1、2014高考英语阅读理解基础训练极品题（16）及答案阅读理解-The 2010 Eustace Tilley ContestThis marks our third annual contest soliciting(征求) readers opinions on Eustace Tilley, the magazines iconic dandy(花花公子), who appeared on the cover of the first issue of The New Yorker and on almost every anniversary issue since. In celebr
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9、ecki usually has discussions with people from different fields.C. James Surowiecki speaks with a chairman about issues of medicine this month.D. Visiting you can watch the conversation of this month between James and an economist.11. _ can be provided by The Big Apple Circus Care program for sick ch
10、ildren.A. Excellent treatment and careB. Trained professional doctors and nursesC. Unique methods to relieve stressD. Special pediatric facilities12. Which of the following can be used by the Big Apple Circus Clown Care program to promote itself?A. We help all children live happy lives.B. Our doctor
11、s jump through rings to cure the blues.C. Every life deserves world class care.D. Work together for a healthier world.【参考答案】912、DDCB (十七)-A(2013郑州市二模，A)“Croeso I Gymru！” If you dont know what this means, read on to find out more.When you cross over the border from England into Wales, you dont have t
12、o show your passport but you do notice a difference immediately. All the road markings and signs are shown in two languagesEnglish and Welsh (威尔士语). Not all visitors to Britain know that other languages are spoken here. Theres the Gaelic (盖尔语) language in Scotland and a few people speak Cornish (康沃尔
13、语) in the southwest of England, but the most widely spoken language in the UK besides English is Welsh.Perhaps the first Welsh word youll see on the road into Wales is ARAF. Theres a helpful English translation next to itSLOW. As you can see, Welsh looks quite different from English. It sounds very
14、different, too. Welsh looks and sounds so different from English because its a Celtic language. Celtic cultures still exist around the edges of the UKin Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and also in parts of France. For hundreds of years, almost everyone in Wales spoke Welsh, but nowadays there a
15、re about 600 thousand Welsh speakersaround 20% of the population.So is Welsh dying out? Not at all! Nowadays, all school children in Wales study Welsh and many choose to go to an all Welshspeaking school. You can get public information in Welsh, speak Welsh in court or take a course at university in
16、 Welsh. People surf the Internet in Welsh, keep up with friends on Facebook and write blogs in Welsh.By the way，“Croeso I Gymru！” means “Welcome to Wales！” I hope youll be able to visit it one day.文章大意：本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了威尔士语，包括威尔士语的特点、使用的人群、发展前景以及与英语的不同。1According to the passage, Welsh _.Ahas develope
17、d from CornishBis still widely used in the UKCsounds a little similar to EnglishDis more widely spoken than before答案：B细节理解题。根据文章第二段最后一句中的“but the most widely spoken language in the UK besides English is Welsh”可知，威尔士语在英国应用比较广泛。故答案选B。2How does the author feel about the future of Welsh?AOptimistic. BCu
18、rious. CWorried. DConfused.答案：A观点态度题。根据文章倒数第二段第一句“So is Welsh dying out? Not at all！”可知，作者相信威尔士语不会消失。故答案选A。3What is the authors purpose of writing the passage?ATo explain a typical Welsh term.BTo compare English with Welsh.CTo give an introduction to Welsh.DTo encourage people to visit Wales.答案：C写作意
19、图题。文章主要介绍了威尔士语的特点、使用的人群、发展前景以及与英语的不同。故答案选C。阅读理解-B(2013郑州市二模，B)It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing o
20、ut there？” I called to him.He looked up, smiling, “Im making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just about anything. When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us. Today, however, Dad would say no more, and caught up in the business of our new life, I eventually forgot about h
21、is surprise.Until one gloomy day the next March when I glanced out of the window, I saw a dot of blue across the yard. I headed outside for a closer look. They were crocuses (番红花) throughout the front lawnblue, yellow and my favorite pink, with little faces moving up and down in the cold wind. I rem
22、embered the things Dad secretly planted last autumn. He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down. What could have been more perfectly timely to my needs?My fathers crocuses bloomed (开花) each spring for the next five seasons, always bringing the same assurance: Hard times are a
23、lmost over. Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon.Then a spring came with only half the usual blooms and the next spring there were none. I missed the crocuses, so I would ask Dad to come over and plant new bulbs. But I never did. He died suddenly one October day. My family were in deep sorr
24、ow, leaning on our faith.On a spring afternoon four years later, I was driving back when I felt depressed. It was Dads birthday, and I found myself thinking about him. This was not unusualmy family often talked about him, remembering how he lived up to his faith. Suddenly I slowed as I turned into o
25、ur driveway. I stopped and stared at the lawn. There on the muddy grass with small piles of melting snow, bravely waving in the wind, was one pink crocus.How could a flower bloom from a bulb more than 18 years ago, one that hadnt bloomed in over a decade? But there was the crocus. Tears filled my ey
26、es as I realized its significance.Hold on, keep going, and light is coming soon. The pink crocus bloomed for only a day, but it built my faith for a lifetime.文章大意：本文是一篇充满爱和哲理的记叙文。文章主要讲述了搬家之后，作者的父亲在她家草坪里种下了番红花。这让作者在寒冷的冬天情绪也不会低落。多年之后的一个下午，作者发现18年前种下的已有10多年未曾生长开花的球茎，如今重新开放，这让作者理解了其深刻的含义：只要坚持不懈，光明就会来临。4
27、According to the first three paragraphs, we learn that _.Ait kept bothering the author not knowing what the surprise wasBthe author was unpacking when her father was making the surpriseCit was not the first time that the authors father had made a surpriseDthe author knew what the surprise was becaus
28、e she knew her father答案：C细节理解题。根据文章第二段第三句“When we were kids, he always created something surprising for us.”可知，作者的父亲从她小的时候就一直给她惊喜，这已不是第一次了。故答案选C。5Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?AThe author usually felt depressed in the season of winter.BThe authors father plan
29、ted the crocuses to lift her low spirits.CThe author often thought about her father after he died.DThe crocuses bloomed each spring before her father died.答案：D细节理解题。根据文章第三段倒数第二句“He knew how the darkness and dullness of winter always got me down.”可知，A、B两项正确。根据文章倒数第三段第二句“It was Dads birthday, and I fo
30、und myself thinking about him.”和第三句可知，作者经常会想起她的父亲，所以C正确。所以本题应选D。6The authors father should be best described as _.Aa parttime worker who loved flowersBa kindhearted man who lived with faithCa fulltime gardener with skillful handsDan ordinary man with doubts in his life答案：B推理判断题。根据文章中讲述父亲为防止作者在冬天情绪低落
31、而为她种了番红花可知，他有爱心且心地善良；根据文章倒数第三段第三句中“remembering how he lived up to his faith”可知，父亲实践着自己的信仰。故答案选B。7What can be the best title for the passage?ACrocusesMy Source of FaithBCrocusesFathers SurpriseCA Pink CrocusMy MemoryDCrocuses in BlossomMy Favorite答案：A标题概括题。根据文章最后一段第二句“The pink crocus bloomed for only
32、 a day, but it built my faith for a lifetime.”可知，作者在父亲为她种的番红花上找到了人生信仰。故答案选A。阅读理解-DThroughout the 1990s and 2000s until today, Domingo continued performing, singing many of the same roles but adding new roles as well, among them the title roles in Wagners Parsifal and Mozarts Idomeneo, Rossinis Il ba
33、rbiere di Siviglia as Figaro, Wagners Die Walkre as Siegmund, Lehrs The Merry Widow as Danilo and Alfanos Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano. From the middle 1990s to early in 2008 alone, he added 38 new roles, covering opera in six different languages (English, Italian, French, German, Russian and Spanis
34、h). The latest was the Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, Tamerlano.Giving him even greater international recognition outside of the world of opera, he participated in The Three Tenors（男高音）concert at the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final in Rome with Jos Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. The
35、event was originally planned to raise money for the Jos Carreras International Leukemia（白血病）Foundation and was later repeated a number of times, including at the three later World Cup finals (1994 in Los Angeles, 1998 in Paris, and 2002 in Yokohama). Alone, Domingo again made an appearance at the fi
36、nal of the 2006 World Cup in Berlin, along with rising stars Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazn. On 24 August 2008, Domingo performed a duet with Song Zuying, singing i de Huyn (The Flame of Love) at the 2008 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in Beijing. The Beijing Olympics were the second Olympics h
37、e performed at; he sang the Olympic Hymn at the closing ceremonies of the Barcelona Olympics. At the Olympic games that followed, he would meet Sissel Kyrkjeb, who performed the Olympic Hymn at both the opening and closing ceremonies at those games.In what has been called his final career move, Plci
38、do Domingo announced on 25 January 2007 that in 2009 he would take on one of Verdis most demanding baritone（男中音）roles, singing the title role in Simon Boccanegra. The first performance was at Berlin State Opera on October 24, followed by 29 other performances during 2009/2010 at major opera houses a
39、round the world. He would, however, continue to sing tenor roles beforehand and afterwards.On 1617 April 2008 he sang during the visit of Pope Benedict XVI at Nationals Park and at the Italian embassy in Washington D.C. Since 1990 Plcido Domingo has received many awards and honors for his achievemen
40、t in the field of music and in recognition of his many benefit concerts and contributions to various charities.On 15 March 2009, The Metropolitan Opera celebrated Domingos 40th anniversary with the company with an on-stage gala dinner at the Mets 125th anniversary, in honour of his first performance
41、 in Adriana Lecouvreur as Maurizio opposite Renata Tebaldi on 28 September 1968.On 29 August 2009 he sang Panis Angelicus at the funeral mass of Senator Ted Kennedy in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Boston, Massachusetts.On September 20, 2010, Domingo announced that he would renew his
42、 contract as General Director of the Los Angeles Opera through 2013. On September 27, 2010, Domingo announced that he will not renew his contract as General Director of the Washington National Opera beyond its June 2011 expiration date.Ever a sympathetic colleague, in March 2011 he refused to sing i
43、n Buenos Aires until the city settled a bitter musicians strike at the Teatro Colon.13. What can we conclude from the passage? A. Domingo can only sing in six different languages. B. Domingo won many awards because he sang a lot. C. Jos Carreras was later diagnosed with Leukemia. D. Domingo enjoyed
44、world-wide popularity as a Tenor.14. Domingo does the following EXCEPT _. A. charity workB. promoting world sportsC. organizing anniversary celebrationsD. forming a peaceful society15. Singing at different events of world sports shows that Domingo _. A. prefers to try singing in different languages including Chinese B. enjoys watching sports events despite his busy performances C. would be more than happy to do some benefit work for the world D. knows clearly that singing for sports events helps him to be famous【参考答案】1315、DCC