【2016昆明市高考英语阅读练习(5)及答案】

阅读理解。

When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her,

The show business thing worked out, of course. In her career, Mary won many awards. Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her morn,

Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes (糖尿病). All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman.

---again---and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her. Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet.

Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity.

me?" about something or other,

( ) 1. Why did Mary feel regretful?

A. She didn"t achieve her ambition.

B. She didn"t take care of her mother.

C. She didn"t complete her high school.

D. She didn"t follow her mother"s advice.

( ) 2. We can know that before 1995 Mary A. had two books published B. received many career awards

C. knew how to use a computer D. supported the JDRF by writing

( ) 3. Mary"s second book Growing Up Again is mainly about her A. living with diabetes B. successful show business

C. service for an organization D. remempance of her mother

( ) 4. When Mary received the life-changing news, she .

A. lost control of herself C. Med to get a treatment B. began a balanced diet D. behaved in an adult way

( ) 5. What can we know from the last paragraph?

A. Mary feels pity for herself.

B. Mary has recovered from her disease.

C. Mary wants to help others as much as possible.

D. Mary determines to go back to the dance floor.

【语篇解读】本文为人物介绍说明文。主要介绍了玛丽·摩尔的职业生涯及抗病之争。

1. 答案D。考点：细节理解题。

解析：根据第二段“Only recently，when she began to write Growing Up Again，did she regret ignoring her mom，‘I don’t know how to use a computer,’ she admits.”可判断选D项。

2. 答案B。考点：细节理解题。

解析：根据第二段“The show business thing worked out，of course. In her career，Mary won many awards.”可判断选B项。

3. 答案A。考点：细节理解题。

解析：根据第三段“her second book is less about life as an award winning actress and

more about living with diabetes (糖尿病).”可判断选A项。

4. 答案A。考点：细节理解题。

解析：根据第四段“In a childlike act，she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts (甜甜圈).Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up again—and take control of her diabetes，not let it control her.”可判断选A项。

5. 答案C。考点：推理判断题。

解析：根据最后一段中的Mary Moore 所说的话“I’ve come to realize the importance of that as I’ve grown up this second time. I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be.”可推断她想尽可能地去帮助他人，故选C项。

阅读理解。

Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even

realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the impressive technology of transport. The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other"s minds. This ability comes so naturally that we tend to forget what a miracle (奇迹) it is.

Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing, Birds can fly thousands miles by \observing positions of the stars in the sky in relation to the time of day and year. In Nature"s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it"s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we peathe out.

Not that we don"t have other powers of communication. Our facial expressions convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or disappointment. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad. This is so-called

Similarly, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.

Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how did human beings acquire this amazing skills ? Biologist can readily indicate that particular area of our pain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn"t tell us how that part of our bodies originated in our biological history.

本文是介绍关于人类使用语言的能力的说明文, 主要阐述人区分动物的特殊能力及其相似性。

( ) 1. According to the passage, the wonder we take for granted is .

A. our ability to use language

B. the miracle of technology

C. the amazing power of nature

D. our ability to make noises with mouth

答案：A

考点：细节理解题。

题目: 根据文章, 我们认为理所当然的奇迹是:

A: 我们使用语言的能力

B: 技术的奇迹

C: 自然的惊人力量

D: 我们用嘴制造噪音的能力。

解析：根据第一段倒数第二句话The universal wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each

other"s minds.可知: 我们把使用语言的能力这个奇迹当做理所当然。B, C选项与文章不符, 在第一段第二句话中可得知。D选项易误导学生, 在文章中虽然有原话, 但一句话没有说完, 关键是通过嘴巴发出的声音去给其他人传递信息。故D选项也是错误的。

( ) 2. What feature of

A. Lifting heads when sad.

B. Keeping long faces when angry.

C. Bristling hair when ready to attack.

D. Bowing heads when willing to obey.

答案：D

考点：细节理解题。

题目: 文章中提到的

来源：21世纪教育网 B: 愤怒时拉长脸

C: 准备攻击时直立毛皮

D: 乐意服从时低头

解析： 根据第三段最后一句话

( ) 3. What can be inferred from Paragraph 3?

A. Body language is unique to humans.

B. Animals express emotions just as humans do.

C. Humans have other powers of communication.

D. Humans are no different from animals to some degree.

答案：D

考点：推理判断题。

题目: 从第三段可以推段出:

A: 肢体语言是人类独一无二的

B: 动物和人类一样表达情感

C: 人类有其他交流的能力

D: 人类在某种程度上和动物是相同的

解析： 根据第三段后三句话可知: 人类在某种程度上和动物没有不同。从段落中可得知A, B, C 均与文章不符。

( ) 4. This passage is mainly about .

A. the development of body language.

B. the special role humans play in nature

C. the power to convey information to others

D. the difference between humans and animals in language use

答案：C

考点：主旨大意题。

题目: 这篇文章主要讲述什么？

A: 肢体语言的发展

B: 人类在自然中扮演的特殊角色

C: 给他人传递信息的力量

D: 人类和动物在语言使用中的差异

解析： 整篇文章谈论的都是给他人传递信息的力量, 使用语言的能力。A, B选项文章未提及. D选项较片面, 文章第三段中提到了相似点和差异二种。

完形填空

In my early childhood, my parents and teachers taught me to be persistent(执着的)in every task I devoted myself to. I was 1 that persistence is the only way towards success. But a smallmade me change my mind.

One day my two-year-old son, 3 at a dozen of“stood”color marker-pens, cheered excitedly, “Mummy, look! I did it. ”Afterwards, he collected some ballpoint pens, to do the same. Hard though he tried, the ballpoint pens just lay. He turned to me for help. Noticing they had either sharp or round ends, I saidcontinued trying. . . I was dumbfounded by his persistence.

My son’s behaviour reminded me of George who was always 7 in his work and rarely talked to anyone. To him, about him and

One day I met George. “Gonna work late again tonight? ”

“Probably I can’t leave till midnight, ”he said.

“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety? ”

“

“Don’t you have time to be with your family at all? ”

He shook his head slowly and 12 a sigh. “It’s not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. It’s much too

A year later I resigned. The 14 thing I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then I’ve never seen him. But occasionally his agedwould come to my mind.

Until that day, 16 knowing why the ballpoint pens couldn’t stand up, the two-year-old son hadimpossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpoint pens and kept only those marker-pens for his“game”. , he already learned to let go of his previousattempts.

In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to 20 them and then decisively let them go immediately.

【文章大意】作者自小就被父母和老师教育: 做任何事都要执着, 但一次两岁的儿子试图将圆珠笔竖起来, 结果却没能成功, 这让她想起一个名叫George的朋友, 他是个工作狂, 心中只有工作, 没有家人, 结果妻子与他离婚。这让作者意识到生活中有许多自己不能做的事, 该放手时就放手, 这样生活才能有乐趣。作者欣慰地看到自己的儿子在玩笔的游戏中已经学会了这一点。

1. A. confident

C. conscious B. consistent D. convinced

【解析】选D。前后照应题。因为小时候, 父母和老师教育“我”做每件事时都要执着。所以“我”一直相信(I was convinced)执着是成功的唯一途径。

2. A. event

affair

【解析】选B。词义辨析题。event多指重要、有意义的大事件; incident指平常小事; accident指意外事故; affair泛指事件, 事务。此处语境指儿子玩记号笔, 应为平常小事。

3. A. pointing

C. screaming B. shouting D. laughing B. incident C. accident D.

【解析】选A。前后照应题。一天我两岁的儿子指着(point at)一堆竖着的彩色记号笔, 兴奋地欢呼着。

4. A. insisting

C. intending B. requiring D. urging

【解析】选C。前后照应题。后来, 儿子又拿了一些圆珠笔, 打算做同样的事, 即把圆珠笔也竖起来。intend to do sth. 打算做某事。

5. A. flat

B. silent C. still D. quiet

【解析】选A。背景知识题。根据Hard though he tried(尽管他费了很大的劲试着将圆珠笔竖起来)可知结果没有成功, 圆珠笔仍然没有竖起来。因为这些圆珠笔要么是尖头, 要么是圆头。lie flat意思是“平躺着”。

6. A. deliberately

C. unintentionally B. casually D. enthusiastically

【解析】选B。前后照应题。看到这些圆珠笔要么是尖头要么是圆头, 我不加考虑地(casually)说: “妈妈帮不了你。”但儿子不听, 继续坚持做下去。

7. A. interested

C. devoted B. busy D. buried

【解析】选D。前后照应题。be buried in his work专心致志地忙于他的工作。这由后文的“他很少和任何人讲话”可知。

8. A. therefore

C. otherwise B. however D. though

【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。因为他总是忙于自己的工作, 因此(therefore)对他来说没有周末或假日这样的概念。

9. A. high B. highly C. well D. much

【解析】选B。固定搭配题。因为他一心扑在工作上, 所以老板对他高度赞扬。

10. A. promised

C. inspired B. demanded D. appealed

【解析】选C。逻辑推理题。老板鼓舞我们把他当成模范榜样看待。

11. A. At random

C. At most B. At times D. At least

【解析】选D。前后照应题。因为作者的朋友George是个工作狂, 所以每周至少工作80或90小时。

12. A. let off B. let out C. sent off D. sent out

【解析】选B。前后照应题。根据shook his head slowly(慢慢摇头)可知此处他发出(let out)一声叹息。

13. A. encouraging

C. painful B. comfortable D. ashamed

【解析】选C。前后照应题。根据George讲的话可知“他心中只有工作, 没有家人”, 所以“他

认为即使想(在工作方面)放手也是很痛苦的(painful)”。

14. A. latter B. later C. last D. lately

【解析】选C。前后照应题。根据后面一句“Since then I’ve never seen him. ”可知此空填last, 说明“这是我听到有关他的最后一件事”。

15. A. picture B. figure C. reflection D. image

【解析】选D。前后照应题。根据come to my mind可知此处选image。虽然后来我再也没见到过他, 但他年迈的形象还会出现在我的脑海中。

16. A. for B. with C. without D. besides

【解析】选C。前后照应题。直到那一天, 我两岁的儿子虽然并不知道为何圆珠笔竖不起来, 但是在多次失败后学会了接受这种不可能。

17. A. received B. accepted C. refused D. rejected

【解析】选B。词语辨析题。accept指“主观接受”, 而receive指“客观上收到”。C、D两项指“拒绝”。

18. A. Generally

C. Additionally B. Eventually D. Obviously

【解析】选D。前后照应题。儿子将不能竖起来的圆珠笔放在一边, 只留下可以站起来的记号笔用来玩游戏。很明显(obviously), 他已经学会了对以前无用的(useless)尝试选择放弃。

19. A. useless

C. hopeful B. endless D. meaningful

【解析】选A。逻辑推理题。上文中的many failures已提示, 可推知他做了一些无用的尝试。useless无用的。

20. A. clarify

C. identify B. distinguish D. acknowledge

【解析】选C。前后照应题。在我们的日常生活中, 很多令人头疼的事是可以避免的, 只要我们知道如何鉴别(identify)它们并果断地做出放弃的决定。