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深圳市2014高考英语阅读理解精英训练精品题（1）及答案【深圳市2014高考英语综合能力测试题（7）】bthe fourth thursday in november is thanksgiving day in america. there are thousands of bystanders and millions of television viewers. the annual macys thanksgiving day parade in new york is as traditional as turkey. the year 2013 marked the 87th year of macys parade. it featured 15 giant balloons in the shape of cartoon and pop culture characters, 1,200 dancers and cheerleaders, 900 clowns, 10 marching bands and nearly 9,000 personnel, almost all of whom were volunteers. over the course of the nearly nine decades since macys immigrant employees organized the first thanksgiving day parade, the floats (彩车) and balloons8have been getting larger, more colorful and more surprising. in 2013, school children were invited to the macys parade studios outside new york city, for a first look at several just completed floats. bella was excited to be there. “i think its great because i get to see all of these floats before anyone else does in the parade,” said bella. john piper is the vice president of macys studio. he said his work is fun all the time. “or at least it seems that way. its a lot of work. all year long, the artists at macys studio build these floats. we create them from scratch. i have the finest carpenters, metal workers, sculptors, painters and illustrators all cooperating together,” said piper. the floats were supposed to showcase the parades commercial sponsors in time for the start of the christmas season. but amy kule, the event producer, said,“and the floats are used to maintain the beauty and the majesty(庄严) of the parade. a thanksgiving parade is always about giving back and entertaining. but most importantly, its about leaving it for the next generation.”31. from the first paragraph we know that _. a. the marching bands were as many as clowns b. thanksgiving day falls on the first thursday c. all of the people celebrating the festival were volunteers d. all balloons were shaped into cartoon and pop culture characters32. the macys thanksgiving day parade in america has a history of _. a. almost 90 years b about 80 years c. nearly 70 years d. about 60 years33. which of the following statements is not true according to john piper? a. all the workers at macys studio work together on the floats. b. john piper is the vice president of the studio. c. the workers must build the floats two years before the parade. d. the workers have to create the floats from the beginning.34. most importantly, a thanksgiving parade is about _. a. giving back b. entertaining c. leaving it for the next generation d. maintaining the beauty and the majesty of the parade35. which part of a website is the passage probably taken from? a. culture. b. technology.c. traveld. opinion【参考答案】31-35 dacca 每年11月的第四个星期四被定为感恩节，本文介绍了感恩节的一些情况。31. d。细节理解题。从第一段的it featured 15 giant balloons in the shape of cartoon and pop culture characters.可知答案。32. a。细节理解题。从第二段的.nearly nine decades及第一段的the year 2013 marked the 87th year.可知答案。33. c。细节理解题。从第五段的all year long, the artists.build these floats.可知答案。34. c。细节理解题。从最后一段中的but most importantly, its about leaving it for the next generation.可知答案。35. a。推理判断题。感恩节属于美国的传统节日，应属于文化部分的内容。 阅读理解friday, dec5, 2008college students who think all-night study sessions will help them remember facts might want to get some sleep insteadthats the message from a new study that finds that as you sleep, the mind consolidates the things you learn during the day study participants who learned how to play a video game in the morning or evening did a better job the next day after a nights rest, apparently because their brains were actively absorbing what theyd learned as they sleptthe finding shows that sleep is not just a passive state when no information is coming in, said howard nusbaum, a professor of psychology at the university of chicagofor the study, the researchers recruited 200 college studentsmost of them werent very familiar with playing video gamessome of the participants learned how to play the games in the morning, while others learned in the eveningthe researchers then tested the subjects on the video games 12 hours later and 24 hours laterthose who took part in the morning training sessions showed an average eight-percentage-point improvement in their performance immediately after trainingthey performed more poorlyscoring four percentage points better12 hours laterbut they scored 10 percentage points better the next morningif we train you in the morning and come back at the end of the day, you forget some of what you learned, nusbaum saidbut if you sleep after that, it restores some of what you learned the students who took part in the evening training sessions performed better the next morning after sleeping, than they did after being trainedthe role that dreams play in the learning processif anyisnt clearbut some dreams could serve as a kind of practice for the brain, nusbaum saidif you play a video game a lot, and youre playing in your dreams, maybe that could help you learnjerry siegel, professor at the center for sleep research at the university of calfornia, los angeles, said going without sleep hurts performance, but hes not convinced that sleep itself actively contributes to learning if you take a break for a few hours, it can easily be shown that learning did occur, because performance is better at the start of a new learning session than it was at the end of the initial session, he saidno sleep needs to occur for this to happen still, siegel suggested that sleep before learning a skill is crucialfor long-term retention, it is more important to be well rested and therefore attentive when you are doing the learning than afterwards, he saidit is even better if you dont have to choose and get your natural amounts of sleep every day 9what does the underlined word want （in paragraph 1） mean? alackbwish cdesiredneed 10what is mainly talked about in this text? athe effect of video games on learningbthe relation between sleep and learningcthe role of dreams in the learning processdthe difference between morning and evening trainings11what would be the best title for the text? asleep strengthens learningbdreams clearly help learningca break before learning is betterdvideo games improve performance12which of the following statements is true according to the passage? atraining in the morning showed better results at onceblearning wont occur during sleeping without dreamscsleeping well helps to absorb what one learneddstudying all night helps to remember more facts参考答案 9-12 dbac 阅读理解the queens english is now sounding less upper-class, a scientific study of the queens christmas broadcasts had found. researchers have studied each of her messages to the commonwealth countries since 1952 to find out the change in her pronunciation from the noble upper received to the standard received. jonathan harrington, a professor at germanys university of munich, wanted to discover whether accent (口音) changers recorded over the past half century would take place within one person. “as far as i know, there just is nobody else for whom there is this sort of broadcast records,” he said.he said the noble way of pronouncing vowels (元音) had gradually lost ground as the noble upper-class accent over the past years. “her accent sounds slightly less noble than it did 50 years ago. but these are very, very small and slow changes that we dont notice from year to year.”“we may be able to relate it to changes in the social classes,” he told the daily telegraph, a british newspaper. “in 1952 she would have been heard saying thet men in the bleck het. now it would be that man in the black hat. and hame rather than home. in the 1950s she would have been lorst, but by the 1970s lost.”the queens broadcast is a personal message to the commonwealth countries. each christmas, the 10-minute broadcast is put on tv at 3 pm in britain as many families are recovering from their traditional turkey lunch. (传统火鸡午餐).the results were published (发表) in the journal of phonetics.46. the queens broadcasts were chosen for the study mainly because _. a. she has been queen for many years b. she has a less upper-class accent now c. her speeches are familiar to many people d. her speeches have been recorded for 50 years47. which of the following is an example of a less noble accent in english? a. “duaty” b. “citee” c. “hame” d. “lorst” 48. we may infer from the text that the journal of phonetics is a magazine on _. a. speech sounds b. christmas customsc. tv broadcasting d. personal messages49. what is the text mainly about?a. the relationship between accents and social classes.b. the queens christmas speeches on tv.c. the changes in a persons accent.d. the recent development of the english language. 参考答案-46-549、dbac阅读理解below is a page adapted from an english dictionarystick verb (stuck, stuck )push sth in+adv./prep. to push sth, usually a sharp object, into sth; to be pushed into sth: vn the nurse stuck the needle into my arm. dont stick your fingers through the bars of the cage. v i found a nail sticking in the tyre.attach+adv./prep. to fix sth to sth else, usually with a sticky substance; to become fixed to sth in this way: vn he stuck a stamp on the envelope. we used glue to stick the broken pieces together. i stuck the photos into an album. v her wet clothes were sticking to her body. the glues useless-the pieces just wont stick.putvn +adv./prep. (informal) to put sth in a place, especially quickly or carelessly: stick your bags down there. he stuck his hands in his pockets and strolled off. can you stick this on the noticeboard? peter stuck his head around the door and said, coffee, anyone? (spoken) stick em up! (= put your hands above your head-i have a gun)become fixedv (in sth) to become fixed in one position and impossible to move: the key has stuck in the lock. this drawer keeps sticking.difficult situation(bre, informal) (usually used in negative sentences and questions) to accept a difficult or unpleasant situation or person: vn i dont know how you stick that job. theyre always arguing-i cant stick it any longer. the problem is, my mother cant stick my boyfriend. v -ing john cant stick living with his parents.become acceptedv to become accepted: the police couldnt make the charges stick (= show them to be true). his friends called him bart and the name has stuck (= has become the name that everyone calls him).v to not take any more cardsidioms: stick in your mind (of a memory, an image, etc.) to be remembered for a long time: one of his paintings in particular sticks in my mind.stick in your throat / craw (informal)(of words) to be difficult or impossible to say: she wanted to say how sorry she was but the words seemed to stick in her throat.(of a situation) to be difficult or impossible to accept; to make you angrystick your neck out (informal) to do or say sth when there is a risk that you may be wrong: ill stick my neck out and say that bill is definitely the best candidate for the job.stick to your guns (informal) to refuse to change your mind about sth even when other people are trying to persuade you that you are wrongphrasal verbs: stick around (informal) to stay in a place, waiting for sth to happen or for sb to arrive: stick around; well need you to help us later.stick at sth to work in a serious and determined way to achieve sth: if you want to play an instrument well, youve got to stick at it.stick by sb no passive to be loyal to a person and support them, especially in a difficult situation: her husband was charged with fraud but she stuck by him.stick by sth no passive to do what you promised or planned to do: they stuck by their decision.stick sthdown (informal) to write sth somewhere: i think ill stick my name down on the list.stick out to be noticeable or easily seen: they wrote the notice in big red letters so that it would stick out.stick sthout (of sth) to be further out than sth else or come through a hole; to push sth further out than sth else or through a hole: his ears stick out. she stuck her tongue out at me. dont stick your arm out of the car window.stick to sthto continue doing sth in spite of difficulties: she finds it impossible to stick to a diet.to continue doing or using sth and not want to change it: he promised to help us and he stuck to his word (= he did as he had promised). shall we meet on friday this week? no, lets stick to saturday. she stuck to her story.stick together (informal) (of people) to stay together and support each other: we were the only british people in the town so we tended to stick together.stick up to point upwards or be above a surface: the branch was sticking up out of the water.stick with sb/sth no passive (informal)to stay close to sb so that they can help you: stick with me and ill make you a millionaire!to continue with sth or continue doing sth: they decided to stick with their original plan.nounfrom treec a thin piece of wood that has fallen or been broken from a tree: we collected dry sticks to start a fire. the boys were throwing sticks and stones at the dog. her arms and legs were like sticks (= very thin).for walkingc (especially bre) = walking stick: the old lady leant on her stick as she talked.in sportc a long thin object that is used in some sports to hit or control the ball: a hockey sticklong thin piecec (often in compounds) a long thin piece of sth: a stick of dynamite carrot sticks (ame) a stick of butterc (often in compounds) a thin pie