1、最新英语阅读理解人物故事练习题含答案最新英语阅读理解(人物故事)练习题含答案一、高中英语阅读理解人物故事类1阅读理解 Make way, good people, make way, in the Kings name! cried he. Open a text; and, I promise you, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child, may have a fair sight of her brave clothing, from this time till an hour past noon. A bl
2、essing on the moral Colony of the Massachusetts, where immorality is dragged out into the sunshine! Come along, Madam Hester, and show your scarlet （鲜红色的；罪孽深重的）letter in the market-place! A lane was at once opened through the crowd. Led by the beadle （狱吏），and attended by an irregular procession of s
3、erious-looking men and unkind-looking women, Hester Prynne set forth towards the place appointed for her punishment. A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, understanding little of the matter in hand, except that it gave them a half-holiday, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually
4、to stare into her face, and at the winking baby in her arms, and at the shameful letter on her breast. It was no great distance, in those days, from the prison-door to the market-place. Measured by the prisoners experience, however, it might be considered to be a rather long journey; for, though her
5、 manner was proud, she perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every footstep of those who thronged to see her, as if her heart had been thrown into the street for them all to step upon. In our nature, however, there is a condition that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures
6、by its present suffering, but chiefly by the pain that rankles （使痛心）after it. With almost a calm manner, therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑台），at the western end of the market-place. It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Bostons ear
7、liest church, and appeared to be a fixture there.（1）What can we know about the schoolboys? A.They knew a little of the matter.B.They were full of curiosity and eagerness.C.They were happy for having a one-day holiday.D.They like Hester Prynne and her baby very much.（2）What does the underlined word t
8、hronged in paragraph 3 mean? A.Gathered.B.Happened.C.Pretended.D.Regretted.（3）What can we know from paragraph 3? A.The prison was really far from the market-place.B.The scaffold is at the eastern end of the market-place.C.Hester Prynne was thrown into the street for people to step on.D.The sufferer
9、mainly knows the intensity of the pain after the suffering.（4）What would probably happen to Hester Prynne according to the text? A.She would be set free.B.She would give a public speech.C.She would put on a performance.D.She would receive serious punishment.【答案】 （1）B（2）A（3）D（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，摘自名
10、著红字，描述了Hester Prynne被当做异教徒押赴刑场时的情节片段。 （1）考查细节理解。根据第二段中的“A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys, ran before her progress, turning their heads continually to .”可知，人们充满了好奇并且急不可待。故选B。 （2）考查词义猜测。根据最后一段中的“though her manner was proud, she perhaps underwent an extreme pain from every footstep of those who
11、thronged to see her, as if her heart had been thrown into the street for them all to step upon.描述了她在众目睽睽之下 的内心感受，每迈出一步都感受到一阵巨痛，似乎她的心给抛在街上，任凭他”人吐唾沫和踩踏。因此可知此时，人群在大街上聚集，故选A。 （3）考查推理判断。根据第三段中的“In our nature, however, there is a condition that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endur
12、es by its present suffering, but chiefly by the pain that rankles (使痛心)after it.”可知，人们对痛苦的感知往往后知后觉，故选D。 （4）考查推理判断。根据最后一段中的“ therefore, Hester Prynne passed through this portion of her suffering, and came to a sort of scaffold （刑台），at the western end of the market-place ”因此，海丝特白兰度过了这一段痛苦，来到市场西端的一个刑台前
13、，可推知选D。 【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测和推理判断三个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，考生需要准确捕捉细节信息，同时根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，从而选出正确答案。2阅读理解 If we want to find out what kind of technology people used in the past, we normally have to rely on archaeologists to find ruined buildings and parts of tools or instruments or machines. Archaeologists
14、then try to reconstruct, sometimes with the help of computer technology, what these ancient buildings and objects must have looked like, and how they might have been made. Sometimes historians are lucky and find an ancient document with a written description of these ancient buildings and objects. W
15、e can understand, then, why Chinese historians were so excited when they found cave paintings which show ancient science. They found these paintings in the world-renowned Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City, in Northwest Chinas Gansu Province. There are 500 man-made caves and they have survived for at l
16、east 1,600 years. Almost all of these caves have paintings on their ceilings or walls and they date from the 4th to 14th centuries. Wang Jinyu is an expert on these cave paintings (also called frescoes) and he says: We discovered frescoes containing scientific and technological content in almost all
17、 of the caves which have frescoes. What is remarkable about these cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traff
18、ic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sciences. Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing ancient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings showing ancient weaving machines and then toothbrushes! The paintings also give some evid
19、ence of the lifestyle at the time with, for example, pictures of people boiling milk over 1,000 years ago. Experts believe that there is more evidence to be found, but even now the caves are a wonderful natural museum. If the walls and ceilings of the caves were all put together they would form a ta
20、pestry 20 kilometers long and 2 meters high! It wont be possible to travel back in time-that only happens in films-but visiting these caves would be the nearest experience you could get to travelling back in time.（1）Why were Chinese historians excited when they found cave paintings showing ancient s
21、cience? A.Because they had rarely seen cave paintings.B.Because they could make the place a tourist attraction.C.Because they could learn about ancient science through them.D.Because they would be given lots of money for the discovery.（2）The Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang City_. A.have 500 man-made cave
22、sB.have been there for at most 1,600 yearsC.help us to know little about ancient scienceD.have paintings on their ceilings in every cave（3）Experts had discovered cave paintings showing the ancient techniques of _. A.pottery making and wine productionB.weaving machines and toothbrushesC.boiling milk
23、over 1,000 years agoD.architecture and weaving（4）The article is more likely to be selected from the magazine _. A.Modern CountriesB.Business WorldC.Network WorldD.Popular Science【答案】 （1）C（2）A（3）A（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了科学家们在中国甘肃的敦煌莫高窟的洞穴中发现了反映古代科学的壁画。 （1）考查细节理解。根据第二段中的What is remarkable about these
24、 cave paintings according to the Xinhua News Agency is that they provide evidence of scientific and technological inventions by ancient Chinese in maths, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geography, agronomy, architecture, textiles, traffic and transportation, arms and military equipment and medical sc
25、iences可知，这些壁画为中国古代在数学、物理、化学、天文，地理、建筑以及农学等领域的科技发明提供了证据，由此可知科学家们对此感到很兴奋的原因是他们可以通过这些壁画了解古代的科学，故选C。 （2）考查细节理解。根据第二段中的There are 500 man-made caves and they have survived for at least 1,600 years.可知，敦煌莫高窟有500个人工洞穴，故选A。 （3）考查细节理解。根据第三段中的Among the discoveries experts have made are cave paintings showing anc
26、ient techniques of pottery making and wine production and paintings可知，科学家发现壁画中展示了古代制陶和酿酒技术，故选A。 （4）考查推理判断。纵观全文可知，本文介绍了科学家们在中国甘肃敦煌莫高窟的洞穴中发现了反映古代科学的壁画，这属于科学范畴，因此文章最有可能出自科学杂志，故选D。 【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解和推理判断两个题型的考查，是一篇故事类阅读，要求考生准确掌握细节信息，并根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。3阅读理解 During the period from 1660 through 1800, Grea
27、t Britain became the worlds leader. Language itself became submitted to rules during this period. This need to fix the English language is best illustrated (描述) in the making of The Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson. Guides to the English language had been in existence before John
28、son began his project in 1746. These, however, were often little more than lists of hard words. When definitions of common words were supplied, they were often unhelpful. For example, a horse was defined in an early dictionary as a beast well known. Johnson changed all that, but the task was not an
29、easy one. Renting a house at 17 Gough Square, Johnson began working in the worst of conditions. Supported only by his publisher, Johnson worked on the Dictionary with five assistants. Compared to the French Academys dictionary, which took forty workers fifty-five years to complete (1639-1694), Johns
30、ons dictionary was completed by very few people very quickly.Balanced on a chair with only three legs, Johnson sat against a wall in a room filled with books. Johnson would read widely from these books, mark passages illustrating the use of a particular word, and give the books to his assistants so
31、that they could copy the passages on slips of paper. These slips were then stuck to eighty large notebooks under the key words that Johnson had selected. Fixing the word by this method, Johnson could record a word，s usage and its definition. How many passages were used? According to Johnsons modern biographer Walter Jackson Bate, the original total number could have been over 240,000. How many words were defined by the lexicographer? Over 40,000 words appeared in two large books in April of 1755. Did Johnson fully understand the huge task he was
