2017高考英语阅读理解专项训练

2017年取消高考英语其实是误读，只是有原来的统一考试改成了一年两考，且可以多次参加。为了帮助大家备考，小编整理了一些高考英语阅读，希望能帮到大家!

　　Newspapers

Almost every family buys as least one copy of a newspaper every people subscribe to as many as two or three different newspapers But why do people read newspapers?

Five hundred years ago，news of important happenings--battles lost and won，kings or rulers overthrown(推翻)or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to news passed by word of mouth and was never y we can read in our newspapers of important events that occur in far away countries on the same day they happen.

Apart from supplying news from all over the world，newspapers give us a lot of other useful information There are weather reports，radio，television and film guides，book reviews，stories，and of bigger ones are put in by large companies to bring attention to their pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for the advertising space，but it is worth the money for news of their products goes into almost every home in the country For those who produce newspapers，advertisements are also very y earned from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make a profit.

41 The phrase “subscribe to‟‟ in the first paragraph means“ ___C_____”

to the newspaper stand and buy

their own news stories to

e to buy for a specific period of time

D become faithful readers of

42 The habit of reading newspapers is __A___

spread

d among a few families

popular

mmon

re the time of the newspaper，__D____

A bad news traveled quickly and good news slowly

B few people cared about events that took place in far away countries

s and rulers were often overthrown or killed

was passed from one person to another

44 The author seems to agree that money spent on advertisements is __C____

much

C well spent

no use to anyone

h of the following statements is TRUE? A

hundred years ago it took a long time for news to reach other countries.

paper advertisements turn people’S attention away from their products.

news that we read in newspapers is mainly about new products.

D When newspapers are sold at a low price，the newspaper producers will lose money.

答案：CADCA

　　silly question

One silly question I simply can‟t stand is“How do you feel”lly the question is asked of a man in action—a man on the ing along the busily working at his desk So what d0 you expect him to say?He‟11 probably say.“Fine.I‟m all right.”But “you‟ve put a bug in his ear”一maybe now he‟s not sure If you are a good friend，you may have seen something in his face，or his he did not realize that morning It starts him worrying a t thing you looks in a mirror to see if everything is aⅡ fight，while you go merrily on your way asking someone else.‘‘How do you feel?” Every question has its time and place It‟s perfectly acceptable，for instance，to ask ‘‘How do you feel?‟‟ if you‟re visiting a close friend in the hospital But if the fellow is walking on both legs，hurrying to make a train，or sitting at his desk working，it‟s no time to ask him that silly question. When George Bernard Shaw，the famous writer of plays was in his eighties，someone asked him“How do you feel”，Shaw put him in his place.‘‘When you reach my age”，he said.“either you feel all right or you‟re dead”