湖北省武汉市2016高考英语阅读理解和书面表达一轮练习（10）阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。The multi-million pound new Library of Birmingham (LoB) will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization (数字化) of everyday life. Set to open in 2013, the 188m LoB is already beginning to take shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment. As digital media (媒介) is important toits idea, the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local companies working at the new technologies. Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning:“The aim is to mix the physical with the digital, providing 24-hour services which can be used through many different ways. It is important to enable us to reach more people, more effectively.”The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public. Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual (虚拟的) LoB, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about the LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens. Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies are also working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls an example of an “enlarged reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of development. And The Peoples Archive is an online library of historical figures of the city being built up by a digital content company in Cahoots, in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material. Gambles says:“Technology will enable us to make the librarys content and services open to citizens as never before.”1. The underlined part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the idea of.A. the equipmentB. the projectC. the digital mediaD. the physical library2. While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can.A. get a general idea of the LoBB. meet many world-famous expertsC. learn how to put up a library buildingD. understand how the specialists work on the project3. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens? a. It offers better learning tools. b. It reaches users in different ways.c. It provides users with smart phones. d. It allows users to enrich its material.e. It gives non-stop physical and digital services.A. a, b, dB. a, c, eC. b, c, dD. b, d, e4. The text is most probably taken from.A. a computer bookB. a library guideC. a project handbookD. a newspaper report【参考答案】1-4 BAAD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。(2013沈阳市二模，A)The owner of a missing cat is asking for help. “My baby has been missing for over a month now, and I want him back so badly，” said Mrs. Brown, a 56yearold woman. Mrs. Brown lives by herself in a park near Clovis. She said that Clyde, her 7yearold cat, didnt come home for dinner more than a month ago. The next morning he didnt appear for breakfast, either. After Clyde missed an extraspecial lunch, she called the police. When the policeman asked her to describe Clyde, she told him that Clyde had beautiful green eyes, had all his teeth but was missing half of his left ear, and was seven years old and completely white.“Is Clyde your child or your pet？” the officer asked. “Well, hes my cat.” Mrs. Brown replied. “Lady, you should report missing PERSONS, not missing CATS！” said the annoyed policeman. “You can ask around your neighborhood or put up flyers.” Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 811 piece of paper on a telephone pole. There was an empty billboard at the end of her street just off the highway, with a phone number on it. She called that number, and they told her they could put up a picture of Clyde on the billboard for all to see. They told her it would cost only ￥3 000 a month. So she took most of the money out of her savings account and rented the billboard for a month. The month has passed, but Clyde has not appeared.Because she has almost no money in savings, Mrs. Brown called the local newspaper to see if anyone could help her rent the billboard for just one more month. She is waiting but, so far, no one has stepped forward.文章大意：本文是一篇新闻报道。一个老太太的宠物猫丢失一个多月了，她就此请求大家给予帮助。1The underlined word “flyers” in the second paragraph probably means _.Aposters Bpilots Cbillboards Dnewspapers答案：A词义猜测题。警察建议Mrs. Brown “put up flyers”，再根据文章第二段倒数第二句“Mrs. Brown figured that a billboard would work a lot better than an 811 piece of paper on a telephone pole.”可推知，flyer指的是“an 811 piece of