贵州天柱县中学高考英语阅读理解一轮题及答案 含Word文档格式.docx

1、Many cities have subways and underground public transportation to take locals and tourists alike rapidly around the cityHowever, theres something different about riding a London subwayIt may not look different, but the historical value of one of Englands most popular forms of transportation is enoug

2、h to make riding the subway a must when visiting LondonWith a little under 100 different stations, the subway can take you almost anywhere you need to goRiding a London subway, a person from other countries will notice one major difference: in London, people do not look at each otherIn fact, eye con

3、tact is avoided at all timesThats not rudeness people are just too busy to bother lookingBusy doing what, you ask? Well, theyre certainly not using the time for a moment of quiet thinkingNor are they reading a bookNew technology has replaced quiet habitsToday the only acceptable form of book on the

4、London underground is an e-bookApple must earn a fortune from London commuters（使用月票上下班者）Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, over 40,000yes, thats 40,000 “apps” have been designedCommuters love them because they are the perfect time-fillersOne “app”, called iShoot, is a game that features tanksAn

5、other one, Tube Exits, tells passengers where to sit on the train to be closest to the exit of their destinationiSteam clouds the iPhone screen when you breathe into the microphoneYou can then write in the “steam” on your phone screenFor those without an iPhone, another Apple product, the iPod, may

6、be the distraction（消遣）of choiceIts not just teenagers who “plug in” to their musiciPods are a popular way to pass the time for all agesAnd if games, e-books and music arent enough to keep you occupied, then perhaps you would prefer a film? The development of palm DVD technology means many commuters

7、watch their favorite TV shows or films on the way to workWith all these distractions, its amazing that people still remember to get off the train1Those who want to save time to reach where they go can download _ to their iPhonesAiShoot BTube Exits CiSteam DiPod2People in London do not make eye conta

8、ct on the subway because _Athey are going to work and have no time to communicate with each otherBthey love reading books and do not want to be disturbedCthey feel sleepy because of getting up earlyDthey are busy playing games, reading e-books, listening to music or watching films3The underlined wor

9、d “apps” in the fourth paragraph means _Acomputers Bprograms downloaded for the iPhoneCcomputer companies Dfortune from London commuters4.The main idea of the passage is that _ALondon commuters are unfriendly to strangersBApple has earned a lot of money from selling 40,000 appsCtechnology is changin

10、g how London commuters spend their traveling timeDriding a London subway is a must when visiting London1.B细节理解题。根据Another one, Tube Exits, tells passengers where to sit on the train to be closest to the exit of their destination故选B。2.D细节理解题。根据最后一段可知人们在地铁里没空看别人，是因为大家都忙于玩游戏读电子书听音乐或看电影，故选D。3.B词义猜测题。根据h

11、ave been designed可知它是电脑里已经设计好的程序，故选B。4.C主旨大意题。整篇短文叙述了伦敦的人们是怎样打发他们在做地铁的时间的，故选C。【广东省2012届高三考前冲刺卷（三）】CTechnology has been an encouragement of historical change.It acted as such a force in England beginning in the eighteenth century，and across the entire Western World in the nineteenth.Rapid advances we

12、re made in the use of scientific findings in the manufacture（制造） of goods，which has changed ideas about work.One of the first changes was that other forms of energy have taken the place of human power.Along with this came the increased use of machines to manufacture products in less time.People also

13、 developed machines that could produce the same parts for a product：each nail was exactly like every other nail，meaning that each nail could be changed for every other nail.This means that goods could be mass production，although mass production required breaking production down into smaller and smal

14、ler tasks.Once this was done，workers no longer started on the product and laboured to complete it.Instead，they might work only one thousandth of it，other workers completing their own parts in certain order.There is nothing strange about this manufacturing work by todays standards.Highly skilled work

15、ers were unable to compare with the new production techniques，as mass production allowed goods of high standard to be produced in greater number than could ever be done by hand.But the skilled worker wasnt the only loser，the common workers lost too.Similar changes forced farmers away.The increased mechanization（机械化） of agriculture freed masses of workers from ploughing the land and harvesting its crops.They had little choice but to stream toward the rapidly developing industrial centers.Increasingly，standards were set by machines.Workers no