2017浙江青田县高考英语一轮阅读理解精选
2016高考训练题。阅读理解。
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Alibaba started taking the lead in China by connecting big Chinese manufacturers with big buyers across the world. Its business-to-business site, Alibaba. com allowed business to buy almost everything. Alibaba’s advantage wasn’t hard to judge: size. Alibaba is just big, even by Chinese standards. Its market attracts 231 million active buyers, 8 million sellers, 11.3 billion orders a year—and Alibaba is iust the middleman. It encourages people to use its markets—not charging small sellers a percentage of the sale.
If you want a quick look into the influence of Alibaba on daily Chinese life, take my experience. I moved to Beijing a year ago and quickly got tired of visiting small stores across the crowded, polluted city of 20 million people in search of new electronics, bathroom furnishings, and anything else my wife wanted. “You’re looking for what exactly? Why not try it? ”my Chinese teacher asked me one day. With that, my wonderful new relationship with Alibaba began.
Alibaba’s original business-to-business model now is second to consumer buying. Chinese retail buying makes up 80% of Alibaba’s profit, and leading that group is Taobao, with 800 million items for sale and the most unbelievable selection of things you’ll ever find. TMall. com is Alibaba’s other big site, where you can find brand name goods from Nike and Unilever near the lowest prices.
What I have a hard time explaining to friends and family back in the U. S. is how China has gone beyond traditional shopping—big—box retailers especially—in favor of online purchases on Taobao and a few other sites. In smaller towns than Beijing, where big retailers have not yet traveled, shopping online is shopping, and shopping is Taobao.
I have a list of some of my recent purchases on Taobao for a sense of how wide the marketplace is. Almost everything arrived a day or two after ordering with free shipping. I’m not even a big buyer, because I need friends to help me search the Chinese—language site. When I was searching my purchase history on my Chinese teacher’s iPad, which helps me buy goods, I looked through with great difficulty about 10 of her purchases for every one of mine. 1. Alibaba’s advantage mainly lies in ________.
A. its low price B. its not charging small sellers
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C. its business-to-business service D. its big size
2. In paragraph 1, by referring to “Alibaba” as “the middleman”, the author means _______. A. Alibaba stands out as the best online site.
B. Alibaba is of middle size among all the online sites. C. Alibaba acts as a bridge between the buyers and sellers. D. Alibaba will continue to develop. 3. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Taobao has no obvious advantage over other similar online sites.
B. Alibaba’s business-to-business service earns more money than retail. C. The author’s Chinese teacher is also an online purchase lover. D. TMall. com provides more profit than Taobao. 4. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How the author purchases online in China.
B. Alibaba influences people’s daily purchase i China. C. Shopping online in China is TaoBao.
D. Shopping online goes beyond traditional shopping. 参考答案1—4、DCCB
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
Tired of all the pushing in supermarkets? Fed up with waiting in endless lines to pay for what you have bought? Angry at wasting time in traffic jams only to find no parking spaces when you eventually arrive at the store? If this is you, then online shopping is the answer to your dreams of trouble-free shopping. Or is it?
Online shopping brings its own challenges. Here are a few things to bear in mind when browsing (浏览) various websites. The claim made by online sites is that shopping online is a safe and secure way to make purchases. The evidence challenges this. In any case, you only have to be the victim of fraud (诈骗) once to experience all the problems that come with this form of stealing. Use only sites that have a trusted history and an excellent reputation.
Another problem is the appearance of items in reality is often quite different from what you see on your computer screen. This might not be a problem if you are buying washing up powder but could be a major disappointment when that beautiful blue dress you ordered turns up in green.
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Also, product descriptions are sometimes simply untrue. Perhaps the wisest plan is to purchase items where design and color are not essential to customer satisfaction.
Some even argue that online shopping indirectly contributes to global warming. Yes, your car can stay parked but how are online goods delivered? Often by some large vans pouring out carbon monoxide and adding to our already desperate traffic problems. You are also by now becoming increasingly irritated (使烦恼) by the fact that the delivery is late and you have wasted the leave from work you have taken to receive it!
Without question, online shopping is here to stay and it has its benefits. However, perhaps it is not as wonderful as some of its supporters claim it to be. 36. The author lists several questions in Para. 1 to . A. support online shopping
B. collect answers from readers
D. introduce the topic of the
C. show his dislike of going shopping
passage 【答案】D
【解析】推理判断题。根据用这些问题导入本段的主题，故选D。 37. By what can online shoppers avoid fraud?
A. Using only trusted websites. B. Choosing big websites. C. Collecting shopping evidence. 【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据第二段的句子：Use only sites that have a trusted history and an excellent reputation(名声).可知是使用值得信任的网站。故选A。 38. What can we learn about online shopping from Para. 3? A. It’s normal for a blue dress to change into green. B. We shouldn't believe product descriptions easily. C. It’s usually wise for us to buy colorful products. D. Product appearances are sometimes not good. 【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题。根据Another problem is that the appearance of items in reality is often quite different from what you see on your computer screen.可知不要相信产品描述。选B。 39. The author agrees with the fact that ______. A. customers are never satisfied with products
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D. Seeking advice from the police.
B. online shopping is a safe way to make purchases C. online shopping has nothing to do with global warming D. delivery delay often makes online shoppers unhappy 【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据You are also by now becoming increasingly irritated(使烦恼) by the fact that the delivery is late !可知是顾客对送货迟了是很生气的。故选D。 40. What is the author’s attitude towards online shopping?
A. Very popular. B. A wise choice. C. Not trouble free. D. A waste of time. 【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。根据从最后一段可知网购是一个不是没有麻烦的，故选C。
【山东省济宁市2014高考英语二模试题】D
The sun is setting on a summer night．At the entrance of a deep，dark cave，a few bats fly out．Within a few minutes，millions and millions of bats are pouring out of the cave． Sounds like a scary horror movie? Believe it or not，this scene takes place all summer long，at Bracken Cave in Texas，where 20 million bats come out to feed on insects every night．“It is magical，”says Jim Kennedy of Bat Conservation International in Texas．“It is one of the most impressive animal movements on the planet．\
Every March or April，Mexican free-tailed bats migrate up to 1，600 kilometers from their winter home in Mexico to their American home in Texas，where they raise their young. Soon after they arrive，each mother gives birth to one baby．As many as 500，baby bats crowd into 30 cubic centimeters of space．and all those bodies create nice warm tem- peratures to keep them cozy and comfortable．
If you have ever lost sight of your parents in a crowded playground，you may be won- dering how mother bats recorgnize their children．They use their sense of smell to tell which baby is theirs when it is time for the babies to have milk．
When twenty million bats fly out of one cave opening，they make a column so thick that they show up on the radar at the nearby airport．It can take three hours for all of them to get out from the cave．“You can feel the breeze from their wings，and see the plats wa- ving，”says Kennedy．“The movement of all those wings makes a very relaxing soft sound．I've always
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thought it would make a great relaxation music to help you go to sleep. So much for bats being scary!”
56.The scene described in the first paragraph takes place in______． A．a movie B．a cave C．Mexico D．the US 57．What makes the scene so“impressive”? A．The entrance of a deep，dark cave． B．The bats feeding on insects at night． C．The huge number of bats flying together． D．It takes place all summer long．
58．Both Paragraphs 3 and 4 are mainly about____． A. when and where the bats migrate B．how young bats are raised C．why baby bats crowd together D．how mother bats find their children
59．The underlined word“breeze”in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to____. A．light wind B．hot air C．strong smell D．black smoke 60．What does Kennedy mean by“So much for bats being scary!”? A．So much space is being occupied by bats! B. Bats are so much more scary than before! C．Never say bats are frightening again! D．So many bats are being scared away ! 【参考答案】DCBAC
【山东省济宁市2014高考英语二模试题】E
A good reader becomes sooner or later a good book buyer．The sooner，the better. The reading done in a book drawn from a library can not be so pleasant at the moment nor so permanently useful as the reading done in our own copy．
A book which is worth reading is likely to be read more than once，and at each reading some idea or some statement makes such an impression that we wish to refer to it again． Some readers underline the page as they read，but I find that a page which I have underlined can not give me
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