河北省张家口市桥东区2016高考英语阅读理解好信息匹配一轮练习(8)

1、河北省张家口市桥东区2016高考英语阅读理解好信息匹配一轮练习（8）【2014高考英语四川省凉山州一模试题】共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据对话内容浏人刊话后的选项中选出能填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多断黯选项。 一How can I help you? 一51 一Would you like to send it by surface mail or airmail? 一52 一If you send the parcel by surface mail, it will take about 2 months to arrive, whereas by

2、airmail, it will arrive in one week or more 一That's a big difference. 53 How much will it cost to send it by airmail? 一That depends on the weight. Place it on the scale, please. 一OK. 一That's 300 grams.54 一That's not bad. Ill do that then. Does that include insurance on the contents of th

3、e parcel or is that a separate payment? 一55 Its another 5 pounds. 一OK.A. That's all right.B. That's separate. C. I want to buy some stampsD. It will cost ten pounds for airmail. E. Id like to send this package to China. F. I suppose airmail will be much more expensive.G. What's the diffe

4、rence between surface mail and airmail?【参考答案】5155、EGFDB【2014高考英语四川省绵阳市二模试题】（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）根据对话内容，从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项多余选项。Mary:Well, Susan, how was your shopping trip with Nancy this afternoon?Susan:Dont ask. 51 Mary:What do you mean? Something went wrong?Susan：Went wrong? 52

5、Nancy thought I had said I would meet her at the department store at 2:30 when I really said 2:00. Then she thought we would meet at the main entrance in front when I really said at the east entrance on the Twelfth Street.Mary: 53 Susan:Yes! 54 I had given up waiting and went inside the womens cloth

6、ing department. So did she. Thus we met finally and it was 3:00 by then.Mary:Did you get what you wanted? 55 Susan:A blouse, as a matter of fact. But by that time, all those on sale were gone. So I settled for a skirt.A. Did you ever find each other?B. But it was magical!C. Actually, Ive got the lis

7、t ready.D. I remember you said you wanted to get a sweater.E. Did you get anything?F. It could even be a disaster!G. I dont want to talk about it anymore.【参考答案】5155 GFABD阅读理解。The pound new Library of Birmingham（LoB）will be the most visible sign of the way the city is accepting the digitalization（数字化

8、）of everyday life.Set to open in 2013, the £188 m LoB is already beginning to tale shape next to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, with which it will share some equipment.As digital media（媒介）is important to its idea. the project is already providing chances for some of the many small new local

9、companies working at the new technologies.Brian Gambles, the LoB project director, says it is about giving people the right tools for learning, “The aim is to mix the physical with the digital. Providing 24-hour services which can be used through many different ways. It is important to enable us to

10、reach more people, more effectively.”The digital library will, he says, be as important as the physical one, allowing the distant use of the services, making sure that it is never closed to the public.Even before the LoB is complete, the public has been able to go online to visit the Virtual（虚拟的）LoB

11、, designed by Baden, the Birmingham virtual worlds specialists. Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.Two other small Birmingham-based digital companies

12、 are working on the LoB projects. Substrat, a digital design company, is developing what it calls “enlarge reality” project. It is about the use of an exciting smart phone, an important part of the LoB which is in the early stages of development is an online library of figures of the city being buil

13、t by a digital content company in Cahoots, in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material. Gambles says: “Technology will enable us to make the librarys content and services open to citizens as sever before.”( ) 1. The underline part “its idea” in Paragraph 3 refers to the i

14、dea of_. A. the equipment B. the projectC. the digital media D. the physical library( ) 2. While visiting the Virtual LoB, the public can_. A. get a general idea of the LoBB. meet many world-famous expertsC. learn how to put up a library buildingD. understand how the specialists work on the project(

15、 ) 3. Which of the following is true of the LoB when it opens? a. It offers better learning toolsb. It reaches users in different waysc. It provides users with smart phoned. It allows users to enrich its materiale. It gives non-stop physical and digital servicesA. a, b, d B. a, c, e C. b, c, d D. b,

16、 d, e( ) 4. This text is most probably taken from .A. a put book B. a library guideC. a handbook D. a newspaper report【答案与解析】【要点综述】本篇文章为新闻报道类文体。文章报道了Library of Birmingham（伯明翰图书馆）将会投巨资改建成一个全新的数字化图书馆的事情。1B词义推断题。通过分析单词所在的这个句子，可知its（它的）指代的是主句中的主语“这个工程的”，its idea便是指the idea of the project。2A细节理解题。根据第6段第2

17、句“Not only have the public been able to learn about LoB, but the virtual one has also enabled those working on the LoB to understand the building and how it will work before it even opens.”可知答案为A。B、C、D说法均有误。3A细节理解题。根据第4段“it is about giving people the right tools for learning”， “which can be used thr

18、ough many different ways”及第7段“in which users will be encouraged to add to and comment on the material”可知。4D推理判断题。文章首段便简明地概括了文章主题，全文体现较明显的及时性，这是新闻类文体的典型特征，据此可判断文章应来源于一篇新闻报道。【浙江省金华十校2014高考英语模拟试题】A阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。 Henry Ford grew up on an un-electrified farm, and as a young man he fo

19、llowed Edison's career as the inventor became a national role modelFord took a job at the Edison Illuminating Company working his way up to chief engineer In 1896 Ford was thirty-three and, though still working for Edison Co,he had created his first experimental automobile the Ford Quadricycle2

20、during his off-time At an Edison company party in New York, Ford had his first chance to meet his hero Edison and was able to explain his new automobile to the great inventor Edison was impressed Edison is said to have slammed his fist down and shouted ¨Young man, that's the thing! You have

21、 it! Your car is self-contained and carries its own power plant" Edison himself had been working on the idea, but had only been considering electricity as the power source, so the idea of a gas engine was a somewhat new one The words comforted Ford greatly, who immediately set out building a se

22、cond car which was to become the Model-T6The two men became f'ast friends and would go on camping trips togetherWhen Edison later became limited to a wheelchair, Ford brought an extra one to his house so they could raceAt the 50th anniversary of the invention of light-bulb, Ford honored EdisonWh

23、en Edison spoke, he ended his speech directed at Ford:“ As to Henry Ford, words fail to express my feelingsI can only say that he is my friend" Therefore it is no surprise that Ford wanted something to remember Edison by after he passed away in 1931 Once, Ford asked Thomas Edison's son Char

24、les to sit by the dying inventor's bedside and hold a test tube next to his father's mouth to catch his final breath Ford was a man with many strange behaviors（ as was Edison）including some interest in reanimation and spiritualism（夏活通灵术）and some say that he was attempting to catch Edison'

25、;s soul as it escaped his body in hopes of later bringing the inventor back to life The test tube itself didn't turn up until 1950 when it was listed in the Ford possessions after Clara Ford's passing away, and then lost again until 1978 when it was discovered in an exhibit Entitled “Henry F

26、ord-A Personal History" in the Henry Ford MuseumIt would then be discovered that the tube was labeled “Edison's Last Breath" There is a further mystery of this “last breath" test tube It would seem as if Edison had quite a last breath indeed, as the Edison Estate holds a collectio

27、n of 42 test tubes all supposedly containing Edison's last breath Regardless of the excitement over the last breath, the test tube is quite touching in its meaningAlthough both men were known for all sorts of poor behavior towards their loved ones and mistreatment of employees, between them at l

28、east, there was clearly a deep respect and admiration41The passage can be sorted as a Ascience research Bshort story Cnews report Dself-introduction42From the underlined sentence in Paragraph2 we can learn that AEdison envied what Ford had achieved BEdison was annoyed that Ford did better him CEdiso

29、n was angry because Ford stole his idea DEdison was extremely amazed at Ford's new idea43In Paragraph 3,the writer mentions Ford bought an extra wheelchair Ato remind Edison was Ford's role model Bto suggest Ford was a man of strange behavior Cto tell us the importance of a creative idea the

30、n Dto show the close friendship between Henry Ford and Edison44¨The 61ast breath' test tube" can probably be regarded as Aa symbol of a friendship and memory Ba witness to a scientific breakthrough Ca failure to bring Edison back to life Da sign of the two inventors' poor behavior4

31、5It can be learned from the last paragraph that“ ” AGreat minds think alike BNobody is perfect CTwo heads are better than oneDA friend in need is a friend indeed【参考答案】4145、BDDAB 阅读理解。In business, there is a speed difference: It's the difference between how important a firms leaders say speed is

32、to their competitive (竞争的) strategy（策略）and how fast the company actually moves. The difference is important regardless of industry and company size .Companies fearful of losing their competitive advantage spend much time and money looking for ways to pick up the speed.In our study of 343 businesses,

33、 the companies that choose to go, go, go to try to gain an edge ended up with lower sales and operating incomes than those that paused at key moments to make sure they were on the right track, Whats more, the firms that “slowed down to speed up “improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% hig

34、her sales and 52% higher operating incomes over a three-year period.How did they disobey the laws of business physics, taking more time than competitors yet performing better? They thought differently about what “slower” and “faster” mean. Firms sometimes fail to understand the difference between op

35、eration speed (moving quickly )and strategic speed (reducing the time it takes to deliver value ).Simply increasing the speed of production, for example ,may be one way to try to reduce the speed difference .But that often leads to reduced value over time, in the form of lower-quality products and s

36、ervices.In our study, higher-performing companies with strategic speed always made changes when necessary. They became more open to ideas and discussion. They encouraged new ways of thinking. And they allowed time to look back and learn. By contrast (相比而言), performance suffered at firms that moved fast all the time, paid too much attention to improving efficiency, stuck to tested methods, didnt deve