1、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。 In a cab, a woman seemed in such a hurryShe constantly rushed the cab driver to drive quicklyShe was so absorbed in her own thoughts of getting to the airport as soon as possible that she was not aware they were going by a different route.All of a sudden, a young
2、man got inside the cabHe took her handbag in which she had put her visa, passport, and all the money for the trip.The cab driver, who was in collusion with the robber, left her in the exactly middle of a dark streetShe thought that she was rather unfortunate in the very situation.During the very nig
3、ht, she was told a piece of shocking newsTears came down her cheekFlight 360, the plane that she should have got on board, had crashedHad she not lost her important belongings, she could surely have lost the thing far more preciousher life.Sometimes bad things really happenThere are times when nothi
4、ng seems to go our waySo what should we do about it? We must get rid of all these frustrations and start all over again in the faith that we will get what we deserve Dont waste your time and energy on things that cant be changedContinuous worrying will only affect your health and youll be doing much
5、 more damage than what was previously done. What if it was the other way round? What if we never ran out of good luck?There was a man who won the lotteryHe became greedy and wasted all his money on everything he could get his hands on.But when he one day made it to the front page of the newspaper ag
6、ain, it was a different storyHe had been killed because of his richesIf you attain good luck, you can never be too secure about itLife is so unpredictableYou never know what will happen next.Live one day at a timeWe sometimes subject ourselves to unnecessary emotional troubleBut please dont forget:
7、sometimes misfortune can be the source of happinessLive for the momentDo what must be done for the present and the future will turn out just fineBelieve meAnd believe in yourselfAs Captain Planet always says, “The power is yours！”1The underlined phrase “in collusion with” in Paragraph 3 probably mea
8、ns “_.”Awas forced by Bwas fighting bravely against Cwas doing ones best to beg Dhad cooperated with2From the passage, we learn that _.Arobbers are sure to get what they wantBsomebody never runs out of good luckCthe woman was lucky to miss her flightDif one feels oneself lucky, he or she will contin
9、ue to be so 3The writer presents the second example in order to _. Awarn people of the danger of winning the lottery Btell people life is unpredictable Cencourage people to buy lotteryDpersuade people not to be greedy4According to the author, which of the following choices is the correct attitude to
10、 adopt to life? ANever waste any time or energy because time is so limited.BOne neednt be worried or feel frustratedBelieve in yourself.CEven while everything appears to be going smoothly, we should keep fully alert.DWorrying about what you dont have5The passage above is intended to tell us _.Amisfo
11、rtune sometimes is a blessingBwe should save up for a rainy dayCfortune just goes with those prepared mindsDboth losses and gains go hand in hand 【参考答案】1-5、DCBBA 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。Next time a customer comes to your office, offer him a cup of coffeeAnd when youre doing your holiday s
12、hopping online, make sure youre holding a large glass of iced teaThe physical sensation（感觉） of warmth encourages emotional warmth, while a cold drink in hand prevents you from making unwise decisionsthose are the practical lesson being drawn from recent research by psychologist John ABarghPsychologi
13、sts have known that one persons perception（感知）of anothers “warmth” is a powerful determiner in social relationshipsJudging someone to be either “warm” or “cold” is a primary consideration, even beating evidence that a “cold” person may be more capableMuch of this is rooted in very early childhood ex
14、periences, Bargh argues, when babies conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldnessClassic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth “mother” rather than one made of wire, even when the
15、wire “mother” carried a food bottleHarlows work and later studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skillsFeelings of “warmth” and “coldness” in social judgments appear to be universa
16、lAlthough no worldwide study has been done, Bargh says that describing people as “warm” or “cold” is common to many cultures, and studies have found those perceptions influence judgment in dozens of countriesTo test the relationship between physical and psychological warmth, Bargh conducted an exper
17、iment which involved 41 college studentsA research assistant handed the students either a hot cup of coffee, or a cold drink, to hold while the researcher filled out a short information formThe drink was then handed backAfter that, the students were asked to rate the personality of “Person A” based
18、on a particular descriptionThose who had briefly held the warm drink regarded Person A as warmer than those who had held the iced drink“We are grounded in our physical experiences even when we think abstractly,” says Bargh45According to Paragraph 1, a persons emotion may be affected by _Athe psychol
19、ogy lessons he has Bhis physical feeling of coldnessCthe visitors to his office Dthe things he has bought online46The author mentions Harlows experiment to show that _Ababies need warm physical contact Bcaregivers should be healthy adultsCadults should develop social skills Dmonkeys have social rela
20、tionships47In Barghs experiment, the students were asked to _Awrite down their guesses Bevaluate someones personalityCfill out a personal information form Dhold coffee and cold drink alternatively48We can infer from the passage that _Aabstract thinking does not come from physical experiencesBfeeling
21、s of warmth and coldness are studied worldwideCphysical temperature affects how we see othersDcapable persons are often cold to others49What would be the best title for the passage?ADrinking for Better Social RelationshipsBPhysical Sensations and EmotionsCExperiments of Personality EvaluationDDevelo
22、ping Better Drinking Habits【参考答案】45-B 46-48、 ABC 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。Most mornings, the line begins to form at dawn: scores of silent women with babies on their backs, buckets balanced on their heads, and in each hand a bright-blue plastic jugOn good days, they will wait less than an
23、hour before a water tanker goes across the dirt path that serves as a road in Kesum Purbahari, a slum on the southern edge of New DelhiOn bad days, when there is no electricity for the pumps, the tankers dont come at all“That water kills people,” a young mother named Shoba said one recent Saturday m
24、orning, pointing to a row of pails filled with thick, caramel （焦糖）-colored liquid“Whoever drinks it will die” The water was from a pipe shared by thousands of people in the poor neighborhoodWomen often use it to wash clothes and bathe their children, but nobody is desperate enough to drink itThere i
25、s no standard for how much water a person needs each day, but experts usually put the minimum at fifty litersThe government of India promises （but rarely provides） fortyMost people drink two or three litersless than it takes to wash a toiletThe rest is typically used for cooking and bathingAmericans
26、 consume between four hundred and six hundred liters of water each day, more than any other people on earthMost Europeans use less than half thatThe women of Kesum Purbahari each hoped to drag away a hundred liters that daytwo or three buckets worthShoba has a husband and five children, and that muc
27、h water doesnt go far in a family of seven, particularly when the temperature reaches a hundred and ten degrees before noonShe often makes up the difference with bottled water, which costs more than water delivered any other waySometimes she just buys milk; its cheaperLike the poorest people everywh
28、ere, the people of New Delhis slums spend a far greater percentage of their incomes on water than anyone lucky enough to live in a house connected to a system of pipes50The underlined word “slum” most likely means _Aa village Ba small townCthe part of a town that lacks water badly来源:学科网Dan area of a
29、 town with badly-built, over-crowded buildings51Sometimes the water tanker doesnt come because _Athere is no electricity Bthe weather is badCthere is no water Dpeople dont want the dirty water52A person needs at least _ liters of water a dayA forty Bfifty Ca hundred Dfour hundred53The passage mainly
30、 tells us _Ahow India government manages to solve the problem of waterBhow women in Kesum Purbahari gets their waterChow much water a day a person needsDthat India lacks water badly【参考答案】49-BD 51-53 ABD 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。记叙文型完形填空(二)One of my fathers favourite sayings as
31、I was growing up was “Try it！” I couldnt say I didnt like _1_， whatever it might be, _2_ I tried it. Over the years Ive come to _3_ how much of my success I owe to my _4_ of those words as one of my values. My _5_ job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I _6_ what I wanted to d
32、o as a career(职业). _7_ I believed I would work for a few years, get married, stay home and raise a family, so I didnt think the job I took _8_ that much. I couldnt have been more _9_. I mastered the skills of that beginning level position and I was given the opportunity(机会)to _10_ through the compan
33、y into different _11_. I accepted each new opportunity with the _12_，“Well, Ill try it; if I dont like it, I can always go back to my _13_ position.” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years, and Ive _14_ every career change Ive made. Ive discovered I _15_ a large number of different ta
34、lents(才能)and skills that I never would have thought were within me，had it not been for my being _16_ trying new opportunities. Ive also discovered that if I _17_ what Im doing and work hard at achieving my _18_， I will succeed. Thats why Im so _19_ to be a part of CareerFables. com. I think _20_ has
35、 come and I am determined to make it a success.1. Aeverything BsomethingCeverybody Dsomebody2. Auntil after Bever sinceCso that Dlong before3. Aconsider BargueCinclude Drealize4. Asuggestion BexplanationCacceptance Ddiscussion5. Ahard BbestCextra Dfirst6. Adetermined BexaminedCexperienced Dintroduce
36、d7. AActually BGraduallyCFinally DUsually8. Ahelped BrequiredCexpressed Dmattered9. Acareful BmistakenCinterested Dprepared10. Alook up Btake upCmove up Dput up11. Asituations BchoicesCdirections Dpositions12. Athought BreplyCaction Dadvice13. Aeasier BnewerCearlier Dhigher14. Apermitted BcountedCor
37、ganized Denjoyed15. Ashow BpossessCneed Dgather16. Alucky for Bslow atCopen to Dafraid of17. Athink of Bgive awayCbelieve in Dturn into18. Abusiness BgoalCfortune Dgrowth19. Aexcited BcuriousCsurprised Dhelpful 20. Adream BtimeCpower Dhonour(一)【要点综述】本文是一篇励志记叙文，描述了父亲常说“Try it！”及这句话对自己的影响。1B根据whatever
38、 it might be可以排除C、D项。本句表达“在我尝试一些事情之前，(我)不会说不喜欢。”everything用词不合适。2A根据句意可知A项正确。3D这么多年来，“我”开始意识到“我”的成就大多归功于父亲的话。4C根据前文解释可知，“我”的成功源自对父亲那些话的“接受”。oweto把归功于。5D这里开始介绍作者的工作经历，故应是第一份工作。6A通过下文可以看出，作者在从事第一份工作时的态度只是想先试试看，但如果遇到热衷的、想当成自己固定职业的工作时，还是会离开的。7A这里作者在表明自己的态度。事实上，作者自认为自己会工作几年之后就结婚，建立家庭8D根据前文可知，作者并没有把第一份工作看
39、得特别重要。matter vi.有关系，要紧。9B根据下文可知，作者本不具有的一些生活技能居然在经历各种尝试后养成了，也就是说，作者开始的想法是错误的。“not 比较级” 表示肯定的意义。10Cmove up “上升”，这里指工作上得到了提升。11Dposition 指“职位，岗位”。下文也有提示。12Awith the thought带着想法；认为，思考。“我”每一次得到一个新机会，总有那种想法：如果“我”不喜欢这个新的岗位，“我”可以回到原来的那个岗位。13C根据前一空解释可知C项正确。earlier早些时候的。 14D通过but可以看出作者态度发生了变化，在过去的28年中，作者一直待在同一个公司，并且每次的工作变化作者都很享受。15B直到此时作者才发现其实自己拥有(possess)很多才能。16C要不是作者愿意尝试新的机会，就不会拥有这么多的才能。be open to 对开放、开明。had it not been for if it had not been for要不是。 17C作者还发现，如果相信自己并且一直努力去做，就一定能够达到目标。believe in相信，信任。18Bachieve ones goal达到目标，实现目标。19A作者领悟到父亲的话的真谛，因此对作为CareerF的一员感到“兴奋”。20B作者认为时机(time)已到，所以决心一定要取得成功。