高考英语阅读中的名词性从句

Noun clauses in Reading1. In my mind, attending my dream university would be the only way to realize my dream of becoming a world-class writer. My parents understood how I felt. They told me that even though it would be a financial problem, I could go wherever I would be happiest. But as I was always careful with money, I wasn’t sure what to do. We can learn from the passage that the parents were ________A. honest.B. strictC. supportiveD. decisive.2. Milly had clearly been a secret lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not expect me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He lifted his candle and I saw a dark figure on the ground. " She was such a good cow! My idea is that I wouldn't let anyone but a doctor touch her! " he said, and burst into tears again.The person who told the story is probably a ____ .A. farmerB. policemanC. country doctorD. newspaper reporter3. In “Notes Camp”,the 1964 essay that first made her name , Susan Sontag explained w hat was then a little-known set of difficult understandings, through which she could not have been more famous .“Notes on Camp”, she wrote, shows “a victory of ‘form’over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”.Susan Sontag first won her name through ___________.A. her story of a Polish actressB. her book illness as MetaphorC. publishing essays in magazines like partisan ReviewD. her explanation of a set of difficult understandings4. Grow-ups also have a sense of object permanence. We know that if we put a box in a room and lock the door, the box will still be there when we come back.. But does a baby realize that a ball that rolls under a chair does not disappear and go to never-never land.“O bject permanence” means that when out of sight, an object ____A. still existsB. keeps its shapeC. still stays solidD. is beyond reach5. A recent study showed that two out of five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the way they make and sell their products to make sure that they are "green," that is, friendly to the environment.It becomes clear from the text that the driving force (动力) behind green products is ______A. public caring for the environmentB. companies desire for bigger salesC. new ways of doing businessD. rapid growth of supermarkets6. “Having a party at home usually requires a lot of running around on the part of the parents, and often the birthday boy or girl gets lost in wild excitement. But it really d oesn’t have to be that way,” said Anaclerio. Last summer, Anaclerio and her friend Jill Carlisle, a Northbrook mother of a 2-year-old, founded a home party-planning business called “A Party in a Basket.” Their goal is to help parents and children share in the fun part of party planning, like choosing the subject or making a cake, while they take care of everything.The most important idea behind the kind of party planning described here is that______.A. it brings parents and children closer togetherB. guests play a part in the preparation of a partyC. parents are spared the trouble of sending invitationsD. it provides a subject of conversation7. Most animals have little connection with animals of a different kind, unless they hunt them for food. Sometimes, however, two kinds of animals come together in a partnership which does good to both of them. You may have noticed some birds sitting on the backs of sheep. This is not because they want a ride, but because they find easy food in the parasites (寄生虫) on sheep. The sheep allow the birds to do so because they remove the cause of discomfort.Some birds like to sit on a sheep because _________ ．A．they can eat its parasites B．they enjoy travelling with the sheepC．they depend on the sheep for existence D．they find the position most comfortable8. Decision-thinking is not unlike poker — it often matters not only what you think, but also what others think you think and what you think they think you think. The mental process (过程) is similar. Naturally, this card game has often been of considerable interest to people who are, by any standards, good thinkers.The great mathematician John von Neumann was one of the founders of game theory. In particular, he showed that all games fall into t wo classes: there are what he called games of “perfect information”, games like chess where the players can’t hide anything or play tricks; they don’t win by chance, but by means of logic and skills. Then there are games of “imperfect information”, like po ker, in which it is impossible to know in advance that one course of action is better than another.One mistaken idea about business is that it can be treated as a game of perfect information. Quite the reverse, business, politics, life itself are games which we must normally play with very imperfect information. Business decisions are often made with many unknown and unknowable factors(因素) which would even puzzle(困惑) best poker players. But few business people find it comfortable to admit that they are taking a chance, and many still prefer to believe that they are playing chess, not poker.1. The subject discussed in this text is ____.A. the process of reaching decisionsB. the difference between poker and chessC. the secret of making good business plansD. the value of information in winning games2. An important factor in a game of imperfect information is ____.A. rulesB. luckC. timeD. ideas3. Which of the following can be used in place of “Quite the reverse”?A. Quite right.B. True enough.C. Most unlikely.D. Just the opposite.4. In the writer’s opinion, when making business decisions one should ____.A. put perfect information before imperfect informationB. accept the existence of unknown factorsC. regard business as a game of chessD. mix known and unknown factorsTranslation:1．我的建议是我们立刻就出发。