山东德州2013届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精练精析4
We once had a poster competition in our fifth grade art class.
“You could win prizes, ” our teacher told us as she wrote the poster information on the blackboard. She passed out sheets of construction paper while continuing, “The first prize is ten dollars. You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. ”
We studied the board critically. Some of us looked with one eye and held up certain colors against the blackboard, rocking the sheets to the right or left while we conjured up our designs. Others twisted their hair around their fingers or chewed their erasers while deep in thought. We had plans for that ten-dollar grand prize, each and every one of us. I’m going to spend mine on candies, one hopeful would announce, while another practiced looking serious, wise and rich.
Everyone in the class made a poster. Some of us used parts of those fancy paper napkins(餐巾纸), while others used nothing but colored construction paper. Some of us used big designs, and some of us preferred to gather our art tidily down in one corner of our poster and let the space draw the viewer’s attention to it. Some of us would wander past the good students’ desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. It was yet another grown-up trick of the sort they seemed especially fond of, making all of us believe we had a fair chance, and then always—always—rewarding the same old winners.
I believe I drew a sailboat, but I can’t say that with any certainty. I made it. I admired it. I determined it to be the very best of all of the posters I had seen, and then I turned it in.
Minutes passed.
No one came along to give me the grand prize, and then someone distracted me, and I probably never would have thought about that poster again.
I was still sitting at my desk, thinking, What poster? when the teacher gave me an envelope with a ten-dollar bill in it and everyone in the class applauded for me.
1. What was the teacher’s requirement for the poster?
A. It must appear in time.
B. It must be done in class.
C. It must be done on a construction sheet.
D. It must include the words on the blackboard.
2. The underlined phrase in paragraph 3 most probably means _______ .
A. formed an idea for B. made an outline for
C. made some space for D. chose some colors for
3. After seeing the good students’ designs, some students _______ .
A. loved their own designs more
B. thought they had a fair chance
C. put their own designs in a corner
D. thought they would not win the prize
4. We can infer from the passage that the author _______ .
A. enjoyed grown-up tricks very much
B. loved poster competitions very much
C. felt surprised to win the competition
D. became wise and rich after the competition
(B)
A Massachusetts woman who mistakenly threw away her diamond ring last week recovered the family heirloom(传家宝) after tracking down the garbage truck and searching through 10 tons of city trash bags.
Joan Sawyer of Bedford says all her efforts paid off after realizing she had dropped her diamond ring into her single trash bag among thousands of others.
“I was in a total state of panic, ” Mrs Sawyer told WHDH-TV, saying she thought she’d never see the heirloom again.
Her diamond ring dropped by accident in the trashcan and only realized after a dump truck had made a stop at their house.
“I said, ‘Oh my God, it’s in the rubbish truck, ’ ”Mrs Sawyer recalled before calling the Allied Waste Service.
The Allied Waste Service was able to find the truck number exactly that had come to their door and tell them where it was heading.
Mrs Sawyer and her husband waited for three hours watching out for her 24-44 truck to arrive.
But to their mixed relief, it arrived, emptying 10 tons of trash in a room. Lucky enough to have the voluntary aid of Covanta workers who helped the Sawyers pick through the large quantities of black trash bags and other waste, as her husband Bill Sawyer described, the crew didn’t have a rest until they found something glittering.
“I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s my bag, I recognize something in it, ’” Mrs Sawyer recalled. Mr Sawyer began to tear the trash bag apart, and there, it appeared.
“You could almost see the tears in her eyes; she was excited when she found it, ” Ken Nydam of Covanta told WHDH-TV.
“And then everyone who helped out, they were just happy they got to see how happy she was and we were happy we could help them out, ” he added.
5. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. How did Mrs Sawyer find her diamond ring？
B. A diamond ring was recovered in 10 tons of trash.
C. A diamond ring dropped by accident in the trashcan.
D. Many hands make light work.
6. How did Mrs Sawyer feel when she realized she lost her diamond ring?
A. Happy. B. Excited.
C. Surprised. D. Frightened.
7. What’s the underlined phrase“paid off” mean in Paragragh 2?
A. succeeded B. wasted
C. ended D. cost
8. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Mrs Sawyer was optimistic that she would find it soon at first.
B. She realized she had dropped her ring in a trash truck at the very beginning.
C. It didn’t take the couple a long time to find out the very truck.
D. With the help of other people, Mrs Sawyer found her lost ring finally.
答案解析
1.【解析】选 D。细节理解题。由第二段末句，老师说的话You just have to make sure that the words on the blackboard appear somewhere on your poster. 可知老师的要求是黑板上的内容须在海报中出现。
2. 【解析】选A。词义猜测题。上下句是Some. . . Others. . . 句式，while we conjured up our designs的对应部分是while deep in thought，可见conjured up的意思是“思考，想像”，故选A。
3.【解析】选D。细节理解题。由第四段倒数第二句Some of us would wander past the good students’ desks and then return to our own projects with a growing sense of hopelessness. 可知有些学生看到优秀学生的作品后, 对自己的参赛作品没有了信心。
4.【解析】选C。推理判断题。由. . . always—always—rewarding the same old winners, 和. . . I can’t say that with any certainty和I probably never. . . 等可推断出，作者对得奖还是很惊讶的。
5.【解析】选B。主旨大意题。本文是一篇新闻报道。这种题材的文章中心一般出现在首段。故B合适。其余A, C, D都是细节，不合适。
6.【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第三段“I was in a total state of panic, ”可知选D。
7.【解析】选A。词义猜测题。根据下文可知，Mrs Sawyer意识到她不小心把钻戒丢在垃圾袋中，通过翻找垃圾才找到了钻戒，所以，这里的意思是“努力开始成功，得到回报”。故选A。
8.【解析】选D。根据第三段“. . . she thought she’d never see the heirloom again. ”可知Mrs Sawyer对找回戒指不乐观，故A不对；根据第四段可知，Mrs Sawyer开始并没有意识到把戒指丢到垃圾车上了；根据第七段可知，夫妇俩花了3个小时等垃圾车，故C不对；根据第八段可知，是在很多人的帮助下找到戒指的，故D正确。
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