1、2014高考英语信息匹配:2013暑假练习题(3)及答案解析以下是几个寓意和寓言,第61至65题是有关的信息。请从A、B、C、D、E和F中为它们选出最合适的项目。选项中有一项是多余选项。61. _We pay more attention to what we want to hear. (Bad news travels fast. / Bad news has wings.)62. _Know which way the wind blows. (People act according to their interests.)63. _No act of kindness, howeve
2、r small, is ever wasted. (An act of kindness is never wasted. / Even the weak have something to offer the strong.)64. _A man is known by the company he keeps. (You are known by the company you keep.) 65. _Do not attempt too much at once.A. A dog used to run up quietly to the heels of everyone he met
3、, and to bite them without notice. His master put a bell about his neck so that the dog might give notice of his presence wherever he went. Thinking it a mark of distinction, the dog grew proud of his bell and went tinkling it all over the market-place. One day an old dog said to him, “Why do you ma
4、ke such an exhibition of yourself? That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a public notice to all men to avoid you as a bad-mannered dog.”B. A man once stood up at a market-place in the east and said, “I have been ordered by the king to collect all the we
5、ll-born and well-bred and bring them before him, since he wishes to reward them.” Everybody that heard him joined him, and he went towards the palace, surrounded by the whole town. Then he suddenly turned round and said, “The king has just sent me word that he means to help only those that have been
6、 ill-born and ill-bred to make up for their misfortunes.” The crowd lingered behind for a while, and then one after another joined the man as ill-born and ill-bred to receive the kings gifts. The man said, “The world goes as the wind blows!”C. A lion was awakened by a mouse running over his face. Ri
7、sing up angrily, the lion caught the mouse and was about to kill him, when the mouse begged, “If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness.” The lion laughed at the idea of the mouse being able to repay a favor, but let him go in the end. Later, the lion was caught by some
8、 hunters, who bound him with strong ropes to the ground. The mouse, recognizing the lions roar, came and gnawed the rope with his teeth and set him free.D. A fox had long been the dread of the village poultry yard. One day, he was found lying breathless in a field. The report went abroad that, after
9、 all, he had been caught and killed by someone. In a moment, everybody in the village came out to see the dead fox. The village cock, with all his hens and chicks, was also there, to enjoy the sight. The fox then got up and said, “I ate a number of hens and chicks last night. So I must have slept lo
10、nger than usual.” The cock counted his hens and chicks, and found several chicks were missing. “Alas!” said he, “how is it that I do not know of it?” “My dear sir,” said the fox, as he ran back to the wood, “it was last night that I had a good meal of your hens and chicks, yet you did not know of it
11、. A moment ago they found me lying in the field, and you knew of it at once.”E. A boy put his hand into a pitcher (大罐) full of nuts. He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. Unwilling to lose his
12、nuts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears, crying with disappointment. A person who was passing by said to him, “Be satisfied with half the quantity and you will draw out your hand at once.”F. A man wished to purchase an ass (a donkey), and decided to give the animal a test befo
13、re buying him. He took the ass home and put him in the field with his other asses. The new ass moved away from the others to join the one that was the laziest and the biggest eater of them all. Seeing this, the man led him back to his owner. When the owner asked how he could have tested the ass in s
14、uch a short time, the man answered, “I didnt even need to see how he worked. I knew he would be just like the one he chose to be his friend.”参考答案6165 DBCFE*结束第二节:任务型阅读 (原创,文章改编自中国日报)下面文章中有5处(第6165题)需要添加小标题。请从以下选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)中选出符合各段意思的小标题,并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。A. Arguments are pointless.B. Yo
15、ur parents only want whats best for you.C. Everyones opinion matters only as much as you want them to.D. You learn by doing.E. Your emotions are under your control.F. You arent stuck in any situation.Life is the greatest teacherThere always comes a moment when I wonder where I will end up and this m
16、oment always serves as a strong motivation for me to learn life lesson. Ive learned a great many things, but these are the lessons that I wish Id learned earlier:61. _There was a time when everyones opinion was mine as well. Whatever preferences I formerly held were dashed in the face of anothers. T
17、his most likely came from a need to please others.Remember that your opinion matters just as much as the next guys, whether they make more money than you or are less popular than you. Everyones opinion holds the same weight.62. _Drama, chaos, and emotional unrest these were what took up most of my t
18、ime as a teenager. If I had heard someone said bad things behind my back, Id be angry. Go crazy. Looking back on those tantrums now, Im not too surprised. After all, when you have little self control, anything is possible.The lessons here is, remain aware of how you react.63. _Will one small quarrel
19、 among friends decide the fate of the entire universe? In my world it felt like it. I just wanted so much to be right and for them so much to be wrong. But in the end, it only resulted in me wasting my time and in the other person storming off in frustration.Is there really a point to arguing? Unles
20、s its absolutely necessary, Ive learned that its better to hold your breath on things you cant control at all.Arguing to change someones mind is one of them.64. _Im not saying every parent wants whats best for you (there are outliers), but in general, parents do what they do for you in your best int
21、erest.My parents used to make me do the dishes, cook dinner, sweep the floors, mow the lawn, take out the garbage the list goes on and on. And at every turn, Id whine and complain. Id eventually end up doing it.Now, I honestly see the value in having learned those skills. I can efficiently cook and
22、clean up after myself.65. _Whenever Id lose a friend, get an awful grade, or disappoint my parents, I stewed in my own muck. Waiting for the bad moments to go away seemed to be the only solution. Fortunately, I know now that you dont have to be stuck in bad situations.You can go out and create bette
23、r ones.It all depends on perspective; on how you see the situation. Viewing everything as a learning experience makes life more pleasurable, even during the hard times.You arent stuck. You can move on.Im glad to have learned these lessons the way I did. Each experience helped shape me to become a be
24、tter person. I dont know if any young people are reading this, but if they are, Id like to say this:Listen to life and its experiences. Everyone goes through mostly the same things.参考答案61-65 CEABF 61-65 CEABF*结束第二节:任务型阅读 阅读下列材料,从所给的六个选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)中选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑,选项中有一项为多余选项.Directions:
25、 Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from A-F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.61._The colored part of the eye is called the iris. There are three basic eye colours brown, blue and green. A few albino people have red or pink eyes, but thes
26、e are very rare. Many people believe that blue eyes are more delicate than brown eyes. In fact they are just as tough as brown eyes, although they are more sensitive to light.62._We only see part of the eyeball, although the whole eye is as big as a table tennis ball. Light enters the eye through th
27、e pupil and passes through the lens. The lens focuses the light onto the retina at the back of the eye. The retina sends the signal to the brain along the optic nerve. The image on the retina is actually upside-down, but the brain corrects it. As we get older our eyesight becomes worse. This happens
28、 because the lens isnt as flexible as when we are young and the eye muscles are weaker.63._Our eyes are the most important of our five senses. We receive 80% of our information about the world through our eyes. We also send signals to other people with our eyes. Some eye signals are unconscious. Whe
29、n we look at something nice, our pupils get bigger. But when we dont like something, they become smaller. We cry when we are unhappy and sometimes when we are very happy. But we can also control some eye signals. For example, we can wink at someone or raise an eyebrow. Sunglasses make someone appear
30、 mysterious or dangerous, because they hide that eyes and so we cant see the signals.64._ We find large eyes more attractive. Children have large eyes in proportion to their heads. Cartoon characters always have large eyes, too. We cant actually change our eyes, but we can make them look bigger with
31、 make-up. Eye make-up isnt new. Pictures in the Pyramids show that the ancient Egyptians both men and women-used it. False eyelashes can make eyelashes longer. Eye shadow on the eyelids can make the eyes look bigger and more dramaticGlasses can also make eyes look bigger.65._We do not normally look
32、into someones eyes for long, especially when they are very close. Eye contact can be very threatening, so people only do it when they want to threaten someone. It is also very intimate. This is why lovers gaze into each others eyes. Its also why people dont look at each other in lifts.A. Ways to beautify eyesB. Proper use of eye contactC. Techniques of sending eye signalsD. Colours of peoples eyesE. Functions of different parts of the eyeF. Variety of messages conveyed through参考答案61-65 DEFAB*结束- 5 -