届高考英语阅读理解限时训练题5.docx

1、届高考英语阅读理解限时训练题5高三英语阅读理解限时训练（5）AFor Senior 3 students, choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrilling time in their entire school livesThis is also true for an American girl named Melanie in the film, College Road Trip, which was released in the US on March 7Melanies dad, Jam

2、es Porter, is the chief of police for a Chicago suburbIncredibly security obsessed（困扰）, he wants Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern University, where shes already been acceptedBut Melanie, 17, really wants to go to Georgetown in Washington, DC, where shes been wait-listedWhen she gets an unexpect

3、ed interview, she decides to take a road trip with a few close female friendsMelanie believes it is her first step toward adulthoodBut despite the fact that this trip is girls only, James isnt comfortable with the prospect of his little princess exploring the world without, himHe wants to protect he

4、rJames joins the girls and hopes he can convince her to go to NorthwesternWhile Melanies father only has the best of intentions, his presence leads to an endless series of comic encounters After following their faulty GPS device deep into the backwoods, James and Melanie discover her little brother

5、and his pet pig have been hiding in the spare tire compartment（隔间）What should be a simple tire change results in the expensive car rolling down a mountain, forcing them to hike to a nearby hotelThere the pig ruins an outdoor wedding reception after eating an entire bag of coffee beansAll these disas

6、ters add spice to their trip while along the way a father and a daughter finally get the chance to really talk to each otherThe film explores the parent-child relationship in a comic way: The discrepancy （不同） between how close James thinks he is to Melanie and how little he actually knows of her pla

7、ns makes us laugh first and then thinkAll parents, whether they have college students or not, can relate to the bittersweet realization that their kids are growing upLike what Melanie and James have done in the film, we all can find the delicate balance between staying connected and letting go41Acco

8、rding to the passage, which of the following is TRUE? AIts unclear whether Melanie could be accepted by Northwestern University BNorthwestern University isnt so famous as the university in Washington DC CThere is no hope that Melanie will be accepted by the university in Georgetown DMelanies father

9、prefers her to stay not too far away from him42We can infer from the passage that _ _ Atheir car rolled down the mountain, ruining the wedding reception Ba hotel was destroyed by Melanies brother and his pet pig CMelanie and her father got to understand each other better after so many encounters Dth

10、e girls had to give up their trip because of the incidents on the way43The main purpose of the passage is to_ _ Aintroduce the newly released film Bcall on parents to learn to balance the relationship with their children Ctell a story which happened between an American girl and her father Dexplore t

11、he differences in parent-child relationship between the west and the eastBI look in the mirror, and Im not happy with what I seeI dont have a perfect faceI look in the magazines and all I see are girls with fair hair, blue eyes, and, of course, a-pretty little noseTheyre on the outside of the buses

12、that I take home, the television programs I watch, and the billboards I walk underAlmost every advertisement I see shows this human physical perfectionThese billboards not only tell me what to drink, but also how to lookOur society tends to place more importance on a persons physical beauty, rather

13、than their ability, honesty and characterWe have influenced women to go through painful surgeries and starve themselves to become this society constructed physical modelTo be a beautiful woman in the 21st century doesnt mean that you are a brilliant doctor or caring motherIt means you have the perfe

14、ct jaw structure, eyes and lipsIt means that you can be six feet tall and weigh one hundred and ten poundsBut what about the women who are starting to leave their youth? Instead of looking at aging as a sign of wisdom, we attempt to prevent the aging processIts a kind of funny thing to want to look

15、eighteen when fiftyFifty is a relaxed age, where you can step back and look at all youve achievedIt is when your hard work pays offUnfortunately, our society just sees you as oldTo stop the aging process, women buy wrinkle creams, do eye lifts and face liftsThey spend thousands of dollars to win the

16、 hopeless battle against ageI remember when I was about thirteen years old and going through teens, I had oily hair, and a half developed bodyI hated the way I lookedI used to cry to my mother all the time, but she would just laugh and tell me that you dont want anyone to like your appearanceIts you

17、r heart that matters, because beauty fades” I knew that she was rightIf you work on your heart enough, people will start to see the beauty in you, which lasts and remains on even after you die44The main idea of the first paragraph is that _ _ Athe author doesnt have a perfect face Bwomen have to loo

18、k beautiful Cphotos of beautiful girls can be seen everywhere Dthere are too many beauties in daily life45Whats the authors attitude towards being old? AIts a pity that people have to get old BIts a fruitful and wise time CIts stupid to try to stay young DIts a pity that society looks down upon the

19、old46It is _ _ that regard（s） the physical beauty as more important Awomen themselves Bthe authors parents Cnewspapers and magazines Dsociety47Whats the authors opinion about beauty? AThe author doesnt like the beauties our society values BIt is not important whether a person looks beautiful or not

20、CIt is a persons inner qualities that matter rather than the physical beauty DThe author feels appearance is important to a personCParis, Jan 11An armored car robbery last night ended in a wild gun battle that left two men dead and one hostage seriously woundedThe drama began when an armored car car

21、rying the contents of safe deposit boxes to a bank was struck by a large truck, police saidThe bank guards were helpless when the robbers jumped out of the truck and tied them upThe thieves used heavy tools and explosives to break open the armored carA passing police car turned to investigate the ac

22、cident as the men were removing the contents of the armored carPolice said the three robbers fled on foot across a nearby highwayStopping a private car driven by a teenager girl, the three headed for central Paris with the police car in hot pursuitA plainclothes policeman saw the car as it ran down

23、through the street of the Latin QuarterThe policeman tried to stop the car, but the thieves started shooting at him, witness saidThe girl hostage tried to slip awayJust as she was crawling away from the car, she was hit by a bulletPolice said she was out of danger at Central HospitalThe gunmen gave

24、up the car and got into a shop, pouring fire on more than 50 policemen who had surrounded the buildingAfter a wild gun-battle, police broke into the roomThey only found two of the gunmen, both seriously woundedThe third thief was believed to have escaped with over $13 million in cash and jewels48The

25、 passage is about _ Aa gun-battle between the policemen and the government soldiers Ba bank robbery in Paris Ca group of gunmens robbing an armored car in the street Dhow a teenaged girl got seriously wounded49The thieves came_ _and they _ Ain a police car; stole the armored car Bin a truck; broke o

26、pen the armored car Cin an armored truck; drove the money car away Din an armored car; opened the armored car with heavy tools50The three robbers fled on foot across a nearby highway because_ _ Aa passing police car found them Bthe explosives were too strong Cthe contains of the armored car were too

27、 heavy Dthe truck broke down51A plainclothes policeman is_ Anot a policeman but a solider Bnot a policeman but a gunman Ca policeman but he cant use guns Da policeman but he doesnt wear a uniformDWild elephants that destroy crops and damage trees are a serious problem in many parts of Africa But the

28、re could be a simple and relatively safe way to stop them in their tracks, by employing the talents of the tiny African honeybeesThe number of elephants in Kenya has risen over the past ten years, with some disastrous results Not only do these huge animals attack local farms, but they step someone t

29、o death an average of once every two weeksNow a biologist has discovered a possible threat: the elephants are extremely aware of trees that house honeybee hivesI am puzzled why nobody has thought of this before, says Fritz Volirath at the University of OxfordWhen an elephant knocks a beehive he runs

30、 and the bees will follow him for miles He says that placing hives of the honeybees around local farms and fragile habitats could be an effective way to threaten the animalsVolirath put 30 unoccupied and 6 occupied beehives in some of the trees growing on a bush frequently damaged by elephants on La

31、ikipia Plateau in KenyaOn average the elephants attacked 9 out of 10 trees that didnt have hives, severely damaging a quarterBut they steered clear of all six trees with occupied hivesThe elephants also left alone one-third of the trees with empty hives, suggesting that some had learnt not to take the riskThe bees threaten elephants by stinging vulnerable（易受伤） areas such as the eyes, belly, behind the ears and under the trunkPeople could be at risk from the bees, admits Volirath, but that may be outweighed by the risk of being killed by an elephantAnother experiment by Volirath shows that ele