2017届高三英语总复习重点突破专题阅读理解

Father's Day was celebrated?

A．4. B．10. C．14. D．24.

解析：第三段告诉我们，Sonora在1910年第一次庆祝父亲节；第四段告诉我们，1924年Calvin Coolidge总统宣布父亲节为法定节日，历时14年。

答案：C

4．According to the passage，on Father's Day，________. A．people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers B．only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers C．children must go home to honor their fathers D．fathers are often honored in different ways

解析：由最后一段可知，父亲节的庆祝方式多种多样。 答案：D

5．According to the passage，we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ________. A．was very kind to anyone B．did a lot for his daughter

C．was the first father honored in 1924 D．always helped others by giving money 解析：由文章第二、三段可知答案。 答案：B

It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was，in the eyes of his daughter，a selfless and loving man.是她的父亲为她做出了巨大的牺牲，在女儿眼里，父亲是一位无私充满爱心的人。

It was her father that...是强调句型。

B

(2015·西安质量检测二)Attractive fathers do not pass their looks onto their sons but they will hand their good looks down to their daughters，research shows.

In a study of family photographs，Professor David Perrett and Elisabeth Cornwell—now at the University of Colorado have found that while both father and mother can influence the attractiveness of their daughters，the couple's good looks do not necessarily contribute to the attractiveness of their son as an adult.Handsome men with masculine(阳刚的) looks are likely to pass on masculine features，but not facial attractiveness.

The theory suggests it is not unusual for attractive parents to produce a beautiful daughter while failing to pass on the same good looks to a son.

While many celebrity mothers produce beautiful daughters—such as Goldie Hawn and her daughter Kate Hudson or Jerry Hall and her daughter Georgia—the same is not necessarily true of celebrity fathers.Sean Stewart，the son of Rod Stewart and his first wife Alana，would probably be judged less attractive than his model sister Kimberly.“We can't see a strong relationship between the parents' attractiveness and the sons.If the parents are supermodels，their daughters will be lookers，”Perrett said.

Prof Perrett said it has previously been suggested that a woman could increase her own reproductive(繁殖的)success by choosing a good-looking man whose genes would be passed onto male children.But the new study，published in the current edition of the journal Animal Behaviour，disagrees with the theory.

He said：“When we looked at woman's faces，we found clear evidence that attractiveness passed from both father and mother to daughter.For the male line，we find that facial masculinity follows the rule‘like father-like son’．Masculine dads have masculine sons.But we did not find any evidence that facial attractiveness is passed from father to son.”

语篇解读：本文介绍父母的相貌对后代的影响，Perrett教授提出理论认为，父母美貌往往遗传给女儿而不会遗传给儿子，而儿子往往只继承父亲阳刚的体魄。

6．Which of the followings is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Father and mother can influence the attractiveness of their children. B．Handsome fathers with masculine looks will not pass on masculine features. C．There is a strong relationship between the parents' attractiveness and the daughters. D．If the parents are supermodels，their sons will be good-looking.

解析：细节判断题。第二段介绍David Perrett 从事对家庭照片研究发现，父母都会影响女儿容貌，不会影响儿子的容貌，由此判断本题C项正确。

答案：C

7．What does the underlined word “lookers”in the fourth paragraph most probably mean?

A．On-lookers. B．Models. C．Beauties. D．Passers-by.

解析：词义猜测题。根据David Perrett提出的原理，父母的美貌遗传给女儿，所以如果父母是超级模特，他们的女儿就会貌美若仙，由此猜测looker是指貌美的女子。

答案：C

8．How many celebrity families are mentioned in the passage? A．Three. B．One. C．Two. D．Four.