黄冈市2014高考英语阅读理解暑假训练（4）及答案

The most frightening words in the English language are, “Our computer is down.” You hear it more and more when you are on business. The other day I was at the airport waiting for a ticket to Washington and the girl in the ticket office said, “I m sorry, I can t sell you a ticket. Our computer is down.”

“If your computer is down, just write me out a ticket.”

“I can t write you out a ticket. The computer is the only one allowed to do so.”

I looked down on the computer and every passenger was just standing there drinking coffee and staring at the black screen. Then I asked her, “What do all you people do?”

“We give the computer the information about your trip, and then it tells us whether you can fly with us or not.”

“So when it goes down, you go down with it.”

“That s good, sir.”

“How long will the computer be down?” I wanted to know.

“I have no idea. Sometimes it s down for 10 minutes, sometimes for two hours. There s no way we can find out without asking the computer, and since it s down it won t answer us.”

After the girl told me they had no backup(备用) computer, I said. “Let s forget the computer. What about your planes? They re still flying, aren t they?”

“I couldn t tell without asking the computer.”

“Maybe I could just go to the gate and ask the pilot if he s flying to Washington, ” I suggested.

“I wouldn t know what gate to send you to. Even if the pilot was going to Washington, he couldn t take you if you didn t have a ticket.”

“Is there any other airline flying to Washington within the next few hours?”

“I wouldn t know, ” she said, pointing at the dark screen. “Only IT knows. It can t tell me.”

By this time there were quite a few people standing in lines. The word soon spread to other travelers that the computer was down. Some people went white, some people started to cry and

still others kicked their luggage.

1. The best title for the article is _______.

A. When the Computer Is Down B. The Most Frightening Words

C. The Computer of the Airport D. Asking the Computer

2. What could the girl in the ticket office do for the passengers without asking the computer?

A. She could sell a ticket.

B. She could write out a ticket.

C. She could answer the passengers questions.

D. She could do nothing.

3. Why do you think they had not a backup computer?

A. Because it was easy down

B. Because it was very expensive.

C. Because it was not advanced enough.

D. Because it was not as big as the main computer.

4. The last paragraph suggests that _______.

A. a modern computer won t be down.

B. computers can take the place of humans

C. sometimes a computer may bring suffering to people

D. there will be great changes in computers

【答案解析】

本文记述了作者在机场遭遇电脑系统死机所带来的后果及人们对此的反应。

1.A。主旨题。根据文章第1句中的Our computer is down及后面的文章内容，可推知此题答案为A。

2.D。细节题。根据文章中的对话：售票员不能卖机票，回答不出旅客提出的问题等等，可推知此题答案为D。

3.B。主观题。根据各选项的比较及生活经验对之进行判断，得出此题的答案为B。

4.C。推断题。根据文章最后一段的描述：电脑死机，旅客们感到恐惧、忧郁、不安，从而可推知此题答案为C。

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People who traveled in the past had to put up with many discomforts which we do not have nowadays, and of course they traveled far more slowly. Roads were bad indeed and you often found you could not get along at all because of the mud. In dry weather many places were thick in dust and when it was stormy, trees might fall across the road and it was nobody s business to clear Ordinary people traveled on foot or on horseback, but everyone who could afford it kept a private coach. There were public coaches too. called “stage coaches” because long journeys took several days and were done in stages, with stops over night at inns. Some stage coaches ran only in the summer months. Others all the year around. They were very slow and crowded and passengers often became in on the way because of the swaying (摇晃).

Break-downs were frequent, since many roads were not smooth. So a coach might very easily turn right over. Early in the century coach and wagon builders were encouraged to put very wide wheels on their vehicles so that these might level the roads a little. But many people complained of this since it slowed travel down a good deal.

Most travelers during the 18th century wrote bitterly about the state of the roads. One visitor to Sussex took six hours to travel nine miles in his coach; another wrote to a friend that on time of his journeys “almost every mile was marked by the overturn of a carriage”.

47. Which of the following mainly prevented people from travelling fast in the past?

A. Muddy road B. Thick dust

C. Falling trees D. Many discomforts

48. The underlined word “them” in the first paragraph refers to _____.

A. the discomforts B. the blocked roads

C. the fallen trees D. the dusty places

49. Public coaches were called “stage-coaches” because ______.

A. they served public people only B. they were slow and crowded

C. they stopped for meals at inns

D. the long journey was broken into several parts

50. The sentence “almost every mile was marked by the overturn of a carriage” suggests that

______.

A. the coaches were of poor quality

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