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阅读理解
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第四部分：阅读理
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A
A
:
On today's Words and Their Stories we
talk about a common word, a small word, but a word
that is completely necessary for human
life. In fact, without this simple, everyday
material, all
humans would die.
B
:
Scientists know it as sodium chloride.
We know it as salt.
You may
think, salt is just a simple cooking element we
shake on our food for a little extra taste.
But salt is much more than that.
A
:
Without salt our muscles would not
move. Our nervous systems would not operate. Our
hearts
would not beat. Salt means life.
But do not think rubbing
salt in a wound will help. Doing that would be
painful and not heal the
wound. To rub
salt in a wound is an idiom that means to
purposefully make a bad situation worse.
B
:
Early humans got the salt they needed
to stay alive from the animals they killed. But
advances
in agriculture led to a diet
low in salt. So, humans needed to find other
sources.
A
:
Those who lived near the ocean or other
natural sources for salt were lucky. Those who did
not
had to trade for salt. In fact,
people used salt as a method of payment in many
parts of the ancient
world. The word
B
:
Salt also played an important part in
population movement and world exploration.
Explorers
understood that if they could
keep food fresh, they could travel longer
distances. So they used salt
to
preserve food and explored the world.
Salt meant movement.
A
:
Salt also
changed the way nations fought. With preserved
food on ships, nations could sail to
distant lands …and then attack them.
Salt meant power.
B
:
Salt was so important that, according
to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound
for gold.
Today, people still use the
expressions to be worth one's salt or worth one's
weight in salt. The
expressions
describe a person who is useful, a person of
value.
A
:
A person might
also be called salt of the earth. That description
means he or she is dependable
and
trustworthy. The phrase comes from the Christian
Bible. Jesus called his loyal group of
followers -- or disciples -- the salt
of the earth.
B
:
But one of these disciples was not so
loyal. The disciple Judas betrayed Jesus. In his
famous
painting
,
sign of bad luck
and trouble. And trouble is exactly what Judas
gave Jesus.
A
:
Even today, some people throw salt over
one shoulder if they spill it. They believe
throwing
salt behind them scares any
devil that has been following them -- or at least
blinds it for a second
while they run
away.
B
:
But these stories about bad luck should
be taken with a grain of salt. In other words,
listen to a
story or an explanation
with suspicion and distrust.
A
:
But you don't
have to take the information you find on VOA
Learning English with a grain of
salt.
We do our research.
B
:
What about
your culture? Do you have any idioms or
expressions about salt? In the comments
section, share a story of salt from
your culture.
I'm Jonathan
Evans.
A
:
And I'm Anna Matteo. Join us again for
another Words and Their Stories. We'll take a
deeper
look at the words in American
English.
56. How many other
meanings does salt have on top of a little extra
taste?
A. Five.
B.
Four.
C.
Three.
D. Two.
57. Which of the following
is True
?
A. To rub salt in a wound
can make things from good to better.
B. If we say somebody is worth his
salt, we mean he is significant.
C. If you take his adventure story with
a grain of salt, you don't think he is
trustworthy.
D. If you have
bad luck, throwing salt on one shoulder can
help.
【答案】
BC
【解析】本文主要讲述关于盐的一些习语，盐的意义有
4
种：盐只是一个简单的烹饪元素，
我们摇动
我们的食物有点额外的味道
.
盐意味着生活。意味着运动。意味
着力量。
56.
B.
细节题。
salt is
just a simple cooking element we shake on our food
for a little extra taste.
Salt means
meant meant
power.
可知盐只是一个简单的烹饪元素，我们
摇动我们的食物有点额外的味道。盐意味着生活。意味着运动。意味着力量。说明盐有
4
种含义，所以
B
选项是
正确的。
57.C.
细节题。
根据文章中的
But these stories about
bad luck should be taken with a grain of salt.
In other words, listen to a story or an
explanation with suspicion and distrust.
可知但是这些关于
厄运的故事应该用一粒盐来进行。
换句话说
，
听故事的时候要带着怀疑和不信任，
说明他是
不值得信任的，所以
C
选项是正确的。
B
Dishonesty
is a slippery slope. If you behave dishonestly
once, you may become more likely
to do
so again in the future, a new study from England
showed. The reason may be that the brain
grows less sensitive to self-serving
dishonest behavior over time, the researcher
said.
In the study, the
researchers asked 80 adults aged 18 to 65 to
advise a second person about
the amount
of money in a glass jar of pennies. In several of
the trials, conditions made sure
dishonesty benefited the participants.
For example, the researchers might promise the
participants
a higher reward if their
partners overestimated the number of pennies in
the jar.
People’ s
dishonesty escalated (
升级
)
over the course of these trials. “This study is
the first
experimental evidence that
dishonest behavior escalates,” said Neil Garrett,
the lead author of the
study and an
experimental psychology researcher at University
College London.
With 25 of
the participants, the researchers conducted the
penny-jar experiments while a
functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) machine scanned the person’s brain. The
results
showed that the amygdala, a
part of the brain connected to emotions, showed a
marked reduction
in activity in
response to self-serving dishonesty over the
course of the trials.
In
fact, researchers found that the amount of the
reduction in the amygdala’s activity for each
trial could predict the amount
t
hat the participant’s dishonesty would
increase by in the next trial:
The more
the amygdala’s activity reduces during one trial,
the bigger the lie would be the next
time. “It is likely that brain’s
blunted response to repeated acts of dishonesty
reflects
a reduced
emotional
response to these acts,” Garrett said.
The study also offers support for the
idea that the activity in the amygdala “signals
aversion
(
厌恶
) to
acts that we consider wrong or immoral,” Garrett
said. In other words, whenever a
person
lies for personal gain, the amygdala produces a
negative feeling that helps control that
act-but the more often a
person lies, the more the response fades, leading
to a slippery slope that
may encourage
an escalation of dishonest behavior.
People in the study actually lied the
most when their lies benefited both them and their
partners. “This may be because it is
easier to rationalize these lies,” said Tail
Sharot, the senior
author of the study
and an associate professor of cognitive
neuroscience at University College
London. In this condition, the amygdala
did not show the same response pattern as when
people
lied simply to benefit
themselves.
Interestingly,
though, the researchers found that study
participants never lied as much as they
could have. Participant
s’
estimates of the value of the coins in the jar
were always significantly
lower than
the ceiling, meaning that the individuals “always
had an opportunity to lie more than
they actually did,” the paper said.
Sharot explained that people usually lie by
jus
t a little bit,
perhaps
so they can still hold a relatively positive
perception of themselves.
“Still, the results may have important
implications for other types of
decision
-making, such
as
risk-
taking or violent behavior,” the
researchers said. “The resu
lts show the
possible dangers of
regular engagement
in small acts of dishonesty, risks that are
frequently observed in fields ranging
from business to politics and law
enforcement,” the scientists wrote in their
findings. “The study
suggests that
repeated
small lies may pave the way
for larger lies over time,” the researchers
said.
58. What does the
underlined sentence in Paragraph 1
mean?
A. Dishonesty can
change a person as time goes on.
B. Dishonesty makes a person’s brain
less sensitive.
C.
Dishonesty makes a person tend to feel
ashamed.
D. Dishonesty may
lead to more dishonest behavior.
59. According to the study, lies easily
occur when
.
A. lies benefit
those who tell lies
B. people have been lied to
C. people have no choice but to lie
D. both sides benefit from
these lies
60. It can be
inferred that the study in the passage
.
A.
makes no sense
B. is not reliable
C. is
very significant
D. is quite
comprehensive
61. Which
would be the best title for the
passage?
A. Lies develop
more lies
B. Dishonesty is bad
manners
C. The
brain is used dishonestly
D. The brain is less sensitive to lies
【答案】
DDCA
【解析】
58.
细节理解题。
根据第一段中的
you
may become more likely to do so again in the futur
e,
可知
选择
D
项。
59.
细节理解题。根据倒数第三段
People in the
study actually lied the most when their lies
benefited both them and their partners.
可知选择
D
项。
60.
推理判断题。根据最后一段的
“Still, the
results may have important implications for other
types of decision-
making,…”<
/p>
可知
C
项合适。
61.
主旨大意题。根据第一段以及后面段落的调查可知选择
A
项。
C
Two new
electronic book products (the SoftBook and the
PocketBook) have gathered
extensive
press coverage, including articles in ABC News,
the New York Times, San Jose
Mercury
News, and WIRED.
An electronic book
(e-book) is a book-length publication in digital
form, consisting of text,
images, or
both, and produced on, published through, and
readable on computers or other
electronic devices. Different from a
traditional printed book, e-books are born
digital.
Being a firm believer in tablet computers for many
tasks not involving heavy data entry, I
applaud these new designs of the
products. In particular, the SoftBook has nice
leather
binding(
封
皮
),
going far beyond the traditional (and boring)
industrial design used for other portable
computers. The PocketBook has a more
traditional industrial design, typical of leading
electronic
gadgets(
小配件
).
Unfortunately, neither company mentions
their product's screen
resolution(
分辨率
).
Low-resolution monitors (including all
computer screens until now) have poor readability:
people
read about 25% slower from
computer screens than from printed paper.
Scientists believe that
only the screen
with 300 dpi displays has the same reading speed
as print. So unless they have
much
better screens, electronic books will have a
problem.
A project called
in the form
of a folio(
对开本
): a set of
pages using
information by turning
pages just as they do in a printed book.
Hopefully, the scientists will
eventually invent a way to make the
gain the same reading speed as print.
Even when e-books gain the same reading
speed as print, they will still be a bad idea.
Page
turning remains a bad
interface(
界面
), even when it
can be done more conveniently than by
clicking the mouse on a
Another
problem is that most e-book publishers do not warn
their customers about the real
meaning
of the digital rights management (DRM) tied to
their products. Generally they claim that
it is meant to prevent copying of the
e-book. However, in many cases it is also possible
that it will
result in the complete
denial of access by the purchaser to the e-book.
The e-book is tied to a
specific
computer or device. In these cases, the DRM will
usually let the purchaser move the book
a limited number of times after which
they cannot use it on any additional devices. If
the
purchaser upgrades or replaces
their devices, they may lose access to their
purchase. Some forms
of the DRM depend
on the existence of online services to
authenticate(
认证
) the
purchasers.
When the company that
provides the service goes out of business or
decides to stop providing the
service,
the purchaser will no longer be able to access the
e-book.
62.
From the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3, we
know that the writer _____.
A. has bought the two new products
before
B. likes the special
designs of the new products
C. thinks it more convenient to use
traditional computers
D.
doesn't like the traditional design of portable
computers
63. We can learn
from the passage that _____.
A. born digital, e-books can only be
read on computers
B.
C. now all the computers
are using the screens with 300 dpi
displays
D. e-books may have
slower reading speed compared with printed
books
64. Due to the digital
rights management, _____.
A.
the e-book should be tied to a specific
device
B. people should
upgrade their devices regularly
C. readers are likely to lose access to
their purchase
D. only
purchasers can download the book without
limit
65. This
passage mainly talks about _____.
A. the disadvantages of electronic
books
B. the future of
electronic books
C. the
designs of electronic books
D. two new electronic books
【答案】
BDCA
【解析】
62.
推断题。由第三段作者对
Softbook
和
Pocketbook
设计的称赞可知作者非常喜欢新产
品的设计，故正确答案为
B
。
63.
细节题。由第四段第二句
“people read about 25% slower from
computer screens than from
printed
paper.”
可知
D
项正确。
A
项，由第三段第一句
“Being a firm b
eliever in
tablet
computers for many tasks not
involving heavy data entry, I applaud these new
designs of the
products.”
可知
A
项错误。
B
项，由第五段最后一句
“Hopefully, the
scientists will eventually
invent a way
to make the
same reading speed as
print.”
可知这项技术现在还未实现，所以
B
项错误。
C
项，文中没有
相关内容，所以
C
项错误。故正确答案为
D
。
64.
< br>细节题。
由最后一段第二、
三句
“Generally they claim that it is meant
to prevent copying of
the e-book.
However, in many cases it is also possible that it
will result in the complete denial of
access by the purchaser to the
e-
book.”
可知正确答案为
C
。
65.
主旨题。作者在文章开头介绍了两种新的电子书产品并称赞了其设计，但接下来作者主
要
讲的是电子书的缺点，
包括分辨率低、
界面设计不合理以及版权
问题等，
由此可推断作者
写这篇文章主要是为了谈论电子书的缺
点，所以
A
项正确。而
B
、
C
、
D
< br>项均未谈及电子书
的缺点，所以
B
、
C
、
D
项
错误。故正确答案为
A
。
D
For
many people, particularly immigrants, the American
Dream is that talent and hard work
can
take you from log cabin to the White House. Tony
Trivisonno did not rise as high as the White
House, yet he managed to make his own
dream come true.
He came from a farm in Italy. One
evening I found him standing behind my garage.
（割草）
your lawn,
I asked him his name.
couldn't afford a gardener.
difficult, but
how could I refuse a person who had come to me for
help?
When I
got home from work the next evening, the lawn had
been mowed and the walks
swept. I asked
my wife what had happened.
I told her of my
experience the night before. We thought it strange
that Tony had not asked
for pay.
The next
Friday, I saw Tony again, behind the garage. I
praised him for the work he had
done.
I managed to give him some
kind of small weekly pay, and each day Tony
cleaned up the
yard and took care of
any little tasks. My wife said he was very helpful
whenever there were
anything heavy to
lift or things to fix.
Summer passed into fall, and winds blew
cold.
one evening.
Well, how do you deal with such
determination and hope? Of course, Tony got his
job at the
factory.
One day I found Tony at our
meeting place behind the garage.
（学
徒）
We had a pretty good
apprentice school that trained workers. But I
doubted whether Tony
were able to read
blueprints or do precision work. Still, how could
I turn him down?
Tony took a cut in pay to become an
apprentice. Months later, I got a report that he
had
graduated as a skilled grinder
（磨工）
. My wife and I were
delighted with what Tony had
achieved.
A year or two passed, and
again I found Tony in his usual waiting place.
I
called on a banker friend.
you that. He's
got a good job. And he will pay your interest.
Unwillingly, the banker loaned Tony 2,
000 and helped him buy the house. Tony was
delighted.
From the non, it was
interesting to see that any abandoned odds and
ends around our place were
gathered and
taken home by Tony.
After about two years, I found Tony in
our familiar meeting spot. He seemed to stand a
little
straighter and looked confident.
We
sat down and talked. He told me that he had
persuaded his childhood friend to move to
America. With a satisfied look in his
eye, he told me that when they came to his little
farm, his
friend stood in amazement and
said,
Then, during the World
War
Ⅱ
, news came from my
company that Tony had passed away.
When my people came to visit his
family, they found the farm green with vegetables,
the little
house comfortable and homey.
The children were educated and working, and Tony
didn't owe a
cent.
Tony, as well as all the greatest
American businessmen, had reached their success in
the same
way and by the same values:
vision, determination, optimism, self-respect and,
above all, honesty.
Tony Trivisonno came to America seeking
the American Dream. But he didn't find it-he
created it for himself. All he had were
24 precious hours a day, and he wasted none of
them.
66. Why
did Tony repeat
A. He was
determined to get a chance to work.
B. He asked for pay for his
excellent garden work.
C. He thought he was good at garden
work.
D. He was
ready to help others out.
67. Which of the following sentences
brought out Tony's character of honesty?
A. Tony was very helpful whenever there
were anything heavy to lift or things to fix.
B. Tony
persuaded his childhood friend to move to America.
C. Any
abandoned odds and ends around our place were
gathered and taken home by Tony.
D. The children were educated and
working, and Tony didn't owe a cent.
68. What did the author
mean by saying
A. He was
asking the banker the way the banks loan money to
people.
B. He
thought a determined and diligent man should get a
loan despite poverty.
C. He was begging the banker to help
Tony for the sake of their personal relation.
D. He supposed
a loan should be given to people according to
their characters.
69. The fact that Tony sold his house
and bought a farm indicated that Tony is a man
of______ .
A. vision
B.
optimism
C.
self-respect
D. honesty
70.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the
passage?
A. The author refused
Tony's offer of mowing the lawn when they first
met.
B. The
author didn't pay Tony for his cleaning up the
yard.
C. The
author doubted Tony's being a good apprentice due
to his poor education.
D. The banker loaned Tony $$ 2, 000
because he believed Tony was honest.
[
答案
]A
DBAC
[
解析
]
66. A.
细节理解题
.
根据
Depression days
were difficult, but how could I refuse a person
who had come to me for help?
可
知
,
他重复说我修剪你的草坪
,
是他决心要获得一份工作
.
所以
A
选项是正确的
.
67. D.
推理判断题
.
根据
When my people came to
visit his family, they found the farm green
with vegetables, the little house
comfortable and homey. The children were educated
and working,
and Tony didn't owe a
cent.
可以推测出
,
孩子们受过教育和工作
,
托尼不欠一分钱显示出了
托尼的真诚
.
所以
D
选项是正确的
< br>.
68. B.
推理判断题
.
根据上下文
I called on a banker
friend.
character?
man of
character, I can promise you that. He's got a good
job. And he will pay your interest.
可以
推测出
,
作者说这句话的意思是他认为一个坚定和勤奋的男人应该得到贷款
,
尽管贫困
.
69. A.
细节理解题
.
根据
He told me that
he had persuaded his childhood friend to move to
America. With asatisfied look in
his
eye, he told me that when they came to his little
farm, his friend stood in amazement and said,
可以看出
,
卖了房子买农场是一个智慧的决定
.
所以
A
选项是正
确的
< br>.
70. C.
细节理解题
.
根据
We had a pretty good
apprentice school that trained workers. But I
doubted
whether Tony were able to read
blueprints or do precision work. Still, how could
I turn him down?
可知
,
由于托尼受到的教育低
,
作者怀疑他能否成为一名好的学徒
.
所以
C
选项是正确的
.
兴化市第一中学
< br>第三部分：阅读理解（共
15
小题；每小题
2
分，满分
30
分）
请认真阅读下列短文
,
< br>从短文后各题所给的
A
、
B
、
C
、
D
四个选项中，选出最佳选项
,
并在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
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For Yali Liu, the hardest
thing about UK higher education is having to
g
o to the pub. “It’s
how
much you need to invest socially with other
students,” she says. “I don’t like going to a pub
or club, but people just keep going out
and I feel the pressure to go out too.” This is
because,
unlike in China, she says,
there is so much emphasis during the course on
teamwork and group
projects, so
socializing with other students
–
especially British people,
is crucial.
Liu, 23, who is in her
final year of a BSc in business administration at
the University of Bath,
is one of more
than 80,000 Chinese students studying in UK
universities. They are responsible for
a large proportion of the more than
￡
10bn a year that
international students contribute to the
UK economy. However, research shows
that where their academic
attainment(
成就
) is
concerned, the picture is not
satisfactory. While nearly 58% of all students
–
and 45% of overseas
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D. $$215
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China.
To find
an explanation, Zhiqi Wang and Ian Crawford,
lecturers at the University of Bath,
compared the performance of Chinese and
British undergraduates in each year of their
degree.
Taking a sample of 100 British
and Chinese students and comparing their average
marks and final
degree classification,
they found a dramatic drop in performance among
the Chinese students
between year one,
when they performed better than their UK
counterparts, and year two, when
they
performed worse.
They believe the drop
results from two factors. First, Chinese students
fail to adapt their
approaches to
learning and so their performance declines in the
later years when the complexity
of the
work increases. Second, many young people in China
enroll in higher education due to
pressure from family rather than their
own motivation.
Professor Sedghi thinks
part of the problem may be the changing socio-
economic
background of Chinese
undergraduates. While 85% of Chinese students at
British universities
before 2000 were
mature students, often funded by the government,
since 2004, however, they
have been
younger, most funded by their families.
Maybe UK institutions need to work
harder to take into account what a big challenge
it is
for young people from a radically
different culture and linguistic background to
adapt to life in
the UK. “We
ne
ed to do more, contacting students
before their arrival, assigning them tutors,
encouraging peer-
assisted
learning, for example,” says Sedghi.
58. What can be inferred about Yali Liu
from the passage?
A. Her family can’t afford
her education in the UK.
B. She is
bored with the teamwork and
group
projects.
C. She is not good at socializing with
local students.
first-class degree.
59. Which of the following is NOT a
possible factor for Chinese students’
unsatisfactory
attainment?
A.
They don’t adjust their studying methods in
time.
achieve success.
C.
They haven’t got necessary support from the UK
universities.
D.
The university won’t award her a
B.
They are lacking in motivation to
D. They are too
young and mostly come from poor families.
60. The passage mainly talks about
in
UK universities.
A. the great pressure
Chinese students are suffering
east and
the west
C. main reasons for Chinese students’
poor performance
D. possible
solutions to the problems facing Chinese students
C
B. cultural differences between the
For years, scientists and
others concerned about climate change have been
talking about
the need for carbon
capture and storage (CCS).
That is the term for removing carbon
dioxide from, say, a coal-burning pow
er
plant’s
smokestack and pumping it deep
underground to keep it out of the atmosphere,
where it would
otherwise contribute to
global warming.
However,
currently, only one power plant in Canada captures
and stores carbon on a
commercial scale
(and it has been having problems). Among the
concerns about storage is that
carbon
dioxide in gaseous or liquid form that is pumped
underground might escape back to the
atmosphere. So storage sites would have
to be monitored, potentially for decades or
centuries.
But scientists at Lamont-
Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University
and other
institutions have come up
with a different way to store
CO
2
that might eliminate
that problem.
Their approach involves
dissolving the gas with water and pumping the
resulting mixture
—
soda
water, essentially
—
down into certain kinds of
rocks, where the CO
2
reacts
with the rock to form
a mineral called
calcite(
方解石
). By turning the
gas into stone, scientists can lock it away
permanently. Volcanic rocks called
basalts(
玄武岩
) are excellent
for this process, because they
are rich
in calcium, magnesium and iron, which react with
CO
2
.
The project called CarbFix started in
Iceland, 2012, when the scientists pumped about
250
tons of carbon dioxide, mixed with
water, about 1,500 feet down into porous basalt.
Early signs
were encouraging: The
scientists found that about 95 percent of the
carbon dioxide was changed
into
calcite. And even more importantly, they wrote,
the change happened relatively quickly
—
in less than
two years.
“It’s beyond all our
expectations,” said Edda Aradottir, who manages
the project. Rapid
change of the
CO
2
means that a project
would probably have to be monitored for a far
shorter
time than a more conventional
storage site.
There are still concerns
about whether the technology will prove useful in
the fight against
global warming. For
one thing, it would have to be scaled up
enormously. For another, a lot of
water
is needed
—
25 tons of it
for every ton of CO
2
—
along with the right kind
of rock.
But the researchers say that
there is enough porous basaltic rock in Iceland,
including in the
ocean floors and along
the margins of continents. And sitting a storage
project in or near the
ocean could
potentially solve the water problem at the same
time, as the researchers say
seawater
would work just fine.
61. What can we
learn about CCS in Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A. Scientists believe global warming
will be avoided if CO
2
is
pumped underground.
B. There is no
guarantee that CO
2
will not
escape even if pumped underground.
C.
It’
s been a common practice in many
plants to capture and store
CO
2
underground.
D. It requires decades to turn
CO
2
into liquid form and be
locked underground.
62. What materials
should be involved in the project CarbFix?
A. Water, CO
2
,
soda water and basalts
C.
CO
2
, basalts, a pump and
calcite
B. Water, soda water, a
pump and calcite
D. Water,
CO
2
, a pump and basalts
63. According to Edda Aradottir, the
result of the project was beyond the researchers’
expectations, because
.
A. it’s
disappoint
ing to discover new problems
caused by rapid change
B. it’s puzzling
to find the encouraging but unexpected result of
the project
C. it’s amazing
to see 95% of the carbon dioxide turn into calcite
that fast
D. it’s exciting
to sense the problem of storing
CO
2
likely to be
solved
64. What is the author’s purpose
in writing the passage?
A. To inform us of a breakthrough in
storing CO
2
.
storing CO
2
.
B. To praise the efforts of scientists
in
C. To show the different ways to
fight against CO
2
. D. To
urge people to produce the least
possible CO
2
.
D
“What defines you?” That’s what Lizzie
Velasquez asked the crowds of people who came to
hear her motivational speeches.
Due to a rare
syndrome(
综合症
), from the
second when Velasquez was born incredibly ugly,
the doctors prepared her parents to
accept absolutely nothing out of her, no crying,
no walking, no
crawling and literally
nothing. But her parents decided to take her home,
love her and raise her the
best as they
could. They brought her up completely normally, so
normally that when she started
kindergarten she had no clue that she
was different.
Unfortunately she had to
find it out in a way like a big slap of reality
for a 5-year-old. No one
wanted to play
with her or stand by her. No one wanted to have a
single thing to do with her. As
a
little girl, she couldn’t understand, because she
was raised still normally. So she had to go
home and ask her parents. And they
encouraged her to go back to school and be herself
so
eventually everyone would see she
was just like them. So again, at such a young age,
she was
forced to a situation where she
could either choose to be happy or choose to give
up. Luckily, she
chose to be happy.
When she was in high school, one day
she was shocked to click on one video of herself
label
ed “the World’s Ugliest
Woman”, which was only 8 seconds long but had over
4 million
views. The comments that went
along were horrible. “Why would her parents keep
her?!” read
one; “Kill it with fire!”
said another. And they continued on and on. She
wanted
to fight back at
some
of the commentators, like one specifically who
told her to put a gun to her head and kill
herself. So again, she was
put in the position to choose happiness or to
choose to give up.
And
again with the help of family, Velasquez found the
strength to channel the hatred into
motivation and to rise above the
cruelty. At that moment, she was going to let her
goals, her
success and her
accomplishments be the things that define her, not
her outer appearance, not
the doctors
who said she would accomplish nothing or those
people who called her a monster.
She decided to be a motivational
speaker and 2013 was the eighth year of her
motivational
speaking. She decided to
write a book. During her first year in college,
she published her first
book
Lizzie is beautiful
in
English and Spanish and then the second one
Be beautiful, be you
and
then the third. She decided to graduate
from college and she got her degree from Texas
State
University in May, 2013. One of
the biggest motivations for her to accomplish all
those things
was that Youtube video.
She will go back to that video and look at every
hateful and nasty
comment and it will
inspire her to keep going and work even harder.
Lizzie Velasquez once made the
headlines as the world’s ugliest woman,
b
ut she finally
shrugged off
the hurtful comments about her looks as just
words. Now, she is not letting anything
or anyone hold her back and is using
her devotion to religion to help diminish the
hatred that
comes her way by overriding
it with an inspirational message of love and
acceptance. She has
resolved to take
charge of her life by killing the negativity with
ambition and is consistently
redefining
what it means to be beautiful on her own terms.
And she wins!
65. Reactions
towards Velasquez’s appeara
nce are as
follows EXCEPT
.
A.
the doctors advised accepting nothing out of her
B. netizens
intentionally pushed her
to kill
herself
C. her classmates refused to keep her
company
as
normal
66. According to Velasquez, what
is the best response to those who commented
bitterly online?
A. Making
achievements.
C. Turning to her family.
B.
Deleting the comments.
D. her parents
decided to bring her up
D. Fighting
right back.
67. The underlined sentence
in the last paragraph probably means
.
A. she could
be easily set off by those hurtful comments
B. she painfully managed to focus on
her achievements
C. she didn’t care
about those hurtful comments eventually
D. she felt sad whenever
looking back on the hurtful words
68.
Which of the following can best describe
Velasquez?
A. diligent and outspoken.
B. flexible and
sympathetic.
D.
brave and considerate.
C. optimistic
and determined.
69. The sentence
‘‘
At that point she was deciding how
she was going to revenge(
报复
)
and finally
she decided to fight back
in a different way.
’’ can be put at the
end of
Paragraph
.
A. 5
B.
4
C. 3
D. 6
70. What is the best title of the
passage?
A. Appearance: something to define you
B. Velasquez: a
brave and beautiful heart
D. Speech: a
way to make you stronger
C. Achievement: something
to support you
IV
.
阅读理解
56-57 AB
58
–
60CDC
61-64BDCA
65-70 BACCAB
扬州中学
第三部分
阅读理解
（共
15
小题；每小题
2
分，满分
30
分）
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读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的
A
、
B
、
C
、
D<
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四个选项中，选出最佳选项，
并
在答题纸上将该项涂黑。
A
You have a choice of three Supafone
Mobile Digital access plans: Leisuretime,
Executive and
Highflier. They are
designed to meet the needs of light, moderate and
high-volume users. Calls in
each plan
are charged at only two rates: short-distance and
long-distance. You enjoy big savings
with off-peak calls.
LEISURETIME
Your mobile
phone is mainly for personal use. You use your
phone to keep family and friends in
touch. You don’t want to strain your
budget
（预算紧张）
.
With this plan you enjoy the lowest
monthly access fee and extremely competitive costs
for calls.
However, a monthly minimum
call charge applies.
EXECUTIVE
You’re
in business and need to be able to call your
office and your clients whenever the need
arises. You value the convenience of a
mobile phone but need to keep a close eye on
costs.
For frequent users: the monthly
access fee is slightly higher, but you enjoy the
savings of a
discounted call rate.
HIGHFLIER
You
are always on the move and communications are
critical. You need to be able to call and be
called wherever you
are
—
world-wide.
As a high-volume user you pay an access
fee of just $$60 a month but even lower call rates.
Peak time:
7
a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Saturday
Off
peak:
all other times, including all
day Sunday. Billing increments
(
计费增量
) are in
30-second units. Call charges are
rounded up to (
算到
) the
nearest cents.
Once-only
Connection Fee:
$$30 plus
additional $$35 for your Smart Card.
56. You will have to pay a
minimum amount for call each month for
.
A. the Leisuretime plan
C. the
Highflier plan
B.
the Executive plan
D. all of the three plans
57. The
Executive plan is primarily intended for people
who need a mobile phone for
.
A. their work
B. keeping in contact with their family
D. personal use
C. global
communication
58. It costs
for a 50-second
short-distance call at 8 p. m., Friday, on
Highflier plan.
A. 30.2 cents
B
At the age of twelve years, the human
body is at its most vigorous. It has yet to reach
its full
size and strength, and its
owner his or her full intelligence; but at this
age the likelihood of death is
least.
Earlier, we were infants and young children, and
consequently more vulnerable; later, we
B. 15.2 cents
C.
15 cents
D. 30 cents
shall undergo a progressive loss of our
vigor and resistance which, though imperceptible
at first,
will finally become so steep
that we can live no longer, however well we look
after ourselves, and
however well
society, and our doctors, look after us.
This decline in
vigor with the passing of time is called ageing.
It is one of the most
unpleasant
discoveries which we all make that we must decline
in this way, that if we escape wars,
accidents and disease we shall
eventually
differs little from person
to person, so that there are heavy odds in favor
of our dying between the
ages of sixty-
five and eighty. Some of us will die sooner, a few
will live longer
—
on into a
ninth or
tenth decade. But the chances
are against it, and there is a virtual limit on
how long we can hope to
remain alive,
however lucky and robust we are.
Normal people tend to
forget this process unless and until they are
reminded of it. We are so
familiar with
the fact that man ages, that people have for years
assumed that the process of losing
vigor with time, of becoming more
likely to die the older we get, was something
self-evident, like
the cooling of a hot
kettle or the wearing-out of a pair of shoes. They
have also assumed that all
animals, and
probably other organisms such as trees, or even
the universe itself, must in the nature
of things
Most animals we commonly observe do in
fact age as we do, if given the chance to live
long
enough; and mechanical systems
like a wound watch, or the sun, do in fact an out
of energy in
accordance with the second
law of thermodynamics (
热力学
)
(whether the whole universe does so
is
a moot point at present). But these are not
analogous to what happens when man ages. A
run-down watch is still a watch and can
be rewound. An old watch, by contrast, becomes so
worn
and unreliable that it eventually
is not worth mending. But a watch could never
repair itself
—
it
does not consist of living parts, only
of metal, which wears away by friction. We
could,at one time,
repair
ourselves
—
well enough, at
least, to overcome all but the most instantly
fatal illnesses and
accidents. Between
twelve and eighty years we gradually lose this
power; an illness which at
twelve would
knock us over, at eighty can knock us out, and
into our grave. If we could stay as
vigorous as we are at twelve, it would
take about 700 years for half of us to die, and
another 700
for the survivors to be
reduced by half again.
59. Which of the
following statements is INCORRECT?
A. Our first twelve years
represent the peak of human development.
B.
People usually are unhappy when reminded of
ageing.
C.
Normally only a few of us can live to the eighties
and nineties.
D. People are usually less likely to
die at twelve years old.
60. The word
A. remaining
alive until 65.
B. remaining alive after 80.
C. dying before
65 or after 80.
D. dying between 65 and 80.
61. What do the examples of watch show?
A. Normally
people are quite familiar with the ageing process.
B. All animals
and other organisms undergo the ageing process.
C. The law of
thermodynamics functions in the ageing process.
D. Human's
ageing process is different from that of
mechanisms.
C
Racket, din clam
or, noise,
whatever you want to call it, unwanted sound is
America’s most
widespread nuisance. But
noise is more than just a nuisance. It constitutes
a real and present
danger to people’s
health. Day and night, at home, at work, and at
play, noise can prod
uce serious
physical and psychological stress. No
one is immune to this stress. Though we seem to
adjust to
noise by ignoring it, the
ear, in fact, never closes and the body still
responds
—
sometimes with
extreme tension, as to a strange sound
in the night.
The annoyance we feel when
faced with noise is the most common outward
symptom of the
stress building up
inside us. Indeed, because irritability is so
apparent, legislators have made
public
annoyance the basis of many noise abatement
programs. The more subtle and more serious
health hazards associated with stress
caused by noise traditionally have been given much
less
attention. Nevertheless, when we
are annoyed or made irritable by noise, we should
consider these
symptoms fair warning
that other thing may be happening to us, some of
which may be damaging
to our health.
Of many health hazards to noise,
hearing loss is the most clearly observable and
measurable
by health professionals. The
other hazards are harder to pin down. For many of
us, there may be a
risk
that exposure to the stress of noise increases
probability of disease and infection. The people
more likely to be affected may
experience noise as a complicating factor in heart
problems and
other diseases. Noise that
causes annoyance and irritability in health
persons may have serious
consequences
for these already ill in mind or body.
Noise affects us throughout our lives.
For example, there are indications of effects on
the
unborn child when mothers are
exposed to industrial and environmental noise.
During infancy and
childhood,
youngsters exposed to high noise levels may have
trouble falling asleep and obtaining
necessary amounts of rest.
Why, then, is there not greater alarm
about these dangers? Perhaps it is because the
link
between noise and many
disabilities or diseases has not yet been
conclusively demonstrated.
Perhaps it
is because we tend to dismiss annoyance as a price
to pay for living in the modern
world.
It may also be because we still think of hearing
loss as only an occupational hazard.
author’s attitude toward noise would best be
described as ___.
A.
unrealistic
B. traditional
C. concerned
D. hysterical
of the following best states the main
idea of the passage?
A. Noise is a
major problem and most people recognize its
importance.
B. Although noise can be
annoying, it is not a major problem.
C.
Noise is a major problem and has not yet been
recognized as such.
D. Noise is a major
problem about which nothing can be done.
64. The author condemns noise
essentially because it ___.
A.
is against the law
B. can make some
people irritable
C. is a nuisance
D. does harm to people’s
health
author would
probably consider research about the effects noise
has on people to be ___.
A. unimportant
B. impossible.
D
C. a waste of
money
D. essential
An
old man in a faded yellow shirt sat in a
windowless room on a raised concrete form. The
only source of heat came from somewhere
beneath the plastic mattress and the rough blanket
the
blank-faced police woman had handed
him after taking his thumb prints. He heard voices
and
metallic clang as the cell door
swung open.
At the front desk a tired
looking policeman handed the old man back his
belongings, his
worn-out cap and the
Seiko watch that had stopped working the day his
beloved Evelyn left. The
policeman
dramatically held the blue plastic bag at an arm’s
length to the old man who took it and
made sure its contents were undamaged:
the goat meat, palm oil, leaves and spices. He
ignored the
confused
ex
pression on the officer’s face and
signed the document declaring he had been returned
the possessions they had taken off him
the night before.
No one spoke to
him as he walked slowly towards the exit.
“Mr. Easy
-
nwa?”
He stopped and prayed to the Go
d who
now took care of Evelyn to please
take
him far away from this unhappy place of
expressionless faces, clipped accents and people
who did not even attempt to pronounce
his name right.
“Ezenwa,” He
said and looked at a woman with tangerine lips,
her
name tag said Jessica
Harlow, Social Services. “A bit far
from home
，
she said as she
drove fast and with confidence the
way
Evelyn used to. He wondered if she meant the 50
miles from Liverpool or the 50,000 miles
from Enugu
，
a city
in Nigeria. He did not bother replying as this
woman had plenty to say about
the
weather, bad drivers, her daughter’s school
play...
At last she
drew up outside the block of flats where he lived.
“Got here in the
end”
，
said she seriously,
“Really Mr. Easy
-nwa, if you keep
getting lost, we
will have to consider
moving you into a home”.
“No
need, I was not lost
，
he
answered. He carefully rolled up the sleeves of
the oversize
bomber jacket he wore and
turned on the tap to wash his hands, relieved the
pipes were not frozen.
In a clean pan
he placed the chopped pieces of goat meat. The
herbs and spices that had taken him
three months to track down, the uziza
seeds had taken him into the heart of Granby
Market in
Liverpool, his
uchanwu leaves down a shady back alley in
Manchester, and yesterday, among
other
food items, the finest goat meat from a Sierra
Leonean Butcher in Birmingham. That had
taken some time, so much he missed the
last train and when the police found him shivering
outside the locked up station, so cold
he couldn’
t answer loudly enough the
pink-faced big copper
who yelled in his
face, “What’s your name sir?” spraying his face
with spittle (
吐沫）
as he did
so,
leaving them with no choice but to
search an exhausted, frozen old black man and
finding him in
possession of mysterious
condiments (
调味品）
including a
bag of dried bitter-leaf which could of
course be mistaken for anything that
resulted in him getting read his rights and
charged
with ...possession???
He lifted the lid of the bubbling soup,
the room was filled with the rich and spicy scent
of his
culinary
(
烹饪的）
effort. He served two
bowls, taking the chipped one and placing the
other
opposite where Evelyn would have
sat. He would tell her about his adventure, it was
their
anniversary and this was the
perfect pepper soup to celebrate.
Ken
Onyia, UK (Nigeria) Commonwealth Sport Short Story
Prize
66. Why was Mr. Ezenwa taken to
the prison for a night?
A. He was too weak to move.
B. He couldn’t find his way back
home.
C. He then had nowhere
else to go.
D. He was suspected of
possessing drugs.
67. When Mr. Ezenwa
was to leave the prison, ___________.
A. his thumb print was taken
immediately
B. the policeman was
confused about what he had
C. a social
worker was assigned to drive him back home
D. the policeman was so kind as not to
damage his belongings
68. What did Mr.
Ezenwa do for his wedding anniversary?
A. He collected all sorts of valuables
as presents.
B. He cooked native food
as a surprise for his wife.
C. He
prepared a special Nigerian pepper soup carefully.
D. He travelled a lot, attempting to
get his wife back.
69. What words can
be used to describe Mr. Ezenwa?
A. Hopeless and pessimistic.
B. Mysterious
and troublesome.
C. Affectionate and
persistent.
D.
Energetic and sympathetic.
70. What
theme does the author want to express through the
story?
A. Racial prejudice.
B.
Hard life of the elderly.
C. Struggle
for freedom.
D. Preservation of tradition.
四、阅读理解：
56-58 AAC
59-61 A B D
62-65 CCDD
66-70 DCCCA
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小题，每小题
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daily (except Christmas Day)
1. If 16
adults, including 3 aged 70, plan to visit the
Chocolate Museum, how much should they
pay at least
？
A.
＄
69.
B.
＄
78.
C.
＄
80.
D.
＄
87.
2. According to the information of
Auckland Museum, we know that _______.
opens from 10 am to 5 pm every day
B.
it has a feast of fresh events except this year
C. the winner will fly a helicopter as
a reward
museum focuses on New
Zealand's culture
B
Chimps(
黑猩猩）
will
cooperate in certain ways, like gathering in war
parties to protect their
territory. But
beyond the minimum requirements as social beings,
they have little
instinct(
本能）
to
help each other.
Chimps in
the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp
mothers regularly decline to share food
with their children, who are able from
a young age to gather their own food.
In the laboratory, chimps don't
naturally share food either. If a chimp is put in
a cage where h
e can pull in one plate
of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a
plate that also provides food
for a neighbor in the next cage, he
will pull at random
—
he
just doesn't care whether his neighbor
gets fed or not. Chimps are truly selfish.
Human children, on the other hand, are
naturally cooperative. From the earliest ages,
they des
ire to help others, to share
information and to participate in achieving common
goals. The psychol
ogist Michael
Tomasello has studied this cooperativeness in a
series of experiments with very you
ng
children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months
see an unrelated adult with hands full trying to
open a door, almost all will
immediately try to help.
There are
several reasons to believe that the urges to help,
inform and share are not taught, bu
t
naturally possessed in young children. One is that
these instincts appear at a very young age
befo
re most parents have started to
train children to behave socially. Another is that
the helping behavi
ors are not improved
if the children are rewarded. A third reason is
that social intelligence develop
s in
children before their general
cognitive(
认知
的
)
skills, at least when compared with chimps. In
tests conducted by Tomasello, the children did
no better than the chimps on the
physical world tests but were considerably better
at understanding
the social world.
The core of what children's minds have
and chimps' don't is what Tomasello calls shared
inte
ntionality. Part of this ability is
that they can infer what others know or are
thinking. But beyond t
hat, even very
young children want to be part of a shared
purpose. They actively seek to be part of
a
3. What can we learn from
the experiment with chimps?
A. Chimps
seldom care about others' interests.
B.
Chimps tend to provide food for their children.
C. Chimps like to take in their
neighbors' food.
naturally share food
with each other.
4. Micheal Tomasello's
tests on young children indicate that they _____.
.
the instinct to help others
B. know how to offer help to adults
C. know the world better than chimps
adults with their hands full
5. The passage is mainly about _____.
A. the helping behaviors of
young children
B. ways to train
children's shared intentionality
C.
cooperation as a distinctive human nature
D. the development of intelligence in
children
C
Enough
ment who have been
examining how social media firms like LinkedIn
gather and use social media
data.
The House of Commons Science and
Technology Committee's report, released last week,
has
blamed firms for making people sign
up to long incomprehensible legal contracts and
calls for an
international standard or
kitemark(
认证标
记
) to
identify sites that have clear terms and
conditions.
yone,
ain-English version of
their terms. The simplified version would be
checked by a third party and a
warded a
kitemark if it is an accurate reflection of the
original.
It is not yet clear who would
administer the scheme, but the UK government is
looking at intr
oducing it on a
voluntary basis.
ys Miller.
Would we pay any more attention to a
kitemark?
ple would like to think they
would,
ho studies open data.
tion.
Other organizations
such as banks ask customers to sign long contracts
they may not read or
understand, but
Miller believes social media requires special
attention because it is so new.
ill
don't know how significant the long-term impact is
going to be of unwise things that kids put
o
n social media that come back and bite
them in 20 years' time,
Shadbolt, who gave evidence to the
committee, says the problem is that we don't know
how c
ompanies will use our data because
their business models and uses of data are still
evolving. Large
collections of personal
information have become valuable only recently, he
says.
The shock and anger when a
social media firm does something with data that
people don't ex
pect, even if users have
apparently permission, show that the current
situation isn't working. If pro
perly
administered, a kitemark on terms and conditions
could help people know what exactly they
are signing up to. Although they would
still have to actually read them.
6.
What does the phrase
A. Legal contracts
that social media firms make people sign up to.
B. Warnings from the UK government
against unsafe websites.
C. Guidelines
on how to use social media websites properly.
D. Insignificant data collected by
social media firms.
7. It can be
inferred from the passage that Nigel Shadbolt
doubts whether
.
A. social media firms would conduct a
survey on the kitemark scheme
B. people
would pay as much attention to a kitemark as they
think
C. a kitemark scheme would be
workable on a nationwide scale
D. the
kitemark would help companies develop their
business models
8. The writer advises
users of social media to _____.
A.
think carefully before posting anything onto such
websites
B. read the terms and
conditions even if there is a kitemark
C. take no further action if they can
find a kitemark
D. avoid providing too
much personal information
9. Which of
the following is the best title of the passage?
A. Say No to Social Media?
B. New Security Rules in Operation?
C. Accept Without Reading?
D. Administration Matters!
D
There are many
heartbreaking moments in this beautifully written
book,
Letter to Louis
, by
A
lison White, but the first comes
before it even begins. In the devotion to her son
Louis, author Alis
on White says how she
wanted to write it so that people would understand
disability and caring, b
ut also,
Louis's
friend
恳
求
) lies
the great fear of so many parents who nurse a
severely disabled child through to
adulthood
:
at accompany
long-term caring, she just tells us what it's
like, and it is equally admirable,
uplifting
, terrifying.
As a
society, we are fond of praising
short-
-term heroism: the soldier or
firefighter, bravery containable within a single
story. The uncomforta
ble truth that
Letter to Louis
lays bare is
that the heroism of long-
-term
toughness, the daily caring over many years, is
neither great nor interesting. At times, with
t
wo other children to care for and
Louis waking five times a night, still undiagnosed
and in constan
t pain, White feels
simple despair.
ms, falling and falling
through the air.
Although there are
moments of joy
—
when Louis
first speaks, manages to walk a little
—
White offers no
comforting
platitudes(
陈词滥
调
).
his destiny.
ability but in
resisting the temptation to hit one or two of the
many she encounters along the way:
a
Clarks shoe shop assistant who refuses to sell
Louis, a wheelchair user, a pair of shoes because
h
e can't walk across the room for her
to check the fit, and an unhelpful occupational
therapist who
won't authorise the
toileting equipment that he needs, insisting he
has to learn to wipe his own bott
om,
even though it is a physical impossibility for
him.
It is shocking to learn that at
Louis's most disabled, after a disastrous foot
operation, the fami
ly are only entitled
to two hours' help a month. Temporary care only
comes, eventually, when they
are close
to breakdown. At one point, Louis has five
different social workers in eight months
—
a
nd then,
unbelievably, faces the overnight withdrawal of
all temporary care when he reaches his
1
8th birthday.
On the other hand, White explains the
difference that the support of family and friends
and s
mall acts of kindness from
strangers can make. When she takes Louis on a
special day trip to Lond
on because he
wants to travel on the tube, Transport for London
staff take it upon themselves to ra
dio
ahead to each other to make sure there is always
someone to help them at each station he
want
s to visit. Once in a while, a
therapist or doctor actually listens to White's
knowledge and expertise
regarding her
son's condition.
Eventually, though, the
long-term consequences of constant lack of sleep
and caring work beg
in to take effect. A
slightly mysterious chapter towards the end of the
book sees the author disappe
aring to
Edinburgh to walk and sit in cafes: it's never
stated clearly whether this is for work or
bec
ause she has had a breakdown or a
combination of the two. The wonder is only that it
has taken so
long.
This
chapter is just one of the half-told stories in
this book: the author is mindful of the need
t
o protect the privacy of her husband,
although it is clear their marriage has come close
to breaking
point many times, as
anybody's would, and that of her other two
children. Beneath it all is a cold
a
nger that any decent-minded reader
will share towards a society that fails to
understand that unless
carers are
properly cared for by the rest of us, it all falls
apart.
Above all, this book is a plea
for understanding, for the rest of society to
pause a while when
they encounter
someone like Louis or his parents. The huge
difference a kindly word or helpful ac
t
can make
—
and the
destruction a thoughtless act can cause
—
cannot be underestimated.
This b
ook is an essential read for
anyone who has ever complained about their taxes
going to pay for dis
ability services:
it should be legally required reading for anyone
in the medical profession or anyo
ne
with the power to decide about cuts to those
services. The rest of us should read it for an
acute i
nsight into just how lucky we
are.
10. Alison White wrote
Letter to Louis
to _______.
A. describe the hardships in bringing
up her disabled child
B. illustrate the
sufferings and miseries of her disabled child
C. promote acceptance of the disabled
and concern for their carers
D. express
parents' worries about the future of their
disabled children
11. By comparing two
kinds of heroism the author intends to _______.
A. applaud the bravery of soldiers and
firefighters
B. encourage
the parents of the disabled to live on
C. blame people for their favor of
short-term heroism
D. emphasize the
heroism of caring for a disabled child
12. What can we infer from the 4th
paragraph?
A. Louis is able to depend
on himself at 18.
B. The Whites
eventually break down in despair.
C.
Social workers are willing to offer help to Louis.
D. Public support for the disabled is
far from ideal.
13. Alison White
disappears to Edinburgh and stays there long
probably because _______.
A. social
workers' help frees her from the toughness of life
B. the cold and indifferent society
makes her disappointed
C. she
temporarily escapes from the endless caring work
D. she wants to be relieved from the
blow of her divorce
14. What does the
underlined sentence imply?
A. Society
should show concern for the carers of the
disabled.
B. Readers will misunderstand
society if carers are neglected.
C. It
does not make any sense to be angry with society.
D. The carers should be responsible for
their own needs.
15. The author of the
passage concludes it with _______.
A.
strong recommendation
B. obvious
disapproval
C. cautious warning
D. mild criticism
一．阅读理解
1-5 BDAAC
6-10 ABBCC 11-15 DDCAA
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小题；每小题
2
分，满分
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(A)
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Recruit
（招聘）
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Location:
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Post: Face to Face Fund-raiser
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If you
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becoming a member and making donations, then this
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You will
be part of a successful and energetic team that’s
central to delivering the
organizations
work that focuses on “Giving Nature a Home”. They
achieve this by attending a
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variety of events across the country, where they
get to engage with members of the public,
inform them of their work and encourage
to support our client(
当事人
)
with essential financial
support.
Help to give Nature a Home and make a
real difference to the world around us.
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Y BUTTON FOR
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TION:
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this stage, even though you may be asked to attach
your CV on the job board.
You will then receive an email from CHM
Recruit with further details on how to complete
your application.
Please
check your email spam / junk mail folder and don’t
delay in applying.
56. What
kind of quality is the most important for the job?
A. Being good
at the art of gardening
B. Being
interested in looking after animals
C.
Being best at communicating with others
D. Being generous enough to
donate
57. Who will most likely be
praised for their work once hired?
A.
Those saving as many animals in nature
B. Those attracting most conversation
volunteers
C. Those daring to speak in
public to ask for money
D. Those
raising most financial support for wildlife
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method
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unique taste for art
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learning face painting
59.
Which of the following statements is
TRUE
about the course?
A. It is presented both online and
offline.
B. It provides not only
lessons on business.
C. The diploma can
be obtained in one day.
D. Some clients
will be invited to examine your qualification.
60. In which module are you likely to
learn how to advertise your business?
A. Module 4.
B. Module 6.
C. Module 7.
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Although it might have happened
anywhere, my encounter with the green banana
started on a
steep mountain road in the
interior of Brazil. My ancient jeep was straining
up through spectacular
countryside when
the radiator(
散热器
) began to
leak ten miles from the nearest mechanic. The
over-
heated engine forced me
to stop at the next village, which consisted of a
small store and
scattering of houses.
People gathered to look. Three fine streams of hot
water spouted from holes
in the jacket
of the radiator.
“
That's
easy to fix
，”
a man said. He
sent a boy running for some
green
bananas. He patted me on the shoulder, assuring me
everything would work out.
“
Green
bananas
，”
he
smiled. Everyone agreed.
We exchanged
pleasantries while I thought over the effects of
the green banana. Asking
questions
would betray my ignorance, so I remarked on the
beauty of the place. Huge rock
formations, like Sugar Loaf in Rio,
rose up all around us.
“
Do
you see that tall one right over
there
？”
asked my
benef
actor, pointing to a particular
tall, slender pinnacle of dark rock. “That
rock marks the center of the
world.”
I looked to see if
he was teasing me, but his face was serious. He in
turn inspected me
carefully to be sure
I grasped the significance of his statement. The
occasion demanded some
show of
recognition on my part.
“
The
center of the world
？”
I
repeated
trying to convey
interest if not complete acceptance. He
nodded.“The absolute center. Everyone around here
knows
it.”
At
that moment the boy returned with my green
bananas. The man sliced one in half and
pressed the cut end against the
radiator jacket. The banana melted into a glue
against the hot metal,
plugging the
leaks instantly. Everyone laughed at my
astonishment. They refilled my radiator and
gave me extra bananas to take along. An
hour later, after one more application of green
banana,
my radiator and I reached our
destination. The local mechanic smiled,
“
Who taught you about
the green
banana
？”
I named the
village.
“
Did they show you
the rock marking the center of the
world
？”
he asked.
I assured him they had.
“
My
grandfather came from
there
，”
he
said.“The
exact center. Everyone around
here has always known about it.”
__
①
__
As a product of American higher
education, I had never paid the slightest
attention to the green banana, except
to regard it as a fruit whose time had not yet
come. __
②
__
But as I reflected on it further, I
realized that the green banana had been there all
along. __
③
__ Its