高考英语 增值增分特训6.doc

2014高考英语增值增分特训6 (一)do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and selfrespect? the collection of happiness actions broadly categorized (把归类) as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.here is an example to show how honorable actions create happiness. say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item.if we keep silent, and profit from the clerks mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky (卑鄙的) excitement.later we might tell our family or friends about our good fortune.on the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty.we would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul. then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness? in the first case, where we don t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen.deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief.in the process, we would lose some peace of mind and selfrespect.we would also demonstrate (演示) that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends.we damage our own reputations by telling others.in contrast, bringing_the_error_to_the_clerks_attention causes different things to happen.immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable.upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our selfrespect is increased.whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility. there is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions.honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions.honorable actions lead us to a happier existence.and its easy to think and act honorably again when were happy.while the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once its started, its easy to continue.keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.1according to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our_.aselfrespectbfinancial rewardscadvertising abilitydfriendly relationship2the author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to _.alying bstealingccheating dadvertising3the underlined phrase “bringing the error to the clerks attention” means_.atelling the truth to the clerkboffering advice to the clerkcasking the clerk to be more attentivedreminding the clerk of the charged item4how will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?awell be very excited.bwell feel unfortunate.cwell have a sense of honor.dwell feel sorry for the clerk.5which of the following can be the best title of this passage?ahow to live truthfullybimportance of peacefulnesscways of gaining selfrespectdhappiness through honorable actions(二)thanks a million, dadi was born disabled.a difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck.by my first birthday, i couldnt stand or walk.when i was three, the doctor told dad i had cerebral palsy (脑瘫)a loss of oxygen to my brain had destroyed brain signals to the right side of my body.but no son of my dads was going to be disabled.every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg.the muscles were shrunk and twisted together.back and forth, up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape.but my dads exercise of passion didnt stop there.for my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party.when everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large boxit was a set of boxing gloves.we put them on.my dad kept on beating me mercilessly.each time i tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw.i begged him to stop. he said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world.that same year, i was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasnt picked for little league. two weeks later, dad started the shedd park minor league, and every kid played.dad coached us and made me a pitcher (棒球投手)the power of my dads love guaranteed i walked and more.in high school, i became a football star.in 1997, a brain surgeon in san jose told me i didnt have cerebral palsy after all.he explained how and where the doctors forceps (镊子) at birth had damaged my brain. my dad never knew the whole truth since he passed away years ago.but all that counts is the bottom line.after all his madness, on this fathers day, like every fathers day, im no longer disabled.1what caused the authors disability?aa failed operation.bthe doctors forceps.can accident in a game.dshrunken and twisted muscles.2what do we learn from the passage?athe author has a talent for boxing.bthe author achieved a lot thanks to his fathers love.cthe author became a baseball star with the help of his father.dthe author doesnt think his father should be so strict with him.3paragraph 3 suggests that the authors father_.awouldnt give up hope easilybbelieved his son was a normal childcblamed the doctors for his sons disabilitydcouldnt accept the truth that his son was disabled4the author wrote the passage to _.aremember his fatherbencourage disabled childrencshow the difficulty the disabled face dgive advice to the parents of disabled children(三)can you imagine living in a house built by recycled waste?texas home builder dan phillips transforms trash into artful treasures, creating beautiful floors with wood pieces, kitchen counters from ivorycolored bones and roofs out of license plates (牌照)the fantastic houses which spring from his imagination are made almost entirely of materials which would otherwise have ended up in a garbage area.“people have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years; using whatever is available to build shelter, ” phillips said.if you think about carefully what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.the thirteen homes he has built so far would fit better in an art museum than the residential streets of huntsville, a conservative town of about 35,000 people.living in these houses is a bit like living in a roadside attraction.“almost every day, somebody knocks on the door and says is there any way that we could see？”said edie wells, an artist who rents a room in the bone house.her home features a stairway made of bones, floors covered in wine corks (软木塞) and beer bottle caps.wells said visitors are most impressed when they see a bathroom with its walls, floor and ceiling entirely covered with broken mirror pieces.in addition, each house is highly energy efficient with plenty insulation (隔热材料), an ondemand solar hot water heater and a system that can collect and recycle rainwater to clean the toilet and wash clothes.phillips founded phoenix commotion 12 years ago with the aim of creating a new model for sustainable housing.for as little as $ 10,000 it builds affordable homes for single parents, lowincome families and artists.the company has used hundreds of tons of construction waste by recycling the materials into habitable buildings.phillips tries to spread his recycledhouse idea by speaking at events across the united states, and by using the internet to reach out to likeminded individuals.phillips said, “im not going