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1、2017四川剑阁县高考英语阅读理解一轮编练（1）2016高考训练题。阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。Even before there were people, there were cases of air pollution. There were dust storms. Volcanoes erupted, sending ash and poisonous gases into the atmosphere. When people appeared on the scene and began their conquest of na
2、ture, they also began to pollute the air. They cleared land, which made possible even larger dust storms. They built cities, and the soot(煤烟) from their hearths filled the air. The Roman author Seneca wrote in AD 61 of the “stink, soot and heavy air” of the imperial city. In 1257, the Queen of Engla
3、nd was forced to move away from the city of Nottingham because the heavy smoke was unbearable. The industrial revolution brought even worse air pollution. Coal was burned to power factories and to heat homes. Soot, smoke, and sulfur dioxide(二氧化硫) fill the air. The good old days? Not in the factory t
4、owns. But there were large rural areas unaffected by air pollution. With increasing population, the entire world is becoming more urban. It is the huge cities that are most affected by air pollution. But rural areas are not unaffected. In the neighborhoods around smoky factories, there is evidence o
5、f increased rates of spontaneous abortion(自然流产) and of poor wool quality in sheep, decreased egg production and a high death rate in chickens.Traffic police in Tokyo have to wear gas masks and take “oxygen breaks”breathing occasionally from tanks of oxygen. Smog in Athens at times has forced factory
6、 closings and traffic restrictions. Acid rain in Canada is caused by air pollution in the United States, contributing to strained relationships between the two countries. Sydney, Rome, Tehran, Ankara, Mexico City, and most other major cities in the world have had frightening experiences of air pollu
7、tion. One of the two major types of smogconsisting of smoke, fog, sulfur dioxide, sulfuring acid (H2SO4), ash and sootis called London smog. Indeed, the word smog is thought to have originated in England in 1905 as a contraction of the words “smoke” and “fog”. Probably the worst case of smog in hist
8、ory started in London on Thursday, 4 December, 1952. A large cold air mass moved into the valley of the Thames River. A temperature inversion placed a blanket of warm air over the cold air. With nightfall, a dense fog and below-freezing temperatures caused the people of London to put coal into their
9、 small stoves. Millions of these fires burned throughout the night, pouring sulfur dioxide and smoke into the air. The next day, Friday, the people continued to burn coal when the temperature remained below freezing. The factories added their smoke and chemical fumes to the atmosphere. Saturday was
10、a day of darkness. For twenty miles around London, no light came through the smog. The air was cold and still. And the coal fires continued to burn throughout the weekend. On Monday, 8 December, more than one hundred people died of heart attacks while trying desperately to breathe. By the time a bre
11、eze cleared the air on Tuesday, 9 December, more than 4,000 deaths had been caused by the smog. Soot and ash can be removed by electrostatic precipitators(静电吸尘器). Unfortunately, they use large amounts of electricity, and the electrical energy, which is hardly affordable for most of us, has to come f
12、rom somewhere. Fly ash removed from the air has to be put on the land or water, although it could be used in some way. The elimination(去除) of sulfur dioxide is more difficult. Low-sulfur coal is rare and expensive. Although sulfur can be washed from finely pulverized(粉末化) coal, the process is expens
13、ive. There are also processes for changing dirty coal into clean liquid and gaseous fuels. These processes may hold promise for the future, but they are too expensive to compete economically with other fuels at present. They also waste a part of the coals energy.1. What is the passage mainly talking
14、 about?A. The type and form of pollution . B. The cause and effect of pollution.C. The situation and elimination of pollution. D. The concept and examples of pollution.2. What can we infer from the first paragraph?A. Human beings should not have begun their conquest of nature.B. Human activities con
15、tribute more to pollution than natural disasters do.C. Seneca and the Queen of England were both over-sensitive to air pollution.D. The industrial revolution was a disadvantage in terms of air pollution.3. With the example of “decreased egg production” in Paragraph 3, the author intends to_ A. expla
16、in why the world is becoming more urbanB. indicate that heavy pollution also exists in rural areasC. show that large cities are most affected by air pollutionD. prove smoky factories are more affected by air pollution4. What is the right order about the 1952 London Smog?a. A breeze cleared the air of London.b. Thousands of people died.c. There was a day of darkness in London.d. A large cold air mass caus
