高考英语阅读冲刺阅读理解.pdf
阅 读 理 解（共 20小 题，每 小 题 2 分，满 分 40分）阅 读 下 列 短 文，从 每 题 所 给 的 四 个 选 项 中，选 出 最 佳 选 项。AFoul sham House is a fine,stone house of the 1790s.It stands high abovethe River Byre,in twenty five hectares（公 顷）of the best farmland inthe south-west.Smithson built the house,and the story goes that George,the young Prince（王 子）of Wales,fell in love with the beautiful lady KittyWake,at one of the first,Lord Foulsham，s wild parties.Many great menhave ridden on the hills about Foul sham House,and many fine ladies havetaken tea in the Green Room.dinning-room with a real Adam fireplace.The gentlemans library has aview over the park and the river that is quite without equal.All roomsare light and airy,with good,high windows and wood floors.At the back of the house,in the buildings in which the third LondFoulsham kept the borses which made him famous,there is garage space forfour cars.In many other ways,this house of the 1790s meets the needsof the 1970s.If you wish to know more about Foulsham House,write to:Harvery,Platt,Longford&Sons,6,Castle Green,Gilham,Byreside.a real wood floort,and have fireplaces and wood floors nine years old,meets new needsBAmerican society is not nap（午 睡）friendly.In fact,says David Dinges,a sleep specialist at the University of Pennsylvania School ofMedicine,“Theres even a prohibition（禁 令）against admitting we needsleep.Nobody wants to be caught napping or found asleep at work.Toquote（弓|用）a proverb:uSome sleep five hours,nature requires seven,laziness nine and wickedness eleven.Wrong.The way not to fall asleepat work is to take naps when you need them.We have to totally changeour attitude toward napping,“says Dr William Dement of StanfordUniversity,the godfather of sleep research.Last year a nationalcommission led by Dement identified an“American sleep debt”which onemember said was as important as the national debt.The commission wasconcerned about the dangers of sleepiness:people causing industrialaccidents of falling asleep while driving.This may be why we have a newsleep policy in the White House.According to recent reports,President打 瞌 睡）every afternoon.About 60 percent of American adults nap when given the opportunity.Weseem to have“a mid-afternoon quiet phase（状 态 局 面），also called asecondary sleep gate”.Sleeping 15 minutes to two hours in the earlyafternoon can reduce stress and make us refreshed.Clearly,we were bornto nap.for a night shift.Rather,we snack on sleep,whenever,wherever and atwhatever time we feel like it.I myself have napped in buses,cars,planesand on boats;on floors and beds;and in libraries,offices and museums.ger of sleepinessa nap whenever we fee the need for itCMeet the new Volvo 460.Volvo with so much going for it,youll find itvery easy to get into the driving seat.You will love the feel of thiscar,even before youve turned the key.Standard features on all modelsinclude adjustable steering column（可 调 整 方 向 盘 支 撑 杆），heatedseats,electric sunroof.On the GLE and Turbo models there are electricwindows,heated door mirrors and power assisted steering.The level of comfort and equipment is extravagant（豪 华 的）even by Volvo,sgenerous standards.More comforting still is the knowledge that all thisluxury（奢 移）is designed around Volvo,s rigid adherence（严 格 确 保）tosafety.But the real excitement starts when the engine starts.The 460 is a stylishperformer.Smooth,responsive and very lively,particularly the Turboversion.This car drives like a dream.And while getting into the drivingseat is easy,getting out is another matter.At the end of your test driveyou won，t want an open door.ou to meet the new Volvo 460.特 点）of the new Volvo 460?ant to leave the car after the test drive.一 DreamDThe World Trade Organization（WTO）,founded on January 1,1995,aims toencourage international trade to flow as possible,making sure that tradeagreements are respected and that any disputes（争 端）can be settled.one of the world，s most powerful economic organizations,taking its placealongside the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.The system of global rules for international trade,however,dates backhalf a century to 11948 when the General Agreement on Tariffs（关 税）andTrade（GATT）was formed after World War II.As time went by,it became clear that the GATT had two majordrawbacks-the limited areas of trade it covered,and the lack of aneffective system to settle disputes.Round finally gave birth to the WTO,complete with an effective systemto settle disputes and new rules covering trade in services andintellectual property（知 识 产 权）.Even after seven years of talks and 22,500 pages of agreements there wereagriculture and services,which the member nations agreed to revise in2000.The WTO,with its head office in Geneva,has 135 members with 30 morewaiting to join.Hay Round talkeffectivelycan do better to settle disputes in more areas of International tradeea of international tradeEConvenience FoodsInstead of buying only fresh foods,Americans nowadays buy many moreconvenience foods.These are foods which are ready partly or completelyFrench fries,and frozen pizzas.There are also many canned conveniencefoods,such as ready made spaghetti,soups,stews,and vegetables.Convenience foods save time and trouble.They are popular with people whoare busy or who don，t like to cook or wash dishes.But they often costdditives.Health Food and Coopspeople in the United States.The movement was a reaction against theharmful effects of technology.From the movement came a new understandingfor food and health.Many people now prefer natural and organic（W M物）foods to the prepared foods sold in health food stores and in foodand jars and take their food out of boxes or basket.The Diet Craze（节 食 热）These days Americans are more and more concerned with their weight.Perhaps as many as 70 million AmericansAmerican supermarkets sell a variety of diet foods such as diet soft drinks,diet candy,and diet salad dressings.Dieters also spend money on dietpills,exercise machines,and jogging suits（健 美 月 艮）.Each year dozens ofnew diets are popularized.They have such names as the Miracle（奇 效 的）Diet,called the Ice Cream Diet,which advises dieters to eat only ice creamfor lunch and dinner!For dieters who can not lose weight on their own,encouragement.Dtoo foolish to take too much foodFMost of the people who appear most often in the history books are greatconquerors（征 月 艮 者）and generals and soldiers,while the people who reallyhelped civilization（0）forward are often never mentioned at all.We do not know who first set a broken leg,or made a seaworthy boat,orcalculated（计 算）the length of the year,but we know all about the killersand destroyers.People think a great deal of them,so much so that on allthe highest pillars（柱 子）in the great cities of the world you will findthe figure of a conqueror or a general or a soldier.And I think most peoplebelieve that the greatest countries are those that have beaten in thebattle the greatest number of other countries and ruled over them asconquerors.It is just possible they are,but they are not the most civilized.Animalsfight;so do savages（野 蛮 人）;so to be good at fighting is to be good inthe way in which an animal or a savage is good,but it is not to be civilized.Even being good at getting other people to fight for you and telling themhow to do it most efficiently-this,after all,is what conquerors andgenerals have done-is not being civilized.People fight to settlequarrels.Fighting means killing,and civilized people ought to be ableto find some way of settling their quarrels rather than by seeing whichside can kill off the greater number of the other side,and then sayingthat the side which has killed most has won,and not only has won,but,because it has won,has been in the right.For that is what is going tomean in a war,it means saying that might is right.of other countries are.wayg which side can kill off the greaternumber of the other side73B 74C 75Ashould fight against those who are wrong
