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1、阅读理解及七选五专项限时训练三阅读理解（共两节，满分50分）第一节：（共15个小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5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。AIndependence is something that can be difficult to achieve. But dont worry because here we have four books that can help you. If you dont buy less than three of them, youll be given a 20% discou
2、nt!The Total Money Makeover by Dave RamseyTaking care of your finance is hard. Dave Ramsey, a famous businessman, is here to take you on the whole process of planning your finance, and show the myths of cash advances and debt consolidation (债务重整), to make sure your finance is healthy.Price: $14.49Gr
3、aces Guide by Grace HelbigGrace Helbig shared her tips to becoming a grown-up. The book is full of personal stories of Helbig, her struggles and the lessons she learnt from failing many times. This book is your on-the-go fun read with pictures and drawings of Helbig, and worksheets (作记录) to practice
4、.Price: $7.95The Oh She Glows Cookbook by Angela LiddonHaving suffered from eating disorder and living on diet, Angela Liddon promised to eat healthily forever. She threw out her fat-free butter spray (黄油喷雾) and low-calorie frozen dinners after learning how to properly cook. This book contains more
5、than 100 recipes (食谱) covering breakfast, salads, soups, power snacks and the main dishes for a healthy meal at any time of the day. We all know that healthy eating is all part of being independent.Price: $22.22Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl StrayedLife can be hard, especially when it comes to rela
6、tionships with others. In the book, Strayed gives advice on love and life. She writes about different subjects: a son rejected by his parents, a mother who has lost her child. And the message hidden throughout all her advice is always that, if you want a good life, you have to create it.Price: $8.76
7、21. How much will you save at least if you buy three of the listed books?A. $5.68.B. $6.24.C. $8.95.D. $9.10.22. What is special for the book Graces Guide?A. It is about how to grow up healthily.B. It is mainly about how to work better.C. It is based on its authors life experience.D. It teaches read
8、ers to learn from others life stories.23. Which book should you choose for someone who is bad at getting along with others?A. Graces Guide.B. Tiny Beautiful Things.C. The Total Money Makeover.D. The Oh she Glows Cookbook.BTech giants Apple and Google are teaming up to create a system that would let
9、smart phone users know when theyve come into contact with someone who has COVID-19.The technology would rely on the Bluetooth signals that smart phones can both send out and receive 1aperscn tests positive(阳性) for COVID-19, they could inform public health authorities through an app. Those public hea
10、lth apps would then warn anyone whose smart phones bad come tear the infected persons phone in the previous 14 days. The technology could be used on both Google Android phones and Apple iPhones.The companies insist that they will preserve smart phone users privacy and their technology will be used o
11、nly by public health authorities to trace the spread of COVID-19. Smart phone users can choose to use it. The software will not collect data on users physical locations or their personally identifiable information. People who test positive would remain unknown to the public, both to the people who c
12、ame in contact with them and to Apple and Google. “Privacy is of greatest importance in this effort,” the companies said in a joint statement.The American Civil Liberties Union has warmed that using cellphone data to handle the pandemic carries risks of “destruction of privacy”. In a statement on Fr
13、iday, ACLU cyber security counsel Jennifer Granick said, The system also cant work well if people dont trust it”. She said that the joint Apple and Google project “appears to reduce the worst privacy risks, but there is still room for improvement.” She added that the contact tracing app should be us
14、ed only for public health purposes and only for the duration of this pandemic.Public health officials say the contact tracing -finding people who have been in contact with an infected person will be a key step in lifting shelter in-place restrictionsIt would allow people who are known to have been e
15、xposed to the virus to isolate themselves, while letting others recover normal activities.24. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To advertise for public health.B. To introduce a contact tracing system.C. To warn the public of risks of COVID-19.D. To raise peoples awareness of privacy protect
16、ion.25. What do the companies promise to do in particular?A. Warn people who test positive.B. Protect infected peoples privacy.C. Work with public health authorities.D. Collect data on users physical locations.26. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 suggest?A. Public health issues are t
17、raced accurately.B. Only peoples trust influences the system.C. The system is at the risk of being destroyed.D. Jennifer thinks the system should be better.27. The system is mainly designed to .A. ensure infected peoples recoveryB. guarantee peoples normal activitiesC. help prevent the spread of COV
18、ID-19D. encourage all the people to isolate themselvesCThe U.S. Postal Service (USPS) continues to bleed red ink. It reported a net loss of $5.6 billion for fiscal 2016, the 10th straight year its expenses have exceeded revenue. Meanwhile, it has more than $120 billion in unfunded liabilities, mostl
19、y for employee health and retirement costs. There are many bankruptcies. Fundamentally, the USPS is in a historic squeeze between technological change that has permanently decreased demand for its bread-and-butter product, first-class mail, and a regulatory structure that denies management in the fl
20、exibility to adjust its operations to the new reality.And interest groups ranging from postal unions to greeting-card makers exert self-interested pressure on the USPSs ultimate overseer-Congress-insisting that whatever else happens to the Postal Service, aspects of the status quo they depend on get
21、 protected. This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.Now comes word that everyone involvedDemocrats, Republicans, the Postal Service, the unions and the systems heaviest
22、 usershas finally agreed on a plan to fix the system. Legislation is moving through the House that would save USPS an estimated $28.6 billion over five years, which could help pay for new vehicles, among other survival measures. Most of the money would come from a penny-per-letter permanent rate inc
23、rease and from shifting postal retirees into Medicare. The latter step would largely offset the financial burden of annually pre-funding retiree health care, thus addressing a long-standing complaint by the USPS and its union.If it clears the House, this measure would still have to get through the S
24、enatewhere someone is bound to point out that it amounts to the bare, bare minimum necessary to keep the Postal Service afloat, not comprehensive reform. Theres no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agencys costs. A
25、lso missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery. That common-sense change enjoys wide public support and would save the USPS $2 billion per year. But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House. The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign t
26、hat legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS. It is not, however, a sign that theyre getting serious about transforming the postal system for the 21st century.28. The financial problem with the USPS is caused partly by _.A. its unbalanced bu
27、dgetB. its rigid managementC. the cost for technical upgradingD. the withdrawal of bank support29. The long-standing complaint by the USPS and its unions can be addressed by _.A. removing its burden of retiree health careB. making more investment in new vehiclesC. adopting a new rate-increase mechan
28、ismD. attracting more first-class mail users30. In the last paragraph, the author seems to view legislators with _.A. respect B. tolerance C. discontent D. gratitude31. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. The USPS Starts to Miss Its Good Old Days.B. The Postal Service: Kee
29、p Away from My Cheese.C. The USPS: Chronic Illness Requires a Quick Cure.D. The Postal Service Needs More than a Band-Aid.DOne of the classic science-fiction treatments of the end of civilization was The Death of Grass, by John Christopher, in which a mysterious sickness struck down all the grasses
30、on which most of the worlds agriculture is based, from rice to wheat. Tn the end, politics among the survivors of disease, war and famine were reduced to bitter fratricidal struggle over a defensible potato patch. Like most of the so-called comfortable disaster novels, this could be criticized for o
31、ptimism. Depressing as a future of famine and the war of all against all might seem, the consequences were largely limited to humans.However, the threatened extinction of insect populations around the world raises the prospect of a much less general disaster, which would involve plants, birds, fish,
32、 small mammals, and everything else depending on insects. Thats just the start. Other species, and we ourselves, depend on the animals and plants that need insects. When they go, we go. This is not just a greater disaster. Its a much more reasonable one. The most recent study has concluded that inse
33、ct biomass is decreasing around the world at a rate of 2.5% a year. At that rate, half the insects in the world will be gone in 50 years time, and all of them in a century though no one will be keeping track of centuries then.The chief driver of this disaster is unchecked human greed. I spite our in
34、dividual and even collective cleverness, we behave as a species with as little foresight as a colony of nematode worms that will consume everything that it can reach until all is gone and it dies off naturally. The challenge of behaving more intelligently than creatures that have no brain at all wil
35、l not be easy. But unlike the nematodes, we know what to do. The UN convention on biodiversity was signed in 1992, alongside the convention on climate change. Giving it the strength to hold back our appetites is now urgent. Biodiversity is not an optional extra. It is the web that holds all life, in
36、cluding human life.The two main expressions of greed that speed this apocalypse are global warming and industrial agriculture. It appears that most of the damage is being done in the developed world by farming practices. The use of giant fields, lack of shelter for insects of any sort at all, whethe
37、r they are harmful to human interests or not, and where the plants are drenched in long-lasting pesticides, is fatal for uncounted billions of insects. The effects of this kind of forming reach beyond the fields immediately affected, too. There has been a huge loss of aquatic insect species from the
38、 rivers into which the products of industrial agriculture are flushed by rain. Even in German nature reserves, which are by definition protected from the use of pesticides, there have been sleep falls in insect populations because so many of the most widely used ones are persistent and prevent breed
39、ing.32. Which of the following statements about The Death of Grass is true?A. It holds an optimistic attitude towards famine in the future.B. It understates the severity of the disaster facing the world.C. It gives a vivid account of the most serious famine in history.D. It demonstrates how evil hum
40、an nature turns out to be.33. In paragraph 2, the writer mentions the most recent study in order to_.A. prove that the prediction about the great disaster makes senseB. show how soon the insects worldwide will go extinctC. argue for the necessity to protect insect populationsD. suggest a possible ap
41、proach to increasing insect biomass34. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Humans are similar to nematode in that both of them lack foresight.B. We havent done enough about maintaining biodiversity.C. Modem farming is to blame for the threatened extinction of insects.D. Germany sets a good exam
42、ple by minimizing the use of pesticides.35. What will the author probably discuss after the last paragraph?A. How industrial agriculture brings about apocalypse.B. What influence pesticides may have on peoples lives.C. Why insect populations in Germany are on the decline.D. Where unchecked human gre
43、ed can also by spotted.第二节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）根据短文内容，从短文后的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。Scientists andspiritualteachers alike agree that the simple act of smiling can transform you and the world around you. It can make us appear more attractive to others. _36_ So before you read on, slap a nice, ge
44、nuine smile on that face of yours.How Smiling Affects Your BrainThe act of smiling activatesneuralmessaging that benefits your health andhappiness. For starters, smiling activates the release of neuropeptides (神经肽) that work toward fighting offstress. The feel-good neurotransmitters (神经介质) are all r
45、eleased when a smile flashes across your face as well. _37_How Smiling Affects Your BodyYoure actually better-looking when you smile. A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia reported that seeing an attractive, smiling face activates the region in your brain that processes sensory rewards.
46、_38_ It also explains the 2011 findings by researchers at the Face Research Laboratory. They found that both men and women were more attracted to images of people who made eye contact and smiled than those who did not._39_Did you know that your smile is actually contagious (传染性的)? In a Swedish study
47、, subjects were shown pictures of several emotions: joy,anger and surprise. When the picture of someone smiling was presented, the researchers asked the subjects to frown. Instead, they found that the facial expressions went directly to what subjects saw._40_ If they dont, theyre making a conscious
48、effort not to.A. How Smiling Affects Those Around YouB. Each time you smile, you throw a little feel-good party in your brain.C. So if youre smiling at someone, its likely they cant help but smile back.D. And it can even lengthen our lives.E. How Smiling Affects Your Facial ExpressionsF. They not only relax your body, but alsolower your heart rate and blood pressure.G. This suggests that when you view a person smiling, you actually feel rewarded.阅读理解及七选五专项限时训练三参考答案