高三英语阅读理解练习题附答案

　　高三英语阅读理解练习题(一)

　　I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive and fed. Iguess I had the means and could afford to hate it and give it up.

　　1. What can be the best title for this text?

　　A. How Hard Life is for Box Boys

　　B. Getting along with Customers

　　C. Why I Gave up My Job

　　D. The Art of Taking Tips

　　2. From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________.

　　A. the writer didn't like the impersonal part of his job

　　B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking

　　C. Mr Castle mistook Irving for Brett

　　D. Irving was the writer's real name

　　3. The box boy refused to accept tips because ________.

　　A. customers only gave small tips

　　B. some customers had strange ideas about tipping

　　C. the store forbade the box boys to take tips

　　D. he didn't want to fight with the customers

　　4. The underlined phrase "put down" in the third paragraph probably means________.

　　A. misunderstood B. defeated

　　C. hateful D. hurt

　　高三英语阅读理解练习题答案

　　1. C。通过全文可知，作者认为接受小费有助于互相理解，是一种礼貌行为;而经理不让收小费，使得作者很为难，得罪许多人，文章最后提出放弃这份工作，故应选 C。

　　2. A。文中第2段提及顾客之所以能叫出作者的名字，是因为他身上佩戴了写有自己名字的名牌。文中又有There isnothing personal here(在这里，没有任何个人的东西)。

　　3. C。由文中第3段第2句 One of these was: youcouldn't accept tips. 故应选 C。

　　4. D。文中第3段提及：如果你说"我确实不能接受你的小费"，这样会导致 It gets to a point where youalmost have to hurt a person physically to prevent him from tipping you，故应选 D。

　　高三英语阅读理解练习题(二)

　　Parts of Africa are covered by a dark cloud. But thisis no rain cloud. It is a living cloud made of billions oflocusts (蝗虫) that are traveling across the continenteating everything in their path.

　　And now in the battle to stop this disaster, a radiostation in Senegal, West Africa, is offering listeners50 kilograms of rice if they can catch and kill 50kilograms of locusts. "We think this idea will get more people to take part in the war on thelocusts," said Abdoulaye Ba, from Sud-Fm, a radio station in one of Senegal's worst affectedarea.

　　This is West Africa's biggest locust disaster in 15 years, and it is moving east, causing hugedamage to crops. As they move they produce young and increase their number and will soonthreaten (威胁) Sudan in the northeast of Africa. Some say it could reach Asia.

　　Experts say the harmful effect on crops in areas already suf-fering from food shortage and warcould cause many people to go hungry. Governments in the areas are not well equipped to fightthe pest.

　　Although leaders of 12 countries have agreed on a plan, it is not expected to be enough. "Weare now treating 6,000 hectares (公顷) per day with pesticide (杀虫剂), but we need to treat20,000 hectares per day in order to have any hope of controlling this disaster," said MohamedAbdallahi Ould Babah, director of locust control in Mauritania.

　　Requests are being made for international aid, which is the only way to limit the disaster, theUN's Food and Agricul-ture Organization warned.

　　1. By using "dark cloud" to describe locusts in the first para-graph, the author of thearticle ________.

　　A. showed the size and speed of the mass of locusts

　　B. suggested the great damage that locusts can cause

　　C. warned that locusts would sweep the continent like rain clouds

　　D. both A and B

　　2. The story is mainly about ________.

　　A. West Africa's united effort in fighting a disaster

　　B. the difficulty in controlling locusts

　　C. how locusts caused great damage to West Africa

　　D. a struggle to fight against a disaster brought by locusts in West Africa

　　3. The locust disaster ________.

　　A. would be even more serious in Asia

　　B. is(was)out of control

　　C. affected only the warning areas

　　D. can not be stopped unless twice as much pesticide is provided for the affected areas

　　4. Which of the following is WRONG?

　　A. Sud-Fm offered a reward for fighting locusts so that more people would join in the effort.

　　B. Senegal is to the southwest of Sudan.

　　C. The locusts can cause such damage mainly because it has no natural enemy in West Africa.

　　D. 12 countries affected by locusts have united but still lack pesticide.

　　高三英语阅读理解练习题答案

　　1. D 细节题。由第一段中的traveling across thecontinent eating everything in their path可知作者想表明蝗灾发生的规模和所造成的灾害。

　　2. D 主旨题。由每段首句和末段可知。

　　3. B 推论题。根据第三段和第四段的意思可推知。

　　4. C 细节题。文章中没有被提到C项内容，所以错了。由文第二段可知A对;由…于蝗灾发生在West Africa，然后向northwest of Africa发展，而Sudan正在这一个方向，所以B对;由第五段可知D也对。

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