青海省西宁市2017高考英语一轮阅读理解选编三

阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

Up to 45 rare species of Australian animals are in danger of becoming extinct within 20 years, scientists warned in a report. But hope is not lost! According to the report, the species can be saved if immediate action is taken to control their natural predators (天敌) and other threats.

The threatened animals can be found in the faraway Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. The region is similar in square miles to California. Thirty percent of the endangered species are unique to the region, while others have already disappeared in other parts of Australia.

Dr. Tara Martin, a research scientist said in the report, “A large extinction event is happening in Australia. The north has really been the last stronghold (主要栖息地) for many species of birds and mammals and reptiles. The Kimberley is really their last chance on earth.”

Many of the species are under threat because they are hunted by wild cats. These cats kill around 500 000 native animals in the Kimberley region every day. The species face another threat, too. Their native habitat is also being destroyed by wildfires and by wild donkeys and goats that compete for food and water. Humans introduced cats, donkeys and goats to Australia to be farm animals or pets. However, their populations have exploded in the region because they have few natural predators.

The report calls for $ 95 million to immediately start protection programs. The report also suggests reducing wild donkey and goat populations in the region, building fences, fighting wildfires and educating the community about how to help the endangered species. Richard Hobbs, an ecologist at the University of Western Australia, says the costs are worthwhile because the measures will not be too difficult to carry out.

文章大意：本文是一篇调查报告。在澳大利亚有多达45种稀有动物在接下来的二十年里将会灭绝。报告主要讲述了这些物种所面临的危险并提出了保护它们应该采取的一些措施。

1．Which of the following should be done to protect the rare species of Australian animals?

A．Providing new habitat for them.

B．Supplying more food and water to them.

C．Getting rid of the dangers to them.

D．Leading them to the north of Australia for a better life.

答案：C　细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句中“the species can be saved... to control their natural predators (天敌) and other treats”可知，我们人类应当立即帮助这些珍稀物种去除威胁它们生存的因素。故C项正确。

2．Paragraphs 23 mainly tell us ________.

A．where the threatened animals can be found

B．how worrying the situation of the rare animals is

C．the Kimberley is the home of many rare species

D．the Kimberley is a safe place for animals to live

答案：B　段落大意题。根据第二段最后一句“... while others have already disappeared in other parts of Australia.”和第三段最后一句“The Kimberley is really their last chance on earth.”可知，文章此处告诉我们稀有动物的处境是多么危险。故B项正确。

3．The article may appear in a magazine on ________.

A．animals B．geography

C．chemistry D．history

答案：A　推理判断题。通读全文可知，本文主要讲述了一些地方动物的危险处境，所以最有可能出现在杂志中的动物栏中。故A项正确。

2016高考训练题----阅读理解。

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

As is known, it is a respectful job to be a teacher serving students heart and soul. And most people also compare a teacher to a gardener who takes great care of various plants. Ever since my high school days, my heart has been set on becoming a teacher. I am now studying at a teacher’s college, and I am making great efforts to study, because there are so many things to learn about education. But I thoroughly enjoy my studies, and every day I am amazed at the great influence education has on the human soul.

I think it is only natural that I have always aspired to become a teacher because my father and his father were also teachers. My father is now retired, following a brilliant career, and it has always been his dream to have me, his only son, follow in his footsteps. Although it sounds like my father’s dream that I will become a teacher, it is also my dream and I am quite willing to realize the dream. I still have one more year to go at university, and after I graduate, I will go to the western part of China to become a teacher at a village school.

I understand a teacher’s job will not make me a millionaire, but it is not the prospect of making a lot of money that has propelled my ambition to become a teacher. Rather, it is my sincere desire to assume a responsible role in society, and make as many people well—educated as possible through my hard endeavors. Education plays an essential and important role in our society. If everyone can receive a good education, it will not only do good to our country but also benefit individuals’ lives.

Ten years from now, therefore, I hope to be established as an excellent teacher with hundreds of thousands of students who have benefited from me and carry on the family tradition with efficiency and honour.

25. What’s the author now?

A. A doctor. B. An actor. C. A student. D. A researcher.

26. Which is not the reason why the author wants to be a teacher?

A. To be a teacher is his own dream. B. His father hopes that he can become a teacher.

C. He would like to be a responsible man.

D. His teacher encourages him to be an excellent teacher.

27. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “aspired”?

A. Inspired. B. Desired. C. Required. D. Complained.

28. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. How can I be an excellent teacher? B. Where do I see myself ten years from now?

C. Why do I follow in my father’s footsteps? D. How can I make my dream come true?

参考答案25---28、CDBB

2014高考英语阅读理解（人物传记、故事类）【2014·陕西卷】B

When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor if the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University（SMU）in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldn;t afford the operation because her family was poor.

Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic（阁楼）one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript（手稿）. On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Gainestown boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henry’s.

My father then set out to sell it. Eventfully, he foud himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.

My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But i doubt that it could have been better than his own story.

Who found the O. Henry’s manuscript?

A. The girl’s mother. B. The author’s father.

C. The girl. D. The author.

Which of the following might explain the fact that the manuscript was found in the attic?

A. O. Henry once worked in Houston. B. O. Henry once stayed in Galveston.

C. O. Henry once moved to Des Moines. D. O. Henry once taught at SMU.

The underlined word “authenticated” in Paragraph 2 probably means __________.

A. named B. treated C. proved D. described

According to the text, why did the author’s father go to Des Moines?

A. To sell the O. Henry story. B. To meet the author himself.

C. To talk with the O. Henry expert. D. To give money to the girl.

【答案】

A

B

C

A

C考查猜测词义。根据前文作者的父亲找到一位专家应是“证明”是O.Henry的作品。A命名；B对待；C证明；D描述。故选C。

A考查细节理解。根据最后一段的My father then set out to sell it我父亲然后出发去把它卖掉，可知选A。

考点：考查故事类短文阅读

2014高考英语阅读理解（人物传记、故事类）【2014·天津卷】C

“Dad,” I say one day …..take a trip. Why don’t you fly and meet me?”

My father had just retired……….. His job filled his day, his thought, his life. While he woke up and took a warm shower, I screamed under a freezing waterfall Peru. While he tied a tie and put on the same Swiss watch, I rowed a boat across Lake of the Ozarks.

My father sees me drifting aimlessly, nothing to show for my 33 years but a passport full of funny stamps. He wants me to settle down, but now I want him to find an adventure.

He agrees to travel with me through the national parks. We meet four weeks later in Rapid City.

“ What is our first stop?” asks my father.

“What time is it?”

“Still don’t have a watch?”

Less than an hour away is Mount Rushmore. As he stares up at the four Presidents carved in granite(), his mouth and eyes open slowly, like those of little boy.

“Unbelievable,” he says, “How was this done?”

A film in the information center shows sculptor Gutzon Borglum devoted 14 years to the sculpture and then left the final touches to his son.

We stare up and I ask myself, Would I ever devote my life to anything?

No directions, …… I always used to hear those words in my father’s voice. Now I hear them in my own.

The next day we’re at Yellowstone National Park, where we have a picnic.

“Did you ever travel with your dad? I ask.

“Only once,” he says. “ I never spoke much with my father. We loved each other---but never said it. Whatever he could give me, he gave.”>

The kast sebtebce----it’s probably the same thing I’s say about my father. And what I’d want my child to say about me.

In Glacier National Park, my father says, “I’ve never seen water so blue.” I have, in several places of the world, I can keep traveling, I realize--- and maybe a regular job won’t be as dull as I feared.

Weeks after our trip, I call my father.

“The photos from the trip are wonderful,” he says.” We have got to take another trip like that sometime.

I tell him I’ve learn decided to settle down, and I’m wearing a watch.

We can learn from Paragraphs 2 and 3 that the father _________.

A. followed the fashion

B. got bored with his job

C. was unhappy with……

D. liked the author’s collection of stamps

What does the author realize at Mount Rushmore?

A. His father is interested in sculpture

B. His father is as innocent as a little boy

C. He should learn sculpture in the future

D. He should pursue a specific aim in life.

From the underlined paragraph, we can see that the author________.

A. wants his children to learn from their grandfather

B. comes to understand what parental love means

C. learns how to communicate with his father

D. hopes to give whatever he can to his father

What could be inferred about the author and his father from the end of the story?

A. The call solves their disagreements

B. The Swiss watch has drawn them closer

C. They decide to learn photography together.

D. They begin to change their attitudes to life

What could be the best title for the passage?

A. Love Nature, Love Life

B. A Son Lost in Adventure

C. A Journey with Dad

D.The Art of Travel

【答案】

C

D

B

D

C

【试题分析】

考点：故事类阅读。

2016高考训练题----阅读理解。

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。

Tayka Hotel De sal

Where: Tahua, Bolivia

How much: About $ 95 a night

Why it’s cool: You’ve stayed at hotels made of brick or wood, but salt? That’s something few can claim. Tayka Hotel de Sal is made totally of salt—including the beds (though you’ll sleep on regular mattresses(床垫) and blankets). The hotel sits on the Salar de Uyuni, a prehistoric dried—up lake that’s the world’s biggest salt flat. Builders use the salt from the 4,633一square—mile flat to make the bricks, and glue them together with a paste of wet salt that hardens when it dries. When rain starts to dissolve the hotel, the owners just mix up more salt paste to strengthen the bricks.

Green Magic Nature Resort

Where: Vythiri, India

How much: About $ 240 a night

Why it’s cool: Ridding a Pulley(滑轮)—operated lift 86 feet to your treetop room is just the start of your adventure. As you look out of your open window—there is no glass!一you watch monkeys and birds in the rain forest canopy. Later you might test your fear of heights by crossing the handmade rope bridge to the main part of the hotel, or just sit on your bamboo bed and read. You don’t even have to come down for breakfast—the hotel will send it up on the pulley—drawn “elevator”.

Dog Bark Park Inn B & B

Where: Cottonwood, Idaho

How much: $ 92 a night

Why it’s cool: This doghouse isn’t just for the family pet. Sweet Willy is a 30-foot-tall dog with guest rooms in his belly. Climb the wooden stairs beside his hind leg to enter the door in his side. Yon can relax in the main bedroom, go up a few steps of the loft in Willy’s head, or hang out inside his nose. Although you have a full private bathroom in your quarters, there is also a toilet in the 12-foot-tall fire hydrant outside.

Gamirasu Cave Hotel

Where: A yvali, Turkey

How much: Between $ 130 and $ 475 a night

Why it’s cool: This is caveman cool! Experience what it was like 5,000 years ago, when people lived in these mountain caves formed by volcanic ash. But your stay will be much more modern. Bathrooms and electricity provide what you expect from a modern hotel, and the white volcanic ash, called tufa, keeps the rooms cool, about 65 word/media/image4_1.pngin summer. (Don’t worry—there is heat in winter.)

29. What is the similarity of the four hotels?

A. Being expensive. B. Being unique. C. Being beautiful. D. Being natural.

30. What does the underlined part “Sweet Willy” refer to?

A. The name of a guest. B. The name of a pet dog of the hotel owner.

C. The name of the hotel owner. D. The building of Dog Bark Park Inn B & B.

31. Which of the hotel makes you have a feeling of living in the far past?

A. Gamirasu Cave Hotel B. Green Magic Nature Resort

C. Dog Bark Park Inn B & B D. Tayka Hotel De Sal

32. What may be the purpose of the writer writing the passage?

A. To show his wide knowledge. B. To attract attention from the readers.

C. To develop business in tourism. D. To introduce some interesting hotels.

参考答案29---32、BD AD

青海省西宁市高考英语一轮阅读理解选编三