高中英语阅读理解

导语：在高中英语中，阅读理解的解答所需时间长，灵活性强。所以很多时候我们需要练，依靠不断的练习来提高我们的阅读理解能力。

第一篇：

There are stories about two U.S . presidents，Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren，which attempt to explain the American English term don‟t know if either story is true，but they are both interesting. The first explanation is based on the fact that President Jackson had very little fact，he had difficulty reading and important papers came to Jackson，he tried to read them and then had his assistants explain what they he approved of a would write“all correct”on problem was that he didn‟t know how to what he really wrote was“ol korekt”r a while，he shortened that term to“OK”.

The second explanation is based on the place where President Van Buren was born，Kinderhook，New Bnren‟s friends organized a club to help him become President They caned the club the Old Kinderhook Club，and anyone who supported Van Buren was called“OK”.

author

A. believes both of the stories

n‟t believe a word of the stories

C is not sure whether the stories are true

D. is telling the stories just for fun

32. According to the passage，President Jackson

dn‟t draw up any documents at all

B. didn‟t like to read important papers by himself

n had his assistants sign documents for him

D ‟t good at reading，writing or spelling

rding to the first story, the term “OK”

A. was approved of by President Jackson

the title of some Official documents

first used by President Jackson

an old way to spell“all correct’’

34 rding to the second story，the term‘‘OK”

the short way to say‘‘old Kinderhook Club”

t the place where President Van Buren was born

the name of Van Buren‟s club

used to call Van Buren‟s supporters in the election

rding to the second term“OK”was first used

Van Buren

a presidential election

organize the Old Kinderhook Club

the members of the‘‘Old Kinderhook Club”

第二篇：

Although the United States covers so much land and the land produces far more food than the present population needs，its people are by now almost entirely an urban society Less than a tenth of the people are engaged in agriculture and forestry(林业)，and most of the rest live in or around towns，small and the traditional picture is changing：every small town may still be very like other small towns，and the typical small town may represent a widely accepted view of the country，but most Americans do not live in small towns any the population now lives in some thirty metropolitan areas(1arge cities with their suburbs、of more than a million people each—a larger proportion than in Germany or England，let alone statistics(统计)of urban and rural population should be treated with caution because so many people who live in areas classified as rural travel by car to work in a nearby town each the rush to live out of town l areas within reach of towns are gradually filled with houses，so that it is hard to say at what moment a piece of country becomes a suburb But more and more the typical American lives in a metropolitan rather than a small town environment.

now America has 250 million many of them are engaged in agriculture and forestry?

t 25 million.

than 25 million.

than 25 million.

D. Less than 225 million

h of the following four countries has the smallest proportion of people living in metropolitan areas?

ed States.

any.

ce.

and.

’s the meaning of the word“metropolitan”in the middle of the passage?

A a large city with its suburbs.

small and large towns.

urban areas.

rural areas.

rding to the passage，what can we learn about small towns in the United States?

A Most small towns become gradually crowded

l towns are still similar to each other.

the traditional picture is changing，towns are different.

D l towns are turning into large cities

is it hard to say when a piece of country becomes a suburb?

use they are the same.

use the rush takes place too quickly

use the process is gradual.

use more and more Americans live in metropolitan

第四篇：

If we were asked exactly what we were doing a year ago，we should probably have to say that we could not remember But if we had kept a book and had written in it an account of what we did each day，we should be able to give an answer to the question.

It is the same in history Many things have been forgotten because we do not have any written account of them Sometimes men did keep a record of the most important happenings in their country，but often it was destroyed by fire or in a times there was never any written record at all because the people of that time and place did not know how to example，we know a good deal about the people who lived in China 4，000 years ago, because they could write and leave written records for those who lived after we know almost nothing about the people who lived even 200 years ago in central Africa. because they had not learned to write. course，even if the people cannot write，they may know something of the have heard about it from older people，and often songs and dances and stories have been made about the most important happenings，and these have been sung and acted and told for many generations For most people are proud to tell what their fathers did in the we may call ‟remembered history’ of it has now been written down. It is not so exact or so valuable to us as written history is，because words are much more easily changed when used again and again in speech than when copied in where there are no written records，such spoken stories are often very helpful.

41. Which of the following ideas is not suggested in the passage?

A.“Remembered history”，compared with written history，is less reliable

ten records of the past play the most important role in our learning of the human history.

C.A written account of our daily activities helps US to be able to answer many questions.

e there are no written e is no history.

know very little about the central Africa 200 years ago because

e was nothing worth being written down at that time

B people there ignored the importance of keeping a record

written records were perhaps destroyed by a fire

people there did not know how to write

43.“Remembered history”refers to

ory based on a person‟s imagination

B ies of important happenings passed down from mouth to mouth

C s and dances about the most important events

D B and C

44.“Remembered history”is regarded as valuable only when

A. it is written down

B written account is available

proves to be time

le are interested in it

45 passage suggests that we could have learned much more about our past than we do now if the ancient people had

a written record of every past event

B. not burnt their written records in wars

exact stories of the most important happenings

more songs and dances