详解高考英语阅读理解(02)

详解高考英语阅读理解(02)阅读下面五篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项填空。

ASome people take lots of exercise. Others keep to strict diets. But according to recent research, the best way to live a long and happy life is simple: Get a dog."We have known for many years that the company of a pet can increase well-being in a number of ways," says Dr Bonnie Beaver, an animal behavior specialist at Texas University."For example, the survival rates of heart attack victims with pets are much greater than those of people without pets."according to Dr Beaver, pet owners are less likely to need a doctor. They recover more quickly; when they do get ill. They have lower blood pressure, take more exercise and are more socially active.Above all, they are happier. Seventy percent of the families Dr Beaver surveyed said that their family environment was happier after they got a pet. And this, is what Dr Beaver and other researchers are trying to achieve. They want to find a scientific link between human happiness and a long life.There is no final answer to this question yet, but it seems to be something to do with emotional ties. People with someone or something to love live longer. "There are many forms of animal-human relationships and some are very helpful," says Dr Beaver. It seems that the more lovely an animal is, the more it benefits our health. As the saying goes, " If you want to be loved, get a dog."Pet ownership benefits men and women equally. Other life experiences divide the sexes. "Women are more sensitive to bad marriages than their husbands because they work harder at their relationships," says Dr Janice Glaser of Ohio State University.The message seems to be that a woman is better off with a good dog than a bad husband. Yet in some ways, men are similar to dogs. They like getting dirty and making a mess. They forget birthdays. They can disappear for days. How can they be better trained?1. according to the author, the company of a pet does good to a person in the following ways except ______.A. having less chance of dying of heart attacksB. being more active in societyC. having their family environment improvedD. being better off than others2. It can be inferred from the article that ______.A. a woman may prefer to have the company of a good dog than that of a bad husbandB. scientists are sure about the relationship between human happiness and a long lifeC. all life experiences have different effect on men and womenD. women can benefit more from owning a pet than men can3. In what kind of tone do you think the author write the passage?A. Realistic and serious.B. Delighted and hopeful.C. Angry and pitiful.D. Light and humorous4. Which of the following do you think would be the best title of the passage?A. Relationship between Humans and Pets.B. Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad.C. Want to Be Loved? Get a Dog.D. Pets and Family Life.高BThe Dead Sea has been famous on earth since the ancient time. Its silence and curing powers have attracted people from bibliolaters(圣经崇拜者) to modem tourists. But the Dead Sea has been quietly dying for years.And the two states next to its shrinking (收缩) Israel and Jordan, face serious economic and ecological challenges in considering how to save the unique nature wonder of the world.They have begun to consider a "Red-Dead" solution — a canal to pump water from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. But the huge costs and the risk of both damaging the Red’s famous coral reefs and weakening the Dead’s medicinal minerals, stand in the way.Known as the Dead Sea because nothing can live in it, the world’s saltiest body of water has fallen from 390 meters to 417 meters below the sea level in the last 50 years. The drop has sped up to a meter a year recently, making a third of its ancient 950 square km size lost. Modem economic are to blame —-taking too much Jordan River water that feeds the Dead Sea to rain-starved farmland.Hotels built along the beach are now a kilometer or more from the water’s edge. Retired Swiss couple Jean andEsther Haensenberger have been spending their yearly "kur" — a Central European tradition of taking medicinal baths to treat skill illness and Stress —- at Israel’s flagship Dead Sea Hotel since 1980s. At first, they could walk a few paces from the hotel to the beach for a float in windless waters, so floating that one can read a book while lying on one’s back. Now visitors board a tractor — drawn trolley that takes them a kilometer to the water."It’s over twice the distance out today. It’s sad. that another rare preserve of nature is disappea­ring," said Jean Haensenberger as he and his wife rode to the shore. "If the sea keeps going down, will people like us keep coming?"5. What’s the serious result the "Red-Dead" solution may cause?A. It may do damage to the nature of the two waters.B. It may cause water pollution.C. It may make medicinal materials disappear.D. It may cause floods.6. The main problem the Dead Sea faces is that______.A. there is little rain in this areaB. it is getting smaller and smallerC. more and more visitors visit itD. it is getting dirtier and dirtier7. One of the causes that make the Dead Sea dying is______.A. more and more hotelsB. less and less rainfallC. the growing tourismD. the development of agriculture8. The trouble tourists to the Dead Sea will have is that______.A. they have to go by airB. the weather is becoming worse and worseC. they have to go much farther from the hotel to the waterD. the water in the Dead Sea is becoming saltier and saltierCThe medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in the hospital may play an important role in helping patients to get better.As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the museums and into public places, some of thecountry’s best artists have been called in to change older hospitals and to soften the hard edges of modern buildings. Of the 2,500 national health service hospitals in Britain, almost 100 now have very valuable collections of present art in passages, waiting areas and treatment rooms.These recent movements were first started by one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester hospital on northeastern England during the early 1970s;He felt that the artist had lost his place in modem society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.A common hospital waiting room might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art I Senior held the first exhibition of his own paintings in the outpatients waiting area of the Manchester Royal Hospital in 1975. Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist, Senior was so much in demand that he was soon joined by a team of six young art school graduates.The effect is striking. Now in the passages and waiting rooms, the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colours, playful images (形象) and restful courtyards.The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expensive drugs when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who have a view of garden needed half the number of strong pain killers compared with patients who have no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.9. Some best artists have been gathered to______.A. pull down older hospitals and build up new onesB. make the comers of the hospital building roundC. bring art into hospitalsD. help patients recover from illness10. From this text, we’ve learnt that ______.A. artists in Britain have completely lost their places in modem societyB. patients should be encouraged to learn artC. hospitals in Britain should be changed into art museumsD. art is encouraged to be introduced into British hospitals11. After the improvement of the hospital environment, ______.A. patients no longer need drugs to kill their painsB. patients needn’t buy any expensive drugsC. patients need fewer pain killers when they are getting better after illnessD. patients can take fewer pills each time12. It can be inferred from this text that ______.A. the role of hospital environment is being recognizedB. hospital artists have done a lot for patientsC. exhibitions of art in hospitals attract more audiences than those in museumsD. hospitals in Britain look more beautiful than those in other countriesDAftershocks shook northern Japan on Sunday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least 18 people and injured about 1000 people as houses collapsed and landslides devastated (破坏) a village, stranding (使处于困境) hundreds of people.Tens of thousands of fearful residents in the rural Niigata prefecture spent the night in evacuation centers; or outdoors after the initial quake with a magnitude of 6. 8 hit at 5:56 p. m. on Saturday.As daylight, broke, the full scale of the damage to the area, some 150 miles north of Tokyo, became evident. Roads buckled, a bullet train was derailed (出轨), and many landslides hit the largely mountainous region.Aerial pictures on television showed that a mudslide had engulfed (吞没) houses, roads and cars in the small village of Yamakoshi, cutting off some about 600 residents.TV showed soldiers in khaki uniforms trying to rescue a mother and a son trapped in a house wrecked (摧毁) by a landslide, using chain saws to cut their way through the rubble (碎石).In the city of Ojiya, the apparent scene of much of the damage, a large area of land under a rail line had caved in, forming a crater-like hole and leaving train tracks dangling.Elsewhere, the lopsided leading carriage of a bullet train rested on the side of its track, the first derailment since the high-speed service was introduced 40 years ago.Eight carriages of the train derailed, but there were no injuries, a Transport Ministry official said." We are desperately in need of food, water and blankets for the local residents," said an official in Ojiya, which has a population of 40,000.The quake knocked out power and phone services to at least 278,000 homes and water and gas services were disrupted.Many residents huddled under blankets in schools and other temporary shelters while some spent the night outside or in cars as temperatures fell to around 41 degrees Fahrenheit.More than 240 aftershocks that could be felt by humans had struck since the initial quake, the Meteorological Agency said, and officials warned of further strong tremors.The quake and aftershocks shook buildings in Tokyo but there were no reports of any injuries or major damage in the capital.13. Which statement is true according to the passage?A. The train in Japan has never derailed in the past 40 years.B. There were no reports of any injuries or major damage since the initial quake.C. There was no injuries after the train derailed.D. The local residents are desperately in need of money.14. Which of the following words can best describe the mood of the residents after the quake?A. Hopeless.B. Fearful.C. Sorrow.D. Bitter,15. What does the underline word "disrupted" probably mean?A. Cut off.B. Dix upC. Break down.D. Cut down.16. When did the initial quake happen?A. At night.B. In the morning;C. In the afternoon.D. At mid day.EGenerations of children who sat through endless lessons of "chalk and talk" in front of a bossy teacher can take some relief. But the "chalk and talk" method helped them achieve better exam results. Modem classroom techniques may make school days a good deal happier, but contentment (满足) is not the road to success in examinations, according to university researchers.Their three-year study, monitoring the progress of 2,000 teenagers, tried to measure the influ­ence of the " boredom factor" in 17 selected schools in the north of England. The researchers also found that the old-fashioned approach (方法) of teachers ordering pupils about is still alive and pro­ducing results. Their conclusions were welcomed yesterday by educationists who were worried by the shift to less formal lessons.The pupils in the latest study were asked to award teachers marks to measure how frequently they followed or ignored today’s fashion for " child-centred" education. A five-point scale was given to spot the teachers who always told them what they should know and what to write down. " It was signifi­cant and not anything you would get by chance or accident. Certainly, when you compare the pupil’s interest and attitude to school, there is a quite definite and highly significant difference," one of the researchers said. But the rankings were turned upside down when the team of four researchers looked at how the’children did in examination. The sort of methods now frowned upon (不赞同) actually im­prove the final grades.The researchers said, "There is nothing wrong with old-fashioned, didactic (说教性的)teaching in the right place, even if it isn’t the flavor at the moment. "However, he insisted the best teachers had always mixed the two techniques to match the needs of pupils, although certain examinations forced some to concentrate more on dictation and learning by rote(死记硬背).17. University researchers have discovered that ______. ‘A. odern teaching methods provide students with entertainmentB. students taught by modem techniques are happy and successfulC. traditional teaching methods help students score higherD. students like old teaching better than modem teaching at school18. We can infer from Paragraph 3 that ______.A. child-centred education promotes friendship among childrenB. the research findings are not significant enough for a conclusionC. those who show greater interest in school did better in examsD. those who don’t show much interest in school may turn out to score higher in tests19. The researchers suggest that ______.A. more old methods be used in teachingB. students be taught how to score high in examsC. dictation be used as one of the best teaching methodsD. old and new methods be used together20. The best title for this text would be ______.A. The Examination-based TeachingB. Rote Learning Was The WinnerC. The Problem Of Child-cent red EducationD. The Problem Of The Traditional Method答案与简析：(A)饲养宠物狗是长寿和幸福生活的最好的方式，女士和狗在一起比和一个差丈夫在一起的状况会更好。