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1、2017 高考英语阅读理解解析版汇编（64 ）【由山 东 省 2014 高考仿真模 拟 冲刺卷 （5）改 编 】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中选出最佳选项。 I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a freight yard in Atlantic City and landing on my headNow I am thirty twoI can slightly remember the brightness of sunshine and what color
2、red isIt would be wonderful to see again, but a calamity（灾难） can do strange things to peopleIt occurred to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadnt been blindI believe in life nowI am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwiseI dont mean that
3、 I would prefer to go without my eyesI simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had leftThe hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myselfThat was basicIf I hadnt been able to do that, I would have collapsed and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the res
4、t of my lifeWhen I say belief in myself I am not talking about simply the kind of self confidence that helps me down an unfamiliar staircase aloneThat is part of itBut I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite imperfections, a real, positive person; that somewhere in the swe
5、eping, intricate（错综复杂的） pattern of people there is a special place where I can make myself fitIt took me years to discover and strengthen this assuranceIt had to start with the simplest things Once a man gave me an indoor baseballI thought he was making fun of me and I was hurtI cant use this I said
6、Take it with you, he urged me, and roll it around The words stuck in my headRoll it around! By rolling the ball I could hear where it wentThis gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought impossible: playing baseballAt Philadelphias Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful varia
7、tion of baseballWe called it ground ball All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to reach them, one at a timeI had to learn my limitationsIt was no good trying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of reach because that only invited the bitterness of failu
8、reI would fail sometimes anyway but on the average I made progress 1 We can learn from the beginning of the passage that _Athe author lost his sight because of a car crash Bthe author wouldnt love life if the disaster didnt happenC the disaster made the author appreciate what he hadDthe disaster str
9、engthened the authors desire to see2 Whats the most difficult thing for the author?A How to adjust himself to reality BBuilding up assurance that he can find his place in lifeC Learning to manage his life alone DHow to invent a successful variation of baseball3 According to the context, “a chair roc
10、ker on the front porch” in paragraph 3 means that the author _ Awould sit in a rocking chair and enjoy his lifeBwould be unable to move and stay in a rocking chairC would lose his will to struggle against difficultiesDwould sit in a chair and stay at home4 According to the passage, the baseball and
11、encouragement offered by the man _Ahurt the authors feeling Bgave the author a deep impressionC directly led to the invention of ground ball Dinspired the author5 What is the best title for the passage?AA Miserable Life BStruggle Against DifficultiesC A Disaster Makes a Strong Person DAn Unforgettab
12、le Experience【参考答案】1-5、CBCDC 较难题目特训：介绍说明类 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。In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide. Beginn
13、ing this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX. “Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses, ” Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce
14、 the plan. MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes materials from more than 2, 000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people w
15、ho complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program. The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform. MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120, 000 people signed up for the first MITx course. She said Harvar
16、d and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open- source edX platform. “Fasten your seatbelts, ” Hockfield said. Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie- Mellon, have been experimenting with teaching to a global population online. The Harvard- MIT program will be monitored by a not- for- profit (非盈利的) or
