高三上學(xué)期閱讀理解訓(xùn)練106(含答案)

1、高三上學(xué)期英語閱讀理解訓(xùn)練 106AEuropes most beautiful placesEurope is an amazingly varied place. The old continents historic cities and its Mediterranean beaches draw many of its visitors, but the best destinations are sometimes its more remote corners, known mainly to locals and a few brave travelers.Lake Inari

2、, FinlandHigh above the Arctic Circle and close to Finlands border with Russia, Lake Inari is a year - round paradise. Dark, snowy winters make it ideal for catching a glimpse of the aurora borealis.Its tree- lined banks glow a burnt orange during autumn and in summer, you can swim in its chilly sha

3、llows.The center of local Sa mi culture, its as remote and traditional as Finland gets.Unst, Shetland Isles, ScotlandThe most northerly occupied island of the British Isles, Unst is a wild, rugged place where seas crash into the dramatic Muckle Flugga sea stacks.The latter are a harbor for gannets（

4、塘鵝 ）during breeding season, with birdwatchers also treated to the sight of searching skuas（賊鷗）.Yorkshire Dales, EnglandIts narrow lanes lined with drystone walls cry out to cyclists seeking marvelous adventures, while its moody hills continually attract walkers, no matter the weather.Geological wond

5、ers such as the limestone spectacles of Malham Cove and Gordale Scar make it perhaps the most beautiful part of the British Isles.Loire Valley, FranceChateau de Chambord and Chateau de Chenonceau are the most famous, filled with classic viewing towers, formal gardens and boating lakes.Throw in a tou

6、r of its graperies, where some of the worlds finest wines are produced, and its glamour is impossible to ignore.（）56. According to the passage，the best destinations in Europe are A. historic cities and Mediterranean beachesB. known to people around the worldC. familiar to only a handful of peopleD.

7、similar to each other with no obvious differences（）57. If you are a cyclist interested in adventures, youd better choose A. Unst, Shetland Isles, Scotland B. Yorkshire Dales, EnglandC. Loire Valley, France D. Lake Inari, FinlandBA widely -used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can ins

8、tead be made by an artificial leaf that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to petrol.The carb on-n eutral（碳中禾口 ）device sets a new sta ndard in the field of solar fuels, after researchers at the Uni versity

9、 of Cambridge dem on strated that it can directly produce the gas called syn gas（合成氣）in a sustainable and simple way.Rather than running on fossil fuels, the artificial leaf is powered by sunlight, although it still works efficiently on cloudy and overcast days. And unlike the current industrial pro

10、cesses for producing syngas, the leaf does not release any additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The results are reported in the journal Nature Materials.Syngas is currently made from a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide( 氧化碳 )， and is used to produce a range of products, such as fuels

11、, medicines, plastics and fertilizers.“ You may not have heard of syngas itself but every day, you consume products that were created using it.Being able to produce it sustainably would be a critical step in closing the global carbon cycle and establishing a sustainable chemical and fuel industry ，”

12、 said senior author Professor Erwin Reisner from Cambridges Department of Chemistry, who has spent seven years working towards this goal.The device Reisner and his colleagues produced is inspired by photosynthesis the natural processplants use the energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into foo

13、d.On the artificial leaf, two light absorbers, similar to the molecules in plants that harvest sunlight, are combined with a catalyst( 催化劑 ) made from the naturally abundant element cobalt( 鈷 )When the device is dipped in water, one light absorber uses the catalyst to produce oxygen. The other carri

14、es out the chemical reaction that reduces carbon dioxide and water into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, forming the syngas mixture.As an added bonus, the researchers discovered that their light absorbers work even under the low levels of sunlight on a rainy or overcast day.“ This means you are not lim

15、ited to using this technology just in warm countries, or only operating the process during the summer months，” said PhD student Virgil Andrei, first author of the paper. “ You could use it from dawn until dusk, anywhere in the world. ”( )58. With the artificial leaf, we can A. produce syngas in a su

16、stainable and simple wayB. prevent carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphereC. make products like medicines, plastics and fertilizers out of fossil fuelsD. harvest abundant sunlight through petrol and close the global carbon cycle ()59. For the syngas mixture to be formed, we might as w

17、ell A. get rid of one light absorber B. block the contact with sunlightC. provide a special catalyst D. keep the artificial leaf far away from water ()60. What can we learn from what PhD student Virgil Andrei said?A. Syngas has already been in widespread use around the world.B. The artificial leaf i

18、s powered by fossil fuels rather than sunlight.C. The artificial leaf doesnt depend too much on the weather or location.D. Syngas is currently made from a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide.CFor some people, higher education is not just a goal in life, but also an expectation. In the United Sta

19、tes, if your parents attended a college or university, there is a good chance that you will, too. Even if your parents did not go to college, you still have a good chance of completing higher education if your family is wealthy.But your chances are reduced if you come from a needy family, a communit

20、y with limited educational resources or you simply have no one to follow as an example.Helping those in need is one of the main ideas behind a strategy of behavioral science called nudge theory or nudging. Nudging is a way of changing peoples behavior through indirect suggestion and by supporting po

21、sitive actions.A growing number of U S. colleges and universities look to nudging as way to support poor, minority and first- generation students. They also are using it to increase overall graduation rates. Two common forms of nudging are emails to students and text messages to their mobile phones.

22、 Schools and other educational organizations keep in contact with students this way, offering advice and help when needed.However, Aleja ndra Acosta a higher educati on policy expert at New America no tes that there are several qualities a nu dge campaig n must possess in order to be successful.Acos

23、ta says messages must be timely, meaning they reach college stude nts well before the date by which a stude nt is required to take action. Additi on ally, nu dges should be writte n clearly and provide as much in formati on as possible. If stude nts start to struggle in class, school officials shoul

24、d not just message them, say ing they should seek academic support. The message should give in formati on about what kinds of support the college or uni versity offers and exactly how the stude nt can make use of them. That is why nu dges should possess in teractive qualities, Acosta says. For examp

25、le, stude nts should be able to ask questi ons of school officials or be directed to a website for more in formati on. In additi on, colleges and uni versities must en sure their support services are in place and work ing as best they can.When nu dges work, they can do a lot of good. In 2018, a non

26、profit group laun ched a nu dgi ng campaig n at four U . S. community colleges. They worked with nearly 10 , 000 first - year students at three such colleges in Ohio and one in Virginia. A recent study found that older and min ority stude nts who agreed to receive these nu dges were 16 to 20 perce n

27、t more likely to con ti nue into their sec ond year tha n those who did not.()61. Who is most likely to receive and complete higher educati on accord ing to the passage?A. Tony, whose father is the only bread-winner in the family.B. Jimmy, whose mother is a worker in a small factory.C. Betty, whose

28、gra ndmother is a housemaid of a famous uni versity professor.D. Cathy, whose pare nts failed to atte nd college but succeeded in start ing a big compa ny.()62. What can we know about nu dgi ng?A. It is an chored in psychological scie nee.B. It is a way to improve peoples mind.C. It offers con crete

29、 and direct advice.D. It helps stude nts via emails and text messages.()63. Which adjectives can be used to describe ideal message qualities of nu dgi ng?A. Timely, practical and in teractive.B. Timely, i nteractive and susta in able.C. Immediate, authe ntic and con siste nt.D. Immediate, i nteracti

30、ve and perma nent.()64. What is the passage mainly talk ing about?A. The problem with higher educatio n.B. A way for colleges to support stude nts.C. The popularity of nu dgi ng campaig n.D. A n atio nal campaig n deali ng with poverty.DLiu, the farmer, sat at the door of his one - room house. It wa

31、s a warm evening in late February, and in his thin body he felt the coming of spring. How he knew that the time had now come when life began to move in the soil? He could not have told himself. Most of all , in any other year than this he might have pointed to his wheat fields, where he pla nted whe

32、at i n the win ter whe n the land was not n eeded for rice, and where, whe n spri ng was moving into summer, he planted the good rice, for rice was his chief crop. But the land told nothing, this year. There was no wheat on it, for the flood had covered it long after wheat should have bee n pla nted

33、, and it lay there cracked and like clay but n ewly dried.Well, on such a day as this, if he had his buffalo( 水牛)and his plow(犁)as he had always had in other years, he would have gone out and plowed up that cracked soil. He ached to plow it up and make it look like a field aga in, yes, even though h

34、e had not so much as one seed to put in it. But he had no buffalo. If anyone had told him that he would eat his own water buffalo that plowed the good land for him, he would have called that man idiot . Yet it was what he had done. He had eate n his own water buffalo, he and his wife and his pare nt

35、s and his four childre n, they had all eate n the buffalo together.But what else could they do on that dark win ters day when the last of their store of gra in was gone, whe n the trees were cut and sold, when he had sold everything, even the little they had saved from the flood, and there was nothi

36、ng left except the shabby house they had and the worn clothes they wore? Was there sense in removi ng the coat from on es back to feed on es belly? On that day whe n he had see n the faces of his old pare nts set as though dead, on that day whe n he had heard the crying of his childre n and see n hi

37、s little daughter dying, such a despair had seized him as made him like a man without his reas on, so that he had gathered all his stre ngth and he had done what he said he n ever would; he had take n the kitche n knife and gone out and killed his own beast. When he did it, even in his despair, he s

38、creamed, for it was as though he killed his own brother. To him it was the last sacrifice._(68) It would have take n them all except that in the great pools lyi ng everywhere, which were left from the flood, there were shrimps(小蝦),and these they had eaten raw and were still eating, although they wer

39、e all sick and would not get well. In the last day or so his wife had crawled out and dug a few weeds. But there was no fuel and so they also were eaten raw. But the bitterness was good after the tasteless flesh of the raw shrimps. Yes, spring was coming.He sat on heavily, look ing out over his Ian d. If he had his buffalo back, if he had his plow that