重庆市2013高考英语二轮阅读理解精选训练（08）

1 20132013 高考英语重庆八中二轮阅读理解精选训练 高考英语重庆八中二轮阅读理解精选训练 0808 及答案 及答案 A A Mr Knight was the manager of a hotel One weekend all of the hotels in the city were full because there was a large meeting On Friday three men came into the hotel and asked for rooms Mr Knight said there were no rooms ready because of the meeting The men were unhappy Mr Knight wanted to help them He remembered that Room 418 a small room was empty He asked them if they could share a room The three men said they would Mr Knight said the room would be thirty dollars ten dollars for each person Each man gave him the money and then went up to the room Mr Knight soon began to feel sorry Thirty dollars is a lot to ask as a price for that small room he thought He called his assistant over and said Here is five dollars Take it to the men in Room 418 I asked too much for their room The assistant took the money While he was on the way there he started to think How can three men divide five dollars I ll give them each only one dollar and keep the two dollars for myself The men will be happy to get something back And Mr Knight will never know So the assistant returned one dollar to each man Each man had at first paid ten dollars After the assistant returned them one dollar each each had actually in fact paid nine There were three men 9 3 27 The assistant kept 2 27 2 29 Where is the missing dollar 56 With the help of the manager the three men A went to another hotel B each got a small room for the night C stayed together in a small room D got a small room Mr Knight kept for himself 57 At first A 27 was paid by the three men B 30 was paid by each of the three men C 25 was paid by the three men D 10 was paid by each of the three men 58 The assistant A helped the men to divide the money B kept two dollars for himself C kept three dollars for himself D returned three dollars to the men and two to the manger 59 Where is the missing dollar A It was taken by the assistant too B It was taken by Mr Knight C It was taken by the three men D In fact there wasn t any missing dollar B B LiuLiu Xiang Xiang athlete born in 1983 Liu Xiang made his name by winning the 110 meter hurdles gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens This was the first time an athlete of non African descent 血统 had gone under 13 seconds for the event In the same year Liu set a new 110 meter hurdling world record at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne with a time of 12 88 seconds LangLang Lang Lang pianist born in 1982 Lang Lang began piano lessons at age three His father quit his job 2 to accompany his boy to Beijing At 11 Lang Lang was awarded first prize for his outstanding performance at the Fourth International Young Pianists Competition in Germany In 1995 at 13 he won first place at the Tchaikovsky International Young Musicians Competition in Japan At 17 Lang Lang made his breakthrough in the West and has performed with many of the world s major orchestras since then LiLi Yuchun Yuchun singer born in 1984 Born into a middle class family Li was not encouraged by her parents to pursue a career in entertainment The turning point came when she entered the Super Girl contest in 2005 This competition drew the largest audiences in Chinese television history She rose above 120 000 applicants with her tomboy style and Latin flavored performance Her win came as a surprise to many people because she didn t fit the stereotype of female singers She has millions of fans of all ages all over the country Her haircut and manners have been copied by tens of thousands of girls Her first album sold more than 430 000 copies in the first month DingDing Junhui Junhui snooker player born in 1987 Ding quit school at 13 after his father insisted he concentrate on snooker His parents then sold their house to help Ding kick start his career In March 2005 he celebrated his 18th birthday by reaching the final of the China Open in Beijing along the way beating world top 16 ranked players Peter Ebdon Marco Fu and Ken Doherty In 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were three kids in my math class who didn t do well I was really good at it I would charge them three dollars for each test that I helped them pass I d write on a little piece of paper all the right answers and hand them off At first I felt like I was making money kind of a nice job I wasn t thinking about how it could hurt all of us After a while I realized I shouldn t do that any more because I wasn t really helping them They weren t learning anything and it would only get harder down the road Cheating certainly wasn t helping me It takes courage to be honest when people all around you are getting away with cheating on tests lying to their parents and stealing at work But remember every act of honesty is a deposit 储蓄 into your PBA