山西省太原市2014高考英語一輪 閱讀理解暑假訓(xùn)練題（3）

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1、太原市2014高考英語閱讀理解一輪（暑假）訓(xùn)練題（3）及答案 During the twentieth century there has been a great change in the lives of women. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old and up. By the time the youn

2、gest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which chance and health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman’s youngest child will be fifteen when she is

3、forty-five and can be expected to live another thirty-five years and is likely to take paid work until sixty. This important change in women’s life has only recently begun to have its full effect on women economic (經(jīng)濟(jì)的) position. Even a few years ago most girls left school and took a full-time job.

4、 However, when they married their school-leaving age is sixteen. Many girls stay at school after that age, and though women marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to fuller part-time work. Such changes

5、have led to a new relationship in marriage (婚姻), with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life. 43. We are told that in a family about 1900________. A、few children died before they were five B、seven or eight children lived to be more than five C、the yo

6、ungest child would be fifteen D、four or five children died when they were five 44. One reason why the woman of today may take a job is that she______. A、is younger when her children are old enough to look after themselves B、does not like children herself C、needn’t worry about food for her child

7、ren D、can be free from family duties when she reaches sixty 45. Many girls are now likely to_______. A、give up their jobs for good after they are married B、leave school as soon as they can C、marry so that they can get a job D、continue working until they are going to have a baby 46. According

8、 to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to _______. A、stay at home after leaving school B、marry men younger than themselves C、start working again in life D、marry while still at school **********************************************************結(jié)束 The newspaper seller w

9、as a clean, neat man, of about forty with a rather serious, unsmiling face. He didn’t speak much to the customers or to his helpers, but when he did he spoke slowly and quietly, as if to himself. He believed in efficiency, not conversation. and this was how the office workers, rushing to catch their

10、 trains, preferred it. It had been a good day. Lunch-time had been warm and sunny, and many people had bought magazines to read outside with their sandwiches. Now it was cold rainy, and people wanted an evening paper for a cheerless joyless journey ahead and a dull evening indoors. At 6:30, with

11、 the main rush over, he started to collect the money together and count it. Then he left the stand and went home. It was the assistant’s turn this evening to look after it till eight o’clock, when it would be packed away for the night. His large white Mercedes was in the private car park of a large

12、government building. He’d parked there for six months, pretending to be part of a heating firm working in the building. They would find out about him soon, and he’d have to park in a garage again, which was annoying. Their charges were far too high. A couple of junior clerks, regular customers, happ

13、ened to see him getting into his car. “must be a lot of money in papers, eh?” one of them shouted. He just smiled coldly in reply, and got into the car, placing the bags of money on the floor. He thought about the clerks on the way home. Like the majority of his customers, despite their white shir

14、ts and dark suits, they probably made in a week as much as he could make in a good day. 56．It seems unlikely that the newspaper seller would be the sort of man who would ______. A．be a cheerful companion B．try to cheat a customer C．earn a great deal of money D．trust h

15、is assistant much 57．The assistant’s job that evening was to ______. A．sell papers until 8 o’clock B．start selling magazines at 8 o’clock C. count the money taken that day D．lock up the car park 58．If they realized that he was not a heating engineer he would have to ______

16、_. A．park his car in a government car park B．look for another free parking place C．pay to park his car in a garage D．pretend he was a government employee 59．When the newspaper seller thought about the two clerks he decided they were _______ A．badly dressed B. very well off

17、 C．not as rich as himself D. not as hardworking as himself *******************************************************結(jié)束 C The word “death” is a word many Chinese friends tell me I should not say aloud. They advise me to avoid the word because only speaking of it may bring ill fortune. I d

18、eeply believe, however, that to know how to live, we must also know how to die. The problem is how do we talk about death??????? ??? Like everyone in Taiwan this week, I have had “Tomb Sweeping Day”. I am proud to be part of a people whose culture sends millions of families to cemeteries on this s

19、pecial day to share memories and endless love. ??? Today, eight days after the death of Pope John Paul II, millions of people of all backgrounds still grieve(悲痛) his passing away. He was a deeply human person who knew how to laugh and show emotions, a writer with a gift for words ，a leader who appe

20、aled to us by the sheer light of his love for life. ??? On the same day and only hours before the Holy Father left us, a friend of mine named Veronica McBride died of cancer in a small Wisconsin city. My friend Veronica was 52 years old. She was an attractive, humorous young woman who, as the sayin

21、g goes, “never married”. She published several humor books with her mother, Mary McBride. She enjoyed traveling, and for years sent Christmas card photos of herself standing beside monuments or odd animals. She fought cancer for five years. She joked about her treatment keeping her pretty because it

22、 kept her thin, and told me she didn’t mind losing her hair because of chemo therapy. “I get to wear nice wigs!（假發(fā)）” ??? The last time I saw Veronica was when I visited her family on a sunny day in August in 2003. When she burst into the front door later and saw me in the living room, she ignored m

23、e completely in her hurry to hug her newest baby nephew, leaving me shaking my head in laughter at her. ??? As we look to the significance of the Holy Father and his life, surely we must also keep our eyes open to see the wonder and goodness in ordinary people who show us how to live and how to die

24、. 64. The purpose of the article is ___________. ?? A. to memorize his friend Veronica ?? B. to talk about the significance of life and death ?? C. to teach us how to face life and death ?? D. to compare his friend and the Holy Father Pope John Paul II 65. The underlined phrase “chemo therapy”

25、 in Paragraph 4 probably means __________. ?? A. a medical treatment????????????? B. a kind of cancer ?? C. a kind of medicine?????????????? D. the newest machine 66. Why does the writer compare the Holly Father with his friend? 。cn ?? A. Because they are both the persons he admires. ?? B. Be

26、cause they have a lot in common. ?? C. Because he wants to show that ordinary people can be great as well. ?? D. Because he wants to memorize them both. 67. From the phrase “burst into”, we can see that Veronica is ____________. ?A. brave?????? B. sportive??????? C. humorous??????? D. energetic

27、 ***********************************************************結(jié)束 In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the Joneses” is about. It is the story of so

28、meone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours. The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a

29、 very wealthy neighbourhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbours. It was like a race, but one cou

30、ld never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up wi

31、th rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the p

32、eople around you. Momand’s series appeared in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years. People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are “Jonses” in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no mat

33、ter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead. 39. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because they ____________. A. want to be as rich as their neighbours B. want others to know or to think that they are rich C. don’t want others to know they are rich D. want to

34、be happy 40. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ____________. A. live outside New York City B. live in New York city C. live in apartments D. have many neighbours 41. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short st

35、ories because “Jones” is ____________. A. an important name B. a popular name in the United States C. his neighbour’s name D. not a good name 42. According to the writer, it is ____________ to keep up with the Joneses. A. correct B. interesting C. impossible D. good ************************************************************結(jié)束