2014中职对口高考英语复习题库阅读理解集中练（十五）.docVIP

对口高考英语复习题库：阅读理解 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 If you want to know how crazy people can be about their pets, you might remember that Helmsley left $12 million to her little Maltese dog when she died last year. The dogs name is Trouble. And apparendy Trouble is still alive. Of course, I would hang on,too, if someone left me $12 million. Look! Top-shelf dog food, soft pillows everywhere, drivers walking me in nice leafy parks. I would live to be 110 in dog years. The dogs story is still fresh in my mind the other night when I leave a steak house after a superb meal. Then I notice a woman carrying a small bag out of the door behind me. Once outside, she walks over to where a man is holding a tiny dog hke its a baby. The dog looks like a Maltese, too, barking and annoying, with a cute haircut, And now I am treated to an absolute astonishing sight. Because now the woman reaches into the bag and begins pulling out little pieces of meat, which she puts on a plastic spoon and feeds to the dog. This is no cheap steak house. Its actually, way out of my league --Im there only because its a special occasion. I can tell you this: if I walked out of the place with any leftover steak, it sure wouldnt go to a dog. Not at those prices. So now the woman is Spoon-feeding the dog and the man is just standing there, holding this dog and looking as if this is the most normal thing in the world. And the dog is calmly chewing these pieces of steak as if hes a little king. And this dog is in no hurry. Hes having a great time. A few minutes go by, and now the dog finishes all of his steak. At this point, I hear the woman say to the man Think hes still hungry? And she glances behind her at the restaurant, as if she might go back in there to get more steak for the dog. Watching all this, Im afraid Im going to shout, Are you out of your mind? Feeding all that pricey steak to that little dog? Did you see what our American life is like today? Were al