四川省内江市高考英语阅读理解专题选练(11)

四川省内江市2016高考英语阅读理解专题选练（11）

故事类---阅读理解。

One of my wonderful memories is about a Christmas gift. Unlike other gifts, it came without wrap(包装)．

On September 11th, 1958, Mum gave birth to Richard. After she brought him home from hospital, she put him in m y lap, saying, “I promised you a gift, and here it is. ”What an honor! I turned four a month earlier and none of my friends had such a baby doll of their own. I played with it day and night. I sang to it. I told it stories. I told it over and over how much I loved it!

One morning, however, I found its bed empty. My doll was gone! I cried for it. Mum wept and told me that the poor little thing had been sent to a hospital. It had a fever. For several days, I heard Mum and Dad whispering such words as “hopeless”，“pitiful”，and “dying”， which sounded ominous.

Christmas was coming. “Don't expect any presents this year，” Dad said, pointing at the socks I hung in the living room. “If your baby brother lives, that'll be Christmas enough.” As he spoke, his eyes f illed with tears. I'd never seen him cry before.

The phone rang early on Christmas morning. Dad jumped out of bed to answer it.From my bedroom I heard him say, “What? He's all right？” He hung up and shouted upstairs. “The hospital said we can bring Richa rd home！”

“Thank God！” I heard Mum cry.

From the upstairs window, I watched my parents rush out to the car. I had never seen them so happy. And I was also full of joy. What a wonderful day! My baby doll would be home. I ran downstairs. My socks still hung there flat. But I knew they were not empty; they were filled with love!

1What happened to the author on September 11th, 1958?

A. He got a baby brother.

B. He got a Christmas gift.

C. He became four years old.

D. He received a doll.

2. What does the underlined word “ominous” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Impossible.

B. Boring.

C. Difficult.

D. Fearful.

3. Which word can best describe the feeling of the father when Christmas was coming?

A. Excitement.

B. Happiness.

C. Sadness.

D. Disappointment.

4. What is the passage mainly about?

A. A sad Christmas day.

B. Life with a lovely baby.

C. A special Christmas gift.

D. Memories of a happy family.

【要点综述】“我”四岁时母亲给了“我”一件特殊的圣诞礼物：人娃娃——我可爱的弟弟Richard。但后来Richard发高烧差点夭折，经医院抢救得生，这使我更加珍爱我的“人娃娃”。

1. A 细节理解题。虽然表面上是有了一个娃娃，但事实上是有了亲弟弟。

2. D 词义猜测题。从该句前半部分中的“hopeless”，“pitiful”，and “dying”可知该词意思是“令人害怕的”。虽然其他三个词均表示消极含义，但只有fearful表示“我”害怕“弟弟”离“我”而去。

3. C 推理判断题。从第四段最后两句As he spoke, his eyes filled with tear s. I’d never seen him cry before.可知父亲感到十分伤心。

4. C 主旨大意题。第一段一开始便定义我的弟弟Richard是一件特殊的圣诞礼物。虽然弟

弟Richard差点离我们而去，但后来还是得以平安回家，因此圣诞节并不悲惨。B和D选项外延过大，此段材料只是截取生活中的一个片段，并非整个和Richard一起生活的全部。

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It seems like every day there's some new research about whether our favorite drinks are good for us. One day, science says a glass of red wine a day will help us livelonger. The next day, maybe not. It seems journalists are pretty interested in wine research and the same might be said for coffee. Now there's been a lot of research into whether coffee's good for our health "the results have really been mixed"，admits Neal Freedman who led the coffee study and published his findings in a medical journal recently. "There's been some evidence that coffee might increase the risk of certain diseases and there's also been maybe more recent evidence that coffee may protect against other diseases as well".

Freedman and his colleagues undertook the biggest study yet to look at the relationship between coffee and health. They analyzed data collected from more than 400，000 Americans ages 50 to 70 participating in the study. "We found that the coffee drinkers had a modestly lower risk of death than the non-drinkers， he said. Here's what he means by "modestly": those who drank at least two or three cups a day were about 10 percent or 15 percent less likely to die for any reason during the 13 years