1、2012年11月份百题精练（1）英语试题第三部分：阅读理解（共两节，40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AEat to ExcelHow fit are you? Do you look after yourself? Do you eat healthily or do you eat anything you like? Premier League football club Aston Villa are encouraging their players and local ch
2、ildren to eat healthy foodThey know that what you eat is the key to successHow fit is a footballer?Could you run ten kilometers in 90 minutes? A professional footballer canFootballers have to be strong, quick, skillful and creative in their movesEvery Premier League club makes sure it has a good coa
3、ching scheme and a well-planned fitness programThey also ensure that players have the practice and training that will prepare them for matchesWhat else do you think clubs pay special attention to? A good stadium? Anything else? What about the food they eat?Eating the right thingA good diet is a fund
4、amental part of sport these daysAston Villa manager Martin ONeills sport and health experts have chosen a secret weapon - organic food （food grown without chemicals）Fitness manager Jim Henry eats with his players and said: “I chose to switch to organic food for Aston Villa because Ive read studies s
5、howing that organic food has higher levels of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants” He believes that the best way to get these is to eat the very best fresh foodWhat to eat after the match Head chef at Aston Villa, lan Edge, feeds players with the best food as soon as they finish an away matchHe says
6、: “Food is very important to sports stars and particularly after a gameThere is an hour of opportunity when they need to eat to get the best muscle strength, so I hand out meals on the coach on the way homeIf we can make one per cent difference to the players by using organic food, then it is worth
7、it”Teaching healthy eating Everyone at Aston Villa enjoys organic food at their training groundBut the club is also worried about the unhealthy diet among local children who prefer sweets and unhealthy fast foodAs part of their work in the community, Aston Villa has opened up their kitchen and invit
8、ed children from local schools to come and learn how to cook with the help of the Villa head chefVilla midfielder, Nigel ReoCoker, visited the children on the opening day“The kitchen promotes healthy eating and a healthy lifestyle” he saidA final word from the kitchenHead chef Ian says: “Footballers
9、 know how important food is to their profession and nine times out of ten, they go for the healthiest option” Do you watch your diet? If you do and you keep yourself fit, you can be a winner!56. Every Premier League Club provides footballers with _Aa good coach Ba fitness centerCproper practice and
10、trainingDa delicious diet 57. According to Jim Henry, _Ahe believes the studies he has read about organic foodBhe will only eat organic food with his playersChe thinks food is especially important after a gameDhe chose organic food as a secret weapon for footballers58. We can learn from the passage
11、that _Apeople can make one percent difference to players by using organic foodBonly a few footballers pay attention to the healthy eatingCfootballers in Aston Villa usually eat on their way to the matchDfootballers in Aston Villa usually eat some food within an hour after a match59. Why has Aston Vi
12、lla invited children from local schools?ABecause they want to teach kids how to cook delicious foodBBecause they want to teach kids to play footballCBecause they are fond of the kids in the communityDBecause they intend to promote healthy eatingBIt is official: Jim Parsons is the new poster child fo
13、r geekdomThe actor, who recently won his first Emmy for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series for his portrayal of Sheldon Cooper on the hit television show The Big Bang Theory, is the hotness right nowParsons is a big hit on the Web as a trending topic on Twitter and has a devoted fan base who
14、spread their adoration via Facebook and fan sitesParsons is considered by many to be a central part of the sleeper success that has been The Big Bang TheoryThe sitcom about two brilliant physicists and their group of friends started out slowly building buzz when it first appeared on CBS in 2007Since
15、 then, the show has grown into a big success for the network, even raking in fans abroad with its international distributionIn May, The New York Times reported that Warner Bros, which produces and distributes the show, had entered into “what is believed to be one of the most profitable TV deals ever
16、” with TBS and local Fox stationsAudiences just cant seem to get enough of the character of Sheldon Cooper, who is as socially dysfunctional as he is brightAdmirers take to Facebook fan pages to post their favorite Sheldon quotes, including: “Im not insane （crazy）, my mother had me tested!” and “The
17、y were threatened by my intelligence and too stupid to know thats why they hated me”Fans can visit Jim Parsons Online, and there is even a site, SheldonShirtscom, dedicated to the many shirts worn by the character, complete with links to where to buy themMary Waring created the site because of her h
18、usbands interest in Sheldon Coopers shirtsAnd with his characters nerdy character and addiction to all things “Star Trek,” Parsons is also a hit with fan boys and fan girls60. The underlined phrase “raking in” means _Aearning the support ofBmaking fun of CclassifyingDcomforting 61. Where are you mos
19、t likely to find this passage?AIn a biographyBIn a magazineCIn a talk-show programDIn a textbook62. What we can infer from the passage?AParsons was dreaming about the success before the comedyBMary Waring was interested in Sheldon Coopers shirts so she set up a websiteCBefore The Big Bang Theory, Pa
20、rsons was not very popularDSheldon Cooper is a character who is intelligent as well as sociable63What is the suitable title of the passage?AThe Big Bang Theory Catching our EyesBSheldon Cooper Adored by Vast Audiences CJim Parsons: Hot on WebD“Star Trek” loved by boys and girlsCAfter the USHouse of
21、Representatives passed a bill aimed at retaliatory（报复的） action against China for its “significantly undervalued” currency, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner urged the IMF to pressure China to adopt “more flexible, more market-directed exchange-rate management”This is a coded message to China: Your
22、e keeping on purpose your currency cheap, and the USeconomy is paying the priceSo cut it out - or elseThe normally dull IMF meeting became the latest battleground for the USto be against a fast developing ChinaOur new conventional wisdom is that Chinas policy leads to make trade deficits （逆差） greate
23、r and the loss of American jobsDozens of candidates have run ads attacking a competitor for allowing China to take advantage of usIn the election-year view, China grew 10% annually for the past decade while maintaining low inflation（通涨） only by taking advantage of its artificially low currencyThe id
24、ea that the USis not responsible for its own economy is a black-is-white viewIt argues that China and its currency are causing the lions share of harmThis is an argument born of fearIt covers a fact that the economies of China and the UShave become beneficial to each otherThose trillions in reserves
25、 that China accumulates: Where do they go? Back to the USin the form of lending money to the federal governmentThose made-in-China goods that account for the trade deficit: Whom do they benefit? China, yes, but also American consumers and companiesWithout China, American companies could not have mai
26、ntained their profitability in recent yearsTake two brand names, Caterpillar and NikeBoth have their products made in China, but both also view China as a fast-growing market for their productsGeorge Soros warned recently that a currency war could put the world into disorder more damaging than anyth
27、ing caused by the financial crisis of the 1930sHes rightWhether we like it or not, we live in a global systemThe zero-sum attitude toward China and its currency is a relic, the remaining of an earlier time when nations defined economic lifeChina is far from perfect and seeks its own advantage, but h
28、olding it accountable for our domestic problems is beyond outdatedIt reflects a dangerous refusal to deal with the world as it isRetaliating against China over currency will not regain high-end jobs in the US, which needs more our own demandIt will not renew construction or retool the American labor
29、 forceIt will not rebuild rotting bridges or create a next-generation energy network64. Which of the following argument can be supported by the writer?AChina is the winner in the Sino-US tradeBChinas rapid development over the past ten years is based on its low inflationCThe worlds economy will bene
30、fit from Chinas policy changes on its currencyDThe US will get hurt if it tries hard on damaging Chinas economy65. This passage is in a tone that is _Ain favor of ChinaBin the shoes of USCblaming Chinas low currency policyDhelping IMF solve the worlds economic problem66. The writer makes his point o
31、f view clear through the passage by using _Areasonable analysisBleaders quotationsCfigure examplesDmoving stories67. Chinas currency policy _Awill help increase the demand in the USBis unable to equip the American labor force with new working skillsCcould guide the world economy for the next decadeD
32、is to be controlled by the international currency groupsDTake a look at the following list of numbers: 4, 8, 5, 3, 7, 9, 6Read them loudNow look away and spend 20 seconds memorizing them in order before saying them out loud againIf you speak English, you have about a 50% chance of remembering those
33、perfectlyIf you are Chinese, though, youre almost certain to get it right every timeWhy is that? Because we most easily memorize whatever we can say or read within a two-second periodAnd unlike English, the Chinese language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two secondsThat example come
34、s from Stanislas Dahaenes book The Number SenseAs Dahaene explains: Chinese number words are remarkably briefMost of them can be spoken out in less than one-quarter of a second （for instance, 4 is “si” and 7 “qi”）Their English pronunciations are longerThe memory gap between English and Chinese appar
35、ently is entirely due to this difference in lengthIt turns out that there is also a big difference in how number-naming systems in Western and Asian languages are constructedIn English, we say fourteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen, so one might expect that we would also say oneteen, tw
36、oteen, threeteen, and fiveteenBut we dontWe use a different form: eleven, twelve, thirteen and fifteenFor numbers above 20, we put the “decade” first and the unit number second （twenty-one, twenty-two）, while for the teens, we do it the other way around （fourteen, seventeen, eighteen）The number syst
37、em in English is highly irregularNot so in China, Japan, and KoreaThey have a logical counting systemEleven is ten-oneTwelve is ten-twoTwenty-four is two-tens-four and so onThat difference means that Asian children learn to count much faster than American childrenFour-year-old Chinese children can c
38、ount, on average, to 40American children at that age can count only to 15By the age of five, in other words, American children are already a year behind their Asian friends in the most fundamental of math skillsThe regularity of their number system also means that Asian children can perform basic fu
39、nctions, such as addition, far more easilyAsk an English-speaking seven-year-old to add thirty-seven plus twenty-two in her head, and she has to change the words to numbers （37+22）Only then can she do the math: 2 plus 7 is 9 and 30 and 20 is 50, which makes 59Ask an Asian child to add three-tens-sev
40、en and two-tens-two, and then the necessary equation（等式） is right there, in the sentenceNo number translation is necessary: its five-tens-nineWhen it comes to math, in other words, Asians have a built-in advantageFor years, students from China, South Korea, and Japan - outperformed their Western cla
41、ssmates at mathematics, and the typical assumption is that it has something to do with a kind of Asian talent for mathThe differences between the number systems in the East and the West suggest something very different - that being good at math may also be rooted in a groups culture68. What does the
42、 passage mainly talk about?AThe Asian number-naming system helps grasp advanced math skills betterBWestern culture fail to provide their children with adequate number knowledgeCChildren in Western countries have to learn by heart the learning thingsDAsian childrens advantage in math may be sourced f
43、rom their culture69. What makes a Chinese easier to remember a list of numbers than an American?ATheir understanding of numbersBTheir mother tongueCTheir math educationDTheir different IQ70. Asian children can reach answers in basic math functions more quickly because _Athey pronounce the numbers in
44、 a shorter periodBthey practice math from an early ageCEnglish speaking children translate language into numbers firstDAmerican children can only count to 15 at the age of four第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，共10分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。Are you a team person? Are you at your best as part of a sma
45、ll, tightly united group of dedicated workers? If so, the future may hold more for you than you think 71 Thats happening in those areas of business and data processing where one person and a computer can replace a team of workers 72 High technology has led to a new type of teamwork in a number of fi
46、elds, including advertising, scientific research, engineering design, architecture and ocean explorationThrough computer networking, scientists, engineers, and technicians at different locations often thousands of miles apart - can work on the same project at once 73 Examples? An engineering team ca
47、n now design and try out a robot system - a new manufacturing process, or an entire factory before it is builtAn architectural team can do the same with a building or a bridgeA medical team can simulate a dangerous operation before performing it on a patientOf course, computer-assisted team effort d
48、oesnt end with investigation and simulation 74 “CAD-CAM - computer-aided design and manufacture - is breaking down barriers between traditional design and manufacturing functions” explains DrPrakash Rao, an engineering manager at General Electric“Interdisciplinary（跨学科的） teams and engineers follow a
49、product from concept to productionEverything is interconnected like a network” 75 A team that produces robots may use them to explore space and ocean depthsFor high-technology teamwork, the future seems limitlessAThey can exchange ideas, try out different designs, and test their resultsBIt now usual
50、ly continues into actual design, manufacturing, and testingCIn the future, team work will be highlighted by the introduction of new technologyDSometimes, a computer-aided effort can extend beyond productionEBut, elsewhere, teamwork is very much aliveFIt ends in the products which are extensions of the traditional designGHigh technology, some predicted, would make team work a thing of the past参考答案56C 57A 58D 59D 60A 61B 62C 63C 64D 65B66A 67B 68D 69B 70C 71G 72E 73A 74B 75D