高考英语阅读理解基础精品练习题(50)及答案

2014高考英语阅读理解基础精品练习题（50）及答案
阅读理解
Many years ago, when I was fresh out of school and working in Denver, I was driving to my parents' home in Missouri for Christmas. I stopped at a gas station(加油站)about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend. While I was standing in line at the cash register(收款台), I said hello to an older couple who were also paying for gas.
I took off, but had gone only a few miles when black smoke poured from the back of my car. I stopped and wondered what I should do. A car pulled up behind me. It was the couple I had spoken to at the gas station. They said they would take me to my friend's .We chatted on the way into the city, and when I got out of the car, the husband gave me his business card.
I wrote him and his wife a thank-you note for helping me. Soon afterward, I received a Christmas present from them. Their note that came with it said that helping me had made their holidays meaningful.
Years later, I drove to a meeting in a nearby town in the morning. In late afternoon I returned to my car and found that I'd left the lights on all day, and the battery(电池)was dead. Then I noticed that the Friendly Ford dealership - a shop selling cars - was right next door. I walked over and found two salesmen in the showroom.
"Just how friendly is Friendly Ford?" I asked and explained my trouble. They quickly drove a pickup truck to my car and started it. They would accept no payment, so when I got home, I wrote them a note to say thanks. I received a letter back from one of the salesmen. No one had ever taken the time to write him and say thank you, and it meant a lot, he said.
"Thank you" - two powerful words. They're easy to say and mean so much.
60. The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City_________.
A. to visit a friend
B. to see his parents
C. to pay at the cash register
D. to have more gas for his car
61. The words “took off”underlined in Paragraph 2 mean “______”.
A. turned off
B. moved off
C. put up
D. set up
62. What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?
A. He had it pulled back to the gas station.
B. The couple sent him a business card.
C. The couple offered to help him.
D. He called his friend for help.
63. The battery of the author’s car was dead because_______.
A. something went wrong with the lights
B. the meeting lasted a whole day
C. he forgot to turn off the lights
D. he drove too long a distance
64. By telling his own experiences, the author tries to show______.
A. how to write a thank-you letter
B. how to deal with car problems
C. the kind-heartedness of older people
D. the importance of expressing thanks
2、(10分)
60.A 61.B 62.C 63.C 64.D
60．解析：这是一道细节推断题。

根据“…at a gas station about 50 miles from Oklahoma City, where I was planning to stop and visit a friend”where …是修饰Oklahoma City的，可知去Oklahoma City是为了拜访一个朋友。

61．解析：这是一道猜义题。

根据上一句“pay for gas”和后面的“gone only a few miles”可知took off是离开的意思,选项B move off也是离开的意思。

Turn off：关掉；put up:拿起；set up 设立。

62．解析：这是一道细节推断题。

从第二段“They said they would take me to my friend’s”和“when I got out of the car”可知老夫妇把作者送到了朋友家。

阅读理解
Tykoon is an online website that allows you to teach your child financial principles through allowances, assignment of tasks and daily chores. As the parent, you can assign a cash value to the things you want your child to do. Then, your child can go in, accept the task and add to their wish list of what they would like to purchase with the money that they earn.
Let’s start with the parent side of things. The parent must be the one to set up the account. You simply enter your information and your child’s information to get started. You are then able to
assign allowance amounts to your child.
Then you can add tasks for your child to accept and link them to either their weekly allowance or a pre-determined amount. Your child is then able to accept or decline their tasks. They can see how much each task earns, how often they need to do it and what they will get if they do! They can add items that they are working toward earning and can even earn nn-cash incentives such as extra TV time or staying up late!
Tykoon is a great way to start teaching your child about responsibility and financial principles in fun and safe way. Through the creation of their own profile and the ability to accept or decline tasks, they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets! So, head over and sign up for a free account today and watch your child get excited about doing their chores!
And right now, as a special reward, if you share Tykoon with your friends and have five friends sign up and stay active for more than a month, you’ll earn a ＄25 gift card! So get your child enrolled(注册), tell your friends and let’s start teaching all our kids about the important financial principles today!
66.The purpose of the text is to___________.
A. make an advertisement
B. share teaching experience
C. describe an online website
D. present a way of making money
【答案】A
【解析】第一段介绍Tykoon，二，三，四段介绍怎样操作以及所带来的好处，最后一段是奖励措施。

因此，本文的目的是做广告，吸引大家都来参与。

67.The underlined word“incentives” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “_________”.
A. promises
B. rewards
C. gifts
D. tasks
【答案】B
【解析】根据下文such as extra TV time or staying up late!，可见，“incentives”表示的是一种奖励。

68.What can kids learn from Tykoon?
A. The ability to manage their budgets.
B. The responsibility to do daily chores.
C. The skills to earn their own living.
D. The tricks to accept or refuse tasks.
【答案】A
【解析】根据第四段they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets!他们被教给在以后生活中他们自己管理自己财务时需要的技巧。

69.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_________.
A. no parents will resist the special reward
B. Amazon is a very popular website
C. Tykoon wants to attract more visitors
D. friends should share information
【答案】C
【解析】如果你能分享给5个朋友，让他们也签约并且保持活跃至少一个月，你就会得到价值25美元的亚马逊礼品卡。

70.What is the best title of the text?
A. Tykoon—A Safe Way to Manage Your Financial Issues
B. How to Create Funny Tasks for Your Kids on the Website
C. Opening an Online Account with the Help of Tykoon
D. Teaching Your Kids Financial Principles with Tykoon
【答案】D
【解析】纵观全文可知。

A
About 1966 or so, a NASA（美国宇航局）team doing work for the Apollo moon mission（阿波罗登月计划）took the astronauts near Tuba City. There the land of the Navajo Reservation looks very much like the lunar surface. Among all the trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full lunar space suits.
Nearby, a Navajo shepherd (牧羊人) and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being watched over by other NASA workers. The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA people. Since the shepherd and his son did not know English, they asked the NASA people who the strange creatures were. The NASA people told them that they were just men that were getting ready to go to the moon. The shepherd became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts.
The NASA officials thought this was a great idea so they provided a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked his son to translate. His son would not.
Later, they tried a few more people on the Navajo Reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle (偷偷地笑) and then refuse to translate. Finally, with cash in hand
someone translated the message, “Watch out for these guys, they have come t o take your land!”
56. The appearance of the Navajo Reservation is very similar to that of ________.
A. the Tuba City
B. the moon
C. the NASA research center
D. the Apollo moon mission
57. When the older Navajo heard that the men in front of him were going to the moon, he
________.
A. felt frightened and ran away quickly
B. chatted excitedly with the NASA workers
C. got on the modern trucks and large vehicles for fun
D. tried to say something to the moon creatures
58. The son did not translate the words his father said because ________.
A. he had trouble in understanding his father
B. the words his father used were too difficult to be translated
C. his father was sending a warning against the NASA people
D. he believed that the NASA workers could understand their language
59. According to this passage, we can know that the shepherd was ________.
A. patient and brave
B. foolish and impolite
C. humorous and intelligent
D. knowledgeable and talkative
参考答案56—59 BDCC
阅读理解
Knowing the best way to study will help you to be a better student. By using your time properly, you can do your homework more quickly. Learning to study is not difficult.
The first thing to remember is that you must be willing to learn. It doesn’t mean that you must always like the subject. It does mean, however, that you must be wil1ing to do whatever is necessary to learn. Try to understand why it is important and how it will help you now and later to do and learn other things. Knowing mathematics facts will be useful in your whole life. Knowing how to spell makes any kind of writing easier. Sometimes the subject that you think is going to be uninteresting will be exciting when you begin to work at it and understand it more clearly. Learning things can be fun if you are willing to work with them.
Here’s some advice for you: have a certain time each day and a quiet place with good lighting for study, so that you can concentrate on your study without interruptions (中断); have everything
ready before you sit down to study, a dictionary, paper, a pen and books; be sure you understand what you should learn before you start; read carefully and pay special attention to the most important things; when memorizing, first find out the main parts and then recite the whole thing; check your homework after you finish it; never forget the importance of review and preview.
Don’t try to spend a lot of time researching learning methods. There are many students who know many good learning methods but don’t study well. They forget that the most useful learning method is to study hard.
60. The main purpose of the article is______.
A. to prove that learning is not difficult
B. to make the readers be interested in study
C. to tell the importance of self teaching
D. to tell the students how to study well
61. The first thing to remember in studying is that ______.
A. you must like the subject
B. you must follow the teacher
C. you must enjoy learning
D. you must study hard
62. Among the following statements, ______is true.
A. The more learning methods we have, the better we will study.
B. Finding the best learning method is the most important in learning.
C. Knowing good methods, you can’t be good at study without working hard.
D. Once we have mastered a good learning method, we can improve our study greatly.
参考答案60---62 DCC
How far would you be willing to go to satisfy your need to know? Far enough to find out your possibility of dying from a terrible disease? These days that’s more than an academic question, as Tracy Smith reports in our Cover Story.
There are now more than a thousand genetic（基因的）tests, for everything from baldness to breast cancer, and the list is growing. Question is, do you really want to know what might eventually kill you? For instance, Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer’（老年痴呆症）.
“If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease, that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious, through which you see the rest of your life as you wait for that disease to hit you. It could really mess you up.” Said Dr. Robert Green, a Harvard geneticist.
“Every ache and pain,” Smith suggested, could be understood as “th e beginning of the end.”“That ’s right. If you ever worried you were at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, then every time you can’t find your car in the parking lot, you think the disease has started.”
Dr. Green has been thinking about this issue for years. He led a study of people who wanted to know if they were at a higher genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. It was thought that people who got bad news would, for lack of a better medical term, freak out. But Green and his team found that there was“no significant difference”between how people handled good news and possibly the worst news of their lives. In fact, most people think they can handle it. People who ask for the information usually can handle the information, good or bad, said Green.
71.The first paragraph is meant to__________.
A. ask some questions
B. introduce the topic
C. satisfy readers’ curiosity
D. describe an academic fact
【答案】B
【解析】通过两个问题引出话题。

72.Which of the following is true of James Watson？
A. He is strongly in favor of the present genetic tests.
B. He is more likely to suffer from Alzheimer’s disease.
C. He believes genetic mapping can help cure any disease.
D. He doesn’t want to know his chance of getting a disease.
【答案】D
【解析】根据第二段Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer’。

“James Watson要求如果他的基因表明他有很高的老年痴呆症的可能不要告诉他。

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73.According to Paragraphs 3 and 4, if a person is at a higher genetic risk, it is__________.
A. advisable not to let him know
B. impossible to hide his disease
C. better to inform him immediately
D. necessary to remove his anxiety
【答案】A
【解析】根据这两个自然段可知，如果你提前被告知你将来可能患某种可怕的疾病会mess you up。

74.The underlined part“freak out”in Paragraph 5 is closest in meaning to“_________”.
A. break down
B. drop out
C. leave off
D. turn away
【答案】A
【解析】根据下文But的转折，以及no significant difference可知，freak out的意思是A（精神垮掉）。

75.The study led by Dr. Green indicates that people__________.
A. prefer to hear good news
B. tend to find out the truth
C. can accept some bad news
D. have the right to be informed
【答案】C
【解析】根据第五段内容In fact, most people think they can handle it可知答案选C.
The time of year a baby is born can shape what profession they will embark on in later life, a new study has suggested. Being born in a certain month appears to indicate the possibility of what job a person will end up with, the study by the Office for National Statistics found.
Researchers have uncovered that the month in which babies are born could also affect everything from intelligence to length of life. A child born in December is more likely to become a dentist while someone whose birthday falls in January will tend to a debt collector, they found.
A February birth appears to increase the chances of being an artist while March babies appear to go on to become pilots. Meanwhile, April and May are said to have a fairly even spread of professions, births in the summer months mean a much lower chance of becoming a high-earning football player, doctor or dentist. The study was gained by researchers who analyzed the birth months of people in 19 separate occupations using information from the last census (人口普查), the Daily Mail reported. Although these trends may be difficult to explain, relations between birth months and specific health problems have a scientific basis.
Spring babies are at greater risk of illnesses including schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, asthma and autism. They may also be less clever than classmates born in other parts of the year. (/news-115-76605.html)
63. What does the underlined phrase “embark on” refer to?
A. land on
B. keep in touch with
C. be engaged in
D. break from
64. According to the researchers, a child born in March is likely to become_______.
A. a debt collector
B. a pilot
C. a dentist
D. an artist
65. We can learn from the text that______.
A. the month babies are born could only affect his intelligence and length of life
B. People born in the summer months are more likely to get highly paid
C. Spring babies may have the bigger chance to get ill
D. the choice of profession for April and May is very narrow
66. What can be included from the passage?
A. There exist connections between birth date and occupations
B. The fate has been already decided when people are born
C. People born in Autumn would be more successful than those born in Spring
D. The time of year one is born decides which specific health problems one has
参考答案63—66 CBCA。