高考英语快速阅读材料练习9.doc

Fast Reading Materials for Senior Grade

I．完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

If you didn’t know anything about it, a place with a name like the Dead Sea might not sound very attractive. But the reality is that the Dead Sea is a very 36 place.

The main thing is the salt. I had 37 a little about the place, so I knew the Dead Sea is so 38 that it’s hard for 39 to live in it, which is 40 it’s called the Dead Sea. And I knew that it’s seven times as sa lty as the ocean.

I was eager to 41 there, because the salt does more than keep the sea fish-free, it makes you 42 like you’re full of air. 43 my friends and I got tired of floating like soap bubbles, we put big rocks between our legs. The rocks helped us 44 lower in the water. We thought we looked really funny, 45 then we noticed something that wasn’t so funny. Salt stings (刺痛). Even my friend’s 46 face began to hurt, so we 47 the Dead Sea as fast as we could. And that’s when we found the 48 .

The mud by the Dead Sea is 49 many minerals —nor just salt —and these minerals are good for your 50 . So people 51 in the mud, like puppies (小狗) playing in the grass. We 52 every inch of our bodies with black, sticky mud 53 began to laugh very hard. And we 54 , so we can always remember how we look 55 our suits of mud.

36.A. common B. special C. beautiful D. dangerous

37.A. read B. seen C. heard D. found

38.A. strange B. wide C. deep D. salty

39.A. plants B. animals C. anything D. everything

40.A. how B. why C. because D. thus

41.A. live B. swim C. visit D. travel

42.A. float B. lie C. sleep D. rise

43.A. Before B. Until C. After D. While

44.A. sing B. dance C. drop D. sink

45.A. as B. but C. since D. even

46.A. frozen B. shocked C. lost D. shaved

47.A. jumped into B. dived into C. got out of D. looked out of

48.A. fish B. water C. rock D. mud

49.A. lack of B. full of C. bad for D. harmful to

50.A. breath B. stomach C. taste D. health

51.A. roll B. dive C. drink D. cry

52.A. struck B. moved C. covered D. discovered

53.A. while B. and C. still D. or

54.A. watched games B. made notes C. walked around D. took pictures

55.A. over B. in C. below D. with

II．阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳答案，并在答题卡上将该项

涂黑。

A

L’HAY-LES-ROSES, France: Three teenage girls admitted starting a fire in a suburban Paris housing project over the weekend that killed 17 people, including three children, police said yesterday. A fourth girl was held yesterday morning.

The fire in a 19-storey building south of Paris was the third fatal blaze in the Paris area in nine days. The death toll rose to 16 after a man died late Sunday in a hospital, where seven others were being treated for serious injuries, police said.

Three teenagers taken in for questioning on Sunday admitted having started the fire for fun, police said. Two of the suspects were 18-year-old, the other was 16, police said. Further details were not available.

Witnesses claimed to have seen a group of youths who lived in the building start the fire, said Patrick Seve, mayor of the town of L’HAY-LES-ROSES, near Orly airport, where the building was located.

The firs is believed to have broken out in the lobby (门厅) of the building before raging up a stairwell at least three floors. Some residents jumped from windows as the fire spread through the building’s entrance.

Authorities were investigating possible criminals in an August 26 fire that killed 14 African children and three adults in a Paris apartment building. Three days later, another fire killed seven in a building.

Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy suggested on French television on Sunday night that copycats (盲目模仿者) were at work. “Each time there is a new s tory, sometimes that gives ideas to people who then turn into criminals,” Sarkozy said, promising severe punishment for anyone found guilty of arson (纵火).

56.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs？

a)Three girls were caught setting fire to a building.

b)The fourth girl wasn’t present when the fire broke out.

c)All the people lost their lives before police came.

d)Paris was troubled by fire during that period.

57.Why did the teenagers start the fires？

a)They were interested in playing with fire.

b)They wanted to make fun of their parents.

c)They were not satisfied with the surroundings.

d)They wanted to warm themselves.

58.From the fourth and fifth paragraphs we know that ________.

a)the witnesses must have put out the fire

b)the lobby of the building was covered with wood.

c)the witnesses were familiar with the teenagers

d)the residents shouldn’t have jumped from windows

59.What the Minister said in the last paragraph means that ________.

a)he doesn’t like to listen to new stories

b)he has no time to write new stories

c)teenagers often have ideas to turn into criminals