1湖南宁乡县湖南宁乡县 20172017 高考英语阅读理解一轮基础选编题（一）高考英语阅读理解一轮基础选编题（一）阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C 和 D) 中, 选出最佳选项。Placed Insights，a dataservice provider，monitors the consumption behavior of more than 70，000 Americans at the age of 14 and older on a monthly basis.One half of Americans went to McDonalds at least once a month.Nearly four in ten Americans visited Walmart.The findings show that some companies visited by more than one in ten Americans each month are primarily fastfood，discountretail outlets(直销店) and health clinics.The types of businesses these companies are in and the traffic customers use to get to them play a big part in their success.According to Placed Insights，less than 40% of Americans visited a bank or clothing store in March.At the same time，an estimated 60% visited a department store，and more than twothirds went to a fastfood restaurant at least once.Placed Insights founder and CEO David Shim explains what it is that affects much on whether Americans visit a business once a year or once a week.“People often go out for fast food.They dont necessarily go shopping for a sweater every day，but they do eat.”It should come as no surprise that most of these companies have made efforts to expand their products，with varying degrees of success.Walmart，for example，has expanded its business to offer groceries，and even has fastfood restaurants in many stores.Starbucks has expanded its menu options to include breakfast sandwiches and other meals.McDonalds new McCafe coffee brand has been very successful.These are all new services designed to make more money on existing customers，bring in new customers，and bring them in more often.While the types of goods and services being offered by these companies are critical，the more critical factor is their dominant national presence.These companies have thousands of locations all over the country.Rare is the American town without a McDonalds，Burger King，Taco Bell，Subway，or some combination of the three.McDonalds has more than 14，000 locations in the US. in 2012 while Subway has more than 25，000.【解题导语】 本文介绍了美国人经常去消费的一些商店以及为什么美国人经常去这些商店。1What do we learn from Placed Insightss research?AThe majority of people going to McDonalds are children.BMore people go to Walmart than to McDonalds.COver one in ten Americans goes to a clothing store each month.2DMcDonalds and Walmart have many customers in part because they are easy to get to.答案 D 细节理解题。根据第一段可知，The types of businesses these companies are in and the traffic customers use to get to them play a big part in their success.可知交通方便是麦当劳、沃尔玛等受欢迎的商店赢得很多顾客的原因之一。2According to David Shim，which has the most influence on where Americans decide to shop?AThe types of goods.BThe brands of the companies.CThe traffic.DPeoples preferences.答案 A 细节理解题。根据第三段的 for fast food 以及 for a sweater 可知 David Shim 认为一个商店出售的商品决定了人们是一天去一次还是一周去一次那个商店。3What is Paragraph 4 mainly about?AWhat types of goods the mostvisited outlets sell.BWhat the mostvisited outlets do to attract customers.CWhy people often go to fastfood outlets.DWhat type of outlet is the most popular in America.答案 B 段落大意题。第四段介绍了那些成功的商店通过扩大商品范围以及销售区域范围来赢得更多的客户，比如沃尔玛提供快餐，星巴克提供早餐、麦当劳推出了新品咖啡等等，因此第四段主要介绍了一些成功的商店怎样吸引顾客。4What is the main reason that some outlets get visited more frequently than others?AThey provide necessities of daily life.BThey provide better service than other outlets.CThey provide more choices of goods.DThey spread all over the country.答案 D 细节理解题。最后一段第一句介绍虽然食物种类和服务对商店的成功发挥了很重要的作用，但是起主导作用的是它们的地理位置，这些商店的分店遍及全国各地。黑龙江省大庆市喇中 2016 高考英语阅读练习新闻报道类A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually 3faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists( 悲观者)who expected their future to be worse.The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.Survey respondents (受访者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their a