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1、2012届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读能力综合培养训练集（一百零二）AWe bet that on cold wintry days, many of you love to stay in your warm home and, every now and then，come out into the kitchen for a snack. Unfortunately, plenty of creepy-crawly critters (爬行生物) like to do the same thing!Winter is the time when bugs (虫子) invade your h
2、ouse without an invitation. The season can be tough for such creatures. In winter the air is cold, the ground is hard and many trees have no leaves. So bugs do what they have to do to survive.Monarch butterflies head south to warmer climates. Ants crowd in deep underground colonies and eat food they
3、 have been storing all year. Many insects go into a deep sleep called diapauses. There re different kinds of diapauses, but all are similar to hibernation, a time when bigger animals become inactive in the cold. Insects go into an inactive period, too, but it often isn t when the temperature drops.T
4、hey rely on more dependable signals in the environment. For example, many insects can tell how much sunlight there s each day. They use that to tell themselves when to shut down. Bugs are cold-blooded, meaning that their inside temperature is the same as the outside. They can t move much when it get
5、s below 40 degrees Fahrenheit. So they search for any warm place.They re looking for protection. These guys have been doing this for 300 million years, so they don t really know they re coming into your house. The home is a recent event in terms of their evolutionary behavior. They enter through tin
6、y cracks or come in unnoticed on your clothes or shoes. Remember that they may be invading your homes for warmth and food, but they dont care about humans.语篇解读本文主要介绍的是：为什么虫子在冬天会入侵人类住所。1. What is the purpose of the first paragraph?A. To point out that humans like to stay at home in winter.B. To mean
7、that humans and bugs have the same living habits.C. To mean that bugs will invade humans houses for their winter.D. To put forward the idea that bugs are not welcome in winter.解析推理判断题。根据文章第一段可知，虫子和人类一样，也会喜欢待在温暖的屋里，再结合文章的后面几段可知，本段暗示虫子在冬天会入侵人类住所。答案C2According to the text, what is diapauses?A. It is th
8、e same as the animals hibernation.B. It often appears in warm areas all the year.C. It is done to keep bugs active in winter.D. It is a deep sleep similar to hibernation.解析细节理解题。根据文章第三段可知答案为D。答案D3What often decides bugs diapauses?A. The lower local temperature.B. The amount of sunlight.C. Kinds of e
9、nvironmental signals.D. The insects inside temperature.解析细节理解题。根据文章第四段的“They rely on more dependable signals in the environment”可知，虫子的“diapauses”是由多种环境可依赖性因素决定的，不一定全靠温度或者光照。答案C4According to the text, bugs invade humans homes to_.A. attack humansB. look for enough foodC. seek for protectionD. show th
10、eir evolutionary results解析细节理解题。根据文章最后一段可知，虫子进屋是为了寻求保护，把自己置身于安全形势之下，而不仅仅是为了寻求食物。答案C5What would be the best title for the text?A. Bugs life on cold wintry daysB. Why do bugs invade your home in winter?C. Good relations between humans and bugsD. What does diapauses mean?解析标题概括题。整篇文章主要告诉读者的是：在冬天里，为什么虫子
11、会入侵人类的住所。答案B长难句解读(1)Therere different kinds of diapauses，but all are similar to hibernation，a time when bigger animals become inactive in the cold.此句是but连接的并列复合句，but后的部分中a time是hibernation的同位语，而且后面接了when引导的定语从句。(2)Bugs are cold-blooded，meaning that their inside temperature is the same as the outside
12、.句中的meaning相当于which means；meaning后接that引导的宾语从句，在此宾语从句中含有the same as结构。 BJuly 21st,2007 was a typical English summers day it rained for 24 hours! As usual, I rushed home from work at midday to check on the house. Nothing was amiss. By the time I left work at 5 pm, however，the road into our village wa
13、s flooded. Our house had never been flooded but, as I opened the front door, a wave of water greeted me. Thank God the kids werent with me, because the house was 5 feet deep in water. We lost everything downstairs. And the plaster had to be torn off the walls, ceilings pulled down.At first we tried
14、to push on through. We didnt want to move the children out of home, so we camped upstairs. We put a sheet of plastic across the floor to protect us from the damp. But after three months, we felt very sick, so we moved to a wooden house in a park. The house was small, but at first we were all just de
15、lighted to be in a new place. Unfortunately, things took longer than expected and we were there for 10 months. The life there was inconvenient. What surprised me most was how much I missed being part of a community (社区). We had lived in a friendly village with good neighbours，and Id never thought ho
16、w much Id miss that.Although our situation was very bad, its difficult to feel too sorry for yourself when you look at whats happening elsewhere. I watched a news report about floods in Northern India and thought，“We didnt have a straw hut(茅草房) that was swept away, and our house is still standing. Were lucky.”We moved bac
