广西南宁市高考英语一轮 阅读理解暑假训练题(13)

南宁市2014高考英语一轮（暑假）阅读理解训练（13）及答案
阅读理解主旨大意Passage**** (典型例题冈模拟卷)
Thinking is something you choose to do as a fish chooses to live in water. To be human is to think. But thinking may come naturally without your knowing how you do it. Thinking about thinking is the key to critical (判断性的) thinking. When you think critically, you take control of your thinking processes (过程). Otherwise, you might be controlled by the ideas of others. Indeed, critical thinking is at the heart of education.
The word" critical" here has a special meaning. It does no mean taking one view against another view, as when someon, criticizes another person for doing something wrong. The na ture of critical thinking is thinking beyond the easily seen beyond the pictures on TV, the untrue reports in the news papers, and the faulty reasoning. Critical thinking is an attitude as much as an activity. I you are curious about life and desire to dig deeper into it, you are a critical thinker. If you find pleasure in deep thinkin about different ideas, characters, and facts, you are a critics thinker.
Activities of the mind and higher-order reasoning ar processes of deep and careful consideration. They take time and do not go hand in hand with the fast speed in today' world: fast foods, instant coffee, and self-developing film Have you are among the people who believe that speed is measure of intelligence (智力), you may learn something ney from a story about Albert Einstein. The first time Banes Hoffman, a scientist, was to discuss his work with Albert Eir stein, Hoffman was too nervous to speak. But Einstein imme diately put Hoffman at easeby saying," Please go slowly, don't understand things quickly. ”
1. Critical thin king is important to us because if we do nt think critically______.
A. it will be hard for us to think naturally and fast
B. we might be controlled by other people's ideas
C. we will follow the ideas of others naturally
D. we might be fooled by other people's ideas
答案: B 指导；由文章第一段中“When you think critically，you take control of your thinking processes．Other wise，you might becontrolled by the ideas of others”可知B正确。

2. If you are a critical thinker, you will______.
A. think deeply about different ideas
B. trust the reports in die newspapers
C. take one view against another view
D. criticize other people for their mistakes
答案: A 指导：由文章第三段"If you find pleasure indeep thinking about different ideas，characters，and facts，you are acriticaithinker"，可知A正确。

3. In the last paragraph," something new "suggests that______.
A. the smarter you are, the faster you do things
B. the faster you do things, the smarter you become
C. speed can improve intelligence
D. intelligence is not decided by speed
答案: D 指导；由文章最后一句"Please So slowly．Idon't understand things quickly"可知Something new暗示“that intelligence is not decided by speed”，所以D正确。

4. What would be the best tide for the passage?
A. Thinking and Critical Thinking
B. Understanding Critical Thinking
C. Thinking Natural and Human
D. Thinking Fast Means Intelligence
答案: B 指导：本文着重分析了批判性思考的含义，所以B项“Understanding Critical Thinking"做文章的题目最恰当．
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阅读理解主旨大意Passage**** (北大附中模拟卷)
BEIJING ( Associated Press) ! China has a growing middle class, a tradition of expecting education and 21 million new babies every year. Selling educational toys
should be easy.
While China may be the world's biggest toy-maker, much of the best is exported. Department stores here do not have e- nough high-quality toys. It is said the demand for educationaltoys is low.
A US company, BabyCare, is trying to change that with a new way to sell toys in China.
BabyCare works basically together with doctors in Beijing hospitals. People who join the company's "mother's club" get lectures and news letters on baby and child development at no extra cost--if they agree to spend 18 dollars a month on the company's educational toys and childeare books.
"We want to build a seven-year relationship with those people," said Matthew J. Estes, BabyCare's president. "It starts during pregnancy, when t he anxiety ar.d needs are highest." BabyCare works on a one-to-one basis. Doctors, nurses, and teachers--paid by BabyCare--advise parents, explaining toys that are designed for children at each stage of development to age six.
BabyCare opened its first store in China last June in a shopping center in central Beijing and another near Beijing Zoo. It plans to have 80 stores in China within six years.
It is a new model for China and develops a market in young children's education and health that no other companies are in.
1. What do the first two paragraphs mainly tell us?
A. Educational toys and, foreign toy markets.
B. Problems with China's toy market and education.
C. Reasons for pushing sales of educational toys in China.
D. Baby pop ulation and various kinds of toys made in China.
答案: C 指导：直选题，从前两段中知：Selling educational toys should be easy，department stores here do not have enough high-quality toys．
2. Which of the following would be the most suitable title for the passage?
A. Mother's Club in China
B. BabyCare and Doctors
C. American. Company Model
D. On Educational Toys Passage
答案: D 指导：纵观全文，文章主要是关于educational toys的一篇报道，中心意思不言自明。

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阅读理解主旨大意Passage ****
Yang Yongfang used to take the bus to work. But, these days, when she takes a look at the bus, all she sees is "a big box full of people, all breathing in there. It seems very unsafe."
And that means SARS. So Yang got out her bicycle and dusted it off. Other Chinese who, until recently, appeared to be moving away from the old mode of transportation, seem to he back riding as well.
Of course, there's no shortage of bikes. There were plenty long before SARS showed up. But in recent years, private care have been growing in large numbers, crowding bicycles off the streets in some of the biggest cities. Now SARS has brought the bicycle traffic back. Crowded trains and buses look less attractive(吸引人的). In Shanghai 120,000 more bicycles were registered (登记) in April, well above last year's monthly average of 50,000.
People's Daily recently reported that "bicycle" had suddenly become the third most frequently searched term on the nation's largest Web search engine.
However, if bike sales continue upward, it could become a nightmare (噩梦)for traffic planners, who had to contend with the often deadly clash between bikes and motorized vehicles. Shanghai officially sees nearly one traffic-related bicycle death
a day, a figure that many people here say is probably an understatement (少报).
1. Before SARS broke out, Yang Yongfang______.
A. was tired of going to work by car
B. went to work by bike
C. had already sold her bike
D. went to work by bus
答案: D 指导：由文章第一句可知。

2. More and more people in Shanghai are beginning to ride, because______.
A. riding a bike is much more convenient
B. riding a bike costs less than taking the bus
C. they care more about their health
D. the government has been encouraging them to do exercise
答案: C 指导：由于SARS的影响，越来越多的人愿意骑自行车而非乘车是从身体健康方面考虑。

3. The writer of the passage______the phenomenon (现象)that bike sales continue upward.
A. is strongly against
B. is for
C. shows no opinion of
D. is worried about
答案: D 指导：由“if bike sales continueupward，it could become a nightmare．．．可知。

4. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Bikes Sell Well in Shanghai.
B. The New Fashion.
C. Back to Nature.
D. Shanghai Takes on a New Look.
答案:A 指导：为了躲避SARS，人们又重新选择了自行车，从而导致了自行车的旺销。

因此，将A作为标题，可以揭示出“triffic"与"SARS'，之间在这一特定时期的关系。

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【阅读理解细节事实】Passage ****** (世纪报模拟)
The modern Olympic Games were founded with the intention of improving health and education, promoting world peace, and encouraging fair and equal competition. But over the years, the olympic saying, "faster, higher, stronger", has pushed scientists as well as athletes to do everything possible to reach new levels.
Doctors, engineers and coaches all use everyting science has to offer to achieve that little bit extra in competition. The reason modern technology has become part
of sport is very simple: winning is just as important as it was 2,500 years ago at the olympics of ancient Greece. Developments in technology have often been reflected in the methods of training and per- formance at the olympics through history. This technology falls into two main groups: improving an athlet's performance in competition, and allowing results to be measured more accurately.
One of the creations that has drawn the most attention is the new high-tech swimsuit from Speedo, which was used by many US swimmers in Athens. Until Sydney 2000, it was thought that the smaller the swimsuit, the faster the swimmer would travel.
"However, the fact that at the Sydney Olympics,28 of the 33 gold medalists were wearing the body covering Fastskin suit proved the theory was out of date, "said Andy Thomas, vicepresident of Speed.
The company's full body suit is supposed to make swim- mers 3 to 4 percent faster, particularly when turning or diving into the water. It is believed that the suit creates less water re- sistance as it moves, behaving more like a shark skin than a human skin.
The introduction of high-tech equipment means that athletes in all sports, from 100-metre sprint to the pole vault,can now train more effectively.
Meanwhile, scientific devlopment also means performances can be measured and studied more accurately. Not only are winning times more accurately recorded, but cheating athletes are easier to catch out. Athens 20典型例题nizers promised to use only the very latest equipment to measure distance and speed.
1. Which is not the first aim of the modern Olympic Games?
A. Improving health and education.
B. Promoting world peace.
C. Encouraging fair and equal competition.
D. Winning medals.
答案:D 由文章第一句“．．．the intention of improving bealth and education，promotmg world preace，and encouraging f air and equal competition"知，winning medals不包括在内，故选D.
2. The reason modern technology has become part of sport is that people______.
A.. make every effort to win medals
B. do their best to invent new sports equipmnt
C. try to test their abilities
D. want to improve their condition of competition
答案:A 由第二段第二句"The reason modern technology has become part of sport is very simple：winning is just as imortant as it was2，500years ago at the Olympics of ancient Greece”知，A选项(努力赢得奖牌)最符合文章。

3. In the passage it mentions that high technology is involved in______ aspects.
A. 1
B.2
C. 3
D. 4
答案: B 从文章第二段最后一句知：高科技应用于运动的目的有二；提高运动员在竞赛中的表现能力，使比赛结果更准确。

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阅读理解--细节事实Passage 3
If you are a recent social science graduate who has had to listen to jokes about unemployment from your computer major classmates, you may have had the last laugh. There are many advantages for the social science major because this high-tech "Information Age" demands people who are {lexible(灵活) and who have good communication skills.
There are many social science majors in large companies who fill important positions. For example, a number of re- search studies found that social science majors bad achieved greater managerial success than those how had technical train- lng or pre-professional courses; Studies show that social science majors are most suited for change, which is the leading featured (特点) of the kind of high-speed, high-pressure, high-tech world we now live in.
Social science majors are not only experiencing success in their long term company jobs, but they are also finding jobs more easily. A study showed that many companies had filled a large percentage of their entry level positions with social
science graduates. The study also showed that the most sought-after quality in a person who was looking for a job was communica- tion skills, noted as "very important" by 92 percent of the companies. Social science majors have these skills, of ten without knowing how important they are. It is probably due to these skills that they have been offered a wide variety of positions.
Finally, although some social science majors may still find it more difficult than their technically trained classmates to land the first job, recent graduates report that they don't regret their choice of study.
1. By saying that" you may have had the last laugh" in the first paragraph, the
author means that you may have______.
A. shared the jokes with computer majors
B. earned as much as computer majors
C. found jobs more easily than computer majors
D. stopped joking about computer majors
答案: C 指导：这是一道推断作者意图题。

从第一段"Thereare many advantages for the social science major．．．”可知，灵活和好的交际技巧在“信息社会中”是十分重要的，所以学习社会科学的毕业生比学习计算机的毕业生可能更容易找到工作。

2. Compared with graduates of other subjects, social science graduates______.
A. are ready to change when situations change
B. are better able to deal with difficulties
C. are equally good at computer skills
D. are likely to give others pressure
答案:A 指导：这是一道细节推断题。

根据第二段中“Studies show that social science maiors are．．”可判断出与其他专业的毕业生相比，社会科学的毕业生在形势改变时，他们更乐意改变。

3. The underlined word "land" in the last paragraph probably means______.
A. keep for some time
B. successfully get
C. immediately start
D. lose regretfully
答案: B 指导：这是一道猜义题。

根据land后的宾语the first job 可判断出它的意思是“成功地获得”。

4. According to the text, what has made it easy for social science graduates to find jobs?
A. Willingness to take low-paid jobs.
B. Readiness to gain high-tech knowledge.
C. Skills in expressing themselves.
D. Part-time work experience. Passage
答案: C 指导：这是一道细节推断题。

根据第三段中"Thestudy also showed that．．．”可得出结论，社会科学毕业生的善于表现自己的技巧使他们容易找到工作。

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