高考英语二轮专题复习提升精选：阅读理解18

这是一份高考英语二轮专题复习提升精选：阅读理解18，共8页。
1.LONDON (Reuters)Ecturism is causing a lt f damage t wildlife and may be endangering the survival f the very animals peple are flcking t see, accrding t researchers.
Bilgists and cnservatinists are wrried because plar bears, dlphins, penguins and ther creatures are getting stressed and lsing weight and sme are dying.
"Evidence is grwing that many animals d nt react well t turists in their backyard，” New Scientist magazine said.
The immediate effects "researchers have nticed are changes in behavir, heart rates. r stress hrmne levels but they fear it culd get much wrse and ver the lng term “ culd endanger the survival f the very wildlife they want t see. ”
Althugh mney prduced thrugh ecturism, which has been grwing at abut 10-30 percent a year, has majr benefits fr pr cuntries and peple living in rural areas, the Swiss-based Wrld Cnservatin Unin (IUCN) and sme gvernments fear nt all prjects are audited（审计） and based n envirnmentally friendly plicies，accrding t the magazine.
Transmissin f disease t wildlife，r small changes t wildlife health thrugh disturbance f daily life r increased stress levels, while nt bvius t the casual bserver, may translate t lwer survival and breeding，” said Philip Seddn , f the University f Otag in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Scientists have nticed that bttleneck dlphins alng the nrtheastern cast f New Zealand becme nervusly excited when turist bats arrive. Similar changes in behavir have been bserved in plar bears and yellw-eyed penguins in areas visited by clrists are prducing smaller babies.
Cnservatinists are nw calling fr mre research int the effect f ecturism n animals and say the industry must be develped carefully. They als want studies dne befre new ecturism prjects are started.
“The animals’ welfare shuld be very imprtant because withut them there will be n ecturism，” said Rchelle Cnstantine f the University f Auckland in New Zealand
67.Which is nt discvered t have changed in animals disturbed by turists?
A. behavir B. birth rate C. hrmne levels D. heart rates
68.We may learn frm the text that _____.
A. ecturism must be develped prperly
B. plar bears are lsing weight withut enugh fd
C. all the pr cuntries have stpped ecturism
D. mney prduced thrugh ecturism shuld be spent n wildlife
69.Which f the fllwing is NOT mentined in the text?
A. Many animals d nt react well in their backyard
B. Studies shuld be dne befre new ecturism prjects are started
C. Ecturism has been grwing at abut 10—30 percent a year.
D. plar bears in areas visited by ecturists are prducing smaller babies.
70.What Rchelle Cnstantine said in the last paragraph implies that _____.
A. if peple want t get high incme, they must develp ecturism
B. animals have rights t live their wn life
C. animals are peple's gd friends
D. peple shuld take gd care f wildlife
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3.Each year n February 2nd, there is special festival called Grundhg Day (土拨鼠日 )' frecasting event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. When it cmes, peple frm arund the wrld, including 5,000 in the small twn tday, watch this tngue-twisting(发音饶舌的) small twn fr a sign frm ne grundhg that suppsedly predicts when that years' spring will arrive.
If it's a cludy day utside when the grundhg pps frm its cave, then spring will arrive early that year. Hwever, if it is sunny utside, the grundhg will suppsedly be scared by its wn shadw, hiding undergrund fr six mre weeks f cld weather.
Of curse, Punxsutawney Phil's predictin is n mre able t guarantee the extended frecast than yur lcal weatherman. ABC News reprts that an analysis by the Natinal Climate Data Center fund that Phil's predictins are mre ften wrng than right.
Philis is als fund t have made sme unpleasant predictins. Ever since 1887, he has predicted 99 extended winters and just 16 early springs .Nine f the years' predictins were unavailable, accrding t ABC.
The hliday began as a German traditin in 18th century and became even mre f a cultural phenmenn after the 1993 film Grundhg Day starring Bill Murray.
Punxsutawney Phil has becme a celebrity in his wn right. Each year, the fatter animal with lng teeth is watched by millins as he emerges frm a cave in the twn he is named after. Phil has becme s belved by the twn that he actually lives in the lcal library with his “wife" Phyllis.
Taking inspiratin frm the hard state f Bill Murray’s character in the classic film, Yah cntributr Owen Rust says Grundhg Day is a gd time t reflect n ne’s rutines.
60. The underlined wrd “pps” means “ ”.
A. escapesB. appears C. increasesD. hides
61. The reasn why Phil's predictins aren't pleasing is that_____________.
A. sme f the predictins were unavailable B. Phil wants t d that fr fun
C. Phil likes t make unpleasant predictins D. he has predicted mre late springs
62. Hw des Punxsutawney Phil becme a celebratin?
A. By an accident. B. Frm peple's life imprving.
C. By his wn attractive frce D. Frm much mney raised by the twn.
63. Which des this passage mainly talk abut?
A. The Natinal Climate Data Center B. A German traditin
C. A tngue-twisting small twn D. Grundhg Day weather frecasting
4.Many years ag, I pulled a family ut f a burning car smewhere in Wyming. Last week I received a telephne call frm a wman wh culd nt stp crying as she tld me that ne f my stries had saved her sn frm cmmitting suicide. In clsing she called me a her.
That gt me thinking abut what a her is. Was I a her because I pulled a family frm a burning car? If s, hw culd I be a her just because I wrte a stry that saved smene’s life?
Tday I lked up the wrd “her” in the dictinary t see exactly what it meant. It read “a persn wh des smething brave” and als “a persn wh is gd and nble”.
That statement impressed me mre than the part abut being brave. S I thught abut smething very imprtant. And I remembered what happened t me years ag.
After my marriage f twenty years ended, I was in such a cnditin. I was within hurs trying t get enugh curage t end the pain and misery. When I returned hme, smene had sent me a card in the mail which tld me hw much they wuld appreciate me as a friend. That wnderful card prbably saved my life. That persn, withut even knwing it, saved a life and became a her.
The many stries I kept writing in the fllwing years saved the life f a teenage by. In turn that makes the persn wh sent me the card a duble her. I suppse that is why I fight s hard t help the children nw living in rphanages (孤儿院). Mst children cme ut f these institutins with a very hard and bitter attitude against the wrld. The gifts we send them let them knw that they have nt been frgtten. Hpefully, mst f them will never hurt anyne because f the kindness shwn t them by thse f us wh cared. If it wrks, we will als becme "heres".
56. The main idea f the passage is _______________.
A. why the writer shuld be a her B. what a her exactly is
C. whether the writer is a her D. that everyne is a her
57. Why did the wman call the writer a her at the end f the call?
A. Because he asked her sn nt t kill himself.
B. Because he saved a family frm a burning car.
C. Because his stry saved her sn’s life.
D. Because he was cute and kind t everybdy.
58. What des the underlined wrd “it” in the last sentence f Paragraph 5 refer t?
A. The wnderful card the writer received.
B. The actin f sending the card.
C. The fact that the sender helped the writer.
D. The fact that the sender was a friend f the writer.
59. What’s the writer’s attitude t “brave peple”?
A. neutral B. supprtive C. bjective D. irny
5. We can begin ur discussin f “ppulatin as a glbal issue” with what mst persn mean when they discuss “ the ppulatin prblem”: t many peple n earth and a t rapid increase in the number added each year. The facts are nt in dispute. It was quite right t emply a similar matter that linked demgraphic(人口统计学）grwth t “ a lng, thin pwer fuse that burns steadily frm time t time until it finally reaches the limit, and expldes”.
T understand the current situatin, which is characterized by rapid increases in ppulatin, it is necessary t understand the histry f ppulatin trends. Rapid grwth is a cmparatively recent phenmenn. Lking back at the 8,000 years f demgraphic histry. We find that ppulatin have been really stable r grwing very slightly fr mst f human histry. Fr mst f ur ancestrs, life was hard, ften nasty, and very shrt. Fr mst f human histry, it was seldm the case that ne in ten persns wuld live past frty, where infancy and childhd were especially risky perids. Often, scieties were in clear danger f extinctin because death rates culd exceed their birth rates. Thus, the ppulatin prblem thrughut mst f histry was hw t prevent extinctin f the human race.
This pattern is imprtant t knw. Nt nly des it put the current prblems f demgraphic grwth int a histrical perspective, but it suggests that the cause f rapid increase in ppulatin in recent years is nt a sudden enthusiasm fr mre children, but an imprvement in the cnditins that traditinally have caused high rate f death.
Demgraphic histry can be divided int tw majr perids: a time f lng, slw grwth which extended frm abut 8000B.C. till apprximately 1650 A.D. And a perid f rapid grwth since 1650. In the first perid f sme 9,600 years, the ppulatin increased frm sme 8 millin t 500 millin in 1650. Between 1650 and the present, the ppulatin has increased frm 500 millin t mre than 4 billin. And it is estimated that by the year 2020 there will be 8 billin peple thrughut the wrld. One way t appreciate this dramatic difference in such abstract numbers is t reduce the time frame t smething that is mre manageable. Between 8000B.C. and 1650, an average f nly 50,000 persns was being added annually t the wrld’s ppulatin each year. At present, this number is added very six hurs. The increase is abut 80,000,000 persns annually.
66. Accrding t the passage, “ppulatin as a glbal issue” ____.
is quite unlike the ppulatin prblem and thus desn’t need ur cncern
fcuses n tracking dwn the reasn f rapid ppulatin grwth
deals with the same prblem arused by the ppulatin prblem
will manage the ppulatin grwth prblem frm glbal perspectives
67. It can be inferred frm the example f a pwer fuse that _____.
t much ppulatin will ne day lead t the dm f human beings
the trend f ppulatin grwth will keep unsteady until the destructin f Earth
demgraphic grwth will fllw a certain pattern f ups and dwns
it is likely in the near future that ppulatin will reduce gradually
68. What leads t a stable grwth f ppulatin fr mst f human histry?
Species cmpetitin B. Lw fertility C. Tribal fights D. High rate f death
69. The reasn fr a rapid grwth f ppulatin lies in the fact that ______.
peple are permitted t have mre children B. peple can live better than befre
C. newbrn babies die less than befre D. we have fund the secret f lngevity
70. Hw many peple are brn every six hurs at present, accrding t the authr?
Eighty millin. B. Eight thusand C. Fifty thusand D. Five millin
6. On the high-speed train Avignn t Paris, my husband and I landed in the nly remaining seats n the train, in the middle f a car, directly ppsite a Frenchwman f middle years. It was an extremely uncmfrtable arrangement t be lking straight int the eyes f a stranger. My husband and I pulled ut bks. The wman prduced a large makeup case and made up her face. Except fr a lunch break, she cntinued this activity fr the entire three-hur trip. Every nce in a while she surveyed the car with a bright-eyed glance, but never nce did she catch my eye. My husband and I culd have been a blanket wall.
I was amused, but sme peple wuld have felt uncmfrtable , even repulsed(厌恶的）.there is smething abut making up in public that calls up strng emtinal reactins. Partly it’s a questin f hygiene. And it’s a matter f degree. Making up --- a private act--- has a way f neglecting the presence f thers. I was nce seated at a party with a mdel-actress wh immediately waved a silly brush and began dusting her face at the table, demnstrating that while she was next t me, she was nt with me.
In fact, I am generally prhibited frm making up in public, except when I am in the cmpany f csmetics mment. In a gathering mre prfessinal than scial, I wuld d s.
Kathy Peiss, a histry prfessr at the University f Massachusetts in Amherst says that nse-pwdering in the ffice was an ccasin fr utrage in 1920’s and 30’s. Deplring the practice as a waste f cmpany time, trade jurnals advises managers t discurage it amng wrkers. Peiss therizes that it was female’s making up in what has been an all-male field that disturb sme gentlemen.
Peiss tells me that after the 30’s , pulling ut a make-up case was n lnger an issue. It became an accepted practice. I asked if she feels free t apply lipstick at a prfessinal lunch herself. Sunding mildly shcked, she says she wuld save that fr the privacy f her car afterward. Why? Because it wuld be “a gesture f inapprpriate feminity(女性化）.” One guess is that mst prfessinal wmen feel this way. There is evidence f the ppularity f the new lipsticks that remain in place all day withut retuching.
61. Accrding t the authr, “My husband and I culd have been a blanket wall.” (Line 6, Para.1) mst prbably means “________”.
We were treated with an expressinless face.
B. We lked at the French wman expressinlessly
C. We used bks as a wall t avid the wman’s eyes
D. We were f n existence in the French wman’s eyes
62. In the authr’s pinin, she _______.
allws public making up n certain ccasins
feels cmfrtable when making up in public
nly makes up n scial ccasins
makes up befre any prfessinal gatherings
63. Accrding t Peiss, nse pwdering in an ffice was criticized mainly fr the reasn that ____.
nrmal ffice wrk was disturbed B. it discuraged wmen’s interest in career
C. make dminance was emphasized there D. it distracted make wrkers’ fcus n wrk
64. Why d mst prfessinal wmen give up using lipsticks in public?
Because they are wrried abut being lked dwn upn
Because it emphasizes their female features in wrng situatins
Because it implies wmen’s disadvantages in academic fields
Because they are ashamed t be seen making up in frnt f males/
65. It can be inferred that in a highly pen sciety, the differences between men and wmen ______.
have attracted little attentin B. hinder the scial develpment
C. are attractive tpics in talk shws D. still call fr great cncern
试卷答案
1.67-70 BADD
2.64-66 ACD
3.60-63 BACD
4.56-59 BCCB
5.CADBC
6.DACBD
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