湖北省黄冈市高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解精练(47)

湖北黄冈市2016高考英语阅读理解二轮精练（47）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。

A man was working on his motorcycle in his yard.Suddenly it started to move.The man，still holding the hand lebars，was dragged through the glass doors，along with the motorcycle，and was thrown onto the floor inside the house.The wife ran in and found her husband lying on the floor，cut and bleeding.She ran to call an ambulance (救护车)．The ambulance arrived and they took the man to the hospital.The wife picked up the motorcycle and pushed it outside.There was gas all over the floor，so the wife got some paper towels，cleaned the gas with them，and threw them in the toilet.After he was treated，the man returned home.Not long after that he went to the bathroom，sat down on the toilet and smoked a cigarette.Sitting there，he finished the cigarette and threw it into the toilet.The wife，who was in the kitchen，heard the loud explosion (爆炸声) and her husband screaming.She ran into the bathroom，and there she found her husband lying on the floor！His trousers had been blown away and his buttocks and other parts of his body were covered with burns！The wife again ran to the phone to call an ambulance.The same people came！While they were carrying the husband down the stairs to the street，one of the men asked the wife how the husband had burned himself.She told them and they started laughing very hard.One of them fell and the husband fell，too.The poor husband fell down the remaining stairs and broke his arm.1．What most probably made the motorcycle start moving?A．The man himself started it to see if it was working.B．His wife did it for him to check if there was something working.C．The motorcycle started by itself.D．The man started the motorcycle without knowing it.解析：根据文章第一段第一句“A man was working on his motorcycl e in his yard.Suddenly it started to move.”可知the man很可能无意当中发动了车。

答案： D2．What did the wife do after the first accident?A．She did nothing except calling the policemen.B．She cleaned the gas with paper towels and threw them into the toilet.C．She took the motorcycle and pushed it into the room.D．She took her hushand to the hospital.解析：根据第二段“...the wife got some paper towels，cleaned the gas with them，and threw in the toilet”可知选B。

答案： B3．What do we know about the gas that caused the explosion?A．The gas was from the motorcycle and could easily cause an explosion.B．The gas was of poor quality.C．The gas made the hushand suffer 4 accidents in a day.D．The gas should have burned the wife.解析：根据文章可知，引起爆炸的gas是来自motorcycle，并且非常容易爆炸，B、C、D都谈不上。

答案： A4．The passage is most likely to be found in________A．a survey B．a textbookC．a report D．a book of funny stories解析：文章读起来很有趣，所以很有可能是摘自funny stories的书籍。

答案： D5．Which is the best title for this passage?A．What a Bad Day for the Husband and WifeB．A Man’s Wors t DayC．A Man Had Three Accidents in One DayD．A Wife Burned Her Husband and Broke His Arms解析：短文主要讲述了这位husband在一天中所遭遇的一系列事故，所以标题B最合适。

答案：B。

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

【2016高考训练】People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviour areformed. It is not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not, or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.Social scientists are of course extremely interested in these types of questions. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibit certain behaviour. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on the matter have developed. As one might expect, the two approaches are very different from each other, and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. The controversy(争论) is often conveniently referred to as “nature and nurture”.Those who support the “nature” side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behaviour patterns are largely determined by biological factors. That our environment has little, if anything, to do with our abilities, characteristics and behaviour is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory states that our behaviour is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts (本能).Proponents of the “nurture” theory, or, as they are often called, behaviourists, claim that our environment is more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. A behaviourist, B.F. Skinner, sees humans as beings whose behaviour is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. The behaviourists’ view of the human being is quite mechanistic. They state that, like machines, humans respond to environmental stimuli (刺激) as the basis of their behaviour.Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. In the US, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligence tests. This leads some “nature” proponents to conclude that blacks are g enetically lower in status than whites. Behaviourists, on the contrary, say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often robbed of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behaviour. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behaviour lies somewhere between these two extremesand that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.1 This passage is mainly concerned with ___________.A. relation between personality and behaviourB. relation between behaviour and environmentC. different accounts of patterns of human behaviourD. different theories of the formation of human personality and behaviour.2 The underlined word “proponents” in Paragraph 2 means __________.A. teachersB. advisorsC. advocatesD. judges3 What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?A. To call our attention to the changes of human behaviour.B. To urge scientists to do more research in social science.C. To give us a detailed explanation of human behaviour.D. To present an argument in the field of social science.参考答案1—3、DCD阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。