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2015届高考限时阅读训练（1）第一节：完形填空A Leap（跳跃）to HonorLeaping on a narrow balance beam (平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.To perfect her skills, Lola 1 for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships in March, she finished seventh out of 16 girls.Thats especially impressive, 2 she is legally blind, born with a rare condition that causes her eyes to shift constantly. She often sees double and cant 3 how far away things are.When she was little, her mom 4 that even though she couldnt see 5 , she was fearless. So her mom signed her up for gymnastics when she was three. She loved the 6 right away and gymnastics became her favorite.Though learning gymnastics has been more 7 for her than for some of her tournaments, she has never quit. She doesnt let her 8 stop her from doing anything that she wants to.She likes the determination it takes to do the sport. Her biggest 9 is the balance beam. Because she has double vision, she often sees two beams. She must use her sense of touch to help her during her routine. Sometimes she even closes her eyes. “You have to 10 your mind that itll take you where you want to go.” says Lola.To be a top-level gymnast, one must be brave. The beam is probably the most 11 for anyone because its four inches wide. At the state competition, Lola didnt fall 12 the beam. In fact, she got an 8.1 out of 10- her highest score yet.Lola doesnt want to be 13 differently from the other girls on her team. At the competitions, the judges dont know about her vision 14 . She doesnt tell them, because she doesnt think they need to know. Her mom is amazed by her 15 attitude.Lola never thinks about 16 . She is presently at Level 7 while the highest is Level 10 in gymnastics. Her 17 is to reach Level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to pass down what shes learned to other kids 18 she grew up.Lola is 19 of all her hard work and success. She says its helped her overcome problems in her life outside gymnastics, too. Her 20 for others is “just believe yourself”.1. A. runsB. teachesC. trainsD. dances2. A. sinceB. unless C. after D. though3. A. tellB. guessC. assumeD. predict4. A. suspectedB remembered C. imagined D. noticed5. A. deeplyB. wellC. aheadD. closely6. A. taskB. sportC. event D. show7. A. boringB. enjoyableC. difficult D. unsatisfactory8. A. talentB. qualityC. nature D. condition9. A. doubtB. advantage C. challengeD. program10. A. examineB. expressC. openD. trust11. A. fearfulB. harmfulC. unfairD. inconvenient12. A. toB. onC. offD. against13. A. greetedB. treatedC. servedD. paid14. A. painsB. stressesC. injuriesD. problems15. A. positiveB. friendlyC. flexibleD. caution16. A. defendingB. quittingC. winningD. bargaining17. A. standardB. rangeC. viewD. goal18. A. untilB. asC. whenD. before19. A. proudB. tiredC. ashamedD. confident20. A. planB. adviceC. rewardD. responsibility第二节 阅读理解（A）Guide to Stockholm University Library Our library offers different types of studying places and provides a good studying environment.Zones The library is divided into different zones. The upper floor is a quiet zone with over a thousand places for silent reading, and places where you can sit and work with your own computer. The reading places consist mostly of tables and chairs. The ground floor is the zone where you can talk. Here you can find sofas and armchairs for group work.Computers You can use your own computer to connect to the wi-fi specially prepared for notebook computers; your can also use library computers, which contain the most commonly used applications, such as Microsoft Office. They are situated in the area known as the Experimental Field on the ground floor.Group-study places If you want to discuss freely without disturbing others, you can book a study room or sit at a table on the ground floor. Some study rooms are for 2-3 people and others can hold up to 6-8 people. All rooms are marked on the library maps. There are 40 group-study rooms that must be booked via the website. To book, you need an active University account and a valid University card. You can use a room three hours per day, nine hours at most per week.Storage of Study Material The library has lockers for students to store course literature. When you have obtained at least 40 credits(学分), you may rent a locker and pay 400 SEK for a years rental period.Rules to be Followed Mobile phone conversations are not permitted anywhere in the library. Keep your phone on silent as if you were in a lecture and exit the library if you need to receive calls.Please note that food and fruit are forbidden in the library, but you are allowed to have drinks and sweets with you.21. Library computers on the ground floor _. A. help students with their field experiments B. contain software essential for schoolwork C. are for those who wan to access the wi-fi D. are mostly used for filling out application forms22. What condition should be met to book a group-study room? A. A group must consist of 8 people B. Three-hour use per day is the minimum C. One should first register at the university D. Applicants must mark the room on the map23. A student can rent a locker in the library if he _. A. can afford the rental fee B. attends certain coursed C. has nowhere to put his books D. has earned the required creditsB In my living room, there is a plaque (匾) that advises me to “Bloom (开花) where you are planted.” It reminds me of Dorothy. I got to know Dorothy in the early 1980s, when I was teaching Early Childhood Development through a program with Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. The job responsibilities required occasional visits to the classroom of each teacher in the program. Dorothy stands out in my memory as one who “bloomed” in her remote area.Dorothy taught in a school in Harlan County, Kentucky, Appalachian Mountain area. To get to her school from the town of Harlan, I followed a road winding around the mountain. In the eight-mile journey, I crossed the same railroad track five times, giving the possibility of getting caught by the same train five times. Rather than feeling excited by this drive through the mountains, I found it depressing. The poverty level was shocking and the small shabby houses gave me the greatest feeling of hopelessness.From the moment of my arrival at the little school, all gloom (忧郁) disappeared. Upon arriving at Dorothys classroom. I was greeted with smiling faces and treated like a queen. The children had been prepared to show me their latest projects. Dorothy told me with a big smile that they were serving poke greens salad and cornbread for “dinner” (lunch). In case you dont know, poke greens are a weed-type plant that grows wild, especially on poor ground.Dorothy never ran out of reports of exciting activities of her students. Her enthusiasm never cooled down. When the time came to sit for the testing and interviewing required to receive her Child Development Associate Certification, Dorothy was ready. She came to the assessment and passed in all areas. Afterwards, she invited me to the one-and-only steak house in the area to celebrate her victory, as if she had received her Ph. D. degree. After the meal, she placed a little box containing an old pen in my hand. She said it was a family heirloom (传家宝), but to me it is a treasured symbol of appreciation and pride that cannot be matched with things. 24. “Early Childhood Development” in Paragraph 1 refers to _. A. a program directed by DorothyB. a course given by the author C. an activity held by the studentsD. an organization sponsored by Union college25. Upon arriving at the classroom, the author was cheered up by _. A. a warm welcomeB. the sight of poke greens C. Dorothys latest projectsD. a big dinner made for her26. What can we know about Dorothy from the last paragraph? A. She was invited to a celebration at a restaurant. B. She got a pen as a gift from the author. C. She passed the required assessment. D. She received her Ph. D. degree.27. What does the author mainly intend to tell us? A. Whatever you do, you must do it carefully. B. Whoever you are, you deserve equal treatment. C. However poor you are, you have the right to education, D. Wherever you are, you can accomplish your achievement. CWhile Jennifer was at house taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor（监控器）a few hundred miles away was watching her every move.Using a web camera equipped in Jennifers Los Angeles apartment, the monitor in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was locked remotely to prevent Internet searches, and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she enter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down?In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to online education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are valid that students havent just searched the Internet to get the right answers.Although online classes have existed for more than a decade, the concern over cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of open online courses. Private colleges, public universities and corporations are jumping into the online education field spending millions of dollars to attract potential students, while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a distance.Aside from the web cameras, a number of other high-tech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students identities using personal information, such as the telephone number they once used. Other programs can produce unique exams by drawing on a large list of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes, term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating.28. The underlined expression “cutting edge” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to _. A. advanced technique B. sharpening tool C. effective rule D. dividing line 29. For Internet universities, exams and diplomas will be valid if _. A. they can attract potential students B. they can defeat academic cheating C. they offer students online help D. they offer many online courses30. Some programs can find out possible cheaters by _. A. checking the question answering speed B. producing a large number of questions C. scanning the Internet test questions D. giving difficult test questions31. Which of the following is the best title of this passage? A. The Advantages of Online Exams B. The High-tech Methods in Online Courses C. The Fight against Cheating in Online Education D. The War against the Booming of Online EducationD Many people think that listening is a passive business. It is just the opposite. Listening well is an active exercise of our attention and hard work. It is because they do not realize this, or because they are not willing to do the work, that most people do not listen well. Listening well also requires total concentration upon someone else. An essential part of listening well is the rule known as bracketing. Bracketing includes the temporary giving up or setting aside of your own prejudices and desires, to experience as far as possible someone elses world from the inside, stepping into his or her shoes. Moreover, since listening well involves bracketing, it also involves a temporary acceptance of the other person. Sensing this acceptance, the speaker will seem quite willing to open up the inner part of his or her mind to the listener. True communication is under way and the energy required for listening well is so great that it can be accomplished only by the will to extend oneself for mutual growth.Most of the time we lack this energy. Even though we may feel in our business dealings or social relationships that we are listening well, what we are usually doing is listening selectively. Often we have a prepared list in mind and wonder, as we listen, how we can achieve certain desired results to get the conversation over as quickly as possible or redirected in ways more satisfactory to us. Many of us are far more interested in talking than in listening, or we simply refuse to listen to what we dont want to hear.It wasnt until toward the end of my doctor career that I have found the knowledge that one is being truly listened to is frequently therapeutic (有疗效的). In about a quarter of the patients I saw, surprising improvement was shown during the first few months of psychotherapy(心理疗法), before any of the roots of problems had been uncovered or explained. There are several reasons for this phenomenon, but chief among them, I believe, was the patients sense he or she was being truly listened to, often for the first time in years, and for some, perhaps for the first time ever.32. The phrase “stepping into his or her shoes” in paragraph 2 probably means _. A. preparing a topic list first B. focusing on ones own mind C. directing the talk to the desired results D. experiencing the speakers inside world33. What is mainly discussed in Paragraph 2 ? A. How to listen well. B. What to listen to. C. Benefits of listening. D. Problems in listening.34. According to the author, the patients improved mainly because _. A. they were taken good care of. B. they knew they were truly listened to. C. they had partners to talk to. D. they knew the roots of problems.35. What type of writing is the article lik