届高考英语阅读理解复习检测题13.docx

1、届高考英语阅读理解复习检测题13根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。34. What seems to be the problem?35. 51 36. How long have you been like this?37. Since Saturday night.38. _ 52 39. Yes, I also feel lighthearted.40. Can you think of anything you ate Saturday that might have caused it?41. All I can

2、think of is the fish I had. It didnt taste quite right.42. _ 53 Now Ill give you some medicine. Take it and you should be feeling better soon.43. _ 54 44. I also suggest that you follow a special diet.45. _ 55 46. You should stick to eating lighter foods.A. Whats that?B. That might be it.C. Thank yo

3、u, doctor.D. Any other problems?E. I have a running nose.F. Have you seen a doctor?G. I have a terrible stomachache.【参考答案】51-55 GDBCA【四川省宜宾市李庄中学2018高考英语仿真模拟试题】阅读表达（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读短文，并按照题目要求用英语回答问题。Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High

4、 School swimming champion. Like many young athletes, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness kept her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didnt stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming. A brilliant athlete, she was well-conditioned for spendi

5、ng long periods of time in the water. As a long-distance swimmer, she would compete against herself and the obstacles presented by distance, danger, cold, and exhaustion.For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the worlds best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile maratho

6、n in Lake Ontario, setting the womens record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida a

7、nd Cuba in 1978. Though the span of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling the water for two days, she had to give for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. For Nyad her strength of

8、 purpose was just as important as reading Cuba. That is how she defined success. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things-travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and

9、giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.56. What prevented Nyad from taking part in the Olympic Games? (No more than 5 words)_57. What does the underlined word “obstacles” mean? (1 word)_58. What achievement did

10、 Nyad make in 1970? (No more than 10 words.)_59. Why did Nyad believe that she had touched the other shore? (No more than 10 words)_60. Please explain how you are inspired by Nyad. (No more than 20 words)_【参考答案】阅读表达56. A serious illness (did).57. Difficulties/Problems/Troubles/Challenges.58. She swa

11、m a ten-mile marathon and set womens record. Or: She swam a ten-mile marathon, setting the womens record. Or: She set the womens record for a ten-mile marathon swimming.59. Because she had tried her best (to fulfill the task). Or: Her strength of purpose was as important as reaching Cuba.60. I am en

12、couraged by her determination and strong will. Or: I am inspired by her courage and strong desire to succeed. Or: From her I learned that once we set a goal, we should try hard to achieve it. Or: We should never give up in the face of difficulty/failure. Or: We should never stop trying new things an

13、d we may achieve success in different fields.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 latest research suggests that the key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not I. Q. , a generally bad predictor of success. Instead, its purposeful practice. Top performers spend more hours p

14、ractising their craft. If you wanted to picture how a typical genius might develop, youd take a girl who possessed a slightly above average language ability. It wouldnt have to be a big talent, just enough so that she might gain some sense of distinction. Then you would want her to meet, say, a nove

15、list, who coincidentally shared some similar qualities. Maybe the writer was from the same town, had the same family background, or, shared the same birthday. This contact would give the girl a vision of her future self. It would give her some idea of a fascinating circle she might someday join. It

16、would also help if one of her parents died when she was 12, giving her a strong sense of insecurity and fuelling a desperate need for success. Armed with this ambition, she would read novels and life stories of writers without end. This would give her a primary know-ledge of her field. Shed be able

17、to see new writing in deeper ways and quickly understand its inner workings. Then she would practise writing. Her practice would be slow, painstaking and error-focused. By practising in this way, she delays the automatizing process. Her mind wants to turn conscious, newly learned skills into unconsc

18、ious, automatically performed skills. By practising slowly, by breaking skills down into tiny parts and repeating, she forces the brain to internalize a better pattern of performance. Then she would find an adviser who would provide a constant stream of feedback, viewing her performance from the out

19、side, correcting the smallest errors, pushing her to take on tougher challenges. By now she is redoing problemshow do I get characters into a roomdozens and dozens of times. She is establishing habits of thought she can call upon in order to understand or solve future problems. The primary quality o

20、ur young writer possesses is not some mysterious genius. Its the ability to develop a purposeful, laborious and boring practice routine. The latest research takes some of the magic out of great achievement. But it underlines a fact that is often neglected. Public discussion is affected by genetics a

21、nd what were “hard-wired” to do. And its true that genes play a role in our capabilities. But the brain is also very plastic. We construct ourselves through behaviour.1. The passage mainly deals with.A. the function of I. Q. in cultivating a writerB. the relationship between genius and successC. the

22、 decisive factor in making a geniusD. the way of gaining some sense of distinction2. By reading novels and writers stories, the girl could.A. come to understand the inner structure of writingB. join a fascinating circle of writers somedayC. share with a novelist her likes and dislikesD. learn from t

23、he living examples to establish a sense of security3. In the girls long painstaking training process, .A. her adviser forms a primary challenging force to her successB. her writing turns into an automatic pattern of performanceC. she acquires the magic of some great achievementsD. she comes to reali

24、ze she is “hard-wired” to write4. What can be concluded from the passage? A. A fuelling ambition plays a leading role in ones success. B. A responsible adviser is more important than the knowledge of writing.C. As to the growth of a genius, I. Q. doesnt matter, but just his/her efforts. D. What real

25、ly matters is what you do rather than who you are.【参考答案】14、CABD阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项 。In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and Englishand all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at USs Carne

26、gie Mellon University(CMU)and Germanys University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be a reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other. One application, called Lecture Tran

27、slation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme. Another prototype (雏形机)can send translations of a speech to different li

28、steners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,”Waibel said. Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal (液晶) display(LCD)screen. T

29、hen theres the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a persons face, according to researc

30、hers. During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMUs Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthedwithout speaking alouda few words in Mandarin (普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phra

31、se was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.”This particular gadget (器具), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea behind the universitys prototypes is to creategood enough bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that a