2021青岛市高考英语阅读理解自练及答案13.docx

阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。
体裁：谈论文　话题：欧美风情　时间：6分钟
They can be damp and cold.But with a growing number of men seeing the shed as a home from home，research claims the solitude(独处) it provides at the bottom of the garden could actually be good for their health.
A study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that the peaceful retreat(退隐) may help lower blood pressure.Its author，Professor Alan White of Leeds Metropolitan University，claims the hours spent pottering(闲逛) about in sheds doing odd jobs also have a positive effect on men's self­esteem.“Men find doing things relaxing and that in itself is good for their health，” he said.“There's a sense of achievement that men get from starting a task to seeing it completed.Men know what a shed means and they feel comfortable.”
Such has been the growth in its popularity that communal(共享的) sheds are being set up to enable men to share their love of pottering and DIY.The “Men's Sheds”initiative has its roots in Australia.But 20 communal sheds have already sprung up in the UK from the Lake District to Greenwich.Peter Baker，chief executive of the Men's Health Forum，a charity involved in the scheme，said,“They've caught men's imagination.Men like to potter.”
There are approximately 11.5 million domestic sheds in Britain—a higher concentration than anywhere else in the world—and 1.5 million are sold every year.Furthermore，Britons spend more than 60 million hours a week in them.
Originating from the Anglo­Saxon word“scead”，meaning shade，the peaceful retreat remains a place for the lawnmower and potting bench but has also been transformed into a games room and even a mini pub.
【语篇导读】　庭院贮存室在英国很受男性的欢迎，由于它们不仅对男性的身体健康有好处，而且还可以提升他们的自尊。
1．Communal sheds are popular because ______.
A．men can share their love of pottering and DIY there
B．men can keep away from other family members there
C．men can stay there for the good of their health
D．men can complete an important task there
解析　细节理解题。从文章第三段第一句可知，男人在庭院贮存室可以共享他们对闲逛的爱好以及自己动手做事情的乐趣。
答案　A
2．Which of the following is NOT TRUE about garden sheds?
A．Men will feel relaxed in them.
B．Men will feel lonely staying in them.
C．They only benefit men physically.
D．They can help raise men's confidence.
解析　细节理解题。综合文章其次段所给的信息，庭院贮存室不仅对男性身体有好处，而且能够提高他们的自尊，它们对男性的影响是乐观的，而B项说明的是本文并未提及的庭院贮存室的负面作用，因此不对。
答案　B
3．What can we infer from the last paragraph?
A．Garden sheds are just a place for men to work.
B．Garden sheds are not used by men only.
C．Garden sheds are mainly used as a store room.
D．Garden sheds serve several purposes for men.
解析　推理推断题。文章最终一段说明，庭院贮存室不仅是存放割草机和盆栽长櫈的地方，而且还可作为玩耍室和迷你pub，由此推断D项正确。
答案　D
4．Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A．The popularity of garden sheds
B．The new use of garden sheds
C．How to build garden sheds
D．Garden sheds improve men's health
解析　主旨大意题。综合全文，特殊是文章第一段可知，文章主要说明庭院贮存室对男性健康的好处。
答案　D
【长难句解读】
原文　Such has been the growth in its popularity that communal(共享的)sheds are being set up to enable men to share their love of pottering and DIY.
译文　庭院贮存室如此受欢迎，以至于人们搭建起公用的贮存室，让男人在里面共享他们对闲逛的爱好和自己动手的乐趣。
分析　本句是一个复合句，接受了倒装形式。such...that...句式，假如把such置于句首，就要用倒装语序。

阅读理解。
As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. Once you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go from morning till night, it is hard to slow down. But relaxation is essential for a healthy mind and body.
Stress is a natural part of everyday life and there is no way to avoid it. In fact, it is not the bad thing it is often supposed to be. A certain amount of stress is vital to provide motivation and give purpose to life. It is only when the stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and ill health.
The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such characters are obviously prime material for managerial responsibilities, others lose heart at the first sign of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in whatever form, we react both chemically and physically. In fact we make choice between "flight or fight" and in more primitive days the choices made the difference between life or death. The crises we meet today are unlikely to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it involves the same response. It is when such a reaction lasts long, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes endangered. Since we can't remove stress from our lives (it would be unwise to do so even if we could), we need to find ways to deal with it.

6. People are finding less and less time for relaxing themselves because _____.
A. they regard working as their greatest enjoyment
B. they believe that work is superior to relaxation
C. they are traveling fast all the time
D. they are becoming busier with their work than ever before
7. According to the author, the most important character for a good manager is his _____.
A. strong will to hold out stress
B. knowing the art of relaxation
C. high sense of responsibility
D. having control over performance
8.. Which of the following statements is TRUE, according to the passage?
A. We can find quite a few ways to avoid stress.
B. Stress is always harmful to people's health
C. It's easy to change the habit of keeping oneself busy with work.
D. Different people can bear different amount of stress.
9. In the last sentence of the passage, "do so" refers to _____.
A. "expose ourselves to stress"
B. "find ways to deal with stress"
C. "remove stress from our lives"
D. "establish links between diseases and stress"
10. According to the author, the right attitude toward stress is _____.
A. to avoid it
B. to try to cope with it
C. to regard it as a vital motivation
D. to find some relaxation
(B)本文叙述当今社会人们面临很大压力，压力无法避开，人们承受压力的限度不同，在压力面前如何放松自己，坦然面对。
D 推断题。由第一段可推知，无法放松自己主要是比以前任何时候都要劳碌。
A 推断题。由第三段其次句可推知，当好管理者的优良品质是要具有坚强的抵制压力的意志。句中prime material意为“一流的素养”。
D 细节题。由第三段第一句可The amount of stress a person can withstand depends very much on the individual.可知。
C 猜义题。由Since we can't remove stress from our lives…可知括号里的内容是对前文的解释。
B 态度题。最终一句表明白作者的态度。

阅读理解---------C
It’s hardly surprising that weather is a favorite topic for so many people around the world—it affects where we choose to love, what we wear, our moods, and perhaps even our national characteristics. Studies have shown the changeable weather can make it difficult to concentrate, cloudy skies slow sown reaction, and high humidity with hot, dry winds makes many people bad-tempered.
If you live in a place like Britain, where the weather seems to change daily if not hourly, you could be forgiven for thinking that the weather is random. In fact, the weather is controlled by systems which move around areas of the globe. In the UK the weather depends on depressions（低气压）, often called lows, and anticyclones（高气压）, also known as highs. These systems start in the Atlantic Ocean, and make their way across the British Isles from the west to the east. Highs bring sunny weather, while lows bring rain and wind. In modern times, human activities seem to be altering weather patterns. Gases produced by heavy industry change the temperature of the Earth’s surface, and affect cloud formation. Some researchers say that factories in Europe and North America may have been one of the causes of the droughts in Africa in the 1980s.

The human race has always tried to guess the weather, especially in areas of the world where there are frequent changes. Traditional rhymes point to early attempts to identify weather patterns, popular poems include:
Red sky at night, shepherds’ delight; red sky in the morning, shepherds’ warning.
Flies will swarm before a storm.
Rain before 7, clear by 11.
While folk wisdom can still provide a guide to help forecast weather, today’s methods of prediction increasingly rely on technology. Satellites, balloons, ships, aircrafts and weather centers with sensitive monitoring equipment, send data to computers. The date is them processed, and the weather is predicted. However, even this system cannot predict weather for longer than about a week.
11．When weather keeps changing,
A．people become bad-tempered B．people’s reaction slows down
C．people find it hard to focus on their work D．people become hungrier
12．What is mainly talked about in the second paragraph?
A．Changes in weather. B．Weather in Britain.
C．African droughts. D．Research on weather.
13．The weather in Britain is .
A．random B．moist C．depressing D．satisfying
14．According to a traditional rhyme, if there is red sky at night, the next day will be .
A．windy B．rainy C．fine D．snowy
15．Which of the following statements in true?
A．Anticyclones often bring rain and wind.
B．Weather forecasting has been done for a long time.
C．Weather could never be predicted.
D．Modern methods of weather prediction are developed from folk wisdom.
【参考答案】（C）篇CAACB

【2022高考英语安徽省合肥市质量检测】
阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项, 并标在答题卷的相应位置。用答题卡的考生, 先把选出的最佳选项标在试卷的相应位置, 再转涂到答题卡上。
Steve knew he'd been adopted as a baby, and when he turned 18, in 2003, he decided he'd try to track down his birth mother. The agency from which he'd been adopted gave him his mother's name, Tallady. But online searches didn’t turn up any results about it, and Steve had to let it go.
In 2007, though, he searched for the name again online. This time, the search results included a home address near the Lowe’s store where Steve, then 22, worked as a deliveryman. When he mentioned the coincidence to his boss, his boss said, “You mean Tallady, who works here?”
Steve and Tallady, a cashier, had said hello to each other a few times at the store, but they’d never really talked. He hadn’t even known her name. Steve thought there was no possible way she was his mother though they shared the same name. For a few months, Steve avoided Tallady. “I wasn’t sure how to approach her,” he told a local reporter. Finally, the agency volunteered to arrange their reunion.
When Tallady realized that the nice guy she’d been waving at was his son, she sobbed. She'd always hoped to meet her birth son one day. Later that day, mother and son talked for almost three hours at a nearby bar. She’d given him up for adoption in 1985, when she was 23. “I wasn't ready to be a mother,” she told him. Married with two other children, Tallady says, “I have a complete family now. ”
56. Steve gave up the online search for his birth mother in 2003 because ______.
A. the agency didn’t give him any help
B. there was no information about his mother
C. his mother didn't respond to him online
D. he missed the information about his mother
57. What did Steve find about his mother online in 2007? ______.
A. Her home address B. Her full name C. Her boss’s name D. Her new job
58. Why did Steve avoid Tallady for months?
A. Because she didn’t want to talk to him.
B. Because he was not fully prepared for the reunion.
C. Because she was difficult to approach.
D. Because he didn’t think she was his mother.
59. The best title for the passage is ______.
A. The love of mother B. An unexpected meeting
C. The power of the Internet D. An unusual reunion
【参考答案】56—59 BABD