（整理版高中英语）高三英语阅读理解限时训练（14）

1、高三英语阅读理解限时训练14aat yale university, enrollment in basic chinese in grew rapidly, and for the first time professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of the chinese language to start in second- or third-year chinese language class, rather than basic chinese.th

2、e american interest in china is not just at the university level. in the school year, high-school students will be offered an advanced placement test, which is one of the national exams american students take for university admission, in chinese. this is the first time chinese is offered in the adva

3、nced placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subjects that high school students take.what is surprising is that earlier last year, an organization that tracks university students surveyed high schools throughout america, asking if they planned to offer the language courses tha

4、t prepare students for the language advanced placement test. they expected that only a hundred high schools, mostly in california, new york, and a few other places with large immigrant populations, would show interest in each of the new language programs. although that was true for the courses in it

5、alian, russian and japanese, it was not true for the chinese language course. there were thousands of american high schools that indicated that they planned to build their chinese programs to levels where students could take the advanced placement exam for chinese language. the demand for courses in

6、 chinese is rising so rapidly that it is rapidly overtaking all other foreign languages except spanish.41. according to the passage many freshmen at yale university today . a. know enough basic chinese b. neednt learn chinese any more c. take courses in the chinese language d. go to university to st

7、udy chinese42. for university entrance, the american high-school students . a. have to learn chineseb. learn more than one foreign language. c. take the advanced placement testd. used to have a test in chinese43. we can learn from the passage that . a. chinese will overtake all foreign languages in

8、american high schools b. americans will know more about china and its people c. the u.s. government pays much attention to language studies d. chinese may take the place of english in american universitiesbwhy not an island get-away?newfoundlandpricefrom £1080 per person in june we went with:fr

9、ontier canada frontier-travel. co. uk/canadaabout this tripjohn cabot had set sail looking for a new trade route for asia, when he landed in cape bonavista. clearly he felt this barren desolate landscape could provide this, so he claimed it for its potential and so began the rise of the british empi

10、re.newfoundland is the most easterly point in north america and was britains first overseas colony until 1949, when it became part of canada. its roughly the size of england and craigs journey by camper van or rv (recreational vehicle) took in just a small part of the island called the bonavista pen

11、insula.first stop was the tiny fishing port of keels to stock up for the journey ahead. theres a long standing love affair between newfoundlanders and cod. the seas off the newfoundland coast were once the richest cod fishing grounds in the world, attracting fishermen from all over europe. many sett

12、led, establishing these coastal villages known locally as outports.an hours drive down the coast is the town of bonavista, where craig met up with retired fisherman, wilson hayward. he told craig how the landscape used to lie, and described the peculiarities of the language and accents in the area.

13、theres a different language in every bay.44the title “why not an island get-away? _.a. invites people to take a holiday trip to newfoundlandb. informs people that the island is moving away from where it used to bec. tells people that they can buy the island at the price of £1080.d. asks people

14、to visit the website frontier-45from the context we can conclude that “frontier canada is the name of _.a. a tourist guideb. a kind of fish found around the islandc. a tourist agencyd. someone who has already booked the trip46when john cabot first discovered cape bonavista he was actually on a voyag

15、e to find _.a. north americab. asiac. south americad. the british empire47according to the passage newfoundland is now part of _.a. ukb. canadac. europed. bonavista48in the past the newfoundlanders mainly lived by _.a. teaching languagesb. making camper vansc. looking after retired fishermend. fishi

16、ng codcas motorways become more and more blocked up with traffic, a new generation on flying cars will be needed to ferry people along skyways. that is the conclusion of engineers from the us space agency and aeronautical firms, who envision future commuters traveling by “skycar.these could look muc

17、h like the concept skycar shown in the picture, designed by boeing research and development. however, such vehicles could be some 25 years from appearing on the market. efforts to build flying vehicles in the past have not been very successful. such vehicles would not only be expensive and require t

18、he skills of a trained pilot to fly, but there are significant engineering challenges involved in developing them. “when you try to combine them you get the worst of both worlds: a very heavy, slow, expensive vehicle thats hard to use, said mark moore, head of the personal air vehicle(pav) division

19、of the vehicle systems program at nasas langley research center in hampton, us. but boeing is also considering how to police the airways-and prevent total pandemonium(吵杂狂乱的喧闹)-if thousands of flying cars enter the skies.“the neat, gee-whiz part is thinking about what the vehicle itself would look li

20、ke, said dick paul, a vice president with phantom works, boeings research and development arm. “but were trying to think through all the consequences of what it would take to deploy(散开) a fleet of these.past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent col

21、lisions between air traffic. nasa is working on flying vehicles with the initial goal of transforming small plane travel. small planes are generally costly, loud, and require months of training and lots of money to operate, making flying to work impractical for most people. but within five years, na

22、sa researchers hope to develop technology for a small plane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000(£55,725), is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car.although it would not have any road-driving capabilities, it would bring this form of travel within

23、 the grasp of a wider section of people. the new technology would automate many of the pilots functions. this small aircraft transportation system(sats) would divert pressure away from the “hub-and-spoke(中心辐射型) model of air travel. hub-and-spoke refers to the typically us model of passengers being p

24、rocessed through large “hub airports and then on to secondary flights to “spoke airports near their final destinations.49. the best title for this text would be .a. developing skycarsb. the traffic jams in the skyc. how to guide flying cars in the skyd. what flying cars will look like50. the underli

25、ned word “envision in paragraph 1 most probably means “ .a. seeb. expectc. thinkd. announce51. when engineers develop the skycars, they have to deal with the following difficulties except .a. how to fly out of regional airports b. how to prevent the disorder of the airwaysc. how to reduce expenses a

26、nd the vehicles weightd. how to fly the skycars to enter skies52. now nasa researchers aim is to .a. make big flying carsb. work out the planhow to transform small plane travelc. develop a new kind of small plane different from the traditional oned. build a new kind of small plane with road-driving

27、abilitiesdthe teaching hospital is one associated with a medical school. teaching hospitals are large, with a range of from 300 to 200 beds. these hospitals always have interns(实习医师) and residents(住院医师) and additionally have medical students on the hospital wards. they have superb technical resource

28、s, and it is here that the most extraordinary events of medicine take place. open-heart surgery, transplantation of kidneys, elaborate(精致的) nurseries for the newborn, support for management of rare blood diseases, and other wonderful achievements are all available here. dozens of people may be conce

29、rned with the well-being of a particular patient. important medical decisions are thoroughly discussed, presented at conferences, and reviewed by many personnel.on the other hand, the quality of personal relationships at teaching hospitals is variable. many patients feel that they are treated in an

30、impersonal way, and that their laboratory tests receive more attention that their human and social problems. since these institutions are on the frontier of medicine, there is a tendency to emphasize the new and elaborate procedures, when older and more modest ones might have served as well. with th

31、e inexperience of some members of the care team, there is a tendency to order more laboratory tests than what would have been ordered for the same condition in a private hospital. the sick patients are sometimes confused by having to relate to a large number of doctors and students. medical educator

32、s are concerned with such criticisms and have to correct some of the problems. however, some excesses(超额) of technological medicine still occur in these institutions.53. one of the advantages of a teaching hospital is that . a. its first-class personnel are a guarantee of excellent medical care b. i

33、ts first-class medical facilities and skills make medical breakthroughs possible c. the interns, residents and medical students all offer satisfactory services d. its laboratory staff provide high-class professional aids for the doctors54. the passage implies that .a. private hospitals usually give

34、personalized care of high qualityb. private hospitals have more experienced laboratory staffc. teaching hospitals use patients as subjects for their experimentsd. teaching hospitals usually give patients improper treatment55. treatments of some difficult and complicated cases in teaching hospital ar

35、e decided . a. by specialists in charge of the case b. by doctors and students together c. on some special and important occasions d. through collective efforts and serious review56. the problem that still bothers teaching hospitals frequently is . a. the inadequate patient care caused by irresponsi

36、ble nurses. b. the wrong decisions made by inexperienced doctors c. improper dependence on technological medicine d. the inconvenience caused by the presence of medical studentsewhats on stagean acrobatic show: to celebrate its 50th anniversary, the china acrobatic troupe(剧团) will present “the soul

37、of china, where the seemingly impossible is made real. chills will run down your spine(脊柱) as you watch breathlessly as performers take their art and their bodies to the edge.time: 7:30 p.m., september 13-19place: capital theatre, 22 wangfujing dajie, dongcheng districtexhibitionsjoint show: a group

38、 ink painting exhibition is running at the huangshicheng art gallery in beijing. about 50 works by 25 young artists including ge yun and yu yang are on display.time: 9:00 a. m.5:00 p.m. until september 10place: huangshicheng art gallery, 136 nanchizi dajie, dongcheng districtoil paintings: the wanfu

39、ng art gallery will host a joint show of oil painting by 10 young and middle-aged artists. on display are more than 30 of their latest works, which capture the wondrous variety of life in unique styles.time: 9:00 a.m.4:00 p.m. until september 15place: 136 nanchizi street, dongcheng districtliteratur

40、e museum: the national museum of modern chinese literature offers an in-depth study of the evolution of chinese contemporary literature from 1919 to 1949.time: 9:00 a.m.4:00 p.m., dailyplace: 45 anyuan donglu, chaoyang district(shaoyaoju area)concertsbeijing rocks: “the fashion night of chinese rock

41、 is set to bring rock fans out by the thousands next month. nine chinese rock bands will perform at the concert, including older generation bands, middle generation and some recent arrivals. the audience will be given a chance to decide what songs they want to hear, which is sure to bring a storm.time: september 16place: the olympic centerbelgium orchestra：la petite bande, the baro