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深圳市2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（1）及答案
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The fourth Thursday in November is Thanksgiving Day in America. There are thousands of bystanders and millions of television viewers. The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York is as traditional as turkey. The year 2013 marked the 87th year of Macy’s parade. It featured 15 giant balloons in the shape of cartoon and pop culture characters, 1,200 dancers and cheerleaders, 900 clowns, 10 marching bands and nearly 9,000 personnel, almost all of whom were volunteers.
Over the cours e of the nearly nine decades since Macy’s immigrant employees organized the first Thanksgiving Day Parade, the floats (彩车) and balloons8have been getting larger, more colorful and more surprising.
In 2013, school children were invited to the Macy’s parade studios outside New York City, for a first look at several just completed floats.
Bella was excited to be there. “I think it’s great because I get to see all of these floats before anyone else does in the parade,” said Bella.
John Piper is the vice president of Macy’s Studio. He said his work is fun all the time. “Or at least it seems that way. It’s a lot of work. All year long, the artists at Macy’s Studio build these floats. We create them from scratch. I have the finest carpenters, metal workers, sculptors, painters and illustrators all cooperating together,” said Piper.
The floats were supposed to showcase the parade’s commercial sponsors in time for the start of the Christmas season. But Amy Kule, t he event producer, said,“And the floats are used to maintain the beauty and the majesty(庄严) of the parade. A Thanksgiving parade is always about giving back and entertaining. But most importantly, it’s about leaving it for the next generation.”
31. From the first para graph we know that _______.
A. the marching bands were as man y as clowns
B. Thanksgiving Day falls on the first Thursday
C. all of the people celebrating the festival were volunteers
D. all balloons were shaped into cartoon and pop culture characters
32. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in America has a history of ________.
A. almost 90 years
B about 80 years
C. nearly 70 years
D. about 60 years
33. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to John Piper?
A. All the workers at Macy’s Studio work together on the floats.
B. John Piper is the vice president of the studio.
C. The workers must build the floats two years before the parade.
D. The workers have to create the floats from the beginning.
34. Most importantly, a Thanksgiving parade is about ______.
A. giving back
B. entertaining
C. leaving it for the next generation
D. maintaining the beauty and the majesty of t he parade
35. Which part of a website is the passage probably taken from?
A. Culture.
B. Technology.
C. Travel
D. Opinion
【参考答案】31-35 DACCA
每年11月的第四个星期四被定为感恩节，本文介绍了感恩节的一些情况。

31. D。

细节理解题。

从第一段的It featured 15 giant balloons in the shape of cartoon and pop culture characters...可知答案。

32. A。

细节理解题。

从第二段的...nearly nine decades及第一段的The year 2013 marked the 87th year...可知答案。

33. C。

细节理解题。

从第五段的All year long, the artists...build these floats.可知答案。

34. C。

细节理解题。

从最后一段中的But most importantly, it’s about leaving it for
the next generation.可知答案。

35. A。

推理判断题。

感恩节属于美国的传统节日，应属于文化部分的内容。

阅读理解
FRIDAY, Dec．5, 2008—College students who think all-night study sessions will help them remember facts might want to get some sleep instead．That's the message from a new study that finds that as you sleep, the mind consolidates the things you learn during the day．
Study participants who learned how to play a video game in the morning or evening did a better job the next day after a night's rest, apparently because their brains were actively absorbing what they'd learned as they slept．
The finding shows "that sleep is not just a passive state when no information is coming in," said Howard Nusbaum, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago．
For the study, the researchers recruited 200 college students．Most of them weren't very familiar with playing video games．Some of the participants learned how to play the games in the morning, while others learned in the evening．The researchers then tested the subjects on the video games 12 hours later and 24 hours later．Those who took part in the morning training sessions showed an average eight-percentage-point improvement in their performance immediately after training．They performed more poorly—scoring four percentage points better—12 hours later．But they scored 10 percentage points better the next morning．"If we train you in the morning and come back at the end of the day, you forget some of what you learned," Nusbaum said．"But if you sleep after that, it restores some of what you learned．"
The students who took part in the evening training sessions performed better the next morning after sleeping, than they did after being trained．
The role that dreams play in the learning process—if any—isn't clear．But some
dreams could serve as a kind of practice for the brain, Nusbaum said．"If you play a video game a lot, and you're playing in your dreams, may be th at could help you learn．"
Jerry Siegel, professor at the Center for Sleep Research at the University of Calfornia, Los Angeles, said going without sleep hurts performance, but he's not convinced that sleep itself actively contributes to learning．
"If you take a break for a few hours, it can easily be shown that lea rning did occur, because performance is better at the start of a new learning session than it was at the end of the initial session," he said．"No sleep needs to occur for this to happen．"
Still, Siegel suggested that sleep before learning a skill is crucial．"For long-term retention, it is more important to be well rested and therefore attentive when you are doing t he learning than afterwards," he said．"It is even better if you don't have to choose and get your natural amounts of sleep every day．"
9 What does the unde rlined word ‘want’ （in Paragraph 1） mean?
A．lack B．wish C．desire D．need
10 What is mainly talked about in this text?
A．The effect of video games on learning
B．The relation between sleep and learning．
C．The role of dreams in the learning process
D．The difference between morning and evening trainings．
11 What would be the best title for the text?
A．Sleep strengthens learning．B．Dreams clearly help learning．
C．A break before learning is better．D．Video games improve performance．12 Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
A．Training in the morning showed better results at once．
B．Learning won’t occur during sleeping without dreams．．
C．Sleeping well helps to absorb what one learned
D．Studying all night helps to remember more facts．
参考答案 9-12 DBAC
阅读理解
The Queen’s En glish is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the Queen’s Christmas broadcasts had found. Researchers have studied each of her messages to the Commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble Upper Received to the Standard Received.
Jonathan Harrington, a professor at Germany’s University of Munich, wanted to discover whether accent (口音) changers recorded over the past half century would tak e place within one person. “As far as I know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.
He said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past yea rs. “Her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. But these are very, very small and slow changes that we don’t notice from year to year.”
“We may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told The Daily Telegraph, a Bri tish newspaper. “In 1952 she would have been heard saying ‘thet men in the bleck het’. Now it would be ‘that man in the black hat’. And ‘hame’ rather than ‘home’. In the 1950s she would have been ‘lorst’, but by the 1970s ‘lost’.”
The Queen’s broadcast is a personal message to the Commonwealth countries. Each Christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on TV at 3 pm in Britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch. (传统火鸡午餐).
The results were published (发表) in the Journal of Phonetics.
46. The Queen’s broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because ______.
A. she has been Queen for many years
B. she has a less upper-class accent now
C. her speeches are familiar to many people
D. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years
47. Which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in English?
A. “duaty”
B. “citee”
C. “hame”
D. “lorst”
48. We may infer from the text that the Journal of Phonetics is a magazine on _________.
A. speech sounds
B. Christmas customs
C. TV broadcasting
D. personal messages
49. What is the text mainly about?
A. The relationship between accents and social classes.
B. The Queen’s Christmas speeches on TV.
C. The changes in a person’s accent.
D. The recent development of the Engl ish language.
参考答案------46-5—49、DBAC
阅读理解
Below is a page adapted from an English dictionary
stick
verb (stuck, stuck )
push sth in
[+adv./prep.] to push sth, usually a sharp object, into sth; to be pushed into sth: [VN]The nurse stuck the needle into my arm. ◆ Don't stick your fingers through the bars of the cage. ◆ [V] I found a nail sticking in the tyre.
attach
[+adv./prep.]to fix sth to sth else, usually with a sticky substance; to become fixed
to sth in this way: [VN]He stuck a stamp on the envelope. ◆ We used glue to stick the broken pieces together. ◆ I stuck the photos into an album. ◆ [V]Her wet clothes were sticking to her body. ◆ The glue's useless-the pieces just won't stick.
put
[VN +adv./prep.](informal) to put sth in a place, especially quickly or carelessly: Stick your bags down there. ◆ He stuck his hands in his pockets and strolled off.
◆ Can you stick this on the noticeboard? ◆ Peter stuck his head around the door and said, 'Coffee, anyone?' ◆ (spoken) Stick 'em up! (= put your hands above your head-I have a gun)
become fixed
[V] ~ (in sth) to become fixed in one position and impossible to move: The key has stuck in the lock. ◆ This drawer keeps sticking.
difficult situation
(BrE, informal) (usually used in negative sentences and questions) to accept a difficult or unpleasant situation or person: [VN] I don't know how you stick that job. ◆ They're always arguing-I can't stick it any longer. ◆ The problem is, my mother can't stick my boyfriend. ◆ [V -ing]John can't stick living with his parents. become accepted
[V] to become accepted: The police couldn't make the charges stick (= show them to be true). ◆ His friends calle d him Bart and the name has stuck (= has become the name that everyone calls him).
[V] to not take any more cards
Idioms: stick in your mind (of a memory, an image, etc.) to be remembered for a long time: One of his paintings in particular sticks in my mind.
stick in your throat / craw (informal)
(of words) to be difficult or impossible to say: She wanted to say how sorry she was but the words seemed to stick in her throat.
(of a situation) to be difficult or impossible to accept; to make you angry
stick your neck out (informal) to do or say sth when there is a risk that you may be wrong: I'll stick my neck out and say that Bill is def initely the best candidate
for the job.
stick to your guns(informal) to refuse to change your mind about sth even when other people are trying to persuade you that you are wrong
Phrasal Verbs: stick around (informal) to stay in a place, waiting for sth to happen or for sb to arrive: Stick around; we'll need you to help us later.
stick at sth to work in a serious and determined way to achieve sth: If you want to play an instrument well, you've got to stick at it.
stick by sb[no passive] to be loyal to a person and support them, especially in a difficult situation: Her husband was charged with fraud but she stuck by him. stick by sth[no passive] to do what you promised or pla nned to do: They stuck by their decision.
stick sth<->down (informal) to write sth somewhere: I think I'll stick my name down on the list.
stick out to be noticeable or easily seen: They wrote the notice in big red letters so that it would stick out.
stick sth<->out (of sth) to be further out than sth else or come through a hole; to push sth further out than sth else or through a hole: His ears stick out. ◆ She stuck her tongue out at me. ◆ Don't stick you r arm out of the car window.
stick to sth
to continue doing sth in spite of difficulties: She finds it impossible to stick to a diet.
to continue doing or using sth and not want to change it: He promised to help us and he stuck to his word (= he did as he had promised). ◆ 'Shall we meet on Friday this week?' 'No, let's stick to Saturday.' ◆ She stuck to her story.
stick together (informal) (of people) to stay together and suppor t each other: We were the only British people in the town so we tended to stick together.
stick up to point upwards or be above a surface: The branch was sticking up out of the water.
stick with sb/sth[no passive] (informal)
to stay close to sb so that they can help you: Stick with me and I'll make you a
millionaire!
to continue with sth or continue doing sth: They decided to stick with their original plan.
noun
from tree
[C] a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been broken from a tree: We collected dry sticks to start a fire. ◆ The boys were throwing sticks and stones at the do g.
◆ Her arms and legs were like sticks (= very thin).
for walking
[C] (especially BrE) = WALKING STICK: The old lady leant on her stick as she talked. in sport
[C]a long thin object that is used in some sports to hit or control the ball: a hockey stick
long thin piece
[C](often in compounds) a long thin piece of sth: a stick of dynamite ◆ carrot sticks
◆ (AmE) a stick of butter
[C](often in compounds) a thin piece of wood or plastic that you use for a particular purpose: pieces of pineapple on sticks ◆ The men were carrying spades and measuring sticks.
in plane / vehicle
[C] (informal, especially AmE) the control stick of a plane
[C] (informal, especially AmE) a handle used to change the GEARS of a vehicle
for orchestra
[C] a BATON, used by the person who CONDUCTS an orchestra
criticism
[U] (BrE, informal) criticism or harsh words: The referee got a lot of stick from the home fans.
country areas
(the sticks) [pl.] (informal) country areas, a long way from cities: We live out in the sticks.
person
[C] (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) a person: He's not such a bad old stick.
6. When Jimmy says: “Every morning, I have to take the crowded bus to school, which
I really can’t stick.”, he may feel ________.
A. worried
B. curious
C. annoyed
D. discouraged
7. Due to her fashionable dress, the woman stuck out when she was walking in the
street. “stuck out” in this sentence means “________”.
A. be noticeable
B. be followed
C. be admired
D. be envied]
8. When I was in trouble, Paul was the only one who _______ to help me.
A. stuck in his throat
B. stuck together
C. stuck up
D. stuck his neck out
9. Sally said to me: “Try a peaceful life out in the sticks, and you will experience
something totally different.” She means ________.
A. I should go to the woods to enjoy a new life.
B. I should ignore the criticism and enjoy myself.
C. I should go to the remote areas to have a change.
D. I should go out by plane instead of by train to change my feelings
参考答案 6---9 CADC。