高考英语阅读理解专练复习题7

高三英语阅读理解专练（7）AOn October 12, 1989, some Chinese scientists were working at the computers to look for information they needed. Suddenly they saw a lot of very bright spots crossing the computers’s screens. At the same time the computers were working much slower. To find out what was happening they stopped their work to check some parts of the computers. To their horror, they found out that most of their stored information was got rid of by computer viruses （病毒）! Obviously all these computers had been infected by computer viruses.It is said that the computer viruses were made by a group of young men fond of playing tricks. They all had excellent education. They created the viruses just to show their intelligence （才智）. These kinds of computer viruses are named Jerusalem（耶路撒冷）Viruses. These viruses can stay in computers for a long time. When the time comes they will attack the computers by lowering the functions （功能）, damaging their normal programs or even getting rid of all the information.We now come to know that Jerusalem Viruses often attack computers on Fridays and that they are spreading to a lot of computers. Among the countries that suffered computer viruseslast year are Britain, Australia, Switzerland and the U.S. But fill now , how to get rid of the terrible viruses remains a problem.1．The group of young men created the viruse to________.A. damage the computersB. test their abilityC. tell the world that they were intelligentD. play a trick on operators of the computers2．According to the passage, computer viruses seem to________.A. have been in nature for yearsB. exist in any computersC. be difficult to get rid of at presentD. be able to be got rid of in the near future3．The most serious damage caused by the viruses is that________.A. the computer’s functions are loweredB. the normal programs are damagedC. all the information stored in the computers is goneD. the computers infected by the viruses can no longer be used4．According to the passage, which of the following is true?A. Last year four countries found their computers were infectedby viruses.B. The viruses will come to a new computer after staying in the old one for some time.C. Scientists are trying to find a way to get rid of the viruses.D. The Jerusalem Viruses are a great harm to human health.BBaths and bathing have long been considered of medical importance to man. In Greece there are the ruins of a bathtub and water system built over 3, 000 years ago. The Romans had warm public baths. In some as many as 3, 000 persons could bathe at the same time.Treating disease by bathing has been popular for centuries. Moden medical bathing or hydrotherapy, first became popular in Europe and by the late 1700’s also became popular in the United States.For many years frequent bathing was believed to be bad for one’s health. Ordinary bathing just to be clean was avoided and perfune（香水）was often used to cover up body smells ！By the 1770’s doctors began to say that soap and water were good for health. They believed that it was good for people to be cleaned. Slowly people began to bathe more frequently. During the Victorian Age of the late 19th century, taking a bath on Saturdaynight became common.In the United States ordinary bathing was slow to become popular. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, many Americans were known as “The Great Unwashed!” In one American city, for example, a person could only take a bath every thirty days !That was a law!Frequency of bathing today is partly a matter of habit. People know that bathing for cleanness is important to health. Doctors know that dirty bodies increase the chance of diseases. Consequently, in the United States, people generally bathe often. Some people bathe once a day at least. They consider a daily bath essential to good health.5．In Greece________ .A. there were some public baths large enough to hold 3, 000 persons.B. people used to treat disease by bathingC. people began to bathe thousands of years agoD. people didn’t like f requent bathing6．The Americans used to be known as “The Great Unwashed” because________.A. the modem medical bathing first became popular in the U. S.B. they didn’t bath frequentlyC. the Americans were very clean.D. soap was first produced in the U. S.7．Apparently the word“ hydrotherapy” in the second paragraph means________.A. medical bathingB. a water systemC. bathing frequencyD. terrible body smell8．During the Victorian Age________.A. the Americans ever took a bath every thirty daysB. frequent bathing was avoidedC. people used perfume to cover up body smells after bathingD. the British people generally took a bath once a week.CHumans are social animals. They live in groups all over the world. As these groups of people live apart from other groups, over the years and centuries they develop their own habits and ideas, which form different cultures. One important particular side of every culture is how its people deal with time.Time is not very important in non industrial societies.The Nuer people of East Africa, for example, do not even have a word TIME that is in agreement with the abstract thing we call time. The daily lives of the people of such non industrial societies are likely tobe patterned around their physical needs and natural events rather than around a time schedule（时间表）based on the clock. They cook and eat when they are hungry and sleep when the sun goes down. They plant crops during the growing seasons and harvest them when the crops are ripe. They measure time not by a clock or calendar（日历）, but by saying that an event takes place before or after some other event. Frequently such a society measures day in terms of “sleeps ”or longer periods in terms of “moons”.Some cultures, such as the Eakinos of Greenland measure seasons according to the migration of certain animals.Some cultures which do not have a written language or keep written records have developed interesting ways of “telling time”.For example, when several Australian a borigines want to plan an event for a future time, one of them places a stone on a cliff or in a tree. Each day the angle of the sun changes slightly. In a few days, the rays of the sun strike the stone in a certain way. When this happens, the people see that the agreed - upon time has arrived and the event can take place.In contrast （成对比）, exactly correct measurement of time is very important in modern, in detribalized societies. This is because industrialized societies require the helpful efforts of many people in order to work. For a factory to work efficiently （well, quickly andwithout waste）, for example , all of the workers must work at the same time, Therefore, they must know what time to start work in the morning and what time they may go home in the afternoon. Passengers must know the exact time that an airplane will arrive or depart. Students and teachers need to know when a class starts and ends. Stores must open on time in order to serve their customers. Complicated （复杂的）societies need clocks and calendars. Thus, we can see that if each person worked according to his or her own schedule, a complicated society could hardly work at all.9．By saying “Humans are social animals”, the author means________.A. they live all over the world．B. they are different from other animalsC. they live in one place, district or country, considered as a wholeD. they are divided into many groups10．Time is not very important in non industrial societies. This is because people in those societies________.A. don’t have the word TIME in their languagesB. don’t get used to using clocks and other timepiecesC. don’t measure time in their daily livesD. don’t need to plan their daily lives around an exact time schedule11．The Australian aborigines’ way of “telling time” is based on________.A. the change of the sun raysB. the movement of the earth in relation to the sunC. the position of the stoneD. the position of the tree or the cliff12．Which of the following night be the best title for this passage?A. Time and CultureB. The Measurement of TimeC. Time schedule and Daily LifeD. Clock, Calendar and SocietyDA person, like a commodity （商品）, needs packaging. But going too far is absolutely undesirable. A little exaggeration, however, does no harm when it shows the person’s unique qualities to their advantages. To show personal attractiveness in a casual and natural way, it is important for one to have a clear knowledge of oneself. A skilled packager knows how to add art to nature without any signs of embellishment（装饰）, so that the person so packagedis not a commodity but a human being, lively and lovely.A young person, especially a female, shining with beauty and full of life, has all the favor granted by God. Any attempt to make up would be self - defeating. Youth, however, comes and goes in a flash. Packaging for the middle - aged is primarily to hide the marks made by years. If you still enjoy life enough to keep self - confidence and work at pioneering work you are unique in through plains mountains and jungles, running its course as it should. You have really lived your life, which now arrives at a self - satisfied stage of quietness and calmness with no interest in fame or wealth . There is no need to make us of hair dyeing. The snow - capped mountain is itself a beautiful scene of fairyland. Let your looks change from young to old in step with the natural ageing process so as to keep in harmony （和谐）with nature, for harmony itself is beauty, while the other way round will only end in unpleasantness. To be in the elder’s company is like reading a thick book of deluxe （better quality）edition that attracts one so much as to be unwilling to part with.As long as one find where on stands, one knows how to package oneself, just as a commodity sets up its brand by the right packaging.13．It can be concluded from the text that________.A. people should be packed at all agesB. people should be packed in a special wayC. elderly people also care about packingD. proper packing makes people attractive14．For the middle - aged, attractiveness________ .A. hardly existsB. is the strongestC. comes from the insideD. comes from the appearance15．The underlined sentence means that elderly people ________.A. are usually packed like a finely - made bookB. experience a lot and have rich knowledge of lifeC. do a lot of traveling and can give you much informationD. enjoy reading thick books of beautiful nature and fairylandsEThere seems never to have been a civilization without toys, but when and how they developed is unknown. They probably came about just to give children something to do.In the ancient world, as is today, most boys played with some kinds of toys and most girls with another. In societies where social roles are rigidly determined, boys pattern their play after theactivities of their fathers and girls are being prepared, even in play, to step into the roles and responsibilities of the adult world.What is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same.The changes have been mostly in terms of craftsmanship, mechanics, and technology. It is the universality of toys with regard to their development in all parts of the word and their persistence to the present that is amazing. In Egypt, America, China, Japan and among the Arctic （北极的）people, generally the same kinds of toys appeared. Varations depended on local customs and way of life because toys imitate their surrounding. Nearly every civilization had dolls, little weapons, toy soldiers, tiny animals and vehicles.Because toys can be generally regarded as a kind of art form, they have not been subject to technological leaps that characterize inventions for adult use. The progress from the wheel to the cart to the automobile is a direct line of ascent （进步）. The progress from a rattle （拨浪鼓）used by a baby in 3000BC to one used by an infant today, however, is not characterized by inventiveness. Each rattle is the product of the artistic tastes of the times and subject to the limitations of available materials.16．The reason why the toys most boys play with are differentfrom those that girls play with is that________.A. they like challenging activities.B. their social roles are rigidly determinedC. most boys would like to follow their fathers professions.D. boys like to play with their fathers while girl with their mothers17．One aspect of “the universality of toys” lies in the fact that________.A. the basic characteristics of toys are the same all over the world.B. technological advances have greatly improved the durability of toysC. the exploration of the universe has led to the creation of new kinds of toysD. the improvement of craftsmanship in making toys depends on the efforts of universities18．Which of the following is the author’s view on the historical development of toys?A. Toys are playing an increasingly important role in shaping a child’s character.B. The toy industry has witnessed great leaps in technology in recent years.C. The craftsmanship in toy - making has remained essentially unchanged.D. Toys have remained basically the same all through the centuries19．Regarded as a kind of art form, toys________.A. reflect the pace of social progressB. are not characterized by technological progressC. follow a direct line of ascentD. also appeal greatly to adults20．The author uses the example of a rattle to show that________.A. it often takes a long time to introduce new technology into toy - makingB. even the simplest toys can reflect the progress of technologyC. even a simple toy can mirror the artistic tastes of the timeD. in toy - making there is a continuity in the use of materials参考答案1．C提示：第二自然段第三句话“They created the viruses just to show their intelligence”暗示了答案。