2015高考二轮英语阅读理解提速专练(八) 阅读理解(自然类)+任务型阅读

2015高考英语阅读理解提速特别训练AGrowing up in a small town in rural Malaysia, we did not have many toys. We had to be creative, so we built kites, played with sand and made jumping ropes from rubber bands. My father worked on my grandfather’s rubber-tree plantation, and sometimes he would take me with him and show me the thick, white rubber milk extracted (提取) from the trees to produce natural rubber.After school, I dreamed of becoming an engineer, but I could not get into my local university, because Malaysia’s race-based system limits the number of Chinese students. Like many of my friends, I had to leave Malaysia to go to university.My brother and I landed in Kansas on a snowy day in the spring of 1991. I had never seen snow before and barely spoke any English. I remember thinking I was halfway round the globe and that, if I screamed, nobody would hear.A year after I graduated, the Asian economy crashed, and many of my friends back home lost their jobs. In 1997, the US economy was booming, and with a master’s in mechanical engineering, it was easier to find a job in the US. So I started a career in crash safety in Detroit’s motor industry.I loved my job, but regretted not seeing my two daughters much.They were 9 and 12, and distant towards me. One night after work, I saw them making bracelets (手镯) from rubber bands and I thought, “Hey, I know how to do this. Maybe I can impress you girls.” I sat down and showed them how to link the rubber bands together, using the same technique we had used to make jumping ropes back in Malaysia. But the bracelets kept falling apart. I went down to my basement, grabbed a board and stuck multiple rows of pushpins into it. Then I started linking the bands in a zigzag, like a diamond shape, and it worked really well.The next day, my daughters took a bunch of colorful bracelets to school. I became a neighborhood hero overnight. Children would come up to me and ask me to make them bracelets. It was my older daughter, Teresa, who first suggested selling them. I spent six months developing the products and designed 28 different versions. I was still working full-time at Nissan, so I would stay up until three or four o’clock every morning.The biggest challenge was to convince my wife. I am the one in the family with all the crazy ideas, and she is my reality check. She always has the final say. One day, I made a ring out of rubber bands and put it on her finger. After that, she was on board.We invested our entire family savings of $10,000 to order tooling and 2,000lb of rubber bands from China, and assembled the kits ourselves in our garage. I spent months g oing round toy stores in Michigan with my daughters, trying to sell the loom band. Nobody was interested. The problem was that people didn’t understand how they worked. So I asked my niece and my daughters to create YouTube videos, explaining how to make rubber-band bracelets. These created a trend.In July 2012, I received an order from a toy store in Alpharetta, Georgia, for 12 loom-band kits. Less than two weeks later, the same store placed an order for $10,000. When my wife and I saw it, our jaws dropped. We thought it was a mistake. The store owners told us they had never seen anything like that. After that, our sales climbed every month until, in December 2012, we reached $200,000 wholesale sales a month. I took three-month leave from Nissan, but never returned to my old job.The journey has been magical, but there have been many challenges. Once, our supplier made amistake and delivered 10,000 metal hooks that were all bent in the wrong shape. I had to hammer every single hook into shape, which took a whole year. Last year, we sold more than $40m worth of rubber-band bracelets. I expect to double that this year.1. What is the author mainly talking about?A. He started his loom-band business.B. He had a happy childhood.C. He settled down in America.D. He made toys for his2. How does the author describe his childhood?A. Poor and backward.B. Lonely and neglected.C. Poor but happy.D. Hard but wealthy.3. The author thought his children distant towards him in that .A. the children lived in another stateB. the author was busily engaged in his jobC. the children only focused on making braceletsD. the author left his children in Malaysia4. What do you think of the author from the passage?A. Responsible.B. Warm-hearted.C. Creative.D. Humorous.5. What does the underlined part mean in the passage?A. She disliked the ring out of rubber.B. She thought the idea was worthless.C. She began to take the idea seriously.D. She refused to invest in the project.6. What conclusion can we come to from the passage?A. Diligence is the mother of success.B. Success is not all smooth sailing.C. Business is tremendously profitable.D. A good beginning is half the battle.BWhat do a football player, a recurrent nightmare and the Penn State football scandal (丑闻) have in common? They’re all part of a newly released novel from WestBow Press. Lion’s Awakening, by Cindy Bingham, is the story of Landon Steele, a former Penn State linebacker (后卫球员).Gifted and driven, Landon Steele made a name for himself in the world of college football. The only thing that stood between him and the NFL was his last few collegiate games. Then a heroic, game-saving play ended in one major injury. Landon’s dreams and future were gone. All that remained was a nightmare. This inspirational novel shows Landon’s struggle to accept his circumstances and to awaken to the plans God still has for his life.I first heard of Bingham from a friend and writer who stopped me at a writing conference and told me about the upcoming novel. How would Bingham weave (编造) the details of the scandal and upheaval (剧变) of a community into a fictional tale?Bingham has taught high school English and speech for more than 20 years. She has composed numerous school programs for speech classes and has written one inspirational musical. Both the St. David’s Writer’s Conference and the Mercer One-Day Writer’s Conference have presented her with awards.During a phone interview, Bingham talked with me about writing Lion’s Awakening. She said that one day she was discussing the legend of El Dorado and how to represent a goal with her students. “A student asked me what was my El Dorado,” said Cindy. “I heard myself say, ‘I think I’dlike to write a novel.’ I had never thought of that before.”“Sometime later, well before the events occurred in State College, I attended a teacher’s conference where a young man told his story. He had suffered an injury in football, seen his career plans end and suffered from depression. Later, in the shower, it occurred to me that the young man’s story was the basis for a novel. I started it at once.”“I set the story in State Colleg e. I have always been a Penn S tate fan. I didn’t know what to do. I was so far into the story. A friend suggested that I use the happenings and weave them into the tale. At first I thought she was crazy, but after a while, I began to see the interesting angle in that.I went back and m ade the adjustments,” she said.Bingham loves diagramming sentences, reading short stories and hearing the language spoken to encourage others, which benefits her a lot in finishing the book. When she is not writing or teaching, Bingham enjoys spending time with her best friend and husband, Mark. Because her children are grown and living far away, she isn’t able to spend as much time with them as she would like.Bingham likes to garden and create handmade greeting cards and has Hobby Lobby and JoAnn Fabrics on her list of favorite shops.Via e-mail, Bingham said that God has given her a wonderful family, great friends and the blessing of a relationship with Him.Lion’s Awakening is available through WestBow Press or at Amazon. com. Bingham will make an appearance on Nov. 2 at Meet the Author Day at the Public Library for Union County, 255 Reitz Blvd. She will also appear on Nov. 12 at Schlow Centre Region Library, 211 S. Allen St. in State College.7. Which of the following is TRUE about Lion’s Awakening?A. The book is based on a young football player’s true story.B. The book calls for more care for injured football players.C. The book is based on the author’s own experience.D. The book aims to expose the Penn State football scandal.8. According to the passage, the author might be a .A. writerB. football playerC. journalistD. teacher9. What inspired Cindy Bingham to write a novel?A. Her husband.B. Landon Steele’s story.C. The discussion of El Dorado.D. The Penn State football scandal.10. All of the following contribute to the completion of the novel EXCEPT .A. Cindy’s reading habitB. the support from Cindy’s husbandC. Cindy Bingham’s experience in teachingD. the suggesti on from one of Cindy’s friendsCAngela Watts and her daughter both learned they had breast cancer in 2011. After a two-year battle, they are both disease-free. But the war continues.The new enemy is their waistlines (腰围). Scientists have discovered that overweight not only increases the risks of getting cancer but the chances that cancer will return. Now, as medical studies seek to determine how much weight loss is needed for a better prognosis (诊断), and whether the fat-cancer link can be disrupted in other ways, patients are being encouraged to slim down.“We need to do this for our health, now more than ever,” said Angela Watts, 59, who is amongthe first survivors to benefit from a calorie-counting computer program provided by Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she was treated for Stage 2 breast cancer.Given that two-thirds of the national population is overweight, the connection between fat and breast ca ncer, the strongest in those diagnosed with th e disease, is especially troubling. Breast cancer remains the most common type of cancer for women in America, with more than 200,000 diagnoses and almost 40,700 deaths reported last year.Doctors and public health officials have long been promoting lifestyle changes to stop heart disease and diabetes, but they believe fewer people associate better diets and exercise with cancer prevention. Cancer patients, meanwhile, face their own problems. They might have trouble dieting and exercising because treatment often makes them gain weight while experiencing fatigue (疲劳) and other side effects. Given those challenges, researchers in Baltimore and across the country are seeking the best ways to change behaviors among those with a diagnosis and those who could be headed down that path.Dr. Lewis E. Foxhall, who works on cancer prevention policy at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, says doctors don’t know exactly how much weight loss improves a prognosis. One study, published in 2009, tracked only those who had weight-loss surgery, which typically cuts much more body fat than diet and exercise, and keeps the fat off longer. Researchers also believe that biological changes resulting from the surgery itself might have helped reduce women’s risk of cancer.Still, Foxhall recommends that doctors advise people to diet and exercise. “We need to pursue the things which are associated with preventing cancer and help us deal with cancer once we get it,” he said. “We need to address nutrition and physical activities and make sure people can make healthy choices.”Scientists think that obese women have high levels of hormones —including insulin, which regulates blood sugar, estrogen, a female sex hormone, and leptin, which helps regulate appetite — that lead to complex biological changes, including inflammation (炎症) in the body that can promote cancer growth. Some researchers are looking for ways to disrupt this link. Dipali Sharma, an associate professor working on breast cancer at Johns Hopkins, wants to develop a pill. After exploring the biology of ma ny compounds, she’s focusing on broccoli(花椰菜), garlic and the magnolia plant(木兰属植物).Angela Watts says the computer program is helping her. She’s been through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for her breast cancer, and she knows that dropping more pounds can reduce the risk of the cancer recurring. The computer counts calories from her meals and subtracts (减去) calories burned from exercising, warning her when she’s approaching her daily 1,500-calorie limit. Watts says she weighed as much as 212 pounds and has a goal weight of 150.11. Angela Watts and her daughter have to continue the war because .A. they are both diagnosed with breast cancerB. they should have a better prognosis regularlyC. breast cancer has caused more serious problemsD. overweight may lead to the recurrence of the cancer12. When a person is being treated for cancer, .A. he can’t live a normal lifeB. he may feel tired and put on weightC. he must be brave enough to take challengesD. he should know his diets and exercise exactly【答案】B13.According to the passage, we can know that Dr. Lewis E. FoxhallA. holds the idea that prevention comes firstB. believes biological changes help cure women’s cancerC. suggests that doctor s should provide proper diets and exerciseD. doesn’t think losing weight improves a prognosis14. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. Slim women are much healthier in the USA.B. Most experts doubt the calorie-counting program.C. Dipali Sharma has invented pills to cure breast cancer.D. Eating more broccoli or garlic can be beneficial to Angela.DOne of the ways that we learn language has been studying in a classroom. I planned to teach English when I graduated from college. I continued working fo r a company in Buffalo and used my time off to apply for a position as an English teacher.Auburn’s Central High School was badly in need of a seventh-grade English teacher. Then, in November 1969, my opportunity came and I began to teach seventh graders English.I taught grammar lessons in the first week. I found that there were some students who wanted to learn, but there were some who didn’t. After a week, I gave them a test covering what the students had learned. David, one of my students, had been ill for the week and arrived in time to take the test on Friday. He wasn’t worried about taking the test, even though he was absent when I taught the week’s lessons. I was surprised that he got good grades.One day I had a discussion with an eighth-grade English teacher. Somehow our conversation was drawn into a discussion about spelling. She told me that in Auburn School district there were no contestants (参赛者) in the annual contest held in Syracuse in previous years. David was one of the four students w ho wished to compete in that year’s Spelling Bee. I spent several weeks coaching my spellers, which was done at each of the contestants’ homes. While we were studying the words to be learned, and I surveyed the words to be given, I found one word that I had never seen before. I pronounced “an-ka-voy”, giving it to the eighth graders in our group. David didn’t recognize the word from my pronunciation. He asked to see the word that he was supposed to spell out. It was “anchovy”. Being of Italian-American ancestry (血统), I was familiar with anchovy, and it is a kind of little fish often baked with pizza, but I had never seen the word “anchovy” in print.In spring, I traveled with my contestants and their parents to a Syracuse high school where the contest was being conducted. All the contestants had to take a written test in the morning to qualify. Unfortunately, none of them qualified when the oral quiz was held in the afternoon. Because of David’s talent for learning quickly, I followed his progress after he co ntinued his education through the Auburn School system. As David became elder, even after he graduated from high school, he consulted me about English-related problems from time to time.After high school, David attended college, got married and became a teacher in Arizona. As I began writing my monthly column in the magazine, I shared my writing with him as I did with all of my other e-mail contacts.Recently, David offered to give me some suggestions on writing some of my future columns. He said, “There are thousands of similar examples which exist in texting.” He took the currenteveryday “How R U” as an appropriate example. He said, “Never has there been a season in which spelling words can be so critical... all thank s to the computer.”David, like many other teachers whom I have spoken to, emphasized that many writers lack the ability to construct proper sentences. I, as well as David and others, complain how many so-called professionals too often write in broken sentences.I hope there are many other teachers out there, who will admit that they also learn various things about our language from their students. I learn that many of us teachers are appreciated by those students who they teach.Recently, David made this solemn (郑重的) declaration to me, “You r work as a seventh-grade teacher helped me develop my ability to write and communicate...You have been that deep influence that affected me far more than you will ever know in other areas such as language, and on the personal level as a child, and this co ntinues to the very hour.”Maybe other former students also admire their past teachers in a similar way. This is another way that all of us can “watch our language”.15. The author sought a job as a teacher .A. after he gave up his job in a companyB. when he graduated from collegeC. because he hoped to earn more moneyD. when he was engaged in a company16. What did the author think of David at first?A. He was good at his study.B. He was cleverer than others.C. He would do badly in the test.D. He had a rude attitude towards his teachers.17. How did David behave in the annual contest?A. He did well in the oral quiz.B. He passed the written test.C. He won a prize in the contest.D. He fulfilled his teacher’s goal.18. It can be inferred from the 6th and 7th paragraphs that .A. David became a teacher because he was excellentB. the author once doubted David’s abilityC. David and the author developed a close relationshipD. the author enjoyed writing columns together with David19. What does the author think of David’s suggestions?A. Worthless.B. Priceless.C. Helpless.D. Meaningless.20. By saying the underlined sentence, David means .A. the computer promotes people to spell wordsB. th e computer lowers people’s ability to spell wordsC. people don’t have to spell words because they have computersD. spelling words becomes popular because of the invention of the computer。

2015届高考英语二轮专题检测精品练习：阅读理解〔1〕AHave you noticed how many nouns are being used as verbs？We all use them，often without noticing what we’re doing.I was arranging to meet someone for dinner last week，and I said “I’ll_pencil_it_in_my_diary〞，and my friend said “You must ink it in〞，meaning that it was a firm arrangement!Many of these new verbs are linked to new technology.An obvious example is the word “fax〞．We all got used to sending and receiving faxes，and then soon started talking about faxing something and pr omising we’d fax it immediately.Then along came emails，and we were soon all emailing each other madly.How did we do without it？I can hardly imagine life without my daily emails.Also，my computer and its software have produced another couple of new verbs.On my computer I can bookmark those pages from the World Wide Web that I think I’ll want to look at again.And I can do the same thing on my PC，but there I don’t bookmark；I favorite—coming from “favorite pages〞，so the verb is derived from an adjective not a noun this time.Now my children bought me a mobile phone，known simply as a mobile and I have to learn yet more new verbs.I can message someone，that is，I can leave a message for them on their phone.Or I can text them，write a few words suggesting，when and where to meet，for example.How long will it be before I can mobile them，that is，phone them using my mobile？I haven’t heard that verb yet，but I’m sure I will soon.Perhaps I’ll start using it myself!4.“I’ll pencil it in my diary〞in the second paragraph probably means________.A．it was a firm arrangementB．it was an uncertain arrangementC．the arrangement is written as a diaryD．he prefers a pencil to a pen5．A website address can be easily found if it has been________for the author.A．emailed B．messagedC．favorited D．texted6．Which of the following has not been used as a verb，yet?A．message B．pencilC．email D．mobile7．The best title for this passage is“________〞．A．New Verbs from NounsB．New Technology and New wordsC．The English LanguageD．Technology and LanguageBRobots have proved to be valuable tools for soldiers, surgeons and homeowners hoping to keep the carpet clean. But in each case, they are designed and built specifically for the job. Now there is a movement under way to build multipurpose machines-robots that can move about in changing environments such as offices or living rooms and work with their hands.All-purpose robots are not, of course, a new idea. “It’s been five or 10 years from happening for about 50 years,〞says Eric Berger, co–director of the Personal Robotics Program at Willow Garage, a Silicon Valley organization. The delay is in part because even simple tasks require a huge set of capabilities. For a robot to fetch a mug, for example, it needs to make sense of data gathered by a variety of sensors–laser scanners identifying potential blocking objects, cameras searching for the target, force feedback in the fingers that grasp the mug, and more. Yet Berger and other experts are confident that real progress could be made in the next decade.The problem, according to Willow Garage, is the lack of a common platform for all that computational effort. Instead of enlarging the capabilities of a single machine, everyone is designing robots and the software to control them, from the ground up. To help change this, Willow Garage is currently producing 25 copies of its model PR2 (for “Personal Robot 2〞), a two–armed, wheeled machine that can switch off the electricity, open doors and move through a room. Ten of the robots will stay in–house, but 10 more will go to outside research groups, and everyone will share theiradvances. This way, Berger says, if you want to build the robotic equivalent (等同物) of a Twitter (推特网站), you won’t start by constructing a computer. “you build the thing that’s new.〞31．The robots are mentioned to do some specific jobs EXCEPT in .A．battle fields B．operation room C．people’s houses D．wild fields32．The multipurpose robot may be identified as a machine that .A．can move about in changing environments and work with their handsB．can make sense of data gathered by a variety of sensorsC．has a huge set of abilities to finish all the simple tasksD．has identifying laser scanners, searching cameras and force feedback33．According to Willow Garage, we will make real progress in building all-purpose robots if ___________ .A．everyone is designing robots and the software to control themB．they can produce 25 copies of its model PR2C．people can enlarge the capabilities of a single machineD．people can start by constructing a computer34．Willow Garage is currently producing 25 copies of its model PR2 so as to _________ .A．design robots and the software to control themB．change the way of new robot construction researchC．open doors and go to outside research groupsD．go through the room and stay in-house35．Which of the following is true according to the passage?A．To build all-purpose robots is an absolutely new movement under way.B．Building all-purpose robots was delayed because of its complexity.C．The idea to build all-purpose robots appeared about 50 years ago.D．Everyone will share their advances for they are all-purpose robots.CA team of engineers at HarvardUniversity has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components (元件),〞said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,〞he said.They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be ma tched well to everything it’s connected to,〞said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,〞he said.Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,〞he said. “So there are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives us on a day to day basis.〞72. The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that __________.A. they had no model in their mindB. they did not have sufficient timeC. they had no ready-made componentsD. they could not assemble the components73. It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly __________.A. consists of a flight device and a control systemB. can just fly in limited areas at the present timeC. can collect information from many sourcesD. has been put into wide application74. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?A. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects.B. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments.C. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly.D. Wood’s design can replace animals in some experiments.75. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A. Father of Robotic FlyB. Inspiration from Engineering ScienceC. Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life InsectD. Harvard Breaks Through in Insect StudyA语篇解读：英语中有许多词汇涉与词性的活用，本文就介绍了人们在生活中经常将“名词动词化〞这一现象。

Ⅰ.完成句子1．The boy watched the match all the afternoon, .男孩看了一下午的比赛，没有做家庭作业。

答案：leaving the homework undone2．I hurried to his house, only he was out.我匆忙赶到他家，却发现他不在家。

答案：to find3．Their car was caught in a traffic jam, thus the delay.他们的车遇上了交通堵塞，结果造成延误。

答案：causing4．She was a little shaken by the experience.这次活动对她产生了极大的震动。

答案：more thanⅡ.单项填空1．— Do you need any help, Lucy?— Y es. The job is ________ I could do myself.A．less than B．more thanC．no more than D．not more than解析：选B。

考查短语辨析。

句意：“露西，你需要帮忙吗？”“是的，这项工作我自己做不了。

”more than＋从句，意为“超出……的能力范围”。

less than“不及；少于”；no more than “仅仅”；not more than “不多于”。

2．The retired man donated most of his savings to the school damaged by the earthquake, ________ the students to return to their classrooms.A．enabling B．having enabledC．to enable D．to have enabled解析：选A。

句意：这位退休的老人把他大部分的积蓄捐赠给了在地震中被毁坏的那所学校，使学生得以重返教室。

Ⅰ、Ⅱ卷灵活拆组卷(三)第Ⅰ卷专练(满分70分)Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)A(2014·安徽江南十校“协作体”高三联考)The National Park Service in the United States will mark its one hundredth anniversary in 2016. As it nears its second century, the Park Service plans to increase its educational programs for students and teachers.The plans include transportation support for one hundred thousand students each year to visit national parks to learn about nature and history. Yellowstone is believed to have been the world’s first national park when it was established in 1872. Other students will get a chance to see parks in faraway places through Skype and other online programs.The National Park Service also works with partners to provide education. One of its partners is a nonprofit organization called NatureBridge. NatureBridge is celebrating its fortieth anniversary and says one million young people have taken part in its programs. The organization works with students from kindergarten through twelfth grade and uses national parks as its classrooms. It provides field science programs at Yosemite National Park and four other locations in California and the northwestern state of Washington.Now, NatureBridge is launching an East Coast center with a four-million-dollar grant from Google. The program will begin in April at the Prince William Forest Park in Virginia. Students stay for three to five days in NatureBridge programs. The activities are aimed at developing their science skills. For example, they learn about different soils and study water quality under a microscope.Jason Morris is executive vice president of NatureBridge. He says when they are not sleeping, eating or in a laboratory, the students spend their time outdoors. Julia Washburn is associate director of education and interpretation for the National Park Service. She says in a time of budget cuts, the agency has to find ways to still meet its goals. Ms. Washburn says one of the most important services that the Park Service provides every day is nature interpretation. Park rangers (公园管理员) try to make visiting the outdoors more meaningful. Interpretation is a form of informal education. Essentially, it is a word that we use for the people in parks that explain the park or help orient (确定方向) you. So park rangers are interpreters. They orient you to the place you are in and help you make connections, emotional and intellectual connections, with the place.1．Which of the following descriptions about NatureBridge is NOT correct?A．It’s an organization working together with National Park Service to provide education.B．Some of the activities held by NatureBridge are financially supported by Google.C．Students from kindergarten to college can sign up for the organization’s activities.D．It’s going to cut down budget for the activities because of economic hard times.2．In which national park will the program by East Coast centre start?A．Yellowstone National Park.B．Prince William Forest Park.C．Yosemite National Park.D．Not mentioned in the passage.3．What’s the main idea of the passage?A．National parks are used as outdoor classrooms for students.B．Students are called on to be members of NatureBridge.C．Some famous national parks in US are attractive to students.D．Park rangers make visiting parks much more interesting.4. Which of the following is the correct structure of the whole passage? (Para.＝Paragraph)B(2014·四川德阳市二诊)Indeed, many failures are experienced in our lives and the effect could be extremely unpleasant. I do have a share of my experience and you might have yours too. As the saying goes, “Experience is the best teacher.”Many people believe it’s the other way around. Experience, in fact, can be the worst teacher since it takes the test first before you learn the lesson.Often, when people around us try to comfort us telling us that we shouldn’t be too hard on ourselves, we say “sure”，yet we are doing otherwise. We are becoming too hard on ourselves because failure is something that wouldn’t leave your mind quickly. Failure is some thing that can make you regret spending money, time, and effort but all go down the drain (排水沟). However, it is common everywhere and it usually leads us to success.“There were once two prison men sitting behind the bars. One saw mud while the other sawstars.” In this story, those two prison men were paying the costs of their actions. However, as they faced their situation, one prisoner was completely defeated by his depression. But the other prisoner held his head up with his hopes and dreams. As you may well notice, failure happens, but people deal with it quite differently.However, true failure comes in when you react negatively to the situation. True failure is about giving up completely. It is about being unable to recognize that you look at the midnight skies, the stars are still shining. See, no matter how disheartening and discouraging your fall was, true failure is about not getting up and not moving on. You must accept failure as a great opportunity for you to learn. You will also be able to learn from the failures of other people. But it is your own failure that will help you meaningfully.5．According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?A．Experience is really good at teaching.B．The best teacher usually experiences a lot.C．Something valuable can be learned from failure.D．The worst teacher can teach you how to be successful.6．Which of the following is TRUE about failure according to the text?A．We can’t live without failure.B．It is easy to get rid of failure.C．People should try to avoid failure.D．People should treat failure properly.7．Which of the following would be the best title for this passage?A．Everything comes from failureB．Failure opens the door to learningC．Success is not easy for us to achieveD．Experience is interesting and pleasantC(2014·河北普通毕业班质量检查)The term “smog”was first used in London during the early 1900’s to describe the combination of smoke and fog. What we typically call “smog” today is a mixture of pollutants but is primarily made up of ground-level ozone (臭氧)．Ozone can be beneficial or harmful depending on where it stays. Theozone staying high above the Earth protects human health and theenvironment, but ground-level ozone is responsible for the choking,coughing, and painful eyes associated with smog. The ozone in smog alsoprevents plants growth and can cause widespread damage to crops and forest.Major smog occurrences often are linked to heavy motor vehicle traffic, high temperatures, sunshine, and calm winds. Weather and geography affect the position and severity of smog.Because temperature regulates the length of time it takes for smog to form, smog can form faster and be more severe on a hot and sunny day. When warm air stays near the ground instead of rising and winds are calm, smog may stay trapped over your city for days. As traffic and other sources add more pollutants to the air, the smog gets worse. Smog is often more severe away from the pollution sources because the chemical reactions that cause smog occur in the atmosphere while the reacting chemicals are being moved by the wind.Smog is a visible example of air pollution. You can look into the distance during the day to see how much smog there is in the air. In addition, most cities measure the concentrations of pollutants in the air and report the results to the public.Environmental Protection Agency sets national standards for pollutants. Areas that fail to meet the standards for at least one air pollutant are called “nonattainment (不达标) areas”. New measures are being taken by local governments across the country to reduce air pollution in nonattainment areas. These include: banning charcoal barbecues and wood burning in stoves or fireplaces when pollution levels are high; developing programs to encourage carpooling and voluntary “ozone actions”；limiting traffic in overcrowded areas; expanding or improving public transportation systems; requiring employers to contribute to employee public transportation costs; assessing “smog fees” on cars according to the number of miles driven and vehicle emissions (排放) produced; and even buying and breaking up older “super-dirty” cars.8．According to the passage, ground-level ozone can________.A．damage the environmentB．benefit human healthC．protect crops and forestD．limit the spread of smog9．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A．Air quality is better in time of calm wind.B．Smog is more severe near pollution sources.C．It takes more time for smog to form in hot weather.D．Chemical reactions occur in the moving air and cause smog.10．Which indication shows more exact the air is poor?A．Heavy motor vehicle traffic in big cities.B．Widespread damage of crops and forest.C．Clear outlines of hills in the distance.D．High concentrations of pollutants in the air.11．What is included in the measures being taken by the local governments?A．Unconditional banning of wood burning.B．Encouraging carpooling and public transportation.C．Charging all the vehicles more “smog fees”．D．Buying new cars to replace super-dirty old cars.D (2014·海口高三调研)12．Ms. Li is good at using computers and speaking English, she can apply to be a(n)_____．A．lawyerB．nursing lecturerC．customer service assistantD．administrative assistant13．Which of the following are benefits of getting the first job?a．sharing the company’s profitsb．traveling abroad at your own expensec．parking your car for freed．receiving a high salaryA．a，b，c.B．a，c，d.C．a，b，d. D．b，c，d.14．If you fax 03-42604102, you’ll be put in touch with________.A．Ms. Joyee B．Mr.BlankC．Ms. Eliz D．Mr. Smith15．If you want to apply for a nursing lecturer, you are required to ________.A．have a Master’s Degree in nursingB．have at least five years’work experienceC．email your application to ihs v-sel@D．be registered with the Nursing BoardⅡ.任务型阅读(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)(2014·吉林省实验中学三模)People living in the country enjoy several advantages that people living in the city cannot enjoy.__16__They make friends with trees and stones. They breathe fresh air. They fight with strong winds.__17__This contact with nature is good for health. There are many diseases that are common in the city, but are not to be found in the country. For example, near-sightedness is almost unknown to country people.Because of the absence of cars, one can walk more freely in the country than in the city.__18__People living in the country can easily get fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and fresh milk, and they get them at lower prices than in the city.__19__There are practically no temptations to waste money.__20__They say what they mean, and make and keep promises with sincerity. They do not put on air (摆架子). They do not pretend to have those ridiculous manners which are necessary inwhat we call polite society.A．They listen to the song of birds.B．Country people are mostly honest.C．They are in close contact with nature.D．Country people are far from town life.E．Country life is economical in other ways, too.F．Country life provides much more enjoyment.G. There are no rules of the road nor traffic signs to obey.Ⅲ.完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)(2014·皖南八校联考)I walked into the grocery store, not really wanting to buy anything. I just wanted to stay there quietly —the pain of losing my __21__ was still too great. And this supermarket held so many sweet __22__. He often came with me, and always bought me yellow roses.Standing __23__ the meat, I searched for the perfect small steak __24__ my husband used to love it. __25__ a woman came up beside me. I watched as she picked up a large pack of T-bone steaks, dropped them in her basket, __26__，and then put them back. She turned to go and once again __27__ for the pack of steaks. She saw me __28__ her and she smiled, “My husband loves T-bone steaks, but they are so expensive.”“My husband __29__ away eight days ago，” I told her, and __30__ to control the sadness in my voice. “Buy him the T-bone steaks. And __31__ every moment you have together.”__32__ by my words, she placed the steaks in her basket and walked away __33__. But several minutes later she came towards me again, __34__ a package in her arms. She was __35__ the brightest smile I had ever seen.As she __36__，I saw what she held. “These are for you，” she placed three beautiful yellow roses in my hands. I wanted to tell her what the roses __37__ for me, but was unable to speak, only watching her walking away.Looking down at the roses, I wondered __38__ she knew it. Suddenly the answer seemed so __39__. I wasn’t alone. There were __40__ many people caring for me and willing to help me. Just be thankful for what you have and who you are.21．A.father B．brotherC．husband D．son22．A.groceries B．memoriesC．flowers D．dreams23．A.by B．forC．beyond D．against24．A.even if B．in caseC．until D．since 25．A.Actually B．Suddenly C．Instantly D．Hopefully 26．A.missed B．suffered C．doubted D．hesitated 27．A.reached B．searched C．sent D．paid 28．A.following B．helping C．watching D．stopping 29．A.broke B．cleared C．moved D．passed 30．A.decided B．fought C．offered D．pretended 31．A.forget B．recover C．treasure D．imagine 32．A.Surprised B．Embarrassed C．Panicked D．Frightened 33．A.softly B．violently C．silently D．wildly 34．A.fastening B．carrying C．picking D．opening 35．A.covering B．rolling C．spreading D．wearing 36．A.approached B．turned C．continued D．bent 37．A.smelled B．tasted C．collected D．meant 38．A.what B．how C．whether D．when 39．A.accidental B．strange C．obvious D．funny 40．A.still B．just C．even D．also答案Ⅰ.语篇解读：本文是一篇新闻报道，主要报道了国家公园计划成为学生和老师的户外教育基地一事。

阅读理解提速专练(三)阅读理解(人物故事类)＋任务型阅读(限时25分钟)Ⅰ.阅读理解A(2014·石家庄第二次统一检测)Pioneering front-row White House journalist Helen Thomas died at age 92 after a long illness. Thomas covered 10 presidents over nearly half a century, and became a legend in the industry.She was always at White House news conferences — sitting front and center — where she frequently annoyed government spokesmen with her pointed questions.Thomas began covering the White House for United Press International when John F．Kennedy became president in 1961 and was a fixture there until her retirement in 2010.In a written statement, Obama called Thomas a “true pioneer”and said she kept the presidents she covered — including himself — on their toes.Thomas, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants, was born in Winchester,Kentucky, on August 4, 1920. She was one of nine children. Thomas wasraised in Detroit, where she attended Wayne State University and graduatedwith a bachelor’s degree in 1942.In describing her job, Thomas once said，“I’ve never covered thepresident in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.”Thomas embraced the freedoms of a columnist with vigor (活力). No question seemed off-limits for her. Colleagues remember her as a genuinely fearless woman who asked the toughest questions of presidents, no matter their party.In January 2009, as President George Bush was preparing to leave office, Thomas aimed her editorial guns at him and his administration. In a commentary, she slammed (抨击) Bush for what she considered his failings, including leading the country “into a senseless war against Iraqi a calamity still under way as he leaves office almost six years after the invasion.” She considered him “the worst president ever.”1．According to the text, Helen Thomas was________.A．a wise politician B．a writing pioneerC．a legendary journalist D．a White House adviser2．The underlined word “fixture” in Paragraph 3 probably means________.A．an object firmly fixed in placeB．a person regarded fixed in the same positionC．someone to fix tricky problemsD．a device to secure something somewhere3．What can we learn about Helen Thomas from the text?A．She covered 10 presidents over a period of 49 years.B．She often raised unreasonable questions.C．She was born and brought up in Lebanon.D．She was criticized by President Obama.4．How did Thomas comment on George Bush?A．He should be kept on his toes.B．He was forced to be responsible.C．He didn’t deserve to be president.D．He shouldn’t have started the Iraq War.B(2014·大连高三一模)Sitting in the front row in her college classes carefully taking notes, Nola Ochs is just as likely to answer questions as to ask them. That’s not the only thing marking her off from her classmates at Fort Hays State University. She’s 95, and when she graduates on May 12th, it’s believed she’ll become the world’s oldest person to be awarded a college degree.She_didn’t_plan_it_that_way. She just loved to learn as a teenager on a Hodgeman County farm, then as a teacher at a one-room school after graduating from high school and later as a farm wife and mother.“Even as I grew older, that enthusiasm for study was still there. I came here with no thought of it being an unusual thing at all.” she said.She’s getting offers for television appearances, and reporters show up wanting to interview her. She says she enjoys it. “It brings attention to this college and this part of the state.”She added，“I don’t think much of my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a num ber.”Ochs started taking classes at Dodge City Community College after her husband died in 1972. After taking a class here and there over the years, she was close to having enough hours for an undergraduate degree.At 5-foot-2, her white hair pulled into a bun (圆形发髻), she walks energetically down hallways (走廊) to classes with her books in a big handbag.Students nod and smile; she’s described as witty (睿智的), nice and down-to-earth (务实的). “Everybody has accepted me, and I feel just like another student，”she said. “The students respect me.” An added joy for Ochs is that her 21-year-old granddaughter, Alexandra Ochs, will graduate with her.5．The first paragraph mainly tells us that Nola Ochs is________.A．hard-working B．successfulC．different D．energetic6．From the underlined sentence “She didn’t plan it that way”，we know that Nola Ochs didn’t________.A．mean to become the oldest college graduateB．want to stop learning as a young girlC．plan to be a farm wife and motherD．really enjoy learning at such an old age7．What’s Nola Ochs’attitude towards her age?A．She feels sad about it.B．She is proud of it.C. She tries to fight against it.D．She cares little about it.8．In the passage nothing is said about Ochs’________.A．educational experience B．relationship with othersC．major subject D．physical appearanceⅡ.任务型阅读(2014·山西省高考考前质量监测)There’s plenty of advice out there about what to do to get to sleep but what about what not to do? Pay attention to the following pre-bedtime activities.__1__ Exercise is a vital activity for your health, and can actually contribute to getting better-quality sleep.__2__And so it can make falling asleep more difficult.Studies have shown that too much screen time can impair your body’s ability to fall asleep.__3__Like exercise, hot showers and baths can actually help you fall asleep. The problem, however, comes out of taking one too close to the time you plan to go to bed.__4__ Caffeine, of course, and alcohol both make it difficult to get a good night’s rest. But drinking a lot of any liquid within the last hour or two before you go to bed will lead to late night bathroom breaks, and further disrupt your sleep. You shouldn’t go to bed thirsty, however, as you’ll likely wake up in the middle of the night to get a drink of water，__5__A．Balance is key here.B．Enough sleep is necessary.C．So close that laptop and turn off that TV about an hour before bed.D．But exercising within three hours of bedtime can raise your body temperature.E. Late exercises are better than hot showers.F．They could be hurting your chance at getting a good night’s sleep.G. Being overheated can bring same affects just like late exercises.答案Ⅰ.语篇解读：本文是一篇人物传记。

2015届高考高三英语二轮专题练习：完形填空〔8〕【英语卷〔解析〕·2015届河北省唐山一中高二下学期期末考试〔201407〕】B1 第三局部完形填空〔共20小题，每题1.5分，总分为30分〕阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最优选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the 41 . People walked in, between the cars 42 newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It’s a familiar 43 in most poor developing countries.While we were 44 for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of 45 in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It’s 46 unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively 47 clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of 48 his way around the spaces. He was blind. Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he 49 got to the outside of our car. Out of 50 , my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The car behind sounded loudly and 51 , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to 52 the change. However, with his 53 sense of touch, he quickly went through his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum’s 54 . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control, 55 we decided to go on our way.I broke down and even 56 when I got home. Here’s a blind man, born in57 , trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He 58 our sympathy. Life hasn’t been 59 to him, yet he’s giving it his best shot. I think that is what 60 is all about facing life bravely.41. A. signs B. crossroads C. stations D.42. A. giving B. buying C. selling D. throwing43. A. scene B. play C. activity D. street44. A. watching B. asking C. waiting D. changing45. A. blocks B. crossings C. turns D. cars46. A. everything B. something C. anything D. nothing47. A. expensive B. fashionable C. ragged D. fastened48. A. pushed B. drove C. cleared D. felt49. A. eventually B. quickly C. frequently D. happily50. A. curiosity B. sympathy C. thirsty D. politeness51. A. impatiently B. casually C. naturally D. carefully52. A. keep B. return C. borrow D. count53. A. poor B. superior C. limited D. enlarged54. A. hand B. arm C. face D. lap55. A. still B. yet C. so D. but56. A. smiled B. shouted C. complained D. cried57. A. pain B. poverty C. sadness D. loneliness58. A. refused B. enjoyed C. doubted D. cheated59. A. rich B. unfair C. kind D. bad60. A. kindness B. courage C. experience D.【答案】41.B考查名词辨析：A. signs 标志，B. crossroads十字路口，C. stations车站，D. theatre 戏院，从上文的句子：We stopped on a red light,可知他们在十字路口停车，选B42.C考查动词辨析： A. giving给，B. buying买，C. selling 卖，D. throwing扔，人们在汽车中间卖报纸，水，选C43.A 考查名词辨析： A. scene场景，B. play玩，C. activity活动，D. street街道，从上文的句子：People walked in, between the carsnewspaper. water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners.可知这是开展中国家常见的场景，选A 44.C 考查动词辨析：A. watching观看，B. asking问，C. waiting等待，D. changing改变，我们在等待红灯变绿，选C45.D 考查名词辨析：A. blocks.块，街区，<英>大楼，大厦B. crossings十字路口，C. turns 转弯，D. cars汽车，一个人在我们前面的几辆车外面卖瓶装水。

专题专项集训(七)三大从句[定语从句专练]Ⅰ.用适当的关系词填空1．A story I read two years ago，________ name I can’t remember clearly, changed my idea about education.2．The scenic spot can attract 10,000 tourists every year, of________ up to half are foreigners.3．The School Art Festival has set up a stage________ students can show their talents.4．The old man is so hard-working a gardener________ quite a few gardens want to hire as a full-time worker.5．The Internet is widely used nowadays，________ speeds up the appearance of some new industries.6．Last year, Chinese tourists made 83 million overseas travels, among ________Thailand and South Korea were their favorites.7．He returned to his hometown________ he lived with his family after graduating from the university.8．In a sports team each player has a clear role, and there are few occasions________ members are confused or uncertain of their roles.9．I don’t know the reason________ you lied to your parents, but you’d better explain.10．In a situation________ two teams are equally matched, the field advantage becomes a factor.Ⅱ.用which, as填空1．When I looked into their eyes, I found they didn’t care，________ told me it would be useless. But when I looked into yours, I saw kindness.2．________ is often the case, we have worked out the production plan.3．________ is mentioned above, paper is first made in China.4．Helen was much kinder to her youngest son than to the others，________，of course, made the others envy him.5．________ is reported in the newspapers, talks between the two countries are making progress.[名词性从句专练]Ⅰ.用适当的连接词填空1．What she would like to discuss with me was ________ while everybody said she was a lazy person, she did not think so.2．When you are reading, make a note of ________ you think is of great importance.3．The police went to the suspect’s house and searched for ________ they could find to prove him guilty.4．—Boys seem to do better in science subjects like math and physics.—That’s ________ I don’t agree. There are many examples to show girls can do as well as boys.5．As the spokeswoman said, ______ we should take action against them depends on what they will do.6．—Something should be done to improve the worsening air quality.—Yes.________ pollutes the air shall pay a high price.7．The question was frequently referred to at the conference ________ it is a good idea to build nuclear power plants in developed cities.8．Many experts hold the view______ teachers’development is ________ the key to better education lies.9．When the news came________ the war broke out, he decided to serve in the army.10．I won’t change my belief______ success comes to those who act.11．After a day’s exhausting climb we finally arrived at________ we had been told was the“Golden Garden”．12．________ her son has passed the driving test makes her very happy.Ⅱ.完成句子1．尽管大约有两千名病人已经服用了这种药物，但是它会产生什么样的副作用现在还不确定。

2015届高考英语二轮复习高效书面表达专题卷8（含解析）1．[写作内容] 假如你是个中学生，你发现大街上随地吐痰的情况很严重。

请你就此事用英文给某报社编辑写一封信，信的开头及结尾署名已给出。

信的内容要点如下：1. 随地吐痰传播疾病，有害健康，污染环境；2. 政府应该采取措施，对在公共场所随地吐痰者处以从重罚款并加强教育；3. 希望人人都关心爱护环境，使城市更加美丽。

[写作要求]只能使用五个句子表达全部的内容，但不得把五句分开写；[评分标准]句子结构准确，信息内容完整，篇章结构连贯。

Dear editor,I am a middle school student. I often see some people spitting in the street. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Yours sincerely,Li Hua2．和睦的家庭有利于孩子的个性发展和家人的身心健康。

请你根据表格中的信息和自身的感受，以How we can build up a harmonious family 为题用英语写一篇短文。

2．词数120左右，开头已经写好，不计入总词数。

3．作文中不得提及有关考生个人身份的任何信息，如校名、人名等。

How we can build up a harmonious familyA harmonious family is essential to our personal development and our physical and mental health. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________3．书面表达（满分30分）古话说：民以食为天。

阅读理解提速专练(六)阅读理解(日常生活类)＋任务型阅读(限时25分钟)Ⅰ.阅读理解A(2014·西安四校联考)Four schoolchildren from Belgrave, England were out on their bikes on Wednesday evening. Unexpectedly, they saw an elderly man gasping for breath in the street. They tried to call the police and ambulance service, but their phones were not working, due to network problems.Before the Polish man became unconscious, the children kept him calm while they flagged down (招停) a passing driver. The children used words they had picked up from their Polish classmates to translate the injured man’s answer to the driver’s questions. Gary, 10, and his six-year-old sister, Lily, stayed with the man while Thyus and Owen, both 11, led the ambulance to the spot where he lay. Soon the man was taken to hospital.The fantastic four children who came to the aid of the elderly man deserve the highest respect for their quick thinking and courage in an emergency situation. They are a credit not only to themselves, but to their families and their school. And it is great to be able to hear such a positive story about young people.What is not so positive about this story is the fact that several adults apparently walked by without stopping to help.This seeming indifference (冷漠) to an emergency situation is a well-noted phenomenon which psychologists sometimes refer to as “the bystander effect”. Research suggests that when a group of people witness an emergency, people are likely to assume that somebody else will intervene and they feel that the burden of responsibility is lifted from their shoulders.Perhaps the answer to this sort of thing is to introduce a “Good Samaritan”law. This already exists in France and places a legal responsibility on people who witness an emergency situation to help out as long as they can do so.This certainly seems to remove any doubt about who bears the burden of responsibility for offering assistance — everybody!1．What can we learn about the elderly man?A．He spoke Polish with the children.B．He fell from his bike and got injured.C．He was taken to hospital by a passing driver.D．He recovered consciousness in the street.2．In Paragraph 3, the author mainly ________.A．shows his great sympathy for the manB．gives high praise to the four childrenC．offers his special thanks to the driverD．expresses his anger at several adults3．The underlined word “intervene” in Paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to “________”．A．be curious B．go onC．give up D．get involved4．In France, if an emergency happens to someone, ________.A．offering help to him is required by lawB．people have the right to leave the sceneC．others must get permission before helping himD．the witnesses will be punished if the rescue failsB(2014·长春二模)Unemployment in Europe has recently hit record highs. Although Denmark has been protected from economic problems thanks to its low public debt, qualified professionals are still finding it tough to get a job. Danish marketing firm Reputation Copenhagen has come up with a way of helping academics get noticed — putting them on display in storefront windows.Many highly trained professionals, ranging from former CEOs tolawyers and tax experts, are currently finding it increasingly difficult to findproper employment on the Danish job market. Some of them have beentrying for years, leaving their resumes (简历) with dozens of companies, without ever hearing back from them, and are now at a point where they are willing to try anything, even putting themselves in display windows like goods, hoping to get noticed.Alexander Peitersen, managing director of Reputation Copenhagen came up with the idea of using his company’s office as a storefront for the campaign (活动), as there are many businesses nearby that might be interested in the talents on display. So he set up a small desk, put up the sign “An available academic is sitting here” and asked the unemployed to just sit in the windows like goods. It seems like a pretty desperate measure, but at least it works. According to the agency’s website, three of the job seekers in their window display got a job in a day or two.Peitersen says he came up with the idea after realizing human resource managers get hundreds of job applications every day, which look more or less the same, and that creative thinking is required in order to increase the chances of finding employment. Apart from companies interested in qualified job seekers, the campaign has also attracted the attention of both local and international media.5．Which of the following words can be used to describe Peitersen?A．Independent. B．Creative.C．Sensitive. D．Cautious.6．Some job seekers are willing to put themselves in the windows to display in that________.A．they think it is fashionableB．their parents ask them toC．it’s increasingly difficult to get hiredD．they find it’s interesting7．It can be inferred that________.A．no companies show interest in the qualified job seekers in the windowsB．both local and international media don’t agree with the campaignC．human resource managers have to reply to hundreds of applicantsD．to some degree the window displays help people find jobs8．What is the text mainly about?A．Job seekers are displayed in the windows hoping to get hired.B．The rate of unemployment in Europe has recently become higher.C．It is hard for qualified professionals to get a job.D．Denmark has avoided economic problems due to its low public debt.Ⅱ.任务型阅读(2014·郑州二模)Life in ancient RomeCity and country lifeRoman cities were very modern places, the center of which was a large open space surrounded by markets, baths, arenas (竞技场) and other public buildings. Life in the countryside was more relaxed. __1__ They usually planted crops and raised animals, but sometimes they also fought in the army.The Roman familyHead of the Roman family was the oldest male. He controlled the whole household and had absolute power over all the members of his family. In the upper classes, slaves and servants also lived with a family. __2__ Many rich Romans arranged marriages for their children so they could stay in the higher classes and keep their influence and power.__3__Citizens of Rome wore a tunic, a piece of loose clothing that fell down to the knees. On special occasions they were allowed to wear a toga, a beautiful piece of white clothing that was wrapped (缠绕) around their body. Women wore tunics and later on stolas, which reached down to their feet. And they even experimented in dyeing (染色) their hair.Leisure (休闲) timeBath houses were the center of Roman leisure life. Men and women often got together inseparate bath houses. __4__ People of all social classes got together in such public bath houses. Going to a bath was a symbol of being purer and better than others.EducationDuring the early centuries of ancient Rome children were mostly taught at home by their parents. Fathers taught their sons how to read and write. __5__ Later on, rich Romans started sending their children to school. There they learned to read, write and solve mathematical problems.A．Dressing stylesB．Food and clothesC．Romans often married for political reasons.D．The population was mainly made up of farmers.E．Mothers showed their daughters how to do housework.F．Older students studied Greek language, literature and even politics.G．There they could relax, exercise, get massages and have a chat.答案Ⅰ.语篇解读：本文是议论文。

2015届高考英语二轮复习专题训练：信息匹配及任务型阅读【2014高考英语广东省华侨中学四模】信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。

首先请阅读下列六个网站的相关介绍：A.FriendsterThis social networking website allows the users to make new friends, most often based on their preferences, and communicate with them. It also allows the users to share messages, videos, photos, etc. With more than a hundred million registered (注册的) users to its credit, Friendster is indeed one of the most popular social networking websites in the world.B. Hi5Hi5 is a social networking website which is quite popular, especially among youths. Other than helping you stay in touch with your friends, this website also allows you to play online games. More recently, Hi5 has developed into more of a social gaming website, with the intention of providing a platform for game developers.C. TravellerspointQuite popular among travel and tourism enthusiasts, Travellerspoint allows its users to discuss their travel experiences through forums and blogs. Basically a travel guide, this website also allows its users to upload photos and maps of various tourist destinations in the world.D. TwitterWhat started out as microblogging website has quickly grown into a social messaging platform and one of the top social networks in the world. Twitter is a phenomenon that transcends (优于) social networking to provide an outlet for news, the buzz, and chat among many other uses.E. Last.fmBuilding itself as a social music site, Last.fm allows members to create theirown radio station that learns what the person likes and recommends new music based on those interests. In addition to this, you can listen to the radio stations of friends and other Last.fm members.F. LinkedInAs one of the top social networking sites for business development, LinkedIn invites people to be “connections” instead of “friends”. LinkedIn is somewhat similar to a job search website which is built on a social networking platform. The best part of LinkedIn is that it allows people to develop more contacts in the same field, with the intention of spreading their business.然后阅读下列人员的相关信息，把每个人与其感兴趣的网站匹配起来。