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。

APowerful, 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 championC. Sharapova began to play tennis at the age of fourD. The Wimbledon Tournament is an important event2. Sharapova won her first junior championship title _____.A. sixB. fourC. seventeenD. thirteen3. According to the story, the Forbes magazine _____.A. is a youth tennis training centerB. holds the Wimbledon tournamentC. ranks the famous people worldwide every yearD. introduces fashion4. What does the underlined word in the second paragraph mean?A. An office providing medical serviceB. Sports training centerC. Stadium holding competitionsD. A person offering medical service5. The best title of the story is _____.A. An Outstanding Tennis StarB. History of The Wimbledon TournamentC. Success from YouthD. Championships Sharapova Has GotBEnergy-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 havesaved energy by 10 percent, and suggest that they were developed for practical use and were not used for recreation, as they are today.They think the most likely birthplace of skating is southern Finland, where there are many icy lakes.The scientists have put their theory to the test and made replica skates modeled after examples held at the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.Volunteers on ice rinks in the Alps had their heart rates, oxygen intake and skating speeds measured while they skated with the replica skates. From this experiment, re-searchers were able to calculate energy consumption and the efficiency of their skating. They discovered that skating over the land in ancient Fin-land would have saved 10 percent of people’s energy. The result is based on the fact that Finland has the highest concentration6 of lakes in the world. The ancient Finnish people could benefit more than others from developing this tool for transport.In a time and environment in which the balance between energy taken from food and energy required to live was crucial; the least cost of energy might have helped humans survive in extreme conditions.6. The first ice skate invented by the Finns was used for _____.A. recreationB. transportation across lakesC. saving energyD. sports7. The birthplace of skating might be southern Finland because _____.A. there are many icy lakes thereB. people need more oxygen to breathe in thereC. people feel tired easily thereD. transportation there is more difficult8. Scientists have experimented with replica skates and found that with those skates the ancientFinnish people would have _____.A. crossed a lot of lakesB. saved 10 percent of energy when crossing the lakesC. climbed the Alps easilyD. otherwise wasted a lot of food and energy9. It can be inferred from the story that _____.A. the Finnish people were clever enough to invent the practical skatesB. there were a lot of lakes in ancient FinlandC. the living conditions were very hard for the ancient Finnish peopleD. it was very cold in ancient times in Finland10. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the fifth paragraph mean?A. a copy of somethingB. an example of somethingC. an artificial productD. something that is fakeCC CWant a glance of the future of health care? Take a look at the way the various networks of people about patient care are being connected to one another, and how this new connectivity is being exploited to deliver medicine to the patient —no matter where he or she may be. Online doctors offering advice based on normal symptoms(症状) are the most obvious example. Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis(远程诊断) will be based on real physiological data(生理数据) from the actual patient. A group from the University of Kentucky has shown that by using personal data assistance plus a mobile phone, it is perfectly practical to send a patient’s important signs over the telephone. With this kind of equipment, the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the house could well be a thing of the past. Other medical technology groups are working on applying telemedicine to rural(countryside) care. And at least one team wants to use telemedicine as a tool for disaster need—especially after earthquakes. On the whole, the trend is towards providing global access to medical data and experts’ opinions. But there is one problem. Bandwidth(宽带) is the limiting factor for sending complex(复杂的) medical pictures around the world — CT photos being one of the biggest bandwidth users. Communication satellites may be able to deal with the short-term needs during disasters such as earthquakes or wars. But medicine is looking towards both the second-generation Internet and third-generation mobile phones for the future of remote medicalservice.Doctors have met to discuss computer-based tools for medical diagnosis, training and telemedicine. With the falling price of broadband communications, the new technologies should start a new time when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, experts’ opinions and diagnosis are common.11. The writer chiefly talks about _______.A. the use of telemedicineB. the on-lined doctorsC. medical care and treatmentD. communication improvement12. The basis of remote diagnosis will be _______.A. personal data assistanceB. some words of a patientC. real physiological informationD. medical pictures from the Internet13. Which of the following statements is true according to the text？A. Patients don’t need doctors in hospitals any more.B. It is impossible to send a pa tient’s signs over the telephone.C. Many teams use telemedicine dealing with disasters now.D. Broadband communications will become cheaper in the future.14. The “problem” in the fourth paragraph refers to the fact that _______.A. bandwidth isn’t big enough to send complex medical picturesB. the second-generation of Internet has not become popular yetC. communication satellites can only deal with short-term needsD. there is not enough equipment for spreading the medical careDVisiting U.S. President George W. Bush said in Beijing Friday that both China and the United States should encourage bilateral(双边的) contacts and exchanges to promote mutual(相互) understanding.“It’s important for our political leaders to come to China,” said Bush, who gave a speech Friday morning at Qinghua University, one of the most prestigious universities in China.His working visit to China and discussions with Oinghua students “help promote” Sino-U.S.(中美) relations, Bush said in response to a student’s question about what he would do to promote Sino-U.S. relations.“Many people in my country are very interested in China,” he said, adding that these Americans have learned more about China’s culture and the Chinese people.He said that he would keep encouraging such contacts and exchanges between the two countries.Bush said that he would describe back home what he has seen here and that China as a greatnation not only has a “great history” but also an “unbelievably exciting future.”The president said that the 2008 Olympic Games would make a significant opportunity for the rest of the world to understand China, which enables more people to come to China and feel the modernization taking place, and many more people will see it on the television.Bush arrived in Beijing Thursday for a two-day working visit to China.15. What the word “prestigious” in the second paragraph probably means?A. greatB. famousC. honorableD. modest16. Which of the sentence is NOT true?A. Bush think bilateral contacts and mutual understanding will promote Sino-U.S. relations.B. Many Americans are interested in China.C. Bush and the students of Qinghua discussed something about how to make China richer and stronger.D. The 2008’s Olympic Games is a great change for China been know n by the world.17. Many Americans are interested in China because _______.A. they want to come here to take part in the 2008 Olympic GamesB. they have learned something of China and they want to learn moreC. China has been taking place great changeD. China has a “great history” and “unbelievably exciting future”18. The narrator(叙述者) of the passage was most probably _____.A. a reporterB. a psychologistC. a politicianD. a sociologist二. 任务型阅读请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。