高考英语二轮 阅读理解珍品训练（02）.doc

2013高考英语二轮（阅读理解）珍品训练（02）及答案 （*） when i was about 12, i had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings. week by week her list grew; i was very thin; i wasnt a good student. i talked too much; i was too proud, and so on. i tried to bear all these as long as i could. at last, i became very angry. i ran to my father with tears in my eyes. he listened to me quietly. then he asked, are the things she says true or not? janet, didnt you ever wonder what you are really like? well, you now have that girls opinion. go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. pay no attention to the other things she said. i did as he told me. to my great surprise, i discovered that about half the things were true. some of them i couldnt change like being very thin, but a good number i could and suddenly i wanted to change. for the first time i got a fairly clear picture of myself. i brought the list back to daddy. he refused to take it. thats just for you, he said. you know better than anyone, the truth about yourself. but you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. when something said about you is true, youll find it will be of help to you. our world is full of people who think they know your duty. dont shut your ears. listen to them all, but bear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to to.daddys advice has returned to me at many important moments. in my life, ive never had a better piece of advice. 1. what does week by week her list grewmean? a. week by week, my shortcomings grew more serious b. she made a list of my shortcomings and kept on adding new ones to it. c. i was having more and more shortcomings as time went on. d. she discovered more shortcomings of mine and pointed them out to me. 答案: d指导：从文中第一句话和weekbyweekherlistgrow” 后的一句话知d选项为最佳选项。*结束asydney opera house guided walking tourduration: 60 minutes （approx）location: sydney, australiago behind the scenes listed at the world heritagesydney opera house, one of the worlds must-see attractionson your one-hour guided walking tour of the sydney opera house, youll see what goes on behind the worlds most recognizable sailsyoull hear the various stories of the buildings construction, as interesting as any opera story, brought alive by the tours new interactive audiovisual （音视频的） presentationlikely to sell outthe sydney opera house guided tour regularly sells out weeks in advance, so book now to avoid disappointmentthe sydney opera house was intended for greatness ever since it opened in 1973, and today it is one of australias most recognizable marksyour guide will bring to life the mysterious stories behind this wonder of architecture and engineering on your one-hour touryoull visit one of the major concert halls in the opera house, where over 1500 performances are staged each year, and lose yourself in the beautiful world of australias wonderful performing arts centerthe short one-hour tour leaves you with plenty of time in the day free to enjoy yourselves in sydneytour and pricing optionsclick the link below for a price on your preferred travel dateour pricing is changing with the latest information to make sure you always receive the lowest price possible we 100% guarantee （保证）ityour currency （货币） is set to us dollarsclick here to change your currencyschedule detailsdeparts （出发）: dailydeparture point: sydney opera house information deskdeparture time: tour starts every half hour between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm（new years eve tours end at 12:00 pmnew years day tours begin at 11:00 am）return details: returns to the starting pointadditional information: wheelchair accessible, please advise at time of booking if you have limited ability to move aroundpricing details for august 2011$ 2910 （adult）; $ 2337 （child）; free （infant）41what does the tour allow visitors to enjoy?athe beautiful views of sydneybthe various stories of the operascthe performances in the arts centerdthe buildings wonderful construction42what can we say about the price of the tour?aits growing bits very low cits changeable dits acceptable43which is true to visitors according to the text?athey will get back to where they set outbthey can change money at the information deskcthey have to wait for half an hour to start the tourdthey are free to enjoy other places of interest in sydney44what s the purpose of the text?ato guide the visitorsbto attract visitors to the tourcto introduce sydney opera housedto explain the one-hour walking tourbfound a nice hotel but wondering if your room will really fit the bill? launched thursday, room 77 （wwwroom77com） claims to be the worlds first room search enginethere are hundreds of sites where you can get information about a hotel, but inside the hotel itself, the rooms are largely a black box, said kevin fleiss, the sites general manager and vice-president of productoften you don t know anything about your room until you really step inside it to deal with that problemroom 77 carries out a hotel s floor plan with google maps to determine the exact place of each individual roombased on the request users make （eghigh or low floor, importance of a view, etc）, room choices are various, each one with a computer-generated, clear image （图像） of the real viewat the hyatt regency waikiki, for example, rooms 1010 and 1410 are both considered grand ocean view doubleon room 77, however, you quickly discover that the former looks right into the waikiki police station; the latter, over the top of itall grand ocean view doubles, it seems, are not equalat this point, you can only search within a hotel youve re-selected, but, still, theres no general hotel search feature and theres no guarantee that youll get the exact room youve chosen （although the company is working on both ideas）there is, however, an ipone app, an especially handy tool when a dishonest front desk clerk claims no better rooms are availableinstead of going upstairs and deciding your rooms not a good match, you can see it for yourself along for choices, said fleissits all at your fingertips45the underlined part probably means the rooms are _alarge in sizebbadly lightedctoo expensivedmostly unknown to guests46the author gives the example in the third paragraph to say that _ait s easy for guests to be misledbroom 77 gives a real view of the roomscgrand ocean view doubles are very populardhotel room prices are different from floor to floor47what is special about room 77?aguests can easily book rooms on itbit shows which hotel provides good servicecit can tell whether the selected room is availabledguests can see the inside of the rooms in advance on it48according to the text, an iphone app can help _aintroduce nice hotels to youbget to know a dishonest clerkcselect a suitable hotel room for youdcheck which rooms have been bookedca dead six-ton satellite passed over the west coast and near auckland before burning up over a remote area of the pacific ocean, nasa maps showthe 20-year-old upper atmospheric research satellite （uars） dropped about 24 pieces of metal debris （碎片） over 800 km as it entered earths atmosphere on saturdaynasa data tracks its descent （下落） from above the indian ocean off the coast of africa to the pacific ocean at 141 degrees south latitude and 1898 degrees east longitudenew zealand was the only major land mass on its re-entry pathnasa says satellite debris scattered （撒落） over the south pacific ocean about as far away from large land masses as you can getit says the us air force calculated the satellite entered earths atmosphere generally above american samoabut pieces of it did not start hitting the water for another 480 kilometres to the northeast, southwest of christmas islandexperts believe the metal pieces fell over an 800-kilometre spanon saturday, scientists said it was possible some pieces could have reached northwestern canada, but nasa said overnight that new calculations show it landed earlier than they thought, nowhere near north americanick johnson, nasas chief scientist for orbital debris, said the satellite had descended well within the range predicted （预测） by the joint space operations center （jsoc）this was not an easy re-entry to predict because of the natural forces acting on the satellite as its orbit decayed （轨道变形）some other nations around the world also were monitoring the satellites descent in the last two hours and all the predictions were well within the range estimated by jsocuars was launched aboard space shuttle discovery in 1991nasa stopped using the satellite in 2005, after moving it into a lower orbit that cut its life short by 20 years49which is the right re-entry path of the falling satellite?aionzpo baiona cpoionz diopona（io=indian ocean; nz=new zealand; po=paciflc ocean; a=africa; na=north america）50which is true about the debris according to the text?asome reached north americabfew fell about american samoacsome reached the sea a little laterdmost dropped onto the land and some into the pacific51what can we infer from nick johnson s words?ajsoc did a good job in predictingbthe satellite descended in a set waycthe satellite was controlled by jsocdit was not easy for the satellite to re-enter52from the text we can know that the satellite was at first designed to use for about _ .a15 years b20 years c35 years d40 yearsdone of my main concerns when i am helping people achieve their goals is how they measure success i see individuals getting frustrated （挫败） as they struggle hard for successone of the main reasons that cause this frustration is that people allow their definition （定义） of success to be determined by someone or something elseanother is that they become frustrated at their own apparent （表面的） lack of success when comparing themselves to other peoplewe are individuals with individual wants, skills and experienceswe should look our own skills to determine what is successful to uswe should look inward to determine what it would mean for us to be successful in our own mind rather than someone else sevaluating （评价） a successful person needs to look at his pathway to success, his actions, his determination and translate that into his own experience to see how he can improve himselfyou must set your own course of action, and stay on your courseyou alone must determine what success means to youdo what you do to the best of your ability and the rest will take care of itselffor example, i believe that i am successful but i am not a millionaire! others may not see me as successful in their eyes but that does not matterit is how i see myself that is important to me and my life here is the truthbeing a success is doing your best, not being the bestsuccess is not something you become; it is something you continue beingwhen we get to that point, we will experience a lot more joy and a lot less frustrationand that sounds good to us!remember the great quote from napoleon hill, if you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way53in talking about success, the author thinks people feel frustrated because they _aoften failbstruggle too hardcknow little about themselvesdcare too much about others thoughts54what does the author ask us to do?abelieve success is aheadblearn from others to succeedcgain as more skills as possibledset a suitable goal and stick to it55which is true according to the text?ait is important to do small thingsbwhat matters is the course of trying to succeedcyou will be successful once youve made up your mind.dwhether one can succeed depends on his determination.egary kidd had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock, but the tooth of a woolly mammoth （猛犸）thats because he had found one himself nine years agokaleb kidd was catching some squirrels last monday near la crosse when he spotted what looked like an unusual rockgrandpa, whats that? kaleb askedhe told his grandson it looked like the tooth of the extinct （灭绝） woolly mammothnext stop was the mississippi valley archaeology center at the university of wisconsin, which proved that it was, indeed, the tooth of a mammothconnie arzigian, the centers lab director, said it could be 10,000 to 30,000 years oldit weighs 2 pounds and measures 15 centimeters long and 76 centimeters widethe center already has a woolly mammoth tooth in its collection, but its always fun to see someone discover another one, arzigian saidits wonderful to get an idea of what was here in the past, she saidthe latest find is in better shape than the one gary kidd brought up from the bottom of the mississippi river while clamming （捕蛤蚧） in 1998that tooth was water-soaked and had fallen apart, he was told when he took it to the