2016年湖北技能高考文化综合考试大纲(5)

A. cause B. reason C. truth D. fact
【参考答案】A
本题测试的是英语基础词汇——名词。

第二节：阅读理解
本节共 5 小题，每小题 2 分，共 10 分。根据所提供的短文（阅读量 250~350 词），要求考
生从短文后每小题所给的 4 个备选项中选出 1 个最佳选项。本节测试考生的英语阅读理解能力，
要求考生掌握阅读材料的主旨大意，找出阅读材料的具体信息，并对此进行准确的判断和推
理。
例：
II. 阅读理解
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had
ever heard about it. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like. It could not be
bought in shops and some people had it sent from Holland. They were not sure how to use it. They
thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and
salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves in bread
and give them to their children as sandwiches.
There was very little tea and it remained expensive in England until the ships of the East India
Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth century. During the next few years
so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming fonder of tea. One day a famous French
lady decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She was satisfied. Her friends copied the
way she did: they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England
and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.
At first, tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in
the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four
o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new
meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
1. What did people in Britain think of tea at first?
A. A kind of sandwich. B. A kind of drink.
C. A kind of fruit. D. A kind of vegetable.
2. When did tea become a popular drink in Britain?
A. In the early 16th century. B. In the early 17th century.
C. In the late 16th century. D. In the late 17th century.
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3. Today people in England drink tea with milk because ______.
A. they are very fashionable B. they like drinking milk
C. it is a healthy drink D. it is just a habit
4. The British duchess often had tea in the afternoon because ______.
A. she wanted to cheer herself up with it B. she wanted to invite her friends home
C. she was very hungry at that time D. she was too busy in the morning
5. This passage is mainly about ______.
A. why the Britons like to drink tea with milk
B. when tea became a popular drink in Britain
C. how and when tea-time was born
D. the history of tea drinking in Britain
【参考答案】1. D 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D