高中英语真题-2016高考英语阅读理解一轮选练(3)_2
高中英语真题:2016高考英语阅读理解一轮选练（3）
【2015高考复习】阅读理解
Nowadays women appear to have a positive image of themselves as safer drivers than men.
In a survey done for insurer MetLife,51% of women said they
drive more safely.The evidence is on their side：Men are 3.4 times more likely than women to get a ticket for careless driving and 3.1 times as likely to be punished for drunk driving.“Women are on average less aggressive and more law abiding (守法的) drivers，which leads to fewer accidents，” the report says.However，not all male drivers share the same opinion.Of the men surveyed by MetLife,39% claimed male drivers were safer.The findings did back them up on one point：automotive knowledge.The report showed that more men are
familiar with current safety equipment such as electronic stability control，which helps prevent rollover accidents.
Auto safety unavoidably matters to Money.Insurance companies focus on what classes of drivers have the lowest dollar amounts of claims，and for now，that mainly includes women.In general，women pay about 9% less for auto insurance than men.A study by the website Insweb also showed that auto insurance rates are lower for women in most states.Among individual states，women get the greatest，advantage in Wyoming (where they pay 20% less)，South Dakota and Washington，D.C.，where their insurance costs are 16% lower.
“More than 11,900 male drivers died in US traffic accidents in
2009，compared with just under 4,900 women drivers” according to the study.“Based on miles traveled，men died at a rate of 2.5 deaths per 100 million miles traveled，vs.1.7 deaths for women.”
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文。文章通过列举一些数据说明现在女性司机似乎比男性司机开车更加安全。
1．According to the study，female drivers________.
A．are more aggressive while driving
B．are more interested in auto knowledge
C．are more likely to stick driving laws
D．are more familiar with safety equipment
解析 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Women are on average less aggressive and more law abiding (守法的) drivers.”可知，C项正确。
答案 C
2．Insurance companies focus on female driver clients probably because they________.
A．cause more accidents on the road
B．pay more money to the insurance companies
C．take the most part of the insurance clients
D．have the lowest amount of money on insurance claims
解析 推理判断题。根据第三段第一、二句话可知，对保险公司而言，机动车安全与钱息息相关的，越是安全的驾驶人员索赔就相应的越少，而与男性相比女性司机驾驶更为安全，所以深受保险公司的青睐。
答案 D
3．We can infer from the passage that________.
A．men are 3.1 times more likely to get tickets than women
B．all women in the pay the same for their auto insurance
C．more female drivers die every year than male drivers
D．women are generally safer drivers than the opposite gender
解析 细节理解题。根据第一段可知，女性司机相比男性司机而言驾驶更加安全，故选D。根据第二段中的“Men are 3.4 times more likely...to get a ticket...”可知，A项错误；根据第三段最后一句可知，B项错误；根据最后一段第一句可知，C项错误。
答案 D
4．The writer mainly develops paragraphs by________.
A．giving examples B．making comparisons
C．drawing a conclusion D．presenting an argument
解析 推理判断题。根据文中第二至四段中的数据对比可知，作者将女性司机与男性司机进行比较，从而得出女性司机比男性司机更安全的结论，故选B。
答案 B
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Psychologists have discovered that even the most independent-minded of us will conform to social pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classic experiment, people were shown a vertical（垂直的） line and asked to find a line of identical length from a selection of three.
You might think that this is an absurdly easy task, and when people perform it by themselves they do it very well. However,
psychologists have discovered that we are very easily swayed by the opinions of other people when we do this task in a group. In one study, a group of three people was set up, where two of the people were confederates（同伙） of the experimenter. When the confederates deliberately
gave wrong answers, people were often swayed to give the wrong answer also. In fact, 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer, with some people conforming to peer pressure on every occasion.
But why do people conform in this way? In an easy task like this, it seems that people do not want to step out of line with the prevailing opinion of the group. On more difficult tasks, people also conform because they lose confidence in their own ability to make decisions and prefer to trust the majority opinion instead.
A typical example of this kind of conformity arises when we come across people in distress. Would you help a woman who has been attacked in the street? It turns out that you are much
more likely to go to her assistance if you are alone. When other people are also around, a diffusion of responsibility occurs.
People are paralysed into inaction, because everyone assumes that someone else will go to the woman's assistance.
高中英语真题-2016高考英语阅读理解选练(3)
高中英语真题:2016高考英语阅读理解选练（3）
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Food sometimes gets poisoned with harmful things. A person
who eats such food can get an illness called food poisoning. Food poisoning is usually not serious, but some types are deadly. The symptoms of food poisoning usually begin within hours of eating the poisoned food. Fever is one of the most common symptoms.
Certain microorganisms(微生物) cause most types of food poisoning. Bacteria and other microorganisms can poison eggs, meat, vegetables, and many
other foods. After entering the body, these tiny living things release(释放) poisons that make people sick.
Some chemicals can also cause food poisoning. They are often added to food while it is being grown, processed, or prepared. For example, many farmers spray chemicals on crops to kill weeds and insects. Some people may have a bad reaction to those chemicals when they eat the crops. Some plants and animals contain natural poisons that are harmful to people. These include certain kinds of seafood, grains, nuts, seeds, beans, and mushrooms.
高中英语真题-2016高考英语一轮阅读理解选练(3)_1
高中英语真题:2016高考英语一轮阅读理解选练（3）
Pas阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the best. For example, to absorb heat from the sun to heat water, you need large, flat, black surfaces. One way to do that is to build those surfaces specially, on the roofs of buildings. But why go to all that trouble
when cities are full of black surfaces already, in the form of asphalt(柏油) roads?
Ten years ago, this thought came into the mind of Arian de Bondt, a Dutch engineer. He finally persuaded his boss to follow
it up. The result is that their building is now heated in winter and cooled in summer by a system that relies on the surface of the road outside.
The heat-collector is a system of connected water pipes. Most of them run from one side of the street to the other, just under the asphalt road. Some, however, dive deep into the ground.
高中英语真题-2016高考英语单项选择和阅读理解一轮选练(1)
高中英语真题:2016高考英语单项选择和阅读理解一轮选练（1）
1．The factory used 65 percent of the raw materials，the rest of which ______ saved for other purposes.
A．is B．are
C．was D．were
答案 D [句意：这家工厂用了65%的原材料，剩余的被作为它用。raw materials是先行词，which引导的定语从句中，the rest作主语；the rest作主语时，谓语的数由其后的名词而定，而which＝raw materials，所以谓语要用复数形式；由主句中的时态可知，从句中要用一般过去时态。故选D项。]
2．Onethird of the country ______covered with trees and the
majority of the citizens ______ black people.
A．is；are B．is；is
C．are；are D．are；is
答案 A [“国家三分之一的领土”在概念上是单数，故系动词用单数；而 “国家公民的大多数”是复数，故系动词用复数。句意：这个国家三分之一的领土被树木覆盖且多数公民为黑人。故选A项。]
3．The girl found the Tshirt sold online was______that in the supermarket.
A．as half cheap as B．cheap as half as
C．the half price of D．half the price of
答案 D [句意：这个女孩发现网上卖的T恤衫是超市里卖的价格的一半。倍数的表达有三种方式：1）倍数＋as＋adj./adv.＋as＋被比对象，这一句型中，如果形容词修饰一单数可数名词，那么要把形容词提到冠词的前面来，即：倍数＋as＋adj.＋a/an＋单数可数名词＋as＋被比对象；2）倍数＋形容词或者副词的比较级＋than＋被比对象；3）倍数＋the＋size/width/depth/length/height＋of＋被比对象。这里考查的是第三种形式。]
高中英语阅读理解专题训练 ( 12 )
1 高中英语阅读理解专题训练
（广东专版 每篇5小题）
（第12套）
第一节：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A（words:163&195）
Very few people were coming to eat at the White Rose Restaurant, and its owner did not
know what to do. The price was reasonable and the food was of good quality, but nobody seemed
to want to eat there.
Then he did something that changed all that, and in a few weeks his restaurant is always full
of men with their lady friends. Whenever a gentleman came in with a lady, a smiling waiter gave
each of them a menu(菜单), The menu looked exactly the same on the outside, but there was an
important difference inside. The menu that the waiter gave to the man supplied the correct price
for each dish and each bottle of wine. while the menu that he gave to the lady supplied a much
higher price! So when the man calmly ordered dish after dish and wine after wine, the lady
高中英语真题-2016高考英语一轮阅读理解和书面表达选练(3)
高中英语真题:2016高考英语一轮阅读理解和书面表达选练（3）
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Humpback whales
Humpback whales are sometimes called performers of the ocean. This is because they can make impressive movements when they dive. The name “humpback”, which is the common name for this whale,
refers to the typical curve
shape the whale’s back forms as it dives. Quick Facts
Size: 14m—18m in length;
30—50 tons in weight
Living
environment: Open ocean and shallow coastline waters
Migration: From warm tropical(热带的)waters, where they breed, to cold polar waters, where theSometimes the humpback will dive with a fantastic
movement known as a breach. During breaching the whale uses its powerful
tail flukes to lift nearly two-thirds of its body not of the water in a giant leap. A
breach might also include
a sideways twist with fins
高考英语阅读理解二轮精练(13)及(解析)答案
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阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Rivers may be a significant source of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (一氧化二氮), scientists now
find.
Their calculation suggests that across the globe the waterways contribute three times the amount
of nitrous oxide to the atmosphere as had been estimated by the International Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), the United Nations scientific body charged with reviewing climate change research.
They found that the amount of nitrous oxide produced in streams is related to human activities that
release nitrogen (氮) into the environment, such as fertilizer use and sewage discharges.
“Human activities, including fossil fuel combustion and intensive agriculture, have increased the
availability of nitrogen in the environment,” said Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and
高中英语真题-2016高考英语完形填空和阅读理解一轮练习(3)_2
高中英语真题:2016高考英语完形填空和阅读理解一轮练习（3）
阅读理解。
Peanuts to This
Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stonefaced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over, hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way？”
Quickly, I flashed back to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. This was the first real task I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. Since my idea of history
came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before. As I searched the name of this fellow, it became evident that there were two people bearing the same name who looked completely different! One invented
高中英语真题-2016高考英语一轮阅读理解选练(1)
高中英语真题:2016高考英语一轮阅读理解选练（1）
Ecotourism：A Different Way to Travel
Are you attracted to obscure places？Do you prefer to vacation away from other tourists？Are you careful to take only memories and to leave only footprints？If you answered yes to more than one of these questions，you just might be an ecotourist.
Ecotourists are people who want to experience the unspoiled
natural world—and leave it that way when they return home.This trend started in the 1990s，and ecotourism is now growing three times faster than the tourism industry at large.The Kapawi Ecolodge in Ecuador’s remote Amazon Basin is contributing to that expansion，and it gives a snapshot of what ecotourism looks like.
At the Ecolodge，a small group of cabins sits in the middle of the Achuar people’s reserve and is only accessible by air.From here，visitors can explore parts of the Amazon rainforest seen by few outsiders.As they do，local Achuar guides explain how the forest is like their supermarket，where they find food，clothing，medicine and tools.As a result，tourists learn to appreciate the local culture as well as the natural environment.
高中英语真题：高考英语一轮阅读理解精选(一)
高考英语一轮阅读理解精选（一）
2016高考训练题。阅读理解。
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Climate change，pollution，overuse of water and development are killing some of the world’s most famous rivers including China’s Yangtze．India’s Ganges and Africa’s Nile．WWF said on Tuesday．At the global launch of its report “World’s Top 10 Rivers at Risk”，the group said many rivers could dry out. affecting hundreds of millions of people and killing unique aquatic(水生的)life．
“If these rivers die，millions will lose their livelihoods，biodiversity(生物多样性)will be destroyed on a massive scale，there will be less fresh water and agriculture，resulting in less food security，”said．Rayi Singh，secretary—general of WWF—India．The report,launched ahead of“World Water Day”today，also
cited the Rio Grande in．the United States，the Mekong and Indus in Asia，Europe’s Danube, La Plata in South America and Australia’s
2015年高考英语真题分类汇编之阅读理解2(含解析)
- 1 - 专题十五 阅读理解之社会生活、说理议论类
1.【2015·湖北卷】A
“I see you’ve got a bit of water on your coat,” said the man at the petrol
station. “Is it raining out there?”“No, it’s pretty nice,” I replied, checking
my sleeve. “Oh, right. A pony(马驹) bit me earlier.”
As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you
might get from a naughty child. The pony responsible was queuing up for some ice cream
in the car park near Haytor, and perhaps thought I’d jumped in ahead of him.
The reason why the ponies here are naughty is that Haytor is a tourist-heavy area
and tourists are constantly feeding the ponies foods, despite sighs asking them not
to. By feeding the ponies, tourists increase the risk of them getting hit by a car,
and make them harder to gather during the area’s annual pony drift(迁移).