高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解(42)

高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解

山西省2012高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解（42） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 A

This is news on the hour, Ed Wilson reporting. The President and First Lady will visit Africa on a good will tour in May. They plan to visit eight African countries.

Reports from China say the Chinese want closer ties between China and the U. S. and Western Europe. A group of top Chinese scientists will start its ten-nation tour next month. Here in Miami, the mayor is still meeting with the leaders of the teachers’ union to try to find a way to end the strike. City schools are still closed after two weeks.

In the news about health, scientists in California report findings of a relationship between the drinking of coffee and the increase of heart disease among women. According to the report in the American Medical Journal（杂志）, the five-year study shows this: Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart disease than women who do not. In sports the Chargers lost again last night. The BBS beat them 1 to nothing. The Wingers had better results. They beat the Rifles 7 to 3. It was their first win in their last five matches. That’s the News on the Hour. And now back to more easy listening with Jan Singer. 1. Who gave the news on the hour?

A. The mayor in Miami C. Scientists in California B. Ed Wilson D. Chargers

2. To improve the ties between China and the US and Western Europe, China . A. will send a group of Chinese scientists to pay a visit to the US and the Western Europe B. will send some scientists to visit US only C. has given many reports to improve the ties

D. China will have a meeting with the leaders

3. The news about health tells us that ___________.

A. no heart disease will be found if people who don’t drink coffee B. no one should drink more coffee

C. women’s heart disease has something to do with their coffee

高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解

D. the more coffee people drink, the more chance they will get to have heart disease

4. From the last news we do NOT know __________. A. the results of the two matches B. the teams which played last night

C. how many wins the BBS has had altogether

D. the Wingers had one win and four defeats B

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California. That could take several months.

So, in 1875, D. C. Lawmakers in Congress in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land. Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast. A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.

Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.

Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.

One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.

The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had

高考英语二轮复习专题训练：阅读理解

to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.

The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot be granted by anyone but God.” 5. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Different ways of sending mail in the United States.

B. The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.

C. The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.

D. The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.

6. The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ________. A. mail was usually carried west on ships B. it was safer to travel to send mail by land C. it would take less time to send mail by land

D. stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail

7. As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ________. A. could only stop twice a day B. was modern with seats and beds C. was a closed wagon pulled by horses or mules

D. had different horses or mules pulled all the way 8. What can we learn from the passage?

A. John Buttterfields got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.

B. John Buttterfield kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.

C. Passengers might be robbed when traveling through the West.

D. Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey.

C

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