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省 市高考英语阅读理解、完形填空训练3及答案阅读理解(每题2分，总分值8分)选材相似度：设题相似度：难度系数：On that September morning five years ago，a memory of his father came to Mayor Rudy Giuliani.In it，the Brooklyn plumber and bartender was telling his only child，“In a crisis，you have to become the calmest person in the room.Giuliani became more than that.His suit coated with ash from the wreckage，he stood firm，vowing that New Yorkers would show the world the meaning of courage.He comforted victims' families，attended funerals of police and firefighters，rallied his fellow citizens on radio and television.He'd overcome hardships before，including a bitter，public end to his marriage，and a battle with prostate cancer.Alongside the terrifying challenges of 9/11，they're the kind of events that could break anyone's public and personal life.But Giuliani's resolve to success is stronger than ever，and now he is about to find out if his legacy of leadership endures.After the coming midterm elections，he will decide whether to seek the Republican nomination for President in ，or whether to carry on with the business ventures he took up post­9/11.Having spent years in public serviceas a US.Attorney (lawyer) in New York，an Associate Attorney General during the Reagan Administration，and two terms as mayor of the Big AppleGiuliani,62，is finally cashing_in.Chair and CEO of Giuliani Partners LLC，he's making millions as a security and crisis management consultant.He's also a law partner with Bracewell & Giuliani，and gives speeches that reportedly earn him $100,000 a pop.Still，he insists that his current work is about the challenge rather than the money.“Learning more about business，finance，how to straighten out organizationsthat's very exciting to me， he says.But when he talks about public service，his intensity added.“I miss being involved in the most important things that are going on.When some crisis happens，you feel that's what you've been trained for，what you know how to do.Notes：plumber n管道工bartender n酒吧侍者rally vt.使恢复力量endure n耐久nomination n提名venture n企业consultant n参谋【语篇解读】 本文是人物介绍，介绍了美国著名的领导人鲁迪·朱利亚尼。1The passage probably appears in a _.Afilm Bnovel Cmagazine Dlecture答案C推理判断题。通读全文可知，这篇人物介绍应该出自杂志。2Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?ARudy Giuliani was well prepared to run for president in .BRudy Giuliani once worked as plumber and bartender before becoming mayor.CThe terrifying challenges of 9/11 made Giuliani more determined than ever.DRudy Giuliani worked as mayor of the Big Apple，which is a nickname for New York.答案B细节理解题。第一段“.a memory of his father came to Mayor Rudy Giuliani.In it，the Brooklyn plumber and bartender was telling his only child，中的the Brooklyn指的是Rudy Giuliani的父亲，故B项表述错误，符合题意。3Giuliani has experienced a lot of difficulties EXCEPT _.Aincomplete marriageBprostate cancerCterrifying challenges of 9/11Dlosing his business ventures答案D细节理解题。第三段介绍他经历了离婚、严重的癌症、9·11危机挑战，但是文中没有提到他失去了他创立的事业。4It can be inferred that the writer wrote the passage to _.Aencourage people to face the terrifying challenges of 9/11 bravelyBintroduce Giuliani to the public and persuade people to support himCtell the public Giuliani's family background and his natural leadershipDtell the public that the Republican will win the election答案B推理判断题。文章向公众介绍了美国著名政治人物鲁迪·朱利亚尼的个人经历、人格魅力以及他为的总统提名所作的准备和他为国家效劳的决心，其目的当然是为了赢得更多公众的支持。*结束 (第*篇)People diet to look more attractive. Fish diet to avoid being beaten up, thrown out of their social group, and getting eaten as a result. That is the fascinating conclusion of the latest research into fish behavior by a team of Australian scientists.The research team have discovered that subordinate fish voluntarily diet to avoid challenging their larger competitors. “In studying gobies we noticed that only the largest two individuals, a male and female ，had breeding(繁殖) rights within the group, explains Marian Wong. “All other group members are nonbreeding females, each being 510% smaller than its next largest competitor. We wanted to find out how they maintain this precise size separation.The reason for the size difference was easy to see. Once a subordinate fish grows to within 5 10% of the size of its larger competitor，it causes a fight which usually ends in the smaller goby being driven away from the group. More often than not, the_evicted_fish_is then eaten up.It appeared that the smaller fish were keeping themselves small in order to avoid challenging the boss fish. Whether they did so voluntarily，by restraining how much they ate, was not clear. The research team decided to do an experiment. They tried to fatten up some of the subordinate gobies to see what happened. To their surprise，the gobies simply refused the extra food they were offered，clearly preferring to remain small and avoid fights, over having a feast.The discovery challenges the traditional scientific view of how boss individuals keep their position in a group. Previously it was thought that large individuals simply used their weight and size to threaten their subordinates and take more of the food for themselves，so keeping their competitors small.While the habits of gobies may seem a little mysterious, Dr.Wong explains that understanding the relationships between boss and subordinate animals is important to understanding how hierarchical (等级的) societies remain stable.The research has proved the fact that voluntary dieting is a habit far from exclusive to humans. “As yet, we lack a complete understanding of how widespread the voluntary reduction of food intake is in nature， the researchers comment. “Data on human dieting suggests that，while humans generally diet to improve health or increase attractiveness, rarely does it improve longterm health and males regularly prefer females that are fatter than the females own ideal.语篇解读人们节食是为了更有魅力。令鱼类专家们惊奇的是有种鱼也要节食。实验发现它们节食可不是为了美，而是为了自我保护。如果身体大小吸引到竞争者的注意，会有被殴打、驱逐，最后被吃掉的危险。5When a goby grows to within 510% of the size of its larger competitor, it_.A. faces danger B. has breeding rightsC. eats its competitor D. leaves the group itself解析推理判断题。从第三段可得知如果身体大小超过权威的规定范围，会有被殴打、驱逐最后被吃掉的危险。答案A6The underlined words “the evicted fish in Paragraph 3 refer to _.A. the fish beaten up B. the fish found outC. the fish fattened up D. the fish driven away解析猜想词义题。从本段前文可知，体积超标的鱼会被赶出鱼群。接着说到，不仅如此，这些鱼往往会被吃掉。这些鱼一定是指被驱逐的鱼。答案D7The experiment showed that the smaller fish_.A. fought over a feast B. went on diet willinglyC. preferred some extra food D. challenged the boss fish解析事实细节题。从第四段中的试验可得知这些鱼是自愿节食。答案B8What is the text mainly about?A. Fish dieting and human dieting.B. Dieting and health.C. Human dieting.D. Fish dieting.解析主旨大意题。文章通篇都是围绕鱼的节食来表达。应选D。答案D*结束 Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before. Landscape(风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom. Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods. Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings. 72. Leslie's paintings are extraordinary because . A. they are close in style to works in ancient times B. they look like works by 19th-century painters C. they draw attention to common things in life D. they depend heavily on color photography 73. What is the author's opinion of artistic reality? A. It will not be found in future works of art. B. It does not have a long-lasting standard. C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form. D. It is lacking in modern works of art. 74. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph? A. They express people's curiosity about the past. B. They make people interested in everyday experience. C. They are considered important for variety in form. D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation. 75. Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? A. History of the arts. B. Basic questions of the arts. C. New developments in the arts. D. Use of modern technology in the arts. 3答案 *结束1Tom was one of the brightest boys in the year, with supportive parents. But when he was 15 he suddenly stopped trying. He left school at 16 with only two scores for secondary school subjects. One of the reasons that made it cool for him not to care was the power of his peer(同龄人) group.The lack of right male(男性的) role models in many of their lives at home and particularly in the school environment(环境) means that their peers are the only people they have to judge themselves against.They dont see men succeeding in society so it doesnt occur to them that they could make something of themselves. Without male teachers as a role model, the effect of peer actions and street culture(文化) is all-powerful. Boys want to be part of a club. However, schools can provide the environment for change, and provide the right role models for them. Teachers need to be trained to stop that but not in front of a childs peers. You have to do it one by one, because that is when you see the real child.Its pointless sending a child home if he or she has done wrong. They see it as a welcome day off to watch television or play computer games. Instead, schools should have a special unit where a child who has done wrong goes for the day and gets advice about his problems somewhere he can work away from his peers and go home after the other children.64. Why did Tom give up studying? A. He disliked his teachers. B. His parents no longer supported him. C. Its cool for boys of his age not to care about studies. D. There were too many subjects in his secondary school.65. What seems to have a bad effect on students like Tom? A. Peer groups.B. A special unit. C. The student judges.D. The home environment.66. What should schools do to help the problem schoolboys? A. Wait for their change patiently.B. Train leaders of their peer groups. C. Stop the development of street culture.D. Give them lessons in a separate area.67. A teachers work is most effective with a schoolboy when he _. A. is with the boy aloneB. teaches the boy a lesson C. sends the boy home as punishment D. works together with another teacher答案 64.C 65.A 66.D 67.A*结束 1If your boss asks you to work in Moscow this year, hed better offer you more money to do soor even double that depending on where you live now. Thats because Moscow has just been found to be the worlds most expensive city for the second year in a row by Mercer Human Resources Consulting.Using the cost of living in New York as a base, Mercer determined Moscow is 34.4 percent more expensive including the cost of housing, transportation, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment(娱乐).A two-bedroom flat in Moscow now costs $4,000 a month; a CD $24.83, and an international newspaper $6.30, according to Mercer. By comparison, a fast food meal with a hamburger(汉堡包) is a steal at $4.80.London takes the No.2 place, up from No.5 a year ago, thanks to higher cost of housing and a stronger British pound relative to the dollar. Mercer estimates(估算) London is 26 percent more expensive than New York these days. Following London closely are Seoul and Tokyo, both of which are 22 percent more expensive than New York, while No.5 Hong Kong is 19 percent more costly.Among North American cities, New York and Los Angeles are the most expensive and are the only two listed in the top 50 of the worlds most expensive cities. But both have fallen since last years studyNew York came in15th, down from 10th place, while Los Angeles fell to 42nd from 29th place a year ago. San Francisco came in a distant third at No. 54, down 20 places from a year earlier.Toronto, meanwhile, is Canadas most expensive city but fell 35 places to take 82nd place worldwide. In Australia, Sydney is the priciest place to live in and No. 21 worldwide.72. What do the underlined words “a steal in Paragraph 3 mean? A. An act of stealing.B. Something delicious. C. Something very cheap D. An act of buying.73. London has become the second most expensive city because of _. A. the high cost of clothingB. the stronger pound against the dollar C. its expensive transportationD. the high prices of fast food meals74. Which city is the third most expensive on the list? A. Tokyo.B. Hong Kong.C. Moscow.D. Sydney.75. Which city has dropped most on the list in North America? A. New York.B. Los Angeles.C. San Francisco.D. Toronto.答案 *结束