高考英语阅读理解和任务型阅读课堂综合练习十九(附解析)

2009年高考英语阅读理解和任务型阅读课堂综合练习十九一阅读理解

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。

A

Powerful, blonde and over six feet tall, Maria Sharapova is the most brilliant tennis player who has ever stepped on tennis court. In the summer of 2004, seventeen-year-old Sharapova shocked the tennis world by defeating defending champion Serena Williams in the singles finals at Wimbledon, becoming the first Russian player to win the prestigious tennis event, and the third youngest winner in the history of the tournament.

Born on April 19, 1987, in Nyagan, a town in western Siberia, Russia, Maria Sharapova was encouraged by her parents to try everything, from dancing and music to athletics. She discovered tennis after her fourth birthday. Her parents liked to play tennis, too, so they began teaching her how to hit the ball. She proved to be a quick learner, and when she was six years old they traveled to Moscow for a youth tennis clinic.

Sharapova and her father moved from Russia to Florida when she was nine so that she could study at the tennis academy of Nick Bollettieri. She won her first junior championship title at the age of thirteen, and turned professional in 2001. Then Sharapova steadily worked her way up through the professional ranks, claiming her first WTA victory in Japan in 2003. Her crowning moment came the next year, when she won Winbledon, at a young age of 17, solidifying a consistent spot in the top five. She gained her second and third major titles by beating Justine Henin at the 2006 US Open and Ana Ivanovic at the 2008 Australian Open. Sharapova has earned a spot on Forbes magazine’s "Celebrity 100"list as the highest paid female athlete in the world.

Sharapova hopes to win Wimbledon, the Australian, French, and US Opens in the same year. No other female player has done so since German champion Steffi Graf in 1988. Sharapova also looks forward to a career beyond tennis. She has done some modeling, is a devoted reader of fashion magazines, and has even helped design some of her court outfits with Nike. Fashion design might be a career option when she retires from tennis. Acting would be an-other choice. "Nothing scares me,"

she said, "because I’m not worried about failure. You never know until you try. So if you don’t try, you’ve failed. All I know is, I’m starving to b e the best."

1. Which of the following is not TRUE?

A. Sharapova became the champion of the Wimbledon tournament at the age of 17.

B. The third Russian player in the history of Wimbledon to win the champion

C. Sharapova began to play tennis at the age of four

D. The Wimbledon Tournament is an important event

2. Sharapova won her first junior championship title _____.

A. six

B. four

C. seventeen

D. thirteen

3. According to the story, the Forbes magazine _____.

A. is a youth tennis training center

B. holds the Wimbledon tournament

C. ranks the famous people worldwide every year

D. introduces fashion

4. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?

A. An office providing medical service

B. Sports training center

C. Stadium holding competitions

D. A person offering medical service

5. The best title of the story is _____.

A. An Outstanding Tennis Star

B. History of The Wimbledon Tournament

C. Success from Youth

D. Championships Sharapova Has Got

B

Energy-saving Finns invented the first ice skate more than 5,000 years ago, as a practical method of transport to make getting across frozen lakes less of a struggle.

The earliest skates would have been blades made from bones and are one of the oldest means of transport ever discovered —they may even have been essential survival tools.

Researchers at Manchester Metropolitan University have calculated that ice skates would have