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2013高考英语二轮阅读理解精选（11）及答案ABicycle SafetyOperation Always ride your bike in a safe, controlled manner on campus(校园). Obey rules and regulations. Watch out for walkers and other bicyclists, and always use your lights in dark conditions.Theft Prevention Always securely lock your bicycle to a bicycle rack-even if you are only away for a minute. Register your bike with the University Department of Public Safety. Its fast, easy, and free. Registration permanently records your serial number, which is useful in the possible recovery of the bike stolen.EquipmentBrakes Make sure that they are in good working order and adjusted properly.Helmet A necessity, make sure your helmet meets current safety standards and fit properly.Lights Always have a front headlight-visible at least 500 feet in front of the bike. A taillight is a good idea.Rules of the RoadRiding on Campus As a bicycle rider, you have a responsibility to ride only on streets and posted bicycle paths. Riding on sidewalks or other walkways can lead to a fine. The speed limit for bicycles on campus is 15mph, unless otherwise posted. Always give the right of ways to walkers. If you are involved in an accident, you are required to offer appropriate aid, call the Department of Public Safety and remain at the scene until the officer lets you go.Bicycle Parking Only park in areas reserved for bikes. Trees, handrails, hallways, and sign posts are not for bicycle parking, and parking in such posts can result in a fine.If Things Go WrongIf you break the rules, you will be fined. Besides violating rules while riding bicycles on campus, you could be fined for:No bicycle registration-$25Bicycle parking banned-$30Blocking path with bicycle -$40Violation of bicycle equipment requirement -$3556. Registration of your bicycle may help you _. A. find your stolen bicycle B. get your serial number C. receive free repair services D. settle conflicts with walkers57. When you ride a bicycle on the campus, _. A. ride on posted bicycle paths and sidewalks B. cycle at a speed of over 15 mph C. put the walkers right of way first D. call the police before leaving in a case of accident58 If you lock your bicycle to a tree on the campus, you could be fined _ _. A. $25 B. $30 C. $35 D. $4059. What is the passage mainly about? A. A guide for safe bicycling on campus. B. Directions for bicycle tour on campus. C. Regulations of bicycle race on campus. D. Rules for riding motor vehicles on campus.B Is losing weight as simple as doing a 15-minute writing exercise? In a new study, women who wrote about their most important values, like close relationships or religion, lost more weight over the next few months than women who didnt. We have this need to feel self-integrity (正直,诚实）,” says Christine Logel of the University of Waterloo. When something threatens your sense that youre a good person, like failing a test, we can buffer（缓冲） that self-integrity by reminding ourselves how much we love our children, for example. For this study, the researchers recruited 45 female undergraduates, of whom 58% were overweight. Each woman was weighed, and was then given a list of important values, like creativity, music or relationships with friends and family members. Each woman ranked the values in order of how important they were to her. Then half the women were told to write for 15 minutes about the value that was most important to her. The other half, a control group, were told to write about why a value far down on their list might be important to someone else. The women came back months later to be weighed again. Women who had written about an important value lost an average of 3.41 pounds, while women in the control group gained an average of 2.76 pounds. How we feel about ourselves can have a big effect, Logel says. Maybe when one of the women who wrote about an important value went home that night, she felt good about herself and didnt eat to make herself feel better. Over a few months, that could make a real difference in her life,60. How can a 15-minute writing exercise of important values affect people? A. They will feel proud of themselves and gain weight gradually. B. They may feel good about themselves and then eat less than usual. C. They may continue writing and decide to become a professional writer. D. They will never have meals at night to make themselves lose weight.61. What were the females required to do in the study? A. Only the control group was given a list of important values. B. Both groups ranked the values in order of importance to them. C. Each woman was weighed three times in the process of the study. D. The overweight women wrote about the value most important to them.62. Which of the following persons may lose weight according to the new study? A. Mary who wrote about her own adventure. B. Catherine who described her illness in her writing. C. Shirley who wrote how much she loved her children. D. Alice who complained her boss in her diary.63. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A. Writing Benefits Women a Lot B. Losing Weight Is Very Simple C. Writing Contributes to Losing Weight D. Women Values Losing WeightC Most recently, its very common in students who need a parent present for job interviews. Naturally, its easy to blame the students in these situations, but the bigger problem is us. Weas parentsare so eager to shelter our kids that we fail to realize that this in itself is harming them. As the mother of two young sons, I have to remind myself constantly that the biggest responsibility I have as a parent is to help them develop the skills needed to live in, to live without me. So, Ill let them fail Ill let them fail because as long as they are safe and warm inside their comfort zones, they will never grow. And failure along with loss, heartbreak, disappointment, etc.will be part of growth for them. Call me the anti-tiger mom, but leaving them alone is, my way of helping them become equipped to fit in this world as we know it today. From terrorism and seemingly endless natural disasters, to our national debt and beyond, if we expect the next generation to stand up to the very real problems of our time, we need to stop feeding them and start teaching them how to fish. My children now are becoming little masters of compromise, but they try to negotiate everything now. Its a small price to help them learn a skill theyll use for the rest of their lives, including when I dont accompany them on job interviews. 64. Why do parents accompany their kids on job interviews?A. Because they want to protect their kids from difficultiesB. Because they think they can help them on the questionsC. Because their kids are too shy to attend interviewsD. Because their kids strongly request them to do so65. According to the author, what is beneficial to kids development?A. Sheltering them B. Keeping them safeC. Leaving them alone D. Blaming them66. Why does the author stress failure in kids life?A. To make them stronger than other kidsB. To help them grow in this tough worldC. To help them develop all social skillsD. To make them learn to compromise67. Which of the following might be the best title for the text?A. Never Shelter Your Kids B. Let Your Kids FailC. Be Eager to Grow Up D. Live Without ParentsDSeveral recent studies have found that being randomly assigned to a roommate of another race can lead to increased tolerance but also to a greater likelihood of conflict.Recent reports found that lodging with a student of a different race may decrease prejudice and compel students to engage in more ethnically diverse friendships.An Ohio State University study also found that black students living with a white roommate saw higher academic success throughout their college careers. Researchers believe this may be caused by social pressure.In a New York Times article, Sam Boakye the only black student on his freshman year floor -said that if youre surrounded by whites, you have something to prove.Researchers also observed problems resulting from pairing interracial students in residences.According to two recent studies, randomly assigned roommates of different races are more likely to experience conflicts so strained that one roommate will move out.An Indiana University study found that interracial roommates were three times as likely as two white roommates to no longer live together by the end of the semester.Grace Kao, a professor at Penn said she was not surprised by the findings. This may be the first time that some of these students have interacted, and lived, with someone of a different race, she said.At Penn, students are not asked to indicate race when applying for housing.One of the great things about freshman housing is that, with some exceptions, the process throws you together randomly, said Undergraduate Assembly chairman Alec Webley. This is the definition of integration.Ive experienced roommate conflicts between interracial students that have both broken down stereotypes and reinforced stereotypes, said one Penn resident advisor (RA). The RA of two years added that while some conflicts provided more multicultural acceptance and melding (融合), there were also jarring cultural confrontations.The RA said that these conflicts have also occurred among roommates of the same race.Kao said she cautions against forming any generalizations based on any one of the studies, noting that more background characteristics of the