2019-2020年高考英语阅读理解、完形填空四月自练（9）.doc

2019-2020年高考英语阅读理解、完形填空四月自练（9）阅读理解。(xx绍兴统考)When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science. Robert Wayne of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jennifer Leonard of the Smithsonian Institute, used DNA materialsome of it unearthed by miners in Alaskato conclude that todays domestic dog originated in Asia and acpanied the first humans to the New World about 10, 000 to 15, 000 years ago. Wayne suggests that mans best friend may have enabled the tough journey from Asia into North America. “Dogs may have been the reason people made it across the land bridge, ”said Wayne. “They can pull things, carry things, defend you from fierce animals, and theyre useful to eat. ”Researchers have agreed that todays dog is the result of the domestication(驯化)of wolves thousands of years ago. Before this recent study, a mon thought about the precise origin of North Americas domestic dog was that Natives domesticated local wolves, the descendants(后代)of which now live with people in Alaska, Canada, and the Lower 48. Dog remains from a Fairbanks-area gold mine helped the scientists reach their conclusion. Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost(永冻层)until Fairbanks miners uncovered them in the 1920s. The miners donated the preserved bones to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where they remained untouched for more than 70 years. After borrowing the bones from the museum, Leonard and her colleagues used radiocarbon techniques to find the age of the Alaska dogs. They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A. D. , before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. “The bones of dogs that wandered the Fairbanks area centuries ago should therefore be the remains of pure native American dogs, ”Leonard said. The DNA of the Fairbanks dogs would also expose whether they were the descendants of wolves from North America. Along with the Fairbanks samples, the researchers collected DNA from bones of 37 dog specimens(标本)from Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia that existed before the arrival of Columbus. In the case of both the Alaska dogs and the dogs from Latin America, the researchers found that they shared the most genetic material with gray wolves of Europe and Asia. This supports the idea of domestic dogs entering the New World with the first human explorers who wandered east over the land bridge. Leonard and Waynes study suggests that dogs joined the first humans that made the adventure across the Bering Land Bridge to slowly populate the Americas. Wayne thinks the dogs that made the trip must have provided some excellent service to their human panions or they would not have been brought along. “Dogs must have been useful because they were expensive to keep, ”Wayne said. “They didnt feed on mice; they fed on meat, which was a very guarded resource. ”【文章大意】本文是科普性文章。说明了在几千年前狗陪同人们一起跨过白令大陆桥进入北美大陆, 并且在此繁殖起来。而通过检测发掘出的狗骨头的DNA也证实了这一点。1. The underlined word“remains”is closest in meaning to“”. A. leftover foodB. animal wasteC. dead bodiesD. living environment【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据第四段第二句话“Leonard, an evolutionary biologist, collected DNA from 11 bones of ancient dogs that were locked in permafrost”说明是在永冻层发现的狗的骨头, 所以remains应该是尸体。故C正确。2. According to the study described in Paragraph 4, we can learn that. A. ancient dogs entered North America between 1450 and 1675 A. D. B. the 11 bones of ancient dogs are not from native American dogsC. the bones discovered by the gold miners were from North American wolvesD. the bones studied were not from dogs brought into North America by Europeans【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据“They found the dogs all lived between the years of 1450 and 1675 A. D. , before Vitus Bering and Aleksey Chirikov who were the first known Europeans to view Alaska in 1741. . . ”可判断出被研究的骨头不是欧洲人带到北美的狗的骨头。所以D正确。3. What can we know from the passage? A. Native Americans domesticated local wolves into dogs. B. Scientists discovered some ancient dog remains in the 1920s. C. Latin Americas dogs are different from North Americas in genes. D. Ancient dogs entered North America across the Bering Land Bridge. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段“When people first walked across the Bering Land Bridge thousands of years ago, dogs were by their sides, according to a study published in the journal Science. ”可知D正确。4. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. The origin of the North American dogs. B. The DNA study of ancient dogs in America. C. The reasons why early people entered America. D. The difference between Asian and American dogs. 【解析】选A。推理判断题。文章第一段提到狗和人们一同跨过the Bering Land Bridge, 第二、三、四、五段研究狗的DNA“to conclude that todays domestic dog originated in Asia”, “Researchers have agreed that todays dog is the result of the domestication of wolves thousands of years ago”, 所以文章中心是谈论北美的狗的起源。阅读理解。Dear Michelle: Why cant my daughter manage her life better? She is 17 and an honor student, but she seems to be wasting her life away with a boyfriend who is holding her back. He consumes every waking, minute of her precious time and smooth-talks her as well. His goal is to get her to agree to go to the college of his choice, not her choice, and because his grades are lower, his choice will be limited. I feel like I want to rescue her, but she pushes me away and shuts me out. She has only brought us pride and joy; and now this! Help! A worried motherDear Mother of a 17-year-old Girl: Hmmmmm. Whats the matter with kids today? Remember that song from Bye ByeBirdie? Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills.Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, not should it be. Life experience creates both the conditions and the skills for management, and if management went before experiene, there would be tittle of it. Your daughter is an honor student for good reasons. She is smart, studies withintelligence and you have given her good Values. When the time es for her to apply for college, and she visit the ones that were specifically desigened for student the top of their grade, she will most likely break away from her boyfriends influenee. It is rare for an honor student to change the path of their academic career for puppy love. That being said, them might be some adoldscent wisdom in her behavior after all. Perhaps she is choosing to worry you, her parents, for unconscious reasons. Being such a good girl and being a steady source of joy might have bee a bit too much for her. Let your daughter have her own private moment of 11th grade rebellion. She deserves a break from perfection. Michelle11. From the mothers letter we can learn that her daughter A. is being fooled by the boy B. has fallen behind in her studies C. doesnt talk much with her mother D. has chosen which college to attend12. According to Michelle; 17-year-teenagers . A. are too young to manage their life B. are old enough to live their own life C. should have managemnent before experience D. have reached the age of an adult13. The underlined wordpuppy-loverefer to A. false love B. foolish love C. pure love D. adolescent love14. Michelle seems to believe that the daughter will finally A. e up with the right decision B. follow her boyfriends advice C. worry her parents for unconscious reasons D. influence her boyfriends behavior15. The best title for the passage would be A. College of kids own choice B. How can I help my girl? C. How to manage teenagers life? D. A 17-year-old girl and her mother【参考答案】1115、CADAB完型填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从以下题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Peters job was to examine cars when they crossed the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country. Every evening he would see a factory worker ing _1_ the hill towards the frontier, _2_ a bike with a pile of goods of old straw on it. When the bike _3_ the frontier, Peter would stop the man and _4_ him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the straw very _5_ to see _6_ he could find anything, after which he would look in all the mans pockets _7_ he let him tie the straw again. The man would then put it on his bike and go off down the hill with it. Although Peter was always _8_ to find gold or other valuable things _9_ in the straw, he never found _10_. He was sure the man was _11_ something, but he was not _12_ to think out what it could be.Then one evening, after he had looked _13_ the straw and emptied the workers pockets _14_ usual, he _15_ to him, “Listen, I know you are smuggling things _16_ this frontier. Wont you tell me what it is? Im an old man, and todays my last day on the _17_. Tomorrow Im going to _18_. I promise I shall not tell _19_ if you tell me what youve been smuggling.” The worker did not say anything for _20_. Then he smiled, turned to Peter and said quietly, “Bikes.”名师点评这篇完型填空讲述了身为边防检查员的彼得明知一个工厂工人在走私货物却无法抓住对方的把柄。在退休的前一天，彼得恳请其说出真相，结果令彼得恍然大悟。(D)1. A. towardsB. downC. toD. up【解析】D。根据下文这个工人越过边界后，走下山坡，所以到达边界之前应在朝山上走。故选up。(C)2. A. fillingB. pullingC. pushingD. carrying【解析】C。这名工人是在推着一辆装有稻草的自行车，故选动词pushing。(D)3. A. arrivedB. appearedC. cameD. reached【解析】D。这里表达的是到达边界之意arrive, e为不及物动词不可直接接 the frontier，故选reached。(C)4. A. askB. orderC. makeD. call【解析】C。ask与order后接不定式的复合结构时，动词前应有to, make后接不定式的复合结构时，动词前to要省去。根据下文应选make。(A)5. A. carefullyB. quicklyC. silentlyD. horribly【解析】A。彼得想发现这个工人在走私什么，所以应仔细地检查。故选carefully。(D)6. A. thatB. whereC. howD. whether【解析】D。这里根据文意，应选择表示“是否”之意的whether作宾语从句的引导词。(A)7. A. beforeB. afterC. firstD. so【解析】A。根据常理，彼得应先检查这个工人的口袋才能让他捆起稻草走人，故选before。(B)8. A. luckyB. hopingC. thinkingD. wondering【解析】B根据文意，彼得心中一直怀着查获走私物品的希望，故选hoping。(B)9. A. had beenB. hiddenC. hidingD. have been【解析】B。这里things和hide之间是被动关系,现在分词hiding作定语时表示主动，所以应用过去分词hidden作后置定语表被动。(D)10. A. nothingB. somethingC. everythingD. anything【解析】D。本句中否定词never及文意决定了这里应选 anything。(B)11. A. takingB. smugglingC. stealingD. pushing【解析】B。四个选项从语法上讲都可以，只能从文意上进行区分，smuggling意为“走私”，是正确选项。(C)12. A. possibleB. strongC. ableD. clever【解析】C。固定结构be able to do sth. 意为“能够干某事”。(A)13. A. throughB. thoroughlyC. uponD. up【解析】A。习惯用语look through 意为“彻底检查”。(D)14. A. likeB. more C. thenD. as【解析】D。“as usual”为固定短语，意为“象平常一样”。(D)15. A. toldB. cried C. orderedD. said【解析】D。tell, order后面应直接接人作宾语表示告诉某人和命令某人，而用say应为say to sb. 故said为正确选项。(C)16. A. crossB. past C. acrossD. into【解析】C这里应选择一个介词构成介词短语在句中做状语。介词past 表“经过”； across 强调“从一边到另一边”；而into 表示“进入到里面”。 根据文意across应为正确选项。(C)17. A. thingB. work C. jobD. duty【解析】C。“on the job”为一常用短语。意为“执行公务”。(C)18. A. restB. back C. retireD. retreat【解析】C。因为今天是彼得最后一天上班说明明天他就要退休retire。(B)19. A. everyoneB. anyone C. no oneD. someone【解析】B。根据句中否定词not 及文意应选anyone。(D)20. A. momentB. long time C. sometimeD. some time【解析】D。本句说明这个工人回答彼得的问题之前沉默了一会儿。A选项应用a moment； C选项表示某一点时间； D选项表示一段时间或一会儿，为正确选项。