1、昆明市2014高考英语（阅读理解）一轮训练题（8）及答案 What is eBay? The simple answer is that it is a global trading platform where nearly anyone can trade practically anything. People can sell and buy all kinds of products and goods, including cars, movies and DVDs, sporting goods, travel tickets, musical instruments, clot
2、hes and shoesthe list goes on and on. The idea came from Peter Omidyar, who was born in Paris and moved to Washington when he was still a child. At high school, he became very interested in computer programming and after graduating from Tuft University in 1988, he worked for the next few years as a
3、computer engineer. In his free time he started eBay as a kind of hobby, at first offering the service free by word of mouth. By 1996 there was so much traffic on the website that he had to upgrade（升级） and he began charging a fee to members. Joined by a friend, Peter Skoll, and in 1998 by his capable
4、 CEO, Meg Whitman, he has never looked back. Even in the great. com crashes of the late 1990s, eBay has gone from strength to strength. It is now one of the ten most visited online shopping websites on the Internet. eBay sells connections, not goods, putting buyer and seller into contact with each o
5、ther. All you have to do is take an e-photo, write a description, fill out a sales form and youre in business: the world is your market place. Of course for each item （商品）sold eBay gets a percentage and that is a great deal of money. Every day there are more than sixteen million items listed on eBay
6、 and eighty percent of the items are sold. 13. We learn from the text that eBay provides people with_. A. a way of buying and selling goods B. a website for them to upgrade C. a place to exhibit their own photos D. a chance to buy things at low prices 14. Why did Peter create eBay after graduating f
7、rom university? A. For fun. B. To make money. C. For gathering the engineers. D. To fulfill a task of his company. 15. From “he has never looked back ”in Paragraph 2 we learn that Peter_. A. did not feel lonely B. was always hopeful C. did not think about the past D. became more and more successful
8、16. How does eBay make money from its website? A. By bringing callers together. B. By charging for each sale. C. By listing items online. D. By making e-photos. 6、【文章大意】eBay是进行全球贸易的网络平台，你可以通过它买到任何你所需的商品，大到汽车小到一双鞋子，你只要轻点鼠标就可以买到。13.【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第一段可知。14.【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第二段中的In his free time he starte
9、d eBay as a kind of hobby. . . 可知。15.【解析】选D。句意理解题。句中的look back在此处意为“倒退”，作此意时常用于否定句。另外也可根据句子后面的两句推知：他的eBay发展得越来越好。16.【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据最后一段中的Of course for each item sold eBay gets a percentage and that is a great deal of money. 可知。*结束*结束7、（2009江西高考） The surprising experiment I am about to describe prove
10、s that air is all around you and that it presses down upon you. Air pressure is a powerful force. When you swim underwater, you can feel water pushing on your body. The air all around you does the same. However, your body is so used to it that you do not notice this. The pressure is caused by a laye
11、r of air called the atmosphere. This layer surrounds the Earth, extending to about five kilometers above the Earths surface. The following experiment is an easy one that you can do at home. But make sure that you are supervised, because you will need to use matches. Now for the experiment！ What you
12、need A hard-boiled egg without the shell A bottle with a neck slightly smaller than the egg A piece of paper A match Method 1） Check that the egg will sit firmly on the neck of the bottle. 2） Tear the paper into strips and put the strips into the bottle. 3） Light the paper by dropping a burning matc
13、h into the bottle. 4） Quickly sit the egg on the neck of the bottle. Result Astonishingly, the egg will be sucked into the bottle. Your friends will be amazed when you show them the experiment. But be careful when you handle matches. Why it happened As the paper burns, it needs oxygen and uses up th
14、e oxygen （air） in the bottle. The egg acts as a seal in the neck of the bottle, so no more air can get inside. This reduces the air pressure inside the bottle. The air pressure must equalize, so more air from outside must enter the bottle. The outside air presses against the egg and then the egg is
15、pushed into the bottle! This proves that air is all around and that it is pressing down on us. 1. Why is there the need to take care when you are doing the experiment? A. The bottle could break. B. You need to light the paper with a match. C. The egg needs to be shelled. D. The egg has to be perfect
16、ly placed on the neck of the bottle. 2. In the experiment, the burning inside the bottle can_. A. equalize the air pressure inside and outside B. make a seal in the neck of the bottle C. finish up the oxygen inside the bottle D. produce more oxygen inside the bottle 3. How did the egg get into the b
17、ottle？ A. The oxygen inside the bottle sucked the egg in. B. It became soft without the shell. C. The neck of the bottle was wide enough. D. The outside air pressure forced it into the bottle. 4. The experiment is carried out to prove_ . A. water pushes on your body when you swim underwater B. the e
18、arth is surrounded by a layer of air called the atmosphere C. the pressure of air around us has a powerful forceD. the air pressure is not equalized around us参考答案7、【文章大意】本文通过一个小实验向我们证明周围空气的气压是非常强大的。1.【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第二段第二句But make sure that you are supervised, because you will need to use matches. 可知
19、。【思路点拨】做事实细节题时，先浏览一遍题目，把题目的要求储存在大脑中，带着疑问快速去阅读，然后找出与题目相关的信息词句加以理解分析，去伪存真。 这样可以有效避免细节理解题的失误，不轻易陷入高考题所设下的“陷阱”。要注意排除干扰项，因为有些干扰项在文中也能找到依据，但关键是弄清楚这些干扰项是否符合题目的要求。例如，此题的题干是问在做实验时为什么需要有人照顾，先找出题干是针对原文第二段中的But make sure that you are supervised, because youll need to use matches. 进行提问，这样就准确找到答案了。2.【解析】选C。细节理解题。
20、根据最后一段第一句As the paper burns, it needs oxygen and uses up the oxygen(air)in the bottle. 可知。3.【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据最后一段倒数第二句可知。4.【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据文章第一句与最后一句可知：这个实验的目的就是证明空气就在我们周围，对我们施加压力，并且这种气压是非常强大的。*结束*结束（济南市2011届高三教学质量调研） The website FarmersOnly. com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder. The
21、 idea started in the mind of a man, Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understand the life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot of farmers. As he tells it,the idea for the site was planted when a farmer told him one day that she was r
22、ecently divorced and would like to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nine oclock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning. So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched his website. You dont have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly. com. But you do have to have th
23、e good old-fashioned traditional values of Americas heartland. You also have to live in the United States or Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a full membership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the sire listed more than 58,000 members. Many of them are far
24、mers in the United States. Others are students or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tells us about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website. Some farmers have also found love through a group,Singles in Agriculture,which was formed as a nonprofit orga
25、nization in 1986.It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance, but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and social activities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website,singlesinag.org,says there are more than l,000 members across the nation and as far
26、away as France.(1)Jerry Miller started FarmersO in order to_.A. help farmers B. support traditionsC. understand farmers D. represent farmers(2)What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 indicate?A. She dislikes city lifestyle.B. She prefers late night coffee.C. Country life isnt well understoo
27、d.D. Its tiring to get up early.(3)Which of the following is true ofsinglesinag.org?A. Its services are free.B. It provides dating services.C. Only farmers call become its members.D. Farmers in France cant benefit from it.(4)The author of the text intends to_.A. advertise for the two websitesB. intr
28、oduce two websitesC. encourage social activitiesD. urge readers to help farmers(5)It can be inferred from the text that_.A. all farmers desire marriageB. farmers are easy to meet new peopleC. more farmers get divorced in the USAD. the Internet helps improve farmers social life【解析】乡村生活的作息规律让农民的社交生活受到
29、了限制，受此启发，专门为农民创办的网络约会与交友的网站应运而生。 (1)A推理判断题。Jerry Miller是在听完一位女性农民的苦衷后才创办了这个网站，以便为农民网上约会和交友提供方便，由此可推断他创办网站的目的是帮助农民。(2)C句意理解题。有人邀请她在晚上九点喝咖啡，可是她必须在第二天早上五点起床，由此可推断乡村生活没有被很好地理解。(3)A正误判断题。根据最后一段第句中的a nonprofit organization可知这是一个非营利性机构，它创办的网站提供的是免费服务。(4)B作者意图题。作者只是客观地介绍了Jerry Miller创办的网站，顺便提及了另外一个网站，并没有发表自己的观点，所以作者意在对两个网站进行介绍。(5)D推理判断题。由文中介绍的这两个关于农民社交的网站可推知因特网有助于提高农民的社交生活。*结束
