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高考英语模拟试题（一）3第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出选项。AThe interview has been going on for about20 minutes and everything seemsto be going wellThen，suddenly，the interviewer asks an unexpected question，“Which is more important，law or love？”Job applicants（求职者）in the West increasingly find themselves asked strange questions like thisAnd the signs are that this is beginning to happen in ChinaEmployers（雇主）wantpeople who are skilled，enthusiastic（热情的）and devoted So these are the qualities that any reasonable intelligent job applicant will try to show no matter what his or her actualfeelings areIn response ，employers are increasingly using questions that can try and show the applicantstrue personalityThe question in the first paragraph comes from a test called the Kiersey Personality SorterIt is an attempt to discover how people solve problems，rather than what they knowThis is often called aptitude（智能）testingAccording to Mark Baldwin ofAlliance many job applicants in Chinaare finding this type of questions difficultWhen a Chinese person fills out an aptitude test he or she will think there is a right answer and they may well fail because they try to guess what the examiner wants to seeThis is sometimes called the prisoners dilemma（窘境）Applicants are trying to act cleverly in their own interestBut they fail because they dont understand what the interviewer is looking forRemember that in an aptitude test，the correct answer is always the honest answer56The writer wrote the passage to _ Agive you a piece of advice on a job interviewBtellyou how to meet a job intervieweeCdescribe an aptitude testDadvise you how to find a good job57According to the writer，in an aptitude test ，Chinese job applicants should_ Anot tellthe truthBlearn to tell what they really thinkCtry to find out what the examiner really wants to knowDtry to find out the answers to the questions58From the passage we know that _ Ajob applicants are not always asked such questionsBmore Chinese applicants failto find jobsCapplicants should not act as reasonably as a prisonerDaptitude testing is becoming popularBRead the following advertisements and then choose the correct answers（China Daily，March 3，96）the biggest shopping center will open on March 8Everybody with todays China Daily will get a small present that dayYou are welcomeTelephone：389988；Address：No6 Xidan Road（ENGLISH NEWSPAPER，March，96）English Newspaper needs a foreign editorHe（She）must have worked in China for more than 2yearsBritish nationality is necessaryThe salary is 0，000a yearThe term is 3yearsThis advertisement will be invalid（无效的）after ten daysTelephone：389966；Address：No6 Xinling Road（CHINA FOOTBALL，February 3，96）Shanghai ShenhuaTeam Vs Beijing Guoan TeamTIME：February 8，Sunday（3pm）PLACE：Hongkou StadiumTICKET PRICE：RMB 25 yuan（for adults）RMB yuan（for students）NAME：China Cup Football ContestCOACHES：Xu Genbao，Jin Zhiyang59If the customer had a China Daily of March 3，96，he would get a small present _ Aevery dayBfrom China DailyCon March 8，96Don March 3，9660If an Englishman who has worked in China for 3years comes to English Newspaper office to ask for the job in April，he will _ Aget the jobBnot get the jobCbe a good editorDnot be useful61If three adults and six students went to watch the match，the tickets would cost them _ yuanA5B5C6D25562Which of the following is NOT TRUE？AThe shopping center is at No6 Xidan RoadBThe telephone number of English Newspaper is 389966CThe match is between Beijing Team and Guoan TeamDXu Genbao is a coachCGenerations of Americans have been broughtup to believe thatagood breakfastis essential（必要的）to ones lifeEating breakfast at the start of the day，we havebeen told，and told again，is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a tripBut for many people，the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasureSo in spite of all the efforts，they stilltake no breakfastBetween 77and 83，the latest year for which figures could be obtained（获得），the number of people who didnthave breakfast increased by 33from 88million to 7millionaccording to the Chicago-Based Market Research Corporation of AmericaFor those who dislike eating breakfast，however，there is some good newsSeveral studies in the last few years have shown that，for grown-ups especially， there may be nothing wrong with omitting（省略）breakfast“Going without breakfast does not affect work，”said Mold EBender，former professor of nutrition（营养）at Queen Elizabeth College in London，“Nor does giving people breakfast improve work”Scientific evidence（证据）linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly inadequate（不充足），and most of the recent work involves（涉及）children，not grown-ups“The literature，”says one researcher，DrEarmest Pollitt at the University of Texas，“is poor”63The main ideaofthe passage is _ Abreakfast has nothing to do with peoples healthBa good breakfast used to be important to usCbreakfast is not as important to us as gasoline to a carDbreakfast is not so important as we thought before64For those who do not take breakfast the good news is that _ Aseveralstudies have been done in the past few yearsBthe omission of breakfast does no harm to ones healthCgrown-ups have especially made studies in this fieldDeating little in the morning is good for health65The underlined part“Nor does giving people breakfast improve work”means_ Apeople without breakfast can improve their healthBnot giving people breakfast improves workChaving breakfast does not improve work ，eitherDpeople having breakfast do improve their work，too66The word“literature”in the last paragraph refers to _ Astories，poems，plays，etcBwritten works on aparticular subjectCany printed materialDthe modern literature of America67What is implied but not stated by the author is that _ Abreakfast does not affect workBDrPollitt works at an institution of higher learningCnot eating breakfast might affect the health of childrenDProfessor Bender once taught college courseson nutrition in LondonDWhen Columbus reached the New World，corn was the most widely grown plantin AmericaThisplantsrange extended from what is now southern Canadato lower South AmericaAt that time some tribes cultivated（培植）it at sea level，others at elevation（高度）ofmore than ，000 feet“Columbus had no way of knowing that corn was far more valuable than the spices（香料）and gold he had hoped to find，”said Frances BKing，a professor ata university of PittsburghThrough human intervention（干涉），thisplanthasdeveloped into several hundred races，or varieties Their heights vary from 2to feet，and theirmaturity（成熟）rangesfrom little more than 2months to almost a yearTheir ears（穗）vary notonly in color，butalso in sizeUnlike other cereals（谷类），corn bears little resemblance（相似）to its wildancestorsIn fact，it differs from the appearance of its immediate ancestors more than any other cultivated plant knownFrom humble（卑下）origins as a lowland grass，corn developed into the western worlds important grainAs its high yields（产量） allowed communities to grow far beyond what early agriculture could feed，most scientists viewed corn as having largely fueled preColumbian growth and civilizationNow，new findings are greatly changing researchersnotions about the time when corn revolution occurredNew dates for its emergence（出现）from Mesoamerica do not support the widely held viewThe evidence now suggests that the signs of corn in Americacan date back5，500yearsatleast68The first paragraph states that corn_ Awas mainly grown at sea levelBwas not grown below the elevation of ，000feetCwas widely grown in Canada onlyDspread throughout America69The second paragraph implies that_ Athe purpose of Columbusexploration was to discover cornBcorn was one of Columbusdiscoveries，but more precious than anything elseCColumbus knew corn so well that he broughtitback to Europe at onceDcorn was the only Columbusdiscovery that was remembered70According to the passage，some varieties of corn can _ Aripen little more than 2months Blast little more than 2yearsCstay fresh for almost a year Dstay alive from 2months to almost2 years71The widely held view was challenged by_ Aa new revolution Bnew findings about cornCthe signs of corn 5，000years ago Dnew dates for communitiesemergenceETests administered（有助于）to most elementary and high-school students in the United States exert（发挥）an unfavourable influence on science and math teaching， according to a new 1million study performed for the National Science FoundationAndbecauseschoolswithhighminority enrollments（入学）generally place agreater reliance（相信）on scores from these tests， the study finds，there tends to be“a gap in instructional emphases between high-and low-minority classrooms thatdiffers from our national concern for the quality of education”George FMadaus and his colleaguesat Boston College analyzed not only the six most widely used nationalstandardized tests， but also the tests designed to accompany（go with）the four most commonly used science and math texts in fourth-grade，eighth-grade，and high-school classroomsThough curriculum（teaching program）experts argue that schools should place greater em- phasis on problem solving and reasoning， the new study shows that the tests focus on lower-level skillsprimarily mechanical memorization of routine formulas（公式）Researchers surveyed more than 2，200 math and science instructors，interviewing in depth some 300teachers and administratorsEspecially in schools with high minority enrollments，teachers reported feeling pressured to help students perform wellon these testsSome states judge schools and some schools determine teacher assignments（作业）based on studentstest scores“With so much worry，”Madaus says，“teachers feel forced to focus their instruction on drilling what the tests will measureat the expense