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1、（浙江专版）2017高考英语二轮复习阅读理解组合练3阅读理解组合练训练3.阅读理解A(2016宁波市镇海中学质检)Jane Austen was born in the English countryside more than 200 years ago.She lived a simple life.She seldom travelled.She never married and she died from illness when she was only 41.However，people all over the world remember her.Why? It is bec
2、ause Jane Austen is the author of some of the bestloved novels in the English language.These novels include Emma，Pride and Prejudice，Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.Jane completed her last novel Persuasion in 1816，but it was not published until after her death.Persuasion is partly based on Jane
3、s naval brother.Anne，the daughter of Sir Walter Elliot，falls in love with Captain Wentworth，a person of a lower social position.But she breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell that such a match is unworthy.The breakup produces in Anne a deep and longlasting regret.Eight y
4、ears later，Wentworth returns from sea a rich and successful captain.He finds Annes family on the edge of financial ruin.Anne and the captain rediscover their love and get married.Jane Austen once compared her writing to painting on a little bit of ivory(象牙)，two inches square.Readers of Persuasion wi
5、ll see that neither her skill of delicate, ironic (讽刺的) observations on social custom，love，and marriage nor her ability to apply a sharp focus to English manners and morals has abandoned her in her final finished work.Persuasion has produced three film adaptations：a 1995 version starring Amanda Root
6、 and Ciaran Hinds，a 2007 TV miniseries with Sally Hawkins and Rupert PenryJones，and a 1971 miniseries with Ann Firbank and Bryan Marshall.People who are interested in Jane Austen can still visit many of the places she visited and lived in.These places include the village of Steventon，although her fa
7、mily house is now gone.Many of the places Jane visited in Bath are still there.You can visit Jane Austens home in Chawton，where she did her best writing，and Winchester，where she died.本文是一篇人物传记。主要介绍了英国作家Jane Austen的生平事迹以及她的作品风格，并着重介绍了她的最后一部小说劝导。1What is the theme of Persuasion?ANever regret what youv
8、e chosen.BTrue love lasts forever.CBe matched for marriage.DLove waits for no man.B细节理解题。根据第四段的内容可知，Anne同青年军官Wentworth倾心相爱并订下婚约。后来她因相信了朋友说的这样的婚姻不般配而忍痛同心上人解除了婚约，以后一直活在悔恨当中。八年后，Wentworth上校返乡，两人历尽曲折，结成眷属。由此可知，这部小说的主题是：真爱永恒。故选B。2Which of the following CANNOT describe Janes writing style?AHer application
9、 of comparison.BHer skillful use of irony.CHer focus on manners and morals.DHer delicate observations.A细节理解题。根据第五段内容可知，B、C、D三项都在文中提到了，是她作品的特点，而A项没有涉及。故选A。3According to the passage，what do we know about Jane Austen?APersuasion is a novel about the life of her naval brother.BShe did not see Persuasion
10、 published when she was alive.CShe died from illness at her home in Chawton at the age of 41.DHer last novel Persuasion is considered her most successful one.B细节理解题。根据第三段第一句可知，她生前并没有看到劝导出版。故选B。根据第三段第二句中的“partly”可知，A项错误；根据最后一段最后一句可知，Jane不是在家里去世的，排除C项；D项文中未提及，也可排除。B(2016潍坊三模)Given that female bed bugs
11、 lay over 200 eggs during their lifetime，its not surprising that about one out of five American households have had or know someone who has had a bed bug infection.But a new study shows that an unexpected weapon may be useful in the fight against the tiny，biting enemies：color.The BBCs Michelle Rober
12、ts reports that bed bugs appear to have strong preferences for certain colors.A group of researchers became curious about whether bed bugs like certain colors，so they created tiny tents，or harborages of different colors and placed them in petri dishes(培养皿)The researchers then put bed bugs on the cen
13、ter of the dish，giving them ten minutes to choose which harborage they wanted to hide in.Bed bugs are nest parasites(寄生虫)thats why they love human“nests”or bedrooms.So theyre crazy about finding shelter.As a result，it would make sense that a bug placed on the scary broadness of a petri dish would ru
14、sh for cover as soon as possible.Most of the bugs ran to black and red harborages，passing by ones of other colors.And they werent into yellow or green at all.Overall，the bugs preferred harborages in this order：red，black，orange，blue，lilac，violet and green.Gender influenced the decisions because group
15、s of singlegender bugs preferred the same colors.Researchers guess that the decisions may have to do with bugs considering different shelters as better or worse places to mate or perhaps stay safe from enemies.“We originally thought the bed bugs might prefer red because blood is red and thats what t
16、hey feed on，”says Dr.Corraine McNeill.“However，after doing the study，the main reason we think they prefer red colors is that bed bugs themselves appear red，so they go to these harborages because they want to be with other bed bugs，as they are known to exist in groups.”本文是一篇科普文。主要讲述了研究人员发现臭虫偏爱某种颜色，这有利于我们应对它们。4What did the research discover?ABed bugs are particular a
