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海淀区2015高考英语阅读理解训练（14）（答案）

【2015高考复习】阅读理解

A survey sponsored by an international temporary service agency found that U．S.executives believe that people with a sense of humour do better at their jobs，compared with those who have little or no sense of humour.In fact，a whopping 96 percent of those surveyed said people with a sense of humour do better.

The survey went on to point out that the results suggest that a sense of humour may help light-hearted employees keep their jobs during tough times.And，what's more，it may propel them up the corporate ladder past their humourless colleagues. Why？It seems that those with a sense of humour are better communicators and better team players.

Studies have shown that happy workers are more productive.In fact，a researcher at California State University found that humour could help the employees to release tension.

Consequently，they can concentrate on their work more efficiently.What's more，employees who enjoy interacting with their co-workers aren't as likely to be distracted，or absent from work.

Research conducted by psychologist Dr Ashton Trice at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia showed that humour helps us think.When people feel stuck on important projects，they tend to feel angry or depressed.This negative mood can interfere with subsequent performance.According to Dr Trice's research，taking time out to laugh can help us to get rid of negative feelings and allow us to return to a task or move on to another project unaffected by past defeat.

If humour is really this important，then why don't we use it more often on the job?

Most likely，the main reason is that many people are unaware of the positive effects of humour in the workplace.They tend to think humour and laughter are unproductive or unprofessional，perhaps both.However，it is important to realize that some humour is inappropriate for the workplace，and that it is often used at wrong times.

【语篇解读】本文是一篇时文报道。管理者们认为，和那些没有幽默感的人相比，具有幽默感的人能把工作做得更好。比如，幽默的人富有合作意识，具有较高的工作效率等。20．Most people think a sense of humour can ________.

A．help you to do your work better

B．make you have a rich life

C．make you pleased with your work

D．help you to make more friends

答案 A [细节理解题。根据第一段可知，和没有或很少有幽默感的人相比，有幽默感的人能把工作做得更好。B、C和D在意义上和幽默感没有联系，也和本文意思不符。] 21．Which one of the following can describe a person with a sense of homour?

A．Serious. B．Funny.

C．Changeable. D．Friendly.

答案 D [推理判断题。由全文内容可以看出：有幽默感的人更容易与人交流，与人合作；有幽默感的人更平易近人，更“友好”；而不是“易变、严肃、有趣”等。] 22．Many people don't use humour more often in the workplace because ________.

A．they like keeping silent when working

B．they don't know the positive effects of humour

C．they think they should obey the rules

D．they don't like joking or laughing

答案 B [细节理解题。根据第五段可知，在工作场所人们大都表现得不幽默，其原因是不知道幽默的积极效果。其他选项与文章的意思不符。]

23．Which is probably the best title for the passage?

A．People with a sense of humour.

B．Humour is important in the workplace.

C．Humour and humourless.

D．Everyone likes humour.

答案 B [主旨大意题。全文主要谈的是工作中的幽默的积极作用。比如，幽默可以使人减轻压力，可以使人有较高的工作效率等。本文不是纯粹地讲幽默，也不是纯粹地说有幽默感的人。]

阅读理解

Since the Internet has come into homes, the daily life has never been the same again. But the thing that worries most of us is that we can get viruses from the Internet. But can we catch viruses on our cell phones? A new study in the journey Science says yes, but the spread of such mobile software that can bring harm to our cell phones won’t reach dangerous levels until more cell phones are on the same

operating system.

Computers are easily attacked by viruses because they share data, especially over the Internet. Of course, nowadays, more people are using their cell phones more and more frequently. They use them for emailing, text messaging and downloading troublesome ring tones, etc. so it is obvious that cell phone virouses are a threat , as well.

Scientists used nameless call data from more than six million cell phone users to help model a possible outbreak. And they concluded that virouses that spread from phone to phone by Bluetooth are not much concerned, because users have to be in close physical relation for their phones to “see” one another. However, viruses that spread through multimedia messaging services can move much faster, because they can come in disguise, such as a cool tune sent by a friend. The good news is that to be effective, these viruses need their victims to all use the same operating system, which not enough of us do. Because there is no Microsoft operating system for mobile phones, yet. Thank goodness.

72. What’s the passage mainly about?

A. The operating system of cell phones

B. The threat of cell phone viruses

C. The wide use of cell phones

D. Computer viruses

73. When_______, cell phone viruses can be dangerous.

A. all the cell phones work on the same operating system

B. Microsoft operating system for cell phones is created

C. users can see each other on the phone

D. Bluetooth is widely used

74. What can we infer about Bluetooth according to the scientists?

A. it can increase the chances of cell phone virouses greatly

B. it can help us to stop the spreading of cell phone viruses

C. it won’t possibly cause the outbreak of cell phone viruses

D. it can make users have close physical relation with one another.

75. We can learn from the passage that_______.

A. it is impossible to catch viruses on our cell phones

B. cell phones are not well connected with the Internet

C. it is dangerous for people to download ring tones to cell phones

D. more than one operating system is available for cell phone users now

72.B 主旨大意题。概括全文可知，文章主要探讨手机病毒会不会爆发的问题，所以其关键词

为viruses和cell phones。

73.A 细节理解题。由文章第一段最后以及文章末尾可得出答案：统一的操作系统是手机病毒

爆发的条件。

74.C 推理判断题。由文章最后一段第二句可知，病毒通过蓝牙在手机间传播，这点是不太可

能的，故推断蓝牙技术不会导致病毒爆发。

75.D 推理判断题。根据文章第一段最后和文章末尾的信息科推断出：手机没有像电脑一样，

都使用一个操作系统，这是万幸的。因此推测现在手机操作系统不止一个。

阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）

第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

A

On the evening of June 21, 1992, a tall man with brown hair and blue eyes entered the beautiful hall of the Bell Tower Hotel in Xi’an with his bicycle. The hotel w orkers received him and telephoned the manager, for they had never seen a bicycle in the hotel ball before though they lived in “the kingdom of bicycles.”

Robert Friedlander, an American, arrived in Xi’an on his bicycle trip across Asia which started last December in New Delhi, India.

When he was 11, he read the book Marco Polo and made up his mind to visit the Silk Road. Now, after 44 years , he was on the Silk Road in Xi’an and his early dreams were coming true.

Robert Friedlander’s next dest inations (目的地) were Lanzhou, Dunhuang, Urumqi, etc. He will complete his trip in Pakistan.

46. The best headline(标题) for this newspaper article would be ______ .

A. The Kingdom of Bicycles

B. A Beautiful Hotel in Xi’an

C. Marco Polo and the Silk Road

D. An American Achieving His Aims

47. Friedlander is visiting the three countries in the following order, _______ .

A. China, India, and Pakistan

B. India, China, and Pakistan

C. Pakistan, China, and India

D. China, Pakistan, and India

48. What made Friedlander want to come to China?

A. The stories about Marco Polo .

B. The famous sights in Xi’an .

C. His interest in Chinese silk.

D. His childhood dreams about bicycles .

49. Friedlander can be said to be _______ .

A. clever

B. friendly

C. hardworking

D. strong—minded

【参考答案】46-49: DBAD

高考英语冲刺阅读理解专项----A

I’ve written 14 movies．My characters smoke in many of them, and they look cool and glamorous（有魅力的） doing it．Smoking was an integral（必需的） part of many of my screenplays because I was a heavy smoker．It was part of a bad-boy image I’d cultivated for a long time—smoking, drinking, partying, rock ’n’ roll．Smoking, I once believed, was every person’s right．The second-hand smoke was non-existent problem invented by professional do-gooders．I put all these views into my plays．

Remembering all this, I find it hard to forgive myself．I have been an accomplice (帮凶) to the murders of untold numbers of human beings．I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God．Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did．

Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking．I am alive but disabled．Much of my larynx (喉) is gone．I have some difficulty speaking; others have some difficulty understanding me．

I haven’t smoked or drunk for 18 months now, though I still take it day by day and pray for help．I believe in prayer and exercise．I have walked five miles a day for a year, without missing even one day．Quitting smoking and drinking has taught me the hardest lesson I’ve ever learned about my own weakness; it has also given me the greatest affection and empathy(同感) for those still addicted．

I don’t think smoking is every person’s right anymo re．I think smoking should be as illegal as heroin（海洛因）．I’m no longer such a bad boy．I go to church on Sunday．I’m desperate to see my four boys grow up．I want to do everything I can to undo the damage I have done with my own big-screen words and images．Screen writers know, too, that some movie stars are more likely to play a part if they can smoke —because they are so addicted to smoking that they have difficulty stopping even during the shooting of a scene．

My hands are bloody; so are Hollywood’s．My cancer has caused me to attempt to cleanse（彻底清洁） me．I don’t wish my fate upon anyone in Hollywood, but I beg that Hollywood should stop putting it upon millions of others．

1. The main idea of this passage probably is _________．

A. the writer is ashamed of the bad effects his screenplays have had on human beings

B. the writer’s smoking experience nearly killed himself

C. the bad effects that Hollywood screenplay have brought to children

D. the determination of the writer to overcome his illness

答案解析：答案为A。本题为文章大意题。第一段作者引入话题，在他创作的电影中，很多人物吸烟，吸烟是他的作品中必需的，这些吸烟的场景影响了人们，

后面的段落介绍作者因为吸烟而患上了喉癌，深受其苦，也表达了他深深的忏悔之意，最后一段表达作者的希望，希望好莱坞电影不再有吸烟的场景，让厄运降临到别人身上。故本文的大意为作者对他的荧幕剧对人们产生的坏影响感到惭愧。故答案为A。B、D是文中的细节，C选项在文中未提及，均不选。

2. How do you think the writer has realized his mistake?

A. So many people have found the habit of smoking due to his plays．

B. His plays have brought great harm to teenagers．

C. He himself suffered greatly from smoking．

D. His screenplays have been doing more and more harm to human beings．

答案解析：答案为C。本题为推理题。由第三段的首句提到的“…I find it hard to forgive myself”和该段最后一句提到的“…and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.”, 以及第四段首句“Eighteen months ago I was diagnosed with throat cancer, the result of a lifetime of smoking．”可知，作者难以原谅自己，将会努力阻止别人和他一样犯相同的罪，因为他诊断有吸烟导致的喉癌，故答案为C，作者自己深受吸烟之害。

A选项与题干无关；B选项未提及；D选项夸大了他的作品的危害，均不选。

3. According to the passage, what does the underlined sentence mean?

A. He has made up his mind to give up smoking forever．

B. He will try his best to prevent others from writing screen plays encouraging

smoking．

C. He will try his best to bring up his four children．

D. He has decided to write his screenplays without smoking scenes．

答案解析：答案为D。本题为语义理解题。划线部分所在的句意为“我会尽我一切所能来消除我在荧幕上创作的文字和形象给人们带来的伤害”。这种伤害来自第一段提到的作者的作品中吸烟是必需的场景，由此可以推断，划线部分意为作者决定在自己的作品中不再有吸烟场景。故答案为D。

4. It can be inferred from the passage that _______．

A. the writer will soon be recovered from his illness thanks to his exercise

B. the writer will soon die because of his deadly disease

C. smoking will be got rid of in all Hollywood films

D. smoking in Hollywood films is still doing great harm to human beings

答案解析：答案为D。本题为推理题。由第四段第二句话“I am alive but disabled．”可知，作者虽然活着但是残疾了，故A、B选项错误。由最后一段最后一句话“I don’t wish my fate upon anyone in Hollywood, but I beg that Hollywood should stop putting it

upon millions of others．”可知，作者不希望自己的命运降临到好莱坞的任何人身上，但是乞求好莱坞应该阻止吸烟导致的危害降临到成千上万人的身上，可以推断，好莱坞电影上出现的吸烟场景仍然在对人们造成伤害，故C选项错误，D选项正确。

高考英语冲刺阅读理解专项----B

People who enjoy a dream-filled sleep are better at recalling information and making links between facts when waking. But recharging with a shallow (小睡) offers no such mental improvement, the research suggests. The results of the study added to the growing body of evidence that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is very important to the brain’s ability to form strong memories.

An average night's rest includes four or five spells of REM sleep, but these bursts tend to be lengthier towards the end of the night. This means adults getting less than the recommended seven to eight hours a night -- and therefore inadequate REM sleep -- may be damaging their mind's ability to memorize: Although REM sleep is not classified as a type of deep sleep, it is only reached after the brain has passed through deep sleep stages.

In the recent study, participants were shown groups of three words --- such as “cookie”, “heart”, and “sixteen”----and asked to find another word that can be associated with all three words. They were tested once in the morning and then given the same task again in the afternoon. In between, some were allowed a nap with REM sleep, some a nap without REM sleep, while the others had a quiet rest period. The quiet rest and non-REM sleep groups didn't improve, but the REM sleep group improved on their morning performance by an average of almost 40 per cent.

Dr Sara Mednick, a sleep researcher at the University of California who led the study, believes the formation of connections between previously unassociated information in the brain occurs during REM sleep. People woken while their closed eyes made rapid movements recalled much more colorful and detailed dreams than people woken during other stages of sleep.

1. According to the passage, to have a good memory, a person had better _______ at

night.

A. sleep four to five hours at most

B. sleep as much as possible

C. sleep with four or five periods of REM

D. have a shallow sleep

答案解析：答案为C。本题为细节题。由第二段“An average night's rest includes four or five spells of REM sleep… This means adults getting less than the recommended seven to eight hours a night -- and therefore inadequate REM sleep -- may be damaging their mind's ability to memorize:”可知，REM 睡眠包括四个或者五个阶段，如果成年人睡眠少于七到八个小时，会伤害大脑的记忆力，故答案为C。

2. If you don’t sleep seven to eight hours at night very often, _______.

A. you will tend to have longer periods of REM

B. your strong memories might be ruined

C. you will have an adequate REM sleep

D. your mind can form strong memories

答案解析：答案为B。本题为细节题。结合上题的分析可知，如果睡眠少于七到八个小时，记忆力会受到伤害。故答案为B。

3. The third paragragh is mainly about _______ of the most recent study.

A. the process

B. the results

C. the participants

D. the content

答案解析：答案为A。通读第三段可知，本段是关于研究的过程。故答案为A。

4. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?

A. To explain the imortance of REM sleep to one’s memories

B. To persuade readers to sleep seven to eight hours at night.

C. To discuss the relationship between sleep and memories

D. To introduce the new study on sleep and memories

答案解析：答案为D。本题考查作者的写作目的。本文第一段引入了REM 睡眠对人的记忆力的影响，第二段对其进行了具体介绍，第三段介绍了研究的过程，最后一段对REM 睡眠作出了进一步的解释，故答案为D，介绍一项睡眠和记忆的新研究。

高考英语阅读理解训练50篇

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