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山东即墨市2016高考英语（二轮）阅读理解摸底练习（5）
【2014模拟】
阅读理解。

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Justin and Brandy Besemer were newly married and trying to pay off their wedding debt when they decided their family needed a dog — an American Bulldog named Kaila. Thus started one of their first arguments. Brandy, who had never raised a dog before, wanted to spend a little over $ 300 a year buying pet insurance. Justin, who had always kept dogs, thought it was a waste of money.
“His parents told me this horror story that made me insist we get it, ” explained Brandy, 28. “They were talking about their dog having to have a knee replaced and it cost them like $ 2,000. We couldn’t afford that. I just didn’t want to get a dog if I couldn’t afford to take care of it. ”
When Kaila chewed up a string of Christmas lights a few months later, landing the dog in an emergency veterinary center, the Santa Monica couple was relieved that Brandy had gained the upper hand. When they found that the dog had infections and food allergies, they realized that without the insurance they wouldn’t have been able to afford treatment for Kaila.
“We joke that she’s our little lemon, ” Brandy said. “This is the longest we’ve gone without having to take her to the vet, and it’s been maybe three weeks.”
Although the Besemers are delighted that they spent the money buying pet insurance,ple nty of experts agree with Justin’s first assessment: It’s a waste of money. If the couple had a different policy or a different temper, it might be. However, as is true with many personal finance decisions, the smart choice on pet insurance is a personal one.
In general, experts claim that it’s wasteful to insure against risks that are not catastrophic. It doesn’t make sense, for example, to buy pet insurance to pay for routine medical issues such as injections and checkups. That’s because you’ll pay roughly as much for the coverage as the treatment. Whether it makes sense to buy a policy for major medical bills relies on two things: emotion and finances.
If you would be emotionally ruined to lose a pet simply because you couldn’t afford to treat it — and a $ 5 ,000 vet bill would be more than your budget could take —you might want to consider a policy. But if you have the resources to pay for emergency
vet care —or wouldn’t be saddened to lose a pet if you didn’t — you could skip pet insurance.
51. What did Justin and Brandy Besemer argue about?
A. The way of setting aside money.
B. The possibility of adopting a dog.
C. The necessity of buying pet insurance.
D. The burden of paying off their debt.
52. According to the passage, who valued Brandy’s choice on pet insurance?
A. The vet.
B. The experts.
C. Justin’s parents.
D. Brandy’s mother.
53. According to the passage, experts argue that pets ____.
A. are unlikely to suffer serious diseases
B. might have a temper similar to their owners
C. will waste their owners’ large sums of money
D. impose a negative effect on their owners’ emotion
54. According to the passage, what decides whether to buy pet insurance?
A. Budget and emotion.
B. Injections and checkups.
C. Risks and benefits.
D. Emergencies and treatment.
【参考答案】51—54、 CCAA
【2014模拟题】阅读理解。

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

There are robot cleaners and robot mops to help us around the house, so why not a robot to build our homes? Wait no longer. Now there is a set of electronics to do just that, build a house from scratch, and fast.
Forget weeks to find a builder and months for house construction; a machine developed in the United States can build a 232 sqm home layer by layer in a single day. University of Southern California’s Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has designed the giant robot that replaces construction workers with a mouth on an arm of crane, which spits out concrete and can quickly build a home according to a computer pattern. The technology, known as Contour (轮廓) Crafting, could revolutionize the construction industry.
Contour Crafting could greatly decrease the cost of homeowning, making it possible for millions of displaced people to get on the property ladder. It could even be used in disaster relief areas to build emergency and replacement housing. As Prof Khoshnevis points out, if you look around you almost everything is made automatically these days, —“your shoes, your clothes, home appliances, your car. The only thing that is still built by hand are these buildings”.
The Contour Crafting system is a robot that automates age-old tools normally used by hand. These are applied by a robotic crane that builds a three-dimensional object. The nature of the technology means it will also be possible to create curved walls and architecture that is both “exotic(异国情调的)and beautiful” according to Prof Khoshnevis. As a result, it could be ideal to print out expensive homes according to customers’ demands.
Furthermore, Prof Khoshnevis believes that the technology could be applied beyond our planet. “Contour Crafting technology has the potential to build safe, reliable, and affordable structures, habitats, laboratories, and other facilities on the moon and Mars before the arrival of human beings,” his website reads.
According to the International Labour Organisation construction employs nearly 110 million people worldwide and “plays a major role in fighting the high levels of unemployment and in absorbing extra labour from the rural areas.” What the implications are for builders is, of course, a major concern. But Khoshnevis says “the reality is that a lot of new jobs can be created in this field as well.” Instead of building the house workmen are used to maintain the machine.
55. Which advantage does the giant robot have for the consumers?
A. It saves a great deal of time.
B. It decorates houses beautifully.
C. It provides energy-saving apartments.
D. It builds environmentally friendly houses.
56. The underlined part “to get on the property ladder” (in Para. 3 ) means “______”.
A. to print objects
B. to predict disasters
C. to purchase a house
D. to accumulate wealth
57. The new construction technology can satisfy the needs of _____.
A. low-income residents
B. wealthy immigrants
C. middle-income people
D. people at different income levels
58. What influence will Contour Crating have on construction industry?
A. Many construction workers will lose jobs.
B. Construction workers will update their skills.
C. More rural people will engage in construction.
D. Professionals will be hired to make robot builders.
【参考答案】55—58 、ABBD
【湖北省武汉市2014模拟】阅读理解。

阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Fed up with your desk-bound job? Wish you spent your days being well treated instead? Dream of being paid to travel across the globe living the life of luxury?
Your dream could well become a reality because one luxury website has posted a job application for a lucky individual to test the luxury life, which will involve sampling the finest products and experiences that the world is launching.
According to website VeryFirstTo, which is offering the position, the Living Luxury Executive will dine at the best new restaurants, resting in the fanciest hotels, dress in fantastic jewels, road test the most advanced cars, and play with the most complicated tech products.
The Living Luxury Executive will be responsible for evaluating each experience and reporting back to VeryFirstTo, a members-only luxury gift website that sells the world’s finest products and labels itself“the first website for individuals to learn about, and have, newly launching luxury products and experiences.”
Newly launching brands that appear on VeryFirstTo and are candidates for testing include: Alexander McQueen, Apple, Bentley, Cartier, Christian Louboutin, Jimmy Choo, fine Japanese eatery Nobu and the well-known Shangri-La hotel.
Speaking about the ideal candidate, the recruiter(招聘者)said:“The ideal candidate would be an early adopter, familiar with fashion, cooking and technology, and have experience of the luxury market. ” Candidates must be able to “distinguish between the roar of a Bentley and a Lexus engine”, according to the job requirements.
A spokesman for the website told the Guardian(卫报):“We will definitely be appointing someone. It is not a trick merely to catch eyes. As for the salary, it is negotiable and we have not set it. There will be an ongoing contract and, depending
upon the salary asked for, it can be anything from four days a week to less.”
Despite the position never being actually advertised, word spread across the globe and within days 1,000 applications have been received. Besides a mass of approaches from UK residents, VeryFirstTo has been coping with the growing number of applicants around the world with many offering to relocate and others stating they would even do the job for free.
And it seems that candidates are confident in their abilities with attitudes expressed alongside applications including:“ I live in a larg e country garden, importing best quality beef from America. I’ve owned and flown private jets and helicopters. ”
59. From where did the people know the position as the Living Luxury Executive first?
A. From VeryFirstTo.
B. From the Guardian.
C. From the spokesman.
D. From the travel magazine.
60. According to the passage, VeryFirstTo aims at ____.
A. employing sales staff
B. assessing job applicants
C. issuing job advertisements
D. selling luxury products and service
61. From the passage we know the applicants for the job_____.
A. doesn’t care about their salary
B. come from different countries
C. must know how to pilot a plane
D. have never lived the luxury life
62. What is the purpose of writing the passage?
A. To encourage online shopping.
B. To promote the finest products.
C. To introduce a new occupation.
D. To advocate an alternative lifestyle.
【参考答案】59—62 、BDCA
阅读理解。

The medical world is gradually realizing that the quality of the environment in hospitals may play a significant role in the process of recovery from illness.
As part of a nationwide effort in Britain to bring art out of the galleries and into public place, some of the country’s most talented artists have been called in to transform 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 significant collections of contemporary art in corridors, waiting areas and treatment rooms. These recent initiatives owe a great deal to one artist, Peter Senior, who set up his studio at a Manchester Hospital in Northeastern England during the early 1970s. He felt the artist had lost his place in modern society, and that art should be enjoyed by a wider audience.
A typical hospital waiting room might have as many as 5,000 visitors each week. What a better place to hold regular exhibitions of art and 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 graduations.
The effect is striking. Now in the corridors and waiting rooms, the visitor experiences a full view of fresh colors, playful images and restful courtyard.
The quality of the environment may reduce the need for expense when a patient is recovering from an illness. A study has shown that patients who had a view onto a garden needed half the number of strong painkillers compared with patients who had no view at all or only a brick wall to look at.
9. What does the author mean by using the phrase “to soften the hard edge of modern buildings”, in the second paragraph?
A. To hold exhibitions of art and paintings in hospitals.
B. To tear down the old hospital and build a new one.
C. To decorate hospitals with art collection.
D. To paint the walls of hospitals in soft colors.
10. What is true about Peter Senior?
A. A famous doctor in Manchester Hospital and a talented artist.
B. Britain’s first hospital artist and a patient in Manchester Royal Hospital.
C. One of the six young art school graduations.
D. A talented artist and a pioneer introducing art into hospitals.
11. What can we conclude from the fact that six young art school graduates joined Peter?
A. Artists should take an active part in social activities.
B. The role of hospital environment is being recognized.
C. Artists are more important to patients in hospitals.
D. Hospitals need more young art school graduates to attend the patients.
12. What does the last paragraph suggest?
A. The improvement of hospital environment may help the patients recover from illness.
B. The improvement of hospital environment may cost the patients more than before.
C. The patients needed no painkillers when they had a view of a painting.
D. The patients had no pain at all after the improvement of hospital environment.
【答案与解析】
9. C 句意理解题。

根据下文almost 100 now have significant collections of contemporary art in corridors, waiting areas and treatment rooms一句的意义“将近有一百家医院在走廊，候诊区和治疗室里挂有当代重要的艺术品”，可判断出其意义为“用艺术品装饰医院”。

10. D 细节归纳题。

根据第二段中的some of the country’s most talented artists have been called in和第四段中的Believed to be Britain’s first hospital artist可得知：Peter Senior是一个有才能的艺术家和最先将艺术引入医院的人
11. B 逻辑推理题。

根据“Senior was so much in demand”一句可知，医院很需要Senior 这样的艺术家。

说明人们逐渐认识到了医院环境对治疗的作用。

12. A 段落主旨题。

根据段落中的信息词语reduce the need for expense和patients who had
a view onto a garden needed half the number of strong painkillers可知本段的主题是“医院治疗环境的改善有助于病人的康复”。

阅读理解----C
Dear Michelle:
Why can't my daughter manage her life better? She is 17 and an honor student, but she seems to be wasting her life away with a boyfriend who is holding her back. He consumes every waking, minute of her precious time and smooth-talks her as well.
His goal is to get her to agree to go to the college of his choice, not her choice, and because his grades are lower, his choice will be limited.
I feel like I want to rescue her, but she pushes me away and shuts me out. She has only brought us pride and joy; and now this! Help!
A worried mother Dear Mother of a 17-year-old Girl:
Hmmmmm. What's the matter with kids today? Remember that song from "Bye Bye Birdie"?
Well if you do not, let me fill you in about teenagers and their life-management skills.Do not expect too much too soon because at the ripe age of 17, life-management is not within their reach, not should it be.
Life experience creates both the conditions and the skills for management, and if management went before experiene, there would be tittle of it.
Your daughter is an honor student for good reasons. She is smart, studies with intelligence and you have given her good Values.
When the time comes for her to apply for college, and she visit the ones that were specifically desigened for student the top of their grade, she will most likely break away from her boyfriend's influenee.
It is rare for an honor student to change the path of their academic career for puppy love. That being said, them might be some adoldscent wisdom in her behavior after all.
Perhaps she is choosing to worry you, her parents, for unconscious reasons. Being
such a good girl and being a steady source of joy might have become a bit too much for her.
Let your daughter have her own private moment of 11th grade rebellion. She deserves a break from perfection.
Michelle
11. From the mother's letter we can learn that her daughter
A. is being fooled by the boy
B. has fallen behind in her studies
C. doesn't talk much with her mother
D. has chosen which college to attend
12. According to Michelle; 17-year-teenagers .
A. are too young to manage their life
B. are old enough to live their own life
C. should have managemnent before experience
D. have reached the age of an adult
13. The underlined word"puppy-love"refer to
A. false love
B. foolish love
C. pure love
D. adolescent love
14. Michelle seems to believe that the daughter will finally
A. come up with the right decision
B. follow her boyfriend's advice
C. worry her parents for unconscious reasons
D. influence her boyfriend's behavior
15. The best title for the passage would be
A. College of kids' own choice
B. How can I help my girl?
C. How to manage teenagers' life?
D. A 17-year-old girl and her mother
【参考答案】11—15、CADAB。