1、2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练二轮精品题（2）及答案阅读理解-AYou need to be of a certain age to understand why so many people in Hollywood are caring about the possible closing down of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (米高梅电影公司)For the past 40 years, its output has been good, but now it is on the ropes, with debts of $ 3.7 billion and will
2、have to sell off its most valuable assets (资产).In its golden time, MGM stood for somethingIf Warner Brothers meant social dramas and gangster movies, and Disney meant cartoon films, then MGM was healthy fantasyThis business model found its most glorious expression in its musicals (音乐剧) of the post-w
3、ar eraIt also featured such many famous stars as Fred Astaire, Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly and Judy Garland.But MGM had always put its hopes on the quality of stars it could attractFrom the time MGM became a company in 1924, the studio and his associate proved themselves good at creating big names.For
4、 35 years, this worked well enough, but the growing power of television disturbed HollywoodMGM continued to throw money into making gorgeous-looking musicals, but despite some big successes audiences gradually started to drift awayThroughout the sixties, MGMs decline set inThings went from bad to wo
5、rseIn 1973, MGM stopped distributing its own filmsSince then, the Lions roar has been reduced to a whimper (呜咽).How far MGM has fallen can be shown by its recent releasesThis was a studio that for years offered a reliable supply of first-class filmsYet last year its total output was threeTo make it
6、worse, all were co-produced with other studiosAnd this year? Only one so far, and maybe the last.What now? MGM will probably be sold, though recent buyers have been cautious about a price thought to be around $ 2 billion.1. MGM is becoming the focus in Hollywood because it _ A. has more supporters B
7、. has produced good films C. might be closed down D. has lost all its assets2. What can we learn about MGM from the text? A. It has been sold out for around $ 2 billion. B. The Internet was a factor causing its decline. C. It only produced three films by itself last year. D. It made a wrong decision
8、 for its development.3. Whats the main idea of the text? A. The past glories of MGM B. The musicals made by MGM. C. The decline of MGM D. A historical decision by MGM.【参考答案】13、CDC 14、CDDA 14、BDCD C52013江苏卷 -DMark Twain has been called the inventor of the American novel.And he surely deserves additio
9、nal praise：the man who popularized the clever literary attack on racism.I say clever because antislavery fiction had been the important part of the literature in the years before the Civil War.H.B.Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin is only the most famous example.These early stories dealt directly with slavery
10、.With minor exceptions, Twain planted his attacks on slavery and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.He drew his readers into the argument by drawing them into the story.Again and again，in the postwar years，Twain seemed forced to deal with the challenge of rac
11、e.Consider the most controversial, at least today, of Twains novels, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.Only a few books have been kicked off the shelves as often as Huckleberry Finn，Twains most widely read tale.Once upon a time, people hated the book because it struck them as rude. Twain himself wrote
12、that those who banned the book considered the novel “trash and suitable only for the slums(贫民窟)”More recently the book has been attacked because of the character Jim，the escaped slave，and many occurences of the word nigger.(The term Nigger Jim，for which the novel is often severely criticized，never a
13、ppears in it.)But the attacks were and are sillyand miss the point.The novel is strongly antislavery.Jims search through the slave states for the family from whom he has been forcibly parted is heroic.As JChadwick has pointed out, the character of Jim was a first in American fictiona recognition tha
14、t the slave had two personalities, “the voice of survival within a white slave culture and the voice of the individual：Jim, the father and the man.”There is much more.Twains mystery novel Puddnhead Wilson stood as a challenge to the racial beliefs of even many of the liberals of his day.Written at a
15、 time when the accepted wisdom held Negroes to be inferior(低等的)to whites，especially in intelligence，Twains tale centered in part around two babies switched at birth.A slave gave birth to her masters baby and，for fear that the child should be sold South, switched him for the masters baby by his wife.
16、The slaves lightskinned child was taken to be white and grew up with both the attitudes and the education of the slaveholding class.The masters wifes baby was taken for black and grew up with the attitudes and intonations of the slave.The point was difficult to miss：nurture(养育)，not nature，was the ke
17、y to social status.The features of the black man that provided the stuff of prejudicemanner of speech，for examplewere, to Twain, indicative of nothing other than the conditioning that slavery forced on its victims.Twains racial tone was not perfect.One is left uneasy，for example，by the lengthy passa
18、ge in his autobiography(自传)about how much he loved what were called “nigger shows” in his youthmostly with white men performing in blackfaceand his delight in getting his mother to laugh at them.Yet there is no reason to think Twain saw the shows as representing reality.His frequent attacks on slave
19、ry and prejudice suggest his keen awareness that they did not.Was Twain a racist？Asking the question in the 21st century is as wise as asking the same of Lincoln.If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the “wisdom” of the considered moral judgments of the present，we will find nothing
20、but error.Lincoln，who believed the black man the inferior of the white, fought and won a war to free him.And Twain, raised in a slave state, briefly a soldier，and inventor of Jim，may have done more to anger the nation over racial injustice and awaken its collective conscience than any other novelist
21、 in the past century.65How do Twains novels on slavery differ from Stowes?ATwain was more willing to deal with racism.BTwains attack on racism was much less open.CTwains themes seemed to agree with plots.DTwain was openly concerned with racism.66Recent criticism of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn aro
22、se partly from its _Atarget readers at the bottomBantislavery attitudeCrather impolite languageDfrequent use of “nigger”67What best proves Twains antislavery stand according to the author?AJims search for his family was described in detail.BThe slaves voice was first heard in American novels.CJim gr
23、ew up into a man and a father in the white culture.DTwain suspected that the slaves were less intelligent.68The story of two babies switched mainly indicates that _Aslaves were forced to give up their babies to their mastersBslaves babies could pick up slaveholders way of speakingCblacks social posi
24、tion was shaped by how they were brought upDblacks were born with certain features of prejudice69What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 7 refer to?AThe attacks.BSlavery and prejudice.CWhite men.DThe shows.70What does the author mainly argue for?ATwain had done more than his contemporary w
25、riters to attack racism.BTwain was an admirable figure comparable to Abraham Lincoln.CTwains works had been banned on unreasonable grounds.DTwains works should be read from a historical point of view.【要点综述】 本篇为说明文，谈到马克吐温的小说是否对奴隶制和偏见进行了反抗，以及它受到不同人士的批评情况。65B推理判断题。由第二段的“Twain planted his attacks on sla
26、very and prejudice into tales that were on the surface about something else entirely.”可知，马克吐温把对奴隶制和偏见的攻击融在故事中，隐晦地表达。而早期小说是直接攻击方式(dealt directly with slavery)，因此B项说他的小说对种族主义制度的攻击非常不明显是恰当的。A项文章没有提及；C项与题干无关，答非所问；D项文章没有提及。66D推理判断题。根据关键词Adventures of Huckleberry Finn定位到第三段。由“More recently the book has be
27、en attacked because of many occurences of the word nigger.”可知答案。A项中的target readers错误，文章没有说到；B项不符合文意；C项中的impolite language范围过广，文章只是说到批评者对nigger一词的出现感到不满。67C细节理解题。由第四段的末句“the character of Jim was a first in American fictiona recognition that the slave had two personalities”可知答案。A项中的in detail文章没有提及；B项中
28、的The slaves voice与文章的the character of Jim不一致；D项文章没有提及。68C推理判断题。由第六段可知，举这个例子是为了说明奴隶的社会地位是由生活环境决定的，而不是人的自然本性。69D词义猜测题。由画线词所在句的前面一句可知：没有理由认为马克吐温把这些表演当作表现现实，后句紧接着解释：马克吐温对奴隶制和偏见的不断攻击说明了他敏锐的意识，而这些是shows所没有表达出来的，可见they应该就是指代shows。70A作者意图题。末段首先提出一个疑问，然后通过论据否定了这个观点，最后总结了一下自己的观点：And Twainmay have done more to
29、 anger the nation over racial injustice than any other novelist in the past century，可见作者要反驳的是末段首句所表达的疑问，只有A项符合，其他各项只是对具体例子的说明。阅读理解-DAs the new semester begins, millions of college students across the country are trying hard to remember how best to write a paper or, more likely, how best to delay tha
30、t paper.Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it. They can spend whole days in the library doing nothing but staring into space, eating snacks, surfing the Internet, watching videos and looking at other students sitting around them, who, most likely, are doing nothin
31、g either.Paralyzed by their habit to procrastinate, they write micro blogs about their fears, asking their online friends if they sometimes have the same issue. But this does nothing to break the spell(魔咒).According to a recent report, 95 percent of us procrastinate at some point and 20 percent of t
32、he worlds population are always procrastinating. The figures are disappointing. Procrastinators are less wealthy, less healthy and less happy than those who dont delay. Procrastinators like to find excuses to justify their behavior, but BBC columnist Rowan Pelling says they are all wrong.Many procra
33、stinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time. The behavior of procrastinators often makes them feel ashamed, inconveniences others and annoys loved
34、 ones.Pelling also points out that procrastination feels particularly delinquent(过失的）in a society that thinks of swift action as admirable, and, at times, even as a moral good.Fortunately, social scientists have thrown their weight behind efforts to understand this behavioral mistake and offer strat
35、egies to control it. Piers Steel, a Canadian social scientist and author of The Procrastination Equation, believes human is “designed” to procrastinate. Nevertheless, he suggests a couple of good ways to get through the task at hand.41.From the first two paragraphs we can learn that _.A.procrastinat
36、ion is beneficial to many studentsB.many students are under great pressure in their studyC.lots of college students are working hard to write good articles on timeD.many students are getting into the habit of delaying finishing their tasks【答案】D 【解析】段落大意题。根据中心句Procrastination is the thief of time and
37、 a lot of students suffer from it.可知许多学生都有拖延完成任务的时间的习惯，故选D。42.According to the passage, procrastination probably refers to _.A. a bad habit B. a serious illness C. a difficult task D. a form of entertainment【答案】A【解析】细节理解题。根据Procrastination is the thief of time and a lot of students suffer from it.Pa
38、ralyzed by their habit to procrastinate,可知拖延是一种坏的习惯，故选A。43.Which of the following statements is WRONG?A.Procrastination makes people waste their time.B.Procrastinators usually complete their tasks perfectly.C.Swift action is considered as a moral standard in the society.D.Procrastination is common a
39、mong people.【答案】B【解析】细节理解题。根据Many procrastinators tell themselves they are perfectionists who work best under pressure. Pelling says this is nonsense, as work done at the last minute is more likely to have mistakes than work done on time.拖延时间完成作业有可能因为时间紧，会出现更多的错误，选项B叙述的是拖延时间有可能完成 工作更好，这与原文不符，故选B。44.
40、Which behavior belongs to procrastination?A.Never dream away the time.B.Always complete the tasks ahead of time.C.Never put off till tomorrow what should be done today.D.Always wait to work until the “good mood” or “good time”.【答案】D 【解析】细节理解题。根据Procrastination is the thief of time拖延时间就是开始有任务时不做，等到自己
41、感觉有好心情了，有好时机了在做，故选D。45.What is most likely to be discussed in the paragraph that follows?A.Measures to deal with procrastination.B.Approaches to handling the study pressures.C.More examples to illustrate procrastination.D.Introduction to the book The Procrastination Equation.【答案】A【解析】推理判断题。根据Neverth
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50、nk after spending $6.3. Which of the following is NOT mentioned at this mall?A. Clothes store. B. Music store. C. Restaurant. D. Toy store.4. We can know from this passage _.A. there is more than one theater in the center.B. if you buy a book there, you may pay less than half the price.C. you may get a free one if you buy a shirt, or a tie, or a pair of shoes.D. you wont get a free soft drink unless you spend more than 10 dollars on the meal. 【参考答案】14、CDDA