《2025年高中同步测控优化设计高中英语选择性必修第二册人教版增强版》

### 阅读理解
#### 一、阅读课文“JOHN SNOW DEFEATS‘KING CHOLERA’”，将下列事件与所对应的项目匹配
1. People believed that cholera was caused by bad air or germs in food or water. ______
2. Snow marked on a map the places where the people who died had lived. ______
3. Many deaths occurred near the water pump in Broad Street and some people who hadn’t drunk the water from the pump lived. ______
4. The pump water carried cholera germs. ______
5. The handle of the pump was removed. ______
A. evidence B. theories C. solution D. conclusion E. process

答案： 1. B
2. E
3. A
4. D
5. C

#### 二、阅读课文“JOHN SNOW DEFEATS‘KING CHOLERA’”，选择最佳答案
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. The cause of cholera was polluted water.
B. John Snow was a well - known doctor in London.
C. The source of all drinking water should be examined.
D. How John Snow collected, analysed data and found the cause of the disease and solved it.
2. What was the cause of the disease of “King Cholera”?
A. A cloud of dangerous gas.
B. A river polluted by the dirty water.
C. Water in a certain pump in London.
D. The spread of virus among people.
3. Why did No. 21 Broad Street in London have no deaths?
A. People living there didn’t drink the polluted water from the pump, so they suffered no cholera germs at all.
B. People living there didn’t breathe the dangerous air.
C. People living there only drank the water from the pump.
D. People living there drank beer as well as water from the pump.
4. Which of the two theories that doctors in those days had was TRUE in the end?
A. Both. B. Neither.
C. The first one. D. The second one.
5. What do you think the Londoners would do with the unused pumps after defeating “King Cholera”?
A. They would destroy them.
B. They would desert them for good.
C. They would reuse them after cleaning them.
D. They would continue to use them without cleaning them.

答案： 1. D
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. C

#### 三、仔细阅读课文“JOHN SNOW DEFEATS‘KING CHOLERA’”，并根据课文内容将短文补充完整
In the times of Queen Victoria, “King Cholera” hit Londoners, 1. ____________ led to large numbers of 2. ____________（die）. Thanks 3. ____________ John Snow, a well - known doctor, this deadly disease finally got 4. ____________（control）. John Snow thought the most important thing was 5. ____________（find）its cause. So he began to gather the information. He made a map, 6. ____________ which he marked 7. ____________ the victims had lived. As a result, he found out that the 8. ____________（pollute）water was the cause of cholera and suggested that the source of all water supplies 9. ____________（examine）immediately. Finally “King Cholera” 10. ____________（defeat）.

答案： 1. which
2. deaths
3. to
4. controlled
5. to find
6. on
7. where
8. polluted
9.（should）be examined
10. was defeated