十月联考GCT英语考点精选(阅读理解) 2

/十月联考GCT英语考点精选（阅读理解）Passage 1Firefighters are often asked to speak to school and community groups about the importance of fire safety, particularly fire prevention and detection. Because smoke detectors reduce the risk of dying in a fire by half, firefighters often provide audiences with information on how to install these protective devices in their homes.Specifically, they tell them these things: A smoke detector should be placed on each floor of a home. While sleeping, people are in particular danger of an emergent fire, and there must be a detector outside each sleeping area. A good site for a detector would be hallway that runs between living and bedrooms.Because of the dead-air space that might be missed by hot air bouncing around above a fire, smoke detectors should be installed either on the ceiling at least four inches from the nearest wall, or high on a wall at least four, but no further than twelve, inches from the ceiling.Detectors should not be mounted near windows, entrances, or other places where drafts (过堂风) might direct the smoke away from the unit. Nor should they be placed in kitchens and garages, where cooking and gas fumes are likely to cause false alarms.1. One responsibility of a firefighter is to _____.A. install smoke detectors in residents’ homesB. check if smoke detectors are properly installedC. develop fire safety programs for schoolsD. speak to residents about how to prevent fires2. Compared with homes without smoke detectors, homes with them give their ownersa 50% better chance of _____.A. surviving a fireB. preventing a fireC. detecting a hidden fireD. not getting injured in a fire3. A smoke detector must always be placed _____.A. on any level of a homeB. outside all bedrooms in a homeC. in all hallways of a homeD. in kitchens where fire are most likely to start4. The passage implies that dead-air space is most likely to be found _____.A. on a ceiling four inches away from a wallB. near an open windowC. close to where a wall meets a ceilingD. in kitchens and garages5. What is the focus of this passage?A. How firefighters carry out their responsibilities.B. The proper installation of home smoke detectors.C. The detection of dead-air space on walls and ceilings.D. How smoke detectors prevent fires in homesPassage 2Tony Huesman, a heart transplant recipient (接受者) who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of leukemia (白血病) but his heart still going strong. “He had leukemia,” his widow Carol Huesman said, “His heart – believe it or not – held out. His heart never gave up until the end, when it had to.”Huesman got a heart transplant in 1978 at Stanford University. That was just 11 y ears after the world’s first heart transplant was performed in South Africa. At his death, Huesman was listed as the world’s longest survivor of a single transplant heart both by Stanford and the Richmond, Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing.“I’m a living proof of a person who can go through a life-threatening illness, have the operation and return to a productive life”, Huesman told the Dayton Daily News in 2006.Huesman worked as marketing director at a sporting-goods store. He was found to have serious heart disease while in high school. His heart, attacked by a pneumonia (肺炎) virus, was almost four times its normal size from trying to pump blood with weakened muscles.Huesman’s sister, Linda Huesman Lamb, also was stricken with the sam e problem and received a heart transplant in 1983. The two were the nation’s first brother and sister heart transplant recipients. She died in 1991 at age 29.Huesman founded the Huesman Heart Foundation in Dayton, which seeks to reduce heart disease by educating children and offers a nursing scholarship in honor of his sister.6. Tony Huesman died from _____.A. heart failureB. heart transplantC. pneumoniaD. non-heart-related disease7. The phrase “held out” (Para. 1) probably means “_____”.A. failed suddenlyB. functioned properlyC. expanded graduallyD. shrank progressively8. After his heart transplant, Tony Huesman _____.A. lived a normal lifeB. received another donated organC. couldn’t go back to workD. didn’t live as long as expected9. Tony Huesman died in the year off _____.A. 1983B. 1991C. 2006D. 200910. Huesman had to receive a heart transplant because _____.A. he had an inherited heart diseaseB. he was born with heart disabilityC. his heart was infected by a virusD. his heart was injured in an accidentPassage 3Watch out! Here comes London Mayor Boris Johnson riding a bicycle from his new bike hire plan. “What we’ve put in is a new form of publi c transport. These bikes are going to belong to everybody.”More than 12,000 people have signed up for the plan. They each receive a key at a cost of three pounds, with costs at one pound for a 24-hour membership, five pounds for seven days, and 45 pounds for an annual membership.John Payne, a London teacher who cycles a lot, is among the first to use the system. “It’s very comfortable. For people who don’t cycle much I think it’ll be very useful. But for people who cycle regularly, they are possibly a bit slow. But they’re perfect for London streets, very strong. I think they’ll be very widely used.”And Johnson says it’s of good value, “I think it’s of extremely good value. The first half hour is free. If you cycle smart and you cycle around London - most journeys in London take less than half an hour, you can cycle the whole day free.” Some 5,000 bikes are currently available at over 300 docking stations (租车点) in central London. Johnson says the city will gradually expand the system.” Clearly one of our ambitions is to make sure that in 2012 when the world comes to London, they will be able to use London hire bikes to go to the Olympic stadiums.”11. Mayor Boris Johnson is riding a bicycle to _____.A. go to workB. attend a competitionC. promote his bike hire planD. show his love for cycling12. The author mentions John Payne as an example of people who _____.A. oppose the bike hire planB. support the bike hire planC. don’t cycle muchD. cycle regularly13. According to Boris Johnson, one can cycle around London the whole day free _____.A. because most journeys take less than half an hourB. because the bike hire is free for the first timeC. if one can arrange his London tour in a smart wayD. if one is physically strong enough14. The bike hire system will _____.A. be expanded to serve the 2012 Olympic GamesB. be provided free for the 2012 Olympic athletesC. benefit from the 2012 Olympic GamesD. be free of charge for the 2012 Olympic visitors15. Mayor Boris Johnson is _____ about the future of his bike hire plan.A. optimisticB. concernedC. uncertainD. excitedPassage 4Our sense of smell, which we normally take for granted, is nowadays being increasingly used for purposes which might surprise us if we were aware of them. One area in which smells are created to achieve particular results is marketing. For some time manufacturers have taken advantage of our sense of smell with regard to household goods. Millions of dollars are spent on product research in the hunt for the right smell as it is believed perfume influences the way consumers perceive a brand. In a survey in the United States, when people were asked what was the most important factor in their choice of detergent (洗衣粉)，smell was rated highly, above ingredients and price.Now stores are becoming even more direct in the use of smell. The smell of fresh bread in a supermarket tends to encourage people to buy, and people selling their houses are recommended to have coffee being heated when potential buyers arrive. Suddenly smell is becoming big business. One company specializing in the use of smells to attract consumers now has many large stores on its own list of customers. They find that when pleasa nt smells are filtered through a store’s air conditioning system, people tend to spend longer in the store and buy more.Research shows that smells can increase people’s view of a product. In a test, people looked at the same types of shoes in two rooms-one filled with purified air, the other with a smell of mixed flowers. 84% of the people preferred the shoes in the room with the smell of flowers. In fact, many said they would be prepared to pay up to US$ 10 more for a pair.Smells also have other potential uses. Some companies are experimenting with different smells to produce different effects in their workers according to the time of day. For example, early in the morning they might put the smell of lemon in the air conditioning system to wake people up. In the middle of the morning, when theatmosphere tends to become more tense, the smell of wood could be used to calm people down. Before lunchtime the smell of melting butter would encourage people to go to lunch on time. After lunch, when people often begin to lose concentration, the smell of mint (薄荷) would increase their alertness.16. Which is the most appropriate title for the passage?A. How to avoid being affected by smellsB. Using smells to influence peopleC. The power of our sense of smellD. New smells in supermarkets17. In the survey, when selecting detergent, people considered smell _____.A. not importantB. as important as priceC. less important than ingredientsD. more important than price18. To attract more customers, some large stores _____.A. employ a company specializing in the use of smellsB. provide free coffee for themC. filter purified air through air conditioningD. decorate themselves with fresh flowers19. The majority of people in the test (Para.3) preferred _____.A. the smell of shoes to that of flowersB. the smell of flowers to that of shoesC. the shoes in the room with purified airD. the shoes in the room with appealing smells20. To produce a calming effect, some companies use the smell of _____.A. lemonB. woodC. melting butterD. mint【答案】1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10D A A C B D B A D C11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20C B C A A BD A D B。