might cause a lot of disorder.12. The underlined expression in the last paragraph means_A. The competition was a very clos
27、e oneB. The competition was towards the endC. The competition showed a clear resultD. The competition was endlessDKirk Watson, then Austins mayor, remembers it this way:“I was at the gym working out and going back and forth between different machines, doing different things. I was on a treadmill(踏车)
28、, my head down and a guy on another treadmill cried out, Mayor, is that the World Trade Center?”Moments later, Watson was in another part of the gym, away from televisions. “Another guy said another one hit.” he recalled.Watson, now a state senator, recalls every detail, every emotion of Sept. 11, 2
29、001.“I will never forget the feeling of watching the towers fall,” he said, recalling going into mayor mode when it became clear our nation was under attack.You, too, remember the details, the emotions of 9/11. Five weeks from today, on the 10th anniversary of that awful day, we will provide a forum
30、 for Central Texans to share their memories. At times, the memories are so vivid, it seems impossible it was so long ago. And there are times the memories are so horrific that it can be hard to comprehend that such a thing actually happened.For many of us, the 9/11 attacks on our homeland are the eq
31、uivalent(等同) of what the attack on Pearl Harbor was for Americans on Dec. 7, 1941. The events were comparable, but the outcome was different. Does it seem to you America was in a better place 10 years after Pearl Harbor than we are 10 years after 9/11? We remain at war on two fronts. Our nations eco
32、nomy is shrinking. Too many Americans are unemployed. We face challenges so deep that some Americans inheritors of a national spirit long marked by eternal optimism about a boundless future are thinking about whether our best days are behind us.“Sept. 11, 2001 was our day that will live in evil,” Wa
33、tson said. “We need to make sure our children and grandchildren will say we reacted to our day that lived in evil at least as well as that generation that came before us reacted to Pearl Harbor.”Have we done that? Wed like to share your thoughts in a project planned for these pages on Sunday, Sept.
34、11. Are your memories consumed by the horror of the sights of that day? And, like Watson, do the emotions of the day still burn within you?13. When America was under attack on Sept 11, 2001, Kirk Watson was_. A. in the office having a talk with his staff B. receiving a phone call from his colleague
35、C. in the stadium watching TV D. at the gym taking exercise 14. It can be learnt from the passage that ten years after Sept 11, 2001, _ . A. America is in a better place than they were 10 years after Pearl Harbour B. Americas economy is picking up C. Americans are worried about their future D. many
36、Americans are living a happy life 15. The authors purpose in writing the passage is to _ . A. hope the readers will talk about how they feel about the 9/11 attacks B. expect the victims of the 9/11 attacks will be tolerant C. call on all Americans to unite D. encourage American young people to fight
37、 against terrorists 16. What can be the best title for the passage? A. Great Pain Disappears Slowly B. Ten Years Later, Memory Still Burns C. Ten Years Ago, the 9/11 Attacks Occurred Unexpectedly D. The 9/11 Attacks, Forgettable or Forgivable E Until recently, the science of the future was supposed
38、to be electronics and artificial intelligence. Today it seems more and more likely that the next great breakthroughs in technology will be brought through a combination of those two sciences with organic chemistry and genetic engineering. This combination is the science of biotechnology. Organic che
39、mistry enables us to produce marvelous synthetic materials. However, it is still difficult to manufacture anything that has the capacity of wool to conserve (保存) heat and also to absorb moisture. Nothing that we have been able to produce so far comes anywhere near the combination of strength, lightn
40、ess and flexibility that we find in the bodies of ordinary insects. Nevertheless, scientists in the laboratory have already succeeded in growing a material that has many of the characteristics of human skin. The next step may well be biotech hearts and eyes which can replace diseased organs in human
41、 beings. These will not be rejected by the body, as is the case with organs from humans. The application of biotechnology to energy production seems even more promising. In 1996 the famous science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke, many of whose previous predictions have come true, said that we may s
42、oon be able to develop remarkably cheap and renewable sources of energy. Some of these power sources will be biological. Clarke and others have warned us repeatedly that sooner or later we will have to give up our dependence on non-renewable power sources. Coal, oil and gas are indeed convenient. Ho
43、wever, using them also means creating dangerously high levels of pollution. It will be impossible to meet the growing demand for energy without increasing that pollution to catastrophic (灾难性的) levels unless we develop power sources that are both cheaper and cleaner. It is attempting to think that bi
44、otechnology or some other science of the future can solve our problems. Before we surrender to that temptation we should remember nuclear power. Only a few generations ago it seemed to promise limitless, cheap and safe energy. Today those promises lie buried in a concrete grave in a place called Che
45、rnobyl, in the Ukraine. Biotechnology is unlikely, however, to break its promises in quite the same or such a dangerous way.17. The materials produced with organic chemistry are _at present. A. as good as wool B. as good as an insects body C. better than natural materials D. not as good as natural m
46、aterials18. According to the passage, it may soon be possible _.A. to transplant human organsB. to make artificial hearts and eyesC. to produce drugs without side effects D. to make something as good as human skin19. In 1996, Arthur C. Clarke predicted that A. the Chernobyl disaster would happen in
47、two years B. biological power sources would be put into use soon C. oil, gas and coal could be repeatedly used in the future D. we will never stop using non-renewable power sources20. What do we learn from the last paragraph? A. Biological power will keep all its promises. B. Biological power is cheaper than nuclear power. C. Biotechnology can solve all our future energy problems.D. Biological power may not be as dangerous as nuclear power.1-4 CACA 5-8 BDAC 9-12 CDCA 13-16 DCAB 17-20 DBBD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
