月亮忘记了2014高考英语阅读理解抓分练习精品(37)及答案
阅读理解
Car crashes are the top killer of American teenagers.Most of the crashes result from distracted driving not paying attention to the road.
Ryan Didone was a fifteen-year-old pasnger in a car that hit a tree.He was one of the nation's more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in 2008.Nearly four thousand deaths, about twelve percent, involved drivers aged fifteen to twenty.Ryan's father, Thomas Didone, is a police captain in Montgomery County, Maryland.He said, "It was an inexperienced," immature driver who felt that he was invincible(不可战胜的), driving at night with a carload of kids.He was distracted, he was going too fast, and it ended up causing one death and some uptting experiences and tragedy for the rest of the community."
Jim Jennings from the Allstate Insurance Company said "The number one cau of distracted-driving accidents is the mobile phone.Talking on the phone or reaching for it is li
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ke drinking four beers and driving.If you're texting while driving, you are twenty-three times more likely to get into an accident than somebody who isn't.
Reaching for a cell phone when it's going off, you're nine times more likely to get into an accident than normally driving," The insurance industry recently held a safety event near Washington for teen drivers.
At first, nineteen-year-old Kevin.Schumann easily avoided large, inflatable dolls thrown in front of the car to reprent children.He also avoided orange cones reprenting the edge of the road.Then, as part of the test,he started texting. He hit veral cones and at least one doll.
Debbie Pickford from the Allstate Insurance Company said, "Teens are especially at risk from distracted driving—and not just becau they lack experience on the roads.What we know from rearch on teen brain development, is that teens don't really have fully developed brains until they are twenty-five years old. You put tho two things together and you get a much, much higher risk.
16.We can learn from the cond paragraph that _ _.
汉服简笔画A.drivers who resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths are teenagers
B.over 30,000 victims have died from traffic crashes so far
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C.it was at night that Ryan Didone died from a car accident
D.Ryan Didone's death was due to the other 's careless driving
17.According to the passage, __ is the most likely to lead to a traffic accident while you are driving.
A.reaching for a cell phone. B.texting on the mobile phone
C.talking on the mobile phone D专科生怎么报考研究生.bringing along a cell phone
18.A safety event held by insurance industry was meant to _ _.
A.attract more teenagers to take part in it
B.make more teenagers practice avoiding large barriers
C.draw encough attention to teenagers' distracted driving
D.encourage more teenagers to pay for insurance protection
19.The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about ___.
A.much higher risk B.measures to be taken
C.experience on the roads D.teen brain development
20. Of all the following, which is the best title for the passage?
A. Car Crashes —the Top Killer. B. Drunken Driving — Dangerous Enough!
教师节游戏 C. Distracted Driving —Let's Avoid! D. Tips on Driving While Calling
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阅读理解(共20小题;每小题脸上的痣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。
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It was one of the hottest days of the dry ason. We had not en rain in almost a month. The crops were dying. Cows had stopped giving milk. The streams were long gone back into the earth. If we didn't e some rain soon we would lo everything.
I was in the kitchen making lunch for my husband and his brothers when I saw my six-year old son, Billy, walking toward the woods. He was obviously walking with a trying to be as still as possible. Minutes after he disappeared into the woods, he came running out again, toward the hou.
Moments later, however, he was once again walking in that slow purpoful long step toward the woods. This activity went on for over an hour: walking cautiously to the woods, then running back to the hou. Finally, my curiosity got the best of me. I crept out of the hou and followed him on his journey.
He was cupping both hands in front of him as he walked; being very careful not to spill the water he held in them. Branches and thorns slapped his little face but he did not try to avoid them. He had a much greater purpo. As I leaned in to spy on him, I saw the most amazing site.
Several large deer appeared threatening in front of him. But Billy walked right up to them. I almost screamed for him to get away. And I saw a baby deer lying on the ground, obviously suffering from heavy loss of water and heat exhaustion, lift its head with great effort to lap up the water cupped in my beautiful boy's hand.