高三英语练习8.31

1 高三英语练习高三英语练习 8 31 阅读理解阅读理解 A The city of X is internationally known for sports catering for the needs of both professional and amateur sportspeople as well as those that seek to maintain an active lifestyle The city promotes well being by offering its citizens lots of opportunities for sports both indoors and outdoors throughout the year Sports clubs in X organize activities in a wide arrangement of sports The most popular are ice hockey and football and the list covers well over one hundred other sports X s large green areas including the Central Park and the sea offer ample opportunities for physical activity walking running jogging hiking bicycling roller skating swimming boating and fishing The city claims 50 000 amateur fishermen more than any other capital city in Europe The city organizes a number of community sports activities and maintains a variety and lots of sports facilities These facilities include more than 200 km of tracks for walking jogging and running close to 200 km of ski tracks in winter some 30 indoor sports halls some 10 indoor ice rinks and 80 outdoor ice rinks 14 indoor swimming halls and 2 outdoor pools in summer close to 30 beaches and 12 000 boat berths 泊位 Ice Park is a downtown winter time skating rink on Railway Square complete with skate rental 出租 and a heated caf The local people are active bicyclists especially in summer X s bicycle path network covers 1 000 kilometers inside the city limits The city promotes bicycling with many services including a Journey Planner for Cycling One of the unusual sports here is ice swimming and X even hosts ice swimming world championships The city maintains some 15 ice swimming sites throughout the city Campers find a convenient site inside the city Rastila Camping is one of the most popular camping sites in this country located by the seaside and accessible by underground The Nuuksio National Park offers camping in wilderness just half an hour from the city by car The city of X s sports function is managed by the Sports Department The department provides and maintains sports facilities and organizes activities The department also rents facilities for sports conference rooms and saunas 1 According to the passage which of the following can best describe X A Active and energetic B Beautiful and interesting C Great and proud D Convenient and modern 2 We can know from the passage that people in X A enjoy bicycling around the countryB are fond of different sports C especially like winter sports D appreciate a special way of country life 3 X is most probably the city of A TorontoB Sydney C New YorkD Helsinki B The White House dropped a report putting together some federal data None of the information is exactly new but a number of graphs in the report offer a clear and convincing illustration 阐述 of the status of women today For instance more young women are going to college than young men for the first time in US history But women are much more likely to go into lower paying fields than men when they graduate therefore lasting the long standing wage gap And women especially minority women are still more likely to live in poverty than men Check out three of the graphs from the report below 2 3 Senior Obama White House adviser Valerie Jarrett said on a conference call with reporters that the president will use the data as a tool to inform policy plans though she would not name any specific new moves the administration is considering You really have to look at the whole story of a woman s life Jarrett said This report gives us a framework to do that 4 The reason why American women delay having their first child as is shown in Graph I may be that A they get married at a later ageB they don t want to have children C more of them are going to college D more of them are working outside 5 From Graph II we can know that in the USA A women can receive the same education as men B in the 1970s only 10 of women got a bachelor s degree or higher C men are paying more attention to university education than women D more women have finished university education than men since the late 1990s 6 Which conclusion can we draw from Graph III A Women with the same education level as men don t earn as much B The more education one has received the more pay he or she can get C Women under 25 years old usually don t go out to work D The longer one has worked the more pay he or she can get 7 Which of the following can best serve as the title of the report A The State of American WomenB The Education American Women Receive C American Men and WomenD Competition between Men and Women C Physics is a different world now Will there ever be another Einstein Scientists say a new Einstein will appear but it may take a long time After all more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival 堪与相比者 Isaac Newton Many physicists say the next Einstein hasn t been born yet That is because the long difficult search for a theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits New math must be created before the problem can be solved But researchers say there are many other factors working against another Einstein appearing anytime soon For one thing physics is a much different field today In Einstein s day there were a few thousand physicists worldwide and fewer theoreticians Education is different too One important aspect of Einstein s training that is overlooked is the philosophy he read as a teenager It taught him how to think abstractly about space and time And he was an accomplished musician The interplay between music and math is well known Einstein would crazily play his violin as a way to think through a complex physics problem Today universities have produced millions of physicists There aren t many jobs in science for them so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical and rewarding efforts Those who stay in science don t work alone It s very difficult to imagine an independent person like Einstein ever tolerating this 8 According to the passage the most important reason for Einstein s success is that A he was a good musician B he learnt philosophy as a teenager C he was born 200 years later than NewtonD he was a great mathematician 9 According to the passage which of the following is NOT the reason why a new Einstein has not been born yet A The limits of current mathematics B The development of physics C Different education systems D The lack of analytical skills 10 Which of the following does the author probably agree with A Einstein rather than Newton made great contributions to the world B Working independently is one of the contributing factors of Einstein s success C Physics graduates can easily get science jobs today D Music has nothing to do with science 任务型阅读任务型阅读 4 Simon Sinek is naturally shy and doesn t like speaking to crowds At parties he says he hides alone in the corner or doesn t even show up in the first place He prefers the latter Yet with some 22 million video views under his belt the optimistic ethnographer also happens to be the third most watched TED Talks presenter of all time Sinek s unlikely success as both an inspirational speaker and a bestselling author isn t just dumb luck It s the result of fears faced and erased trial and error and tireless practice on and off stage Here are his secrets for delivering speeches that inspire inform and entertain Don t talk right away Sinek says you should never talk as you walk out on stage A lot of people start talking right away and it s out of nerves Sinek says That communicates a little bit of insecurity and fear Instead quietly walk out on stage Then take a deep breath find your place wait a few seconds and begin I know it sounds long and tedious and it feels excruciatingly awkward when you do it Sinek says but it shows the audience you re totally confident and in charge of the situation Show up to give not to take Often people give presentations to sell products or ideas to get people to follow them on social media buy their books or even just to like them Sinek calls these kinds of speakers takers and he says audiences can see through these people right away And when they do they disengage We are highly social animals says Sinek Even at a distance on stage we can tell if you re a giver or a taker and people are more likely to trust a giver a speaker that gives them value that teaches them something new that inspires them than a taker Speak unusually slowly When you get nervous it s not just your heart beat that quickens Your words also tend to speed up Luckily Sinek says audiences are more patient and forgiving than we know They want you to succeed up there but the more you rush the more you turn them off he says If you just go quiet for a moment and take a long deep breath they ll wait for you It s kind of amazing Turn nervousness into excitement Sinek learned this trick from watching the Olympics A few years ago he noticed that reporters interviewing Olympic athletes before and after competing were all asking the same question Were you nervous And all of the athletes gave the same answer No I was excited These competitors were taking the body s signs of nervousness clammy hands pounding heart and tense nerves and reinterpreting them as side effects of excitement and exhilaration When you re up on stage you will likely go through the same thing That s when Sinek says you should say to yourself out loud I m not nervous I m excited Say thank you when you re done Applause is a gift and when you receive a gift it s only right to express how grateful you are for it This is why Sinek always closes out his presentations with these two simple yet powerful words thank you They gave you their time and they re giving you their applause Says Sinek That s a gift and you have to be grateful Passage outlineSupporting details 71 to Simon Sinek He is by 72 shy and dislikes making speeches in public Through