2017高考英语阅读练习题及答案
在英语阅读中，有的题目考的是对文章中某一句子的理解，所以在平时复习时一定要对句子进行反复推敲，不要片面理解。下面是小编整理的高考英语阅读理解，欢迎阅读!
阅读理解【1】
As more and more people speak the global language of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will be likely to die out by the next century, according the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
In an effort to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations----UNESCO and National Geographic among them----have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi and Their Culture, grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China. But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials----including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes----which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded----the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project----Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, available not just to schools but to the younger generations of communities from whom the materials were originally collected. Thanks to digital technology and the widely available Internet, Turin notes, the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities.
28. Many scholars are making efforts to .
A. promote global languages
B. rescue disappearing languages
C. search for languages communities
D. set up language research organizations
29. What does “that tradition” in Paragraph 3 refer to .
A. having detailed records of the languages
B. writing books on language users
C. telling stories about language speakers
D. living with the native speakers
30. What is Turin’s book based on?
A. The cultural studies in India.
B. The documents available at Yale.
C. His language research in Bhutan.
D. His personal experience in Nepal.
31. Which of the following best describes Turin’s work?
A. Write, sell and donate.
B. Record, repair and reward.
C. Collect, protect and reconnect.
D. Design, experiment and report.
【答案】BADC
【解析】28.根据第二段中have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect可知很多学者正在记录这些即将消失的语言和文化，以防止这些语言和文化永远地消失。故B正确。
29.根据文章第二段中 have for many years been documenting dying languages and the cultures they reflect可知很多学者正在记录的即将消失的语言和文化，以防止这些语言和文化永远地消失。而Mark Turin正在following in that tradition(追随这样的传统)。所以这里的'that tradition就是指前面一段里的学者在记录这些即将消失的语言和文化。故A正确。
30.根据文章第三段中的grows out of his experience living, working, and raising a family in a village in Nepal可知，这本书的内容源自他在尼泊尔生活，工作以及抚养家人的经历。说明这本书是以他的个人经历为基础的。故D正确。
31.根据文章第四段中Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.和文章第五段中which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection和文章最后一段中 the endangered languages can be saved and reconnected with speech communities可知C项说法是正确的。
阅读理解【2】
Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth taking. 36 Some of us enjoy activities that would surprise and scare the rest of us. Why? Experts say it may have to do with how our brains work.
The reason why any of us take any risks at all might have to do with early humans. Risk-takers were better at hunting, fighting, or exploring. 37 As the quality of risk-taking was passed from one generation to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.
So why aren’t we all jumping out of airplanes then? Well, even 200,000 years ago, too much risk-taking could get one killed. A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types. As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exit today. So maybe you love car racing or maybe you hate it. 38
No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientist say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years. 39 To help you do that, your brain increases your hunger for new experiences. New experiences often mean taking some risks, so your brain raises your tolerance for risk as well.
40 For the risk-seekers a part of the brain related to pleasure becomes active, while for the rest of us, a part of the brain related to fear becomes active.
As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we’ll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.
A. It all depends on your character.