安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2012届高三英语阅读理解限时训练(16-17)

安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2012届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（16）
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed （展现）herself as she did nowhere else．
After the death of her second husband, Greek shipping magnate（巨头）Aristotie Onassis, Jacqueline’s close friend and former White House social secretary Letitia Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing．After consideration, Jacqueline accepted it．Perhaps she hoped to find some ideas about how to live her own life．She became not less but more interested in reading．For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking, then at Doubleday, pursuing a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined．During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 successfully marketed books. Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes. She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book, The Power of Myth. The book went on to become an international best-seller．She dealt ,too, with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography，Moonwalk．
Jacqueline may have been hired for her name and for her social relations, but she soon proved her worth. Her choices, suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing and to Jacqueline herself．In the books she selected for publication, she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind．Her books are the autobiography she never wrote. Her role as First lady, in the end, was overshadowed by her performance as an editor．However, few knew that she had achieved so much．
41．We can learn from the passage that Jacqueline ____________.
A．was in charge of publishing 100 books
B．gained a lot from her career as an editor
C．promoted her books through social relations
D．became fond of reading after working as an editor
42．The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means that .
A．Jacqueline ended up as an editor rather than as First Lady
B．Jacqueline was more successful as an editor than as First Lady
C．Jacqueline’s life as First Lady was more colorful than as an editor
D．Jacqueline’s role as First Lady was more brilliant than as an editor
43．What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Jacqueline’s achievements were wi dely known
B．Jacqueline’s two marriages lasted more than 20 years
C．Jacqueline’s own publishing firm was set up eventually
D．Jacqueline’s views and beliefs were reflected in the books she edited
44．The passage is mainly __________.
A．a brief d escription of Jacqueline’s lifelong experiences
B．an analysis of Jacqueline’s social relations in publishing
C．a brief account of Jacqueline’s career as an editor in her last 20 years
D．an introduction of Jacqueline’s life both as First Lady and as a n editor
B
Pacing and Pausing
Sara tried to befriend her old friend Steve's new wife, but Betty never seemed to have anything to say. While Sara felt Betty didn't hold up her end of the conversation, Betty complained to Steve that Sara never gave her a chance to talk. The problem had to do with expectations about pacing and pausing.
Conversation is a turn-taking game. When our habits are similar, there's no problem. But if our habits are different, you may start to talk before I'm finished or fail to take your turn when I'm finished. That's what was happening with Betty and Sara.
It may not be coincidental that Betty, who expected relatively longer pauses between turns, is British, and Sara, who expected relatively shorter pauses, is American. Betty often felt interrupted by Sara. But Betty herself became an interrupter and found herself doing most of the talking when she met a visitor from Finland. And Sara had a hard time cutting in on some speakers from Latin America or Israel.
The general phenomenon, then, is that the small conversation techniques, like pacing and pausing, lead people to draw conclusions not about conversational style but about personality and abilities. These habitual differences are often the basis for dangerous stereotyping. And these social phenomena can have very personal consequences. For example, a woman from the southwestern part of the US went to live in an eastern city to take up a job in personnel. When the Personnel Department got together for meetings, she kept searching for the right time to break in--and never found it. Although back home she was considered outgoing and confident, in Washington she was viewed as shy and retiring. When she was evaluated at the end of the year, she was told to take a training course because of her inability to speak up.
That's why slight differences in conversational style--tiny little things like microseconds of pause-can have a great effect on one's life. The result in this case was a judgment of psychological problems---even in the mind of the woman herself, who really wondered what was wrong with her and registered for assertiveness training.
45. What did Sara think of Betty when talking with her?
A. Betty was talkative.
B. Betty was an interrupter.
C. Betty did not take her turn.
D. Betty paid no attention to Sara.
46. According to the passage, who are likely to expect the shortest pauses between turns?
A. Americans.
B. The British.
C. Israelis.
D. The Finns.
47. We can learn from the passage that ___________.
A. one should receive training to build up one's confidence
B. one's inability to speak up is culturally determined sometimes
C. women are unfavorably stereotyped in eastern cities of the US
D. communication breakdown results from short pauses and fast pacing
48. The underlined word "assertiveness" in the last paragraph probably means __
A. being willing to speak one's mind
B. being able to increase one's power
C. being ready to make one's own judgment
D. being quick to express one's ideas confidently
C
Runners in a relay race pass a stick in one direction. However, merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction. They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road.
The Silk Road was not a simple trading network. It passed through thousands of cities and towns. It started from eastern China, across Central Asia and the Middle East, and ended in the Mediterranean Sea. It was used from about 200 B C to about 1300 A D., when sea travel offered new routes. It was sometimes called the world’s longest highway.
However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path. They passed through what are now 18 countries. The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles. Only experienced traders could return safe.
The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product. Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods. But the traders carried more than just silk. Gold, silver, and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia. Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China. Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods. Chinese merchants traded paper, which produced an immediate effect on the West. Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome. The Chinese had learned to graft (嫁接) different trees together to make new kinds of fruit.
They passed this science on to others, including the Romans. The Romans used grafting to grow the apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to world-wide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web.
The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods. They also shared their beliefs. The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy, and religion.
49. It’s probable that traders along the Silk Road needed ________.
A. to deal with a lot of difficulties
B. to know the making of products
C. to receive certain special training
D. to remember the entire trade route
50. The Silk Road became less important because ________.
A. it was made up of different routes
B. silk trading became less popular
C. people needed fewer foreign goods
D. sea travel provided easier routes
51. New technologies could travel along the Silk Road because people ________.
A. shared each other’s beliefs
B. learned from one another
C. traded goods along the route
D. earned their living by traveling
52. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Silk Road: East Meets West
B. The Silk Road: Past and Present
C. The Silk Road: Routes Full of Dangers
D. The Silk Road: Pathways for Learning
D
When we walk through the city, we all experience a kind of information overload but we pay attention only to those that are important to us. We don't stop, we keep our faces expressionless and eyes straight ahead, and in doing so, we are not just protecting ourselves but are avoiding overloading other people as well.
We make use of stereotypes as convenient ways to make quick judgments about situations and people around us. They may not always be accurate，and they can often be dangerously wrong, but they are used regularly.
The problem with the stereotypes is that they restrict experience. By using limited clues to provide us with a rapid opinion of other people or places we may choose to limit our communication. We may decide not to go to certain places because we believe they will not offer something we enjoy.
In the city, styles of dress are particularly important with regard to self-presentation. Different groups often use clearly identifiable styles of clothes so that they can be easily recognized. It is becoming increasingly common for brand names to be placed on the outside of clothes, and this labeling makes it easy to send out information about fashion and price instantly, and lets others tell at a distance whether an individual has similar tastes and is a suitable person to associate with.
In England, where social grouping or class continues to make social distinctions, clothes, hairstyles, people's pronunciation and the manner of speaking are all clues to our social group. Class distinctions tend to be relatively fixed, although in the city where greater variety is permitted, they are more likely to be secondary determining factors of friendship and association.
53. People walking in cities ignore the surroundings because _________.
A．there is too much information to take in
B．everyone else is expressionless
C．they do not wish to talk to other people
D．the environment is already familiar to them
54. According to the passage, the main disadvantage of using stereotypes is that they ________.
A．can rarely be relied on
B．make us mentally lazy
C．may make us miss some pleasant experience
D．are likely to lead us into dangerous situations
55. From the passage we may conclude that ________.
A．stereotypes can help to understand people fully
B．dressing can send messages about individuals
C．people are becoming more interested in fashion
D．stereotypes can do more harm than good to people
56. It would appear that in England, a person's class ________.
A．is something that can be changed easily.
B．plays less of a role than it did in the past
C．is mainly determined by his pronunciation
D．might be less important in making friends in a city
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The internet will open up new vistas (前景), create the global village—you can make new friends all around the world．That, at least, is what it promised us．The difficulty is that it did not take the human mind into account．The reality is that we cannot keep relationship more than a limited number of people. No matter how hard the internet tries to put you in communication, its best efforts will be defeated by your mind．
The problem is twofold．First, there is a limit on the number of people we can hold in mind and have a meaningful relationship with．That number is about 150 and is set by the size of our brain. Second, the quality of your relationships depends on the amount of time you invest in them．We invest a lot in a small number of people and then distribute what’s left among as many others as we can．The problem is that if we invest little time in a person, our engagement with that person will decline until eventually it dies into “someone I once knew”．
This is not, of course, to say that the internet doesn’t serve a socially valuable function．Of course it does．But the question is not that it allows you to increase the size of your social circle to include the rest of the world, but that you can keep your relationships with your existing friends going even though you have more to the other side of the world．
In one sense, that’s a good thing．But it also has a disadvantage．If you continue to invest in your old friends even though you can no longer see them, then certainly you aren’t using your time to make new friends where you now live．And I suspect that probably isn’t the best use of your time．Meaningful relationships are about being able to communicate with each other, face to face. The inte rnet will slow down the rate with which relationships end, but it won’t stop that happening eventually．
57．What is stressed in the first paragraph?
A．The present situation of the internet．
B．The socially valuable function of the internet．
C．The difficulty in communication on the internet．
D．The role of the human mind in the internet communication．
58．The underlined word “engagement” in the second paragraph probably means “____”．A．connection B．appointment C．interview D．agreement 59．According to the passenger, the author holds the view that_________．
A. the internet greatly increases the size of social circles
B. the internet determines the quality of social relationships
C. the internet fails to play so valuable a role in communication as it promised
D. the internet communication is no less effective than the face-to-face talk in many cases 60．What is the author’s attitude towards the use of the internet to strengthen relationships?
A．He doubts it．B．He is hopeful of it．
C．He approves of it．D．He is uncertain about it．
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安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校2012届高三英语阅读理解限时训练（17）
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41．Which of the following is discouraged by the Friends organization?
A．To build massive complexes for public amusement.
B．To prevent possible damages to the National Park.
C．To help protect and improve the Park for all to enjoy.
D. To sponsor publications and projects in local school.
42. One of the benefits for members of Friends is to_________ .
A. have Friends’ goods free of charge
B. visit any place not open to the public
C. take part in work parties if they want to
D. give talks in their fields on current issues
43.The purpose of this poster is to invite more people to_______________.
A. raise money for the Friends organization
B. join the Friends organization and be members of it
C. work as managers for Pembroke shire National Park
D. enjoy the landscape of Pembroke shire National Park
B
Mapping Your World
Different forms of maps are appearing. They allow independent travelers to get local knowledge of places they are visiting, from the official to the unusual. Meanwhile, hi-tech developments are creating new ways for us to map the world. Here are two of our favorites;
Green Maps
Green Maps allows people to share with the world their knowledge of environmentally friendly places and attractions in the local areas. Users add information with a set of icons（图
标）,making it easy to read any map ,whatever the nationalities of those who produce it . At present there are over five hundred Map projects being developed in 54 countries Green Maps’ advertised idea is “think global, map local” .It is a wonderful way of gaining all sorts of a place , ranging from community garden to good places of bird watching.
Green Maps is not specifically intended for travelers. Not all of its maps are online, so it may be necessary for some users to communicate with producers through the Green Maps website.
Maps Mashups
Many people use online maps developed by Google, but not many know about the mashups of them. Working in a similar way to Green Maps, Maps Mashups allows people to add icons of their own to existing maps to express a certain topic. The mashups is so called because it combines all the knowledge you could ever need. It ranges from the extremely useful, such as where all the World Heritage Sites are, to the most bizarre （古怪的），such as where America’s munkest cities are. With the mashups added to the basic Google Maps, a multi-layered (多层的) map can be created.
44.. According to the passage, which of the following is a characteristic of Green Maps?
A. Aiming at environmental protection.
B. Introducing local attractions with icons.
C. Offering advice to independent travelers.
D. Collecting icons worldwide for local maps.
45. Which of the following icons is most probably NOT used in Green Maps?
46. Map Mashups is named with the word “mashups” because
A. it is produced by users all over the world
B. it gathers various kinds of information
C. it shares icons with Green Maps
D. it is a branch of Google Maps
47.What do Green Maps and Map Mashups have in common?
A. They are created by local people.
B. They are environmentally friendly.
C. Users can edit maps on the Internet.
D. Users need to communicate with produces.
C
An idea that started in Seattle's public library has spread throughout America and beyond. The concept is simple: help to build a sense of community in a city by getting everyone to read the same book at the same time.
In addition to encouraging reading as a pursuit (追求) to be enjoyed by all, the program allows strangers to communicate by discussing the book on the bus, as well as promoting reading as an experience to be shared in families and schools.
The idea came from Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl who launched (发起）the "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book " project in 1998. Her original program used author visits, study guides and book discussion groups to bring people together with a book, but the idea has since expanded to many other American cities, and even to Hong Kong.
In Chicago, the mayor(市长）appeared on television to announce the choice of To Kill a Mockingbird as the first book in the "One Book, One Chicago" program. As a result, reading clubs and neighborhood groups sprang up around the city.
Across the US, stories emerged of parents and children reading to each other at night and strangers chatting away on the bus about plot and character.
The only problem arose in New York , where local readers could not decide on one book to represent the huge and diverse population. This may show that the idea works best in
medium-sized cities or large towns, where a greater sense of unity(一致）can be achieved .Or it may show that New Yorkers rather missed the point ,putting all their energy and passion into the choice of the book rather than discussion about a book itself.
As Nancy points out , the level of success is not measured by how many people read a book, but by how many people are enriched by the process. or have enjoyed speaking to someone with whom they would not otherwise have shared a word.
48. What is the purpose of the project launched by Nancy?
A. To invite authors to guide readers.
B. To encourage people to read and share.
C. To involve people in community service.
D. To promote the friendship between cities.
49. Why was it difficult for New Yorkers to carry out the project?
A. They had little interest in reading.
B. They were too busy to read a book.
C. They came from many different backgrounds
D. They lacked support from the local government
50. According to the passage, where would the project be more easily carried out?
A. In large communities with little sense of unity
B. In large cities where libraries are far from home
C. In medium-sized cities with a diverse population
D. In large towns where agreement can be quickly reached
51.The underlined words “shared a word” in Paragraph 7 probably mean
A. exchanged ideas with each other
B. discussed the meaning of a word
C. gained life experience
D. used the same language
52. According to Nancy, the degree of success of the project is judged by
A. the careful selection of a proper book
B. the growing popularity of the writers
C. the number of people who benefit from reading.
D. the number of books that each person reads.
D
Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Thanks to special bacteria in their stomachs, kangaroo farts contain no methane（甲烷）and scientists want to transfer that bacteria to cattle and sheep who emit large quantities of the harmful gas.
While the usual image of greenhouse gas pollution is a billowing smokestack pushing out carbon dioxide, livestock passing wind contribute a surprisingly high percentage of total emissions in some countries.
"Fourteen percent of emissions from all sources in Australia is from enteric methane from cattle and sheep," said Athol Klieve, a senior research scientist with the Queensland state government.
"And if you look at another country such as New Zealand, which has got a much higher agricultural base, they're actually up around 50 percent," he said.
Researchers say the bacteria also makes the digestive process much more efficient and could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers.
But it will take researchers at least three years to isolate the bacteria, before they can even start to develop a way of transferring it to cattle and sheep.
Another group of scientists, meanwhile, has suggested Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroos.
The idea is controversial（争议）, but about 20 percent of health conscious Australians are believed to eat the national symbol already.
"It's low in fat, it's got high protein levels and it's very clean in the sense that basically it's the ultimate free range animal（散养动物）," said Peter Ampt of the University of New South Wales's institute of environmental studies.
53. According to the passage, global warming is now mainly caused by _____ .
A. methane
B. carbon dioxide
C. livestock passing wind
D. not mention in this passage
54. What does the underlined phrase “the idea”（paragraph 9）refer to?
A. Australians should give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep.
B. The bacteria could make the digestive process much more efficient.
C. Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroos.
D. The bacteria could potentially save millions of dollars in feed costs for farmers.
55. Some Australians begin to eat kangaroos because _____.
A. The kangaroos’ farts（放屁）contain no methane
B. The kangaroos have a special bacteria
C. The kangaroos are the national symbol in Australia
D. The kangaroos are low in fat and high in protein
56. How will Australian scientists solve the problem of global warming?
A. Eating more kangaroos.
B. Killing more cattle and sheep.
C. Letting cattle and sheep pass less wind.
D. Transferring the special bacteria in kangaroos’ stomachs to cattle and sheep.
E
The next generation telephone is called Superphone or personal Communication Network (PCN). Your superphone goes wherever you go, in your pocket. You can use it in the street, in an aeroplane, a boat, or a taxi; you can call from anywhere on the globe to anywhere else. Calls travel at the speed of light, via satellites using ultraviolet, high-frequency wave bands and each communication is automatically billed to your account.
This new phone is the size and shape of a billfold(皮夹). You unfold it to use it., making it long enough to reach from your ear to your mouth. There is a miniaturized touch pad, on which to enter the number you are calling. There is also a tiny liquid crystal screen on which you can read weather, news or financial reports. These news items are constantly updated by the company that sells the service. Letter keys on the touch pad also allow you to use this electronic marvel as a computer or word processor. You can plug it into your large home or office computer in order to transfer any data that you feed in during a business trip. The PCN also stores any useful information of your own that you might need as you travel, such as the names, addresses and phone numbers of several hundred people, important meetings, flight details and so on. When you need information, you simply call it up on the screen. You can even use your PCN to activate electronically controlled equipment at home. For example, you could switch your oven on or off, start the sprinkler system in your garden during a dry spell, get your video recorder to record a show on television, turn off the central heating, and so on. All of this from thousands of miles away, perhaps from the back of a camel in the desert. Prototypes are already being trialed. In spite of the complex technology, they will be cheap because of the enormous sales that will be made.
57.The Superphone system ______________.
A.has a very wide coverage of signals.
B.deducts fees directly from users’ bank account.
C.offers a nearly free communicating service
D.requires people to speak quickly
58.The next generation telephone doesn’t own the function of ______
A. a computer
B. a billfold
C. a word processor
D. a communication device
59. The author’s intention in mentioning “from the back…the desert” is to _________
A. show the great impact of the new phone on the world
B. emphasize the strong remote control function of the new phone
C. demonstrate how to operate the new phone in such places
D. show travelers’ affection for the new phone
60. The author may agree that ________
A. the new phone’s technology is too complex to be generalized
B. the new phone is still commercially unappetizing.
C. the new phone has been put into volume production
D. the new phone has excellent prospects in market.
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