高三英语时文阅读理解练习Passage 1WENZHOU(Xinhua) -- The traincollision in east China's Zhejiang Provincehas killed 39 people and left 192 othersinjured as of Sunday night, said aspokesman with the Ministry of Railways.A total of 132 people are still beingtreated in hospitals, said Wang Yongping, spokesman with the ministry at a press conference.Eleven people remain in critical condition, said Cheng Jinguo, head of the health bureau in the city of Wenzhou, where the collision happened Saturday night. Cheng said at the press conference that 52 people who suffered slight injuries had been discharged from hospital.Wang expressed condolences(哀悼) to the concerning families and sincere apology to all the passengers.The train's "black box" has been discovered and the ministry is investigating the cause of the crash, Wang said.Wang said the ministry will make public the cause of the accident as soon as the investigation is done and publish the names of the killed and injured.He said the crash has caused large number of casualties and great property losses. The ministry will find out the cause through thorough investigation and take effective measures to prevent similar accidents.Despite the accident, the spokesman said the ministry is still confident in the high-speed train."China's high-speed train is advanced and qualified. We have confidence in it," he said.The damaged rails have been repaired and were ready to restart operation but the reopening was delayed by the stormy weather, according to Wang.Wang did not provide the exact time when the line would start operating again.The accident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday on a bridge near Wenzhou when bullet train D301 rear-ended（追尾）D3115, which reportedly lost power after lightning strike.1. According to Cheng Jianguo, ______ people who had been slightly injured had been recovered and left hospital.A. 39B. 139C. 52D. 112. What can be inferred from the passage?A. The operation was restarted the next day.B. There was a thunderstorm when the trains crashed.C. The cause of the collision was made clear.D. Similar accidents would be avoided in later operations.3. Which of the following is NOT true?A. The Railway Ministry is investigating the cause with the help of the “black box”.B. Bullet train D301 hit the train D3115 that stopped ahead of it due to lack of power.C. Bullet train D3115 was forced to stop as a result of the stormy weather.D. The operation of the line would be restarted with the stormy weather over.4. What can be the best title of the passage?A. Trains Crashed Causing Deaths and Damage.B. Terrible Weather Leading to Trains’ Collision.C. Investigations upon Trains’ Collision.D. Confidence in Development of High-speed Trains.Passage 2Chinese star Yao Ming has retired. Yao made it official Wednesday, telling a news conference that a series of foot and leg injuries forced him to end his playing career at the age of 30.“I will formally end my career,’’ said Yao, who became a household name in China before starting his NBA career with the Houston Rockets in 2002. Yao played eight seasons in the NBA.“Today is an important day for me and holds a special meaning for both my basketball ca reer and my future,’’ Yao said. “I had to leave the court since I suffered a stress fracture（断裂）in my left foot for the third time at the end of last year. My past six months were a painful wait. I have been thinking about my future over and over. Today I am announcing a personal decision, ending my career as a basketball player and officially r etire. But one door is closing and another one is opening.’’Yao said he would return to work with his formerChinese team, the Shanghai Sharks, with the possibilityof becoming general manager. He already owns theclub and wants to contribute more.“My pl aying careerstarted with the club. I hope I can do something for it,’’Yao said.He later appeared with his family on the stage tothe applause and cheers of the crowd. He thanked a lotof people — his family, former coaches, even playerslike Shaquille O’Neal —“for making me a better player.’’Rockets general manager Daryl Morey was among those attending thefarewell(告别) conference Wednesday. Morey made the long trip from Houston. Morey said 20 hours on planes was tiring but “I would be sorry if I wasn’t here.” “It’s a big moment,’’ Morey added. “Yao had a sense of humor, a great attitude and sense of responsibility. I hope we can continue his culture in the NBA.’’1. Yao Ming has retired from basketball because of _____.A. his ageB. his bad conducts on the courtC. his foot and leg injuriesD. his poor health2. Yao Ming was _____ before he decided to end his career as a basketball player.A. peacefulB. upsetC. confidentD. proud3. Yao Ming started his playing career in _____.A. ShanghaiB. HoustonC. BeijingD. New York4. According to the passage, which of the following words can’t be used to describe Yao Ming?A. Talented.B. Responsible.C. Humorous.D. Cautious.5. What do you know about Daryl Morey?A. Daryl Morey thinks highly of Yao Ming.B. Daryl Morey was Yao Ming’s coach.C. Daryl Morey is a basketball player in the Houston Rockets.D. Daryl Morey is not satisfied with Yao Ming’s retirement from basketball.Passage 3People around the world watched Britain’s Prince William and Kate Middleton get married. The royal wedding broke records for live streaming on the Internet. It also produced more than two million tweets on Twitter.The ceremony took place Friday at Westminster Abbey in London.Kate wore a flowing white gown designed by Sarah Burton, the creative director of Alexander McQueen. William wore a red army uniform.It was Britain’s biggest wedding since William and Harry’s parents, Prince Charles and Princess Diana, were married in nineteen eighty-one.Nearly two thousand guests filled the church on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people went to the streets and parks of London to watch the wedding on video screens.Among the wedding guests were Englishfootball star David Beckham and his wifeVictoria, British Prime Minister DavidCameron, the king of Norway and singerElton John.Bahrain’s crown prince(皇储) wasinvited but decided not to attend because of unrest(骚乱) in his country. Britain took back an invitation to the ambassador（外交官）from Syria over violence against protesters there.After the ceremony, the royal couple traveled to Buckingham Palace. Crowds cheered when the newlyweds appeared on a balcony greeting to them.Later, William drove his wife out of Buckingham Palace in an open-top Aston Martin car. William and the newest member of the royal（皇家的）family will now be known as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.Kate is twenty-nine years old. William will be twenty-nine in June. His grandmother is Queen Elizabeth. His father, Prince Charles, is first in line to become king. William, as the older son, is second in line. Kate would not become queen, however, since she is not in the royal blood line. There was a big celebration at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. That was where William and Kate first met as art history students in two thousand one.1. The crown prince of Bahrain was absent from the grand British royal wedding because_____.A. Britain hadn’t invited himB. his country was at a terrible situationC. he was faced with violence against protestersD. he refused to come to the wedding2. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A. Singer Elton John attended the royal wedding.B. The British Prime Minister was one of the wedding guests.C. Kate is second in line to become queen.D. William’s wife is known as Duchess of Cambridge.3. It is implied in the passage that _____.A. the royal wedding was broadcast live through TV and the InternetB. the wedding has drawn attention of the worldC. the newlyweds were majored in history ten years agoD. all the celebrities invited have attended the wedding4. What can be the best title of the passage?A. Royal Wedding Takes PlaceB. Internet Craze about the Royal WeddingC. Celebrities Attending the Royal WeddingD. Happy NewlywedsPassage 4Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died today at age 79.She died of heart attack on March 23, 2011 with allher children around her at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she had been in hospital for about six weeks in Los Angeles.Taylor won three Oscars, including a special one for her humanitarian work. But she was pained by ill health, failed romances and personal tragedy.People fell in love with Elizabeth Taylor in 1944, when she starred in National Velvet—the story of Velvet Brown, a young girl who wins first place in a famous horse race. At first, the producers of the movie told Taylor that she was too small to play the part of Velvet. However, they waited for her for a few months as she exercised and trained—and added three inches to her height in four months! Her acting in National Velvet is still considered the best by a child actress.Elizabeth Taylor was born in London in 1932. Her parents, both Americans, had moved there for business reasons. When World War II started, the Taylors moved to Beverly Hills, California, and there Elizabeth started acting in movies. After her success as a child star, Taylor had no trouble moving into adult roles and won twice for Best Actress: Butterfield 8(1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).Taylor’s fame and popularity gave her a lot of power with the movie industry, so she was able to demand very high pay for her movies. In 1963, she received $1 million for her part in Cleopatra—the highest pay received by any star up to that time.Elizabeth Taylor is a legend of our time. Like Velvet Brown in National Velvet, she has been lucky: she has beauty, fame and wealth. But she is also a hard worker. In a career of more than 70 years and more than 50 films, she was titles as the best actress in the USA. In addition, she puts much time and efforts into her businesses, and into helping others—about 30 years ago, she founded an organization that has raised more than $40 million for research and education.1. The producers didn’t let Taylor play the part of Velvet at first because they thought she ____.A. was small in sizeB. was too youngC. did not play well enoughD. did not show much interest2. What Elizabeth Taylor and Velvet Brown had in common was that they were both _____.A. popular all their livesB. famous actressesC. successful when very youngD. rich and kind-hearted3. Taylor became Best Actress at the age of __________ .A. 12B. 28C. 31D. 344. In her later life, Elizabeth Taylor devoted herself to ___________.A. doing business and helping othersB. turning herself into a legendC. collecting money for the poorD. going about research and education work5. What’s the best title of this passage?A. Elizabeth Taylor, Lifelong Star, Dies at 79B. Elizabeth Taylor’s deathC. Elizabeth Taylor’s romances and personal tragedy.D. Elizabeth Taylor helped a lot of peoplePassage 5China has conducted the firsttest-flight of its J-20 stealth fighter,Chinese President Hu Jintao hasconfirmed to US Defence SecretaryRobert Gates.The confirmation came after imagesof the 15-minute flight in Chengduappeared on several Chinese websites.Mr Hu said that the flight had notbeen timed to coincide with Mr Gates’ visit, the US defence secretary said.The US is currently the only nation with a fully operational stealth plane. But both Russia and China are known to be working on patterns of stealth fighters, which are invisible to radar.Mr Gates’ three-day visit to Beijing comes among US concern over the speed at which China’s military is modernising and upgrading its technology.“I asked President Hu about it directly, and he said that the test had absolutely nothing to do with my visit and had been a pre-planned test. And that’s where we left it,” Mr Gates was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.Leaked images of what was said to be China’s J-20 fighter first appeared earlier this month during taxi tests at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute. On Tuesday, the plane took off and flew for about 15 minutes, according to eyewitness accounts published on unofficial Chinese web portals. A video clip of the flight was also posted on the web.China says it expects the stealth plane to be operational some time between 2017 and 2019.But earlier this month the Pentagon played down concerns over the fighter.“Developing a stealth capability with a pattern and then integrating that into a fight environment is going to take some time,” said US director of naval intelligence Vice Admiral David Dorsett.China’s off icial military budget increased very fast between 1999 and 2009 as the country’s economy grew. In 2010 it stood at $78bn (£50bn).But the US has by far the largest defence budget in the world at just over $700bn.1. From the underlined sentence in the third paragraph we can infer that___________.A. China did its first test-flight of stealth plane in order to warn USAB. China did its first test-flight of stealth plane as plannedC. China would like to remind Robert Gates of China’s new weaponsD. China decided to test the fighter when Robert Gates visited China2. What does the underlined words “ video clip” in the 9th paragraph mean?A. a small metal for holding something.B. a piece of jewellery fastening to someting.C. an act of cutting something to make it shorter.D. a short of a movie that is shown separately.3. According to the passage, money spent on military in China is about _______ of that in the USA.A. 10%B. 20%C. 30%D. 50%4. Why did US Defence Secretary Robert Gates visit China?A. The USA hoped to know about China’s stealth planes.B. The USA hoped to cooperate with China in developing stealth planes.C. The USA played down concerns over the new fighter in China.D.The USA concerned about China’s military moder nising and new technology.5. What’s the best title of this passage?A. China conducts first test-flight of stealth planeB. Stealth plane in China shocked the USA.C. Robert Gates confirmed the stealth plane in China.D. China’s stealth plane will be the competitor to the USA.Passage 6The crisis at the damaged FukushimaDai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station innorthern Japan has raised worries aboutradiation risks. Jonathan Links, an expertin radiation health sciences at the JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth in Maryland, says workers withinthe nuclear plant are the only people atrisk of extremely high doses of radiation(辐射量).“Of course, we don’t know what doses they’ve received, but the only persons at risk of strong radiation effects are the workers.” For other people, he says, there may be a long-term worry. People can get cancer from low doses of ionizing(电离) radiation, the kind given out in a nuclear accident.Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly model where radioactive material has blown and settled. Then they measure how large an area is polluted. He says if the situation is serious enough, officials could take steps like telling people not to eat locally grown food or drink the water.The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast. But Professor Links says people should not worry about any radioactive material coming into the ocean. “Eve n in a worst-case accident, the sea provides a very high degree of dilution(稀释). So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater would still be quite low.”Next month is the 25th anniversary(周年) of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The 1986 event was the world’s worst accident in the nuclear power industry.A new United Nations report says more than 6,000 cases of thyroid(甲状腺) cancer have been found. These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by 2005 the cancers had resulted in 15 deaths.The cancers were largely caused by drinking polluted milk, which came from cows that ate grass where radioactive material had fallen.1. According to Professor Links, _______.A. people who receive extremely large amount of radiation are more likely to get cancerB. only the workers in the nuclear plant are exposed to high level of radiationC. low doses of radiation don’t have any effects on people’s healthD. where radioactive material has spread, people should stop eating locally grown food2. It is not a big concern that radioactive materials come into the ocean because_____.A. people are too far away to be affectedB. they are of very small amount compared with the vast oceanC. the ocean can break down the radioactive materialsD. they won’t pollute the seawater3. What can be the best title of the passage?A. The Fukushima Power Plant Accident.B. Bad Effects of Radiation upon People’s Health.C. Worries about Radiation Risks.D. Crisis of the Nuclear Power Industry.Passage 7SANYA, Hainan—The leaders of the world’s top rising economies promised on Thursday to work for peace and prosperity as they met in a disorderly background set by Middle East disorder and slow global economic recovery.President Hu Jintao, who hosted the 3rd summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) in the resort city of Sanya, Hainan province, said erupting hot spots were affecting international stability.The economic imbalance between the North and South remains striking and the root causes of the global financial crisis have not been resolved, Hu said.“As we enter the second decade ofthe 21st century, we need to considerhow human society will be able toensure a century of peace and sharedprosperity,” Hu told the BRICS leadersduring the conference.“We share the principle that the useof force should be avoided,” the fiveleaders said in their joint Sanya Declaration, while expressing serious concern over disorder in the Middle East, especially in Libya. The five countries all serve as members of the UN Security Council, with China and Russia being two of the five permanent members.They discussed a range of issues and promised “multilateral diplomacy wi th the United Nations playing the central role in dealing with global challenges and threats”, according to the declaration.Among a series of proposals to help push global economic recovery, the declaration stressed the importance of pushing for sustainable growth and developing renewable energy, “as a means to address climate change”.The leaders also “shared our expectations” for the United Nations climate change conference to be held in Durban in December.While expressing their sympathy for the disasters that Japan suffered, the leaders shared their belief in the declaration that “nuclear energy will continue to bean important element in the future energy mix of BRICS countries”, calling for continuing international cooperation in developing safe nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.The BRICS now represents more than 40 percent of the world’s population, owning 75 percent of the world’s foreign exchange reserves, and their combined GDP accounted for 18 percent of the global total in 2010.1. What’s th e best title of this passage?A. A conference held by BRICS.B. A conference held in Sanya.C. Leaders of BRICS hope to build a new world.D. Leaders of BRICS call for peace and prosperity.2. According to the passage ________ should play the most important role in dealing with global problems.A. the BRICSB. the United NationsC. the USAD. the developed countries3. Which of the following statements is wrong about the BRICS?A. There are over 40% of the world’s population in the BRICS.B. Th e BRICS holds most of the world’s foreign exchange reserves.C. 18% of the world’s GDP is produced in the BRICS in 2010.D. The BRICS all serves as permanent members of the UN Security Council.4. From the 9th paragraph we can infer that __________.A. the leaders showed great sympathy to Japan.B. nuclear energy must be used for peaceful purposesC. the BRICS will continue to develop nuclear energyD. international cooperation is necessary in developing safe nuclear energy5. What’s the author’s attitude toward the 3rd summit of the BRICS?A. SubjunctiveB. ObjectiveC. CriticalD. Doubtful1、【语篇解读】7月23日晚，甬温线永嘉站至温州南站间，北京南至福州D301次列车与杭州至福州南D3115次列车发生追尾事故，造成重大人员伤亡与财产损失。