高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解学生选练11.docx

1、高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解学生选练112019年高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解学生选练11阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。The Edmonton Folk Music Festival begins on Wednesday, Aug. 4 with Van Morrison playing the special donation fund (基金) concert, and will finish up on Sunday, Aug. 8. 1. The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is held mainly to.A

2、. gather people with different musical tastesB. remind people of the real sense of folk musicC. exhibit the good voices of great talents in folk musicD. collect old stories of folk music2. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Riedel has volunteered for the festival for at leas

3、t 5 years.B. Its hard for people to appreciate Blues. C. It costs people a little to fill up their cups from water stations.D. People have to pay $2 for a plate of food.3. We can learn from the passage that.A. people can get tickets easily for the festivalB. the Edmonton Folk Music Festival is well

4、organizedD. bikes are available at the festival from Wednesday to Sunday4. What would be the best title for this passage? A. Folk Music of BluesB. One Festival for AllC. Festival for Family GatheringD. Edmontons Downtown Park【参考答案】1-4 BABB阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Feeling blue about the w

5、orld? “Cheer up,” says science writer Matt Ridley.” The world has never been a better place to live in, and it will keep on getting better both for humans and for nature.”Ridley calls himself a rational optimistrational, because hes carefully weighed the evidence; optimistic, because that evidence s

6、hows human progress to be both unavoidable and good. And this is what hes set out to prove from a unique point of view in his most recent book, The Rational Optimist. He views mankind as a grand enterprise that, on the whole, has done little but progress for 100,000 years. He backs his findings with

7、 hard facts gathered through years of research. Heres how he explains his views. 1) Shopping fuels inventionIt is reported that there are more than ten billion different products for sale in London alone. Even allowing for the many people who still live in poverty, our own generation has access to m

8、ore nutritious food, more convenient transport, bigger houses, better cars, and, of course, more pounds and dollars than any who lived before us. This will continue as long as we use these things to make other things. The more we specialize and exchange, the better off well be. 2) Brilliant advances

9、One reason we are richer, healthier, taller, cleverer, longer-lived and freer than ever before is that the four most basic human needsfood, clothing, fuel and shelterhave grown a lot cheaper. Take one example. In 1800 a candle providing one hours light cost six hours work. In the 1880s the same ligh

10、t from an oil lamp took 15 minutes work to pay for. In 1950 it was eight seconds. Today its half second. 3) Lets not kill ourselves for climate changeMitigating(减轻) climate change could prove just as damaging to human welfare as climate change itself. A child that dies from indoor smoke in a village

11、, where the use of fossil-fuel(化石燃烧) electricity is forbidden by well-meaning members of green political movements trying to save the world, is just as great a tragedy as a child that dies in a flood caused by climate change. If climate change proves to be mild, but cutting carbon causes real pain,

12、we may well find that we have stopped a nose-bleed by putting a tourniquet(止血带) around our necks. 1. What is the theme of Ridleys most recent book? A. Weakness of human nature. B. Concern about climate change.C. Importance of practical thinking. D. Optimism about human progress.2. How does Ridley lo

13、ok at shopping? A. It encourages the creation of things. B. It results in shortage of goods.C. It demands more fossil fuels. D. It causes a poverty problem.3. The candle and lamp example is used to show that.A. oil lamps give off more light than candlesB. shortening working time brings about a happi

14、er lifeC. advanced technology helps to produce better candlesD. increased production rate leads to lower cost of goods4. What does the last sentence of the passage imply? A. Cutting carbon is necessary in spite of the huge cost.B. Overreaction to climate change may be dangerous.C. Peoples health is

15、closely related to climate change. D. Careless medical treatment may cause great pain.【参考答案】1-4 DADBATaking exams in a large group setting can be stressful for students and for the staff members who are watching over them. When classrooms are crowded and desks are close together, cheating might be t

16、empting.One university in Thailand came up with an anti-cheating hat that makes it almost impossible for students to see other students papers. A photo of the students wearing the anti-cheating hats made its way to the internet, and the university was criticized for making students wear those ridicu

17、lous looking homemade hats. The hats were made by stapling two pieces of paper onto a headband, one to each side of the head.1. Why was the university criticized on the Internet?AThe homemade anti-cheating hat looked too simple.BWearing the anti-cheating hat made students look ridiculous.CWearing th

18、e anti-cheating hats couldnt prevent students from cheating in the exam.DThe university forced students to wear the anti-cheating hat. 2. Whats most of the Kasetsart University students attitude towards the cheating hat? A. skeptical B. supportive C. objective D. negative 3. It can be inferred from

19、the passage that_.A. Its useless wearing the anti-cheating hat in the exam.B. Kasetsart students are often caught cheating in the exam.C. Wearing the anti-cheating hat is effective in some degree.D. Some students are forced to wear the anti-cheating hat.参考答案1-3 BBC BWe know that sugary sodas arent g

20、ood for our bodies. Now it turns out that they may not be good for our minds, either. A new study of more than 260,000 people has found a link between sweetened soft-drinks and depression, and diet sodas may be making matters worse.The study studied 263,925 people between the ages of 50 and 71. Rese

21、archers followed their consumption of drinks like soda, tea coffee, and other soft drinks from 1995 to 1996 and then. 10 years later, asked them if they had been diagnosed with depression since the year 2000. More than 11,3000 of them had.Participants who drank more than four servings of sodas per d

22、ay were 30 percent more likely to develop depression than participants who did not drink sodas at all. People who stuck with fruit punch(鸡尾酒), had a 38 percent higher risk than people who didnt drink sweetened drinks. And all that extra sugar isnt the actual problem. Researchers say that the artific

23、ial sweetener aspartame may be to blame.4What has the new study of more than 260,000 people found?A. Sugary sodas arent good for the physical health of old people.B. Americans have a special tooth for sweet foods.C. Sweetened soft-drinks may increase the risk of depression.D. Sweetened soft-drinks h

24、ave important physical consequences.5What do we know about the process of the study?A. About twenty-six thousand people participated in it.B. The oldest participants were below 80 when the study was over.C. Most of the participants had depression when the study was over.D. The study lasted more than

25、 ten years from the beginning to the end.6It is implied in the passage that _.A. more research is needed to confirm the new findingsB. the new findings arent consistent with any previous findingsC. cutting ones sodas intake will surely reduce ones depressionD. the new findings wont have an impact on

26、 peoples drinking habits7What should you drink in order to reduce the risk of depression?A.Sodas. B.Unsweetened coffee.C.Sugary coffee. D.Fruit punch.参考答案4-7 CDAB CI must have been about fourteen then, and I put away the incident from my mind with the easy carelessness of youth. But the words, Carl

27、Walter spoke that day, came back to me years later, and ever since have been of great value to me.Carl Walter was my piano teacher. During one of my lessons he asked how much practicing I was doing. I said three or four hours a day.“Do you practice in long stretches, an hour at a time?”“I try to.”“W

28、ell, dont,” he said loudly. “When you grow up, time won”I admit I have never learnt how to let go easily at the end of the five or ten minutes. But life can be counted on to supply interruptions. Carl Walter has had a significant influence on my life. To him I owe the discovery that even very short

29、periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I throw myself into it without delay.8. The meaning of “stretch” in the underlined part is the same as that in the sentence “ ”.A. The dog woke up, had a good stretch and wandered off.B. Bob worked as a government official for a stretch of over t

30、wenty years.C. My family wasnt wealthy by any stretch of the imagination.D. This material has a lot of stretch in it.9. Which of the following statements is TRUE?A. The author didnt take the teachers words to heart at first.B. Rapid concentration is more difficult than people imagine.C. The author t

31、hanked his teacher for teaching him to work in long stretches.D. Carl Walter has influenced the writer greatly since he was a student.10. We can infer that the author_. A. has new books published each year however busy his teaching isB. is tired of interruptions in life because he always has much wo

32、rkC. has formed a bad habit of chewing a pencil while writing his novelsD. makes mental preparations beforehand so as to focus on work quickly11. What is probably the best title for this text?A. Concentrate on Your Work B. A Little at a TimeC. How I Became a Writer D. Good Advice参考答案8-11 BADB DToday, people all over the world are moving out of small villages in the country t