1、2018 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试英 语第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节 （共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AWashington, D.C. Bicycle ToursCherry Blossom Bike Tour in Washington, D.C.Duration: 3 hoursThis small group bike tour is a fantastic way to see the world-famous cherry trees with beautiful
2、 flowers of Washington, D.C. Your guide will provide a history lesson about the trees and the famous monuments where they blossom. Reserve your spot before availability and the cherry blossoms disappear!Washington Capital Monuments Bicycle TourDuration: 3 hours (4 miles)Join a guided bike tour and v
3、iew some of the most popular monuments in Washington, D.C. Explore the monuments and memorials on the National Mall as your guide shares unique facts and history at each stop. Guided tour includes bike, helmet, cookies and bottled water.Capital City Bike Tour in Washington, D.C. Duration: 3 hoursMor
4、ning or Afternoon, this bike tour is the perfect tour for D.C. newcomers and locals looking to experience Washington, D.C. in a healthy way with minimum effort. Knowledgeable guides will entertain you with the most interesting stories about Presidents, Congress, memorials, and parks. Comfortable bik
5、es and a smooth tour route (路线) make cycling between the sites fun and relaxing.Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle TourDuration: 3 hours (7 miles)Join a small group bike tour for an evening of exploration in the heart of Washington, D.C. Get up close to the monuments and memorials as you bike
6、 the sites of Capitol Hill and the National Mall. Frequent stops are made for photo taking as your guide offers unique facts and history. Tour includes bike, helmet, and bottled water. All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights.21. Which tour do you need to book in advance?A. Ch
7、erry Blossom Bike Tour in Washington, D.C.B. Washington Capital Monuments Bicycle Tour.C. Capital City Bike Tour in Washington, D.C.D. Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle Tour.22. What will you do on the Capital City Bike Tour?A. Meet famous people. B. Go to a national park.C. Visit well-known
8、 museums. D. Enjoy interesting stories.23. Which of the following does the bicycle tour at night provide?A. City maps. B. Cameras.C. Meals. D. Safety lights.解析：本篇文章讲的是华盛顿举办的几个自行车骑行活动，内容较简单。21. A. 细节理解题。原文中 Reserve your spot before availability 对应题目中的 book in advance。出题人喜欢将原文中的内容进行同义词或者同义句的替换，这一点考生要多
9、加注意。22. D. 细节理解题。根据设问快速定位其在原文中的位置，进行简单排除即可得出答案。Knowledgeable guides will entertain you with the most interesting stories about Presidents23.D. 细节理解题。由设问中的 at night 定位到 Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle Tour，然后由 All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights 得出答案。BGood Mornin
10、g Britains Susanna Reid is used to grilling guests on the sofa every morning, but she is cooking up a storm in her latest role showing families how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals on a tight budget.In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Ma
11、tt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste, while preparing recipes for under 5 per family a day. And the Good Morning Britain presenter says shes been able to put a lot of what shes learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, Finn, 13, and Jack, 11.“We love
12、Mexican churros, so I buy them on my phone from my local Mexican takeaway restaurant,” she explains. “I pay 5 for a portion (一份), but Matt makes them for 26p a portion, because they are flour, water, sugar and oil. Everybody can buy takeaway food, but sometimes were not aware how cheaply we can make
13、 this food ourselves.”The eight-part series (系列节目), Save Money: Good Food, follows in the footsteps of ITVs Save Money: Good Health, which gave viewers advice on how to get value from the vast range of health products on the market.With food our biggest weekly household expense, Susanna and Matt spe
14、nd time with a different family each week. In tonights Easter special they come to the aid of a family in need of some delicious inspiration on a budget. The team transforms the familys long weekend of celebration with less expensive but still tasty recipes.24. What do we know about Susanna Reid?A.
15、She enjoys embarrassing her guests. B. She has started a new programme.C. She dislikes working early in the morning. D. She has had a tight budget for her family.25. How does Matt Tebbutt help Susanna?A. He buys cooking materials for her. B. He prepares food for her kids.C. He assists her in cooking
16、 matters. D. He invites guest families for her.26. What does the author intend to do in paragraph 4?A. Summarize the previous paragraphs. B. Provide some advice for the readers.C. Add some background information. D. Introduce a new topic for discussion.27. What can be a suitable title for the text?A
17、. Keeping Fit by Eating Smart B. Balancing Our Daily DietC. Making Yourself a Perfect Chef D. Cooking Well for Less解析：本文是关于 Susanna Reid 所创办的一个新的节目 Save Money: Good Food 的介绍，教人们在日常生活中怎样用最少的钱做出美味的食物，Cooking Well for Less，文章难度不大。24. B. 推理判断题。 文章中 she is cooking up a storm in her latest role showing fa
18、milies how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals on a tight budget.还有后文中的 The eight-part series 都可以推出Susanna Reid 开办了一个新的电视节目。25. C. 细节理解题。In Save Money: Good Food, she visits a different home each week and with the help of chef Matt Tebbutt offers top tips on how to reduce food waste可知 Matt Teb
19、butt 的作用是给Susanna Reid 提供建议。26. C. 推理判断题。定位到第四段 follows in the footsteps of ITVs Save Money: Good Health 可知，这一段主要讲的是这档节目的灵感来源，所以答案选 C.27. D. 主旨大意题。本文主要是对 Save Money: Good Food 这档节目的介绍，文章第一段showing families how to prepare delicious and nutritious meals on a tight budget 说明了这档节目的目的，所以 D 选项正是对这句话的最好诠释。
20、CLanguages have been coming and going for thousands of years, but in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more going. When the world was still populated by hunter-gatherers, small, tightly knit (联系) groups developed their own patterns of speech independent of each other. Some language e
21、xperts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the world had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number. In recent centuri
22、es, trade, industrialisation, the development of the nation-state and the spread of universal compulsory education, especially globalisation and better communications in the past few decades, all have caused many languages to disappear, and dominant languages such as English, Spanish and Chinese are
23、 increasingly taking over.At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. The distribution of these languages is hugely uneven. The general rule is that mild zones have relatively few languages, often spoken by many people, while hot, wet zones have lots, often spoken by small numbers. Europe has o
24、nly around 200 languages; the Americas about 1,000; Africa 2,400; and Asia and the Pacific perhaps 3,200, of which Papua New Guinea alone accounts for well over 800. The median number (中位数) of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that.A
25、lready well over 400 of the total of 6,800 languages are close to extinction (消亡), with only a few elderly speakers left. Pick, at random, Busuu in Cameroon (eight remaining speakers), Chiapaneco in Mexico (150), Lipan Apache in the United States (two or three) or Wadjigu in Australia (one, with a q
26、uestion-mark): none of these seems to have much chance of survival.28. What can we infer about languages in hunter-gatherer times?A. They developed very fast. B. They were large in number.C. They had similar patterns. D. They were closely connected.29. Which of the following best explains “dominant”
27、 underlined in paragraph 2?A. Complex. B. Advanced.C. Powerful. D. Modern.30. How many languages are spoken by less than 6,000 people at present?A. About 6,800. B. About 3,400.C. About 2,400. D. About 1,200.31. What is the main idea of the text?A. New languages will be created.B. Peoples lifestyles
28、are reflected in languages.C. Human development results in fewer languages.D. Geography determines language evolution.解析：本文主要讲的是随着人类的发展，语言的种类却越来越少，很多语言已经灭绝或者濒临灭绝，这是全球化和工业化带来的副作用需要引起我们的重视。28. B. 推理判断题。本题的答案主要出自第一段，只要认真研读，进行简单的排除，答案不难选出。Some language experts believe that 10,000 years ago, when the wor
29、ld had just five to ten million people, they spoke perhaps 12,000 languages between them.这句话是答案的出处。29. C.词义猜测题。词语出自第二段。Dominant 这个词应该是比较常见的，只要考生平时注意词汇积累这个词应该能认识，所以我们在平时的英语学习中一定要注意词汇的积累。假如不认识的话，后边的例子中例举了 English, Spanish and Chinese 还有词组 take over 这些线索都可以帮助我们来猜测词义。30. B 推理判断题。答案出自第三段 The median numbe
30、r (中位数) of speakers is a mere 6,000, which means that half the worlds languages are spoken by fewer people than that.结合前面的 At present, the world has about 6,800 languages. 这两句话就可以把答案推出来，6800 和 half 是关键词。31. C. 主旨大意题。本篇文章结构清晰，第一段是总领全文，提出观点 in recent times there has been less coming and a lot more goi
31、ng。第二段是解释原因，第三段是对现状的介绍，第四段是举例子。所以答案很容易选出。本篇文章考生可以注意出题人的出题范围，前三题分别出自前三段，第四题是对全文的考查，这也是出题人出题的一个暗含的线索，考生应该多加关注。DWe may think were a culture that gets rid of our worn technology at the first sight of something shiny and new, but a new study shows that we keep using our old devices (装置) well after they g
32、o out of style. Thats bad news for the environment and our wallets as these outdated devices consume much more energy than the newer ones that do the same things.To figure out how much power these devices are using, Callie Babbitt and her colleagues at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New Yo
33、rk tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life from when its minerals are mined to when we stop using the device. This method provided a readout for how home energy use has evolved since the early 1990s. Devices were grouped by generation. Desktop computers, basic mobile pho
34、nes, and box-set TVs defined 1992. Digital cameras arrived on the scene in 1997. And MP3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.As we accumulated more devices, however, we didnt throw out our old ones. “The living-room television is r
35、eplaced and gets planted in the kids room, and suddenly one day, you have a TV in every room of the house,” said one researcher. The average number of electronic devices rose from four per household in 1992 to 13 in 2007. Were not just keeping these old devices we continue to use them. According to
36、the analysis of Babbitts team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (排放 ) more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.So whats the solution (解决方案 )? The teams data only went up t
37、o 2007, but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function, such as a tablet for word processing and TV viewing. They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop compu
38、ters could cut energy consumption by 44%.32. What does the author think of new devices?A. They are environment-friendly. B. They are no better than the old.C. They cost more to use at home. D. They go out of style quickly. 33. Why did Babbitts team conduct the research?A. To reduce the cost of miner
39、als. B. To test the life cycle of a product.C. To update consumers on new technology.D. To find out electricity consumption of the devices.34. Which of the following uses the least energy?A. The box-set TV. B. The tablet. C. The LCD TV. D. The desktop computer.35. What does the text suggest people d
40、o about old electronic devices?A. Stop using them. B. Take them apart. C. Upgrade them. D. Recycle them. 解析：本文主要讲的是一些电子设备并没有因为过时而寿终正寝，相反很多设备还正在被使用，这不仅会消耗更多的能源还会污染环境。32. A. 推理判断题。考查第一段 。找准题目关键词 new devices，文章中原句 Thats bad news for the environment and our wallets这 是 过 时 设 备 的 一 些 害 处 ， 那 么 我 们 可 以 反 推
41、 它 的 反 面 应 该 就 是 新 设备 的 好 处 ， 所 以 答 案 选 择 A. 33. D. 细 节 理 解 题 。 答 案 出 自 第 二 段 。 第 二 段 原 句 tracked the environmental costs for each product throughout its life.和 这 句 话 意 思 最 相 近 的 就 是 答 案 D.34. B. 细 节 理 解 题 。 答 案 出 自 第 四 段 。 选 项 中 出 现 的 集 中 设 备 密 集 出 现 在 两 处 ， 一 处 是 第 二 段 ，还 有 一 处 是 第 四 段 。 其 中 第 二 段
42、 主 要 讲 的 是 各 种 设 备 进 入 到 家 庭 的 时 间 ， 不 涉 及 到 各 种 设 备 能 耗 的对 比 ， 所 以 不 能 作 为 选 择 的 依 据 。 所 以 答 案 应 该 在 第 四 段 ， They found that more on-demand entertainment viewing on tablets instead of TVs and desktop computers could cut energy consumption by 44%.这句话可以帮助得出答案是 tablets。35. A. 推 理 判 断 题 。 答 案 在 第 四 段 。
43、 文 章 第 三 段 主 要 讲 的 是 使 用 旧 的 设 备 的 危 害 ， 结 合 34 题 和but the researchers also explored what would happen if consumers replaced old products with new electronics that serve more than one function 我们可以得出答案是 stop using. C 选型是容易误选选项，upgrade 这个词的意思要把握准， upgrade 可能是在原有设备基础之上进行升级，这是文章中没有提及的所以不能选。第二节 （共 5 小题；
44、每小题 2 分，满分 10 分）根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Color is fundamental in home design something youll always have in every room. A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms youll love to live in. Do you want a room thats full of life? Professional
45、? Or are you just looking for a place to relax after a long day? 36 , color is the key to making a room feel the way you want it to feel.Over the years, there have been a number of different techniques to help designers approach this important point. 37 , they can get a little complex. But good news
46、 is that therere really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.38 . Theyre the little spots of color like throw pillows, mirrors and baskets that most of us use to add visual interest to our rooms. Less tiring than
47、 painting your walls and less expensive than buying a colorful sofa, small color choices bring with them the significant benefit of being easily changeable. Medium color choices are generally furniture pieces such as sofas, dinner tables or bookshelves. 39 . They require a bigger commitment than sma
48、ller ones, and they have a more powerful effect on the feeling of a space.The large color decisions in your rooms concern the walls, ceilings, and floors. Whether youre looking at wallpaper or paint, the time, effort and relative expense put into it are significant. 40 .A. While all of them are usef
49、ul B. Whatever youre looking forC. If youre experimenting with a colorD. Small color choices are the ones were most familiar withE. Its not really a good idea to use too many small color piecesF. So it pays to be sure, because you want to get it right the first timeG. Color choices in this range are a step up from the small ones in two major ways解析：本篇文章主要讲的是在家装设计方面颜色的作用，并从大、中和小三个层面介绍了每种类型的定义和如何选择。36. B.段中句。从形式上看设空处后是逗号；从内容上看考查的主要是段中句的承上启下。空前给了很多种家装风格的选择，空后 color is the key to making，这中间缺少一个过渡，根据意思答案比较容易得出 Whatever youre lookin
