1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Unit 2 Wish you were here 高考试卷分块专练 练 一 阅读理解提速练 限时 35分钟 第一节 (共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分 ) A Five Mustvisit Alternative Movie Theaters in Houston Wortham Giant Screen Theater Journey to Yellowstone, Kenya, or even the Triassic period at the Wortham Giant Screen Theater, located inside the H
2、ouston Museum of Natural Science.Far from a fossil, the 394seat theater features a large screen with 4K resolution and a sixtrack sound system, the perfect tools to bring its 3D attractions to life. Brown Auditorium Theater Add variety to your cinematic diet at Brown Auditorium Theater, inside the M
3、useum of Fine Arts, Houston.Brown Auditorium Theater was designed in 1974 by famous architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and updated in 2000.The theater screens both classic and modern films as well as world cinema and documentaries. River Oaks Theater Enjoy dinner and a movie in style at the River Oa
4、ks Theater, Houstons typical movie theater located inside the fashionable River Oaks Shopping Center. Spring for extra costplus seating to settle into a leather recliner (躺椅 ) and receive pushofabutton food and drink service. Showings typically include contemporary documentaries and fiction films an
5、d, naturally, the traditional midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Sundance Cinemas Houston Book your tickets in advance for the easily reserved seating movie theater Sundance Cinemas Houston.The METRORail nearby downtown theater keeps independent films on deck, but doesnt mind showing
6、 the latest great blockbuster (大片 ) And its onsite cafe serves up pizza, popcorn and more. Showboat Drivein Theater Park the car at the Showboat Drivein Theater in Hockley where “its not just a movie . its an experience ！ ” For a small price, families, friends, and lovers alike get snacks, souvenirs
7、, and a double feature of the newest releases. 语篇解读：本文为应用文，主要介绍了休斯敦五家另类剧院。 21 Whats the Wortham Giant Screen Theater unique for? 【 精品教育资源文库 】 A The latest films. B Advanced equipment. C A long history. D Easy reach. 解析：选 B 细节理解题。根据 Wortham Giant Screen Theater 部分中的 “the 394seat theater features a l
8、arge screen with 4K resolution and a sixtrack sound system”可知该剧院设有一个大屏幕，其具有 4K 分辨率和一个六声道音响系统，故选 B。 22 What can you experience in the River Oaks Theater? A Drive your car in. B Buy friends gifts. C See cultural films. D Enjoy convenient food service. 解析：选 D 细节理解题。根据 River Oaks Theater 部分中的 “seating t
9、o settle into a leather recliner (躺椅 ) and receive pushofabutton food and drink service”可知在该剧院可享受到便捷的饮食服务，故选 D。 23 Which cinema is located in the city center? A Sundance Cinemas Houston. B Brown Auditorium Theater. C The River Oaks Theater. D The Showboat Drivein Theater. 解析：选 A 细节理解题。根据 Sundance Ci
10、nemas Houston 部分中的 “The METRORail nearby downtown theater .” 可知该剧院位于市中心地铁旁，故选 A。 B (2018 重庆市 适应性测试 )The idea of progress started to flower in the 17th century. At that time, many wise thinkers believed that man liberated by reason would rise to ever greater heights of achievement.The many expression
11、s of human nature would be the engines of progress： language, business, science, and moral sensibility (情操 ). Unfortunately, most of those engines have failed to bring the desired human progress. The modern age has belonged to material progress and its main source has been science.Science gives huge
12、 power to change the world.But can people be trusted to use it always for good？ Think of biotechnology and information technology.And it is not just that scientific progress does not deliver the emotional goods.People also fear that mankind is failing to manage science properly.The forests are disap
13、pearing; the ice is melting; privacy is leaking; life is becoming a depressing 【 精品教育资源文库 】 march in an ugly world. The point is not that science is harmful, but that scientific progress needs to be mapped tidily onto human progress.That relies on moral sensibility in its widest sense. This_liberal
14、_force offers hope for a better future.The very idea of moral sensibility probably sounds outofdate. But researchers find that people desire a sense of moral purpose which would give life dignity (尊严 ). People want to determine how the world works, not always to be determined by it. Moral sensibilit
15、y is why people will suffer for their beliefs, and why acts of noble selfsacrifice are so powerful. It is admitted that our moral ideals will never be realized completely. But sometimes, however imperfectly, we can make progress. Human dignity requires the love of ideals for their own sake, but noth
16、ing requires that the love be returned. Human progress is neither guaranteed nor is it hopeless. Instead, it is up to us. 语篇解读：本文是一篇议论文，主要谈论了道德理想在人类进步中的重要性。 24 What do we know about human progress from Paragraph 1? A Human beings were greatly liberated by the idea of progress. B Language failed to s
17、erve as an expression of human progress. C People began to think about human progress in the 17th century. D Thinkers in the 17th century were optimistic about human progress. 解析：选 D 推理判断题。根据第一段第二句可推断出， 17 世纪的思想家们对人类的进步是持十分乐观的态度的。故答案选 D。 25 Why does science fail to bring the desired human progress?
18、A Proper governing is not guaranteed in the use of science. B Scientific progress does not give people dignity. C Science is misunderstood because of improper management. D The engine of progress was sensitive and unreliable. 解析：选 A 推理判断题。根据第二、三段可推断出，人类在使用科学的过程中没有施以适当的管理， 使得科学没有给人类带来预期的进步。故答案选 A。 26
19、 What does the underlined phrase in Paragraph 3 refer to? A Depressing life. B Harmful science. C Human progress. D Moral sensibility. 解析：选 D 词义猜测题。根据第三段第二、四句可推断， “This liberal force” 指的就是上下文中所提到的 “moral sensibility” ，即道德情感。故答案选 D。 【 精品教育资源文库 】 27 What is the main purpose of the passage? A To empha
20、size the function of the idea of progress. B To express anxiety about the death of moral sensibility. C To show the importance of moral ideals in human progress. D To blame the harm of material progress to human development. 解析：选 C 写作意图题。纵观全文可知，文章第一段指出人类并没有像很多思想家预料的那样取得长足进步，第二、三段说明了原因，即这是因为科技的发展没有与道
21、德情感相联系，第四段说明即使我们不能完全实现道德理想，但有了它的指导我们也能取得进步。由此可知，本文主要谈论了道德理想在人类进步中的重要性。故答案选 C。 C In 1957, Max Vernon Mathews wrote the first computer program called Music, which enabled a computer to create sound and play it back. He was then working as an engineer at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. It enabled a la
22、rge IBM computer to play a seventeensecond piece of music he had written. The computer was so slow that it took an hour to play the seventeensecond piece of music. So Mathews moved the work to a tape player to play the music at a normal speed. He later said that the sound quality of the musical note
23、s was not great, but the technical importance of the music was huge. The sciencefiction writer Arthur C. Clarke visited Bell Laboratories in the 1960s. He heard a computer “sing” the song Daisy Bell on devices (设备 ) and learned about the programs developed by Mathews and other engineers. Clarke noted this technology in his book 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was later made into a movie. Mathews continued creating other versions of t
