高考英语一轮阅读理解基础题一

河南省许昌市2017高考英语一轮阅读理解基础题一

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。

(2013·合肥市二模，D)

It is a tall tale that terrifies most young children. Swallow a piece of chewing gum and it will remain in your body for seven years before it is digested. An even worse tale is that swallowed gum can wrap itself around your heart.

But what does happen if you should accidentally eat a stick of gum? Chewing gum is made out

of gum base, sweeteners, coloring and flavoring. The gum base is pretty indigestible—it is a mixture of different ingredients (成分) that our body can't absorb.

Most of the time, your stomach really cannot break down the gum the way it would break down

other foods. However, your digestive system has another way to deal with things you swallow.

After all, we eat lots of things that we are unable to fully digest. They keep moving along

until they make it all the way through the gut (肠子) and come out at the other end one or two

days later.

The saliva (唾液) in our mouths will make an attempt at digesting chewing gum as soon as we

put it in our mouths. It might get through the shell but many of gum's base ingredients are indigestible. It's then down to our stomach muscles—which contract and relax, much like the way an earthworm moves—to slowly force the things that we swallow through our systems.

Swallowing a huge piece of gum or swallowing many small pieces of gum in a short time can cause

a blockage within the digestive system, most often in children, who have a thinner digestive tube than adults—but this is extremely rare.

文章大意：本文为一篇科普类说明文。误食口香糖是不是像大人吓小孩子那样可怕呢？本文对此进行了分

析。

1．Children might feel terrified after swallowing chewing gum mainly because ________.

A．they believe the tall tales about chewing gum

B．chewing gum will stay in their body for years

C．their heart will be wrapped by chewing gum

D．chewing gum is indigestible for children

答案：A 细节理解题。根据文章第一段第一句“It is a tall tale that terrifies most young children.”

以及对第二、三句话的理解可知，答案A符合文义。B、C两项只是分别说明了tall tale的内容，故排除。2．What happens to the food that can't be fully broken down?

A．It remains in our digestive system forever.

B．It will be eventually moved out of our body.

C．It will fight against the power of the gut.

D．It will stick to the gut for one or two days.

答案：B 细节理解题。根据文章第三段最后两句“After all, we eat lots of things that we are unable

to fully digest. They keep moving... come out at the other end one or two days later.”可知，

答案B符合文义。

3．The word It (in the 4th paragraph) refers to ________.

A．The attempt B．The salvia

C．The shell D．The gum base

答案：B 指代判断题。根据对文章第四段前两句的理解可知，此处的It是指第四段第一句中的The

saliva(唾液)，故答案B符合文义。

4．What would be the best title for text?

A．How does our digestive system work?

B．Can chewing gum be swallowed by kids?

C．Does swallowing chewing gum matter?

D．Why swallowing chewing gum frightens kids?

答案：C 标题概括题。文章第一段由一个使小孩子害怕的说法导入话题，下文是对口香糖进入肚子后会怎样的一个科学解释，由此可推知，选项C“误食口香糖要紧吗”最适合作为文章标题。

【2014高考训练题】

Here's how Brandon spends several hours each day: he walks up to strangers in New York City, asks for permission to take their pictures and then interviews them.

With a combination of friendliness and good, but not excellent, photography skills, Stanton has achieved one of the most unlikely success stories in a city filled with them. The 29-year-old began posting photos and quotations on his Facebook page, Tumblr blog and personal website, https://www.360docs.net/doc/6015101610.html,, three years ago, and has owned more than one million fans.

Now, hundreds of those pictures and interviews have been collected into a book, Human of New York, which landed into No.1 spot on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction （精装非小说类）best-seller list after its first week on sale.

Stanton, a hybrid(混合) of interviewer, photographer and eager chronicler(历史记录者), is a Georgia native with no training as a journalist. He has owned two cameras in his life and admits he has never learned the technically correct way to use them. When he started the project in 2010, he had just lost his job as a bond trader in Chicago and decided to shift to a completely new career. When he moved to New York, he was friendless and nearly broke. Much of his time was spent on ambitious project of photographing10,000 people and mapping their whereabouts as a sort of virtual map of New York.

Initially, people didn’t pay any attention to him, which made him disappointed. But he went on and his project gradually attracted an audience, starting with mostly people in their 20s. He has transformed himself into a recognizable face with a high income.

Yaniv Soha, Stanton’s editor, said the young man has the rare gift of being able to connect with random people. “It’s about the stories as much as it is about the photos,” Soha said. “It’s really about his ability to relate to people and convey what makes them individual.”

51. What does Brandon Standon spend hours doing every day?

A. Dreaming about ambitious projects.

B. Trying to get more fans to visit his personal website.

C. Taking photos of strangers and interviewing them.

D. Getting strangers to share their secrets with him.

52. What makes strangers willing to talk to Standon?

A. His friendliness.

B. His high photography skill.

C. His handsome look.

D. His best selling books.

53. When Stanton started his picture and interview project, _____.

A. he barely had any money

B. he had just quit his old job and started a new one

C. he had made many good friends in New York

D. he had already been famous on the Internet

54. According to Santon’s editor, what has made him successful?

a. He is good at communicating.

b. He is skilled in photographing.

c. He knows how to chronicle important events.

d. He conveys what makes people individual.

A. a, b

B. a, d

C. b, d

D. b, c

55. What’s the right order of the following events?

a. Human of New York became a best-seller.

b. Standon lost his job as a bond trader in Chicago.

c. He started his project and few people paid attention.

d. Standon posted photos and quotations on his Facebook pag

e.

A. b-a-c-d

B. a-c-b-d

C. b-c-d-a

D. b-d-a-c

【参考答案】51~55 CAABC

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。

It was Saturday. As always, it was a busy one, for “Six days shall you labor and do all your work” was taken seriously back then. Outside, Father and Mr. Patrick next door were busy chopping firewood. Inside their own houses, Mother and Mrs. Patrick were engaged in spring cleaning. Somehow the boys had slipped away to the back lot with their kites. Now, even at the risk of having Brother caught to beat carpets , they had sent him to the kitchen for string(线). It seemed there was no limit to the heights to which kites would fly today.

My mother looked at the sitting room, its furniture disordered for a thorough sweeping, A gun she cast a look toward the window. “Come on, girls! Let’s take string to the boys and watch them

On the way we met Mrs. Patrick, laughing guiltily as if she were doing something wrong, together with her girls.

There never was such a day for flying kited! We played all our fresh string into the boys’ kites and they went up higher and higher .We could hardly distinguish the orange-colored spots of the kites. Now and then we slowly pulled one kite back, watching it dancing up and down it the wind, and finally bringing it down to earth, just for the joy of sending it up again.

Even our fathers dropped their tools and joined us. Our mothers took their turn, laughing like schoolgirls. I think we were all beside ourselves. Parents forgot their duty and their dignity; children forgot their everyday fights and little jealousies. “Perhaps it’s like this in the kingdom of heav en,” I thought confusedly.

It was growing dark before we all walked sleepily back to house. I suppose we had some sort of supper. I suppose there must have been a surface tidying-up, for the house on Sunday looked clean and orderly enough. The strange thing was, we didn't mention that day afterward. I felt a little embarrassed .Surely none of the others had been as excited as I. I locked the memory up in that deepest part of me where we keep “the things that cannot be and yet they are.”

The years went on, then one day I was hurrying about my kitchen in a city apartment, trying to get some work out of the way while my three-year-old insistently cried her desire to “go park ,see duck.”

“I can’t go!” I said. “I have this and this to do, and when I’m through I’ll be too tired to walk that for.”

My mother , who was visiting us , looked up from the peas she was shelling ,“It’s a wonderful day,” she offered，“Really warm , yet there’s a fine breezy . Do you remember that day we flew kites?”

I stopped in my dash between stove and sink. The looked door flew open and with it a rush of memories. “Come on.” I told my little girl. “You’re right, it’s too good a day to miss.”Another decade passed. We were in the aftermath (余波)of a great war. All

evening we had been asking our returned soldier, the youngest Patrick Boy, about his experiences as a prisoner of war. He had talked freely, but now for a long time he had been silent. What was he thinking of – what dark and horrible things?

“Say!” A smile slipped out from his lips. “Do you remember --- no, of course you wouldn’t. It probably didn’t make the impression on you as it did on me.”

I hardly dared speak. “Remember what?”

“I used to think of that day a lot in POW camp(战俘营), when things weren’t too goo d. Do you remember the day we flew the kites?”

( ) 1. Mrs. Patrick was laughing guiltily because she thought

A. she was too old to fly kites

B. her husband would make fun of her

C. she should have been doing her housework then

D. her girls weren’t supposed to play the boy’s game

( ) 2. By” we were all beside ourselves”, the writer means that they all .

A. felt confused

B. went wild with joy

C. looked on

D. forgot their fights

( ) 3. What did the writer think after the kite-flying?

A. The boys must have had more fun than the girls.

B. They should have finished their work before playing.

C. Her parents should spend more time with them.

D. All the others must have forgotten that day.

( ) 4. Why did the writer finally agree to take her little girl for an outing?

A. She suddenly remembered her duty as a mother.

B. She was reminded of the day they flew kites.

C. She had finished her work in the kitchen.

D. She thought it was a great day to play outside.

( ) 5. The youngest Patrick Boy is mentioned to show that _____ .

A. the writer was not alone in treasuring her fond memories

B. his experience in POW camp threw a shadow over his life

C. childhood friendship means so much to the writer

D. people like him really changed a lot after the war

【参考答案】1---5、CBDBA

【文章大意】

本文通过回顾儿时放风筝的经历，讲述了童年的美好回忆对成年生活的深刻影响。

阅读理解。

About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings. Instead, they receive their elementary(初等)and high school education by working at home on computers. The Center for Education Reform says the United States has 67 public “cyber schools.” and that is about twice as many as two years ago.

The money for students to attend a cyber school comes from the governments of the states where

they live. Some educators say cyber schools receive money that should support traditional public schools. They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well.

Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed. These people say cyber schools help students who were unhappy or unsuccessful in traditional schools. They say learning at home by computer ends long bus rides for children who live far from school.

Whatever the judgment of cyber schools, they are getting more and more popular. For example, a new cyber school called CommonwealthConnectionsAcademy will take in students this fall. It will serve children in the state of Pennsylvania from ages five through thirteen.

Children get free equipment for their online education. This includes a computer, a printer, books and technical services. Parents and students talk with teachers by telephone or by sending emails through their computers when necessary.

Students at cyber schools usually do not know one another. But 56 such students who finished studies at WesternPennsylvaniaCyberCharterSchool recently met for the first time. They were guests of honor at their graduation.

( ) 1. What do we know from the text about students of a cyber school?

A. They have to take long bus rides to school.

B. They study at home rather than in classrooms.

C. They receive money from traditional public schools.

D. They do well in traditional school programs.

【答案】：B

【解析】：由文章About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend classes in school buildings.

Instead, they receive their elementary(初等)and high school education by working at home on computers.可知B。

( ) 2. What is a problem with cyber schools?

A. Their equipment costs a lot of money.

B. They get little support from the state government.

C. It is hard to know students' progress in learning.

D. The students find it hard to make friends.

C 由They also say it is difficult to know if students are learning well 和Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed.可知C

( ) 3. cyber schools are getting popular because ___________

they are less expensive for students

their students can work at their own speed

their graduates are more successful in society

they serve students in a wider age range

B 细节题。Other educators praise this new form of education for letting students work at their own speed.可知选B

( ) 4. We can infer that the author of the text is ________.

A. unprejudiced in his description of cyber schools

B. excited about the future of cyber schools

C. doubtful about the quality of cyber schools

D. disappeared at the development of cyber schools

A 推断题，作者分析，及分析了好处也分析了不好的，所以应该是不带偏见的