高考英语一轮复习 阅读理解提升题（二）1

湖北黄梅县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮提升题（二）阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。For high school leavers starting out in the working world, it is very important to learn particular skills and practice how to behave in an interview or how to find an internship(实习). In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far behind. Research shows that if high schools provide career-related courses, students are likely to get higher earnings in later years. The students are more likely to stay in school, graduate and go on to higher education. In Germany, students as young as 13 and 14 are expected to do internships. German companies work with schools to make sure that young people get the education they need for future employment. But in America, education reform programs focus on how well students do in exams instead of bringing them into contact with the working world. Harvard Education school professor Robert Schwartz has criticized education reformers for trying to place all graduates directly on the four-year college track. Schwartz argued that this approach leaves the countrys most vulnerable(易受影响的)kids with no jobs and no skills. Schwartz believed that the best career programs encourage kids to go for higher education while also teach them valuable practical skills at high school. James Madison High School in New York, for example, encourages students to choose classes on career-based courses. The school then helps them gain on-the-job experience in those fields while theyre still at high school. However, even for teens whose schools encourage them to connect with work, the job market is daunting. In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row. “The risk is that if teenagers miss out on the summer job experience, they will become part of this generation of teens who had trouble in landing a job, ”said Michael, a researcher in the US. 【文章大意】文章通过与德国中学情况的比较, 说明在美国中学里很缺乏有关职业生涯的基本课程。1. In the authors opinion, American high school leavers. A. have enough career-related coursesB. need more career advice from their schoolsC. perform better in exams than German studentsD. can get higher earnings in later years【解析】选B。作者观点题。根据第四段内容可知。2. What can be inferred from the text? A. Unemployment rates for US teenagers remain high at the moment. B. Students with career-based courses never have problems finding a job. C. US companies work with schools to prepare young people for future employment. D. High school leavers with no practical skills cant find a job absolutely. 【解析】选A。推理判断题。根据第六段的In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row. 推出答案。3. Whats the main idea of the text? A. Arguments about recent US education reform. B. Tips on finding jobs for high school leavers. C. The lack of career-based courses in US high schools. D. Advice for American high school leavers. 【解析】选C。主旨大意题。文章第一段的In some countries, schools have programs to help students onto the path to work. In the United States, however, such programs are still few and far behind. 点出了主题。4. The underlined word“daunting”in Paragraph 6 most probably means“”. A. discouragingB. interestingC. creativeD. unbearable【解析】选A。词义猜测题。从下文的In the US, unemployment rates for 16-to-19-year-olds are above 20 percent for the third summer in a row. 可猜出词义。黑龙江省大庆市喇中2016高考英语阅读练习科普环保类Mosquitoes have an extraordinary ability to target humans far away and fly straight to their unprotected skin. Regrettably，mosquitoes can do more than cause an itchy(发痒的）wound. Some mosquitoes spread several serious diseases，including Dengue，yellow fever and malaria. Over one million people worldwide die from these diseases each year. New research now shows how mosquitoes choose who to bite. Mosquitoes need blood to survive. They are attracted to human skin and breath. They smell the carbon dioxide gas，which all mammals breathe out. This gas is the main way for mosquitoes to know that a warm-blooded creature is nearby. But mosquitoes also use their eyes and sense of touch. Michael Dickinson is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. His research shows how these small insects，with even smaller brains，use three senses to find a blood meal. Michael Dickinsons team used plumesa material that rises into the air of carbon dioxide gas into a wind tunnel. They then used cameras to record the mosquitoes. The insects followed the plume. Then，the scientists placed dark objects on the lighter colored floor and walls of the tunnel. Mr. Dickinson said，at first，the mosquitoes showed no interest in the objects at all. “What was quite striking and quite surprising is that the mosquitoes fly back and forth for hours. These are hungry females and they completely ignore the objects on the floor and wall of the tunnel. But the moment they get a hit of CO2，they change their behavior quite obviously and now would become attracted to these little visual blobs (斑点）.” This suggested to the researchers that a mosquitos sense of smell is more important in the search for food. Once mosquitoes catch a smell of a human or animal，they also follow visual signals.【小题1】What do mosquitoes mainly use to find their targets? ASense of smell.BSense of touch.CSense of sight.DSmart brains.【小题2】The first response of the mosquitoes to the objects in the experiment is. Ato fly to the dark onesBto catch and stick to themCto take no notice of themDto attach themselves to them【小题3】How can we avoid being attacked by mosquitoes according to the text ? ADont let them see us.BUse dark objects to stop them.CMake them fly back and forth for hours.DAttract them to objects full of carbon dioxide gas.【小题4】What can be the best title for the text? AHow Do Mosquitoes Survive?BWhy Do Mosquitoes Need Blood?CHow Do Mosquitoes Choose to Bite You?DWhy Do Mosquitoes Attack the Human Being? 【2014高考英语吉林省实验中学一模试题】B“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right” says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh，Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollies opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story，which is what every writer should be doing. “If you arent telling a story, youre a very dead writer indeed.” She says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain，Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,” she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and，because my family always had dogs，and I was very good at handling them，I said I wanted to work with dogs，and the teacher always said Nonsense，Mollie；dear，youll be a writer. So finally I thought that this woman must have something，since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”This childhood intention is described in her novel，A Sound of Chariots，which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical (自传体的) and gives a picture both of Mollies ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably (不可避免地) brought thoughts of the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fieldssadly now covered with modern houses. “I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. Ill never go back，”she said “Never. When I set one of my books in Scotland” she said “I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields，or watching the village blacksmith at work. And thats important because children now know so much so early that romance cant exist for them, as it did for us.”60. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?AIt should not aim at a narrow audience.BIt should be attractive to young readers.CIt should be based on original ideas.DIt should not include too much conversation.61. In Mollie Hunters opinion，which of the following is one sign of a poor writer?ABeing poor in life experience.BBeing short of writing skills.CThe weakness of description.DThe absence of a story.62. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?AShe didnt expect to become a writer.BShe didnt enjoy writing stories.CShe didnt have any particular ambitions.DShe didnt respect her teachers views.63. Whats the writers purpose in this text?ATo share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunters books.BTo introduce Mollie Hunters work to a wider audience.CTo provide information for Mollie Hunters existing readers.DTo describe Mollie Hunters most successful books.【参考答案】【参考答案】60-63 ADAB 【2014高考英语吉林省实验中学一模试题】 CThe computer keyboard helped kill shorthand-a system of rapid handwriting, and now its threatening to finish off handwriting as a whole. When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2011, just 15% of the most 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive (草写字母）.The rest? Block letters.And those college hopefuls are just the first edge of a wave of US students who no longer get much handwriting instructions in the primary grades, frequently 10 minutes a day or less. As a result, more and more students struggle to read and write cursive.At Keene Mill Elementary School in Springfield, all their poems and stories are typed. Children in Fairfax County schools are taught keyboarding beginning in kindergarten. Older students who never mastered handwriting say it doesnt affect their grades.There are those who say the culture is at a crossing, turning from the written word to the typed one. If handwriting becomes a lost form of communication, does it matter?It was at University of Virginia that researchers recently discovered a previously unknown poem by Robert, written in his unique script. Handwritten documents are more valuable to researchers, historians say, because their authenticity (真实性）can be confirmed. Students also find them more fascinating.The loss of handwriting also may be a cognitive (认知的）opportunity missed. Several academic studies have found that good handwriting skills at a young age can help children express their thoughts better-a lifelong benefit. It doesnt take much to teach better handwriting skills. At some schools in Prince Georges County, elementary school students use a program called Handwriting Without Tears for 15 minutes a day. They learn the correct formation of manuscript letters through second grade, and cursive letters in third grade.There are always going to be some kids who struggle with handwriting because of their particular neurological (神经系统的) wiring, learning issues or poor motor skills. Educators often point to this factor in support of keyboarding.64. What is the author concerned about after 2011 SAT exams?A. Keyboarding. B. Shorthand. C. Handwriting. D. Block letters.65. A poem by Robert mentioned in the passage is used to _.A. prove how valuable handwriting isB. explain what a famous poet he isC. show how unique his poem isD. stress how fascinating the documents are66. The example of Handwriting Without Tears helps to argue that_.A. the schools are responsible for the loss of handwritingB. the loss of handwriting is a cognitive opportunity missed C. it doesnt take much to teach better handwriting skillsD. the culture is turning from the written word to the typed one67. According to the author, when is a perfect time to learn handwriting?A. Kindergarten. B. Primary school. C. High school. D. College.【参考答案】【参考答案】64-67 CACB 黑龙江省大庆市喇中2016高考英语阅读练习科普环保类The way we cook is important. In many countries, the two sources of heat used for cooking are natural gas or electric stoves. The World Health Organization(WHO) warns that millions of people are dying every year from indoor air pollution. The WHO finds that poor cooking, heating and lighting technologies are killing millions of people each year. Indoor air pollution results from the use of dangerous fuels and cook stoves in the home. WHO officials say nearly three billion people are unable to use clean fuels and technologies for cooking, heating and lighting. And they say more than seven million people die from exposure to indoor or outdoor air pollution each year. Of that number, the WHO says about 4.3 million people die from household air pollution given off by simple biomass(生物燃料）and coal stoves. These findings show that the home use of poisonous fuels is to blame for many of these deaths. These fuels include wood, coal, animal waste and so on. Carlos Dora is Coordinator in the WHO s Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Health. He says people should not use unprocessed coal and kerosene(煤油）fuel indoors. He says opening a window or door to let out the harmful air will not correct the situation. It will only pollute the outdoors. “New technologies and clean fuels can rid people of this problem.” The United Nations found that more than 95 percent of families in sub-Saharan Africa depend on solid fuels for cooking. It says huge populations in India, China and Latin American countries, such as Guatemala and Peru, are also at risk. Nigel Bruce is a professor of Public Health at the University of Liverpool. He says researchers are developing good stoves and other equipment to burn fuels in a more efficient way.“There are already many technologies for clean fuels available now. An effective and reasonably low-cost ethanol(酒精）stove that is made by Dometic (a Sweden-based company)is now being tested out. Another interesting development is electric induction stoves.” In India, you can buy an induction stove for about $8. And in Africa you can buy a solar lamp for less than $1.【小题1】How is Paragraph 2 mainly developed? ABy making classifications.BBy listing numbers.CBy following time order.DBy describing a process.【小题2】According to Carlos Dora, what is the best solution to indoor air pollution? APeople should use an effective air cleaner.BPeople should use new technologies and clean fuels.CPeople should open a window or door to let out the harmful air.DPeople should prevent themselves from being exposed to harmful air.【小题3】What can we learn from the passage? AMost of the deaths from indoor pollution are in developing countries.BBurning solid fuels can help limit indoor air pollution .CPeople can buy ethanol stoves made by Dometic in India.DThere are already two technologies for clean fuels available for use.【小题4】Which would be the best title for the passage? AThe way we cook is changing.BCause of indoor air pollution.CThe development of electric stoves.DIndoor air pollution kills millions each year.