阅读理解题型演练四、阅读理解(共15小题，满分30分)阅读下列材料，然后从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。46. Whats special about Musical Chairs？( )ASunday is classic rock night every week. BThe chairs there can play wonderful music. CThe restaurant only welcomes music lovers. DYou can enjoy your meal with live music there. 47Which of the following does The Chocolate Box serve？( )AFish. BCakes. CSeafood. DChicken. 48Why do people go to Last Days of the Raj？()ATo show others how brave they will be. BTo enjoy the meal while watching shows. CTo try the dishes there cooked with spices. DTo have meals in the garden all year round. 49What can people do at A Taste of Tuscany？()AEnjoy a relaxed breakfast. BTaste dishes cooked in Italy. CHave a valueformoney lunch. DLearn to cook pasta and seafood. 50What is recommended in the text？( )AHot restaurants. BSpecial foods. CWeekend activities. DThe best places to go. BNot only kids of Tiger Moms go to Harvard. Dawn Loggins of Lawndale, NC. , is on her way to Harvard, one of the eight worldfamous universities in the eastern US. Nobody encouraged her to study or paid for her special classes. This girl created her own future. The teen was abandoned by her family last summer, when her parents and two sisters moved to Tennessee. She found herself homeless and had to spend the night on friends sofas. The school bus driver learned about Dawns situation and invited Dawn to move in with her family. Soon, Dawn had a job at Burns High School. She worked from 6 am. to 7：40 am. before the first school bell rang. She swept floors and picked up trash again in the afternoons, before diving(跳水) into her studies in the evenings. Dawns hard work paid off. She finished school with a 3. 9 GPA and scored 2，110 on the SAT. “There were times when I felt like it would be easiest if I gave up，” the 18yearold said. “But it was never in me to give up, because I realized that I was never going to be successful unless I got an education. ”Even before Dawns family left her, she led a difficult life. Her family was poor and cups of noodles were often the only food. Dawn “studied by candlelight” because her parents couldnt afford to pay the electricity bill(电费)Dawn has now reconnected with her family. Theyre proud of her accomplishments(成就) and are attending her high school graduation. 51Why didnt Dawn give up her studies？()ATo reconnect with her family. BTo thank those who had helped her. CTo get an education to be successful. DTo realize her dream of going to Harvard. 52Who helped Dawn when she found herself homeless？( )AHer teachers. BHer neighbors. CA Tiger Mom. DA school bus driver. 53What does the underlined word “abandoned” mean in Chinese？()A宠爱 B抛弃C鼓励 D虐待54Which of the following words best describes Dawn？()AOpenminded. BGoodnatured. CStrongwilled. DWarmhearted. 55Whats the best title for the text？()AAnother Harvard girlBA girl in candlelightCFrom homeless to HarvardDThe role of Tiger MomsCThe idea that red means stop and green means go has influenced our lives in more ways than just traffic signals(信号). We have been taught from a young age that the color red means danger and green means its okay to move forward. But why were those colors chosen for traffic lights in the first place? For something we have to look at every day, why couldnt they have been prettier colors? Well, its important to know that before traffic lights for cars, there were traffic signals for trains. At first, railway companies used red to mean stop, white to mean go, and green to mean warn. As you could imagine, trains ran into a few problems with white meaning go. For example, one train mistook a bright star for a white light and something unexpected happened. Because of that, railway companies finally moved green meaning go and used yellow to mean warn. And its been that way ever since. Red has always been a color that meant danger, long before cars were even around. This most likely started because its the color with the longest wavelength(波长) so it can be seen somewhere farther than other colors. But, believe it or not, yellow was once used to mean stop. Back in the 1900s, some stop signs were yellow because it was too hard to see a red sign in a poorly lit area. Finally, highly reflective materials(高反射材料) were developed and red stop signs were born. Since yellow can be seen well at all times of the day, school zones, some traffic signs, and school buses continue to be painted yellow. So next time youre impatiently waiting at a traffic light, dont get so mad at them; theyve certainly come a long way. 56What were traffic signals for before traffic lights for cars？( )ATrains. BBoats. CPlanes. DBicycles. 57Which of the following colors meant go at first？( )ARed.