1、2014高考英语阅读理解二轮专题训练精品题（8）及答案阅读理解-BEvery year in America, high-school students who want to go on to college take a national examination called the Scholastic Aptitude Test, or SAT in a shortened way. Their score is an important factor in determining which colleges will admit them or whether any will b
2、e admitted at all. The Scholastic Aptitude Test muasures ones mathematical ability and use of the English language. Traditionally, the English portion involved grammatical questions and paragraphs that test reading comprehension. But the SAT folks have added a single question , to be answered in an
3、essay, hand-written on the spot. Thats an interesting way to test writing ability, but content aside, have you ever seen young peoples handwriting lately? Or anyones for that matter, in this age of computer keyboards? Students write numbers and sign their names on bank checks. They scribble class no
4、tes in what can generously be described as the written word. And they hand-write, or more often print, a word or two of identification on luggage and lunch bags. Otherwise, penmanship(书法)-once taught so morally and carefully by second-grade teachers, has gone the way of the dodo bird which has died
5、out.Yet todays kids are asked to write, thoughtfully and legibly, for several minutes on this SAT Test. Good luck to the test scorers who must work out difficultly the scrawl of young people whove been typing on computers since the age of three! Teachers insist that good handwriting can not only hel
6、p ones score on the SAT, but also, later on in life, impress potential employers and earn bigger tax refunds because the tax inspectors can actually read the computations. And dont forget, we all have to resort to handwriting from rime to time, as computers go down when the power goes out. 1. The su
7、bjects to be tested in the SAT include . A. math,English,reading and handwriting B. math, grammar,reading and writing C. math,foreign language and writing D. math,English and handwriting答案解析：答案为B。本题为细节题。由第一段最后两句话 “The Scholastic Aptitude Test muasures ones mathematical ability and use of the English
8、 language. Traditionally, the English portion involved grammatical questions and paragraphs that test reading comprehension.”和第二段第一句话 “But the SAT folks have added a single question , to be answered in an essay, hand-written on the spot.”可知，答案为B。 2.The author write this passage to introduce the fact
9、 that . A. writing seems to be very important in the SAT B. those who will go to colleges have to take the SAT C. students should practice handwriting more often D. at the computer age kids dont know how to write. 答案解析：答案为C。本题为文章的主旨大意题。全文由SAT考试增加书面表达部分的改革引入话题-当前学生不重视书写，因此此项改革就是为了使学生书写工整，改掉书写潦草的坏习惯。故
10、答案为C。3. What does the underlined word “scribble”probably mean? A. write quickly and roughly B. take notes difficultly C. print penmanship carefully D. describe written word generously 答案解析：答案为A。本题为词义推断题。结合划线部分的上下文，在这个计算机时代，学生手写的内容已经非常罕见，只有一两个单词写在行李箱或者午餐包上，用来辨认物主，书法在其他场合就像嘟嘟鸟一样灭绝了。故可以推断，学生在课堂上记笔记非常潦草
11、。故答案为A，迅速而粗糙地书写。4. According to the passage good handwriting can . A. help students get high scores in tests B. make a student more popular C. measure studentss ability D. assist one to get a job答案解析：答案为D。本题为细节题。由文章最后一段 “Teachers insist that good handwriting can not only help ones score on the SAT,
12、but also, later on in life, impress potential employers and earn bigger tax refunds because the tax inspectors can actually read the computations.”可知，漂亮的书法不仅对SAT考试得分起到帮助作用，而且能给今后找工作时的雇主留下良好的印象，获得更多的退税。故答案为D，帮助一个人找工作。干扰项最强的A选项“帮助学生获得高分”拔高了文章的意思。故答案为D。Passage Twelve (We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happ
13、y)Heres a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have t
14、o live on memories and hopes during the month to come. When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this ethereal creature is on a diet. She mustnt eat this and she mustnt that. Oh, but of course, she doesnt want to spoil his enjoyment. Let him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wan
15、ts: its the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable evening together and never see each other again.What a miserable lot dieters are! You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their time turning their noses up at food. They are forev
16、er consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins. Some wage all-out war on FAT. Mere dieting is not enough. They exhaust thems
17、elves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummeled and massaged by weird machines. The really wealthy diet-mongers pay vast sums for health cures. For two weeks they can enter a nature clinic and be starved to death for a hundred guineas a week. Dont think its only the middle-aged who go
18、 in for these fads either. Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition: they are living on nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God.Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will; so why are they so miserable? Well, for one thing, theyre alw
19、ays hungry. You cant be hungry and happy at the same time. All the horrible concoctions they eat instead of food leave them permanently dissatisfied. Wonderfood is a complete food, the advertisement says. Just dissolve a teaspoonful in water. A complete food it may be, but not quite as complete as a
20、 juicy steak. And, of course, theyre always miserable because they feel so guilty. Hunger just proves too much for them and in the end they lash out and devour five huge guilt-inducing cream cakes at a sitting. And who can blame them? At least three times a day they are exposed to temptation. What u
21、tter torture it is always watching others tucking into piles of mouth-watering food while you munch a water biscuit and sip unsweetened lemon juice!Whats all this self-inflicted torture for? Saintly people deprive themselves of food to attain a state of grace. Unsaintly people do so to attain a stat
22、e of misery. It will be a great day when all the dieters in the world abandon their slimming courses; when they hold out their plates and demand second helpings!1.The best title for this passage isA On Fat.We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy.C Many Diseases Are Connected with Fat.D Diet Deprives Peo
23、ple of Normal Life.2.Why do they never see each other again?A Because it is a memorable evening.Because she lets him eat as much fattening food as he wants.C Because she does not eat this and drink that.D Because eating fattening food is the surest way to an early grave.3.Which of the following ways
24、 is NOT mentioned for diet?A Doing exercises.Not eating sugar.C Not eating fat.D Taking sauna baths.4.What is the authors attitude toward diet?A Persuasive.Critical.C Indifferent.D Adversative.Vocabulary1.ethereal 优雅的，飘渺的2.sour 愁眉不展的3.tummy 肚子4.protrude 突出的，突起的5.wage 作（战），实行6.all-out 全面的7.sauna bath
25、 桑拿浴8.pummel = pommel 用拳头连打9.massage 按摩10.weird 不可思议的，离奇的11.monger 商人，贩子12.fad 一时流行的风尚13.concoction 调制品，荤素混合菜，调和物14.wonderfood 奇妙的食物15.lash out 痛斥，鞭打16.at a/one sitting 一口气17.munch 用力嚼18.inflict 予以打击，使遭受19.slim 苗条的，不足取的，无价值的写作方法与文章大意文章论及“减肥及痛苦”。以先声夺人的男女约会入手，引入减肥的痛苦过程：首先是各种减肥的方法（全面战斗）；其次是痛苦的难熬；最后点出减肥
26、的目的。号召人放弃减肥。三段式文章：引言，正文和结论。以讽刺的笔调，步步深入的手法劝人放弃减肥，过愉快的生活。答案详解1.B 我们都该长得胖乎乎，心情愉快。这是文章的目的，也是文章最佳标题。答案见最后一段：“这一切自我折磨为了什么？圣洁的人们不吃饭菜是为了身材优美，不圣洁的人们不吃饭菜得到的是痛苦。当世界上所有的节食者都抛弃这减轻体重显得苗条的课程时当他们伸出盘子，要求再来一份（第二份食物）时，这将是一个伟大的日子。”A. 论脂肪。似乎有点儿接近文章的内容。但文章涉及到的各个方面并不是单讲脂肪食品或饮食问题。C. 许多疾病和脂肪有关。文内第一段提到这方面的问题。D. 节食剥夺了人们正常生活。文
27、内提到，但不是文章的总目的和内容。2.D吃脂肪食品早死。答案就在第一段“当他们来到饭店，他发现这位优雅的少女（飘逸的少女）是个忌口节食者。决不能吃这个，一定不能喝那个。喔，当然，她不想扫他的兴，让他想吃多少脂肪的食品就尽量吃。这是早早接近死亡的最有把握的途径。”这里传递两点信息。一个吃，一个不吃已经是格格不入，再加上“多吃脂肪东西早死亡”姑娘怎能嫁他，他一个人吃而那位姑娘瞧着，确实是难以忘怀的夜晚，他受得了？所以D是最接近不再见面的原因。A. 因为这是一个值得纪念的夜晚。B. 她让他爱吃多少脂肪食物就吃多少。C.因为她不吃这个也不吃那个。这三项都是单独的事实或情况。3.B不吃糖。答案再第二段第
28、二句开始“他们大部分时间对食品都不屑一顾。他们永远向热量表讨教咨询，照镜子，跳到浴室的磅秤上称重量。他们一声都在向臀部大，肚子突出，双下巴绽开一个准输无疑的战斗。有的对脂肪开展了全面战斗。光节食是不够的，他们运动以消耗体重，洗桑拿浴出汗，用奇异的机器按摩和击打。”A. 运动做操。C.不吃脂肪。D.洗桑拿浴。4.B批评的态度。这在第二、三段都有明显的表示。第二段开始：“这些节食者是多么可怜的一群人啊！你总是可以从他们愁眉不展的表情上认出他们。”第二段倒数第四句开始：“这些真正有钱的节食大款为健康治疗支付大笔的款项。他们进到“自然门诊”。两个星期饿得要死，每星期付一百畿尼。别以为仅仅是中年人参与这
29、种时尚活动。你可以见到许多青年正由于长期营养不良而遭罪。他们就靠空气、水和上帝的善意而活着。”第三段，“节食者甘愿忍饥挨饿，那么他们为什么那样难受悲惨呢？得，首先，他们总是感到饥饿。你不可能饿着肚子高兴。他们吃的不是食物，全是搭配好的东西，这永远不能使他们满意”第三段倒数第三句“饥饿确实令他们感到太受不了了。最终，他们破釜沉舟，一口气就吞下了五大块使人内疚的奶油蛋糕。谁能责怪他们！他们一天至少三次面对引诱，老是看着别人大口吃着馋涎欲滴的食品，而你自己用力嚼一口水饼干和喝一口没有甜味的柠檬汁。这是一种什么样的折磨啊！”A.劝导的。 C.漠不关心。这两项不对。D. 敌意的。不合适。阅读理解-ATh
30、e space shuttle Columbia flared and broke up in the skies over Texas on Saturday, February 1,2003, killing the seven astronauts on board in what NASA and President Bush called a tragedy for the entire nation. NASA launched an investigation into the disaster and began searching for the astronauts rem
31、ains. It said that although there had been some data failures it was too early to nail down a precise cause. The break-up, 16 minutes before the shuttle was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spread possibly toxic debris(有毒的残骸) over a wide swath of Texas and neighboring states. Dramatic
32、 television images of the shuttles descent clearly showed several white trails(痕迹) streaking through blue skies after the shuttle suddenly fell apart. It was almost 17 years to the day that the Challenger shuttle exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts on board. Take-off and re-entry
33、 into Earths atmosphere are the most dangerous parts of a space mission. In 42 years of US human space flight, there had never been an accident in the descent to Earth or landing. Challenger exploded just after take-off. Rescue teams scrambled to search for the remains of the crew, which included th
34、e first Israeli to fly on the shuttle, former combat pilot Col. Ilan Ramon. There were warnings that parts of a vast 120-mile-long corridor of debris could be toxic because of poisonous rocket propellant(推进器). We are not ready to confirm that we have found any human remains, Nacogdoches County Sheri
35、ff Thomas Kerrs said. He added that among the roughly 1,000 calls reporting debris, some people said they found remains of crew members. The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors, Their mission was almost complete and we lost them so close to home. Americas space program will go on, said a grim-f
36、aced Bush in a message broadcast on television, which included condolences to the families of the dead astronauts.1. The word “descent” in the passage means _. A. taking off B. landing C. orbiting D. walking down答案解析：答案为B。本题为词义推断题。由第三段第二句话 “In 42 years of US human space flight, there had never been
37、an accident in the descent to Earth or landing.”可知，在美国42年的载人航空飞行中，从来没有在着陆地面时发生事故，言外之意就是Columbia 航天飞机是着陆地面时坠毁。“or landing”对应的意思就是descent。故答案为B。2. Which is true of the Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon? A. He was the first Israeli astronaut to fly on the shuttle. B. He was the first foreign astronaut to fl
38、y on the American shuttle. C. He used to be a passenger plane pilot. D. He was the only survivor in the Columbia disaster.答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由第四段第一句话 “, which included the first Israeli to fly on the shuttle, former combat pilot Col. Ilan Ramon.”可知，Ilan Ramon是第一个以色列乘坐航天飞机的宇航员，也是一名前战斗飞行员，故A选项正确，B，C错误。由
39、最后一段第二句话 “There are no survivors,” 可知没有幸存者，故D选项错误。故答案为A。3. The Columbia disaster and the Challenger disaster were similar in that _. A. there were seven astronauts killed on board B. both the shuttles exploded when they took off C. Both the shuttles exploded when they were about to land D. no human
40、remains were found答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节推理题，要求寻找Columbia 和the Challenger 事故的相似之处。由第一段首句 “The space shuttle Columbia flared and broke up , killing the seven astronauts on board ”和第二段最后一句 “It was almost 17 years to the day that the Challenger shuttle exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven astronauts on
41、 board.”可知，Columbia 和the Challenger都有七名宇航员遇难。故答案为A。 由第三段 “In 42 years of US human space flight, there had never been an accident in the descent to Earth or landing. Challenger exploded just after take-off.”可知，Columbia是着陆地面时坠毁，Challenger是在刚刚起飞后爆炸，故B、C选项错误。由倒数第二段最后一句话 “, some people said they found re
42、mains of crew members.” 可知，有些人说他们找到了宇航员的残骸，故D选项错误。4. Which of the following is wrong according to the news? A. The U.S.A. will give up the space program because of the accident. B. NASA hasnt found the cause of the Columbia disaster. C. Before the Columbia disaster, no shuttles had exploded in the c
43、ourse of landing. D. Take-off and re-entry into Earths atmosphere are the most dangerous parts of a space mission. 答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由最后一段 “Americas space program will go on,”可知，A选项与文章不符，故答案为A。由第一段 “NASA launched an investigation into the disaster and began searching for the astronauts remains. It said that although there had been some data failures it was too early to nail down a precise cause.”可知，NASA认为对事故的准确原因进行定论还为时过早，故B选项与文章符合。结合第一题的分析可知，C选项与文章符合。由第三段首句 “ Take-off and re-entry into Earths atmosphere are the most dangerous parts of a space mission.” 可知，D选项与文章符合。故B、C、D均不选。