浙江省杭州市外国语学校高考英语集训阅读理解每日一练21.doc

杭州外国语学校2013年高考英语集训阅读理解每日一练21倒数第六周星期一ai fell in love with england because it was quaint （古雅）all those little houses, looking terribly old-fashioned but nice, like dolls housesi loved the countryside and the pubs, and i loved londonive slightly changed my mind after seventeen years because i think its an ugly town nowthings have changed. for everybody, england meant gentlemen, fair play, and good mannersthe fair play is going, unfortunately, and so are the gentlemanly attitudes and good mannerspeople shut doors heavily in your face and politeness is disappearingi regret that there are so few comfortable meeting placesyoure forced to live indoorsin paris i go out much more, to restaurants and nightclubsto meet friends here it usually has to be in a pub, and it can be difficult to go there alone as a womanthe cafes are not terribly niceas a woman, i feel unsafe herei spend a bomb on taxis because i will not take public transport after 10 pmi used to use it, but now im afraidthe idea of family seems to be more or less non-existent in england. my family is well united and thats typically frenchin middlesex i had a neighbour who is 82 nowhis family only lived two miles away, but i took him to france for christmas once because he was always alone61the writer doesnt like london because she _ais not used to the life there nowbhas lived there for seventeen yearscprefers to live in an old-fashioned housedhas to be polite to everyone she meets there62where do people usually meet their friends in england?ain a cafe bin a restaurantcin a nightclub.din a pub63the underlined part “it” （in para4） refers to_aa taxi bthe moneyca bomb dpublic transport64the writer took her neighbour to france for christmas because he _afelt lonely in england bhad never been to francecwas from a typical french family ddidnt like the british idea of familybif the world were a village of 1,000 people it would include: 584 asians 124 africans 95 eastern and western europeans 84 latin americans 55 former soviets （including lithuanians, latvians, estonians, and other national groups） 52 north americans 6 australians and new zealandersthe people of the village would speak: 165 mandarin 86 english 83 hindu/urdu 64 spanish 58 russian 37 arabicthe above list covers the mother tongues of only half the villageone-third of the people in the village are children, and only 60 are over the age of 65just under half of the married women in the village have access to modem equipmentsthis year 28 babies will be bornten people will die, 3 of them for lack of food, 1 from cancertwo of the deaths will be of babies born within the yearwith the 28 births and 10 deaths, the population of the village next year will be 1,018in this village of 1,000 persons, 200 people receive 75 percent of the income; another 200 receive only 2 percent of the incomeabout one-third have access to clean, safe drinking waterof the 670 adults in the village, half can not read nor writethe village has a total yearly budget, public and private, of over $3 million$ 3 ,000 per person if it is distributed evenlyof the total $3 million:$ 181,000 goes to weapons and warfare$ 159,000 to education$ 132,000 to health carethese weapons are under the control of just 100 of the peoplethe other 900 are watching them with deep anxiety, wondering whether they can learn to get along together65which of the following is true about mandarin according to the text?anearly one-third of asian people speak mandarin in the villagebabout 825 per cent of the people speak mandarin in the villagecabout 165 per cent of the people speak mandarin in the villagednearly all the mandarin-speaking people are from asia in the village66which of the following problems is not mentioned in the text?apoverty beducation cenvironment dmarriage67the underlined part “have access to” （in para. 4） means_ause bbuy cproduce dtry68the last sentence in the text implies that most of the people long for _aa peaceful world bgood educationcbetter health care da life without anxietycshopping is not as simple as you may think! there are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand of product on the shelf colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sellhealth foods are packaged （包装） in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy coloursice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver when some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffectiveeventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white packageblue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm the size of a product can attract a shopperbut quite often a bottle doesnt contain as much as it appears toit is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!the most successful producers know that its not enough to have a good productthe founder of pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote （推销） their goods, came to the conclusion: “any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius to sell it”69which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?athe cost of its package bthe price of the productcthe colour of its package dthe brand name of the product70the underlined part “the colours turned the customers off”（in para3 ） means that the colours _aattracted the customers stronglybhad weak effects on the customersctricked the customers into shopping dcaused the customers to lose interest71which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?athe way to promote goods bthe discovery of a geniuscthe team to produce a good productdthe brand name used by successful producers72which of the following would be the best title for this text?achoice of good products bdisadvantages of productsceffect of packaging on shopping dbrand names and shopping tricksdpulling heavy suitcases all day in the summer is hard work, especially when youre a thin 14-year-old. that was me in 1940the youngest and smallest baggage boy at new york citys pennsylvania railway stationafter just a few days on the job, i began noticing that the other fellows were overcharging passengersid like to join them, thinking, “everyone else is doing it”when i got home that night, i told my dad what i wanted to do“you give an honest days work,” he said, looking at me straight in the eye“theyre paying youif they want to do that, you let them do that”i followed my dads advice for the rest of that summer and have lived by his words ever sinceof all the jobs ive had, it was my experience at pennsylvania railway station that has stuck with menow i teach my players to have respect for other people and their possessionsbeing a member of a team is a totally shared experienceif one person steals, it destroys trust and hurts everyonei can put up with many things, but not with people who stealif one of my players were caught stealing, hed be gonewhether youre on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you cant trust one another, theres going to be trouble73what can be inferred about the baggage boys?athey could earn much, but they had to work hardbmany of them earned money in a dishonest waycthey were all from poor familiesdthey were all thin, young boys74what does the fathers advice imply?ait is wrong to give more pay to the passengersbdont believe them if they are paying you morecdont follow others to overcharge the passengersdit is difficult to work hard and live as an honest boy75the writer cant put up with stealing because he thinks that _ait is a totally shared experience bit is considered as the most dangerouscit does great harm to human relationshipdit may lead to the loss of his sports team76it can be concluded from the text that _ahis fathers advice helped him to 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