（整理版高中英语）高三英语阅读理解限时训练（22）

1、高三英语阅读理解限时训练22avalentine's day is named for saint valentine, an early christian churchman who reportedly helped young loversvalentine was killed for his christian beliefs on february 14 more than 1,700 years ago, but the day that has his name is even earlier than thatmore than 2,000 years ago, t

2、he ancient romans celebrated a holiday for loversas part of the celebration, girls wrote their names on pieces of paper and put them in a large containerboys reached into the container and pulled one outthe girl whose name was written on the paper became his lover or sweet heart for a yearlovers sti

3、ll put their names on pieces of paper and they send each other valentine' s day cards that tell of their lovesometimes they also send gifts, like flowers or chocolate candyamericans usually send these gifts and cards through the mail systembut some used another way to send this messagethey have

4、it printed in a newspaperthe cost is usually a few dollarssome of the messages are simple and short, "jane, i love you very much" others say morethis one, for example, "don, roses are redviolets are bluei hope you love me as much as i love youforever, mary"most of the newspapers

5、that print such messages are local, but usa today is sold throughout the united states and 90 other countries as wellthis means someone can send a valentine message to a lover in a far-away city or town almost anywhere in the worldthese messages cost 80 dollars and morean employee of usa today says

6、readers can have a small heart or rose printed along with their messages this yearwill this kind of valentine' s day message reach the one you love?well, just make sure he or she reads the newspaper41which is true about valentine's day according to the text?agifts are a must for the holidayb

7、girls send cards with their namesclovers usually buy roses for each otherdlove messages may appear in newspapers42which of the events took place earliest according to the text?apeople began to celebrate the holidaybthe holiday was named valentinecvalentine' s day cards appeareddsaint valentine w

8、as killed43what is the main purpose of the author in writing this text?ato introduce valentine's daybto attract readers to usa todaycto tell a story about saint valentinedto explain the development of valentine' s daybhistorians say harriet tubman was born in the year 1820nobody really knows

9、but we do know that harriet tubman was one of the bravest women ever born in the united statesfrom a very early age, harriet knew how slaves sufferedat six years old, she was sent to the fields working outside not only made her body strong but also made her learn about the underground railroad, thro

10、ugh which she helped hundreds of people escape from slavery latershe also learned many things from other slaves, which one day would help her lead her people to freedomshe became more of a rebel 叛逆者in 1844, at about age 24, she married a free black man named john tubmanby now, harriet was sure she w

11、anted to try to escapesuddenly, the time cameher owner diedthough opposed by her husband, she decided to escapewith the help of the underground railroad, and through a variety of suffering she finally crossed the border into pennsylvania, where slavery was banned 禁止later, she told a friend, "i

12、felt like i was in heaven"now that harriet was free, she did not forget the hundreds of other slaves back in marylandharriet traveled back and forth eighteen times, helping about 300 slaves escape into free territoryshe became an expert at hiding from slave hunterthe people she helped called he

13、r mosesat one time anyone finding harriet was promised $40,000 for catching her dead or aliveduring the civil war, harriet tubman went into enemy territory to spy for the northshe also served as a nurseafter four years of bloody fighting, the north won the warafter the fighting ended, harriet tubman

14、 returned to auburn, new yorkshe kept workingshe traveled and gave speeches to raise money for better education for black childrenshe also worked for women's rights and housingharriet tubman died in 1913she was about 93 years oldby that time, she was recognized as an american herothe united stat

15、es government gave a funeral with military honors for the woman known a moses44what can we say the underground railroad is?aa kind of train ba special railroadca group of slaves da secret organization45people called harriet "moses" because they regarded her as _aa sister ba fighter ca lead

16、er da friend46which is true according to the text?aharriet was well educated as a childbharriet worked for the blacks till her lastcslavery ended in america during the civil wardthe government honored harriet for her bravery47which is the right order about what harriet tubman did?ashe was called mos

17、esbshe spied for the northcshe worked in the fielddshe returned to new yorkcshe was honored as a herofshe escaped into pennsylvaniaac; f; a; b; d; e bf; b; c; d; e; a cf; c; b; a; d; e dc; f; b; a; d; e48which of the following should be the best title for the text?acruel american civil warba history

18、 of american black slavesca brief introduction to harriet tubmandinformation on the underground railroadcmadrid reutersspain' s parliament 国会 voiced its support on wednesday for the rights of great apes 猿 to life and freedomparliament's environmental committee approved resolution 决议 urging s

19、pain to carry out the great ape project gap, designed by scientists and philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights limited to humans"this is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in the h

20、istory of humanity," said pedro poza, spanish director of the great ape projectthe new resolution has cross-party support and it is thought they will become law within a year, making spain the first nation to extend legal rights to apesunder the new law, potential experiments on apes in spain w

21、ill be forbidden"we have no knowledge of great apes being used in experiments in spain, but there is currently no law preventing that from happening," poza saidkeeping apes for circuses, television commercials or filming will also be forbiddenhousing apes in spanish zoos, of which there ar

22、e currently 315, will remain legal, but supporters of the bill have said the conditions in which most of them live will need to improve vastlyphilosophers peter singer and paola cavalieri founded the great ape project in 1993, arguing that "non-human hominids灵长类" should enjoy the rights to

23、 life and freedom and not to be mistreated49the great ape project was probably set up to _aprotect great apes' rights bresearch the great ape societycsave the endangered great apes dstudy the development of the great apes50what is poza's attitude towards the resolutions?ahe doubts their trut

24、h bhe strongly supports themche thinks them unnecessary dhe pays little attention to them51what does the underlined words "the bill" refer to?athe money for ape housing bthe rights of great apescthe resolution dthe new law52which of the following expresses the main idea of the text?aapes h

25、ave legal rights in spain bapes should have human rightscthe great apes project did a good job dexperiments on apes will be forbiddendlocated in the forests near the village of harads in northern sweden, the treehotel opened its doors in the summer of and offers six guest roomsowners, britta and ken

26、t lindvall, invited designers and architects to create a series of unique tree houses that reflect the growing popularity of ecologically-themedholidaysthere's the mirrorcube, a 4x4x4 meter aluminum box in mirrored glassaccessed via a footbridge, the cabin is suspended 悬吊 from the surrounding pi

27、nes on a steep bank, affording views of the lulea riverboth these rooms sleep two people while the nest covered in branches, the blue cone which is actually painted red and the ufo a spaceship skewered by pines all have enough room to sleep a family of fourthe treehotel was built after they saw a sw

28、edish documentary 记录片 called "tradalskaren" the tree lover that tells the story of three men who build a tree house near harads in an attempt to rediscover their rural roots after years of living in a citythe lindvalls, who already owned and ran a nearby guesthouse, saw the chance to creat

29、e a different kind of holiday experience"when the film was over, interest in the original tree house grew so we decided to build our own, closer to our place," kent lindvall said"the plan for next year is five new roomswe also plan to build a chapel so people can get married up there&

30、quot;open all year round, the treehotel might attract only the hardest of souls during the winter as temperatures typically dip to around minus 15 degrees celsiusbut brave travelers will be rewarded with stunning snowy landscapes as well as a "three sauna" and under-floor heating in every

31、room delivered by renewable energy53britta and kent lindvall opened the treehotel to _aprotect forestsbintroduce excellent ideas of designerscprovide a peaceful lifestyle for citizensdmeet the tourists' demand for getting close to nature54which of the following rooms suits a couple most?athe cab

32、in bthe ufocthe nest dthe blue cone55what can we learn about "tradalskaren ?ait introduces the way of building treehotelsbit is about experience of returning to naturecit aims to attract holidaymakers to the treehoteldit is about britta and kent lindvall's life experience56what does the und

33、erlined part "the hardest of souls" refer to?ahard-working couples bstrong-willed peoplecskilled travelers dthe youthe"good fences make good neighbors", the television commentator said, misquoting robert frost for the millionth time in my memoryit made me wonder if the poet was n

34、ot looking down from heaven and sadly shaking his headno line of poetry has ever been more misused in history than that oneit comes from frost' s great poem mending wallin it he writes of him and his neighbor repairing the broken stone wall that divides their property 财产frost questions why they

35、are doing so, because there are no animals that need fencing inhe sees as well that the wall is a symbol of the barriers 障碍 that people create to separate themselves from each otherhe wisely writes that, "before i built a wall i'd ask to know what i was walling in or walling out, and to who

36、m i was like to give offence 冒犯'something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down'"his neighbor, however, who frost describes as a "stone savage" who "moves in darkness" refuses to part from the ways of his forefathers and goes along foolishly with their belief that "good fences make good neighbors"i wonder if mrfrost would have ever written his poem if he had known that the line he wrote in irony 挖苦 would be used again and again to encourage what he was so againstperhaps he would have written a different one about tearing