高考英语阅读理解模拟试题汇总训练
Passage 1
Kings and queens might spend their whole lives getting a strong tomb ready. After they died, their bodies were placed there As the years went by, many of these tombs were forgotten until they were found and opened by archaeologists（考古学家）.
The kings and queens of Old Egypt were rich and powerful. Their tombs tell much about their lives. Archaeologists have looked for these tombs for many years. They have been very much interested in the way people lived in Egypt long ago. One of them was from England, named Howard Carter. In 1917 he began his work of digging for some of the old tombs in a place called
the Valley of the kings. For more than five years he worked there with some other people. But he didn’t find much of great value. He had almost been disappointed. But he kept on with the work.
Then one day in the autumn of 1922, one of his men uncovered something that looked like a doorstep（门前台阶）. There was a second step below. They dug on. Soon the top of doorway showed up. An important discovery was made ! This was the tomb of a young king, named Tutankhamen.
There were four rooms in the tomb. Three of them were piled high with boxes, jewels, diamonds and many other beautiful things. There was a golden chair, several golden chariots（战车）, the king’s hunting bows, and even his shoes. All these things had been put near the king for him to use in the next world.
The fourth room held a huge coffin（棺材）. In it there were three more coffins, one inside
the other. The last one was made of gold. In it was the body of Tutankhamen. The body had been prepared with chemicals and was wrapped in cloth. A body that is protected in this way is called a mummy.
Multiple Choice:
1. Archaeologists looked for the tombs in the Valley of the kings because they wanted __________.
A. to get the treasure for themselves
B. to know the value of the treasure
C. to know the way to protect the body of a dead king
D. to study the way the Egyptians lived long ago
2. The things were put into the king’s tomb because __________.
A. he loved them
B. he owned them
C. he thought they might be useful after his death
D. he though they might be valuable for archaeologists
3. Howard Carter was once disappointed because __________.
A. he had worked five years
B. he missed his family in England
C. he hadn’t found anything valuable
D. he had made an important discovery
4. The body of Tutankhamen was found in __________.
A. the first room
B. the last room
C. the third room
D. the second room
5. The Valley of the Kings must be a place where __________.
A. the kings were buried
B. the kings were born
C. Tutankhamen was born
D. Howard Carter didn’t find anything of great value
Passage 2
Last night I was driving from Harrisburg to Lewisburg, a distance of about 80 miles. It was
late, I was late, and if anyone asked me how fast I was driving, I’d have to plead
（以……为借
口）the fifth Amendment（修正案）to avoid being charged.
At one point along an open highway, I came to a crossroads with a traffic light. I was alone
on the road by now, but as I approached the light, it turned red, and I braked to a sudden stop. I
looked left, right, and behind me. Nothing. Not even any suggestion of head lights, but there I sat,
waiting for the light to change, the only human being for at least a mile in any direction.
I started wondering why I refused to run the light. I was not afraid of being arrested, because
there was obviously no cop any where around and there certainly would have been no danger in
going through it .
Much later that night, after I’d met with a group in Lewisburg and had climbed into bed near midnight, the question of why I’d stopped for that light came back to me. I think I stopped because
it’s part of a contract we all have with each other. It’s not only the law, but it’s an have, and we trust each other to honor it: we don’t go through red lights. Like most of us, I
more likely to be restrained（约束）from doing something bad by the social convention（习俗）
that disapproves of it than by any law against it.
It’s amazing that we ever trust each other to do the right thing, isn’t it? And we do, too is our first consideration. We have to make a deliberate decision to mistrust someone or to be
suspicious.
It’s a pretty good thing, too, because the whole structure of our society depends on mutual
（相互的）trust, not distrust. This whole thing we have going for us would fall apart if we didn’t trust each other most of the time.
Multiple Choice:
6. How fast was the author driving last night?
A. at a normal speed.
B. At an illegally high speed.
C. At a slow speed.
D. At a speed permitted by the Fifth Amendment.
7. The author looked around at the crossroads in order to __________.
A. make sure that there was no policeman nearby
B. find out who had changed the light into red
C. see if there were any other cars around
