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1、2020廣東韶關(guān)市高考英語二輪閱讀理解練習(xí)（3）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。【2020模擬】閱讀理解Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the i
2、nformation given in the passage you have just read.。On “Super Bowl Sunday”, millions of Americans are glued to their TVs. They are eating pizza, chicken wings and chips and cheering every move. Theyre watching the Super Bowl.Why are Americans so crazy about American football? Well, it is more exciti
3、ng than other sports. One team can lose possession of the ball in a minute, which may allow their opponents to make a touchdown(觸地得分). Then that team may win the game unexpectedly.The Super Bowl also entertains its audience with a great halftime show. The football field is turned into a stage. Then
4、an impressive performance of dancing and singing with special effects occurs.Since the Super Bowl is the most-watched TV program in America, commercial airtime is also very expensive. Big money is also spent on commercials. They draw the viewers attention and advertise their image or products during
5、 the commercial break.After football season, the “March Madness” begins. The NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) competitions begin with 68 mens college basketball teams. They play until the field is reduced to the “Final Four”. The winning team becomes the national champion. The NBA (Na
6、tional Basketball Association) All-Star game is also held in February. The best players from all the teams play in this game.Baseball is no doubt Americans national sport. From grandpas to young kids, whole families go to ball games together. They wear their favorite teams caps or even carry their m
7、ascot(吉祥物). Our family went to watch Wang Chien-Ming play in D.C. once. We ate hot dogs, waved flags and sang during the 7th inning(棒球的一局) stretch.If you are not a sports fan yet, come and pick a sport or a team. Go to a ball game with your family, and cheer your team on. Sports are definitely a par
8、t of American culture one should not miss.66. According to the passage, the Super Bowl is _.A. a well-received American football gameB. an expensive American sportC. an impressive TV performanceD. a most-watched TV series67. Which of the following may be one of the reasons for the popularity of the
9、Super Bowl?A. Its results are too exciting to meet viewers expectations.B. People can eat pizza, chicken wings and chips when watching it.C. Its commercials are expensive enough to draw viewers attention.D. The performances during its halftime show are appealing to viewers.68. Which of the following
10、 is TRUE according to the passage?A. Americans spend a large amount of money on ball games.B. American people of all ages like going to watch baseball games.C. All the American stars take part in the national basketball game.D. There are important national ball games in America almost every month.69
11、. The passage is mainly written to _.A. inform readers of the three popular sports in AmericaB. teach readers how to understand the sports culture in AmericaC. encourage readers to fit in with American culture through sportsD. show readers the importance of sports in young peoples life in America【參考
12、答案】66. A 67. D 68. B 69. C閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。Watch out, YahooTheres search engine out there with super speed and accuracyIts really coolGoogle is the Webs largest search engineIn just two years it has gained a reputation for surprising speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what your
13、e looking for in a secondThe site now does this 40 million times a day a number achieved without spending a penny on a TV or newspaper adGoogle doesnt need themIn the past six months alone, the site has won a Webby （the online version of the Oscar） for technical excellence, set a new record for sear
14、ch engines by indexing a billion Web pagesYahoo still has 10 times the audience, but Google consistently ranks first in customer satisfaction: 97% of users find what theyre looking for most or all the time“You see people smile when they use it, like theyve found something no one else knows about,” s
15、ays Danny Sullivan, editor of an online newsletterNo one is smiling more than Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, who seem certain to become billionaires when the company goes public, probable sometime next yearThey make a great comedy duoWhen they first met as PhDstudents, the pair say, they found
16、 each other horrible “I still find him horrible,” adds Brin but were driven together by a computer science project aimed at coming up with better ways of searching the WebThe idea behind Google is that traditional search engines are stupidThey think relevance is based on repetition; if you type in a
17、 request for Tiger Woods, say, youll get websites listed according to how many times those words appearNot only is this no guarantee of quality, but its also open to abuseIf you own a Tiger fan site and want to lead more people to it, simply type his name thousands of times in the sites source code1
18、The first paragraph serves to Acompare two websitesBbring out the topicCput blame on YahooDgive the background of the topic2Which of the following wins greater customer satisfaction?AYahooBGoogleCPageDBrin3It can be inferred that Page and Brin Awork for GoogleBare Tiger fansChated each otherDwork fo
19、r Yahoo【參考答案】13 BBA。閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。As a solo artist, Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here(Britain) the image of her and her second husband, Andrew
20、Lloyd Webber (he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen.The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my
21、 life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the norm and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. Im not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.”Talking about gr
22、owing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father a property developer who later committed suicide), she says: “I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared
23、 in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.Brightman led the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞） Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I cant remember. Girls c
24、hange such a lot between 18 and 22. It didnt really work out.” In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance, Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.Brightman says she felt hostility(敵意) “from the beginning. I havent tried to understand it. Iv
25、e done very well everywhere else, especially the US, where I now live, I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I dont miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.”1. The f
26、irst paragraph tells us that _.A. Brightman is very popular around the world except in AmericaB. Brightmans musical style is a mixture of opera, pop and jazzC. the British people dont like her for her style of musicD. Brightman is much older than Andrew Lloyd Webber2. Brightman decided to give up ha
27、ving children because _.A. she could adopt oneB. her life and career were unbelievably rich without childrenC. she felt it normal not to have childrenD. she was too busy3. The following statements are true except _.A. Brightman first appeared in a West End musical at 5B. Brightman disliked life on t
28、he campusC. Brightman was very gifted when she was youngD.The saucy dance troupe made Brightman famous4. The underlined word in the fourth paragraph probably means _.A. located B. admired C. followed D. found5. What does the author try to say in the last paragraph by quoting Brightmans words?A. Brig
29、htman has to accept the fact that she is not liked in BritainB. Brightman lives in America but she loves her own countryC. The British coldness towards Brightman led to her hatred to her homelandD. Brightman was at a loss why she was not welcome in Britain【參考答案】BCADA閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選
30、項。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
31、 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
32、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 consideredand, with all modesty, I think I deserved the opinionsteady and reliable,
33、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
34、patentsrather too largely, some thought. But the head partners 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 namedo pretty much as he chose. And on the whole Herr Wilhelm did well. He was cautious, and he had the benefit o
35、f 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 inv
36、olved they become. Great acuteness as well as caution is called for if you would guide your patent bark safely to portand 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,
37、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 fellows natural interest in his surroundings, though many a time I have stayed awak
38、e 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 Gove
39、rnment 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 GermanB. an EnglishmanC. both a German and an Englishman D. neither a Ge
40、rman nor an Englishman13. Which of the following words cannot be used to describe the writer?A. Talented B. Modest C. Reliable D. Wise14. The head of the company where the writer works is _.A. SchmidtB. Moritz C. Wilhelms fatherD. Gerhardt15. The writer often stayed awake on the train or kept a read
41、y-loaded gun in the hotel, because _.A. some people sometimes let out the secrets of his companyB. the writer occasionally didnt keep the secrets of his companyC. patents and the laws are strange things to have to do withD. the secrets were connected with Government orders or contracts【參考答案】1215、BDC
42、A閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項?！?020模擬】閱讀理解Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the
43、 passage you have just read.When my old dog developed major health problems, I knew that watching him fail would be painful, but I wasnt prepared for the powerful lessons hed offer in the last year of his life.Chance was 14 when the problems started. First, he developed a cancer that left him whistl
44、ing for breath. Then came cataracts (白內(nèi)障) in both eyes, arthritis (關(guān)節(jié)炎) in his legs, and a series of ministrokes (小中風(fēng)) that threw off his balance. Any one of these misfortunes would have left me begging for relief, but Chance became calmer as the disabilities piled up.When leg pain left him frozen o
45、n the floor, unable to rise for a quick pat as I came home, he didnt complain. He just lay there patiently, signaling me with his hammering tail, each movement spelling out the value of waiting for the things you want. When his cataracts made steering impossible after dark, hed stand calmly until I
46、could guide him inside, proving how easy it is to find happiness if you let go of your pride and insecurities and learn to lean on those who love you. When ministrokes had him walk unsteadily like a drunk, he taught the value of persistence. For days after each attack, hed fall as he moved about. Ye
47、t again and again hed try to walk, each day moving a few more steps until finally he was able to get outside and back by himself.There were lessons in so much of what he did, but the key one surely was the importance of obtaining all the joy possible from each experience whether its a day lazing und
48、er a warm sun or a few minutes appreciating a favorite meal.For most of our life together, Chance was always rushing ahead, searching out new adventures, then circling back to let me know what lay around the next bend. As an old dog, he did the same thing, using his attitude, instead of his once-fas
49、t legs, to show the way.66.Chance suffered very much from all the diseases he had except for _.A. having problem with breathB. walking around awkwardlyC. having trouble drinkingD. losing his eyesight in darkness67._ is the most important lesson the author learned from Chance.A. Living in the present
50、 and enjoying what we have B. Learning to depend on those who we love and trustC. That we should expect good things to happen patientlyD. That we should persevere in what we believe is worth trying68.It is implied in the passage that _.A. people might suffer from different diseases when they grow ol
51、dB. people could face aging with courage and dignity C. pets would become calmer for lack of energy in their last daysD. pets and masters should stick together helping each other in difficulty69.Which of the following words best describes the authors feelings to Chance?A. Bitter.B. Grateful.C. Proud.D. Sympathetic.【參考答案】66-69 CABB
廣東省韶關(guān)市2020高考英語二輪復(fù)習(xí) 閱讀理解練習(xí)（3）
