高中英语阅读理解训练附答案

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高中英语阅读理解训练附答案

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高中英语阅读理解训练附答案

　　unusual experience

　　There has been, in history, a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. The mans name is James Bartley.

　　The records to prove his unusual experience are in the British Admiralty.

　　Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout found a huge whale . The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into the air. They lowered their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat . The men rowed until they were close to the whale. A harpoon(鱼叉) was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale s flesh. The maddened beast jumped out of the water and broke the boat into pieces. When the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was missing.

　　Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally caught. The sailors tied the whale s carcass to the side of the ship.

　　Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale right away. Otherwise, the meat would begin to rot and the oil would begin to spoil. When they got to the stomach, they felt something moving about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still alive inside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip, Bartley settled in Gloucester, England, and never returned to sea.

　　1.This passage is mainly about

　　A.how to hunt whales for their oil and meat.

　　B.the hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live.

　　C.the duties of each man on a whaling ship.

　　D.a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived.

　　2.The sailors knew that something was in the whale s stomach because

　　A.they could feel it moving about wildly.

　　B.the whale seemed very heavy .

　　C.the whale was bulging(鼓起来) at one spot.

　　D.the captain heard Bartley crying for help.

　　3.James Bartley never went to sea again because

　　A.he wanted different kinds of adventures

　　B.of fright and shock.

　　C.he was hurt by the whale.

　　D.he often got seasick.

　　4. The author, in telling James Bartleys story, gives us information by

　　A.making us laugh

　　B.talking about whaling in general.

　　C.comparing whaling to other fishing.

　　D.dramatically(戏剧性地) telling what happened.

　　5. The word carcass refers to the

　　A.whale s tail . B.whale s stomach.

　　C.dead body of the whale. D.whale s side

　　答案：DABDC

　　Motivation

　　Motivation(动机) to satisfy one‘s needs is brought about by ―drives‖, These ―drives‖ do not determine man‘s behaviour, but rather direct man‘s energy towards certain aims. For example, man‘s body requires food, which is a biological need, when this need comes up, man feels uncomfortable and his thoughts turn to getting food or satisfying that need. If he is very hungry, it will difficult for him to pay enough attention to anything except his need for food.

　　While all men feel hungry, there is more than one method for helping free people of this uncomfortable feeling. How needs are satisfying depends on what we have been taught or what we have learned from our experiences. As we grow, we learn shat foods our society considers acceptable, and how they should be prepared and eaten. In some societies, for example, pork is considered a special food while in other societies it is strictly forbidden. In some societies fish is always cooked, but in other societies raw (生的) fish is preferred. The way in which we satisfy a drive is a learned response. Nature has not built a food – getting response into man. He cannot just eat whatever he wants of whenever there is food, his satisfaction of the hunger drive, for example, is limited by the rules of a society. Although we are hunger, according to the rules of society, we should not steal food, even if it belongs someone weaker than we are.

　　1.According to the passage, ―drives‖ _____.

　　A.can be brought about by motivation B..can always decide man‘s action

　　C.direct man‘s energy toward certain goals D.follow man‘s motivations

　　2. ____ is a biological need.

　　A.Motivation B. Drive C. Hunger D. Experience

　　3. The writer hopes to tell us that ____.

　　A. man should satisfy his biological needs whenever necessary

　　B.man‘s needs should always be satisfied without any condition

　　C.what man should do if he feels hungry

　　D.man‘s satisfaction of needs is limited by the rules of a certain society

　　答案：CCD

　　researcher

　　Washingtom,April4-The United States has more than 90millon families for the first time ,but each contains fewer people on average than ever ,the Census Bureau(统计局) reported today.

　　The 90,031,000 families in the United States averaged 2.64 members each as of last July 1. ―The reason is, in effect, changes in the age structure,‖ explained Campbell Gibson, a population researcher for the bureau. Most Americans born in the great explosion of births after World War II are mow in their 20‘s and 20‘s when they are most likely to set up families, he said.

　　The fact that many are doing so increased the number of families from 80.4million in 1980 to 88.8 million in 1986 and past the 90 million mark last summer . At the same time, the average number of people per family dropped from 2.75 in 1935 to 2.65 in 1986 and then to 2.64,Mr Gibson said.

　　By comparison, the 1970 Census found the average family contained 3.15 people Families averaged more than four people in 1939 and more than five in 1880. The growing number of ever- smaller families is still going on, but Mr Gibson pointed out that family growth was mot the same as population increase in the 1970‘s. The same age factors (因素) that are increasing the number of families also happened then, but in the 1970‘s the proportion(比例) of families in each age group was also growing .

　　That has not continued in the 1980‘s for a number of possible reasons, Mr Gibson said.

　　For example, in the 1880‘s more young people have chosen to remain home with their parents instead of setting up housekeeping on their own ,as many did in the 1970‘s. This could be caused by the increasing cost of housing, he said. Delays in marriage while was not the only factor for the family changes.

　　1.The smaller figure of families reported here is ______.

　　A.1980 B. 80,400,000 C. 2.64 D. 90 milion

　　2.How did Mr Gibsin explain the reason of the increase in families? ______

　　A.About 9.96million new families have been set up since 1980.

　　B.All the big families were split into smaller ones.

　　C.There is a great number of young people who are newly married.

　　D.There was a great explosion of births during the present Second World War.

　　3.What is the reporter‘s attitude (态度) toward the present situation?______

　　A.peopAle should get married at a later age .

　　B. The average number of family numbers should be 2.64.

　　C.It‘s not clear in the report.

　　A. A. D.Young people should set up housekeeping on their own ,as many did in the

　　1970‘s.

　　4. From the last paragraph we may infer that _____.

　　A.delay in marriage will not help the number of families

　　B.Delay in marriage is the major factor of the family changes

　　C.The writer felt sorry that many young people now delay their marriages

　　D. There must be some other factors which have led to the slower family growth in the 1980‘s.

　　答案：BCCD

　　Greedy

　　Olaf Stapledon wrote a book called First and last Men, in which he looked millions of years ahead. He told of different men and of strange civilizations(文明), broken up by long dark ages‘’in between. In his view, what is called the present time is no more than a moment in human history and we are just the First Men. In 2000 million years from now there will be the Eighteenth or Last Men.

　　However, most of our ideas about the future are really very short-sighted. Perhaps we can see some possibilities for the next fifty years. But the next hundred/the next thousand/the next million? That‘s much more difficult.

　　When men and women lived by hunting 50000 years ago, how could they have even begun to picture modern life? Yet to men of 50000 years from now, we may seem as primitive(原始的) in our ideas as the Stone-Age hunters did to us. Perhaps they will spend their days gollocking to make new spundels, or struggling with their ballalators through the cribe. These words, which I have just made up, have to stand for things and ideas that we simply can‘t think of.

　　So why bother(困扰) even to try imagining life far in the future? Here are two reasons. First, unless we remember how short our own lives are compared with whole human history, we are likely to think our own interests are much more important than they really are. If we make the earth a poor place to live on because we are careless or greedy(贪婪) or quarrelsome, our grandchildren will not bother to think of excuse for us.

　　Second, by trying to escape from present interests and imagine life far in the future, we may arrive at quite fresh ideas that we can use ourselves. For example, if we imagine that in the future man may give up farming, we can think of trying it now. So set your imagination free when you think about the future.

　　1.A particular mention made of Stapledon‘s book in the opening paragraph______.

　　AA. serves as a description of human history

　　B. serves as an introduction to the discussion

　　C. shows a disagreement of view

　　D. shows the popularity of the book

　　2.The text discusses men and woman 50000 yeas ago and 50000 years from now in order to show that______.

　　A. human history is extremely long B. life has changed a great deal

　　C. it is useless to plan for the next 50 years

　　D. it is difficult to tell what will happen in the future

　　3.The underlined words in the third paragraph are used in the text to refer to______.

　　A. the tools used in farming B. the ideas about modern life

　　C. the unknown things in the future D. the hunting skills in the Stone Age