(完整版)2017年高考英语阅读理解练习题7.
莲蓬手-触碰心灵的话
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To
American visitors, Iceland is a very interesting
country, partly because it is
different in so
many ways from what he or she is used to seeing at
home. There are quite
a few things that are
not done, or that do not exist on the island
—quite a few
There is no pollution, for
instance. No dogs are permitted in Reykjavik, the
capital.
There is no television on Thursdays
or during the entire month of July, and only three
hours of black-and-white TV the rest of the
time. There is no hard liquor on Wednesdays
and no beer at any time. There are no
handguns; only one jail of thirty-five cells in
the
entire land —an admirable figure, even for
a small country of 313,376 people.
There is no
army, air force or navy. There is no tipping for
anything. There are no
large stores open on
Saturdays or Sundays. Since Iceland is situated
just under the Arctic
Circle, there is no
darkness in summer and no daylight in winter. But
thanks to Gulf
Stream, the climate is rather
mild, with temperatures ranging from 34 degrees
Fahrenheit
to 52 degrees in July.
The
rules on television, liquor, and guns are the
result of governmental decision. But
the
absence of pollution is due in great part to the
fact that Iceland gets its power from the
enormous geyser(间歇泉and the thousands of hot
springs that come out of the ground.
They
provide all the energy needed by the country. In
fact, Iceland uses only 3 percent of
all its
available power.
Iceland has been described as
a democratic independent country where more fish
are
caught and more books published per person
than anywhere else in the world. The
Icelanders have always felt a particular love
for literature. They composed their first
works in the ninth and tenth centuries AD.
These works were poems and tales about the
kings, heroes, and heroines of Iceland and
Norway. At first the stories were memorized
and passed from generation to
generation. They were finally written down between
1140
and 1220. The Icelanders have never
stopped writing ever since. “Ra ther shoeless than
bookless,
1. American visitors enjoy
visiting Iceland probably because .
A. no dogs
are permitted in the capital
B. the police do
not carry handguns
C. the climate is rather
mild.
D. it is very different from America
2. The following statements are true EXCEPT .
A. there are no soldiers in Iceland
B. the
Icelanders don't drink beer
C. there is no
service fee of any kind
D. there are no crimes
in Iceland
3. There is no pollution in Iceland
mainly because .
A. Iceland uses only 3
percent of all its available power
B. the
Icelanders use hot water from the ground below as
their energy
C. it is located just under the
Arctic Circle
D. it is a democratic
independent country
4.
A. they
prefer not to have shoes or books
B. they
would rather have shoes on than write books
C.
they prefer traveling to reading
D. they
regard books more important than shoes
B
An old problem is getting new attention in the
United States—bullying(恃强凌弱.
Recent cases
included the tragic case of a fifteen-year-old
girl whose family moved from
Ireland. She
hanged herself in Massachusetts in January
following months of bullying.
Her parents
criticized her school for failing to protect her.
Officials have brought criminal
charges
against several teenagers.
Judy Kuczynski is
president of an anti-bullying group called Bully
Police USA. Her
daughter Tina was the victim
of severe bullying starting in middle school in
the state of
Minnesota. She said,
personality, very involved in all kinds of
things, had lots of friends. And over a period of
time her grades fell completely. She started
having health issues. She couldn't sleep. She
wasn't eating. She had terrible stomach pains.
She started clenching her jaw and grinding
her
teeth at night. Didn't want to go to
school.
Bullying is defined as negative
behavior repeated over time against the same
person.
It can involve physical violence. Or
it can be verbal — for example, insults or
threats.
Spreading lies about someone or
excluding a person from a group is known as social
or
relational bullying.
And now there is
cyber bullying, which uses the Internet, e-mail or
text messages. It
has easy appeal for the
bully because it does not involve face-to-face
contact and it can be
done at any time.
The first serious research studies into
bullying were done in Norway in the late
1970s. The latest government study in the
United States was released last year. It
found
that about one-third of students age twelve to
eighteen were bullied at school.
Susan Sweater
is a psychologist at the University of Nebraska-
Lincoln and co-
director of the Bullying
Research Network. She says schools should treat
bullying as a
mental health problem to get
bullies and victims the help they need. She says
bullying is
connected to depression, anxiety
and anti-social behavior, and bullies are often
victims
themselves.
5. From the case of
Tina, we can know that .
A. bullying is rare
in school
B. victims suffered a lot
C.
schools are to blame for bullying
D.
personalities are related with bullying
6.
Cyber bullying is appealing to the bully because
_________.
A. it can involve more people
B. it can create worse effects
C. it is
more convenient
D. it can avoid cheating
7. According to Susan Sweater, .
A.
bullies are anti-social
B. bullies
should give victims help
C. victims are not
equally treated
D. bullies themselves also
need help
8. Which of the following can be the
best title of the text?
A. 15-Year-Old Irish
Girl Committed Suicide
B. Girl’s Suicide
Brings Fresh Attention to Bullying
C. Cyber-
Bullying Taking Off in Schools
D. How to Solve
the Problem of Bullying Among Teens
C
Machines in the home have a short history.
Sewing machines, washing machines
and tumble
dries are common enough today, but a hundred years
ago, few people could
even imagine such
things. However, inventors have designed and built
a wide range of
household machines since then.
In most cases the inventor tried to patent his
machine, to
stop anyone copying it. If the
machine became popular, the inventor could make a
lot of
money.
In 1790 the first sewing
machine was patented. The inventor was an
Englishman
called Thomas Saint. There was
nothing to match his machine for forty years, and
then
someone built a similar device. He was a
Frenchman, Bartelemy Thimonier. Neither of
these early machines worked very well,
however. It wasn’t until 1846 that an inventor
came up with a really efficient sewing
machine. He was an American, Elias Howe and
his machine was good enough to beat five
skilled sewing women. He
didn’t make
much money from it, however. The first
commercially successful
sewing machine was
patented by Isaac Singer five years later.
Today, we take washing machines for granted,
but there was none before 1869. The
revolving
drum (旋转桶 of that first machine set a pattern for
the future, but it was crude
by today’s
standards. The drum was turned by hand, and needed
a lot of effort. Eight
years passed before
someone produced an electric washing machine. The
world had to
wait even longer for a machine to
dry clothes. The first spin-drier was another
American
invention, patented in 1924; but it
was 20 years before such machines were widely
used.
It was yet another American, called
Bissell, who introduced the carpet sweeper. He
patented the original machine back in 1876. It
didn’t pick up dirt very well, but it was
quicker than a dustpan and brush. Thirty-six
years later, even the carpet sweeper was
old-
fashioned: modern homes now have a vacuum
cleaner with an electric motor to suck the
dust.
9. Inventors patent the inventions
so as to ______.
A. produce more new machines
B. avoid being copied by others
C. make
the inventions more popular
D. make more money
10. According to the article, modern inventors
______.
A. had to wait for the first spin-
drier for a long time
B. only imitated the
first washing machine
C. powered the first
ever-made washing machine by electricity
D. followed the pattern of the first
revolving drum but improve it much
11. The
underlined word “crude” in paragraph 3 means
______.
A. quite useless
B. ugly-looking
C. much tougher
D. not skillfully made
12. The article mainly tells us about ______.
A. the great inventors in the world
B. the
important inventions in the world
C. the short
history of household machines
D. the
importance of the machines used in the home
D
People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in
1944, when she starred in National
Velvet—the
story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first
place in a famous horse
race. At first, the
producers of the movie told Taylor that she was
too small to
play the part of Velvet. However,
they waited for her for a few months as she
exercised and trained—and added three inches
to her height in four months! Her acting in
National Velvet is still considered the best
by a child actress.
Elizabeth Taylor was born
in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans,
had
moved there for business reasons. When
World War II started, the Taylor moved to
Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth
started acting in movies. After her success
as a child star, Taylor had no trouble
moving into adult roles and won twice for Best
Actress: Butterfield 8(1960 and Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf (1966 Taylor's fame and
popularity gave her a lot of power with the
movie industry, so she was able to demand
very
high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $$1
million for her part in Cleopatra—
the highest
pay received by any star up to that time.
Elizabeth Taylor is a legend of our time. Like
Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she
has been
lucky; she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is
also a hard worker. Taylor
seldom acts in
movies any more. Instead, she puts her time and
efforts into her businesses,
and into helping
others —several years ago, she founded an
organization that has raised
more than $$40
million for research and education.
13. The
producers didn't let Taylor play the part of
Velvet at first because they
thought she
________.
A. was small in size
B. was too
young
C. did not play well enough
D. did
not show much interest
14. What Elizabeth
Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that
they were
both ________.
A. popular all
their lives
B. famous actresses
C.
successful when very young
D. rich and
kind-hearted
15. Taylor became Best Actress at
the age of ________.
A. 12
B. 28
C. 31
D. 34
16. In her later life, Elizabeth
Taylor devoted herself to ________.
A. doing
business and helping others
B. turning herself
into a legend
C. collecting money for the poor
D. going about research and education work
E
Technology: Taking the good without the
bad? Very soon, unimaginably powerful
technologies will remake our lives. This could
have dangerous consequences, especially
because we may not even understand the basic
science underlying them. There’s a
growing gap
between our technological capability and our basic
scientific understanding.
We can do very
clever things with the technology of the future
without necessarily
understanding some of the
science underneath, and that is very dangerous.
The
technologies that are particularly
dangerous over the next hundred years are
nanotechnology ( 纳 米 技 术 , artificial
intelligence and biotechnology. The benefits that
they will bring are beyond doubt. But they are
going to be very, very dangerous. I’m
working
in the field of artificial intelligence. I have a
model design for something that
might
be 50,000 million times smarter than the human
brain. Target date is 2010. The
only thing
that's not possible in the film Terminator( 终结者 is
that the people win. If
you're fighting
against technology which is 50,000 million times
smarter than you, you
probably will not win.
Nanotechnology. We've all heard of the grey glue
problem, that
self-replicating nanotech
devices might keep on copying until the world has
become
sticky glue. And certainly in
biotechnology, we've really got a big problem
because it's
converging with nanotechnology
and IT. Once you start mixing nanotech with
organisms
and you start feeding nanotech-
enabled bacteria, we can really go an awful lot
further
than the Borg in Star Trek(星际迷航. And
those superhuman organisms might not like us
very much. Eventually these technologies will
become routine. That’s a threat to
humanity. I
don’t think it’s possible to slow it down. So what
we need to do is accelerate
the scientific
research and try to get some extra tools. The
problems facing us in the
future are getting
bigger and bigger. I think if we don’t get some
proper science done, the
future is hopeless
indeed. 17. From the text, we know that the
author’s greatest concern is
A. our lack of
technological understanding of the process
involved B. our lack of
technological
capability C. creating technology without really
understanding the basic
science D. Our refusal
to face the consequences of the technology we
create 18. It can be
inferred from the text
that the author . A. thinks people overestimate
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B. is not optimistic that artificial
intelligence will always be used positively C.
thinks that we should take science fiction
movies more seriously D. believes artificial
intelligence is the greatest threat we face
technologically 19. Why does the author say it
is not possible in the film Terminator that
the humans win? A. Because the power of the
technology is exaggerated(夸大. B. Because the
strength of the machines is much greater.
C.
Because machines with that much intelligence can
easily defeat humans. D. Because
human beings
are not courageous enough to win the battle. 20.
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