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　　高考英语阅读理解和任务型阅读课堂综合练习
　　一　阅读理解
　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
　　A
　　Jeanne ent, a Frenan, bee a record breaker on 17 October of 1995, when at the age of 120 years and 238 days, she bee the longest-lived human being on record. A Japanese man died in 1986 at the age of 120 years and 237 days.
　　Jeanne ent lives in a small old people’s home in the south of France; her husband, her only child and her grandson have all died. She is nearly blind and deaf and is always in a wheelchair, but her doctor describes her as being more like a 90-year-old in good health than someone of 120. She still has a lively sense of humor. When asked on her 120th birthday what she expected of the future, she replied: A very short one. She also remarked that she thought the good Lord had forgotten all about her.
　　So what is the key to a long life? According to some doctors, diet, exercise and no smoking are the three important factors. Jeanne ent has followed two of the tips(窍门). She has always eaten a healthy diet, and she used to do exercises every day until she broke her leg at the age of 115. However, until recently she drank two glassed of strong red wine a day, and she does smoke (now only a little). Besides, Jeanne ent might have got very good genes(基因) from her parents. Her father lived to the age of 94 and her mother to 86.
　　A local lawyer bought her house when she was 80 under an agreement that he would pay her some money every year until her death. It must have seemed a good move at the time, but so far the lawyer has paid her at least three times the value of the house. Every year on her birthday Jeanne ent sends him a card saying:
　　Sorry, I’m still alive!
　　1. How does Jeanne ent feel about her old age?
　　A. She is miserable and unhappy.
　　B. She is cheerful and humorous.
　　C. She would like to live much longer.
　　D. She feels she is going to die very soon.
　　2. Jeanne ent owes her good health and long life to _______.
　　A. smoking only a little every day
　　B. her giving up smoking and drinking
　　C. drinking two glasses of strong red wine every day
　　D. the good genes from her parents, a healthy diet and some exercises
　　3. Which of the following could best replace the word “move”in the fourth paragraph?
　　A. deal B. trick arch D. sport
　　4. Why does Jeanne ent say “Sorry, I’m still alive”to the local lawyer every year on her birthday?
　　A. Because she had an agreement at 80 with the lawyer which was to her advantage.
　　B. Because she has asked the lawyer to pay her more rent than they first agreed.
　　C. Because the lawyer has paid her muore money than the value of the house.
　　D. Because the house she sold to the lawyer isn’t worth the money he has already paid.
　　B
　　CARDIFF, Wales Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered in Wales to celebrate the tradition(传统) of storytelling.
　　“It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has e again,”said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival(节) in Wales.
　　“Some of the tales, like those the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have e from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time,”he said early this month.
　　Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound. Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.
　　Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving (ing bacse or existence) storytelling in Wales.
　　“It e out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions. and