1、阅读理解。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。Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal.He works 60 hours a week.He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office.Hes been a doctor for ten years.Dr Petrels gives his patients good medical advices.But he doesnt just tell his patients when t
2、o do.He also sings to them on television.Dr Petrels has his own TV show.The show is in Italia，English and French.The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice.He explains a medical problem or disease in simple language.After that，he sings another song.Dr Petrels produces and p
3、erforms in his own show every week.The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.His dream is to perform in Las Vegas.His favorite songs are love songs，and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote.Dr Petrels says，“I always love to sing.All my problems a
4、re gone when I sing.”But when Dr Petrels was young，his father didnt want him to be a singer，so he went to a medical school.Some people tell Dr Petrels he can help people more as a doctor.But Dr Petrels says he helps people when he sings，too.“I like to make people smile.Sometimes its difficult to mak
5、e a sick person smile.Medicine and entertainment (娱乐)both try to do the same thing.They try to make people feel good.”【语篇解读】这篇文章描绘了蒙特利尔一个有趣的医生，他不但给病人治病，还在自己的节目中为病人唱歌，给他们带来欢笑。1Dr Petrels works 60 hours a week，because he_.Agives his patients medical advicesBtakes care of 159 patients a weekCsings on t
6、elevisionDhas his own TV show解析：细节理解题。第一段告诉我们“He takes care of 159 patients a week，所以他每周工作60个小时。答案：B2Why is Dr Petrels called a singing doctor? ABecause he has been a doctor for ten years. BBecause he always loves singing. CBecause he is popular with his patients. DBecause he also sings to his patie
7、nts on TV.解析：细节理解题。由第二段的“He also sings to them on television.”我们可得知他被称为a singing doctor的原因。答案：D3In his TV show，Dr Petrels_. Asings and gives medical advices Bsings about different diseases Cstarts to explain diseases with a song Dsings love songs he wrote解析：细节理解题。根据第二段的“The doctor starts the show wi
8、th a song and then gives medical advice.”我们可以知道Dr Petrels在他的节目中干些什么。答案：A4Dr Petrels show is popular_.Ain Las VegasBat medical schoolCwith people who like his singingDwith patients in Montreal解析：细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.”可推知答案为
9、C。Dr Petrels受欢迎不只限于Las Vegas和他的病人。答案：C5Dr Petrels says he likes to_.Ahelp people sing Bmake people feel betterCdo the same thing Dmake difficult people smile解析：细节理解题。最后一句“They try to make people feel good.”告诉我们Dr Petrels想干什么。答案：B。【四川省凉山州2014第二次诊断性测试】阅读下面五篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Even whil
10、e in a deep sleep, people can still learn brand new information. Sleepers soak innew associations between smells and sounds, knowledge that lingers(逗留）into the next wakingday, researchers report online August 26 in Nature Neuroscience. The new study is the first to show that entirely new information
11、 can get into the sleepingmind, says Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The brain is not passivewhile you sleep. Its quite active. You can do quite a lot of things while you are asleep. But the results dont mean that Spanish vocabulary tapes now have a place on the nightstand.
12、 L,Researchers have tried but largely failed to find evidence that complicated information, such asnew pairs of words, can make its way into the brain during sleep. Instead of trying to teach people something complicated like a new language, Arzi and hercolleagues relied on the sense of smell and he
13、aring. As anyone who has walked by a dumpster（垃圾车）in July knows, smells can cause a nose-jerk reaction. Catching a bad smell automaticallymakes people inhale(吸气)less, reducing the size of the inhale. But。scent of fresh bread causesa long, deep inhale.、rzi and her team took advantage of this reaction
14、 for their experiment. As people slept in the laboratory, the researchers delivered pleasant scent, such as shampoo.As this nice smell got into the sleepers noses, the researchers played a particular music. Later, adisgusting smell, such as rotten fish or meat, was paired with a different music. Nei
15、ther the smellnor the sound woke people up. After just four exposures to the smell-music pair during a singlenight, the sleepers started to automatically respond to the tones without the accompanying smells,taking in bigger breaths when the shampoo-associated tone played and smaller breaths when pla
16、yedthe sound linked to the rotten fish smell. This new learned association lingered into the next waking day, too. Even though the sleepershad no idea they had been exposed to smells or sounds, their behavior proved that their brain hadactually learned something during sleep. As before, the shampoo
17、sound stimulated a long, deepinhale, while the rotten fish tone caused more shallow breaths.43. We can infer from the passage that A. while sleeping, we can learn whatever we want to learn B. we will increase the size of inhale if we catch a pleasant smell C. the knowledge we learned while sleeping
18、will be forgotten in the next waken day D. when walking by a bakery, the fresh bread will cause a nose-jerk reaction44. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. One cant acquire complicated knowledge during the sleeping hours. B. Spanish vocabulary tapes now have a place on the nightstand C. Researchers
19、 have tried to find evidence that the new words can be learned during sleep. D. Complicated information can make its way into the brain during sleep45. How do Arzi and her team do their research? By A. giving instructions B. analyzing human brains C. following the guides of others D. doing experimen
20、ts46. In which part of a website may this passage most likely appear? A. Culture. B. Science. C. History. D. Economy. 【参考答案】4345、BAD 46、B 【四川省凉山州2014第二次诊断性测试】阅读下面五篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Art museums are places where people can learn about various cultures. The increasinglypopular design
21、museums that are opening today, however, perform quite a different role. Unlikemost art museums, the design museum shows objects that are easily found by the general publicThese museums sometimes even place things like fridges and washing machines in the center ofthe hall Pe叩le have argued that desi
22、gn museums are often made use of as advertisements for newindustrial technology. But their role is not simply a matter of sales-it is the honoring ofexcellently invented products. The difference between the window of a department store and theshowcase in a design museum is that the first tries to se
23、ll you something, while the second tellsyou the success of a sale. One advantage of design museums is that they are places where people feel familiar with theexhihits. Unlike the average art museum visitors, design museum visitors seldom feel frightened orpuzzled. This is partly because design museu
24、ms clearly show how and why mass-produced productswork and look as they do, and how design has improved the quality of our lives. Art museumexhibits, on the other hand, would most probably fill visitors with a feeling that there is somethingbetween their understanding. In recent years, several new d
25、esign museums have opened their door. Each of these museumshas tried to satisfy the publics growing interest in the field with new ideas. Londons DesignMuseum, for example, shows a collection of mass-produced objects from Zippo lighters to electrictypewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins. The cho
26、ices open to design museums seem far less strictthan those to art museums, and visitors may also sense the humorous part of our society whilewalking around such exhibits as interesting and unusually attractive toys collected in our everydaylife.47. Showcases in design museums are different from stor
27、e windows because they A. show more technologically advanced products B. help increase the sales of productsC. show why the products have sold well D. attract more people than store windows do48. The author believes that most design museum visitors A. do not admire mass-produced products B. are puzz
28、led with technological exhibits C. dislike exhibits in art museums D. know the exhibits very well49. The choices open to design museums A. are not as strict as those to art museums B, are not aimed to interest the public C. may fail to bring some pleasure to visitors D. often contain precious exhibi
29、ts50. The best title for this passage is“” A. The Forms of Design Museums B. The Exhibits of Design Museums C. The Nature of Design Museums D. The Choices Open to Design Museums【参考答案】4750、CDAC 阅读理解。One might expect that the evergrowing demands of the tourist trade would bring nothing but good for th
30、e countries that receive the holidaymakers. Indeed, a rosy picture is painted for the longterm future of the holiday industry. Every month sees the building of a new hotel somewhere. And every month another rockbound Pacific island is advertised as the last paradise(天堂) on earth. However, the scale
31、and speed of this growth seem set to destroy the very things tourists want to enjoy. In those countries where there was a rush to make quick money out of seaside holidays, overcrowded beaches and the concrete jungles of endless hotels have begun to lose their appeal.Those countries with little exper
32、ience of tourism can suffer most. In recent years, Nepal set out to attract foreign visitors to fund developments in health and education. Its forests, full of wildlife and rare flowers, were offered to tourists as one more untouched paradise. In fact, the nature all too soon felt the effects of tho
33、usands of holidaymakers traveling through the forest land. Ancient tracks became major routes for the walkers, with the consequent exploitation of precious trees and plants.Not only can the environment of a country suffer from the sudden growth of tourism. The people as well rapidly feel its effects
34、. Farmland makes way for hotels, roads and airports; the old way of life goes. The onetime farmer is now the servant of some multinational organization; he is no longer his own master. Once it was his back that bore the pain; now it is his smile that is exploited. No doubt he wonders whether he wasn
35、t happier in his village working his own land.Thankfully, the tourist industry is waking up to the responsibilities it has towards those countries that receive its customers. The protection of wildlife and the creation of national parks go hand in hand with tourist development and in fact obtain fin
36、ancial support from tourist companies. At the same time, tourists are being encouraged to respect not only the countryside they visit but also its people.The way tourism is handled in the next ten years will decide its fate and that of the countries we all want to visit. Their needs and problems are
37、 more important than those of the tourist companies. Increased understanding in planning worldwide tourism can preserve the market for these companies. If not, in a few years time the very things that attract tourists now may well have been destroyed.71What does the author indicate in the last sente
38、nce of Paragraph 1?A. The Pacific island is a paradise. B. The Pacific island is worth visiting.C. The advertisement is not convincing. D. The advertisement is not impressive.72The example of Nepal is used to suggest _A. its natural resources are untouched B. its forests are exploited for farmlandC.
39、 it develops well in health and education D. it suffers from the heavy flow of tourists73What can we learn about the farmers from Paragraph 4?A. They are happy to work their own lands. B. They have to please the tourists for a living.C. They have to struggle for their independence. D. They are proud
40、 of working in multinational organizations.74Which of the following determines the future of tourism?A. The number of tourists. B. The improvement of services.C. The promotion of new products. D. The management of tourism.75The authors attitude towards the development of the tourist industry is _A.
41、optimistic B. doubtful C. objective D. negative【要点综述】 本文主要介绍了旅游业的发展对当地以及环境等方面的影响。71. C考查推理判断。由“Every month sees the building of a new hotel somewhere. And every month another rockbound Pacific island is advertised as the last paradise(天堂) on earth”可知每个月广告上不停地更换所谓的太平洋上某个岛是“地球上最后的天堂”，由此可推出广告是不可信的，故选C项
42、。72. D考查推理判断。由第三段第一、二句“Those countries with little experience of tourism can suffer most. In recent years, Nepal”可知尼泊尔的例子是用来说明其受到旅游的负面影响。73. B考查推理判断。由第四段后几句“The onetime farmer is now the servant of some multinational organization; he is no longer his own master. Once it was his back that bore the pa
43、in; now it is his smile that is exploited. No doubt he wonders whether he wasnt happier in his village working his own land.”曾经的农民成为了某些跨国组织的仆人，自己不再主宰自己的生活，强颜欢笑来取悦游客谋生。74. D考查细节理解。由最后一段第一句“The way tourism is handled in the next ten years will decide its fate”可知旅游业的管理决定其未来。75. C考查观点态度。综观全文可知，作者只是客观地介绍
44、了旅游业发展的相关问题。C52013辽宁卷 -D“Indeed，”George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785, “some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug.When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a
45、century, and Americans had already created lightningbug(萤火虫)But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about
46、a particular activity.Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like.Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bugshaped car. The bug could also be a burglar alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to in
47、stall(安装) an alarm”. Now it means a small piece of equipment that people use for listening secretly to others conversations.Since the 1840s, to bug has long meant“to cheat”， and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design.That meaning dat
48、es back to the time of Thomas Edison.In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product.In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering a bug in his invented recor
49、d player.”68We learn from Paragraph 1 that _AAmericans had difficulty in learning to use the word bugBGeorge Washington was the first person to call an insect a bugCthe word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth centuryDboth Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eight
50、eenth century69What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?AExplanation. BFinding.COrigin. DFault.70The passage is mainly concerned with _Athe misunderstanding of the word bugBthe development of the word bugCthe public views of the word bugDthe special characteristics of the word bug【要点综述】 本文是说明文，主要讲单词bug在意义上的发展变化。68D推理判断题。根据“在1785，华盛顿在日记中使用bug”和“在19和20世纪，英国人停止使用bug”，说明这两国人在18世纪都使用过bug这个词。69D词义猜测题。根据“爱迪生把它解释为小问题或困难”可知，fault和flaw意思相近。70B主旨大意题。文章讲述了bug在意义上的发展。
