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1、高考英语二轮复习专项限时训练阅读理解（九）本套试题共四篇，30分钟完成。AImagine being the only person in the Forbidden City. You could stay there all day without swarms of people crowding around. Youd be able to look at the ancient treasures without worrying about other visitors pushing you for a better view. Well, in two years time
2、youll be able to have such an experience, just like the former emperors used to. The only difference is that your Forbidden City fun will be online.Thanks to new technology, a virtual tour of the Forbidden City will be available online by 2008. The project jointly driven by the Palace Museum and com
3、puter company IBM aims to help teenagers around the world become more interested in Chinese culture. The project will offer an interactive, three-dimensional view of the palace. The virtual tour will provide images from all over the 780,000-square-metre palace.The Palace Museum is a big book; there
4、are always places you havent read about, said Hu Chui from the museum. There are many rooms closed for protection. But the virtual platform breaks the boundaries of time and space, meaning visitors can see whatever they want. The interaction and games content in the virtual tour will attract more yo
5、ung people to understand and love our cultural heritage, added Hu.In the virtual tour, historical figures will actually talk to visitors and answer their questions. The stories behind the buildings and treasures will also be told. The online environment, presented in both Chinese and English, enable
6、s visitors to experience the culture and stories of the museum, said James Yeh, an IBM official.1. If you visit the Forbidden City now, which of the following wont be the case youll have?A. It is crowed with a lot of visitors. B. Visitors are pushing you for a better view.C. You are the only person
7、in it.D. You can see some ancient treasures in it.2. Which of the following is not the advantage of the virtual tour of the Forbidden City?A. Visitors can see whatever they want.B. Visitor can ask and talk to historical figures.C. Visitors can get to know the cultural heritage by playing games.D. Vi
8、sitors can walk around the Forbidden City with your family.3. The “project” underlined in paragraph 2 refers to _.A. a virtual tour of the Forbidden CityB. a new “Forbidden City” to be built by the Palace Museum and IBM computer companyC. an Internet cafe to be built in the Palace MuseumD. a big boo
9、k to be published to introduce Chinese culture4. What attracts teenagers most to the virtual tour is _.A. the visible pictures in the place B. the interaction and game playingC. the online environment presented in EnglishD. the platform without the boundaries of time and spaceBA famous American John
10、 Muir said in 1898: “The Grand Canyon as unearthly (神秘的) in the color and grandeur (壮观) of its architecture as if you had found it after death on some other star.” Like Muir, those of us who stand along the rim are prompted to wonder about the unearthliness and the forces that created and are still
11、changing this place.After more than 100 years of studies, many things are still mysterious. Today visitors come by the thousands - the great and simple of the earth - all in a spirit of wonder. Travelers come from every state of the Union, from every country in Europe and Asia.From the depths of the
12、 canyon comes welling silence. Seldom can you hear the roar of the river, for all sounds are swallowed in this gulf of space. “It makes one want to murmur.” A woman once whispered to her companion. This silence is not the silence of death; rather, it is a presence. It is like a great piece of music.
13、 But music made of man works up to a climax (高潮) and stops.Now, visitors to the South Rim alone may number 18,000 in a single day. Some of that number will travel by mule train down Bright Angel Trail to the canyons floor, cross the raging river by a suspension bridge (吊桥) and walk to the North Rim.
14、 Though the two rims face each other across only 12 miles, it is a journey of 214 miles by car from one to the other. Nor can you visit the North Rim except in summer; some 1,200 feet higher than the South Rim, it is snow covered much of the year except in July and August. But there is no day that y
15、ou may not visit the South Rim and find the sun warm on your face and the air perfumed with the incense (香气) of smoke from an Indian hearth (香炉). No wonder an American writer and journalist said, “I came here an atheist (无神论者), and departed a devout （虔诚的）believer.”1. What is it that attracts so many
16、 travelers to the Canyon?A. The unearthliness and the grandeur of its architecture.B. The presence of American super stars.C. The saying made by American writers and journalists.D. The roaring of the river in the Canyon.2. What does the underlined word “simple” refer to?A. peaceful streamB. land surfaceC. common peopleD. tamed animals3. If you want to visit the North Rim from the
