福建省漳州市2014高考英语一轮 阅读理解暑假训练题（1）

1 漳州市漳州市 20142014 高考英语 阅读理解 一轮暑假训练 高考英语 阅读理解 一轮暑假训练 1 1 答案 答案 Attempt a guess at the following question In the English speaking world which country has the least affordable homes You are wrong if you guessed the US even with the housing bubble 气泡 and main sadness Nor is it the UK where prices have risen because demand is far from supply According to a recent survey of 227 cities around the globe you must go south of the equator 赤道 to Australia to find the priciest homes The report measured a city s housing market along the following guidelines An affordable home required three times or less of the average family s income to purchase At four times earnings a home fell into the unaffordable category And a seriously unaffordable home needed five times a family s income In Australia homes in the least affordable city cost just about 9 5 times the average income Sydney Perth and Melbourne were only a little under this figure Australian officials offered little comment apart from a general statement on the dismal findings These prices make the possibility that many Australians will one day own a home largely unbelievable Land rationing 配给制 and excessive development charges have raised prices and the problem will only be solved through urgent action by the Rudd government Some American cities were also included on the least affordable list four of which were in California America is still involved in a mortgage 抵押 crisis though affecting the affordability of homes Yet a number of US cities garnered affordable status namely Dallas and Kansas Australia had no cities listed in the top fifty places with affordable homes The survey suggests that you can find affordable homes in most places just not if you re Australian and choose to live down under 12 To buy an affordable house you should pay A 3 times or less of the average family s income B 4 times or less of the average family s income 2 C 5 times or less of the average family s income D 9 5 times or less of the average family s income 13 What caused the prices of houses to increase in Australia A The rising family s income B The demand over supply C The excessive development charges D The decrease of land 14 The underlined word dismal in Paragraph 3 may mean A cheerful B satisfactory C difficult D sad 15 What might be the most suitable title for the passage A Affordable HousesB A House is a Dream First C Housing Bubble D Homes Too Expensive D ACDD 结束 Jack London had endured more hardships by the age of twenty one than most people experience in a lifetime His struggles developed in him sympathy for the working class and a lasting dislike of hard work and provided inspiration for his career as a writer London grew up in San Francisco in extreme poverty At an early age he left school and supported himself through a succession of un skilled jobs working as a paper boy in bowling alleys on ice wagons and in canneries 罐头食品厂 and mills Despite working long hours at these jobs London was able to read constantly borrowing travel and adventure books from the library The books London read inspired him to travel and his job experiences led him to become active in fighting for the fights of workers He sailed to Japan on a journey aiming at catching seals and joined a cross country protest march with a group of unemployed workers After being arrested for vagrancy near Buffalo New York London decided to educate himself and reshape his life He quickly completed high school and entered the University of California 3 After only one term however the appeal of fortune and adventure proved uncontrollable London gave up his studies and traveled to the Alaskan Yukon in 1897 in search of gold Jack London was among the first of these miners He may have searched for more than gold however London once commented True True thethe newnew regionregion waswas mostlymostly poor poor butbut itsits severalseveral hundredhundred thousandthousand squaresquare milesmiles ofof coldnesscoldness atat leastleast gavegave breathingbreathing spacespace toto thosethose whowho elseelse wouldwould havehave chokedchoked atat home home Although he was unsuccessful as a miner London s experiences in Alaska taught him about the human desire for wealth and power and about humankind s inability to control the forces of nature While in Alaska London also absorbed memories and stories that would make him known one hundred years later Once back in California London became determined to earn a living as a writer He rented a typewriter and worked up to fifteen hours a day spinning his Alaskan adventures into short stories and novels According to legend London s piles of rejection slips from publishers grew to five feet in height Even so London preserved In 1903 he earned national fame when he published the popular novel The Call of the Wild He soon became the highest paid and most industrious writer in the country During his career he produced more than fifty books and earned more than a million dollars Several of his novels including The Call of the Wild 1903 the Sea Wolf 1904 the White Fang 1906 have become American classics In fact he was a creative writer whose fiction explored several regions and their cultures the Yukon California Hawaii and the Solomon Islands He experimented with many literary forms from traditional love stories and dystopias 反面乌托邦小说 to science fantasy His noted journalism included war communication boxing stories and the life of Molokai lepers 麻风病患者 He was among the most influential figures of his day who understood how to create a public persona and use the media to market his self created image of poor boy turned success London s great passion was agriculture and he was well on the way of creating a new model for spreading through his Beauty Ranch when he died of kidney disease at age 40 He left over 4 fifty books of novels stories journalism and essays many of which have been translated and continue to be read around the world His best works describe a person s struggle for survival against the powerful forces of nature To Build a Fire for example tells the story of a man s fight to survive the harsh cold of the Alaskan winter 10 made Jack London reconsider his life in the future A His job experienceB The books he read C Being arrestedD Long hour work 11 What is TRUE about Jack London A Jack London was poor all his life B Jack London got enough money while in the search of gold C The books Jack London read inspired him to travel and become active D The experience of gold searching made Jack London determined to write novels about Alaska adventures 12 After the experience in Alaska Jack London A realized the nature of human beings B knew people could control the nature finally C regretted being there D thought highly of himself 13 In paragraph 4 the sentence True True thethe newnew regionregion waswas mostlymostly poor poor butbut itsits severalseveral hundredhundred thousandthousand squaresquare milesmiles ofof coldnesscoldness atat leastleast gavegave breathingbreathing spacespace toto thosethose whowho elseelse wouldwould havehave chokedchoked atat home home implies A Jack London regarded Alaska a poor place as he never got any gold there B people would have been ill at home if they had never been Alaska C People searching for gold there still have chance to win D Alaska was a poor but large region 14 Which one of following works doesn t belong to Jack London according to the passage 5 A love storiesB poetryC journalism D essays 15 What can we learn from Jack London s final success A Failure is the mother of success B Practice makes perfect C Knowledge is powerful D All of above 1112131415 DACBD 结束 Attempt a guess at the following question In the English speaking world which country has the least affordable homes You are wrong if you guessed the US even with the housing bubble 气泡 and main sadness Nor is it the UK where prices have risen because demand is far from supply According to a recent survey of 227 cities around the globe you must go south of the equator 赤道 to Australia to find the priciest homes The report measured a city s housing market along the following guidelines An affordable home required three times or less of the average family s income to purchase At four times earnings a home fell into the unaffordable category And a seriously unaffordable home needed five times a family s income In Australia homes in the least affordable city cost just about 9 5 times the average income Sydney Perth and Melbourne were only a little under this figure Australian officials offered little comment apart from a general statement on the dismal findings These prices make the possibility that many Australians will one day own a home largely unbelievable Land rationing 配给制 and excessive development charges have raised prices and the problem will only be solved through urgent action by the Rudd government 6 Some American cities were also included on the least affordable list four of which were in California America is still involved in a mortgage 抵押 crisis though affecting the affordability of homes Yet a number of US cities garnered affordable status namely Dallas and Kansas Australia had no cities listed in the top fifty places with affordable homes The survey suggests that you can find affordable homes in most places just not if you re Australian and choose to live down under 12 To buy an affordable house you should pay A 3 times or less of the average family s income B 4 times or less of the average family s income C 5 times or less of the average family s income D 9 5 times or less of the average family s income 13 What caused the prices of houses to increase in Australia A The rising family s income B The demand over supply C The excessive development charges D The decrease of land 14 The underlined word dismal in Paragraph 3 may mean A cheerful B satisfactory C difficult D sad 15 What might be the most suitable title for the passage A Affordable HousesB A House is a Dream First C Housing Bubble D Homes Too Expensive D ACDD 结束 We ve all experienced a good cry Shedding 流 some tears can often make us feel better and help us put things in perspective But why is crying beneficial And is there such a thing as a bad cry The researchers analyzed the detailed accounts of more than 3 000 recent 7 crying experiences and found that the benefits of crying depend entirely on the what where and when of a particular crying episode 一段经历 The majority of persons reported improvements in their mood following a short period of crying However one third reported no improvement in mood and a tenth felt worse after crying Criers who received social support during their crying episode were the most likely to report improvements in mood Research to date has not always produced a clear picture of the benefits of crying in part because the results often seem to depend on how crying is studied The researchers note several challenges in accurately studying crying behavior in a laboratory setting Volunteers who cry in a laboratory setting often do not describe their experiences as making them feel better Rather crying in a laboratory setting often results in the study participants feeling worse this may be due to the stressful conditions of the study itself such as being videotaped or watched by researchers This may produce negative emotions which neutralize 使无效 the positive benefits usually connected with crying However these laboratory studies have provided interesting findings about the physical effects of crying Criers do show calming effects such as slower breathing but they also experience a lot of unpleasant stress including increased heart rate and sw