湖南省长沙市高考英语阅读理解一轮精选练习(2)

湖南省长沙市2016高考英语阅读理解一轮精选练习（2）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项。

“Dr. Papaderos, what is the meaning of life?”The usual laughter followed, and people stirred to go. Papaderos held up his hand and stilled the room and looked at me for a long time, asking with his eyes if I was serious and seeing from my eyes that I was.“I will answer your question.”Taking his wallet out of his hip pocket, he fished into a leather billfold and brought out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter. And what he said went like this:“When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a remote village. One day, on the road, I found the broken pieces of a mirror. A German motorcycle had been wrecked in that place.I tried to find all the pieces and put them together, but it was not possible, so I kept only the largest piece. This one, and, by scratching it on a stone, I made it round. I began to play with it as a toy and became fascinated by the fact that I could reflect light into dark places where the sun would never shine—in deep holes and crevices（裂缝）and dark closets. It became a game for me to get light into the most inaccessible places I could find.I kept the little mirror, and, as I went about my growing up, I would take it out in idle moments and continue the challenge of the game. As I became a man, I grew to understand that this was not just a child’s game but a metaphor for what I might do with my life. I came to understand that I am not the light or the source of light. But light—truth, understanding, knowledge—is there, and it will shine in many dark places only if I reflect it.I am a fragment（碎片）of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have I can reflect light into the dark places of this world—into the black places in the hearts of men—and change some things in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.”1. On hearing the author’s question, Dr. Papaderos__________ at first.A. laughed at his foolishnessB. wasn’t sure of the answerC. doubted his seriousnessD. wasn’t interested at all2. How did Dr. Papaderos get the small round mirror when he was a child?A. He found it on the road and made it round.B. A dying German soldier gave him as a present.C. He chanced to find it in the street while playing.D. He put the broken pieces together and made it.3. Why did Dr. Papaderos like the small round mirror so much as a child?A. Because he was too poor to afford other toys.B. Because it could shine the places where the sun couldn’t rea ch.C. Because he believed it would bring good luck to him.D. Because it told him a lot about what life really meant to him.4. The underlined “metaphor” in the 7th paragraph most probably means_____ .A. symbolB. sourceC. lightD. purpose5. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A. A Special Game in the ChildhoodB. A Broken Piece of MirrorC. Dr. Papaderos’ ExperienceD. The Meaning of Life【参考答案】1—5、CABAD。

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Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid.“Whoever drinks it will die.”The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink it.There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides)forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people everywhere, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.1 The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.A. a villageB. a small townC. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildingsD. the part of a town that lacks water badly2. Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.A. the weather is badB. there is no electricityC. there is no waterD. people don’t want the dirty water3. A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.A. a hundredB. four hundredC. fortyD. fifty4. Which of the following statements is wrong?A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shoba’s familyB. Americans uses the largest amount of water each dayC. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled waterD. Shoba has a family of seven people5. The passage mainly tells us ______.A. how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their waterB. how much water a day a person deedsC. that India lacks water badlyD. how India government manages to solve the problem of water【参考答案】1—5、CBDAC阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。