此资源为用户分享，在本站免费下载，只限于您用于个人教学研究。

约18430字。

　　全国通用2011届高考英语专题复习阅读理解专版训练（一）（附详解）
　　A
　　Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of sad tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired official in the department of foreign affairs, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Raisa Mazepa, in the hospital. She had just been diagnosed(诊断) with cancer and was too weak even to attend her husband’s funeral. “Your father will forgive me, because he knows that I have always loved him,” she told Anna and her sister, Elena Kudimova, the day he was buried. A week later, she had an operation and since then Anna and Elena had been tarns helping her deal with her grief.
　　Politkovskaya was supposed to spend the day at the hospital, but her twenty-six-year-old daughter, who was pregnant, had just moved into Politkovskaya’s apartment, on Lesnaya Street, while her own place was being prepared for the baby. “Anna had so much on her mind,” Elena Kudimova told me when we met in London, before Christmas. “And she was trying to finish her article.” Politkovskaya was a special reporter for the small newspaper Novaya Gazeta, and, like most of her work, the piece focused on the terror that can be seen all over the southern republic of Chechnya. This time, she had been trying to report repeated cruel acts done by people faithful to the Prime Minister, Ramadyrov, who are in favour of Russia. In the past seven years, Politkovskaya had written dozens of accounts of life during wartime; many had been collected in her book “A Small Corner of Hell: reports from Chechnya.” Politkovskaya was far more likely to spend time in a hospital than on a battlefield, and her writing bore frequent witness to robbery, and the uncontrolled cruelty of life in a place that few other Russians—and almost no other reporters—cared to thint.
　　1. Politkovskaya’s father died of ______.
　　A. tiredness          B. a heart disease        C. an attack       D. an accident
　　2. From the text we know that Raisa Mazepa ______.
　　A. didn’t love her husband                   
　　B. didn’t attend her husband’s funeral
　　C. was having an operation the day her husband was buried
　　D. was too sad to attend her husband’s funeral
　　3. The underlined word “emerged” most likely means ______.
　　A. came out        B. went into      C. disappeared      D. left for
　　4. How many family members of Anna are mentioned in the passage?
　　A. Three.           B. Four         C. Five            D. Six
　　5. Which of the following words can best describe Politkovskaya’s character?
　　A. Curious         B. easy-going     C. careless          D. responsible
　　B     
　　Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their bacckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jug. On good days, they will wait less than an hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in m Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New Delhi. On bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers don’t come at all. “That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday morning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel (焦糖)-colored liquid. “Whoever drinks it will die.” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neibourhood. Women often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but no¬body is desperate enough to drink it.
　　There is no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but ex¬perts usually put the minimum at fifty li¬tres. The government of India promises (but rarely provides) forty. Most people drink two or three litres—less than it takes to wash a toilet. The rest is typically used for cooking and bathing. Americans consume between four hundred and six hundred litres of water each day, more than any other people on earth. Most Europeans use less than half that. The women of m Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred litres that day—two or three buckets’ worth. Shoba has a husband and five children, and that much water doesn’t go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noon. She often map the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other way. Sometimes she just buys milk; it’s cheaper. Like the poorest people every¬where, the people of New Delhi’s slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucgh to live in a house connected to a system of pipes.
　　6. The underlined word “slum” most likely means ______.
　　A. a village      
　　B. a small town
　　C. an area of a town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings
　　D. the part of a town that lacks water badly
　　7. Sometimes the water tanker doesn’t come because ______.
　　A. the weather is bad
　　B. there is no electricity
　　C. there is no water
　　D. people don’t want the dirty water
　　8. A person needs at least ________ litres of water a day.
　　A. a hundred          B. four hundred         C. forty          D. fifty
　　9. Which of the following statements is wrong?
　　A. a hundred litres of water a day is enough for Shoba’s family
　　B. Americans uses the largest amount of water each day
　　C. in m Purbahari milk is cheaper than bottled water
　　D. Shoba has a family of seven people
　　10. The passage mainly tells us ______.
　　A. how women in m Purbahari gets their water
　　B. how much water a day a person deeds
　　C. that India lacks water badly
　　D. how India government manages to solve the problem of water
　　C          
　　One day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London, a blue bottle fell out of her purse. She quict it bact not before the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning London’s Daily Express published a page of pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH POT OF SLIMMING