1、河北省正定县2015高考英语暑假练习（5）（答案或解析）阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳答案。 Disposing(处理)of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it.As more and more people choose to live close together in cities,the waste-disposal problem becomes Increasingly difficult. During the eighteenth century,it was u
2、sual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dump site.Residents or trash haulers(垃圾拖运者)would transport household rubbish,rotted wood,and old possessions to the site.Periodically(定期的)some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried.The unpleasant sights and sm
3、ells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories,mills,and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of.Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water.Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem. Several facts make these c
4、hoices unacceptable to modern society.The first problem is space Dumps,which are now called landfills,are most needed in heavily populated areas.Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose.Property is either too expensive or too close to residential(住宅区的) neighborhoods.Long-distance
5、trash hauling has been a common practice but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere,cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is almost nonexistent. Awareness(意识) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers,ground
6、 water,land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste,however,continues to grow. Recycling efforts have become commonplace,and many towns require their people to take part.Even he most efficient recycling programs,however,can hope to deal with only about 50
7、 Percent of a citys reusable waste.36.The most suitable title for this passage would be _.A.Places for Disposing Waste B.Waste Pollution DangersC.Ways of Getting Rid of Waste D.Waste Disposal Problem提示:第一段告诉了读者本文的中心思想。答案:D37.During the 18th century,people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for
8、 _.A.burying it B.recycling itC.burning it D.throwing it into rivers提示:从文章第二、三段可知。答案:B38.What can be inferred from the fourth paragraph?A.Farm areas accept waste from the city in modern society.B.There is cheap land to bury waste in modern society.C.It is difficult to find space to bury waste in mod
9、ern society.D.Ways to deal with waste in modern society stay the same.提示:实际所使用的垃圾处理方法是烧、埋、倾倒进河里。第四段论述了这些方法在现代社会的不可接受性。文中例数了用这些方法处理垃圾的问题，可见在方法上没有进展。答案:D39.The main purpose of writing this article is to _.A.draw peoples attention to waste managementB.warn people of the pollution dangers we are facingC
10、.call on people to take part in recycling programsD.tell people a better way to get rid of the waste提示:文章介绍了过去与现在的垃圾处理方法，论述了这种方法所带来的问题和人们对这一问题的认识。最后一段强调利用回收的方法依然不能解决问题的严峻形势。文章旨在引起人们对废物管理的进一步关注。答案:APassage Four (Examinations Exert a Pernicious Influence on Education) We might marvel at the progress m
11、ade in every field of study, but the methods of testing a persons knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious cl
12、aim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a persons true ability and aptitude. As anxiety-makers,
13、 examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesnt matter that you werent feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that dont count: th
14、e exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measu
15、red. Can we wonder at the increasing number of drop-outs: young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examinati
16、on system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They
17、lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not
18、 always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have t
19、o mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judges decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiners. There must surely be many simpler and more effective wa
20、ys of assessing a persons true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: I were
21、a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.1.The main idea of this passage isA examinations exert a pernicious influence on education.examinations are ineffective.C examinations are profitable for institutions.D examinations are a burden on students.2.The authors attitude toward examinat
22、ions isAdetest.approval.C critical.D indifferent.3.The fate of students is decided byA education.institutions.C examinations.D students themselves.4.According to the author, the most important of a good education isA to encourage students to read widely.to train students to think on their own.C to t
23、each students how to tackle exams.D to master his fate.5.Why does the author mention court?A Give an example.For comparison.C It shows that teachers evolutions depend on the results of examinations.D It shows the results of court is more effectise.Vocabulary1.pernicious 有害的，恶性的，破坏性的2.knack 窍门，诀窍3.em
24、bark 乘船，登记4.write off 勾销，注销。确认某食物已损失或无效5.syllabus 教学大纲6.cram 塞入，把某物塞进，突击式学习（尤指应考），以注入方式教人7.duress 威胁，逼迫8.stack 堆，垛9.scrawl 写/画（的内容不工整，不仔细）潦草的笔迹，七扭八歪的字10.script 讲稿，剧本，脚本，笔试答卷11.cynical 愤世嫉俗的，自私得为人不齿的12.boil down 熬浓，浓缩，归纳难句译注1. For all the pious claim that examinations test what you know, it is common
25、 knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite.【参考译文】尽管所有那些虔诚的说法说考试能测定你所知道的东西，但其结果常常是适得其反，这是众所周之的常识。2. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none.【结构简析】second to none固定搭配，义：不亚于任何人或事物。【参考译文】（测）考试作为忧虑的制造者，真是出类拔萃。3. induce cramming诱人采用突击式学习方式。Cram尽力塞入，应试突击学习。EX: cram for a chemistry test
26、.为应付化学考试而临时抱佛脚。Cram pupils以填鸭式教学生。4. Yet you have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time.【参考译文】他们不得不在限定的时间内，给一大堆匆忙涂写而成的笔试答卷批分。5. And their word carries weight.【参考译文】可他们的话/文字（这里指分数）有份量（有影响）。6. This is what it boils down to in the last analysis.【参考译文】这就是最终分析所归纳的一切。写作方法与
27、文章大意 这是一篇类似分类写作的文章。罗列了考试种种恶果。作者首先指出考试难以测定人的真正能力和水平，反而是适得其反。二是考试是忧虑的制造者，因为它决定了人的成败命运。三是考试促使学校进行应试技巧教育，否定了教会人独立思考、扩大视野。四是教师或者说测试人又累又饿，犯错误，还得在限定时间披阅成堆的试卷，他们的压力和考试者一样很大，而他们的话分数有份量，审判官的裁决，你有权上诉，而他们的裁决一笔定终身。 最后引用“辍学者成为百万富翁”来点明测试这种形式对教育的坏影响。答案详解1. A 考试对教育具有有害的影响。文章第一段就点明：考试是测试记忆的好方法，是测试在巨大压力下快速工作的技巧的好方法，却测
28、不出一个人的真正能力和水平。第三段集中指出：考试不是促进学生广泛阅读，反而限制其阅读；考试不能使学生追求更多的知识，而是诱导学生进行应付考试的突击式学习。他们降低了教学水平，因为他们剥夺了老师的一切自由。常常以考试结果而不是所教课程来评定老师，是他们不得不以他们所轻视的考试技巧来培训学生。第二段和第四段也涉及其后果。B.考试无效。这是考试后果的一个方面。C.考试对教育机构有利。这也是一个方面。D.考试对学生是一种负担。2. C 批评的。第一段中作者明确指出，考试方法依旧，不能测出人的能力和水平。第二段点名，这种无用的考试决定人生的成败。第三段说考试最成功的考试者经常不是最佳的受教育者，他们是在
29、胁迫下最佳获得考试技巧者，而好的教育应能培养人的独立思考。第四段涉及阅卷者又累又饿，常犯错误，不得不在限定时间披阅一大堆匆忙中七扭八歪写出的卷子。最后一句“我过去是一个是来岁的辍学者，现在我是一个年轻的百万富翁”画龙点睛地指出，考试指挥下的教育的失败。这一切都说明作者对考试的批评态度。A.嫌恶，厌恶。此答案从意义上说是对的。但语法不通，因为这是个东西，而is后要求是名词或形容词。B.赞成。D.漠不关心的。3. C 考试。答案在第二段，考试是最终忧虑制造者，那是因为许多事情取决于考试：它们是我们社会中成功或失败的标志。你的未来可能全取决于这决定性的一天。A.教育。B.教育机构。D.学生自己。4.
30、 B 培养学生进行独立思考。第三段第一句话点明：好的教育应该是培养学生自己独立思考。A.鼓励学生广泛阅读。教学生如何应考。C.教学生如何应考。D.掌握自己命运。5. B 作对比，答案在最后一段倒数第二句“审判官裁决后，你有权力上诉，而披阅考卷人给分后，学生可没有上诉权”后面又谈及“一想到考试只对进行考试的机构有礼，未免太自私了。这酒是最终分析归纳的东西。”所以作者呼吁，可定还有许多更简便，更有效的评估人真正能力的方法。A.给出一个例子。C.表示老师是由考试结果评定好坏。这是第三段讲的不分内容，教师他们自己常由考试结果而不是所教课程优劣来评定。所以他们不得不对学生进行应试技巧教育，降低教学水平。
31、D.表明审判官裁决更有效。阅读理解Somali pirates(海盗) robbed three Thai fishing ships with 77 sailors on board nearly l，200 Miles off the Somali coast，the farthest-off-shore attack to date，an officer said Tuesday.Pirates have gone farther south and east in answer to increased patrols(巡逻)by warships off the Somali sho
32、re. The robbing of the three ships Sunday was about 600 miles outside the normal operation area for the international force，said a spokesmanThe spokesman said the attack so far out at sea was a clear sign that the international patrols against pirates were having a “marked effect on pirate activity
33、in the area”. “Once they start attacking that far out，youre not even really talking about the Somali basin or areas of water that have any connection with Somalia,” said an officer，Roger Middleton. “Once youre that far out，its just the Indian Ocean，and it means youre looking at trade going from the
34、Gulf to Asia，from Asia to South Africa.” This is the farthest robbing to date. They are now operating near the Maldives and India,” said another officer. The three ships-the MV Prantalay 11，12，and l 4had 77 members on board in totalAll of them are Thai, the spokesman said. Before the Sunday robbing，
35、pirates held l l ships and 228 sailors.Pirates have increased attacks over the past year in hopes。f catching more dollar payments. Because of increased patrols and defenses on board ships，the success rate(率)has gone down，though the number of successful attacks has stayed the same year over year.( )
36、1. The pirate attack reported in the text happened .w_w w. k#s5_u.c o*mA. far out in the Indian OceanB. in the normal patrol areaC. near the Somali, coast w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o mD. in the south of Africa( ) 2. According to the text, which can best describe the situation of the pirate problems?A. More go
37、ods on board are lost.B. Pirate attacks happen in a larger area now.C. The number of attacks has stayed the same these years. w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o mD. Pirate attacks are as serious as before along the Somali coast.( ) 3. Which is true about the warship patrols according to the text? w_w w. k#s5_u.c o*m
38、A. The patrols are of little effect.B. The patrols are more difficult.C. More patrols are quite necessary even in Asia.D. The patrols only drive the pirates to other areas.( ) 4. How many sailors were held by the pirates up to the time of the report?A. 228. B. 77. C. 383. D. 305.语篇分析：本篇文章为新闻报道类文体。报道
39、索马里海盗周日抢劫三艘泰国渔船，并引用部分官员的话，让读者了解当前的索马里海盗的形势。1.答案：A考点：细节理解解析：由 “The robbing of the three ships Sunday was about 600 miles outside the normal operation area for the international force”以及 “Once youre that far out，its just the Indian Ocean”句意为“这次海盗袭击发生在国际保卫队正常保护区域六百英里外”，“一旦你到了那么远，那就是印度洋了”可得出答案。2.答案：B考点：
40、 主旨大意解析：文章主要报道发生在周末的对泰国渔船的袭击，就此事引出索马里海盗的袭击已经超越国际保护队的正常护卫范围，而进入更深的海域。3. 答案：B考点：细节理解解析：依据 patrols against pirates were having a “marked effect on pirate activity in the area”及 “Once youre that far out，its just the Indian Ocean，and it means youre looking at trade going from the Gulf to Asia，from Asia t
41、o South Africa.”可知巡逻明显见效，又有一旦再超过那么远，那就是印度洋，那就意味着你在看管从波斯湾到亚洲，从亚洲到南美洲的所有行线。可知应是巡逻难度加大了。w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o m4答案Dw_w w. k#s5_u.c o*m考点：推理计算题。解析：由文章首句Somali pirates robbed three Thai fishing ships with 77 sailors on board及Before the Sunday robbing, pirates held 11 ships and 228 sailors.可知到发报到为止，索马里海盗应劫持水手77+228=305人。