高考英语阅读理解冲刺训练Day 11

高考英语阅读理解冲刺训练Day 11

Passage 1

Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox （喋喋不休的人）. He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure （蜡塑人像）.

The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito （蚊子）. But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing with his neighbours.

Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are

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content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conversationists.

1. According to the author, people make conversation to ______.

A. exchange ideas

B. prove their value

C. achieve success in life

D. overcome their fear of silence

2. By “the buzzing of a fly” （Para. 1）, the author means “______”.

A. the noise of an insect

B. a low whispering sound

C. meaningless talks

D. the voice of a chatterbox

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3. According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors ______.

A. about whatever they have prepared

B. about whatever they want to

C. in the hope of learning something new

D. in the hope of getting on well

4. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A. To discuss why people like talking about weather.

B. To encourage people to join in conversations.

C. To persuade people to stop making noises.

D. To explain why people keep talking.

Passage 2

How many people have I met who have told me about the book they have been planning to write but have never yet found the time? Far too many.

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This is life, all right, but we do treat it like a rehearsal （排演） and, unhappily, we do miss so many of its best moments.

We take jobs to stay alive and provide homes for our families always making ourselves believe that this style of life is merely a temporary state of affairs along the road to what we really want to do. Then, at 60 or 65, we are suddenly presented with a clock and several grandchildren and we look back and realize that all those years waiting for Real Life to come along were in fact real life.

In America they have a saying much laughed at by the English: “Have a nice day” they speak slowly and seriously in their shops, hotels and sandwich bars. I think it is a wonderful phrase, reminding us, in effect, to enjoy the moment: to value this very day.

How often do we say to ourselves, “I'll take up horse-riding （or golf, or sailing） as soon as I get a higher position,” only to do none of those things when I do get the higher position.

When I first became a reporter I knew a man who gave up a very well paid respectable job at the Daily Telegraph to go and edit a small weekly newspaper. At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be his completely abnormal （反常的） mental state. How could anyone turn his back on Fleet Street in central London for a small local area?I wanted to know.

Now I am a little older and possibly wiser. I see the sense in it. In Fleet Street

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the man was under continual pressure. He lived in an unattractive London suburb and he spent much of his life sitting on Southern Region trains.

1. The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ______.

A. we always try to find some time to write a book

B. we always make plans but seldom fulfill them

C. we always enjoy many of life's best moments

D. we always do what we really want to do

2. The underlined phrase “turn his back on” （Paragraph 6） most probably means ______.

A. leave for

B. return to

C. give up

D. rely on

3. The man （Paragraph 6） left his first job partly because he was ______.

A. in an abnormal mental state

B. under too much pressure

C. not well paid D. not respected

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4. What is probably the best title for the passage?

A. Provide Homes For Our Family

B. Take Up Horse-riding

C. Value This Very Day D. Stay Alive

Passage 3

One day your pocket might power your smartphone. Soon you may never have to worry about your smartphone running out of juice. Your clothing will simply power it back up for you. That's the word from scientists at China's Chongqing and Jinan Universities in a study just published in the journal ACS Nano.

Researchers have been hard at work during the last few years trying to create wearable energy, or clothes that can charge things. The assumption is simple. People today rely heavily upon devices such as smartphones and tablets. And they're looking for ways to recharge these devices on the go. So if you could design clothing fabric that could make use of solar power -one of the most widely available and inexhaustible renewable energy sources - you'd be able to charge your various devices with ease.

Scientists have had some past success creating energy-harvesting fibers. But there was always one problem when they tried to fashion these threads into self-powered smart clothes： The fibers they designed got damaged during the clothing manufacturing process, namely during the weaving and cutting. The

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Chongqing and Jinan University scientists say they've solved this problem because the energy-collecting and energy-storing threads they created are highly flexible - each individual thread is easily bendable, and not simply the fabric as a whole.

The team's sample textile can be fully charged to 1. 2 volts in 17 seconds by exposure to sunlight - enough voltage that your future smart T-shirt or smart dress might be able to power small electronics. It's durable, too; their research showed there was no descent in the fabric after 60 days. But don't worry that this means the fabric is similar to rough cloth. The scientists note their textile can be fashioned into numerous different patterns, and tailored into any designed shape, without affecting performance.

1. What does the underlined phrase \"running out of juice\" in Paragraph 1 mean？ ______

A. Being lacking in energy. B. Wanting to have some juice.

C. Being picked out of a drink. D. Having some water running out.

2. Why could smart dress charge a phone？ ______

A. A solar cell is attached to the dress.

B. The fabric of the textile contains current.

C. The fabric of the textile is easily bendable.

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D. The fabric of the textile could collect and store the solar energy.

3. What is the scientists' attitude towards the scientific technology？ ______

A. Optimistic. B. Pessimistic.

C. Neutral. D. Doubtful.

4. This passage is written to ______.

A. persuade readers to buy new clothes

B. inform readers of the ways to use their devices

C. introduce new wearable energy to readers

D. remind readers to wear smart clothes

Passage 4

British writer John Donne once said: “No man is an island; every book is a world. “As an enthusiastic reader, I can’t agree with the latter part of the sentence more. Every summer, I endeavor to find some peaceful places where I can attack some classics without being disturbed. Thomas Hardy wants to live far from the madding crowd. I am no friend to chaos, either.

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I read George Orwell’s 1984 in a New England beachside cottage with no locks on the doors, no telephones or televisions in the rooms. 1984 is a good book that needs deep reflection. Attempting Sound and Fury lying on the bed of a poorly-occupied motel, however, was less fruitful: I made it through one and a quarter volumes, but then my eyelids were so heavy that I couldn’t keep them open.

But this summer I find myself at a loss. I’m not quite interested in J. D. Salinger, say, or Frankenstein. There’s always War and Peace which I’ve covered some distance several times, only to get bogged down in the “War” part, set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone’s name and social rank. How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite—once more into The Call of the Wild or Alice in the Wonderland, which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong to serious literature.

And then there’s John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. This title does not amaze but confuse. We’re never short of sour grapes, but we’ve never heard of angry grapes. Anyway grapes are my favorite fruit of summer. These stone fruits can always make me feel cheerful and peaceful all at once.

1. What can we infer from Paragraph 2?

A. The author has a cottage in New England.

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B. 1984 is a book that needs careful thought.

C. Both of the reading attempts were not fruitful.

D. Sound and Fury was set in a poorly-occupied motel.

2. What does the underlined phrase “get bogged down” in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Get confused. B. Be carried away.

C. Be interpreted. D. Make no progress.

3. Why does the author say reading his favorite books feels like cheating?

A. He finishes them quickly. B. He should read something serious.

C. He barely understands them. D. He gets amazed by their titles.

4. What can we know about the author from this passage?

A. Thomas Hardy is his friend. B. He shows talent for literature.

C. He is quite forgetful. D. He is a literary-minded man.

5. What’s the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

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A. To share his reading experience.

B. To encourage readers to read books.

C. To introduce good books to readers.

D. To condemn the chaotic world we live in.

Passage 5

From childhood, Moira loved to write. Throughout school she enjoyed writing, but pursuing it professionally was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse. “Medicine was a fairly safe choice,” Moira says, “and writing was a career where it wasn’t a certainty that you’d have high income.”

She became a doctor but still wanted to write something. However, being a doctor was so demanding that she didn’t take up writing until her thirties. She produced a novel—a fictionalized version of her travel in China after university. She got excellent reviews. Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find, and found one who wanted to represent her. Suddenly, it seemed she was on her way as an author.

“I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we went through all possible areas that she thought needed polishing. I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn’t hear anything. “It wasn’t long before Moira found

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another agent who was interested if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. “I got back a really brief letter: ‘Thank you, I’m no longer interested. ’ It was really disappointing.”

A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time purely for her own enjoyment. She set herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. “The characters took on a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn’t thought about. It just flew. “One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March.

“Even if it hadn’t been published I still gained so much from the process,” says Moira.

1. What do we know about Moira?

A. She was a writer. B. She was a doctor.

C. She was an agent. D. She was a nurse.

2. What does the author imply about her first novel?

A. It was produced after she graduated from university.

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B. It was published by one of the agents.

C. It was modified according to the agents’ requirements.

D. It was made into a thriller with Western Australia as the setting.

3. What made Moira write again ten years later?

A. The money. B. The setting. C. The challenge. D. The pleasure.

4. What does the underlined word “flew” in paragraph 5 refer to?

A. Succeeded. B. Survived. C. Broke. D. Failed.

5. What would be the best title of the passage?

A. An Adventure in China B. How to Be a Writer

C. Moira’s First Novel D. A Passion for Writing

参考答案

Passage 1

1. D 推理判断题。文章第一段提到“Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence.”由此可知，D选项是正确答案。

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2. C 词义猜测题。文章第一段提到“He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly...”，由此可知这里的buzzing of a fly仅仅是个比喻，因此A、B两个选项先行排除，D选项中的voice与原文中的conversation不对等，不能互相替代，因此C选项为正确答案。

3. B 推理判断题。由上一题可知，人们的交谈中99%都是无意义的对话，仅仅是为了避免沉默，因此C、D两个选项是不切实际的，尤其是在与邻居交谈时。A选项不符合通常的逻辑，人们不可能只聊他们准备好的内容，而是想聊什么就聊什么，与邻居只是随便聊聊而已，因此B选项为正确答案。

4. D 主旨大意题。作者在本文中主要讨论聊天谈话的意义和功能。比较四个选项，A选项仅是文章很小部分的内容，不能说明作者写这篇文章的目的；B、C选项不符合文章原意；D选项准确地道出了作者的目的，因此D选项为正确答案。

Passage 2

1. B 细节理解题。题目问的是文章第一段告诉了我们什么。选项A，我们经常找时间去写书；选项B，我们经常计划好但很少履行；选项C，我们经常享受生活的美好瞬间；选项D，我们经常做我们想做的事情。文章第一段意思是我认识很多朋友，他们都打算写书但是很多次他们都没有找到时间。因此可以推断选项B的意思最为接近。

2. C 词义猜测题。题目问的是turn his back on是什么意思。选项A，到……去；选项B，回到；选项C，放弃；选项D，依靠。文章中这句话的意思是作者很想知道为什么为了这样一个小地方能够放弃位于伦敦中部的舰队街，因此C意思最为接近。

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3. B 细节理解题。题目问的是第六段中提到的人放弃他的第一个工作的原因是什么。选项A，精神状态失常；选项B，压力太大；选项C，收入不高；选项D，得不到尊重。选项A，最具有迷惑性“At the time I was astonished by what appeared to me to be his completely abnormal mental state.”作者虽然说我被他的反常地精神状态所惊讶，但是实际上，在下文中“see the sense in it. In Fleet Street the man was under continual pressure.”理解了他的做法。在舰队街要面临持续不断的压力。因此，选项B应该为正确答案。而选项C和D都不是离开的原因，而是该工作的好处。

4. C 主旨大意题。题目问的是哪个是这篇文章最合适的标题。选项A，供养家庭；选项B，学习骑马；选项C，珍惜每一天；选项D，延续生命。纵观全文，作者讲的是人们总是做很多很好的计划，但不去实现，而是忙于工作。随着年岁的增长，他认为珍视生命中的每一天是非常重要的。因此正确答案为C。 Passage 3

1. A 词义猜测题。根据前文句子One day your pocket might power your smart phone. 你的口袋可能会给你的智能手机充电, 后文Your clothing will simply power it back up for you. 你的衣服会为你供电。可以猜测出这里说的是不用担心手机没电, 故选A。

2. D 细节理解题。根据文章第二段So if you could design clothing fabric that could make use of solar power 因此, 如果你能设计出一种可以利用太阳能的服装面料, 就可以做到用衣服充电了, 故选D。

3. A 推理判断题。根据文章最后一段The scientists note their textile can be

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fashioned into numerous different patterns, and tailored into any designed shape, without affecting performance, 科学家们制造的纺织品可以制成许多不同的款式, 设计和定制任何形状, 且不影响性能。该小组的样本纺织品可以通过暴露在阳光下17秒内完全充电到1. 2伏特-足够的电压使你未来的智能衣服或智能连衣裙能够为小型电子产品供电。可见科学家对于这种材料的实验已经初见成效, 所以未来这种衣服的制造是乐观的。故选A。

4. C 主旨大意题。根据文章第一段One day your pocket might power your smartphone. Soon you may never have to worry about your smartphone running out of juice. Your clothing will simply power it back up for you. That's the word from scientists at China's Chongqing and Jinan Universities in a study just published in the journal ACS Nano. 及全文内容可知, 本文主要介绍了一种新型的衣服充电的设想和研究, 介绍了一种新能源。故选C。

Passage 4

1. B 推理判断题。根据第二段中的1984 is a good book that needs deep reflection. 可知, 《1984》是一本需要深入思考的好书。故B选项正确。

2. D 词义猜测题。根据第三段中的There's always War and Peace which I've covered some distance several times及set it aside for a while, and realize that I have to start over from the beginning again, having forgotten everyone's name and social rank. （暂时把它放在一边, 意识到我必须重新开始, 忘记每个人的名字和社会地位）可知, 作者读到 “战争” 部分时, 陷入了的泥潭, 毫无进展。故D选项正确。

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3. B 推理判断题。根据第三段中的How appealing to simply fall back on a favorite—once more into The Call of the Wild or Alice in the Wonderland, which feels almost like cheating, too exciting and too much fun to properly belong to serious literature. 可知, 作者认为阅读自己最喜欢的书, 感觉就像作弊, 太刺激太有趣了, 不属于严肃文学。由此推知, 作者认为自己应该读些严肃的文学作品。故B选项正确。

4. D 推理判断题。根据作者对自己阅读书籍及阅读感悟的描述可推知, 作者是个有文学头脑的人。故D选项正确。

5. A 推理判断题。通读全文可知, 作者想通过这篇文章分享他的阅读体验。故A选项正确。

Passage 5

1. B 细节理解题。根据第二段中的She became a doctor but still wanted to write something. 可知, Moira曾经做过医生。故B选项正确。

2. C 细节理解题。根据第三段中的we went through all possible areas that she thought needed polishing. I worked on those and sent it back to her …It wasn’t long before Moira found another agent who was interested if she was willing to rewrite it from the first person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. 可知, 她的第一部小说根据代理商们的要求进行了多次修改。故C选项正确。

3. D 细节理解题。根据第四段中的A decade went by, and Moira found herself eager to write again, this time purely for her own enjoyment. 可知, 写作的热爱让

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Moria在十年后再次写作。故D选项正确。

4. A 词义猜测题。根据上文Moria的小说一直没有被认可, 下文One day, an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel, Cicada, was published in March. 可知, 她的这部小说被出版了, 这说明她的这部小说成功了。故A选项正确。

5. D 推理判断题。根据全文对Moria的描述可知, 她从小就热爱写作, 一直都没有放弃写作的梦想, 她创作了以西澳大利亚州为背景的惊险小说, 最终获得了成功。由此可知, D项 “对写作的热情” 适合做本文最佳标题。故D选项正确。

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