（英语）高考英语二轮复习专项训练阅读理解（人物故事）及解析
（英语）高考英语二轮复习专项训练阅读理解(人物故事)及解析
一、高中英语阅读理解人物故事类
1．阅读理解comparisons
In the nineteenth century, one of America's greatest writers, Walt Whitman, helped people learn to value poetry. Whitman created a new kind of poetry.
Walt Whitman was born in eighteen nineteen in New York City. During his long life, he watched America grow from a young nation to the strongest industrial power in the world. As a young man, Whitman worked as a school teacher, a printer and a newspaper reporter. He was thirty-six years old when he published his first book of poetry in eighteen fifty-five. He called it Leaves of Grass. It had only twelve poems. The poems are written in free verse. The lines do not follow any set form. Some lines are short. Some are long. The words at the end of each line do not have a similar sound. They do not rhyme.
One of America's greatest thinkers and writers immediately recognized the importance of Leaves of Grass. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised Whitman's work. But most other poets and writers said nothing and even denounced it. Most readers also rejected Whitman's poems. The new form of his poetry surprised many people. Even his own brother told Whitman that he should stop writing poetry. But Whitman had many things to say. And he continued to say them. Readers began to understand that America had a great new poetic voice.
Walt Whitman's poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways. Experts today praise Leaves of Grass as a major literary work. In eighteen seventy-three, Walt Whitman suffered a stroke. He spent the last years of his life in Camden, New Jersey. Whitman was poor and weak during the last years of his life. He died in eighteen ninety-two. Some critics say Walt Whitman was a spokesman for democracy. Others say he was not a spokesman for anything. Instead, they simply call him a great poet.
（1）What can we know about Whitman?
A. His poems have the same rhyme.
B. He is the first great poet in the USA
C. He helped people to create new poems.
D. His poems show his love for his country.
（2）Why was Leaves of Grass refused at first?
A. The poems are quite short.
B. The form of poetry is special.
C. Whitman wasn't famous then.
D. There are only 12 poems in it.
（3）What does the underlined word "denounced" in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?
A. Accused.
B. Downloaded.
C. Published.
D. Translated.
（4）What can be a suitable title for the text?
A. Walt Whitman—a Great Soldier
B. Walt Whitman—an Unfortunate Poet
C. Walt Whitman and Leaves of Grass
D. The First and Greatest Poet in America
【答案】（1）D
（2）B
（3）A
（4）C
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇人物介绍，介绍了美国著名的诗人Walt Whitman以及他的代表作《草叶集》。
（1）考查细节理解。根据最后一段中的“Walt Whitman's poems praise the United States and its democracy. The poet expressed his love for America and its people in many ways.” Walt Whitman的诗赞美美国及其民主。这位诗人以多种方式表达了他对美国及其人民的热爱。可知选D。
（2）考查细节理解。根据第三段中的“The new form of his poetry surprised ma ny people. ”他的新诗形式使许多人感到惊讶，故选B。
（3）考查词义猜测。根据第三段中的“But most other poets and writers said nothing and even denounced it. ”可知，人们不接受Walt Whitman的诗集，可推知denounced可能是“指责，批评”之意，选A。
（4）考查主旨大意。纵观全文可知，本文讲述了美国著名作家Walt Whitman以及他的代
表作《草叶集》，并围绕《草叶集》的开始不被接受到最后的大受欢迎展开，故选C。【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解，词义猜测和主旨大意三个题型的考查，是一篇人物类阅读，要求考生在捕捉细节信息的基础上，进一步根据上下文的逻辑关系，进行分析，推理，概括和归纳，从而选出正确答案。
2．阅读理解
It was at least two months before Christmas when nine-year-old Rose told her father and me that she wanted a new bicycle.
As Christmas drew nearer, her desire for a bicycle seemed to fade---or so we thought, as she didn't mention it again. We bought the latest fashionable Baby Sitter's Club dolls, a holiday dress and some beautiful story books. Then, much to our surprise, on December 23rd, she proudly announced that she "really wanted a bike more than anything else."
It was just too late, what with all the details of preparing Christmas dinner and buying last-minute gifts. We could only think of the bicycle and the disappointment of our child. "What
if I make a little bicycle out of clay and write a note that she could trade the clay model in for a real bike?" Her dad asked. The theory, of course, being that since that is a high-ticket item and she is "such a big girl", it would be much better for her to pick it out. So he spent the next five hours painstakingly working with clay to make a tiny bike.
Three hours later, on Christmas morning, we were excited for Rose to open the little heart-shaped package with the beautiful red and white clay bike and the note. Finally, she opened it and read the note aloud.
She looked at me and then at her dad and said, "so does this mean that I trade in this bike that Daddy made me for a real one?"