阅读理解精练9- 高考英语专训.docx
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1、阅读理解精练9阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。(一)Sarah Williams went to a boarding school. Here is one of the letters she wrote to her parents from the school:Wentworth Girls SchoolBeachsideJuly 20thDearest Mom and Dad,Im afraid I have some very bad news for you. I have been very naughty and the school
2、principal is very angry with me. She is going to write to you. You must come and take me away from here. She does not want me in the school any longer.The trouble started last night when I was smoking in bed. This is against the rules, of course. We are not supposed to smoke at all.As I was smoking,
3、 I heard footsteps coming towards the room. I did not want a teacher to catch me smoking, so I threw the cigarette away.Unfortunately, the cigarette fell into the waste-paper bas-ket, which caught fire.There was a curtain near the waste-paper basket which caught fire, too. Soon the whole room was bu
4、rning.The principal phoned for the fire department. The school is a long way from the town and by the time the fire depart-ment arrived, the whole school was in flames. Many of the girls are in the hospital.The principal says that the fire was all my fault and you must pay for the damage. She will s
5、end you a bill for about a million dollars.Im very sorry about this.Much love,SarahP. S. None of the above is true, but I have failed my ex-amps. I just want you to know how bad things could have been!1. Why did Sarah write home?A. To tell her parents about the fire.B. To ask for a lot of money.C. T
6、o tell her parents she had failed her exams.D. To tell her parents she had to leave school.2. Why did Sarah tell her parents the story about the fire?A. She wanted to worry them.B. She wanted to make them laugh.C. She wanted to make them less angry at the real news.D. She wanted to warn them about w
7、hat the principal was going to do.3. The letter before the P. S. was _.A. mostly true B. partly trueC. all true D. completely untrue4. Sarah said the principal was angry because _.A. she had failed her examsB. it was her fault that had caused the fireC. he had not made the phone call in timeD. she h
8、ad been caught smoking in bed(二)Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But this is no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions of locusts蝗虫 that are traveling across the continent eating everything in their path.And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radio station in Senegal,
9、West Africa, is offering listeners 50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50 kilograms of locusts. “We think this idea will get more people to take part in the war on the locusts,” said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegals worst affected area.This is West Africas bi
10、ggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing huge damage to crops. As they move they produce young and increase their number and will soon threaten威胁 Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suffering
11、 from food shortage and war could cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fight the pest.Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. “We are now treating 6,000 hectares公顷 per day with pesticide杀虫剂, but we need to
12、treat 20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster,” said Mohamed Abdullah Old Babar, director of locust control in Mauritania.Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the disaster, the UNs Food and Agriculture Organization warne
13、d.1. By using “dark cloud” to describe locusts in the first para-graph, the author of the article _.A. showed the size and speed of the mass of locustsB. suggested the great damage that locusts can causeC. warned that locusts would sweep the continent like rain cloudsD. both A and B2. The story is m
14、ainly about _.A. West Africas united effort in fighting a disasterB. the difficulty in controlling locustsC. how locusts caused great damage to West AfricaD. a struggle to fight against a disaster brought by locusts in West Africa3. The locust disaster _.A. would be even more serious in AsiaB. is(wa
15、s)out of controlC. affected only the warning areasD. cannot be stopped unless twice as much pesticide is provided for the affected areas4. Which of the following is WRONG?A. Sud-Fm offered a reward for fighting locusts so that more people would join in the effort.B. Senegal is to the southwest of Su
16、dan.C. The locusts can cause such damage mainly because it has no natural enemy in West Africa.D. 12 countries affected by locusts have united but still lack pesticide.(三)About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission took the astronauts near Tuba City. There the landscape of t
17、he Navajo Reservation looks very much like the lunar surface. Among all the trucks and large vehicles were two large figures that were dressed in full lunar space suits.Nearby a Navajo shepherd牧羊人 and his son were watching the strange creatures walk about, occasionally being watched over by other NA
18、SA workers. The two Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA people. Since the shepherd and his son did not know English, they asked the NASA people who the strange creatures were. The NASA people told them that they were just men that were getting ready to go to the moon. The shepherd
19、became very excited and asked if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts.The NASA officials thought this was a great idea so they provided a tape recorder. After the man gave them his message, they asked his son to translate. His son would not.Later, they tried a few more people on t
20、he reservation to translate and every person they asked would chuckle偷偷地笑 and then refuse to translate. Finally, with cash in hand someone translated the message, “Watch out for these guys, they have come to take your land! ”1. The appearance of the Navajo Reservation is very similar to that of _.A.
21、 the Tuba CityB. the moonC. the NASA research centerD. the Apollo moon mission2. When the older Navajo heard that the men in front of him were going to the moon, he _.A. felt frightened and ran away quicklyB. chatted excitedly with the NASA workersC. got on the modern trucks and large vehicles for f
22、unD. tried to say something to the moon creatures3. The son did not translate the words his father said because _.A. he had trouble in understanding his fatherB. the words his father used were too difficult to be translatedC. his father was sending a warning against the NASA peopleD. he believed tha
23、t the NASA workers could understand their language4. according to this passage, we can know that the shepherd was _.A. patient and brave B. foolish and impoliteC. humorous and intelligent D. knowledgeable and talkative(四)WASHINGTON, Sept. 23The House of Representatives, which prides itself on being
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