2013高考英语二轮阅读理解（三月）强化训练18及答案
Many Japanese never take their vacations they should enjoy, but with the coming of “Golden Week”, a series(系列) of holidays following one after another in late April and early May, they pour out of the country by tens of thousands. The most popular place they go to is Hawaii, but Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan are also favoured. The typical Japanese abroad, as it is reported, travel for about a week and spends, as average, $2, 800 on airline tickets, hotels and gifts for friends and relatives. It may seem high, but it’s cheap for the Japanese, who would have to spend a lot more if they spend a week touring (making a journey) their own country.
1. Many Japanese _______.
A. don’t enjoy taking vacations B. enjoy touring in Golden Week
C. don’t have vacations D. enjoy staying at home
2. The period in late April and early May is called Golden Week because _______.
A. the week is made of gold days
B. it is warm for people to tour
C. holidays come one after another in this period
D. it is still spring then
3. Which of the following is true?
A. The Japanese never enjoy travelling more than one week.
B. The Japanese like best to travel to some part in the U. S. by air.
C. Travelling at home cost less than abroad for the Japanese.
D. Hawaii is the most beautiful place to visit in Asia.
4. Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Vacations for the Japanese
B. Costs of Travelling in Japan
C. Places the Japanese Enjoy Travelling to
D. Japanese in Golden Week
【答案与解析】本文报道了日本人黄金周的活动情况。
1. B。细节题。根据第1句后面的并列分句…they pour out of the country by tens of thousands可推知此题答案为B。
2. C。细节题。根据第1句后面的并列分句a series(系列)of holidays following one after another可推知此题答案为C。
3. B。细节题。根据第2句The most popular place they go to is Hawaii及后面的$2, 800 on airline tickets可推知此题答案为B。
4. D。主旨题。根据文章内容，就可以很容易推出答案为D。
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Scientists are developing a new kind of machine to take the place of humans. These machines can do jobs in places that are too dangerous for humans. For example, they are being developed to work in nuclear power center, deep under the oceans and in outer space.
John Marrit, a psychologist(心理学家) in Williamsburg Massachusetts, helped develop the new machine. This is how they work. A machine is placed in an area far away from the person who operates it. The person wears special hard hat with television screens and sound equipment. The screens and sound equipment let the person see and hear exactly what the machine is seeing and hearing. Mr. Marrit says this gives the person the feeling of being in the same place as the machine. The idea, he says, is being there without going there. The person uses an electronic control to make the machine move. The machine copies the person’s movements exactly. If the person raises his right arm, the machine raises the right arm, too. This means an expert can do a dangerous job while staying in the safe place. For example, a person can direct the machine to destroy a bomb without going near the bomb himself.
1. The new kind of machine being introduced in the passage is _______.
A. in existence???????????B. only an idea
C. being tried out??????????D. being researched and developed
2. The machine _______.
A. follows the person’s order??????
B. is controlled by a computer
C. does exactly what the person does??
D. is controlled by a television on the person’s head
3. The difference between such a new machine and a robot is that _______.
A. the new machine is more difficult to make than a robot
?????? B. the new machine is more difficult to be controlled
?????? C. a robot is controlled by man indirectly
D. a robot can’t be used in places too dangerous or faraway
【答案与解析】科学家正在开发一种代替人的机器，这种机器能代替人们从事一些危险的工作。
1. D。判断题。从第1句话Scientists are developing a new kind of machine to take the place of humans 可以看出，既然是正在开发当中，那肯定还未形成。
2. C。语义理解题。从第2段中的The machine copies the person’s movements exactly 可以明显看出为什么选C的原因。A项有一定的干扰性，但这种机器是人通过电控开关控制的，所以应排除。
3. A。判断题。这种机器还在开发当中，而机器人则有几十年历史了，由此可以肯定答案应该选A。
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Honeybees
Honeybees can do three kinds of jobs.
The honeybee is one of the most unusual insects in the world. Bees are special because they divide up their work. Each bee has a certain job to do.
The busiest bee is the worker. Workers build the nest, called a hive. Inside the hive, workers make a honeycomb from wax(蜂蜡). They store honey there for food. Workers are always cleaning and fixing the hive. They even stand at the opening and fan their wings to cool the hive. Worker bees will attack anything—even people—to keep their hive safe.
Another kind of bee is the drone(雄蜂). Drones are male bees, and their job is to fly with the queen bee and mate with her. After the queen mates, the worker bees drive the drones away. The drones then starve to death.
The third kind of bee is the queen. Each hive needs only one queen, and her job is laying eggs. She can lay as many as 2, 000 eggs a day.
1. The bee’s nest is called a _______.
A. drone B. honeycomb C. hive D. wax
2. Wax is used to make the _______.
A. nest B. honeycomb C. fan D. hive
3. Which jobs do workers do?
A. They lay 2, 000 eggs each day and build a nest.
B. They mate with the queen bee and then starve.
C. They clean the hive and keep it cool.
D. They attack the queen bee.
4. According to the story, bees _______.
A. are very dangerous insects
B. will attack anything or anyone to protect the hive, if necessary
C. are like any other insect that flies
D. eat each other as food
5. The drone is driven away when its job is finished, because _______.
A. it attacked the workers
B. it is no longer needed in the hive
C. the queen bee has died
D. it ate the queen bee
【答案与解析】本文介绍了蜜蜂社会的分工及生活情况。
1. C。细节题。根据句子Workers build the nest, called a hive可推知此题答案为C。
2. B。细节题。根据句子Inside the hive, workers make a honeycomb from wax可推知此题答案为B。
3. C。细节题。根据第3段第3句和第4两句工蜂总是打扫蜂房，用翅膀扇凉蜂房可推知此题答案为C。
4. B。细节题。根据文章第3段最后一句：工蜂为了保护蜂房的安全会对包括人类在内的任何东西进行攻击。由此可推知此题答案为B。
5. B。推断题。根据文章第4段所说雄蜂的工作就是跟蜂后交配，任务完成后，它已无存在的必要，于是，就被工蜂赶走饿死。由此可推知此题答案为B。
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American doctors say that mothers who smoke cigarettes before their babies are born may slow the growth of their babies’ lungs. They say reduced lung growth could cause the babies to suffer breathing problems and lung disease later in life. Doctors in Boston, Massachusetts studied 1 100 children. The mothers of some of the children smoked, the other mothers did not. Doctors found that the lungs of the children whose mothers smoked were 8% less developed than the lungs of the children whose mothers did not smoke, and that the children whose mothers smoked developed 20% more cold and breathing diseases than other children later in life.
Another recent study found that children had a greater chance of developing lung cancer if their mothers smoked. The study also showed that the danger of lung cancer increased only for sons and not for daughters, and that the father’s smoking did not affect a child’s chance of developing lung cancer
1. Mother who smokes before her child is born may _______.
A. slow the growth of her baby’s lung
B. cause her baby to suffer breathing problems and lung disease later in life
C. make her child develop lung cancer
D. All of above are right
2. Doctors in Boston studied 1 100 children to _______.
A. examine whether these children were healthy
B. find out whether their mothers had smoked
C. find why these children suffered breathing problems and lung disease
D. look into the effect that mother’s smoking had on their children
3. Suppose John’s father was a heavy smoker, so was Mary’s mother. According this passage, _______.
A. John is more likely to develop lung cancer
B. Mary is more likely to develop lung cancer
C. John and Mary have the same chance to develop cancer
D. neither John nor Mary has the chance to develop cancer
4. This passage is to _______.
A. warn us of the danger of smoking before children
B. warn people with breathing problems not to smoke
C. warn us that mothers who smoke may affect their children’s health
D. warn us that fathers who smoke may affect their children as mothers
(1—4 DDAC)
【答案与解析】本文介绍了母亲吸烟对孩子身体健康的影响。
1. D。推断题。根据文章第 1 段第一、二句及第 2 段第 1 句可推知此题答案为 D。
2. D。推断题。根据文章第 1 段中介绍 Doctors in Boston 的实验结果，可推知此题答案为 D。
3. B。推断题。文章第 2 段说：最近另一项研究发现，如果母亲吸烟，那么孩子得肺癌打骂能性会增大。研究还表明：儿子得肺癌的危险性增加，而女儿没有；父亲吸烟对小孩得肺癌的可能性无影响，从而可推知此题答案为 B。
4. C。主旨题。根据文章第 1 句、最后一句及全文内容可推知此题答案为 C。
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