高考英语阅读理解高分训练题附答案
第一篇：
A little under one-third of U.S. families have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of the holdouts eing little u for it in their lives, according to a survey relead on Friday.
Park Associates, a Dallas-bad technology market rearch firm, said 29 percent of U.S. families, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe(预订)to an Internet rvice over the next 12 months. The cond annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found that the main reason why potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is becau of the low value to their daily lives rather than concerns over cost.
Forty-four percent of the families say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a puter or the cost of Inte
rnet rvice, the survey showed. The answer “I’m not sure how to u the Internet” came from 17 percent of participants who do not subscribe. The respon “I do all my e-merce shopping and YouTube-watching at work” was cited by 14 percent of Internet-access urs. Three percent said the Internet doesn’t reach their homes.
The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 percent over 2006, up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted(转变)from slower-speed, dial-up Internet access while the other half of families had no prior access.
“The industry continues to chip(击破)away at the core of non-subscribers, but has a long way to go,” said John Barrett, director of rearch at Parks Associates. “Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, it’s going to be applications that make the Internet more similar to pay-TV,” he predicted.
1. What does the underlined word “holdouts” in the first paragraph most probably mean?
A. some American families
B. tho who hold out one’s opinions
C. tho who have been surveyed
袖手旁观的意思D. tho who still haven’t access to the Internet currently
吊篮
3d摄影2. Many potential customers refu to subscribe to the Internet mainly becau _________.
A. they show too much concern about the cost B. they can find little value of it
C. they do most YouTube-watching at work D. the Internet doesn’t reach their homes
3. From the passage we can infer that ________.
A. It is not an easy job to transform tho holdouts into the Internet urs
B. people will adopt dial-up Internet access no more
不会的英文
C. many Americans enjoy doing e-merce shopping at home
D. more than half of the population are using the Internet in 2005
4. According to John Barrett, what is the key to attracting more U.S. families to broadband rvice?
噩耗怎么读
A. making the Internet look more similar to TV t
B. applying the Internet more to entertainment
C. providing more pay-TV programs
D. chipping away at the core of non-subscribers
5. Which is the best title for the passage?医院营销
板鞋怎么系鞋带
A. Web develops with technology B. The prent situation of web
C. Many Americans e little point to web D. It is urgent to promote web rvice
第二篇：
Something in chocolate could be ud to stop coughs and lead to more effective medicines, say UK rearchers.
Their study found that theobromine, found in cocoa, was nearly a third more effective in stopping coughs than codeine, which was considered the best cough medicine at prent.
The Imperial College London rearchers who published their results online said the discovery could lead to more effective cough treatment. “While coughing is not necessarily harmful(有害的) it can have a major effect on the quality of life, and this discovery could be a huge step forward in treating this problem,” said Professor Peter Barnes.
Ten healthy volunteers(志愿者) were given theobromine, codeine or placebo, a pill t
hat contains no medicine, during the experiment. Neither the volunteers nor the rearchers knew who received which pill. The rearchers then measured levels of capsaicin, which is ud in rearch to cau coughing and as a sign of how well the medicine are stopping coughs.
The team found that, when the volunteers were given theobromine, the capsaicin need to produce a cough was around a third higher than in the placebo group. When they were given codeine they need only slightly higher levers of capsaicin to cau a cough pared with the placebo.
The rearchers said that theobromine worked by keeping down a verve activity(神经活动), which cau coughing. They also found that unlike some standard cough treatments, theobromine caud no side effects such as sleepiness.
