精品解析：2024届河南省宜阳县第一高级中学高三上学期许平济洛毕业班二测模拟（一）英语试题

2024许平济洛毕业班二测模拟(一) 英语试卷 全卷满分 120分 时长 120min 第二部分 阅读理解(每小题2.5分，共50分) 第一节 四选一 A Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: “Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s palace”. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but the took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace. 1. Why did the editor act as he did? A. Because he wanted an excuse to fire the journalist. B. Because he had not read the article beyond the first sentence. C. Because he was dissatisfied with the factual content of the article. D. Because he wanted to please the president of the new African republic. 2. Why did the journalist take a long time to send the details required? A. Because it took him a long time to count all the steps. B. Because he had not been allowed to fax the informat