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【2016走向高考】高三英语一轮复习 高考专项突破2 外研版 APerhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if youre unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desiresnot that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you dont have enough tastes.Real riches consist of welldeveloped and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They_live_in_too_ big_a_house_with_too_many_rooms,_yet_their_house_of_life_is_a_hut.Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅), a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when youre hungry.Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.Music like Mozarts and Bachs shouldnt be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when youve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.语篇解读：什么是真正的幸福和富有？不是更多的金钱和物质，精神的富有才会真正使你幸福。真正的幸福不是住在一个多么大的房子里。人生的大房子应该是由艺术、文学、音乐、体育等各个“房间”组成的。1The author intends to tell us that_.Atrue happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair meansBbig houses are peoples most valued possessionsCbig houses can in a sense bring richness of lifeDtrue happiness comes from spiritual riches答案：D推理判断题。本文的主旨就是说明真正的幸福是精神的富足，财富、大房子等物质的拥有并不能带来真正的幸福和富足。2The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that_.Ahowever materially rich, they never seem to be satisfiedBhowever materially rich, they remain spiritually poorCthough their house is big, they prefer a simple lifeDthough their house is big, it seems to be a cage答案：B细节理解题。该句的字面意思是“他们住在一所拥有超多房间的超大房子里，然而他们的生命房间却是一间陋舍。”，结合本文主旨大意，可知此处应是想说尽管他们物质富有，但却精神贫瘠，故B项正确。3It can be learned from the passage that _.Amore money brings more happinessBart is needed to make your house beautifulCliterature can enrich your spiritual lifeDsports contribute mainly to your physical fitness答案：C推理判断题。A项意为“更多的金钱可以带来更多的幸福”，明显与文章主题不符；艺术(art)是使人精神生活充实，而非使房子更漂亮，排除B项；运动(sports)在生活当中意义丰富，而非仅仅使你身体健康，排除D项。只有C项“文学可以丰富你的精神生活”符合本文的观点。4What would be the best title for the passage?AHouse of LifeBSecret of WealthCRest and RefreshmentDInterest and Enthusiasm答案：A主旨大意题。本文的主要意思就是说明物质上的大房间并不是真正的富足，而是拥有艺术、文学、音乐、体育等“房间”的生命的房间(house of life)才是真正的富有，才能够给你带来更多的幸福。B(2014新课标，C)A typical lion tamer (驯兽师) in peoples mind is an entertainer holding a whip (鞭) and a chair. The whip gets all of the attention, but its mostly for show. In reality, its the chair that does the important work. When a lion tamer holds a chair in front of the lions face, the lion tries to focus on all four legs of the chair at the same time. With its focus divided, the lion becomes confused and is unsure about what to do next. When faced with so many options, the lion chooses to freeze and wait instead of attacking the man holding the chair.How often do you find yourself in the same position as the lion? How often do you have something you want to achieve (e.g. lose weight, start a business, travel more)only to end up confused by all of the options in front of you and never make progress?This upsets me to no end because while all the experts are busy debating about which option is best, the people who want to improve their lives are left confused by all of the conflicting information. The end result is that we feel like we cant focus or that were focused on the wrong things, and so we take less action, make less progress, and stay the same when we could be improving.It doesnt have to be that way. Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: All you need to do is focus on one thing. You just need to get started. Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people. If you have somewhere you want to go, something you want to accomplish, someone you want to become. take immediate action. If youre clear about where you want to go, the rest of the world will either help you get there or get out of the way.语篇解读：本文通过驯兽时，狮子在面对椅子的四条腿时，不知道该作何选择，联系到我们。我们事实上跟狮子一样，在面对多种选择时会困惑，而此时最好的选择就是迅速作出决定。5Why does the lion tamer use a chair?ATo trick the lion.BTo show off his skills.CTo get ready for a fight.DTo entertain the audience.答案：A细节理解题。由文章第一段第三句信息“In reality，it is the chair that does the important work.”以及本段后面的介绍可知，是椅子在训狮中起关键作用，故A项正确。6In what sense are people similar to a lion facing a chair?AThey feel puzzled over choices.BThey hold on to the wrong things.CThey find it hard to make changes.DThey have to do something for show.答案：A推理判断题。由文章第一段最后几句话“With its focus divided，the lion becomes confused and is unsure what to do next.”以及第二段第一句话“How often do you find yourself in the same position as the lion？”可知，人经常跟狮子一样碰到同样的情形，即：在面对多个选择的时候很困惑，不知该作何选择， 故A项正确。7What is the authors attitude towards the experts mentioned in Paragraph 3?ATolerant.BDoubtful.CRespectfulDSupportive.答案：B 推理判断题。第三段的几个信息“upsets me to no end，left confused”等等可推知，虽然专家在忙着辩论那个选择最好，但是我们一直很困惑，由此可推知：作者对专家持怀疑态度，故B项正确。8When the world is “waving a chair in your face”， youre advised to _.Await for a better chanceBbreak your old habitsCmake a quick decisionDask for clear guidance答案：C细节理解题。由文章最后一段第二句信息“Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face，remember this：All you need to do is focus on one thing，”即：迅速作出决定该干什么，故C项正确。CThe behaviour of a buildings users may be at least as important as its design when it comes to energy use, according to new research from the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). The UK promises to reduce its carbon emissions (排放)by 80 percent by 2050, part of which will be achieved by all new homes being zerocarbon by 2016. But this report shows that sustainable building design on its ownthough extremely importantis not enough to achieve such reductions: the behaviour of the people using the building has to change too.The study suggests that the ways that people use and live in their homes have been largely ignored by existing efforts to improve energy efficiency (效率)，which instead focus on architectural and technological developments.Technology is going to assist but it is not going to do everything，explains Katy Janda, a UKERC senior researcher，consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design. In other words，old habits die hard, even in the bestdesigned ecohome.Another part of the problem is information. Households and billpayers dont have the knowledge they need to change their energyuse habits. Without specific information，its hard to estimate the costs and benefits of making different choices. Feedback (反馈) facilities, like smart meters and energy monitors，could help bridge this information gap by helping people see how changing their behaviour directly affects their energy use; some studies have shown that households can achieve up to 15 percent energy savings using smart meters.Social science research has added a further dimension (方面)，suggesting that individuals behaviour in the home can be personal and cannot be predictedwhether people throw open their windows rather than turn down the thermostat (恒温器) , for example.Janda argues that education is the key. She calls for a focused programme to teach people about buildings and their own behaviour in them.语篇解读：本文是一篇科普说明文，大意是说明建筑物的使用者的行为至少和它的设计一样的重要，即人们家庭对于能源的消费量直接影响我们的生活环境的质量。9As to energy use, the new research from UKERC stresses the importance of _.Azerocarbon homesBthe behaviour of building usersCsustainable building designDthe reduction of carbon emissions答案：B推理判断题。根据文章首句可知英国能源研究中心的研究表明了人们行为举止对环境的重要性，故选B项。10The underlined word “which” in Paragraph 2 refers to“_.”Athe waysBtheir homesCdevelopmentsDexisting efforts答案：D词义猜测题。which引导非限制性定语从句，其先行词是existing efforts，故选D项。11What are Katy Jandas words mainly about?AThe importance of changing building users habits.BThe necessity of making a careful building design.CThe variety of consumption patterns of building users.DThe role of technology in improving energy efficiency.答案：A推理判断题。根据第三自然段中的“consumption patterns of building users can defeat the most careful design”一句可知专家强调改变人们的家庭生活习惯的重要性，故选A项。 D(2014陕西B)When I told my father that I was moving to Des Moines, Iowa, he told me about the only time he had been there. It was in the 1930s, when he was an editor of the literary magazine of Southern Methodist University(SMU)in Dallas, Texas. He also worked as a professor at SMU, and there was a girl student in his class who suffered from a serious back disease. She couldnt afford the operation because her family was poor.Her mother ran a boardinghouse in Galveston, a seaside town near Houston, Texas. She was cleaning out the attic(阁楼)one day when she came across an old dusty manuscript(手稿). On its top page were the words, “By O. Henry”. It was a nice story, and she sent it to her daughter at SMU, who showed it to my father. My father had never read the story before, but it sounded like O. Henry, and he knew that O. Henry had once lived in Houston. So it was possible that the famous author had gone to the beach and stayed in the Galveston boardinghouse, and had written the story there and left the manuscript behind by accident. My father visited an O. Henry expert at Columbia University in New York, who authenticated the story as O. Henrys.My father then set out to sell it. Eventually, he found himself in Des Moines, meeting with Gardner Cowles, a top editor at the Des Moines Register. Cowles loves the story and bought it on the spot. My father took the money to the girl. It was just enough for her to have the operation she so desperately needed.My father never told me what the O. Henry story was about. But I doubt that it could have been better than his own story.语