2015西安市高考英语短文改错、阅读理解【四月】选练6阅读理解。

“Old wives tales” are beliefs passed down from one generation to another, For example, most of us remember our patents’ telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things. Is there any truth in these teachings? Some of them agree with present medical thinking, but others have not passed the test of time

Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots because they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a serious eye disease called macular degeneration Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this disease by 40%. Garlic（蒜）is good for you, too。It can kill the type of virus that causes colds.

Unfortunately, not all of Mom’s advice passed the test of medical studies. For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But research suggests that there is no danger in doing so. Do sweets cause tooth problems? Well, yes and no. sticky sweets made with grains tend to cause more problems than sweets made with simple sugars.

Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water, there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales, After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated （积累） from thousands of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water should respect this body of knowledge even as research for clear scientific support to proven it true or false

1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text？

A, Eating garlic is good for our eyes

B, Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth

C, Swimming after a meal is dangerous。

D, Carrots prevent people from catching colds

2.The author develops the third paragraph mainly--------。

A. by cause and effects B. by order in space

C. by order in time D. by examples

3.The phrase “hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means“ ”

A. to be believable B. to be valuable

C. to be admirable D. to be stable

4 What is the author’s attitude toward “old wives’ tales” in the text?

A. So objective B. Objective

C. Dissatisfied D. Curious

【参考答案】1—4、B D A B

阅读理解。

　　Once, the Paiter-Surui tribe(部落)lived a happy life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. But after the tribe’s first meeting with Westerners several decades ago, they were nearly wiped out; diseases brought by outsiders reduced the Surui’s numbers from 5, 000 to about 250.

Today, some 1, 300 tribe people live in 23 villages across 600, 000 acres. Though they are as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to preserve and protect the tribal culture of their homeland. Now they are under threat again, from illegal logging and deforestation(滥伐), but this time it’s different. The Surui have put aside their bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet.

The tribe people learned to use the Web from their leader, Chief Almir Narayamoga. “We decided to use computers and technology to bring attention to our situation, ”says Narayamoga, 36. The first in his tribe to attend college, Chief Narayamoga learned how to use computers at the Federal University of Goiás in Goiânia, a city of 1. 2 million. In 2007, he fled the Surui homeland after his fight against loggers who placed a $100, 000 reward on his head. He traveled to the United States and paid a visit to Google headquarters in California. He came armed with a big idea.

Narayamoga’s visit to Google was considered a great success. And Google sent teams to the Amazon to train the Surui in using computers, cameras, and smart phones to photograph logging sites, which could be pinpointed using GPS technology and then uploaded to Google Earth. The Surui have now mapped the entire reserve and recorded the biodiversity and the rainforest within it.

　　【文章大意】本文主要讲了巴西土著居民正在利用因特网让世人知道他们的处境, 并开始保护他们的家园。

1. What caused the population of the Amazon tribe to reduce greatly?

A. The change of their lifestyles.

B. Deforestation.

C. Diseases.

D. Fighting.

【解析】选C。细节理解题。从文章第一段最后一句可知, 由外来者带来的疾病导致土著人口剧减。

2. Chief Narayamoga fled his homeland because　　　.

A. he owed a large debt

B. the loggers wanted to kill him

C. he wanted to learn computers

D. he failed to fight against logging

【解析】选B。细节理解题。从文章倒数第二段可知, 酋长逃离家乡的原因是伐木者悬赏捉拿他并置他于死地。

3. What kind of idea did Chief Narayamoga have after he returned to his homeland?

A. He could ask the US government for help.

B. He could negotiate with the loggers.

C. He could save their land with the Internet.

D. He could make a map of their land.

【解析】选C。推理判断题。联系文章最后两段可知, 酋长从美国回来, 开始用“谷歌”搜索和全球定位技术来引发世人关注, 从而利用社会舆论来保护自己的家园, 由此可知C项正确。

4. What can we learn from the last paragraph?

A. Deforestation has been stopped in Amazon.

B. Narayamoga’s efforts are paying off.

C. The Internet is still something new to the tribe people.

D. Logging has been stopped due to the use of GPS technology.

【解析】选B。推理判断题。文章最后一段说明, 酋长的美国之行获得了成功, 现在土著民族正运用高科技来测量自己的领地, 由此推断, 他们的努力正在获得回报。

1.下面短文中有10处语言错误。请在有错误的地方增加、删除或修改某个单词。

增加：在缺词处加个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写上该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下面划一横线，并在该词的下面写上修改后的词。

注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均限一词；

2. 只允许修改10处，多者(从11处起)不计分。

This morning on my way to school I was deep moved by what I saw outside a bank. An old man was counting his money in the front of the bank. Suddenly a young man came running and knocked him down. To make things bad, his money was lying in all direction. At once the people around rush to pick the money up, while the old man stood there, not know what to do. Surprisingly, everyone gave back the money they had just picked. The old man counted the money again and found that not a single bill was missed. To my great joy, there are now a lot of nice people in your life. It’s true what honesty is more important than money!

【参考答案】1.

This morning on my way to school I was deep moved by what I saw outside a bank. An old

deeply

man was counting his money in the front of the bank. Suddenly a young man came running and

knocked him down. To make things bad, his money was lying in all direction. At once the people

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around rush to pick the money up when the old man stood there, not know what to do.

rushed knowing

Surprisingly, everyone gave back the money they had just picked∧. The old man counted the

up

money again and found that not a single bill was missed. To my great joy, there are now a lot of

missing /lost

nice people in your life. It’s true what honesty is more important than money!

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2.短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(^)，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除:把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。

修改:在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意:

每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;

只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

The way of communication in people’s life has changed a lot of in recent years. In the past, people keep in touch with each other mainly by writing letters or use the public telephone. But now almost everyone have a mobile phone. People can communicate with each other almost at any place and at any time. What’s more, people have easy access the Internet, it enables them to send and accept e-mails whenever they like. With these changes, people’s pace of life has been quickened and people’s work has been made more efficiently. It used to take them several days to hear from each other, and now it takes only several minutes, even if we are in two different continents.

【参考答案】2.

1. a lot of中的of去掉 2. keep—kept

3. use—using 4. have—has

5. access后加to 6. it—which

7. accept—receive 8. efficiently—efficient

9. and—but 10. we—they

3.短文改错

I went to the Summer Palace last week. At the gate I happen to meet some America tourists. I greeted him in English and then we began to chat. I got to know that they were college students travel in China. They were busy with taking pictures and were much impressed with the changes that had been taken place in the past few years. After that, we went boating in a lake and had a good time. We exchanged our email address so that we could write each other in the future. They thanked me again and again. I was very gladly to have a chance to practice my oral English.

【参考答案】3.

1. happen—happened 2. America—American

3. him—them 4. travel—travelling

5. with去掉 6. been去掉

7. in—on 8. address—addresses

9. wirte后加to 10. gladly—glad

陕西省西安市2015高考英语短文改错、阅读理解四月选练6