北京市延庆县高考英语暑假阅读理解选练（3） (2).doc

北京市延庆县2016高考英语暑假阅读理解选练（3）阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的a,b,c或d四个选项中，选出最佳选项。playa grande, costa rica? this resort town was long known for leatherback sea turtle (棱皮龟) national park, nightly turtle beach tours and even a sea turtle museum. however, on a beach where dozens of turtles used to nest on a given night, scientists spied only 32 leatherbacks all of last year. with leatherbacks threatened with extinction (灭绝), playa grandes turtle museum was abandoned three years ago and now sits among a sea of weeds. and the beachside ticket office for turtle tours was washed away by a high tide in september. “we do not promote that as a turtle tourism destination any more because we realize there are far too few turtles to please,” said alvaro fonseca, a park ranger (管理员). even before scientists found temperatures going up over the past decade, sea turtles were threatened by beach development, drift net fishing and costa ricans interest in eating turtle eggs. but climate change may cause the most serious harm to an animal that has lived in the pacific for 150 million years. sea turtles are sensitive to numerous effects of warming. they feed on reefs, which are dying in hotter seas. they lay eggs on beaches that are being covered by rising seas and more violent waves. more uniquely their gender (性别) is determined, not by genes but by the eggs temperature during development. small rises in beach temperatures can result in ail-female populations, obviously problematic for survival. if the sand around the eggs hits 30 degrees celsius, the gender balance shits to females: at about 32 degrees they are all female. above 34, you get boiled eggs. on some nesting beaches, scientists are artificially cooling nests with shade or irrigation and trying to protect broader areas of coastal property from development to ensure that turtles have a place to nest as the seas rise. 1. why does the resort town stop promoting its turtle tourism? a. it decides not to disturb the turtles normal life. b. tourists have lost interest in watching turtles. c. there are only very few turtles now. d. the turtle museum was destroyed by a high tide. 2. which of the following is the major factor in the turtles endangerment? a. the locals eating habit. b. drift net fishing. c. beach development. d. global warming. 3. we learn from the last paragraph that scientists. a. are doing research on the sea rise b. are moving turtles to new homesc. are protecting turtles nests d. are getting rid of sea weeds4. the passage intends to. a. introduce a special kind of sea turtleb. explain the mystery of turtles eggsc. show the dangers a certain kind of turtle is facingd. attract more visitors to a sea turtle museum【参考答案】14、cdcc 【2013界广东深圳市第二次调研考试】 since the beginning of the year, smog has covered parts of north china. in january, beijing saw only five days without smog. the rising pm 2.5 readings terrified many people, and some health experts said that whenever the smog gets serious, hospitals receive more patients suffering acute respiratory（呼吸系统）and heart diseases.later, news of polluted underground water in some provinces scared people who wondered whether the water they drink is safe.so the need to emphasize environmental protection while developing the economy is heard everywhere. smog especially is a common concern. like a popular online post said, air may be the only thing that is equal for everyone, despite your income or vocation. people with higher incomes are able to drink only bottled spring water and eat only organic food by paying higher prices, but they breathe the same air as everyone else. at a meeting on monday, many representatives have expressed their concerns about the air quality, too. one talked about his experience in beijing. “after taking a taxi from the capital airport to my hotel, which took about an hour, i washed my nose and found the inside of my nose was black. we should ask ourselves this question: why do we want to develop? its for living a better life. dirty air is definitely not a better life, he said. china needs to develop its economy and invest(投资) in high-tech. every chinese wants a strong country. but without blue sky, clean water and safe food, the achievements in the economy will become meaningless. space technologies are not to be developed for building a base on mars so that one day all human beings can migrate to the red planet because they have destroyed earth. what the public wants is a strong and beautiful china. president hu jintao spoke at the 18th party congress last november saying that great efforts must be made to promote ecological progress and build a beautiful china. the words have shown the central governments resolution to address the environment issue. 41the effect of smog doesnt include .athe rising of pm 2.5 readingsbmore people suffering diseasescthe increase of peoples incomedpatients increased in hospital【答案】c【解析】细节理解题。根据the rising pm 2.5 readings terrified many people, and some health experts said that whenever the smog gets serious, hospitals receive more patients suffering acute respiratory（呼吸系统）and heart diseases.烟雾引起pm的指数的增加，人们患病的人增多因而医院的病人增多，人们的收入的增加并不是由于烟雾的影响，故选c。42why smog has become a common concern?abecause people have to pay higher prices.bbecause nobody can avoid it.cbecause we have to develop industry.dbecause a popular online-post discussed it.【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。根据smog especially is a common concern.及they breathe the same air as everyone else. 因为每一个都需呼吸有烟雾是任何人都避免不了的事情，故选b。43to make china stronger we have to develop economy, but .awe have to sacrifice air as the pricebthe dirty air is not what we wantcecological progress can be ignoreddthe smog is the only byproduct【答案】b【解析】细节理解题。根据what the public wants is a strong and beautiful china.我们为了发展经济使中国变得更加强大，但是不能牺牲我们的空气的质量，故选b。44the underlined word “they” in paragraph 6 refers to .ahuman beingsbother plantscspace technologiesdindustrial development【答案】a【解析】词义猜测题。根据so that one day all human beings can migrate to the red planet because they have destroyed earth.这里用代词代替前面出现的名词human beings，故选a。45from the last two paragraphs we can infer that .ahigh-tech can completely solve the problem of pollutionbspace technologies should be developed in a large scalecwe can move to the mars after the earth has been destroyeddwe must protect the environment while developing economy【答案】d【解析】推理判断题。根据the words have shown the central governments resolution to address the environment issue. 当发展经济的时候我们要保护环境，故选d。passage twenty- nine (men are carrying on a sex-fight)this is supposed to be an enlightened age, but you wouldnt think of if you could heat what the average man thinks of the average woman/ women won their independence years ago. after a long, bitter struggle, they now enjoy the same educational opportunities as men in most parts of the world. they have proved repeatedly that they are equal and often superior to men in almost every field. the hard-fought battle for recognition has been won, but it is by no means over. it is men, not women who still carry on the sex war because their attitude remains basically hostile. even in the most progressive societies, women continue to be regarded as second-rate citizens. to hear some men talk, youd think that women belonged to a different species!on the surface, the comments made by men about womens abilities seem light-hearted. the same tired jokes about women drivers are repeated day in, day out. this apparent light-heartedness dose not conceal the real contempt that men feel for women. however much men sneer at women, their claims to superiority are not borne out by statistics. lets consider the matter of driving, for instance. we all know that women cause far fewer accidents than men. they are too conscientious and responsible to drive like maniacs. but this is a minor quibble. women have succeeded in any job you care to name. as politicians, soldiers, doctors, factory-hands, university professors, farmers, company directors, lawyers, bus-conductors, scientists and presidents of countries they have often put men to shame. and we must remember that they frequently succeed brilliantly in all these fields in addition to bearing and rearing children.yet men go on maintaining the fiction that there are many jobs women cant don top-level political negotiation between countries, business and banking are almost entirely controlled by men, who jealously guard their so-called rights. even in otherwise enlightened places like switzerland women havent even been given the cote. this situation is preposterous! the arguments that men put forward to exclude women from these fields are all too familiar. women, they say, are unreliable and irrational. they depend too little on cool reasoning and too much on intuition and instinct to arrive at decisions. they are not even capable of thinking clearly. yet when women prove their abilities, men refuse to acknowledge them and give them their due. so much for a mans ability to think clearly!the truth is that men cling to their supremacy because of their basic inferiority complex. they shun real competition. they know in their hearts that women are superior and they are afraid of being beaten at their own game. one of the most important tasks in the world is to achieve peace between the nations. you can be sure that if women were allowed to sit round the conference table, they would succeed brilliantly, as they always do, there men have failed for centuries. some things are too important to be left to men!1. what does the first sentence imply?a. it is not really an enlightened age. . it is different from an enlightened age.c. it is the same as an enlightened age. c. it is like an enlightened age.2. why do men carry on the sex war against women?a. because of their inferiority. . because they shun real competition.c. because of their claim to supremacy. d. because they still look down upon women.3. the “fiction” is closest in meaning to a. novel. . man-made idea. c. false idea. d. story.4. what is the main argument men have raised against women?a. women are lack of cold reasoning. . they depend on intuition too much.c. they are unreliable and irrational. c. they are too still look down upon women.vocabulary1. conscientious 认真的，真心实意的2. maniac 疯狂的，疯子3. preposterous 反常的，荒谬的4. q