重庆渝中区2016高考英语阅读理解一轮选练（3）及答案
【2015高考复习】阅读理解
Nowadays women appear to have a positive image of themlves as safer drivers than men.
In a survey done for insurer MetLife,51% of women said they drive more safely.The evidence is on their side:Men are 3.4 times more likely than women to get a ticket for careless driving and 3.1 times as likely to be punished for drunk driving.“Women are on average less aggressive and more law abiding (守法的) drivers，which leads to fewer accidents，” the report says.However，not all
male drivers share the same opinion.Of the men surveyed by MetLife,39% claimed male drivers were safer.The findings did back them up on one point:automotive knowledge.The report showed
that more men are familiar with current safety equipment such as electronic stability contr
ol，which
helps prevent rollover accidents.
Auto safety unavoidably matters to Money.Insurance companies focus on what class of drivers have the lowest dollar amounts of claims，and for now，that mainly includes women.In
general，women pay about 9% less for auto insurance than men.A study by the website Insweb also showed that auto insurance rates are lower for women in most states.Among individual states，
women get the greatest，advantage in Wyoming (where they pay 20% less)，South Dakota and
Washington，D.C.，where their insurance costs are 16% lower.
“More than 11,900 male drivers died in US traffic accidents in 2009，compared with just under
4,900 women drivers” according to the study.“Bad on miles traveled，men died at a rate of 2.5
deaths per 100 million miles traveled，vs.1.7 deaths for women.”
【语篇解读】 本文是一篇说明文。文章通过列举一些数据说明现在女性司机似乎比男
性司机开车更加安全。
1(According to the study，female drivers________.
A(are more aggressive while driving
B(are more interested in auto knowledge
C(are more likely to stick driving laws
D(are more familiar with safety equipment
解析 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“Women are on average less aggressive and more law
abiding (守法的) drivers.”可知～C项正确。
答案 C
2(Insurance companies focus on female driver clients probably becau they________.
A(cau more accidents on the road
B(pay more money to the insurance companies
C(take the most part of the insurance clients
D(have the lowest amount of money on insurance claims
解析 推理判断题。根据第三段第一、二句话可知～对保险公司而言～机动车安全与钱
息息相关的～越是安全的驾驶人员索赔就相应的越少～而与男性相比女性司机驾驶更为
安全～所以深受保险公司的青睐。
答案 D
3(We can infer from the passage that________.
A(men are 3.1 times more likely to get tickets than women
B(all women in the USA pay the same for their auto insurance
C(more female drivers die every year than male drivers
D(women are generally safer drivers than the opposite gender
解析 细节理解题。根据第一段可知～女性司机相比男性司机而言驾驶更加安全～故选D。
根据第二段中的“Men are 3.4 times get ”可知～A项错误,根据第三
段最后一句可知～B项错误,根据最后一段第一句可知～C项错误。
答案 D
4(The writer mainly develops paragraphs by________.
A(giving examples B(making comparisons
C(drawing a conclusion D(prenting an argument
解析 推理判断题。根据文中第二至四段中的数据对比可知～作者将女性司机与男性司
机进行比较～从而得出女性司机比男性司机更安全的结论～故选B。
答案 B
阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Psychologists have discovered that even the most independent-minded of us will conform to social
pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classic experiment, people were shown a vertical(垂直的) line and asked to find a line of identical length from a lection of three. You might think that this is an absurdly easy task, and when people perform it by themlves they do it very well. However, psychologists have discovered that we are very easily swayed by the opinions of other people when we do this task in a group. In one stu
dy, a group of three people was t up, where two of the people were confederates(同伙) of the experimenter. When the
confederates deliberately gave wrong answers, people were often swayed to give the wrong answer
also. In fact, 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer, with some people conforming to peer pressure on every occasion.
But why do people conform in this way? In an easy task like this, it ems that people do not want to step out of line with the prevailing opinion of the group. On more difficult tasks, people also conform becau they lo confidence in their own ability to make decisions and prefer to trust the majority opinion instead.
A typical example of this kind of conformity aris when we come across people in distress. Would you help a woman who has been attacked in the street? It turns out that you are much more likely to go to her assistance if you are alone. When other people are
also around, a diffusion of responsibility occurs. People are paralyd into inaction, becau everyone assumes that someone el will go to the woman's assistance.
