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1、word-1-/6 安徽省凤阳县艺荣高复学校 2012 届高三英语阅读理解限时训练5 A For Senior 3 students,choosing which college to attend can be the most exciting and thrillingtime in their entire school livesThis is also true for an American girl named Melanie in the film,College Road Trip,which was released in the US on March 7 Melani
2、es dad,James Porter,is the chief of police for a Chicago suburbIncredibly securityobsessed困扰,he wants Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern University,where shes already beenacceptedBut Melanie,17,really wants to go to Georgetown in Washington,DC,where shes been wait-listed When she gets an unexpect
3、ed interview,she decides to take a road trip with a few close femalefriendsMelanie believes it is her first step toward adulthoodBut despite the fact that this trip is girlsonly,James isnt comfortable with the prospect of his little princess exploring the world without,him He wants to protect her Ja
4、mes joins the girls and hopes he can convince her to go to NorthwesternWhile Melaniesfather only has the best of intentions,his presence leads to an endless series of comic encounters After following their faulty GPS device deep into the backwoods,James and Melanie discoverher little brother and his
5、 pet pig have been hiding in the spare tire compartment隔间 What shouldbe a simple tire change results in the expensive car rolling down a mountain,forcing them to hike to anearby hotelThere the pig ruins an outdoor wedding reception after eating an entire bag of coffeebeans All these disasters add sp
6、ice to their trip while along the way a father and a daughter finally getthe chance to really talk to each other The film explores the parent-child relationship in a comic way:The discrepancy 不同 between how close James thinks he is to Melanie and how little he actually knows of her plans makes us la
7、ughfirst and then think All parents,whether they have college students or not,can relate to the bittersweet realizationthat their kids are growing upLike what Melanie and James have done in the film,we all can find thedelicate balance between staying connected and letting go 41According to the passa
8、ge,which of the following is TRUE?AIts unclear whether Melanie could be accepted by Northwestern University BNorthwestern University isnt so famous as the university in Washington DC CThere is no hope that Melanie will be accepted by the university in Georgetown DMelanies father prefers her to stay
9、not too far away from him 42We can infer from the passage that _ Atheir car rolled down the mountain,ruining the wedding reception Ba hotel was destroyed by Melanies brother and his pet pig CMelanie and her father got to understand each other better after so many encounters word-2-/6 Dthe girls had
10、to give up their trip because of the incidents on the way 43The main purpose of the passage is to_ Aintroduce the newly released film Bcall on parents to learn to balance the relationship with their children Ctell a story which happened between an American girl and her father Dexplore the difference
11、s in parent-child relationship between the west and the east B I look in the mirror,and Im not happy with what I seeI dont have a perfect faceI look in themagazines and all I see are girls with fair hair,blue eyes,and,of course,a-pretty little noseTheyreon the outside of the buses that I take home,t
12、he television programs I watch,and the billboards I walkunderAlmost every advertisement I see shows this human physical perfectionThese billboards notonly tell me what to drink,but also how to look Our society tends to place more importance on a persons physical beauty,rather than their ability,hone
13、sty and characterWe have influenced women to go through painful surgeries and starvethemselves to become this society constructed physical modelTo be a beautiful woman in the 21stcentury doesnt mean that you are a brilliant doctor or caring motherIt means you have the perfectjaw structure,eyes and l
14、ipsIt means that you can be six feet tall and weigh one hundred and tenpounds But what about the women who are starting to leave their youth?Instead of looking at aging as asign of wisdom,we attempt to prevent the aging processIts a kind of funny thing to want to lookeighteen when fiftyFifty is a re
15、laxed age,where you can step back and look at all youve achievedItis when your hard work pays offUnfortunately,our society just sees you as oldTo stop the agingprocess,women buy wrinkle creams,do eye lifts and face liftsThey spend thousands of dollars towin the hopeless battle against age I remember
16、 when I was about thirteen years old and going through teens,I had oily hair,and ahalf developed bodyI hated the way I lookedI used to cry to my mother all the time,but she wouldjust laugh and tell me that you dont want anyone to like your appearanceIts your heart that matters,because beauty fades I
17、 knew that she was rightIf you work on your heart enough,people will startto see the beauty in you,which lasts and remains on even after you die 44The main idea of the first paragraph is that _ Athe author doesnt have a perfect face Bwomen have to look beautiful Cphotos of beautiful girls can be see
18、n everywhere Dthere are too many beauties in daily life 45Whats the authors attitude towards being old?AIts a pity that people have to get old BIts a fruitful and wise time CIts stupid to try to stay youngDIts a pity that society looks down upon the old 46It is _ that regards the physical beauty as
19、more important word-3-/6 Awomen themselves Bthe authors parents Cnewspapers and magazines Dsociety 47Whats the authors opinion about beauty?AThe author doesnt like the beauties our society values BIt is not important whether a person looks beautiful or not CIt is a persons inner qualities that matte
20、r rather than the physical beauty DThe author feels appearance is important to a person C Paris,Jan 11An armored car robbery last night ended in a wild gun battle that left two men dead and one hostage seriously wounded The drama began when an armored car carrying the contents of safe deposit boxes
21、to a bank wasstruck by a large truck,police said The bank guards were helpless when the robbers jumped out of the truck and tied them upThethieves used heavy tools and explosives to break open the armored car A passing police car turned to investigate the accident as the men were removing the conten
22、ts ofthe armored carPolice said the three robbers fled on foot across a nearby highway Stopping a private car driven by a teenager girl,the three headed for central Paris with the policecar in hot pursuit A plainclothes policeman saw the car as it ran down through the street of the Latin QuarterThep
23、oliceman tried to stop the car,but the thieves started shooting at him,witness said The girl hostage tried to slip awayJust as she was crawling away from the car,she was hit by abulletPolice said she was out of danger at Central Hospital The gunmen gave up the car and got into a shop,pouring fire on
24、 more than 50 policemen whohad surrounded the buildingAfter a wild gun-battle,police broke into the roomThey only found twoof the gunmen,both seriously woundedThe third thief was believed to have escaped with over$13million in cash and jewels 48The passage is about _ Aa gun-battle between the police
25、men and the government soldiers Ba bank robbery in Paris Ca group of gunmens robbing an armored car in the street Dhow a teenaged girl got seriously wounded 49The thieves came_and they _ Ain a police car;stole the armored car Bin a truck;broke open the armored car Cin an armored truck;drove the mone
26、y car away Din an armored car;opened the armored car with heavy tools 50The three robbers fled on foot across a nearby highway because_ Aa passing police car found them Bthe explosives were too strong Cthe contains of the armored car were too heavy Dthe truck broke down 51A plainclothes policeman is
27、_ word-4-/6 Anot a policeman but a solider Bnot a policeman but a gunman Ca policeman but he cant use guns Da policeman but he doesnt wear a uniform D Wild elephants that destroy crops and damage trees are a serious problem in many parts of AfricaBut there could be a simple and relatively safe way t
28、o stop them in their tracks,by employing thetalents of the tiny African honeybees The number of elephants in Kenya has risen over the past ten years,with some disastrous resultsNot only do these huge animals attack local farms,but they step someone to death an average of onceevery two weeksNow a bio
29、logist has discovered a possible threat:the elephants are extremely awareof trees that house honeybee hives I am puzzled why nobody has thought of this before,says Fritz Volirath at the University ofOxfordWhen an elephant knocks a beehive he runs and the bees will follow him for miles He saysthat pl
30、acing hives of the honeybees around local farms and fragile habitats could be an effective wayto threaten the animals Volirath put 30 unoccupied and 6 occupied beehives in some of the trees growing on a bushfrequently damaged by elephants on Laikipia Plateau in KenyaOn average the elephants attacked
31、 9out of 10 trees that didnt have hives,severely damaging a quarterBut they steered clear of all sixtrees with occupied hivesThe elephants also left alone one-third of the trees with empty hives,suggesting that some had learnt not to take the risk The bees threaten elephants by stinging vulnerable易受
32、伤 areas such as the eyes,belly,behindthe ears and under the trunkPeople could be at risk from the bees,admits Volirath,but that may beoutweighed by the risk of being killed by an elephantAnother experiment by Volirath shows thatelephants also avoid the sound of angry bees played from a loudspeaker 5
33、2What harm do the wild elephants in Africa do?AKilling people BDamaging beehives CThreatening animals DDestroying villages 53What can we learn from the underlined sentence?AThey ran away from the trees with empty hives on it BThey tried not to touch the trees with hives full of bees CThey kept a dis
34、tance from all the trees with hives on them DThey were clear that all the six trees were occupied by hives 54Whats Voliraths another experiment on this elephants case?ALet bees attack and kill elephants one by one BEncourage bees to sting elephants eyes and ears CUse the bees sound to drive elephant
35、s away DEmploy tiny African honeybees to threaten elephants 55From the passage we can conclude that _ Athere is always one thing to beat another Blittle bees can kill big and wild elephants Cserious problems often come up in Africa word-5-/6 Delephants enjoy attacking people and farms E Everybody is
36、 happy as his pay risesYet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that afellow worker has been given a bigger oneIndeed,if he is known as being lazy,you might even bequite crossSuch behavior is regarded as all too human,with the underlying belief that otheranimals would not be able to have
37、this finely developed sense of sadnessBut a study by SarahBrosnan of Emory University in Atlanta,Georgia,which has Just been published in Nature,suggeststhat it is all too monkey,as well The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeysThey look smartThey are good-natured,co
38、-operative creatures,and they share their food happilyAbove all,likefemale human beings,they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of goods and services thanmales Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnans studyThe researchersspent two years teaching their monkeys t
39、o exchange tokens 奖券 for foodNormally,the monkeyswere happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumberHowever,when two monkeyswere placed in separate and connected rooms,so that each other could observe what the other isgetting in return for its rock,they became quite different In the
40、world of monkeys,grapes are excellent goods and much preferable to cucumbers Sowhen one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token,the second was not willing to handhers over for a mere piece of cucumberAnd if one received a grape without having to provide hertoken in exchange at all,the ot
41、her either shook her own token at the researcher,or refused to acceptthe cucumberIndeed,the mere presence of a grape in the other room without an actual monkey toeat it was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey The researches suggest that these monkeys,like humans,are guided by so
42、cial senses In the wild,they are co-operative and group-living Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animalfeels it is not being cheatedFeelings of anger when unfairly treated,it seems,are not the nature ofhuman beings aloneRefusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings cl
43、ear to otheranimals of the groupHowever,whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeysand humans,or whether it comes from the common roots that they had 35 million years ago,is,as yet,an unanswered question 56According to the passage,which of the following statements is TRUE?AOn
44、ly monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world BWomen will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated CIn the wild,monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other DMonkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes;for grapes are more attractive 57The underlined
45、 statement it is all too monkey means that _ Amonkeys are also angry with lazy fellows Bfeeling bitter at unfairness is also monkeys nature Cmonkeys,like humans,tend to be envious of each other Dno animals other than monkeys can develop such feelings word-6-/6 58Female monkeys of this kind are chose
46、n for the research most probably because they are _ Amore likely to weigh what they get Battentive to researchers instructions Cnice in both appearance and behaviors Dmore ready to help others than their male companions 59Which of the following conclusions is TRUE according to the passage?AHuman bei
47、ngs feelings of anger are developed from the monkeys BIn the research,male monkeys are less likely to exchange food with others CCo-operation between monkeys stays firm before the realization of being cheated DOnly monkeys and humans have the sense of fairness dating back to 35 million years ago 60What can we infer about the monkeys in Sarahs study?AThe monkeys can be trained to develop social senses BThey usually show their feelings openly as humans do CThe monkeys may show their satisfaction with equal treatment DCo-operation among the monkeys remains effective in the wild