高考英语阅读理解题及答案

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　　高考英语阅读理解练习题及答案(34)

　　At five he was collecting old newspapers to make money. And when he was 15 he signed his schoolmates up to start a baby-sitting circle.

　　Now 20, third-year Cambridge University student, Peter Blackburn is managing director of a company with a ￡ 30,000 plan. And he thinks it will make more than $15,000 by next summer.

　　He set up Peter Blackborn Ltd last year to bring out a new, colour term-planner that now students all over the UK are using.

　　“I felt that most of the planners going around were pretty unimaginative,” he says, “I believed that I could do a better job and decided to have a go”.

　　Blackburn admits that he is putting far more effort into business than his computer studies course at university. While fellow students are out with their friends, he keeps in touch with his business office in Lancashire by movable phone. Before he set up the company he spent one holiday preparing a plan that would persuade his bank to lend him money.

　　“Most students work hard for a good degree because they believe that will help them get a job to support themselves,” he says “I work hard at my company, because that is what will support me next year, after I leave college.”

　　Friends believe that Blackburn will make ￡ 1 million within 5 years.

　　He is not quite so sure, however. “There’s a lot to be done yet,” h...

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　　高考英语阅读理解练习题及答案(32)

　　I found out one time that doing a favor for someone could get you into a lot of trouble. I was in the eighth grade at the time, and we were having a final test. During the test, the girl sitting next to me whispered something, but I didn’t understand. So I leaned over her way and found out that she was trying to ask me if I had an extra pen. She showed me that hers was out of ink and would not write. I happened to have an extra one, so I took it out of my pocket and put it on her desk.

　　Later, after the test papers had been turned in, the teacher asked me to stay in the room when all the other students were dismissed. As soon as we were alone she began to talk to me about what it meant to grow up; she talked about how important it was to stand on your own two feet and be responsible (负责任) for your own acts. For a long time, she talked about honesty and emphasized the fact that when people do something dishonest, they are really cheating themselves. She made me promise that I would think seriously about all the things she had said, and then she told me I could leave. I walked out of the room wondering why she had chosen to talk to me about all those things.

　　Later on, I found out that she thought I had cheated on the test. When she saw me lean over to talk to the girl next to me, it looked as if I was copying answers from the girl’s test...

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　　In 1909 an English newspaper offered ￡ 1,000 to the first man to fly across the English Channel in an aeroplane. Today, modern jets cross it in minutes. But at that time it still seemed a good distance. The race to win the money soon became a race between two men. Both were very colourful.

　　One was Louis Bleriot. He owned a factory in France that made motor car lamps. He was already well known as a pilot (飞行员) because he had had accidents several times. Some people laughed at him. One man said, “He may not be the first to fly across the Channel but he will certainly be the first to die in an accident!” But Bleriot was really a good and brave pilot. He also had many good ideas about aeroplane design.

　　The other man was Hubert Latham. He was half French and half English. He took up flying when his doctors told him he had only a year to live. “Oh, well,” he said, “if I’ m going to die soon, I think I shall have a dangerous and interesting life now.” Latham was the first to try the flight (飞行) across the Channel. Ten kilometres from the French coast, his plane had some trouble. It fell down into the water and began to sink under the water. A boat reached Latham just in time. He was sitting calmly on the wing and was coolly lighting a cigarette (香烟). Bleriot took off six days later. He flew into some very bad weather and very low cloud. He s...

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　　To be a good teacher, you need some of the gifts of a good actor; you must be able to hold the attention and interest of your audience; you must be a clear speaker, with a good, strong, pleasing voice which is fully under your control; and you must be able to act what you are teaching, in order to make its meaning clear.

　　Watch a good teacher, and you will see that he does not sit still before his class： he stands the whole time he is teaching; he walks about, using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations, and his face to express feelings. Listen to him, and you will hear the loudness, the quality (音色) and the musical note of his voice always changing according to what he is talking about.

　　The fact that a good teacher has some of the gifts of a good actor doesn’t mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage, for there are very important differences between the teacher’s work and the actor’s. The actor has to speak words which he has learnt by heart; he has to repeat exactly the same words each time he plays a certain part, even his movements and the ways in which he uses his voice are usually fixed beforehand (预先). What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem natural on the stage.

　　A good teacher works in quite a different way. His audience takes an active part ...

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　　The Doctor’s Call

　　There was ice on the road, and the doctor’s car hit a tree and turned over three times. To his surprise, he was not hurt. He got out of the car and walked to the nearest house. He wanted to telephone the garage (汽车修理站) for help. The door was opened by one of his patients.

　　“Oh, Doctor.” she said, “I have only just telephoned you. You must have a very fast car. You have got here very quickly indeed. There has been a very bad accident (事故) in the road outside. I saw it through the window. I am sure the driver will need your help.”

　　1. Where was the doctor going in his car?

　　A. We don’t know. B. To a patient’s home.

　　C. To a garage. D. To his own home.

　　2. Which of the following was the cause of the accident?

　　A. Careless driving. B. A tree had fallen across the road.

　　C. A slippery (滑) road. D. There was a thick fog.

　　3. The doctor went to the house because

　　A. he knew one of his patients lived there.

　　B. he had received a call to go there.

　　C he wanted to use the telephone.

　　D. he was injured (受伤) and could walk no further.

　　4. Why did the woman patient telephone the doctor?

　　A. She needed medical treatment.

　　B. She believed somebody else needed a doctor.

　　C. To ask how quickly the doctor could come.<...

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　　高考英语阅读理解练习题及答案(28)

　　My father, at the death of his father, was six years old, and he grew up without education. He moved from Kentucky to Indiana when I was seven. We reached our new home about the time the state came into the Union. It was a wild area, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. I grew up there. There were some so-called schools, but what was required of a teacher never went beyond “reading, writing, and adding.” If a stranger supposed to understand Latin happened to live for a time in the area, he was looked on as wizard (奇才). There was simply nothing to excite a desire for education. Of course, when I grew up, I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write, and add, but that was all. The advance I have now made is on this store of education, which I have picked up under the pressure of necessity.

　　1. When the writer was a child ____ .

　　A. his grandfather died in the state of Kentucky

　　B. his family settled down in the countryside of Indiana

　　C. Kentucky joined the Union as a member state

　　D. his family had to move from place to place

　　2. When the writer was seven, his family moved to an area where ____ .

　　A. educated people were greatly respected

　　B. only a few had a knowledge of Latin

　　C. people were often killed by wild animals

　　D. the land had ye...

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　　Tarawa is one of the two largest of the Gilbert Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, but it is a very tiny island, with an area of about eight square miles, and a population of about 17,000. Small as it is, three nations fought to control and use it as an air base during World War II. The Japanese took it from the British in 1941, only to lose it to the Americans tow years later after one of the bloodiest (血腥的) battles of the war. Today, the Gilbert Islands having become part of the Kiribati Pepublic, Tarawa is now its capital and major seaport (海港).

　　1. Which of the following diagrams (图解) gives the correct relationship (关系) between Kiribati, Tarawa and Gilbert Islands?

　　(K--Kiribati; T--Tarawa; G--the Gibert Islands)

　　2. Tarawa belongs to ______.

　　A. Japan. B. the U.S. C. Britain. D. Kiribati.

　　3. Tarawa lies nearer to ______.

　　A. Japan than to the U.S. B. the U.S. than to Japan.

　　C. Britain than to the U.S. D. Britain than to Japan.

　　4. Tarawa was important during World War II because of its ______.

　　A. size. B. population. C. position. D. history.

　　5. In recent history, Tarawa ______.

　　A. had been ruled by three nations one after another.

　　B. has been fought over in a tough battle by three nations.

　　C. has been divided and ruled by three differe...

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　　Shu Pulong has helped at least 1000 people bitten (咬) by snakes. “It was seeing people with snake bites (伤口) that led me to this career,” he said.

　　In 1963, after his army service, Shu entered a medical school and later became a doctor of Chinese medicine. As part of his studies he had to work in the mountains. There he often heard of people who had their arms and legs cut off after a snake bite in order to save their lives.

　　“I was greatly upset by the story of an old farmer I met. It was a very hot afternoon. The old man was pulling grass in his fields when he felt a pain in his left hand. He at once realized he had been bitten by a poisonous snake. In no time he wrapped a cloth tightly around his arm to stop the poison spreading to his heart. Rushing home he shouted ‘Bring me the knife!’ Minutes later the man lost his arm forever.”

　　“The sad story touched me so much that I decided to devote myself to helping people bitten by snakes,” Shu said.

　　1. The best headline (标题) for this newspaper article is .

　　A. Astonishing Medicine B. Farmer Loses Arm

　　C. Dangerous Bites D. Snake Doctor

　　2. The farmer lost his arm because .

　　A. the cloth was wrapped too tightly B. he cut it off to save his life

　　C. Shu wasn’t there to help him D. he was alone in the fields

　　3. She decided to d...