(新课标)高考英语二轮复习作业手册 专题限时集训17 时闻型阅读理解
专题限时训练(十七) [时闻型阅读理解]
(限时：25分钟)
(一)
As Apple tries to maintain its growth and success in China, the world's largest smart phone market is becoming even more critical. Apple's shares(股份) fell sharply as the company's earnings for the holiday quarter through December disappointed investors.
The sales of the iPhone, which included both the iPhone 5 and older models, came in at the low end of analysts' expectations, while the company's income plan for the second quarter was below analysts' forecasts, though Apple was known to give conservative (保守的) forecasts.
Some analysts have said that for Apple to regain its growth, the company needs a more aggressive strategy for markets, or more specifically for China, where the market for smart phones has been expanding more rapidly than anywhere else. In China, demand is particularly great for inexpensive phones that run on Android(安卓) operating system, sold by many Chinese phone makers as well as Korea's Samsung Electronics Co.
But Apple says it's already enjoying strong growth in China. “We saw big growth in iPhones，” Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said. He said that the company had been quickly expanding its sales channels in China, including the number of Apple stores. “This isn't nearly what we need; we're not even close to that, but we're making great progress，” he said.
In China, a big missing piece for Apple is China Mobile Ltd, the biggest local telecom carrier that doesn't yet sell the iPhone. Earlier this month, Mr Cook met China Mobile Chairman Xi Guohua in Beijing and discussed cooperation, stirring hopes that the world's largest mobile carrier may soon start offering the iPhone.
Earlier this month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple was working on a lower-end iPhone that could launch as early as this year. But one possible challenge f or Apple in China is that low-priced Android-based phones are getting better in terms of quality. A report from CLSA in late November showed that many smart phones sold at about 1，000 yuan($160) came with higher-resolution screens, better cameras and more powerful processors than phones at that price did a year earlier.
1．Apple's shares dropped sharply because in December________
A．the iPhone wasn't popular in China
B．its product quality was widely criticized
C．the earnings for the holiday quarter were disappointing
D．the investors were not satisfied with Apple's management
2．What can we learn from the passage?
A．Apple tends to offer a lower sales forecast.
B．China Mobile Ltd began to team up with Apple.
C．Cook was pessimistic about what Apple did in China.
D．Apple didn't take measures to develop Chinese markets.
3．The author uses the report from CLSA to prove________．
A．their prices are actually lower than a year earlier
B．Apple in China has ability to deal with any problem
C．lower-end Android-based phones are progressing fast
D．the promotion of lower-end iPhones will face a challenge
4．The main purpose of the passage is to show the readers ________．
A．Apple's high popularity in China
B．the challenge Apple faces in China
C．the approaching failure Apple will suffer in China
D．Apple's aggressive strategies in its market expansion
(二)
Experts say the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's hole appears to have fallen to 100℃， meaning it is now producing steam, not magma(岩浆)．
But officials warned that it was too early to say whether the eruption was over completely.
Ash clouds from the volcano grounded thousands of flights last month.
Steinunn Jakobsdottir, a geophysicist from the Icelandic Meteorological Office, told the BBC that the volcano was “kind of not active for the moment”．“The history of the volcano is such that it calms down and then it gets energy again，” she said.
“There are still earthquakes under the volcano, and the small earthquake is still not quite down to what it was before the eruption.”
Magnus Gudmundsson, of Iceland University, flew over the volcano on Sunday and said information from heat cameras showed the temperatures at the crater had fallen-below 100℃.
But he told the AFP news agency that nothing was promised and that the previous eruption at the volcano had lasted 13 months, from 1821—1823.
“It stopped and started again several times with different intervals(间隔), so it's difficult to say, difficult to give a timeline，” he said.
He also said it was impossible to say whether the neighbouring Katla Volcano —a much larger mountain—might also erupt.
At the height of its activity, the volcano sent out huge clouds of ash, which led to airlines grounding their planes for fear it could interfere with plane engines.
It was the biggest action of closing airspace in Europe since World War Ⅱ， and affected at least 10 million passengers worldwide.
1．What do experts think Eyjafjallajokull is like now?
A．Magma is still coming out.
B．The hole appears about 100℃.
C．The eruption was not over.
D．It is very cold.
2．How do experts know the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's hole?
A．By taking photos.
B．By taking its temperature.
C．By going close to it.
D．By driving past it.
3．What does Steinunn Jakobsdottir think of Eyjafjallajokull?
A．It will erupt again soon.
B．It will be sleeping.
C．Another mountain might also erupt.
D．It's uncertain.
4．What do you think the main idea is?
A．The biggest action of closing airspace in Europe.
B．The temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's hole.
C．The Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland.
D．The earthquake in Iceland.
(三)
BEIJING—China's Beijing and Shanghai cities and Guangdong Province on Sunday published plans to gradually allow migrant workers' children to enter senior high schools and sit college entrance exams locally.
They are the latest in a total of 13 provinces and municipalities(市) to formulate plans to ensure that rural children who have followed their parents to cities can enjoy the same rights as their urban peers in education.
Beijing will allow migrant workers' children to attend local vocational schools in 2013 and allow them to be matriculated by universities after graduating from the vocational programs in 2014, said a statement from the city's commission of education.
Shanghai took a step further, saying it will allow migrant children in the city to enter local senior high schools, vocational schools and sit college entrance exams (commonly known as gaokao) locally starting in 2014.
Guangdong has asked its cities to start recruiting(招收) migrant workers' children in local senior high schools in 2013. The province will allow these children to sit gaokao and compete with local residents in college entrance exams starting in 2016. Luo Weiqi said the restrictions would be relaxed gradually and “step by step” as the province must solve the conflict between its gigantic migrant population and a scarcity of education resources.
Migrant workers, whose children could be benefited by the new plans of the three regions, must have residential permits, stable jobs and incomes, and meet other local requirements, according to the plans.
China's hukou, or household registration system, used to confine children to attending schools in their home provinces. A regulation in 2003 amended this by allowing migrant workers' children to receive the nine-year compulsory education in cities where their parents worked.
Official figures show that China has more than 250 million farmers-turned-workers living in cities. An estimated 20 million children have migrated with their parents to the cities.
1．What's the best title of this passage?
A．China's educational reform on the way
B．Migrants' dreams come true
C．Reform plans published for migrant children's education
D．Migrants ask for equal rights in education
2．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Beijing，Shanghai and Guangdong took the lead in making plans for migrant children's education.
B．There are altogether 13 provinces and municipalities that have made plans for migrant children's education.
C．Beijing will allow migrant workers' children to enter all the local schools in 2013.
D．Migrant workers' children began to receive senior high school education in cities where their parents worked in 2003.
3．Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the underlined word “confine”？
A．Limit. B．Prevent.
C．Protect. D．Resist.
4．Which of the following statements can be inferred according to the passage?
A．Guangdong will allow migrant workers' children to sit gaokao locally in 2016.
B．China's hukou is now no longer important and should be cancelled.
C．The Chinese government should continue deepening the educational reform.
D．It is likely that not all migrant workers' children can enter senior high schools or sit gaokao in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong with the new plans published.
专题限时训练(十七)
(一)
【要点综述】本文讲述了著名的智能手机生产商苹果公司在中国的销售遇到了很大的挑战，并分析了苹果公司新的对策和做法。
1．C 细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句“Apple's shares(股份) fell sharply as the company's earnings for the holiday quarter through December disappointed investors.”可知C项正确。
2．A 推理判断题。第二段的“…the company's income plan for the second quarter was below analysts' forecasts，though Apple was known to give conservative (保守的) forecasts.”说明苹果公司向来的预期都很保守。故A正确。
3．D 推理判断题。最后一句“A report from CLSA in late November showed that many smart phones sold at about…than phones at that price did a year earlier.”说明中国国内生产的低端的智能手机质量都很好；如果苹果公司生产这样的产品，会面临很大的挑战。故D正确。
4．B 主旨大意题。根据文章内容可知，苹果公司在中国遇到了较大的困难和挑战。故B 正确。
(二)
【要点综述】一些专家认为，艾雅法拉火山的温度降到了100℃，也就是不会再爆发，但也有的专家提出了不同的观点。
1．B 细节理解题。从第一段的“Experts say the temperature in Eyjafjallajokull's hole appears to have fallen to 100℃.”可知B 项正确。
2．A 细节理解题。从第七段的“…said information from heat cameras showed the temperatures at the crater had fallen below 100℃.”可知A项正确。
3．D 细节理解题。从第四段至第六段可知D项正确。
4．C 主旨大意题。一些专家认为，艾雅法拉火山的温度降到了100℃，也就是不会再爆发，但也有的专家提出不同的观点。故选C项。
(三)
【要点综述】本文报道了北京市、上海市及广东省拟计划允许进城务工人员的子女在当地参加高考。
1．C 主旨大意题。这是一篇新闻报道，第一段就是新闻的主要内容。C项很好地概括了新闻的主要内容，并符合标题的特点。
2．B 细节理解题。由第二段的第一句得知B正确、A错误；由第三段得知C错误；由第七段中的“A regulation…to receive the nine-year compulsory education in cities where their parents worked.”得知D错误。
3．A 词义猜测题。根据所在句子的意思“中国的户口过去______了孩子们只能在他们家乡所在的省份上学。”并结合上下文可知是“限制”，而不是“阻止”“保护”或是“抵制”。
4．D 推理判断题。由第六段得知，在北京、上海和广东，能够就地入学或参加高考的孩子的父母必须符合几个条件。言外之意，不符合条件的就不能享受这一政策。故D正确。
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I watched from a distance as the homeless man quarreled with those who did not leave money for him – the majority. I walked up to him and right on queue he asked me for a quarter. ―I’ll give you a quarter if you tell me your story.‖ He laughed, ―You’ll give me a quarter for my story?‖ I lay the quarter in front of him and corrected myself –―Nah, here’s the quarter but it would be nice to hear your story.‖ I followed his eyes to the quarter and for a brief moment I saw a glimmer of reflection. I sat down next to him and waited. ―I was in the army,‖ he said. ―I was a sniper(狙击手)and was supposed to shoot down the enemy from the distance.‖ I listened carefully to his grizzly voice as he went deeper into the story. He wore dirty old torn clothes and smelled like a dead rat left in a mouse trap. He told me how he used to hunt with his family and was really good at it. He had his own way of respecting animals by not wasting what he killed for food and not killing more than he needed. When the army came knocking on his door, he felt pride and joined up. All those years of polishing his hunting skills could now serve a larger purpose—to defend us from the bad guys. He set out to fight in Iraq. It wasn’t long before he realized his ideals and expectations were just a shadow of the truth. He became disillusioned with the killings, which he felt were of innocent people. ―I was a sniper but I never really killed anyone,‖ he said. ―One day I had to do it. They asked me to shoot this lady from the distance. I saw kids near that lady and my hands were on the trigger (扳机). Man, I was tearing up ... I couldn’t do it. She wasn’t doing anything to anyone and she was with the kids—I couldn’t see through my tears. It just didn’t make any sense to me.‖ The story goes on as he describes eventually being put into prison for 180 days for refusing to follow orders. He told me how he was black listed so that he couldn’t get a job. All the rights we take for granted were taken away from him. Why? Here was a man who was being punished—and for what? For refusing to kill the lady? For being a hero? ―I have no regrets,‖ the homeless man said. ―I may be homeless now, but I never killed that lady. I never killed anyone in the army. It didn’t feel right. I didn’t go there to do that. I went there to save people.‖ He continued, ―I can live with being homeless—that’s okay. But I wouldn’t be able to live with killing innocent people.‖ On that lonely Friday night, I met a hero. It just never occurred to me that a hero could be a smelly old man left on streets. 1. It can be learned from the passage that the homeless man_______. （） A. never killed animals B. had a strong respect for life C. deserved the punishment he received D. felt guilty about disobeying the order
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高三英语阅读理解专项训练及答案含解析 一、高中英语阅读理解 1．阅读理解 Average humans can consume 15 or more drinks in plastic bottles a month. If you were born after 1978, and live until 80 years old, you will leave behind a minimum of 14,400 plastic bottles on this planet. These bottles take hundreds of years to break down into tiny pieces of plastic, never to completely disappear. Most of the waste is consumed by fish and birds, which has shortened their lifetime greatly. The Plastic Bottle Village is just a great idea that might finally save us from being buried in plastic. It's a community in Panama that is going to be made of used bottles. The design process begins with building steel frames, which are then filled with these bottles. Once this step is complete, and electrical and plumbing (管道装置) lines are put inside, the plastic walls are covered by concrete—both inside and outside. So no one will actually be able to tell that the walls are made of plastic. Besides, the material will keep the house 17°C cooler than the outside, which is the biggest benefit to people living inside. The village is the brainchild (主意) of Robert Bezeau with the intention of setting up several environmental projects. Having started a recycling program four years ago, during which a number of plastic bottles were collected, he started to think of how they could be put to use. Soon enough, he decided to use them to build houses, and came up with a basic idea for the construction process. The project hopes to make people conscious of the waste that these bottles create so that they can do more to protect the environment. The village will also create an education center that will teach individuals from the world how to reuse plastic bottles as construction materials for shelter. Recycled bottles could neutralize the negative effect of your passage on this planet, and move closer to leaving only your “footprints”. （1）What does Paragraph 1 intend to tell us? A. The reason for buying fewer drinks. B. The difficult situation of wildlife. C. The amount of plastic waste. D. The seriousness of plastic pollution. （2）What is the biggest benefit to people living in the Plastic Bottle Village? A. The house will be much cooler than normal ones. B. The material of construction will be reduced a lot. C. The newly-made house can save a lot of electricity. D. The waste of the house can be consumed by fish and birds. （3）Which of the following words can best describe Robert? A. Creative. B. Courageous. C. Enthusiastic. D. Sensitive.（4）The main purpose of Robert's projects is to A. provide shelter for locals B. reuse all deserted plastic bottles C. popularize the use of plastic bottles D. raise people's environmental awareness 【答案】（1）D （2）A