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辽宁鞍山市2014高考英语书面表达、阅读理解训练题（12） 附答案 (北京卷第二节)请根据下面提示，写一篇短文，词数不少于50。in your spoken english class, your teacher shows you the following picture. you are asked to describe the picture and explain how you understand it._参考范文in the picture, there stands a tree full of fruit on one side of the stream. across the stream, a man is trying to reach out on the edge of the bank for the fruit with a net attached to a pole. not far away there is a bridge that can lead him to the tree for more fruit.the message conveyed in the picture is clear. in pursuing a dream, we might focus on only one way of making it come true, forgetting that there may be alternatives. as indicated in the picture, if the man is willing to look for other possibilities, he can find a better and more rewarding way to achieve his goal. all he has to do is to turn around, cross the bridge and walk to the tree.*结束a new generation addiction is quickly spreading all over the world. weboholism, a twentieth century disease, affects people from different ages. they surf the net, use e-mail and speak in chat rooms. they spend many hours on the computer, and it becomes a compulsive habit. they cannot stop, and it affects their lives. ten years ago, no one thought that using computers could become compulsive behavior that could affect the social and physical life of computer users. this obsessional behavior has affected teenagers and college students. they are likely to log on computers and spend long hours at different websites. they become hooked on computers and gradually their social and school life is affected by this situation. they spend all free time surfing and dont concentrate on homework, so this addiction influences their grades and success at school. because they can find everything on the websites, they hang out there. moreover, this addiction to websites influences their social life. they spend more time in front of computers than with their friends. the relation with their friends changes. the virtual life becomes more important than their real life. they have a new language that they speak in the chat rooms and it causes cultural changes in society. because of the change in their behavior, they begin to isolate themselves from the society and live with their virtual friends. they share their emotions and feelings with friends who they have never met in their life. although they feel confident on the computer, they are not confident with real live friends they have known all their life. it is a problem for the future. this addictive behavior is beginning to affect all the world. 1. the authors attitude towards weboholism is that of being_. a. optimistic b. positivec. oppositive d. acceptable2. the main idea of the passage is about_. a. the cause of weboholismb. the advantage of weboholismc. the popularity of weboholismd. the influence of weboholism3. the underlined word “obsessional” in the second paragraph most probably means “_”. a. attractive b. addictivec. professional d. potential4. we can infer from the passage that_. a. weboholism has the greatest effect on teenagersb. students can hardly balance real and virtual lifec. people are addicted to games on the internetd. virtual life is more vivid and attractive anyway5. which of the following is not true of weboholism? a. it contributes to the development of the web. b. the chat room language may change social culture. c. the problem will be getting more and more serious later. d. people addicted to the web often become inactive in real life. 参考答案7、【文章大意】网络狂热(weboholism)对不同年龄段的人都有影响，并且也在影响着整个世界。1【解析】选c。观点态度题。从整篇文章看，作者主要提到weboholism对社会和网络狂们的负面影响，故作者对weboholism持反对态度。2【解析】选d。主旨大意题。文章第一段阐明了weboholism对不同年龄的人们的影响。下文也是围绕此话题展开的。3【解析】选b。词义猜测题。obsessional意为“着迷的”。b项意为“上瘾的”，故选b。a项意为“吸引人的”，c项意为“专业的”，d项意为“潜在的”。句意：这种上瘾的行为已经影响了青少年和大学生。4【解析】选b。推理判断题。根据最后一段可推断b项正确。5【解析】选a。推理判断题。根据倒数第二段的最后一句可推断b项对，根据文章最后两句可知c项正确。根据倒数第二段中的the virtual life becomes more important than their real life. 以及最后一段可知d项正确。文章主要提到weboholism对社会和网络狂们的影响，并没有提到它促进网络的发展。*结束funny english errors and insights laugh. and learn!welcome to the website for funny english errors and insights (2010), a new book of unconscious humour published by the national library of australia. funny english errors and insights will be launched at the national library in canberra on 29th, october 2010.in the meantime, explore this website for other collections of real-life english language mistakes, including funny answers to exam questions, media misprints, and silly signs. see funny english errors: the b list for more than a hundred examples of funny english gaffes（失言）. for more funny english errors, read author troy simpsons blog. for still more examples, join this website to download a free pdf version of english as she is taught, which lists our top 250 funny english language mistakes from that classic howlers book.join this website free, and you can also:o enter member-only competitions o contribute your comments o download free e-cards o be the first to know about our much-anticipated book, funny english errors and insights (2010) . features follows in the tradition of the runaway best-seller howlers books of the 1920s and 1930s o includes quotes(引文) that have never been published before in this way o includes more than 30 carefully selected funny photos o topics include english, science, history, geography, religion, mathematics, and more o a perfect gift for students, teachers, parents, grandparents, public speakers, doctors, lawyers, journalists, clergy and religious, and anyone with a sense of humour! 9.the word launched in the second paragraph is closest to the meaning:a. sent up for the first time. b. written for the first time. c. for sale for the first time. d. printed for the first time. 10. on the website ,you can do the following things except . a. read some funny newsb. know something about this book previouslyc. find a lot of examples about english errorsd. express your opinions freely11.about this book, you know that .a. it only includes english, science, historyb. it is quite different from howlers booksc. all the quotes in it are familiar with usd. it is intended for people all walks of life 12.the text is aimed at introducing .a. a popular website b. some selected funny photosc. a new book d. some funny english errors 9-12 cadc *结束 （bbc）the father of the personal computer who kick-started the careers of microsoft founders bill gates and paul allen has died at the age of 68. dr henry edward roberts was the inventor of the altair 8800, a machine that led to the home computer age. gates and allen contacted dr roberts after seeing the machine on the front cover of a magazine and offered to write software for it. the program was known as altair-basic, the foundation of microsofts business. ed was willing to take a chance on us - two young guys interested in computers , and we have always been thankful to him, the microsoft founders said in a statement. apple co-founder steve wozniak told technology website cnet that dr roberts had taken a critically important step that led to everything we have today. dr roberts was the founder of micro instrumentation and telemetry systems (mits), originally set up to sell electronics parts to model rocket hobbyists. the company went on to sell electronic calculator parts, but was soon overshadowed by bigger firms. in the mid-1970s, with the firm struggling with debt, dr roberts began to develop a computer kit(配套零件) for hobbyists. the result was the altair 8800. the $395 kit (around 1,000 today) was featured on the cover of popular electronics in 1975, resulting in a flood of orders. amongst those interested in the machine were paul allen and bill gates. the pair contacted dr roberts, offering to write software that would help people program the machine. the pair finally moved to albuquerque - the home of mits - where they founded micro-soft, to develop their software. dr roberts sold his company in 1977. he died in hospital on 1 april after a long period of pneumonia(肺炎) 13.why did dr roberts probably decide to sell his company? a. because he was in heavy debt in the mid-1980s .b. because he wanted to take a chance on gates and allen.c. because he wanted to develop a computer kit for hobbyists.d. because he had difficulty competing with big companies. 14. what do we know about mits?a. it was set up by steve wozniak.b. it sold electronics parts to big firms.c. it is located in albuquerque.d. it is a technology website.15. we can learn that popular electronics is likely to be _.a. a newspaper b. a magazine c. a website d. an organization16. what is the best title of this passage?a. the story of the altair 8800b. the founder of mitsc. father of the personal computer diedd. the story of dr roberts 13-16 dcbc*结束they wear the latest fashions with the most up-to-date accessories(配饰).yet these are not girls in their teens or twenties but women in their sixties and seventies. a generation which would once only wear old-fashioned clothes is now favouring the same high street looks worn by those half their age.professor julia twigg, a social policy expert , said ,“women over 75 are now shopping for clothes more frequently than they did when they were young in the 1960s .in the 1960s buying a coat for a woman was a serious matter . it was an expensive item that they would purchase only every three or four years now you can pick one up at the supermarket whenever you wish to .fashion is a lot cheaper and people get tired of things more quickly . ”professor twigg analysed family expending（支出）data and found that while the percentage of spending on clothes and shoes by women had stayed around the sameat 5 or 6 per cent of spendingthe amount of clothes bought had risen sharply.the professor said,“clothes are now 70 per cent cheaper than they were in the 1960s because of the huge expansion of production in the far east. in the 1960s leeds was the heart of the british fashion industry and that was where most of the clothes came from, but now almost all of our clothes are sourced elsewhere. everyone is buying more clothes but in general we are not spending more money on them.”fashion designer angela barnard ,who runs her own fashion business in london ,said older women were much more affected by celebrity(名流) style than in previous years .she said ,“when people see stars such as judi dench and helen mirren looking attractive and fashionable in their sixties ,they want to follow them . older women are much more aware of celebrities .theres also the boom in tv programmes showing people how they can change their look, and many of my older customers do yoga to stay in shape well in their fifties . when i started my business a few years ago ,my older customers tended to b