高一英语阅读理解强化训练Day 11

高一英语阅读理解强化训练Day 11

Passage 1

Nothing could stop Dad. After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family. He planted vegetables, fruit trees and even kept bees for honey.

And every week he cleaned Old Man McColgin's chicken house in exchange for manure(肥料). The Smell really burned the inside of your nose. When we complained about the terrible smell, Dad said the stronger the manure, the healthier the crops, and he was right. For example, just one of his cantaloupes filled the entire house with its sweet smell, and the taste was even sweeter.

As the vegetables started coming in, Dad threw himself into cooking. One day, armed with a basket of vegetables, he announced he was going to make stew(炖菜). Dad pulled out a pressure cooker and filled it up with cabbages, eggplants, potatoes, corns, onions and carrots. For about half an hour. the pressure built and the vegetables cooked. Finally, Dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam. If we thought Dad's pile of chicken manure, was bad, this was 10 times worse. When Dad took off the lid, the smell nearly knocked us out.

Dad carried the pot out and we opened doors and windows to air out the house. Just how bad was it? The neighbors came out of their houses to see if we

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had a gas leak!

Determined, Dad filled our plates with steaming stew and passed them around it didn't look that bad, and after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell, it didn't offend the nose so much, edible, and we drank up every last drop of soup.

1. Why did Dad clean Old Man Mocolgin's chicken house regularly? ________

A. To earn some money for the family.

B. To get rid of the terrible smell.

C. To collect manure for his crops.

D. To set a good example to us.

2. What does the underlined word \"offend\" in the last paragraph mean? ________

A. To attract

B. To shut

C. To air D. To upset

Passage 2

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Every parent wants their child to grow up to enjoy life and be successful. Each and every one of us has something that we don’t want our children to experience as they get older. We protect them hoping they will never experience hurt, yet as they get older they come across their own struggles.

We often do everything we can to keep them from making the mistakes that we have made. Your children are not you. They are incredible（难以置信的）little beings that choose you to experience life with. They are not little“mini me’s”that will make the same mistakes we have made or learn the way we learn from our own experiences. They go to school, have experiences that they only tell us about, and understand the experiences through their own thoughts and feelings mixed in with family behavioral patterns. This is where you can make a difference. Be an example.

Teach your child how to live life by being the person you would want them to be—helping others, loving yourself and making no judgments about other people. As you learn this in your own self and apply it, your child won’t need you to speak a word. If little Joannie doesn’t want to share with another child, show them how to share. Show by example.

If you don’t want others to treat you badly, treat others as you want to be treated because there is a child learning behaviors from you. Be the example of what you want your child to be through your own positive thoughts and feelings. It is the best thing you can do for your child and yourself to ensure your child feel accepted and loved as they get older.

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1. We can infer from the second paragraph that ________ .

A. children are likely to make mistakes their parents made

B. children don’t want to spend time with their family

C. children are like their parents in many ways

D. children base their actions on their thoughts

2. In the passage, the author expresses ________ .

A. his concern for the role parents play in families

B. his support for children’s independence

C. his wonder at the potential of children

D. his surprise at parent’s stubbornness

3. Which of the following will be the best title for the passage? ________

A. Make no judgments about others.

B. Be the example in your child’s life.

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C. Treat others as you want to be treated.

D. Keep your child from making your mistakes.

Passage 3

Kim Jones planned a birthday party for her boyfriend Sam Phillips last Thursday night after work. However, the evening turned out differently than either of them had expected. In the late afternoon a huge electricity blackout hit seven northeastern states and three provinces in Canada. Just after four o'clock, a time when millions of people leave their offices and head home, the electricity stopped, so elevators and the subway systems in large cities like New York and Toronto didn't work. Flights could not land or take off at major airports. As soon as most people found out about the blackout, they put their cell phones to good use and called their families to let them know where they were.

Kim works on the 70thfloor of a business center in New York. She had just left her office and was trapped in an elevator on the 65thfloor. At first she was worried. She called Sam and discovered what had happened. He told her not to give up hope. Then Sam remembered that his friend Joe also worked high in that building. Joe could take

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care of the situation. About five o'clock, Joe and some other workers figured out that they could get Kim out of the elevator through its roof.

Kim still ended up having to walk down to the street at eight o'clock, she found Sam waiting for her. A number of their friends were there too. As for the birthday party, it turned into a picnic by candlelight because the city went without electricity for several days. Sam said he'd never forget it.

1. Which service was still available when the electricity stopped? ________

A. Lift B. Airline

C. Mobile phone D. The underground

2. Where was Kim when the blackout broke out? ________

A. On the 70th floor

B. On her way to meet Sam

C. In her office on the 65thfloor

D. In a business center in Canada

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3. Which of the following is true? ________

A. The blackout lasted a whole night.

B. Sam's birthday party became a picnic.

C. Kim and Sam work in the same building.

D. Kim was rescued by some of her colleagues.

4. Which of the following best serves as the title for the passage? ________

A. Unforgettable BirthdayB. The Electricity Blackout

C. Kim and Sam's Romance

D. A Picnic by Candlelight

Passage 4

All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy.

You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’s house, leave a half--written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had “put it back where it belonged, ”as she

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explained.

My wife, one of her first visits to my mother’s house, placed a packet of biscuits on an end table and went to the kitchen to fetch a drink. When she returned, she found the packet had been removed. Confused(疑惑的), she set down her drink and went back to the kitchen for more biscuits, only to return to find that her drink had disappeared. Up to then she had guessed that everyone in my family held onto their drinks, so as not to make water rings on the end tables. Now she knows better.

These disappearances had a confusing effect on our family. We were all inclined to(有……的倾向) forgetfulness, and it was common for one of us, upon returning from the bathroom, to find that every sign of his work in progress had disappeared suddenly. “Do you remember what I was doing?”was a question frequently asked, but rarely answered.

Now my sister has developed a second--hand love of clean windows , and my brother does the cleaning in his house, perhaps to avoid having to be the one to lift his feet. I try not to think about it too much, but I have at this later time started to dust the furniture once a week.

We have all become busy persons.

1. Which of the following is TRUE about my mother?

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A. She enjoyed removing others’ drinks.

B. She became more and more forgetful.

C. She preferred to do everything by herself.

D. She wanted to keep her house in good order.

2. My wife could not find her biscuits and drink in my mother’s house because _______.

A. she had already finished them

B. my mother had taken them away

C. she forgot where she had left them

D. someone in my family was holding them

3. The underlined part in the fifth paragraph suggests that my sister _______.

A. is happy to clean windows

B. loves to clean used windows

C. is fond of clean used windows

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D. likes clean windows as my mother did

4. This passage mainly tells us that _______.

A. my mother often made us confused

B. my family members had a poor memory

C. my mother helped us to form a good habit

D. my wife was surprised when she visited my mother

Passage 5

The Notre Dame (巴黎圣母院) fire has been put out, but its spire (尖顶) and a large portion of its wooden roof have been damaged. The terrible destruction causes a sudden sharp pain to people around the world. “What a pity that we cannot see the damaged parts of the wonder anymore. ”

But the good news is that there is at least one way of seeing them, namely through a video game called Assassin’s Creed: Unity. In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like what they are in reality, and see Notre Dame as it was before the fire. Further, with virtual reality technology, which is already quite mature, one can even look around the undamaged Notre Dame as if it is still there. Maybe digital technology could help

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to better protect architectural cultural heritage.

The idea of making digital models of ancient buildings to save their data dates back to the 1990s and the necessary technology has continued to advance since then. By scanning the ancient buildings with lasers, building 3D models with multiple images, as well as measuring everything precisely, engineers can make a copy as accurate as the real one.

As computers and smartphones are hugely popular, the digital model has great useful value. First, it allows tourists to feel the cultural relics without touching them. The virtual tour of Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province is a good example of this as tourists can view the paintings without standing near them. Furthermore, it can make the digitized cultural relics more famous by spreading awareness about them via the Internet. In 2000, a virtual tour of the Great Wall became very popular at the Hannover World Expo, which increased the number of foreign tourists visiting the site in the following years. Above all, it preserves all the information of the cultural relics.

Of course, however precise a model is, it is not the original. Maybe we will have better technologies in the future, but the digital technology offers a practical way to preserve architectural cultural heritage at the moment.

1. What can we see about Notre Dame in the game?

A. The damaged Notre Dame. B. Its wooden shape.

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C. The big fire. D. Its original look.

2. What will engineers do to create a digital copy of the ancient buildings?

A. Build 3D models of full size. B. Scan the photos of the buildings

C. Measure all the parts exactly. D. Improve the technology needed.

3. How does the author prove the digital copy has vital practical importance?

A. By giving examples. B. By classification.

C. By comparison. D. By listing data.

4. What is the author’s attitude towards the application of the technology?

A. Delighted B. Supportive

C. Doubtful D. Conservative

参考答案

Passage 1

1. C细节理解题。根据文章首段\"and every week he cleaned Old Man McColgin's chicken house in exchange for manure(肥料)\"，可知父亲清

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理鸡舍的目的是为了收集肥料。

2. D推理判断题。根据前句中\"after the first wave had shut down my ability to smell\"，可知起初的味道难闻，刺激嗅觉，由此判断 offend 指冒犯；使…不愉快。 Passage 2

1. D细节理解题。在第二段中，作者主要告诫家长不应该把孩子看做是自己小时候的缩影，他们不会再犯我们以前犯过的错误或者是按我们以前凭自己的经验来学习的方式进行学习，他们去学校上学，有着自己的体验，对待一些事情也有自己的想法与感受，故选D。

2. A主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文作者主要针对家长教育孩子的方式方法上提出了一些建议，即作者担心家长在教育引导孩子时的所扮演的角色问题；所以选A。

3. B主旨大意题。根据本文的主旨大意可知，本文主要针对家长为了让孩子今后能够获得成功，并过上愉快的生活，总是竭尽一切所能来使孩子避免犯自己曾经犯过的错误的这一做法，提出了自己的建议，即家长应该给孩子做好表率，只有这样，等到他们变老的时候，才会有一种被接纳和被爱的感受；所以B选项时候正确的。

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Passage 3

1. C细节理解题。 根据第一段“As soon as most people found out about the blackout, they put their cell phones to good use and called their families to let them know where they were. ”可知停电时手机还可以使用；故选C。

2. B细节理解题。根据第二段“She called Sam and discovered what had happened. He told her not to give up hope. ”可知事故发生的时候她在去见山姆的路上；故选B。

3. B细节理解题。 根据最后一段\"As for the birthday party, it turned into a picnic by candlelight because the city went without electricity for several days. \"可知Sam的生日聚会变成了野餐；故选B。

4. A主旨大意题。通读全文, 可知文章主要讲了Kim Jones计划在她男朋友的生日聚会上愉快度过, 却遇见停电, 最终生日宴会变成了烛光下的野餐；故选A。 Passage 4

1. D细节理解题。根据第一段“It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy. ”可知(母亲)希望她的房子整天保持清洁有序。故选D项。

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2. B推理判断题。根据第二段“You could turn your back for a moment in my mother’s house, leave a half--written letter on the dining room table, a magazine open on the chair, and turn around to find that my mother had “put it back where it belonged, ” as she explained. ”可知如果你把读了一半的书放在椅子上走开, 母亲会把书放回原位。由此判断出我妻找不到饼干是母亲把它拿走放回了原位置。故选B项。

3. D词句猜测题。短文主要讲述了母亲喜欢干净整洁, 在她的影响下, 我们全家都养成了这个习惯, 在根据所划线句子后面半句“and my brother does the cleaning in his house. ”可知, 我哥哥在家里一定要打扫卫生。根据上下文可以判断出, 我姐姐和我妈妈一样喜欢干净的窗户。故选D项。

4. C主旨大意题。根据第一段“All her life, my mother wanted busy children. It was very important that her house should remain at all times clean and tidy. , 母亲的一生中, 都再让自己的孩子保持忙碌, 让他们养成了打扫卫生的习惯。她的房子必须时刻保持干净整洁, 这一点很重要以及最后一段“We have all become busy persons. ”我们都成了忙碌的人。所以本文主要讲述了母亲喜欢干净整洁, 在她的影响下, 我们全家都养成了这个好习惯。故选C项。 Passage 5

1. D细节理解题。由第二段中的“In this game, the player can travel to one city after another and enter the buildings exactly like what they are in reality, and see Notre Dame as it was before the fire. ”（在这个游戏中, 玩家可以一个接一个地去一

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个城市, 进入建筑, 就像他们在现实中一样, 看到圣母院在火灾前的样子。）, 可知在游戏中可看到巴黎圣母院原来的样子。故选D项。

2. C细节理解题。由第三段中的“By scanning the ancient buildings with lasers, building 3D models with multiple images, as well as measuring everything precisely, engineers can make a copy as accurate as the real one. ”（通过用激光扫描古建筑, 用多幅图像建立三维模型, 以及精确测量一切, 工程师可以制作出与真实一样精确的副本。）, 可知工程师会精确测量所有古代建筑副本的零部件来创造古建筑的数字副本。故选C项。

3. A推理判断题。由第四段中的“The virtual tour of Dunhuang Grottoes in Gansu Province is a……it preserves all the information of the cultural relics. ”可知作者是举了敦煌和长城两个例子, 说明数字副本的重要意义。故选A项。

4. B推理判断题。由最后一段中的“Maybe we will have better technologies in the future, but the digital technology offers a practical way to preserve architectural cultural heritage at the moment. ”（也许我们将来会有更好的技术, 但数字技术提供了一种切实可行的方式来保存建筑文化遗产。）, 可推断出作者是持有支持的态度。故选B项。

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