广东省清远市高考英语单项选择和阅读理解一轮选练（10）.doc

广东省清远市2016高考英语单项选择和阅读理解一轮选练（10）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中选出最佳选项。 i lost my sight when i was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in atlantic city and landing on my headnow i am thirty twoi can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color red isit would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity（灾难） can do strange things to peopleit occurred to me the other day that i might not have come to love life as i do if i hadnt been blindi believe in life nowi am not so sure that i would have believed in it so deeply, otherwisei dont mean that i would prefer to go without my eyesi simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what i had leftthe hardest lesson i had to learn was to believe in myselfthat was basicif i hadnt been able to do that, i would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my lifewhen i say belief in myself i am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase alonethat is part of itbut i mean something bigger than that: an assurance that i am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the sweeping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where i can make myself fitit took me years to discover and strengthen this assuranceit had to start with the simplest thingsonce a man gave me an indoor baseballi thought he was making fun of me and i was hurti cant use this i saidtake it with you, he urged me, and roll it around the words stuck in my headroll it around! by rolling the ball i could hear where it wentthis gave me an idea how to achieve a goal i had thought impossible: playing baseballat philadelphias overbrook school for the blind i invented a successful variation of baseballwe called it ground ball all my life i have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a timei had to learn my limitationsit was no good trying for something that i knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failurei would fail sometimes anyway but on the average i made progress 1we can learn from the beginning of the passage that _athe author lost his sight because of a car crash bthe author wouldnt love life if the disaster didnt happencthe disaster made the author appreciate what he haddthe disaster strengthened the authors desire to see2whats the most difficult thing for the author?a how to adjust himself to reality bbuilding up assurance that he can find his place in lifeclearning to manage his life alone dhow to invent a successful variation of baseball3according to the context, “a chair rocker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _ awould sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his lifebwould be unable to move and stay in a rocking chaircwould lose his will to struggle against difficultiesdwould sit in a chair and stay at home4according to the passage, the baseball and encouragement offered by the man _ahurt the authors feeling bgave the author a deep impressioncdirectly led to the invention of ground ball dinspired the author5what is the best title for the passage?aa miserable life bstruggle against difficultiesca disaster makes a strong person dan unforgettable experience【参考答案】1-5、cbcdc 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。【2013界广东珠海市高三上期末质量监测】once again, rumors are spreadingjudgement day, this time, is set to happen on december 21st, 2012the date originated from the mayan calendar, but actually gained popularity through the hit movie, 2012how will the world end? and how do we know the exact date? there are many theories: a meteoroid from outer space; a solar storm; a shift in the earths poles; bla bla blathey all supposedly pointed to the date of december 21st, 2012unfortunately, none of it is truezhu jin, director of beijing planetarium, said, for earth itself, the end will be billions of years away from nowand for us humans, there is a very small chance that we may be affected by some astronomical factorshowever, we dont have the ability to foresee such events so farso when someone tells you the world is going to end on an exact date, it must be fakebut the truth hasnt stopped people from believingin the sci-fi movie 2012, the director imagined the end of the world based on the mayan calendarthe film earned nearly 770 million us dollars worldwide. ning hong, hebei province, saidthe movie 2012 did get one thing rightthere are arks eing made in china, but theyre not being built secretly inside the mountainsthey are constructed here in the courtyard of a factoryin april, liu qiyuan quit his furniture business and devoted himself to developing these huge round ballshe doesnt believe the end is near, but he wants to be prepared just in caseliu qiyuan, the ark builder, said, the concept originated twenty years agothe tangshan earthquake had flattened our house, so i wanted to build a shelter that wouldnt fallthen in 2004, i saw the tsunami in indonesia that killed so many peoplethen i realized it should be something that could withstand the earthquake and float on waterliu is hoping to use his invention as a life boat on the seahes planning to test his product on the water next year it turns out that rumour, though false, is good for businessdoomsday discounts and products are hot on many online storeswhile its surely attracted attention, many complain that it misleads consumerstheir purpose is to promote productsif they believe the world is going to endwho would buy things? money would be useless, too41the purpose of the movie 2012 was .ato popularize scientific knowledge for the viewersbto make a profit from the viewersc to tell the viewers an interesting factual storydto warn the viewers of a disastrous event【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。根据the film earned nearly 770 million us dollars worldwide.可知电影赢得了很大的收益，故选b。42the word fake in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to aa joke ba lie cuntrue dterrifying【答案】c【解析】细节理解题。根据none of it is true，2012年是世界末日是假的，故选c。43liu qiyuan quit his job and built his ark because _ahe believed that the world was going to end on dec21,2012bhe was tired of making money from his furniture businessche was almost killed in indonesia in 2004dhe wanted to make preparations for destructive natural disasters【答案】d【解析】细节理解题。根据the tangshan earthquake had flattened our house, so i wanted to build a shelter that wouldnt fallthen in 2004, i saw the tsunami in indonesia that killed so many peoplethen i realized it should be something that could withstand the earthquake and float on water这是为了抵御大的自然灾害，故选d。44which statement is not true according to the passage?aruinous were created by businessmen to promote their productsbthe movie 2012 was very popular and a great many people watched itcone theory said that the earth was to shift its two poles on dec21,2012dliu qiyuans ark was intended to survive earthquakes and terrible floods【答案】a【解析】细节理解题。根据the date originated from the mayan calendar 及it turns out that rumour, though false, is good for business根据玛雅文化推出来的并非是生意人的谣言，但是受益的人却是生意人。故选a。45we can infer from the passage that _atune and time again people spread rumours about the worlds end for one reason or anotherbthe mayas prediction about the worlds end has failedcin the movie 2012 big arks were built secretly inside the mountainsdliu qiyuan was bom before 1976 and is at least 36 years old【答案】c【解析】推理判断题。theyre not being built secretly inside the mountainsthey are constructed here in the courtyard of a factory电影中的方舟是在山里秘密进行制造的，故选c。2015高考英语（附解析答案）.单项填空1too much smoking and drinking_ him greatly，which meant bad living habits had an_ on his health.aaffect；effect baffected；effectcaffected；effects daffect；effects解析affect为及物动词“影响”；effect为名词。另外have an effect on为固定搭配，意为“对有影响”，故选b项。答案b2the fact that so many people still smoke in public places_that we may need a nationwide campaign to raise awareness of the risks of smoking.asuggestbsuggestscsuggested dsuggesting解析 考查时态和主谓一致。句意：有许多人依旧在公共场合吸烟，这一事实表明我们也许需要搞一次全国性的活动来提高人们对于吸烟危害性的认识。the fact后跟同位语从句，设空处为主句的谓语动词，故排除d项；由题干中的smoke和may等可知语境指现在的情况，故排除c项。本句主语为the fact，且本句陈述的是一个事实，故谓语动词应采用第三人称单数形式，故选b项。答案 b3they receive a proportion of their_from the sales of goods and services.aincome bpay cwage dexpense解析income意为“收入”；pay意为“工资，薪水”；wage意为“按日或周所发的工资”；expense意为“花费；消费”。根据句意应选a项。答案a4it seemed that he was _ losing his life.luckily，he was _ in the end.ain the danger of；out of dangerbin danger of；out of dangercin the danger of；out of the dangerdin danger of；out of the danger解析 句意：他似乎有失去生命的危险，(但)幸运的是，他最终脱离了险境。in danger of有的危险，out of danger脱离危险。答案 b5special_should be paid to improving your spoken english.acare battention cinterest dthought解析pay attention to为固定短语，意为“关心；注意”，符合题意。答案b6my sister wants to work in the power plant which_still_.ais；building bhas；been builtcis；being built dis；to be built解析由于两空格间有still，那么只能用进行时态，而power plant只能被建，所以选用被动语态。答案c7there were four or five boxes in the corner of the house_toys and books.acontaining bcontaincincluding dinclude解析containing.为现在分词短语作后置定语，相当于which contain.；contain的意义是“包含；含有”，表示某个容器里面所含有的东西。答案a8i would appreciate_if you would just let me deal with this incident.athat bthis cit done解析动词appreciate作“感激”讲时，其后可接形式宾语it，再接一个if引导的宾语从句，表示“如果(我)将不胜感激”。答案c9all the newspaper reporters hurried to the airport，_ that the pop star didnt turn up at all.adisappointing to find bdisappointed findingcdisappointing finding ddisappointed to find解析 空格处所缺的词是前面成分的伴随状语，表示the newspaper reporters的一种心理变化，用disappointed；同时构成“(be)adj.to do”句式。答案 d10chinese people were so excited when they saw mr hu_the pla on the national day of 2009.aexamined bcheckedcobserved dinspected解析此句中的inspect是“视察；检