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英语阅读理解
(
人物故事
)
练习题及答案及解析
一、高中英语阅读理解人物故事类
1
．阅读理解
Jon Hoffman was sitting at a red light
when he saw a man run out of a store carrying a
plastic
donation jar full of cash. The
Plano, Texas, detective, dressed in plain clothes
but wearing his badge
(
徽章
) and gun,
caught the man and pinned him to the hood of his
car. But Hoffman had trouble
containing
the thief, and they got into a
struggle.
martial arts background, too, because
he was able to break away
spokesperson said.
so easily,
The detective called out
for help as a crowd gathered. Among those
watching: Andre Harvey
and
Kirby Sample, two day laborers. Harvey did what
has become common these days
out his phone and hit record.
shooting if I get over
there in time.
video
—
as did Sample.
—
he
took
to say it, but I
thought that
this
policeman
was
doing
something
illegal,
”
d
Harveyintoactionjumpe
—
while
he was still recording the
get the suspect to the ground to help
Detective Hoffman put the handcuffs (
手铐
)
on,
police spokesperson.
The 27-year-old
suspect was
charged with
resisting
arrest
and
other
offenses. The charity
jar he stole held less than $$ 50.
feels good to be on the
right side and do something positive.
After the arrest, the three men got to
know each other over steaks and ribs at a local
steak
house
—
Hoffman's
treat, as a thank-you. But the rescuers say
Hoffman deserves credit too.
could have turned real ugly.
（
1
）
What made
Hoffman call for help when arresting the
suspect?
A. He was not
on duty.
C. He wanted to
push the thief into the car.
B. He needed witnesses to support
him.
D. He couldn't control
the suspect.
（
2
）
Why did Harvey
and Kirby record the scene at the
beginning?
A. To follow the
fashion.
C. To record the
detective's violence.
（
3
）
What can be
inferred about Harvey?
A. He
was ready to violate the law.
C. He was out of work at that
time.
B. He might have had
some illegal behaviour.
D.
He had a good martial arts background.
B. To keep track of the
criminal.
D. To avoid being
involved in the incident.
（
4
）
What is Harvey
and Sample's attitude towards Hoffman?
A. Appreciative.
【答案】
（
1
）
D
（
2
）
C
（
3
）
B
（
4
）
A
B. Prejudiced.
C.
Skeptical.
D.
Cautious.
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，侦探
Jon Hoffman
在捉偷善款的小偷时遇到困难寻
求帮助，
Andre Harvey
和
Kirby Sample
帮助了他。
（
1
）考查细节理解。根据第一段中的
“
But Hoffman
had trouble containing the thief, and
they
got into
a struggle.
可知”，
Hoffman
控制住那个嫌疑人有困难，并且他们扭打在一起。故选
D
。
（
2
）考查细节理解。根据第三段中的
“
he took out his phone and
hit record.
可知，他们记录场景”是想记录警
“
I hate to say it,
but I thought that this policeman was
doing something illegal
察做了一些不合法的事。及
“
Butwhen he asked for help,
I thought,
well, there won't
be a
shooting if
I get over there in time.
此”句是说
“如果我能及时赶到那里，就不会有枪击事件
了”。由这两句可知，即他们记录了警察的暴力。故选
C
。
（
3
）考查推理判断。根据第六段中的
“
I've been on the wrong
side of the law several times in
my
life
可”知，
Harvey
曾经违反过法律。故选
B
。
（
4
）考查推理判断。根据第五段
Harve
y
所言
“
I've been on the wrong side of the law
several
times in my life,
Harvey
”
told
WFAA.
“
It feels good to be
on the right side and do something
positive
最后一段
“
But the rescuers say
Hoffman deserves credit too
，
”尤其是最后
Sample
told
the media
“
He handled himself like a
real professional
可知，这两个人认为”
Hoffman
很专业，
很欣赏他。故选
A
。
【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
确捕捉细节信息，同时根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。
2
．阅读理解
For most of her life, Suanne Laqueur's
passion for storytelling was shown on the dance
floor.
Although Laqueur began writing
at a young age, dancing always took center stage.
She majored
in
dance and theater at Alfred University and taught
at her mother's dance studio in Croton-
on-
Hudson, New York, for years. But
when her mother was ready to retire and an
opportunity opened
for Laqueur to take
over the studio, she realized she had no interest
in taking on the business side
of her
art:
—
financially,
logistically. I love the teaching, the
choreographing(
编舞
), the staging, but I
didn't want to own it.
Yet
Laqueur's disinterest in running the studio
changed when she became a self-published
author. In the fall of 2013, she
decided to pursue Self-publishing as a way of
sharing her first
completed novel with
friends and family. During the process, she
realized that following her true
passion
—
telling
stories through writing
—
made the business of the
art worthwhile, and owning that
business meant she could direct her
writing career however she chose.
Starting with her second self-published
novel, she began investing more time in marketing
and
building her audience. Her
investment paid off. Since 2014, Laqueur, now 49,
has self-published six
novels, which
collectively have hundreds of ratings and reviews
on Goodreads. Her 2016 novel An
Exaltation of Larks stole the show at
the 25th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published
Book Awards,
topping more than 2,300
entries to win the grand prize.
she
says.
There are trade-offs, which everyone
will tell you, but by self-publishing I have
control of the book, I
have control of
the story, and I'm cool with that.
（
1
）
From Paragraph
2, we can learn that Laqueur _______.
（
2
）
What made
Laqueur change her attitude to
business?
A. Her mother's
persuasion.
B. The desire to
make money.
C. Self-
publishing her novels.
D.
Her own passion toward art.
（
3
）
Which of the
following can best replace the phrase
A. became a failure.
B. was shown to people.
C. got all the attention.
D. was accidentally stolen.
（
4
）
What can be
inferred from what Laqueur's said?
A.
Self-publishing will replace traditional
publishing. B.
She will never use
traditional publishing.
C.
Traditional publishing only focuses on the
market.
D. She enjoys the
way of self-publishing.
【答案】
（
1
）
A
（
2
）
C
（
3
）
C
（
4
）
D
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，苏安妮
·拉克尔大半生教舞蹈，设计舞蹈，在舞台表
演，以舞蹈的形式讲述故事。后来，成为一名自主出版的作家，自费出版了自己的小说。
2016
年，她的小说《云雀的狂欢》在第
25
届《作家文摘》
(Writer
's
Digest)
自出版图书奖
上大出风头。
（
1
）考查细节理解。根据第二段中的
“
Although Laqueur began
writing at a young age, dancing
always
took center stage. She majored in dance and
theater at Alfred University and taught at her
mother's dance studio in Croton-on-
Hudson,
可”知，跳舞始终是
Laqueur
的中
心。她在阿尔弗雷德大学主修舞
蹈和戏剧，并在她母亲的舞蹈工作室任教多年。可知，
Laqueur
是一个兼职作家。故选
A
。
（
2
）考查细节理解。根据第三段中的
“
Yet Laqueur's disinterest
in running the studio changed
when she became a self-published
author. In the fall of 2013, she decided to
pursue Self-
publishing as
a way of sharing her first completed novel with
friends and family.
可知，当她成为
一名自主出版
的
作家，想出版自己的小说时，改变了她对商业的态度。故选
C
。
（
3
）考查推理判断。根据第四段中的
“
Her 2016 novel An
Exaltation of Larks stole the show at
the 25th Annual Writer's Digest Self-
Published Book Awards, topping more than 2,300
entries to
win
the grand prize.
可”知
“第
25
届年度作家文摘出版图书颁奖上，
2300
多篇作品获得了大
奖”。可知，这是大出风头，吸引了所有人的关注，故选
C
。
Laqueur
（
4
）考查推理判断。根据最后一段
所言
“
Thereare trade -offs, which everyone
will
”
tell you, but by self-
publishing I have control of the book, I have
control of the story, and I'm cool
with that.
可”知，她认为自主出版的方式让她能
出版自己的书，自己要写的故事。她对此
很满意。分析选项可知
D
项符合题意，故选
D
。
【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
确捕捉细节信息，并根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。
3
．
Choose the one
that fits best according to the information given
in the passage you have read.
In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in
the sand near the village of Istabl Antar
uncovered a
mass grave. The
bodies weren't
human. They were
feline
—
ancient
cats that
had been
mummified(
木乃伊化的
) and buried in holes in astonishing numbers.
there
layer of them, a layer thicker than
most coal joints, ten to twenty cats deep.
wrapped cats still looked
presentable, and a few even had golden faces.
Village children
180,000,
weighing some 38, 000 pounds, to Liverpool to be
spread on the fields of England.
peddled
the best
ones to tourists for change; the rest were sold as
fertilizer. One ship transported about
Those were the days of
generously funded explorations
—
that dragged through acres
of desert
in their quest for
royal tombs, and for splendid gold and painted
masks to decorate the estates
and
museums of Europe and America. The many thousands
of mummified animals that turned
up at
religious sites throughout Egypt were just things
to be cleared away to get at the good stuff.
Few people studied them, and their
importance was generally unrecognized.
In the century since then,
archaeology has become less of a treasure hunt and
more of a science.
Archaeologists now
realize that much of their sites' wealth lies in
the majority of details about
ordinary folks
—
what they did, what they
thought, how they prayed. And animal
mummies
are a big part of
that.
bandages with x-rays and cataloguing
her findings, she created a gallery for the
collection
—
a
bridge between
people today and those of long ago.
suddenly you say, Oh, King So-and-So
had a pet. I have a pet. And instead of being at a
distance of
5,000-plus years, the
ancient Egyptians become clearer and closer to
us.
（
1
）
Which of the
following words has the closest meaning to
A. modernized
B. displayed
C.
illustrated
D.
demonstrated
（
2
）
Why was
archaeology once referred to as a
A. In the royal tombs, there were many
treasures made of silver and gold.
B. Animal mummies could be made into
fertilizer which is very valuable.
C. It was hard to find animal mummies
since they were buried under dirt.
D. People sought the remains of ancient
Egypt merely for their material value.
（
3
）
Which of the
following is TRUE about Salima Ikram?
A. She wishes to establish the
continuity of pets over history.
B. She believes that studying the
remains can help modern society relate to the
past.
C. She wants to
identify the King's personal belongings and
classify them.
D. She doubts
if current society will understand the
significance of Egyptian remains.
（
4
）
This article
probably encourages the readers to
_____________.
A. value the past by studying the
remains left behind by our ancestors
B.
make full use of the remains our ancestors have
left behind
C.
understand that animal mummies are more important
than gold and
masks D. become more
sensitive to the ancient lifestyle of our
ancestors
【答案】
（
1
）
B
（
2
）
D
（
3
）
B
（
4
）
A
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，自从
1888
年在埃及发现了猫动物的木乃伊之后，大
量的皇家墓穴被挖掘，成千上万的木乃伊被运往世界各地，以攫取物质利益。后来考古学
家不再只是寻宝，而是把它作为一门科学研究。因为木乃伊展示了古埃及人的日常
生活。
正如古物学家萨利玛
·伊克拉姆所说
，木乃伊的研究是现代社会和过去的联系的桥梁。
（
1
）考查
词义猜测。根据第一段中
change; the
rest were sold as
fertilizer.
可知，
peddled
后的
即
把最好的
给游客来换取零钱
，可知，此处的
peddled
是
兜售
给游客以换取零钱，可知
向他人炫耀从而售出，故选
B
。
peddle
就是
（
2
）考查推理判断。第二段叙述了
最初考古是为了寻找皇家陵墓，寻找华丽的黄金和彩绘
面具来装饰欧洲和美洲的地产和博物馆。成千上万的来自古埃
及的动物木乃伊出现在埃
及各地的宗教场所，但很少有人研究
它们
。可知，考古就是寻宝，为了物质上的价值。以
及第三段中的
“
In
the
century
since
then,
archaeology
has
become
less
of
a
treasure
hunt and more of a science.
”从那以后的一个世纪里，考古学已不再是寻宝，而是一门科
学，可知，他们寻找古埃及的遗迹仅仅是为了他们的物质价值。分析选项可知
意，故选
D
。
（
3
）考查推理判断。根据最后一段中的
D
项符合题
“
shecreated a gallery for the collection
—
a bridge
between
people today and those
of
long ago.
可知”，
Salima Ikram
把她的发现进行分类之后，
她为这些收藏品创建了一个画廊
——一座连接今天的人和很久以前的人的桥梁。以及她的
话
have a pet. And instead of being at a
distance of 5,000-plus years, the ancient
Egyptians
become clearer and closer to us.
你看着这些动物木乃伊，突然你说，哦，国王某某养了一只宠
物。我有一只宠物。古埃及人与我们之间的距离不再是
清晰，离我们更近了。
5000
多年前的事了，而是变得更加
由此可推断出她认为研究这些遗迹有助于把现代社会与过去联系起
来。故选
B
。
（
4
）考查
推理判断。本文主要叙述了古代埃及的木乃伊展示了古代埃及人的日常生活，是
了解它们
的途径，有助于在现代社会与过去的之间建立一座桥梁。通过研究它们可以让
我们正确的评估过去。分析选项可知
A
符合题意，故选
A
。
【点评
】本题考点涉及词义猜测和推理判断两个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需
要根据
上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，从而选出正确答案。
4
．阅读理解
Mistress Prynne shall be set
where man, woman, and child, may have a fair sight
of her brave
clothing, from this time
till an hour past noon. A blessing on the moral
Colony of the
Massachusetts, where immorality is
dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam
Hester,
and show your
scarlet
（鲜红色的；罪孽深重的）
letter
in the market-place!
A lane
was at once opened through the crowd. Led by the
beadle
（狱吏），
and attended by
an
irregular procession of
serious-looking men and unkind-looking women,
Hester Prynne set
forth
towards the place appointed for her punishment. A
crowd of eager and curious schoolboys,
understanding little of the matter in
hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran
before her
progress, turning their
heads continually to stare into her face, and at
the winking baby in her
arms, and at
the shameful letter on her breast.
It was no great
distance, in those days, from the prison-door to
the market-place. Measured by
the prisoner's experience, however, it
might be considered to be a rather long journey;
for, though
her manner was proud, she
perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every
footstep of those who
thronged to see
her, as if her heart had been thrown into the
street for them all to step upon. In our
nature, however, there is a condition
that the sufferer should never know the
intensity of
what he endures by its present suffering, but
chiefly by the pain that rankles
（使痛
心）
after it. With almost a calm manner, therefore,
Hester Prynne passed through this portion of
her suffering, and came to a sort of
scaffold
（刑台），
at the
western end of the market-place. It
stood nearly beneath the eaves of
Boston's earliest church, and appeared to be a
fixture there.
（
1
）
What can we
know about the schoolboys?
（
2
）
What does the
underlined word
A. Gathered.
B.
Happened.
C.
Pretended.
D.
Regretted.
（
3
）
What can we
know from paragraph 3?
（
4
）
What would
probably happen to Hester Prynne according to the
text?
A. She would be
set free.
C. She would put
on a performance.
【答案】
（
1
）
B
（
2
）
A
B. She would give a public
speech.
D. She would receive
serious punishment.
（
3
）
D
（
4
）
D
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，摘自名著《红字》，描述了
Hester Prynne
被当做异
教徒押赴刑
的情
片段。
（
1
）考
理解。根据第二段中的
“
A
crowd of eager and curious schoolboys,
?
ran
before
her progress, turning
their heads continually to
?
.
可”知，人
充
了好奇并且急不可待。故
B
。
（
2
）考
猜
。根据最后一段中的
“
though her
manner
was proud,
she
perhaps
underwent an extreme pain from every
footstep of those who thronged to see her, as if
her heart
had
been thrown into the street for them all to step
upon.
描述了她在众目睽睽之下
的
内心感
受，每
出一步都感受到一
巨痛，似乎她的心
抛在街上，任凭他
此可知此
，人群在大街上聚集，故
（
3
）考
推理判断。根据第三段中的
A
。
”人吐唾沫和
踏。因
“
Inour nature, however, there is a
condition that the
sufferer
should never know the intensity of what he endures
by its present suffering, but chiefly
by the pain that rankles (
使痛心
)after it.
可知，”人
痛苦的感知往往后知后
，故
（
4
）考
推理判断。根据最后一段中的
“
therefore,
D
。
Hester
Prynne
passed
through
this
（刑台），
at the
western end of
portion of
her suffering, and came to a sort of
scaffold
the market-place
”因此，海
特
·白
度
了
一段痛苦，来到市
西端的一个刑台前，可推知
D
。
【点
】本
考点涉及
理解，
猜
和推理判断三个
型的考
，是一篇故事
，考生需要准确捕捉
信息，同
根据上下文的
关系，
行分析，推理，从而
出正确答案。
5
．
理解
She was known to millions as the
女公爵
)of Death
surprisingly, she hated violence and
blood, and knew nothing about the weapons most
often used in
murder.
But her pen dared to travel
where her eyes would not. In her 50-year writing
profession, Christie's
murder stories
made her the world's best-known mystery (
神秘
)writer. Only the Bible
and
Shakespeare's works have sold more
copies than her.
Her novels
have been turned into films and TV scenes. This
month, British TV announced they
will remake eight Christie films. Her
work has continuing appeal for
viewers,
Mackie.
Born in 1890 in
England, Christie was educated at home and began
her writing career while
working as a nurse during World War I.
She went on to produce 79 novels and lots of short
stories,
dying at the age of
86. With her knowledge of murder, Christie
could
police
academies.
Her first novel,
The Mysterious Affair at Styles,
introduced
Express(1934) and
Death on the Nile (1937).
Poirot
is a tidy
little man with a funny-looking
moustache,
opinion
of
himself. He draws conclusions from observing
the
have been a teacher at
Hercule
Poirot, a
retired Belgian
Murder on
the Orient
police officer who starred in 30 of her
works. Among the most popular are
an egg-shaped head and a
high
behaviour of those
around him,
always managing to spot patterns that
others cannot see. Poirot has become so famous
that
someone has even written his
biography, The Life and Times of Hercule
Poirot.
（
1
）
What kind of
works did Agatha Christie write?
A. Love stories.
B. Documentary books.
.
C. Adventure
stories.
D. Murder
stories.
（
2
）
We
can infer from the text that Christie
A. joined the Army in World War
I
C. is the third best-
selling writer in the world
B. has been a teacher at a police
academy
D. has had all her
novels turned into films
（
3
）
From Mackie's
view, why do Christie's novels have continuous
appeal for viewers?
（
4
）
What is
Hercule Poirot?
A. He is
Christie's co-worker.
C. He
is a real police officer.
【答案】
（
1
）
D
（
2
）
C
B. He is the hero in many
of Christie's works.
D. He
is the writer who wrote a biography of
Christie.
（
3
）
D
（
4
）
B
【解析】
【分析】本文主要介绍以写
谋杀故事而成为世界著名推理小说家的
Agatha Christie
以及她的作品。
（
1
）细节理解题。根据第二段中
In
her 50-year writing profession, Christie's murder
stories
)writer.(
在克里斯蒂
made her the world's best-known mystery
(
谋
神秘
杀故事使她成为世界上最著名的神秘作家。
50
年的写作生涯中，她的
)
可知，
Agatha
Christie
写谋杀故事。故选
D
。
（
2
）推理判断题。根据第二段中
In
her 50-year writing profession, Christie's murder
stories made
her the
world's best-known mystery (
神秘
)writer. Only the Bible
and Shakespeare's works
have
sold more copies than her.
（在她
50
年的写作生涯中，克里
斯蒂的谋杀故事使她成为世
界上最著名的神秘作家。只有《圣经》和莎士比亚的作品比她
卖得多。）可知，克里斯蒂
是世界第三畅销作家。故选
C
。（
3
）推理判断题。根据第三段中
work has
continuing
appeal for
viewers,
novel.
可知，
Laura
Mackie
认为她的作品对观众有着持续的吸引力，人们总是渴望
一本真正好的侦探小说。因此在
Mackie
看来，克里斯蒂的小说之所以会对观众产生持续的
D
。
吸引力是因为人们渴望读真正好的侦探小说。故选
（
4
）推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中
Her
first novel, The Mysterious Affair at
Styles,
introduced Hercule
Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer who
starred in 30 of her works.
可知，
Hercule
Poirot
是克里斯蒂
30
部作品中的男主角。故选
B
。
【点
评】考查阅读理解。介绍人物类阅读理解要专注人物的生平和成就，抓住文章细节，
而且
要理解全文，把握文章主旨。结合上下文合理概括，做有依据的推理。
6
．阅读短文，从每题所给的四个选项（
A
、
B
、
C
和
D
）中，选出最佳选项。
In
2011, Nancy Ballard went for a routine checkup
that turned into something extraordinary.
In
fact,
she
was
carrying
a
painting
of
a
plant
she'd
done
when
she
arrived
at
her
doctor's
San
Francisco office.
化疗
) rooms,
the
nurse said. Ballard asked to see one.
She was shocked by what she found. The
walls were dull and bare, and the paint was
chipping
(
剥落
).
It was a depressing room for a depressing routine
—
patients restricted to
chemo drips for
perhaps several hours,
often with nothing to look at other than those sad
walls. Ballard didn't have
cancer
herself, but she could sympathize with the
patients.
even think about getting
healthy in a room like that,
Stephen
Hufford, was ill with cancer himself, so finding
time to decorate the rooms was low on his
to-do list. So Ballard made it her
mission to brighten up the place.
She started by e-mailing 20 local
designers.
after seeing these
rooms,
and money to transform just one
of Dr. Hufford's rooms each.
As it happened, six of them wrote back
almost immediately. Six rooms got new paint, light
fixtures,
artwork, and furniture. Dr.
Hufford was delighted.
pain because of
it,
and that he was better able to
connect with his patients.
Ballard was so encouraged by the
patients' reactions that she created a nonprofit,
Rooms That
Rock 4 Chemo, to raise money
and decorate more spaces. Since then, she has
worked on 20
projects, including one in
Pennsylvania.
was there on her third
battle with cancer,
'I'm gonna beat it
this time. I thought I wasn't going to, but now I
know I'm gonna beat
it
（
1
）
What made
Ballard decide to help decorate the chemotherapy
rooms?
（
2
）
What outcome
does Ballard's effort bring about?
（
3
）
Which words
best describe Nancy Ballard?
A. Loving and
devoted.
B. Talented and
energetic.
C. Rich and
generous.
D. Ambitious and
creative.
（
4
）
Which can be a suitable title for the
passage?