高考英語(yǔ)閱讀真題

　　高考英語(yǔ)閱讀真題一

　　One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London’s big medical schools, He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.

　　He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the skeleton (人體骨骼) to be used in his lecture, in a large brown suitcase (箱子). At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.

　　When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.

　　1. Who wrote the story?

　　A. Rupert’s teacher. B. The neighbour’s teacher.

　　C. A medical school teacher. D. The teacher’s neighbour.

　　2. Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?

　　A. He needed it for the summer term in London.

　　B. He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.

　　C. He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.

　　D. He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.

　　3. What happened at the airport?

　　A. The skeleton went missing . B. The skeleton was stolen .

　　C. The teacher forgot his suitcase.

　　D. The teacher took the wrong suitcase .

　　4. Which of the following best tells the teacher’s feeling about the incident?

　　A. He is very angry . B. He thinks it rather funny .

　　C. He feels helpless without Rupert. D. He feels good without Rupert .

　　5. Which of the following might have happened afterwards?

　　A. The teacher got back the suitcase but not Rupert.

　　B. The teacher got back neither the suitcase nor Rupert.

　　C. The teacher got back Rupert but not the suitcase.

　　D. The teacher got back both the suitcase and Rupert.

　　答案： 　　1D 2 B 3 A 4 B 5 B

　　高考英語(yǔ)閱讀真題二

　　ices, which do not fit in any of the blanks. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)

　　On the north bank of the Ohio river sits Evansville, Ind., home of David Williams, 52, and of a riverboat casino (a place where gambling games are played). During several years of gambling in that casino, Williams a state auditor earning $35,000 a year, last approximately $175,000. He had never gambled before the casino sent him a coupon for $20 worth of gambling. 　　He visited the casino, lost the $20 and left .On his second visit he lost $800. The casino issued to him, as a good customer, a “Fun Card”, which when used in the casino earns points for meals and drinks, and enables the casino to track the user’s gambling activities. For Williams, these activities become what he calls “electronic heroin”.

　　(41) _________. In 1997 he lost $21,000 to one slot machine in two days. In March 1997 he lost $72,186. He sometimes played two slot machines at a time, all night, until the boat locked at 5 a.m, then went back aboard when the casino opened at 9 a.m .Now he is suing the casino, charging that it should have refused his patronage because it knew he was addicted. It did know he had a problem. 　　In March 1998, a friend of Williams’s got him involuntarily confined to a treatment center for addictions, and wrote to inform the casino of Williams’s gambling problem. The casino included a photo of Williams among those of banned gamblers, and wrote to him a “cease admissions” letter. Noting the “medical/psychological” nature of problem gambling behaviors, the letter said that before being readmitted to the casino he would have to present medical/psychological information demonstrating that patronizing the casino would pose no threat to his safety or well-being.

　　(42) _____________________________. 　　The Wall Street Journal reports that the casino has 20 signs warning, “Enjoy the fun… and always bet with your head, not over it.” Every entrance ticket lists a toll-free number for counseling from the Indiana Department of Mental Health. Nevertheless, Williams’s suit charges that the casino, knowing he was “helplessly addicted to gambling,” intentionally worked to “lure” him to “engage in conduct against his will.” Well.

　　(43)_________________________. 　　The fourth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says “pathological gambling ”involves president, recurring and uncontrollable pursuit less of money than of the thrill of taking risks in quest of a windfall.

　　(44)___________________. Pushed by science, or what claims to be science, society is reclassifying what once were considered character flaws or moral failings as personality disorders skin to physical disabilities.

　　(45)____________________. 　　Forty-four states have lotteries, 29 have casinos, and most of these states are to varying degrees dependent on - you might say addicted to - revenues from wagering. And since the first Internet gambling site was created in 1995, competition for gambler’s dollars has become intense. The Oct.28 issue of Newsweek reported that 2 million gamblers patronize 1,800 virtual cosines every week, with $3.5 billion being lost on Internet wagers this year, gambling has ,passed pornography as the web’s webs most profitable business.

　　(A) Although no such evidence was preserved, the casino’s marketing department continued to pepper him with mailings. And he entered the casino ad used his Fun Card without being detected.

　　(B) It is unclear what luring was required, given his compulsive behavior. And in what sense was his will operative?

　　(C) By the time he had lost $5,000, he said to himself that if he could get back to even, he would quit, one night he won $5,500, but he did not quit.

　　(D) Gambling has been a common feature of American life forever, but for a long time it was broadly considered a sin, or a social disease. Now it is a social policy, the most important and aggressive promoter of gambling in America is the government.

　　(E) David Williams suit should trouble this gambling nation. But don’t bet on it.

　　(F) It is worrisome that society is medicalizing more and more behavioral problems, often defining as addiction what earlier, sterner generations explained as weakness of will.

　　(G) The anonymous, lonely, undistracted nature of online gambling is especially conductive to compulsive behavior. But even if the government knew how to more against Internet gambling, what would be its grounds for doing so?

　　新題型七選五題型解題技巧

　　題型解讀：試題模式為：給出一篇缺少5個(gè)句子的文章，對(duì)應(yīng)有七個(gè)選項(xiàng)，要求同學(xué)們根據(jù)文章結(jié)構(gòu)、內(nèi)容，選出正確的句子，填入相應(yīng)的空白處�！犊荚囌f明》對(duì)該題型命題目的的表述為“主要考查考生對(duì)文章的整體內(nèi)容和結(jié)構(gòu)以及上下文邏輯意義的理解和掌握。”

　　新題型七選五其實(shí)跟傳統(tǒng)題型完形填空有相似之處，完形填空空出的是詞，而七選五空出的是句子，但是他們的考察方式都是一樣的，只要考生選擇的答案能夠使行文連貫，符合英文的語(yǔ)法以及習(xí)慣表達(dá)就行，因此，這兩類題型在做題方法上有共通之處。另外，從該題型給出的選項(xiàng)中我們可以發(fā)現(xiàn)一些特點(diǎn)：該題型選項(xiàng)大致可分為主旨概括句(文章整體內(nèi)容)、過渡性句子(文章結(jié)構(gòu))和注釋性句子(上下文邏輯意義)三類。另外兩個(gè)多余的干擾項(xiàng)也可以通過這三個(gè)特點(diǎn)來排除，例如主旨概括句要么過于寬泛要么以偏概全或偏離主題，過渡性句子不能反映文章的行文結(jié)構(gòu)，注釋性句子與上文脫節(jié)等。根據(jù)這些，我們總結(jié)一些關(guān)于七選五的做題方法供大家參考。

　　1、先看選項(xiàng)。跟完形填空不一樣，七選五的答案選項(xiàng)較少，并且給出的都是句子，因此，我們可以通過句子的完整性或者句子后面的標(biāo)點(diǎn)符號(hào)來判斷該句在文章中的位置。另外，通過閱讀選項(xiàng)，有可能找出跟其他選項(xiàng)表達(dá)完全不同意思的句子，這樣的話我們就可以直接將該選項(xiàng)排除。

　　2、再看空前空后。由于七選五空出的是整個(gè)句子，而這些句子與句子之間，必然有一種聯(lián)系，因此我們可以通過選項(xiàng)中某個(gè)名詞或動(dòng)詞跟空前或空后的一致性或者相關(guān)性來確定這兩個(gè)句子之間有一種關(guān)聯(lián)性，從而選擇正確的答案。

　　3、注意代詞或定冠詞。在做這類題目的時(shí)候，一定要注意句子中出現(xiàn)的人稱代詞或者指示代詞，因?yàn)槲覀冎�道，代詞是指代一個(gè)名詞或者一個(gè)句子的，然后通過代詞在句子中所做的成分我們可以推斷出它指代的句子的類型，我們要做的就是從選項(xiàng)中找這類句型就可以了。

　　4、注意一些特殊疑問詞。如果選項(xiàng)中或空前出現(xiàn)特殊疑問詞，一定要把這句話仔細(xì)讀幾遍，因?yàn)閷?duì)于不同特殊疑問詞的回答方式是不一樣的，比如對(duì)why的回答，后面要有because等表原因的詞，對(duì)when的回答，后面要有表時(shí)間的狀語(yǔ)，對(duì)where的回答，后面要有表地點(diǎn)的名詞，對(duì)how的回答，后面要有方式狀語(yǔ)等。

　　5、注意一些連詞。如一些表示轉(zhuǎn)折的連詞，but，However，yet，though，nevertheless等，另外還有一些表示并列關(guān)系的連詞如and，also，aswellas，neithernor，eitheror，notonly...butalso，ononehand....ontheotherhand等。