【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编3含解析

1、【2019 最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编3 含解析(精选)AHe was there every morning, sittingmotionlesson the frontsteps of his house. In the morning light,I could see the shadowsthat were etched( 蚀刻 )deep within the lines surrounding his eyes.Each morning I walked this route with my daughter to her kindergarten class. We w

2、ere new to the neighborhood so that Ididn t know many of my neighbors. On one beautiful autumn morning, as we passed his house, my daughter called out to him,“Hi,Mr. Man! ” Always the outgoing child,I wasnt surprisedat her enthusiasm. But her cheerfulness soon faded when the mandidn t look at her an

3、d say“Hi ” back.As we continuedon our walk to school,my daughterasked whythe man didn t want to say hi to her. Because I didnt havean answer, I said simply,“Maybe he is having a bad day. ” laterI knew that Bob lost his wife in a car accident.A few days later, as we approached Bobs house on our wayto

4、 school, my daughter called out“Hi Mr. Man! ” and as usual,欢迎下载。he didn t respond. But then she ran onto picked up a beautiful red autumn leaf. and handed it to him. I held my breath.his front lawn andShe continuedup one stepAs she skippedback tome, she said,“See you tomorrow,Mr.Man!” This time, he

5、acknowledged her. In a soft gentle voice,he thanke d her and said,“See you tomorrow. ”From then on, Bob and my daughter exchanged greeting eachmorning.Our friendshipwith Bob continued formany years.But,the sweetest day is when Bob attendedmy daughter s high schoolgraduation.Bob gave my daughtera gif

6、t-abook on identifyingvarious plants and trees. There, tucked in the pages thatdescribedan oak tree,was the leafmy daughterhad given to Mr.Man when they first met. He had dried and pressed it and keptit all those years.1.What puzzled the girl?A. The cause of the mans sadnessB. The shadows in the man

7、s eyesC. The man s sitting still on the stepsD. The man s not answering her greeting2.How did the author feel when his daughter gave the red leaf to the man?A. ProudB. Nervous【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编含解析C. EmbarrassedD. Comfortable3.Why did Bob keep that little red leaf?A. It was a care from a girl4.Wh

8、ich of the following can be the best title for the text?A.A Simple Red LeafB.A Strange NeighborC. An Unusual FriendD.A Greeting From A girl【文章大意】本文是一篇记叙文。每天上学的路上，我和女儿总会遇见一位男士，女儿总会给他打招呼，但没有得到答复，有一天当女儿给他摘一片红色的树叶的时候，再次打招呼的时候，这次得到了答复。多年后在女儿毕业的时候，这位男士送给女儿一本书，上面印有各种各样的植物和树，还有女儿曾经送给他的那片树叶，在那片树叶里包含着那位男士痛苦的过

9、去。1.D 【解析】细节理解题。根据文中But her cheerfulnesssoon fadedwhen the man didn t look at her and say “Hi ” back. we continued on our walk to school, my daughter asked why及 Asthe mandidnt want to say hi to her.Because I didnt havean answer, 的提示可知令那位女孩困惑的是那位男士没有回答她的问候，故选D。3.A【解析】推理判断题。根据文中laterI knew thatBob los

10、this3/163/16wife in a car accident.的描述可知当时Bob 刚刚失去自己的妻子，而女儿的行为让他很感动，所以保存下来这片红色的叶子，从而当作对自己痛苦时光的回忆，故选 A。4.A 【解析】主旨大意题。根据文中的描述可知这片红色的叶子一直贯穿全文，就是因为它才使故事得以发展，因此，一片红色的叶子就是该文的主旨，故选 A。B(2015 ·江西九校联考 )Sleeping in a room with too much light has been linked toan increased risk of piling on the pounds, a s

11、tudy shows. A team at the Institute of Cancer Research in London found women hadlarger waistlines if their bedroom was“light enough to seeacross ” at night. However, they caution there is not enough evidence to advise people to buy thicker curtains or turn off lights.The women were asked to rate the

12、 amount of light in their bedrooms at night as ：Light enough to read. Light enough to see across the room, but not read. Light enough to see your hand infront of you, but not across the room. Too dark to see your hand or you wear a mask.Prof.Anthony Swerdlow told of people there is an associationthe

13、 BBC：“In thisbetween reportedvery large group light exposure【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编含解析at night and overweight and obesity. But there is not sufficient evidence to know if making your room darker would make any difference to your weight. There might be other explanations for the association, but the f

14、indings are intriguing enough toguarantee further scientific investigation.”The lightis disruptingthe body clock,which stems from ourevolutionary past when we were active when it was light in theday and resting when it was dark at night. Light altersmood，physical strength and even the way we process

15、 food in a 24- hourcycle. Artificial light is known to disrupt the body clock bydelaying the production of the sleep hormone melatonin.Prof.Derk- Jan Dijk said there would be no harm in trying tomake bedrooms darker. He told the BBC：“People in general arenot aware of the light present in their bedro

16、om. I think peopleshould assess theirbedroom and see how easy itwould be to makeit darker. ” Streetlights,some alarm clocks and standbylightson electricalequipment such as televisionscould lighta room,he said.“Overall this study points to the importance ofdarkness ，” he concluded.1The passage mainly

17、 tells us _Abright bedrooms link to obesityBdark bedrooms link to obesity5/165/16Cpeople should turn off lightsDpeople should buy thicker curtains2What does the underlinedword “disrupting” inParagraph4 mean?AStopping.BDisturbing.CImproving.DRecovering.3What might Paragraph 4 be used for?AOne possibl

18、e explanation on disrupting body clock.BOne possible explanation on disrupting mood.COne possibleexplanationon disruptingphysicalstrength.DOne possible explanation on artificial light.4Whats Prof.Derk- Jan Dijk s attitude towards the darkroom?AUnclear.BDoubtful.CNegative.DFavorable.【解题导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要

19、介绍了卧室里的亮度对人们健康的影响：过于强烈的光线会影响人体的生物钟，影响人的情绪，还有可能使人肥胖。1解析：选 A。主旨大意题。第一段第一句点明了文章的主题，即有研究表明， 在光线太强的房间里睡觉可能会导致体重增加。故选 A项。【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编含解析2解析：选 B。词义猜测题。根据第四段第一句中“The lightisdisrupting the body clock”和第二句可知，本段主要讲述的是光线会干扰生物钟，会改变情绪、体力、甚至人体处理食物的方式，由此可推知，画线单词意为“干扰” ，与 B 项 disturbing意义接近。故选 B项。3解析：选 A。篇

20、章结构题。根据第四段第一句“The light isdisruptingthe body clock.”及最后一句中的“ Artificiallightis known to disrupt the body clock”可知，本段主要解释了光线会干扰人体生物钟的可能原因。故选A 项。4解析：选 D。观点态度题。 根据最后一段第一句中 “there wouldbe no harm in trying to make bedrooms darker”及最后一句可以看出， Derk- Jan Dijk教授赞成将卧室的亮度调暗。故选D项。CAbout 21,000 young people in 1

21、7 American states do not attend classes in school buildings.Whatever the judgment of cyber schools, they are getting more and more popular. For example, a new cyber school called7/167/16CommonwealthConnections Academywill take in students this fall. It will serve children in the state of Pennsylvani

22、a from ages five through thirteen.Students at cyber schools usually do not know one another. But 56 such students who finished studies at Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School recently met for the first time. They were guests of honor at their graduation.( ) 1. What do we know from the text abou

23、t students of a cyber school?A. They have to take long bus rides to school.B. They study at home rather than in classrooms.C. They receive money from traditional public schools.D. They do well in traditional school programs.【答案】：B【解析】：由文章 About 21,000 young people in 17 American states do not attend

24、 classes in school buildings.( ) 2. What is a problem with cyber schools?【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编含解析A. Their equipment costs a lot of money.B. They get little support from the state government.C. It is hard to know students' progress in learning.D. The students find it hard to make friends.C 由 The

25、y also say itis difficultto know ifstudentsare learningwell和 Other educators praise this new form of education forletting students work at their own speed.可知 C( ) 3. cyber schools are getting popular because _A. they are less expensive for studentsB. their students can work at their own speedC. thei

26、r graduates are more successful in societyD. they serve students in a wider age rangeB 细节题。Othereducatorspraisethisnew form ofeducationforletting students work at their own speed.可知选B( ) 4. We can infer that the author of the text is _.A. unprejudiced in his description of cyber schools B. excited a

27、bout the future of cyber schoolsC. doubtful about the quality of cyber schoolsD. disappeared at the development of cyber schools9/169/16A 推断题，作者分析，及分析了好处也分析了不好的，所以应该是不带偏见的D(2015 ·质量检测二 )Whether it is elementary school, middle school, or highschool in the United States, there will always be an a

28、wardsceremony at the end of the year. Though it varies from schoolto school, there area few thatare given by most schoolsacrossthe nation.The first one isgivenfromgrades 3 to 8 and it is theHonorRoll Award. In elementary and middle school, this award is usedto recognize academic excellence. This awa

29、rd is also separatedinto two groups: A Honor Roll and A/B Honor Roll. It is givenout at the end of a school year and students who receive allaverages of a 93 or above (90 in some states) on a final reportcard receive an A Honor Roll, and students with grades above 85(80 in some states) would receive

30、 an A/B Honor Roll. It is toreward students who have worked hard and received all As orAs and B s.In high school, this is changed a bit, but still can beclassified as the same type of award.The difference is thatinstead of using the scale(等级 ) of 100, they use a grade point【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编含解析a

31、verage(GPA) based on a 4 point scale. They recognize students with a high GPA as “Honor Students ”If the students keep it up for all four years of high school, then they graduate with honors.Another notable award is the Presidents Award forEducational Excellence. This is given by the PresidentHoweve

32、r, many people confuse the President s Award for Educational Excellence with another award, the US PresidentialScholars Program. Even though both have the word “President ” s Award for Educational Excellence is relatively easy to achieve, the award from the Presidential Scholars Program is not. To e

33、arnthe honor of being a Presidential Scholar, a student must be a high school senior last year of high school with outstanding standardized test scores.1If, in most of the schools in the US, a student in Grade5 wants to get an A Honor Roll, he/she must get all averages ofa(n) _ A93B85C90D802From the

34、 passage we know that the students who _can graduate with honors.Akeep up the grades of 100 in high school for more than11/1611/16one yearBget averages of 100 in high school for all four years of high schoolCget a high GPA in high school for more than one yearDare recognized as “Honor Students ” for

35、 all four years of high school3If high school students are to win the President s Award for Educational Excellence, which of the following statements should be included?AAn average grade of 90 or above on a 100 point scale.CA GPA of at least 3.5 in a national standardized test.DA high school senior

36、with outstanding standardized testscores.4The best title for this passage may be“_”AAwards in elementary and middle schoolsBAwards in schools of the United StatesCHow high schools reward their studentsDIt s easy to win awards in schools【解题导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了美国学校设置的一些奖项以及获得这些奖项需要满足的条件。1解析：选 A。细节理解题。根据第

37、二段第四句中的“and students【2019最新】精选高考英语阅读理解专题选编含解析who receive all averages of a 93 or above(90 in somestates) . .receive an A Honor Roll”可知，在美国大多数学校，想要获得 A Honor Roll，平均分必须在93 分或以上。故答案选A。2解析：选 D。细节理解题。根据第三段最后两句可知，如果学生能连续四年获得“优秀学生”的称号，就能带着荣誉毕业。故选D。4解析：选 B。标题归纳题。纵观全文可知，本文讲述的是美国学校设置的一些奖项以及获得这些奖项需要满足的条件。B 项能

38、概括文章内容，适合做标题。故选B。E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。Two recent studies have found that punishment is not the best way to influence behavior.One showed that adults are much more cooperative if they workin a system based on rewards. Researchers at Harvard University in the United States and the Stock

39、holm School of Economics in Sweden did the study.They had about two hundred college students play a version ofthe game known as the Prisoners Dilemma. The game is based onthe tension (紧张气氛 ) between the interests (利益 ) of an13/1613/16individual and a group. The students played in groups of four.Each

40、 player could win points for the group, so they would allgain equally. But each player could also reward or punish eachof the other three players, at a cost to the punisher.Harvard researcherDavid Rand says the most successfulbehaviorproved to be cooperation. The groups that rewarded it the mostearn

41、ed about twiceas much in the gameas the groups thatrewardedit the least. And the more a group punished itself, the lowerits earnings were. The group with the most punishment earnedtwenty-fivepercent less than the group with the least punishment.The study appeared last month in the journal Science.Th

42、e other study involved children. It was presented last monthin Californiaata conference on violenceand abuse. Researchersused intelligence tests given to two groups. More than eighthundred childrenaged two to four the firsttime they were tested.More than seven hundred children aged five to nine.1Which could be the best title of the passage?A. Punishment