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1、高三英语阅读理解专练(15篇)AOne of the most successful singers of the twentieth century, Ella Fitzgerald has made several different styles her own. She was born in Virginia but was brought up in an orphanage in Yonkers, New York. Chick Webb spotted her in an amateur competition when she was sixteen. He engaged
2、her to sing with his band and when he died in 1939, she took over.Unlike Bessie Smith, Ella Fitzgerald taught herself the sentimental music so popular in the 1930s- songs like “My Heart Belongs to Daddy”- and her recordings became best-sellers. During the 1940s she developed her own “scat singing” -
3、 a breathless, nonsense-syllable style- for songs like “Flying Home” and “Lady Be Good.”Ella Fitzgerald was the perfect musical partner for her friend, the trumpeter Louis Armstrong, matching him in warmth and artistry. “I just like music, period,” she said. “To me, its a story. Theres only one thin
4、g better than singing. Its more singing.”1. What does the passage mainly discuss?A. A comparison of Ella Fitzgerald and Bessie Smith.B. The musical career of Ella Fitzgerald.C. Ella Fitzgeralds early childhood.D. Ella Fitzgeralds most recent recordings.2. The underlined word “spotted” means_.A. noti
5、ced B. brought up C. employed D. recognized3. What does the passage imply about Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong?A. They were the founders of “scat singing”.B. They played the same musical instruments.C. They performed well together.D. They were a married couple.BFamilies have always changed. For
6、 instance, once the family was the world. In other words, at one time everything a person did took place within the family. The family was a childs only school. One worshiped only within the family. The rules set up by the family were the only laws one had to obey, and the family was the only means
7、one had to settle a dispute. The family is still the “world in some cultures. But in many cultures, these former functions of the family have largely been taken over by other institutions, such as schools, churches, and governments.In the past, families changed in other ways. Some scientists believe
8、 that when people obtained food by hunting animals and gathering roots and plants, the nuclear family was the rule. The family had to be small in order to move around and live off the land. When people settled in one place and began to farm toobtain food, they found that they needed more hands to do
9、 the work. The extended family developed in some cultures. Now in addition to their children, people lived together with their parents and even grandparents.How are families changing today? The number of nuclear families seems to be increasing everywhere in the world. The number of extended families
10、 is declining. One reason for this seems to be that in many cultures today people are leaving farms and villages to find jobs in the city. Extended families are hard to maintain when people have to be free to move in order to find work.4. In many cultures today, _.A. the family is the worldB. the fa
11、mily is not an institution.C. the family does not have any functions.D. the family has lost many of the functions it used to have.5. The nuclear family was the rule because _.A. the family had to move around to find enough food.B. people didnt know many ways of hunting animals.C. People needed many
12、hands to do farming.D. the extended family had not been invented yet.6. The reason why many people are leaving farms to find jobs in the city is _.A. that there are more and more nuclear families in the world.B. that extended families are hard to maintain.C. that people do not like to settle down.D.
13、 not stated in above article.7. Which of the following is true?A. Although the nuclear family developed before the extended family, the latter is gaining more and more popularity everywhere in the world.B. the most important reason why people are leaving villages is that they do not enjoy living tog
14、ether with their parents or grandparents.C. Different types of families have developed as different ways of life are accepted.D. Families change because tides and fashions always change.CIn 1957 a doctor in Singapore noticed that hospitals were treating an unusual number of influenza-like cases. Inf
15、luenza is sometimes called flu or a bad cold. He took samples from the throats of patients and in his hospital was able to find the virus of this influenza.There were three main types of the influenza virus. The most important of these are type A and B, each of them having several subgroups. With th
16、e instruments at the hospital the doctor recognized that the outbreak was due to a virus in group A, but he did not know the subgroup. Then he reported the outbreak to the World Health Organization in Geneva. W.H.O. published the important news alongside reports of a similar outbreak in Hong Kong, where about 15-20% of the population had
