2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精选训练（05）外研版_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解精选训练（05）外研版

　　5．What is the real concern of the writer of this article?

　　A．The major causes of traffic accidents and car thefts.

　　B．The relationship between humans and technology.

　　C．The shortcomings of digital devices we use.

　　D．The human unawareness of technical problems.

　　答案：B。主旨大意题。A交通事故和车辆盗窃事故的主要原因；B人类和技术的关系；C我们所用数字仪器的弊端；D人类没有意识到技术问题。通读全文可以看出B项正确。

　　(·江西卷，C)

　　The garden city was largely the invention of Ebenezer Howard (1850～1928). After immigrating from England to the USA, and an unsuccessful attempt to make a living as a farmer, he moved to Chicago, where he saw the reconstruction of the city after the disastrous fire of 1871. In those days, it was nicknamed “the Garden City”， almost certainly the source of Howard's name for his later building plan of towns. Returning to London, Howard developed his design in the 1880s and 1890s, drawing_on ideas that were popular at the time, but creating a unique combination of designs.

　　The nineteenthcentury poor city was in many ways a terrible place, dirty and crowded; but it offered economic and social opportunities. At the same time, the British countryside was in fact equally unattractive: though it promised fresh air and nature, it suffered from agricultural depression(萧条)and it offered neither enough work and wages, nor much social life. Howard's idea was to combine the best of town and country in a new kind of settlement, the garden city. Howard's idea was that a group of people should set up a company, borrowing money to establish a garden city in the depressed countryside, far enough from existing cities to make sure that the land was bought at the bottom price.