高中英语阅读理解强化限时练（1-3）

高中英语阅读理解强化限时练 （一） A When Millet was a boy he worked on his needy father's farm. At the rest hour in the fields the other workers would all take naps(打盹儿), but young Millet would spend time drawing. Finally the village where he lived gave him a little money to Paris to study art. When Millet reached Paris, he had a tough time. Fortunately, when he was almost starving, someone bought one of his peasant paintings, which enabled his family to leave for Barbizon. Millet’s pictures of peasants at work were painted in a unique way. The painter would go out on the farms and watch them carefully, then he would come home and paint what he had seen. So astonishingly accurate was his memory that he could paint at home without models and get all the movements of his figures right. When he did need a figure to go by he would ask his wife to pose for him. One of his noted artworks is called “The Sower”, which shows a man seeding. He reaches into his bag for seed and then swings backward to scatter(撒播)the seed, and with each swing of his hand the sower strides(大步走 )forward. In Millet’s picture the sower has been working hard, but his swinging step and arm still move smoothly, like a machine. Only the man’s head reveals his great tiredness. Another masterpiece is called “The Gleaners”. A gleaner is someone picking up the leftover in the field after the wheat harvest. When farmers near Barbizon are extremely badly-off, even the little the gleaners can find is a help. You can see from Millet’s picture what back-breaking work gleaning must be. 1. What do we know about Millet? A. His wife supported him to be a painter. B. He was keen on painting as a kid. C. He spent his whole life in Barbizon. D. He was brought up in Paris. 2. How did he paint the laboring farmers? A. Asking models for help. B. Imagining figures in the field. C. Remembering what he had observed. D. Recalling the days on his father’s farm. 3. What do Millet’s works convey? A. The farmers’ hardships B. The scene of gardening C. His love for the village D. His anxiety about the farmers 4. The text is most likely to be found in ______. A. A short-story collection B. A personal diary C. A magazine of art D. A science magazine B England and Wales launched a COVID-19 smart phone app on Thursday, allowing users to trace contacts, check the local level of risk and record visits to places such as pubs, four months after the technology was promised to the public. The NHS COVID-19 app comes as Britain prepare for a second wave of infections, with daily case numbers rising at rates not seen since the peak of the pandemic(流行病) and a testing system unable to cope with demand in many areas. The government had said a COVID-19 app would arrive in May, but early trials were troubled by problems, and developers abandoned home-grown technology in favor of Apple and Google's model in June. As the delay lengthened, the government downplayed the importance of smartphones in fighting COVID-19, saying that rather than an app being central to the test and trace system, it was “the cherry on the cake”. Health Secretary Matt Hancock, however, said that with infection rates rising, every tool available must be used to prevent the spread of the disease, including the latest technology. “We have worked extensively with tech companies, international partners, and privacy and medical experts-and learned from the trials- to develop an app that is secure, simple to use and will help keep our country safe,” he said. The app uses Bluetooth signals to record when a user is in close contact with another user, generally meaning within two meters for 15 minutes or more. If someone tests positive for COVID-19, they can choose to share the result anonymously( 匿名地) with their close contacts, who will each receive a warning and will have to isolate(隔 离)for 14 days. People aged over 16 will be encouraged to download the app by advertisements with the slogan: “Protect your loved ones. Get the app.” 5. Which word can best replace the underlined word “downplay” in Paragraph 4? A. emphasize B. value C. explain D underestimate 6. What can we know about the COVID-19 smartphone app from the passage? A. The app came to market at the peak of the disease. B. The app might help reduce the spread of the disease. C. The app can share the testing result automatically. D. The app is popular with teenagers in England. 7. What can we learn from Matt’s words? A. Many hands make light work. B. Haste makes waste. C. One good turn deserves another. D. Knowledge starts with practice. C Conservationists(野生动物保护者) have long known that using pandas, tigers and other charming species to promote their campaigns is a good way to raise money. But some people argue that focusing on these “flagship” animals can ignore equally threatened but less cute ones. Now Jennifer Mcgowan at Macquarie University in Sydney and her colleagues suggest that we can have it both ways, after finding that funding for flagship species also helps other threatened species in the surrounding areas. Mcgowan’s team first drew up a list of 534 flagship species in wildlife-rich hot spots around the world. The biodiversity areas were each split into grids(网格) of 100 by 100 kilometer squares. The researchers then compared two conservation approaches across eight simulated scenarios (模拟场景)which assumed different levels of human activity and protected areas. The first focused on protecting flagship species, while the second aimed to protect the maximum number of species in an area, regardless of their fundraising potential. Their study has found that targeting grid squares with flagship species also protected 79 to 89 percent of the non-flagship species in that area. The figure rose to 97 per cent in some scenarios. "The findings could help when choosing which species to promote. Flagship species are very effective at getting the public to care," she says. Morgan Trimble, the author of a paper that has found scientists also have a preference for charming animals, says the results don’t surprise her. "While I think it’s important that we don’t lose sight of the bigger picture --conserving species is about conserving all the component parts of ecosystems, even the not-so-cute species ---I think highlighting flagship species in fundraising and education is a practical idea and appeals to human nature," she says. Trimble also asks what the alternative to using flagship species would be: randomly picking species? McGowan’s study found a random approach to choosing where to spend conservation funds only protected 39 to 55 percent of the non- flagship species. 8. What kind of animals do conservationists usually use to raise funds? A. Less attractive animals. B. Endangered flagship animals. C. Threatened but not necessarily cute species. D. Charming but not necessarily threatened species. 9. What has McGowan and her team’s study revealed? A. It works well to focus on flagship species. B. There are very few flagship species in grid squares. C. Non-flagship species are poorly protected in general. D. Flagship species are getting more than enough attention. 10.What does the passage mainly talk about? A. An approach to choosing a charming species B. The effects of human activity on animals C. The role of fundraising in saving animals D. An effective way to conduct wildlife conservation D 七选五 Many people believe sharks are dangerous and will always try to hurt or e ven kill humans. 1____ .A shark exhibition at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, US,proves this. Visitors can touch young sharks,see their eggs develop and watch a dozen different species swim smoothly around a huge tank. Most people fail to realize that shark attacks don’t happen very often. Hu mans are more likely to be killed by lightning than by a shark. 2_____ . They can watch them develop inside the eggs and feel the skin of the older swimmers so as to learn , from an early age, not to fear sharks. “People fear what they don’t know," said Nancy Hotchkiss, an organizer of the exhibition, which runs till December. "Sharks have been round for 400 million years and play an important role in the ocean’s food chain. We want people to discover that sharks are amazing animals that need our respect and protection." 3_____ . A study, published in January in the US magazine Science, foun d that almost all recorded shark species have fallen by half in the past eight to fifteen years.Thousands of sharks are hunted in Asia for special foods, such as shark fin soup. 34 . More than half of all sharks caught are smaller than one meter long.“Some fishing methods are actually cleaning out the ocean,” said Dave Schofield, the manager of the aquarium’socean health program. "The fishermen threw them away like rubbish.” 5_______. A. A shocking 100 million sharks are killed every year by humans around the world. B. And many others get caught in nets, while fishermen are hunting other fish. C. Sharks can smell and taste blood, and trace it back to its source. D. In fact, 94 percent of the world’s 400 species are harmless to humans. E. Whoever do harm to sharks shall be punished by international laws. F. It is a worrying situation and some areas have put measures in place to protect these species of fish. G.And to make this point clear, the museum has set up a special touching pool for children. Key : 1 -4 BCAC 5 -7 D B A 8-10 B A D 七选五 1 -- 5 DGABF (二) A I am an active playgoer and play-reader，and perhaps my best reason for editing this book is a hope of sharing my enthusiasm for the theater with others. To do this I have searched through dozens of plays to find the ones that I think best show the power and purpose of the short play. Each play has a theme or central idea which the playwright（剧作家） hopes to get across through dialogue and action. A few characters are used to create a single impression growing out of the theme. It is not my intention to point out the central theme of each of the plays in this collection，for that would，indeed，ruin the pleasure of reading，discussing， and thinking about the plays and the effectiveness of the playwright. However，a variety of types is represented here. These include comedy， satire，poignant drama，historical and regional drama. To show the versatility（多面性）of the short play，I have included a guidance play， a radio play and a television play. Among the writers of the plays in this collection，Paul Green，Susan Glaspell，Maxwell Anderson，Thornton Wilder，William Saroyan，and Tennessee Williams have all received Pulitzer Prizes for their contributions to the theater. More information about the playwrights will be found at the end of this book. To get the most out of reading these plays，try to picture the play on stage，with you，the reader，in the audience. The houselights dim（变 暗）. The curtains are about to open，and in a few minutes the action and dialogue will tell you the story. 1. What do we know about the author from the first paragraph? （ ） A. He has written dozens of plays. B. He has a deep love for the theater. C. He is a professional stage actor. D. He likes reading short plays to others. 2. What does the author avoid doing in his work? （ ） A. Stating the plays' central ideas. B. Selecting works by famous playwrights. C. Including various types of plays. D. Offering information on the playwrights. 3. What does the author suggest readers do while reading the plays?（ ） A. Control their feelings. B. Apply their acting skills. C. Use their imagination. D. Keep their audience in mind. 4. What is this text? （ ） A. A short story. B. An introduction to a book. C. A play review. D. An advertisement for a theater. B The traffic signals along Factoria Boulevard in Bellevue， Washington，generally don't flash the same length of green twice in a row， especially at rush hour. At9：30am，the full red/yellow/green signal cycle might be 140 seconds. By 9：33am，a burst of additional traffic might push it to 145 seconds. Less traffic at 9：37am could push it down to 135. Just like the traffic itself，the timing of the signals changes. That is by design. Bellevue，a fast-growing city，just east of Seattle， uses a system that is gaining popularity around the US：intersection（十 字路口）signals that can adjust in real time to traffic conditions. These lights，known as adaptive signals，have led to significant declines in both the trouble and cost of travels between work and home. “Adaptive signals can make sure that the traffic demand that is there is being addressed，” says Alex Stevanovic，a researcher at Florida Atlantic University. For all of Bellevue's success，adaptive signals are not a cure-all for jammed roadways. Kevin Balke，a research engineer at the Texas A&M University Transportation Institute，says that while smart lights can be particularly beneficial for some cities，others are so jammed that only a sharp reduction in the number of cars on the road will make a meaningful difference. “It's not going to fix everything, but adaptive signals have some benefits for smaller cities,” he says. In Bellevue, the switch to adaptive signals has been a lesson in the value of welcoming new approaches. In the past, there was often an automatic reaction to increased traffic: just widen the roads, says Mark Poch, the Bellevue Transportation Department's traffic engineering manager. Now he hopes that other cities will consider making their streets run smarter instead of just making them bigger. 5. What does the underlined word “that” in paragraph 2 refer to? （ ） A. Increased length of green lights. B. Shortened traffic signal cycle. C. Flexible timing of traffic signals. D. Smooth traffic flow on the road. 6. What does Kevin Balke say about adaptive signals? （ ） A. ' They work better on broad roads. B. They should be used in other cities. C. They have greatly reduced traffic on the road. D. They are less helpful in cities seriously jammed. 7. What can we learn from Bellevue's success? （ ） A. It is rewarding to try new things. B. The old methods still work today. C. I pays to put theory into practice. D. The simplest way is the best way. C Challenging work that requires lots of analytical thinking，planning and other managerial skills might help your brain stay sharp as you age，a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology suggests. Researchers from the University of Leipzig in Germany gathered more than 1，000 retired workers who were over age 75 and assessed the volunteers' memory and thinking skills through a battery of tests. Then， for eight years，the scientists asked the same group to come back to the lab every 18 months to take the same sorts of tests. Those who had held mentally stimulating（刺激），demanding jobs before retirement tended to do the best on the tests. And they tended to lose cognitive（认知）function at a much slower rate than those with the least mentally challenging jobs. The results held true even after the scientists accounted for the participants' overall health status. “This works just like physical exercise，” says Francisca Then，who led the study. “After a long run，you may feel like you're in pain，you may feel tired. But it makes you fit. After a long day at work-sure，you will feel tired，but it can help your brain stay healthy. ” It's not just corporate jobs，or even paid work that can help keep your brain fit，Then points out. A waiter's job，for example，that requires multitasking，teamwork and decision-making could be just as stimulating as any high-level office work. And “running a family household requires high-level planning and coordinating（协调），” she says. “You have to organize the activities of the children and take care of the bills and groceries. Of course，our brains can decline as we grow older for lots of reasons-including other environmental influences or genetic factors. Still， continuing to challenge yourself mentally and keeping your mind busy can only help. 8. Why did the scientists ask the volunteers to take the tests? （ ） A. To assess their health status. B. To evaluate their work habits. C. To analyze their personality. D. To measure their mental ability. 9. How does Francisca Then explain her findings in paragraph 4? （ ） A. By using an expert's words. B. By making a comparison. C. By referring to another study. D. By introducing a concept. 10. Which of the following is the best title for the text? （ ） A. Retired Workers Can Pick Up New Skills B. Old People Should Take Challenging Jobs C. Your Tough Job Might Help Keep You Sharp D. Cognitive Function May Decline As You Age D 七选五 I experienced years of loneliness as a child. 1___ His friends teased him about babysitting his sister and his interests were far different from mine. With no other kids of my age in the neighborhood，I had to spend hours by myself. A bright spot for me turned out to be reading. My love of the written word began early as my mother read to me every evening. 2___ I started reading books on my own before age 5 and my mother took me to the public library once a week to borrow several books. I quickly graduated from typical children's books to ones with fewer pictures and longer chapters. Reading opened new worlds to me. 3___ . My mother also encouraged me to make what I wanted. I tried making toy cars with cardboard boxes and constructing buildings from leftover cardboard and bits of wood my father gave me. When my mother saw my creations，she told me how creative my designs were. 4___ I learned a lot about how to extend the life of objects and transform them into something new and useful. It was a trait（特点）others found helpful， and I soon had friends who wanted to make things with me. 5___ My parents made it a point for their two kids to spend time outside，no matter the weather or season. My brother，of course，raced off to be with his friends，while I had plenty to do myself. There was making leaf houses in autumn，ice skating in winter，and so much more. They're all memories I treasure today. A. I wasn't alone any longer. B. I enjoyed reading stories aloud. C. I was invited to play with another kid. D. I loved the colorful photographs in the books. E. Another habit I formed early was being outdoors. F. Thus，I began my lifelong interest in making things. G. My older brother couldn't be bothered to play with me. Key : 1B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.C 6.D 7.A 8.D 9.B 10.C 七选五：1.G 2.D 3.A 4.F 5.E （三） A I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway, our librarian. She ran Jackson’s Carnegie Library absolutely by herself. SILENCE in big black letters was on signs hung everywhere If she thought you were dressed improperly, she sent you straight back home to change your clothes. I was willing; I would do anything to read. My mother was not afraid of Mrs. Calloway She wished me to have my own library card to check out books for myself. She took me in to introduce me. “Eudora is nine years old and has my permission to read any book she wants from the shelves, children or adults,” Mother said. Mrs. Calloway made her own rules about books. You could not take back a book to the library on the same day you’d taken it out; it made no difference to her that you’d read every word in it and needed another to start. You could take out two books at time and two only. So two by two,I read library books as fast as I could go: rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute reached our house, I started to read. knew this was extreme happiness, knew it at the time. My mother shared this feeling of mine. Now I think of her as reading so much of the time while doing something else. I remember her reading a magazine while taking the part of the Wolf in a game of “Little Red Riding Hood” with my brother’s two daughters. She’d just look up at the right time, long enough to answer-in character - “The better to eat you with, my dear,” and go back to her place in the magazine article. 1. Which of the following best describes Mrs. Calloway? A. Quiet. B. Strict. C. Humorous. D. Considerate. 2. What do the underlined words “this feeling” refer to in the last paragraph? A. Desire to read. B. Love for Mrs. Calloway. C. Interest in games. D. Fear of the library rules. 3. Where is the text probably from? A. A guidebook. B. An autobiography. C. A news report. D. A book review. B Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is road testing a new way to keep winter roads ice-free -by spreading on them cheese brine, the salty liquid used to make soft cheeses, like mozzarella. Wisconsin, also called “America’s Dairyland,” is famous for its cheese. The state produced 2.8 billion pounds of cheese last year! As a result, there was a lot of leftover cheese brine. Disposing of（处置）the brine can be expensive. So what should cheese makers do with the waste? Normally, towns use rock salt to de-ice streets. The salt lowers water’s freezing point, causing ice to melt（融化）. But using cheese brine could help both cheese producers and cities save money, while keeping roads safe Cheese brine has salt in it, which, like the rock salt, helps lower water’s freezing point. In addition to saving money, cheese brine could also be a more eco-friendly option. Many people suspect that all the rock salt used every winter is harming the environment. Rock salt is made of sodium chloride, the same compound（化合物） in ordinary table salt. Sounds harmless, right? But while you probably add only a small amount of salt to your food, road crews spread about 20 million tons of salt on U. S. roads every year！ The chemical washes off roads and goes into the ground. There it can pollute drinking water, harm plants, and eat away soil. By spreading cheese brine on streets before adding a layer of rock salt, Milwaukee may be able to cut its rock salt use by 30 percent. Cheese brine has a downside too a smell similar to that of bad milk. “I don’t really mind it,” Emil Norby told Modern Farmer magazine. He works for one of Wisconsin’s county highway commissions and came up with the idea of using cheese brine. “Our roads smell like Wisconsin!” he said. 4. Why can cheese brine help keep winter roads ice-free? A. It is soft. B. It contains salt. C. It is warm. D. It has milk in it. 5. What is benefit of using cheese brine on roads? A. Improving air quality. B. Increasing sales of rock salt. C. Reducing water pollution. D. Saving the cheese industry. 6. Milwaukee’s new way to de-ice streets may be an example of __________. A. barking up the wrong tree B. putting the cart before the horse C. robbing Peter to pay Paul D. killing two birds with one stone C Today’s world is not an easy adjustment for young adults. A key skill set for success is persistence（毅力）, characteristic that researchers say is heavily influenced by fathers. Researchers from Brigham Young University discovered that fathers are in a unique position to help their adolescent children learn persistence. BYU professors Laura Padilla-Walker and Randal Day arrived at these findings after following 325 American families over several years. And over time, the persistence gained through fathers led to higher achievement in school. “There are relatively few studies that stress the unique role of fathers,” Padilla-Walker said. “This research also helps to prove that characteristics such as persistence -- which can be taught -- are key to a child’s life success.” Researchers determined that dads need to practice an “authoritative” parenting style. Authoritative parenting is not authoritarian: rigid, demanding or controlling. Rather, an authoritative parenting style includes some of the following characteristics: children feel warmth and love from their father; responsibility and the reasons behind rules are stressed; children are given an appropriate level of autonomy（自主权）. In the study, about 52 percent of the dads exhibited above-average levels of authoritative parenting. key finding is that over time, children raised by an authoritative father were significantly more likely to develop persistence, which leads to better outcomes in school. This particular study examined 11 to 14-year-olds living in two-parent homes. Yet the researchers suggest that single parents still may play a role in teaching the benefits of persistence, which is an avenue of future research. 7. What is special about the BYU professors’ study? A. It centered on fathers’ role in parenting. B. It was based on a number of large families. C. It analyzed different kinds of parenting styles. D. It aimed to improve kids’ achievement in school. 8. What would an authoritative father do when raising his children? A. Ignore their demands. B. Make decisions for them. C. Control their behaviors. D. Explain the rules to them. 9. Which group can be a focus of future studies according to the researchers? A. Single parents. B. Children aged from 11 to 14. C. Authoritarian fathers. D. Mothers in two-parent homes. 10. Which of the following is the best title for the text? A. Three Characteristics of Authoritative Fathers B. Key Skills for Young Adults to Succeed in Future C. Children Tend to Learn Determination from Father D. Family Relationship Influences School Performance D 七选五 Let’s take a minute to think about the water we use. The human body is 60% water and we need to drink lots of water to be healthy When we are thirsty we just go to the kitchen and fill a glass with clean water. 1___ For example, farmers, who produce the food we eat, use water to make the plants grow. When we turn on a light or switch on a TV or a computer we use energy and we need water to produce this energy. The truth is that we are lucky enough to have clean water whenever we want, but this is not the case for many people around the world. 2___ That’s around one in 10 people in the world. If we drink dirty water, we can catch diseases from the bacteria and become ill. Every year over 500,000 children die from diarrhoea（腹泻） from dirty water. That’s around 1,400 children every day! Also, in some countries children walk many kilometres every day to get water. 3___ Therefore, they don’t have time to learn how to read or write and don’t get an education. 4___ On this day every year, countries around the world hold events to educate people about the problems of dirty water and that clean water is something that everyone should have around the world. At one school in the UK, children between the ages of 10 and 15 walk 6km with six litres of water. 5___ People give them money to do this and all the money helps get clean water to as many people as possible around the world. A. We use water indirectly too. B. Every system in our body depends on water to function. C. It is to inspire people to learn more about water-related problems. D. If children walk many hours a day to get water: they can’t go to school. E. Did you know that around 750 million people do not have clean water to drink? F. In 1993 the United Nations decided that March 22nd is the World Day for Water. G. In this way, they know how it feels to walk a long distance carrying heavy bottles. Key : 1. B 2. A.3. B 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. A 8. D 9. A 10. C 七选五：1. A 2. E 3. D.4. F 5. G