2013一模阅读理解CD.doc

2013一模阅读理解CD一 海淀 CA great many people, when they speak of home, tend to connect it with a certain atmosphere, certain physical surroundings(环境), and certain emotional attitudes within themselves. This sentimentality(多愁善感) toward home is something that has come down to us from the past. Many modern people do not have it, and I think it is a good thing that they do not.In the old days, life was difficult. Enemies could attack you and kill or rob you, and you had little protection against them. People did not live in well-built houses where doors could be locked. They did not have the protection of an organized police force or telephones which could call the police instantly. How did this influence the way people felt about home? Small family groups clung(贴近) tightly together for protection against beasts and against other men. Today, thanks to modern transportation and well-organized society, thousands of people willingly and eagerly leave the surroundings where they were born, and the oftener they do so, the less sentiment they are likely to have for those surroundings. I lived in England for three years, and I noticed that boys and girls left their parents homes and lived in places of their own. There they could just telephone and ask an agency to provide them with a house or an apartment, which was their home. How has the meaning of this word “home” been changed by such activity? What does home mean to those people or to families who often move about, living in first one hotel and then another? I believe that for them home means a place where they can have privacy.As for me, the atmosphere and surroundings of the place where my parents live have no sentimental attachment(依恋). Home is where I can shut the door and be by myself. When I left my parents several years ago, I was anxious to leave. You might call it unfeeling, but that was the way I felt. On the day of my departure for the United States, my grandmother cried. My father, however, showed that he knew how I felt. Son, he said, I am not sorry that you are leaving us. I only hope that you make the most of your time. 53. Why are modern people willing to leave their parents homes?A. Because they can afford the money to live outside.B. Because there are no wild animals or enemies around.C. Because the society provides them with the feeling of safety.D. Because they are not actually satisfied with their environment.54. What can we learn from the article?A. Surroundings influence the way that people act.B. Not many modern people have sentimentality toward home.C. Rights to privacy are well protected in modern society.D. Older people can hardly understand the leaving of the young.55. What is the best title for the passage?A. The History of HomeB. People and HomeC. Different Ideas of HomeD. Ideas of Home Have Changed DDepression is not a choice. Rather, it is a true medical condition like high blood pressure or heart disease. In the United States alone, more than 17 million people suffer from depression with women being twice as likely as men to suffer from the disease. Depression crosses racial and socioeconomic lines. Anyone can suffer from it, and those that do are not crazy or weak. They have a serious yet highly treatable disease. Feeling down? Youre not alone. If depression seems pretty common, it is. One in every ten adults suffers from depression. And thats what has scientists confused. If depression causes harm to the body, why is it so widespread in the population? Some scientists think they may have the answer. Depression may have an evolutionary (进化) benefit. It may improve ones chances of fighting off infection (感染). Scientists have known that depressed people show an immunoreactive (免疫反应性的) condition known as inflammation (炎症), even when they are not infected. For several years they have been finding that genes (基因) linked to depression also affect the function of the immune system. Stress, which can lead to depression, also change the immune system. These findings suggested that depression was somehow linked to the bodys ability to fight disease.Some scientists now come up with the idea that depression might have had an evolutionary advantage in the days before modern medicine and antibiotics (抗生素). Infection was a major cause of death in early human history. Surviving those infections determined which genes were passed to the next generation.They doubt that depression helped people, especially children, stay alive from infection. Extreme tiredness leads to inactivity and less social contact which helps keep infection from spreading. Having no appetite helps avoid food sharing which can also spread infection. Sleeplessness, which is associated with both depression and immune system activation, may have been a mechanism to keep a person alert(机警) to fight off enemies after injury.If scientists are correct about this link, it could lead to new treatments for depression. They are interested in drugs that treat conditions where the immune system attacks the persons own body, known as auto immune diseases. It is possible that medicine known to treat auto immune disease may be successful in treating depression also.56. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means _.A. there is a depression line between different groups and societiesB. people at a higher social position may tend to suffer from depressionC. people who are living with depression could connect with each otherD. anyone can get depression whatever their economic states and backgrounds are57. In Paragraph 2 the author _.A. introduces an idea on depressionB. gives an example to show his ideaC. explains how depression worksD. describes the depression problems58. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?A. Depression can spread infection. B. Stress may affect the function of the immune system. C. Women are less likely to suffer from depression.D. Modern medicine is widely used for treating depression.59. The writer mainly wants to tell people that depression _.A. is serious but highly treatable diseaseB. could have its advantages in scientific researchC. may improve ones chances of fighting off infectionD. is a true medical condition like high blood pressure 二 朝阳：C If you look through the Surui reserve (保护区) with Google Earth, you will see a green area in the middle of yellow surroundings. Once, the Paiter-Surui tribe (部落) lived in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. But after the tribe met with Westerners years ago, they nearly disappeared: diseases brought by outsiders reduced the Suruis numbers from 5,000 to about 250.Today, some 1,300 people live in 23 villages across 600,000 acres (英亩). Though they are wearing T-shirts and jeans, the Surui decide to protect the tribal culture. They are in danger again. Trees are being cut, animals are being killed, and the forest is becoming smaller and smaller. But this time its different. The Surui people have put aside their bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon (武器): the Internet.The idea comes from the leader of the Surui, Chief Almir Narayamoga. “We decided to use computers to bring attention to our situation,” says Narayamoga. The first in his tribe to go to college, he learned how to use computers.The chief asked about the possibility of making a map of the Surui reserve using Google Earth. An online tour of the reserve, he believed, would help protect the Surui by showing the world the results of cutting trees and the attacks (进攻) on tribal land. It would also tell the government about their situation. This way, Narayamoga hoped to raise money to protect the rain forest by planting one million trees. “Training and education is now our kind of war,” he says. “We know we have to do so.”Narayamogas visit to Google was a great success. The Internet search company sent teams to the Amazon to train the Surui in using computers, cameras, and phones to photograph their surroundings, which could be found using GPS and then shown on Google Earth. The Surui have now mapped the whole reserve and recorded the animals and plants of the rainforest within it.While their work is supported (支持) by some international groups, Narayamoga hopes they can support themselves within ten years, with coffee production and tourism. The great thing about the Surui is that they try to find their own ways to deal with the problems they face.53. How many people are still living in the tribe today?A. About 600,000.B. About 5,000.C. About 1,300.D. About 250.54. What is the greatest danger the Surui face now?A. They are often attacked.B. The reserve is getting smaller.C. Their culture is forgotten.D. The rainforest is disappearing.55. What do the Surui mainly depend on to protect their land?A. Normal tools in life.B. Scientific knowledge.C. Help from outside.D. Information technology.DNone of us is quite as healthy in mind as we seem, but neither is every unusual thing we do means were unhealthy. How to tell the difference? Start by reading the letters below, which have been analyzed by our experts.(1) Lately, after I read an unusual word, I often cant get it out of my head for days, sometimes weeks. I silently repeat it to myself, often spell it, and even wake up in the night with it ringing in my head. Whats wrong with my brain?That sounds like a little obsession (着迷). Your brain feels that for some reason it must repeat this word. Unless it is taking up more than an hour of your day or really influencing your life, it is not serious. To stop it, leave it alone. If you really want to stop the repetition, set aside ten minutes a day to repeat the word over and over again. Do it so many times that you finally get sick of it.(2) I sometimes have strange dreams when taking a short sleep, and I think theyre real when I wake up. Then, as I come around, I realize they arent. Is there something wrong with me?Whats wrong is that you take short sleeps and most of us dont! But are you mad? No. We all have strange dreams, and its normal, upon waking, to be fuzzy (模糊) for a little while or even not to remember where we are. What is not normal is if you dont have these dreams.(3) When people are eating, I cant stand the sound of a fork or spoon knocking on a plate or bowl. I begin shaking and having a headache. Im also sickened by the sound of people chewing with their mouths open. Is there something wrong with me?It seems that there is something wrong with everyone else you know. How come they dont eat with their mouths closed? At the least, youre over sensitive (敏感) to little noise. You may also be troubled by a disorder in mind called misophonia. Try drawing your attention away from the noise. Pay attention to something else as hard as you can when you eat with your friends: the music in the background, the scene out the window, even what theyre talking about. You can train yourself to be less troubled by the noise.(4) When Im driving and have to cross a bridge, my heart starts racing and I feel light-headed. The fear that Im going to pass out makes the whole situation worse. Am I crazy?This sounds like an anxiety (忧虑), which can bring on heart illness and a real sense that youre going to die. This kind of feeling is the bodys reaction to the possible danger in near future. To keep your anxiety from progressing, try the old method: breathing. When you feel your heart starting to race, take a deep breath in three or four times, and then let it out five or six times until you start to feel comfortable. You can also make a tape of your favourite song, and sing along as you cross the bridge.56. What does the word analyzed mean in the first paragraph?A. Divided into parts.B. Examined carefully.C. Discussed in groups.D. Treated scientifically.57. Which person described in the four letters has got something wrong?A. The first two.B. No. 1 and No. 3.C. The last two.D. No. 2 and No. 4.58. What can we do when we have strange dreams after a short sleep?A. Its not necessary for us to do anything.B. We can think about the dreams once again.C. Its a good idea to pay attention to other things.D. Wed better go to see a doctor as early as possible.59. From the passage, we can infer that _.A. we dont need to worry about anything in mindB. disorders in mind can be treated by ourselvesC. one must face all kinds of problems in lifeD. if you are brave, nothing can trouble you三 房山 CDisposing (处理)of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste-disposal problem becomes increasingly difficult. During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot as a dumpsite to keep the waste. Residents or trash haulers(垃圾拖运者) would transport household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Periodically（定期） some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried(掩埋). The unpleasant sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories, mills, and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted remains into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem. Several facts make these choices unacceptable to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, which are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. Property is either too expensive or too close to residential（住宅区的） neighborhoods. Long distance trash hauling has been a common practice, but once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is almost nonexistent. Awareness of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people cannot longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.Recycling efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a citys reusable waste.53.The best title for this passage would be .A. Places for Disposing Waste B. Waste Pollution DangersC. Ways of Getting Rid of Waste D. Waste Disposal Problem54. During the 18th century, people disposed their waste in many ways EXCEPT for .A. burying it B. burning it C. recycling it D. throwing it into rivers55. The main purpose of writing this article is to .A. draw peoples attention to waste managementB. warn people of the pollution dangers we are facingC. call on people to take part in recycling programsD. tell people a better way to get rid of the wasteDIn thekitchenof my mothers houses there has always been a wooden stand (木架) with a small notepad (记事本) and a hole for a pencil.Im looking for paper on which tonotedown the name of a book I am introducing to my mother. Over forty years since my earliest memories of the kitchenpad and pencil, five houses later, the presentpaper and pencil look the same as they always did. Surely it cant be the same pencil? The pad is more modern, but the wooden stand is definitely theoriginal(原始的)one.Im just amazed you still have the same stand for holding the pad and pencil after all these years. I say to her, walking back into the living-room with a sheet of paper and the pencil. You still use a pencil. Cant you afford a pen?My mother replies a little sharply. It works perfectly well. Ive always kept the stand in the kitchen. I never knew when I might want tonotedown an idea, and I was always in the kitchen in those days. Immediately I can picture her, hair wild, blue housecoat covered in flour, a woodenspoonin one hand, the pencil in the other, her mouth moving silently. My mother smiles and says, One day I was cooking and watching baby Pauline, and I had abrilliantthought, but the stand was empty. One of the children must have taken the paper. So I just picked up the breadboard and wrote it all down on the back. It turned out to be a realbreakthroughfor solving the mathematical problem I was working on. This story, which happened before I was bornreminds me howextraordinarymy mother was, and is, as agiftedmathematician. I feelembarrassedthat Icomplainabout not having enough child-free time to work. Later, when my mother is in the bathroom, I go into her kitchenand turn over the breadboards. Sure enough, on the back of the smallest one, are some penciled marks Irecognizeas mathematics. Thosesymbolshave travelledunaffectedthrough fifty years, rooted in the soil of a cheap wooden breadboard,invisible(看不到的) exhibits at every meal.56.What is the meaning of the underlined word in Paragraph 5?A. Simple but surprising B. Easy but valuableC. Funny and interesting D. Clever and great.57.What does the author think first about the wooden stand?A. It has great value for the family.B. It needs to be replaced by a better one.C. It brings her back to her lonely childhood D. It should be passed on to the next generation.58.The author feelsashamedfor _.A. blaming her mother so much wronglyB. giving her mother a lot of troubleC. not making good use of time as her mother didD. not making anybreakthroughin her field59.What can beinferredfrom the last paragraph?A. T