1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家阅读理解阅读下列短文，从每题所给出的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AYoure in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation: “I cant believe it-a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isnt it beautiful? And it
2、s a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome. ”They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. Its nice and the price is right. Youve never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are em
3、ployees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo Bertolla clothes. Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Compa
4、nies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it. Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that dont pay attention to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation-consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spe
5、nd, but they dont trust ads. So advertising agencies hire young actors to “perform” in bars and other places where young adults go. Some people might call this practice deceptive(骗人的), but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. “Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is
6、decreasing. ”However, one might ask what exactly is “real” about of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? Advertising executives would say its no less real than an ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don t know when a convers
7、ation you overhear is just a performance. 56. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could _. A. get the sweater at a lower price B. be heard by people aroundC. be admired by other shoppers D. decide on buying the sweater57. Lorenzo Bertolla is _. A. a very popular male singer B. a
8、n advertising agencyC. a clothing company in Rome D. the brand name of a sweater58. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? A. The two girls are in fact employed by the Lorenzo Bertolla Company. B. The MTV generation tend to be more easily influenced by ads. C. Traditional advertisi
9、ng is becoming less effective because its too direct. D. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government. 59. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. Two Attractive Shoppers B. Lorenzo Bertolla SweatersC. Ways of Advertising D. Undercover MarketingBThe eviden
10、ce for harmony may not be obvious in some families. But it seems that four out of five young people now get on with their parents, which is the opposite of the popularly held image (印象) of unhappy teenagers locked in their room after endless family quarrels.An important new study into teenage attitu
11、des surprisingly shows that their family life is more harmonious than it has ever been in the past. “We were surprised by just how positive todays young people seen to be about their families,” said one member of the research team. “Theyre expected to be rebellious(叛逆的) and selfish but actually they
12、 have other things on their minds: they want a car and material goods, and they worry about whether school is serving them well. Theres more negotiation(商议) and discussion between parents and children, and children expect to take part in the family decision-making process. They dont want to rock the
13、 boat.”So it seems that this generation of parents is much more likely than parents of 30 years ago to treat their children as friends.” My parents are happy to discuss things with me and willing to listen to me,” says 17-years-old Daniel Lazall. “I always tell them when Im going out clubbing. As lo
14、ng as they know what Im doing, theyre fine with it.” Susan Crome, who is now 21, agrees. “Looking back on the last 10 years, there was a lot of what you could call negotiation. For example, as long as Id done all my homework, I could go out on a Saturday night. But I think my grandparents were a lot
15、 stricter with my parents than that.”Maybe this positive view of family life should not be unexpected. It is possible that the idea of teenager rebellion is not rooted in real facts. A researcher comments, “Our surprise that teenagers say they get along well with their parents comes because of a bri
16、ef period in out social history when teenagers were regarded as different beings. But that idea of rebelling and breaking away from their parents really only happened during that one time in the 1960s when everyone rebelled. The normal situation throughout history has been a smooth change from helpi
17、ng out with the family business to taking it over.”60. What is the popular images of teenagers today?A. They worry about school B. They dislike living with their parentsC. They have to be locked in to avoid troubles D. They quarrel a lot with other family members61. The study shows that teenagers do
18、nt want to _A. share family responsibility B. cause trouble in their familiesC. go boating with their family D. make family decisions62. Compared with parents of 30 years age, todays parents_.A. go to clubs more often with their children B. are much stricter with their childrenC. care less about the
19、ir childrens life D. give their children more freedom63. According to the author, teenage rebellion_.A. may be a false belief B. is common nowadaysC. existed only in the 1960s D. resulted from changes in familiesCDear all, Please read Professor Humes email about his next lecture on Rosa Parks. Susan
20、 Miller Secretary Dear Susan, Please forward this message to students of my history class. Besides the life story of Rosa Parks in the textbook, the students are also required to read the passage below and some related stories that can be borrowed from the school library. Ted Hume The early experien
21、ces of Rosa Parks(1913-2005), long known as the “mother of the civil rights movement, ”were not different from those of many African-Americans at that time. The black woman, however, turned the course of American history in December 1955 when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.
22、“By sitting down, ”remarked John Lewis, “she was standing up for all Americans. ” Among the numerous awards Parks received in her life were the Presidential Medal of Freedom(1996)and the Congressional Gold Medal(1999). Parks died on Oct. 24, 2005. At St. Paul A. M. E. Church in Montgomery, a large c
23、rowd including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice celebrated her life. Rice said she and others, who grew up when the political activities of Parks held public attention, might not have realized her impact(影响)on their lives, “but I can honestly say that without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be s
24、tanding here as Secretary of State. ” After her casket(灵柩)was placed at the Capitol, U. S. President Bush, members of Congress and ordinary Americans paid their respects. In American history Parks is the first woman to lie in state at the Capitol, a very high regard usually reserved for Presidents o
25、f the United States. 64. What is the main purpose of Susans email? A. To make arrangements for Professor Humes class. B. To introduce to the students Rosa Parks. C. To help the students organize a lecture. D. To answer Professor Humes last email. 65. What does the underlined word “forward” mean? A.
26、Explain. B. Send. C. Take. D. Read. 66. The political impact of Rosa Parks lies in the fact that she . A. helped Condoleezza Rice achieve political success B. joined the civil rights movement at a young age C. made racial equality a common value in American society D. set a good example in her early
27、 life for other black Americans 67. How was Rosa Parks treated after her death? A. She was named “mother of the civil rights movement. ” B. She was received by President Bush at the Capitol. C. She was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. D. She was honored to lie in state at the Capitol.DThroug
28、hout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause changeto find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before. Landscape(风景) is another unchanging elemen
29、t of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had prod
30、uced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway
31、in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography(摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom. Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding o
32、f reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary st
33、ruggle for artists of all periods. Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope
34、 of human beings. 68. Leslies paintings are extraordinary because_ . A. they are close in style to works in ancient times B. they look like works by 19th-century painters C. they draw attention to common things in life D. they depend heavily on color photography 69. What is the authors opinion of ar
35、tistic reality? A. It will not be found in future works of art. B. It does not have a long-lasting standard. C. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form. D. It is lacking in modern works of art. 70. What does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph? A. They express peoples curiosity about the past. B. They make people interested in everyday experience. C. They are considered important for variety in form. D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation. 阅读：56-60 BDCDB 61-65 BDAAB 66-70 CDCBD - 4 - 版权所有高考资源网
