What change has already been…——2011 高考英语第 67 题答案解析

【考点】O6：社会文化类阅读；P2：文中细节；P4：逻辑推理．菁优网版权所有
【分析】本文属于说明文阅读，通过TPCGB竞选引出了高个子的人们对一些酒
店以及餐馆的需求，他们提议餐馆的桌子太矮以至于他们的腿没有空间，酒店
的床的尺寸也太小，而如今爱丁堡的一家酒店已经用更大尺寸的床替换了原来
的小尺寸的床．
【解答】答案：CBAB
64．C 细节理解题，根据第二段The Tall Persons Club Great Britain（TPCGB）,
which was formed six months ago to campaign （发起运动） for the needs of the
tall, has turned its attention to hotels and
restaurants．可知TPCGB竞选的目的是吸引人们关注高个子人们的需要，故选C
．
65．B 细节理解题，根据第四段Said TPCGB president Phil Heinricy, “Seven-foot
beds would work fine.”可知对于Phil Heinricy来说七尺的床是合适的，故选B．
66．A 推理判断题，根据第五段Similarly, restaurant tables can cause no end of
problems. Small tables, which mean the long-legged have to sit a foot or so away
from them, are enough to make tall customers go
elsewhere．可推知有小桌子的餐馆可能因为桌子太矮而会失去一些高个子的客
人，故选A．

【答案】B

【解析】细节理解题，根据最后一段At Queens Moat Houses’ Caledonian Hotel in
Edinburgh, 6′6″beds are now put in as standard after requests for longer beds from
taller visitors, particularly
Americans．可知在爱丁堡的一家酒店6′6″英尺的床已经代替了6′3″英尺的床，故
选B．
【点评】考查学生的细节理解和推理判断能力．做细节理解题时一定要找到文
章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确选择．在做推理判断题时不要以个
人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．
　
D
Cassandra Feeley finds it hard to manage on her husband’s income. So this year
she did something more than a hobby: She planted vegetables in her yard. For her fist

garden, Ms Feeley has put in 15 tomato plants, and five rows of a variety of
vegetables. The family’s old farm house has become a chicken house, its residents
arriving next month. Last year, Ms. Rita Gartin kept a small garden. This year she has
made it much larger because, she said, “The cost of everything is going up and I was
looking to lose a few pounds too; so it’s a win-win situation all around.”
They are among the growing number of Americans who, driven by higher living
costs and a falling economy (经济), have taken up vegetable gardening for the first
time. Others have increased the size of their existing gardens. Seed companies and
garden shops say no since the 1970s have there been such an increase in interest in
growing food at home. Now many gardens across the country have been sold out for
several months. In Austin, Tex, some of the gardens have a three-year waiting list.
George C. Ball Jr, owner of a company, said sales of vegetable seeds and plants
are up by 40%, over last year, double the average growth of last five years. Mr. Ball
argues that some of the reasons have been building for the last few years. The big one
is striking use in me cost on food like bread and milk, together with the increases in
the price of fruit and vegetables. Food prices have increase of higher oil price. People
are driving less, taking fewer vacations, so there more time to garden.