2014年安徽英语高考阅读理解-完形填空

本次练习题共两部分，第一部分为阅读理解，第二部分为完形填空。满 分

62

分。

第一部分

阅读理解（共

16

小题；每小题

2

分，满 分

32

分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（

A

、

< br>B

、

C

和

D

）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says.

Beehives (

蜂窝

)-either recorded or real-may even prevent elephants from damaging farmer's crops.

In 2002, scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them.

Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she

asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the bees would

scare elephants away.

Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone

into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed

down. Next

，

Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a

speaker in a close to each family.

From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording

the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a total of 17

groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants

immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy Played the sound of a waterfall (

瀑布

)

instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undisturbed. Even after four

minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.

Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it

several times. She hasn't tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (

最初的

) results were promising

enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are

frightened away.

60. We know from the passage that elephants may he frightened of .

A. loud noises

B. some crop

C. video cameras

D. angry bees

61. As mentioned in the passage, Lucy

A. works by herself in Africa

B. needs to test more elephant groups

C. has stopped elephants eating crops

D. has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms

62. Why did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?

A. To record the sound of bees.

B. To make a video of elephants.

C. To see if elephants would run away.

D. To find out more about the behavior of bees.

63. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Young elephants ignore African honeybees.

B. Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.

C. Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.

D. Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.

B

You are the collector in the gallery of your life. You collect. You might not mean to but you do. One out of

three people collects tangible

（有形的）

things such as cats, photos and noisy toys.

There are among some 40 co

llections that are being shown at “The Museum Of”—

the first of several new

museums which, over the next two years, will exhibit the objects accumulated by unknown collectors. In doing

so, they will promote a popular culture of museums, not what museums normally represent.

Some of the collections are fairly common

—

records, model houses. Others are strangely

beautiful- branches that have fallen from tree, for example. But they all reveal

（显露）

a lot of things: ask

someone what they collect and their answers will tell you who they are.

Other on the way include “The museum of Collectors” and “The Museum of Me.” These new ones, it is

hoped, will build on the success of “The Museum Of.” The thinkers behind the project want to explore why

people collect, and what it means to do so. They hope that visitors who may not have considered themselves

collectors will begin to see they, too, collect.

Some collectors say they started or stopped making collections at important point: the beginning or end of

adolescence

—“it’s a gr

owing-

up thing; you stop when you grow up,” says one. Other painful times are

mentioned, such as the end of a relationship. For time and life can seem so uncontrollable that a steady serial

（顺序排列的）

arrangement is comforting.

64. How will the new museums promote a popular culture of museums?

A. By collecting more tangible things.

B. By showing what ordinary people have collected.

C. By correcting what museums normally represent.

D. By accumulating 40 collections two years from now.

65. What can be learned about collectors from their collections?

A. Who they are.

B. How old they are.

they were born.

D. Why they might not mean to collect.

66. Which of the following is an aim of the new museums?

A. To help people sell their collections

B. To encourage more people to collect.

C. To study the significance of collecting.

D. To find out why people visit museums.

67. According to the last paragraph, people may stop collecting when they

A. become adults

B. feel happy with life

C. are ready for a relationship

D. feel time to he uncontrollable

C

Should we allow modern buildings to be built next to older buildings in a historic area of a city? In order to

answer this question, we must first examine whether people really want to preserve the historic feel of an area. Not

all historical buildings are attractive. However, there may be other reasons for example, economic (

经济的

)

reasons-why they should be preserved. So, let us assume that historical buildings are both attractive and important

to the majority of people. What should we do then if a new building is needed?

In my view, new architectural styles can exist perfectly well alongside an older style. Indeed, there are many

examples in my own home town of Tours where modern designs have been placed very successfully next to old

buildings. As long as the building in question is pleasing and does not dominate (

影响

) its surroundings too much, it

often improves the attractiveness of the area.

It is true that there are examples of new buildings which have spoilt (

破坏

) the area they are in, but the same

can be said of some old buildings too. Yet people still speak against new buildings in historic areas. I think this is

simply because people are naturally conservative(

保守的

)and do not like change.

Although we have to respect people's feelings as fellow users of the buildings, I believe that it is the duty of the

architect and planner to move things forward. If we always reproduced what was there before, we would all still be

living in caves. Thus, I would argue against copying previous architectural styles and choose something fresh and

different, even though that might be the more risky choice.

68. What does the author say about historical buildings in the first paragraph?

A. Some of them are not attractive.

B. Most of them ate too expensive to preserve.

C. They are more pleasing than modern buildings.

D. They have nothing to do with the historic feel of an area.

69. Which of the following is true according to the author ?

A. We should reproduce the same old buildings.

B. Buildings should not dominate their surroundings.

C. Some old buildings have spoilt the area they are in.

D. No one understands why people speak against new buildings.

70. By

“

move things forward

”

in the last paragraph , the author probably means

“

”

A. Destroy old buildings

B. Put things in a different place

C. Choose new architectural styles

D. Respect people

’

s feelings for historical buildings

71. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To explain why people dislike change.

B. To warn that we could end up living in caves.

C. To admit how new buildings have ruined their surroundings.

D. To argue that modern buildings can be built in historic areas.

D(

选做

)