高考英语二轮：人生百味类阅读理解练习含答案_1

天津北辰区2016高考英语二轮：人生百味类阅读理解（2）练习含答案 2016高考英语阅读理解--人生百味类 Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart, you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job? One day it is fine. Just before you go out, it suddenly starts to rain. Maybe you would feel very sad and start to complain about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concerts that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain, crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest. Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope. When we face failure, we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have decided to do. As a popular saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success”. Attitude decides everything. With an optimistic attitude life is easy and pleasant. Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us. 【小题1】People sometimes complain _________. A．the sky is always dark B．their studies are successful C．they see the world with their heart D．life is tiring 【小题2】When we face failure, we ___________. A．must be confident in ourselves B．shouldn’t be afraid of it C．shouldn’t give up hope D．All of the above 【小题3】The best title for the passage is_______. A．Smile and the World Smiles to You B．Complaining about Life C．Failure is the Mother of Success D．It is Very Hard to Succeed

2016高考英语阅读理解--人生百味类 Summer Rain The worst days of any summer are the rainy ones. We spend all year looking forward to nice weather and long, hot days. All of winter, with its cloudy days and bitter cold, we dream of those endless days at the beach, lying on the sand and enjoying the bright and burning sun. And then, summer comes, and it rains. As a child, I would wake up to rainy summer days and come close to crying. It wasn’t fair. We suffered through months of school and experienced bad weather for those short ten weeks of freedom and pleasant weather. On those rainy summer days, I had nothing fun to do and could only sit inside, staring out at the rain like a bird in a cage. I was an only child, so there was no one else to play with. My father worked from home, so I was not truly alone, but he could not actively play with me since he was at work. It was those days that I would watch whatever was on television or read any books that I could find lying around. I’d drag through the day and pray each night that the rain would not be there the next day. As an adult, though, my opinion of summer rain has changed. When you have to work every day, summer is not as exciting. Everything seems dull. Such a mindset makes you cheer for anything new or different. I spend the winter dreaming of summer and the summer dreaming of winter. When summer comes, I hate how hot it is. And then I look forward to the rain, because the rain brings with it a cold front, which makes me comfortable. Rainy days are still the worst days of the summer, but summer rain today means positively beautiful — and considerably cooler — weather tomorrow. 【小题1】When the author was a child, he ______. A．hated rainy days B．liked staying indoors C．preferred cooler weather D．dreamed on summer days 【小题2】We can learn from the passage that the author ______. A．was often left alone at home B．had no brothers or sisters C．preferred reading to playing outside D．could enjoy the brilliant sun in winter 【小题3】As an adult, the author views summer rain differently because ______. A．he knows it won’t last long B．his summer holiday is very short C．rain makes the weather cooler D．he can better deal with his holiday

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。 (2013·郑州市二模，B) It was an autumn morning shortly after my husband and I moved into our first house. Our children were upstairs unpacking, and I was looking out of the window at my father moving around mysteriously on the front lawn. “What are you doing out there？” I called to him. He looked up, smiling, “I'm making you a surprise.” I thought it could be just about anything. When