2013高考英语（常熟市）考前冲刺精选：阅读理解（4）及答案

2013高考英语（常熟市）考前冲刺精选：阅读理解（4）及答案
D
TODAY, Friday, November 12
JAZZ with the Mike Thomas Jazz Band at The Derby Arms. Upper Richmond Road West, Sheen.
DISCO Satin Sounds Disco. Free at The Lord Napier, Mort lake High St., from 8a. m. to 8p. m. Tel: 682—1158.
SATURDAY, November 13
JAZZ Lysis at The Bull’s Head, Barnes. Admission 60p.
MUSICAL HALL at The Star and Garter, Lower Richmond Road, Putney, provided by the Aba Daba Music Hall company. Good food and entertainment fair price. Tel: 789—6749.
FAMILY night out Join the sing-along at The Black Horse. Sheen Road, Richmond.
JAZZ The John Bennett Big Band at The Bull’s Head, Barnes. Admission 80p.
THE DERBY ARMS, Upper Richmond Road West, give you Joe on the electric accordion(手风琴). Tel: 789—4536
SUNDAY, November 14
DISCO Satin Sounds Disco, free at The Lord Napier, Mort Lake High Street, from 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.
FOLK MUSIC at The Derby Arms. The Short Stuff and residents the Norman Chop Trio. Non-remembers 70p. Tel: 688—4626.
HEAVY MUSIC with Tony Simon at The Bull, Upper Richmond Road West, East Sheen.
THE DERBY ARMS, Upper Richmond Road West, give you Joe on the electric accordion.
68. Where and when can you hear the Norman Chop Trio
A. At the Bull’s Head on Sunday. B. At the Derby Arms on Sunday.
C. At the Bull on Saturday. D. At the Black Horse on Saturday.
69. Where and when can you hear the Mike Thomas Jazz Band
A. At the Derby Arms on Friday. B. At the Black Horse on Friday.
C. At the Star and Garter on Saturday. D. At the Derby Arms on Sunday.
70. You want to enjoy the electric accordion on Saturday. Which telephone number do you have to ring to find out what time it starts
A. 789—6749. B. 789—4536. C. 682—1158. D. 688—4626.
71. You want to spend the Saturday by joining the entertainment with your family. Where should you go
A. Disco at The Lord Napier. B. The sing-along at The Black Horse.
C. The electric accordion at The Derby Arms. D. Jazz at The Bull’s Head.
参考答案 68-71 BABB
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B
Peanuts to This
Proudly reading my words, I glanced around the room, only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes. Confused, I glanced toward my stone-faced teacher. Having no choice, I slowly raised the report I had slaved over, hoping to hide myself. “What could be causing everyone to act this way ”
Quickly, I flashed back to the day Miss Lancelot gave me the task. This was the first real talk I received in my new school. It seemed simple: go on the Internet and find information about a man named George Washington. Since my idea of history came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before. As I searched the name of this fellow, it became evident that there were two people bearing the same name who looked completely different! One invented hundreds of uses for peanuts, while the other led some sort of army across America. I stared at the screen, wondering which one my teacher meant. I called my grandfather for a golden piece of advice; flip (掷) a coin. Heads—the commander, and tails—the peanuts guy. Ah! Tails, my report would be about the great man who invented peanut butter, George Washington Carver.
Weeks later, standing before this unfriendly mass, I was totally lost. Oh well, I lowered the paper and sat down at my desk, burning to find out what I had done wrong. As a classmate began his report, it all became clear, “My report is on George Washington, the man who started the American Revolution.” The whole world became quite! How could I know that she meant that George Washington
Obviously, my grade was awful. Heartbroken but fearless, I decided to turn this around. I talked to Miss Lancelot, but she insisted: No re-dos; no new grade. I felt that the punishment was not justified, and I believed I deserved a second chance. Consequently, I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year. Ten months later, that chance unfolded as I found myself sitting in the headmaster’s office with my grandfather, now having an entirely different conversation. I smiled and flashed back to the embarrassing moment at the beginning of the year as the headmaster informed me of my option to skip the sixth grade. Justice is sweet!
60. What did the author’s classmates think about his report
A. Controversial. B. Ridiculous.
C. Boring. D. Puzzling.
61. Why was the author confused about the task
A. He was unfamiliar with American history.
B. He followed the advice and flipped a coin.
C. He forgot his teacher’s instruction.
D. He was new at the school.
62. The underlined word “burning” in Para. 3 probably means _______.
A. annoyed B. ashamed
C. ready D. eager
63.In the end, the author turned things around _______.
A. by redoing his task
B. through his own efforts
C. with the help of his grandfather
D. under the guidance of his headmaster
【答案及解析】
60.B B. ridiculous 可笑的。第一段中only to find my classmates bearing big smiles on their faces and tears in their eyes.
61.A 第二段中 Since my idea of history came from an ancient teacher in my home country, I had never heard of that name before.
62.D I lowed down the paper and sat down at my desk,我不知道发生了什么，所以在我发言后，希望知道为什么大家如此反应的原因，即eager to find out what I had done wrong.
63.B 第四段中Consequently, I threw myself heartily into my work for the rest of the school year.
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C
Decision-making under Stress
A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.
The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.
“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”
For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn’t gone through the stress.
This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress –at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.
The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.
Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.
This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.
64. We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to ______.
A. keep rewards better in their memory
B. recall consequences more effortlessly
C. make risky decisions more frequently
D. learn a subject more effectively
65. According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their ______.
A. ways of making choices B. preference for pleasure
C. tolerance of punishments D. responses to suggestions
66.The research has proved that in a stressful situation, ______.
A. women find it easier to fall into certain habits
B. men have a greater tendency to slow down
C. women focus more on outcomes
D. men are more likely to take risks
【答案及解析】
64.A 第一段中，acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative consequences of a decision,可知压力下的人们经常会keep rewards better in their memory.
65.A 第二段中，The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.
66.D 第七段中，Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way.可以看出是男性在压力下更容易冒险。
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E
Nature responds to climate change. To understand it, we need to monitor key life cycle events—flowering, the appearance of leaves, the first frog calls of the spring -all around the world．But scientists can’t be everywhere so they’re turning to non-scientists, some times called citizen scientists, for help．
A group of scientists and educators set up an organization last year called the National Phenology Network．“Phenology” is what scientists call the study of the timing of events in nature．
One of the group’s first efforts depends on scientists and non-scientists alike to collect data about plant flowering and leafing every year．The program, called Project BudBurst, collects life cycle data on different kinds of usual plants from across the United States．
“People don’t have to be plant experts — they just have to look around and see what’s in their neighborhood,” says Jennifer Schwartz, an adviser with the project．“As we collect this data, we’ll be able to predict how plants and communities of plants and animals will respond as the climate changes．”
That data will help scientists predict not only how natural communities may change but also how these changes will affect people．
Scientists monitoring lilac flowering in the western United States reported that in years when lilacs bloomed early — before May 20th — wildfires later in the summer and fall are larger and more severe．Lilac blooming could serve as an alarm bell, Jennifer says.
Improved monitoring is an important step toward predicting how natural communities will respond to climate change．
“The best way for us to increase our knowledge of how plants and animals are responding to climate change is to increase the amount of data we have,” he says．“That’s why we need citizen scientists to get as much information from as many places on as many species over as long a time period as we can．”
72．The National Phenology Network is set up to ______．
A．research how nature makes response to climate change
B．keep a record of what is happening in nature
C．make a study of the first frog calls of the spring
D．judge what plants will die out in the future
73．The task of Project BudBurst is to ______．
A．grow more plants to improve the climate
B．collect information about usual plants
C．make citizens tell different plants
D．find out how many kinds of plants there are in America
74．By saying “Lilac blooming could serve as an alarm bell” in Para 6, Jennifer meant ______.
A．lilac flowers could make people feel anxious or afraid
B．lilacs could warn people of the danger of wildlife
C．the blooming of lilacs could predict the happeningg of wildfires
D．the flowers of lilacs could be used to wake people up
75．The main idea of this passage is ______．
A．why we need to collect data about nature
B．when an alarm bell sounds for nature
C．what citizen scientists are in America
D．how nature responds to climate change
参考答案
72-75 ABCD
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