2014 届高考英语二轮复习 三月精品练习阅读理解 <br />1．Have you ever heard anyone say &ldquo;It’s raining cats and dogs&rdquo;? It means <br />&ldquo;It’s raining hard!&rdquo; <br /> But sometimes cats and dogs do drop from the sky! Here’s how it happens. <br /> Not so long ago, a country far away had many large rats. The people there <br />said, &ldquo; We need cats!&rdquo; So cats were sent to them by airplane. But the country <br />had many mountains. It was hard for an airplane to land. So the cats came down <br />by parachute( 降 落 伞 ). Did the cats like the ride? They didn’t say they <br />didn’t! And today they are still catching rats! <br />In another country far away, there is snow the year around. People sometimes <br />got lost in it. <br /> &ldquo;We need big dogs!&rdquo; the people said, &ldquo;The dogs could find people lost <br />in the snow. The dogs could help bring them home. Where can we get big dogs?&rdquo; <br />A man across the sea had big dogs to sell. &ldquo;I will send dogs to you,&rdquo; he said. <br />&ldquo; I have some very big ones. They can find people lost in the snow.&rdquo;He sent <br />the dogs by airplane. <br /> But the airplane did not land in the snow. The dogs came down by parachute <br />---- you guessed it !Did the dogs like the ride? They didn’t say they didn’t! <br />And today they are well and happy.They find anyone who gets lost in the snow. <br />Then they help him get home. Good dogs!Remember it, so you can say, &ldquo; Yes, it <br />does rain cats and dogs sometimes. They came down by parachute!&rdquo; <br />【小题 1】The underlined word &ldquo; it&rdquo; In Paragraph 2 refers to __________. <br /> A．the weather <br /> B．the saying &ldquo;It’s raining cats and dogs.&rdquo; <br /> C．the saying &ldquo;It’s raining hard.&rdquo; <br /> D．the fact that real cats and dogs drop from the sky. <br />【小题 2】Cats and dogs drop from the sky because ______. <br /> A．there are many mountains in the country. <br /> B. it snows the year around in the country. <br /> C. was hard for a plane to land in the two countries. <br /> D. coming down by parachute could save money. <br />【小题 3】The main purpose of the passage is to _________________. <br /> A．tell the readers cats and dogs do drop from the sky <br /> B．tell the readers of a new meaning about an old saying. <br /> C．show cats and dogs are our good friends. <br /> D．show parachute is an important <br />Looking back on my childhood. I am convinced that naturalists are born and not <br />made. Although we were brought up in the same way, my brothers and sisters soon <br />abandoned their pressed flowers and insects. Unlike them, I had no ear for music <br />and languages. I was not an early reader and I could not do mental arithmetic. <br /> Before Word War I we spent our summer holidays in Hungary. I have only the <br />dim memory of the house we lived in, of my room and my toys. Nor do I recall <br />clearly the large family of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins who <br />gathered next door....