湖北省2012高考英語(yǔ)二輪復(fù)習(xí)專題訓(xùn)練：閱讀理解(92)

1、湖北省2012高考英語(yǔ)二輪復(fù)習(xí)專題訓(xùn)練：閱讀理解（92）閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（a、b c和d）中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。afrench people pride themselves on their delicious foods, such as cheese, baguettes and croissants （two kinds of food）. in fact, food is an important part of french culture. families and friends spend hours over the dinner table each nig

2、ht. it is the opposite of the fast food habit common in other parts of the west.it s the reason why the french are very angry that a mcdonald s is openingbeneath paris s most famous museum: the louvre （ 盧浮宮）.the mew restaurant will be the 1,142 nd mcdonald s in france, and will open in the undergrou

3、nd approach to the museum. but many french people can t understand why this american chain is opening in the heart of french culture.however, mcdonald; s is paying no notice to the complaint. mcdonald; s now has 31,000 chains worldwide. tourists are hungry, and opening chains in tourist spots pays w

4、ell.there is another chain threatening france s heritage. this time it is coffee rather than burgers. as more and more starbucks open in paris, traditional french cafes are forced to close.the trouble with american companies opening chains throughout the world is the destructive effect they can have

5、 on a country s culture. how can a small, independent coffee shop compete with the multi billion dollar chain? you can go to a starbucks in any city in the world, but you can only go to a parisiancaf e infrance.responsibility is with the tourists. a mcdonalds wouldn t open so near thelouvre if it we

6、ren t not going to make money. similarly, a pizza hut wouldn toverlook （俯瞰）egypt s great pyramid if no one wants to sit in it. maybe next time you visit the great wall, you should think twice before ordering a cappuccino in the starbucks.1. why are the french very angry when a mcdonald s is opening

7、beneath the louvre?a. because they will spend many hours in mcdonald s.b. because french food culture is very impressive.c. because they also have the fast - food habit.d. because they are proud of their own food.2. . the mcdonald s will be located in the underground approach to the museum because .

8、a. the complaints of the french are uselessb. opening a chain in tourist spot is rewardingc. mcdonald s tends to be in the heart of cultured. it will help to attract more tourists for the museum3. what is the trouble with american companies opening chains all over the world?a. the traditional stores

9、 of a country are forced to fight back.b. the traditional stores of a country become dependant.c. they have negative effect on a country s culture.d. the multibillion dollar chain cant be matched.4. the author suggests that the tourists cana. decide whether the multiple stores of america are success

10、ful or notb. order a cappuccino in the starbucks when they visit the great wallc. sit in a pizza hut when they visit egypt s great pyramidd. enter the mcdonald s when they visit the louvrebvampires （ 吸血鬼）,creatures of myth, have been around in one form or another for centuries. terrifying but also a

11、ttractive,they are as popular in the early 21st century as ever, as the current popularity of twilight series, and its hero edward cullen, show.vampires first appeared in fiction in the 1700s. in 1895 irish novelist bramstoker published dracula, introducing the world s most famous vampire.but just w

12、hat is it about these drinkers of human blood that continues to fascinate us? speaking to eric lewis of the times and transcript website, academic deborah wells said that vampires are“ culturally adaptive . we create verydifferent vampires to fit different times. edward cullen is not the same as cou

13、nt dracula, “ she said.different as they are, wells believes vampires are“the perfect containersinto which we can pour our current cultural anxieties ” , bram stoker s dracula is powerful, yet old and physically ugly. stoker s book dealt with fear of the fallof the british empire, real fears in the

14、day in which it was written.according to the website bookrags, today s vampires have all our culturaldesires, money, power and sexual attraction. represented by cullen, they are noble, handsome young men whom women find irresistible. what s more, vampires challenge traditional ideas about death, sci

15、ence and parental authority. this may be why teenagers are drawn to vampire tales.“in many ways, the vampire story shows up teenage concerns, said wells.theemotional intensity （強(qiáng)度）of the relationship with the vampire matches the intensity of how it feels to have your first real love affairs. your fi

16、rst real love, it really feels like life and death.”5. the best title for this passage should be . a. vampires may continue to drink our bloodb. vampires have been around us for longc. why twilight is so popular nowadaysd. we still like the story about vampires6. what is the image of the vampire in

17、bram stoker s book?a. anxious but perfect.b. powerful, old and ugly.c. terrifying but also attractive.d. afraid of the fall of the british empire.7. according to the website bookrages, today s vampires a. desire money, power and sexual attractionb. may not think highly of parental authorityc. dare t

18、o give up traditional ideasd. are likely to be resisted by women8. which of the following statements is true according to wells?a. people need different vampires in different times.b. our current cultural anxieties are hidden in vampires.c. the vampire story reflects the conches of the teenagers.d.

19、the relationship with the vampire equals your first real love.barack obamain the past hundred years, the u.s. presidency has turned more and more to the left - not in policy, but in handedness. barrack obamais the latest to join a long list of left handed presidents from the 20th century: james garf

20、ield, herbert hoover, henry truman, gerald ford, ronald reagan, george h.w. bush and bill clinton were all southpaws.what makes lefties so electable? some experts think left-handed people have a greater aptitude for language skills, which may help them craft the rhetoric necessary for political offi

21、ce. and as for the bout of recent left-handed presidents, some think it s because teachers only recently stopped working to convert lefties to rightist at an early age.bill gatesclaiming the nation s richest manamongtheir number is a source of considerable pride for america s society of southpaws. i

22、n fact, the microsoft titan and philanthropist（巨頭兼慈善家）is one of a surprising number of u.s. business mogulsto be left-handed, including henry ford, john d. rockefeller and former ibm head lou gerstner. but the club seems to be a guys-only fraternity research suggeststhat while left-handed men tend t

23、o earn more than their right-handed colleagues, there is no similar advantage for women. a study by the national bureau of economic research floated the idea that left-handed men favor divergent thinking, a form of creativity in which the brain moves from conventional knowledge into unexplored assoc

24、iation. maybe that s what it takes to develop a net worth estimated at$ 57billion.oprah winfreythe talk- show queen doesn t need much more to set her apart from the restwhat with her estimated $ 2.7 billion fortune and a magic ability to sell books just by glancing at them - but she also has the dis

25、tinction of being a member of the left-handed club. since menare more likely to be left-handed than women, that makes oprah doubly impressive.she s in good company: other show-business ladies of theleft - handed persuasion include whoopi goldberg, julia roberts and angelina jolie marie curienot only

26、 was atomic scientist marie curie left-handed, but she was the matriarch of a whole family of accomplished, southpaw scientists. curie, who discoveredthe principles of radioactivity and won two nobel prizes, was married to fellow lefty pierre curie, who was instrumental in helping marie s atomic res

27、earchand shared one of her nobel awards. historians believe their daughter, irene, was also left-handed. irene went on to win a nobel prize of her own with herhusband - who, you guessed it, was also left-handed.9 . the underlined word “southpaws in the last sentence of paragraph 1 means a. people co

28、ming from the southb. powerful presidentsc. people who use their left handd. forceful speakers10. what makes it so easy for lefties to be elected as presidents according to the passage?a. their great gift for foreign language.b. their great language skills to make speeches.c. the need of left hinder

29、s in the political office.d. teachers stopping to force them to use their right hand.11. it can be implied that bill gates, henry ford, john d. rockefeller and lou gerstner a. have creative thinkingb. have formed a special club.c. earn more money than their wives d . are wealthy philanthropists12. t

30、he underlined sentence in paragraph 4 she is in good companymeansa. she works in a very good company b . she has many good friendsc. she has got on well with othersd. she is among many female leftiesdin 1993, researchers at the university of california at irvine discovered theso - called “ mozart ef

31、fect ” that college students who listened to ten minutes of mozart s sonata for two pianos in d major (d 大調(diào))before taking an iq test scored nine points higher than when they had sat in silence or listened to relaxation tapes. other studies also have indicated that people gain information better if t

32、hey hear classical or baroque (a style of art) music while studying.it is said that albert einstein was an average student until he began playingthe violin. before that, he had a hard time expressing what he knew, says hazelcheilek, orchestra director at fairfax countys thomas jefferson high school.

33、“einstein said he got some of his greatest inspirations while playing the violin.it liberated his brain so that he could imagine. in the early 1700s, englands king george i also felt he would make better decisions if he listened to good music.reportedly, handel responded by composing his water music

34、 suites to be played while the king floated the thameson his royal boat. even plato in ancient greece believed studying music created a sense of order and harmony necessary for intelligent thought.the deepest effects take place in young children, while their brains are growing. this year, the same r

35、esearchers at irvine s center for neurobiology of leaming and memory found that preschoolers who had received eight months of music lessons scored 80 percent higher on certain tasks than other youngsters who received no musical training.music students continue to beat their non- arts peers （ 同齡人）on

36、the sat,according to the 1999 profiles of sat and achievement test takers from thecollege board. students with coursework in music appreciation scored 42 points higher on the math section of the test than students with no coursework or experience in the arts.all of this to say you are the judge but

37、listening to mozart certainly wont hurt you. my point always is that making music is preferable to passive listening and that listening to live music is always preferable to listening to recorded music. mozart will not raise your iq, but it might help you organize your thoughts better before taking

38、a standardized test.13. whenpeople mention albert einstein, the effect of music is . a. positiveb. negative14. so far researchers at the university about .king george i and plato, they believe thatc. suspiciousd. sensitiveof california at irvine have done studiesa. college students who listen to roc

39、k music every dayb. people who hear classical music while studyingc. preschoolers with music lessonsd. music students in sat15. which of the following is an opinion rather than a fact?a. handel composed water music to be played while the kind floated the thames on his boat.b. mozart might help you o

40、rganize your thought better before taking a standardized test.c. preschoolers with music training scored higher on object - assembly tasks.d. music students continue to beat their non- arts peers on the sat.16. what is the author s opinion about music?a. he thinks that listening to music is better t

41、han making music.b. he has a doubt whether listening to mozart will hurt the listeners.c. he is sure that listening to the music of mozart will raise people s iq.d. he thinks that live concert is better worth listening to than recorded music.ejust as our degree of individual freedom uncomfortable to

42、 manyforeign visitors, foreign attitudes toward truth seem uncertain to americans.in many countries people will tell you what they think you want to hear, whether or not it is true. to them, this implies politeness. to americans, it is considered misleading-even dishonest-to distort facts on purpose

43、, however kind the motive.the point is -our priorities（ 優(yōu)先）are different; in the united states truth has a higher priority th an politeness. we are taught from babyhood that“honesty isthe best policy. elsewhere, politeness , honor, family loyalty,“machism6 ormany other values might come far ahead of

44、 honesty if one is listing priorities.but with us, trust and truth are of paramount importance. if we say of a man, “you cannot trust him. this is one of the most damning statements that can be made about him.in view of such profound differences in values, it is natural that misunderstandings and ir

45、ritations often occur, especially in exact areas such as the negotiation of contracts. a mexican has said,“with us b business is like acourtship（ 求愛）.“ americans lack this grace, but on the other hand you can count on their word. you know where you are with them; except in advertising, they will not

46、 be awhispering sweet nothings that they do not meanin order to make you feel desirable!“how far is it to the next village?” the american asks a man standing by theedge of the road. in some countries, because the man realizes that the traveler is tired and eager to reach his destination, he will politely say “just down the road.” he thinks this is more encouraging, gentler, and therefore the wan