（整理版高中英语）高三英语阅读理解限时训练（24）

1、高三英语阅读理解限时训练24atheir height made wayne and laurie hallquist seem like an ideal match when they met seven years ago, and on thursday they were matched with something else the title of world's tallest living married coupleguinness world records bestowed that towering distinction to the hallquists

2、in a ceremony under the marquee at its hollywood museumthe couple arrived in a white limousine, with wayne sporting a tuxedo and laurie in a white wedding dressthe hallquists, who live in stockton, california, measure a combined 13 feet, 4 inches, or 4074 centimeters, to be exacthe stands 6 feet 104

3、 inches, she 6 feet 595 inches, the guinness organization said"it's a whole different perspective up here, and we can find each other quite easily in a crowd," laurie told reuters"we can see several people going bald that might not know it at the moment," joked wayne, 57, who

4、 works as a telephone company wire splicerthe hallquists said that when they met at a church singles club in , they could tell that others around them were sizing up a possible love affair because of their height"she walked in, everyone looked at her, then they looked at me," wayne said bu

5、t while wayne said it was love at first sight for him, laurie said their first meeting came up short"he talked about the size of my hands and feet, which is kind of a no-no," said laurie, 46"and then the second time we had a chance to talk, i figured out he was a really good guy"

6、they have been married for eight years, but it took the hallquists until this year to contact guinness world recordsthe couple said they were discouraged at first from making a play for world's tallest couple, because they read online that a man and a woman each standing over 7 feet had married

7、in the 19th centuryonly this year did they realize they could compete in another category: world's tallest living married coupleguinness previously listed a couple in englandwilco and keisha van kleef-boltonas the world's tallest couple at a combined height of 13 feet, 3 inches41why their fi

8、rst meeting came up short is that _awayne is much older than laurie bwayne likes playing jokescwayne said something rude about laurie dwayne is just a wire splicer42according to the passage, all the following statements are not true exceptalaurie liked wayne at first sight while wayne didn'tbwil

9、co and keisha don't like their guinness recordcthe couple read the information of the tallest couple through the internetdwayne met laurie in a friend's party43what does the underlined phrase "sizing up" mean _?aforming an opinion bgiving a suggestioncmaking a plan dmaking a decisi

10、on44what would be the best title for the passage?athe world's tallest couple in historybthe world's tallest living couplecwayne and laurie : an ideal matchdwayne and laurie : a new world record holderbbbc sports program sundaywe are currently planning our volunteer program, which will ensure

11、 volunteers are trained and ready to go for up to 70,000 volunteers will be needed to help put on the london olympic and paralympic gamesour program will aim to encourage a wide range of people to join inwe will provide the training to make sure our volunteers' skills are of the highest standard

12、london is an opportunity to inspire everyone to develop their interests and volunteer-in sport and also more widely within their communityapplications will open in the late we'll recruit招募 volunteers from across the ukfrom a range of communities and backgroundsour recruitment process will be ope

13、n and fairour goal is to select applicants who meet our standards and who will bring passion, enthusiasm and energy to the gamesprevious volunteering experience is not necessarywe'll give each successful applicant a specific role, allowing them to contribute meaningfully to the gamesthere will b

14、e two kinds of games volunteerspecialist and generalistspecialist volunteers will have specific existing skills or qualifications that are needed for them to complete the role, for example, sport or medical traininggeneralist volunteers will not need any special skills or qualifications and will rec

15、eive full trainingthey might be given roles in areas such as event services, uniform distribution 分发 and village operationsall volunteers will be expected to attend training events that will give them the knowledge they need to carry out their rolethere are lots of charities and sporting organizatio

16、ns that are looking for volunteers to help themwhile you are waiting for applications for the london volunteer program to open in the late , why not consider getting involved locally? you can find opportunities to volunteer in a range of activities in your local area by following the links on the ri

17、ght hand side of this page or make local enquiries about the needs in your community45where will you probably find this article?ain a newspaper bon a webpagecin a magazine din a textbook 46who can apply to become a volunteer in the olympics?apeople from some english-speaking countriesbpeople with vo

18、lunteering experiencecpeople who meet the standardsdpeople with a knowledge of the olympic history47which of the following statements is wrong?atwo kinds of volunteers will be neededbspecialist volunteers do not have to attend training eventscapplications will not be accepted until dgeneralist volun

19、teers will be fully trained48what can you do in july, ?ado some volunteering work locallybapply to become a volunteer in the olympicscget trained in the volunteer programdjoin in the olympic gamesccheating is nothing newbut today, educators and administrators are finding that instances of academic d

20、ishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent and are less likely to be punished than in the past cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students alikewhy is student cheating on the rise? no one really knows some blame the trend on a general loosening of moral v

21、alues among today's youthothers have attributed increased cheating to the fact that today's youth are far more pragmatic实用主义的 than their more idealistic predecessors前辈.while in the late sixties and early seventies, students were filled with visions about changing the world, today's stude

22、nts feel great pressure to conform随大流 and succeedin interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had become easysome suggested they did it out of spite for teachers they did not respect; others looked at it as a gameonly if the

23、y were caught, some said, would they feel guilty"people are competitive" said a second-year college student named anna, from chicagothere's an underlying fear if you don't do well, your life is going to be ruined the pressure is not only from parents and friends but from yourselfto

24、 achieveto succeedit's almost as though we have to outdo other people to achieve our own goalsedward wynne, editor of a magazine blames the rise in academic dishonesty on the schoolshe claims that administrators and teachers have been too hesitant to take actiondwight huber, chairman of the engl

25、ish department at amarillo sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students are evaluated" i would cheat if i felt i was being cheated," mrhuber saidhe feels that as long as teachers give short-answer tests rather than essay questions and rate students by the n

26、umber of facts they can memorize rather than by how well they can combine information, students will try to beat the system" the concept of cheating is based on the false assumption that the system is reasonable and there is something wrong with the individual who's doing it," he said

27、, "that's too easy an answerwe've got to start looking at the system"49educators are finding that students who cheat _aare more likely to be punished than beforebhave poorer academic records than beforeccan be academically weak or strongduse the information in later years50accordin

28、g to the passage, youth cheat because of_athe eagerness to succeedbthe easiness to cheatcthe fear of competitiondthe impossibility to be punished51what does the underlined part '"the system" refer to?athe education systembthe school systemcthe system by which schools punish cheatingdth

29、e system by which students are evaluated52which of the followings would dwight huber probably agree with?athe educational system is sound and students must follow every rule,bparents alone must take responsibility for the rise in student cheatingcthere should be some changes in the evaluation system

30、dstudents who cheat should be expelled from schooldtomato festivalstarted in , the tomato festival has grown into a local tradition in malta in recent years, the festival has added amusement park-style rides and a yearly creature feature, which screens old horrible moviesthere are also dance competi

31、tions, parades and pancake breakfastthird weekend in august address: 833 tinkham rd, fountain park, wilbra-ham, massachusetts 01095 phone: 413599-0010brat daysdon't mistake this festival for a day filled with poorly behaved children begun m 1953, the gathering is the biggest festival in the city

32、 each year and features more than 50 stands 摊位 selling the sausage, as well as a contest to see who can quickly eat the most bratwurst 德国式小香肠 in ten minutesearly augustaddress: 17th and new jersey sts, kiwanis park, she boygan, wisconsin 53081phone: 920457-9491hope watermelon festivalthe festival da

33、tes back to the 1920s, when many trains went through this small town and local watermelon growers would sell their watermelon to parched travelersthese days, the festival sees a watermelon queen crowned加冠的 and sometimes a world-record watermelon grownthere are also more than 300 stands selling arts

34、and crafts from a six-state area, as well as a car show and the watermelon olympicsearly augustaddress: 108 w 3rd st, hope, arkansas 71801 phone: 870 777-3640oyster festival 牡蛎节featuring appearances from tall ships and oyster boats, this festival has regularly drawn 60,000 visitors a year since it b

35、egan in 1978more than 3,000 volunteers 志愿者 make the festival possible each yearnorwalk is less than a two-hour drive from many of new england's larger cities, making it easy to attend the festival during a trip to new york or hartfordweekend after labor dayaddress: sea view ave, veteran's pa

36、rk, east nor-walk, connecticut 06855 phone: 800 866-792553which of the following festivals has the longest history?aoyster festivalbhope watermelon festivalcbrat daysdtomato festival54the underlined word "parched" in the third passage means _ atiredbhungrycthirstydexcited55in which of the

37、following activities can you enjoy the frightening films?athe creature featurebthe watermelon olympicscthe eating-bratwurst contestddance competitions56if it is august 15 today this year, you might still attend _ _.abrat daysboyster festivalchope watermelon festivaldtomato festivalereading minds isn

38、't quite simple, but it may not be impossible, eitherwhat if a brain scan could reveal your memories?a team of british scientists recently did just thatthey used brain scans to look at spatial空间的 memory in four peoplespatial memory is the kind of memory you use to remember where you areyou use s

39、patial memory to remember how to get from your house to schoolpeople build spatial memory as they explore a new city or a new building and take in information about their surroundingsthe scientists asked each participant to sit down at a computer and wander through roomsthese virtual rooms contained

40、 images of objects, like clocks and doors, so that the people could know where they wereeach person was encouraged to explore the virtual spaceas the people became familiar with these rooms, their brain cells were taking notes of where things were, and how to get from one point to anotherafter perus

41、ing详细考察 these rooms, the participants were instructed to go to a specific location within the roomsat this point, the scientists took pictures of the subjects' brains using an instrument called fmri 磁共振成像 as participants stared at the floor, the scientists took fmri scans to measure brain activitythey repeated this process multiple timesafter a few repetitions, the scientists could identify patterns in the subjects' b