《2025年实验班全程提优训练高二英语选择性必修第二册人教版》

Ⅳ. (2025·山东滕州五中月考)阅读理解
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My first visit to Angkor Wat(吴哥窟) was in 1980. The country had been at war for many years and the temple was deserted and falling to pieces. Plants were growing out of the roofs, and trees were growing in the yards.
Today, the temple is the scene of a busy repair programme. A team of 15 Indian experts are organising a workforce of 400 Cambodians, most of them women, who are cleaning, repairing and rebuilding parts of this temple.
As I walked through the yards, I noticed the Cambodian women devote hours to cleaning carefully a tiny area of stone. Boards are laid down to protect the precious painted stones while the repair work is going on. There are very few machines and little heavy equipment. Workers carry building materials in buckets at the end of long poles. Piles of stones lie in a corner of the yard, waiting to be replaced.
The work of cleaning the stones is watched over by three Indian chemists. It is a very slow task. First they clean the stones with brushes using buckets of a weak chemical. Then gaps between the stones are filled in. Finally another material is painted onto the stones which will protect them from water forever.
Work starts every day at 7 a. m. and goes on until late afternoon six days a week, with a break at midday.
Evening is the best time to visit the temple, after the tour groups have left. As the sun sinks lower, shadows spread across the yard. After sunset, the sky turns pink. The grey stone towers take on a golden colour before turning pink. Nowhere else in the world can there be such a quiet, beautiful place.
1. According to the author, which of the following plays the LEAST important role in the repair work?
A. The women workers.
B. The Indian workers.
C. Machines.
D. Skilled workers.
(C)
2. The underlined sentence “the temple was deserted” probably means that ______.
A. there was no one in the temple and it was in a poor state
B. the temple was built on a desert and nobody noticed it
C. the temple was very old with a long history
D. the temple was repaired by the Cambodians, most of whom were women
(A)
3. To clean the stone, how many steps should be followed?
A. Two.
B. Three.
C. Four.
D. Five.
(B)
4. Which work needs a lot of time to do?
A. To get rid of certain types of plants.
B. To carry the building materials.
C. To replace the stones.
D. To clean the stones.
(D)

答案： 1. C 2. A 3. B 4. D