2009 高级英语阅读
高中_2009年新人教版高二英语上阅读理解题1
01I hear many parents saying that their teenage children are rebellion〔反叛的〕. I wish it were so. At your age you ought to be growing away from your parents. You should be learning to stand on your own two feet. But take a good look at the present rebellion. It seems that teenagers are all taking the same way of showing that they degree with their parents. Instead of striking out bravely on their own, most of them are trying to seize at one another’s hands for safety.They say they want to dress as they please. But they all wear the same clothes. They set off in new directions in music. But somehow reason for thinking or acting in thus-and-such a way is that the crowd is doing it. They have come out of their cocoon(蚕茧) -----into a larger cocoon.It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way. Industry has firmly opened up a teenage market. These days every teenager can learn from newspapers and TV what a teenager should have and be. And man y of today’s parents have come to award〔奖励〕high narks for the popularity of their children. All this adds up to great difficulty for the teenager who wants to find his or her own path.But the difficulty is worth getting over. The path is worth following. You may want to listen to classical music instead of going to a party. You may want to collect rocks when everyone else is collecting records. You may have some thoughts that you don’t care to share at once with your classmates. Well, go to it. Find yourself. Be yourself. Popularity will come-----with the people who respect you for who you are. That’s the only kind of popularity that really counts.1.The writer’s purpose in writing this passage is to tell_______.A.readers how to be popular in the wordB.teenagers how to learn to decide things for themselvesC.parents how to control and guide their childrenD.people how to understand and respect each other2.According to the writer, many teenagers think they are brave enough to act on their own,but, in fact, most of them______.A.have much difficulty in understanding each otherB.are not sure of themselvesC.dare not do thingsD.are very much afraid of getting lost3.Which of the following is NOT true according to passage?A.There is no popularity that really counts.B.What many parents ate doing is actually keeping their children from finding their ownpaths.C.It is not necessarily had for a teenager to disagree with his or her classmates.D.Most teenagers say they want to do what they like to, but in fact they are doing the same.4．During the teenage years, one should learn to_____.A.become different from others in as many ways as possibleB.get into the right reason and become popularC.find one’s real selfD.rebel against parents2How the World Wide Web StartedTim Berners-Lee is the man who wrote the software(软件) programme that led to the foundation of the World Wide Web. Britain played an important part in developing the first generation of computers. The parents of Tim Berners-Lee both worked on one of the earliest commercial (商业的) computers and talked about their work at home. As a child he would build models of computers from packing material. After graduating from Oxford University he went on to the real thing. In the 1980s scientists were already communicating using a primitive version (版本) of e-mail . While working at a laboratory in Switzerland . Tim Berners-Lee wrote a programme , which let him store these messages .This gave him another idea: write a programme that will let academics(学术界人士) from across the world share information on a single place. In 1990 he wrote the HTTP(效劳程序所用的协议) and HTML(超文本链接标示语言) programmes which form the basis of the World Wide Web .The next year his programmes were placed on to the Internet . Everyone was welcome to use them and improve them if they could . Programmers used this codes(密码) to work with different operating systems. New things like web browsers(浏览器) and search engines were developed. Between 1991 and 1994 the number of web pages rose from 10 to 100,000.In 1994 Tim Berners-Lee formed the newly formed World Wide Web consortium(协会), or W3C. More than 200 leading companies and laboratories are represented(代表) by W3C. Together they make sure that everyone can share equally on the web. ‘ The Web can help people to understand the way that others live and love and are human. It helps us understand the humanity of people.〞He says.Multiple choice:1.From the lines we can infer that Tim Berners-Lee is ________.A. BritishB. AmericanC. SwissD. French2.The main idea of this passage is ______.A.when the Internet came into begin .B.how Tim Berners-Lee formed W3CC.why computers develop so rapidlyD.how the World Wide Web started3. Scientists began to communicate using e-mail _____.A. in 1980B. after the 1980sC. before 1990D. in the 1960s4.He made up his mind to write a programme that would let people from across theworld share information on a single place when ______.A. he was a childB. he studied in Oxford UniversityC. he formed W3CD. he worked at a lab in Switzerland5.Which of the following is NOT true ?A. The number of web pages rose very rapidly in the 1990s.B.Tim’s programmes were placed on to the Internet in 1990.C.The World Wide Web will have an effect on the social development.D.Tim Berners-Lee made a great contribution to the computer science.。
2009年考研英语阅读理解精读100篇（高分版）TEXT2
TEXT 2 He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called "The Hawk in the Rain" when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughes’s ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices-symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink. It was not only England that thought so either. Hughes’s book was also published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called "Birthday Letters".In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wife’s death, which he calls his "big and unmanageable event". He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten. The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughes’s early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalised historical chronicle. Poets’letters are seldom like that, and Hughes’s are no exception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughes’s own or other people’s. The trajectory of Hughes’s literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy. Hughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry, even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for "its fantasticalia, its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications". He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a special place in the education of children. "What kids need", he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, "is a headfull [sic] of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language." When that happens, children have "the guardian angel installed behind the tongue". Lucky readers, big or small. 1．The poetry of Hughes’s forerunners is characteristic of ______ [A] its natural, crude flavor. [B] its distorted depiction of people’s daily life. [C] its penetrating sight. [D] its fantastical enthusiasm. 2.The word "vilified" (Line 3, Paragraph 2)most probably means _____ [A] tortured [B] harassed [C] scolded [D] tormented 3．According to the third paragraph, Hughes’s collection of letters are _____ [A] personal recollection of his life. [B] personalised historical chronicle of his literary engagement. [C] reflections of his struggle with his devotion and the reality. [D] his meditation on the literary world. 4. From the letters, we may find the cause of Hughes’s internal struggle is _____ [A] his devotion to the literary world. [B] that he is a part-private, part-public creature. [C] that he is constrained by the fear of his privacy being invaded. [D] his fame and notoriety. 5. By "lucky readers" in the last sentence, the author means_____ [A] children who read poetry. [B] children who have a headfull of songs. [C] children who own blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language. [D] children who have the guardian angel installed behind the tongue 篇章剖析： 本⽂讲述了英国诗⼈特德·休斯作品的特点和其所反映的诗⼈的⼀些情况。
2009高考英语阅读理解精读(3)
2009高考英语阅读理解精读（3）Method of Scientific InquiryWhy the inductive and mathematical sciences, after their first rapid development at the culmination of Greek civilization, advanced so slowly for two thousand years—and why in the following two hundred years a knowledge of natural and mathematical science has accumulated, which so vastly exceeds all that was previously known that these sciences may be justly regarded as the products of our own times—are questions which have interested the modern philosopher not less than the objects with which these sciences are more immediately conversant. Was it the employment of a new method of research, or in the exercise of greater virtue in the use of the old methods, that this singular modern phenomenon had its origin? Was the long period one of arrested development, and is the modern era one of normal growth? Or should we ascribe the characteristics of both periods to so-called historical accidents—to the influence of conjunctions in circumstances of which no explanation is possible, save in the omnipotence and wisdom of a guiding Providence?The explanation which has become commonplace, that the ancients employed deduction chiefly in their scientific inquiries, while the moderns employ induction, proves to be too narrow, and fails upon close examination to point with sufficient distinctness the contrast that is evident between ancient and modern scientific doctrines and inquiries. For all knowledge is founded on observation, and proceeds from this by analysis, by synthesis and analysis, by induction and deduction, and if possible by verification, or by new appeals to observation under the guidance of deduction—by steps which are indeed correlative parts of one method; and the ancient sciences afford examples of every one of these methods, or parts of one method, which have been generalized from the examples of science.A failure to employ or to employ adequately any one of these partial methods, an imperfection in the arts and resources of observation and experiment, carelessness in observation, neglect of relevant facts, by appeal to experiment and observation—these are the faults which cause all failures to ascertain truth, whether among the ancients or the moderns; but this statement does not explain why the modern is possessed of a greater virtue, and by what means he attained his superiority. Much less does it explain the sudden growth of science in recent times.The attempt to discover the explanation of this phenomenon in the antithesis of “facts” and “theories” or “facts” and “ideas”—in the neglect among the ancients of the former, and their too exclusive attention to the latter—proves also to be too narrow, as well as open to the charge of vagueness. For in the first place, the antithesis is not complete. Facts and theories are not coordinate species. Theories, if true, are facts—a particular class of facts indeed, generally complex, and if a logical connection subsists between their constituents, have all the positive attributes of theories.Nevertheless, this distinction, however inadequate it may be to explain the source of true method in science, is well founded, and connotes an important character in true method. A fact is a proposition of simple. A theory, on the other hand, if true has all the characteristics of a fact, except that its verification is possible only by indirect, remote, and difficult means. To convert theories into facts is to add simple verification, and the theory thus acquires the full characteristics of a fact.1. The title that best expresses the ideas of this passage is[A]. Philosophy of mathematics. [B]. The Recent Growth in Science.[C]. The Verification of Facts. [C]. Methods of ScientificInquiry.2. According to the author, one possible reason for the growth of scienceduring the days of the ancient Greeks and in modern times is[A]. the similarity between the two periods.[B]. that it was an act of God.[C]. that both tried to develop the inductive method.[D]. due to the decline of the deductive method.3. The difference between “fact” and “theory”[A]. is that the latter needs confirmation.[B]. rests on the simplicity of the former.[C]. is the difference between the modern scientists and the ancient Greeks.[D]. helps us to understand the deductive method.4. According to the author, mathematics is[A]. an inductive science. [B]. in need of simple verification.[C]. a deductive science. [D]. based on fact and theory.5. The statement “Theories are facts” may be called.[A]. a metaphor. [B]. a paradox.[C]. an appraisal of the inductive and deductive methods.[D]. a pun.Vocabulary1. inductive 归纳法induction n.归纳法2. deductive 演绎法deduction n。
高中_2009年新人教版高二英语上阅读理解题15
阅读理解15Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. This kind of loneliness is not serious. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Now researchers say there are three different types of loneliness.The first kind of loneliness is temporary(暂时的. This is the most common type. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situational loneliness, is a natural result or a particular situation---- for example, a family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year.The third kind of loneliness is the most severe. Unlike the second type, chronic(长期的) loneliness usually last more than two yeas and has no specific cause. People who experience habitual loneliness have problems socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many chronically lone people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.Psychologists agree that one important fact in loneliness is a person’s social contacts, e.g, friends, family members, co-workers,, etc. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents and teachers give us guidance, and our friends share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lone people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more. They question their own popularity.Psychologists are trying to find ways to help habitually lonely people for two reasons: they are unhappy and unable to socialize and there is a connection between chronic loneliness and serious illness such as heart disease. While temporary and situational loneliness can be a normal, healthy part of life, chronic loneliness can be a very sad, and sometimes dangerous condition.1.How would you treat temporary loneliness according to the passage?A. Talk to friendsB. Just ignore itC. Go to see a doctorD. Ask your teachers for guidance2.“ It〞in the last sentence of the second paragraph refers to ----------.A. temporary lonelinessB. situational lonelinessC. a new placeD.sleeplessness3.The topic of the 4th paragraph is that _______________.A.one problem of loneliness is a person’s social contactsB.we depend on various people for different reasonsC.lonely people don’t have many soci al problemsD.lonely people don’t have many friends4.Why do psychologists want to help chronically lonely people?A.Chronic loneliness can cause family problemsB.Chronic loneliness can cause serious illnessC.Chronic loneliness cannot be overcomeD.A, B, and C are all correct5.What is the best title of the passage?A. Three kinds of LonelinessB. Loneliness and DiseasesC. Loneliness and Social ContactsD. Chronic Loneliness。
2009年高考英语阅读理解真题
3-18岁纯英式素质教育领航者：纯英式资深外教，纯英式国际领先教材，纯英式学习环境！优尼全能英语：2009年高考英语阅读理解真题第二部分五年联考题汇编2009年联考题Passage 1 (湖北省新洲区实验高中2009届高三5月检测A篇) 阅读理解Chinese mainland’s star-making reality TV show “Happy Boy” will not be open to ma le applicants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau or other foreign cities, said the country’s top TV industry committee yesterday.Happy Boy is the male version of Super Girl, which is regarded as the Chinese version of American Idol. The girl’s event, operated by central China’s Hunan TV, drew an audience of 400 million for the final match in 2005. The country’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television approved the male version earlier this month. However, the regulation that only mainland’s male app licants are allowed to register was released just days before the application procedure began on Wednesday in Changsha, one of the five mainland cities to hold the contest. The other four includes Chengdu and three undecided cities.The regulation spoile d Hunan TV’s ambition to extend the series to the overseas market, an official with the TV station told the Hunan-based Xiaoxiang Morning yesterday. “My Hero,” another star-making reality show by Shanghai’s SMG Dragon TV, said it was not informed of the regulation, and it is still receiving foreign applicants, said an official with Dragon TV. A previous regulation by the administration has made clear that televised talent shows can’t run for more than six weeks at a time. While the first “Happy Boy” may las t for five months, according to a previous report.Last year there were about 10 influential star-making TV shows across the country, among which those from CCTV, Hunan Satellite TV and SMG’s Dragon TV, were the most popular. “Super Girl” ran for almost five months and “My Hero” lasted four months. While the shows have proven popular, they have also earned many complaints from people who say they are crude and not satisfactory.61. It can be inferred from the passage that _______.A. Male applicants from Hong Kong won’t be accepted to attend Happy Boy show.B. American Idol was started earlier than Super Girl.C. It was Hunan TV that made the regulation that they couldn’t accept foreign applicants.D. Audience love American Idol better than Happy Boy.62. Which of the following may best explain the underlined word spoiled in paragraph 3?A. gaveB. preventedC. encouragedD. affected63. We can safely draw the conclusion that ________.A. Hunan TV will obey the regulations issued by the administration.B. Dragon TV broke the regulations on purpose.C. there were about 10 popular TV shows across the country.D. not all of the audience think highly of the shows.64. The relationship between State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and Hunan TV is possibly close to _______.A. father and sonB. teacher and studentC. coach and sportsmenD. police and criminal答案61.B 62.B 63.D 64.C。
2009年高考英语试题分类汇编—阅读理解(全解全析)
2009年高考英语试题分类汇编—阅读理解（全解全析）一、（2009.全国卷I海南、宁夏）阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题：每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项答题卡上将该项涂黑。
AI suddenly heard an elephant crying as though frightened Looking down I immediately recognized that something was wrong and ran down to the edge of the near bank There I saw Ma Shwe with her three-month-old calf struggling in the fast-rising water and it was a life-and-death struggle Her calf was floating and screaming with fear Ma Shwe was as near to the far bank as she could get, holding her whole body against the rushing water and keeping the calf pressed against her huge body . Every now and then the rushing water would sweep the calf a way.There was a sudden rise in the water and the calf was washed clean over the mother‘s body and was gone Ma Shwe turned quickly to reach it and pressed the calf with her head and trunk（象鼻）against the rocky bank Then with a huge effort she picked it up in her trunk and tried until she was able to place it on a narrow shelf of rockJust at this moment she fell back into the river If she were carried down it would be certain death I knew as well as she did ,that there was one spot（地点）where she could get up the bank but it was on the other side from where she had put her calfWhile I was wonderi ng what I could do next I heard the sound of a mother‘s love Ma Shwe had crossed the river and got up the bank and was making her way back as fast as she could roaring（吼叫）all the time but to her calf it was music.56．The moment the author got down to the river bank he saw______.A．the calf was about to fall into the riverB．Ma Shwe was placing the calf on the rockC．the calf was washed away by the rising waterD．Ma Shwe was holding the calf against the rushing water【答案】D【解析】细节判断题。
2009年北京卷英语高考阅读理解部分翻译解析(含答案解析)
2009年北京卷英语高考阅读理解部分翻译解析刘金路老师翻译解析QQ 872969615AHow I Turned to Be Optimistic我如何变得更加乐观I began to grow up that winter night when my parents and I were returning from my aunt's house, and my mother said that we might soon be leaving for America. We were on the bus then. I was crying, and some people on the bus were turning around to look at me. I remember that I could not bear the thought of never hearing again the radio program for school children to which I listened every morning.那年冬天，当我的父母和我往家赶的时候，我感觉自己开始长大了，母亲说，我们不就可能要搬到美国去住。
之后我们上了公交车。
我当时在哭，车上的很多人都看我。
我记着，自己真是无法忍受那样的想法，就是自己再也无法听到学校专门为孩子们播放的节目了。
I do not remember myself crying for this reason again. In fact, I think I cried very little when I was saying goodbye to my friends and relatives. When we were leaving I thought about all the places I was going to see-—the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures. The country I was leaving never to come back was hardly in my head then.我记得自己再也没有因为这件事情哭过。
高中_2009年新人教版高二英语上阅读理解题4
4A particular Marathron“Get out of the plane!〞Justin shouted. Teddy and he dropped to the grouhd,….When Kathy and Victor reached the edge of the meadow, flames(火焰)were shooting more than five meters into the air.Kathy couldn’t believe what she w as seeing. One glance told her they needed medical attention immediately. She questioned Justin, “ Is there anyone in the plane?〞“No,〞he said.“Where are you able to radio for help?〞“There was no time.〞“ I’m a distance runner.〞Kathy said, “I’ll go for help.〞Looking at the seriously injured men, she said, “It may take me several hours to get out.〞She started out.When she was 23, Kathy set a women’s-course record in a Marathon. She had run 42 kilometers. But now she was running the race of her life. She had nearly 30 kilometers of hard wilderness to cover to get help.Kathy had been running for two hours. This was far back into the wiilerness. The trail(小径) grew vague. She stopped to take a quick campass(指南针) reading. She had run for more than 20 kilometers. Her heart fell, her muscle(肌肉) aching.Finally she saw her car in the distance.She jumped into the car and sped away. She reached a holiday house and called the police. During the wait she walked around, relaxing her legs and drinking water. It took almost two hours for a helicopter to reach her at the trail head. They needed her for one more task.1.“Now, she was running the race of her life〞means that ________________.A.she would set up a new recordB.she was running for the lives of othersC.she would run a race without othersD.she couldn’t rely on Victor this time2.Why did Kathy stopped to have a look at her campass? Because ______________.A she didn’t trust her memoryB she had lost her wayC. The trail grew vagueD. Of the wilderness3.Why did she walk around, relax her legs and drink water? Because ______________.A. She was too tiredB. she feit thirstyC. she wanted to regain lost energyD. nothing else could be done then4.What do you think of her final task was?A. Giving the injured food and drinksB. Taking them to the nearest hospitalC. To show the police the crash siteD. To go back to put the big fire。
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1. When-and-if the industry recovers, it will have been fundamentally altered. Passengers can expect fewer flights overall and anemic service to smaller airports, as airlines focus on large, profitable hubs.
2. Until more do so, the bank-driven alternative system of funding will continue to misallocate capital. This is a fair criticism. But the market has shown that it can fulfill its function as a viable long-term alternative to the bank debt that has always dominated European financial intermediation. In the early part of this year it provided a flood of liquidity to telecoms issuers as equity investors‟ enthusiasm for that industry dried up. The issuance has since also dried up, but it represented progress.
3. It is unlikely that the U.S. can negotiate and submit for approval any new agreements for at least three years, and it will take even longer for these agreements to affect the economy. Moreover, if past trade deals are any indication, fast track and new trade deals are likely to curtail growth, not increase it.
4. Take the case of Unilever, one of the world‟s largest consumer-goods companies, with annual sales of about $50 billion. This mammoth Anglo-Dutch group in July bought Laocai, a Chinese pickled-vegetable and soy-sauce brand that it plans to take global within the next five years. Unilever wouldn‟t specify exactly how much it has earmarked for building recognition of Laocai among consumers.
5. The most pressing question right now is what will happen in TV, already reeling from a big drop in advertising. Although the new season has been pretty well purged of any references that might be deemed offensive in the wake of the attack, there is serious doubt about viewers tastes in the future.
6. It may take some time for Wall Street to overcome its fear and share Greenspan‟s good mood. Says Henry Kaufman, a New York-based investment manager and economic forecaster: “People took such a beating. You‟re got to wipe out those memory banks.
7. Besides bringing in additional revenue, a global brand also burnishes a company‟s image in China, stimulating sales among status-conscious domestic consumers. For example, state-owned soft-drinks maker jianlibao has developed its overseas market in part to “establish
a good image”, which in turn enhances consumption at home.
8. Nor was it about price-earnings multiples rising to the Ionosphere. It was-and is-about an economy capable of growing more rapidly without inflation than it did during the long slump of 1973 to 1995, because of technology-driven increases in productivity, the world‟s best financial system, and the unleashing of entrepreneurial energies through deregulation.
9. For all that it has clearly had profound effects already, and will have even deeper ones after January 1, the euro by itself can only do so much. It is best seen as one, albeit central, element of a bigger project: to create a true single market in Europe.
10. Lousy returns, lumbering giant firms, too many funds---can the industry right itself?
11. Now, of course, many of the celebrated dealmakers of the …90s have run into a brick wall. With Wall Street suddenly turning a cold eye toward the aggressive acquisitions accounting and leverage that drove much of the growth of the past decade, such acquisitive high-fliers as WorldCom, Tyco, and Conseco (CNC) have fallen out of favor with investors.
12. The EU is expected to undergo the largest expansion of its borders ever. Up to 10 countries could join the EU in2004, although some difficult areas for negotiations remain, including agriculture. The candidate countries, and to a lesser extent the EU, will likely benefit from
enlargement.。