高考英语阅读练习题及答案
高考英语阅读练习题及
答案
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2007年高考英语阅读专题训练50篇
★专题（1）
★A
We arranged that Kissinger（基辛格）would fly to Vietnam early in July and then stop in Pakistan on the way back. There he would develop a stomachache that would require him to stay in bed and not be seen by the press. Then with President Yapha’s help, he would be taken to an airport where a Pakistani jet would fly him over the mountains to China.
Kissinger’s trip was given the name Polo after Marco Polo, another Western traveler who made history by journeying to China. Everything went quite smoothly. His slight illness in Islamabad received only small attention from reporters covering him. They accepted the story that he would be kept shut up for at least a few days and began making arrangements for their own activities.
Because of the need for complete secrecy and the lack of any direct communication facilities（联络设备）between Beijing and Washington, I knew that we would have no word from Kissinger while he was in China. Even after he had returned to Pakistan, it would still be important to keep it secret, so before Kissinger left, we agreed on a single code word-Eureka-which he would use if his mission（任务，使命）was successful and the presidential trip had been arranged.
On July 11, Al Haig, who knew our code word, phoned to say that a cable（电报）from Kissinger had arrived.
“W hat’s the message ”I asked . “Eureka, ”he replied. 56．Kissinger stopped in Pakistan because .
A．he had a stomachache B．he needed President Yapha’s help in carrying out a secret plan
C．he did not want to be seen by the press
D．he would like to take a Pakistani jet on his way back.
57．The reporters in Islamabad believed that .
A．Marco Polo made a trip to China B．Kissinger would make a jourey to China.
C．Kissinger was making arrangements for their activities. D．Kissinger was sick.
58．Washington would have no word form Kissinger while he was in China, mainly because .
A．his trip must be kept secrect B．President Yapha would not fly together with Kissinger
C．Communication between China and Islamabad was impossible
D．Al Haig would phone to the author to tell him about
Kissinger’s trip.
59．From the passage we can infer that Kissinger’s cable carrying the message“Eureka”must have been sent .
A．before he had left Beijing B．soon after he had returned to Pakistan from China.
C．as soon as he had arrived in Washington on July 11
D．before he returned to Pakistan on July 11
B
Good evening. Chinese President Jiang Zemin and his American counterpart Bill Clinton have acknowledged their political differences, but they wrapped up their historic summit（高级会晤）emphasizing（强调）the importance of their common interest. As Mark Thun reports from Washington, the two leaders hammered out agreements on a number of issues（问题，争论点）,although human rights remains a sticking point.
The two sides came to agreements over plenty of items, which could shake the world for a long time to come. The most important is probably the high-level dialogues and consultations（磋商）. The Presidents will visit each other regularly, there will be a Washington-Beijing communications link for direct contact, and there will be regular exchanges or visits by cabinet（内阁）and other officials on political and security（安全）issues. On nuclear cooperation, Mr Clinton promises the sale of nuclear technology to China for peaceful use, something not possible now with an American ban after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown（严厉取缔）.The two countries have agreed to strengthen military maritime safety（加强海军方面的安全合作）.A nd Beijing and Washington are both working towards China’s entry into the WTO, with China aiming to make substantial tariff reductions（大幅度降低关税）. Taiwan is considered the most important issue, but there’s little breakthrough（突破）here. The two sides agreed that there should be only one China, and that the Chinese should be allowed to resolve the proble m by themselves. It’s over the matter of human rights which the two countries have the most obvious differences.
The autumn air might have been chilly（寒冷的），but the welcoming ceremony for the Chinese President was anything but cold. Mr and Mrs Jiang Zemin were greeted by the American President and the First Lady. The two heads of state inspected the honour guard and national anthems were played with the twenty-one gun salute as the background. With a chime swinging leisurely only a few steps away, President Bill Clinton spoke of a better future,“Let us strengthen the bonds between us, let us pursue common causes, let us address our differences openly and with respect, let us build a better world for our children.”And Mr Jiang gave a similarly optimistic reply, partly in English, “Let us, the Chinese and the Americans, join hands, and together with people around the world, work hard to bring about the new century of peace, stability and the prosperity.”
60．What style is this short passage
A．TV news broadcasting. B．A document（文件）on state affairs.
C．A summary of Bill Clinton’s speech at the welcoming ceremony for the Chinese President. D．A newspaper report.
61．“The autumn air might have been chilly, but the welcoming ceremony for the Chinese President was anything but cold.”What does the sentence mean to the reader or the listener
A．Even though the weather was cold, all the people at the welcoming ceremony still felt fairly warm.
B．Both the autumn air and the welcoming ceremony were not a bit warm.
C．People thought it really interesting to hold the warm ceremony in the chilly autumn air.
D．People at the ceremony talked about anything but the cold weather.
62．After the meeting of the two presidents, we can hope that .
A．the two countries will together devote themselves to the study of nuclear weapons
B．Taiwan will soon come back to the embrace of its motherland
C．China will adopt the same system as that of the USA
D．the two presidents will call on each other regularly, which will make the two sides understand each other better. 63．What President Bill Clinton spoke of at the ceremony shows
that .
A．he hopes for a better future for the two sides with better understanding
B．he sincerely hopes that the children in the two contries will grow well and healthily
C．he hopes that all the world will understand why the two countries have joined together
D．he thinks that only by addressing their differences openly and with respect can they build a better world for the children.
C
Four months ago Mrs B ordered a rug from a store, which promised to deliver it in about two weeks. Three weeks passed, but the rug did not arrive. When Mrs B telephoned the store to talk about it, she was told that the rug had been lost and that the store would send her another one.
Weeks later, when Mrs B telephoned again, the store told her that the second rug had been delivered and left on her front porch（门廓）.She didn’t believe the story, as she had been at home as usual, and her doorbell was in good working order. However, the store promised her that a third rug would be delivered within a week. It wasn’t. What could she do How could she get action
Mrs B did what many other Americans have done-with excellent results. She wrote a letter to the newspaper in her town, explaining the problem. A few days later her letter appeared in the newspaper and this sentence was printed below it:
“The store found a way to safely deliver your rug immediately after hearing from us.”
In this age of machines, it is often hard to get action from businesses that have made mistakes. An individual（个别的）person can complain, but his complaints may accomplish nothing. Luckily, newspapers now employ people to help with such problems, and the results are published in a special section of the paper.
Mrs B’s letter appeared in a column called Mr FLX-IT. During the same week the following letter from Mrs J was printed in the ACTION LINE column of another newspaper.
“Many weeks ago I bought some living room fur niture from the House and Garden Shop in Parkkersvile. They have set three delivery dates, and each time I had to stay home from work and wait for the truck, which never came. I have called the store at least fifteen times, and each time they said they would look for the furniture. This has been going on for two months. I guess they are still looking.”
The ACTION LINE writer’s reply was printed below Mrs J’s letter:“They found it. Action Line made one telephone call to the president of the company, who t old us: ‘the customer will get satisfaction.’ The furniture was found, and it arrived at your home yesterday.”
64．It seemed that the purpose of Action Line in a newspaper was
to .
A．employ people and publish their letters of complaints
B．help consumers correcting wrongs and getting problems solved
C．find what was lost by the business and delivered them to the consumers
D．make telephone calls to the consumers and business which had made mistakes
65．How long was if after Mrs B called the store again that she wrote to the local newspaper
A．About a week. B．Three weeks. C．Two weeks.
D．Four months.
66．The passage points out that in the machine age people’s complaints usually .
A．bring about mistakes B．cause more serious trouble
C．prove useless D．prove effective 67．The passage implies that .
A．there are too many mistakes in businesses to be corrected nowadays.
B．customers can find what they have lost through the help of newspapers
C．newspapers will be the only means that can help people solve problems of all kinds
D．the influence（影响）of newspapers can sometimes solve problems when individual efforts have failed
D
The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted（抵制）in the market places despite their product’s obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure（费用）for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee. Efforts were made to find the cause of the consumers’（消费者）seemingly unreasonable resistance to the product. The reason given by most people was dislike for the taste. The producers doubt that there might be deeper reasons, however. This was confirmed (证实，确信) by one of motivation research’s classic studies, one often cited (引用) in the trade. Mason Haire of the University of California constructed two shopping lists that were identical except for one item. There were six items common to both lists: hamburger, carrots, bread, baking powder, canned peaches, and potatoes, with the brands or amounts specified. The seventh item, in fifth place on both lists, read “11b. Maxwell House coffee” on one list and “Nescafe instant coffee” on the other. One list was given to each one in a group of fifty women, and the other list to those in another group of the same size. The women were asked to study their lists and then to describe, as far as they could, the kind of woman ( personality and character ) who would draw up that shopping list. Nearly half of those who had received the list including instant coffee described a housewife who was lazy and a poor planner. On the other hand, only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had included regular coffee on her list as lazy; only six of that group suggested that she was a poor planner. Eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife! No one in the other group drew such a conclusion about the housewife who intended to buy regular coffee. 68．The result of the investigation showed that .
A．women who used regular coffee were good planners
B．most of the women investigated were good at reasons
C．many women believed that wives who used instant coffee were lazy
D．housewives who used instant coffee were lazy
69．In the study, the women were supposed to give the opinions
about .
was better, instant coffee or regular coffee
B．women’s attitude towards shopping
C．the necessity of making such a shopping list
D．the personality of a woman who would prepare such a list 70．Judging by the result of the study many women were not interested in instant coffee because
.
A．they didn’t trust advertisements B．instant coffee was not suited to their taste
C．they wanted to show that they were intelligent
D．they had a sense of shame about using instant coffee
71．The word “instant ” probably has the meaning of .
A．which can be made up slowly for use B．which can be made up quickly for use
C．expensive D．cheap
E
Here are four pieces of news from China Daily:
SHANGHAI – The Huachen Group, which has put 83 million yuan in
the development of the ecommerce market since its official
registration late last year, recently held a meeting in Shanghai to show the use of its newly opened tourism business payment network.
The network aims so serve tourists from all over the world,but especially from Europe and the United State where credit cards are popularly used. After opening the . Chinaecent. com website, netizens can get information about hotels and tourism services on tourism page. Hotels and services can be reserved and payments made through credit cards. The network opened in February in Beijing.
SYDNEY – The Sydney Olympic flame will travel underwater on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef during the torch relay（火炬接力）following a successful test.
Scuba diver Wendy Craig, a marine biologist, will carry the torch on a three-to-four-minute underwater journey at Agincourt Reef on
June 27, creating Olympic history, organizers said yesterday.
Burning at 2,000 degrees, the torch is expected to remain alight （点燃着的）three metres under-water because of a special kind of technology which creates a “fierce flame” too powerful to be drowned out by water. Charles Tegner, managing director of torch creator, said the flame would burn like a flare from oxygenproducing chemicals.
BEIJING – The election of a new leader in Taiwan can not change the fact that Taiwan is a part of Chinese territory. “Taiwan Independence” in whatever form will never be allowed, according to a statesman of China’s central government.
“We should listen to what the new leader in Taiwan says and
watch what he does. We will observe where he will lead cross-Straits relations. We are willing to exchange views on cross-Straits
relations and peaceful reunification with all parties, organizations and persongages in Taiwan who favor（赞同）the one China principle.” says the statesman, which was released（发布）by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee.
HAIKOU –Customs officers in Haikou, capital of South China’s Hainan Province, recently stopped a boat loaded with 781 cases of foreign-brand cigarettes being smuggled（走私）into China. The cigarettes are estimated to be worth more than million yuan, said a customs officer, they discovered the smuggling boat as they were
going around the northern sea area of Yangpu Port.
The smuggled cigarettes cases, packed into two containers, were disguised to avoid（回避）being examined. The boat was registered（登记）in the coastal city of Xiamen in East China’s Fujian Province.
All eight suspects（疑犯）aboard the boat were kept by the police in Haikou.
72．Why does the network aim to serve tourists especially from Europe and the USA
A．Because they are from developed countries.
B．Because the payments of hotels and services should be made through credit cards.
C．Because people in these countries travel much more than other countries.
D．Because they have more computers than others.
73．Which of the following statements is Not true according to the second piece of news
A．The whole torch relay will be held three metres underwater.
B．The underwater journey of the torch will play an important
part in Olympic history.
C．A test has been made before this activity.
D．Some chemicals will help the flame burn by the producing oxygen.
74．Which is the best title for the third piece of news
A．Ready to Fight. B．No Good End. C．Wait and See.
D．Peace Comes First.
75．Which of the following best explains the underlined word “disguised” in the last piece of news
A．Made different from normal. B．Designed for a good purpose.
C．Hidden. D．Pretended.
★专题（2）
（A）
Tim was born after his elder brother and sister. He could learn many things from them. Soon, he developed his own way of doing things by developing his mind through his interest in creating stories. He would read more than most children and he gathered his inspiration from history books. In school, his athletic interests were basketball and track, especially high jump. When he found he could jump a little higher than most students, he decided that jumping over a high bar would be his specialty.
Tim continued his learning interest in history which included serious college study, and a Master’s degree. He is now a university professor at a small university in Los Angeles. In the United States there are many schools that have history departments. There are large universities with as many as 60 thousand students and small universities with as few as 2000 students. His degree from a large university with a strong history department has helped him get a good job.
Tim and Kelli like cats. They have two of them and they are special members of the family. Their grey and white cat is Toby. The coal black colored cat is called Buddha because he sits so quietly. Cats are popular with many people in America.
56．Which of the following statements is true
A．Tim is the second child in his family B．Tim has a younger sister.
C．Tim is the third child in his family. D．Tim is the only child in his family.
57．What was he good at when he was at school
A．Basketball B．High jump C．Running D．Football
58．We can infer from the above passage that .
A．all the Americans like to keep cats
B．the cat is called Buddha because he is always quiet
C．the population of a small university is only one third of that of the largest one
D．it is easier for a graduate from a large university with a famous department to do job hunting.
（B）
What to do if a fire starts
Imagine it’s late at night. You hear the smoke detectors go off. You smell smoke when you wake up. Do you know what to do
If a fire starts in your home, remember your escape plan and leave as quickly as possible. Keep the following things in mind to make a safe escape.
●Call“Fire!”to warn everyone in your family.
●If you know where the fire is, close as many doors as possible between you and the fire.
●If you’re in bed, roll out of bed and onto the floor. Crawl on the floor next to a wall. Being near the ground makes it easier to breathe. If possible, cover your mouth and nose with a wet cloth.
●Feel the entire surface of a door before you open it. If the door
is warm or hot, do not open it. The fire is probably right outside your room. Find another way to leave the room. If the door is cool, open it a little.
●Look out and try to see the fire. If it is safe, leave the room. Remember to stay on the floor.
●If your clothes catch fire, stop immediately. Drop to the ground
and roll. Remember：Stop, drop and roll.
●Call the fire department from outside and wait for help to arrive. 59．What is the first thing you should do if a fire starts in your home
A．Call the fire department B．Call“Fire”to warn your family members.
C．Collect your favorite belongings to save from the burning house.
D．Have a white sheet from a window to let the fire department know where to go.
60．What should you do if a fire starts and you are in bed A．Jump out of bed and run away. B．Roll out of bed and stand on the floor.
C．Stay in bed and then jump out of the window. D．Roll out of bed and onto the floor.
61．What is not true according to the passage
A．Never go back into a burning building.
B．If your clothes catch fire, stop moving immediately.
C．You should call the fire department before you leave the burning building.
D．Cover your mouth and nose with a wet cloth if possible.
（C）
Thirty-two people watched Kitty Genovese being killed right below their windows. She was their neighbor. Yet none of the 32 helped her. Not one even called the police, Was this in gunman cruelty Was it lack of feeling about one’s fellowman
“Not so, ”say scientists John Barley and Bib Fatane. These men went beyond the headlines to research into the reasons why people didn’t act. They found that a person has to go through two steps before he can help. First he has to notice that is an emergency（紧急情况）. Suppose you see a middle-aged man fall to the side-walk. Is he having a heart attack Is he in a coma（昏迷）from a headache Or is he about to sleep off a drunk
Is the smoke coming into the room from a leak（漏洞）in the air conditioning Is it“steam pipes” Or is it really smoke from a fire It’s not always easy to tell if you are fac ed with a real emergency. Second, and more important, the person faced with an emergency must feel personally responsible（负责任的）. He must feel that he must help, or the person won’t get the help he needs.
The researchers found that a lot depends on how many people are around. They had college students in to be“tested.” Some came alone. Some came with one or two others. And some came in large groups. The researchers started them off on the“tests.”Then they went into the next room. A curtain divided the“testing room”and the room into which they went. Soon the students heard a scream, the noise of book shelves falling and a cry for help. All of this had been prerecorded on a tape recorder.
Eight out of ten of the students taking the test alone acted to help. Of the students in pairs, only two out of ten helped. Of the students in groups, none helped.
In other words, in a group, Americans often fail to act. They
feel that others will act. They, themselves, needn’t. They do not
feel and direct responsibility.
Are people bothered by situations where people are in trouble Yes. Scientists found that the people were shocked, they sweated, and they had trembling hands. They felt the other person’s trouble. But they did not act. They were in a group. Their actions were shaped by the actions of those they were with.
62．The purpose of this passage is .
explain why people fail to act in emergencies
explain when people will act in emergencies
explain what people will do in emergencies
explain how people feel in emergencies
63．Which of the following is NOT true
A．When a person tries to help others, he must be clear that
there is a real emergency.
B．When a person tries to help others, he should know whether
they are worth his help.
C．A person must take the full responsibility for the safety of those in emergencies if wants to help.
D．A person with a heart attack needs the most.
64．The main reason why people fail to act when they stay together is that .
A．they are afraid of emergencies B．they are not willing to get themselves involved
C．others will act if they themselves hesitate
D．they do not have any direct responsibility for those who need help.
65．The author suggests that .
A．we shouldn’t blame a person if he fails to act in emergencies B．a person must feel guilty if he fails to help
C．people should be responsible for themselves in emergencies
D．when you are in trouble, people will help you anyway
（D）
Animation means making things which are lifeless come alive and move.
Since earliest times, people have always been astonished by movement. But not until this century have we managed to take control
of movement, to record it, and in the case of animation, to
retranslate it and recreate it. To do all this, we use a movie camera and a projector（放映机）.
In the world of cartoon animation, nothing is impossible. You can make the characters do exactly what you want them to do.
A famous early cartoon character was Felix the Cat, created by
Pat Sullivan in America in the early nineteen twenties. Felix was a wonderful cat. He could do all sorts of things no natural cat could
do like taking off his tail, using it as a handle and then putting it back.
Most of the great early animators lived and worked in America,
the home of the moving picture industry. The famous Walt Disney cartoon characters came to life after 1928. Popeye the Sailor and his girl friend Olive Oyo were born at Max Ficischer in 1933.
But to be an animator, you don’t have to be a professional（专业
人士）. It is possible for anyone to make a simple animated film without using a camera at all. All you have to do is to draw directly on to an empty film and then run the film through a projector. 66．What does the passage mainly discuss
A．Animal world. B．Movie camera. C．Cartoon making. D．Movement.
67．Which of the following statements is TRUE
A．People were unable to cause the movement to last or record it
in the last century.
B．Pat Sullivan was a famous early cartoon character.
C．It is impossible to make cartoon characters do what they are designed to do.
D．In ancient times people were surprised by movement. 68．According to the passage, Felix the Cat .
A．was created by the American cartoonist Felix
B．was designed by Pat Sullivan in the early twentieth century
C．was unable to do what natural cats could not do
D．was created in the United States in the nineteenth century
69．It can be inferred from the passage that .
A．Walt Disney’s cartoon characters were born earlier that Pat Sullivan’s
B．only professionals can create cartoon characters
C．Popeye the Sailor and Olive Oyo were famous cartoonists
D．the cartoon industry started in the United States
70．Which of the following statements best describes the author’s attitude towards cartoon making
A．Cartoon making is an easy job. Anyone can do it.
B．Only trained people can be employed in cartoon making industry.
C．Anyone can make cartoons under the instructions of professionals.
D．Cartoon making is no easy job. You have to spend much time drawing onto the empty film.
（E）
One of the strongest arguments for the raising of the school leaving age（ROSLA）has been that it will bring us some way nearer to “equality of opportunity”.
Many people like to think of our present system of schooling as providing plenty of steps up the ladder of success for clever children. It would be good to think that no one who is really bright can be missed out when the state system is obviously so complete. It
is obvious, for instance, that many children from less wealthy homes reach university or do well in other ways.
Unfortunately we now have plenty of proofs that many children of every level of ability do much less well than they could. For instance, during the years of national military service it was possible to test the intelligence（智力）of all male 18 – to – 20
– year – olds. Half of those soldiers who were placed in the two highest ability groups had left school at 15.
It has also been shown that the percentage of working class children going to university is almost the same now as it was in 1939.
One study of 5,000 children from birth to 21 years old shows that up to half the bright pupils from working class homes left school when they reached 16 years old. Moreover, there is no difference in intelligence between the sexes, but far more boys than girls stay in education after 16.
It is clear from this and many other proofs that many children
are still leaving school too early to benefit from the prizes—money, social respectability, and interesting jobs—which higher education gives. It is clear too that the reasons why such children leave have much to do with their social background. Their parents often need the extra money another money-earner would bring in; they don’t value education for itself because their own was probably dull and unhappy. It is not so much that they force their sons and daughters to leave school, rather that they tend to say, “it’s up to you”.
71．It is hoped that ROSLA will give all children .
A．a more enjoyable time at school B．the same chances in society
C．the right to a better school D．higher scores in intelligence tests
72．People would like to think that .
A．equal numbers of poor and wealthy children reach university B．those with the least money get the best education
C．intelligent children are always selected by the system
D．only really clever children do well
73．Working class children are thought to be at a disadvantage because .
A．many of the clever ones leave school early B．fewer go to university than ever before
than half leave school when they are 16
D．fewer boys than girls stay at school after 16
74．Many children leave school early because .
A．their social background makes them unhappy
B．they have to give something to their family’s income
C．their school is a dull and unhappy place
D．their parents don’t allow them to make their own decisions 75．This article shows that equal opportunity in education .
A．is a thing of the past B．has not yet been achieved
C．is there for those who deserve（值得拥有）it D．has greatly improved our society
★专题（3）
A
Haikou: A shark was killed after being dragged to shore at Yalong Berth beach in Sanya, South China’s Hainan Province, on Sunday afternoon.
It was the first time a shark had been caught in the beach area, a popular tourist site in Hainan.
Local fishermen said they caught the 3-meter-long, l-ton shark by chance When they were fishing in sea water 1,000 metres deep near the beach.
Police temporarily（暂时）protected the shark while oceanographers decided whether it was a species belonging to State protection.
Fishermen later killed and sold the shark after oceanographers confirmed that it was a whale shark and therefore not under State protection.
The shark was believed to have drifted into the area from the deep sea due to strong waves caused last week by Typhoon Imbudo. It had no open injuries but experts said they believed it suffered from internal（内部的）bleeding.
Local police officer Fu Chenggeng said beachgoers should not feel threatened by sharks because the fish never attack human beings on their own initiative. Fu said he had never heard of any shark attacks at the Sanya beach since he first started work there eight years ago.
However, police said they will improve the security system to safeguard tourists’ safety on the beach.
56．A possible title of the article should be .
A．Tourists in Danger B．Killing Whale Shark
C．Shark Caught in Beach Area D．Whale Shark in Danger
57．From the article it can be learned .
A．the shark was caught because of obvious injuries B．the number of the whale shark may be small
C．typhoon Imbudo may have brought the shark to the area
D．it’s not unusual to see a shark on the beach
58．The underlined word“confirmed”probably means .
A．said B．believed C．thought D．made sure
B
There are some very good things about open education. This way of teaching allows the students to grow as people, and to develop their own interests in many subjects. Open education allows students to be responsible for their own education, as they are responsible for what they do in life. Some students do badly in a traditional classroom. The open classroom may allow them to enjoy learning. Some students will be happier in an open education school. They will not have to worry about grades or rules. For students who worry about these things a lot, it is a good idea to be in an open classroom.
But many students will not do well in an open classroom. For some students, there are too few rules. These students will do little in school. They will not make good use of open education. Because open education is so different from traditional education, these students may have a problem getting used to making so many choices. For many students it is important to have some rules in the classroom. They worry about the rules even when there are no rules. Even a few rules will help this kind of students. The last point about open education is that some traditional teachers do not like it. Many teachers do not believe in open education. Teachers who want to have an open classroom may have many problems at their schools.
You now know what open education is. Some of its good points and bad points have been explained. You may have your own opinion about open education. The writer thinks that open education is a good idea, but only in theory. In actual fact, it may not work very well in a real class or school. The writer believes that most students, but of course not all students, want some structure in their classes. They want and need to have rules. In some cases, they must be made to study some subjects. Many students are pleased to find subjects they have to study interesting. They would not study those subjects if they did not have to.
59．Open education allows the students to .
A．grow as the educated B．be responsible for their future C．develop their own interests D．discover subjects outside class 60．Open education may be a good idea for the students who .
A．enjoy learning B．worry about grades
C．do well in a traditional classroom D．are responsible for what they do in life.
61．Some students will do little in an open classroom because .
A．there are too few rules B．they hate activities C．open education is similar to the traditional education D．they worry about the rules
62．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage A．Some traditional teachers do not like it. B．Many teachers do not believe in open education.
C．Teachers may have problems in open classrooms.
D．The teacher’s feelings and attitudes are important to the students.
63．Which of the following best summarizes the passage
A．Open education is a really complex idea.
B．Open education is better than traditional education.
C．Teachers dislike open education.
D．The writer thinks that open education is a good idea in practice.
C
Pocket Tape-Recorders“Family and Home Magazine”test what’s on the market now.
1）Pearlcorder S702 $64
This simple model at the bottom of the Olympus range scored
the most points for its excellent quality of recording.
Background noise hardly affects the sound and recording from a
pocket is perfectly possible, but it doesn’t turn off
automatically.
Tape length: 30 minutes per side. Weight:240g.
2）Sony M9 $
S mall and very good looking, sony’s latest offering scored most for appearance. Sounds clear, but there is slight machine
noise. The big control buttons are a great improvement on some
of the complicated little controls on other tape-recorders.
Doesn’t switch off automatically but a red light shows if the
machine is still running.
Tape length: 60 minutes per side. Weight: 195g.
3）Sony M400 $115
Lots of little control buttons that make a noise and are difficult to use . Recording was good but machine noise lost points. Tape counter and automatic switch-off when tape has finished recording or rewinding are useful Tape length: 60 minutes per side. Weight: 230g.
4）Imperial OEM. MC $
Cheap and simple compared with the rest, but recording was good as long as there was no background noise. Use only its
own make of cassette. No light to show it is on; no fast
forward button and the record button makes a loud noise.
Tape length: 30 minutes per side. Weight: 285g.
5）Philips 585 $80
Handsome and simple to use, but recording is very poor at more than the recommended distance of 5 cm-designed for dictation.
No recording light. Tape length: 15 minutes per side. Weight:
220g.
64．The machine that produces the best recording with the least unwanted noise is the .
A．Pearlcorder S702 B．Sony M9 C．Sony M400
D．Imperial OEM MC7
65．It you want a machine which turns off automatically and weighs very little you should choose the .
A．Pearlcorder S702 B．Sony M9 C．Sony M400
D．Philips 585
66．Which machine is unsuitable for general use
A．Pearlcorder S702 B．Imperial OEM MC7
C．Sony M400 D．Philips 585
67．What disadvantage does only the Imperial OEM MC7 have A．No light shows when it is on B．It requires a special cassette.
C．It picks up background noise. D．The record button makes a noise.
D
Having reached the highest point of our route according to plan, we discovered something the map had not told us. It was impossible to climb down into the Kingo valley. The river lay deep between mountain sides that were almost vertical（垂直）.W e couldn’t find any animal tracks, which usually show the best way across country, and the slopes were covered so thickly with bushes that we could not see the nature of the ground. We had somehow to break through to the river which would give us our direction out of the mountains into the inhabited lowlands.
Our guide cut a narrow path through the bushes with his long
knife and we followed in single file. Progress was slow. Then, when we thought we had really reached the river, we found ourselves instead on the edge of a cliff with a straight drop of 1,000 feet to the water below. We climbed back up the slope and began to look for another way down. We climbed slipped, sweated and scratched our hands to pieces and finally arrived at the river. Happily we came downhill along its bank without having to cut our way. However, after a few miles the river entered a steep-sided gap between rocks and suddenly dropped thirty-five feet over a waterfall. There was no path alongside it and no way round it.
Then one of the guides saw a way of overcoming the difficulty. There was a fallen tree lying upside down over the waterfall with its leafy top resting on the opposite bank below the falls. Without hesitation he climbed down the slippery trunk to show us how easy it was. Having got to the fork of the tree, he moved hand over hand along a branch for four or five feet with his legs hanging in space, then he dropped onto the flat bank the other side, throwing his arms in the air like a footballer who has scored goal, and cheerfully waving us on.
68．Having reached the highest point on their route, the travelers expected to be able to .
A．track animals to the river B．put away the maps they had been using
C．come near to the river from a different direction
D．get down to the river without much difficulty.
69．The travelers wanted to get to the river because .
A．it would lead them to the waterfall B．it would show them which way to go
C．it was the only possible way out of the mountains
D．it was a quicker way than going over the mountains
70．One reason why the travelers took so long to get to the river was that .
A．it was too hot to move quickly B．there was no proper path
C．they all tried to go different ways D．they could not
follow the animal tracks
71．To get past the waterfall the guide had to .
A．use a fallen tree as a kind of bridge B．cross the river above the waterfall
C．slide down a steep river bank D．swing across the river from a high branch
E
Anxiety is the appropriate（适当的）emotion when the immediate personal terror—of a volcano, an arrow, a stab（刺伤）in the back and other disasters, all directed against one’s self-disappears.
The kind of world that produces anxiety is actually a world of relative safety, a world in which no one feels that he himself is facing sudden death. The anxiety exists as an uneasy state of mind,
in which one has a feeling that something unspecified（不具体的）and indeterminable may go wrong. If the world seems to be going well,
this produces anxiety—for good times may end. If the world is going badly—it may get worse. Anxiety tends to be without focus; the anxious person doesn’ t know whether to blame himself or other people. He isn’t sure whether it is the current year of the administration or a change in climate or the atom bomb that is to blame for this undefined sense of unease.
It is clear that we have developed a society which depends on having the right amount of anxiety to make it work…While we agree that too much anxiety is harmful to mental health, we have come to rely on anxiety to push us into seeing a doctor about a symptom（症状）which may indicate cancer, into checking up on that old life-insurance policy which may have out-of-date provisions in it, into having a conference with Billy’s teacher even though his report card looks all right.
People who are anxious enough keep their car insurance up, have the brakes checked, don’t take a second drink when they have to drive. People who are too anxious either refuse to go into cars at all—and so complicate the ordinary course of life—or drive so tensely and carefully that they help cause accidents. People who aren’t anxious enough take chance after chance, which increases the terrible accidents of the roads.
72．According to the author, anxiety is the emotion when .
A．one is filled with a sudden sense of uneasiness B．one sees no immediate danger
C．one has a vague sense about his life D．one feels
that the world may go badly
73．The author holds that .
A．anxiety is a good thing B．anxiety is a symptom of mental illness
C．some anxiety can lead to changes for the better D．no anxiety is bad for society
74．According to the author, accidents of the road tend to be caused by .
A．all those who are too anxious B．all those who have anxiety
C．those who have no anxiety D．those who are not anxious enough
75．The best title for the passage would be .
A．One Man’s Thought about Anxiety B．The Right Amount of Anxiety
C．Anxiety versus Safety D．Different Attitudes to Anxiety
★专题（4）
A
The total area of land on earth is about 149 million square kilometers, or about 39 percent of the total area of the earth.
The average height of the land is about 750 metres above the sea level .The Eurasian（欧亚的）land mass is the largest with an area of 54,527,600 square kilometers .The smallest continent is the Australian mainland, with an area of about 7,614,600 square kilometers, which together with Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, is described as Oceania .The total area of Oceania is about 8,935,500 square kilometres, including West Iran which is political in Asia .
The world’s largest peninsula（半岛）is Arabia ,with an area of about 3,327,500 square kilometres .
The largest island in the world is Greenland, with an area of about 2,175,600 square kilometres. The largest island surrounded by fresh water is the Ilha de Marajo (4,022 square kilometres) in the mouth of the Amazon River, Brazil .The largest island in a lake is Manitoulin Island (2,766 square kilometres) in the Canadian section of Lake Huron . This island itself has on it a lake of 106 square kilometres called Manitou lake, in which there are several islands. 56．The area of Tasmania, of New Zealand, of New Guinea and of the Pacific Islands add up to
about square kilometres .
,935,500 .1,320,900 ,614,600 ,550,100 57．Oceania is made up of .(Suppose I: Australia ;II: Tasmania and New Zealand ; III:
New Guinea and the Pacific Is –lands )
and II and III and III ,II and III 58．Which of the following diagrams （图解）shows the correct relationship between Manitoulin
Island(MI), Lake Huron (LH), Manitou Lake (ML) and the “several islands” (SI) mentioned at the end of the passage
59．The largest island surrounded by fresh water is in .
river lake sea ocean
B
Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea . People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like , mainly because
tea was very expensive . It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so
only because it was a fashionable curiosity . Some of them were not sure how to use it . They thought it was a vegetable and tried
cooking the leaves . Then they served them mixed with butter and
salt . They soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children
as sandwiches .
Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early
in the seventeenth century . During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could
afford to buy it .
At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea . Until then tea had been drunk without milk in it , but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added . She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk . Because she was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did ,they also drank their tea with milk in it .
Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk .
At first , tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening . No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess
（公爵夫人）found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it . She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so , tea-time was born .
60．This passage mainly discusses .
A. the history of tea drinking in Britain
B. how tea became a popular drink in Britain
C. how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea
D. how tea-time was born
61．Tea became a popular drink in Britain .
A. in the eighteenth century
B. in the sixteenth century
C. in the seventeenth century
D. in the late seventeenth century
62．People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because .
A. it tasted like milk
B. it tasted more pleasant
C. it became a popular drink
D. Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy
the way she drank tea
63．We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the
influence of .
A. a famous French lady
B. the ancient Chinese
C. the upper(上层的) social class
D. people in Holland
C
Six chimps(猩猩) were introduced to a slot machine called the Chimp- O- Mat, which would give out one grape when a white coin was insert into the slot. When Dr Wolf showed a young chimp named Moos how he could win himself a grape by inserting a coin, Moos
immediately picked up another coin, pushed it into the slot, then stuck out his paw and waited for a grape to drop out..
Besides white coins, the chimps were given yellow coins to insert into the slot, but nothing came out because they were worthless. The chimps soon learned this fact. When a handful of white and yellow coins were thrown into the cage housing, Bula, Bimba and Alpha, the three chimps rushed for the white coins and never touched the yellow ones.
Now the chimps were madly in love with money. Would the six chimps value money enough to work for it To find the answer, Dr Wolfe designed a work machine. The chimps were shown that when a large handle was lifted, they could pick one grape. When they had learned the skill of lifting the handle to get the grape, Dr Wolf made a change to the machines so that instead of the grape they would find a white coin. This coin would still buy them one grape at the Chimp- O- Mat.
Thus the complexity of getting a grape was not only doubled, but also the money to buy the grape could be achieved only by honest work. The handle they had to lift to get the coin weighed eighty pounds. Great effort is needed for a young chimp to raise that weight, yet the formerly lazy chimps not only quickly mastered the new operation, but also showed great eagerness to work for money. 64．The purpose of the Chimp- O- Mat experiment was to discover whether chimps would learn to________.
A. enjoy themselves
B. work together
C. use coins
D.
operate a machine
65．In the first part of the experiment the chimps learned to
__________.
A.tell the difference between the useful and the worthless coins
https://www.360docs.net/doc/dd11761244.html,e yellow coins to get grapes
C.wait for the grapes to drop out grapes with coins 66．Which of the following shows the correct order of the things a chimp did in the second part of the experiment
a.got a white coin
b.got a grape
c.lifted the heavy handle
d.inserted a coin into the Chimp- O- Mat
A. c a b d
B. c a d b
C. a b d c
D. a d c b
67．The passage showed that _________.
A. Dr Wolfe was disappointed with his experiment
B. The chimps could do everything if taught
C. The chimps were willing to work if something was paid back
D. The chimp’s understanding was as good as a man’s
D
Career education is instruction intended to help young people identify, choose, and prepare for a career. Such instruction may focus on a person’s role in work, leisure, or family life. Career education differs from vocational education, which is designed to teach specific occupational skills.
Career education includes the formal and informal learning that occurs in the family, in the community, and in schools. In schools, career education consists of instructive activities included in many courses. These activities are designed to improve the attitudes, knowledge, and skills important for work roles. Career education helps students develop self- understanding and use it to plan their education and working life.
A complete career education program in school begins in kindergarten and continues at least through high school. Many