1、【由安徽省合肥市2014高考模拟题改编】阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。 When I decided to quit my job as a wedding photographer, I was in my late twenties, fresh from my divorce from Bob who had left me empty and confused. I decided to leave the US and travel. I had no savings, plus more than $5,000 in debt. What
2、I did have were two sponsored tasks as a travel photographer- and with that along, I thought, it would be easy.My first experience was a road trip from Toronto to Las Vegas, paid for by a car delivery service. Other trips followed and then I started a travel blog (博客). It was intended to be my calli
3、ng card for assignment travel photography. Yet even with my blog and past experience, email after email I sent to publications, trying to get work, went unanswered. When they did get in touch, editors told me that I had no chance of making a career with travel photography. While I struggled to get o
4、n the path that I wanted, and as I expanded my blog to help get me there, I found myself wearing the hat of a full-time blogger.Luckily, I got in at the right time. It was 2010，and the travel industry was just starting to turn its attention to bloggers. As I never could have predicted, my blogging-n
5、ot my photography-did take me around the world successfully. At first，I thought it was for personal reasons, but I realized later that it was for free marketing for my blogging.Within two years, I was being asked to speak at travel blogging conferences, which helped me to raise a network of friends
6、around the world. Even more meaningful, however, was when I saw that my travels were also helping other people. My blog and social media followers saw that I chased my dreams and told me over and over again how they needed that kind of example, which was absent in their lives elsewhere.51 After the
7、author quit her job, she decided to _.A. divorce her husbandB. be a wedding photographerC. pay off all her debtD. go travelling abroad2. What can we learn about the author from the 2nd paragraph?A. She paid money to a car delivery agency for a road trip.B. She realised his dream of becoming a travel
8、 photographer.C. She got a job as an editor in a publishing house.D. She finally became a professional blogger unintentionally.3. The author believed her success mainly resulted from _.A. her personal reasonsB. her photographing skillsC. free marketing for bloggingD. booming of travel industry4. Wha
9、t did the author think of her two years work?A. Inspiring. B. Appealing. C. Interesting. D. Challenging.【参考答案】14、DDCA 【由安徽省合肥市2014高考模拟题改编】 阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。As a leading Chinese language school and a cultural exchange institute in China， Global Exchange Education Center has been pr
10、oviding Mandarin (or Putonghua) language courses and cultural exchange programs for over a decade.How to apply for our programsIn order to apply for all of our programs, you must be at least 18 years old. in good health, a senior high school graduate. Application Procedure for Chinese Language Progr
11、amsStep 1. Send us a completed application form by email or fax. Step 2. Send us $ 60 application fee after receiving our email confirmation. Step 3. Arrange the payment transfer. Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing. Application Procedure for Chinese Business Internship (实习）Program Step 1. Send us a co
12、mpleted application form with your CV and personal statement for the program by email or fax.Step 2. Send us $ 310, including $60 application fee and $ 250 internship placement deposit, after receiving our letter of acceptance for the program. Step 3. Arrange final payment transfer after receiving o
13、ur second confirmation. Step 4. Plan the trip to Beijing. Personal Statement for applicants for Chinese Business Internship ProgramYou should state why you want to take this program and what your expectations of the program are. How you will make use of this program in your future career. APPLICATIO
14、N DEADLINESThe applications for most programs are reviewed on a rolling basis. You are encouraged to submit your application ahead of the application deadlines.ConfirmationHaving received your application, Global Exchange Education Center usually sends out an email confirmation for the booking withi
15、n 2-5 working days.1. The text is probably written for _.A. junior high graduatesB. international students C. job seekersD. language trainers2. If you apply for both of the programs, the total application fees will be _.A. $310. B. $ 120. C. $250. D. $ 370.3. If you want to apply for Chinese Busines
16、s Internship program successfully, youll _.A. send the application form by postB. send personal statement and CV onlyC. have to get confirmed at least twice D. have to make a travel plan in Beijing4. Which of the following is not necessarily included in applicants，personal statement? A. Their purpos
17、es of taking the program. B. Their expectations of the program. C. Their future practice of the program. D. Their feedbacks on the program.【参考答案】14、BBCD 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，选出最佳选项。 A study has showed that the brain makes decisions about 10 seconds before a person realizes it. Experts inv
18、olved in the study said that looking at brain activity while making a decision,they could predict the choices the subjects would make, before they realized that they had made a decision. Lead researcher John-Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist (神经学家)at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Bra
19、in Sciences in Leipzig, said that the new findings called into questions for “consciousness”of decisions that people make, and might even challenge ideas as to how“free”people are to make a decision at a particular moment.“We think our decisions are conscious, but these data show that consciousness
20、is just the tip of the iceberg,”Nature magazine quoted (引用) him as saying. Thinking the results“quite dramatic”, Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said that 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity. During the study, the brains of 14 volunteers were imaged as th
21、ey performed a decision-making task. The subjects had two buttons before them, each to be operated by a different hand, which they could press when they felt the urge to. They were simultaneously (同时地)shown a stream of letters, which appeared on a screen at half-second intervals (间隔). The volunteers
22、 had to remember which letter was showing when they decided to press their button.Upon analysis of the data, the researchers realized that the earliest signal they could catch started seven seconds before the volunteers reported having made their decision. Given the delay of a few seconds in the ima
23、ging, they reckoned (估计) that the brain activity could have begun about ten seconds before the conscious decision. The researchers showed that the signals were picked up from a region (区域)called the frontopolar cortex (脑额极皮层),which is located at the front of the brain, immediately behind the forehea
24、d.While writing about the observations made during the research in his study report, Haynes said that the frontopolar cortex might be the brain region where decisions are started. He also showed that the next step in the research would be to speed up the data analysis so as to enable his team to pre
25、dict peoples choices as their brains would make them. 1. The passage tells us that _.A. we are aware of our whole process of decision-makingB. people dont make decisions until they realize itC. experts have no way to tell what decision one will makeD. the decision-making process starts before it is
26、made2. The underlined word “subjects”in Para. 2 probably refers to _.A. the topic of the experts research paperB. the scientific subjects that the experts were studyingC. the things that experts dont know clearlyD. the volunteers that the experts worked on for their research3. The underlined sentenc
27、e“consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg”in Para. 4 means that _.A. our decision-making is consciousB. the data contains a lot of information besides consciousnessC. consciousness is the major part of the dataD. 10 seconds is“a lifetime”in terms of brain activity4. The final purpose of the res
28、earch _.A. is not stated clearly in the passage B. is not acknowledged by expertsC. is to show where decision-making starts D. is to analyze the data picked up5. The passage implies that _.A. the research has been completedB. the research was conducted by two expertsC. the decision-making process la
29、sts only about 10 secondsD. we may predict what decisions people will make in the future 【参考答案】14、DDBA 完型填空。阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从以下题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Living in modern society，most people are likely to be under great stress which caused by living and succeeding.1._，a lot of psychological and social p
30、roblems arise.To deal with stress effectively，one has to be wellprepared both 2._ and physically.One has to establish the conception that stress is normal and it can be a motivation of success as long as people accept 3._ existence. Since we cannot destroy stress，why cant we treat with it in 4._ opt
31、imistic way? Stress is not a thing that we should be afraid of 5._ what we should make full use of.One has to change the way he lives to reduce the influences 6._ stress. Staying up late and drinking alcohol helps 7._ but add the risk of getting worse. Keeping a regular calendar and following a heal
32、thy diet helps reduce its effects.Stress is not as frightening as it is described 8._ people build the right conception of it and keep physical health.(五)1. Thus/Therefore考查副词。根据前后的因果关系可判断填thus/therefore，首字母要大写。2. mentally考查副词。该空与physically相对应，故填mentally。3. its考查代词。此处指“接受压力的存在”，修饰名词existence要用形容词性物主
33、代词its。4. an考查冠词。此处表泛指，并且optimistic以元音音素开头，故用an。in an optimistic way意为“以一种积极乐观的方法”。5. but考查并列连词。notbut不是而是6. of考查介词。the influences of stress 压力的影响。7. nothing考查固定搭配。nothing but 仅仅，只。8. if考查状语从句的引导词。此处if引导条件状语从句。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。 One day, a slave owner entered a local store and threat
34、ened a young boy who was his slave. At first, the slave refused to move and ran for the door. The slave owner reached for a heavy weight. He threw it at his slave. Instead, it hit Harriet on the head. Harriet almost died. For the rest of her life, she carried the mark of a deep wound on her head. Mi
35、ser Brodas felt he never needed Harriet. He decided to sell her. Harriet thought of a way to prevent this. Each time she was shown to someone who might buy her, she acted as if she were falling asleep. After a while, Mister Brodas gave up the hope of selling Harriet. He sent her back to the fields.
36、At 24 she married a free black man, John Tubman. By then, Harriet was sure she should escape. In 1849, Mister Brodas died. His slaves probably would be sold to further South. John Tubman tried to make Harriet forget about running away. Harriet decided she must end her marriage and that she needed to
37、 tell her family that she was leaving. Harriet escaped for Pennsylvania where slavery was banned there. Once she hid under hay that had been cut from the fields. Another time, she wore mens clothing. Finally, she arrived in Pennsylvania. Now that Harriet was free, she didnt forget other slaves in Ma
38、ryland. During the next ten years, she freed her parents and other family members. She traveled back and forth eighteen times, helping about 300 slaves escape. She became an expert at hiding from slave hunters. At one time, anyone finding Harriet was promised 40,000dollars for catching herdead or al
39、ive. The people she helped called her Moses. She had rescued them from slavery just as the biblical Moses rescued the Jews. After the Civil War began, Harriet started to spy for the North. She also served as a nurse. After four years of bloody fighting, the North won the war. Abraham Lincoln freed t
40、he slaves in 1863. There was no longer any need for Harriet to be Moses.56. Harriet was hit by a heavy weight on her head when . A. she was helping a slave run away B. she was playing with a young boy C. she was staying at the local store D. she was running for the door of the store57. We know from
41、the passage that Harriet was Mister Brodas . A. daughter B. slave C. wife D. servant58. Harriet decided to end her marriage with John mainly because . A. she lived a terribly unhappy life B. he often stopped her running away C. he couldnt give her right and freedom D. she wanted to save her family m
42、embers59. Why was Harriet called Moses just like Moses in the Bible? A. She devoted most of her life to helping slaves escape. B. She became an expert at hiding from slave hunters. C. She made a contribution to the North in the Civil War. D. She traveled back to Maryland eighteen times.60. The passage is mainly about . A. how Harriet rescued her family from the South to the North B. how Harriet became a famous woman in the Civil War C. how Harriet fought against slavery in her life D. how Harriet turned from a slave to a free woman【】56-60 CBBAC
