高考英语二轮 阅读理解珍品训练（10）.doc

2013高考英语二轮（阅读理解）珍品训练（10）及答案 （*） when we think about people who arc leaders, we often get a mental picture of someone who is older, smarter, and wiser than ourselves. studies of leadership, though, have usually found that there is almost no relationship between skill as a leader and traditional measures of intelligence. some recent research by psychologist red fiedle and his colleagues showed that both intelligence and experience may be important but just now how important depends upon how stressful the work situation is and what kind of task is to be ac- complished. the researchers obtained measures of intelligence, experience, performance, and stress. overall, these variables did not relate to one another. men with high and low intelligence were equally likely to give good performance, as were men with more and less experience, or more and less stress with their bosses. howevcr, when you look separately at those men who have high stress with their bosses, thc picture changes. in high stress situations, there was no association between intelligence and performance, but there was between experience and performance. in other words, in difficuh situations, it was helpful to know the ropes. in low stress situations, the find ings were just the opposite. experience was not related to good performance, but intelligence was. that is. when things are going well, intelligence is very useful in leadership.a study of fire fighters performance under high and low stress conditions also found the experienced officers performed best under situations of stress. none of this is really very surprising. if you have ever had a supervisory job you probably found that at least as much energy went into handling (管理) people as went into handling the job itself. tests of intelligence at least the ones we have now do not predict success in handling people. 1. what kind of people can do the best job in stress situation? a. intelligent people b. experienced people c. calm people d. skilled people 2. in the third sentence of the last paragraph. a supervisory job refers to_. a. a management job b. an advisory job c. a teaching job d. an organizing job 3. which of the following statements is true according to the passage.? a. in stress situations, there are no association between experience and performance. b. some recent research suggests that most leaders arc lack of intelligence. c. in low stress situations, intelligence plays an important role in leadership. d. generally speaking, leaders are likely to be cleverer than ordinary people. 4. in the second sentence of the fourth paragraph, to know the ropesmost probably means_. a. to understand the situation b. to control the situation c. to get rid of the situation d. to make sure what to do about thc situation答案：d 指导：根据上下文可以推断本句意思是：换句话说，在困难的情况下经验有利于控制局势。*结束aeat nuts every day, and you will keep heart disease awaythis is the conclusion some medical researchers have recently reached after a six - year study on 34,000 people in california with focus on their dietary habits and heart diseasescompared with someone who never cares for nuts, the one who eats nuts such as peanuts and walnuts （胡桃） at least once a day has only 47 per cent chance of having heart trouble, according to one of the researchersanother report states that 60 per cent of all those who eat nuts regularly like to chew peanut either during or between mealsthis led the researchers to believe that the more regularly one sticks to the habit of eating nuts, the less will be his chance of getting heart disease41scientists began to study the relation of peoples dietary habits and heart diseases at least _years agoathree bfour cfive dsix42peanuts and walnuts are two kinds of _ aplastics bfruits canimals dflowers43the 34, 000 people are _ peopleachinese bjapanese citalian damericanbthe touchstonewhen the great library of alexandria burned, the story goes, one book was savedbut it was not a valuable book, and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for very little moneythe book wasnt very interesting, but between its pages there was something very interesting indeedit was a thin strip of vellum （上等皮纸） on which was written the secret of the touchstone ! the touchstone was a small pebble （卵石） that could turn any common metal into pure goldthe writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like itbut the secret was this: the real pebble would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are coldso the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the seashore, and began testing pebbleshe knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and threw them down again because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of timesso, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the seahe spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstoneyet he went on and on this waypick up a pebblecoldthrow it into the seapick up anotherthrow it into the seapick up anotherthrow it into the sea the days stretched into weeks and the weeks into monthsone day, however, about mid-afternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warmhe threw it into the sea before he realized what he had donehe had formed such a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along he still threw it awayso it is with opportunityunless we are careful, its easy to fail to recognize an opportunity when it is in hand, and its just as easy to throw it away44the man bought the book because _ahe wanted to read it bit was very interestingcthere was a secret in the book dhe wanted to find the touchstone45we can learn from the passage that the touchstone is _ apure bcold cmagic dbig46why did the man throw the pebbles into the sea?abecause he didnt want to get the same pebblesbbecause he didnt want others to pick them upcbecause he didnt like their ordinary looksdbecause he didnt like the cold feelings47what does the author want to tell us in the passage?awe should offer opportunities in our lifebwe should seek for opportunities in the worldcwe may seize opportunities when we are watchfuldwe may discover opportunities when forming habitsccatherine destivelle is a rock starshe loves rock, but she cant sing or play the guitar t she is a rock climber and a big star in france and italyshe is the most famous woman climber in the world because she often climbs without ropesshe climbs in many countries but most often in the french alps near chamonix, where she livesshe started climbing near her home in paris when she was fivethen, at fourteen, she joined the french alpine club to learn more, but immediately she climbed better and more quickly than the older members of the clubshe won her first competition in italy in 1995three years ago she found a new route up the dru mountain near chamonixthe climb took eleven days and for four days the snow was so heavy that she could not movelast year other climbers tried to follow the new destivelle route, but they failedthey are going to try again this yearpeople always ask her about her climbingshe says, i climb because im in love with mountainsi like touching the rock and reading the face of the rocki like it a loti felt at home on the side of a mountaini prepare well before i go, so im never worriedcatherine chooses new mountains from bookslike buying from a shopping catalogue! i see a nice mountain and i go to climb it! her next mountain is in pakistanshe is going there next month its much bigger than the dru, so its going to take longer to climban american climber, jeff lowe, is coming with me to help48catherine destivetle is called a star because _ ashe won a competition in 1995 bshe loves rockscshes a famous woman climber dshe found a new route up to the dru mountain49she had great trouble finding a new route up the dru mountain because _ ashe lost her way bthe climb took 11 dayscshe needed help from an american climber dthere was heavy snow50on the side of a mountain she feels _ aworried beasy and happyclike staying at home dterrible51we can infer from the passage people often ask her _ awhy do you like climbing?bare you in love with an american climber?cdo you enjoy reading books on mountains?dwhat do you do before you go climbing?dthe weather predictions for asia in 2050 read like a story from a doomsday moviemany experts and green groups fear they will come true unless there is a united global effort to hold back greenhouse gas outpouringin the decades to come, asiahome to more than half the worlds 63 billion peoplewill change from one climate extreme to another, with tired farmers battling droughts, floods, disease, food shortages and rising sea levelsits not a pretty picture, said steve sawyer, climate policy adviser with greenpeace in amsterdamglobal warming and changes of weather patterns are already occurring and there is more than enough carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to drive climate change for decades to comealready, changes are being felt in asia but worse is likely to comesawyer and top climate bodies say, and could lead to mass migration and widespread human disastersaccording to predictions, icebergs will melt faster, some pacific and indian ocean islands will have to evacuate or build sea defenses, storms will become stronger and insects and water-borne diseases will move into new areas as the world warmsall this comes on top of rising populations and earnest demand for food, water and other resourcesexperts say environmental worsening such as deforestation and pollution will likely enlarge the results of climate changein what could be a sign of the future, japan was hit by a record of 10 typhoons and tropical storms this year, while two - thirds of bangladesh, parts of nepal and large areas of northeastern india were flooded, affecting 50 million people, destroying livelihoods and making tens of thousands illthe year before, a winter cold strike and a summer heat wave killed more than 2,000 people in india52this passage is mainly about _ awhat kind of weather we like bestbthe weather predictions for asia in the future and the reasonschow to improve our environmentdthat the world will not be suitable for us to live in53in the future the asian farmers will have to face the following except _ afood shortages bdroughts cwars dfloods54the underlined word doomsday in the first paragraph may give us the feeling of _ ahappiness bsadness cpeace dexcitement55which of the following is not true according to the passage?aasian climate will change greatlybsome islands may be flooded in the futurecmore than 50 million people have been killed in asia the year beforedpeople may meet with some new diseases borne from watererunning like the wind, roaring like thunder, tigers have long been feared and respected as a king of the animal worldbut last week a report said that there are no more than 30 wild tigers left in south chinathis was the conclusion of a team of scientists from chinas state forestry administration and the world nature fundthe south china tiger, also known as the chinese tiger, is native to southern chinain the 1950s, there were over 4000 tigers found in mountain forests in the countrybut due to the destruction of their natural habitat （栖息地） and uncontrolled hunting, it has been pushed on to the list of the worlds top ten most endangered speciessixty - six of the big cats can be found in the cages of a dozen zoos around chinabut they are nothing like their wild cousinsthey have lost their natural skills such as hunting and killingif they were set free they could not look after themselvesbreeding has damaged the quality of the species , said pei enle, deputy director of the shanghai zooto reintroduce the species into the wild, the country started a programme to send five to ten young tigers to south africafour of them have already arrivedprogress has been made as two elder tigers have recovered some of their instincts （本能） and can hunt wild animals by themselves at the african base south africans are very experienced in reintroducing big animals to the wildthe country has very good natural conditions for the tigers to learn in , said lu jun, office director of the national wildlife research and development centerwe tried in fujian province, but it was not successful as there was not a complete eco - chain and there was a lack of spacethe tigers should return to china in 2012 when the reservations in fujian are ready56what is the main reason for the south china tiger becoming one of the worlds top ten most endangered species?abecause it has lost its natural instinctsbbecaus