高考英语二轮阅读理解基础训练精品题（11）.doc

2014高考英语二轮阅读理解基础训练精品题（11）及答案阅读理解-（a）in the kitchen of my mothers houses there has always been a wooden stand（木架）with a small notepad（记事本）and a hole for a pencil. im looking for paper on which to note down the name of a book i am recommending to my mother. over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchen pad and pencil, five houses later, the current paper and pencil look the same as they always did. surely it cant be the same pencil? the pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely the original one. “im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.” i say to her, walking bank into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. “you still use a pencil. cant you afford a pen?” my mother replies a little sharply. “it works perfectly well. ive always kept the stand in the kitchen. i never knew when i might want to note down an idea, and i was always in the kitchen in these days.” immediately i can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a wooden spoon in one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. my mother smiles and says, “one day i was cooking and watching baby pauline, and i had a brilliant thought, but the stand was empty. one of the children must have taken the paper. so i just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. it turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem i was working on.” this storywhich happened before i was bornreminds me how extraordinary my mother was, and is, as a gifted mathematician. i feel embarrassed that i complain about not having enough child-free time to work. later, when my mother is in the bathroom, i go into her kitchen and turn over the breadboards. sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks i recognize as mathematics. those symbols have traveled unaffected through fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard, invisible（看不到的）exhibits at every meal.( ) 1. why has the authors mother always kept the notepad and pencil in the kitchen?a. to leave messages. b. to list her everyday tasks.c. to note down maths problems. d. to write down a flash of inspiration. ( ) 2. what is the authors original opinion about the wooden stand? a. it has great value for the family. b. it needs to be replaced by a better one. c. it brings her back to her lonely childhood. d .it should be passed on to the next generation. ( ) 3. the author feels embarrassed for _ a. blaming her mother wrongly. b. giving her mother a lot of trouble. c. not making good use of time as her mother did. d. not making any breakthrough in her field.( ) 4. what can be inferred from the last paragraph?a .the mother is successful in her career. b. the family members like traveling. c. the author had little time to play when young. d. the marks on the breadboard have disappeared. ( ) 5. in the authors mind ,her mother is_a. strange in behavior. b. keen on her research. c. fond of collecting old things. d. careless about her appearance.本篇文章为记叙文。主要讲述“我”的母亲总是习惯实用厨房里的记事本和铅笔。50年过去了，换了 5 所房子，可母亲的习惯没有改变，却更热衷于此。我突然意识到母亲是位天才的数学家。46. d细节理解题。 根据第四段第三句 never knew when i might want to note down an idea, “and i was always in the kitchen in those days”可知作者母亲随时在存放的记事本上记录自己的想法，故选 d 项。47. b 推理判断题。根据第三段作者说的“im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years.”“cant you afford a pen”可知作者态度，是在反问母亲，想让母亲用更好的笔和记事本，故选b48. c 细节理解题，根据第五段第二句“i fell embarrassed that t complain about not having enough child-free time to work”可判断选c项49. a 推理判断题。根据最后一段内容，可知我意识到母亲的成功，她是天才数学家，母亲充分利用了厨房里的记事本写下数学，以及她对我的影响，由此判断选a50. b细节理解题。根据第五段第二句母亲的话“one day i was cooking and watching baby it turned out to be a real breakthrough for solving the mathematical problem i was working on.”可知，作者的母亲很热衷于自己的发现，由此判断选b阅读理解-计划愿望和节假日活动 everyone knows about straight-a students. we see them frequently in tv situation comedies and in movies likerevenge(复仇) of the nerds. they get high grades, all right, but only by becoming dull laborers, their noses always stuck in a book. they are not good at social communication and look clumsy when it comes to sports. how, then, do we account for domenica roman or paul melendres? roman is on the tennis team at fairmont senior high school. she also sings in the choral group, serves on the student council(学生会) and is a member of the mathematics society. for two years she has maintained as in every subject. melendres, now a freshman at the university of new mexico, was student-body president at valley high school in albuquerque. he played soccer and basketball well, exhibited at the science fair, and meanwhile worked as a reporter on a local television station. being a speech giver at the graduation ceremony, he achieved straight as in his regular classes, plus bonus points for as in two college-level courses. how do super-achievers like roman and melendres do it? brains arent the only answer. top grades dont always go to the brightest students, declares herbert walberg, professor of education at the university of illinois at chicago, who has conducted major studies of super-achieving students. knowing how to make the most of your innate(天赋的) abilities counts for more. much more. in fact, walberg says, students with high i.q.s sometimes dont do as well as classmates with lower i.q.s. for them, learning comes too easily and they never find out how to get down. hard work isnt the whole story, either. its not how long you sit there with the books open, said one of the many a students we interviewed. its what you do while youre sitting. indeed, some of these students actually put in fewer hours of homework time than their lower-scoring classmates. the kids at the top of the class get there by mastering a few basic techniques that others can readily learn. 1. the “nerds” can probably be _.a. dull bookworms lacking sports and social skillsb. successful top students popular with their peersc. students with certain learning difficultiesd. born leaders crazy about social activities2. what can we conclude from the first paragraph?a. most tv programs and films are about straight-a students.b. people have unfavorable impression of straight-a students.c. everyone knows about straight-a students from tv or films.d. straight-a students are well admired by people in the society.3. some students become super-achievers mainly because _.a. they are born cleverer than othersb. they worker longer hours on studyc. they make full use of their abilitiesd. they know the short cut to success4. what will be talked about after the last paragraph?a. the interviews with more students.b. the role i.q. plays in learning well.c. the techniques to be better learners.d. the achievements top students make.5. what can we infer from the passage?a. students neednt work hard on study any more.b. the brightest students can never get top grades.c. top students certainly achieve all-around developments. d. students with average i.q.s can become super-achievers.参考答案 15 a b c c d阅读下列短文，从没题所给的四个选项(a, b, c, d)中选出最佳选项。anine years ago, after leo had died, people said to me. i never knew he was your stepfather. you see, i never called him that. at first, he was no one special in my life. then he became my friend. in time, i felt he was also my father.leo married my mother when i was eleven. two years later we moved into a house in a new suburban development, where we put down roots. at first our lawn was just a mud with wild grass, but leo saw bright possibilities. well plant trees there to give us shade as well as some flowers, he said. and just these little touches made our house different from all the others. more important, a real family was forming. leo was becoming a full-time parent, and i was learning what it meant to have a father.weekday mornings when the weather was bad, leo often drove me to school. having a father drop you off may have been something my classmates took for granted, but i always thought it was wonderful. saturday mornings, we went to the hardware shop, then stepped into the five-and-ten, buying a sports magazine or something else. some people might think that doing shopping together is nothing special, but i, who had ever before spent my childhood watching other families do their everyday activities, experienced them now with extreme delight. looking back, i realized that leo gave me what i needed mostthe experience of doing ordinary things together as a family.soon after we moved to the suburbs, one of our new neighbors introduced herself to me. she had already met my mother and leo. you know, she said, you look just like your father. i knew she was just making conversation-but even so. thank you, i said. why tell her anything different?1the writers purpose in writing this passage is _.ato show his pride to have a good stepfatherbto show how interesting a person leo wascto remind us of our parentsdto explain why they moved to the suburbs2the phrase “put down roots”in the second paragraph means .afarmedbplantedcsettled dworked3in the writers opinion, _.ait is not easyto live with a stepfatherbnot all the stepfathers are as good as leocthe husband and wife must think more about their children before they divorcedin stepfamilies the love and friendship are extremely precious4the last sentence “why tell her anything different?”means that .ahe should have told the truth bhe wouldnt tell her the truthche wanted to tell her something that had nothing to do with leodhe wanted to keep silence whenever he met the neighbors参考答案 acdb阅读理解-（b）christopher thomas, 27, was a writer by night and a teacher by day when he noticed he was always tired and was losing weight fast. diagnosed with diabetes(糖尿病), thomas would need to inject himself with insulin(胰岛素) three times a day for the rest of his life or risk nerve damage, blindness, and even death. and if that werent bad enough, he had no health insurance. after a month of feeling upset, thomas decided hed better find a way to fight back. he left canton, michigan for new york, got a job waiting tables, nicknamed himself the diabetic rock star, and created , a free online community for diabetics and their loved onesa place where over 1,100 people share personal stories, information, and resources. jason swenckis son, kody, was diagnosed with type diabetes at six. father and son visit the online childrens forums(论坛) together most evenings. kody gets so excited, writing to kids from all over, says swencki, one of the sites volunteers. they know what hes going through, so he doesnt feel alone. kody is anything but alone. diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in the united states, with 24 million diagnosed cases. and more people are being diagnosed at younger ages. these days, thomass main focus is his charity（慈善机构）, fight it, which provides medicines and supplies to people225 to datewho cant afford a diabetics huge expenses. f has raised about $23,000in products and in cash. in may, thomas will hold the first annual diabetic rocks tar festival in the caribbean. even with a staff of 22 volunteers, thomas often devotes up to 50 hours a week to his cause, while still doing his full-time job waiting tables. of the diabetes charities out there, most are putting money into finding a cure, says bentley gubar, one of rock stars original members. but christopher is the only person i know saying people need help now. ( ) 1. which of the following is true of christopher thomas? a. he needs to go to the doctor every day. b. he studies the leading cause of diabetes c. he has a positive attitude to this disease. d. he encourages diabetics by writing articles.( ) 2. d was created for _. a. diabetics to communicate b. volunteers to find jobs c. children to amuse themselves d. rock stars to share resources.( ) 3. according to the text, kody _. a. feel lonely because of his illness b. benefits from c. helps create the online kids forums d. writes childrens stories online( ) 4. what can we learn about fight it? a. it helps the diabetics in financial difficulties. b. it organizes parties for volunteer once a year. c. it offers less expensive medicine to diabetics.d. it owns a well-known medical website.( ) 5. the last paragraph suggests that thomas _. a. works full-time in a diabetes charity b. employs 22 people for his website c. helps diabetics in his own way d. ties to find a cure