2019届高考英语一轮复习练习：13 阅读速度提升练.doc

1、题组层级快练(十三)阅读速度提升练(时间：20分钟).阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。(2019模拟冲刺)The Tropical Paradise HolidayWelcome to St Anna, our tropical paradise just off the coast of Latin America. You can spend two weeks in our luxury fourstar hotel. The cost of your flight is included in the holiday, and you can

2、 be picked up from your home by our special airport bus. On your arriving, our coach will be waiting to take you to the hotel. All flights leave from Heathrow on a Monday morning.The Cowrie Hotel is built right on the beachfront, and many rooms have wonderful ocean views. If swimming and surfing are

3、 not enough for you, the hotel also offers horse rides on the island, and a discount membership of the golf club.The Rain Forest Adventure HolidayEvery year Broughton holidays offer twelve days of unforgettable adventure in a tropical rain forest. You may have a choice of Borneo, Malaysia, Indonesia

4、, or even to the greatest rain forest of them all, the mighty Amazonian forest.You will fly to our special base camps at the edge of the forest, where you will be given five days of survival training, and talks on the local wildlife.Then you take a bus into the forest. You will have to walk the fina

5、l five miles to the camp sites to avoid disturbing the local ecology. All of the camp sites have been carefully built to cause the minimal amount of disturbance to the local wildlife.Remember that these adventure holidays take you deep into the wilderness, and they are not suitable for families with

6、 young children. Also remember that no more than two dozen guests can stay at any camp at one time, so if you want to go on one of these very special holidays, you will need to book early!1. Choosing the Tropical Paradise Holiday, travellers can enjoy _. A. a welcome partyB. beautiful ocean viewsC.

7、different indoor activitiesD. free membership of the golf club2. What can we learn about the rain forest holiday?A. Travellers will learn to talk with wild animals.B. Different means of transportation will be used.C. The holiday will end with a survival training.D. Booking early, travellers will get

8、 a discount.3. What kind of people will probably choose the rain forest holiday?A. People loving water sports.B. People travelling with children.C. People preferring comfortable hotels.D. People concerned with environment and wildlife.4. Which of the following is mentioned in both holidays?来源:学.科.网A

9、. Transportation.B. Price.C. Reservation. D. Departure time.答案与解析【文章大意】本文是广告文体阅读。文章主要介绍了两个假期旅游的好去处，以及旅游的方式和主要风景和活动等。3. 答案B解析细节理解题。根据The Tropical Paradise Holiday部分中的第二段的“many rooms have wonderful ocean views”可知B项正确。A项文中未提及；根据该部分第二段中的“If swimming and surfing are not enough for you, the hotel also off

10、ers horse rides on the island, and a discount membership of the golf club.”可知，这些活动都是室外活动，而非室内活动；而且高尔夫也不是免费的，只是有折扣。2. 答案B解析推理判断题。根据The Rain Forest Adventure Holiday中的第二段和第三段中坐飞机、坐公交车和步行等判断选B项。3. 答案D解析推理判断题。根据The Rain Forest Adventure Holiday中的第三段的You will have to walk the final five miles to the camp

11、 sites to avoid disturbing the local ecology. All of the camp sites have been carefully built to cause the minimal amount of disturbance to the local wildlife.判断应该是关注环境和野生动物的人们会选择雨林旅游。4. 答案A解析细节理解题。根据文章The Tropical Paradise Holiday部分和The Rain Forest Adventure Holiday都提到的是flight，即两段都提到交通方式。来源:学。科。网Ev

12、erywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their hightech devices, while driving, walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets. When connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.来源:1ZXXKPeople have been influenced to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addi

13、cted” was the word most commonly used by people to describe their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spe

14、nd more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. Consumers willingly give up their freedom, money and time to catch up on the latest information, to keep pace with their peers or to appear modern.I see people tr

15、apped in a pathological(病态的)relationship with timesucking technology, where they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and independence because of uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat up

16、 time and money.What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life? That is what people need to ask themselves if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about their use of technology. When we can live happily without using so m

17、uch technology for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for proclaiming the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” But its time to discover th

18、at it does not work for technology.Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our technologies.” To break the grand digital connection people must consider how life long ago could be fantastic without todays overused technology.5. The underlined word “

19、allure” in Paragraph 2 probably means _A. advantage B. attractionC. adaption D. attempt6. From the passage, technology companies aim to _A. attract people to buy their products来源:Z*xx*k.ComB. provide the latest informationC. improve peoples quality of lifeD. deal with cultural diseases来源:Z,xx,k.Com7

20、. It can be inferred from this passage that people _A. consider too much technology wonderfulB. have realized the harm of hightech devicesC. can regain freedom without hightech devicesD. may enjoy life better without overused technology8. Whats the authors attitude towards the overusing of hightech

21、devices?A. Neutral. B. Sceptical.C. Disapproving. D. Sympathetic.答案与解析【文章大意】本文作者指出了人们过度使用科技的许多弊端，反对大众对高科技设备的过度依赖。5. 答案B解析词义猜测题。根据词汇所在句子One study found that people had a harder time resisting the allure of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.可知，allure意为“吸引”。句意：一项研究表明：与睡眠和烟酒相比

22、，人们对于抵制社会媒体更难做到。6. 答案A解析细节理解题。根据The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not to actually improve our quality of life.可知，从这篇文章来看，技术公司目标是吸引人们来买它们的产品，故A项正确。7. 答案D解析判断推理题。根据文章最后一句话To break the grand digital connection people must consider how

23、 life long ago could be fantastic without todays overused technology.可推断出：人们如果不过度使用依赖科技，就可以更好地享受生活。8. 答案C解析判断推理题。根据全文内容来看，作者指出了人们过度使用科技的众多弊端，所以作者对高科技设备的态度应该是“disapproving”反对的。故C项正确。The power of humor and laughter is numerous. They entertain us and make us feel good. But, above all, we have discovere

24、d that humor and laughter are the best medicine. They relieve pain, reduce stress and anxiety, and are antiaging and longevity facilitators.They are extremely necessary for helping us to find and maintain a balance between life and work. However, they are slipping away from us. We have become far to

25、o serious. The only ones who still enjoy humor, laughter, fun and play to the fullest are young children. Children tend to laugh an average of 200 times a day. For adults, however, it is a totally different story.In the 1950s people laughed on average 18 times a day. Today, we are lucky if we averag

26、e between 46 times a day.As a matter of fact, a recent study found that people laugh 6 more times in the presence of one person but 30 more times in a group of people. You can get a chuckle(咯咯笑)from jokes you get on the Internet, but it is not the same as belly jiggling laughter(a deep laugh)you get

27、 when you interact with others.Socializing with friends and relatives was much looked forward to. However, this is no longer the case. In fact, the majority of people can hardly find time, nor do they have the inclination towards socializing outside home. They turn to electronic media such as televi

28、sion, computers, the Internet, videos, CDs, and audio equipment, which can provide them with instant selfentertainment at the push of a button.The workplace does not fare(进展)much better. Due to the pressures to produce more in the same or fewer hours available and to compete, for example, in a manuf

29、acturing field with cheaper labor elsewhere in the world, humor and laughter in the workplace have gradually eroded(逐渐毁坏)away.I have developed a real appreciation, perhaps closer to a strong desire for the power of humor and laughter. This encouraged me to write my first book titled “The Power of Hu

30、mor” and subsequently my second book titled “Kids Say the Goggonest Things” based on the natural humor, laughter, play and fun that kids experience and they freely share with parents, grandparents and teachers.From writing about humor and laughter, people start to ask me to speak up for them. To dat

31、e, I have developed a number of humorlaughter topics that I use in my keynote presentations. You are invited to subscribe to my free monthly emagazine “The Humormeisters Forum” by clicking on the Free Humor Ezine navigation button on the website.9. The fourth paragraph mainly tells us that _A. getti

32、ng a deep laugh nowadays is difficultB. we can entertain ourselves with the help of the InternetC. people laugh more heartily when spending time with othersD. researchers have made a new discovery about the effect of laughter10. The underlined word “inclination” in Paragraph 5 most probably means “

33、_”A. destination B. tendencyC. attitude D. approach11. Which of the following articles can we most probably find in “The Humormeisters Forum”？A. The power of honesty.B. Dont be your own worst enemy.C. Live life purposefully: The relationship within.D. Funny Christmas stories to share with your loved ones.答案911 CBD