高考英语阅读理解真题汇编

1998-2010年高考英语阅读理解真题汇编及详解（历史类）

第1题(2006年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语陕西卷)

For centuries,the only form of written correspondence (通信)was the letters, letters were, and are, sent by some form of postal service, the history of which goes back a long

way .Indeed, the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC,as did the Chinese a thousand years later.

Of course, modern postal service now are much more developed and faster, depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery. Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents (紧急文件)and letters.

The invention of the fax (传真) machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more. When you send a fax，you are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service. It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for businesses to be able to fax documents to each other.

The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent ,but, as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email ,Email is used to describe messages sent form one computer user to another.

There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send some one an email , then he will receive it extremely quickly .Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned.

However, if you write something by email, which you might later regret ,and send it immediately, there is no chance for second thoughts. At least, if you are posting a letter you have to address and seal(封)the envelope and take it to the post box.There is plenty of time to change your mind .The message is think before you email!

41.We can learn from the text that__________.

A.email is less popular than the fax service

B.the postal service has over the years become faster

C. the postal service has over the years become slower

D. the fax service has a history as long as the postal service does

42.It can be inferred from the text that_________.

A. the fax service had been fully developed by the 1980s

B. letters have been used in China for about 1,000 years

C. the fax machine was invented after the 1980s

D. letters have been used in Egypt for about 2,000 years

43.In the last paragraph, the writer mentions "think before you email" to show that________.

A. you may regret if you don’t your envelope

B. you may regret before you send something by email

C. you’d better not send your email in a hurry

D. you need plenty of time to send an email

44.The text mainly deal with_________.

A. the progress in correspondence

B. the advantage of fax machines

C .the advantage of emails D. the invention of fax machines

答案41．B 42．A 43．C 44．A

41．解析：这是一道细节推断题。根据第二段第一句“modern postal services now are much developed and faster”可知选B。

42．解析：这是一道推断题。根据“It was not until the early 1980s that such a service has developed enough …”可以推断20世纪80年代初fax已经比较发达可以满足商用了，所以选A.

43．解析：这是一道细节题。由于email方便高速，可供考虑的时间很短，如果发现问题就来不及了，所以作者建议发送前多想想，选C.

44．解析：这是一道主旨题。本文讲述了通讯的发展和由此带来的变化，着重于不同通讯方式的比较和发展过程，而不是单单针对某种方式来讲述。A 选项最贴近这一点。第2题(2004年普通高等学校夏季招生考试英语全国卷Ⅰ)

Say you are a 17th century construction worker who’s worked long and hard to build a splendid tower for the dead wife of your emperor.

Now say that the emperor orders your fingertips cut off so you can never build another one. Yes, that is the Taj Mahal, one of the most famous buildings in the world. And the tale behind the construction is just as impressive（印象深刻的）as the building itself.

First, there’s the emperor of northern India, Shah Jehan, al so called the King of the World. In 1612, Shah Jehan married Mumtaz Mahal. Madly in love, they had 14 children over the next 20 years. But then sadness came. As Mumtaz was about to give birth to child number 14, she said she had heard her unborn baby cry out. It was a sign of death. And as Mumtaz lay dying, she asked Jehan to build a lasting memorial（纪念物）to celebrate their love.

When the heartbroken Jehan appeared eight days after his wife’s death, his people were shocked to see that his coal-black hair had turned snow-white.

Putting away his sadness, Jehan ordered his wife’s dying wish carried out. More than 20 000 workers labored nearly 22 years to complete the construction. In 1653, Jehan placed Mumtaz’s remains in the center under the bui lding.

And then, son number five, Aurangzeb, murdered his brothers and took over the power from his aging father, Jehan lived the rest of his days-eight years, to be exact-imprisoned not far from the Taj Mahal. Jehan was only allowed to climb onto the top of his prison to see the timeless treasure from a distance. But never again would he be allowed to visit it－until he was buried next to his wife.

Today 25, 000 people visit the Taj Mahal each day. Though the reason for building the tower was a strange, sad story, those who see its breath-taking beauty are reminded of the happiness that inspired（激发……的灵感）its construction.

59. The first two paragraphs were written to show that______.

A. the Taj Mahal is an unusual historic building

B. ancient Indian emperors were cruel

C. construction workers led a hard life in ancient India

D. India has some of the most famous buildings in the world

60. The Taj Mahal was first built as______.

A. a prison

B. a gift to Mumtaz

C. a memorial building

D. a tourist attraction

61. We learn from the text that Mumtaz probably died in______.

A. 1626

B. 1632

C. 1634

D. 1653

62. The underlined word “happiness” in the last sentence refers to______.

A. the married happiness of the emperor and his wife

B. the great pleasure Jehan once found in exercising his power