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广西阳朔县2016高考英语阅读理解二轮基础选编（5）【2014高考训练】the china daily newspaper group is looking for englishlanguage senior business editors, senior copy editors, copy editors and graphic designers to strengthen its international team. we offer a competitive salary package, free accommodation with utilities paid for,90 per cent medical reimbursement, a sevenday paid leave, elevenday public holidays and a return ticket to the country of residence.senior business editoryou must：assist the business editor in setting goals and working on achieving them；be an excellent team person who can generate ideas and think creatively and be able to rewrite totally if needed and mentor junior staff；ideally have been working or have worked in a position of responsibility and understand what leadership entails；have had at least five years editing experience working on editing the business desk and be familiar with industry software.senior copy editoryou must：work on shifts in the business desk and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print；edit or rewrite copy and give snappy headlines and captions；have had at least two years editing experience working on editing desks and be familiar with industry software.copy editoryou must： be good at editing or rewriting copy and writing snappy headlines and captions；be able to work on shifts for different pages, and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;have two years of editing experience working on copy desks, and be familiar with industry software.graphic designeryou must：have excellent skills in information graphics；be good at illustrations and freehand drawings；be experienced in newspaper or magazine layouts；have a good sense of typography；have good news judgment；be wellversed with macintosh software, including indesign, illustrator and photoshop；be fluent in english.for enquiries or to apply, write to job .68. what is the purpose of this passage? a. to describe the positions of the china daily newspaper group. b. to describe the working conditions of the china daily newspaper group. c. to advertise for recruiting some good employees. d. to tell you how to become part of this group.69. what is not required about graphic designer? a. be wellversed with photoshop.b. have excellent skills in information graphics. c. having a good sense of typography.d. writing snappy headlines and captions.70. how many positions need editing experience? a. 2. b. 1. c. 3. d. 4.71. which can be the title of the advertisement? a. china daily：new employees wantedb. china daily：newspaper c. china daily：an international teamd. china daily：the best working condition【参考答案】6871、cdca 【2014高考训练】in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide acts rather like a one-way mirror or the glass in the roof of a greenhouse which allows the suns rays to enter but prevents the heat from escaping according to a weather experts prediction , the atmosphere will be 3 warmer in the year 2050 than it is today, if man continues to burn fuels at the present rateif this warming up took placethe ice caps in the poles would begin to inch，thus raising sea level several meters and severely flooding coastal citiesalsothe increase in atmospheric temperature would lead to great changes in the climate of the northern hemisphere(北半球)，possibly resulting in an alteration of the earths chief food growing zones in the past，concern about a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the arctic because the antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheetbut the weather experts are now paying more attention to west antarcticwhich may be affected by only a few degrees of warming，in other words，by a warming on the scale that will possibly take place in the next fifty years from the burning of fuels satellite pictures show that large areas of antarctic ice are already disappearingthe evidence available suggests that a warming has taken placethis fits the theory that carbon dioxide warms the earth however, most of the fuel is burnt in the northern hemisphere，where temperatures seem to be fallingscientists conclude，therefore ,that up to now natural influences on the weather have gone beyond those caused by manthe question is：which natural cause has most effect on the weather? one possibility is the variable behavior of the sunastronomers at one research station have studied the hot spots and cold spots (that is, the relatively less hot spots)on the sunas the sun rotates(使旋转)，every 275 days，it presents hotter or colder faces to the earth，and different aspects to different parts of the earththis seems to have a considerable effect on the distribution of the earth atmospheric pressure，and consequently on wind circulationthe sun is also changeable over a long term：its heat output goes up and down in cycles，the latest trend being downward scientists are now finding shared relations between models of solar weather interactions and the actual climate over many thousands of years，including the last ice agethe problem is that the models are predicting that the world should be entering a new ice age and it is notone way of solving this theoretical difficulty is to assume a delay of thousands of years while the solar effects overcome the inertia(惯性)of the earths climateif this is right, the warming effect of carbon dioxide might thus be serving as a useful opposed balance to the suns fading heat46it can be concluded that a concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would amean a warming-up in the arctic braise the temperature of the earths surface cprevent the suns rays from reaching the earths surface dexplain the cause of great changes in the climate in the northern hemisphere47the article was written to explain athe green house effect bthe solar effects on the earth cthe causes affecting weather dthe models of solar weather interactions48although the fuel consumption is greater in the northern hemisphere, temperatures there seem to be fallingthis is amainly because the levels of carbon dioxide arc rising bpartly due to changes in the output of solar energy cpossibly because the ice caps in the poles are melting donly due to the effect of the inertia of the earths climate49.on the basis of their models, scientists are of the opinion that a the climate of the world should be becoming coolerb the new ice age will be delayed by the greenhouse effectc the man-made warning effect helps to increase the solar effectsd it will take thousands of years for the inertia of the earths climate to take effect50.if the assumption about the delay of a new ice age is correct a ice would soon cover the northern hemisphereb the greenhouse effect could work in favor of the earthc the best way to overcome the cooling effect would be to burn more fuelsd the increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could warm up the earth even more quickly【参考答案】46-50bcbab【湖南省怀化市2014高考英语一模试题】calthough cats may be one of the most popular pets today, little is known about how and when humans and cats set up their close relationship. the earliest evidence for humancat interaction dates back to prehistoric cyprus（史前塞浦路斯）, where the remains of a wild cat and a human dated 9,500 years old were found buried together. a new study in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences has confirmed the first direct evidence of a humandomestic cat relationship among chinese farmers 5,300 years ago. researchers studied the bones of cats, dogs, deer and other animals unearthed in an excavation (挖掘) near a village in central china. by using some ways, scientists showed that the cats were living on a mostly millet(黍)based diet, just like the domesticated dogs and pigs from the site. the most reasonable explanation for a high consumption of milletbased food is that the cats had formed a stable and mutual relationship with humans and could easily feed on rodents (啮齿动物) around human villages, find leftover food or even have been fed by people intentionally, said hu yaowu from the chinese academy of sciences in beijing, whose research focuses on the relationship between humans and domesticated animals.it is very interesting for us to find the consumption of millet-based foods by the cats, since this kind of evidence had long been missing.” hu explains. since cats usually eat meat, such a diet would be unexpected, unless the cats were being fed by people, the study argues. the researchers also found that one of the cats survived to reach old age, implying that it had a safe place to live and enough to eat. why the farmers wanted to keep cats nearby or make them pets could be answered by other evidence. chinese archaeologists found some storage containers were specifically designed to keep out rodents a vermin (害兽) that cats could certainly have helped with. the simplified theory is that rats were attracted to the food of farmers, and so were harmful to farmers. cats were attracted to the rats, and so farmers formed a mutually beneficial relationship with cats, taking care of them in return for pest control.【小题1】the evidence found in the remains dating back to prehistoric cyprus means . a. human made cats pets as early as 9,500 years agob. human interacted with cats very earlyc. cats didnt appear until prehistoric cyprus d. when cats became domesticated 【小题2】apart from cats, hu yaowu and his teams may also study .a. the preventions of pests from grains b. the history of chinese farmingc. the dogs and pigs d. the ways to keep pets【小题3】which of the following is not the evidence of chinese farms keeping cats? a. cats didnt feed on meat. b. the cats consumed large amounts of milletbased foods. c. one of the cats survived to reach old age. d. some storage containers were specifically designed to keep out rodents.【小题4】what are the reasons for farmers to keep cats? a. helping keep other domesticated animals. b. not letting cats eat food.c. supplying meat for human. d. helping reduce the amount of pests. 【小题5】in which part of a newspaper would be the passage most probably appear .a. entertainment b. environmentc. human and science d. life and fashion【答案】【小题1】b【小题2】c【小题3】a【小题4】d【小题5】c【解析】试题分析：文章介绍了通过调查发现人和猫的联系是什么时候开始的，也介绍了以前的农民为什么养猫的阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。【吉林省吉林市2014质量检测】aafter a terrible electrical accident, which caused him to become both blind and deaf, the whole world became completely dark and quiet for robert edwards for almost ten years. the loss of sight and hearing threw him into such sorrow that he tried a few times to put an end to his life. his family, especially his wife, did their best to tend and comfort him and finally he regained the will to live.one hot summer afternoon, he was taking a walk with a stick near his house when a thunderstorm started all at once. he stood under a large tree to avoid getting wet, but he was struck by the lightning. witnesses thought he was dead but he woke up some 20 minutes later lying face down in muddy water at the base of the tree. he was trembling badly, but when he opened his eyes, he could hardly believe what he saw: a plough and a wall. when mrs. edwards came running up to him, shouting to their neighbors to call for help, he could see her and hear her voice for the first time in nearly ten years. the news of robert regaining his sight and hearing quickly spread, and many doctors came to examine him. most of them said that he regained his sight and hearing from the shock he got from the lightning. however, none of them could give a convincing answer as to why this should have happened. the o