最新高中英语阅读理解练习题及答案2

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高中英语阅读理解练习题及答案

A

★

When

Christopher

Columbus

landed

on

the

then

unnamed

Costa

Rica

in

1502,

he

saw

many

Indians wearing

gold

earrings. So he thought

the land must be rich in

gold.

He named the place

Costa Rica, which means “rich coast” in Spanish.

Though little gold was found, Costa Rica today is indeed rich with coffee and bananas. Coffee is

the most important product in Costa Rica and most of it is exported (

出口

) to other countries like

America and West Germany. Bananas are the country’s second most impor

tant export.

Costa Ricans also grow many other crops such as fruits, corn and beans for their own use. Costa

Ricans love colors and their houses are painted in bright colors.

Education is very important to the Costa Ricans. Almost every village has a school and education

is a must for children between seven and fourteen years of age. Boys and girls go to separate (

单独

的

) schools. Classes begin in March and end in November. The other three months of the year are

harvest time and the children have to help their parents to pick coffee beans.

56. What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?

A. How Columbus found Costa Rica.

B. How Costa Rica got its name.

C. What the Costa Ricans wore.

D. What language the Costa Ricans spoke.

57. The Costa Ricans may NOT paint their houses ______.

A. pink and red

B. grey and black

C. blue and green

D. yellow and orange

58. In Costa Rica, boys and girls between seven and fourteen ______.

A. must go to school

B. study in the same school

C. do not have to go to school at all

D. can choose to stop schooling at any time

59. From December to February, school children in Costa Rica ______.

A. have lessons every day

B. have their examinations

C. help their parents pick coffee beans

D. help their parents decorate their houses

60. This passage is mainly about ______.

A. Christopher Columbus

B. Costa Rica

C. some products from Costa Rica

D. the education of Costa Rica

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B

★

Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the

island had a disease called beri?

鄄

beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.

At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (

细菌

) caused beri?

鄄

beri. He raised some chickens.

He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were

quite surprised at that.

One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate

—

refined white rice (

精炼米

). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they

recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery

—

that some things in food

could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (

维生素

). The Javanese were not getting

enough

vitamins

because

they

had

actually

removed

the

part

that

contains

vitamins.

Later,

other

diseases w

ere also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food.

Today

many

people

know

the

importance

of

vitamins

and

they

make

sure

they

have

enough

vitamins from the food they eat. If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills.

61. The underl

ined word “cure” in Paragragh 1 probably means ______.

A. a medical treatment

B. a kind of vitamin

C. a kind of germ

D. a kind of rice

62. Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to ______.

A. spend his holiday

B. find ways to grow better crops

C. do some research about the island

D. help the Javanese with their illness

63. Why did Christian Eijkman raise some chickens?

A. To eat them.

B. To carry out his experiments.

C. To give the Javanese a surprise.

D. To make money by selling them.

64. If a person doesn’t get enough vitamins in his diet, he’d better ______.

A. eat more rice

B. eat more meat

C. eat some chicken

D. eat vitamin pills

65. We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. beri?

鄄

beri was caused by chickens

B. t

he Javanese didn’t like vitamins

C. Christian Eijkman’s experiment was successful

D. the Javanese’s disease was caused by a kind of germ

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C

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America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear

soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may exchange Christmas greetings

for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a while

—

then no more. If the same two people meet

again

by

chance,

even

years

later,

they

pick

up

the

friendship.

This

can

be

quite

difficult

for

us

Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flower more slowly but then may become

lifelong feelings, extending (

延伸

) sometimes deeply into both families.

Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home

life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality (

好客

) easily.

Another difficult point for us

Chinese to

understand Americans

is

that although they include us

warmly in their personal everyday l

ives, they don’t show their politeness to us if it requires a great

deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous

with our time. Sometimes, we, as hosts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to

meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however,

express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a

visitor outside their daily routine. They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to

our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their

homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.

For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go

to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!

66. The writer of this passage must be ______.

A. an American

B. a Chinese

C. a professor

D. a student

67. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.

B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.

C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.

D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.

68. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American

friend, we will probably be ______.

A. warmly welcomed at the airport

B. offered a ride to his home

C. treated hospitably at his home

D. treated to dinner in a restaurant

69. The underlined words

“generous with our time” in Paragraph 3 probably mean ______.

A. strict with time

B. serious with time

C. careful with time

D. willing to spend time

70. A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.

A. Friendships between Chinese

B. Friendships between Americans

C. Americans’ hospitality

D. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships

D

★★★

The other day I heard a few local musicians talking:

“I hate all the terrible pianos in this town. I hate that rubbish they play on the radio. They can’t

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even understand a bit of music.”

“I’m never playing in that club again. Too many drunks and nobody listens to us.”

But, one younger musician said, “There are a few clubs that book my band a few nights a month,

and I’m trying to find other places to play. I’m also looking to book a few summe

r festivals this

year.”

I’ve heard that you are the average of the five people whom you spend the most time with, or to

put it another way, you are who your friends are.

Attitudes are important. Whether they’re positive or negative, they’re rubbing off on you. If you’re

around people who complain about lack of work and about other musicians, or blame (

责怪

) others,

and you play the role of victim (

受害者

), chances are you will start to as well. So it’s time to take a

look at the people you call “friends”.

This

is

an

easy

exercise:

Make

a

list

of

the

people

who

you

hang

out

with,

and

simply

stop

spending

time

with

the

negative

people

on

your

list.

Set

a

new

standard

(

标准

)

for

yourself

and

don’t become friends with people who fall below that standard.

Keep successful people around you and

your own chances for success will be much better. Ask

them how they do it. Ask if they will help you get the work you’re looking for, or maybe give you

some advice to help you on your career path.

71. Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?

A. A friend in need is a friend indeed

B. How to make friendship last for ever

C. You are who your friends are

D. Friends are the most important in one’s success

72. The underlined sentence “they’re rubbing off on you”

in Paragraph 6 means ______.

A. they’ll push you ahead

B. they’ll influence you

C. they’ll cover your shortcomings

D. they’ll help you achieve your goal

73. The musicians’ words at the beginning are written mainly to show ______.

A. the musicians’ living

conditions are quite poor

B. people have poor taste in music

C. people have different attitudes towards the same thing

D. young people have greater chances of succeeding

74. By taking the exercise mentioned in Paragraph 7, you can ______.

A. improve a lot in making more friends

B. come to the right way of making friends

C. develop a better relationship with your friends

D. arrange the time with your friends properly

75. The passage is mainly written for ______.

A. musicians

B. managers

C. negative people

D. people wanting to succeed

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61-65 ADBDC

66-70 BDCDD 71-75 CBCBD

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