2021高考英语阅读理解定时训练题(14)及答案.docx

2021高考英语阅读理解精英定时训练题（14）及答案

第三题 阅读理解 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
【甘肃省天水市一中2021模拟】A
Are you looking for a summer reading list for your child or teen? Keep your child reading all summer with this selection of the summer reading lists．
Books for primary school students
Kenneth Cadow: Alfie Runs Away
When his mother wants to give away his favorite shoes just because they’re too small, Alfie decides he’s had enough．
Kate Feiffer: My Side of the Car
It might be raining on Dad’s side of the car, but imaginative Sadie argues that it is not raining on her side, so their trip to the zoo doesn’t need to be put off．
Books for junior school students
Flinn: Beastly
A modern retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” from the point of view of the Beast, a proud Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return．
Lord: A Night to Remember
A description of the sinking of the “Titanic”, a reputedly unsinkable ship that went down in the Atlantic on April 10, 1912 after hitting an iceberg, resulting in the deaths of over l, 500 people．
Books for senior school students
Mark Twain: Huckleberry Finn
It’s Mark Twain’s classic story about a young man and his slave Jim. They travel upriver to escape slavery and in the process Huck discovers what it means to be a man. It teaches us about the value of friendship and sacrifice.
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
It is about a young man named Pip who inherits (继承) a great deal of wealth from an unknown source．The money quickly moves him up the scale in London. However, at the same time it also teaches him about the dangers of ambition．
36.Who will probably be interested in this passage?
A. Parents． B. Students． C. Writers． D. Teachers．
37.These lists of recommended books are generally organized by __________.
A. book names B. grade levels
C. their popularity D. writers’ names
38. Which of the following books is about a terrible disaster?
A. My Side of the Car． B. Huckleberry Finn．
C. Great Expectations． D. A Night to Remember．
【参考答案】36-39 ABD

阅读理解
How often do you travel by plane?
How much electricity do you use? These days everyone is worried about the size of their carbon footprint．In order to reduce global warming we need to make our carbon footprints smaller．But how much CO2 are we responsible for?
A new book by Mike Berners Lee （a leading expert in carbon footprint） might be able to help．How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything looks at the different things we do and buy, and calculates the amount of CO2 all of the following created: the ingredients （=parts of a mixture）, the electricity used in the brewery, the equipment, the travel and commuting （交换） of the beer, and the packaging．It’s amazing how many different things need to be included in each calculation．And it’s frightening how much carbon dioxide everything produces．
But all of this can help us decide which beer to drink．From Berners-Lee’s calculations, it’s clear that a pint （568ml） of locally-brewed beer has a smaller carbon footprint than a bottle of imported beer．This is because the imported beer has been transported from far away, and it uses more packaging．The local beer only produces 300g of CO2, but the imported beer produces 900g! So, one pint of local beer is better for the environment than three cans of cheap foreign lager （淡啤酒） from the supermarket．
Berners-Lee has even calculated the carbon footprint of cycling to work．Nothing is more environmentally-friendly than riding a bike, surely? Well, it depends on what you’ve had to eat before．To ride a bike we need energy and for energy we need food．So if we eat a banana and then ride a kilometer and a half, our footprint is 65g of CO2．However, if we eat bacon before the bike ride, it’s 200g．In fact, bananas are good in general because they don’t need packaging, they can be transported by boat and they grow in natural sunlight．
So, does this mean that cycling is bad for the environment? Absolutely not, for a start, if you cycle, you don’t use your car, and the fewer cars on the road, the fewer traffic jams．And cars in traffic jams produce three times more CO2 than cars traveling at speed．Cycling also makes you healthy and less likely to go to a hospital．And hospitals have very big carbon footprints!
So maybe it’s time for us all to start making some changes．Pass me a banana and a pint of local beer, please．
5．According to Berners-Lee, which of the following produces the most carbon dioxide？
A．A pint of local beer we drink．
B．A pint of imported beer we drink．
C．A banana we eat before a bike ride．
D．The bacon we eat before a bike ride．
6．Why are bananas good in general?
A．They grow naturally．
B．They produces less CO2．
C．They don’t need packaging．
D．They provide energy for cycling．
7．The underlined word “brewery” in Paragraph 3 most probably means “___________”．
A．a factory where beer is made
B．a machine which makes beer
C．a container where beer is stored
D．one of the things from which beer is made
8．To make our carbon footprints smaller, we should often ___________．
A．cycle to work
B．drink more local beer
C．calculate the amount of CO2
D．buy cheap things from the supermarkets
9．What’s the most suitable title for the passage?
A．Bikes, Beer and Bananas
B．Starting to Make Changes
C．How Big Is Your Carbon Footprint?
D．The Carbon Footprint of Everything

参考答案 （B） BBAAC

Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via / through electronic mail．“If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gas．And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza．”
Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers．Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year．“We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerce as a global trend,” says Merrill Lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity．”
You would be hard pressed to name something that isn’t available on the Internet．Consider: books, health care, movie tickets, construction materials, baby clothes, stocks, cattle feed, music, electronics, antiques, tools, real estate, toys, autographs of famous people, wine and airline tickets．And even after you’ve moved on to your final resting place, there’s no reason those you love can’t keep in touch．A company called FinalThoughts．com offers a place for you to store “afterlife e-mails” you can send to Heaven with the help of a “guardian angel”．
Kids today are so computer literate that it in fact ensures the United States will remain the unchallenged leader in cyberspace for the foreseeable （能猜想的） future．Nearly all children in families with incomes of more than $75,000 a year have home computers, according to a study by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation．Youngsters from ages 2 to 17 at all income levels have computers, with 52% of those connected to the Internet．Most kids use computers to play games （some for 30 hours or more a week）, and many teenage girls think nothing of rushing home from school to have e-mail chats with friends they have just left．
What’s clear is that, whether we like it or not, the Internet is an ever growing part of our lives and there is no turning back．“The Internet is just 20% invented,” says cyber pioneer Jake Winebaum．“The last 80% is happening now．”
10．What can we learn from the Microsoft’s remark?
A．Today’s cars and airplanes are extremely overpriced．
B．Information technology is developing at an amazing speed
C．Information technology has reached the point where improvement is difficult．
D．There’s more competition in information technology industry than in car industry．
11．According to the author, the biggest benefit of the Internet is that___．
A．it saves companies huge amounts of money
B．it speeds up profit making]
C．it brings people incredible convenience
D．it provides easy access to information
12．The author gives the example of FinalThoughts．com to make the point that____．
A．there are some genius ideas on the Internet
B．almost anything is available on the Internet
C．people can find good bargains on the Internet
D．some websites provide novel services to increase hits
13．What can we learn from the fourth paragraph?
A．There is a link between income and computer ownership．
B．Many American children don’t put computers to good use．
C．Studies show that boys are more computer literate than girls．
D．The U．S．will stay ahead in the information technology in years．
14．Which sentence has the phrase that possesses the same meaning as the one underlined in the fifth paragraph?
A．Some can tell you that he has changed their lives, while others think nothing of him．
B．Think nothing of it．It was my pleasure．
C．He thinks nothing of staying up all night in the Café bar．
D．He thinks nothing of the pain in his back for the moment．
15．What is the message the author intends to convey?
A．The Internet is going to get firm hold of our lives some day．
B．The Internet is going to influence our lives even more greatly．
C．We should have a positive attitude towards the changes the Internet brings．
D．Children should be well prepared for the challenges in the information age．

参考答案 （C） BABDCB

You can not see any object unless light from that object gets into your eyes. Some of the things you see give off light of their own. The sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light. Such things are luminous. Most of the things you see are not giving off light of their own. They are simply reflecting light that falls on them from the sun or some other luminous bodies. The moon, for example, does not give off any light of its own. It is non-luminous. You see it because sunlight falls on it and some of it reflects in our direction. So moon light is only second hand sunlight.
When you look at a book, it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it, and you see the book. If light could be kept out from where you are so that there would be no light for the book to reflect, then you could not see the book even with your eyes wide open.
Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all. Light reaches us from the moon, which is about 380 000 kilometers away, in only a little more than a second.
1. You can see the book because_______.
A. your eyes are close to it B. it reflects some of the sunlight
C. it has light of its own D. your eyesight can get to it
2. The underlined word “luminous” means_______.
A. visible B. all colors C. giving off light D. sunlight
3. ________ have light of their own.
A. The sun and the moon B. The stars and the earth
C. The sun and the stars D. The moon and the earth
4. Which of the following is true?
A. All the things you can see give off light.
B. Light from the book is much shorter than that from the moon.
C. The moment you open your eyes the light from the book travels to your eyes.
D. Light travels so fast that there is no time for you to read.
(1—4 BCCC)
【答案与解析】本文介绍了光的种类及其特征。
1. B。细节题。依据文章第文章第 2 段第 1 句 …it sends to your eyes some of the light which falls on it可推知此题答案为 B。
2. C。词义猜想题。依据文章第 2 段第 2 句 Some of the things you see give off light of their own 和第 4 句 Such things are luminous 可推知此题答案为 C。
3. C。推断题。依据文章第 1 段第 3 句 The sun, the stars, a lighted lamp are examples that can be seen by their own light可推知此题答案为 C。
4. C。推断题。依据文章最终一段第 1 句 Light travels so fast that the time in which it travels from the book you are reading to your eyes is so short as if there were no time at all 可推知此题答案为 C。

【甘肃省天水市一中2021模拟】 B
Ever since news of widespread food recalls caused by a carcinogenic dye broke, there has been confusion over possible links to the country of the same name, but Sudan officials say there is no connection whatever．
Sudan 1 is a red industrial dye（颜料） that has been found in some chilli powder, but was banned in food products across the European Union (EU) in July 2003．
Since the ban was put in place, EU officials have been trying to remove some food products from the shelves．So far 580 products have been recalled．
Last week Sudan’s Embassy in the United Kingdom asked the Food Standards Agency (FSA) for clarification of the origin of the dye’s name．
Omaima Mahmoud Al Sharief, a press official at Sudan’s Embassy in China, explained the purpose of the inquiry was to clear up any misunderstanding over links between the country and the poisonous dye．
　　"We want to keep an eye on every detail and avoid any misunderstanding there," she said．"Our embassy to Britain asked them how the dye got that name and whether the dye had something to do with our country．But they told us there was no relationship．"
The FSA, an independent food security watchdog in Britain, received a letter from the Sudanese embassy last week．
　"They asked us why the dye is named Sudan, however, we also do not know how it got the name," she said．"People found the dye in 1883 and gave it the name．Nobody knows the reason, and we cannot give any explanation before we find out．"
Sudan dyes, which include Sudan 1 to 4, are red dyes used for colouring oils, waxes, petrol, and shoe and floor polishes．They are classified as carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer．
39．What does the underlined word “carcinogenic” mean in paragraph one?
A．Causing cancer． B．Having side effect．
C．Containing poison． D．Poisonous．
40．How did the Sudan 1 get its name?
A．The dye is often produced in Sudan．
B．The dye has something to do with the country named Sudan．
C．Nobody is sure of the origin of the name．
D．Many foods produced in Sudan contain the dye．
41．We can infer from the passage that ．
A．the Sudan government is paying much attention to the food safety
B．Sudan 1 is often used to be added to the food
C．people didn’t realize the danger of Sudan1 until 2003
D．many food shops will be closed down
42．Which of the following is the best title?
A．Keep away from Sudan1 B．No Sudan 1 dye links to the country
C．How Sudan1 dye got its name? D．Pay attention to the food safety
【参考答案】40-43 ACCB