高考英语阅读练习题及答案
30. What is Turin’s book based on?
A. The cultural studies in India.
B. The documents available at Yale.
C. His language research in Bhutan.
D. His personal experience in Nepal.
31. Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?
A. Write, sell and donate.
B. Record, repair and reward.
C. Collect, protect and reconnect.
D. Design, experiment and report.
【答案】BADC
【解析】28.根据第二段中have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect可知很多学者正在记录这些即将消失的语言和文化，以防止这些语言和文化永远地消失。故B正确。
29.根据文章第二段中 have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect可知很多学者正在记录的即将消失的语言和文化，以防止这些语言和文化永远地消失。而Mark Turin正在following in that tradition(追随这样的传统)。所以这里的that tradition就是指前面一段里的学者在记录这些即将消失的语言和文化。故A正确。
30.根据文章第三段中的grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal可知，这本书的内容源自他在尼泊尔生活，工作以及抚养家人的经历。说明这本书是以他的个人经历为基础的。故D正确。
31.根据文章第四段中Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.和文章第五段中which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection和文章最后一段中 the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities可知C项说法是正确的。
阅读理解【3】
The freezing Northeast hasn’t been a terribly fun place to spend time this winter, so when the chance came for a weekend to Sarasota, Florida, my bags were packed before you could say “sunshine”. I left for the land of warmth and vitamin C, thinking of beaches and orange trees. When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness. Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets (at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon) filled the weekend, but the best part----particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold-weather root vegetables----was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.
The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries; the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal----and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New Yor k I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where----luckily for me----I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.
24. What did the author think of her winter life in New York?
A. Exciting. B. Boring.
C. Relaxing. D. Annoying.
25. What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile?
A. Having a swim.
B. Breathing in fresh air.
C. Walking in the morning sun.
D. Visiting a local farmers’ market.
26. What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter?
A. They are soft. B. They look nice.
C. They taste great. D. They are juicy.
27. What was the author going to do that evening?
A. Go to a farm. B. Check into a hotel.
C. Eat in a restaurant. D. Buy fresh vegetables.
【答案】BDBC
【解析】24.推理判断题。根据第一段第一句及第三段最后一句可知，作者的家在纽约，纽约的冬季非常冷，不是非常有趣的`度日的地方，因此她去佛罗里达度周末，由此可推断作者认为她在纽约的冬天生活是乏味的、无趣的。选B。
25.细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句中的“a 7a.m. adventure to the Sarasota farmers’ market that proved to be more than worth the early wake-up call.”可知，参观当地农民的市场使作者的早起是值得的。选D。
26.细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“No matter how attractive they look in the store ,once I get them home they are unfailingly dry ,hard and tasteless. ”可知，在纽约冬天出售的水果看起来很好。选B。
27.细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, I was planning to have dinner that very night.”可知，那天晚上作者打算去一个饭店吃饭。选C。
【点评】本文主要叙述了作者在Sarasota度周末的经历。
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