2023年高考英语复习——高三英语阅读理解专项练习（六）（四篇阅读题有答案）

2023年高考英语复习——高三英语阅读理解专项练习（六）
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Back from the beach I found an envelope on the doorstep. It was the fifth envelope with my latest photographs. This time I decided to check with the hotel reception.
At the reception desk, a middle aged man introduced himself, “Hello, Ms. Drew. I am Benson... residing at Room No. 14...I put the envelopes...”
“What the hell How can you click my snap... ” I was interrupted by him signaling to walk with him. We silently arrived at Room No.14. A fair, curly haired, ten year old girl opened the door.
“This is my daughter Agnes ... She snapped your photographs.”
She smiled bitterly at me and told me I reminded her of her lost mom.
I replied, “ It’s all right honey, if that can make you happy ....”
Day-to-day evening walks made the bond warmer and stronger. Agnes saw her mother in me and I reverted (回复) the feelings abundantly. After a week I left as my work in the city had got over. A tearful Agnes bid me goodbye promising in touch.
Each season Agnes greeted me with long mails about “her school”, “her vacation with dad”, “her new year” and much more. The maternal (母亲般的) bond sustained for three years until all my letters were suddenly unanswered. I wondered what could be the reason.
One day my husband came with a plan for the weekend. Then unconsciously we drove down to the beach road heading to the hut where I met Agnes. A group of girls walled to the seaside accompanied by two elderly ladies who looked like their caretakers. A little girl who sat all alone caught my attention. She looked familiar but thin, dark and her face was full of scars (伤疤).
“Agnes... how come What happened to you ”
Her tearful blue eyes looked sunken with grief. One of the caretakers told me that a car accident had killed her dad and this was the first time she responded to any other individual.
Agnes lay on my chest deep asleep as I inquired about ‘orphan (孤儿) adoption formalities’. The little angel hugged, tightly on my shoulders. The sun finally fully emerged out of the vast water expanse to shine brightly over us...
1. What was the author’s initial reaction to Benson’s explanation
A. She remained calm. B. She showed no interest.
C. She became annoyed. D. She expressed sympathy.
2. Why does Agnes take photos of the author
A. To enlarge her social circle. B. To satisfy her great curiosity.
C. To remove her bitter memory. D. To meet her emotional needs.
3. How did the author see Agnes three year later
A. She arranged the meeting. B. It was a pure chance.
C. Her husband planned it. D. A caretaker helped her.
4. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph indicate
A. Agnes would recover from her face injuries.
B. Agnes would care for orphans like an angel.
C. Agnes would be adopted by a loving family.
D. Agnes would be sponsored for her orphan life.
B
Winemaker Justin Jarrett remembers when the grape harvest used to start. He and his wife Pip, used to take their kids on an annual beach holiday in February. When they returned to their vineyards (葡萄园) in the regional New South Wales city of Orange, Australia, in early autumn, they’d start the harvest. Today, harvest starts six weeks earlier in January.
“What we did 20 years ago can’t work today, ”Jarrett says. “You have to adjust. ”
Scientists used to have big debates about how to talk to farmers about climate change, says Snow Barlow, a professor specialising in viticulture at the University of Melboume. But recently there’s been a sea change. “Farmers are now saying. This is serious and we want to get on with doing things, ” he says.
“Wine is a classical industry that has been very influenced by climate, ” Barlow says. “You grow grapes in particular areas because you think it’s the ideal place to grow a particular grape to create the perfect wine. ”
Rising temperatures are not just affecting harvest times, but also the types of grapes that grow well in particular areas. Major labels, such as Brown Brothers, have moved some of their operations to the southern state of Tasmania where there are cooler sites for varieties such as chardonnay and pinot noir. Others are changing their varietal mix, introducing grapes from southern Italy, Sicily and Greece that are more heat- tolerant.
The Jarretts have spent years adapting their winemaking business for a warmer world. They’ve invested in infrastructure, help them manage the compressed (缩短的) harvest time, and introduced more sustainable soil and pest (害虫) management practices.
Jarrett is growing their grape varieties at higher elevations (海拔高度) than he used to. Sauvignon blanc, for instance, which he used to grow at 700m, has been moved up to 900m. He thinks he can keep moving his operations up to about 1100m before he has to buy more land.
“We have to have a 20-year plan. If we’re going to move a variety or change something, we have to have at least 20 years of success to make it worthwhile,” Jarrett says. “We are really looking at varieties that are now considered hot climate. ”
5. What do the Jarretts have to adjust to
A. Their holiday plan. B. Their neighborhood.
C. The identity as winemakers. D. The earlier grape harvest.
6. What can we learn from Snow Barlow’s words
A. Scientists were divided over climate change. B. Warm climate has caused a change in the sea.
C. Wine industry is particular about grape suppliers. D. Farmers are aware of the gravity of climate change.
7. How are the Jaretts coping with the impact on their winemaking
A. By putting off the harvest time. B. By introducing heat- tolerant grapes.
C. By planting grapes at higher elevations. D. By moving their operations to a new land.
8. What is Jarett’s opinion of the alternative approaches to the challenge
A. Great minds think alike. B. It is rewarding to try new things.
C. It is better to play safe than take risks. D. One man’s meat is another man’s poison.
C
A man called Jamaal Allan has revealed how his name has led to him being racially stereotyped (归类)throughout his life.
Jamaal, a high school teacher who grew up in southern Oregon of the USA, revealed that most people he meets are always surprised when they discover he's white. He said that one of the most common responses to his name is “I never would've guessed your name was Jamaal”. In a blog post he aired his thoughts on this, writing: "Really, are you frequently good at guessing people's names ” Another reaction to his name, he said, is '"you don't look like a Jamaal", to which he asked in response, "And how exactly does one look like a name ”
He wrote in the blog that some people, after meeting him, say “I thought you'd be…"and then pause with “a sudden realization they are on the verge of sounding racist", before finding a word such as “tailed or "older” to end the sentence with.
And his name once appeared to get him selected for a random security check on a trip to London in 2002, as the others picked out by officials were called Muhammad, Abdul and Tariq. He also explained that waitresses and waiters usually hand his credit card back to a black person at his table when he's dining out.
His name, which means “beauty" in Arabic, landed him his teaching job in Iowa, though. Jamaal said, “The principal who had hired me admitted that I was lucky to have gotten the job. They had not been planning to take another student-teacher when my application showed up. But, as they scanned through it and saw a Jamaal who plays basketball and counts Muhammad Ali among his heroes, they thought they 'could use a little diversity,'" said Jamaal.
Jamaal's dad was a fan of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team and he was just named after one of their players, Jamaal Wilkes.
9. What do most people think of Jamaal's name
A. It sounds unattractive. B. It is difficult to pronounce.
C. It is an untypical boy name. D. It is unusual for a white man.
10. Why were "Abdul" and "Tariq" selected for a random security check
A. They were black people. B. They used fake names.
C. They took others9 credit cards. D. They were racially stereotyped.
11. What does Paragraph 5 mainly talk about
A. The meaning of Jamaal's name. B. The start of Jamaal's career in Iowa.
C. The positive effect of Jamaal's name. D. The happy ending of Jamaal's story.
12. Why did the principal decide to hire Jamaal
A. He liked Jamaal's special experiences. B. He mistook Jamaal as a colored person.
C. He considered Jamaal a good sportsman. D. He appreciated Jamaal's basketball heroes.
D
Finding the local stamp dealer may not be everyone’s most important thing on holiday, but for 26-year-old Anita Lo, it is. What started at the age of five with her grandfather’s old album has developed into a collection of several thousand which is regularly updated from her travels. She shares her collection on Instagram and WhatsApp and uses searching engines to search for items by price or country.
Having set up his own YouTube channel, Exploring Stamps, 32-year-old Graham Beck loves to communicate with fellow enthusiasts. To date, he has uploaded 70 videos which see him select a stamp and explore the history behind it. “I discovered my old childhood album when clearing my house, and began googling the images and had this realisation: I realised how fascinating stamps really are with all this social history documented on these little pieces of paper. They give such a unique perspective on different subjects and that’s what gives it the edge over other hobbies, rather than particular paper types and printing styles.”
His best-received video has attracted 80,000 views, and he sees online prevalence of the subject, and the growing use of multimedia at trade shows, as critical to engaging the next generation.
George James, head of Commonwealth at stamp dealer publisher Stanley Gibbons in London, agrees to the idea. “With the amount of money involved at the top end of the market, some detection technology has become highly developed and widely used.”
Stanley Gibbons’ in-house experts will check postmarks or other differences in letter sizes and hole spacing, and in more complex cases send them onto the official society. Experts will also use a video spectral comparator (光谱视频比较仪)—the software used to check banknotes and passports to compare some properties of ink and spot the clues missed by the human eye. These are much appreciated by collectors and these have protected them from being cheated. “Technology has made the trade much more open and fairer. And technology has been the best thing for collecting stamps,” James said.
13. What makes collecting stamps special according to Graham Beck
A. The delicate patterns on little pieces.
B. The paper types and printing features.
C. The cultural details attached to stamps.
D. The memories of collecting experiences.
14. What does the underlined word “prevalence” in Paragraph 3 mean
A. Application. B. Popularity. C. Collection. D. Importance.
15. What will Stanley Gibbons’ experts do for the collectors
A. Detect potential information of stamps.
B. Persuade them to employ online tools.
C. List the top stamps with collection value.
D. Estimate the damage of the stamps collected.
16. Which of the following could be the best title for the text
A. Honesty—the best policy in stamp trades
B. Technology holds the key to all development
C. Stamps—common memories of a generation
D. High-tech stamp collectors energise an old hobby
答案：
A篇：C D B C
B篇：D D C C
C篇：D D C B
D篇： C B A D