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密云区2014高考英语阅读理解系列训练（9）及答案my father was a foreman of a sugar-cane plantation in rio piedras, puerto rico. my first job was to drive the oxen（牛） that ploughed the cane fields. i would walk behind an ox, guiding him with a broomstick. for $ 1 a day, i worked eight hours straight, with no food breaks.it was very tedious work, but it prepared me for life and taught me many lasting lessons. because the plantation owners were always watching us, i had to be on time every day and work as hard as i could. ive never been late for any job since. i also learned about being respectful and faithful to the people you work for. more important, i earned my pay; it never entered my mind to say i was sick just because i didnt want to work.i was only six years old, but i was doing a mans job. our family needed every dollar we could make because my father never earned more than $ 18 a week. our home was a three-room wood shack with a dirty floor and no toilet. nothing made me prouder than bringing home money to help my mother, father, two brothers and three sisters. this gave me self-esteem(自尊心), one of the most important things a person can have. when i was seven, i got work at a golf course near our house. my job was to stand down the fairway and spot the balls as they landed, so the golfers could find them. losing a ball meant you were fired, so i never missed one. some nights i would lie in bed and dreamt of making thousands of dollars by playing golf and being able to buy a bicycle. the more i dreamed, the more i thought. why not? i made my first golf club out of guava limb(番石榴树枝) and a piece of pipe. then i hammered an empty tin can into the shape of a ball. and finally i dug two small holes in the ground and hit the ball back and forth. i practiced with the same devotion and intensity. i learned working in the field except now i was driving golf balls with club, not oxen with a broomstick.46. the word “tedious” in paragraph 2 most probably means _. a. difficult b. boring c. interesting d. unusual47. the writer learned that_ from his first job. a. he should work for those who he liked most b. he should work longer than what he was expected c. he should never fail to say hello to his owner d. he should be respectful and faithful to the people he worked for48 _ gave the writer self-esteem. a. having a family of eight people b. owning his own golf course c. bringing money back home to help the family d. helping his father with the work on the plantation49. which of the following statements is true according to the passage? a. he wanted to be a successful golfer. b. he wanted to run a golf course near his house. c. he was satisfied with the job he got on a plantation. d. he wanted to make money by guiding oxen with a broomstick.参考答案-46-49、 bdca *（201*陕西卷）in early autumn i applied for applied for admission to college. i wanted to go nowhere but to cornell university,but my mother fought strongly againsnst it. when she saw me studying a photograph of my father on the sports ground of cornell,she tore it up.“you cant say its not a great university,just because papa went there.”“thats not it at all.and it is a top university.”she was still holding the pieces in her hand. “but we cant afford to send you to college.”“i wouldnt dream of asking you for money.do you want me to get a job to help suppont you and papa?things arent that bad,are they?”“no,”she said. “i dont expect you to help support us.”father borrowed money form his rich cousins to start a small jewellery shop,his chief customers were his old college friends.to get new customers,my mother had to help.she picked up a long-forgotten membership in the local league of women,so that she cound get to know more people. whether those people would turn into customers was another question. i knew that my parents had to wait for quite a long time before their small investment (投资) could show returns.whats more ,they had not wanted enough to be roch and successful ；otherwise they cound not possibly have managed their lives so badly.i was torn between the desave to help them and change,their lives,and the determinstion not to repeat their mistakes.i had a strong belief in my power to go what i wanted.after months of hard study i won a full college scholarship（奖学金）.my father could hardly contain his pride in me,and my mother eventually gave in before my success.53.the author was not allowed to go to cornell university mainly because【d】a. his father grduated from the universityb. his mother did not thinks it a great universityc. his parents needed him to help support the familyd. his parents did not have enough money for him54.the father srarted his small shop with the money from .【c】a.a local league b.his universityc.his relatives d.his college friends55.why did the mother renew her membership in the league? 【a】a.to help with her husbands business b.to raise money for her sonc.to meet her long-forgotten friends d.to better manage her life56.according to the text,what was the author determined to do in that autumn? 【c】a. to get a well-paid job for himselfb. to improve relations with his motherc. to go to his dream universityd. to carry on with his fathers business*结束streamwood, illfor years, attendance was small at tefft middle schools yearly parent-teacher conferences, but the principal did not blame families for their poor responseinstead, she blamed the poor way the conferences were conducted“five years ago, the most important personthe studentwas left out of the parent-teacher conference,” teffts principal, lavonne smiley, said“the old conferences were such a negative thing, so we turned it around,” allowing students not only to attend but also to lead the gatherings instead of anxiously awaiting their parents return home with the teachers opinion on their classroom performancerecently, 525 parents attended parent-teacher-student conferences, mssmiley said, compared with 75 parents in 2003no appointments were needed, and everyone was welcome at the conferences this year, spread over two days that school officials called a celebration of learning“i think were learning that every school has its own dna, and there is not a prescription for conferences that works for every school,” mskinney said“there is such an increasingly diverse population at our nations schools, the one-size-fits-all model conference just doesnt work anymore”at some schools, not only are students on hand for conferences, but their siblings are also welcome, as are grandparents, aunts and uncles, even family friendswhen mark heller accepted a job as an assistant principal at the middle school in his hometown of plano, ill, he discovered that the community had changed a lot in the eight years he had been a teacher in iowathe population had nearly doubled to 10,000 residents, and 37 percent of the students at plano middle school were now from low-income familiesthe traditional parent-teacher conferences without a student present are always available by appointment, and sometimes necessary, for example, to discuss a private matter concerning a non-custodial （无监护权的） parent, a family crisis the child is unaware of or a special education diagnosisstill, mrheller is convinced that a true dialogue concerning a students academic progress is impossible without both the child and the parent engaged and present, and with the teacher on hand to share impressions and answer any questions the parents have about homework, standardized test scores, behavior and other issues“at the student-led conferences, our children are learning to be organized and capable adults someday,” msissa said“when i was growing up, my parents went to my conference, and i waited at home, scared they would come back with some concernswith this new kind of conference, there are no secretsmy daughter is learning that she is responsible for her own success”17what is mainly talked about in this text? athe change of population in mrhellers hometownbthe way the parent-teacher conferences are conductedcthe people who take part in parent-teacher conferencesdthe percentage of attendants to parent-teacher conferences18what was the population in plano, illwhen mrheller became a teacher in iowa eight years before? a3,700b20,000c10,000d5,00019the number of parents who attended parent-teacher-student conferences recently was _ times more than that in 2003afive bsixcsevendeight 20what does mskinney mean by saying “every school has its own dna? aevery school is unique and differentbone model fits all school conferencescall prescriptions do not work welldthe population at schools is diverse参考答案 17-20 bdba *结束 there were red faces at one of britains biggest banks recently. they had accepted a telephone order to buy 100,000 worth of shares from a 15-year-old schoolboy (they thought he was 21). the shares fell in value and the schoolboy was unable to pay up. the bank lost 20,000 on the deal which it cannot get back, because, for one thing, the young boy does not have the money, for another, being under 18, he is not legally liable for his debts. if the shares had risen in value by the same amount that they fell, he would have pocketed 20,000 profit. it certainly is better than delivering the morning newspaper. in another case, a boy of 14 found, in his grandmothers house, a suitcase full of foreign banknotes. but they were now not used in their country of origin or anywhere else. this young boy headed straight to the nearest bank with his pockets filled with notes. the cashiers did not realize the country in question had reduced the value of its currency by 90%. they exchanged the notes at their face value at the current exchange rate. in three days, before he was found out, he took 200,000 from nine different banks. amazingly, he had already spent more than half of this before the police caught up with him. because he is also under 18 the banks have kissed goodbye to a lot of money, and several cashiers have lost their jobs.should we admire these youngsters for being enterprising and showing initiative or condemn them for their dishonesty? maybe they had managed for years with tiny amounts of pocket money that they got from tight-fisted parents. maybe they had done saturday jobs for peanuts. it is hardly surprising, given the expensive things that young people want to buy, such as fashionable running shoes and computer games, if they sometimes think up more imaginative ways of making money than delivering newspapers. these youngsters saw the chance to make a lot of money and took it. another recent story which should give us food for thought is the case of the man who paid his six-year-old daughter300 a week pocket money. he then charged her for the food she ate a few coins for her piggy bank（存钱灌）“she will soon learn the value of money, ” he said. “theres no such thing as a free lunch. everything has to be paid for and the sooner she learns that the better.” at the other extreme there are fond parents who provide free bed and board for their grown-up children, while even the most hard-hearted parents might hesitate to throw their children out on the streets, we all know of people in their twenties who still shamelessly live off their parents. surely there comes a time when everyone has to leave the parental nest, look after themselves and pay their own way in life. but when is it?10. recently one of britains biggest banks _. a. bought a lot of shares for a customer and brought him a great loss b. lost money as its young customer had no money to pay his debts c. lost much money because the shares they bought fell in value d. received a telephone order to buy shares for a 21-year-old boy11. the young customer _. a. would have paid his debts, had he had the money to do so b. would be sent to prison if he didnt pay his debts c. would have made 20,000, had the shares risen in value by the same amount they fell d. would have continued to cheat banks, if he had not been found out12. the authors attitude to the example of the two boys who cheated the banks is _. a. objective b. subjective c. questioning d. negative13. the man paid his daughter 300 a week pocket money and then required her to pay for her living expenses because _. a. he wanted her to know making money was not easy b. he wanted to save money for her future education c. he thought it useful for family members to bear life hardships together d. he wanted her to learn the value of money 14. it can be concluded from the passage that the author believes that _. a. children should leave the parental nest as soon as possible b. grown-up children should live on their own c. children should be taught not to cheat others d. parents should give more pocket money to their children10. b. 首段第3-4行11. c. 首段第6行12. a. 第二段后半部分it is hardly surprising13. d. 末段“she will soon learn the value of money, ”14. b. 文章结尾处概括*结束 what is the nature of the scientific attitude, the attitude of the man or woman who studies and applies physics, biology, chemistry, geology, engineering, medicine or any other science? we all know that science plays an important role in our societies. however, many people believe that our progress depends on two different aspects of science. the first aspect is the application of the machines, products and systems of knowledge that scientists and technologists develop.the second is the application of the special methods of thought and actionthat scientists use in their work. what are these special methods of thinking and acting? first of all, it seems that a successful scientist is curious - he wants to find out how and why the universe works. he usually pays attention to problems which he notices have no satisfying explanation, andlooks for relationships even if the data available seem to be unconnected. moreover,he thinks he can improve the existing conditions and enjoys trying to solve the problems which this involves. he is a good observer, accurate, patient and objective(客观的) and uses the facts he observes to the fullest. for example, trained observers obtain a very large amount of information about a star mainly from the accurate analysis of the simple lines that appear in a spectrum(光谱). he does not accept statements which are not based on the most complete evidence available. he rejects authority as the only basis for truth. scientists always check statements and make experiments carefully and objectively. furthermore,he does not readily accept his own idea, since he knows that man is the least reliable of scientific instruments and that a number of factors tend to disturb objective investigation. lastly,he is full of imaginationsince he often has to look for