高二英语：阅读专题训练（1）（新人教版必修3）.doc

1、高二英语：阅读专题训练（1）（新人教版必修3）ASaturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskayas mother, R

2、aisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husbands funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an

3、operation and since then Anna and Elena had been taking turns helping her deal with her grief.Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskayas apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was

4、being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the te

5、rror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramzan Kadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life dur

6、ing wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russ

7、iansand almost no other reporterscared to think about. 1. Politkovskayas father died of _.A. tiredness B. a heart disease C. an attack D. an accident2. From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa _. A. didnt love her husband B. didnt attend her husbands funeralC. was having an operation the day her husb

8、and was buried D. was too sad to attend her husbands funeral3. The underlined word “emerged” most likely means _. A. came out B. went into C. disappeared D. left for4. How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage? A. Three. B. Four C. Five D. Six5. Which of the following words can be

9、st describe Politkovskayas character? A. Curious B. easy-going C. careless D. responsibleB Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less

10、 than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one rece

11、nt Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough t

12、o drink it. There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litresless than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for coo

13、king and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that daytwo or three buckets worth. Shoba has a husban

14、d and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; its c

15、heaper. Like the poorest people everywhere, the people of New Delhis slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.6. The underlined word “slum” most likely means _. A. a village B. a small townC. an area of

16、a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings D. the part of a town that lacks water badly7. Sometimes the water tanker doesnt come because _. A. the weather is bad B. there is no electricity C. there is no water D. people dont want the dirty water8. A person needs at least _ litres of water a day

17、. A. a hundred B. four hundred C. forty D. fifty9. Which of the following statements is wrong? A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shobas family B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day C. in Kesum Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water D. Shoba has a family of seven

18、 people10. The passage mainly tells us _. A. how women in Kesum Purbahari gets their water B. how much water a day a person deeds C. that India lacks water badly D. how India government manages to solve the problem of waterC One day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Lo

19、s Angeles from London, a blue bottle fell out of her purse. She quickly put it back in, but not before the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning Londons Daily Express published a page of pictures under t

20、he headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.” Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States. The pill, which is sold at about fifty dollars for a months supply, contains a huge amount of caff

21、eine, some green tea, and three common South American herbs that also act as stimulants (兴奋剂). It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed in the windows of the nations l

22、argest chain of vitamin shops, G.N.C. (It is so highly sought after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.) Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on the Internet. If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand pi

23、eces of information about it will appear. At any moment, there are scores of people sell it on eBay. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is that it is far from unique. There are hundreds of similar products on the market today, and they are bought by mil

24、lions of Americans. And though Zantrexs producer makes some exciting statements (“the most advanced weight control compound (化合物)period”), so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator. Almost all of these compounds suggest that they can

25、help people lose weight and regain lost energy, and often without diet, exercise, or any other effort. 11. Britney Spears is a / an_. A. dancer B. singer C. athlete D. chemist12. Which of the following is also a kind of weight-loss pill? A. CVS B. Rite Aid C. Wal-Mart D. Anorex13. The underlined par

26、t of the sentence in the first paragraph is most likely similar in meaning to _. A. it is difficult to say how successful Zantrex-3 is B. you cant overstate the success of Zantrex-3 C. you cant think too highly of the success of Zantrex-3 D. Zantrex-3 is not very successful14. From the second paragr

27、aph we know that _ . A. Zantrex-3 is one of the successful weight-loss pills on the US market B. Zantrex-3 is the most successful weight-loss pills on the US marketC. Zantrex-3 is the only weight-loss pill on the US marketD. there are five kinds of weight-loss pills on the US market 15. The text mai

28、nly tells us _. A. when Britney Spears was found taking weight-loss pills with her B. how Zantrex-3 became successful in the USA C. weight-loss pills are very popular in the USA D. Zantrex-3 is forbidden to be sold on the US market参考答案15 BBACD 610 CBDAC 11-15 BDCAC1. 答案B。从第2句中的“had died of a heart a

29、ttack”可知B选项是正确答案。C选项attack是“攻击”的意思，而文中出现的是heart attack，“心脏病”，因此C选项偷换了概念；其他选项与文中相关的表述不相干。2. 答案B。从3、4、5三句可知B选项是正确选项，其他三个选项与文中的表述不一致。3. 答案A。介词“from”表示动作的出处、来源，而后面的介词宾语是“the Moscow Metro”，可知“Moscow Metro”是“emerged”这一动作的起源地，因此，A选项符合原文的意思。4. 答案C。文中提到Politkovskaya姐妹俩，以及她的父母、女儿。5. 答案D。从“Politkovskaya was a

30、special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta,”一直到文章的结尾，作者简述了Politkovskaya敢于直面社会的不良现象的正值性格，而这是其他记者所不屑的，因此D选项是正确答案。6. 答案C。A、B、D可以指贫穷地区，也可以指富裕地区，但根据第1段的第2句及第2段的最后一句可以知道slum指的更可能是贫穷地区，C选项比较接近这个意思，因此应该是最佳答案。7. 答案B。根据第1段的On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont c

31、ome at all.可以知道B选项是正确答案。8. 答案D。根据第2段的“but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litres”可以知道D选项是正确答案。9. 答案A。根据第2段的Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon.可以判断A选项不符

32、合文意，而其他选项均可在文中找到支持信息。10. 答案C。该题是判断主旨大意题。第2段第2句是该文的主题句，C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此是正确选项。A、B选项是细节信息，用于村托印度缺水的现象；D选项则完全与文章的意思相反，因此均可排除。11. 答案B。细节信息题。从第1段的大写部分“POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS.”可以知道B选项是正确答案。12. 答案D。细节信息题。根据第1段的 “Zantrex-3 is also sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and othe

33、r chains,”以及第2段的“so do the people who sell Stacker 2 and Anorex along with those who sell Carb Eliminator and Fat Eliminator.”可以知道D选项是正确答案。13. 答案C。理解句子结构及推测词义题。从It hit the U.S. market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate. 的前半部分可以知道Zantrex-3是美国市场很畅销的减肥类商品；根据构词法可以知道后半部分的ove

34、rstate有“夸张、夸大事实”的意思，而would be hard to overstate可以理解为“难以夸张、夸大”的意思，因此划线部分的意思可以直译为“难以夸大/夸张的成功”或理解为“怎么夸张都不过份的成功”，C选项所含有的句型can nottoo亦是此意。14. 答案A。从第2段的1、2、3句可以知道A选项是正确答案，其他选项均与文章的信息不一致。15. 答案C。A选项只包含了文章的部分信息；B选项侧重Zantrex-3获得成功的方式，而文章并没有这方面的信息；D选项与文章中的信息相反；从整体来看，文章是以Zantrex-3为引子，引出减肥或瘦身类商品当今在美国很流行的话题，即第1段是引入，第2段开始切入主题，第2段的第2句可以看做是主题句。C选项与主题句的意思一致，因此应该是该题的答案。