昆明市2014高考英语（阅读理解）一轮训练题（2）及答案
It is easy for us to tell our friends from our enemies. But can other animals do the same? Elephants can! They can use their sense of vision and smell to tell the difference between people who pose a threat and those who do not.
In Kenya, researchers found that elephants react differently to clothing worn by men of the Maasai and Kamba ethnic groups. Young Maasai men spear animals and thus pose a threat to elephants; Kamba men are mainly farmers and are not a danger to elephants.
In an experiment conducted by animal scientists, elephants were first presented with clean clothing or clothing that had been worn for five days by either a Maasai or a Kamba man. When the elephants detected the smell of clothing worn by a Maasai man, they moved away from the smell faster and took longer to relax than when they detected the smells of either clothing worn by Kamba men or clothing that had not been worn at all.
Garment color also plays a role, though in a different way. In the same study, when the elephants saw red clothing not worn before, they reacted angrily, as red is typically worn by Maasai men. Rather than running away as they did with the smell, the elephants acted aggressively toward the red clothing.
The researchers believe that the elephants’ emotional reactions are due to their different interpretations of the smells and the sights. Smelling a potential danger means that a threat is nearby and the best thing to do is run away and hide. Seeing a potential threat without its smell means that risk is low. Therefore, instead of showing fear and running away, the elephants express their anger and become aggressive.
6. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true about Kamba and Maasai people?
A. Maasai people are a threat to elephants.
B. Kamba people raise elephants for farming.
C. Both Kamba and Maasai people are elephant hunters.
D. Both Kamba and Maasai people traditionally wear red clothing.
7. How did the elephants react to smell in the study?
A. They attacked a man with the smell of new clothing.
B. They needed time to relax when smelling something unfamiliar.
C. They became anxious when they smelled Kamba-scented clothing.
D. They were frightened and ran away when they smelled their enemies.
8. What is the main idea of this passage?
A. Elephants use sight and smell to detect danger.
B. Elephants attack people who wear red clothing.
C. Scientists are now able to control elephants’ emotions.
D. Some Kenyan tribes understand elephants’ emotions very well.
9. What can be inferred about the elephant’s behavior from this passage?
A. Elephants learn from their experiences.
B. Elephants have sharper sense of smell than sight.
C. Elephants are more intelligent than other animals.
D. Elephants tend to attack rather than escape when in danger.
参考答案 ADAA
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The evidence for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly-held image of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.
An important new study into teenage attitudes surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive today’s young people seem to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “They’re expected to be rebellious (叛逆的) and selfish but actually they have other things on their minds; they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. There’s more negotiation (商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They don’t want to rock the boat.”
So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends. “My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-year-old Daniel Lazall, “I always tell them when I’m going out clubbing. As long as they know what I’m doing, they’re fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as I’d done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot stricter with my parents than that.”
Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenage rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a brief period in our social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helping out with the family business to taking it over.”
6. What is the popular image of teenagers today?
A. They worry about school.
B. They dislike living with their parents.
C. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles.
D. They quarrel a lot with other family members.
7. The study shows that teenagers don’t want to________.
A. share family responsibility B. cause trouble in their families
C. go boating with their family D. make family decisions
8. Compared with parents of 30 years ago, today’s parents________.
A. go to clubs more often with their children B. are much stricter with their children
C. care less about their children’s life D. give their children more freedom
9. According to the author, teenage rebellion ________.
A. may be a false belief B. is common nowadays
C. existed only in the 1960s D. resulted from changes in families
10. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Negotiation in family. B. Education in family.
C. Harmony in family. D. Teenage trouble in family.
参考答案6-10 DBDAC
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（2011年深圳市高三年级第一次调研考试）???
The good news is that James Cameron’s Avatar，his first big film since Titanic，12 years ago，is a good film. The bad news—at least for Cameron—is that his film is not the masterpiece he set out to make. Nobody spends so much money(more than￡214 million)or spends so much time(the project started in 1995)to make just a good film. No，Cameron has intended to make a classic science—fiction epic(史诗) that will take its place along with Star Wars, The Matrix or his own Terminator films， But，amazingly enough，Avatar is so beautiful that it’s almost too rich to take in and appreciate on one viewing. It’s not afraid of social and political comments，educating us in the evils(邪恶)of capitalism while entertaining us with the evils of capitalism.
??? The curious thing about Avatar is that，for all of its advanced technological work，there is something out of date. The idea of humans using other bodies to travel in other worlds was an exciting concept for novelists and film-makers back in the 1990s. "Second Life can be easily found in films of that decade. Avatar’s political idea also seems out of date. Humans destroy things for short-sighted profits，and this has been going on all the time throughout the human history，hasn’t it?
??? Undoubtedly,Cameron unbelievably succeeds in creating an extremely beautiful world that nobody has ever seen. But this wonderful shell of beauty can’t make up Avatar’s lack of heart. In the past，Cameron could always mix big scenes with strong feelings. What’s missing here is the heartbreaking moment. The love story between Jake and Neytiri doesn’t take off the way Jack and Rose did in Titanic.
??? However，despite all these, we will be left with a film that’s no masterpiece. but still well worth seeing.
【解析】? 本文是一篇电影评论，作者从独特的角度对《阿凡达》提出了令人耳目一新的见解。
(1)C推理判断题。根据第一段第三句中的内容可知虽然此片是一部好电影，但是考虑到高昂的制作成本，有些不值得。
(2)B细节理解题。由第一段内容可知Cameron打算制作出一部与《星球大战》《黑客帝国》和自己的《终结者》相提并论的经典科幻史诗，可见B项《黑客帝国》不是他的作品。
(3)C 细节理解题。根据第三段后半部分中的"What’s missing here is the heartbreaking moment. "可知《阿凡达》的弊端是缺少令人心碎的时刻。
(4)B 推理判断题。根据第一段最后一句中的内容可推断《阿凡达》在表达自己的观点时无所畏惧。
(5)D 作者态度题。由第二段和第三段可知《阿凡达》是一部科幻电影；再根据最后一段中的内容可知作者认为《阿凡达》虽然不是杰作，但仍然不愧为一部值得观看的电影。由此选D项。
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3、（2010·河北省正定中学三模）
When important events are happening around the world, most people turn to traditional media sources, such as CNN and BBC for the news．However, during the war in Iraq in 2003, many people followed the war from the point of view of an unknown Iraqi citizen who called himself “Salam Pax ” ．(Salam Pax means peace)
Salam Pax wrote a diary about everyday life in Baghdad during the war, and posted it on his website．Pax’s online diary was a kind of website known as a “blog”．Blogs are online diaries, usually kept by individuals, but sometimes by companies and other groups of people．They are the fastest growing types of website on the Internet．
A blog differs from a traditional website in several ways．Most importantly, it is updated much more regularly．Many blogs are updated every day, and some are updated several times a day．Also, most blogs use special software or websites, which can help ordinary people easily set up and start writing their own blogs．
There are many different kinds of blogs．The most popular type is an online diary of links where the blog writer surfs the Internet and then posts links to sites or news articles that they find interesting , with a few comments about each one ．Other types are personal diaries, where the writer talks about their life and feelings．Sometimes these blogs can be very personal．
There is another kind of blogging, called “moblogging ”, short for “ mobile blogging ”．
Mobloggers use mobile phones with cameras to take photos, which are posted instantly to the Internet．The use of mobile phones in this way made the headlines in Singapore when a high school student posted a movie he had taken of a teacher shouting at another student on the Internet．Many people were shocked by what the student did, and wanted phones with cameras to be banned from schools．
Many people think that as blogs become common, news reporting will rely less on big media companies, and more on ordinary people posting news to the Internet．They think that then the news will be less like a lecture, and more like a conversation, where any one can join in．
49．Which statement about Salam Pax was true?
A．He worked for CNN．
B．Salam Pax was not his real name
C．He was famous as a host in BBC
D．He used a mobile phone for his blog
50．What is the biggest difference between blogs and traditional websites?
A．Blogs are updated much more often
B．Blogs contain links to other websites
C．Blogs use special software
D．Blogs contain personal information
51．According to the passage, which statement about the future is most likely ? In the future …
A．everyone will have a blog
B．large media companies will be unnecessary
C．people will be able to learn the news from other points of view
D．blogging technology will be banned
52．What is the passage mainly about ?
A．the history of the Internet B．new types of media
C．the war in Iraq D．the increase of using computers
3、参考答案----------BACB
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