高考英语阅读理解专项练习题

　　阅读理解在英语考试中占据着重要的位置。下面是学习啦小编为大家收集整理的高考英语阅读理解专项练习题目及其参考答案以供大家学习。

　　高考英语阅读理解专项练习题(一)

　　Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?

　　The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker's family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn't tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.

　　He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.

　　31. The main idea of the passage is __B_.

　　A. James Watt invented the steam engine

　　B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure

　　C. how much power does a horse have

　　D. why Watt's engine is called a ten horse-power engine

　　32. The story says that Watt made the first __D__.

　　A. engine

　　B. horse-power engine

　　C. useful engine

　　D. widely used steam engine

　　33. James Watt was born in _A___.

　　A. a worker's family

　　B. a farmer's family

　　C. a teacher's family

　　D. a doctor's steam engine

　　34. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___.

　　A. measure the work his engine could do

　　B. tell people how powerful his engine was

　　C. lift a 3300-pound weight

　　D. both A and B

　　35. One horse-power means the __A__.

　　A. work a horse could do in a minute

　　B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes

　　C. work a horse could do in ten minutes

　　D. weight of one horse

　　高考英语阅读理解专项练习题(二)

　　A holiday jet pilot(飞行员)said that he would land and call the police after a woman refused to stop smoking. He WARNED Maureen Harkavy, ―Put that cigarette(香烟)out ,or I'll land the plane and have you arrested(逮捕)

　　Maureen, 47, was so shocked she wrote to airline's chairman. But his reply was even ruder. ―You seem to think you have a God – given right to pollute your neighbours' atmosphere, wrote John Ferriday of Paramount Airways. (a) Said Maureen, ―I only found out about it when I was checking in. I'm a nervous flyer so I lit a cigarette during the flight. A stewardess(空姐)asked me to put it out, but I said I wanted to carry on as there was no rule against smoking on the plane. She was just finishing her cigarette when the pilot arrived. (b) ―I've never seen such an unpleasant letter, she said, ―I don't think I'll ever fly again. But there was a funny side. Maureen explained, ―We were offered duty – free(免税的)cigarette from the stewardess on the plane! (c) Mr Ferriday went on, ―Believe me, you haven't Especially when you travel on my planes. Maureen and her husband Michael were moved to paramount flight just before they left Portugal. But they were not told of the company's no smoking policy. (d) ―He was loud and rude, said Maureen. ―He said if I lit another cigarette he would land the plane at Bordeaux and hand me to the French police. Later, from her home in Mosely, Birmingham, Maureen wrote to company and received the rude reply.

　　1. The Second half of the story has been in wrong order. (parts a – d). Choose the rearranged order (重新排列的顺序)which you think is right.

　　A. a, c, b, d B. c, a, b, d C. c, a, d, b D. d, a, b, c

　　2. Maureen Harkavy _________on the plane.

　　A. accepted the warning B. agreed to the warning

　　C. refused to do what she was told to

　　D. was so shocked that she wrote to the airline's chairman.

　　3. In the answer letter to Maureen Harkavy the airline's chairman_______.

　　A. made an apology to her for his worker's rudeness.

　　B. made sure that he would solve the problem.

　　C. said that she had the right to smoke on his plane because the right is given by God to everyone

　　D. actually completely agreed with what the pilot said

　　4. From the story we can see that the writer probably takes the side of _________.

　　A. the pilot B. the airline's chairman C. the stewardess D. Maureen Harkavy

　　高考英语阅读理解专项练习题答案：CCDD