高考英语阅读理解冲刺全程训练及答案.doc

1、2014高考英语阅读理解冲刺全程训练（12）及答案阅读理解 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 AI got my first drivers license(执照)in 1953 by taking driver education in my first year at Central High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Four years later when it was time to renew my license I was a married woman. Henry and I were

2、living in Baltimore, Maryland. Two weeks before my 20th birthday, Henry drove me to the motor vehicle office on a hot July afternoon. When I got to the office and showed to the man behind the counter my North Carolina drivers license, ready to renew, the man told me that I was under age by Maryland

3、law since I was not yet 21. “Mr. Henry Smith, your husband, will have to sign for you,” he said.来源:学.科.网I argued, pointing to a very large belly(肚子)of mine,” I am married. I am having a baby. Why should I have to have someone sign for me to drive?” He answered coldly, “Its the law, madam?” Henry enc

4、ouraged me to calm down, just go ahead and get the license and be done with it “No.” I said. I refused to have him sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license.I called the North Carolina Motor Vehicle Office and renewed my NC license by mail-using my name Susan Brown. And thus it was for the n

5、ext twelve years. Since Henry was in the army I could drive under my home state license. By the time Henry left the army we were once again living in Maryland, and I had to take the Maryland drivers exam. Since then I just go in and renew every four years-sign the name Susan Brown, have my new pictu

6、re taken, and walk out with a license to drive.( ) 1. Susan got her first drivers license .A. before she got married to Henry B. when she was twenty years oldC. after she finished high school D. when she just moved to Maryland【答案】：A【解析】：细节理解题。由第1段可知拿证4年后作者20岁，排除B，由第1句知道是作者在中学第1年取得的驾驶证，排除C，领了证件4年后作者和

7、丈夫在Maryland排除D。选A。( ) 2. Susan failed to renew her license the first time in Maryland because .A. she was forbidden to drive by Maryland lawB. she lacked driving experience in MarylandC. she was to give birth to a baby soonD. she insisted on signing for herself【答案】：D【解析】：细节理解。由第3段I refused to have h

8、im sign for me. So I left without a Maryland license.可知选D。( ) 3. We can infer from the text that in the U.S. .A. American males should serve in the armyB. different states my have different laws C. people have to renew their licenses in their home statesD. women should adopt their husbands family na

9、mes after marriage来源:Zxxk.Com【答案】：B【解析】：推断题，由续办驾驶证到后来从新考驾驶证可看出选B。来源:学科网来源:学科网ZXXKPassage Two (The Tourist Trade Contributes Absolutely Nothing to Increasing Understanding between Nations) The tourist trade is booming. With all this coming and going, youd expect greater understanding to develop betwe

10、en the nations of the world. Not a bit of it! Superb systems of communication by air, sea and land make it possible for us to visit each others countries at a moderate cost. What was once the grand tour, reserved for only the very rich, is now within everybodys grasp? The package tour and chartered

11、flights are not to be sneered at. Modern travelers enjoy a level of comfort which the lords and ladies on grand tours in the old days couldnt have dreamed of. But whats the sense of this mass exchange of populations if the nations of the world remain basically ignorant of each other? Many tourist or

12、ganizations are directly responsible for this state of affairs. They deliberately set out to protect their clients from too much contact with the local population. The modern tourist leads a cosseted, sheltered life. He lives at international hotels, where he eats his international food and sips his

13、 international drink while he gazes at the natives from a distance. Conducted tours to places of interest are carefully censored. The tourist is allowed to see only what the organizers want him to see and no more. A strict schedule makes it impossible for the tourist to wander off on his own; and an

14、yway, language is always a barrier, so he is only too happy to be protected in this way. At its very worst, this leads to a new and hideous kind of colonization. The summer quarters of the inhabitants of the cite universitaire: are temporarily reestablished on the island of Corfu. Blackpool is recre

15、ated at Torremolinos where the traveler goes not to eat paella, but fish and chips. The sad thing about this situation is that it leads to the persistence of national stereotypes. We dont see the people of other nations as they really are, but as we have been brought up to believe they are. You can

16、test this for yourself. Take five nationalities, say, French, German, English, American and Italian. Now in your mind, match them with these five adjectives: musical, amorous, cold, pedantic, native. Far from providing us with any insight into the national characteristics of the peoples just mentioned, these a