1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家2011年12月份百题精练（2）英语试题第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWhen Paul was a boy growing up in Utah，he happened to live near a copper smelter（炼铜厂），and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to he a beautiful forest. One d
2、ay a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. Paul knocked him down. From then on，something happened inside him.Years later Paul was back in the area，and he went to the smelter office. He asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. The
3、 answer from that big industry was“No”.Paul then went to college to study the science of plants. Unfortunately，his teachers said there werent any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. It would be a waste of his life to try to do it. Everyone knew that，he was told. Even if he was knowledgeable as h
4、e had expected，he wouldnt get his idea acceptedPaul later got married and had some kids. But his dream would not die. And then one night he did what he could with what he had. As Samuel Johnson wrote，“It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. Attainable good
5、 is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges.”Under the cover of darkness，he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.And every week，he made his secret journey into the wasteland and planted trees and grass. For fifteen years he did this against the plain common sense. Slowly rabbit
6、s appeared. Later，as there was legal pressure to clean up the environment，the company actually hired Paul to do what he was already doing.Now the place is fourteen thousand acres of trees and grass and bushes，and Paul has received almost every environmental award Utah has. It took him until his hair
7、 turned white，but he managed to keep that impossible vow he made to himself as a child.51When Paul was a boy，_.Ahe had decided never to leave his hometownBthe economy of Utah depended wholly on the copper smelterCno laws were made to protect the environment against pollutionDhe had determined to sto
8、p the copper smelter polluting the area52Why did Paul go to college to study the science of plants?AHe wanted to find out the best way to save the area himself.BHe was interested in planting trees since he was young.CHe wanted to get more knowledgeable people to help him.DHe thought his knowledge wo
9、uld make his advice more persuasive.53The underlined phrase “the plain common sense” probable means that .AIt was impossible for trees to grow on the wastelandBHis normal work and life would be greatly affectedCNo one would like to join him in the effortsDHe had to keep everything he did secret54The
10、 message of the passage is that _.Aaction speaks louder than wordsBperseverance will work wondersCGod helps those who help themselvesDmany hands make light workBSTEVE Wayne, 16, who worked this summer as a lifeguard and swim teacher in Idaho Falls, was thrilled to see an extra $20 in his paycheck wh
11、en the federal minimum wage increased in July. “When youre getting paid minimum wage, anything helps, ” Wayne said.Wayne is one of several hundred thousand American teenagers who earn the minimum wage. The last of three recent increases that took the minimum from $5.15 an hour in 2007 to $7.25.U.S.
12、Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis says the minimum-wage increase will pump an extra $5.5 billion into the economy over the next year, which is helpful at a time when the economy is hurting. Youre giving people who spend money a raise, said Kai Filion of the Economic Policy Institute. Those people will
13、go out and spend that money, and it will circulate through the economy.But other economists say raising the minimum wage actually hurts the very people its designed to help. A higher hourly minimum, they say, could force businesses to cut workers hours, or even lay people off. What matters for peopl
14、e earning minimum wage is how much money they take home, in total, in their paycheck, explains Rajeev of Georgia State Universitys Economic Forecasting Center. Their hourly rate may go up, but their number of hours may come down, so its not an overall increase. Business owners also say that raising
15、the minimum wage exerts（施加）upward pressure on other wages. If the minimum wage is $7 and I have to pay $8 or $9 to hire a dishwasher, then the cooks are going to say they want more, sayd Cleveland restaurant owner Rick. How much can I charge for that hamburger?Another argument is that it makes it mo
16、re expensive for businesses to hire new workers. For many businesses already struggling to make ends meet in these tough times, it will be simply too expensive to keep them or to hire new people.55Steve Wayne was excited that .Ahis hard work had paid offBhe had received a big wage increaseChe has mo
17、re money due to an increase in minimum wageDthe wages of American teenage workers have been increased56According to the text, the US federal government has increased minimum wage with the aim of . Adecreasing unemploymentBpromoting economic recoveryCincreasing American teenagers wageDnarrowing the g
18、ap between the rich and the poor57What matters most to people in need of help is .Aa higher hourly minimumBmore working hoursCa minimum-wage increaseDan increase in total income58Some are against the increase in minimum wage because they say .Aonly very few workers will be helpedBthey have to cut do
19、wn working hoursCmany business owners cant afford to employ new workersDminimum wage workers will expect more pay rises in the futureCWarning: reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may damage her emotional health in later life. A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitiv
20、e psychotherapy in Gothenburg suggests a link between the attitudes of women abused by their parents and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. It says girls who identified with Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to say in destructive relationships as
21、adults.The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith, a psychotherapist at the University of Derby. She interviewed 67 female abuse survivors and found that 61 put up with serial abuse because they believed they could change their partners and with patience, composition and love. Hardly any of the
22、women in a control group, who had not experienced abuse, thought they could change their partners in this way.These women and men said they would leave a relationship rather than put up with abuse from a partner. Ms Darker Smith found the abused women were much more likely to identify with Cinderell
23、a and other submissive female characters in fairytales, who were later rescued by a stranger prince or hero.Although most girls heard the stories, damage appeared to be done to those who adopted the submissive characters as role models. “They believe if their love is strong enough they can change th
24、eir parents behaviors, she said.” Overexposure in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can damage their partners.” For example, they might never have understood the obvious flaw(缺点) in the story of Rapunzel, who remained locked in a hi
25、gh tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse, who broke the door down. “The question,” said Ms Darker Smith, “is why she did not break the door down herself.”59The passage is especially intended for _. Aparents with young daughters Bgirls who like reading fairy stories Cgirls who think they c
26、an change their partners Dparents with grown-up daughters60Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast are similar in that _. Athey all married some princes Bthey all changed their partners with love Cthey were all abused by their partners Dthey all put up with abuse61Which of the follow
27、ing statements is true of the women in a control group? AThey dont believe in fairy tales. BThey dont believe in the transformational qualities of love. CThey have also experienced abuse. DThey survived abuse.62What does the underlined word “submissive” in the 3rd paragraph probably mean? Akind-hear
28、ted Bpassive Cgentle Deasy-goingDThe days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting to protect those animals which still survive.Some people say that Man is
29、 naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely our earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will
30、 admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offer
31、s a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourse
32、lf.The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives. One of them wrote: “You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animals own territory(领地). You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day.This is
33、better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals. Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your peopl
34、e.”I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tigershoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The socalled hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs o
35、f trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.63There is no more hunting in India now partly because_.Ait is dangerous to hunt thereBhunting is already out of dateChunters want to protect animalsDthere are few animals left to hunt64The author thinks modern hunters
36、 kill mainly .Ato make the countryside safeBto earn peoples admirationCto gain power and influenceDto improve their thelth65What do we learn about the big-game hunters?AThey hunt old animalsBThey mistreat animalsCThey hunt for foodDThey hunt for money66What is the authors view on the tiger-shoots he
37、 has seen?AModern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-faceBModern hunters should use more advanced weaponsCModern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigersDModern hunters should put their safety firstEThe global financial crisis is likely to cause increased mental health problems and even
38、suicides（自杀）as people struggle to deal with poverty and unemployment, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are already affected by mental problems such as depression and bipolar disorders (带狂躁的抑郁症) and the current market meltdown (崩溃) could worsen fe
39、elings of despair among people who cant stand such illnesses.The United Nations agency said the impact could be especially marked for those living in low and middle income countries where access to treatment is often limited. “We should not be surprised at the turbulence (动荡) and likely consequences
40、 of the current financial crisis. Now we are seeing a huge gap in taking care of people in great need,” WHO director general Margaret Chan told at a meeting of mental health experts. “It should not come as a surprise that we continue to see more stresses, suicides and mental disorders,” Chan warned.
41、 Ben Saraceno, director of WHOs mental health, said mental health disorders affected one in four people at some point in their lives. Mental and neurological disorders are often chronic (慢性的) and disabling, he said. Nearly 1 million people commit suicide worldwide every year, a large proportion (比例)
42、 of them are young adults.Asked about the financial crisis, Saraceno said, “Poverty can be the consequence of such events, the debts, despair and sense of loss that may reach middle and lower classes. Even the poor can be affected by this crisis.”“There is a clear evidence that suicide is linked to
43、financial disasters. I am not talking about the millionaires jumping out of the window but about poor people,” he said. The global crisis could be expected to affect the “stability（稳定）of communities and families”, according to Saraceno.67According to the passage, the chief result of the worldwide fi
44、nancial crisis is that _ . Amore people will be poorer Bmore people will be out of jobsCmore people will suffer from mental problems Dmore people will commit suicide68The United Nations agency worried that_. Amore rich people would commit suicideBthe financial crisis might especially influence devel
45、oping or underdeveloped countriesCthe current market meltdown could worsen feelings of despairDhundreds of millions of people in the world were already affected by mental problems69It is implied that _. Afar more work should be done to help those who are mentally illBit will be surprising to see mor
46、e people commit suicideCa mental disorder is a chronic diseaseDmany more adults commit suicide worldwide than people of other ages70The best title for the passage is _. AConsequences of Global Financial Crisis.BMental Disorders Resulting From Global Financial Crisis.CSuicides as a Result of Market Meltdown.DChronic Mental Disorders.参考答案5154 CDAB 5558 CBDC 5962 ADBB 6366 DBCA 6770 CBAB- 6 - 版权所有高考资源网
