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1、胶州市2014高考英语文章阅读类训练（8）及答案或解析 时文阅读 The world economy has run into a brick wall. Despite countless warnings in recent years about the need to address a looming（逼近） hunger crisis in poor countries and a looming energy crisis worldwide, world leaders failed to think ahead. The result is a global food cri
2、sis. Wheat, corn and rice prices increases combined with soaring energy costs will slow if not stop economic growth in many parts of the world and will even undermine（破坏） political stability, as evidenced by the protest riots that have erupted in places like Haiti, Bangladesh and Burkina Faso. Pract
3、ical solutions to these growing woes do exist, but well have to start thinking ahead and acting globally.So, what should be done？Here are three steps to ease the current crisis and avert（防止, 避免） the potential for a global disaster. The first is to scale-up（按比例增加,扩大） the dramatic success of Malawi, a
4、 famine-prone（遭遇饥荒） country in southern Africa, which three years ago A. How to end the global food shortageB. How to end the global disasterC. How to help the farmers in the poor countriesD. How to subsidize the farmers to increase food products 2. What does the author think of the global food shor
5、tage?A. people in the world can do nothing B. The global food crisis will continue.C. The food crisis provides not only a warning but also an opportunity.D. We don know.3. What measures should be taken to ease the current crisis and avert the potential for a global disaster?A. to scale-up the dramat
6、ic success of Malawi B. the U.S. and Europe should abandon their policies of subsidizing the conversion of food into biofuels C. to prevent the worlds crops from being destroyed by weather as soon and as effectively as possible.D. All above .答案与简析：1.A.析：主旨大意题。文章主要讲如何结束全球食物短缺，A能概括文章中的主要内容。B、C、D都是文章中的
7、一部分。2.C.析：作者态度题目，文中最后一段可知。3.D.析：事实细节题，从文章中第二、三及四自然段的句首可知。*结束第一节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题2分，满分20分）阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从2130各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。Mariska Hargitay, who plays a tough but beautiful detective on NBCs Law & Order, recently 21 her childhood friend Annette Condon Tauber to breast cancer. “It w
8、as 22 . Ann defined so much of who I am.” says the 23 . “She was my champion and the most 24 friend.” Ann was diagnosed(诊断) in 2003, when she was 38, shortly after the birth of her fourth daughter. However, she never told them she was 25 , hoping for a miracle and not wanting to burden her friends.
9、“I understand her not wanting to 26 ,” Hargitay says. “And to my mind, she did 27 the disease to some extent.” By late 2005, the cancer had 28 to Anns liver in a golf-ball-size mass. She passed away in May 2007. In 29 of Ann, Hargitay signed a programme that raises money for breast cancer research.
10、Participating workplaces let employees wear jeans on October 5 for a $5 donation. “Its a real way for everyone to feel like theyre making a 30 ,” says the Emmy-winning actress.21. A. metB. recognizedC. accompaniedD. lost22. A. comfortingB. movingC. interestingD. shocking23. A. actorB. actressC. dire
11、ctorD. heroine 24. A. dishonestB. horribleC. sincereD. pretty 25. A. wellB. sadC. afraidD. sick26. A. shareB. dieC. sufferD. withdraw27. A. loseB. winC. beatD. fight28. A. ledB. spreadC. contributedD. devoted29. A. caseB. chargeC. controlD. memory30. A. differenceB. decisionC. friendD. profit参考答案21.
12、 D 22. D 23. B 24. C 25. D 26. A 27. C 28. B 29. D 30. A *结束The space shuttle Columbia flared and broke up in the skies over Texas on Saturday, February 1, 2003, killing the seven astronauts on board in what NASA and President Bush called a tragedy for the entire nation. NASA launched an investigati
13、on into the disaster and began searching for the astronauts remains. It said that although there had been some data failures it was too early to nail down a precise cause. The break-up, 16 minutes before the shuttle was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, spread possibly toxic debris(有毒的
14、残骸) over a wide area of Texas and neighboring states. Dramatic television images of the shuttles descent clearly showed several white trails(痕迹) streaking through blue skies after the shuttle suddenly fell apart. It was almost 17 years to the day that the Challenger shuttle exploded on Jan. 28, 1986
15、, killing all seven astronauts on board. Take-off and re-entry into Earths atmosphere are the most dangerous parts of a space mission. In 42 years of US human space flight, there had never been an accident in the descent to Earth or landing. Challenger exploded just after take-off. Rescue teams scrambled to search for the remains of the crew, which included the first Israeli to fly on the shuttle, former combat pilot Col. Ilan Ramon. There were warnings that parts of a vast 120-mile-long
