定额市鞍钢阳光实验学校四川省雅安市2014高考英语阅读理解金榜题名基础训练（6）及答案
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。
Believe it or not, optical illusion(视错觉) can cut highway crashes.
Japan is a ca in point. It has reduced car crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.
Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on lected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.
英国夏令营Too great speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all rious traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce tho accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related risks are the greatest curves, exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges. Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars(水平杆)painted across roads小学国旗下的讲话稿 can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become ud to eing the painted bars.
Chevrons, scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents.
36. The passage mainly discuss ________.
A. a new type of optical illusion
B. a new pattern for painting highways
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C. a new way of training drivers
D. a new way of highway speed control
remind【答案】D
【解析】主旨大意题。通读全文，我们可以知道，在高速公路上画各种线是为了让司机觉得车速过快，从而达到控制车速的目的。
37. On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that ________.
沈阳英语口语A. they should avoid speed-related danger
B. they should slow down their speed
C. they are driving in the wrong side
D. they are coming near to the speed limit
【答案】B
【解析】细节理解题，由“But stripes, called chevrons(人字形), painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.”可知B项正确。
38. Compared with straight, horizontal bars, what is the advantage of chevrons?
机械专业排名A. They will have a longer effect on drivers B. They can cut road accidents in half
C. They will look more attractive D. They can keep drivers awake
【答案】A
【解析】推断题。由最后两段对比可知，人字形线比直线，平等线对控制车速有更长久的影响。
39. The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety plans to ________.
教堂唱诗班A. repeat the Japane road patterns
B. change the r上海中学排名oad signs across the country
C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons
D. try out the Japane method in certain areas
【答案】D
【解析】细节理解题。根据“paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on lected roads around the country”可知他们在精心挑选的几条路上试验的模式。
40. What does the author say about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads?
A. They are suitable only on broad roads.
B. They are falling out of u in the United States.
C. They are ignored in a long period of time.
D. They cannot be ud successfully to traffic circles.
【答案】C
【解析】推理题。根据“However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become ud to eing the painted bars.”可知答案选C。
dirext阅读理解
“The Lord of the Rings”, one of the best llers in the new millennium（千年）, was made up of three parts——“The Fellowship of the Ring”, “Two Towers”, and “The Return of the King”. Millions upon millions of people have read it in over 25 different languages, but fewer know about the author and the history of the composition of the creative materwork.
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in South Africa in 1892. His parents died when he was a child. Living in England with his aunt, Tolkien and his cousins made up play languages, a hobby that led to Tolkien’s becoming skilled in Welsh, Greek, Gothic, Old Nor and Anglo-Saxon.
After graduating from Oxford, Tolkien rved in World War I. In 1917, while recovering from trench fever, he began composing the mythology for The Rings. As a professor of Anglo-Saxon in 1930s at Oxford, Tolkien was part of an informal discussion group called the Inklings, which included veral writers. The group was soon listening to chapters of Tolkien’s imaginative work “The Hobbit”.
Hobbit was a name Tolkien created for a local people that could best be described as half-sized members of the English rural（乡村的）class. Hobbits live in hillside holes. One of them, Bilbo Baggins, looks for treasures with a group of dwarves（侏儒）. On the way, he meets the twisted, pitiful creature Gollum, from whom he es a golden ring that makes the holder invisible.
买东西英语 One of Tolkien’s students persuaded her employer, publisher Allen & Unwin, to look at a draft（草稿）. The chairman of the firm, Stanley Unwin, thought that the best judge for a children’s book would be his ten-year-old son. The boy earned a shilling for reporting back that the adventure was exciting, and “The Hobbit” was published in 1937.
