高中英语阅读练习(附答案)

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The key to getting any good- priced plane ticket is to reserve the flight early. Discount airlines

tend to increase their fare as the plane fills up and early reservations are usually rewarded with the

lowest

fares.

Most

major

domestic

airlines

offer

discount

tickets

for

off- peak

travel.

China

Southen

Airlines

now

provides

favorable

group

purchase

ticket

deals

to

attract

tourists

to

cities

like Hong Kong and Guilin. Air China and Beijing Capital Airlines offer tickets with as much as

75 to 80 per cent discounts. Another way is to search for a cheap ticket on the websites of low-cost

airlines, which offer you very low fares though less comfort. Now, Air Asia, Tiger Airways and

Jetstar Asia are all offering very low -fare tickets to Chinese travelers.

The bud

get airline has a long history in the West. It’s also called

a no-frills carrier for doing

away with traditional free services, such as food and drinks. They charge you extra for catering on

board, or securing a seat. Many budget airlines put a fee on chec

ked in luggage, so it’s wiser to

take hand luggage.

The following are three popular airlines.

Air

Asia:

The

Malaysian-based

airline

flies

from

seven

cities

in

China

including

Tianjin,

Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guilin and Shenzhen in the Chinese mainland, and

provides

trips

to

cities

such

as Paris

and

London.

It

can

transfer

you

to

most

South

East

Asian

countries. Many tickets are priced under 1,500 yuan.

Jetstar Asia Airways: It’s a low

-cost airline headquartered in Singapore. Travelers can leave

from airports in numerous cities including Beijing.

Southwest Airlines: If you go traveling in the US you can take this low-cost airline based in

Texas.

How

to

find

a

cheap

5-star

service

hotel.

Like

airline

tickets,

the

price

for

a

budget

hotel

depends on when you book it - the earlier, the cheaper. It

’

s a great idea to look for YHA (Youth

Hostels Association) backpackers, or Bed & Breakfast deals online.

56

．

What can we do to buy cheap tickets EXCEPT _

.

A

．

book the flight early

B

．

choose off-peak travel

C

．

search the websites of low-cost airlines

D

．

wait until the plane fills up

57

．

What does the underlined part mean?

A

．

a carrier with a long history

B

．

a carrier without traditional free service

C

．

a carrier with extra charge

D

．

a carrier without any service

58

．

The three popular airline routes can' t take you to _

according to the passage

．

A

．

Asia

B

．

America

C

．

Africa

D

．

Europe

59

．

What can you infer from the last parag7aph ?

A

．

YHA is an association which can help you save money

．

B

．

The price for a hotel has nothing to do with the time you book it

．

C

．

A five-star service hotel must be always expensive

．

D

．

You have to book airline tickets and budget hotel at the same time

．

B

Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and I wished her every success

．

But part

of me didn't

．

I actually wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good

for our learning process

Success is proving that

you can do something that

you already know

you

can

do,

or

doing

something

correctly

the

first

time

-which

can

often

be

a

problematic

victory

．

First- time success is often a fluke

（侥幸）

．

First- time failure, by contrast, is expected it

is the natural order of things

．

Failure is how we learn

．

In Africa they describe a good cook as

．

many pots

．

It

you’ve spent

enough time in the kitchen to break a lot of pots, you probably know a lot about cooking

．

I once

had dinner with a group of cooks, and they spent time comparing knife wounds and burn scars.

They knew how much credibility their failures gave them

．

I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper column

．

Each week I aw aware of that one

column I write will be my worst

．

I don't set out to write it

．

I try my best every day

．

I have teamed

to

cherish

that

column

．

A

good

column

usually

means

that

I

am

discussing

my

familiar

topic,

writing m a style I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in a fancy way

．

My younger daughter is a trapeze artist

．

She spent three years pulling together a show, and

she

did

it

successfully

for

years

．

There

was

no

reason

for

her

to

change

it--

but

she

did

anyway

．

She said she was no longer learning anything new and she ;was bored

．

And if she was

bored, there was no point in subjecting her body to all that stress

．

She risked failure and public

embarrassment in order to feed her soul

．

My granddaughter is a perfectionist

．

She will fee! her failures, and I will want to comfort

her

．

But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next time

．

I

hope

I

can

tell

her,

though,

that

it's

not

the

end

of

the

world

．

Indeed,

with

luck,

it

is

just

the

beginning

．

60

．

Why did the author want his granddaughter to fail?

A

．

Success is boring though beneficial

．

B

．

She would learn more from failure

．

C

．

It< /p>

’

s impossible to do everything successfully

．

D

．

He wanted her to be strong enough to face hardships

．

61

．

What’s the author's attitude

toward his daughter changing her show?

A

．

Negative

B

．

Worried

．

C

．

Positive

．

．

D

．

Excited

．

62

．

The author develops the article mainly by____

．

A

．

giving examples

B, following the time order

C

．

comparing different opinions

D

．

presenting

a

cause

and

analyzing

its

effects

63

．

The writer talked about his own experience to show that

．

A

．

we cannot depend on luck to live a good life

B

．

we should try every possible way to avoid failure

C

．

past failures made him dare not take risks in writing

D

．

the thought of failure will make you work even harder ,

C

An ambitious billionaire has revealed his plans to colonize Mars - and charge 80,000 brave

souls $$500,000 to be flown there

．

Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company Space X, has

announced his vision for life on the Red Planet

．

He says the settlement plan would start small,

with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who he would take there on a reusable rocket

powered

by

liquid

oxygen

and

methane

．

Musk,

already

the

first

private

space

entrepreneur

to

launch

a

successful

mission

to

the

International

Space

Station,

says

what

would

begin

by

first

sending fewer than 10 people could blossom

．

“At Mars, you can start

a

self- sustaining

civilization

and

make

it

into

something

really

big,

he

told

the

Royal

Aeronautical Society in London last week

．

Laying

out

precise

details

and

figures

to

his

but

plans,

the

space

pioneer

says

the

first

ferry

of

explorers

would

be

no

more

than

10

people

at

a

price

tag

of

$$500,000

（￡

312,110

）

Per

ticket

．

“The ticket price needs to be

low enough that most people in

advanced countries, in their mid-forties or something like that could put together enough money to

make the trip,

．

Rather than lounging around on an interplanetary vacation, the passengers would be sent to

work,

carrying

with

them

equipment

to

build

sustainable

housing

on

the

dusty

and

currently

barren soil for future generations

．

Immediate ground work would focus on building transparent

domes pressurized with CO2 while possibly covered in a layer of water to serve as protection from

the sun

．

With the CO2, Mars' soil would be capable of growing crops for food, he said

．

Additional

equipment carried over could also produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen using the atmosphere's

natural elements of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and its surface of ice water

．

Musk

believes

one

person

out

of

every

100,000

people

would

be

interested

in

making

the

journey with 8 billion expected on Earth by time his plans become reality

．

64

．

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the first two paragraphs?

A

．

Musk has sent fewer than ten people to Mars

．

B

．

These people would go to Mars with plenty of liquid oxygen to breathe

．

C

．

A reusable rocket is used to take the people to Mars

．

D

．

Musk is the only private entrepreneur to launch a successful mission

．

65

．

What does the underlined word

A

．

develop

B

．

show

C

．

produce

D

．

burst

66

．

The passengers would do the following things on Mars EXCEPT

.

A

．

build sustainable housing

B

．

build transparent domes

C

．

bang out on holiday

D

．

use equipment to do something

67

．

Musk thinks

．

A

．

no one likes to make the journey because of the large sum of money

B

．

8 billion new lives will be on the earth after his plans come true

C

．

the price now is too high for most people to afford

D

．

his plans are so difficult that it is impossible to realize

D

Each

year,

Americans

throw

away

millions

of

tones

of

electronic

devices

．

That

means

business is good for a small electronics recycler in Chantilly, Virginia

．

Company President Jeremy Faber established PC Recycler

．

There workers were busy taking

apart

televisions,

cell

phones

and

computers-anything

electroni c

．

“Electronics

recycling

is

the

fastest growing waste stream in the United States right now

．

” Jeremy says

．

Recycling

electronic

waste

is

not

a

single

job

．

Newer

devices

can

be

rebuilt

and

resold

．

Breaking down electronics into small parts to melt and purify is another part

．

Operations

Manager Andrew Portare says,

“

Boards have the highest value in them so you can actually see on

the back you're looking at different types

of metals

．

Some of the older ones are mainly all gold

．

Gold

new

sells

for

more

than

one

thousand

three

hundred

dollars

an

ounce

．

Twenty-five

percent of PC Recycler's sales come from selling parts to refiners

．

Refining companies pay more than ten dollars a kilogram for computer boards, PC Recycler