高一英语短文阅读天天练7

英语：2010年高一名校短文阅读天天练（七）AOnce a group of 17-year-old schoolboys decided to break the world basketball marathon record(马拉松记录). They wanted to play for ninety hours and that is to add six hours to the record. Each team had nine players, with five at a time. The boys decided each person would play 21. 5 hours and then rest for 2 hours. Then they started at 6 o’clock in the evening.The first night was very hard for the players. When it was their turn to rest, they were too excited(兴奋的) to fall asleep at once.After sleeping for a short time, they had to play again. On the second night, they fell asleep as soon as they stopped. Some of them had trouble with their feet and hands, but the only serious problem was a psychological(心理上的) one. Each boy was thinking：why am I doing this？How can I play any longer？After the third night, the players knew they could finish the ninety hours. The basketball on the fourth night was very slow. But in the final hours, the players got better. For the last few minutes, the players looked as fresh as when they started. How happy everyone was！57. In the story, there were _______ schoolboys playing basketball marathon.A. 9B. 14C. 17D. 1858. Before this basketball marathon, the world record was _______.A. 84 hoursB. 86 hoursC. 90 hoursD. 96 hours59. The first night was hard for the players to fall asleep because _______.A. they only slept for a short timeB. they were too excitedC. no one watched them playD. it was very long60. “…the players looked as fresh as when they started” here “fresh” means _______.A. 新鲜的B. 兴奋不已的C. 精神饱满的D. 伤痕累累的BEven a child knows that nodding(点头) the head means “Yes”. But some people will probably be puzzled when they first come to India. When they talk to an Indian, he often shakes his head. They might think that the Indian does not like what he said, but on the contrary he is expressing agreement.The Indians have a habit of shaking their heads slightly when they talk to somebody. It doesn’t mean “No”, but “Yes”.If a person doesn’t know this, it might cause misunders tanding.At one time a foreigner in India told his driver who was an Indian to take him to his office. The driver shook his head. The foreigner repeated his request and the driver shook his head again. At last, the foreigner shouted angrily, “Drive me to my office at once!” The driver said in a low voice, “Yes, sir,” smiling and shaking his head again at the same time.61. Generally speaking, nodding the head means _______, and shaking the head means _______.A. Yes, NoB. No, YesC. Yes, YesD. No, No62. According to the habit of India, if someone agrees with you, he will _______.A. nod his headB. shake his headC. neither nods his head nor shakes his headD. either nod his head or shake his head63. Why did the Indian driver shake his head when the foreigner asked him to drive him to his office? Because _______.A. the Indian driver has something important to doB. the foreigner promised to give him only a little moneyC. The driver felt uncomfortable at that timeD. In India shaking the head means agreement64. Why did the foreigner become angry? Because _______.A. the Indian driver didn’t want to send him to his officeB. the Indian driver asked him for a lot of moneyC. He misunderstood the meaning of shaking the head in IndiaD. he asked the driver to send him to his office, but the driver didn’t say any wordsCPlants are very important living things. Life could not go on if there were no plants. This is because plants can make food from air,water and sunlight. Animals and man cannot make food from air,water and sunlight. Animals get their food by eating plants and other animals.Therefore animals and man need plants in order to live.This is why we find that there are so many plants around us.If you look carefully at the plants around you,you will find that there are two kinds of plants:flowering plants and non-flowering plants.Flowering plants can make seeds（种子）. The seeds are protected by the fruits. Some fruits have one seed, some have two, three or four, and some have many seeds. But a few fruits have no seeds at all. An example of a fruit without seeds is the banana fruit. Most non-flowering plants do not grow from seeds. They grow from spores（胚芽）. Spores are very small. Some spores are so small and light that they can float in the air. We may say that spores are quite the same as seeds. When these spores are all on wet and shady places, they usually grow into new plants.65. The main idea of the first paragraph is that ______.A. plants are important for lifeB. plants cannot grow without airC. there are many plants in the worldD. we can not live without water66. Plants can make food from______.A. flower, water and airB. water, sunlight and airC. air, water and soilD. air, sun and light67. What can we infer（推断）from the passage ？A. Of all living things animals are most importantB.Spores are seedsC. All fruits of flowering plants have seedsD.Without plants, man will die out68. This passage may be taken from______.A. a medicine bookB. a novelC. a science magazineD. an experiment reportDParagraph 1Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds.(2) citrus(柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal(谷类), rice is also inthis kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter.Paragraph 2People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw(生的) or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.Paragraph 3There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.69. According to the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch?A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages(洋白菜)B. potatoes, rice, bread ,carrots（胡萝卜）C. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoesD. beef, pork, fish, milk70. People in different countries and different places of the world _______.A. has the right kinds of food to eatB. cooks their food in the same wayC. has their meals at the same timeD. eat food in different ways71. Which of the following is NOT true?A. People in some places don’t hav e enough to eat.B. There are too many people in the world.C. One of the problems is that no one is hungry.D. The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy.72. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked about?A. When people eat their lunchB. What to do with the two problemsC. How to cook food in different waysD. Why people eat different kinds of food参考答案57-61 D A B C A 62-66 B D C A B 67-72 D C A D C B。