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1、2015 重庆市高考英语（三月）阅读类课外训练【10】及答案阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的 A,B,C 或 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。The government of Norway is planning to build an unusual storage center on an island in the Arctic Ocean. The place would be large enough to hold about two million seeds. The goal is to represent all crops known to scientists. Th
2、e British magazine New Scientist published details of the plan last month. The structure will be designed to protect the worlds food supply against nuclear war, climate change and other possible threats. It will be built in a mountain on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen. The mountain is less than
3、 one thousand kilometers from the North Pole, the northernmost position on Earth.An international group called the Global Crop Diversity Trust is working on the project. The director of the group, Cary Fowler, spoke to New Scientist. He said the project would let the world rebuild agriculture if in
4、his words “the worst came to the worst”. Norway is expected to start work next year. The project is expected to cost three million dollars. Workers will drill deep in the side of a sandstone mountain. Temperatures in the area never rise above zero degrees Celsius. The seeds will be protected behind
5、concrete walls a meter thick and high-security doors.The magazine report says the collection will represent the products of ten thousand years of farming. Most of the seeds at first will come from collections at seed banks in Africa, Asia and Latin America. To last a long time, seeds need to be kept
6、 in very low temperatures. Workers will not be present all the time. But they plan to replace the air inside the storage space each winter. Winter temperatures on the island are about eighteen degrees below zero Celsius. The cold weather would protect the seeds even if the air could not be replaced.
7、Mr. Fowler says the proposed structure will be the worlds most secure gene bank. He says the plant seeds would only be used when all other seeds are gone for some reason.Norway first proposed the idea in the 1980s. But security concerns delayed the plan. At that time, the Soviet Union was permitted
8、use of Spitsbergen. New Scientist says the plan won United Nations approval in October at a meeting in Rome of the Food and Agriculture Organization.1. The project is meant to_. A. increase the worlds food production in the futureB. carry out some scientific experiments on plant genesC. protect crop
9、 seeds from dying out in case of possible disastersD. build an exhibition centre of the worlds plant seeds2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the above passage?A. The government of Norway will perform the project alone.B. Seeds to be collected there were produced ten thousand y
10、ears ago.C. Spitsbergen is chosen because it is away from the threat of unclear war forever.D. Temperature is a major consideration when choosing the storage place.3. We can infer from the text that_.A. People will get newly-developed seeds from the center every yearB. The storage center will greatl
11、y promote the development of world agricultureC. Norway meant to have built the storage centre more than 20 years agoD. There havent been any seed storage centers in the world before4. What is probably the best title of the passage?A. Noahs Ark of Plant Seeds in Plan B. The Best Place to Store Seeds
12、C. Concerns of World Food Supply D. A New Way to Feed the World【参考答案】14、CDCA 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的 A,B,C 或 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Book reviews can be a great foot in the door if youre looking to get your writing published somewhere. Most magazines, whether online or print, will include book reviews about books
13、that tackle the topics the magazine discusses. Also, most editors and staff writers are usually too busy to read books and review them themselves (unless they are specifically assigned to a book review column). Therefore, writing book reviews can be a great way to get started with a writing career.M
14、any people that are reading your review may not know anything about the book youre reviewing. Instead of making them go find information on their own by searching for the book title, start out with a little description of the book. Make sure you avoid too long of a summary, though, because if too mu
15、ch of your article is a summary of the book, it wont be interesting. Start with a short paragraph or so that hits all the major points but doesnt give too much away. You dont want to tell your reader everything about the book, because then they wont have to read it at all. Just give enough informati
16、on so your reader is interested in reading the book.Some magazines like to publish book reviews that are completely objective（客观的）. This means that they want a review of the book that doesnt share your opinion and that in which your opinion isnt obvious from reading what you wrote. If you hated a book, it might not be a great book to review. You probably want to review books that you enjoyed. This will give your review a positive spin. Avoid gushing about how much
