阅读理解之长难句分析

阅读理解之长难句分析

【安徽2014】It is true that there are examples of new buildings which have spoilt (破坏) the area they are in, but the same can be said of some old buildings too.

1. Which of the following is true according to the author ?

A. We should reproduce the same old buildings.

B. Buildings should not dominate their surroundings.

C. Some old buildings have spoilt the area they are in.

D. No one understands why people speak against new buildings.

【2014课标】Passenger pigeons (旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks (群)so large that they the sky for hours. It was calculated that when it population reached its highest point ,they were more than 3 billlion passenger pigeons—a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world.Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.

Where the birds were most abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed them by the thousands, Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.

1.In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons____.

A. were the biggest bird in the world

B. lived mainly in the south of America

C. did great harm to the natural environment

D. were the largest bird population in the Us

2. What was the main reason for people to kill passenger pigeons?

A. To seek pleasure.

B. To save other birds.

C. To make money.

D. To protect crops.

【2014课标】This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is best the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information. The end result is that we feel like we cant’ focus or that we’re focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.

1. What is the author’s attitude towards the expert mentioned in Paragraph3?

A. Tolerant.

B. Doubtful.

C. Respectful.

D. Supportive.

【2014课标】Now, through the two organizations that he has founded –the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project __Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.

1. Which of the following best describe Turin’s work?

A. Write, sell and donate.

B. Record, repair and reward.

C. Collect, protect and reconnect.

D. Design, experiment and report. 【2010湖南】When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951，her mother told her, “Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out，you'll have something to rely on.” Mary responded in typical teenage fashion.From that moment on, “the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course，” she recalls.

The show business thing worked out，of course.In her career，Mary won many awards.Only recently，when she began to write Gro w ing Up Again，did she regret ignoring her mom. “ I don't know how to use a computer，” she admits.

Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up—again—and take control of her diabetes，not let it control her.Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit，overcome her addiction to alcohol，and begin to follow a balanced diet.

1. Why did Mary feel regretful?

A．She didn't achieve her ambition.

B．She didn't take care of her mother.

C．She didn't complete her high school.

D．She didn't follow her mother's advice.

【2010湖南】Rachael Jack，University of Glasgow researcher，said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的)across a face as Westerners do，Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories：happy，sad，surprised，fearful，disgusted，angry，or neutral.

1.The discovery shows that Westerners ______.

A．pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

B．consider facial expressions universally reliable

C．observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

D．have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

2. What were the people asked to do in the study?

A．To make a face at each other.

B．To get their faces impressive.

C．To classify some face pictures.

D．To observe the researchers' faces.