定额市鞍钢阳光实验学校2014高考英语阅读理解全程冲刺训练（1）及答案
阅读理解-----A
It is hardly surprising that clothing manufacturers(生产商) follow certain uniform standards for various features(特征) of clothes. What ems strange, however, is that the standard adopted for women is the opposite of the one for men. Take a look at the way your clothes button. Men's clothes tend to button from the right, and women's from the left. Considering most of the world's population----men and women----are right-handed, the men's standard would appear to make more n for women. So why do women's clothes button from the left? History really ems to matter here. Buttons first appeared only on the clothes of the rich in the 17th century, when rich women were dresd by rvants. For the mostly right-handed rvants, having women's shirts button from the left would be easier. On the other hand, having men's shirts button from the right made n, too. Most men dresd themlves, and a sword drawn from the left with the right hand would be less likely to get caught in the shirt. Today women are ldom dresd by rvants, but buttoning from the left is still the standard for them. Is it interesting? Actually, a standard, once t, resists change. At a time when all women's shirts buttoned from the left, it would have been risky for any single manufacturer to offer women's shirts that buttoned from the right. After all, wo
men had grown so ud to shirts which buttoned from the left and would have to develop new habits and skills to switch. Besides, some women might have found it socially awkward to appear in public wearing shirts that buttoned from the right, since anyone who noticed that would believe they were wearing men's shirts.
( ) 1. What is surprising about the standard of the clothing industry?
A. It has been followed by the industry for over 400 years.
B. It is different for men's clothing and women's.
C. It woks better with men than with women.
D. It fails to consider right-handed people.
( ) 2. What do we know about the rich men in the 17th century?
A. They tended to wear clothes without buttons.
B. They were interested in the historical matters.
C. They were mostly dresd by rvants.
D. They drew their swords from the left.
( ) 3. Women's clothes still button from the left today becau.
A. adopting men's style is improper for women
B. manufacturers should follow standards
C. modern women dress themlves
D. customs are hard to change
( ) 4. The passage is mainly developed by.
A. analyzing caus
B. making comparisons
C. examining differences
D. following the time order
【语篇解读 语篇解读】本文由男女衣服的不同,分析产生这种不同的原因,并且告诉我们这种不同为 语篇解读 什么延续到现在.
1. 答案 B 【解析】 细节理解题. "What ems strange , however, is that the standard adopted for women 由 is the opposite of the one for men."可知男女衣服的不一样令人惊奇.所以答案选 B 项.
2. 答案 D 【解析】 细节理解题. 根据文中 "Most men dresd themlves, and a sword drawn from the left with the right hang would be less likely to get caught in the shirt."可判断选 D 项.
3. 答案 D 【解析】细节理解题.根据"Actually, a standard , once t, resists change."可知,习惯一旦 养成,就很难改变是女式衣服的纽扣仍然在左边的原因.由此判断选 D 项.
4. 答案 A 【解析】组织结构题.通观整篇文章可以看出,作在开始提到一个现象――男女衣服的 相反,然后分析这种现象产生的历史原因,最后告诉我们现在这是这样的原因.由此判断
选 A 项.
【2014高考英语华侨中学四模】A
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。
In the fall of 1985, I was a bright-eyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twenty-one years later I am still a bright-eyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantasti
c—and very emotional. A year later came our cond adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8! Our home was a complete zoo—a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college full-time. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant taking as few as one class each mester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit. But I knew I should t an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just single-minded. It always struck me that when you’re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you’re in the midst of it, it just ems normal. Everything you want won’t arrive in your life on one day. It’s a process. Remember: little steps add up to big dreams.
26. When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________.
A. a writer B. a teacher C. a judge D. a doctor
27. Why did the author quit school in her cond year of college?
