高考英语阅读专项训练(北京市).doc

高考英语阅读专项训练(北京市)
北京市2008---2012高考模拟试题（一模、二模试题）
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海淀区（2008年一模试题）：

海淀区（2008年二模试题）：
阅读理解（共20小题，每题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，选出最佳选项。
A
Come to Camp Chippenstock!
If you’re looking for happy summer memories that will last a lifetime. Camp Chippenstock is for you! We provide fun and meaningful activities for young people ages 12 through 17. Our campers choose from a wide variety of interesting activities led by an enthusiastic staff, some of whom were once Chinppenstock campers themselves. Because we are a day camp. Camp Chippenstock is more affordable than many other camps. Read on to find out how you can participate.
Camp Chippenstock is surrounded by pine trees, hills, streams, and a large take. Counselors and aides are friendly, caring, and experienced. Each year we get letters from satisfied campers like this one from Tommy Molina:

ACTIVITIES OFFERED

Imagine the fun you can have! We start each day at 9:00 A.M.
and end at 5:30 P.M… Monday through Friday. Camp begins
on June 22 and runs through July 24. transportation can be
arranged for those who live in the Allentown area. To receive
an application, call 1- 888 – 293 – 3151 or write to:

“Camp Chippenstock is a great place to be in the summer. It’s everything you’d expect a camp to be and then some. I had a great summer, met a lot of cool people, and learned to paddle a canoe, I am definitely coming back next summer.”

·Swimming: Visualize yourself swimming or diving into a crystal clear pool. Whether you are a beginner or already swim like a fish, we’ll find a class for you.
·Team Sports: Choose from softball, soccer, basketball, and volleyball. Fridays are game days – hot dogs and all!
·Hiking: See the most beautiful hiking trails in the area and learn about animal tracks, bird calls, and native plants.
·Canoeing: Glide across the lake or paddle up a stream. You can also take part in all – day canoe trips or weekly races.
·Crafts: Express your creative side by learning to work with wood, leather, and clay.
·Photography: Learn how to get the pictures you want and how to develop them. Taking good pictures isn’t as simple as it seems, even in this magnificent setting. Bring your own camera or use one of ours.
·Chinppenstock Times: Everyone is encouraged to get involved by becoming a reporter or photographer for our weekly newspaper.

Camp Chippenstock
P. O. Box 292
Allentown, NY 10020

56．Tommy Molina’s letter is used in the ad to .
A．prove the camp is wonderful
B．tell the way to meet cool people
C．introduce the great camping place
D．show everybody is eager to come back
57．The information in ACTIVITIES OFFERED shows us that .
A．owning a camera is a must to learn how to take pictures
B．weekly competitions will be held by Chippenstock Times.
C．classes are available for campers of different swimming levels
D．campers can get close to nature by joining in Craft and Hiking
58．From the advertisement we learn that .
A．Camp Chippenstock is intended for all teenagers
B．all the instructors used to be Chippenstock campers
C．we can take part in the camp throughout the summer
D．Camp Chippenstock costs less than many other camps
B
While watching the Olympics the other night, I came across an unbelievable sight. It was not a gold medal, or a world record broken, but a show of courage.
The event was swimming and started with only three men on the blocks. For one reason or another, two of them false started, so they were disqualified. That left only one to compete. It would have been difficult enough, not having anyone to race against, even though the time on the clock is important.
I watched the man dive off the block and knew right away that something was wrong. I’m not an expert swimmer, but I can tell a good dive from a poor one, and this was not exactly medal quality. When he resurfaced, it was evident that the man was not out for gold – his arms were waving in an attempt at freestyle. The crowd started to laugh. Clearly this man was not a medal competitor.
I listened to the crowd begin to laugh at this poor man who was clearly having a hard time. Finally he made his turn to start back. It was pitiful. He made a few desperate strokes and you could tell he was worn out.
But in those few awful strokes, the crowd had changed.
No longer were they laughing, but beginning to cheer. Some even began to stand and shout “Come on, you can do it!” and he did.
A clear minute past the average swimmer, this young man finally finished his race. The crowd went wild. You would have thought that he had won the gold, and he should have. Even though he recorded one of the slowest times in Olympic history, this man gave more heart than any of the other competitors.
Just a short year ago, he had never even swum, let alone race. His country had been invited to Sydney.
In a competition where athletes remove their silver medals feeling they have somehow been cheated out of gold, or when they act so proudly in front of their competitors, it is nice to watch an underdog.
59．From the passage we can learn that the young man .
A．made his turn to start back pitifully
B．was skillful in freestyle in the game
C．swam faster than the average swimmer
D．was not capable enough to win the medal
60．The crowd changed their attitudes because .
A．they felt sorry for the young man
B．they were moved by the young man
C．they wanted to show their sympathy
D．they meant to please the young man
61．According to the passage, “it is nice to watch an underdog” probably means .
A．it’s amusing to watch a man with awful swimming skills
B．it’s amazing to watch an ordinary man challenging himself
C．it’s cheerful for athletes to act proudly before their competitors
D．it’s brave enough for some athletes to remove the silver medals
62．What’s the best title for the passage?
A．Compete for Gold! B．Try again!
C．Break a Record! D．Go for it!
C
In Alexandria, Virginia, the two thousand students at T. C. Williams High School started classes last month in a new building. It was built as a “green” school based on requirements from the United States Green Building Council.
The council is a nonprofit organization made up of building industry leaders. It has a rating system for buildings called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED.
In 2001, there were four schools asking for LEED certification. Now there are four hundred, including T.C. Williams. So far, fifty-eight schools have been recognized for meeting the requirements. These include protecting natural areas and limiting the amount of chemicals in building materials. They also include better lighting and improved indoor air quality. Buildings are also rated on how well they use energy and water, and on things like the use of recycling programs. At T.C. Williams, one example of green design can be seen in the many windows that let in natural light. Students say the sunny rooms help them stay awake during class.
A rooftop garden is designed to provide storm water control and help keep the building cool in the sun. And an underground tank can store 1,700,000 liters of rainwater for air conditioning and other systems.
The new building cost about 90,000,000 dollars to build. It stands next to the old T.C. Williams building, which officials say will slowly be taken apart and recycled. T.C. Williams High School is still waiting for the final part of the LEED certification process. Schools receive points for the number of requirements they meet. Buildings are rated silver, gold or platinum.
Around the country, concerns about limited budgets for public schools sometimes lead to objections to investing in “green” schools. But the Green Building Council points to a report by Capital E, a Washington, D.C., company that serves the clean energy industry. Capital E examined the cost of thirty “green” schools in the United States. It says the average cost was only two percent higher compared to a traditional school. And it says this extra cost is small compared to the savings over time from lower energy and water costs and healthier students.
63．The United States Green Building Council aims to .
A．collect money for “green” schools
B．construct “green” buildings on its own
C．promote the construction of “green” schools
D．evaluate the “greenness” of any school building
64．We know from the passage that .
A．LEED evaluates the buildings at four different levels
B．Capital E designed many requirements for “green” schools
C．T.C. Williams High School has received LEED certification
D．LEED is provided by the United States Green Building Council
65．The underlined word they in Paragraph 3 refers to .
A．the requirements B．the natural areas
C．the building materials D．the amount of chemicals
66．What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A．Green schools cost more than traditional ones.
B．Capital E is devoted to the clean green industry.
C．Green schools will have more benefits in the long term.
D．Limited budgets cause a disagreement on “green” schools.
D

While most teenagers earn the minimum wage from weekend
jobs, Jonathan Grubin, a 16 – year – old boy, has logged on to an
online success which turned over ￡75,000 last year.
Now his success is already beginning to show with the launch
of ForFrea4U.co.uk, which offers visitors free iPods and digital
cameras for signing up their friends to its advertisers. Jonathan has
got more than 55,000 members to the site in less than two years,
sending off ￡25,000 worth of products.
His success is down to a business move known as affiliate marketing, a web – based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliates for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.
The Royal Grammar School student said: “I have always been interested in websites and the ideas behind them. I though, ‘if only there was another way I could get my hands on these goods’, so I made a website for a bit of fun.” Jonathan added: “I partner with some advertisers, and they send me commission (佣金) each time I get them a new customer. I offer visitors to my website a reward when they sign up.”
“Advertisers were very quick to realize the potential of the network. Affiliale marketing is highly successful for advertisers because they only pay when they see results.”
“When you run an expensive television advertising campaign, nothing is guaranteed. But with my business model, advertises only pay their commission when they see results.”
Jonathan who works from his computer at home, launched his first website when he was 12 offering mobile phone wallpapers and screensavers after rival sites were charging youngsters for downloads.
He also runs livenewcastle. co. uk, a resource website for Newcastle with listings, reviews and directories. He added: “I remember receiving my first cheque, it was ￡10.44, and I was amazed that I had received it. The only thing I really want to do is to be able to work for myself.”
“There are a lot of downsides, but there are advantages too. The fact is that I am so young, and when I’m 20, I’m going to have a lot of knowledge and experience that most people won’t have until they are 30 or 40.”
67．Which of the following helps lead to the success of For Free4U.co.uk?
A．It provides visitors with presents for signing up their friends to its advertisers.
B．It offers teenagers mobile phone wallpapers and screensavers for free.
C．It gets payment when it publishes ads.
D．It charges youngsters for downloads.
68．Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Jonathan set up his first website when he was twelve.
B．Jonathan is a student of Royal Grammar School.
C．Jonathan founded the websites for money only.
D．Jonathan is in charge of two websites now.
69．According to the passage, it’s obvious that .
A．Jonathan’s websites are popular with both visitors and advertisers
B．visitors sign up on Jonathan’s website in order to get rewards
C．advertisers pay for their products being advertised online
D．Jonathan is interested in working all by himself
70．The passage is mainly about .
A．a smart online advertising technique
B．a promising business web - master
C．a web – based marketing producer
D．a successful online marketing

E
Today’s career assumptions are that you can get a lot of development, challenge and job satisfaction and not necessarily be in a management role.
“I hated all the meetings,” says a 10-year award-winning manager, “And I found the more you did for people who worked for you, the more they expected.”
　　Managing others is always a tough task, but in the past that stress was balanced by hopes for career mobility and financial rewards. Along with a sizable pay raise, people chosen as managers would begin a nearly automatic climb up the career ladder to lucrative executive private benefits: company cars, club memberships, plus the key to the executive washroom.
But in today’s global, more competitive showground, a manager sits in an insecure chair. Restructuring has removed layer after layer of management as companies came to view their organizations as collections of talents rather than hierarchies(等级). There are far fewer steps for managers to climb. Also, managerial jobs demand more hours and headaches than ever before but offer slim, if any, financial paybacks and perks.
Now managers must manage many people who are spread over different locations, even over different continents. They must manage across functions with, say, design, finance and marketing.
In an age of entrepreneurship, when the most praised people in business are those launching something new, management seems like an invisible, thankless role. Employers are looking for people who can do things, not for people who make other people do things.
In addition, the Dilbert factor is at work. With Dilbert’s popular cartoon character as well as many television situation comedies routinely describing managers as fools or enemies, they just don’t get much respect any more.
　　Moreover, it may not pay to be a manager at least not the way it once did. Ms. Chmielewski says. “The emotional rewards can be great, and there were times I enjoyed management. But a 10-to-11-hour day and one weekend day a month is the norm.”
　　With more people cautious of joining management, are corporations being hurt or worrying about developing future leaders? Not many are. While employers have dismissed a lot of managers, they believe many more candidates lingers on at many companies. “Another reason companies aren’t short of managers”, argues Robert Kelly, a business professor, “is that so many workers today are self-managed,