高考英语（阅读理解）倒计时冲刺50天（14）.doc

2013高考英语（阅读理解）倒计时冲刺50天（14）及答案真题试做(2012湖南高考，b篇)still seeking a destination for your weekend break？there are some places which are probably a mere walk away from your college.kings art centrea day at the centre could mean a visit to an exhibition of the work of one of the most interesting contemporary artists on show anywhere.this weekend sees the opening of an exhibition of four local artists.you could attend a class teaching you how to learn from the masters or get more creative with paintfree of charge.the centre also runs two life drawing classes for which there is a small fee.the botanic gardenthe garden has over 8,000 plant species；it holds the research and teaching collection of living plants for cambridge university.the multibranched torch aloe here is impressive.the african plant produces red flowers above bluegreen leaves，and is not one to miss.get to the display house to see dionaea muscipula，a plant more commonly known as the venus flytrap that feeds on insects and other small animals.the garden is also a place for wildlifeenthusiasts.look for grass snakes in the lake.a snake called hissing sid is regularly seen lying in the heat of the warm sun.byrons poolmany stories surround lord byrons time as a student of cambridge university.arriving in 1805，he wrote a letter complaining that it was a place of “mess and drunkenness”however，it seems as though byron did manage to pass the time pleasantly enough.im not just talking about the pet bear he kept in his rooms.he spent a great deal of time walking in the village.it is also said that on occasion byron swam naked by moonlight in the lake，which is now known as byrons pool.a couple of miles past grantchester in the south cambridgeshire countryside，the pool is surrounded by beautiful circular paths around the fields.the cries of invisible birds make the trip a lovely experience and on the way home you can drop into the village for afternoon tea.if you dont trust me，then perhaps youll take it from virginia woolfover a century after byron，she reportedly took a trip to swim in the same pool.61as mentioned in the passage，there is a small charge for _.aattending the masters classbworking with local artistsclearning life drawingdseeing an exhibition62“torch aloe” and “venus flytrap” are _.acommon insectsbimpressive plantscrarelyseen snakes dwildlifeenthusiasts63we can infer from the passage that byron seemed _.ato fear pet bearsbto like walkingcto be a heavy drinkerdto finish university in 180564in the passage byrons pool is described as a lake _.asurrounded by fieldsbowned by lord byronclocated in grantchesterddiscovered by virginia woolf65what is the passage mainly about?asome places for weekend break.ba way to become creative in art.cthe colourful life in the countryside.dunknown stories of cambridge university.真题试做61c细节理解题。根据第一则广告中最后一句“the centre also runs two life drawing classes for which there is a small fee.”可知，此处c项正确。62b细节理解题。根据第二则广告中第二段首句“the multibranched torch aloe here is impressive. the african plant.”可知，torch aloe是一种植物。根据第三段中“.，a plant more commonly known as the venus flytrap that feeds on insects and.”可知，venus flytrap也是一种植物。故b项正确。63. b细节理解题。根据第三则广告中第一段最后一句“he spent a great deal of time walking in the village.”可知，他花了大量时间在村子里散步。故此处b项正确。64a细节理解题。根据第三则广告中第二段“a couple of miles past grantchester in the south cambridgeshire countryside, the pool is surrounded by beautiful circular paths around the fields.(拜伦潭位于剑桥郡南部乡村格兰切斯特几英里处，周围是环绕田野的美丽的环形小路)”可知a项正确，排除b、c项。根据最后一句“.virginia woolfover a century after byron, she reportedly took a trip to swim in the same pool.”可知弗吉尼亚伍尔芙并不是发现拜伦潭的人，只是继拜伦之后，在此游过泳，故排除d项。65a主旨大意题。根据文章首句“still seeking a destination for your weekend break？there are some places which are probably a mere walk away from your college.”可知，这三则广告都是提供给大学生周末休闲的。故a项正确。*结束“the first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says platoself-control is at the root of all the advantageslet a man give in to his impulses （冲动） and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedoma single angry word has lost many a friendwhen socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himselfif you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising angermany a person has dropped dead in great angerfits of anger bring fits of disease“whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” “keep cool”, says george herbert, “for fierceness makes error a fault” to be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself“anger,” says pythagoras, “brings with folly（愚蠢） and ends with regret” you must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer himself-control is mans last greatest victoryif a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everythingwithout it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feelingif he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking also64what does the reader learn from the first paragraph? athe greatest victory for a man is to conquer everything except himselfbones moral freedom is based on the control of himselfcto control oneself is the most difficult in ones lifedif a person is too stubborn, he will feel most shameful65what does the underlined sentence “whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” mean ?aif the gods want to kill you, they make you crazy firstbif you are mad, you will be punished by the godscif you cannot control yourself, you will become crazydif you always lose your temper, you will soon be finished66if a man lacks self-control, he lacks all of the following except _athe very backbone and nerve of character bthe patience and power to control himselfcstrong feelingsdself-confidence67the authors main purpose in writing this article is to _aexplain that self-control is the key to successbteach people how to control everything in order to make a great successcdistinguish all kinds of self-control and suggest ways for keeping itdadvise people not to lose temper so as to make and keep more friends*结束hungry for the brightest students, many of the countrys stronger universities are actively discounting tuition （学费）and its the high achievers, rather than the needy students, who are getting a good chunk of the moneythe practice is remarkably widespread, reaching almost all but the 30 or so ivy and other top colleges that forbid good grades-based financial aidschools are also becoming more aggressive in raising their discountsat the depauw university website, enter an sat or act score, grade point average and class rank, and a computer program immediately tells you what kind of awardonly the real unlucky pay full price any moreabout 76% of first-year students got some form of discount this year at 331 private schoolsaverage award per student: $7,000at small schools with tuition under about $20,000, the average discount is even higher, with some schools returning over half their tuition carnegie mellon even tells students it will negotiate（讨价还价） and perhaps match financial-aid packages if kids are offered bigger awards at other schoolsmuch as banks and insurers offer special rates to their best customers, schools are giving the biggest breaks to their top studentspublic four-year colleges, too, are offering discountsthe flip side of big discounts is that less money is available to improve academic programs and keep school infrastructure （基础设施） up to dateuniversities that have sharply increased their tuition discount rates have seen graduation rates fall, and thats true even among highly selective schoolsthey get the students in the door, but dont have the services to keep them72from the first paragraph, we can judge that _aall the universities dont offer tuition dis