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1、（全国通用）2017版高考英语二轮复习考前三个月专题二七选五组合演练，提升解题能力“阅读理解七选五”组合练（二） “阅读理解七选五”组合练（二）.阅读理解ATrapped on the 37th FloorMelinda Skaar wasnt expecting any phone calls.Skaar was working late in her office at the First Interstate bank of California.By 10：45 that night she was almost ready to go home when the phone rang
2、.Picking it up，she heard a guard shouting.“There is a fire！Get out of there！”Skaar didnt panic.She figured that it was just a small fire.Her office building was huge.There were 62 floors and her desk was on the 37th floor.Skaar called out to office mate Stephen Oksas.who also stayed late to work.But
3、 when they got to the hallway，they were met by a cloud of black smoke.Rushing back，Skaar shut the door and filled the space at the bottom of the door with her jacket to keep the smoke out.Then they called 911.Before they could call their families，however，the line went dead.That meant that they were
4、completely cut off from the outside world.All they could do was wait and hope someone would come to rescue them.Minutes ticked by.Smoke began to float into the office.Soon it became hard for them to breathe.Looking around，Skaar noticed a small workroom.It seemed to have cleaner air.So they crowded t
5、here.That helped for a while，but in time even the workroom was filled with deadly smoke.Hopeless，they tried to break the windows，but the glass was not breakable.Everything they threw at just bounced back.Defeated，they struggled back to the workroom.They felt weak and dizzy.Soon Skaar found Oksas had
6、 passed out.As Skaar and Oksas lay near death，rescuers were rushing to find them.At last，at about 4 am.，firefighters found them.Skaar and Oksas knew they were lucky to be alive.“Sunday is my birthday，”Skaar told a reporter.She would be turning 29.But she knew she had already got the best present pos
7、siblethe gift of life.语篇解读本文是一篇记叙文。讲述了Skaar被火灾困在了37楼，但她临危不惧的表现让她和同事最后获救。1What did Skaar and Oksas do when they were stopped by the fire?AThey called their families.BThey waited where they were.CThey rushed back and shut the door.DThey tried to run down the stairs.答案C解析细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“Rushing back，Sk
8、aar shut the door and filled the space at the bottom of the door.”可知，选C项。2The first sentence of the passage is to .Aget the readers attentionBintroduce Skaar and OksasCexplain the cause of the eventDtell the background information答案A解析写作意图题。根据文章第一句话“Melinda Skaar wasnt expecting any phone calls.”及下文
9、的内容可知，第一句话的作用是引起读者的注意，故选A项。3The following helped Skaar and Oksas survive the fire EXCEPT .Acalling 911 for helpBbreaking the windows to get some fresh airCcrowding in a small workroom for clean airDshutting the door and keeping the smoke out with a jacket答案B解析细节理解题。根据倒数第四段第一句“Hopeless，they tried to
10、break the windows，but the glass was not breakable.”可知，选B项。4What can we conclude from Skaars action in the fire?AShe is cleverer than Oksas.BShe was trained as a firefighter.CShe remained calm in the face of danger.DShe had had the experience of being caught in fire.答案C解析推理判断题。根据文章对Skaar在火灾中的表现，可知她临危
11、不惧，故选C项。BOur quarrel with efficiency is not that it gets things done，but that it is a thief of time when it leaves us no leisure to enjoy ourselves，and that it strains our nerves when we try to get things done perfectly.In building bridges，American engineers calculate so finely and exactly as to mak
12、e the two ends come together within onetenth of an inch.But when two Chinese begin to dig a tunnel from both sides of a mountain both come out on the other side.The Chineses firm belief is that it doesnt matter so long as a tunnel is dug through，and if we have two instead of one，why，we have a double
13、 track to boot.The pace of modern industrial life forbids this kind of glorious and magnificent idling.But，worse than that，it imposes upon us a different conception of time as measured by the clock and eventually turns the human being into a clock himself.(This sort of thing is bound to come to Chin
14、a，as is evident，for instance，in the case of a factory of twenty thousand workers.The luxurious prospect of twenty thousand workers coming in at their own sweet pleasure at all hours is，of course，somewhat terrifying.)Nevertheless，such efficiency is what makes life so hard and full of excitement.A man
15、 who has to be punctually at a certain place at five oclock has the whole afternoon from one to five ruined for him already.Every American adult is arranging his time on the pattern of the schoolboythree oclock for this，five oclock for that，sixthirty for change of dress，sixfifty for entering the tax
16、i，and seven oclock for arriving at the destination.It just makes life not worth living.语篇解读本文是一篇议论文。主要讲述了时间与效率的问题。现代工业社会使我们的生活节奏变得紧促。5The writer objects to efficiency mainly on the grounds that it .Aentitles us to too much leisure timeBdeprives us of leisure timeCurges us to get things done punctuallyDimposes on us a
