高中英语阅读练习(附答案).doc

AThe key to getting any good-priced plane ticket is to reserve the flight early. Discount airlines tend to increase their fare as the plane fills up and early reservations are usually rewarded with the lowest fares. Most major domestic airlines offer discount tickets for off-peak travel. China Southen Airlines now provides favorable group purchase ticket deals to attract tourists to cities like Hong Kong and Guilin. Air China and Beijing Capital Airlines offer tickets with as much as 75 to 80 per cent discounts. Another way is to search for a cheap ticket on the websites of low-cost airlines, which offer you very low fares though less comfort. Now, Air Asia, Tiger Airways and Jetstar Asia are all offering very low -fare tickets to Chinese travelers.The budget airline has a long history in the West. Its also called a no-frills carrier for doing away with traditional free services, such as food and drinks. They charge you extra for catering on board, or securing a seat. Many budget airlines put a fee on checked in luggage, so its wiser to take hand luggage. The following are three popular airlines.Air Asia: The Malaysian-based airline flies from seven cities in China including Tianjin, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Guilin and Shenzhen in the Chinese mainland, and provides trips to cities such as Paris and London. It can transfer you to most South East Asian countries. Many tickets are priced under 1,500 yuan.Jetstar Asia Airways: Its a low-cost airline headquartered in Singapore. Travelers can leave from airports in numerous cities including Beijing.Southwest Airlines: If you go traveling in the US you can take this low-cost airline based in Texas.How to find a cheap 5-star service hotel. Like airline tickets, the price for a budget hotel depends on when you book it - the earlier, the cheaper. Its a great idea to look for YHA (Youth Hostels Association) backpackers, or Bed & Breakfast deals online.56What can we do to buy cheap tickets EXCEPT _ .Abook the flight earlyBchoose off-peak travel Csearch the websites of low-cost airlines Dwait until the plane fills up57What does the underlined part mean? Aa carrier with a long history Ba carrier without traditional free service Ca carrier with extra charge Da carrier without any service58The three popular airline routes can t take you to _ according to the passage AAsia BAmerica CAfrica DEurope59What can you infer from the last parag7aph ? AYHA is an association which can help you save money BThe price for a hotel has nothing to do with the time you book it CA five-star service hotel must be always expensive DYou have to book airline tickets and budget hotel at the same timeB Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and I wished her every successBut part of me didntI actually wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for our learning process Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time -which can often be a problematic victoryFirst-time success is often a fluke（侥幸）First-time failure, by contrast, is expected it is the natural order of thingsFailure is how we learn In Africa they describe a good cook as She who has brokenmany potsIt youve spent enough time in the kitchen to break a lot of pots, you probably know a lot about cookingI once had dinner with a group of cooks, and they spent time comparing knife wounds and burn scars. They knew how much credibility their failures gave them I earn my living by writing a daily newspaper columnEach week I aw aware of that one column I write will be my worstI dont set out to write itI try my best every dayI have teamed to cherish that columnA good column usually means that I am discussing my familiar topic, writing m a style I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in a fancy way My younger daughter is a trapeze artistShe spent three years pulling together a show, and she did it successfully for yearsThere was no reason for her to change it- but she did anywayShe said she was no longer learning anything new and she ;was boredAnd if she was bored, there was no point in subjecting her body to all that stressShe risked failure and public embarrassment in order to feed her soul My granddaughter is a perfectionistShe will fee! her failures, and I will want to comfort herBut I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next timeI hope I can tell her, though, that its not the end of the worldIndeed, with luck, it is just the beginning60Why did the author want his granddaughter to fail? ASuccess is boring though beneficial BShe would learn more from failureCIts impossible to do everything successfully DHe wanted her to be strong enough to face hardships61Whats the authors attitude toward his daughter changing her show? ANegativeBWorried CPositive DExcited62The author develops the article mainly by_ Agiving examples B, following the time order Ccomparing different opinions Dpresenting a cause and analyzing its effects63The writer talked about his own experience to show that Awe cannot depend on luck to live a good life Bwe should try every possible way to avoid failureCpast failures made him dare not take risks in writing Dthe thought of failure will make you work even harder ,C An ambitious billionaire has revealed his plans to colonize Mars - and charge 80,000 brave souls $500,000 to be flown there Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company Space X, has announced his vision for life on the Red PlanetHe says the settlement plan would start small, with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who he would take there on a reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methaneMusk, already the first private space entrepreneur to launch a successful mission to the International Space Station, says what would begin by first sending fewer than 10 people could blossom into something really big” “At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and make it into something really big, he told the Royal Aeronautical Society in London last week Laying out precise details and figures to his difficult but possible plans, the space pioneer says the first ferry of explorers would be no more than 10 people at a price tag of $500,000（312,110）Per ticket“The ticket price needs to be low enough that most people in advanced countries, in their mid-forties or something like that could put together enough money to make the trip, he said Rather than lounging around on an interplanetary vacation, the passengers would be sent to work, carrying with them equipment to build sustainable housing on the dusty and currently barren soil for future generationsImmediate ground work would focus on building transparent domes pressurized with CO2 while possibly covered in a layer of water to serve as protection from the sunWith the CO2, Mars soil would be capable of growing crops for food, he saidAdditional equipment carried over could also produce fertilizer, methane and oxygen using the atmospheres natural elements of nitrogen, carbon dioxide and its surface of ice water Musk believes one person out of every 100,000 people would be interested in making the journey with 8 billion expected on Earth by time his plans become reality64Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the first two paragraphs? AMusk has sent fewer than ten people to Mars BThese people would go to Mars with plenty of liquid oxygen to breathe CA reusable rocket is used to take the people to Mars DMusk is the only private entrepreneur to launch a successful mission65What does the underlined word blossom mean in the passage? Adevelop Bshow Cproduce Dburst66The passengers would do the following things on Mars EXCEPT . Abuild sustainable housing Bbuild transparent domes Cbang out on holiday Duse equipment to do something67Musk thinks Ano one likes to make the journey because of the large sum of money B8 billion new lives will be on the earth after his plans come true Cthe price now is too high for most people to afford Dhis plans are so difficult that it is impossible to realizeD Each year, Americans throw away millions of tones of electronic devicesThat means business is good for a small electronics recycler in Chantilly, Virginia Company President Jeremy Faber established PC RecyclerThere workers were busy taking apart televisions, cell phones and computers-anything electronic“Electronics recycling is the fastest growing waste stream in the United States right now” Jeremy says Recycling electronic waste is not a single jobNewer devices can be rebuilt and resoldBreaking down electronics into small parts to melt and purify is another partOperations Manager Andrew Portare says, “Boards have the highest value in them so you can actually see on the back youre looking at different types of metalsSome of the older ones are mainly all gold Gold new sells for more than one thousand three hundred dollars an ounceTwenty-five percent of PC Recyclers sales come from selling parts to refiners Refining companies pay more than ten dollars a kilogram for computer boards, PC Recycler can also lift profits by holding metal-rich parts until prices riseIf coppers up one day, we can ship all of our copper extract and capitalize on the market Andrew says Computers also hold private or secret informationAnd securing that data is the fastest growing part of the recycling businessCompletely removing data from a computer hard drive is not easyPC Recycler can remove data magnetically or completely destroy and recycle the drives PC Recycler supports the Basel Action Network, which seeks to limit harmful waste and technologyThe company says it does not export electronics to China, India or Africa where environmental rules are weak PC Recycler has been in business since 2003, expanding from waste management to other, more technical servicesThere really arent a lot of industries out there that are like this, Theres either the scrap industry where theyre shredding cars and shredding tires rind theres the refurbished PC market and were sort of sit right in between both of those Jeremy says68How do workers in PC Recycler make the best of computer boards? ABy storing the boards until prices rise BBy selling the boards to the refiners CBy taking away metals from the boards DBy rebuilding the boards into better ones69What does Jeremy think of the business of recycling electronic waste? AHe thinks it should be treated as a single job BHe thinks its very difficult to earn profit in it CHe thinks it will attract more investors in it DHe thinks it can improve the worlds economy70If workers in PC Recycler want to recycle the hard drive, they should _ Aremove the data on it Bmake it look newer Cmelt some bad parts Dlimit harmful waste71Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? AThe trouble PC Recycler met in recycling waste BPC Recyclers finding gold in old computer chips CA complete new way of protecting environment DA new technology of recycling electronic devicesE It is reported that six Chinese ships have entered waters near islands claimed by both China and JapanChina said the ships were carrying out law enforcement to demonstrate its jurisdiction （管辖权） over the islands, known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in JapanAt least two of the ships left after the Japanese coast guard issued a warning, Japanese officials say The action came after Japan sealed a deal to buy three of the islands from their private Japanese ownerJapan controls the uninhabited but resource-rich East China Sea islands, which are also claimed by Taiwan The Japanese Coast Guard said the first two Chinese boats entered Japans territorial waters at 06:18 local time, followed by another fleet of four other ships just after 07:00The first two ships then left the area A third ship left later on Friday morning, one report saidNo force was used, Japanese officials addedOur patrol（巡逻）ships are currently telling them to leave our countrys territorial waters, the coastguard said in a statement The Chinese foreign ministry confirmed that its ships were thereThese Jaw enforcement and patrol activities are aimed to demonstrate Chinas jurisdiction over the Diaoyu Islands and ensure the countrys maritime interests, a statement saidThe US has called for cooler heads to be accepted as tension worsens between China and Japan over the islandsUS Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is going to visit both Japan and China from this weekend as part of a tour of the regionThe dispute has seriously damaged diplomatic relations between China and Japan and threatens to damage the strong trading relationship, says the BBCs John Sudworth in BeijingThe dispute has also caused