高中英语真题-2014高考英语阅读理解联合训练(9)及答案.pdf

高中英语真题 :2014 高考英语阅读理解联合训练（9）及答案阅读理解By 2050 Futurologists predict that life will probably be very different in 2050TV channels will have disappearedInstead, people will choose a program from a “menu” and a computer will send the program directly to the televisionToday, we can use the World Wide Web to read newspaper stories and see pictures on a computer thousands of kilometers away By 2050, music, films, programs, newspapers, and books will come to us by computerCars will run on new, clean fuels and they will go very fastCars will have computers to control the speed and there wont be any accidents Today, many cars have computers that tell drivers exactly where they are By 2050, the computer will control the car and drive it to your destinationSpace planes will take people halfway around the world in two hoursToday, the United Sates Space Shuttle can go into space and land on Earth againBy 2050, space planes will fly all over the world and people will fly from Los Angeles to Tokyo in just two hoursRobots will have replaced people in factoriesMany factories already use robots Big companies prefer robots - they dont ask for pay rises or go on strike, and they work 24 hours a day By 2050, we will see robots everywhere - in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and homesMedical technology will have conquered many diseases Today, there are electronic devices that connect directly to the brain to help people hearBy 2050, we will be able to help blind and deaf people to see and hear againScientists will have discovered how to control genesScientists have already produced clones of animalsBy 2050, scientists will be able to produce clones of people, and decide how they look, how they behave and how much intelligence they haveScientists will be able to do these things, but should they?4Which of the following can NOT be realized today?AReading newspapers on a computerBMaking a space shuttle go into space and land on Earth againCCreating cloned animals DChoosing TV programs freely from a “menu ”5According to the text, some big companies prefer robots to human workers because human workers _Acan work 24 hours a day Boften ask for more payCare not clever enough Dare often late for work6From the 6th paragraph we can infer that _Athere will be no blind and deaf people by 2050Bfew diseases will attack peopleCelectronic devices will be connected directly to the brain to help each otherDmedical technology will be more effective by 20507Whats the author s attitude towards the cloning technology?AThe author does not agree on the use of cloning technologyBThe author thinks human cloning is impossibleCThe author does not really support the idea of human cloningDThe author is quite excited about human cloning【参考答案】 47、DBDC 第一节 阅读理解（共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

AImagine living in a city made of glass. No, this isn t a fairy tale. If you could grab your diving gear and swim down 650 feet into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of State, you would witness the secret world of glass reefs.The reef youd be looking at is made up of glass sponges(海绵). But how can animals be made of glass? Well, glass is formed from a substance called silica. The sponges use the silica found in ocean waters to build glass structures that will give them shape and support. Be careful! Some of the fragile creatures are up to 200 years old.When sponges die, new ones grow on top of the pile of old ones. Over centuries, a massive and complex reef takes shape. Some sponges look like wrinkled trumpets, while others look like overgrown cauliflower or mushrooms.Dr. Paul Johnson, who discovered the reef in 2007, also found other surprises such as bubbles of methane(甲烷) gas flowing out of the seafloor nearby. The methane feeds bacteria, and the bacteria feed the glass sponges.“It s a new ecosystem we know nothing about, ” said Dr. Johnson.The reef of yellow and orange glass sponges is crowded with crabs, shrimp, starfish, worms, snails, and rockfish. The glass reef is also a nursery for the babies of many of these creatures and was called a “kindergarten” by scientists.Many animals that live in the reef hang around for a long time, just like the sponges. Rockfish, for example, live for more than 100 years. Scientists are just beginning to study all the species that call the reef home. The coast isn t the only place where a living glass reef has been found. The first was discovered in Hecate Strait off the coast of in 1991. Scientists all over the world were stunned to see it. 【文章大意】本文主要讲述了科学家们在海底世界发现的奇观。

在海底的礁石中生长着各类生物，他们形成了一个新的生态系统26. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Man-made cities under the sea B. The world under the seaC. Glass “cities” under the sea D. Creatures under the sea【答案】 C【 解析】结合本文大意，主要给我们讲述了海底的玻璃城27. It can be learned that the glass reef _.A. is made up of a kind of materials called spongesB. is a work of art made by some American scientists C. is a new ecosystem people are not。