1、2014高考英语阅读理解二轮限时训练精品题（13）及答案阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 When Joan gave birth to the first boy in her family in three generations, she and her husband were overjoyed. So were her parents. Joan expected her elder sister, Sally, to be just as delighted as them. Joan had always admired Sa
2、lly-the beauty and the star of the family-and felt happy about her achievements. But since the babys arrival, the sisters have become distant. Joan feels hurt for Sally seems completely uninterested in her baby. Sally, who has no children, claims that her younger sister acts as if no one ever had a
3、beby before. Neither Sally nor Joan understands that the real cause of the current coldness is that their family roles have suddenly changed to the opposite. Finally Joan seems to be better than her elder sister-and Sally doesnt like it! Their distance may be temporary, but it shows that childhood c
4、ompetition dont fade easily as ages grow. It can remain powerful in relationships throughout life. In a study of the University of Cincinnati,65 men and women between ages 25 and 93 were asked how they felt about their brothers and sisters. Nearly 75 percent admitted having hidden competitive feelin
5、gs. In a few cases, these emotions were so strong as to have affected their entire lives. Many adult brothers and sisters are close, supportive-yet still tend to compete. Two brothers I know turn into killers when on opposite sides of a tennis net. Off the court, they are the best of friends. My own
6、 younger sister cant wait to tell me when Ive put on weight. However, shes a terrible cook and that pleases me; I tease her when she comes to dinner. Happily, despite these small failings, we have been an important resource for each other. In between the very competitive and the generally supportive
7、 children lie those who say that no friendship should survive. Some brothers and sisters stay at arms length, hut never give up competition completely. Why do these puzzling, unproductive, often painful relationships continue to exist?36. When Joans son was born, Sally .A. felt very happyB. was unde
8、lightedC. moved awayD. admired her a lot【答案】B【解析】细节理解题。根据Sally seems completely uninterested in her baby. Sally感到不高兴，故选B。37. What happens to childrens desire to compete with their brothers and sisters?A. It sometimes will disappear when they grow up.B. It will never disappear throughout life.C. It w
9、ill improve their relationships when they grow up.D. It will never harm their relationships when they grow up.【答案】B【解析】细节理解题。根据it shows that childhood competition dont fade easily as ages grow. It can remain powerful in relationships throughout life.在他们的一生中都存在对孩子渴望的竞争，故选B。38. What can we learn about
10、 the two brothers?A. They wanted to kill each other.B. They played tennis against others.C. They were enemies in their daily life.D. They were very good friends.【答案】D【解析】细节理解题。根据they are the best of friends.两个兄弟是好朋友，故选D。39. Why does the authors sister often tell her when shes put on weight?A. Becaus
11、e she wants the author to go on a diet.B. Because she wants the author to stop calling her a bad cook.C. Because she wants to make fun of the authors weight.D. Because she wants to be honest with the author.【答案】C【解析】细节理解题。根据I tease her when she comes to dinner. Happily, despite these small failings,
12、 we have been an important resource for each other.她想取笑作者的体重，故选C。40. The underlined sentence means that although some brothers and sisters .A. live near each other, they still have competitionsB. live away from each other, they stop their competitionsC. live together, they often think of ending thei
13、r competitionsD. live within a big family, they often try to end their competitions【答案】A【解析】句意理解题。根据In between the very competitive and the generally supportive children lie those who say that no friendship should survive.可推出兄弟姐妹虽然住得很近，但是他们之间仍然存在竞争，故选A。Passage Ten (The Importance of Independent Thin
14、king)No one can be a great thinker who does not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only h
15、old them because they do not suffer themselves to think. No that it is solely, of chiefly, to form great thinkers that freedom of thinking is required. One the contrary, it is as much or even more indispensable to enable average human beings to attain the mental stature which they are capable of. Th
16、ere have been and many again be great individual thinkers in a general atmosphere of mental slavery. But there never has been, nor ever will be, in that atmosphere an intellectually active people. Where any of heterodox speculation was for a time suspended, where there is a tacit convention that pri
17、nciples are not to be disputed: where the discussion of the greatest questions which can occupy humanity is considered to be closed, we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable. Never when controversy avoided the subjects w
18、hich are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up fro9m its foundation and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.She who knows only her own side of the case knows little of
19、that. Her reasons may be food, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if she s equally unable to refute the reasons of the opposite side; if she does not so much as know what they are, she has no ground for preferring either opinion. The rational position for her would be suspension of ju
20、dgment, and unless she contents herself with that, she is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world the side to which she feels the most inclination. Nor is it enough that she should heat the arguments of adversaries from her own teachers, presented as they state them, and
21、 accompanied by what they offer as refutations, That is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or bring them into real contact with her own mind. She must be able to hear them form persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and do their very utmost for them. She must know th
22、em in their most plausible and persuasive form; she must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else she will never really possess herself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty. Ninety-nine in a hundred of
23、what are called educated persons are in this condition; even of those who can argue fluently for their opinions. Their conclusion may be true, but it might be false for anything they know; they have never thrown themselves into the mental position of those who think differently form them and conside
24、red what such persons may have to say; and consequently they do not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrines which they themselves profess. 1.The best title for this passage is A The Age of Reason The need for Independent ThinkingC The Value of Reason D Stirring Peoples Minds2.According
25、to the author, it is always advisable to A have opinions which cannot be refuted.adopt the point of view to which one feels the most inclination.C be acquainted with the arguments favoring the point of view with which one disagrees,D suspend heterodox speculation in favor of doctrinaire approaches.3
26、.According to the author, in a great period such as the Renaissance we may expect to findA acceptance of truth controversy over principles C inordinate enthusiasm D a dread of heterodox speculation 4.According to the author, the person who holds orthodox beliefs without examination may be described
27、in all of the following ways EXCEPT asA enslaved by tradition less than fully rationalC determinded on controversy D having a closed mind5.It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be most likely to agree with which of the following statementsA A truly great thinker makes no mistakes
28、.Periods of intellectual achievement are periods of unorthodox reflection,C The refutation of accepted ideas can best be provided by ones own teachers.D excessive controversy prevents clear thinking,Vocabulary1. stature 高度，境界，状况2. heterodox 不合乎公认的标准的，异端的，异教的3. tacit 心照不宣4. refute 反驳5. adversary 对立面，
29、对手，敌人6. plausible 善于花言巧语的/辞令的，似乎有理的/有可能的7. doctrine 教义，学说8. profess 表示，明言，承认，自称，信奉难句译注1. True gains more even by the errors of one who with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, then by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.参考译文 真理甚至从一个
30、经过恰当研究和准备进行独立思考的人的错误中获得更多的东西，而从那些只是因为不予思考却持有正确的观点中获得的少（一种经过恰当的研究和准备进行独立思考的人犯的错误，另一种人是不予思考的却持有正确的观点，真理从前者错误中获得的东西比从后者的正确观点中获得的要多）。2. mental slavery 思想禁锢，精神受奴役状态3. Never when controversy avoided the subjects which are large and important enough to kindle enthusiasm was the mind of a people stirred up
31、from its foundation and the impulse given which raised even persons of the most ordinary intellect to something of the dignity of thinking beings.结构简析 这是一句以Never否定词开头的倒装句，正常的句序应把never放在句中，形成：the mind of people was never stirred up from its foundations 参考译文 当辩论比开重大课题，重大到足以燃起/激起人们激/热情的课题时，那么一个民族的思想绝不会
32、从天赋的情感和原始的基础上升华，甚至使最普通智力的人上升到优点庄严的思想家水平上。4. The rational position for her would be suspension of judgement, and unless she contents herself with that, she is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality of the world, the side to which she feels the most inclination.参考译文 对她来说理智的立场是停止判断，而且除
33、非她满足于这一点，否则，她不是为权威人物的观点所左右，后者就像世界上芸芸众生一样，倒向她感觉最倾向的一边。5. That is not the way to do justice to the arguments, or bring them into teal contact with her own mind.结构简析 do justice to 公平对待，适当处理。 Bringinto contact with 使和接触联系。参考译文 这不是对正确观点评价的方法，也不能使自己的思想真正接触到论点的实质。6. She must know them in their most plausib
34、le and persuasive form; she must feel the whole force of the difficulty which the true view of the subject has to encounter and dispose of; else she will never really possess herself of the portion of truth which meets and removes that difficulty.结构简析 most plausible and persuasive form 很善于辞令和有说服力形式。
35、possess oneself of 获得，据有，把占为己有。them=arguments。else否则的话。7. Their conclusion may be true, but it might be false for anything they know; they have never thrown themselves into the mental position of those who think differently form them and considered what such persons may have to say; and consequently
36、 they do not, in any proper sense of the word, know the doctrines which they themselves profess.结构简析 throw oneself intoposition 设身处地，使自己处于位置地点。写作方法与文章大意这是一篇由一般到具体，重要采用正反对比，推理的写作方法的文章，逻辑性强，正反论证，句子结构复杂冗长，分两段给出内容，第一段重点在：伟大的思想家的首要责任是奠定遵循自己智力所得出的结论。由此引起思想家和思想活跃的人民同时代环境的关系。只有思想后月的时期，才有伟大的思想家和活跃的人民，因为他们可以讨
37、论重大主题，而在思想禁锢时期，只能产生个别伟大思想家。第二段具体的论证了独立思考涉及两方面，既如自己一方种种，也得知对手的一方种种（内容，推理，论点），才能真正获得真理。答案详解. B 独立思考的必要性。见难句译注。这里说明进行独立思考的人即使犯错误，真理也能从中获得东西，而那些懒于思考人，即使持有正确的观点，真理也难以获得东西。第一段还点明思想禁锢时期，即不能进行独立思考时期，难以讨论重大议题，产生不了活跃的人民，绝不会出现像辉煌的文艺复兴那种时期（见第二题注）。第二段也是围绕独立思考而写，只是从具体点着眼：人只知自己，不知对方无法获得真理，只有独立思考两方，才能不为权威所左右，不会跟着自己
38、感觉走，最终知道自己的真正主张。A. 理性时代。C.驳斥的价值。D. 激发人民的思想。. C 熟悉有利于自己不同意反对观点的论点。这是作者在第二段讲述的重要论点。他认为一个人只知自己一方，推理极好，无人能反驳，却不知对方的推理，也不能够予以反驳的话，他就无权选择两方的任一论点，其理智位置是停止判断。否则她就会（像世界上芸芸众生那样）不是为权威所“引导”，就是跟着感觉（的倾向）走。其二，作者提出：光听自己的老师讲述对立面的论点，以及他们所提出的反驳论点。只是不够的，必须倾听那些人（他们真正相信对立的观点）的论点，并为此积极热情，竭尽全力辩护，才能使自己的思想和独立论点接触，公正的作出公正的判断。
39、A. 具有不能驳斥的观点。B. 采取个人感觉最倾向的观点。 D. 停止有利于教条主义研究的异端思考。. B 辩论原则问题。答案在第一段：在思想禁锢的气氛中，过去，现在可能会产生个别的思想家，但绝不会有思想活跃的人民，在那里有一种心照不宣的惯律：原则决不能讨论认为占据人类心灵的最重大问题的讨论应封闭，我们不能期望看到一般高级的思想活动。这种思想活动曾使历史上某些时期光辉灿烂。而文艺复兴就是思想活动的顶峰时期，必然会讨论原则问题，所以选B 。 A. 接受真理，周经过讨论才能接受真理。C. 过度的热情。 D. 害怕异端思考。. C.在辩论上，坚定不移。这是一道推断题，一般讲：持有未经检验的正统信仰的
40、人不会独立思考，更不会怀疑他所信仰的东西。A. 为传统所奴役。B. 不怎么理智。D. 头脑闭塞。这种人必然受传统思想控制，不理智更不愿接受外界新鲜事物。. B. 在思想方面取得成就的时期就是进行非正统反思的时期。见题注释。A. 一个真正的思想家不犯错误。C. 一个人的老师最能提供所接受思想观点的反驳。D. 过度的辩论会制止清晰的思考。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Millions of Americans return from long-distance trips by air, but their luggage doesnt alw
41、ays come home with them. Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where. And passengers leave all kinds of things on planes.The airlines collect the items and, for 90 days, attempt to find their owners. They dont keep them, since theyre not in the warehouse business.
42、 And by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.So once insurance companies have paid for lost bags and their contents, and they no longer belong to passengers, a unique store in the little town of Scottsboro, Alabama, buys them. The “Un
43、claimed Baggage Center,” is so popular that the building, which is set up like a department store, is the number-one tourist attraction in all of Alabama. More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the stores shopping carts on a hunt for treasures.Each day, clerks bring out 7,0
44、00 new items, and veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks, best-selling novels, leather jackets, tape recorders, surfboards, even half -used tubes of toothpaste.The stores own laundry washes or cleans all the clothes found in luggage,
45、 then sells them. The Unclaimed Baggage Center has found guns, illegal drugs and even a live rattlesnake.The store has a little museum where some of its most unusual acquisitions（获得物） have been preserved. They include highland bagpipes, a burial mask from an Egyptian pharaohs tomb, and a medieval su
46、it of armor.Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost and available to the store.26. Paragraph1 shows that many passengers lose their luggage because_.A. they are forgetfulB. they are in a hurryC. there is no lost and found off
47、ice in many airportsD. the owners of some luggage cant be identified【答案】D【解析】细节理解题。根据Airline identification tags（标签） can come loose, and the bags go who-knows-where.由于包上的标签掉了所以无法识别行李的主人，故选D。27. The reason why the airlines cannot sell the bags is that _.A. they have to find the owners B. they are lik
48、ely to make a profit on the bags on purpose C. some bags are expensiveD. they have to keep the bags as long as possible【答案】B【解析】细节理解题。根据by law, they cannot sell the bags, because the airlines might be tempted to deliberately misplace luggage.他们有可能故意从行李上获利，故选B。28. The Unclaimed Baggage Center is very
49、 popular because_.A. theres a large variety of goods.B. all the things there are very cheap.C. visitors may purchase something undervalued.D. Visitors will enjoy some amusing activities there.【答案】C【解析】细节理解题。根据More than one million visitors stop in each year and take one of the stores shopping carts
50、on a hunt for treasures. veteran（老练的）shoppers rush to paw over them. You can find everything from precious jewels to hockey sticks人们可以买到一些便宜的东西，故选C。29. What can we infer from the passage? A. A little museum will keep all the precious unclaimed baggage. B. The percentage of passengers who lose their
51、baggage for ever is small. C. The things in the Unclaimed Baggage Center are articles for daily use. D. People are not allowed to buy the illegal things in the store.【答案】B【解析】推理判断题。根据Statistics indicate that less than one-half of one percent of luggage checked on U.S. carriers is permanently lost an
52、d available to the store.乘客永远的丢掉东西的人数是少的，故选B。30. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To introduce how the unclaimed baggage in the airports is handled in America.B. To introduce an attractive place to tourists.C. To remind passengers of taking care of their baggage.D. To advise the airlines to find the owners of the unclaimed baggage.【答案】A【解析】写作意图题。纵观全文可知主要介绍在机场无人认领的行李在美国是如何处理的。
