2014高考英语阅读理解精英系列练习题（24）及答案
阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A. B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项 涂黑。
【广东省珠海市2013综合试题（2）】 A
I’m not so sure I like my friends any more．I used to like them—to be honest．We’d have lunch, talk on the phone or exchange emails，and they all seemed normal enough. But then came FaceBook, and I was introduced to a sad fact：many of my friends have dark sides that they had kept from me．
Today my friends show off the more unpleasant aspects of their personalities via FaceBook. No longer hidden，they’re thrown in my face like TV commercials—unavoidable and endless advertisements for the worst of their personalities．
Take Fred．If you were to have lunch with him, you’d find him warm, and self-effacing(谦逊的)．Read his FaceBook and you’ll realize he’s an unbearable，food-obsessed boring man．He’d pause to have a cup of coffee on his way to save a drowning man—and then write about it．
Take Andy．You won’t find a smarter CEO anywhere, but now he’s a CEO without a company to run．So he plays Mafia Wars on FaceBook．He’s doing well—level 731．Thanks to FaceBook，I know he’s playing about 18 hours a day．Andy, you’ve run four companies—and this is how you spend your downtime? What happened to golf? What happened to getting another job?
Take Liz．She is positive that the flu vaccine will kill us all and that we should avoid it．And then comes Chris who likes to post at least 20 times a day on every website he can find，so I get to read his thoughts twice, once on FaceBook and once on Twitter．
In real life，I don’t see these sides of people．Face to face, my friends show me their best．They’re nice，smart people．But face to FaceBook，my friends are like a blind date which goes horribly wrong．
I’m left with a dilemma．Who is my real friend? Is it the Liz I have lunch with or the anti-vaccine madman on FaceBook? Is it the Fred I can grab a sandwich with or the Fred who weeps if he’s at a party and the wine isn’t up to his standards?
26. Who is opposed to the flu vaccine in the text?
A. Fred． B. Andy． C. Liz． D. Chris． 27. What’s Andy probably busy in doing now? A. He’s running his company． C. He’s looking for another job．
B. He’s playing golf all day．
D. He’s playing computer games．
28. According to the text，FaceBook tends to________． A. present another side of people C. show endless advertisements
B. offer some foods for free D. get you to more parties
29. What does “it” underlined in the last paragraph refer to? A. a dilemma B. my real friend C. Facebook D. Twitter 30. The text is developed mainly by_________． A. giving examples C. 1isting figures
B. following the time order
D. raising questions
【参考答案】26-30. CDABA
阅读理解（A）
Mark Twain was my hero when I was nine because that was when I discovered Tom Sawyer. But even at the height of my admiration, I couldn’t agree with him that Anne,
the main character in Anne of Green Gables, was “the dearest and most lovable child in fiction since the best-known Alice”. I had read Anne of Green Gables as well as Tom Sawyer, and she had made me as sick as a dog.
Another Mark Twain’s quote will explain my problem. He said, “When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant (无知的) that
I could hardly stand having the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ” I gradually understood his
words as growing up. When I picked up the book again a few years later, I was too astonished at how much it had improved—and shortly afterwards shocked by the fact that not only could I be a fool in all sporting, artistic and practical matters, I could also be so when it came to reading, too.
On rereading, then, I learned that Anne is indeed the dearest and most lovable child. I couldn’t help adoring the girl who insists that her name be spelled with the “e” instead of Ann as she believes that is “so much more distinguished. ” She is a brave and determined survivor of a severe upbringing who has refused to let her circumstances crush her spirit. She arrives at Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert’s farm
with everything unfavorable—orphaned, unwanted and her biggest trouble of red-hair and freckled (有雀斑的) face. However, she gets along well, through her strange way of seeing things, through her honest love of beauty and lovable attempts to master her unreasonable desires. She finally wins over the Cuthberts, her neighbors and millions of readers who have met her over the 101 years since the book was first published.
When I settle down with it these days, I’ve come to see the truth in Mark Twain’s praise for the book, and this reminds me of the great truth that you are never too young to start rereading.
16. According to Paragraph 1, we can know the writer _______. A. believed Anne to be lovable B. admired Mark Twain because of Anne C. regarded Tom Sawyer as the dearest child D. disagreed with Mark Twain’s opinion on Anne
17. By referring to Mark Twain’s remark on his father, the writer wants to prove that _______.
A. people’s attitude may change B. learning can change a person
C. the relationships between people can improve D. young people never make correct judgment