1、2014高考英语阅读理解基础二轮训练题（8）及答案【2014高考英语广东省佛山市质测试题】D Ever get that feeling youre being watched? Well, if youre a dog-owner, you may have a point. Dogs are able to watch peoples interactions with one another to determine who holds yummier treats, according to a new study. This study joins others that show
2、dogs are good observers of human behaviors and feelings. It offers evidence dogs use information not only from peoples direct interactions with them, but also their interactions with one another. In the study, dogs watched a man ask two women for some of their corns. Both women gave the man corns wh
3、en he asked, but in response to one woman, the man showed his enthusiasm and said the corns were so delicious. In response to the other woman, he gave the corns back and called them gross (in Spanish; the study was conducted in Argentina). After these interactions, the man left and an assistant hold
4、ing the dog let the dog go. While many dogs didnt approach either woman, the dogs that did have a preference tended to prefer the woman with the yummier food. Other studies of dogs people-watching ability have found dogs are able to tell thedifference between happy and sad faces in their owners. The
5、y prefer people who give others food when asked over people who dont give others food. And in one study, dogs turned toward crying people more often than toward talking people. So how much do dogs really understand about the humans around them? Thats not totally settled yet. In a strange twist to th
6、e Argentine study above, when the researchers tried an experiment in which they put two plates of corns on a table and had a man react to each plate, dogs didnt preferentially approach the tastier plate afterward. You could say dogs watch for the interaction between two people, not just how a person
7、 reacts. Yet a previous study found dogs will choose boxes that people reacted to happily, but not boxes people reacted to with a disgusted face. Well, either way, you can be sure Fluffs is keeping an eye on you, to the best of her ability. The study was published in the journal PLOS One.41. What do
8、es the study mentioned in Paragraph l show? A. Dogs prefer yummier foods. B. Dogs like to copy humans behavior. C. Dogs can interact with humans easily. D. Dogs can read human actions and feelings.42. What does the underlined word gross probably mean? A. Disgusting. B. Healthy.C. Yummy. D. Hot.43. W
9、hich is one of the procedures of the Argentine study? A. One of the women didnt give the food to the man. B. The man had different reactions to the food received. C. The assistant accompanied the dogs to get the food. D. Many dogs went to one of the women.44. What can be concluded from Paragraph 4?
10、A. Interactions between two people confuse dogs. B. Dogs never understand the reaction of one person. C. Dogs have good interactions with one another. D. The findings of some studies are controversial.45. Which is the best title for the passage? A. Mans Best Friend. B. Be Kind To Your Dog C. Dogs Am
11、azing Ability D. Dogs Are Observing You【参考答案】DABDD阅读理解课堂练学案（29）Passage Nineteen (Creative Process of Works)The great question that this paper will, but feebly, attempt to answer is , what is the creative process?Though much theory has accumulated, little is really known about the power that lies at
12、the bottom of poetic creation. It is true that great poets and artists produce beauty by employing all the powers of personality and by fusing emotions, reason, and intuitions. But what is the magical synthesis that joins and arranges these complex parts into poetic unity?John L.Lowes, in his justly
13、 famous “The Road to Xanadu,” developed one of the earliest and still generally acceptable answers to this tantalizing question. Imaginative creation, he concludes, is a complex process in which the conscious and unconscious minds jointly operate. “There isthe deep well with its chaos of fortuitousl
14、y blending images; but there is likewise the Vision which sees shining in and through the chaos of the potential lines of Form, and with the Vision, the controlling Will. Which gives to that potential beauty actuality.”The Deep Well is the unconscious mind that is peopled with the facts, ideas, feel
15、ings of the conscious activity. The imaginative vision, an unconscious activity, shines through the land of chaos, of lights and shadows, silently seeking pattern and form. Finally, the conscious mind again, through Will, captures and embodies the idea in the final work of art. In this way is unity
16、born out of chaos.Though there can be no absolute certainty, there is general agreement that the periods in the development of a creative work parallel, to some extent, Lowes theory of Well, Vision, Form, and Will. There are at least three stages in the creative process: preparation, inspiration, wo
17、rk. In a sense, the period of preparation is all of the writers life. It is the Deep Well. It is the Deep Well. It is especially a period of concentration which gives the unconscious mind an opportunity to communicate with the conscious mind. When remembrance of things past reach the conscious level
18、 of the writers mind, he is ready to go on with the process. Part of this preparation involves learning a mediumlearning a language, learning how to write, learning literary forms. It is important to mot here that form cannot be imposed upon the idea. Evidence, though sparse, shows that the idea giv
19、es birth to the form that can best convey it. It is the Vision, according to Lowes, ” which sees shining in and through the chaws of the potential lines of from ”1. When remembrance of things past reach the conscious level, the post has reached the stage calledA. Well. . Vision. C. Form. D. Will.2.
20、Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The form determines the subject matter. The idea determines the form.C. Vision makes beauty an actuality.D. A writer is unconscious when he prepares his work.3. The word “fortuitously” in the third paragraph meansA. accidentally. . luckily. C. thoroughly.
21、 D. potentially.4. The remembrance of things past is carried on in the A. Deep Well. . Vision.C. Chaotic lights and shadows. D. Conscious mind.Vocabulary1. fuse 融化，结合2. intuition 直觉3. Xanadu 是一个非常美的，田园诗般的地方。美国诗人Sanul T Coleridge还根据这地方写了一首诗，“Kubla Khan” 忽必烈汗（即元世祖）4. John L. Lowes 18761945年美国学者，批评家及教师
22、5. tantalizing 引起好奇心的，可望不可及的，逗人得6. fortuitous 偶然的，幸运的7. parallel 相应于8. sparse 稀少，稀疏9. synthesis 综合，综合法难句译注1. by employing all the powers of personality and by fusing emotions, reason, and intuitions.参考译文 运用个人（品格）的全部力量，把情感，理智和直觉融会贯通结合在一起。2. still generally acceptable answers to this tantalizing quest
23、ion.参考译文 现在仍然是众所接受对这些可望不可及问题的答案。3. There isthe deep well with its chaos of fortuitously blending images; but there is likewise the Vision which sees shining in and through the chaos of the potential lines of Form, and with the Vision, the controlling Will. Which gives to that potential beauty actual
24、ity.结构简析 注意介词短语和定从。With its chaos, 是修饰deep well. Which sees shinning 定语从句修饰Vision. And 后的with the vision, 却是状语。Which gives 又是定从，修饰Will.参考译文 有那充满了混乱的偶然交织在一起的形象的深静；但同样也有那洞察力，看到在混乱中熠熠生辉的潜在的形式线索，由于有这样的洞察力便有那控制一切的意志把潜在的美变成真实的（诗歌）篇章。4. lights and shadows 艺术上有 light and shade 明和暗。这里也是指明和暗。写作方法与文章大意 文章论述“创作
25、过程”。开门见山就提出“什么是创作”。主要是引用了罗斯的Road to Xanadu 一书来说明创作过程。首先是创作的源泉，洞察分辨，最后意志赋予写作。答案祥解1. D. 意志。第三段倒数第二句“最终又是意识的思维，通过意志，在其最终的艺术作品中捕捉和体现了这种思想观念”。第五段第三句：“当作者回溯以往事情达到了有意识的水平时，他就具备（准备）了继续创作进程的条件。这种准备工作中有一部分涉及学习媒介学习一种语言，学习如何写，学习文学形式。”第二段都体现了意志是有意识思维的集中表现。A. 源泉，来源，顾名思义，也是最初的东西。 B. 洞察力，视觉。 C.形式。这三项选择在第二，三段集中说明，见难
26、句译注3及第四题答案。2. B. 思想观念决定形式。这在最后一段倒数第四句：部分准备工作涉及学习媒介学习语言，学习如何写，学习文学形式之后“这里要注意文学形式不能强加于思想观念。有证据，虽然很少，表明思想观念产生适合传递它的文学形式。A. 形式决定主题。 C. 形象使美变得真实。 D. 作者在准备写作时处于无意识状态。难句译注3和第四题答案都说明了这三项选择是不对的。3. A. 偶然的。B. 幸运的，fortuitously一词确实有幸运的之义。但这里上下文含义是A，见难句译注3。C. 彻底的，透彻的。 D. 潜在的，可能的。4. A. 深井（深层的源泉）。见难句译注3和第三句“深层的源泉是无
27、意识思维，内中塞满了各种事实，观点，意识活动的情感。富有想象力的洞察力是一种无意识的活动，在杂乱的土壤中闪烁光辉，忽明忽暗，默默的探索模式和形式。最后，又是有意识的思维，通过意志。”这里说明回溯过去是在深井阶段进行。B. 视觉，是在探索表现形式。 C. 杂乱的光亮和阴影，明面和暗面。 D. 有意识思维阅读理解-(1)In parts of Africa, the sky is filled with a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts that are
28、 traveling across the continent eating everything in their path.And in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. The radio station is in one of Senegals worst affected regi
29、ons.This is West Africas biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move, they breed, and increase their number and will soon threaten Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.Experts say the great damage to crops in areas
30、already suffering from food shortages and war could cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the region are not well equipped to fight the pest.Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6,000 hectares per day with pesticide, b
31、ut we need to treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,” said Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Babah, director of locust control in Mauritania.Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the crisis, the UNs Food and Agriculture Orga
32、nization warned.1. The purpose of offering people rice for catching locusts in Senegal is _.A. to get more people to eat rice so as to leave less for locustsB. to get more people involved in the war on the locustsC. to prevent more people from starvationD. to get more people to listen to the radio r
33、eport on locusts2. Which of the following is not the reason for West Africans going hungry?A. Locust disaster causes the great damage to crops.B. Food supply is far from the need of the people.C. These regions are affected by the war.D. Governments are unwilling to fight the pest.3. It can be conclu
34、ded that, in order to end the locust disaster, _.A. leaders of 12 countries in West Africa should call on their people to take actionB. insects experts should be sent to these regionsC. other countries outside Africa should keep close watch on their own landsD. Help from all over the world is in urg
35、ent demand4. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. Food shortage in Africa. B. International aid to Africa.C. The insects attack on Africa. D. Terrible storm in Africa.1. B 推测题。根据第二段意义，广播电台向听众悬赏捕杀蝗虫。可推测出其目的是让更多的人参与到救灾行动中来。2. D 细节理解题。根据第四段意义：专家称一些地区本来就食品匮乏，并饱受战火之苦，而灾害给农作物产量造成的损失更是雪上加霜。许多人因此而挨饿。3
36、. D 推理题。根据短文最后一段的意义：国际社会施以援手是抑制灾情的唯一方法。由此推理可得“国际援助迫在眉睫”。4. C 主旨题。根据短文第一段的描述及下文的阐发可看出本文的主题是“非洲西部的虫灾”。阅读理解-CIf you look for a book as a present for a child，you will be spoiled for choice even in a year there is no new Harry Patten. J.K Rowlings wizard is not alone .The past decade has been a harvest f
37、or good childrens books ,which has set off a large quantity of films and an increased sales of classics such as The lard of the Rings. Yet despite that, reading is increasingly unpopular among children .According to statistics in 1997, 23% said they didnt like reading at all. In 2003, 35% didnt. And
38、 around 6% of the children leave primary school each year unable to read properly. Maybe the decline is caused by the increasing availability of computes games. Maybe the books boom has affected only the top of the educational pile. Either way, Chancellor Cordon Brown plans to change things for the
39、bottom of the class .In his pre-budget report, he announced the national project of Reading Recovery to help the children struggling most. Reading Recovery is aimed at six year olds, who receive four months of individual daily half-hour classes with a specially trained teacher. An evaluation this ye
40、ar reported that children on the school made 20 months progress in just one year, whereas similarly weak readers without special help made just five months progress ,and so ended the year even further below the level expected for their age. International research tends to find that when British chil
41、dren leave primary school, they read well ,but read text often for fun than those elsewhere .Reading for fun matters because children who are keen on reading can report lifelong pleasure and loving books is an excellent indicator of future educational success . According to the OECD, being a regular
42、 and enthusiastic reader is of great advantage. 11Which of the following is true of Paragraph 1? AMany childrens books have been adapted from films. BMany high-quality childrens books have been published. CThe sales of classics have led to the popularity of films. DThe sales of presents for children
43、 have increased. 12Statistics suggested that_ . Athe number of top students increased with the use of computers Ba decreasing number of children showed interest in reading Ca minority of primary school children read properly Da huge percentage of children read regularly13What do we know about Readin
44、g Recovery? AAn evaluation of it will be made sometime this year. BWeak readers on the project were the most hardworking. CIt aims to train special teachers to help children with reading. DChildren on the project showed noticeable progress in reading. 14Reading for fun is important because book-lovi
45、ng children _. Atake greater advantage of the project Bshow the potential to enjoy a long life Care likely to succeed in their education. Dwould make excellent future researchers 15The aim of this text would probably be _. Ato overcome primary school pupils reading difficulty. Bto encourage the publication of more childrens books Cto remind children of the importance of reading for fun Dto introduce a way to improve early children reading 【参考答案】1115、BBDCD
