河北省定兴县高考英语二轮复习 阅读理解训练(2)

河北定兴县2016高考英语二轮阅读理解训练（2） [科普知识型阅读理解(二)] Studying volcanoes is a demanding profession. Hazel Rymer frequently has to struggle through rainforests, climb to the top of mountains, then climb 200 metres into the crater of active volcanoes. But the 38­year­old volcanologist does her best to make it sound less alarming than it is. “Driving to work is more risky，” she insists. “And the deepest I go into the crater of a volcano is about 300 metres，” she adds, trying to make it all sound as ordinary as taking the dog for a walk. Hazel has been studying volcanoes for a long time, so it's not surprising she is used to the danger. Her interest in volcanoes began at school. A teacher gave her a book about Pompeii. “I remember reading about the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of the city，” she explains. “The thought of all those people just frozen in time had quite an effect on me and I am still excited by their dangerous beauty today.” Nowadays, volcanoes are getting more and more unpredictable. There have been many changes in sea level caused by global warming and melting ice caps. These have resulted in some dormant volcanoes erupting, so studying them is more dangerous than ever before. Hazel says that although she doesn't take any unnecessary risk, she has had some frightening moments. Her worst experience was on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily, when she was slowly surrounded by lava. “I had a choice of walking ten hours to get around the lava flow or just walking across it，” she explains. She chose to pick a path across the cooler rocks in the lava stream. “I guess it was five metres. The flow was 1，000°C, so if you hesitated, your boots would begin to melt. It was scary, but it really was a practical decision—there wasn't time to do anything else.” And what about the future? “I haven't been to the volcanoes in Indonesia yet. And I would love to spend some time working in the Antarctic，” she says. “I would also like to know why quiet lava flows erupt from some volcanoes and why other volcanoes go bang.” In other words, Hazel Rymer won't be exchanging her volcanoes for the relative safety of driving to work just yet. 1. Hazel's claim that “driving to work is more risky” than exploring volcanoes shows that ________．

A．people have exaggerated the dangers of volcanoes in the past B．Hazel does not really understand the dangerous situations she puts herself in C．there are many bad drivers in the place where Hazel lives D．Hazel is being modest and understating the dangers she faces 2. When did Hazel first become interested in volcanoes? A．When she was visiting Italy. B．When she was at school. C．When she was twenty. D．When she saw Vesuvius. 3. The underlined word “These” (in Paragraph 3) refers to “________”． A．melting ice caps B．volcanic eruptions C．changes in sea level D．higher temperatures 4. When Hazel was on Mount Etna, she had to ________． A．take a dangerous route B．take an unnecessary risk C．leave her boots behind D．walk for ten hours around the mountain 5. In the future, Hazel wants to ________． A．revisit volcanoes she knows B．go on holiday to the Antarctic C．find a less dangerous job D．discover new things about volcanoes 【参考答案解析】B 【要点综述】 本文主要介绍了火山学家Hazel Rymer的一些关于火山的研究活动。 1．D 由此句话的前一句“But the 38­year­old volcanologist does her best to make it sound less alarming than it is.”以及此句话可知，Hazel Rymer说开车上班比对火山进行研究更危险可推断出，她是以一种谦虚的说法淡化其面临的危险。 2．B 由第二段第二句“Her interest in volcanoes began at school.”可知她在读书时就对火山感兴趣。 3．C 由画线词的前一句话“There have been many changes in sea level caused by global warming and melting ice caps.”可知画线词应该指的是海平线的变化。 4．A 由第三段最后几句“‘I had a choice of walking ten hours to get around the lava flow or just walking across it，' she explains.She chose to pick a path across the cooler rocks in the lava stream.‘I guess it was five metres.The flow was 1，000°C, so if you hesitated, your boots would begin to melt.It was scary, but it really was a practical decision —there wasn't time to do anything else.'”可知她选择了从熔岩流中走过，而这是一条危险的路。 5．D 由最后一段的内容“…I would also like to know why quiet lava flows erupt from some volcanoes and why other volcanoes go bang…”可知，Hazel将继续对火山进行研究，并发现一些新的东西。

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。 A little girl lived in a small, very simple, poor house on a hill and as she grew she would play in the small garden. There, she was able to see over the garden fence and across the valley to a wonderful house high on the hill. This house had golden windows, so golden and shining that the little girl would dream of how magic it would be to grow up and live in a house with golden windows instead of an ordinary house like hers. Although she loved her parents and her family, she yearned to live in such a golden house and dreamed all day about how wonderful and exciting it must feel to live there. When she got to an age when she gained enough skill and sensibility to go outside her garden fence, she asked her mother if she could go for a bike ride outside the gate and down the lane. After pleading with her, her mother finally allowed her to