重庆市渝中区2016高考英语阅读理解一轮选练（9）
【2015高考复习】阅读理解
Areas of Tokyo which had usually been packed with office workers like sushi(寿司) restaurants and noodle shops were unusually quiet. Many schools were closed. Companies allowed workers to stay home. Long queues formed at airports. As Japanese authorities struggled to avoid disaster at an earthquake-battered nuclear plant 240 km to the north, parts of Tokyo resembled a ghost town. Many people stocked up on food and stayed indoors or simply left, transforming one of the world's biggest and most populated cities into a shell of its usual self. “Look, it's like Sunday —no cars in town，” said Kazushi Arisawa, a 62-year-old taxi driver, as he waited for more than an hour outside an office tower where he usually finds customers within minutes. “I can't make money today. ”
Radiation in Tokyo has been negligible,_ briefly touching three times the normal rate on Tuesday, smaller than a dental X-ray. On Wednesday, winds over the Fukushima (福岛) nuclear-power plant blew out to sea, keeping levels close to normal. But that does little to relieve public anxiety about a 40-year-old nuclear plant with three reactors in partial meltdown (熔毁)and a fourth with spent atomic fuel exposed to the atmosphere after last Friday's earthquake and tsunami.
“Radiation moves faster than we do，” said Steven Swanson, a 43-year-old American who moved to Tokyo in December with his Japanese wife to help with her family business.He is staying indoor but is tempted to leave.“It's scary.It's a triple threat with the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear radiation leaks.It makes you wonder what's next. ”
【语篇解读】 本文主要介绍了日本的核辐射泄露对人们造成的影响。
1．The text is mainly about________.
A．the earthquake that happened in March B．the government's effort to avoid disaster C．the effects of the nuclear radiation leaks D．the earthquake-battered nuclear-power plant
解析 主旨大意题。整篇文章介绍了日本的核辐射泄露对人们造成的影响。故选C项。 答案 C
2．What did Kazushi Arisawa mean?
A．There're usually more cars on Sundays.
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B．He didn't care much about nuclear radiation. C．He preferred to stay at home on Sundays. D．He couldn't find many customers.
解析 细节理解题。从文章第三段的“as he waited for more than an hour outside an office tower where he usually finds customers within minutes.‘I can't make money today.’”看出答案。 答案 D
3．The underlined word “negligible”in Paragraph 4 most probably means________.
A．serious
B．slight
C．normal
D. average
解析 词义猜测题。从下文的“smaller than a dental X-ray”看出答案。 答案 B
4．What can we learn about the Fukushima nuclearpower plant from the text?
A．It lies to the south of Tokyo.
B．It started to operate about fifty years ago. C．It was damaged in the earthquake and tsunami. D．All its four reactors are now well under control.
解析 推理题。从文章第四段的“a 40-year-old nuclear plant with three reactors in partial meltdown (熔毁)and a fourth with spent atomic fuel exposed to the atmosphere after last Friday's earthquake and tsunami”看出答案。 答案 C
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A research by the National Center for Health Statistics is seen as an important confirmation of the “Hispanic mortality paradox(西班牙裔死亡率悖论).”
On average, Hispanics outlive whites by 2.5 years and blacks by 7.7 years. Their life expectancy at birth in 2006 was 80.6 years, compared with 78.1 for whites, 72.9 for blacks and 77.7 years for the total population.
The report shows that the Hispanic population has higher life expectancy at birth and at almost every age despite a socioeconomic status lower than that of whites. “Mortality is very correlated with income, education and health care access,” says
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