高考全真模拟题（五）3（在线收听）

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题；每小题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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

　　American parents usually think that their child should not have more pocket money than the children with whom he regularly connects, even if they are wealthier. But neither are children expected to compare with the richer if a large family, heavy responsibilities, or other conditions make it necessary to give a child less spending money than is customary （惯例的）in the neighborhood.
　　Whatever the pocket money is, its entire use is not controlled by the parents, because a child learns to use money correctly only through dealing with it himself. If a seven-year-old child gets a quarter as a week pocket money and is made to put it all in his piggy bank to save it up, he gets no idea what the real use for the money is. He gets the shiny coins and they soon disappear.
　　The idea of a bank account（账号） is too early for so small a child, although he can be made to understand and enjoy saving his coins—not all of them, only a part of what he receives—to buy something he especially wants. By the time he is eight he is old enough to take part in the opening of his own savings account, parents may take him to the bank, open a savings account for him and encourage him to put a certain quantity or any checks he receives as gifts into the bank and watch his bank savings grow as entry by entry（存入） is made.
　　He will be saving, earning, and spending suitable quantities all along in order to learn how to manage money and to keep him in a favorable position with his friend. The boy who can't join his fellows in a sweet shop once in a while, because he has to save every cent he gets or earns for some big unknown project his parents have chosen for him, is a sorry child.

　56. What do you think a piggy bank is?

　　　A. it is a kind of bank run by children.

　　　B. it is a small container, often in the shape of a pig, used by children for saving money.

　　　C. it is a certain place in which pigs are raise.

　　　D. it is a bank whose building looks like a pig

　57. Which of the following statements is true?

　　　A. Most of the rich people in America give children much pocket money.

　　　B. American children usually have their bank accounts until they are eight.

　　　C. American parents seldom care for their children's spending money.

　　　D. American children begin to learn how to manage money when very young.

　58. Suppose an 8-year-old child receives 10 dollars as his birthday gift, he may probably ____.

　　　A. spend the money on the things he wants

　　　B. compare the gift with that of his friend

　　　C. have most of it saved in the bank

　　　D. put all the money in his piggy bank

　59. Why does the writer think the boy is a sorry one if he saves every cent he gets or earns?

Because _____.

　　　A. he can not manage his money and is kept himself in an unfavorable position

　　　B. he can not join the fellows in a sweet shop once in a while

　　　C. he can not learn the use of money through spending it himself

　　　D. he can not have any other choice but save, earn of spend money

B

　　The fact that blind people can see things using other parts of their bodies apart from their eyes may help us to understand our feeling about color. If they can sense color differences, then perhaps we, too, are affected by color without knowing it. Salesmen have discovered by experience over a long period of time that sugar sells badly in green wrappings（包装）, that blue foods are considered not agreeable to the taste, and that cosmetics （化妆品） should never be packed in brown. These discoveries have grown into a whole subject of color psychology （心理学）. Some of our preference（偏爱） for colors are clearly psychological. Dark blue is the color of the night sky and therefore connected with calm, while yellow is a day color connected with energy and encouragement. Experiments have shown that colors, partly because they are connected with psychology, also have a direct effect on people's mind. People in bright red surroundings show an increase in breathing speed, heart-beat and blood pressure; red is exciting. Pure blue has exactly the opposite effect; it is a calming color. Being exciting, red was chosen as the signal for danger, but a closer study shows that a bright yellow can produce a more basic state of alarm, so fire engines in some advanced areas are now rushing around in bright yellow colors that stop buses, trucks and cars.

　60. The passage tells us that salesmen have _____.

　　　A. found out that colors affect sales

　　　B. discovered the relationship between color and psychology

　　　C. tired out colors on blind people

　　　D. developed a special subject of color psychology

　61. It can be inferred from the passage that _____.

　　　A. foods sell well in green or blue wrappings

　　　B. blind people can not sense color differences

　　　C. what color we prefer depends on our state of mind

　　　D. a bright yellow has exactly the opposite effect to red

　62. If people are exposed to pure blue, _____.

　　　A. their blood pressure rises

　　　B. they won't easily feel nervous

　　　C. they want to taste blue foods

　　　D. they will fell like buying things

　63. Which of the following do you think is the best title of the passage?

　　　A. Color and feelings

　　　B. Color and sales

　　　C. The blind and colors

　　　D. Preferences for colors

C

　　Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other word, we do not educate children only for the purpose of educating them. Our purpose is to fit them for life.
　　In some modern countries it has for some time been fashionable（时兴的） to think that by free education for all—whether rich or poor， clever of stupid—one can solve all the problems of society and build a perfect nation. But we can already see that free education for all is not enough. We find in such countries a far larger number of people with university degrees, they refuse to do what they think "low" work, and, in fact, work with hands is thought to be dirty and shameful in such countries. But we have only to think a moment to understand that the work of a completely uneducated farmer is far more important than that of a professor, we can live without education, but we die if we have no food. If no one cleaned our streets and took the rubbish away from our houses, we should get terrible diseases in our towns. In fact, when we say that all of us must be educated to fit us for life, it means that we must be educated in such a way that, firstly, each of us can do whatever work studied to his brains and ability and, secondly, that we can realize that all jobs are necessary to society, and that is very bad to be ashamed of one's work. Only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society.

　64. The writer of this passage thinks that _____.

　　　A. education can settle all other world's problems

　　　B. free education for all probably leads to a perfect world

　　　C. free education won't help to solve social problems

　　　D. all the social problems can't be solved by education

　65. The writer wants to prove that _____.

　　　A. our society needs all kinds of jobs

　　　B. our society needs free education for all

　　　C. a farmer is more important than a professor

　　　D. people with university degrees refuse to do what they think "low" work

　66. According to the passage _____.

　　　A. work with hands is dirty and shameful

　　　B. work with hands is low work

　　　C. work with hands is the most important

　　　D. we can't regard work with hands as low work

　67. The purpose of education is _____.

　　　A. to choose a system of education

　　　B. to prepare children mainly for their future work

　　　C. to let every one receive education fit for him

　　　D. to build a perfect world

D

　　David Beckham was born on 2^nd May, 1975, in the suburbs of London, at a place called Leytonstone. When he was a young boy, his greatest passion was football. He played it whenever he had the chance. Sometimes he would go and watch a game with his friends. When David Beckham was 12 years old, he won the Bobby Charlton Soccer Skills award. This was an important step forward for this young boy, and it led to him going for a visit to a football training camp in Spain. As a boy at secondary school he played for the schools of Essex and also for his country team.
　　On 8^th July, 1991, he became a trainee with Manchester United. This meant that he could practice football as much as he wanted to and play for the highly successful Manchester United Youth Cup team and Under-21 team. On 2^nd April, 1995, he played his first major football league game against Leeds United. During 1995 and 1996, David became a regular member of the team and Manchester United won in both seasons, with David scoring many goals.
　　His goals made him a household（家喻户晓的） name. In the first game of the 1996/7 season, he scored an amazing goal from beyond the halfway line. Seeing the goalkeeper a little way out of his goal, David sent the ball over the goalkeeper’s head and into the goal. It was a wonderful goal and Beckham became famous overnight（一夜之间）. He continued to score astonishing goals, especially from free-kicks. The speed of one of his shots was timed at 157kph. He also had the ability to make the ball curl from left to right, or right to left, whenever he chose. He could made it glide high through the air, or dive down steeply. Goalkeepers were never sure where the ball was going, and it regularly ended up in the goal.

　68. When David Beckham was young _____.

　　　A. he played football all the time

　　　B. his main interest was football

　　　C. one of his interests was football

　　　D. he watched football whenever he had the chance

　69. During the 1995 and 1996 seasons, Beckham _____.

　　　A. was normally a member of the Manchester United team.

　　　B. played all the time.

　　　C. won most of the matches for Manchester United.

　　　D. was the winner in both years.

　70. Beckham became famous because he showed that he had the ability ______.

　　　A. to move the ball in any direction in the air.

　　　B. to trick the goalkeepers and score goals.

　　　C. to swing the ball through the air and score goals.

　　　D. to kick the ball very hard and score goals.

　71. “His goals made him a household-name” probably means _____.

　　　A. he became very famous because of his goals.

　　　B. his family became very popular.

　　　C. many people started to come to see the house where he lived.

　　　D. his name became popular in England.

E

　　Joanne Rowling was born in Bristol in England. Joanne always wanted to write and she wrote her first story when she was only five or six. It was a simple story about a rabbit and the title she gave it was Rabbit! At school her favorite subject was English and she used to make up stories with her friends. When she left school, she went to university and studied French. While there she studied in Paris for a year, and after leaving university, she had a variety of different jobs. However, most of all, she wanted to write! One day, during a long train journey, she got the idea of writing about a boy who is a wizard, but doesn’t know it.
　　In 1992, she left England to go to Portugal to teach English. While she was there she got married to a Portuguese journalist and she had a daughter, Jessica. The marriage ended in divorce and Joanne returned to live in Edinburgh in Scotland. She had very little money and she lived in a very small flat, which was often cold. She could not afford to pay to heat it. While she was there, she finished her story about Harry Potter, a young boy who is a wizard. At first, no one wanted to publish her book. Then, one day, in 1997, she found a publisher. She was very excited and happy!
　　Much to her surprise, her book was an instant success! It sold in millions! It won many awards and prizes! It made Joanne very rich and it made her famous. Everybody wanted to read about Harry Potter. Adults and children now read her books. Her stories have been translated into many languages, and they can now be read all over the world. Her first novel has now been made into a film. Joanne Rowling has written several more books about Harry Portter and all of them have sold millions of copies. Some of these later books are also being made into films.

　72. Joanne studied in Paris _____.

　　　A. after leaving university.

　　　B. while she was at university.

　　　C. after leaving university.

　　　D. while doing a variety of different jobs.

　73. Joanne lived in Edinburgh with her daughter but the flat was cold because ____.

　　　A. she didn’t have enough money to heat it.

　　　B. she didn’t heat it.

　　　C. the weather was cold in Edinburgh.

　　　D. it was very small.

　74. She finished the book and sent it to publishers but _____.

　　　A. they wanted to translate it into many languages.

　　　B. it wasn’t accepted at first.

　　　C. she didn’t want them to publish it at first.

　　　D. it was accepted for publication immediately.

　75. It clear from the passage that ____.

　　　A. one of her books might be filmed.

　　　B. all of her books have been made into one film

　　　C. some of her books could be filmed.

　　　D. several films will be made about Harry Potter.