重庆市2017高考英语阅读理解选编(18)附答案解析

重庆市2017高考英语阅读理解选编（18）（附解析）

阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项(A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

(2013·西安市标准化考练，C)

On a visit to Japan, Wangari Maathai learned the story of the hummingbird (蜂鸟) and the forest fire. While the other animals run in fear, the hummingbird flies above the fire time and again, leaving a few drops of water from its beak.

“Why do you bother？”the other animals shout at the hummingbird. “I'm doing the best that I can，”the hummingbird replies.

“It's such a beautiful story，”Ms. Maathai says, thinking of the world's environmental problems. “There's always something we can do with our little beak like the little hummingbird.”

In 2004 Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt Movement (GBM), which hires villagers, especially women, to improve the environment. Since then, she's realized that people's values are what inspire them. If the values are good ones, good actions will follow.

“If you don't have good values, you'll develop vices (恶劣行径)，”says Maathai. “And if we give in to the vice, we destroy ourselves. We destroy the environment.” That's the message of her new book.

In 1971, Maathai received a doctor's degree from the University of Nairobi, the largest university in Kenya. She's now back in her homeland beginning work on the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies (WMI) at the University of Nairobi. “They want to call it after me，”she says.

WMI will pay more attention to “learning by doing” and use knowledge to deal with real problems. “What Africa needs is people who are willing to get their fingers dirty and work with the people，”says Maathai.

Planting trees is one way people connect with the natural world. She continues to inspire others. “There is no lasting peace until we have peace with the earth itself，”she says.

文章大意：本文是一篇报道。保护环境人人有责，文章主要讲述了诺贝尔和平奖获得者Maathai保护环境的一些具体活动以及她关于保护环境的一些看法。

1．Why does Wangari Maathai think highly of the hummingbird?

A．It can create water from its beak.

B．It helps the other animals run away.

C．It tries its best to put out the fire.

D．It finds out a way to save the forest.

答案：C细节理解题。根据第二段中“I'm doing the best that I can”和第三段“... thinking of the world's environmental problems. ‘There's always something we can do with our little beak like the little hummingbird.’”可知，Maathai对蜂鸟评价很高的原因是蜂鸟会尽自己的全力去扑灭大火。故C项正确。

2．Those who work for GBM are mainly ________.

A．environmental experts

B．women villagers

C．people who had good values

D．people who love birds

答案：B细节理解题。根据第四段第一句“... which hires villagers, especially women, to improve the environment.”可知，B项正确。

3．Which of the following is TRUE about Wangari Maathai?

A．She is from Japan.

B．She received a Nobel Prize.

C．She is a university teacher.

D．She has always raised the hummingbird.

答案：B细节理解题。根据第四段第一句中“In 2004 Maathai was honored with a Nobel Peace Prize for her work founding the Green Belt Movement (GBM)”可知，B项正确。

4．According to Wangari Maathai, ________.

A．good actions lead to good values

B．people's values influence their actions

C．everybody has a possibility to develop vices

D．people who have bad values may have good actions

答案：B细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句和第五段内容可知，Maathai认为，如果你没有好的价值观，就会有不良行为；如果我们屈从于错误的价值观的话，就会伤害自己，破坏环境。故B项正确。

阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。