湖南平江县2016高考英语阅读理解二轮演练附学科答案（6份打包）

湖南平江县2016高考英语阅读理解二轮演练附学科答案
2016高考英语****阅读理解。
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。
“Yes, I’ll be re ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ady at nine in the morning. Goodbye, dear, and thanks again.” It had not been an easy telephone call for Mrs. Robson to make. Her daughter had been very kind, of course, and had immediately agreed to pick her up and drive her to the station, but Mrs. Robson hated to admit that she needed help. Since her husband died ten years ago, she had prided herself on her independence. She had continued to live in their little house, alone.
This evening, ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) however, she was standing at her living-room window, staring out at the SOLD notice in the small front garden. Her feelings were mixed. Of course, she was sad at the thought of leaving the house, as it was full of so many memories. But at the same time she was looking forward to spending her last years near the sea, back in the little seaside town where she had been born. With the money from the sale of the house, she had bought a little flat there. She turned from the living room window, and looked round at the room. One or two pieces of furniture remained, covered with sheet. All her pictures had been taken from the walls. There was a small fish tank, with two goldfish in it. When asked why, her husband used to say: “It’s nice to have something alive in the room.” Since he had passed away, she had always kept some goldfish, and always had “something alive in the room”.
The next morning, ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) as her train was pulling out of the station, Mrs. Robson called to her daughter, “Kate, you won’t forget to collect the goldfish, will you The children will love them. It’s…”
“I know,” Kate ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) interrupted gently. “It’s nice to have something alive in the room.” But in the little house, the two goldfish had stopped their circling. They were floating on the water, in the room with silent walls.
8. According to the passage, we know that Mrs. Robson ________.
A. was a person who liked to be alone
B. was not able to help herself
C. did not like asking people for help
D. wanted to live without her husband
9. On her last nigh ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t in the house, Mrs. Robson was feeling __________.
A. a bit sad but not totally unhappy
B. happy but unable to help herself
C. proud and sad
D. in poor spirits
10. Mrs. Robson was going to __________.
A. be in hospital B. live with her daughter
C. meet her husband D. live where she was born
11. The little house meant a lot to Mrs. Robson because________.
A. it was full of pets and plants
B. many friends and relatives visited it
C. it had a long and unforgettable history
D. an important part of her life was spent there
参考答案8-11 CADD
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Rivers may be a signi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ficant source of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (一氧化二氮), scientists now find.
Their calcul ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ation suggests that across the globe the waterways contribute three times the amount of nitrous oxide to the atmosphere as had been estimated by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations scientific body charged with reviewing climate change research. They found that the amount of nitrous oxide produced in streams is related to human activities that release nitrogen (氮) into the environment, such as fertilizer use and sewage discharges.
“Human activities, inc ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )luding fossil fuel combustion and intensive agriculture, have increased the availability of nitrogen in the environment,” said Jake Beaulieu of the University of Notre Dame and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, Ohio, and lead author of the paper published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Much of this n ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )itrogen is transported into river and stream networks,” Beaulieu said. There, microbes (微生物) convert the nitrogen into nitrous oxide (also called laughing gas) and an inert gas called dinitrogen (二氮).
The finding is impor ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )tant, the researchers say, because nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change and destruction of the stratosphere’s ozone layer, which protects us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet (紫外线) radiation. Compared with carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide is 300-fold more powerful in terms of its warming potential, though carbon dioxide is a far more common greenhouse gas. Scientists estimate nitrous oxide accounts for about 6 percent of human-induced climate change.
Beaulieu and col ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )leagues measured nitrous oxide production rates in 72 streams. When summed across the globe, the results showed rivers and streams are the source of at least 10 percent of human-caused nitrous oxide emissions to the atmosphere.
“Changes in a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )gricultural and land-use practices that result in less nitrogen being delivered to streams would reduce nitrous oxide emissions from river networks,” Beaulieu said.
1. From the second paragraph we can learn　　　.
A. actually rivers give off much more nitrous oxide than expected
B. scientists’ calculation is totally wrong
C. human activities release nitrous oxide in to the rivers
D. there is no nitrogen in fertilizer
2. Which of the following is NOT the source of nitrogen
A. Fertilizer use. B. Sewage discharges.
C. Fossil fuel combustion. D. Climate change.
3. Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas because　　　.
A. it can protect us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation
B. it is to blame for most of human-induced climate change
C. it is a far more common greenhouse gas
D. it has much more warming potential than carbon dioxide
4. What does the passage mainly tells us
A. Rivers may be a source of the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
B. It’s human activities that release nitrogen into the environment.
C. How to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from river networks
D What to do with the climate change caused by nitrous oxide.
【参考答案】1—4、ADDA　　
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。
【2014模拟】阅读理解
Directions: Read t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )he following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.。
We have entere ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )d a new age of embedded(嵌入式的), intuitive(直觉的) computing in which our homes, cars, stores, farms, and factories have the ability to think, sense, understand, and respond to our needs. It’s not science fiction, but the dawn of a new age.
Most people might not ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) realize it yet, but we are already feeling the impact of what’s known as the third wave of computing. In small but significant ways it is helping us live healthier and more secure lives. If you drive a 2014 Mercedes Benz, for example, an “intelligent” system tries to keep you from hitting a pedestrian. A farmer in Nigeria relies on weather sensors that communicate with his mobile device. Forgot your medicine A new pill bottle from AdhereTech reminds you through text or automatic phone messages that it’s time to take a pill.
Technology is ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )being integrated(融入) into our natural behaviors, with real-time data connecting our physical and digital worlds. With this dramatic shift in our relationship to technology, companies can adapt their products and services.
To understand h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ow revolutionary the third wave is, we ought to consider how far we have come. The first wave began when companies started to manage their operations through mainframe computer systems over 50 years ago. Then computing got “personal” in the 1980s and the 1990s with the introduction of the PC (personal computer). For the most part, computing remained immobile and lacked contextual awareness.
In computing’s sec ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ond wave, mobile computing and the smartphone took center stage. Billions of people, some of whom might not have had access to clean water, electricity, or even housing, were connected. Developers created applications and provided consumers with access to just about everything through their phone at the cost of a monthly data plan.
As the third wave ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) keeps developing, designers must meet the demands of consumers who want to experiment with new technology.
Historically, designe ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rs have focused their attention on a product’s form and function. While that still matters, of course, the definition of a meaningful user experience has expanded significantly and will continue to do so. Instead of creating a single product, designers will need to imagine a series of connected products and services that have awareness of each other and their surroundings.
74. Why are three examples given in Paragraph 2
A. To tell us that human beings are smarter and smarter.
B. To illustrate the importance and necessity of technology.
C. To prove that we are living healthier and more secure lives.
D. To show the impact of the third wave of computing on our life.
75. In the first wave of computing _____.
A. companies’ operations were reliable on computer systems
B. computing had awareness of people’s needs in the context
C. people could have access to computing almost everywhere
D. it was possible for people to experience computing at home
76. Which of the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )following is a situation in the third wave of computing
A. There’s no need to create a single product.
B. The definition of the user experience is more significant.
C. Products and services are not independent of each other.
D. The products’ form and functions are no longer important.
77. What can we con ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )clude from the passage about the new age we are facing
A. There’s a shi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ft of attention from people’s physical worlds to their digital worlds.
B. There’s closer ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )relationship between technology and people’s natural behaviours.
C. People liv ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e more happily with the convenience brought by advanced technology.
D. People become lazie ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )r with the products that can think and respond to their needs.
【参考答案】73. A 74. D 75. D 76. C 77. B
【2014高考英语湖北省汉阳市联考试题】E.
If you live in Amer ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ica in the 21st century you'll probably have to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It's become the default response when you ask anyone how they are doing: “Busy!” “Crazy busy!”. It is, pretty obviously, a boast disguised as a complaint. And the common response is a kind of congratulation:“ That's a good problem to have, ”or“ Better than the opposite.”
Notice it isn't g ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )enerally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the ICU or commuting by bus to three minimum-wage jobs who tell you how busy they are. What those people are is not busy but tired. Exhausted! Dead on their feet. It's almost always people whose busyness is purely self-imposed work and obligations they've taken on voluntarily, classes and activities they've “encouraged” their kids to participate in. They're busy because of their own ambition or drive or anxiety, because they're addicted to busyness and dread that they might have to face in its absence.
Almost everyone I ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )know is busy. They feel anxious and guilty when they aren't either working or doing something to promote their work. It's something they have chosen. Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance(令人安心的保证），a measure against emptiness, obviously your life cannot possibly be silly or tiny or meaningless if you are so busy, completely booked, in demand every hour of the day.
Idleness is not jus ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t a vacation. It is as necessary to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as ugly as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration.” Idle dreaming is often the essence of what we do”, wrote Thomas Pynchon. Archimedes' “Eureka” in the bath, Newton's apple :history is full of stories of inspirations that come in idle moments.
67. When many Americans say “Crazy busy”, they mean______.
A. they are really tired of their present situation
B. they are really proud of their present life
C. they are complaining about their current work
D. their life are full of all kinds of problems
The writer ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )mentions Archimedes'“Eureka” and Newton's apple to show that________.
A. history is full of interesting stories
B. Archimedes and N ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ewton were very busy, so they made great discoveries
C. people may get inspiration when they are idle
D. inspirations come from hard work
The word “its” in the second paragraph refers to_________________.
ambition B. anxiety C. busyness D. dread
From the article, we can infer that ___________________.
generally people pulling back-to-back shifts in the ICU tell you
they are busy
“Dead on their feet” means “being tired out”
all the kids are self-imposed due to the drive and motivation
The author seems to agree that idleness is better than busyness
【参考答案】67—70、ＢＣＣＢ
【2014高考英语广东省佛山市质测试题】A
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My first ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )wife and I only had one child. It might have been nice to have more. I would have liked a son, but we just had Carmen.
I see h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )er as my best friend. I think she always comes to me first if she has a problem. We have the same sense of humour and share many interests, except that she's crazy about animals, obsessed with them-she has always had dogs, cats, and horses in her life.
We were ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) closest when she was about four, which I think is a wonderful age for a child. That's when they need their parents most. But as soon as Carmen went to school, she seemed to grow up and grow apart from her family, and any father finds it difficult with a teenage daughter. She was very moody and had an odd group of friends. There was an endless stream of strange young men coming to our house. I remember once got annoyed with her in front of her friends and she didn't talk to me for days.
I've always wanted ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) the best for her. We sent her to a good school, but she wasn't happy there. She left because she wanted to become an actress, so with my connections I got her into a drama school, but she didn't like that either. She worked for a while doing small roles in films, but she must have found it boring although she never really said why. She got married a few years ago, her husband's a vet. They must be happy because they work together, and she loves animals.
We have the sam ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e tastes in books and music. When she was younger, I used to take her to the opera-that's my passion-but she can't have liked it very much because she hasn't come with me for years. I don't think she goes to the cinema or watches TV much. She might watch my films, but I don't know. It's not the kind of thing she talks to me about.
I'm very pleased t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )o have Carmen. She's a good daughter, but I don't think she likes my new wife very much because she doesn't visit us very often. I'm looking forward to being a grandfather one day. I hope she'll have a son.
26. Which is TRUE about the author according to the passage
A. He is disappointed with his first wife.
B. His daughter treats him as her best friend.
C. He and Carmen don't have much in common.
D. He doesn't seem to be an animal lover.
27. What does the author think of getting along with his daughter
A. It's easier for him to get along with her when she was 4.
B. He couldn't take care of her after she went to school.
C. He tried very hard to get along well with her friends.
D. He once got very angry because she didn't talk to him.
28. By saying "wanted the best for her", the author means that_____.
A. he had done everything he could for Carmen
B. he was sad when Carmen wasn't happy at school
C. he never asked Carmen why she gave up drama
D. he was pleased that Carmen married her husband
29. What can ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )be inferred about the author and Carmen from Paragraph 5
A. They were both interested in books and music and opera.
B. The author greatly influenced her daughter's hobbies.
C. The author was probably a famous TV presenter.
D. The author didn't know much about Carmen's hobbies.
30. According to the author, Carmen was_____.
A. grate ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ful to her father B. quite lazy at school
C. happy to get m ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )arried D. eager to have a son
【参考答案】DAADC湖南平江县2016高考英语阅读理解演练附答案
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It's hard to f ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ind Alice Munro in the media．Even after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of 8ight．On Dec 29, she still didn't seek the spotlight（聚光灯）when she was named one of the rive Women of the Year by the Financial Times．
In Munro ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )'s eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas． So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people, She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which 8he is most familiar with．She writes about the ordinary things in the village－fox forming;, trees felled in the Ontario wilderness, poor country achool8 and long last illnesses．Above all, she talk8 about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune．
She has a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) special talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary． These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic． Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting．
Runaway, one ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) of Munro's representative works, is a good example of her writing style．One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband Clark．The story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decide8 to flee．The story of Carla is a story of the power and betrayals of love．It is about lost children and l08t chance8 that we can all find in life, There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart．
Since she publis ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )hed her first collection of 8hort stories in 1968, Munro has won many a wards, with the Nobel Prize being her bigge8t honor．On Oct 10, 2013, the Nobel Prize commit-tee named Munro the "master of the contemporary short story"．
1．We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice Munro
A．didn't get on well with the media
B．was 8urprised at winning the Nobel Prize
C．didn't value the title of Women of the Year
D．remained modest though very successful
2．Many of Alice Munro's works
A．focus on everyday life of ordinary people
B．are about betrayals of love and violence
C．center on the happy life of country women
D．are romantic stories setting in her hometown
3．What makes Alice Munro's stories fascinating according to the text
A．The complicated plots． B．Her writing techniques．
C．The humorous language． D．Her rich imagination．
4．In her representative work Run．away, Carla
A．leads a happy life with Clark
B．is a faithful wife to her husband
C．tries to run away from her husband
D．loses all hopes for a better life
5．What is the text mainly about
A．Alice Munro and her hometown． B．The awards Alice Munro won．
C．Alice Munro's literary life． D．Alice Munro and her writing style．
【参考答案】1—5、DABCA
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【2014高考英语模拟冲刺卷】
Below is a selection from a science report.
Even facts “forgott ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )en” by people during a busy day may be got back again if this is followed by a good night's sleep. Researchers fr ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )om the University of Chicago asked volunteers to remember simple words. Many found their memories letting them down towards the end of the day, but the following morning, those who had slept well could remember much more. 　　Researchers, w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )riting in the journal Nature, said the brain could “rescue” lost memories during the night. 　　When the brain is f ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )irst asked to remember something, that memory is laid down in an “unstable” state, which means it is possible that it could be lost. At some point, t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )he brain consolidates (强化) those which are thought important into a “stable”, more permanent state. However, the C ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )hicago researchers suggested that it was possible for a “stable” memory to be made “unstable” again. This would mean that memories could be slightly changed and then be kept in a new order again in the face of new experiences. 　　The 12 volunte ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ers who were tested in the experiment were asked to listen to words created through a speech synthesizer (语音合成器) which were purposely difficult to understand. 　　At the very begin ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ning, the written version of the word was available, but afterwards the volunteers were asked to identify the word just depending on the sound they heard. Tests showed that th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e ability to remember the right word tended to weaken as the day ended. However, when the volunteers were retested after a good night's sleep, they were able to recall some words that they had “forgotten” the previous evening. Dr Daniel, one ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )of the study authors, said “Sleep strengthens memories, protecting them against later interference (干扰) or decay (衰减).”　　“Sleep also a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ppears to ‘recover’ or restore memories.” He said “If the function of memory is reduced by decay, sleep might actively recover what has been lost.” 　　Dr Karim Nader, from ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) the Department of Psychology in McGill University in Montreal, said “Memory research is experiencing a transformation -- no longer is memory thought to be a hardware of the brain, instead it seems to be a process of storage and re-storage. Sleep helps some memories ‘fully grown up’ and also removes unimportant memories.”
46. What tends to hap ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )pen to a person at the end of the day according to the report
A. He may feel tired. B. He may feel sleepy.
C. His memory weakens. D. His brain stops working.
47. What can be kept in one’s memory more permanently
A. Something first remembered by the brain.
B. Something considered to be important by the brain.
C. Something reviewed by the brain during the night.
D. Something appearing in the brain last.
48. Which of ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) the following is the correct order of what the volunteers did in the experiment
a. distinguished words simply by their sounds
b. recalled the words they had heard at different times of the day
c. recalled the words they had heard the next morning
d. distinguished words by their sounds and their written version
A. abcd B. dacb C. bdca D. dabc
49. From the report we can learn that ______.
A. memory differs ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )from person to person B. good memory happens in the early morning
C. sleep affects memory D. memory fails at the end of a day
Passage B
【语篇解读】本文为科普文。文章通过对一个实验的介绍说明良好的睡眠有助于恢复“已忘”的记忆。
46．C．【解析】事实细节题。文中第二及第九段中均有说明。
47．B．【解析】事实细节题。文中第五段有具体说明。
48．D．【解析】事实细节题。根据文章对实验的描述可知。
49．C．【解析】主旨大意题。结合全文可知作者想要告诉读者的是“睡眠影响记忆”。
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。
【2014高考英语第二次联考试题】
A growi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ng number of Chinese are keeping their cash in their wallets this Lunar New Year as the traditional exchange of red packets of money is moving from the physical world into the digital space.
The trad ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ition of giving cash gifts of “lucky money” (“hong bao” in Chinese) goes back centuries and can be particularly profitable for the young and the unmarried. As the country increasingly adopts online business and e-commerce models, tradition is taking a back seat to convenience as more and more lucky money receivers prefer to receive their money via electronic means. A recent study conducted by Shanghai-based Avanti Rhesearch Partner showed that 58% of respondents (调查对象) preferred their hong bao directly deposited into their accounts.
The ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )country is becoming increasingly connected --- over 90% of 18 to 30 year olds in China own an Internet-connected smart phone, according to a Global Times survey published last year.
Of course, ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) China’s Internet giants have not been slow to capitalize on this trend, with Shenzhen-based Tencent last week launching their “New Year Red Envelope” app (应用程序), an add-on to its popular WeChat messaging service. The company’s over 600 million WeChat users can send each other lucky money, provided both the sender and receiver have signed up to the company’s in-app payment service.
“I am really h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )appy that I can use a new and fashionable way to send my holiday greetings to my family and friends, especially for people who have kids but live far away from us.” said Mr. Cheng, a user of the service.
The servic ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e reportedly banked 18 million RMB ($2.9 million) worth of transfers (转账) in its first 24 hours, according to a report in the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper.
While Tencen ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t’s rival Alibaba also has a similar service, called Hong Bao, which launched last year, WeChat’s app allows users to randomly distribute up to 200 yuan ($33) within a group of friends, adding a fun element of unpredictability to the process.
Some analysts ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) believe that linking the payments to WeChat’s in-app payment service could be a game-changer, as it simplifies the process of paying for micro dealings, potentially making users more likely to make in-app purchases in the future.
“The ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) tradition of giving red packets is a symbolic gesture,” said Steve Wang, Chief Economist, Reorient Group. “It’s a new way to get people more comfortable dealing with money online, to expand their user base. It combines the old and the new, and is a great example of the kind of creative idea that we’re seeing come out of China these days.”
55. What is the main idea of the passage
A. The competition for the online business is increasing.
B. New Year luck money goes online.
C. Electronic commerce has changed the way of trade.
D. The tradition of giving lucky money is out of fashion.
pared to the Alibaba’s Hong Bao service, WeChat’s app _______.
A. can send lucky money to any friend of the users quickly
B. links the messaging service and payment service together
C. perm ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )its the users to distribute money in a friend circle randomly
D. is more unpredictable during the process of money transfer
57. Some analysts think _______.
A. WeChat’s app makes online payment easier
B. Tencent has beaten Alibaba in online business
C. Exchanging red packets online is a new game
D. Users of Wechat’s app can make more friends
58. In the opinion of Steve Wang, _______.
A. it’s a creative way to send lucky money via electronic means
B. sending money to others makes people uncomfortable
C. sending red packets is a symbol of friendliness
D. WeChat’s app is more useful to parents than to kids
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【2014高考英语湖北省襄阳市统考试题】E
A single tumor（肿瘤 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )）can be made up of many separate cancers needing different treatments, say researchers．
A team at t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )he Institute of Cancer Research, London, has developed a new technique for measuring the diversity within a cancer． They showed "extraordinary" differences between cancerous cells and say traditional drugs may fail as they may be unable to kill all the mutated （突变）tissue．Experts said the f'mdings would have "far-reaching effects" for treatments．
A tumor starts ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )as a single cell, which acquires mutations and eventually divides uncontrollably．But that is not the end of the process． Cancerous cells continue to mutate and become more aggressive, move round the body and resist drugs． This process is disordered and results in a "diverse" tumor containing cancerous cells that have mutated in different ways．
"This h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )as huge implications for medicine," researcher Prof Mel Greaves told the BBC． His team at the Institute of Cancer Research investigated cancer diversity in five children with leukemia．They compared mutations in individual cancerous cells with a known database of mutations．Their results, published in the journal Genome Research, showed patients had between 2 and 10 genetically distinct leukemia．Prof Greaves said:"Every patient doesn't have one cancer, they have multiple cancers． This is really a technical advance to get at this extraordinary complex diversity; it helps explain why we have such difficulty with advanced diseases．"
Scientist ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )s compare cancer diversity to a tree． The initial mutations the trunk will be common to all cancer cells． But then the tumor branches out． It means a treatment that targets one "branch" or sub-clone of the cancer might slow the disease, but they will never stop it． Prof Charles Swanton, who researches diversity at the University College London Cancer Institute, told the BBC:"We call it pruning（修剪） the branches not cutting down the tree; treatment will remove some of the sub-clones, but cutting down the tree is hard to do． The bottom line is that we need to understand cancer diversity to limit further adaptations, reduce the pace of evolution and prolong the activity of drugs．"
67． Why do the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )traditional drugs have no effects on treatment of cancer？
A． They are worsening the condition．
B． They are u ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )nable to kill the constantly changing cancerous cells．
C． It takes a long time for them to have effects．
D． They are not powerful enough．
68． From paragraph 3, we can know that ．
A． mutation takes place in body in order
B． the process of mutation comes to an end soon
C． the mutations are out of control eventuaily
D． cancerous cells mutate in the same way
69． Scientists compare cancer diversity to a tree because ．
A． cancers develop quickly just like a tree
B． treating cancers is as difficult as cutting down a tree
C． tumor needs nutrition when mutating
D． new tumor will come out during the mutating process
70． The passage mainly talks about ．
A． the tumor is constantly mutating in different ways
B． cancer is impossible to treat
C． a new drug for cancer will be on sale
D． why cancers resist drugs
【参考答案】67-70：BCDA湖南平江县2016高考英语阅读理解二轮演练附答案
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【2014高考英语综合能力测试题】
Some are born gr ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )eat. Some achieve greatness. Some have greatness come up to them. We can at least think of two youngsters who have achieved greatness. One is Sachin Tendulkar. He first competed for India in test cricket(板球对抗赛) when he was sixteen. He is hailed as the boy wonder of Mumbai.
The other is Kut ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )raleeswaran, the child genius from Chennai who created waves as a swimmer. He was born in the year 1981. Kutraleeswaran took to swimming when he was in Grade Two. He was drawn to Marina. He started practising in the sea. He used to swim for hours. The first event he participated in was known as the "Rippon Meet". He won his first medal and moved to higher levels of competition. Soon he started participating invarious long-distance swimming competitions across the world.
Kutraleeswaran ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) swam across the English Channel. That was his first cross-country swimming. He swam across the Palk Strait at a very young age. He reached the top of his career when he swam six waterways in the same calendar year. That was how his name and picture got into The Guinness Book of World Records. He instantly became popular. He was invited by many countries. He visited England, Australia, Turkey and Italy.
He owes his suc ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )cess to two things: practice and perseverance. Here is an interesting incident. When Kutraleeswaran went to Italy in 1994, the government officials were impressed by his performance. They offered Kutraleeswaran all training facilities and asked him to represent their country. He declined the offer politely because he was an Indian through and through.
36. The underlined ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )word "hailed" in Paragraph I most probably means"______".
A. asked B. hired
C. admired D. criticized
37. It was _______and practice that made Kutraleeswaran succeed.
A. ability B. bravery
C. luck D. perseverance
38. Why did Kutraleeswaran refuse the offer in Italy
A. Because he loved India.
B. Because he was an Italian.
C. Because his wife was an Indian.
D. Because his wife was from Italy.
39. How is the passage organized
A. Topic - Argument - Explanation
B. Topic- Examples - Conclusion
C. Introduction- Comparison- Discussion
D. Introduction- Examples - Explanation
40. Which statemen ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t about Kutraleeswaran is NOT true according to Paragraph 3
A. He became famous immediately.
B. He swam across the English Channel.
C. He appeared in The Guinness Book of World Records.
D. He went to many countries like England, China and so on.
【参考答案】36-40 CDADD
有些人是天生非凡，有些人则是靠后天达成，而有些人是不得不强大。本文所讲述的两位小伙子属于第二类。
36. C。词义猜测题。根据上下文语境和第一段最后一句中的“wonder”可以猜测出答案。
37. D。细节理解题。根据最 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )后一段的He owes his success to two things: practice and perseverance.可以得知。
38. A。推理判断题。根据 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )最后一段的...because he was an Indian through and through.得知。
39. D。文章结构题。第一段总起，继而介绍了两个案例，后面则是对案例二Kutraleeswaran的具体说明。
40. D。细节推理题。根据第三段He v ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )isited England, Australia, Turkey and Italy.可知答案。
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According to the US g ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )overnment, wind farms off the Pacific coast could produce 900 gigawatts of electricity every year. Unfortunately, the water there is far too deep for even the tallest windmills (see picture) to touch bottom. An experiment under way off the coast of Norway, however, could help put them anywhere.
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The project, called ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )Hywind, is the world’s first large-scale deepwater wind turbine (涡轮发电机). Although it uses a fairly standard 152-ton, 2. 3-megawatt turbine, Hywind represents totally new technology. The turbine will be fixed 213 feet above the water on a floating spar(see picture), a technology Hywind’s creator, the Norwegian company StatoilHydro, has developed recently. The steel spar, which is filled with stones and goes 328 feet below the sea surface, will be tied to the ocean floor by three cables (缆索); these will keep the spar stable and prevent the turbine from moving up and down in the waves. Hywind’s stability (稳定性) in the cold and rough sea would prove that even the deepest corners of the ocean are suitable for wind power. If all goes according to plan, the turbine will start producing electricity six miles off the coast of southwestern Norway as early as September.
To produce ele ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ctricity on a large scale, a commercial wind farm will have to use bigger turbines than Hywind does, but it’s difficult enough to balance such a large turbine so high on a floating spar in the middle of the ocean. To make that turbine heavier, the whole spar’s centre of gravity must be moved much closer to the ocean’s surface. To do that, the company plans to design a new kind of wind turbine, one whose gearbox (变速箱) sits at sea level rather than behind the blades (see picture).
Hywind is a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )test run, but the benefits for perfecting floating wind-farm technology could be extremely large. Out at sea, the wind is often stronger and steadier than close to shore, where all existing offshore windmills are planted. Deep-sea farms are invisible from land, which helps overcome the windmill-as-eyesore objection. If the technology catches on, it will open up vast areas of the planet’s surface to one of the best low-carbon power sources available.
1. The Hywin ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )d project uses totally new technology to ensure the stability of　　　.　
A. the cables which tie the spar to the ocean floor
B. the spar which is floating in deep-sea water
C. the blades driven by strong and steady sea wind
D. the stones filled in the spar below the sea surface
2. To balance a bigge ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )r turbine high on a floating spar, a new type of turbine is to be designed with its gearbox sitting　　　.　
A. on the sea floor　　　　B. on the spar top　　　　
C. at sea level　　　　 D. behind the blades
3. Wide applications of deepwater wind power technology can　　　.　
A. solve the technical problems of deepwater windmills
B. make financial profits by producing more turbines
C. settle the arguments about environmental problems
D. explore low-carbon power resources available at sea
【参考答案】1-3 BCD　
【2014高考英语陕西省一模联考试题】A
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( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )The Father-Daughter Duel shifted into high gear ( 档位) when you taught me to drive the old Dodge and I decided I would drive the '54 Chevy whether you liked it or not. The police officer who sent me home, after you reported the Chevy stolen, didn't have much tolerance for a stub born 16 year old, while you were so tolerant about it, Dad, and I think that was probably what made it the worst night of my life.
Our relationship gre ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )atly improved when I married a man you liked, and things really turned around when we began making babies right and left. Somewhere along the line, the generation gap disappeared. I suppose I saw us and our relationship as aging together, rather like a fine wine.
But the stranges ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t thing happened last week. I was at a stop sign and I watched as you turned the corner in your car. It didn't immediately occur to me that it was you because the man driving looked so elderly and fragile behind the wheel of that huge car. It was rather like a slap in the face delivered from out of nowhere. Perhaps I saw your age for the first time that day.
I guess what I'm tryi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ng to say, Dad, is what every son and daughter wants to say to their Dad today. Honoring a father on Father's Day is about respect and sharing and acceptance and tolerance and giving and taking. It's about loving someone more than words can say, and it's wishing that never had to end.
I love you, Dad.
Love,
Jenny
46.How did Jenny pro ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )bably feel on the night she was sent home by the police
A. Disappointed. B. Nervous. C. Guilty. D. Frightened.
47. We can learn from the passage that Jenny and her father_________.
A. kept in touch by writing each other
B. are separated due to the generation gap
C. have been getting along very well
D. had a hard time understanding each other
48. Why did Jenny feel strange when she saw her father last week .
A. She seldom saw him driving that huge car.
B.She had never realized his being old and weak.
C. She didn't expect to meet with him there.
D.She had never seen him driving so slowly before.
49. Jenny wrote his father this letter to _________
A. tell him about t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )heir conflicts B. say sorry for her being stubborn
C. express her gratitude to him D. remind him of the early incident
【参考答案】CDBC
【2014高考英语陕西省一模联考试题】B.
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By Lee Bierer
50. What is the author’s main purpose in writing the article
A. To explain where to find scholarships for US colleges.
B. To inform readers of the scholarship application process.
C. To introduce some typical scholarships offered by US colleges.
D. To give tips on applying for US college scholarships.
51. If you want to lea ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rn about past recipients of a scholarship, you can use __.
A. www.
B. the annual scholarship guidebooks published by Peterson’s
C. the websites of the organizations sponsoring the scholarships
D.The Ultimate Schola ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rship Book: Billions of Dollars in Scholarships, Grants and Prizes
52. The under ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )lined word “dazzle” in Paragraph 7 is closest in meaning to ___.
A. influence B. impress C. guide D. present
53. To increase your c ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )hance of winning a scholarship, you are advised to ____.
A. apply for as many scholarships as you can
B. tell an interesting story in your essay
C. do a similar interview to help you prepare for the real one
D. have a talk with past recipients and try to talk like they do
【参考答案】DCBC湖南平江县2016高考英语二轮阅读理解演练附参考答案
2016高考英语****阅读理解。
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Scientists in Mexico ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) have just begun a new study of one of the world’s biggest pyramids: the Pyramid of the Sun, north of Mexico City. They’re putting lots of small, high-tech machines under the pyramid to try to unlock some of its secrets. For thousands of years, people have tried to uncover the secrets of the pyramids.
The people who built ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )the pyramids made lots of secret doors and rooms to stop robbers from finding the treasures inside. However, there always have been some smart thieves in history. Now, almost all of Egypt’s pyramids have been robbed, including the Great Pyramid of Khufu, which is the largest pyramid in the world. It is the only one of the ancient wonders of the world that is still standing.
In AD 820, an Arab ki ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ng named Abdullah AL Manum got a group of workers to dig their way into the Great Pyramid and have a look. Inside the pyramid, they found three rooms—the Queen’s Chamber, the Grand Gallery and the King’s Chamber. But to their surprise, the men didn’t find the treasures they wanted. The Queen’s and King’s Chambers were both empty! Where were the King’s mummy and his treasures Had someone already taken them away The huge stone doors at the pyramid’s entrance were still closed when AL Manum’s men went inside. How had the thieves got in and out
Since then, m ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )any people have gone inside the Great Pyramid to have a look or to try to take things. But still, no other chambers or walkways have been found.
In 2002, an America ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )n team made the most recent visit to the Great Pyramid. Scientists sent a robot into the pyramid, but they only found a mysterious locked stone door.
12. The first two paragraphs were written to show that ____.
A. ancient Egyptian emperors were cruel
B. the Pyramid of the Sun is an unusual historic building
C. construction workers led a hard life in ancient Egypt
D. the secrets of the pyramids remain to be uncovered
13. What is the p ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )urpose of making some secret doors to the pyramids _______.
A. To try to unlock some of its secrets
B. To stop robbers from finding the treasures inside
C. To refuse some visitors all over the world into it
D. To tell the truth to the people in the future
14. Which of the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )following is NOT true to the Great Pyramid of Khufu ______.
A. It is the largest pyramid in the world.
B. It is the only ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) one of the ancient wonders that is still standing.
C. Abdul ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )lah AL Manum took the King’s mummy and his treasures away
D. Scie ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ntists found a mysterious locked stone door to the Great Pyramid
15. What would be the best title for the text
A. The Pyramid of the Sun
B. The Great Pyramid of Khufu
C. A Mysterious Locked Stone Door
D. Unlocking the Doors of History of the Pyramid
参考答案12-15 DBCD
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Rainforest is home ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )to around two-thirds of all plant and animal species found on land—in addition to millions of people who depend on them for survival—our remaining ancient forests are some of the most diverse ecosystems known to science. They are also vitally important to the health of our planet, especially when it comes to regulating the climate. But ancient forests around the world are under attack.
Protecting rainfore ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )sts is on the global agenda (议事日程) in a big way. Governments now recognize the importance of protecting tropical forests in order to avoid dangerous climate change, and there is now much debate. As governments try to thrash out the details of a new international agreement, expected to be signed at the end of 2009, they are discussing how best to include measures to save rainforests, and therefore address one of the major causes of climate change. Worldwide, forest destruction causes more greenhouse gas emissions (排放) each year than do all the trains, planes and cars on the planet. So if we are to deal with global warming, there is an urgent need to find ways to reduce the 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by forest destruction each year, and to keep the remaining forests standing.
We need to protec ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t the planet’s remaining forests not only to stop climate change from getting worse, but to ensure that we can stand the impacts of global warming. Healthy forests absorb and store quantities of carbon, helping to regulate temperature and generate rain. When they are destroyed, this carbon is released into the atmosphere. Thus keeping forests standing is both a critical part of regulating climate change and of adapting to a warmer world.
To date, most of the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) talk has focused on how to pay for reducing deforestation (滥伐森林), rather than on how to actually go about doing it. We believe governments need to support local people to protect their environment, as we have been showing for 20 years can be a very effective way of saving rainforests.
1. The best title for the passage is　　　.
A. Rainforest and ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )Climate Change B. Strategies on Protecting Rainforest
C. Serious Deforest ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ation to Rainforest D. Present Situation of Rainforest
2. From the first paragraph we can infer that　　　.
A. we have little rainforest left until now
B. the ancient forests are being destroyed
C. rainforest control the planet in many ways
D. Rainforest is home to all plants and animals on earth
3. The underlin ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ed part “thrash out” in the second paragraph means　　　.
A. try to understand　　　　B. come up with　　　　
C. hide away　　　　 D. have a thorough discussion
4. Greenhouse gas emissions caused by forest destruction　　　.
A. are the same amount by transport on earth
B. take 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions
C. can be avoided by setting measures only
D. have nothing to do with climate change
5. From the text we can learn that healthy forest　　　.
A. can keep us healthy and happy
B. can increase the effect from global warming
C. can be helpful in adjusting the temperature
D. can give out large amounts of carbon
【参考答案】1—5、ABDBC　　
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Like many other small ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) boys, I was fascinated by cars, especially because my oldest brother was a bit of a car guy and subscribed to cool magazines like Car and Driver and Motor Trend. Every so often, one of those magazines would run an article on the “Car of the Future”. They featured unconventional things like small nuclear reactors as power sources. Yet, frankly, my car doesn’t do anything that my brother’s Studebaker didn’t do. It goes, it stops, it burns gasoline. I still have to steer it, and it still runs into things if I don’t steer it carefully.
But guess what ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) All of these things are likely to change in the not-so-distant future. It may not burn gasoline, I may not have to steer it, and it may be a lot better at not running into things.
Airbags aren’t the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )be-all and end-all in safety. In fact, considering the recent news about people occasionally being killed by their airbags in low-speed crashes, they obviously still need some development. But they aren’t going away, and in fact, you can expect to see cars appearing with additional, side-impact airbags, something some European car manufacturers already offer.
Better than systems ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) to minimize injury in the event of an accident, however, are systems that minimize the likelihood of an accident happening in the first place Future cars may be able to remove many of the major causes of accidents, including drunk-driving, and tailgating (与前车距离过近). Cars could be equipped with sensors that can detect alcohol in a driver’s system and prevent the car from being started, for example. As early as next year, you’ll be able to buy cars with radar-equipped control systems. If the radar determines you’re closing too quickly with the car in front, it will ease up on the throttle（油门）.
Scientists are now w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )orking on a system that can brake, accelerate and steer a vehicle down a highway on its own. Will cars eventually be able to drive themselves
66. The author was fascinated by cars because ________.
A. other small boys liked to own a car of their own, too
B. he read untraditional things about cars in his brother’s magazines
C. his oldest brother loved to take him to places in his car
D. he often booked cool car magazines himself
67. By saying “my car ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )doesn’t do anything that my brother’s Studebaker didn’t do”, the author means that ________.
A. my car is far better than my brother’s
B. my car is not as good as my brother’s
C. much improvement has been made in the design of cars recently
D. not much has changed in the performance of cars so far
68. Which of the following statements is true of airbags
A. They are going to disappear gradually.
B. They are in need of further improvement.
C. They are a standard feature of European cars.
D. They kill people instead of protecting them in low-speed crashes.
69. According to t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )he author, what will future cars do if the sensors detect alcohol in the driver’s system
A. They will not start. B. They will ease up on the throttle.
C. They will brake ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )automatically. D. They will give a warning in advance.
【参考答案】66. B 67. D 68. B 69. A
【2014高考英语湖北省汉阳市联考试题】C.
400-year-old plants ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )from the Little Ice Age were brought back to life, which could help us understand how the Earth will deal with climate change.
Moss(藓类植物) found ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )buried beneath the Teardrop glacier(冰川) on Ellesmere Island in Canada has been brought back to life. Findings suggest that these plants could help repopulate regions exposed by melting ice caps. Plants that were buried beneath thick ice in Canada more than 400 years ago and were thought to have frozen to death have been brought back to life by Canadian scientists.
Samples of the mos ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )s plant, covered by the glacier during the Little Ice Age of 1550 to 1850 AD, were replanted in a lab at the University of Alberta and grew new stems(茎). Researchers now think these findings can give indication as to how regions can recover as the ice covering them melts.
Biologist Dr. Cathe ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rine La Farge and her team at the University of Alberta were exploring the region around the Teardrop glacier on Ellesmere Island. Ice on Ellesmere Island region has been melting at around four meters each year for the past nine years. This means that many areas of land that were previously covered by ice have since been exposed. Many ecosystems that were thought to have been destroyed during the Little Ice Age between 1550 and 1850 AD can now be studied, including many species that have never been studied before.
While examinin ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )g an exposed area of land, La Farge and her team discovered a small area of moss called Aulacomnium turgidum. It is a type of bryophyte(苔藓类植物) plant that mainly grows across Canada, the US and the Highlands of Scotland.
Dr La Farge n ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )oticed that the moss had small patches of green stems, suggesting it is either growing again or can be encouraged to repopulate. Dr La Farge told the BBC, “When we looked at the samples in detail and brought them to the lab, I could see some of the stems actually had new growth of green branches, suggesting that these plants are growing again, and that blew my mind. When we think of thick areas of ice covering the landscape, we’ve always thought that plants have to come from refugia(濒绝生物保护区), never considering that land plants come from underneath a glacier. It’s a whole world of what’s coming out from underneath the glacier that really needs to be studied. The ice is disappearing pretty fast. We really have not examined all the biological systems that exist in the world; we don’t know it all.”
Dr La Farge took samp ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )les of the moss and, using carbon-dating techniques, discovered that the plants date back to the Little Ice Age. Dr La Farge’s team took the samples, planted them in dishes full of nutrient-rich potting soil and fed them with water.
The samples were from ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )four separate species including Aulacomnium turgidum, Distichium capillaceum, Encalypta procera and Syntrichia ruralis. The moss plants found by Dr La Farge are types of bryophytes. Bryophytes can survive long winters and regrow when the weather gets warmer.
However, Dr La Farge w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )as surprised that the plants buried under ice have survived into the twenty-first century. Her findings appear in proceedings（论文集）of the National Academy of Sciences.
59. Dr La Farge’s research is of great importance to ________.
A. knowing what the plants during the Little Ice Age were like
B. understanding how ecosystems recover from glaciers.
C. regrowing many species that have been destroyed before.
D. figuring out the effects of melting ice caps on moss.
60. The underl ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ined part “blew my mind” in Paragraph 6 can best be replaced by “________”.
A. surprised me B. greatly frightened me
C. put my doubt ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )out of my mind D. was exactly what I had in my mind
61. According to the passage, Aulacomnium turgidum ________.
A. lives better in small groups
B. is very active in hot weather
C. is strong enough to survive coldness
D. is chosen from Canadian refugia
62. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage
A. Bryophyte ecology is greatly affected by climate change.
B. 400-year-old moss’s survival is a mystery to solve.
C. Moss in ancient times was discovered in Canada.
D. 400-year-old plants were brought back to life.
【参考答案】59、ＢＡ 61-62 ＣＤ
【2014高考英语湖北省汉阳市联考试题】D.
Today, in many high s ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )chools, teaching is now a technical miracle of computer labs, digital cameras, DVD players and laptops. Teachers can e-mail parents, post messages for students on online bulletin(公告，告示) boards, and take attendance with a quick movement of a mouse.
Even though we are ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )now living in the digital age, the basic and most important element of education has not changed. Most students still need that one-on-one, teacher-student relationship to learn and to succeed. Teenagers need instruction in English, math or history, but they also want personal advice and encouragement. Kids talk with me about their families, their weekend plans, their favorite TV shows and their relationship problems. In my English and journalism classes, we talk about Shakespeare and persuasive(富有哲理的) essays, but we also discuss college basketball, the war in Iraq and career choices. Students show me pictures of their rebuilt cars, their family vacations, and their newborn baby brothers. This personal connection is the necessary link between teachers and students that no amount of technology can improve upon or replace.
A few years ago I ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) had a student in sophomore English who was struggling with my class and with school in general. Although he was a humorous young man who liked to joke around, I knew his family life was far from ideal. Whenever I approached him about missing homework or low test grades, he always had the same reply, “It doesn't matter because I'm quitting school anyway.” Even though he always said this in a half-teasing way, I knew he needed to hear my different opinion and my “value of a high school education” lecture. He needed to hear this speech from me. After he left my class, he struggled through the next two years of school. But, he did finally graduate because we kept telling him to hang in there. We’d cared about him finishing school.
Recently, I saw ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )this former student working at a local Italian restaurant. I told him again how proud I was of him. He said that he was hoping to go back to school to become a certified electrician. I encouraged him to get that training.
Students rely on co ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )mpassionate teachers to guide, to tutor, to listen, to laugh and to cry with them. Teachers provide the most important link in the educational process—the human one.
63. The first paragraph mainly talks about _____________.
A. the variety of modern teaching methods.
B. the wide use of modern technology in education
C. the importance of teacher-parent relationship.
D. the importance of using modern technology.
64. The underline ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )d word “ compassionate” in Para 5 means ____________.
A. ambitious B. knowledgeable C. sympathetic D. generous
65. According to th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e text, the most important element in education is _________.
A. teachers’ good instruction B. advanced technology
C. teachers’ encouragement D. personal connection
66. The author states his view of education by __________.
A. example B. description C. figure D. comparison
【参考答案】63、BCD 66、 A湖南平江县2016高考英语阅读理解演练附参考答案
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【2014高考英语综合能力测试题】
The writer Margar ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )et Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. This book tells a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing it and learn more about her life.
Our first stop a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibition area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One of Ms Mitchell’s photographs, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She is only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains, “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘would you really marry a woman who works ”
The Margaret Mitche ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ll House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”.
Around 1926, M ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )argaret Mitchell stopped working as a reporter and was at home recovering after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939, the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
36. From Paragr ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )aph 1, we know that visitors can know more about Margaret Mitchell by _____.
A. visiting where she wrote Gone with the Wind
B. interviewing her relatives about Gone with the Wind
C. reading Gone with the Wind and then seeing the film
D. living in the Margaret Mitchell House for a time
37. In the Margaret Mitchell House, we can’t see ________.
A. her former living place
B. something about her own life
C. the scene that she was writing
D. exhibition of Margaret’s possessions
38. The underl ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “______”.
A. stand behind
B. are shorter than
C. are taller than
D. look down upon
39. We can know about Margaret Mitchell that _______.
A. her height made her marriage unhappy
B. she was interested in writing as a child
C. writing stopped her from working as a reporter
D. her life was full of hardship and sadness
40. From Paragraph 4, we can learn that ________.
A. the library was useless for Margaret Mitchell’s writing
B. Margaret Mitchell couldn’t write without a typewriter
C. Margaret got injured when she was writing a story of the war
D. John Marsh offered much help to Margaret Mitchell
【参考答案】36-40 ACCBD
本文主要介绍了《乱世佳人》的作者Margaret Mitchell在亚特兰大的生活故事。她的家现在是亚特兰大著名的旅游景点之一。
36. A。细节理解题。根据第一段最后一句V ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )isitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing it and learn more about her life.可知答案。
37. C。细节理解题。因为Margare ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )t Mitchell已经不居住在这所房子里了，所以今天当我们参观这所房子时，我们是不可能再看见她写作的情景了。
38. C。词义猜测题。根据上 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )句She is only about one and a half meters tall.可知，这些年轻男子高出她许多。
39. B。细节理解题。根据第二段的She ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )started writing stories when she was a child.可知答案。
40. D。推理判断题。根据第四段内容可知M ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )argaret Mitchell因病在家疗养期间，她丈夫John Marsh不但从图书馆借来很多书籍给她阅读而且还给她购买了一台打字机，并鼓励她写自己的书。
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Decision- making under Stress
A new review ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )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 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.
“Stress affects h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ow people learn, ”says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress. ”
For example, two re ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )cent 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 lik ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ely 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 less easily recalled.
The research also f ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ound 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 bee ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )n 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 ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )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.
1. We can learn from ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )the passage that people under pressure tend to　　　.　
A. keep rewards bett ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )er in their memory B. recall consequences more effortlessly
C. make risky d ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ecisions more frequently D. learn a subject more effectively
2. According to the r ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )esearch, stress affects people most probably in their　　　.　
A. ways of making choices　　　　　B. preference for pleasure　
C. tolerance of punishments　　　　D. responses to suggestions
3. 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
【参考答案】　1—3、AAD　　
【2012河北省唐山一中】A
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WASHINGTON — ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )It is announced Friday that White House visitor records will be opened up on a regular basis for the first time in modern history, providing the public an unusually detailed look at who gets the opportunity to help shape American policy at the highest levels.
“Americans have a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) right to know whose voices are being heard in the policymaking process,” the president said in a written statement issued by the White House while he vacationed with his family at Camp David.
By the end of t ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )he year, the White House will begin posting online every month the names of the people who visited in the last 90 to 120 days. Each person’s full name will be listed, along with the date and time they entered and left and the name of the person they visited. About 70,000 to 100,000 people visit the White House each month, and the records will include tourists as well as people conducting business.
The White House p ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ointed out several exceptions to the policy: “purely personal guests” of the Obama family; those cases in which the disclosure(透露) of visitors’ names “would threaten national safety interests”; and those who come for “particularly sensitive meetings,” like candidates for a Supreme Court nomination(提名). Officials said only a “small number” will fit in the latter category, and their names would eventually be disclosed after they are no longer secret, like after a nomination is publicly announced. Moreover, they said, the number of undisclosed visitors will be disclosed, to make clear how few they are.
56. Why will the White House visitor records be open to the public
A. To attract more visitors to the White House.
B. To allow people to know more about the life of the Obama family.
C. To let the public know who are influencing the policies.
D. To ask the public h ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )elp correct the policies made by the government.
57. From the passage we can learn that ________.
A. All the vi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )sitors’ names will be posted online soon after their visits
B. Not all visitors are allowed to visit the White House
C. Some visitors’ names can be found online until they’re not secret
D. The records of the visitors will be kept for at least 4 months
58. According to th ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )e passage, whose name might be kept secret for some time
A. A tourist. B. A businessman.
C. A foreign student. D. A foreign minister.
59. What’s the main idea of the passage
A. The Whi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )te House will open the records of the visitors to the public.
B. In America more and more people are becoming policy makers.
C. The Americans have a right to know who are making policies.
D. President Obama has announced a new policy while on holiday.
【参考答案】56—59 CCDA
【2012河北省唐山一中】 B
Mr. Peter Johnson ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ), aged twenty-three, battled for half an hour to escape from his trapped car yesterday when it landed upside down in three feet of water. Mr. Johnson took the only escape route—through the boot(行李箱).
Mr. Johnson’s car had ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) finished up in a ditch(沟渠) at Romney Marsin, Kent after skidding on ice and hitting a bank. “Fortunately, the water began to come in only slowly,” Mr. Johnson said. “I couldn’t force the doors because they were jammed against the walls of the ditch and dared not open the windows because I knew water would come flooding in.”
Mr. Johnson, a s ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )weet salesman of Sitting Home, Kent, first tried to attract the attention of other motorists by sounding the horn and hammering on the roof and boot. Then he began his struggle to escape.
Later he said, “It w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )as really a half penny that saved my life. It was the only coin I had in my pocket and I used it to unscrew the back seat to get into the boot. I hammered desperately with a hammer trying to make someone hear, but no help came.”
It took ten minut ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )es to unscrew the seat, and a further five minutes to clear the sweet samples from the boot. Then Mr. Johnson found a wrench(扳子) and began to work on the boot lock. Fifteen minutes passed by. “It was the only chance I had. Finally it gave, but as soon as I moved the boot lid, the water and mud poured in. I forced the lid down into the mud and scrambled clear as the car filled up.”
His hands and arm ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )s cut and bruised(擦伤), Mr. Johnson got to Beckett Farm nearby, where he was looked after by the farmer’s wife, Mrs. Lucy Bates. Huddled in a blanket, he said, “That thirty minutes seemed like hours.” Only the tips of the car wheels were visible, police said last night. The vehicle had sunk into two feet of mud at the bottom of the ditch.
60. What is the best title for this newspaper article
A. The Story of Mr. Johnson, A Sweet Salesman
B. Car Boot Can Serve As The Best Escape Route
C. Driver Escapes Through Car Boot
D. The Driver Survived A Terrible Car Accident
61. Which of the follo ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )wing objects is the most important to Mr. Johnson
A. The hammer. B. The coin. C. The screw. D. The horn.
62. “Finally it gave” (Paragraph 5) means that ________.
A. Luckily the door was torn away in the end
B. At last the wrench went broken
C. The lock came open after all his efforts
D. The chance was lost at the last minute
63. It may be inferred from the passage that ________.
A. the ditch was along a quiet country road
B. the accident happened on a clear warm day
C. the police helped Mr. Johnson get out of the ditch
D. Mr. Johnson had a tender wife and was well attended
【参考答案】60—63 CBCA湖南平江县2016高考英语二轮阅读理解演练附答案
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Celebrities(名人) are mo ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )re in love with themselves than the average person，according to a new study．
In case anyone ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )needed proof, a new study supports the widely held perception：Famous people are more narcissistic(自我陶醉的)，which means they are more in love with themselves than the average person is．That is the conclusion drawn by Drew Pinsky and S．Mark Young of the University of Southern California，whose study of 200 celebrities will appear in the Journal Of Research in Personality．
It is not the ent ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ertainment industry that turns stars into narcissists，the study found．Rather, it suggests，the self-adoring(自恋的)people seek jobs in show business．The study, whose subjects were a11 celebrities from Pinsky’s‘Loveline’radio show, found that reality TV stars were the most narcissistic of all celebrities．Female stars were also more likely than the male stars to exhibit narcissistic characteristics．
It’s “common s ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ense” that celebrities are narcissists，said Jeremy Ritzlin，a longtime Hollywood psychologist who has not seen the study．“Everyone knows famous people are really in love with themselves，”he said．“So it would be natural for narcissists to be attracted toward the stage and spotlight，where other people will also think highly of them．”
Pinsky, an assistant c ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )linical professor of psychiatry at USC’S Keck School of Medicine，said narcissists desire attention，are overconfident，behave strangely and lack sympathy．“However, they are easily-liked，especially on first meeting，are outgoing and perform well in public，” added Pinsky, who has hosted the radio show“Loveline”for 20 years．
Celebrity guests appe ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )aring on the program were randomly chosen to participate in the study．They anonymously(匿名地)took the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test．which rates self-love levels based on seven components：superiority, exhibitionism，entitlement，vanity，authority, exploitativeness，and self-sufficiency．
【小题1】Who are most likely to be self-adoring in the study
A．The women stars． B．The men stars
C．The average people． D．It is not mentioned in the passage．
【小题2】According to the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )forth paragraph．the fact “celebrities are narcissists” .
A．is common in the entertainment industry
B．is a misunderstanding of Jeremy Ritzlin
C．is known to most of the people
D．is unreal on the stage
【小题3】According to Pinsky, narcissists may NOT .
A．hope to attract attention
B．be kind to poor people
C．believe in themselves
D．be liked by others easily
【小题4】How were the celebrities surveyed in the study
A．They were interviewed by Drew Pinsky and S．Mark Young．
B．They were invited to the University of Southern California．
C。They appeared on Pinsky’s‘Loveline’radio show．
D．They took the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test．
【小题5】The author of this passage wants to tell US ．
A．how psychologists make a study
B．how entertainment industry produces celebrities
C．how people think of the famous stars
D．how celebrities feel about themselves
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“Experience may ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) possibly be the best teacher,but it is not a particularly good teacher.” You might think that Winston Churchill or perhaps Mark Twain spoke those words,but they actually come from James March,a professor at Stanford University and a pioneer in the field of organizational decision making. For years March(possibly the wisest philosopher of management)has studied how humans think and act,and he continues to do so in his new bookThe Ambiguities of Experience.
He begins by reminding ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) us of just how firmly we have been sticking to the idea of experiential learning:“Experience is respected;experience is sought;experience is explained.” The problem is that learning from experience involves(涉及)serious complications(复杂化),ones that are part of the nature of experience itself and which March discusses in the body of this book.
In one intere ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )sting part of the book,for example,he turns a doubtful eye toward the use of stories as the most effective way of experiential learning. In our efforts to make stories interesting,he argues,we lose part of the complicated truth of things. He says “The more accurately(精确地)reality is presented,the less understandable the story,and the more understandable the story,the less realistic it is.”
Besides being ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) a broadly knowledgeable researcher,March is also a poet,and his gift shines through in the depth of views he offers and the simple language he uses. Though the book is short,it is demanding:Don’t pick it up looking for quick,easy lessons. Rather,be ready to think deeply about learning from experience in work and life.
1. According to the text,James March is　　　.　
A. a poet who uses experience in his writing
B. a teacher who teaches story writing in university
C. a researcher who studies the way humans think and act
D. a professor who helps organizations make important decisions
2. According to James March,experience　　　.　
A. is overvalued　　　　 B. is easy to explain
C. should be actively sought　　　　D. should be highly respected
3. What can we learn from Paragraph 3
A. Experience makes stories more accurate.
B. Stories made interesting fail to fully present the truth.
C. The use of stories is the best way of experiential learning.
D. Stories are eas ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ier to understand when reality is more accurately described.
4. What’s the purpose of this text
A. To introduce a book. B. To describe a researcher.
C. To explain experi ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ential learning. D. To discuss organizational decision making.
【参考答案】1-4 CABA　　
【2014高考英语湖北省武昌区调研试题】E
Art robbery a ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )nd art forgery （仿造） are both major themes in crime movies and literature．In the 2012 comedy movie Gambit, British actor Colin Firth plays an art curator who cheats his abusive boss into buying a fake Monet． In reality, art crimes are no less interesting and exciting．
According to ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )The New York Times, over the past 15 years, Glafira Rosales fooled two local commercial art galleries into buying 63 false works of art for more than $30 million．She passed off fake paintings as works by 20th century modernist masters such as American artists Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock．But in fact, these so called "newly discovered works" were all produced by a single man, a Chinese immigrant named Qian Peishen．
The art wo ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )rld was shocked by Rosales' deception．But to the public, it was amusing and 6most satisfying to see wealthy people get tricked．
So what deci ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )des the value of a piece of art Is it beauty Is it the artist's talent and craftsmanship Or is it just because the artist is famous
We should take bea ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )uty out． If the buyers were buying paintings only for their beauty, they'll be content displaying good fakes on their walls． They wouldn't be so upset when a forgery is exposed．
The art market ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) claims that great artists are inimitable, and that this inimitability justifies the absurd price of their works． We can't deny that most famous artists are good at what they do, but forgers like Qian show that their works are imitable．Otherwise, the difference between the original and the copycats would be obvious and Rosales would not be able to fool anyone．
According to an ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )article in the Economist, expensive paintings are what．economists call positional goods． They are valuable because other people can't have them． With other goods, a higher price reduces demand．But art turns down the laws of economics． “When the goods that is really being purchased is evidence that the buyer has paid a lot, price increases cause demand to boom," explained the article．
That's why scarci ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ty and authenticity are so important in the art market． Artists sometimes forget this．Demien Hirst, the British pop artist, is famous for his spot paintings． But they dropped in value when it became clear that they had been produced in quantities so vast that nobody knew how many were out there．The art market lost faith in these paintings because no one could be sure which of them were authentic and which were fake．
67．The first paragraph is meant to tell the readers that ____ ．
A．movies and literature will be popular with art involved in them
B．art crimes are as interesting and exciting in reality as in movies
C．Gambit is a good movie with art forgery as the major theme
D．real art crime in reality can be adapted into popular films
68．Who is amused ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )and satisfied to see the rich buy forged works of art
A．The public． B．Glafira Rosales．
C．Qian P ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )eishen． D．Mark Rothlo and Jackson Pollock．
69．What kind ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )of art buyers should not be unhappy with its high prices when a forgery is exposed according to the author
A．Those who buy only for its beauty．
B．Those who buy for its inimitability．
C．Those who 'buy for its authenticity．
D．Those who buy for its scarcity．
70．What is the l ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )aw of economics theory behind矾 goods according to the economists
A．They are valuable goods．
B．High prices reduce the demand of art goods．
C．High prices increase the demand of art goods．
D．They are produced in quantities to satisfy people．
【参考答案】67-70 BAAC
【2014高考英语湖北省荆州市一模试题】A
阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Fannie Cratty was ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )n’t really my aunt. I only referred to her as “My Aunt Fannie” because the name always made my father laugh and gave my mother cause to look angrily at both of us---at me for being disrespectful of my elder and at my father for encouraging my bad behavior.
As a young woma ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )n, my mother had worked in the kitchen of a large Victorian farmhouse owned by Fannie Cratty. During those years my mother helped Aunt Fannie make the best blueberry jam ever tasted by anyone in Glenfield. Aunt Fannie was well known for her jam and for never sharing the recipe with another living soul. Even though my mother knew the recipe by heart, as long as Aunt Fannie was alive (and she lived to be ninety-six!), she never made the jam without Ms. Cratty in our kitchen to direct the process and preserve the secret.
Each August, w ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )hen blueberry season would roll around, my mother would prepare me for Aunt Fannie’s visit. It was vital that I should be on my best behavior. After all, the woman was old, wealthy, very strict with children. Whenever she was at the house, I didn’t need to be reminded to guard my thoughts and watch my tongue.
One year, after I ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) had been particularly helpful with the jam process, Aunt Fannie gave me a quarter(25分硬币) and then made me promise that I would never spend it. “Hold onto this quarter,” she said, “and someday you will be rich. I still have my very first quarter, given to me by my grandfather.” It had obviously worked for her. So, I kept the 1938-quarter into a small box, put it in my dresser drawer, and waited to become rich.
I now have the ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com ) blueberry jam recipe and the quarter from Aunt Fannie. In people’s eye Aunt Fannie’s success was due to that secret recipe. But to me, it was just a common recipe. Neither has significantly contributed to my wealth, but I keep them as reminders to hold onto the valuable things in life. Money can make you feel rich for a while, but it is the relationships and the memories of time spent with friends and family that truly leave you wealthy. And that is a fortune that anyone can build.
51. Paragraph 2 implies that my mother .
A. used to forget the secret blueberry jam recipe
B. wanted to show off her excellent cooking skills
C. was unable to make the jam without Aunt Fannie’s direction
D. tried to convince Aunt Fannie that she would keep the secret
52. Accord ( http: / / www.21cnjy.com )ing to Paragraph 4, the author believed that Aunt Fanni was rich because .
A. she had kept her first quarter
B. she had never wasted money
C. she had worked very hard
D. she had kept her promise
53. The author thinks that we can feel wealthy if we .
A. share our wealth with others
B. have good fortune and money
C. know the secret of a jam recipe
D. own lasting love and friendship
54. Which would be the best title for this passage？
A. An old quarter B. Valuable Things
C. Blueberry Jam Recipe 　　D . Memories of old time
【参考答案】51--54 DADC