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1、2019屆高考英語一輪復習自選訓練 閱讀理解10
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Whether you depend on your bike for transportation (交通) or exercise,you'll enjoy these fun facts on this two-wheeled vehicle (車輛).
* In 1817,Karl von Drais from Germany invented a horseless carriage that would help him
2、 get around faster.The machine became known as the “draisine”,and led to the creation of the modern bicycle.
* The term “bicycle” was not introduced until the 1860s,when it was created in France to describe a new kind of two-wheeler.
* Fred A.Birchmore circled the globe by bicycle at the age of 25
3、 in 1935.The whole trip covered forty thousand miles.He rode about 25,000 miles and wore out seven sets of tires (輪胎).
* There are over a half billion bicycles in China.They are the most common means of transportation.Bikes were first brought to China in the late 1800s.
* About 100 million bicycle
4、s are made worldwide each year.
* Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all city trips.Europeans bike in cities a lot more often—in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle,30 percent in the Netherlands,and seven out of eight Dutch people over age 15 have a bike.
* The Tour
5、de France is one of the most famous bicycle races in the world.Established in 1903,it is considered to be the biggest test of endurance (耐久力) out of all sports.Lance Armstrong,an American cyclist,is the only man to have won seven titles (2019—2019) after surviving cancer.
* Bicycle Moto Cross (BMX)
6、,an extreme style of bicycle track racing,became a sport in the 2019 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing,China.Maris Strombergs,from Latvia,received
the gold medal for Men's BMX,and Anne Caroline Chausson,from France,took home the gold in the first Women's BMX Olympic event.
【語篇解讀】 本文為說明文。自行車是我們生活中常見
7、的交通工具。你了解有關自行車的趣事嗎?
1.The passage is written mainly to ________.
A.tell an interesting story
B.tell us the history of the bicycle
C.encourage more people to ride bicycles
D.introduce some interesting facts about the bicycle
答案 D [推理判斷題。文章開篇點明了寫作目的:介紹有關自行車的趣事。]
2.Who use the bicycle least acco
8、rding to the passage?
A.Chinese. B.Americans.
C.Italians. D.Dutch people.
答案 B [細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中所列的第四點和第六點可以看出美國人騎自行車的比例最小,不到百分之一。]
3.What can be learned from the passage?
A.Karl von Drais invented the modern bicycle.
B.Fred A.Birchmore was the first to go around the world.
C.Anne Caroline Chauss
9、on won seven titles of the Tour de France.
D.Maris Strombergs won the first Men's BMX Olympic event.
答案 D [細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中所列舉的第一點、第三點和最后兩點可知,Karl von Drais發(fā)明了一種叫draisine的機器,它是現(xiàn)代自行車的前身;Fred A.Birchmore在25歲時騎行全球,并未提到他是不是第一個環(huán)行全球的人:Maris Strombergs和Anne Caroline Chausson分別獲得小輪車成為奧運會比賽項目后的第一屆男女冠軍:是Lance Arm
10、strong戰(zhàn)勝癌癥后獲得環(huán)法自行車賽的七個獎項,故D項正確。]
4.From the passage,we know that the author ________.
A.owns a bicycle shop
B.is good at riding a bike
C.has a rich knowledge of the bicycle
D.has taken part in the Tour de France
答案 C [推理判斷題。文章給讀者介紹了許多有關自行車的趣事,由此可看出作者這方面知識豐富,故選C項。]
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維B1 閱讀理解(每題2分,滿分8分)
選材相似度:★★★★
設題相似度:★★★
難度系數(shù):★★★★
Katharine Mehta's mother likes to joke that the first sentence her daughter said was “I love dogs.” It's not the fact,but it's certainly true in spirit.
“When I was young,my grandmother told me about how
12、she sometimes found stray dogs and cats,and kept them on her farm as pets,” says Katharine.“That made me wonder what would happen when animals didn't have a home.I felt horrible thinking that they might be hungry or could get hit by a car.”
But what could a little girl do? The answer came during a
13、trip to a park in her New York City neighborhood two years ago,where she met volunteers from Mighty Mutts,a local no-kill animal rescue organization.“I thought maybe I could earn some money and give it to them,” she says.
Since Katharine had plenty of practice taking care of her own dog,she decided
14、 to start a summer dog-walking service.She chose two friends and,with their parents' permission,the group put up homemade posters with their phone numbers and a bargain price—50 cents an hour.Before long they had 15 dogs in their care.“We walked two or three at a time with one mother helping out,” s
15、he says.“By the end of that summer,we'd collected $45.” That fall Katharine and her mother,Loma,came up with another mini enterprise to raise money for Mighty Mutts—selling fresh-baked shortbread to their neighbors.
The 11-year-old,who starts sixth grade this fall,has become a nonstop campaigner.He
16、r mother says,“When she sees somebody with a dog,she starts a conversation and tells them to donate to Mighty Mutts.”
Katharine's passion comes from the heart.“It makes me cry to think that strays might be_put_to_sleep when there's a group that can find new homes for them,” Katharine says.“But it m
17、akes me smile to know I can help.”
Notes:
①stray adj.流浪的?、趕hortbread n.黃油甜酥餅
【語篇解讀】 本文主要講了11歲女孩Katharine是如何關愛和幫助流浪狗等小動物的。
1.Katharine's love of dogs comes from ________.
A.her grandmother's influence
B.her mother's influence
C.the influence of an organization
D.seeing a dog killed by a car
18、答案 A [細節(jié)理解題。由第二段可知,Katharine關心流浪狗是受奶奶的影響。]
2.How did Katharine help the organization—Mighty Mutts?
A.By walking stray dogs.
B.By giving shortbread to stray dogs.
C.By collecting money.
D.By making speeches everywhere.
答案 C [推理判斷題。由第三、四段可知,Katharine為別人遛狗掙錢,然后捐給Mighty Mutts,并且經(jīng)常勸說養(yǎng)狗的人為Mighty Mut
19、ts捐款,故選C。]
3.The underlined part “be put to sleep” in the last paragraph means “________”.
A.to be supplied with a comfortable place for sleeping
B.to be given drugs so that they can die without pain
C.to be made unconscious before a medical operation
D.to be made to sleep
答案 B [詞義猜測題。Katharin
20、e很有愛心,非常關心無家可歸的小動物,所以她一想到流浪的小動物被人們用藥物所謂“仁道地”殺死,她就會心痛地流淚。put to sleep意為“用藥物使(長眠),無痛苦地殺死”。]
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Katharine and her pets
B.An organization for rescuing stray dogs
C.Pet dogs are popular with children
D.A little girl helps strays
答案 D [主旨大意題。全文主要講述了小女孩Katharine幫助、關愛流浪狗,故正確答案為D。]
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