2010年上海高三英語高考閱讀理解新題型11新人教版

1、2010年上海高三英語高考閱讀理解新題型11新人教版section directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.in tomorrows offices, there will be more bosses and fewer assistants. new technologies have made clerical w

2、ork so efficient that fewer workers are necessary, so one assistant may serve several bosses. bosses in the united states are spending twice as much time resolving employee disputes as they did just a decade ago. corporate downsizing has made workers more insecure and competitive, increasing the num

3、ber of personality conflicts that managers are forced to settle.fighting age bias(偏見) may be a critical workplace issue of the future. as companies depend on older, more experienced workers to solve labor shortages in the next century, managers will need to overcome the view that older workers are l

4、ess productive, less flexible, and more expensive.electronic networking will give more power to workers at the bottom of the corporate pecking order(等級排序).computer networks allow employees to skip over chains of command and communicate directly with senior managers. the relative anonymity (匿名) of el

5、ectronic communications will make low-status individuals more relaxed about expressing their points of view and offering valuable new ideas.1. _ will enable low-status individuals to feel relaxed about expressing their points of view and offering valuable new ideas.2. how could low-status workers ga

6、in more power?3. why should managers change the negative view of older workers?4. fewer workers are necessary due to _.keys1.the relative anonymity (匿名) of electronic communications2.by electronic networking.3.because companies will depend on older and more experienced workers to solve labor shortag

7、es in the next century.4.high work efficiency brought by new technologiessection directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.when andrea peterson landed her first teaching job, she face

8、d the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning was the focus and music just provided a break for students and teachers.for her drive and creativity in overcoming those challenges, shes been named national tea

9、cher of the year.principal waynes kettler said hes worked with many outstanding teachers in his 22 years as an educator, but peterson is “just that one step above anybody ive ever worked with before.”kettler and others at monte cristo elementary school talk about the ways she has introduced the lear

10、ning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music.when students were reading s.e. hintons novel the outsiders in their regular classroom, peterson helped them write a 30-minute play with scenes from the book. then th

11、ey chose three broadway tunes that focused on race, equality and social justice, the themes of the book. peterson composed two other sons herself after classroom discussions about the play and the book.the honor means a lot to residents of granie falls. its inspiring to know that people from small t

12、owns can even win national honors.as national teacher of the year, peterson will spend the next year outside classroom, as a national and international spokeswoman for education.not surprisingly, she is a big believer in the value of arts education. she said its essential for schools to offer classe

13、s such as art or music and physical education because for some kids one of those subjects is the only thing that motivates them to come back to school day after day.1. when peterson began her teaching career, the school _.2 the underlined word “daunting” in paragraph 1 most probably means _ .3. why

14、did principal waynes kettler say that peterson is “just that one step above anybody ive ever worked with before”?4. what is petersons opinion about the value of arts education?keys:1. lacked teaching facilities for music. 2. discouraging 3. because she motivated students to learn music with her crea

15、tivity./ because she has introduced the learning from other classrooms into her music program and her creativity in working around things such as the lack of money for new music.4. her opinion is that art, music and pe classes are all important./ her opinion is that its essential for schools to offe

16、r classes such as art or music and physical education.section directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read.when a consumer finds that something he or she bought is faulty or in some othe

17、r way does not live up to what the producer says for it ,the first step is to present the warranty, or any other records that might help ,at the store of buying .in most cases ,this action will produce results .however ,if it does not ,there are various means the consumer may use to gain satisfactio

18、n . a simple and common method used by many consumers is to complain directly to the store manager .in general, the higher up the consumer takes his or her complaint, the faster he or she can expect it to be settled .in such a case, it is usually settled in the consumers favor, taking it as true tha

19、t he or she had a just right. consumers should complain in person whenever possible, but if they cannot get to the place of buying, it is acceptable to phone or write the complaint in a letter. complaining is usually most effective when it is done politely but firmly, and especially when the consume

20、r can show clearly what is wrong with what was bought in question .if this cannot be done, the consumer will succeed best by presenting specific information as to what is wrong, rather than by making general statements . for example, “the left speaker does not work at all and the sound coming out of

21、 the right one is unclear. is better than this stereo does not work. the store manager may advise the consumer to write to the producer .if so, the consumer should do this, stating the complaint as politely and as firmly as possible. but if a polite complaint does not achieve the expected result, th

22、e consumer can go a step further .he or she can threaten to take the seller to court or report the seller to a public organization responsible for protecting consumers rights. 1. when a consumer finds what he bought has a fault in it, he should first _. 2. to complain, customers can _if they cant ge

23、t to the place of buying.3. how can customers make the most effective complaint?4. what is the last way a consumer has to use to protect their rights? keys1present the warranty or any other records that might help2. phone or write the complaint in a letter.3. by stating the complaint politely as wel

24、l as firmly, and explaining exactly what is wrong with it.4. to warn the seller that he or she will turn to the court or a consumers organization for help 2010年上海高三英語高考閱讀理解新題型12新人教版莘格中學section directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the

25、information given in the passage you have just read. education is not an end, but a means to an end. in other words, 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(時興的）to think tha

26、t by free education for all-whether rich or poor , clever or 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

27、 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

28、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 wha

29、tever work suited 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 ones work . only such a type of education can be considered valuable to society. 1. what is the purpose of education in the passage?2. accordi

30、ng to the passage, what is the wrong attitude of some people with university degrees? 3. the writer wants to prove that our society needs _ jobs.4. the passage tells us about the _ of educationkeys:1. to let everyone receive education fit for him;2. we cant regard work with hands as low work;3. all

31、kinds of jobs;4. the valuesection directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in the passage you have just read. many years ago, i was eating (chicken, as i recall) at kentucky fried chicken. i was watching a little chi

32、ld (maybe a couple of years old), whose mother (it would seem) was waiting in line to order food. the child walked up to a curtain, pulled it back, and was delighted to find a blank wall, no windows. the child tried to call his/her mothers attention to this situation. and the mother said, “get away

33、from there.”to me, the child represented all of the people who are curious about the world, who delight in new discoveries. the mother represented the multitudes (眾多) of other people, who are not curious, whose minds are no longer alive to that sort of thing. you and i know that curtains and windows

34、 go together, but not always. we would not be surprised to find a blank wall behind a curtain. but, we are curious and childlike, arent we? we want to know things, things that other people know, and things that no one has ever known.it was a delight to watch this child. i may have enjoyed the childs

35、 discovery more than the child did. i was saddened to think about the mother. of course, she may have been a wonderful person, with a wonderful mind. she just may not have been in tune with her child, at that moment. but, i wondered if this child would be stifled (抑制), worn down, like so many, and b

36、ecome an adult without any childlike thoughts. that saddened me.to my mind, the two golden, childlike properties of a brain are curiosity and creativity. many adult activities (jobs, hobbies, pastimes) use one or the other of these properties, in particular the sciences (mainly curiosity) and the ar

37、ts (mainly creativity).1. what did the mother react when her child tried to call her attention to the situation?2. when the author saw the child, he felt_.3. the word “that” in the third paragraph signals _.4. what does the writer think of the kids curiosity?參考答案：1. the mother was impatient to her c

38、hild.2. delighted/ happy3. the worry that the child might lose his curiosity as he grew up4. he thinks it very precious, and it may lead to the successful future.section directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according to the information given in th

39、e passage you have just read. it is difficult to imagine what life would be like without memory. the meanings of thousands of everyday perceptions, the bases for the decisions we make, and the roots of our habits and skills are to be found in our past experiences, which are brought into the present

40、by memory.memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use. it includes not only “remembering” things like arithmetic or historical facts, but also involves any change in the way an animal typically behaves. memory is involved when a rat gives up eating grain because

41、 he has sniffed(嗅到，聞到) something suspicious in the grain pile. memory is also involved when a six-year-old child learns to swing a base ball bat.memory exists not only in humans and animals but in some physical objects and machines. computers, for example, contain devices for storing data for later

42、use. it is interesting to compare the memory-storage capacity of a computer with that of a human being. the instant-access memory of a large computer may hold up to 100,000 “words” ready for instant use. an average u.s. teenager probably recognizes the meaning of about 100,000 words of english. howe

43、ver, this is but a fraction of the total amount of information which the teenager has stored. consider, for example, the number of faces and places that the teenager can recognize on sight.the use of words is the basis of the advanced problem-solving intelligence of human bengs. a large part of a pe

44、rsons memory is in terms of words and combinations of words.1.whats the definition of memory?2. what is functioning when the rats refused to eat grain after sniffing something suspicious in the grain pile.3. _ has a larger memory-storage capacity between computers and teenagers. 4. the phrase _ in t

45、he last paragraph can best be replaced by in connection with.keys:1. memory can be defined as the capacity to keep information available for later use.2. memory is functioning.3. teenagers4. in terms ofsection directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions

46、according to the information given in the passage you have just read. a new plan for getting children to and from school is being started by a local government in eastern england. this could end the worries of many parents fearful for their childrens safety on the roads.until now the local governmen

47、t have only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school, or sometimes less if special reasons existed. now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead, as long as the arran

48、gement will not lose money and children taking part will be attending their nearest school.the new plan is to be tried out this term for children living at milton who attend impington school. the children live just within the three-mile limit and the local government have said in the past that they

49、will not undertake to provide free transport to the school. but now they have agreed to offer a sum of money for a bus service from milton to impington and back, a plan which has the support of the schools headmaster. between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part. f

50、inal calculations have still to be carried out, but a government official has said the cost to parents shouldbe less than 20 a term. they have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to

51、 impington. the same bus would now just make one more journey to pick up the milton children. the official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children, to see if they would like to take part in the new plan.(題目

52、沒有)answer：1. to prevent the students road accidents.2. by linking the new bus service with the existing one.3. the local government and the parents4. the parents can get rid of their worries.section directions: read the following passage and complete the sentences or answer the questions according t

53、o the information given in the passage you have just read. some of the notebooks george washington kept as a young man are still in existence.they show that he was learning latin, was very interested in basics of good behavior in society, and was reading english literature. at school he seems only t

54、o have been interested in mathematics.in fact his formal education was surprisingly simple for a gentleman, and incomplete.for unlike other young virginian gentlemen of that day, he didnt go to the college of william and mary in virginian capital of williamsburg.in terms of formal training then, was

55、hington was different from some other early american presidents such as john adams, thomas jefferson, james madison.in later years, washington probably regretted his lack of intellectual training.he never felt comfortable in a debate in congress (國會辯論), or any subject that had not to do with everyda

56、y, practical matters.and because he never learned french and could not speak directly to the french leader, he didnt visit the country he admired so much.thus, unlike jefferson and adams, he never reached europe. (字數(shù)過少)1. what reason does the author give for washington not going to college?2. the au

57、thor refers to three other us presidents to show that _. 3. washington felt uncomfortable in congress debates because he _.4. the reason why washington didnt visit france was probably that he _. keys:1. the author doesnt give any reason. 2. george washingtons ability was weakened by the lack of formal training as what the other three president had had.3. f