湖北省2013年高考英语二轮复习 专题升级训练卷十 四阅读理解(二).doc

2013年高考第二轮复习英语湖北版专题升级训练十四阅读理解(二)A(2012湖北八校二次联考)For the past two years, 8­year­old Harli Jordean from Stoke Newington, London, has been selling marbles(弹珠). His successful marble company, Marble King, sells all things marble­relatedfrom affordable tubs of the glass playthings to significantly expensive items like Duke of York solitaire tablessourced, purchased and processed by the mini­CEO himself.“I like having my own company. I like being the boss，” Harli told The Mirror.With profits now in the thousands, “the world's youngest CEO” has had to get his mother and older brothers to help him meet the growing demand.Harli launched Marble King after swapping marbles at school led to schoolchildren consuming his marble collection. Yes, he literally “lost his marbles.” Harli and his mother, Tina, turned to the Internet to find replacements.Harli saw an empty space online: the marbles he wanted were hard to find. Within months，Harli had his own marble­selling websiteand orders started pouring in.Tina says her son's attachment to marbles started when he was just 6.“His attachment became so passionate that we started calling him the Marble King so when he wanted to set up a website it was the natural name for it，” she told The Sun.“I never thought it would become so popular we are struggling to cope with the number of orders at times.”The 8­year­old boy has his sights set on expanding his business and launching his own brand of marbles.“Sometimes his ideas are so grand we have to scale them back a bit. But his dream is still to own Britain's biggest marble shop and open stores around the world，” Tina told The Daily Mail.“At the moment he is annoying me by creating his own Marble King marbles so that could well be the next step for him.”1Harli's Marble Company became popular as soon as he launched it because _.Ait was run by “the world's youngest CEO”Bit filled the gap of online marble tradeCHarli was fascinated with marble collectionDHarli met the growing demand of the customers2How many mass media are mentioned in the passage?AOne BTwoCThree DFour3The underlined expression “scale them back” is closest in meaning to _.Ahold them downBcarry them outCset them asideDclear them away4What message do the last two paragraphs carry?AConflicts often occur between Harli Jordean and his family.BHarli's mother and brothers are worried about Marble King's future.CMarble King marbles will surely attract more fans around the world.DThe “Marble King” has great ambition for his Marble King company.BDo American children still learn handwriting in school? In the age of the keyboard, some people seem to think handwriting lessons are on the way out. 90% of teachers say they are required to teach handwriting. But studies have yet to answer the question of how well they are teaching it. One study published this year found that about three out of every four teachers say they are not prepared to teach handwriting. Some teachers are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten to fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really is pretty much for handwriting.Many adults remember learning that way by copying letters over and over again.Today's thinking is that short periods of practice are better.Many experts also think handwriting should not be taught by itself.Instead，they say it should be used as a way to get students to express ideas.After all，that is why we write.Handwriting involves two skills.One is legibility，which means forming the letters so they can be read.The other is fluency writing without having to think about it.Fluency continues to develop up until high school.But not everyone masters these skills. Teachers commonly report that about one fourth of their kids have poor handwriting. Some people might think handwriting is not important any more because of computers and voice recognition programs.But Steve Graham at Vanderbilt says word processing is rarely done in elementary school, especially in the early years. American children traditionally first learn to print, and then to write in cursive, which connects the letters. But guess what we learned from a spokeswoman for the College Board, which administers the SAT college admission test. More than 75% of students choose to print their essay on the test rather than write in cursive.5We can infer from the first paragraph that _.Ateachers spend little time in teaching handwritingBmost teachers attach importance to teaching handwritingChandwriting teaching is not commonly requiredDmost teachers are at a loss how to teach handwriting6Which of the following about traditional handwriting in the USA is NOT true?AThe students are taught by practicing a long period.BPrinting is taught in preference to writing in cursive.CHandwriting is taught for its own sake.DTwo skills get involved in handwriting.7Some people consider handwriting not important any more because _.Aall the American children learn to print firstBabout 1/4 of the students choose to print their essay on the testCit is unnecessary to use handwriting in the age of keyboardDcomputers and voice recognition programs are widely used8“_” may serve as the best title for the passage.AHandwriting: fascinating in keyboard ageBRight or wrong: the death of handwritingCTwo skills involved in handwritingDHandwriting lessons on the way outCSeen from space the Earth is covered in a blue mantle. It is a planet on which the continents are dwarfed (相形见绌) by the oceans surrounding them and the vastness of the marine area.An astonishing 80 percent of all the life on Earth is to be found hidden beneath the waves and this vast global ocean pulses around our world driving the natural forces which keep life on our planet.The oceans provide necessary sources of protein, energy, minerals and other products of use the world over and the rolling of the sea across the planet creates over half our oxygen, drives weather systems and natural flows of energy and nutrients around the world, transports water masses many times greater than all the rivers on land combined and keeps the Earth habitable.Without the global ocean there would be no life on Earth.It is seriously worrying, then, that we are damaging the oceans on a scale that is unimaginable to most people.We now know that human activity can have serious influences on the vital forces working on our planet. We have fundamentally changed our global climate and are just beginning to understand the consequences of that.As yet largely unseen, but just as serious, are the influences we are having on the oceans.A healthy ocean has diverse ecosystems and strong and healthy habitats. The actual state of our oceans is a far cry from this natural level.A large quantity of human pressures are being exerted both directly and indirectly on ocean ecosystems the world over. Consequently ecosystems are collapsing as marine species are driven towards extinction and ocean habitats are destroyed. With the decrease and removement of their diversity, ocean ecosystems are losing their natural recovery.9The 2nd and the 3rd paragraphs are given mainly to describe _.Awhat the oceans look likeBwhat the oceans are made up ofCwhat live in the oceansDwhat functions the oceans have10The oceans provide all the following except _.Avarious marine creaturesBrich living resourcesCall natural forcesDcomfortable habitats for man11Man has not yet realized _.Athat he has done harm to the oceansBthat he has done harm to the planetCthat he has benefited from the oceansDthat he has benefited from the planet12The best title for this passage should be _.AProtecting our planetBDefending our oceansCMaking good use of our oceansDA glimpse of the oceansDThere are plenty of creams etc. on the market that help you look younger, but today, Dr.Oz is going to show how some people are actually living longer.“We are going to talk about extreme life extension，” he says. “I am talking in detail about allowing us to go into our second century of life with the energy that you have when you are a young person.”Owing to advances in technology and research on how diet affects the aging process, Dr.Oz says it might be possible for some people to live to see their 120th birthdays.There's one man in Oprah's audience who Dr.Oz says may become the first man in history to live to be 150 years old. Joe Cordell is one of thousands around the world who believe they've found the key to an extremely long life calorie restriction leads to a longer, healthier life.At 59 Joe weighs 130 pounds. He may not look like a person who needs to count calories, but as part of his life extension program, he inspects every mouthful of food that passes through his system.Every day for the past seven years, Joe has limited himself to about 1,950 calories.He believes that by eating less and restricting his calorie intake, he will trigger a genetic switch that slows the aging process.Joe doesn't rid himself of food. Instead, the then 52­year­old father filled up on natural fruits, vegetables and lean proteins(瘦蛋白 ) that were packed with necessary vitamins and nutrients. “Whenever you are thinking about calorie restriction, you should continually think about getting the most nutritional amount per calorie，” Joe says.In keeping with this principle, Joe starts every morning with three apples. but he only eats the peels.“Most of the fiber is in the peel, and more importantly, most of the nutrients are in the peel，” he says.“It is important to eat some nuts with breakfast so that you do take in some fat, some healthy fats，” he says. “I think it helps the absorption of the nutrients, and it is very filling.”For lunch, Joe usually eats a large salad, loaded with vegetables. At dinner time, he and his family enjoy lean meat or fish and more vegetables. When Joe started practicing calorie restriction, he weighed 175 pounds. Since then, he has lost 45 pounds, and he says he hasn't had a cold in seven years. Though he is in his “golden years”， researchers studying Joe say he has the body of a 20­year­old athlete.13According to Joe, the appropriate fat intake may help _.Apeople lose weightBpeople feel always fullCthe absorption of the nutrientsDpeople live longer14What can we learn about Joe since he started the calorie restriction program?AJoe counts the amount of every meal.BJoe has never had a cold.CJoe eats three apples every morning.DJoe has a large salad with vegetables for dinner.15The underlined word “trigger” in Paragraph 7 can probably be replaced by _.Aturn on Bbreak downCtake up D. cut off16According to the passage, the extreme life extension refers to _.Aliving very long even sickBhow to make people lead a happy lifeCliving long and having a healthy bodyDhow to arrange our foods every dayEThe concept of solar power satellites, or SPS, first put forward in the 1960s, is still not widely known by the general public. For example, at many public exhibitions about energy, SPS is not even mentioned. This is mainly because very little money has been spent on SPS research.There are people who claim that SPS is unrealistic because launch costs are much too high today; or because it is too far away. So why do we believe that it is important to continue to do researches on SPS? The reason is very simple.Humans are going to need huge amounts of electric power in coming decades. Within 50 years the world population is expected to double, while economic growth will continue around the world, especially in the poorer countries. But existing energy sources already face serious problems. They are limited; they are polluted; they are dangerous. So 50 or 100 years from now, where is our power going to come from? Nobody knows. So we believe that new large­scale possibilities should be studied further.We must remember that humans have some choices concerning our future. To some extent we can choose the direction in which our civilization develops. And choices that are made in the coming decades­such as the energy sources that we will or will not use, will have major, long­term meaning for human life on earth. We believe that if research continues to show that SPS is environmentally and economically attractive, SPS will open the door to a much more attractive future for human civilization than any ground­based energy source, and one that the public will support and that young people will find challenging and exciting. Furthermore energy from SPS can be readily used in developing countries, as the SPS 2000 project will show, thus aiding economic development worldwide. In addition, by creating large commercial fund for space engineering, SPS will open the frontier of space to economic development, thus creating a limitless new field for the growth of the world economy.17Which of the following may be the best title for the passage?AThe Future EnergySPSBThe Concept of SPSCHumans and SPSDAdvantages of SPS18Which of the following statements about SPS is TRUE?AThe research on SPS started in the 1960s is still not appreciated by the public.BThe research shows that SPS can benefit both the environment and the economy at present.CThe energy from SPS is now being used in some developing countries.DThe public don't know about SPS because little time is devoted to the research.19Paragraph 3 mainly talks about _.Athe present serious energy problemsBwhere to get energy sources in the futureCthe importance of controlling the world populationDthe need to explore new energy sources20The writer's attitude towards the research can best be summarized by the saying “_”A. In time of peace prepare for warB. Put the cart before the horseCOne man's meat is another man's poisonDEasier said than done参考答案专题升级训练十四阅读理解(二)A【解题导语】这是一篇记叙文。英国一个8岁的小男孩在把玩弹珠的同时，开办了自己的网站，在网上销售弹珠，收益可观。这个世界上最年轻的CEO梦想着自己的事业能更大、更强。1B推理判断题。第四、五段说，在学校交换弹珠，这把他收藏的弹珠都用完了，于是他就和妈妈一起转向网络寻找替代品，在网上他看到一个缺口，于是在几个月之内，他建立了自己的销售弹珠的网站，订单纷至沓来。由此推断，他销售弹珠的网站受欢迎的原因是B项，它填补了网上弹珠交易的空白。注意，D项是他开办网站的原因而不是网站受欢迎的原因。2C细节理解题。文章提到The Mirror(英国镜报)、The Sun(太阳报)、The Daily Mail(每日邮报)，因此选C项。3A词义猜测题。倒数第二段提到，有时候他的想法太宏伟了，我们只好把这些宏伟的想法scale back，但他的梦想仍是拥有英国最大的弹珠商店，在世界各地开店。由此判断，该短语的含义是A项，hold down“限制，压制”。4D推理判断题。最后两段谈到哈里宏伟的梦想：要拥有英国最大的弹珠商店，在世界各地开连锁店，当前的想法是要创立自己的“弹珠王”这个品牌。由此推断选D项，对于他的弹珠公司，他有着极大的雄心。B【解题导语】在电脑和键盘时代，学校对书法课投入的时间越来越少，学生们更倾向于打字而非手写。5D推理判断题。第一段第三句讲到，90%的老师说他们被要求必须教这门课，由此排除C项；有些老师每天花10到15分钟给学生进行指导，有些老师每天教60到70分钟，从量来说足够，由此排除A项；由第五句可知，四分之三的老师说他们对教这门功课没有准备好(are not prepared)，由此推断，大多数老师不