高考英語閱讀理解練習及答案

　　閱讀理解是英語的重點，接下來小編為你整理了，一起來看看吧。

　　***一***

　　Have you ever wondered?

　　1.Why do airplanes take longer to fly west than east?

　　It can take five hours to go west-east from New York***NY*** to London but seven hours to travel east-west from London to NY.The reason for the difference is an atmospheric phenomenon know as the jet***噴射*** stream.The jet stream is a very high altitude wind which always blows from the west to the east across the Atlantic.The planes movement a constams air speed thus go faster in the west-east direction when the air moving with the wind than in the opposite direction.

　　2 What would happen if the gravity on Earth was suddenly turned off?

　　Supposing we could magically turn off gravity.Would buildings and other structures float away? What happened would depend on how strongly the things were attached to the Earth.The Earth is moving at quite a speed moving at over a thousand miles per hour.If you turn something round your head on a string, it goes around in a circle until you let go of the strong go of the string.Things not attacked to the Earth would fly off in a straight line .People in buildings would suddenly shoot upwards at a great speed until they hit the ceiling.Most things would fly off into space.

　　60.What information coa we get from the first passage?

　　A.tis the iet stoomn that affeets how fast airplanes fly.

　　B.Planes go slower when they are moving with the wind.

　　C.It takes more time to fly from NY to London than from London to NY.

　　D.The jet stream always blows from the east to the west across the Atantic.

　　61.The word“shoot”underlined in the 2nd passage probably means“ ”。

　　A.send for

　　B.move quickly

　　Ce out

　　D.grow quickly

　　62.It can be interred that without gravity .

　　A.buildings and other structures would float away

　　B.trees and buildings would not so easily fly off

　　C.something around your head would not float away

　　D.everything outside buildings would fly off into space

　　63.Where can wemost probably read this text?

　　A.In s research paper

　　B.In a tort story.

　　C.In a travel magazine.

　　D.In a student’s book.

　　答案

　　60.A 61.B 62.B 63.D

　　***二***

　　Pacing and Pausing

　　Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say.While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk.The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.

　　Conversation is a turn-taking game.When our habits are similar, there's no problem.But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished.That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.

　　It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American.Betty often felt interrupted by Sara.But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland.And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.

　　The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities.These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping ***思維定式***。And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences.For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel.When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in--and never found it.Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring.When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.

　　That's why slight differences in conversational style--tiny little things like microseconds of pause-can have a great effect on one's life.The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.

　　1.What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?

　　A.Betty was talkative.

　　B.Betty was an interrupter.

　　C.Betty did not take her turn.

　　D.Betty paid no attention to Sara.

　　2.According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?

　　A.Americans.

　　B.Israelis.

　　C.The British.

　　D.The Finns.

　　3.We can learn from the passage that __

　　Amunication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing

　　B.women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US

　　C.one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes

　　D.one should receive training to build up one's confidence

　　4.The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means __

　　A.being willing to speak one's mind

　　B.being able to increase one's power

　　C.being ready to make one's own judgment

　　D.being quick to express one's ideas confidently

　　答案

　　1.C 2.B 3.C 4.D

　　***三***

　　Excused from recycling because you live in a highrise with a rubbish chute? You won't be for long.Miami's Mark Shantzis has made it simple for thoseliving in tall buildings to use the chute and recycletoo.

　　In Shantzis' Hi-Rise Recycling System, a chute leadsto a pie-shaped container with six boxes that canturn around when operated.The system, which fits in the same space as the chute andcontainer now in use, enables glass, plastic, paper, metal, and other rubbish to go intoseparate boxes.

　　The system is controlled from a board fixed next to the chute door.The board has a button foreach class of recycling materials ***as well as for unrecyclables***。At the press of a button, amicrocomputer locks all other floors' chute door and sets the recycling container turning untilthe right box comes under the chute.The computer also counts the loads and gives a signal byphone when the box is full.And a particular piece of equipment breaks up the nonrecyclables.

　　Sorting***分類*** recyclables before they are collected saves the use of expensive materialsrecovery equipment which otherwise has to do the sorting.Such equipment often makesrecycled materials very expensive, so expensive that tons of recyclables remain wasted.Shantzisbelieves his system could help recycled materials become more cost-effective.

　　1.The purpose in writing this text is ________.

　　A.to encourage people to recycle their rubbish

　　B.to introduce a recycling system for high rises

　　C.to describe the use of computer technology in recycling

　　D.to explain the need for rubbish collection in high rises

　　2.When he says "You won't be for long" the writer means that ________.

　　A.you'll soon be living in a cleaner building

　　B.rubbish chutes will become out of date before long

　　C.you won't wait long for your turn to recycle rubbish

　　D.it won't be long before you'll have to recycle your rubbish

　　3.Before dropping rubbish into the chute you have to ________.

　　A.lock the other floors' chute doors

　　B.check if the container is full

　　C.press the correct button

　　D.break up the rubbish

　　4.The biggest advantage of this new system is that _________.

　　A.it reduces the cost of recycling

　　B.it saves time and space

　　C.it saves money for people living in high rises

　　D.it makes better use of the existing recovery equipment

　　答案

　　1.B。考查寫作目的。文章第1段說：由於你住在帶有垃圾通道的高層建築裡，對垃圾的回收不便是情有可原的;但是在不久的將來這種不回收的藉口是不存在的了。美國邁阿密州Mark Shantzis 已經使住在高層建築裡的人們利用垃圾通道回收利用垃圾變得簡單了，應選 B。

　　2.D。Mark Shantzis 已經使得住在高層建築裡的人們利用垃圾通道回收利用垃圾變成了一件簡單的事，應選D。

　　3.C。文章第2段言及這套垃圾處理系統含有六個可旋轉的容器;文章第3段言及只要你按一種按鈕，這個電腦系統就將其餘各層其餘的通道鎖住，只讓你按的那個按鈕的通道暢通。因此按何種按鈕是垃圾分類的關鍵。

　　4.C。文章最後一段提及，在收集垃圾之前將它們分類節省了使用分類裝置的費用，而使用這些裝置又得被回收物質白白地浪費了。Shantzis 相信這套回收系統有助於可回收物質變得更有***經濟***效益。