高三英语11月份百题精练（2）.doc

2013年11月份百题精练（2）英语试题第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中选出最佳选项。awhen sara and nathan jones were training to become foster parents（养父母）, their son, noah, learned a tough thing or two about foster carefor instance, nearly 600 local foster kids changed families every year, and they carried their belongings from one home to the next in black garbage bagsnoah, then ten, couldnt imagine squeezing his clothes, favorite toy, and soccer ball into a trash bag and dragging it to a new house in the middle of the night“packing kids belongings into garbage bags is like telling them that their stuff has no more worth than trash,” says noahso with help from his parents and younger sisters, macy, then nine, and molly, then seven, noah began to collect suitcases and duffel bags rom friends and extended family; he received more than 100 bags in less than two weekshe then sent letters to churches and put ads in local newspapers and on radio stations asking for donationswithin a few months, the family was collecting about 500 bags a week, which they stored briefly in their spare bathroom and downstairs hallway before giving them to foster care caseworkers at the department for community based servicesin addition to suitcases, noah now provides foster kids with backpacks containing shampoo, soap, a journal, and a toyall donated“my hope is that by giving the children things that are just theirs, they will feel a little control in the midst of the chaos,” says noahnoahs group, a case for dignity, collects and distributes hundreds of bags a yearhe recently convinced foster care managers from 15 kentucky counties to pledge to use his bags instead of trash bags“ive been so inspired by him,” says his mom“if a ten-year-old can see a problem and create a solution, how much more can we do as adults?”56what might be the purpose in writing the text? ato show the problems of foster parentsbto give a warning to foster parents cto tell us a story about noahdto blame foster parents57what is noah like based on the text? apoor and activeboutgoing and peaceful cstraightforward and crazydconsiderate and helpful58noahs solution to the problem resulted from_ athe suffering from foster parentsbthe belongings he owns cpacking kids belongings into garbage bagsddonating belongings to children59noahs group, a case for dignity_ ahelps foster kids carry belongingsbprovides foster kids with only backpacks caims at helping foster kids with their belongings dconsists of only children from foster families60what can we learn from the text?anoah, macy and molly are all foster kidsbnoahs mom takes great pride in a case for dignitycfoster care managers all promise to use his bagsdnoah couldnt put up with foster parentsblightning flashed through the darkness over donald lubecks bedroom skylightthe 80-year-old retired worker was shaken by a blast of thunderit was 11 pmthe storm had moved directly over his two-story wood home in the rural town of belchertown, massachusettsthen he heard the smoke alarm beepinglubeck padded down the stairs barefoot and opened the door to the basement, and flames exploded outlubeck fled back upstairs to call 911 from his bedroom, but the phone didnt worklubeck realized he was trapped“i started panicking,” he sayshis daughter and young granddaughters, who lived with him, were away for the nightno one will even know im home, he thoughthis house was three miles off the main road and so well hidden by pines that lubeck knew calling for help would be fruitlessup a hill about a third of a mile away lived lubecks closest neighbors, jeremie wentworth and his wifewentworth had been lying down, listening to the radio when it occurred to him that the sound was more like a smoke detectorhe jumped out of bed, grabbed a cordless phone and a flashlight, and headed down the hillside toward the noisehe dialed 911“is anyone there?” he called out as he approached the housewentworth knew that lubeck lived in the housethen he heard, “help me! im trapped!” coming from the balcony off lubecks bedroom“i ran in and yelled,don, where are you? then i had to run outside to catch my breath”after one more attempt inside the house, he gave up and circled around backbut there was no way to get to him“i shined the flashlight into the woods next to an old shed and noticed a ladder,” says wentworthhe dragged it over to the balcony and pulled lubeck down just as the second floor of the house collapsedwentworth and lubeck dont run into each other regularly, but lubeck now knows that if he ever needs help, wentworth will be therelubeck still chokes up when he tells the story“i was alone,” he says“then i heard the most beautiful sound in my lifeit was jeremie” 61according to the text, lubeck_ astayed calm in the firebcouldnt find a safe way out clived on the first floordcalled for help in the fire62how did wentworth help lubeck escape?ahe called 911bhe went upstairs and took lubeck outche put out the firedhe used a ladder and pulled lubeck down63which of the following factors was not mentioned in the text that almost cost lubecks life? ahe was living in his wood home alone that night bthe storm was too heavy and the fire was too fierce che lived far from the main road and was surrounded by pines dhe was too frightened to escape from the danger64what does the text mainly talk about? aa near neighbour is better than a distant cousin ba good way to get a narrow escape cgod helps those who help themselves dblood is thicker than waterccameron thought of himself as merely organizedhe certainly did not consider that he took great pains over anything, he did just enough to get it rightexactly right, of course, for as he was fond of telling his staff, if its not exactly right, its wrongoccasionally a worker might be sad on hearing these words, because it meant another hour or so of going over the same bit of work, correcting the mistakes which cameron had patiently pointed outand doing the corrections exactly right of coursestrangely enough, his department had the reputation for performing the highest quality work in the company, and it was seen, and not only by those who worked in the department, as a sort of elite （出类拔萃） unitthose programmes that had to work first time, straight out of the box, camerons men got thoseits mission （任务） criticalgive it to cameron was almost a catch-phrase with his teamit helped that cameron was not merely particular about thingshe wanted things done just so, not because of a personal taste, but because he had discovered through patient experimentation that this was the best way for it to be donein camerons dictionary, take as long as you want meant that you could work on your task not just in office hours, but that evening, and late into the early hours of the following morning if you so desiredbut the project had to be in by its completion date, and yes, done exactly rightor you did it againbut he would always be regarded, and not least by himself, as someone who had failed to meet requirements, one of those who just couldnt cut ityou had to face it, if you were not working for cameron, you were second bestso when word got out that cameron had messed up, big time, the news was greeted with a mixture of sympathy, and entire relief that this perfection too was human65cameron was a_asoftware programmerba chief scientistcquality controllerdhead of department66mission-critical work is given to cameron because_acamerons work was error-free bcameron was critical che didnt mind working latedhe had a good team67working for cameron, people felt that_athey were part of an elitebtheir mission was criticalccameron was very particular about thingsdcameron was patient and responsible68according to the underlined part in paragraph 5, what is meant by someone “who couldnt cut it” ?ahe didnt cut cornersbhe wasnt good enoughche had the wrong measurementsdhe was a perfection69what can we learn about cameron?ahe never got things wrongbhe didnt allow for any mistakeche encouraged work to be done in office hoursdhe was often misunderstood70the attitude of the author towards cameron is that of being_ apositivebsympatheticcnon-subjectivedoptimisticdevery year holidays broughton teams up with sopraviva trekking to offer twelve days of unforgettable adventure in a tropical rain forestdepending on where this years rain forest adventure is located, you may be going to borneo, malaysia, indonesia, or even to the greatest rain forest of them all, the mighty amazonian forestyou will fly with your fellow adventurers to one of our special base camps at the edge of the forest, where you will be given five days of survival training, and talks on the local wildlife by trained and experienced expertsyou will also go on walks which take you deeper and deeper under the forest canopy until on your final night you camp out in the rain forest itselfthen you transfer by bus into the forest itselfif you go on one of the asian holidays, you will have to walk the final five miles to the camp site itself, to avoid disturbing the local ecologyall of the sopraviva sites have been carefully built to conform with the latest regulations, and to cause the minimal amount of disturbance to the local wildlifefrom the camp, you will go on daily walking tours to experience for yourself the beauty and diversity of the forests, and plants and vegetation that can be found nowhere else on the planetremember that these adventure holidays take you deep into the wilderness, and they are not suitable for families with young children or for anyone who is not physically able to meet the demands of this kind of adventurealso re