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1、 1 黑龙江省鸡西市 2014 高考英语阅读理解金榜题名基础训练 9 及答 案 阅读下列短文 从每题所给的A B C和 D项中 选出最佳选项 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑 When I was growing up I had an old neighbor named Doctor Gibbs He didn t look like any doctor I d ever known He never yelled at us for playing in his yard but was always very kind When Doctor Gibbs wasn t saving lives
2、 he was planting trees He had some interesting theories about planting trees He believed in the principle No pain no gain He hardly watered his new trees an attitude which flew in the face of conventional wisdom Once I asked why and he told me that watering plants spoiled them because it made them g
3、row weaker He said you had to make things tough for the trees so that only the strongest could survive He talked about how watering trees made them develop shallow roots and how if they were not watered trees would grow deep roots in search of water So instead of watering his trees every morning he
4、d beat them with a rolled up newspaper I asked him why he did that and he said it was to get the tree s attention Doctor Gibbs died a couple of years after I left home Every now and then I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I d watched him plant some 25 years ago They were tall and str
5、ong I planted a couple of trees myself a few years ago Two years of attending these trees meant they grew up weak Whenever a cold wind blew their branches trembled Adversity seemed to benefit Doctor Gibb s trees in ways comfort and ease never could Every night before I go to bed I check on my two so
6、ns I often pray that their lives will be easy But lately I ve been thinking that it s time to change my prayer I know my children are going to encounter hardship There s always a cold wind blowing somewhere What we need to do is to pray for deep roots so when the rains fall and the winds blow we won
7、 t be torn apart 31 With the trees planted Doctor Gibbs often 2 A paid little attention to them B talked to them to get their attention C kept watering them every morning D beat them to make them grow deep roots 答案 A 解析 细节理解题 根据He hardly watered his new trees 他没有给树浇过水 也就是 他没有关注过它们 故选A 32 What does t
8、he author think of the way Doctor Gibbs planted trees A Original and reasonable B Strange and harmful C Interesting and funny D Cruel and unacceptable 答案 A 解析 细节理解题 根据I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I d watched him plant some 25 years ago They were tall and strong 因为Doctor Gibbs种的
9、树长 的又高又粗壮 所以可推测作者认为他的做法是新颖和合理的 故选A 33 What does the underlined word Adversity mean in the seventh paragraph A Bad weather B Lack of moisture C Enough care or attention D Difficult living conditions 答案 D 解析 细节理解题 根据上文if they were not watered trees would grow deep roots in search of water 可知比较难的条件 故选D
10、 34 Which prayer does the author wish for his sons A Have an easy life without too much to worry about B Meet people like Dr Gibbs in the future C Have good luck encountering less hardship in their life D Be able to stand the rain and wind in their lives 答案 D 3 解析 细节理解题 根据I know my children are goin
11、g to encounter hardship 祈祷儿 子在人生中能够经历风雨 故选D 35 Which of the following is the best title for the article A Deep roots count B Prayers for my sons C Doctor Gibbs and his trees D Trees need no water 答案 A 解析 标题归纳题 根据What we need to do is to pray for deep roots及 deep roots 在文章中多次出现 用它来表明数要扎深根人们要经历风雨才能更坚强
12、 故选A 阅读理解 The earth s most rich resource water has become one of the most precious resources in the United States as rivers lakes and freshwater reservoirs are increasingly exploited for human use Consequently using precise farming techniques to refine irrigation scheduling is a research area of par
13、ticular interest to Susan Moran a researcher with the US department of Agriculture She explains that in the southwest irrigation is both difficult and expensive There she says farmers have a tendency to over irrigate spending both more time and money than necessary I m trying to provide new informat
14、ion that could be used by farmers to schedule irrigations to improve their profitability and use less water Moran says Farmers often look at weather changes and then schedule irrigation based on that information But if they had better information they could use scientific models to compute more prec
15、isely how much water their crop is using Rather than guessing their crop s potential need for water based upon weather changes farmers can use remote sensors to measure how much water their crop is actually using This would give them a more accurate measure of how much more water it needs 4 Moran be
16、lieves that if farmers are getting good and timely measurements of plant and air temperature then they can program when and how much water to give each crop through an irrigation system No more water would be used than needed thus saving cost and conserving water Moran introduces one study she conducted in Arizona to investigate the use of remote sensing data for scheduling cotton irrigations Typically those farmers irrigate ten times per growing season but evidence showed that some of thos e fa
