高考英语阅读理解基础训练题（115）.doc

2014高考英语阅读理解基础训练题（115）及答案阅读理解(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(a、b、c和d)中，选出最佳选项。【广东省2012届高三考前冲刺卷(四)】alondon (reuters)new faces given to a chinese man after a bear tore off part of his face and a frenchcaribbean man disfigured by a rare tumor show that such transplants can work and are not medical oddities (怪异)，researchers said.the findings give hope to some people with severe facial disfigurement and suggest the transplants could prove longlasting without major problems.despite the tissue rejection in the first year after their transplants，neither men had psychological problems accepting their new faces and have been able to rejoin society，they reported.only three people have received face transplants.the worlds first was carried out on french woman isabelle dinoire in november 2005 after she was disfigured in an attack by her dog.in 2007，her doctors reported that she had recovered slowly and steadily，overcoming two periods of rejection. in 2006，chinese doctors performed a face transplant on a 30yearold hit by a bear.while there were some complications with tissue rejection following the operation，two years later the man was doing well，his doctors said.“this case suggests that facial transplantation might be an option for restoring a severely disfigured face，and could enable patients to bring themselves back into society，” shuzhong guo and colleagues at xijing hospital in china wrote.a french team described their work on a 29yearold man who suffered from von recklinghausen disease，an illness that changes the shape of his face.“the man，who was not named，was given a new nose，mouth and chin in a 2007 operation.he began to work 13 months after the transplant has more function in his face and has not rejected the new tissue，” his doctors said.“our case confirms that face transplantation is practical and effective for the correction of specific disfigurement，” dr.laurent lantieri and colleagues at the henrimondor hospital outside paris wrote.26whats the main idea of this passage?aface transplants can work.bface transplants help regain confidence.cthree people have received face transplants.ddisfigured people need face transplants.27what happened to the chinese patient mentioned in the passage?ahe got a strange illness when he was young.bhe received several operations in hospital.che was the first person to receive a face transplant.dhe was once attacked by an animal.28from the passage we can learn that _.adoctors have different opinions on facial disfigurementbpatients could regain selfconfidence after face transplantscthe new face of every patient has more functions than expecteddit is easy for disabled people to be accepted by society29the underlined word “restoring” in paragraph 4 means “_”aremoving brecoveringcrepairing drejecting30what problem resulted from the facial operations? athe patients wouldnt accept the facial change.bit was hard for the patients to get along with others.cit took some time for the patients to recover from the operation.dthe patients usually suffered from tissue rejection.26a主旨大意题。本文介绍了三例成功的手术，表明面部移植手术是可行的。27d推理判断题。根据第一段中“after a bear tore off part of his face”和第四段中“hit by a bear”可知d项正确。28b推理判断题。根据第四段中的“could enable patients to bring themselves back into society”和第五段中的“he began to work 13 months after the transplant.”可判断出b项正确。29c词义猜测题。restore表示“修复；整修”。30d细节理解题。根据第二段和第三段提到的病例可知，手术后病人都有面部组织的排异反应。c i stood outside new yorks madison square garden and just stared, almost speechless. i was a farm boy from county kilkenny, a child who some thought would never walk, let alone go as far as i had in the world. from the day i was born, there was a problem. the doctors at the dublin hospital told my parents i had phocomelia, a deformity that affected both legs below the knee, which were outward and shorter than normal and each foot had just three toes. life was tough. i couldnt stand, much less walk. i rarely, left the farmhouse-and then only in someones arms. mam bundled me up whenever she took me to town, no matter the season. “the world will see him when he can walk,” she told dad. “and he will walk.” mam devoted herself to helping me. she tried everything to get me on my feet. when i was three, she and dad took me to a clinic in dublin. a few weeks later we returned to dublin with my artificial limbs (肢). back home i practiced walking with my new limbs. “theres nothing anyone can do but you cant,” mam said. “you and i are going to walk through town.” the next day mam dressed me in my finest clothes. she wore a summer dress and fixed her hair and makeup. dad drove us to the church. we stepped out of the car. mam took my hand. “hold your head up high, now, ronan,” she said. we walked 300 meters to the post office. it was the farthest id walked, and i was sweating from the effort. then we left the post office and continued down the street, mares eyes shining with a mothers pride. that night, back on our farm, i lay exhausted on my bed. it meant nothing, though, compared to what id done on my walk. then i began to pursue my dream of singing. and at every step mams words came back to meronan, you can do anything anyone else can doand the faith she had in god, who would help me do it. ive sung from the grandest stages in europe, to music played by the worlds finest musicians. that night, i stood at the madison square garden, with mams words chiming in my ears. then i began singing. i couldnt feel the pulse of the music in my feet, but i felt it deep in my heart, the same place where mams promise lived.11.what was the problem with the author as a baby? a. he was expected unable to walk. b. he was born outward in character. c. he had a problem with listening. d. he was shorter than a normal baby.12 the underlined word “deformity” in the second paragraph most probably means . a. shortcoming b. disadvantage c. disability d. delay13.why did mam dress him and herself in finest clothes? a. to hide their depressed feeling. b. to indicate it an unusual day. c. to show off their clothes. d. to celebrate his successful operation.14.from the story we may conclude that his mother was . a. determined b. stubborn c. generous d. distinguished15.according to the writer, what mattered most in his success? a. his consistent effort. b. his talent for music. c. his countless failures. d. his mothers promise.【参考多少啊】acbadddo you know about a series of books that say they are “for dummies”? these american self-help books have been translated into more than thirty-nine languages including chinese, arabic, russian, french, german, greek and spanish. “dummy” is a word for a stupid person. the dummies books are not really for stupid people. they are designed to show people how to do something they may never have tried before, like painting a house or learning a language. the books all say in a funny way that they are for dummies, such as world history for dummies, rabbits for dummies, chinese cooking for dummies, and wedding planning for dummies. the first such book, dos for dummies, was published in 1991. it helped people learn how to use the dos operating system for computers. since then, more than one hundred fifty million dummies books have been sold. the website explains the idea behind the books. it says that they show that people can be taught to do anything. first they can make fun of ideas that are difficult to understand. then they show how the information can be interesting and easy. the publishers say that the books do not provide more information than necessary. they give readers just enough information to do what they want. they say that the dummies books give the best and easiest way to do something. and the books use simple and easy language.there are more than one thousand different dummies books. a report in new york times says that the top-selling dummies books are those that explain technology and personal finance.the publishers say that the best-selling dummies books are those providing information many people need-like information about diseases, education and cooking. people interested in opera, car repair and wine can also find dummies books to help them. and there are even more dummies books to come. the publishers say that they publish about two hundred new dummies books every year. 16 hich of the following can be the best title of the passage? a. books for dummies b. the easiest, the best c. books for stupid people d. new ideas behind the books 17 ccording to the website, people can _ with the help of dummies books.a. do some personal things b. learn any foreign languagec. become expert in cooking d. do anything they want18 the dummies books have been popular because _. a. they provide just what is needed and are easy to understandb. they provide abundant information on the concerning subjectc. people can learn to do anything with just one copyd. people can save lots of money through self-teaching19 according to new york times, we know that books on _ sell best. a. diseases and education b. opera and car repairing c. technology and personal finance d. cooking and world history 20 what can we learn from the passage? a. the first dummies book was on chinese cooking. b. the dummies books will continue to be popular. c. fifty million different dummies books have been published. d. the simple language was intended for child readers. 【参考答案】adacb【广东省2012届高三考前冲刺卷(四)】bromedoctors and medical groups around the world last weekend reacted with strong opposition to the news that an italian specialist is on_the_brink_of cloning the first human baby.dr.severino antinori，who is the head of a hospital in rome，has been referred to in an arab newspaper as claiming that one of his patients is eight weeks pregnant with a cloned baby.antinori refused to comment on the reports，but in march 2001 he said he hoped to produce a cloned embryo for implantation within two years.so far seven different kinds of mammals have already been successfully cloned，including sheep，cats and most recently rabbits.doctors showed their doubt and were strongly opposed although they admitted that human cloning would finally come true unless there was a worldwide ban on the practice.professor rudolf jaenisch of the whitehead institute for biomedical research at the massachusetts institute of technology said，“i find it astonishing that people do this where the result can be foretold that it will not be a normal baby.it is using humans as guinea pigs.it makes people feel sick.”but ronald green，director of the ethics institute at darmouth college in the us，said it was unlikely that an eightweekold pregnancy would lead to a birth.so far all cloned animals have suffered from some different serious disorders，many of them dying soon after their births.doctors are opposed to human cloning because they are worried about the welfare of the cloned child if there is one.“there are no benefits of cloning human beings，just harm，” said