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2013年9月份百题精练（1）英语试题第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。alos angeles: love for mom is necessary, but buying flowers on her big day may not be a slump in flower sales since late last year was likely to continue through mothers day, another example of americans cutting back on spending due to recession fears, which is a period of reduced trade and business activity, and increasing food and gasoline prices“if you look at what has happened on valentines day and christmas, the market for flowers has cooled,” said eric beder, an analyst at brean murray“growth has slowed in the past two quartersmothers day will probably be a slow quarter, too” us floral sales for mothers day, celebrated yesterday, will fall thirteen percent this year to 2 billion, with consumers spending an average of 1765, according to the national federation estimates mothers day, which accounts for a one-quarter of annual holiday purchases, according to the society of american florists, is traditionally the day when flowers are delivered to the doorsteps of many mothers but this year, the shop-owners are concernedgabriel soto, who owns a flower shop beneath an office high-rise in the los financial district, is expecting lower salesand has ordered 30 percent fewer flowers than normal this mothers day last month, soto, who also operates website downtown-flowersnet, closed another store in a nearby building that was headquarters to a mortgage companyafter workers lost their jobs due to the housing crisis, orders decreased56 the underlined word “slump” in para2 probably means asharp decrease in price bgreat fear for losing jobscglobal worry of floral stores dsudden fall by a large amount57according to the author, mothers day should be an occasion of aa large family get-together ba big annual holiday purchaseca great love showed to mothers da celebration among americans58this passage implies that americans have amet financial problems recentlybno longer bought flowers for motherscdelivered flowers to every house for mothersdcut back on spending because of having lost jobs59which would be the best title for this passage? ahard time coming nearerbmothers day and crisiscsorry mom, love you but no flowersdholiday purchases have a hard timebstudent participation in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student in many coursessome professors base part of the final grade on the students oral participationalthough there are formal lectures during which the student has a passive role （ie, listening and taking notes）, many courses are organized around classroom discussions, student questions, and informal lecturesin graduate discussions the professor had a “manager” role and the students make presentations and lead discussionsthe students do the actual teaching in these discussionsa professors teaching method is another factor that determines the degree and type of student participationsome professors prefer to control discussion while others prefer to guide the class without controlling itmany professors encourage students to question their ideasstudents who object to the professors point of view should be prepared to prove their positionsin the teaching of science and mathematics, the controlling mode of instruction is generally traditional, with teachers presenting formal lectures and students taking noteshowever, new educational trends have turned up in the humanities and social sciences in the past twenty yearsstudents in education, society, and history classes, for example, are often required to solve problems in groups, design projects, make presentations, and examine case studiessince some college or university courses are “practical” rather than theoretical, they pay more attention to “doing” for themselves60“participation in the classroom is not only accepted but also expected of the student” in many courses except in ascience and mathematics bthe humanities and social sciencescinformal lecture courses ddiscussion courses61from the passage we know that education in the humanities and society ahas not changed much bpay attention to students studying instead of teachers teachingcis much more important than that of science and mathematicsdhas become more practical than theoretical62the reason why some professors ask students to make presentations and lead discussions is that athese professors are often not well prepared before class bthese professors want to stress “doing”cthese professors want to test the students abilities dthese professors are not willing to teach theory63which of the following sentences is true according to the passage?astudent participation is not common in the classroom in many courses like societybsome professors want to control the classroom discussion in their teachingcsome professors in science usually want the students to take part in their teachingdnew educational trends have turned up in teaching of natural sciences such as chemistrycalthough they may not die from lack of love, adults also need a great amount of affection（友情） and companionshipin the past, many people spent their entire lives in the communities in which they were born and raisedmany more people continued to live with their parents, brothers and sisters after they were married and had children of their ownby remaining in familiar communities with relatives nearby, families had enough opportunities for friendly contact and for support in time of troublerecent studies suggest that family arrangements in western societies have not changed as much in the last few centuries as is generally believedyet most sociologists agree that in modern societies, there are fewer opportunities for friendship and support from relatives outside the immediate familyparents and children often live apart from other relatives, and seldom visit themalso, the family moves when a parent accepts a job in another place or when it decides to live in a better neighborhoodtogether, loneliness and mobility（迁移） force immediate family members to depend heavily on one another for affection and companionshipbecause the family is one of the few ongoing sources of affection and companionship in modern societies, a high percentage of people continue to marry, even though it is possible for a single man and woman to live together without marryingon the other hand, because affection and companionship have become so important, families are more likely to break up if the husbands or wifes emotional needs are not met within the family circle even if all other family functions are being satisfactorily performed, and in this sense, affection and companionship have become the standard of the modern family64it is generally believed that amany people spend their lives in familiar communitiesba person can easily get in touch with relatives in times of difficultycthe organization of the family in western society has changed a great dealdwestern societies have not changed much in the past few years65sociological studies show that athe more the family moves, the less support it gets from its distant relativesbparents and children live together to make up for the lack of relatives outside the familycfamily arrangements have changed and so there is little need for companion of relativesdfamily members are separated from each other because of lack of support from relatives66in the passage, the writer mainly wants to say aaffection and companionship are important for the family and they can be gained from nowhere but the familybaffection and companionship may come from the family and at the same time safeguard the familycthere are a few ways to gain affection and companionship but the most important way is from the familydin modern societies a lot of families break up and its just for a lack of affection and companionshipdi came to live here where i am now between wounded knee greek and grass greekothers came too, and we made these little grey houses of logs that you see, and they are squareit is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square you have noticed that everything an indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be roundin the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the respectful circle of the nation, and so long as the circle was unbroken, the people were getting richthe flowering tree was the living center of the circle, and the circle of the four quarters nursed itthe east gave peace and light, the south gave warmth, the west gave rain, and the north with its cold and strong wind gave strength and continuous powerthis knowledge came to us from the outer world with our beliefeverything the power of the world does is done in a circlethe sky is round, and i have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the starsbirds make their nests in circle, for theirs are the same as oursthe sun comes forth and goes down again in a circlethe moon does the same, and both are roundeven the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they werethe life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power movesour places were like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nations circle, a nest of many nests, where the great spirit meant for us to nurse our childrenbut the wasichus （indian word for “white people”） have put us in these square boxesour power is gone and we are dying, for the power is not in us any moreyou can look at our boys and see how it is with uswhere we were living by the power of the circle in the way we should, boys were men at twelve or thirteen years of agebut now it takes them very much longer to be full - grown67according to the passage, the indians adont have modern instruments in their homesbrefused to move from round placesclived in round places, but were forced to live in square housesdlived in round places, but then decided to move into square houses68two things being compared in the passage are athe indians past and present living conditions bthe indians past and modern beliefscthe indians old and new power dpeople and nature69in the second paragraph “the four quarters” refers to athe four rooms of the indians house bthe four kinds of natural power cthe four seasons dthe four directions70according to the author, once the indians moved into square houses, athey had to move to other houses bboys took more time to grow into men cthey forgot the old way of life deveryone was not happy第二节 信息匹配题（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） （请把答案写在答题卡上，不要涂在机读卡上）aplan your weekborganize each daycfocus on the highest value tasksdcomplete a few tasks at the same timeeget in earlier, work harder and stay laterfget to know what the best use of your time is71_being more efficient and more valuable to your company is the best way to put your career on the fast trackif you dont know exactly what your boss thinks is the best use of your time and what the highest value activity is for you, ask! it is by doing those tasks that you can move forward quicklybuilding the most value will get you noticed72_ once you have found out what your most important task is, you will probably notice that only a small portion of your time is spent on ittalk to your boss about it and see if you can get rid of or delegate some of the task to other peoplein this way, you can have enough time to focus on the highest value tasks and then spend your time building as much value as possible to the company73_ make a weekly plan to free up as much time as possible to your important tasklist everything you will do in a week and figure out how you can get the most possible out of your workdayby planning your weekday ahead, you can have enough time to work on the most important task74_ once you have planned your week, you can start organizing each daywhat is most important? what needs to be done first? what second? once you have that daily plan, get to it and start checking the things off one by one 75_ by working focused, you will get a lot more done than your workmatesbut if you also make the great impression of being the first to the office and the last to leave and working hard and more efficiently than others, you will probably get noticed, appreciated and promoted第 ii 卷（55分）第一节 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题卡相应题号的横线上have you ever intended to be fully absorbed in your work but found yourself distracted（走神） by e-mail, the internet and other things throughout the day? “people often lose their concentration when they are bored, of course, but also when they are engaged in challenging tasks,” says peter bregman“they sometimes have a feeling to escape from whats difficult or boring, so they jump out,” he saysthe part of the brain devoted to attention is connected to the brains emotional centerany strong emotionquarrels with colleague, problems at homecan interrupt our attentionstudies over the last decade have shown that too much work to do at a time can easily lead to distractionrefocusing is hard for many peoplerobert epstein suggests the following“stop and listen to music for a few minutesgo for a short walk or