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1、高考英语阅读七选五专项训练（10 题）根据短文内容 , 从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项 , 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。专项练习一For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans 1 Whether they are worn for work or for fashion todayStrauss invention continues to be popular not only among Americans but also
2、 among people around the worldLevi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829 2 He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847 Before becoming an American citizen and moving to the West in 1853, Strauss worked in his brothers dry goods businessThis gave him a chance to produce his famous inventio
3、n After the gold rush of 1849, Strauss decided to move to the West to seek his fortunesStrauss did not want to be a person who searched an area for minerals Instead, he knew hecould make a good living by selling supplies to the minersAt first, he planned to sell sewingsupplies and cloth 3 When he he
4、ard miners complaining that their clothes were easily broken or they usually tore their pockets during mining, he decided to use a special fabric to make pants for the minersThese pants proved so popular that he quickly ran out of materials to make moreIn 1873, Strauss received a letter from a Jewis
5、h tailor named Jacob Davis who had invented a process of connecting pockets with copper rivets（铆钉） This made the pants last a long timeBecause Davis did not have the money to patent his idea, he offered to share it with Strauss if Strauss would agree to pay for the patent 4 By the time Strauss died
6、in 1902, he had made a great contribution to American fashion5 The business has been growing ever since and Levi Strauss company is now one of the largest clothing companies in the worldA As a young boy, he moved with his family to the United StatesB Nobody knew what kind of material was suitableCHe
7、 did and Levi jeans have been made with metal rivets ever sinceDHowever, he did not get much business for those productsE He also made a great contribution to Americas clothing industryF Since they were invented by Levi Strauss, they have become a symbol of American consumercultureGAs the business g
8、rew, Strauss got much money fromit专项练习二Recently some American scientists have given a useful piece of advice to people in industrialized nationsThey say people should eat more of the same kind of food eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago 1The scientists say that the human life has chang
9、ed greatlyOur bodies have not been able to deal with these changesin lifestyle and this had led to new kinds of sicknesses 2 So they are第 1页 共 8页called diseases of civilization Many cancers and diseases of the blood system are examples of such diseases.Scientists noted that people in both the Old St
10、one Age and the New Stone Age enjoyed very little alcohol or tobacco, probably none 3 However, a change in food is one of the main differences between life in ancient times and that of today.Stone Age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than domestic onesThey ate a lot
11、 of fresh wild vegetables and fruitsThey did not have milk or any other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains 4 We eat six times more salt than our ancestors We eat more sugarWe eat twice as much fat but only one third as much protein and much less vitamin C.5 But scientists say th
12、at we would be much healthier if we eat much the same way the ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet food.A Stone Age people lived a simple life.BBut today, we enjoy eating a lot of these.CIn that case, they would live much healthier.DAncient people also got lots of physica
13、l exercise.EThese new sicknesses were not known in ancient times.FPeople today probably dont want to live like our ancestors. GModern people used to suffer from diseases of civilization.专项练习三For the rest of March, a disease will sweep across the US. It will keep kids home from school.1Employees will
14、 suddenly lose their ability to concentrate.The disease, known as “ MarchMadness”refers, to the yearly 65 team US men scollege basketball tournament (锦标赛 ). 2 Teams compete against each other in a singleelimination (单局淘汰 ) tournament that eventually crowns a national champion.Nearly 20 million Ameri
15、cans will find themselves prisoners of basketball festival madness.The fun comes partly from guessing the winners for every game. Friends compete against friends.3Colleagues against bosses.Big name schools are usually favored to advance into the tournament. But each year there are dark horses from little known universities.This adds to the madness. Watching a team from a school with 3,000 students beat a team from a school with 30,000, for many Americans, is an exciting experience. Two years ago, the little known George Mason Univer
