高中英语真题:2016高考英语阅读类一轮练习
（7）
阅读理解。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
The American book Who Moved My Cheese has been a bestseller all over the world. It teaches people how to face changes in their lives. Now its author Spence Johnson has written a book just for teens. The book tells us that when facing change in our lives, like a new school or new friends, don't be afraid. Instead, use this change to make a better life. The book gives an example of a change at school. A school is changing from having two terms to three terms because there are too may students.
Several teens are talking about this. Most of them are unhappy and worried. But Chris is not. He laughs and tells a story about two mice, two \"little people\" and some cheese.
The four are in a maze looking for the cheese. Here, cheese means something important in life, like moving to a new class or getting into college. But they find the cheese is gone. The mice realize that they can't change what has happened and have to find more cheese. This means finding different dreams.
The little people, however, can't do this. They are afraid of change so they find no cheese.
After Chris finishes the story, the friends understand one thing: to get more cheese, move in a new direction quickly. His friends understand how this can be used in the changes all teens face, such as doing well at school or having good relationships or just feeling good about yourself.
1. The book Who Moved My Cheese is _______.
A. written all over the world B. read across the world C. sold only in D. loved only by teens 2. What does the text mainly discuss?
A. Never change in our life. B. Change when you like to do.
C. Change with the changes. D. Pay attention to the changes.
3. The underline word \"four\"(paragraph 3) refers to _____. A. Mice and little people B. Students C. Cheese D. Readers
4. In our lives, we should learn from _______.
A. Mice B. Little people C. Chris D. Spence Johnson
5. Which of the following statements is true?
A. The author is .
B. There are three terms in every school. C. Most teens don't understand Chris' story.
D. The book tells teens how to face changes in their lives.
【参考答案】1—5、BCAAD
社会生活类阅读理解
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教
徒) have ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil (邪恶
的) . So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of , the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell(地狱) . What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried- up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different e
xcept that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700smost of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well- known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit—
or is it a vegetable? ”As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an“evil fruit”. But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of? ”he shouted. “I’ll show you fools that these things are good to eat!”Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato- canning factory.
1. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because .
A. it made Christians evilB. it was the apple of
C. it came from a forbidden landD. it was religiously unaccept
able
2. What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down. B. There was little progress in the study of the tomato. C. The tomato was still refused in most western countries. D. Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato. 3. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?
A. To make himself a hero.
B. To remove people’s fear of the tomato. C. To speed up the popularity of the tomato.
D. To persuade people to buy products from his factory. 4. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To challenge people’s fixed concepts of the tomato. B. To give an explanation to people’s dislike of the tomato. C. To present the change of people’s attitudes to the tomato. D. To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence.
【参考答案】42.DCBC
社会生活类
Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax (斧
子) for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.
We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying? ”one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am, ” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times. ”
But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运) .
For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed t
his idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—
one that often attracts the literary- minded children of ’s upper classes—
into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital”could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D’s.
Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness. ” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps (说
唱) , but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and t
hey’re all white. ”His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.
Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich(充
实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.
1. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to_____ . A. realize our dreams B. give support to our life C. smooth away difficulties D. awake our emotions
2. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?
A. Because they spent much time reading it.
B. Because they had read the novel before. C. Because they came from a public school. D. Because they had similar life experiences.
3. The girl left the selective high school possibly because_____.
A. she was a literary- minded girl B. her parents were immigrants C. she couldn’t fit in with her class D. her father was then in prison
4. To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels_____ .
A. creatively B. passively C. repeatedly D. carelessly
5. The author writes the passage mainly to____. A. introduce classic works of literature
B. advocate teaching literature to touch the heart C. argue for equality among high school students D. defend the current testing system 【参考答案】43.DDCAB
【2015高考复习】完形填空 It was a winter morning，
just a couple of weeks before Christmas.While most people were__16__their cars.Trevor，my husband，
had to__17__early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work.On arrival，
he__18__his bike outside the back door as he usually does.After__19__10 hours of labor，he returned to find his bike__20__.
The bike，a black Kona 18 speed，was our only tool.Trevor used it to get to__21__，
putting in 60hour weeks to__22__his young family.And the bike was also used to get groceries，
__23__us from having to walk long distances from where we live.
I was so__24__that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story.Shortly after that，several people in our area__25__to help.One wonderful stranger__26__bought a bike，
then called my husband to pick it up.__27__my husband had a way to get to and from his job.It really is a(an)__28__that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they
have never met before.People say that a smile can be__29__from one person to another，
but acts of kindness from__30__are even more so.This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it__31__our faith in humanity as a whole.And it has__32__us to be more mindful of ways that we，too，
can__33__with others.No matter how big or how small，an act of kindness shows that someone__34__.And the results can be__35__.
16．A.cooling down B．warming up C．speeding up D．slowing down 答案 B [由于是冬天，所以出行前要给车warm up(加热)。cool down冷却；speed up加快速度；slow down减慢速度。] 17．A.get up B．wake up C．turn up D．rise up
答案 A [Trevor，my husband，是骑车上班，所以要早起赶时间，而wake up醒来；turn up出现；rise up升起，均不合题意。]
18．A.piled B．pushed C．parked D．paused
答案 C [到了之后把自行车停(parked)在后门外，而pile堆放；push推动；pause停顿，都不合题意。]
19．A.putting in B．putting on C．putting off D．putting away
答案 A [put in time/energy投入、花费时间或精力，符合题意。put on穿上；上映；put off推迟；put away收拾好。] 20．A.broken B．robbed C．hidden D．gone
答案 D [下班后出来发现自行车不见了(gone)。break使……破碎；rob后跟人或地点作宾语；hide躲藏。]
21．A.study B．shop C．work D．deliver
答案 C [根据上文应为get to work上班。deliver投递；study学习；shop商店，均不合题意。]
22．A.live B．support C．serve D．protect
答案 B [丈夫每天上班得support his family(养活家庭)。其他不符合常识。]
23．A.getting B．protecting C．saving D．allowing
答案 C [由后面的long distances from where we live可知骑自行车节省了时间，且save sb from doing....固定短语；protect sb from sth保护某人免受……；get，allow均不和from搭配。]
24．A.surprised B．thrilled C．puzzled D．sad
答案 D [小偷steal our bike，我当然是难过(sad)。surprised吃惊；thrilled兴奋的；puzzled迷惑的。]
25．A.offered B．supported C．provided D．agreed
答案 A [offer to help(主动帮助)为固定短语；B、C两项先排除；agree to do同意做某事，不符合上下文。]
26．A.still B．finally C．even D．yet
答案 C [even甚至，表示递进关系，符合句意。still仍然，一直；finally最后；yet还。]
27．A.Now and then B．Once in a while
C．Once again D．Sooner or later 答案 C [丈夫丢了自行车后“又一次(once again)”正常的上下班，而now and then时而；once in a while偶尔，间或；sooner or later迟早。]
28．A.honor B．pity C．sympathy D．respect
答案 A [陌生人会给从未见过的帮助对于我来说是honor(荣
耀)；pity可怜，同情；sympathy同情；respect尊重。]
29．A.thrown B．passed C．sent D．got
答案 B [pass sth from...to...把……传递下去，微笑是一种善意的传递；throw扔；send派，发送；get得到。]
30．A.friends B．strangers C．relatives D．parents
答案 B [从上文可知acts of kindness从strangers那里得到；friends，relatives，parents不具备代表性。]
31．A.weakened B．spread C．reduced D．strengthened 答案 D [strengthen our faith in humanity巩固了我们对人性的信任。weaken减弱；spread传播；reduce减少。]
32．A.moved B．forced C．urged D．influenced
答案 D [好的人性influence(影响)到我们和他人分享的方式。move移动；force强迫；urge敦促。]
33．A.share B．connect C．deal D．work
答案 A [share with others和他人分享。]
34．A.likes B．cares C．worries
D．wonders
答案 B [an act of kindness表明人“关心、帮助”他人。like喜欢；worry担心；wonder纳闷，想知道。]
35．A.short B．promising C．permanent D．temporary
答案 C [act of kindness固然渺小，但其影响是
permanent(永恒的)。short，promising，temporary分别为短暂的、有希望的、临时的。]
2016高考英语阅读类一轮练习（7）
阅读理解。阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 The American book Who Moved My Cheese has been a bestseller all over the world. It teaches people how to face changes in their lives. Now its author Spence Johnson has written a book just for teens. The book tells us that when facing change in our lives, like a new school or new friends, don't be afraid. Instead, use this change to make a better life. The book gives an example of a change at school. A school is changing from having two terms to three terms because there are too may students.
Several teens are talking about this. Most of them are unhappy and worried. But Chris is not. He laughs and tells a story about two mice, two \"little people\" and some cheese.
The four are in a maze looking for the cheese. Here, cheese means something important in life, like moving to a new class or getting into college. But they find the cheese is gone. The mice realize that they can't change what has happened and have to find more cheese. This means finding different dreams. The little people, however, can't do this. They are afraid of change so they find no cheese.
After Chris finishes the story, the friends understand one thing: to get more cheese, move in a new direction quickly. His friends understand how this can be used in the changes all teens face, such as doing well at school or having good relationships or just feeling good about yourself.
1. The book Who Moved My Cheese is _______.
A. written all over the world B. read across the world C. sold only in D. loved only by teens 2. What does the text mainly discuss?
A. Never change in our life. B. Change when you like to do. C. Change with the changes. D. Pay attention to the changes. 3. The underline word \"four\"(paragraph 3) refers to _____. A. Mice and little people B. Students C. Cheese D. Readers 4. In our lives, we should learn from _______.
A. Mice B. Little people C. Chris D. Spence Johnson 5. Which of the following statements is true? A. The author is .
B. There are three terms in every school. C. Most teens don't understand Chris' story.
D. The book tells teens how to face changes in their lives.
【参考答案】1—5、BCAAD
社会生活类阅读理解
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督教
徒) have ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil (邪恶
的) . So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of , the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell(地
狱) . What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried- up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700smost of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well- known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction of this wonderful new fruit—
or is it a vegetable? ”As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an“evil fruit”.
But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. “What are you afraid of? ”he shouted. “I’ll show you fools that these things are good to eat!”Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato- canning factory. 1. The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because . A. it made Christians evilB. it was the apple of
C. it came from a forbidden landD. it was religiously unacceptable 2. What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3? A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down. B. There was little progress in the study of the tomato. C. The tomato was still refused in most western countries. D. Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.
3. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly? A. To make himself a hero.
B. To remove people’s fear of the tomato.
C. To speed up the popularity of the tomato.
D. To persuade people to buy products from his factory. 4. What is the main purpose of the passage?
A. To challenge people’s fixed concepts of the tomato. B. To give an explanation to people’s dislike of the tomato. C. To present the change of people’s attitudes to the tomato.
D. To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence. 【参考答案】42.DCBC
社会生活类
Franz Kafka wrote that “a book must be the ax (斧
子) for the frozen sea inside us.” I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn’t seem to require any explanation.
We’d just finished John Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. “Are you crying? ”one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. “I am, ” I told her, “and the funny thing is I’ve read it many times. ”
But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate (命运) .
For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school—
one that often attracts the literary- minded children of ’s upper classes—
into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional “cultural capital”could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perha
ps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D’s.
Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn’t always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, “it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness. ” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies (独白) read as raps (说
唱) , but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck’s writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that “all these people hate each other, and they’re all white. ”His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year, former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.
Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch (碰撞) but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich(充
实) the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do not amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach them that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them. 1. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to_____ . A. realize our dreams B. give support to our life C. smooth away difficulties D. awake our emotions
2. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men? A. Because they spent much time reading it. B. Because they had read the novel before. C. Because they came from a public school. D. Because they had similar life experiences.
3. The girl left the selective high school possibly because_____. A. she was a literary- minded girl B. her parents were immigrants
C. she couldn’t fit in with her class D. her father was then in prison
4. To the author’s surprise, the students read the novels_____ .
A. creatively B. passively C. repeatedly D. carelessly 5. The author writes the passage mainly to____. A. introduce classic works of literature
B. advocate teaching literature to touch the heart C. argue for equality among high school students D. defend the current testing system 【参考答案】43.DDCAB
【2015高考复习】完形填空 It was a winter morning，
just a couple of weeks before Christmas.While most people were__16__their cars.Trevor，my husband，
had to__17__early to ride his bike four kilometers away from home to work.On arrival，he__18__his bike outside the back door as he usually does.After__19__10 hours of labor，he returned to find his bike__20__.
The bike，a black Kona 18 speed，was our only tool.Trevor used it to get to__21__，putting in 60hour weeks to__22__his young family.And the bike was also used to get groceries，__23__us from having to walk long distances from where we live.
I was so__24__that someone would steal our bike that I wrote to the newspaper and told them our story.Shortly after that，
several people in our area__25__to help.One wonderful stranger__26__bought a bike，then called my husband to pick it up.__27__my husband had a way to get to and from his job.It really is a(an)__28__that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.People say that a smile can be__29__from one person to another，but acts of kindness from__30__are even more so.This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it__31__our faith in humanity as a whole.And it has__32__us to be more mindful of ways that we，too，can__33__with others.No matter how big or how small，
an act of kindness shows that someone__34__.And the results can be__35__. 16．A.cooling down B．warming up C．speeding up D．slowing down
答案 B [由于是冬天，所以出行前要给车warm up(加热)。cool down冷却；speed up加快速度；slow down减慢速度。]
17．A.get up B．wake up C．turn up D．rise up
答案 A [Trevor，my husband，是骑车上班，所以要早起赶时间，而wake up醒来；turn up出现；rise up升起，均不合题意。]
18．A.piled B．pushed C．parked D．paused
答案 C [到了之后把自行车停(parked)在后门外，而pile堆放；push推动；pause停顿，都不合题意。]
19．A.putting in B．putting on C．putting off D．putting away
答案 A [put in time/energy投入、花费时间或精力，符合题意。put on穿上；上映；put off推迟；put away收拾好。]
20．A.broken B．robbed C．hidden D．gone
答案 D [下班后出来发现自行车不见了(gone)。break使……破碎；rob后跟人或地点作宾语；hide躲藏。]
21．A.study B．shop C．work D．deliver
答案 C [根据上文应为get to work上班。deliver投递；study学习；shop商店，均不合题意。]
22．A.live B．support C．serve D．protect
答案 B [丈夫每天上班得support his family(养活家庭)。其他不符合常识。] 23．A.getting B．protecting C．saving D．allowing
答案 C [由后面的long distances from where we live可知骑自行车节省了时间，且save sb from doing....固定短语；protect sb from sth保护某人免受……；get，allow均不和from搭配。]
24．A.surprised B．thrilled C．puzzled D．sad
答案 D [小偷steal our bike，我当然是难过(sad)。surprised吃惊；thrilled兴奋的；puzzled迷惑的。]
25．A.offered B．supported C．provided D．agreed
答案 A [offer to help(主动帮助)为固定短语；B、C两项先排除；agree to do同意做某事，不符合上下文。]
26．A.still B．finally C．even D．yet
答案 C [even甚至，表示递进关系，符合句意。still仍然，一直；finally最后；yet还。] 27．A.Now and then B．Once in a while C．Once again D．Sooner or later
答案 C [丈夫丢了自行车后“又一次(once again)”正常的上下班，而now and then时而；once in a while偶尔，间或；sooner or later迟早。]
28．A.honor B．pity C．sympathy D．respect
答案 A [陌生人会给从未见过的帮助对于我来说是honor(荣耀)；pity可怜，同情；sympathy同情；respect尊重。]
29．A.thrown B．passed C．sent D．got
答案 B [pass sth from...to...把……传递下去，微笑是一种善意的传递；throw扔；send派，发送；get得到。]
30．A.friends B．strangers C．relatives D．parents
答案 B [从上文可知acts of kindness从strangers那里得到；friends，relatives，parents不具备代表性。]
31．A.weakened B．spread C．reduced D．strengthened
答案 D [strengthen our faith in humanity巩固了我们对人性的信任。weaken减弱；spread传播；reduce减少。]
32．A.moved B．forced C．urged D．influenced
答案 D [好的人性influence(影响)到我们和他人分享的方式。move移动；force强迫；urge敦促。]
33．A.share B．connect C．deal D．work 答案 A [share with others和他人分享。]
34．A.likes B．cares C．worries D．wonders
答案 B [an act of kindness表明人“关心、帮助”他人。like喜欢；worry担心；wonder纳
闷，想知道。]
35．A.short B．promising C．permanent D．temporary
答案 C [act of kindness固然渺小，但其影响是permanent(永恒的)。short，promising，temporary分别为短暂的、有希望的、临时的。]
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