高考英语阅读理解练习(12)(含解析)

高考英语阅读理解练习（

12

）（含解析）

C5

[2013·新课标全国卷Ⅰ]

C

It happened to me recently.I was telling someone how much I had enjoyed reading

Barack

Obama's

Dreams

From

My

Father

and

how

it

had

changed

my

views

of

our

President.A

friend I

was talking to

agreed with me that

it

was

，

in his words

，“a brilliantly(精

彩地)written book”．

However

，

he then went on to talk about Mr Obama in a way which

suggested he had no idea of his background at all.I sensed that I was talking to a

book liar.

And

it

seems

that

my

friend

is

not

the

only

imately

two

thirds

of

people

have lied about reading a book which they haven' the World Book Day's “Report

on

Guilty

Secrets”，

Dreams

From

My

Father

is

at

number

report

lists

ten

books

，

and various authors

，

which people have

lied about reading

，

and as I'm not one to lie

too often (I'd hate to be caught out)

，

I'll admit here and now that I haven't read

the

entire

top

I

am

pleased

to

say

that

，

unlike

42

percent

of

people

，

I

have

read the book at number one

，

George Orwell's 1984.I think it's really brilliant.

The World Book Day report also has some other interesting information in

says that many people lie about having read Jane Austen

，

Charles Dickens

，

Fyodor

Dostoevsky(I

haven't

read

him

，

but

haven't

lied

about

it

either

)and

Herman

Melville.

Asked why they lied

，the most common reason was to“impress”someone they

were

speaking could be tricky if the conversation became more in

－

depth!

But when asked which authors they actually enjoy

，

people named J

< br>．

g

，

John

Gri

sham

，

Soph ie

Kinsella(ah

，

the

big

sellers

，

in

other

words)

．

Forty

－

two

percent

of people asked admitted they turned to the back of the book to read the end before

finishing

the

story(I'll

come

clean

：

I

do

this

and

am

astonished

that

58

percent

said

they had never done so)

．

64

．

How did the author find his friend a book liar?

A

．

By judging his manner of speaking.

B

．

By looking into his background.

C

．

By mentioning a famous name.

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D

．

By discussing the book itself.

65

．Which of the following is a “guilty secret” according to the World Book

Day report?

A

．

Charles Dickens is very low on the top

－

ten list.

B

．

42% of people pretended to have read 1984.

C

．

The author admitted having read 9 books.

D

．

Dreams From My Father is hardly read.

66

．

By lying about reading

，

a person hopes to ________

．

A

．

control the conversation

B

．

appear knowledgeable

C

．

learn about the book

D

．

make more friends

67

．

What is the author's attitude to 58% of readers?

A

．

Favorable.

B

．

Uncaring.

C

．

Doubtful.

D

．

Friendly.

【要点综述】

本文是一篇议论文。作 者通过与朋友聊天引出本文的话题

book liar

，列

举了大家谎称读了实际未读的书目，以及大家喜欢的一些作家，并阐述了人们撒谎的常见理< /p>

由。

64

．

D

细 节理解题。

根据文章第一段可知，

作者跟他的朋友深谈有关奥巴 马的那本书时，

发现朋友对奥巴马的背景一无所知，这暗示出朋友其实并没有读过这本书 。故选

D

。

65

．

B

推理判断题。本题的关键词是

guilty secret

，定位第二、三段。根据文章第二

段中的“But I am pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people, I have read the

book at number one, George Orwell's 19

84.”可知，作者读过《

1984

》这本书，而

42%

< br>的

人没读过却装作读过。故选

B

。

66

．

B

细节理解题。

根据文章第四段中的“Asked

why

they

lied,

the

most

common

reason

was to ‘impress’ someo

ne the

y were speaking t o.”可知，人们之所以选择撒谎是想让

对方觉得自己知识渊博，从而给对方留一个好的 印象。因此

B

正确。

67

．

C

推 理判断题。文章第五段的最后一句话表明作者的态度，故选

C

。

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C4

[2012·辽宁卷

]

Mini Book Excerpts(

节选

)

Biography

When

Salinger

learned

that

a

car

park

was

to

be

built

on

the

land,

the

middle?aged

writer

was

shocked

and

quickly bought

the neighboring

area

to

protect

it… The

townspeople never forgot the rescue and came to help their most famous neighbor.

J

．

D

.

Salinger

：

ALife

by Kenneth Slawenski(Random House, $$27)

Mystery(

疑案小说

)

“You're a smart boy. Benny's death was no accident, and you're the only one who

saw

it

happen.

Do

you

think

the

murderer

should

get

away

with

it

？”The

boy

was

staring

stubbornly at his lap again.

A thought sudden

ly occurred to Annika.“Did you…You recognized the man in the

car, didn't you

？”

The boy hesitated, twisting his fingers.“Maybe，”he said quietly.

RedWolf

by Liza Marklund(Atria Books, $$25.99)

Short Stories

She wants to say to him what she has learned, none of it in class: Some women

are

born

stupid,

and

some

women

are

too

smart

for

their

own

good.

Some

women

are

born

to give, and some women only know how to take. Some women learn who they want to be

from their mothers, some who they don't want to be. Some mothers suffer so their

daughters won' mothers love so their daughters won't.

YouAreFree

by Danzy Senna(Riverhead Books, $$15)

Humor

Do your kids like to have fun? Come to Fun Times! Do you like to watch your kids

having fun? Bring them to Fun Times! Fun Times

！'s “amusement cycling” is the most

fun you can have, legally, in the United States right now. Why spend thousands of

dollars flying to Disney World when you can spend less than half of that within a

day's drive of most cities?

Happy

：

AndOtherBadThoughts

by Larry Doyle (Ecco, $$14.99)

56

．

If the readers want to know about the life of Salinger, they should buy

the

book published by ________.

A

．

Ecco B

．

Atria Books

- 3 -

C

．

Riverhead Books D

．

Random House

57

．

The book

Happy: AndOtherBadThoughts

is intended for ________.

A

．

young children

B

．

Disney World workers

C

．

middle school teachers

D

．

parents with young children

58

．

Which book describes women with characters of their own?