定额市鞍钢阳光实验学校2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练极品题（10）及答案
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。
A
Like many men at some point, I dream about opening a bar. I plan to call it Work Out. It will cater to married women in need of a little fun. On Friday nights, they will be able to come here and enjoy themlves.
See, I have a gift for business. I am, as my wife Zsa Zsa likes to note, “A man with a million ideas, none of them very good.” Speaking of Zsa Zsa, she is fed up with this plain little life I’ve made for us——too many kids, too many chores, mind – numbing debt. The other day, she said she thought we needed a new family car. “Sure. How about an 87 Lincoln?” I said, and saw my dear Zsa Zsa age about 20 years, and become her mother right before my eye
s.
Yes, money is our madness. Last year, we thought we had found a little cushion when I published a book about the life here in suburban America. It sold 12 copies——six of them to my mother. Four other copies went to various aunts and uncles, who ud them for martini coasters (杯垫), then sold them at yard sales. The two remaining copies went to perfect strangers. (I think I owe you dinner, whoever you are. Call me, OK? We’ll arrange something.)
When the book didn’t take off, I wrote a TV show. Then I penned a short novel bad on the earlier TV idea that didn’t ll. Currently, I am at work on a t of encyclopedias(百科全书). In a month, I plan to ll them door – to – door.
Such is the life of a writer, nding off the most personal thoughts possible to his hard drive. I am a writer, but also the breadwinner in my family. I’m at the keyboard at 6 almost every morning, hoping to tap out one idea——just one——that will take us up the hill, to the mountain, to the top.
ysu26. According to the passage, the author is leading a/an life.
A. enjoyable B. wealthy C. hard D. comfortable
【答案】C
【解析】细节理解题。由“she is fed up with this plain little life I’ve made for us——too many kids, too many chores, mind – numbing debt.”可知作者过着艰难的生活。故选C。
27. By saying “Sure. How about an 87 Lincoln?”, the author silence是什么意思>会计常识 .
法制讲座稿
A. promid it to his wife B. was showing off their fortune
C. thought his wife would like it D. was just joking
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。由“she is fed up with this plain little life I’ve made for us——too many kids, too many chores, mind – numbing debt.纪念品英文”可知他们有太多的孩子，杂物以及让人头脑麻木的债务。他们根本没钱买车，所以作者说买林肯车只是开个玩笑。
28. What was the result of the book the author mentioned in the 3rd paragraph?
A. It didn’t ll well at all.
B. He sold it door – to – door.
C. He made a lot of money from it.
D. It was really a cushion for his family.
【答案】A
【解析】细节理解题。由It sold 12 copies——six of them to my mother. Four other copies went to various aunts and uncles, who ud them for martini coasters (杯垫), then sold them at yard sales. The two remaining copies went to perfect strangers.”可知书卖的一点也不好。
29. What does the underlined word “cushion” mean ?
A. Comfortable at.
B. Financial help.
C. Unexpected success.
D. Best-lling book.
【答案】B
blastfurnace
【解析】词义猜测题。由“money is our madness.”可知他们以为他们找到了财富。故选B。
30. From the account above, which of the following statements is true?
busy的用法 A. He has a real gift for business.
B. He isn’t rious enough about life.
C. He is a hard – working writer. illy
D. His wife is satisfied with their plain life.
【答案】C
【解析】推理判断题。由“朗格雅思Such is the life of a writer, nding off the most personal thoughts possible to his hard drive.”可知他是个努力工作的作家。
较难题目特训：人物故事类
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed(展现) herlf as she did nowhere el.
After the death of her cond husband, Greek shipping magnate(巨头) Aristotle Onassis, Jacqueline’s clo friend and former White Hou social cretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career(职业) in publishing. After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it. Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life. She became not less but more interested in reading. For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing(追求) a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined. During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managinengineeringg and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joph Campbell to transform their popular television conversations into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-ller. She dealt, too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传), Moonwalk.
Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of bene
fit both to the publishing firms and to Jacqueline herlf. In the books she lected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herlf as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind. Her books are the autobiography she never wrote.Her role as First Lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor. However, few knew that she had achieved so much.
1. We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline .
A. became fond of reading after working as an editor
B. was in charge of publishing 100 books
C. promoted her books through social relations
D. gained a lot from her career as an editor
