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（英语）
英语阅读理解
(
人物故事
)
专题练习
(
及答案
)
含解析
一、高中英语阅读理解人物故事类
1
．
阅读理解
Half a Day
I walked alongside my father,
holding his right hand. All my clothes were new:
the black shoes,
the green school
uniform, and the red cap. They did not make me
happy, however, as this was the
day I
was to be thrown into school for the first
time.
useful men out of boys.
Don't you want to be useful like your
brothers?
I was not
convinced. I did not believe there was really any
good to be had in tearing me away
from
my home and throwing me into the huge, high-walled
building.
When we
arrived at the gate we could see the courtyard,
vast and full of boys and girls.
by
you,
said
my
father,
join
them.
Put
a
smile
on
your
face
and
be
a
good
example
to
others.
I hesitated and squeezed his hand
firmly, but he gently pushed me from him.
said.
I took
a few steps. Then the faces of the boys and girls
came into view. I did not know a single
one of them, and none of them knew me.
I felt I was a stranger who had lost his way. But
then
some
boys
began
to
glance
at
me
in
curiosity,
and
one
of
them
came
over
and
asked,
brought
you?
I did
not know what to say. The gate was now closed.
Some of the children burst into tears. The
bell rang. A lady came along and said,
here,
too.
Everything
that
is
enjoyable
and
beneficial
is
here.
So
dry
your
tears
and
face
life
joyfully.
Well,
it
seemed
that
my misgivings
had
had
no
basis.
From
the
first
moments
I
made
many
friends. I had
never imagined school would have this rich variety
of experiences.
（
1
）
On
the way to school, the boy felt .
A. happy
B. embarrassed
C. upset
D. excited
（
2
）
About schooling,
Father suggested .
A. wearing a smile
B. tearing himself away from
games
C. waiting for parents
D. throwing himself to studying
（
3
）
helped him most on the first day at school.
A. Teachers and classmates
B. Courtyards and buildings
C. Father and brother
D. New uniforms and shoes
（
4
）
What
would probably happen next?
A. The school life would turn out to be
a failure.
B. Boys in the
school would watch him curiously.
C. He would open up a new journey of
colorful life.
D. His
parents would accompany him at the
school.
【答案】
（
1
）
C
（
2
）
< br>A
（
3
）
A
（
4
）
C
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文
，作者第一天去学校的时候并不开心，但是等他到了
学校之后，他结交了很多朋友，开始
了新的生活。
（
< br>1
）考查推理判断。根据第一段中的
“They did
not make me happy, however, as this was the
day I was to be thrown into school
for the first time.”
可知穿新衣服并没
有让作者开心，因为他
要第一次被扔进学校了；再根据第四段中的
“I did not believe there was really any good to
be
had in tearing me away from my home
and throwing me into the huge,
high-
walled building.”
可
知作者不相信将他从家中撕裂并被扔进这座巨大的高墙建筑（也就是学校）中真的有什么< p>
好处。综合可知作者认为去学校不好，去学校的路上是不开心的，沮丧的，故选
C
。
（
2
）考查细节理解。根据第五段中的
in by
you,
said
my
father,
join
them.
Put
a
smile on your face and be a good
example to others.
可知作者的父亲对他说：
进去吧，加入
他们的行列。面带微笑，成为他人的好榜样。
也就是作者的父亲让他面带微笑，故选
A
。
（<
/p>
3
）考查推理判断。根据倒数第二段中的
“A
lady
came
along
and
said,
is
is
your
new
home.
…and face life joyfully.
”
；以及最后一段中的
no
basis. From the first moments I made many friends.
“
可知老师过来对作者他们说了一番话，
作者听了这番话之后觉
得之前自己的顾虑是毫无根据的，打消了顾虑。他一开始就交到了
很多朋友。这说明老师
帮助作者在学校的第一天过得很好，他的同学也和他成为了朋友。
故选
< br>A
。
（
4
）考查推理判断。根据最后一段中的
”From the first moments I made many friends. I had
never imagined school would have
this rich variety of experiences.“
可知从一开
始我就结交了很
多朋友。我从未想象过学校会有如此丰富的经历。由此推断之后作者会在
学校开始新的生
活，会有丰富的经历，故选
C
< br>。
【点评】本题考点涉及细
节理解和推理判断两个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需
要准确掌握细节信息，并
根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。
2
．
阅读理解
Many
people
criticize
today's
newspapers
as
sensationalist,
satisfying
the
public's
abnormal
curiosity. But journalism a century ago
was just as notorious
(
臭名昭著
). Publishers at that
time
routinely
competed
with
each
other
for
wild
stories
that
could
draw
in
the
most
readers.
Meanwhile, it was
an ideal atmosphere for a courageous reporter like
Nellie Bly to spring into
fame.
Bly,
whose name was Elizabeth Corcoran, had to work to
make her way in the world. Different
from many women of the time, however,
she refused to let the working world scare her
away.
Her first big opportunity as a
reporter came in 1885 after she wrote an angry
letter denouncing
the
Pittsburgh
Dispatch
for
an
article
it
had
run
criticizing
women
forced
to
work
outside
the
home.
The interested and excited editor hired Bly for
her
the
situations
of
female
factory
workers.
Bly
cared
less
about
their
jobs
than
their
lives
after
work - their amusements, their
motivations, their fears and ambitions. She
produced an article
totally
different
from
what
other
reporters
of
the
time
were
writing:
personal,
thoughtful,
meaningful.
By
1887
Bly
had
a
job
with
the
New
York
World,
one
of
the
leader
papers
of
the
day.
She
quickly
became famous for undercover stories about women
in a mental hospital. Soon she had
investigated life as a maid, a chorus
girl, and even a street girl. In her best - known
brave deeds, in
1890, Bly beat the
famous
novel.
Traveling
by
steamship,
train,
even
ricksha,
Bly
reported
from
each
stop.
A
spellbound
nation hung on
every word. Only 25, Bly had become
internationally famous.
（
1
）
Bly's first
newspaper job was .
A. with the New York World
B. with the Pittsburgh
Dispatch
C. to interview
mental patients
D. to experience life of chorus
girls
（
2
）
What does the underlined word
A. Praising.
B. Questioning. C. Informing.
D. Condemning.
（
3
）
How
did Nellie Bly gain world - wide fame?
A. By criticizing Jules
Verne. B. By competing
with other reporters.
C. By
writing stories through investigation. D. By
caring about women from different
classes.
（
4
）
Which of the following best
describes Nellie Bly?
A. Daring and practical.
B. Acute and confident.
C. Critical and dependent.
D. Calm and enthusiastic.
【答案】
（
1
）
B
（<
/p>
2
）
D
（
3
）
C
（
4
）
A
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文
，
Bly
是一名美国女记者
,
在那个记者都热衷于相互竞
争而报道不实新闻特殊年代
< br>,
她选择为女性说话。为了能调查清楚事实
,
她扮成乞丐
,
女仆
,
神
经病患者。她不顾自己的工作甚至安危的态度
,
让她成了美国历史上著名的女记者。
（
1
）考查
细节理解。根据第二段中的
first
big
opportunity
as
a
reporter
came
in
1885
after
she
wrote
an
angry
letter
denouncing
the
Pittsburgh
Dispatch
for
an
article
it
had
run
criticizing women forced to work
outside the home. The interested and excited
editor hired Bly
for her
可知<
/p>
,Bly
写信谴责
Pittsburgh
dispatch
的文章
,
却因为她的
勇气被主编雇佣了。
故选
B
。
（
2
）考查词义猜测。根据该句中的
< br>letter
可知她信的内容是批评
Pittsburg
h
dispatch
的文章。
A.
Praising
表扬；
B.
Questioning.
质问；
C.
Informing.
告知；
D. C
ondemning.
谴责选项中和批评相近的选项是
cond
emn
（谴责）。故选
D
。
（
3
）考查细节理解。根据最后一段中的
quickly
became
famous
for
undercover
stories
about
women
in
a
mental
hospital
.
她很快因为揭露精神病院女性的故事而名声大振）可
知
,Bly
是因为报道女性故事而出名的。故选
C
。
（<
/p>
4
）考查推理判断。根据第一段中的
可知她是勇敢的
,
再通过下文讲述她卧底去
调查女性事件
,
说明她是实事求是的人。故选
< br>A
。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅
读，考生需要准确捕捉细节信息，同时根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，从而选
出正确答案。
3
．
阅读理解
A biologist once
criticized for stealing eggs from the nests of the
rarest bird in the world has
been
awarded
the
Prize
of
conservation
after
his
methods
saved
nine
species
from
extinction.
Professor
Carl
Jones
won
the
2016
Indianapolis
Prize
---
the
highest
accolade
in
the
field
of
animal
conservation
---
for
his
40
years
of
work
in
Mauritius,
where
he
saved
an
endangered
kestrel from becoming the next Great
Auk.
When the 61-year-
old first travelled to the east African island in
the 1970s, he was told to close
down a
project to save the Mauritius kestrel. At the time
there were just four left in the wild,
making it the rarest bird on Earth.
However, he stayed, using the techniques of
captive breeding
(
人工繁殖
), which
involved snatching eggs from the birds' nests and
hatching(
孵化
)them under
incubators, prompting the mothers to
lay another set of eggs in the wild.
A decade later, the number of
Mauritius kestrels had soared to over 300 and
today there are
around
400
in
the
wild.
The
biologist
has
also
been
necessary
in
efforts
to
bring
other
rare
species back from the edge of
extinction, including the pink pigeon, echo
parakeet and Rodrigues
warbler.
Prof
Jones was awarded the $$250,000 (?172,000) prize at
a ceremony in London.
received,
reflecting
on
the
start
of
his
career,
he
said the
Maurutius
kestrel
project
had
been
seen
as
a
loss
at
the
time.
In
the
1970s
there
was
fierce
opposition
to
the
captive
breeding
techniques,
with
critics
arguing
that
they
were
too
risky
and
took
the
emphasis
off
breeding in the
wild.
Prof Jones has
devoted his whole life to his work, only becoming
a father for the first time eight
years
ago, at 53. He said receiving the prize was
particularly important to him, because it proved
that his work to save birds was
right.
（
1
< br>）
What does the underlined word
A. return
B. level C. honor
D. research
（
2
）
According to the passage,
Great Auk is ________.
A. an endangered bird
B. an extinct bird
C. a popular bird
D. a fierce bird
（
3
）
What can we
know from the figures in Paragraph 4?
A. Taking eggs from the
nests has worked well.
B.
The wild environment for kestrel has changed a
lot.
C. Kestrel has adapted
to the life in the wild.
D.
It's difficult to protect kestrel.
（
4
）
Prof
Jones' idea of taking eggs from the birds' nests
________.
A. was
proved of no use
B. was widely accepted
C.
was promoted officially
D. was criticized by some
people
【答案】
（
1
）
C
（
2
）
B
（
3
）
A
（
4
）
D
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文
，介绍了生物学家
Carl
Jones
通过人工繁殖的方式是
濒
临灭绝的鸟类的数量逐渐增加，并且因此获得了
2016
年的印
第安的波利斯奖。
（
1
）考查词义猜测。第二段中的
“for
his
40
years
of
work
in
Mauritius,
where
he
saved
an
endangered kestrel from becoming the
next Great
Auk.”
是对前面句子的补充说明，再由
“won
the 2016 Indianapolis Prize”
可推知，这里的
accolade
与获奖有关，故选
C
。
（
2
）考查推理判断。根据第二段中的
“where he saved an endangered kestrel from
becom
ing
the
next
Great
Auk”
可知，他保护了
濒临灭绝的红隼，使他免于遭受
Great
Auk
的情况，因
此可知
Great Auk
是一种已经灭绝的鸟类，选
B
。
< br>
（
3
）考查推理判断。根据第四段中的
“A
decade
later,
the
number
of
Mauritius
kestrels
had
soared to over 300 and today there are
around 400 in the wild.
”
可知红
隼的数量已经开始增加
了，所以推断出人工繁殖的方法很有效，故选
A
。
（
4
）考查细节理解。根据第一段
“A
biologist once criticized for stealing eggs from
the nests of
the
rarest
bird
in
the
world
has
been
awarded
the
Prize
of
conservation
after
his
methods
saved
nine
species
from
extinction.”
；以及倒数第二段中的
“In
the
1970s
there
was
fierce
opposition to the captive breeding techniques,
with critics arguing that they were too risky
and took the emphasis off breeding in
the wild.”
可知
Jones
教授从稀有鸟类的巢穴中
取出鸟
蛋的行为被一些人批评，故选
D
。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解
，词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅
读，考生需要准确掌握细节信息
，同时根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，从而选
出正确答案。
< br>
4
．
阅读理解
When Katie Stagliano
was 9 years old, she was given a class project to
grow her first cabbage
from just one
seed. She took it home and planted it in her home
garden. It didn't even take her
long to
come up and begin to grow. But as friends came
over, they pointed out that it was bigger
than any of theirs. And it grew so much
that the cabbage ended up weighing 40 pounds!
Katie
then decided that she could use
this cabbage to do something nice for the
community. So she
took the huge cabbage
to a local soup kitchen, where they used it, and
cooked it with ham and
rice. And
because of her cabbage, 275 people were
fed.
She began to
realize that gardening and helping people is what
she likes to do most. So, she
decided
to start her first garden on a plot of land
donated by her school.
many people can be fed if you donate
your produce,
18 years old, and has set
up her own business called
friends.
But
this doesn't even come close to the other amazing
part. She has raised over 200,000 dollars!
And there are over 100 Katie's Krops
within 33 states in the United States. She loves
gardening
and loves inspiring other
children to experience the joy of gardening as
well. As of today, her first
garden is
still doing amazing and is even responsible for
supplying over 3,000 pounds of produce
donated to local charities. Her goal
now? To get 500 gardens across all 50
states.
（
1
）
How
did Katie deal with her first cabbage?
A. sharing it with her
community.
B.
Presenting it to the school kitchen.
C. Eating it with her family.
D. Giving it to her friends.
（
2
）
What inspired
Katie to help others by gardening?
A. The support from her
school. B. The gardening
and sharing experience.
C.
The encouragement of community.
D. The admiration of her
friends.
（
3
）
Why
does Katie suggest more children learn to garden?
A. She thinks gardening is
cool. B. She needs more
people to help her.
C. She
hopes to earn more money.
D. She wants them to experience the
joy.
（
4
）
What is the last paragraph mainly
about?
A. The
brief introduction of Katie's Krops.
B. The amazing benefits of
gardening.
C. Katie's
achievement and future aim. D. The
joy of gardening and donation.
【答案】
（
1
）
A
（<
/p>
2
）
B
（
3
）
D
（
4
）
C
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文
，
Katie
小时候体验到了种植和利用种出来的作物帮助
别人的乐趣，因此开启了她的慈善事业。
（
1
）考查细节理解。根据第一段中的
“Katie then decided that she could use
this cabbage to
do
something
nice
for
the
community.
So
she
took
the
huge
cabbage
to
a
local
soup
kitchen,
where they used it,
and cooked it with ham and rice. And because of
her cabbage, 275 people
were
fed.
”
可知，
< br>Katie
用这个大白菜为社区做了一些事情，把大白菜送去一个当地的流动
厨房，在那里供
275
个人食用，故可知，
她把大白菜与人分享，故选
A
。
（
2
）考查
细节理解。根据第二段中的
“She began to realize that
gardening and helping people
is
what
she
likes
to
do
most.”
可知，园艺和帮助别人是自己最喜欢做的事情，因而开启了她
的慈善生涯，
故选
B
。
（
3
）考查细节理解。根据最后一段中
的
“She
loves
gardening
and
loves
inspiring
other
children to experience
the joy of gardening as well.”
可知，她喜欢园艺，
喜欢激发其他孩子会
体验园艺带来的乐趣，故选
D
。
（
< br>4
）考查段落大意。根据最后一段中的
“She
has
raised
over
200,000
dollars! And
there
are
over 1
00
Katie's Krops within 33 states in the United State
s.”
可知，筹集了超过
20
万美元，
在
美国
33
个州有超过
100
个
Katie's
Krops
。再根据本段中的
“Her goal now?
To get 500 gardens
across all 50 states
.”
可知，本段讲述了的慈善事业的成就以及未来的目标，故选
C
。
【点
评】本题考点涉及细节理解和段落大意两个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需
要准
确掌握细节信息，并根据上下文进行推理，概括，从而选出正确答案。
5
．
阅读理解
It was a morning in
January. The jet stream
(
急流
)had dipped down, causing
the Arctic cold to
reach the mountains
of my home. It was only 2 degrees outside, but the
cold wind made it feel
like it was 15
below zero. Still, I was kneeling in the snow
alongside my house trying to open a
tiny door, so I eoukl get in. 1 had
forgotten to leave my water dripping the night
before and now
my water pipes were
frozen and my
faucets(
水龙头
)were
dry.
The wind cut into
me like a knife while I struggled to get two
electric heaters in place around
the
section of frozen pipes. The waterlines were
buried except for a small piece that connected
up to my house. I put a heater on each
side of it, ran the extension
cords(
软线
)into my house and
plugged them in. Both heaters roared to
life and started blowing hot air on the frozen
water pipes.
My fingers had already
started to go numb, so I stayed inside to wait. I
could only hope that this
bit of warmth
could get my water flowing again. Finally, after
twenty minutes, the water started
flowing
through
my
faucets
again.
I
went
back
outside
into
the
biller
cold
and
gathered
my
heaters up. I looked at the weak
January sun shining on the frozen snow and smiled.
Then I sent a
joy filled with
Sometimes the coldness
of this life can get to us as well. It can make
our hearts feel icy and
frozen. It can
keep our kindness and love from flowing out to
others. Sometimes, though, all we
need
is a bit of warnth to get us going again. It can
be a simple smile, a kind word, a heart-felt
hug, a morning sunrise, a bird's song
or any gentle reminder of just how much God loves
us. Let
us all be grateful for those
bits of warmth that gel us going again. And let us
all try to be that bit
of wannth for
others every chance we get.
（
1
）
What was the
direct reason why the water pipes were frozen?
A. The jet stream.
B. The low temperature.
C.
The cold wind.
D. The author's own carelessness.
（
2
）
Which of
the following can replace the underlined phrase
A. Began functioning
smoothly. B. Worked
inappropriately.
C. Broke
down suddenly.
D. Screamed out loudly.
（
3
）
What
did the author think of his work?
A. Embarassed.
B. Satisfied. C. Mad with joy.
D. Cautiously optimistic.
（<
/p>
4
）
What is the last
paragraph mainly centered on?
A. The coldness of life has
a negative effect on our life quality.
B. We meet with the coldness of life
unavoidably and unwillingly.
C. We should be thankful for bits of
warmth of life.
D. We should
seize every chance to receive warmth of life from
others.
【答案】
（
1
）
D
（
2
）
< br>A
（
3
）
B
（
4
）
C
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文
，一个寒冷的冬天早晨，由于作者的粗心大意而使水
管冻死，没水可用。作者只得想尽办
法自己修复，最后得到了热水做了早餐。作者从这件
事得出，不要让生活中的寒冷影响我
们，要感激生活中给我们带来的每一个温暖。
（
1
）考查细节理解。根据第一段中的
“I
had
forgotten
to
leave
my
water
dripping
the
night
before
and now my water pipes were frozen and my faucets
(
水龙头
) were dry”
可
知，头天晚上
我忘记了让水龙头的水一直处于滴水的状态，现在水管冻结了，水龙头也流
不出水了。由
此可知，导致水管冻结的直接原因是由于作者本人的疏忽。故选
D
。
（
2
）考查词义猜测。根据第二段中的
“...
and
started
blowing
hot
air
on
the
frozen
water
pipe…after twenty
minutes, the water started flowing through my
faucets again”
可知，两个加
热器开始向冻结的
水管吹热空气，
…
二十分钟后，水又开始流过我的水龙头。此处
roared
to
life
表达的含义应该是两台加热器开始正常运转起来。分析选项可知
A
符合题意，故选
A
。
（
3
）
考查推理判断。根据第二段中的
“I looked at the weak
January sun shining on the frozen
snow
and smiled. Then I sent a joy filled with
make myself a hot breakfast.”
中的
smiled
和
“a joy
filled with
可知，作者对自己的
工作很满意。故
选
B
。
<
/p>
（
4
）考查主旨大意。根据最后一段中的
“Let
us
all
be
grateful
for
those
bits
of
warmth
that
gel
us going again. And let us all try to be that bit
of warmth for others every chanc
e we ge
t.”
可
知，作者强调我们要感激生活中的每一个温暖，无论它
们是多么的微不足道。故选
C
。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测，推理判断和主旨
大意四个题型的考查，是一
篇故事类阅读，要求考生在捕捉细节信息的基础上，进一步根
据上下文的逻辑关系，进行
分析，推理，概括和归纳，从而选出正确答案。
6
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阅读理解
At the age of seven,
while his friends were spending their allowances
on candy and toys, Jose
Adolfo
Quisocola, Peru, came up with the creative idea of
an eco-
bank which allows kids of all
ages to become economically independent
and financially wise while helping the
environment.
Established
in 2012, The Bartselana Student Bank is the
world's first cooperative bank for kids.
Whoever wants to join has to bring in
at least 5 kilograms (11 pounds) of solid waste
(paper or
plastic) and establish a
savings goal. Once accepted, all bank
least
one
additional
kilogram
(2*
2
pounds)
of
recydables
on
a
monthly
basis
and
obey
other
requirements, such as attending
financial education and environmental management
workshops.
The
waste
accumulated
is
sold
to
local
recycling
companies,
who,
thanks
to
some
clever
negotiation
by
Jose,
pay
a
higher-
than-
market
rate
for
everything
brought
in
by
Bartselana
Student
Bank
members.
The
funds
received
are
placed
in
the
individual's
account
where
they
collect until his/her
savings goal is reached. The account holder can
then withdraw his/her money,
or choose
to leave it and continue to grow for a bigger
target.
of
project,
its present. Luckily, I had the
support of the school principal and an assistant
in my classroom.
The
youngster's
persistence
paid
off.
Today,
the
eco-
bank,
which
now
has
the
support
of
several local institutions, has ten
educational centers and begins accepting
applications from kids
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