阅读理解--历史类选练（2）
2016高考英语阅读理解--历史类
In the past, if a person wanted to see the national treasures of a country, one had to go there in person．Therefore, very few people were able to enjoy some of history’s most important and interesting artifacts (手工艺品)．This has changed with an increase in the number of traveling museum exhibitions． King Tutankhamen Artifacts
A traveling exhibition of artifacts from the tomb of King Tutankhamen, popularly known as “King Tut”, toured the United States from November 1976 to April 1979．The 55 objects were shown in six cities and were seen by around eight million museum-goers．The second touring exhibit was started in 2007, this s antime with 130 artifactd stops in London and three different American cities．However some objects, like the king’s golden face mask, are too valuable or too delicate to be transported long distances, so “replicas” (exact copies of something) are on show． Japanese Color Woodblock Prints
The Art Museum at University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia, has an extraordinary collection of Japanese color woodblock prints (木刻版画)．These prints document the period from about 1850 to 1900, a time when Japan was opening itself to Western influences．Before this point, Japan was a closed society that had little communication with the world outside of its borders．These works of art beautifully show the feeling of change and the trend toward modernization．The museum has put together a traveling exhibition of 60 of these prints, which can be borrowed and exhibited worldwide for periods of eight weeks or more． Face-to-face with “Lucy”
One of the world’s most famous archaeological (考古学的) finds in history are the 3．2 million-year-old bones of a 106-centimeter-tall female found in the Ethiopian desert in 1974．Lucy, a name given to her by the discovery team, is a “hominid”, or a creature that scientists believe is the earliest ancestor of modern human beings．Rarely is an artifact this valuable allowed to travel widely, but Lucy has
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been taken to several museums in the U．S．while a detailed replica remains at the Ethiopian Natural History Museum．
【小题1】What do we learn about King Tutankhamen’s artifacts? A．The artifacts were shown in London first．
B．The artifacts were on show in the United States once．
C．The second touring exhibit showed more artifacts than the first one． D．The king’s golden face mask was also shown in the traveling exhibitions． 【小题2】What do the Japanese woodblock prints show about the society from 1850 to 1900?
A．Japan had little communication with other countries． B．The whole country refused changes in the society． C．Japan was opening itself up to Western ideas． D．Japan achieved modernization．
【小题3】Who is Lucy according to the passage? A．An archaeologist．
B．The ancestor of modern human beings．
C．A 106-centimeter-tall female who died in 1974． D．The first woman who visited the Ethiopian desert．
2016高考英语阅读理解--历史类
In 1947 a group of famous people from the art world headed by an Austrian conductor decided to hold an international festival of music, dance and theatre in Edinburgh. The idea was to reunite Europe after the Second World War.
It quickly attracted famous names such as Alec Guinness, Richard Button, Dame
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Margot Fonteyn and Marlene Dietrich as well as the big symphony orchestras(交响乐团). It became fixed event every August and now attracts 400,000 people yearly. At the Same time, the “Fringe” appeared as a challenge to the official festival. Eight theatre groups turned up uninvited in1947, in the belief that everyone should have the right to perform, and they did so in a public house disused for years. Soon, groups of students firstly from Edinburgh University, and later from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham were making the journey to the Scottish capital each summer to perform theatre by little-known writers of plays in small church halls to the people of Edinburgh.
Today the “Fringe”, once less recognized, has far outgrown the festival with around 1,500 performances of theatre, music and dance on every one of the 21 days it lasts. And yet as early as 1959, with only 19 theatre groups performing, some said it was getting too big.
A paid administrator was first employed only in 1971, and today there are eight administrators working all year round and the number rises to 150 during August itself. In 2004 there were 200 places housing 1,695 shows by over 600 different groups from 50 different countries. More than 1.25 million tickets were sold. 【小题1】What was the purpose of Edinburgh Festival at the beginning? A．To bring Europe together again. B．To honor heroes of World War II. C．To introduce young theatre groups. D．To attract great artists from Europe.
【小题2】Why did some uninvited theatre groups come to Edinburgh in 1947? A．They owned a public house there. B．They came to take up a challenge. C．They thought they were also famous. D．They wanted to take part in the festival.
【小题3】Who joined the “Fringe” after it appeared? A．Popular writers. B．University students.
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C．Artists from around the world. D．Performers of music and dance.
【小题4】We may learn from the text that Edinburgh Festival . A．has become a non-official event B．has gone beyond an art festival C．gives shows all year round D．keeps growing rapidly
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。
Suppose you are a visitor in the land of Mongolia（蒙古）, some friends ask you to eat with them. What kind of manners do they want you to have? They want you to give a loud burp（打饱嗝儿）after you finish eating. Burping would show that you like your food. In some countries, if you give a big burp, you are told to say “Excuse me, please”.
In many places people like to eat together. But in some parts of Polynesia it is bad manners to be seen eating at all. People show their good manners by turning their backs on others while they eat.
What are manners like in an East African town? The people try not to see you. They are being polite. You may see a friend. He may not see you at all. If you are polite, you will sit down beside him. You will wait until he finishes what he is doing. Then he will talk to you. Manners are different all over the world. But it is good to know that all manners begin in the same way. People need ways to show that they want to be friends.
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1. In Mongolia, burping is a way of showing that __________. A . you are impolite B . you enjoyed the meal prepared by the host C . your meal was not enough D . you are friendly with your host
2. However, in some countries, if you give a big burp, you are told to say “________” A . I’m full B . I’m sorry C . I have had enough D . Excuse me, please 3. In Polynesia, to be polite while eating you should __________. A . eat quickly B . sit still
C . turn your back on others D . say “Be quick, please” 4. People in an East African town are being polite by __________.
A . waiting for a long time before visits B . sitting down beside others C . seeing a friend quickly D . trying not to see you 5. We have good manners to show that we __________. A . are different from other people B . don’t want other people to worry us
C . begin all manners in the same way D . want to be friends with other people 【参考答案】1—5、BDCDD
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。
Medical drugs sometimes cause more damage than they cure. One solution to
this problem is to put the drugs inside a capsule, protecting them from the body—and the body from them—until they can be released at just the right spot. There are lots of ways to trigger (引发) this release，including changing temperature, acidity, and so on. But triggers can come with their own risks—burns, for example. Now, researchers in California have designed what could be a harmless trigger to date: shining near-infrared light (NIR, 近红外线) on the drug in the capsule.
The idea of using light to liberate the drug in the capsule isn't new.
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