2019-2020年高考英语阅读冲刺 阅读理解11.doc

2019-2020年高考英语阅读冲刺 阅读理解11AFoulsham House is a fine, stone house of the 1790s. It stands high above the River Byre, in twentyfive hectares(公顷) of the best farmland in the southwest.Smithson built the house, and the story goes that George, the young Prince(王子)of Wales, fell in love with the beautiful lady Kitty Wake, at one of the first，Lord Foulshams wild parties. Many great men have ridden on the hills about Foulsham House, and many fine ladies have taken tea in the Green Room.The house has eight bedrooms, three bathrooms, two livingrooms and a dinningroom with a real Adam fireplace. The gentlemans library has a view over the park and the river that is quite without equal. All rooms are light and airy, with good, high windows and wood floors.At the back of the house, in the buildings in which the third LondFoulsham kept the borses which made him famous, there is garage space for four cars. In many other ways, this house of the 1790s meets the needs of the 1970s.If you wish to know more about Foulsham House, write to : Harvery, Platt, Longford & Sons, 6, Castle Green, Gilham, Byreside.56The library.Ahas a fine view of the park and the riverBis where great men and fine ladies took teaChas an Adam fireplace and a real wood floorDhas eight bedrooms, three bathrooms and two living rooms57All the rooms in the house .Ahave a view over the park and the riverBare light, have good windows and wood floorsChave high floors and good wood windowsDare light, and have fireplaces and wood floors58Foulsham House .Ais an old house that meets many new needsBthough seventynine years old, meets new needsCis a new house that meets many old needsDis a house of the 1970s as good as newBAmerican society is not nap(午睡)friendly. In fact, says David Dinges, a sleep specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine,“Theres even a prohibition(禁令) against admitting we need sleep.”Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at work. To quote(引用)a proverb:“Some sleep five hours, nature requires seven, laziness nine and wickedness eleven.”Wrong. The way not to fall asleep at work is to take naps when you need them.“We have to totally change our attitude toward napping,”says Dr William Dement of Stanford University, the godfather of sleep research.Last year a national mission led by Dement identified an“American sleep debt” which one member said was as important as the national debt. The mission was concerned about the dangers of sleepiness: people causing industrial accidents of falling asleep while driving. This may be why we have a new sleep policy in the White House. According to recent reports, President Clinton is trying to take a halfhour snooze(打瞌睡)every afternoon.About 60 percent of American adults nap when given the opportunity. We seem to have “a mid-afternoon quiet phase(状态局面)”,also called “a secondary sleep gate”. Sleeping 15 minutes to two hours in the early afternoon can reduce stress and make us refreshed. Clearly, we were born to nap.We Superstars of Snooze dont nap to replace lost shuteye or to prepare for a night shift. Rather, we snack on sleep, whenever, wherever and at whatever time we feel like it. I myself have napped in buses, cars, planes and on boats; on floors and beds; and in libraries, offices and museums.59The purpose of this article is to .Awarn us of the wickedness of nappingBexplain the danger of sleepinesCdiscuss the side effects of nappingDconvince the readers of the necessity of napping60The “American sleep debt”(Linel 2,Para.3)is the result of .Athe traditional misconception the Americans have about sleepBthe sleep policy of the Clinton AdministrationCthe rapid development of American industryDthe Americans worry about the danger of sleepiness61The second sentence of the last paragraph tells us that it is .Apreferable to have a sound sleep before a night shiftBgood practice to eat something light before we go to bedCessential to make up for lost sleepDnatural to take a nap whenever we fee the need for itCMeet the new Volvo 460.Volvo with so much going for it, youll find it very easy to get into the driving seat. You will love the feel of this car,even before youve turned the key. Standard features on all models include adjustable steering column(可调整方向盘支撑杆),heated seats ,electric sunroof. On the GLE and Turbo models there are electric windows, heated door mirrors and power assisted steering.The level of fort and equipment is extravagant(豪华的)even by Volvos generous standards. More forting still is the knowledge that all this luxury(奢移)is designed around Volvos rigid adherence(严格确保)to safety.But the real excitement starts when the engine starts. The 460 is a stylish performer. Smooth, responsive and very lively, particularly the Turbo version. This car drives like a dream. And while getting into the driving seat is easy, getting out is another matter. At the end of your test drive you wont want an open door.62Whats the purpose of this passage?ATo invite you to meet the new Volvo 460.BTo tell you how to drive a car.CTo give you some information about Volvo 460.DTo introduce the new Volvo 460 and invite you to buy it.63Whats the most important feature(特点)of the new Volvo 460?AThe feel of this car.BA stylish performer.CRigid adherence to safety.DThe level of fort and equipment64What do the last two sentences want to say?AAn open road is more important than an open door.BPeople dont want an open door but an open road.CPeople dont want to leave the car after the test drive.DPeople decide to buy the car after the test drive.65Whats the best title for this passage?AThe New Volvo 460A Test Drive Isnt EnoughBThe New Volvo 460Your Best ChoiceCThe New Volvo 460Drives Like a DreamDThe New Volvo 460The Real ExcitementDThe World Trade Organization(WTO),founded on January 1, 1995,aims to encourage international trade to flow as possible, making sure that trade agreements are respected and that any disputes(争端)can be settled.In the five years since its founding, the WTO has bee wellknown as one of the worlds most powerful economic organizations, taking its place alongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.The system of global rules for international trade, however, dates back half a century to 11948 when the Ceneral Agreement on Tariffs(关税)and Trade(GATT)was formed after World War .As time went by, it became clear that the GATT had two major drawbacksthe limited areas of trade it covered, and the lack of an effective system to settle disputes.After seven years of trade talks ending in 1994, the socalled Uruguay Round finally gave birth to the WTO, plete with an effective system to settle disputes and new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property(知识产权).Even after seven years of talks and 22,500 pages of agreements there were still problems, especially the difficulttodealwith areas of agriculture and services, which the member nations agreed to revise in xx.The WTO, with its head office in Geneva, has 135 members with 30 more waiting to join.66From the passage we know that the GATT stopped working .Asoon after World War endedBa little more than 50 years after World War Cjust in the year 1994Dseven years before the Uruguay Round talk67pared with the GATT, the WTO .Adidnt pay enough attention to services and intellectual propertyBgot its members to sign the agreements more easilyChas got too many areas of international trade to deal with to work effectivelyDcan do better to settle disputes in more areas of International trade68In the new century the WTO will .Atake the place of the World Bank and international Monetary FundBhave more members and settle more problemsCmake plete new rules in every area of international tradeDhave new rules covering trade in services and intellectual property69The underlined word“drawbacks”means .AchangesBweak pointsCstrong pointsDimprovementsEConvenience FoodsInstead of buying only fresh foods, Americans nowadays buy many more convenience foods. These are foods which are ready partly or pletely prepared. Many of them are frozen ,such as frozen dinner, heatedserve French fries, and frozen pizzas. There are also many canned convenience foods, such as ready made spaghetti, soups, stews, and vegetables.Convenience foods save time and trouble. They are popular with people who are busy or who dont like to cook or wash dishes. But they often cost more than fresh, unprepared foods and may contain manmade additives. Also, many people feel they dont taste as good as homecooked foods.Health Food and CoopsIn the 1960s, a “backtotheearth”movement was started by young people in the United States. The movement was a reaction against the harmful effects of technology. From the movement came a new understanding for food and health. Many people now prefer natural and organic(有机物)foods to the prepared foods sold in health food stores and in food coops, which are small stores where customers help manage the store. In coops, food is usually not packaged. Customers bring their own bags and jars and take their food out of boxes or basket.The Diet Craze(节食热)These days Americans are more and more concerned with their weight. Perhaps as many as 70 million Americans are on weightdollar business.American supermarkets sell a variety of diet foods such as diet soft drinks, diet candy, and diet salad dressings. Dieters also spend money on diet pills, exercise machines, and jogging suits(健美服).Each year dozens of new diets are popularized. They have such names as the Miracle(奇效的)Diet, the Nine day Wonder Diet, and the East 24hour Diet. There is even one called the lce Cream Diet, which advises dieters to eat only ice cream for lunch and dinner! For dieters who can not lose weight on their own, there are many wellorganized diet groups, which offer help and encouragement.70Generally speaking, convenience foods in America .Aare shipped from foreign countriesBare made by farmers on farmsCare popular with some peopleDare better than fresh ones71From the fourth paragraph, we can find that .Athe diet craze in the US is unnecessaryBrich American people should offer their money to the poorCbusinessmen are getting much money from the diet crazeDfat Americans are too foolish to take too much food72Whats the writers opinion on American diets?AThey are all effective to people.BThey are of no effect to people.CThe Ice Cream Diet is the best.DNot all of them are believable.FMost of the people who appear most often in the history books are great conquerors(征服者)and generals and soldiers, while the people who really helped civilization(文明)forward are often never mentioned at all.We do not know who first set a broken leg, or made a seaworthy boat, or calculated(计算)the length of the year, but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think a great deal of them, so much so that on all the highest pillars(柱子) in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier. And I think most people believe that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in the battle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them as conquerors.It is just possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight; so do savages(野蛮人); so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way in which an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling them how to do it most efficientlythis, after all, is what conquerors and generals have doneis not being civilized. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized people ought to be able to find some way of settling their quarrels rather than by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won, and not only has won, but, because it has won, has been in the right. For that is what is going to mean in a war, it means saying that might is right.73In the authors opinion, the countries that ruled over a large numberof other countries are .Apossibly the most civilized but not the greatestBpossibly the greatest in some degree but not the most civilizedCcertainly not the greatest in any wayDneither the greatest nor the most civilized74The author says that civilized people should .Anot have any quarrels to settleBnot fight when there are no quarrels to settleCsettle their quarrels without fightingDsettle their quarrels by seeing which side can kill off the greater number of the other side75“Might is right”in the last sentence means that .Athose who fight believe that the winner is right and the loser wrongBonly those who are powerful should go to warCthose who are right should fight against those who are wrongDin a way only those who are powerful will win56A 57B 58A 59D 60A 61D 62D 63C 64D 65A 66C 67D 68B 69B 70C 71C 72D 73B 74C 75A