定额市鞍钢阳光实验学校2014高考英语阅读理解抓分训练（16）及答案
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。
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Grandma celebrated her fifty-third birthday just weeks before grandpa died of cancer in 1965. Although his passing was very difficult for her, I think their shared struggle to make his life longer taught grandma that good health was not to be taken forgranted, and she made up her mind to live the rest of her own life as fully and as long as she could. One day, when she announced to attend lessons at the Fred Astaire Dance Studio in Portland, Oregon, where she lived, we rolled our eyes in embarrassment and helplessly wished she would just stay home and bake cookies as normal grandmothers did. Many years filled with countless dance lessons pasd before we learned to appreciate the wonder of having a dancing grandma.
I suppo grandma's primary motivation for wanting to learn to dance was social. She
had been a shy girl, always very tall and heavy, and had married into grandpa's quiet lifestyle before developing any elegance or confidence in her personal appearance. Dancing, on the other hand, filled her life with flash lights, wonderful parties, beautiful dress, handsome young dance instructors, and the challenge of learning. Although the weekly dance lessons did book音标
not change her ample, two-hundred-pound figure, grandma surprid everyone with energetic performances on the dance floor, which soon gave her as much elegance and confidence as any Miss American competitor.
Having taken weekly dance lessons for years, my grandma learned various dances easily and was soon participating in dancing matches all over the Northwest. When I was fourteen, grandma proudly invited me to watch her compete in one of the matches to be held in the grand ballroom of the Red Lion Inn. My attitude was still unenthusiastic at that point, but to make her happy, my mother and I attended the match. As if to prove me wrong, grandma made a wonderful showing in every event she entered. I thought she was truly the queen of the ball during the dance, and my thoughts were shared by the judges a short time later when she was awarded a gold cup for her outstanding performa
nce.
26. What did grandma learn from grandpa's death?
A. Good health was not there for everyone.
B. She should take dance lessons.
C. She had to struggle to live a better life.
D. She should wear beautiful dress.
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。根据good health was not to be taken forgranted，对于大家来说好的健康已经不在了，故选A。
27. How did the author's family feel when Grandma decided to take dance lessons?
A. Hopeless. B. Helpless. C. Embarrasd. D. Proud.
【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。根据we rolled our eyes in embarrassment可知作者的家人都感到尴尬，故选C。
28. Normal grandmas usually ________ in the author's point of view?
A. took dance lessons
B. did some exercis at home
C. took care of grandchildren at home
D. did some houwork at home
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据she would just stay home and bake cookies as normal grandmothers did.在作者眼中祖母就是能在家做做家务，故选D。
29. The author felt ______ when he was invited to watch grandma's match.
A. happy B. proud C. excited D. uninterested
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据My attitude was still unenthusiastic at that point,作者对于祖母的邀请他去看比赛感到没有兴趣，故选D。
30. The text is mainly about
A. my grandma's confidence B. my dancing grandma
C. my grandma's dancing D. my grandma's gold cup
【答案】B
【解析】主旨大意题。根据全文的内容可知关于祖母的事情，故选B。
The Rockford police chief and some city officials want to install （安装） video cameras i
n all 100 police cars．They think this will reduce the number of lawsuits （法律诉讼）．In the last five years, Rockford has paid out more than five million dollars to ttle about 40 lawsuits．
The chief said, "If cameras had been in tho cars．we wouldn't have had to pay one cent． We're always pulling over drunks or drug urs who try to fight the police or shoot them．Then they always claim that the police start beating them first or start shooting at them first．"
The cost of installing cameras will be about $500 each．The city council （会） will vote on the proposal next Monday．Ten of the 13 council members said that they like the idea． One member said that it makes good n．
The police officers enthusiastically support camera u．One officer said that too many people think the police often lie; cameras would show citizens that police tell the truth．"The money that we've been spending on lawsuits will be better spent on more cameras," said one officer．
Citizen opinions to the idea of police car cameras are mixed．One person, said that the police should have started doing this years ago when video cameras were invented．But an elderly man strongly objected．'The police are trying to stick their no into everything," he said．He was going to attend the council meeting to condemn the proposal．He hoped that other citizens would join him.
