高考英語人物類閱讀理解題(一)

　　Hoy began playing professional baseball in 1886 for Oshkosh(Wisconsin) of the Northwestern League. In 1888 he started as an outfielder(外場手) with the old Washington Senators. His small figure and speed made him an outstanding base runner. He was very good at stealing bases during his career. In the 1888 major league season he stole 82 bases. He was also the Senators’ leading hitter in 1888. Hoy was clever and he threw right-handed and batted left-handed. On June 19,1889 he threw out three batters(擊球手) at the plate from his outfield position.

　　The arm signals used by judges today to show balls and strikes began because of Hoy. The judge lifted his right arm to show that the pitch was a strike and his left arm to signal that it was a ball.

　　For many years people talked about Hoy’s last ball game in 1903. He was playing for Los Angeles of the Pacific Coast Winter League. It was a memorable game because Hoy hit a wonderful ball which won the game. It was a very foggy day and therefore very hard to see the ball. In the ninth inning(棒球的一局) with two men out, Hoy managed to catch a fly ball to make the third out in spite of the fog. Los Angeles defeated their opposition and won the game.

　　After he retired Hoy stayed busy. He ran a dairy farm near Cincinnati for 20 years. He also became a public speaker and traveled giving speeches. Until a few years before his death he took 4-10 mile walks several mornings a week. On December 15, 1961 William Hoy died at the age of 99.

　　1. In which order did the following things happen in Hoy’s life?

　　a. Hoy worked as a shoemaker.

　　b. Hoy began to run a diary farm.

　　c. Hoy played a memorable game in the heavy fog.

　　d. Hoy threw the first ball of the World Series.

　　e. Hoy became deaf.

　　A. d e a c b B. e a c b d C. d a e c b D. e a b c d

　　2. We can infer from the last paragraph that Hoy _______ in his late years.

　　A. became famous B. led a relaxed life

　　C. traveled around the world D. was in good physical condition

　　3. This passage is mainly about _______.

　　A. a deaf player devoted to the game of baseball

　　B. baseball game rules and important players

　　C. the rise in the social position of the deaf people

　　D. where the baseball judge hand signals came from

　　4. What can be inferred from this passage?

　　A. Hoy was the greatest baseball player in his time.

　　B. Speaking and listening are not necessary in baseball games.

　　C. The judge had to study the hand signals very seriously.

　　D. Hoy’s family encouraged him to become a baseball player.

　　【答案解析】

　　本文介紹了美國20世紀初最杰出的棒球選手Hoy不平凡的一生。

　　1. B。細節題。此題要求對事件發生的先后順序進行排序。可用首尾定位法，即找到第一個發生的事件 (e. Hoy became deaf.)，再找到最后一個發生的事件 (d. Hoy threw the first ball of the World Series.)，故可排除A、C。再進行比較可知B最佳。

　　2. D。推斷題。根據Until a few years before his death he took 4-10 mile walks several mornings a week.，可見在他生命的最后歲月里，他的身體狀況很好。

　　3. A。主旨題。縱觀全文可知。

　　4. A。推斷題。根據he stole 82 bases…the Senators’ leading hitter…threw out three batters…managed to catch a fly ball to make the third out in spite of the fog. 等細節，可以判斷Hoy是他那個時代最杰出的棒球選手。

　　高考英語人物類閱讀理解題(二)

　　The Man of Many Secrets — Harry Houdini — was one of the greatest American entertainers in the theater this century. He was a man famous for his escapes — from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water. He appeared in theaters all over Europe and America. Crowds came to see the great Houdini and his “magic” tricks.

　　Of course, his secret was not magic, or supernatural powers. It was simply strength. He had the ability to move his toes as well as he moved his fingers. He could move his body into almost any position he wanted.

　　Houdini started working in the entertainment world when he was 17, in 1891. He and his brother Theo performed card tricks in club in New York. They called themselves the Houdini Brothers. When Harry married in 1894, he and his wife Bess worked together as magician and assistant. But for a long time they were not very successful. Then Harry performed his first prison escape, in Chicago in 1898. Harry persuaded a detective to let him try to escape from the prison, and he invited the local newspapermen to watch.

　　It was the publicity(宣傳) that came from this that started Harry Houdini’s success. Harry had fingers trained to escape from handcuffs and toes trained to escape ankle chins. But his biggest secret was how he unlocked the prison doors. Every time he went into the prison cell, Bess gave him a kiss for good luck — and a small skeleton key, which is a key that fits many locks, pass quickly from her mouth to his.

　　Harry used these prison escapes to build his fame. He arranged to escape from the local prison of every town he visited. In the afternoon, the people of the town would read about it in their local newspapers, and in the evening every seat in the local theater would be full. What was the result? World-wild fame, and a name remembered today.

　　1. According to the passage, Houdini’s success in prison escapes depends on _______.

　　A. his special tricks and supernatural powers

　　B. his unusual ability and a skeleton key

　　C. his magic tricks and unhuman powers

　　D. his wisdom and magic tricks

　　2. In the fourth paragraph, the underlined word “this” refers to _______.

　　A. his first prison escape B. the year 1898

　　C. the publicity D. Harry Houdini’s success

　　3. It can be inferred from the passage that Houdini became famous _______.

　　A. in 1894 B. before he married

　　C. at the age of 17 D. when he was about 24

　　4. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

　　A. A Skeleton Key B. A Man of Many Secrets

　　C. World-wild Fame D. Great Escape

　　【答案解析】

　　本文介紹了Harry Houdini特技成功的經歷和方法。

　　1. B。細節題。根據第4段第2句：Harry把手、腳都訓練得很靈活來擺脫手鏈腳銬及第4句后半部分：妻子通過接吻傳給他萬能鑰匙，可推知此題答案為B。

　　2. A。單詞理解題。根據語境，this指上文所表演的事情：第一次越獄成功。由此可推知此題答案為A。

　　3. D。推斷題。第3段第1句：他步入娛樂圈時是1891年，17歲;倒數第2句：第一次成功是1898年，時隔七年，應是24歲，可推知此題答案為D

　　4. D。主旨題。由文章第1段第2句：He was a man famous for his escapes — from prison cells, from wooden boxes floating in rivers, from locked tanks full of water，可知Harry 因逃脫出名，后面列舉的例子談的是他從監獄成功地逃出，所以答案為D。

　　高考英語人物類閱讀理解題(三)

　　On May 29, 1973, Thomas Bradley, a black man, was elected mayor of Los Angeles. Los Angeles is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of three million. About sixteen percent of the city’s population are black.

　　News of this election appeared on the front pages of newspapers everywhere in the United States. Here is how one major newspaper reported the event:

　　LOS ANGELES ELECTS BRADLEY MAYOR UNSEATING YORTYBLACK WINS 56% OF VOTES

　　Bradley called his victory over Yorty “the fulfillment (實現) of a dream”. During his childhood and youth, people had kept telling him, “You can’t do this, you can’t go there, because you are a Negro.” Nevertheless he had won a decisive victory over a man who had been won 43.7 percent.

　　Los Angeles voters have had many opportunities to judge. Thomas Bradley had to form an opinion of him. The son of a poor farmer Texas, he joined the Los Angeles police force in 1940. During his twenty-one years on the police force he earned a law degree by attending school at night. He was elected to the city council (市政廳) ten years ago.

　　At the time of the Los Angeles election, three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of those cities had as large a population as Los Angeles. Besides, the percentage of blacks in those other cities was much larger. Cleveland, Ohio, had thirty-six percent black when Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland in 1967. In the same year Richard Hatcher was elected mayor of Cary. In Newark, New Jersey, sixty percent of the population were black when Kenneth Gibson was elected in 1970. Thus election of a black mayor in those cities was not very surprising.

　　In Los Angeles thousands of white citizens voted for Thomas Bradley because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate(候選人). Bradley had spent forty-eight of his fifty-five years in Los Angeles. Four years ago Bradley lost mayoral election to Yorty. This time Bradley won.

　　1. In the author’s opinion, it was surprising that _______.

　　A. the whites would vote for a black mayor

　　B. a black mayor would be elected in such a large city

　　C. a black from a poor farmer’s family could be elected mayor of Los Angeles

　　D. there would be so many black mayors

　　2. From the passage we can infer that people ________.

　　A. voted for Bradley because of his black color

　　B. didn’t care much about his color when they voted

　　C. voted for him to give a chance to fulfill his dream

　　D. voted for Bradley because they trust him

　　3. Bradley hit the front page headline for _______.

　　A. he was the first black mayor in history

　　B. he was the first black mayor in the south of USA

　　C. he was the first black mayor of one of the largest cities in USA

　　D. a poor farmer’s son could also win an important election

　　4. From Bradley’s victory in the election we can see that ________.

　　A. blacks had equal rights as whites in the USA

　　B. black people’s situation began to be improving much more than before

　　C. one can be successful through hard work in the USA no matter what color he is

　　D. it is certain that someday the USA will have a black president

　　【答案解析】

　　本文報道了黑人在洛杉磯這樣白人占絕大多數的大城市里被當選為這一新聞。

　　1. A。推斷題。根據文章第1段最后一句：洛杉磯黑人的比例為16%以及倒數第2段所描述其他幾個城市的黑人的比例(分別是36 %、55 %、60 %)可推此題答案為A。

　　2. D。細節題。根據文章最后一段第1句…because they believed he would be a better mayor than the white candidate可推知此題的答案為D。

　　3. C。細節題。根據倒數第2段第1句…three other American cities already had black mayors, but none of those cities had as large a population as Los Angeles可推知此題的答案為C。

　　4. B。推斷題。運用排除法：選項A顯然與原文內容不符;選項C和D文章沒提及，況且此兩項過于忽略美國的種族矛盾，不宜選;只有選項B原文內容較相符。

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