高考英语阅读理解专项练习题

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高考英语阅读理解专项练习题(一)

Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?

The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker's family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn't tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine. He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.

31. The main idea of the passage is __B_. A. James Watt invented the steam engine

B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure C. how much power does a horse have

D. why Watt's engine is called a ten horse-power engine 32. The story says that Watt made the first __D__. A. engine

B. horse-power engine C. useful engine

D. widely used steam engine 33. James Watt was born in _A___. A. a worker's family B. a farmer's family


C. a teacher's family D. a doctor's steam engine

34. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___. A. measure the work his engine could do B. tell people how powerful his engine was C. lift a 3300-pound weight D. both A and B

35. One horse-power means the __A__. A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse

高考英语阅读理解专项练习题(二)

A holiday jet pilot(飞行员)said that he would land and call the police after a woman refused to stop smoking. He WARNED Maureen Harkavy, ―Put that cigarette(香烟)out ,or I'll land the plane and have you arrested(逮捕)

Maureen, 47, was so shocked she wrote to airline's chairman. But his reply was even ruder. ―You seem to think you have a God – given right to pollute your neighbours' atmosphere, wrote John Ferriday of Paramount Airways. (a) Said Maureen, ―I only found out about it when I was checking in. I'm a nervous flyer so I lit a cigarette during the

flight. A stewardess(空姐)asked me to put it out, but I said I wanted to carry on as there was no rule against smoking on the plane. She was just finishing her cigarette when the pilot arrived. (b) ―I've never seen

such an unpleasant letter, she said, ―I don't think I'll ever fly again. But there was a funny side. Maureen explained, ―We were offered duty – free(免税的)cigarette from the stewardess on the plane! (c) Mr Ferriday

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