1、2014高考英语阅读理解基础训练二轮精品题（3）及答案【2014中原名校联盟一模】BIt can be hard to meet people from another culture. From the beginning, people may send the wrong signal（信号）. Or they may pay no attention to signals from another person who is trying to develop a relationship.Different cultures emphasize （强调）the importance
2、of relationship building to a greater or lesser degree. For example, business in some countries is not possible until there is a relationship of trust. Even with people at work, it is necessary to spend a lot of time in “small talk”, usually over a glass of tea, before they do any job. In many Europ
3、ean countries-like the UK or Francepeople find it easier to build up a lasting working relationship at restaurants or cafes rather than at the office.Talk and silence may also be different in some cultures. I once made a speech in Thailand. I had expected my speech to be a success and start a lively
4、 discussion; instead there was an uncomfortable silence. The people present just stared at me and smiled. After getting to know their ways better, I realized that they thought I was talking too much. In my own culture, we express meaning mainly through words, but people there sometimes feel too many
5、 words are unnecessary.Even within Northern Europe, cultural differences can cause serious problems. Certainly, English and German cultures share similar values; however, Germans prefer to get down to business more quickly. We think that they are rude. In fact, this is just because one culture start
6、s discussions and makes decisions more quickly.People from different parts of the world have different values, and sometimes these values are quite against each other. However, if we can understand them better, a multicultural environment（多元文化环境）will offer a wonderful chance for us to learn from eac
7、h other.60. In some countries, eating together at restaurants may make it easier for people to _.A. keep each other company B. share the same Culture C. get to know each other D. develop closer relations61. The author mentions his experience in Thailand to show that _. A. even talk and silence can b
8、e culturally different B. too many words are of no use C. people from Thailand are quiet and shy by nature D. the English prefer to make long speeches62. According to the text, how can people from different cultures understand each other better? A. By sharing different ways of life. B. By recognizin
9、g different values. C. By accepting different habits. D. By speaking each others languages.63. What would be the best title for the text? A. Multicultural Environment. B. How to Understand Each Other. C. Cross-Cultural Differences. D. How to Build Up a Relationship.【参考答案】 60-63、D A B C 阅读理解-C Succes
10、s does not belong to a select group of individuals; success belongs to those who are willing to go after it. Success belongs to those who are willing to look fear in the face, eyeball to eyeball, and then do what they have to do. Success belongs to those who realize that there is something more impo
11、rtant than their fear.“Desire is the key to motivation.” Desire is the longing to achieve a vision; without desire you have nothing. If youve lost your vision, or if your desire is not strong, work to clarify your vision, use pictures, write the vision down. Habakkuk said, “Write the vision, and mak
12、e it plain, ” Before you can run with desire, your vision must be plain, it must be clear, it must be exciting.“Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.” You cant get your dream job, if youre scared to turn in an application. You wont get the sale, if you dont try. Showing up doesnt guarant
13、ee success, but rest assured if you dont show up, you wont succeed. When it comes to your dreams, and the things you desire to achieve in this life, you have to show up.Thomas J. Watson said, “Would you like me to give you a formula（公式）for success? Its quite simple, really. Double your rate of failu
14、re. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isnt at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember thats where you will find success.” Never fear failure, it is failure that will bring you success
15、. Embrace failure, become a student of failure, learn from failure, and soon you will succeed.Success is not about doing what the average person cant do, its about doing what the average person is unwilling to do. And on a deeper level, its about creating habits that the average person is unwilling
16、to create. Its the habit of doing things with excellence that cause success. Success is the enjoyment of the journey. You have to enjoy the journey!Someone once said, “Unless you change how you are, you will always have what youve got.” You have to changeyou will change, you will succeed.11. If you
17、want to succeed, you should _.A. make efforts to achieve itB. be a special personC. face it with fearD. do everything important12. Whats Habakkuks opinion?A. We should make our aims common.B. We should set up a clear target.C. We should have motivation.D. Desire is the key to motivation. 13. The mai
18、n idea of the third paragraph is that _. A. success needs showing upB. 70% of people can succeedC. you should show your hopeD. you should fight for success14. Thomas J. Watson encourages us to _.A. retire from failure B. escape from failureC. make double mistakesD. grow from failure15. Which is the
19、best title of the passage? _.A. Success and Failure B. Keys to SuccessC. Several Critical Steps to Success D. Importance of Success【参考答案】1115、ABADC D The Tibetan Plateau(青藏高原) is the worlds highest place. Its four times the size of France and home to most of the worlds highest mountains.As you might
20、 expect, its cold there. And it may be that the deep chill of the Tibetan Plateau played a role in the evolution of some of the worlds most charismatic(魅力十足的) animals.Thats the belief of a scientist who discovered the skull of a woolly rhino(长毛犀) on the Tibetan Plateau.The woolly rhino two tons, two
21、 tusks, lots of hair and lots of attitude was an Ice Age giant. It lived with other Ice Age beasts in Europe and Asia, starting about 2.5 million years ago.But Xiaoming Wang, from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was shocked when he found a 3.5-million-year-old rhino skull(头骨化石) on
22、the Tibetan Plateau. It caught us by complete surprise that they are actually up in the high plateau well before the Ice Age has started, Wang says.Thats about a million years before the Ice Age started, in fact. Wang thinks his discovery shows that at least some animals were prepared for the Ice Ag
23、e. At least in the case of the woolly rhino, it actually adapted itself in the cold environment in the Tibetan Plateau before the Ice Age has even started, Wang says. The animal actually used its head to sweep snow, Wang explains, so they can get at the vegetation below the snow cover. So Wang think
24、s the Plateau was a sort of evolutionary cradle(摇篮) for cold-weather animals. When the rest of the world eventually iced up, they moved out of Tibet and took over.Anthony Barnosky, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, says even now, these isolated cradles are important for evo
25、lution(进化).The interesting thing, Barnosky says, is on Earth today we have biodiversity(生物多样性) isolated in certain spots, and we just never know which of those isolated places will be the cradle of evolution for the next big environmental change coming down the pike(出现).The only problem is that to b
26、e ready, you have to know what the next environment will be like. Or just be very lucky.16. The underlined word chill in Para.2 could be replaced as _.A. hole B. coldC. shape D. lake17. Which is NOTtrue about the woolly rhinos(长毛犀) on the Tibetan Plateau?A. They were Ice Age giants with two tusks, l
27、ots of hair and lots of attitude. B. They had lived on the Tibetan Plateau before the Ice Age has started.C. They were able to sweep snow with their heads.D. They hardly adapted themselves in the cold environment.18. What did Anthony Barnosky think of the isolated cradles ?A. They adapted the cold w
28、eather.B. They played an important role in evolution.C. It was hard to know whether they would change.D. It was luck to change the next big environmental.19. The research might appear in the .A. journal science B. newspaper C. English textbook D. blog20. From the passage, we can infer that _.A. Faci
29、ng the cold, the animals continuously evolvedB. Xiaoming Wang works in the USAC. Both Wang and Barnosky are paleontologistsD. A Chinese scientist discovered the skull of a woolly rhino【参考答案】1620、BDBAA 【2014中原名校联盟一模】CWhen you dont have anything planned for the day or its rainy outside and your childr
30、en are stuck in the house, why not sit around and tell them riddles? Telling riddles will make your family laugh and sometimes even scratch their heads, trying to figure out what the answer is.Riddles have been a pastime for centuries. Not only have riddles been something for passing the time, but t
31、hey have also been used to pass on secret information during the Second World War. Even the ancient Greeks used riddles. They would tell riddles at parties and whoever was the first to get them right would receive prize.Most riddles use words that have double meanings or share the same sound like “h
32、ear” and “here”. So in order to get the riddle, you will have to do some creative thinking and think of all the possibilities of different words. The difficulty of figuring out the riddle is based on the riddle itself. The riddle has to provide you with enough clues to come to the right answer, but
33、that doesnt mean that the clues have to be easy.If you are looking to tell riddles but dont know any, you can look online and you will find a large number of sites that will have hundreds of different riddles to choose from. If you would like to look somewhere else then you could look at your local
34、bookstore, where you will be able to find many different books with thousands of riddles to choose from. You can even find websites and books that will tell you how to write your own riddles.After you have found some resources that have different riddles, you will need to read through them to find t
35、he right ones for you and your family: You will also need to make sure that your kids will have a chance to figure out the answers. So take your time and choose the fight family riddles to tell.64. What is the authors main purpose in writing the text? A. To recommend an interesting family activity.
36、B. To stress the importance of family activities. C. To encourage children to read more books. D. To introduce the history of riddles.65. From the text we know that riddles _. A. do not have enough clues B. have a very long history C. were used in World War One D. were first used in ancient Rome66.
37、In Paragraph 3, the author mainly _. A. discusses how riddles are created B. explains why fiddles are interesting C. tells people how to solve riddles D. shows the benefits of telling riddles67. To collect riddles, the author suggests _.A. one way B. two ways C. three ways D. four ways【参考答案】64-67、AB
38、CB 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A.B.C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AWhen Josephine Cooper was growing up, she learned the importance of charity from her parents. Although they made a modest living for their family of 10, they insisted on sharing with those less fortunate.Half a century later, Mrs Cooper became a beloved
39、volunteer at the San Diego Food Bank, where she devoted herself to helping others. She organized and ran a distribution center from a church, helping it become the organizations largest emergency food distribution center in San Diego. She was one of 25 outstanding senior volunteers in the nation sel
40、ected and invited to Washington D.C. to receive the award. “She was the main person who helped us make that program grow,” said Mike Doody, former director of the Food Bank. “She had a way of getting people to work together and to work hard. She was determined and stubborn, but in a good way. She ha
41、d a good heart.” People knew her as “Grandma” because of her selflessness and her devotion to helping hungry children and families. “She reminded people of their Grandma.” Doody said.As a widow with a young child in 1979, Mrs. Cooper was helped through a difficult financial time when the Food Bank p
42、rovided her with groceries. “She dedicated her life to giving back,” said her daughter, Monica Cooper. It wasnt unusual for a local church to call Mrs Cooper to ask her to aid a needy family. “She would give people food out of her cupboard. Sometimes we would cook a meal for a family living out of t
43、heir can,” Cooper said.Although Mrs Cooper was honored to receive the national award for her volunteer work, she said being able to help others was her reward. She died of liver disease and kidney failure, aged 93.4. What can we learn about Mrs Cooper?A. She lived a miserable life. B. She refused the national award.C. She was kind and devoted. D. She was difficult to get along with.5. Mrs Coopers story suggests that .A. everyone needs a Grandma nearby B. a sound mind is in a sound body C. children are what their parents are D. a mothers love never changes【参考答案】15、BADCC
