2013高考英語 閱讀理解考前沖刺訓(xùn)練（1）

2013高考英語（閱讀理解）考前沖刺訓(xùn)練（1） 及答案解析 (第*篇)Andrew Ritchie, inventor of the Brompton folding bicycle, once said that the perfect portable bike would be“ like a magic carpet.You could fold it up and put it into your pocket or handbag”. Then he paused：“ But youll always be limited by the size of the wheels. And so far no one has invented a folding wheel.”It was a rareindeed uniqueoccasion when I was able to put Ritchie right. A 19th-century inventor，William Henry James Grout，did in fact design a folding wheel. His bike, predictably named the Grout Portable, had a frame that split into two and a larger wheel that could be separated into four pieces. All the bits fitted into Grouts Wonderful Bag，a leather case.Grouts aim: to solve the problems of carrying a bike on a train.Now doesnt that sound familiar? Grout intended to find a way of making a bike small enough for train travel: his bike was a huge beast. And importantly, the design of early bicycles gave him an advantage：in Grouts day ，tyres were solid，which made the business of splitting a wheel into four separate parts relatively simple. You couldnt do the same with a wheel fitted with a one-piece inflated(充氣的) tyre.So，in a 21st-century context, is the idea of the folding wheel dead? It is not. A British design engineer, Duncan Fitzsimons, has developed a wheel that can be squashed into something like a slender ellipse(橢圓). Throughout，the tyre remains inflated.Will the young Fitzsimonss folding wheel make it into production? I havent the foggiest idea. But his inventiveness shows two things. First, people have been saying for more than a century that bike design has reached its limit, except for gradual advances. Its as silly a concept now as it was 100-years-ago：theres plenty still to go for. Second, it is in the field of folding bikes that we are seeing the most interesting inventions. You can buy a folding bike for less than 1,000 that can be knocked down so small that it can be carried on a plane minus wheels, of courseas hand baggage.Folding wheels would make all manner of things possible. Have we yet got the magic carpet of Andrew Ritchies imagination? No. But its progress.語篇解讀一位發(fā)明家想要發(fā)明折疊自行車的話，最大的困難是如何折疊輪子。其實19世紀(jì)的一位發(fā)明家在當(dāng)年已經(jīng)做到了，令人欣喜的是現(xiàn)在又有人想出了折疊輪子的辦法。我們都在期待著。1. We can infer from Paragraph 1 that thc Brompton folding bike_.A. was portableB. had a folding wheelC. could be put in a pocketD. looked like a magic carpet解析推理判斷題。這種自行車的特點是便于攜帶，而不是呈地毯狀或為的是能放進口袋，故不能選C或D。答案A2. We can learn from the text that the wheels of the Grout Portable_.A. were difficult to separateB. could be split into 6 piecesC. were fitted with solid tyresD. were hard to carry on a train解析推理判斷題。從文章第三段“And importantly.in Grouts day，tyres were solid.”可得知答案。他的折疊方法只適合當(dāng)時的固體輪胎。答案C3. We can learn from the text that Fitzsimonss invention_.A. kept the tyre as a whole pieceB. was made into production soonC. left little room for improvementD. changed our views on bag design解析推理判斷題。從文章第四段“squashed into.like a slender ellipse”可得知答案。答案A4. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. Three folding bike inventorsB. The making of a folding bikeC. Progress in folding bike designD. Ways of separating a bike wheel解析主旨大意題。全文講述了不同時期的三位發(fā)明家對折疊自行車的探索。故選C。答案C*結(jié)束