浙江省遂昌县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解编练(五)

浙江遂昌县2017高考英语阅读理解一轮编练
2016高考训练题。

阅读理解。

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。

When my mother was alive, she used to tell me again and again about the value of just being nice. “Never underestimate（低估）the power of a smile,” she would say. I fear she would be ve ry disappointed looking at the world today. A lot of people don’t smile and when it comes to service today, they’re just not nice. Now don’t give me wrong, not all service workers but a good many.
I was on the phone the other day with a computer help desk. First a man, the n later a woman, who couldn’t
have been ruder. And this to a customer, who didn’t know his way around a PC . But no matter, I could tell they thought I was a bother, The woman, in fac t, seemed to be chewing gum as she unemotionally clicked off a series of comma nds for me to perform.
The next day I heard from a friend of mine who got a performance review witho ut his boss once looking up at him. Not once.
You see it everywhere. Gone are the days when people cared about you. It’s a sign of the time, I suspect. But that makes me sad —for them and for us all. People who aren’t happy, who don’t smile, who don’t kid, who don’t j oke or make light of even bad situations, make for an even worse situation.
And it spreads like a cancer. Someone’s rude to you, you’re rude to them and to the next fellow you meet, and on and on. Smiles are contagious（易感染的）but so annoyances. The boss who can’t be bothered with his workers. The celebr ity who can’t be bothered with her annoying fans.
You know, my mom used to judge presidential candidates by how they smiled. I w ould say, “But mom, you don’t know if that smile is real.”
“Oh,yes I do,”she would tell me. “I can feel it.”
It’s in their eyes, she would say. And its in their smile .The rest just kind of falls into place.
1.Why did the writer mention his phone call?
A. To prove his mother is wrong.
B. To show many people aren’t nice.
C. To tell us he knows little about computer.
D. To share his funny experience with us.
2.What is the author’s attitude towards the boss of his friend?
A. Opposed.
B. Doubtful.
C. Respectful.
D. Supportive.
3.When someone is rude to you, you’re advised to ________.
A. be rude to the next person
B. be nice to the people you meet
C. become one just like him or her
D. make for a worse situation
4.What’s the best title of the passage?
A. The power of a smile
B. Don’t judge a person by his look
C. The effect of rudeness
D. Feel a person in his eyes
参考答案1—4、BABA
【2014模拟】
阅读理解。

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。

I was int erested to read a newspaper article about a new concept in old people’s homes in France. The idea is simple, but revolutionary——combining a residential home for the elderly with a nursery school in the same building. The children and the residents eat lunch together and share activities. In the afternoons, the residents enjoy reading or telling stories to the children, and if a child is feeling sad or tired, there is always a kind lap to sit on and a cuddle(拥抱). There are trips out and birthday parties too.
The advantages are enormous for everyone concerned. The children are happy because they get a lot more individual attention, and respond well because someone has time for them. They see illness and death and learn to accept them. The residents are happy because they feel useful and needed. They are more active and more interested in life when the children are around and they take more interest in their appearance too.
Nowadays there is less and less contact between the old and the young. There are many reasons for this, including the breakdown of the extended family, working parents with no time to care for aging relations, families that have moved away, and smaller flats with no room for grandparents. But the result is the same——increasing numbers of children without grandparents and old people
who have no contact with children. And more old people who are lonely and feel useless, along with more and more families with young children who desperately need more support. It’s a major problem in many societies.
That’s why intergenerational programmes, designed to bring the old and the young together, are growing in popularity all over the world. There are examples of successful attempts all over the world. Using young people to teach IT skills to older people is one obvious example. Using old people as volunteer assistants in schools is another, perhaps reading with children who need extra attention.
【小题1】A nursery school is a place where _______.
A. future nurses are trained
B. the elderly live
C. children are taken care of
D. the old join in activities
【小题2】Which is true according to the passage?
A. A number of assistants are employed to take care of the children.
B. The new concept benefits both the elderly and the children.
C. The children become stronger after getting more individual attention.
D. The children learn that sick people will die.
【小题4】What does the “intergenerational programmes” in Paragraph 4 refer to?
A. Combining elderly homes with nursery schools.
B. Letting the children and the residents eat together.
C. Asking young people to teach IT skills to older people.
D. Using old people as volunteer assistants in schools.
【小题5】 What is the best title for the passage?
A. O ld people’s Homes in France
B. Building Bridges of Life
C. A Solution to the Elderly Problem
D. Children’s New Happy Life
【答案】
【小题1】C
【小题2】B
【小题3】D
【小题4】A
【小题5】B
【解析】
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。

An idea that started in Seattle's public library has spread throughout America and beyond. The concept is simple: help to build a sense of community in a city by getting everyone to read the same book at the same time.
In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to communicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools. The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (发起）the "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book " project in 1998. Her original program used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hongkong. In Chicago, the mayor(市长）appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" program. As a result, reading clubs and neighbourhood groups sprang up around the city. Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and character.
The only problem arose in New York , where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This may show that the idea works best in medium-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity(一致）can be achieved .Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point ,putting all their energy
And passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.
Ultimately, as Nancy points out, the level of success is not measured by how many people read a book, but by how many people are enriched by the process, or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared a word.
16. What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?
A. To invite authors to guide readers.
B. To encourage people to read and share.
C. To involve people in community service.
D. To promote the friendship between cities.
17. Why was it difficult for New Yorkers to carry out the project?
A. They had little interest in reading.
B. They were too busy to read a book.
C. They came from many different backgrounds
D.T hey lacked support from the local government
18. According to the passage, where would the project be more easily carried out?
A. In large communities with little sense of unity
B. In large cities where libraries are far from home
C. In medium-sized cities with a diverse population
D .In large towns where agreement can be quickly reached
19. The underlined words “shared a word” in Paragraph 5 probably mean
A. exchanged ideas with each other
B. discussed the meaning of a word
C. gained life experience
D. used the same language
20. According to Nancy, the degree of students of the project is judged by________
A. the careful selection of a proper book
B. the growing popularity of the writers
C. the number of people who benefit from reading.
D. the number of books that each person reads.
【参考答案】16—20、BCDAC
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 company planning to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and the length of time for the multibillion­dollar project.
The Barcelon a­base d architects of the Galactic Suite Space Resort say it will cost $4.4 million for a three­night stay at the hotel. This price also includes an eight­week training course on an island. During their stay, guests would see the sunrise 15 times a day and travel around the world every 80 minutes.Galactic Suite Ltd's CEO Xavier Claramunt says the project will put his company in a leading position of a new industry with a huge future ahead of it, and forecasts space travel will become common in the fut ure. “It's very normal to think that your children, possibly within 15 years, could spend a weekend in space” he told Reuters Television.
A promising space tourism industry is beginning to take shape with construction in progress in New Mexico of Spaceport America, the world's first facility built specifically for passengers. British industrialist Richard Branson's space tours firm, Virgin Galactic, will use the facility to send tourists to space at a cost of $200,000 a ride.
Galactic Suite Ltd, set up in 2007, hopes to start its project with a single pod (分离舱) in orbit 280 miles above the earth. “It will take a day and a half to reach the pod, and the passengers will join it for three days,” Claramunt said. More than 200 people have expressed an interest in traveling to the space hotel and at least 43 people have already reserved it.
The numbers are similar for Virgin Galactic with 300 people already paid or signed up for the trip, but unlike Branson, Galactic Suite says they will use Russian rockets to transport their guests into space from a spaceport to be built on an island in the Caribbean. But critics have questioned the project, saying the length of time that will be used is unreasonable and also where the money is coming from to support the project.
1. What's Xavier Claramunt's attitude towards the space tourism industry?
A. Quite critical.
B. Slightly worried.
C. Highly optimistic.
D. Fully satisfied.
2. Virgin Galactic's guests will be transported into space by using rockets produced in________.
A. Spain
B. America
C. Britain
D. Russia
3. Which of the following is one of the critics' concerns about this project?
A. It is hard to ensure the safety of tourists.
B. There are many technical difficulties.
C. It will be a waste of resources.
D. It may lack support in money.
4. According to the passage, traveling to the space hotel ________.
A. will soon be possible for common people
B. has attracted the attention of some people
C. will make a large profit for the tourist industry
D. is considered an industry with a huge future by many people
5. What's the best title for the passage?
A. The world's first space hotel is to open in 2012.
B. The world's first commercial spaceport is being built.
C. Space tourism：a surprising new industry.
D. Space travel will become common in 15 years.
【参考答案】1—5、CBDBA。