2017年高考英语高考阅读理解预测与押题

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分, 共40分）第一节：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

(30分)AYears ago, I was taking a maths class over the summer, and had a teacher who liked to talk about his past with funny stories. He related that he had been a math teacher in the Air Force, where it was his duty to force sleepy young soldiers to stay awake for an hour of math at 8:00 in the morning in a large, warm, dimly-lit auditorium. One day, he came into the lecture hall and saw his class even sleepier and less attentive than usual. He realized that something exciting would have to be done.Now this classroom was very old, and the blackboards, which had been nailed on to the walls with old black iron nails, had become loose over the years. As a result, these black nails stuck out almost invisibly from the blackboard and this teacher kept banging his hands on them while erasing the board. He decided to put them to good use.With enough of a flourish (夸张的动作) to ensure the class‟s attention, he went to the front of the room, near one edge of the board. Then, clearing his throat, he drew a coat hook right near one of the protruding (突出) nails. He went to hang his coat and hat on the hook that he had drawn in chalk (really on the nail, of course). Then he went on to give that day‟s lecture. He told us that the entire class had their eyes to the front of the room throughout the lecture. He didn‟t know if they‟d heard a single word he‟d said, but at least they looked attentive.At the end of the class, the lecturer would usually leave by a small door near the blackboards, while the class would leave through the large doors at the back of the hall. When class was over, he took his coat and hat, erased the coat hook, and left through the small door—and was followed by the entire class, lining up to go past the blackboard to see how he‟d done it!56. When the funny story happened, the author was ________.A. a soldier who just joined the Air ForceB. having a math class in his summer vacationC. teaching a maths class over the summerD. doing something that the passage doesn‟t mention57. What can we infer from the passage?A. Young soldiers always felt sleepy in maths classes.B. The auditorium where maths was taught was well-equipped.C. Students would leave by the small door near the blackboards.D. The young soldiers would be attentive in maths classes from then on.58. What most attracted the entire class‟s attention?A. the teacher‟s lectureB. the hook drawn in chalkC. the teacher‟s coatD. the black nail59. Which of the following characters did the teacher not possess?A. strictB. humorousC. responsibleD. smartBDuring the school year many parents take on the role of driver as they drive their children from one lesson to another .Understandably so. Many of us want our children to have a little taste of everything, from organized sports to music, dance and more. But we can overdo it, leaving our children feeling a little burnt out, and according to parent educator Diane Loisie, it‟s their school work that suffers the most. “After school, if they‟re busy in a number of sporting events, besidesthey need to do their homework, then the time they‟ll feel sleepy is in the classroom. Your child needs free time. So if you‟re filling up that after school time, then it‟s during the day they‟re going to be taking a break.”Professor Claire McDermott agrees that there‟s a lot to be gained from sometimes putting those scheduled lessons and activities away. “Relaxing time is important for children. It‟s time just to do the things they want to do. A child can go up to their room, or they can play around. It doesn‟t look like productive time; parents certainly wouldn‟t be saying …Wow, are they ever learning things now?‟ But this relaxing time gives both the body and the brain just a wonderful chance to relax after a day. It helps a child prepare for sleep, but it also helps to understand the learning that‟s gone on that day.”I t‟s hard to prevent signing our kids up for some activities and lessons. After all, many of us want our children to have a head start in life and the chance to join in great activities in the arts or sports is a part of that. However, Loisie feels that in the long run most children feel better with just a few key activities because it gives them an opportunity to master them. “When we get our children in too many activities because we want our children to experience everything, then what we‟re doing is setting them up not to be good at one thing or gaining a skill.”So choose your children‟s activities wisely. It may be one of the best things you‟ve ever done for your kids… and for the family drivers!60．What is the biggest disadvantage for children to attend too many lessons after school?A．They can get bored easily about everything.B．They might have no time to do the homework.C．They might not pay much attention to learning.D．They can not easily focus on learning during the day.61．What should we think of children‟s playing around aimlessly?A．It is productive. B．It is a bad habit. C．It is helpful. D．It is a waste of time. 62．What is the main idea of this passage?A．Don‟t be children‟s drivers after school.B．Let children learn something from various subjects.C．Make your children learn as much as possible.D．Choose activities for your children wisely.C“A good book for children should simply be a good book in its own right,”says Mollie Hunter. Born and brought up near Edinburgh, Mollie has devoted her talents to writing primarily for young people. She firmly believes that there is always and should always be a wider audience for any good book whatever its main market is. In Mollie's opinion it is necessary to make full use of language and she enjoys telling a story, which is what every writer should be doing. “If you aren't telling a story, you're a very dead writer indeed,”she says. With the chief function of a writer being to entertain, Mollie is indeed an entertainer. “I have this great love of not only the meaning of language but of the music of language,”she says. “This love goes back to early childhood. I've told stories all my life. I had a school teacher who used to ask us what we would like to be when we grew up and, because my family always had dogs, and I was very good at handling them, I said I wanted to work with dogs, and the teacher always said …Nonsense, Mollie, dear, you‟ll be a writer.‟ So finally I thought that this woman must have something, since she was a good teacher and I decided when I was nine that I would be a writer.”This childhood intention is described in her novel, A Sound of Chariots, which although written in the third person is clearly autobiographical and gives a picture both of Mollie's ambition and her struggle towards its achievement. Thoughts of her childhood inevitably brought thoughtsof the time when her home was still a village with buttercup meadows and strawberry fields—sadly now covered with modern houses.“I was once taken back to see it and I felt that somebody had lain dirty hands all over my childhood. I'll never go back,”she said. “Never.”“When I set one of my books in Scotland,”she said,“I can recall my romantic feelings as a child playing in those fields, or watching the village blacksmith at work. And that's important, because children now know so much so early that romance can't exist for them, as it did for us.”63. What does Mollie Hunter feel about the nature of a good book?A. It should not aim at a narrow audience.B. It should be attractive to young readers.C. It should be based on original ideas.D. It should not include too much conversation.64. What do we learn about Mollie Hunter as a young child?A. She didn't expect to become a writer.B. She didn't enjoy writing stories.C. She didn't have any particular ambitions.D. She didn't respect her teacher's views.65. In comparison with children of earlier years, Mollie feels that modern children are .A. more intelligentB. better informedC. less eager to learnD. less interested in reality66. What's the writer's purpose in this text?A. To describe Mollie Hunter's most successful books.B. To share her enjoyment of Mollie Hunter's books.C. To introduce Mollie Hunter's work to a wider audience.D. To provide information for Mollie Hunter's existing readers.DUS college students are burdened with credit card debt, according to a study published Tuesday, and the problem can be serious--ranging from more drop-outs, to future employment problems and even self-murder. The study, by Georgetown University sociologist Robert Manning, blamed credit card issuers for actively targeting students and colleges for allowing them to do so. “The unrestricted selling of credit cards in universities or colleges is so aggressive that it now forms a greater threat than alcohol or sexual diseases,” Manning told a news conference in Washington. “If we do not quickly deal with this serious proble m, the matter will continue to get worse, with social consequences far more tragic than mere dollars and cents.”Based on hundreds of face-to-face interviews and surveys with students, Manning concluded both the number with credit card debt and their indeb tedness had been “underreported” in previous studies--which failed to reflect the “survival strategies” many used to deal with their debts. These included the use of federal student loans to pay off credit cards, effectively shifting the debt, appealing to parents for loans, reducing course work hours to increase time at paid jobs, or even dropping out altogether to work full time.“Official drop-out rates include growing numbers of students who are unable to cope with the stress of their debts and/or part-time jobs for servicing(支付利息) their credit cards,” the study said. “Students credit card debts are examined during the employment process and may be an important factor in evaluating future employees,” it noted. O‟Donnell and Manning agreed that students should bear some responsibility for reckless use of credit, but said credit card companies also had to be responsible for making it so easy for them to get into debt. Manning said one of the most troublesome aspects of the student credit card issue was “the seduction (诱惑) of college and university officials by the credit card industry”.67. Sociologist Robert Manning‟s study shows that _________________.A. the number of American college students using credit cards on campus is increasingB. more and more American college students meet with credit card debt problemsC. more and more American colleges encourage students to use credit cards to make profitsD. credit card issuers will run into debt for encouraging college students to use credit cards68. The word “reckless” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by ________.A. inconsiderateB. frequentC. carefulD. regular69. The author implies all of following should be responsible for this problem EXCEPT.A. credit card issuersB. college authoritiesC. parents of the studentsD. students themselves70. The author‟s feeling towards college students with credit card debts is _______.A. discouraged and negativeB. pitiful and criticalC. indifferent and disapprovingD. negative and doubtfulAnswers: DCBA DCD AABC BACB。