高二英语专项训练(4)阅读理解

专项训练（4）阅读理解

A ★

Shlander is a man from space. He thinks the people and things on the earth are very strange. He is now writing a letter to his friend at home. Here is part of his letter. Read it and answer the questions.

Now I am in a strange world. It is very nice. There are many new things here. There are many earth monsters here， too. The earth monsters look very funny. They have just one head, two arms and two legs. They have thin black strings on their heads. Some earth monsters have brown or yellow strings. The earth monsters have a hole in their face. Every day， they put nice things and balls from the trees into the hole. They put water into the hole， too. The earth monsters do not walk very fast. They move from place to pace in tin boxes.

At night， the earth monsters like to look at a square window box. This box has very small earth monsters in it.

根据短文内容选择正确答案。

( ) 1. Shlander thinks the people and things on the earth are very (________).

A. strange B. nice C. different D. beautiful

( ) 2. Shlander thinks man on the earth is (_______).

A. a monkey B. a earth monster C. a tin box D. a strange world ( ) 3. The earth monster doesn t have (_______)_.

A. heads, arms and legs

B. brown or yellow strings on its head C. a hole on its face D. a swing on its body

( ) 4. The earth monsters don t put (______) on their holes.

A. nice things B. balls C. fire D. water

5. The square window box is (______).

A. a car or a bus B. a very small earth monster C. a TV set D. a radio

B ★★ Another Reason

It was a quiet village in which there was a military camp. It was far from the towns and cities and there were some high mountains around. Of course it was a good place for training the new soldiers. But it was difficult for the young men to go outside. Mr. White, an officer of forty, was strict with them and he hardly let them leave the camp.

Once Mr. White was ill in bed. He couldn t work and a young officer, Mr. Hunt, began to train the new soldiers instead of him. He knew the young men well and let nine soldiers go to the nearest town to have a holiday. But night fell and none came back to the camp. He was worried about it and stood at the gate. It was five to twelve when Mr. Hunt decided to go to the town and see what was happening with the young men. He started the car quickly and set off. At that moment the nine soldiers came back. It seemed they were all drunk. Of course they found the officer was angry.

“I m sorry, sir,” said the first soldier. “I left the town on time. But something was wrong with my bus on my way here. I had to buy a horse and made it run fast. Bad luck! It died and I had to run back.”

And the other seven soldiers said they were late for the same reasons. It was the last soldier s turn. He said, “I m sorry, sir. I got on a bus on time, but…”

Having heard this, the officer became even angrier and stopped him at once. He called out, “If you say something was wrong with your bus, I ll punish you at once!”

“No, no, sir,” said the young man. “My bus was all right, but the dead horses were in its way!” ( ) 1. The military camp was built in the village to (_____).

A. stop the soldiers going to towns

B. stop the soldiers meeting their friends C. train the new soldiers

D. make the young men live quietly

( ) 2. Mr. Hunt let the nine soldiers have a holiday because _____(__ ).

A. he was kind to them B. they felt lonely

C. they had something important to do D. they were the best of all

( ) 3. The young officer was worried because _______.

A. a traffic accident had happened

B. he was afraid something happened to the nine soldiers

C. the nine soldiers didn t come back on time D. the nine soldiers drank too much in the town

( ) 4. The nine soldiers returned to the camp late because ____(_______).

A. something was wrong with their buses B. their horses died on the return way C. it took them much time to run back D. they all had drunk much in the town ( ) 5. Which answer do you think right?

A. I ll believe only the last soldier.

B. The officer believed the nine soldiers. C. I ll believe none of the nine soldiers. D. The officer won t punish his soldiers.

C ★★★

Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes in contact with them. Their values—this can t be repeated too often—are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are not necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with decaying food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone in bed, taking no notice of the worms. But is it interfering(干涉) with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old.

Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car, it needs more mechanical maintenance(机械维修，保养) as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results will be. And at what point should you

stop to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by seeking the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You can t ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try, on the principle that while there s life, there s hope.

When you talk to the old people, however, you are forced to the conclusion that whether age is happy or unpleasant depends less on money or on health than it does on your ability to have fun. ( ) 5. What does the passage mainly tell us?

A. The values are different between the old and the young.

B. The moral problems raised by old people.

C. The personal freedom for the old. D. Old people s viewpoint on life.

( ) 6. We can know from the first paragraph that(_______). A. Very old people would like to live alone to

have more personal freedom. B. Very old people are able to keep their room clean. C. Very old people like to live with their children. D. Social services have nothing to do with very old people.

( ) 7. According to the author, which of the following is right?

A. The older a person, the more care he needs. B. Too much emphasis has been put on old people s values.

C. The human body can t be compared to a car. D. It is easy to provide spare parts for old people. ( ) 8.The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to (“____”). A. their money or their health B. the conclusion you come to

C. your talk to the old people D. whether age is happy or unpleasant

参考答案

(A). ABDCC (B). CABDC (C). BAAD

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