高考英语阅读理解强化训练Word格式.docx

1、The original plans for the park were on 8 acres next to the Burbank studios where his employees and families could go to relax. Although, World War II put those plans on hold. During the war, Disney had time to come up with new ideas, and creations for his magical park. It was soon clear that 8 acre

2、s wouldnt be enough.Finally in 1953, he had the Stanford Research Institute conduct a survey for a 100-acre site, outside of Los Angeles. He needed space to build rivers, waterfalls, and mountains; he would have flying elephants and giant teacups; a fairy-tale castle, moon rockets, and a scenic rail

3、way; all inside a magic kingdom he called Disneyland.The search for the best venue for the park ended in the rural Anaheim, California with a purchase of a 160-acre orange grove near the junction of the Santa Ana Freeway （I-5） and Harbor Boulevard. Construction for Disneyland began on July 21, 1954,

4、 12 months before the park was scheduled to open.Some 160-acres of citrus trees had been cleared and 15 houses moved to make room for the park. However, when the real designing came around, Disney met with inevitable questions. How do you make believable wild animals, that arent real? How do you mak

5、e a Mississippi paddle ship? How do you go about building a huge castle in the middle of Anaheim, California? Disney asked his movie studio staff for answers. The design of Disneyland was something never done before. There would be four uniquely different theme parts: Adventureland, Frontierland, Fa

6、ntasyland Tomorrow land. Bit by bit, Disneyland got ready for Opening Day. The staff worked around the clock to get ready. But opening day was a terrible disaster. Beside the terrible opening day conditions, the park did eventually pick up. By 1965, ten years after opening day, 50 Million visitors h

7、ad come through the gates.1. The passage is mainly about_.A. What visitors can enjoy in Disneyland.B. The difficulties Disney met in building DisneylandC. How Disneyland came into beingD. A brief introduction to Disneyland2. Which of the following dates would probably be the opening date of Disneyla

8、nd?A. 1953 B. 1954 C. 1955 D. 19653. Which of the following statements is Not True?A. World War II had some influence on the building plan of the Disneyland.B. Disney must have met many difficulties in building Disneyland.C. About 50 million visitors have visited Disneyland so far.D. Disney was a gr

9、eat man with great imagination and creativity.4. You could see all the following things except_ in Disney.A. rivers, waterfalls, and mountains B. flying elephants and giant teacupsC. a huge castle D. wild animals5. The underlined phrase in the last paragraph probably means _.A. collect B. improve C.

10、 find D. open 【答案解析】1.C本题主要介绍了迪斯尼乐园是如何建成的展开论述。A、B两项片面，D项范围太大。2.C根据倒数第三段和最后一段最一句话可以得出答案。3.C根据最后一段最一句话可以得出答案。4.D根据倒数第二段：How do you make believable wild animals, that aren 这一句话可以得出答案。5.B根据上下文语境可以推出pick up此处应为“好转；改善”的意思。（2）Ocean Park Hong Kong is a theme park in the Southern District of Hong Kong Island

11、. The park was built with donations from the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club （now Hong Kong Jockey Club） and opened on 10 January 1977. The park is operated by Ocean Park Corporation, which is a statutory（法定的）department. It offers affordable marine animal education and entertainment and is a private org

12、anization for commercial purposes. In the early operation of the park, the main sources of income for the park were the ticket prices and the funding from the Jockey Club. Since the ticket price was low, most of the time Ocean Park was operating under deficit（财政赤字）. In 1 July 1987, the government es

13、tablished a 200 million trust from the funding of Jockey Club, under the Ocean Park Corporation Ordinance. This separated Ocean Park from Jockey Club and became a non-profit organization; it needs to be responsible for its own income and was allowed to use commercial means to operate the park. Since

14、 it was permitted to use commercial means to operate, it gradually raised its ticket price and the deficit turned into profit. In 1992, 3 million visitors visited the park. Since 1998, the East Asian financial crisis（经济危机）, aging attractions, and the passing away of the killer whale; the park record

15、ed a deficit for a couple years. Although it was allowed to host 2 pandas in 1999, the number of visitors did not go up and Ocean Park was forced to close its water attractions and the Old Village attraction and turned to bring in more rides in an attempt to capture the youth demand. Together with the opening up of mainland visitors under the Individual Visit Scheme, Ocean Park recorded an astonishing 4 million visitors in the year 2004-