高考英语阅读冲刺提升训练 生物保护
18.A.excludes B.covers C.includes D.makes
答案 C [联系空后的“waters around several groups of islands”可知，保护区包含几个岛的水域。]
19.A.it B.which C.where D.that
答案 B [which引导了非限定性定语从句，并在从句中作主语。]
20.A.separated B.combined C.divided D.connected
答案 B [联系空前的“bigger than the size”可知，这个保护区比Virginia和Tennessee两个加起来还要大。]
维B1 阅读理解(每题2分，满分分)
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Katharine Mehta's mother likes to joke that the first sentence her daughter said was “I love dogs.” It's not the fact，but it's certainly true in spirit.
“When I was young，my grandmother told me about how she sometimes found stray dogs and cats，and kept them on her farm as pets，” says Katharine.“That made me wonder what would happen when animals didn't have a home.I felt horrible thinking that they might be hungry or could get hit by a car.”
But what could a little girl do? The answer came during a trip to a park in her New York City neighborhood two years ago，where she met volunteers from Mighty Mutts，a local nokill animal rescue organization.“I thought maybe I could earn some money and give it to them，” she says.
Since Katharine had plenty of practice taking care of her own dog，she decided to start a summer dogwalking service.She chose two friends and，with their parents' permission，the group put up homemade posters with their phone numbers and a bargain price—50 cents an hour.Before long they had 15 dogs in their care.“We walked two or three at a time with one mother helping out，” she says.“By the end of that summer，we'd collected $45.” That fall Katharine and her mother，Loma，came up with another mini enterprise to raise money for Mighty Mutts—selling freshbaked shortbread to their neighbors.
The 11yearold，who starts sixth grade this fall，has become a nonstop campaigner.Her mother says，“When she sees somebody with a dog，she starts a conversation and tells them to donate to Mighty Mutts.”
Katharine's passion comes from the heart.“It makes me cry to think that strays might be_put_to_sleep when there's a group that can find new homes for them，” Katharine says.“But it makes me smile to know I can help.”
Notes：
stray adj.流浪的 ②shortbread n.黄油甜酥饼
【语篇解读】 本文主要讲了11岁女孩Katharine是如何关爱和帮助流浪狗等小动物的。
1.Katharine's love of dogs comes from ________.
A.her grandmother's influence
B.her mother's influence
C.the influence of an organization
D.seeing a dog killed by a car
答案 A [细节理解题。由第二段可知，Katharine关心流浪狗是受奶奶的影响。]
2.How did Katharine help the organization—Mighty Mutts?
A.By walking stray dogs.
B.By giving shortbread to stray dogs.
C.By collecting money.
D.By making speeches everywhere.
答案 C [推理判断题。由第三、四段可知，Katharine为别人遛狗挣钱，然后捐给Mighty Mutts，并且经常劝说养狗的人为Mighty Mutts捐款，故选C。]
3.The underlined part “be put to sleep” in the last paragraph means “________”.
A.to be supplied with a comfortable place for sleeping
B.to be given drugs so that they can die without pain
C.to be made unconscious before a medical operation
D.to be made to sleep
答案 B [词义猜测题。Katharine很有爱心，非常关心无家可归的小动物，所以她一想到流浪的小动物被人们用药物所谓“仁道地”杀死，她就会心痛地流泪。put to sleep意为“用药物使(长眠)，无痛苦地杀死”。]
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A.Katharine and her pets
B.An organization for rescuing stray dogs
C.Pet dogs are popular with children
D.A little girl helps strays
答案 D [主旨大意题。全文主要讲述了小女孩Katharine帮助、关爱流浪狗，故正确答案为D。]
维B2 阅读理解(每题2分，满分分)
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高考曾用材料：2012山东卷C篇
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We're fortunate to live along a monarch butterfly migration path.Every fall，thousands of them fly through our backyard，headed south for the winter.We always thought that a butterfly with a broken wing was a sad sight，but one we could do nothing about.We were wrong! Jeannette Brandt was bike riding near Hadley，in the southern Adirondacks of New York，a few weeks ago when she spotted an injured monarch butterfly and took it home in an empty water bottle.Brandt and her partner，Mike Parwana，fed the butterfly rotting pears and water sweetened with honey.The butterfly survived，and fattened up.But what to do about the broken wing?