2013年高考英语二轮专题思路点拨及增分训练 阅读理解15

2013高考英语二轮专题思路点拨及增分训练阅读理解15“I dont want to write a story about girls! I dont know anything about girls,” Louisa May Alcott told her publisher, Mr. Niles. But she was desperate for money. She seemed to be the only one in her family who could make any money. Niles had asked her to write about something she knew, instead of the romantic adventure stories she had been writing. “So I plod away,” Alcott wrote, “though I dont enjoy this sort of thing.” It was 1867, and the horrible Civil War was over. Now Alcott could turn her energy to making money.Alcott wrote a simple story of life in her family, their pillow fights on Saturday nights and the amateur (业余的) plays they performed. “Our experiences may prove interesting, though I doubt it.” (“Good joke,” she wrote years later.) Her book described her days growing up with four sisters in a family that had no money. She sketched (勾画) a loving mother who took time to be interested in each child, and she told of the death of a beloved sister. She portrayed her family and friends in her book Little Women. Finally, in July of 1868, she finished writing. With a sigh and a headache, she sent off all 102 handwritten pages of her book. Niles thought the book was dull, and so did Alcott. But when she received her copies of the book, Alcott thought it seemed better than expected. “Not a bit sensational,” she wrote, “but simple and true. We really lived most of it.” Niles asked some girls to read Little Women, and they loved it.In three months, all the copies of Little Women had sold. It was already time to print more books! Niles thought he could sell three or four hundred more copies. “An honest publisher and a lucky author made a dull book into a golden egg for an ugly duckling,” Alcott wrote in 1885. Later, with a great sigh of relief, she was able to write, “Paid off all the debts! Now I feel that I could die in peace. If my head holds out, Ill do all I once hoped to do.”56. Which of the following would be used to describe Alcotts book?A. funny B. boring C. magic D. skillful57. In which order did the following happen?a. Alcott began writing Little Women b. Niles asked Alcott to write about girlsc. Alcott wrote romantic adventure stories d. Alcott performed plays with her sisterse. Niles was not pleased with Alcotts work.A. a, b, e, d, c B. d, c, a, b, e C. c, b, e, d, a D. d, c, e, b, a58. When she handed her first writing in, Niles was _.A. sure of her success B. happy about her workC. unsatisfied with the work D. unpleased with the publisher59. We learn from the story that, after Little Women sold out, _.A. Alcott wrote another book B. some girls started to read the bookC. Alcott paid off all her bills D. Niles published hundreds of books girls liked56 ADCC AA mouse looked through a crack（裂缝）in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package. what food might this contain? It was a mouse trap(夹子)! So he backed into the farmyard, warning “there is a mouse trap in the house.”The chicken clucked and scratched, saying “This is a serious concern to you, but sits none of my business. I cant be bothered by it.” Im so sorry, Mr Mouse sympa ahized the pig. “but I can do nothing but pray for you.” The mouse turned to the cow, who relpled,” Mr Mouse, a mouse trap? Am I in danger, Duh? “So the mouse returned to the house, head down and depressed to face the farmers mouse trap alone,”That very night a sound was heard hroughout the house, like the sound of a mouse trap catching something. The farmers wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she didnt see that it was a poisonous soake whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmers wife. So the farmer rushed her to hospital.She returned home with a fever, Now everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his knife to the farmyard for the soups main ingrdient（成分）.His wifes sickness continued so that friends and neighboras came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmers wife didnt get well; in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral the farmer had the cow killed to provide meat for all of them to eat.So next time you hear that someone is facing a problem and think it does not concern you, you are wrong. 56How did the mouse feel about the mouse trap? AAstonished.BEager.CScared.DSad.57From what the chicken, the pig and the cow said, we can know that .Anone of them was willing to help the mouseBall of them were to busy to care for the trapCthey all thought “Thats not my problem.”Dthey were not afraid of being caught58What lesson does the story teach us?AIf any of us is threatened, were all at risk.BNever trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.CA bird in hand is worth than two in the bush.DA friend is never known till a man h as needBYou know the horse-riding events at the Olympics? Do the horses get medals?No they dont, only the men and women.Men and women?Thats right. Equestrian is the only Olympic sport in which men and women compete against each other.Really?Yes, and its also the only Olympic sport, along with modern pentathlon（五项全能运动）, where humans and animals compete together.Well, people have ridden horses since the beginning of time, havent they?I dont know but horses have played an important role in human history all over the world, in war and peace.And when did they start using horses for sport?Hard to say, but there were horses at the ancient Olympics, in the chariot（战车） events.Did anyone famous take part?Well, the Roman emperor Nero competed in the Games in A.D. 67. He nearly died when he raced a ten-horse chariot. He also performed as an actor and a singer.Is that right? What about the modern Olympics? They dont have chariot races nowadays, do they?No, nor acting or singing, either. But equestrian first appeared in the modern Olympic programme in 1900. Nowadays there are three events: dressage, jumping, and eventing.Whats the difference?Well, in dressage the rider guides the horse to make the natural movements that it does without thinking in the wild. In jumping they jump over a series of obstacles（障碍） as fast as they can, and eventing is a combination of these, with cross-country jumping as well.It sounds to me like the horse should get the medal.I agree. How about Nautical, also known as Injun Joe? He not only competed at the Olympics, but also starred in the Walt Disney film called “The Horse With The Flying Tail”. The film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film in 1960.I bet they didnt give the horse the Academy Award either.59The passage is written mainly to . Ahelp you enjoy Equestrian at the Olympic GamesBintroduce the Roman comparer to youCtell you who has got the horse riding medalsDargue that horses should have won the medal60How many sports are there on the Olmypre programmed where men and women competes against each other?AOne.BTwo.CThree.DFour.61How many things did the Roman empetor Nero do at the Games in AD 67?AOne.BTwo.CThree.DFour.62What can audience enjoy in Equestrian at the modern Olympics?AMen or women dressed differently.BHorses jumping across the field fast.CRiders walking without thinking.DActors or singers performing wildly.CLONDON ( Reuter)- Ecotourism is causing a lot of damage to wildlife and may be endangering the survival of the very animals people are flocking（蜂拥而至） to see, according to researchers.Biologists and conservationists are worried because polar bears, dolphins, penguins and other creatures are getting stressed and losing weight and some are dying.Evidence is growing that many animals do not react well to tourists in their backyard,” New Scientist magazine said.The immediate effects researchers have noticed are changes in behavior, heart rates, or stress hormone levels but they fear it could get much worse and over the long term could endanger the survival of the very wildlife they want to see.Although money produced through ecotourism, which has been growing at about 10-percent-30 percent a year, has major benefits for poor countries and people living in rural areas, the Swiss-based World Conservation Union and some governments fear not all projects are audited (审计) and based on environmentally friendly policies, according to the magazine,The transmission(传播) of disease to wildlife, or small changes to wildlife health through disturbance of daily life or increased stress levels, while not obvious to the casual observer, may translate to lower survival and breeding ,saida professor in New Zealand.Scientists have noticed that bottleneck dolphins along the northeastern coast of New Zealand become nervously excited when tourist boats arrive. Similar changes in behavior have been observed in polar bears and yellow-eyed penguins in areas visited by ecotourists are producing smaller babies.Conservationists are now calling for more research into the effect of ecotourism on animals and say the industry must be developed carefully. They also want studies done before new ecotourism projects are started.“The animals welfare should be very important because without them there will be no ecotourism,”said Rochelle Constantine of the University of Auckland in New Zealand.63Whats the text mainly about?AMany animals are dying because of lack of money.BThere will be no ecotourism without animals.CEcotourism could endanger the survival of the wildlife.DMore research should be done on ecotourism.64We may learn from the text that _ .Aecotourism must be developed properlyBpolar bears are losing weight without enough foodCall the poor countries have stopped ecotourismDmoney produced through ecotourism should be spent on wildlife65Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the text?AMany animals do not react well in their backyard.BPolar bears in areas visited by ecotourists are producing smaller babies.CEcotourism has been growing at about 10percent-30 percent a year.DStudies should be done before new ecotourism projects are started.66What Rochelle Constantine said in the last paragraph implies that _ .Ahigh income, they must develop ecotourismBanimals have rights to live their own lifeCanimals are peoples good friendsDpeople should take good care of wildlile D“Indeed,” Gorge Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug (虫子), had begun to hunt on the leaves before I left home.” The father of our country was no the father of buy. When Washington wrote that sentence, Englishman had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and we Americans had already created Lightening buy. But the English were soon to get rid of the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a person, an enthusiast or fanatic, as the Congress ional Globe records in 1841: “Mr Alford of Georgia warned the tariff bugs of the South thathe would read them out of church.” And although “fan” became the usual term, sports enthusiasts were raching bugs, basketball bugs, and the like. And a bug could be just a plain person with mental disease, confined（限制）to a bughouse.Or the bug could be a small machine or object: a telegraph key; a clip used by a card sharp to hold cards under the table; even a car, the small, bug-shaped, trademarked Volkswagen beetel. The bug could also be burglar（防盗）alarm, from which comes the expression to buy, that is, originally “to fix an alarm”, now a surveillance device like a hidden microphone. Since the 1840s to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a fault in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back long before computers to the laboratory of inventor Thomas Edison In 1878 he explained bugs as “little fault and difficulties” that require “months of anxious watching, study and labor” to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering “a bug” in his phonograph（留声机）”67Who called insects as bugs in the 19th century? AThe Enlgish.BThe American.CGorge Washington.DThe authors father.68The underlined words “surveillance device” in paragraph 3 most probably mean .Aa new computer programmeBa clip used by a card sharp to h old cards under the tableCsomething helping hear others words on the phoneDan alarm clock to walk you up69What does the last paragraph mainly talk about?AHow Edison found a bug.BMore meanings of bug.CComputers have faults.DDiscovery costs patience.70From the passage we can infer that .AGorge Washington found the bug first.BEngland is more developed than America.CThe English like animals.DThe author is an American.参考答案 56-60 CCAAA 61-65 CBCAA 66-70 DBCBD