1、高考资源网() 您身边的高考专家2014高考英语阅读理解二轮精英训练精品题(22)及答案【2014高考英语吉林省实验中学一模试题】A阅读下列短文,掌握其大意, 然后从各题所给的四个选项中,选出最佳选项。The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and knocked into the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. “How embarrassing! I am getting so clumsy in my old age.”Everyone had a g
2、ood laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments. It came around to Frank who sat quietly listening to the others. Someone said, “Come on, Frank. Tell us your most embarrassing moment.”Frank laughed and began to tell us of his childhood. “I grew up in San Pedro. My Da
3、d was a fisherman, and he loved the sea. He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his Mom and Dad and the other kids that were still at home.”He looked at
4、 us and said, “I wish you could have met my Dad. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. His rain hat would be pulled
5、down over his brow. No matter how much my mother washed them, they would still smell of the sea and of fish.”Franks voice dropped a bit. “When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business. That truck was older than he was. It would wheez
6、e and rattle down the road. You could hear it coming for blocks. As he would drive toward the school, I would shrink (畏缩) down into the seat hoping to disappear. Half the time, he would slam to a stop and the old truck would belch (喷出) a cloud of smoke. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed
7、 like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here, I was twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!”He paused and then went on, “I remember the da
8、y I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, “No, Dad.” It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this surprised look on his face. I said,
9、 “Dad, Im too old for a goodbye kiss. Im too old for any kind of kiss.” My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. Then he turned and looked out the windshield. “ Youre right,” he said. “ You are a big boy.a man. I wont kiss you anymore.”Frank got a funny look on his
10、face, and the tears began to well up in his eyes, as he spoke. “It wasnt long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back. It was a day when most of the fleet (船队) stayed in, but not Dad. He had a big family to feed. They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half out. He must h
11、ave gotten into a strong wind and was trying to save the nets and the floats.”I looked at Frank and saw that tears were running down his cheeks. Frank spoke again. “Guys, you dont know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheekto feel his rough old face to smell the oce
12、an on him to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss.”56. When his father drove him to the school, Frank would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear because _.A. he was ashamed of his fath
13、ers old truckB. he thought he was old enough to go to school aloneC. he didnt want his schoolmates to see his fatherD. he hated the way his schoolmates stared at his father57. In Franks eyes, when his father said “You are a big boy a man.”, he probably felt _.A. disappointedB. hurtC. excitedD. proud
14、58. According to the story we can conclude that Franks father _.A. was quite confident in his skills in fishingB. loved his children but hardly expressed itC. seldom gave up faced with challengesD. was full of devotion to his family59. Which of the following may be the best title for this passage?A.
15、 The Smell of the OceanB. We All Need LoveC. A Goodbye KissD. Fathers Embarrassment【参考答案】56-59 ABDC Passage Fifteen (The Second Wave of Feminism) The statistics Ive cited and the living examples are all too familiar to you. But what may not be so familiar will be the increasing number of women who a
16、re looking actively for advancement of for a new job in your offices. This woman may be equipped with professional skills and perhaps valuable experience, She will not be content to be Executive Assistant to Mr. Seldom Seen of the Assistant Vice Presidents Girl Friday, who is the only one who comes
17、in on Saturday. She is the symbol of what I call the Second Wave of Feminism. She is the modern woman who is determined to be. Her forerunner was the radical feminist who interpreted her trapped position as a female as oppression by the master class of men. Men, she believed, had created a domestic,
18、 servile role for women in order that men could have the career and the opportunity to participate in making the great decisions of society. Thus the radical feminist held that women through history had been oppressed and dehumanized, mainly because man chose to exploit his wife and the mother of hi
19、s children. Sometimes it was deliberate exploitation and sometimes it was the innocence of never looking beneath the pretensions of life. The radical feminists found strength in banding together. Coming to recognize each other for the first time, they could explore their own identities, realize thei
20、r own power, and view the male and his system as the common enemy. The first phases of feminism in the last five years often took on this militant, class-warfare tone. Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and many others hammered home their ideas with a persistence that aroused and intrigu
21、ed many of the brightest and most able women in the country. Consciousness-raising groups allowed women to explore both their identities and their dreamsand the two were often found in direct conflict.What is the stereotyped role of American women? Marriage. A son. Two daughters. Breakfast. Ironing.
22、 Lunch. Bowling, maybe a garden club of for the very daring, non-credit courses in ceramics. Perhaps an occasional cocktail party. Dinner. Football or baseball on TV. Each day the same. Never any growth in expectationsunless it is growth because the husband has succeeded. The inevitable question: “I
23、s that all there is to life?”The rapid growth of many feminist organizations attests to the fact that these radical feminists had touched some vital nerves. The magazine “Ms.” was born in the year of the death of the magazine “Life.” But too often the consciousness-raising sessions became ends in th
24、emselves. Too often sexism reversed itself and man-hating was encouraged. Many had been with the male chauvinist.It is not difficult, therefore, to detect a trend toward moderation. Consciousness-raising increasingly is regarded as a means to independence and fulfillment, rather than a ceremony of f
25、ulfillment itself. Genuine independence can be realized through competence, through finding a career, through the use of education. Remember that for many decades the education of women was not supposed to be useful.1. What was the main idea of this passage?A. The Second Wave of Feminist. . Womens I
26、ndependent Spirits.C. The Unity of Women. D. The Action of Union.2. What was the authors attitude toward the radical?A. He supported it wholeheartedly. . He opposed it strongly.C. He disapproved to some extent. D. He ignored it completely.3. What does the word “militant” mean?A. Aggressive. . Ambiti
27、ons. C. Progressive. D. Independent.4, What was the radical feminists view point about the male?A. Women were exploited by the male. Women were independent of the male.C. Womens lives were deprived by the male.D. The male were their common enemy.Vocabulary1. trapped 被诱入圈套的,陷阱2. servile 屈从的,奴隶的,奴性的3.
28、 dehumanized 使失去人/个性的4. pretension 要求,权利,借口5. look beneath 看到下面6. band together 紧密团结在一起7. explore 探索,考察8. phase 阶段,方面,形式9. class-warfare 阶级斗争10. hammer home 硬性灌输 hammer home an idea into sb. 硬向某人灌输某种观念11. intrigue 使着迷,密谋,用诡计取得12. stereotype 固定不变的,陈规旧习的13. attest 证明,证实,表明14. chauvinist 沙文主义者,男子至上主义这1
29、5. moderation (政治,宗教上)稳健中庸,缓和16. fulfillment 臻于完善,发挥潜在能力17. sexism 性别歧视(常指其实妇女)18. be independent of 独立于之外,不受控制/支配难句译注1. She will not be content to be Executive Assistant to Mr. Seldom Seen of the Assistant Vice Presidents Girl Friday, who is the only one who comes in on Saturday.这是作者杜撰的名字,含有讽刺内涵。Mr
30、. Seldom Seen 很少见到的先生。说明公司很难见到他。那么做他的助手就是她替他干一切活。星期五姑娘。星期五是鲁滨逊漂流记中的一个人物,是鲁滨逊的仆人。这位星期六休假日来上班的姑娘,当然得干主人的一切活。参考译文 她不会满意做“很少见”先生的助手,也不愿做助理副主席的星期五姑娘,那位姑娘是唯一的一个星期六来上班的人。2. Men, she believed, had created a domestic, servile role for women in order that men could have the career and the opportunity to parti
31、cipate in making the great decisions of society.结构简析 she believed 形式上插入语,实际 Men 句是它的宾语从句。In order that 义:为的是。目的状语。参考译文 她认为男人为妇女创制了一个持家操劳的奴隶角色,为的是男人可以获得事业和机遇参与决定重大的社会抉择。3. Thus the radical feminist held that women through history had been oppressed and dehumanized, mainly because man chose to exploit
32、 his wife and the mother of his children. Sometimes it was deliberate exploitation and sometimes it was the innocence of never looking beneath the pretensions of life.结构简析 两句句子。前一句的宾语为主从句,后为并列句。参考译文 于是,激进女权主义者认为综观历史,妇女一直是被压迫被奴役,被非人化,主要原因就是因为男人就是想剥削他的妻子,孩子们的母亲。有时是有意的剥削;有时是由于没有透过生活的假象看到问题的实质,是无知所致。4.
33、Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, and many others hammered home their ideas with a persistence that aroused and intrigued many of the brightest and most able women in the country.参考译文 Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem,Germaine Greer,以及其他许多激进女权主义者坚持不懈的强行灌输(推行)他们的思想,幻想并吸引了国内无数最聪容,最能干的妇女。写作方法与
34、文章大意文章论述“争取女权运动的妇女”,也可以说是女权运动的第二次浪潮。作者从历史上的女权运动激进分子观点谈起:妇女为男人所奴役,剥削。因为男的想独揽决策社会的大权,到女子觉醒,认识自己和自己的力量,把男人视作她们共同的敌人。最后是目前向缓冲发展的趋势,也是作者观点。答案祥解1. A. 第二次女权运动的浪潮。在第一段,一般性描述之后(见难句译注1),作者画龙点睛的指明“她就是我所指的第二次女权运动浪潮的象征。她是决心要成为的现代妇女的代表。”以后的文章就是围绕女权运动而写的。见文章大意。B. 妇女的独立精神。这只是女权运动中部分内容。 C. 妇女团结。第三段一开始就提到“激进女权主义者发现了紧
35、密团结在一起的力量。”也是女权运动的部分内容。D. 团结运动。2. C. 有点不赞成。这在最后两段表现的最为明显:“许多女权运动组织迅速发展证明这些激进争取女权的人触到了某些活跃的神经。(非常活跃)。 Ms 杂志就在生活停刊那年诞生。可是唤起觉醒的会议常常成为这些活动的目的。性别歧视(歧视妇女)也常常颠倒过来并且提倡憎恨男人。许多人曾是男权至上主义者。”“因此,察觉向平和中的趋向发展并不难。提高觉悟的做法越来越被认为是独立与成就的方式,而不是庆贺成就本身的仪式。真正的独立是能够通过能力,通过寻找一份事业,通过应用教育加以实现。要记住,几十年来,妇女教育被认为是无用的。”如果是倒数第二段是作者对
36、激进分子有点批评,不满的态度的表现,那么最后一段就是作者的观点:独立是靠塌实工作,提高妇女自身的能力来实现的。A. 他全心全意的拥护。 B. 他强烈反对。不完全如此。 D. 他完全忽视不顾。3. A. 好斗的。(斗争性强的)。第三段第三句:“在最近5年中女权运动首要方面常常具有这种好斗的阶级斗争调子。”B. 野心的。 C. 进步的。 D. 独立的。4. D. 男人是她们共同的敌人。第三段:“激进女权运动分子在紧密团结中找到了力量。第一次她们认识了自己,她们可以探索自我,意识到她们的力量,把男人及其制度视为她们共同的敌人。”A. 妇女为男人们所剥削。这在第三段中讲到,见难句译注3。这是妇女观点中
37、具体内容之一。也是为什么说男人及制度是她们共同敌人的原因之一。 B. 妇女不受男人支配。 C. 男人剥夺了女人生活。【2014高考英语陕西省一模联考试题】DEveryone has done experiments in high school laboratories, but have you ever thought about designing a satellite to explore space?On Nov. 19, a team of students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
38、in the US awed peers and even scientists by successfully launching a satellite.The first satellite designed and built by high school students was sent up into space along with a record-setting. 28 other small ones on a rocket were sent from a NASA center in Virginia, CNN reported. It took the studen
39、ts seven years to build.The students call their tiny satellite TJ3Sat, which is named after their school. It is just 10x10x12 centimeters and weighs only 0.89 kilograms, according to Orbital Sciences, a company which developed the rocket and supported the students project. It can be controlled with
40、a smartphone.Like most satellites, TJ3Sat can send and receive data. The small spacecraft is equipped with a voice synthesizer (合成器), which can switch text to voice and transmit those sounds back to Earth over radio waves, said Orbital officials. In this case, anyone can give it a try via the projec
41、ts website (school website) by submitting (提交) a text. The texts that get approved will be sent to the satellite, changed to voice and then broadcast back to Earth via radio waves.“I can say Go Colonials on our ground station and when it is on the other side of the world, in India, someone can hear
42、Go Colonialsover the radio,” the team explains on the website.The satellite will stay in space for at least three months.School principal Evan Glazer told The Washington Post that the project started in 2006 as an activity in the spare time. Later it became a research project for a select group of s
43、eniors.At a time when American students are busy with SATs, the launch of the satellite shows what diligent teenagers can achieve when allowed to pursue their own curiosities, Glazer said.“It used to be that kids growing up wanted to be an astronaut,” Andrew Petro, program executive (主管) for small s
44、pacecraft technology at NASA, said in a statement. “I think we might be seeing kids saying what they want to do is build a spacecraft. The idea here is that they really can do that.”58. The underlined word “awed” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _.A. influenced B. amazed C. delighted
45、 D. inspired59. Which of the following statements about TJ3Sat is TRUE according to the article?A.It took a group of students about a decade to build the satellite.B.Besides TJ3Sat, 28 other small satellites were built by the students.C.TJ3Sat can receive text messages that the students send into sp
46、ace, which it can change to voice messages and broadcast back to Earth.D.TJ3Sat is expected to stay in orbit for the next year, sending out messages together with information about its position in space.60. According to the article, the launch of the satellite _.A.is evidence of the advance of spacecraft technologyB.proves that hard-working teenagers can achieve a lotC.shows the importance of extracurricular activities at schoolD.has inspired many people to take an interest in space travel【参考答案】BCB- 9 - 版权所有高考资源网