1、四川省眉山市仁寿县铧强中学高中英语阅读理解测试题doc一、高中英语阅读理解1阅读理解 Most adults find it hard to recall events from their first few years of life and now scientists have found exactly when these childhood memories fade(消失). A new study has found that most three-year-olds can recall a lot of what happened to them over a year
2、earlier, and these memories persist while they are five and six, but by the time they are over seven, these memories decline(衰退) rapidly. Most children by the age of eight or nine can only recall 35% of their experiences from under the age of three, according to the new findings. The scientists behi
3、nd the research say this is because at around this age the way we form memories begins to change. They say that before the age of seven children do not have a sense of time and place in their memories. In older children, however, the early events they can recall tend to be more adult-like in the way
4、 they are formed. Children also have a far faster rate of forgetting than adults. The findings also help to explain why children can often have clear memories of events but then forget them just a couple of years later. The youngsters first visited the laboratory at the age of three and discussed si
5、x unique events from their past, such as family outings, trips to the zoo, and the first day of school. The children then returned for a second session between the ages of five and nine to discuss the same events. The researchers found that between the ages of five and seven, the amount of memories
6、the children could recall remained between 63 -72 percent. However, the amount of information eight-to nine-year-old children could recall dropped to 35 and 36 percent.（1）What does the new study tell us? A.Childhood memories decline with years.B.Three-year-old kids are the cleverest.C.Childhood memo
7、ries can fade easily.D.Some adults cannot recall past events.（2）What does the underlined word persist in Paragraph 2 mean? A.Change.B.Remain.C.Appear.D.Return.（3）What can we learn from Paragraph 4? A.Adults cannot have clear memories of past events.B.Children can think like adults when they get olde
8、r.C.Children under 7 years old have different ways of forming memories.D.Children often forget things because they have no idea of time or place.（4）In the second session, nine-year-old children _. A.refused to discuss the same eventsB.remembered all their family outingsC.could recall 72 percent of t
9、heir past eventsD.only remembered a small part of their past events【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇说明文，介绍了记忆消失的一些知识。大多数三岁的孩子都能回忆起一年前发生在他们身上的许多事情，这些记忆在五岁和六岁时依然存在，但到七岁以上时，这些记忆会迅速衰退。在七岁之前，孩子们在记忆中没有时间感和位置感。在5到7岁之间，孩子们能回忆起的记忆量保持在63%到72%之间。然而，8至9岁儿童能够回忆起的信息量下降到35%和36%。 （1）考查细节理解。根据第二段“A new study has f
10、ound that most three-year-olds can recall a lot of what happened to them over a year earlier, and these memories persist while they are five and six, but by the time they are over seven, these memories decline(衰退) rapidly.”一项新的研究发现，大多数三岁的孩子都能回忆起一年前发生在他们身上的许多事情，这些记忆在他们五岁和六岁时仍然存在，但当他们超过七岁时，这些记忆迅速衰退。可知
11、新研究告诉了我们童年时的记忆随年龄而衰退。 故选A。 （2）考查词义猜测。根据第二段中的“but by the time they are over seven, these memories decline(衰退) rapidly.”到七岁以上时，这些记忆会迅速衰退，可知这些记忆在五岁和六岁时依然存在，故划线单词persist的意思是：存在，保留。故选B。 （3）考查推理判断。根据第四段中的“They say that before the age of seven children do not have a sense of time and place in their memorie
12、s.”他们说在七岁之前，孩子们在记忆中没有时间感和位置感。可知孩子们经常忘记事情，因为他们没有时间感位置感，故选D。 （4）考查推理判断。根据最后一段中的“ However, the amount of information eight-to nine-year-old children could recall dropped to 35 and 36 percent.”然而，8至9岁儿童能够回忆起的信息量下降到35%和36%。可知在第二阶段，九岁的孩子只记得他们过去的一小部分事情。故选D。 【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查，是一篇科研类阅读，考生需要准确捕捉
13、细节信息，同时根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，从而选出正确答案。2阅读理解 When I was small, my mother and I would walk to our local library in Franklin Square. As we didnt always have access to a reliable car, walking hand in hand was the most convenient way to get anywhere. It was at story time for children that both my mother and
14、 I made lasting friendships. Today, I am fortunate to live around the corner from the Cold Coast Public Library in Glen Head and a short walk to the Sea Cliff Childrens Library. My 18-imonth-old son, Colin, and I find ourselves in Sea Cliff several times a week, meeting and making friends. Well, tha
15、t is what many people dont understand-a library is more than books; its a community. Sure, the library in Franklin Square was the place where I was introduced to Judy Blume novels. But it was also the place where I got my first email address in 1997. At the library, friends and I learned how to rese
16、arch colleges and search for scholarships on the Internet. The library was the place where we sometimes giggled(咯咯笑)too loudly, and where the librarians knew us by name. Their knowing our names wasnt a bad thing. When I came home from my first term at Binghamton University, Mary LaRosa, the libraria
17、n at the Franklin Square library, offered me my first teaching job. I now teach reading at Nassau Community College. My students are often amazed that they can check out books via their smartphones and virtually(虚拟地)visit a variety of Long Island libraries. The app used by Nassau and Suffolk county
18、public libraries, as well as the college library, makes their homework easier by helping them find resources. Even though they cant always easily visit their local libraries, the library is always with them.（1）Why does the author consider herself lucky today? A.She has become her mothers best friend
19、.B.She has access to a reliable car now.C.She can meet friends at the library.D.She lives close to libraries.（2）What does the underlined word that in Paragraph 2 refer to? A.Socializing in a library.B.Reading books in a library.C.Visiting a library with a family member.D.Building parent-child friend
20、ship in a library.（3）What is the authors attitude to her students way of visiting libraries? A.Cautious.B.Favorable.C.Doubtful.D.Disapproving.（4）Why does the author write the text? A.To discuss why libraries are important.B.To express her deep love for libraries.C.To explain how libraries change.D.T
21、o introduce her favorite libraries.【答案】 （1）D（2）A（3）B（4）C 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，作者讲述了从自己小时候到成家生子再到工作教书这一路上图书馆的变化。 （1）考查细节理解。根据第二段中的“Today，I am fortunate to live around the corner from the Cold Coast Public Library in Glen Head and a short walk to the Sea Cliff Childrens Library.”可知，现在，我很幸运地住在格伦黑德的冷海岸公共图书馆
22、附近，走一小段路就可以到海崖儿童图书馆，由此可知，作者认为自己很幸运是因为她住得离图书馆很近，故选D。 （2）考查词义猜测。根据第二段中的“My 18-imonth-old son，Colin，and I find ourselves in Sea Cliff several times a week，meeting and making friends.”可知，我和18个月大的儿子科林每周都要去几次海崖图书馆，在那里见面、交朋友，这是一种社交活动，画线词指代的就是“在图书馆社交”，故选A。 （3）考查推理判断。根据最后一段中的“Even though they cant always eas
23、ily visit their local libraries，the library is always with them.”可知，尽管学生们不能总是很容易地参观当地的图书馆，但图书馆总是与他们在一起，由此可知，作者对学生们访问虚拟图书馆的方式是支持的，故选B。 （4）考查推理判断。纵观全文可知，作者讲述了从自己小时候到成家生子再到工作教书这一路上图书馆所发生的变化，由此可知，作者写这篇文章是为了解释图书馆的变化，故选C。 【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需要准确掌握细节信息，并根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，从而选出正确答案。3
24、阅读理解 It started during a yoga class. She felt a strange pull on her neck, a feeling completely foreign to her. Her friend suggested she rush to the emergency room. It turned out that she was having a heart attack. She didnt share similar symptoms with someone who was likely to have a heart attack. S
25、he exercised, watched her plate and did not smoke. But on reviewing her medical history, I found that her cholesterol (胆固醇) level was sky-high. She had been prescribed a cholesterol-lowering statin (他汀) medication, but she never picked up the prescription because of the scary things she had read abo
26、ut statins on the Internet. She was the victim of fake medical news. While misinformation has been the object of great attention in politics, medical misinformation might lead to an increase in deaths. As is true with fake news in general, medical lies tend to spread further than truths on the Inter
27、netand they have very real bad consequences. False medical information can also lead to patients experiencing greater side effects through the nocebo effect (反安慰剂效应) . Sometimes patients benefit from an intervention (干预) simply because they believe they willthats the placebo effect (安慰剂效应). The noce
28、bo effect is the opposite. Patients can experience harmful effects because they anticipate them. This is very true of statins. In blinded trials, patients who get statins are no more likely to report feeling muscle aches than patients who get a placebo. Yet, in clinical practice, according to one st
29、udy, almost a fifth of patients taking statins report side effects, leading many to discontinue the drugs. What else is on the fake news hit list? As always, vaccines (疫苗) . False concerns that the vaccine may cause side effects have greatly reduced coverage rates. Cancer is another big target for p
30、ushers of medical misinformationmany of whom refuse alternative therapies. Though most people think cancer tumors are bad, theyre actually the way your body attempts to contain the harmful cells, one fake news story reads. It warns that prescription medications lead to the uncontrolled cell mutation
31、s (变异) . Silicon Valley needs to face this problem. I am not a free-speech lawyer, but when human health is at risk, perhaps search engines, social media platforms and websites should be held responsible for promoting or hosting fake information. Meanwhile, journalists should do a better job of spreading accurate information.（1）We can learn from Paragraph 2 that _. A.the woman paid little attention to her daily dietsB.the unhealthy lifestyle might lead to the womans heart attackC.the symptom of the heart attack was familiar to the womanD.the woma
