2016届陕西汉中市高考英语二轮阅读理解选练（19）（含答案）_高考复习指南

2016届陕西汉中市高考英语二轮阅读理解选练（19）（含答案）

　　D. reward some countries or private groups which haven’t stepped on the moon

　　【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据最后一段several private groups are building spacecraft to land on the moon in an attempt to win millions of dollars in the Google Lunar X Prize一句可知Google Lunar X Prize用来鼓励私人团体登陆月球。

　　3. The underlined word“that”in the first paragraph refers to　.

　　A. the Outer Space Treaty

　　B. if and when they plant a flag

　　C. the NASA working group

　　D. monks from the Middle Ages

　　【解析】选B。词义猜测题。that代指前句中的if and when they plant a flag。本句意为: 如果当他们在月球上插上一面国旗时, 这会赋予他们领土所有权么?

　　4. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

　　A. The U. S. astronauts will live on the moon for a longer time.

　　B. Many countries and private groups plan to go to the moon.

　　C. Why some private groups wish to land on the moon.

　　D. It is easy to gain some property rights on the moon.

　　【解析】选B。主旨大意题。最后一段主要介绍了世界上一些国家及私人团体或个人正计划登陆月球。

　　2016高考模拟题。阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。Silence is unnatural to man. He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness. In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人). He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).