2024届山西省阳城县高考英语阅读理解一轮优选训练（9）
山西省阳城县2024高考英语阅读理解一轮优选练习（9）及答案
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 【四川省绵阳市2024高考英语一模试题】A Sometimes people call each other "scared-cat", but have you ever thought about this expression? When a cat is frightened, its heart starts beating faster, its muscles get tense, and there are changes in the chemicals in its bloodstream. Although the cat doesn't realize this, its body is getting ready for action. If the danger continues, the animal will do one of two things. It will defend itself, or it will run away as fast as it can. Something like this also happens to people. When we are excited, angry, scared, or aroused by other emotions, our bodies go through many physical changes. Our hearts beat faster, and our muscles get tense. All of these changes make us more alert and ready to react. We, too, get ready to defend ourselves or run. Human beings, however, have a problem that animals never face. If we give way to our feelings and let them take over, we can get into trouble. Have you ever said something in anger-or hit somebody-and regretted it later? Have you ever shouted at a teacher, told somebody you were lonely, or said you were in love, and then wished later you had kept your mouth shut? It isn't always wise to express your feelings freely. Does this mean that it's smarter always to hide our feelings? No! If you keep feelings of anger, sadness, and bitterness hidden away or bottled up inside, your body stays tense. Physical illness can develop, and you can feel churned up inside. It can actually be bad for your health. (It isn't good to keep pleasant feelings inside either; all feelings need to be expressed.) Feeling that you keep all bottles up inside, don't just go away. It's as if bought some bananas and stuck them in a cupboard. You might not be able to see them, but before long you'd smell them, if you opened the cupboard, chances are you'd see little fruit flies hovering all over them. They'd be rotten. You can try to treat emotions as if they were bananas in the cupboard. You can hide them and you can pretend they don't exist, but they'll still be around. And at last you'll have to deal with them, just like those bananas. 56. What does the word "emotions" in the second paragraph mean? A. acts B. feelings C. measurements D. thinking 57. The best title for this article is __________. A. Emotions Affect Our Bodies B. What Happens to A Frightened Cat C. What Happens to An Excited Person D. Feelings That People Have 58. The author wrote this article in order to __________. A. tell us that it isn't good to keep feelings inside B. give us some advice on how to express our feelings C. compare man with a scared cat and suggest mankind learn from it. D. make us know that it isn't always wise to express our feelings freely 【参考答案】56—58、BAB
阅读理解
Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full – blown. Quite the opposite, just as the cook has to undergo a particular training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose---school work, matters of business, or purely social communication.
You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.
There are still some faraway places in the world where you might find a public scribe（文书） to do your business or social writing for you, for money. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.
We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to papers. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figures must be extremely large.
What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writes will be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” files or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.
8. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because
.
A. both are enjoyable B. both are hard to learn
C. both are necessary to life D. both take a long time to prepare
9. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Writing skills are less important than experience.
B. A good writer should have his own way of writing.
C. A good writer should learn to write all kinds of articles.
D. The more efforts one makes, the more money one can earn.
10. The author thinks that the most important reason for us to practice writing skills is
.
A. to earn our living
B. to attract others to read
C. to do daily reports easily D. to become good secretaries
11. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to
.
A. comment and blame
B. introduce and describe
C. explain and persuade
D. interest and inform
【参考答案】(C) A B B C
阅读理解---------D
I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.
I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am about to relate I think real names of people and places are just as well, or better avoided.
I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going to tell.
Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner's son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the still greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm.
Patents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise could believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go about looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow's natural interest in his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay.
12. The writer preferred to be called ________.
A. a German
B. an Englishman
C. both a German and an Englishman
D. neither a German nor an Englishman
13. Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer?
A. Talented
B. Modest
C. Reliable
D. Wise
14. The head of the company where the writer works is ________.
A. Schmidt
B. Moritz
C. Wilhelm’s father
D. Gerhardt
15. The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a ready-loaded gun in the hotel, because
________.
A. some people sometimes let out the secrets of his company
B. the writer occasionally didn’t keep the secrets of his company
C. patents and the laws are strange things to have to do with
D. the secrets were connected with Government orders or contracts
【参考答案】 (D) BDCA
【2024高考复习】阅读理解For thousands of years，man has enjoyed the taste of apples.Apples，which are about 85 percent of water，grow almost everywhere in the world but the hottest and coldest areas.Among the leading countries in apple production are China，France and the United States.
There are various kinds of apples.But a very few make up the majority of those grown for sale.The three most common kinds grown in the United States are Delicious，Golden Delicious，and McIntosh.
Apples are different in colour，size and taste.The colour of the skin may be red，green，or yellow.They have various sizes，with Delicious apples being among the largest.The taste may be sweet or tart.Generally，sweet apples are eaten fresh while tart apples are used to make apple sauce.
Apple trees may grow as tall as twelve metres.They do best in areas that have very cold winters.Although no fruit is yielded during the winter，this cold periold is good for the tree.
1．It can be learned from the text that Delicious apples are________.
A．grown in France
B．sold everywhere
C．very big
D．quite sweet
解析 细节理解题。根据文中第三段第三句可知，Delicious是苹果品种中个头儿最大的，故选C。
答案 C
2．Cold winter weather is good for________.
A．the growth of apple trees
B．producing large apples
C．improving the taste of apples
D．the increase of water in apples
解析 细节理解题。由文章结尾一句可知，冬季对苹果树的生长有好处，故选A。
答案 A
3．China，France and the United States are considered to________.
A．be large producers of apples
B．be large producers of apple sauce
C．have the longest history in apple production
D．have the coldest winter among apple producing countries
解析 细节理解题。由第一段末句可知，中国、法国和美国是苹果产量最大的国家，故选A。
答案 A
4．The underlined word“yielded”in the last sentence means“________”．
A．improved
B．increased
C．produced
D．sold
解析 推理判断题。该词所在句的句意为“尽管冬季不产苹果，但寒冷期有益于果树的生长”。由此可知yield意为“生产”，故选C。
答案 C
阅读理解More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children，a new survey showed last Tuesday.
The survey，published by the Bank of America，studied the rich with $3 million or more in assets.It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have welldeveloped plans to preserve and pass on their assets to their children”．
The majority of the 457 people surveyed are selfmade，firstgeneration rich.Fiftytwo percent of parents have chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are，and 15 percent have given away nothing about the family wealth.One in three parents said they had never thought to do it.
They are worried that their children would become lazy，spend money freely，make bad decisions and even become a target for gold diggers.
Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance (遗产) they plan to leave them.
“There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation，” said Sallie Krawcheck，president of the Global Wealth and Investment Management of the Bank of America.“Our research，however，uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.”
The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates，who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife，the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation (基金会)，and not to his children.
“We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive impact，” he said.
Of his plans for his children，Gates said：“I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage...they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of.”
语篇解读 调查表明，大部分美国富人不愿向孩子炫富，甚至不打算将丰厚的资产传给后代。
5．We can learn from the passage that________.
A．rich parents may not know how to manage their inheritance
B．rich parents don’t equal rich kids，at least in the US
C．American children don’t get to inherit their parents’ wealth
D．poor children don’t expect themselves to be as rich as their parents
解析 推理判断题。第二段的后半部分提到在被调查的美国富人中，几乎没有人计划为他们的孩子保留资产或者将资产传给孩子，由此可推断在美国，父母富有并不意味着孩子富有。
答案 B
6．According to the survey，most rich Americans________.
A．think they owe their children nothing
B．think it best to give their money back to society
C．doubt their children’s ability to handle wealth
D．are confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth
解析 推理判断题。根据第四段内容可推知，大部分美国富人怀疑他们的孩子处理财富的能力。
答案 C
7．The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to________.
A．responsible children B．Bill Gates and his wife
C．firstgeneration rich D．rich parents
解析 猜测词义题。人们期望富裕的父母把他们的财富传给下一代，此处they指代的是画线词前面的“the wealthy parents”，即“rich parents”。
答案 D
8．From the last paragraph，we can see that Bill Gates wants to show________.
A．the trend of leaving no inheritance to children
B．the positive impact of charity on society
C．the way of giving back to society
D．the importance of independence for children解析 推理判断题。根据本段中比尔·盖茨所说的话可推知，他更强调孩子的个人奋斗，认为培养孩子的自立很重要。
答案 D
山西省阳城县2024高考英语阅读理解一轮优选练习（9）及答案
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 【四川省绵阳市2024高考英语一模试题】A Sometimes people call each other "scared-cat", but have you ever thought about this expression? When a cat is frightened, its heart starts beating faster, its muscles get tense, and there are changes in the chemicals in its bloodstream. Although the cat doesn't realize this, its body is getting ready for action. If the danger continues, the animal will do one of two things. It will defend itself, or it will run away as fast as it can. Something like this also happens to people. When we are excited, angry, scared, or aroused by other emotions, our bodies go through many physical changes. Our hearts beat faster, and our muscles get tense. All of these changes make us more alert and ready to react. We, too, get ready to defend ourselves or run. Human beings, however, have a problem that animals never face. If we give way to our feelings and let them take over, we can get into trouble. Have you ever said something in anger-or hit somebody-and regretted it later? Have you ever shouted at a teacher, told somebody you were lonely, or said you were in love, and then wished later you had kept your mouth shut? It isn't always wise to express your feelings freely. Does this mean that it's smarter always to hide our feelings? No! If you keep feelings of anger, sadness, and bitterness hidden away or bottled up inside, your body stays tense. Physical illness can develop, and you can feel churned up inside. It can actually be bad for your health. (It isn't good to keep pleasant feelings inside either; all feelings need to be expressed.) Feeling that you keep all bottles up inside, don't just go away. It's as if bought some bananas and stuck them in a cupboard. You might not be able to see them, but before long you'd smell them, if you opened the cupboard, chances are you'd see little fruit flies hovering all over them. They'd be rotten. You can try to treat emotions as if they were bananas in the cupboard. You can hide them and you can pretend they don't exist, but they'll still be around. And at last you'll have to deal with them, just like those bananas. 56. What does the word "emotions" in the second paragraph mean? A. acts B. feelings C. measurements D. thinking 57. The best title for this article is __________. A. Emotions Affect Our Bodies B. What Happens to A Frightened Cat C. What Happens to An Excited Person D. Feelings That People Have 58. The author wrote this article in order to __________. A. tell us that it isn't good to keep feelings inside B. give us some advice on how to express our feelings C. compare man with a scared cat and suggest mankind learn from it. D. make us know that it isn't always wise to express our feelings freely 【参考答案】56—58、BAB
阅读理解
Like fine food, good writing is something we approach with pleasure and enjoy from the first taste to the last. And good writers, like good cooks, do not suddenly appear full – blown. Quite the opposite, just as the cook has to undergo a particular training, mastering the skills of his trade, the writer must sit at his desk and devote long hours to achieving a style in his writing, whatever its purpose---school work, matters of business, or purely social communication.
You may be sure that the more painstaking the effort, the more effective the writing, and the more rewarding.
There are still some faraway places in the world where you might find a public scribe（文书） to do your business or social writing for you, for money. There are a few managers who are lucky enough to have the service of that rare kind of secretary who can take care of all sorts of letter writing with no more than a quick note to work from. But for most of us, if there is any writing to be done, we have to do it ourselves.
We have to write school papers, business papers or home papers. We are constantly called on to put words to papers. It would be difficult to count the number of such words, messages, letters, and reports put into mails or delivered by hand, but the daily figures must be extremely large.
What is more, everyone who writes expects, or at least hopes whatever he writes will be read, from first word to last, not just thrown into some “letters-to-be-read” files or into a wastepaper basket. This is the reason we bend our efforts toward learning and practicing the skills of interesting, effective writing.
8. In this passage, good writing is compared to fine food because
.
A. both are enjoyable B. both are hard to learn
C. both are necessary to life D. both take a long time to prepare
9. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
A. Writing skills are less important than experience.
B. A good writer should have his own way of writing.
C. A good writer should learn to write all kinds of articles.
D. The more efforts one makes, the more money one can earn.
10. The author thinks that the most important reason for us to practice writing skills is
.
A. to earn our living
B. to attract others to read
C. to do daily reports easily D. to become good secretaries
11. The purpose of the author in writing this passage is to
.
A. comment and blame
B. introduce and describe
C. explain and persuade
D. interest and inform
【参考答案】(C) A B B C
阅读理解---------D
I am a German by birth and descent. My name is Schmidt. But by education I am quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. My life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and I flatter myself I speak both languages without any foreign accent.
I count England my headquarters now: it is “home” to me. But a few years ago I was resident in Germany, only going over to London now and then on business. I will not mention the town where I lived. It is unnecessary to do so, and in the peculiar experience I am about to relate I think real names of people and places are just as well, or better avoided.
I was connected with a large and important firm of engineers. I had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of “talent”; and I was considered—and, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinion—steady and reliable, so that I had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a “rising man”. But I was still young, and not quite so wise as I thought myself. I came close once to making a great mess of a certain affair. It is this story which I am going to tell.
Our house went in largely for patents—rather too largely, some thought. But the head partner's son was a bit of a genius in his way, and his father was growing old, and let Herr Wilhelm - Moritz we will call the family name—do pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit of the still greater caution and larger experience of Herr Gerhardt, the second partner in the firm.
Patents and the laws which regulate them are strange things to have to do with. No one who has not had personal experience of the complications that arise could believe how far these spread and how involved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to port—and perhaps more than anything, a power of holding your tongue. I was no chatterbox, nor, when on a mission of importance, did I go about looking as if I were bursting with secrets, which is, in my opinion, almost as dangerous as revealing them. No one, to meet me on the journeys which it often fell to my lot to undertake, would have guessed that I had anything on my mind but an easy-going young fellow's natural interest in his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awake through a whole night of railway travel if at all doubtful about my fellow-passengers, or not dared to go to sleep in a hotel without a ready-loaded gun by my pillow. For now and then - though not through me - our secrets did ooze out. And if, as has happened, they were secrets connected with Government orders or contracts, there was, or but for the exertion of the greatest energy and tact on the part of my superiors, there would have been, to put it plainly, the devil to pay.
12. The writer preferred to be called ________.
A. a German
B. an Englishman
C. both a German and an Englishman
D. neither a German nor an Englishman
13. Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer?
A. Talented
B. Modest
C. Reliable
D. Wise
14. The head of the company where the writer works is ________.
A. Schmidt
B. Moritz
C. Wilhelm’s father
D. Gerhardt
15. The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a ready-loaded gun in the hotel, because
________.
A. some people sometimes let out the secrets of his company
B. the writer occasionally didn’t keep the secrets of his company
C. patents and the laws are strange things to have to do with
D. the secrets were connected with Government orders or contracts
【参考答案】 (D) BDCA
【2024高考复习】阅读理解For thousands of years，man has enjoyed the taste of apples.Apples，which are about 85 percent of water，grow almost everywhere in the world but the hottest and coldest areas.Among the leading countries in apple production are China，France and the United States.
There are various kinds of apples.But a very few make up the majority of those grown for sale.The three most common kinds grown in the United States are Delicious，Golden Delicious，and McIntosh.
Apples are different in colour，size and taste.The colour of the skin may be red，green，or yellow.They have various sizes，with Delicious apples being among the largest.The taste may be sweet or tart.Generally，sweet apples are eaten fresh while tart apples are used to make apple sauce.
Apple trees may grow as tall as twelve metres.They do best in areas that have very cold winters.Although no fruit is yielded during the winter，this cold periold is good for the tree.
1．It can be learned from the text that Delicious apples are________.
A．grown in France
B．sold everywhere
C．very big
D．quite sweet
解析 细节理解题。根据文中第三段第三句可知，Delicious是苹果品种中个头儿最大的，故选C。
答案 C
2．Cold winter weather is good for________.
A．the growth of apple trees
B．producing large apples
C．improving the taste of apples
D．the increase of water in apples
解析 细节理解题。由文章结尾一句可知，冬季对苹果树的生长有好处，故选A。
答案 A
3．China，France and the United States are considered to________.
A．be large producers of apples
B．be large producers of apple sauce
C．have the longest history in apple production
D．have the coldest winter among apple producing countries
解析 细节理解题。由第一段末句可知，中国、法国和美国是苹果产量最大的国家，故选A。
答案 A
4．The underlined word“yielded”in the last sentence means“________”．
A．improved
B．increased
C．produced
D．sold
解析 推理判断题。该词所在句的句意为“尽管冬季不产苹果，但寒冷期有益于果树的生长”。由此可知yield意为“生产”，故选C。
答案 C
阅读理解More than half of rich Americans have not shown their full wealth to their children，a new survey showed last Tuesday.
The survey，published by the Bank of America，studied the rich with $3 million or more in assets.It found that “surprisingly few of those surveyed have welldeveloped plans to preserve and pass on their assets to their children”．
The majority of the 457 people surveyed are selfmade，firstgeneration rich.Fiftytwo percent of parents have chosen not to tell their children just how wealthy they are，and 15 percent have given away nothing about the family wealth.One in three parents said they had never thought to do it.
They are worried that their children would become lazy，spend money freely，make bad decisions and even become a target for gold diggers.
Only 34 percent strongly agreed that their children would be able to handle any inheritance (遗产) they plan to leave them.
“There is an expectation about the wealthy parents that they have a responsibility to pass down their fortune to the next generation，” said Sallie Krawcheck，president of the Global Wealth and Investment Management of the Bank of America.“Our research，however，uncovered changing views of what one generation owes the next.”
The trend is led by the world’s richest man Bill Gates，who promised in 2008 that he would leave his $58 billion fortune to the charity started by him and his wife，the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation (基金会)，and not to his children.
“We want to give it back to society in the way that it will have the most positive impact，” he said.
Of his plans for his children，Gates said：“I will give the kids some money but not a meaningful percentage...they will need to work but they will feel reasonably taken care of.”
语篇解读 调查表明，大部分美国富人不愿向孩子炫富，甚至不打算将丰厚的资产传给后代。
5．We can learn from the passage that________.
A．rich parents may not know how to manage their inheritance
B．rich parents don’t equal rich kids，at least in the US
C．American children don’t get to inherit their parents’ wealth
D．poor children don’t expect themselves to be as rich as their parents
解析 推理判断题。第二段的后半部分提到在被调查的美国富人中，几乎没有人计划为他们的孩子保留资产或者将资产传给孩子，由此可推断在美国，父母富有并不意味着孩子富有。
答案 B
6．According to the survey，most rich Americans________.
A．think they owe their children nothing
B．think it best to give their money back to society
C．doubt their children’s ability to handle wealth
D．are confident of their children’s ability to handle wealth
解析 推理判断题。根据第四段内容可推知，大部分美国富人怀疑他们的孩子处理财富的能力。
答案 C
7．The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refers to________.
A．responsible children B．Bill Gates and his wife
C．firstgeneration rich D．rich parents
解析 猜测词义题。人们期望富裕的父母把他们的财富传给下一代，此处they指代的是画线词前面的“the wealthy parents”，即“rich parents”。
答案 D
8．From the last paragraph，we can see that Bill Gates wants to show________.
A．the trend of leaving no inheritance to children
B．the positive impact of charity on society
C．the way of giving back to society
D．the importance of independence for children解析 推理判断题。根据本段中比尔·盖茨所说的话可推知，他更强调孩子的个人奋斗，认为培养孩子的自立很重要。
答案 D
