2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招聘考試沖刺題六

1、2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招聘考試沖刺題六來源：考試大2012年2月17日【有了考試大，考遍全天下】本文導(dǎo)航 第1頁：閱讀理解：ab 第2頁：閱讀理解：cd 第3頁：閱讀理解：ef 2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招聘考試沖刺題六reading comprehension directions：read the following three passageseach passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statementsfor each of them mere are four choices marked a，b，c

2、and dchoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read a i believe that my country，poland，is a perfect example for a place where food is particularly importantwhen we were little children，we began to understand how much a loaf of bread meant to our pa

3、rentsto some it might sound silly but for me the custom of kissing bread before you started cutting it was simply amazingits not so common nowadays to treat food that way，since you hardly ever bake your own breadbesides，everyone would call you crazy if you tried to kiss every bread roll before you a

4、te them! but though we no longer make our food from scratch (起點)，some customs have been keptthats why i feel so sorry every time i have to throw any food awayeven though i no longer live with my parents and nobody would blame me for this anymore! many people of our nation are still working as farmer

5、s，eating what they grow and harvest and therefore enjoying everything moreits widely known that you value more anything that needs your effort in the first placein most homes in poland，especially those of farmers，the whole family would try and have their meals togetherextremely difficult now，but so

6、rewarding (值得)! you can share other members troubles and successes，give your children some attention，or just sit down for a moment instead of rushing through life aimlesslyfurthermore，your body，and stomach in particular will be very grateful (感激) for such a time! in poland，a wedding，christmas or eve

7、n a birthday is celebrated with a great mealwomen in the house get together and cook，sometimes for a few days before the event，and the extremely good or unusual food will be remembered and widely talked about you cannot over value the importance of food in the countrywhats more，almost everyone in po

8、land will be as interested in the topic as i am （）1when the writer was a child，he/she_ afound people were crazy about bread bbegan to realize the importance of food cthought that cutting bread was amazing dlearned people hardly baked their own bread （）2the writer feels very sorry when he/she has to

9、throw away any food because_ ahe/she makes food from scratch bhis/her parents would blame him/her csome customs still have effect on him/her dmany people are still working hard as farmers （）3from the text，we can learn that，in poland，_ amost meals can be interesting topics for a long time bthe whole

10、family often have meals together nowadays cits common for women to get together to cook for a few days dfamily members can know more about each other by having meals togetherbthe case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generationall high school graduates ought to go，becau

11、se college will help them earn more money，become“better people”，and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who dont go but college has never been able to work its magic for everyoneand now that close to half our high school graduates are attending，those who dont fit the pattern are becomin

12、g more and more，and more obviouscollege graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis；college students get in the way of each others experiments and write false letters of recommendation(推薦)in the competition for admission to graduate schoolothers find no interest in their studies，and drop outoften

13、encouraged by college administrators(教導(dǎo)主任) some observers say the fault is with the young people themselvesthey are spoiled and they are expecting too muchbut that is a condemnation(譴責(zé))of the students as a whole，and does not explain all campus unhappinessothers blame the state of the world，and they

14、are partly rightweve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained eighteen year oldbut disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained twenty year old，either some adventuresome educators and campus watc

15、hers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best，the proper，the only place for every young person after the completion of high schoolwe may have been looking at all those surveys(調(diào)查)upside down，it seems，and thinking of the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiencesperhaps

16、college does not make people intelligent，ambitious，happy，liberal，or quick to learn thingsmaybe it is just the other way round，and intelligent，ambitious，happy，liberal，or quick people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first placeand perhaps all those successful college gradua

17、tes would have been successful whether they had gone to college or notthis is heresy(異端邪說)to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good，more has to be much betterbut opposite evidence is beginning to mount up （）4according to the passage all the following state

18、ments are true except that aabout half of the high school graduates continue their studies in colleges bcollege graduates are believed to be able to earn more money cadministrators often encourage college students to drop out dmore and more young people are found unfit for college （）5which of the fo

19、llowing is one of some observers opinions? athe students expect so much that they are not satisfied with the hard college life bthe economic situation is so discouraging that the youth have to attend college ccolleges should improve because of so much campus unhappiness dcolleges provide more chance

20、s of good jobs than anywhere else （）6what does the underlined sentence in paragraph 4 mean? aour college experiences prove that those surveys are incorrect bthe surveys may remind us of our beautiful college experiences cthe surveys should all be reexamined according to our college experiences dour

21、college experiences may make us misunderstand the results of the surveys （）7what is the main purpose of this passage? ato value young peoples further education in college bto put forward an idea that college should not be the first choice cto argue against the idea that college is the best place for

22、 all young people dto persuade young people into worki2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招聘考試沖刺題六來源：考試大2012年2月17日【有了考試大，考遍全天下】本文導(dǎo)航 第1頁：閱讀理解：ab 第2頁：閱讀理解：cd 第3頁：閱讀理解：ef cits 7：45 in the morning，and 26 year old steve clarkson is going to workhe puts on his jacket，and picks up his mobile phone and laptopas he leaves the hous

23、e，he turns on his mp3 player and puts on his headphonehe is ready to go today，for millions of people，gadgets like clarksons are a normal part of life“im a reporter for a magazine，and im usually not in the officemy mobile phone and laptop help me to do my work both on the road and at home，”says clark

24、sontoday many people can check emails，send messages，or surf the web，using their mobile phones tina fang is studying photography in new york city“some of these gadgets are expensive，but they can save your money in the long runi have a digital camerai can use it to take eighty pictures and shoot video

25、 (record an image onto video) at the same timei listen to music on my mp3 player，and i can download and read books on it，tooi use the camera and mp3 for both learning and fun” its now 9：45steve clarkson gets an e-mail from his 17yearold sistershe has a gadget that lets her send e mails，play games an

26、d take notesshe is in class right now“ive mailed her backi told her to stop playing，and pay attention，” laughs clarkson，“these gadgets are fun，but sometimes they can distract(分散注意力) people，too” （）8what is steve clarkson? aa student ba reporter ca businessman da computer programmer （）9which of the fo

27、llowing things is not a gadget? aa picture ba laptop ca mp3 player da mobile phone （）10when his sister had lessons，steve told her _ ato pay no attention bto e-mail him back right away cto stop playing games dto listen to music on the mp3 player d life is not easy，so id like to say “when anything hap

28、pens，believe in yourself” when i was a young boy，i was so shy that i dare not talk to anyonemy classmates often laughed at mei was sad but could do nothinglater，something happened，and it changed my lifeit was an english speech contestmy english teacher asked me to take part in itwhat a terrible idea

29、! it meant i had to speak before all the teachers and students of my school! “come on，boy，believe in yourselfyou are sure to win” then my teacher and i talked about many different topicsat last i chose the topic “believe in yourself”i tried my best to remember all the speech and practiced it over 10

30、0 timeswith my teachers great love，i did well in the contesti could hardly believe my ears when the news came that i had won the first placei heard the cheers from the teachers and studentsthose classmates who once looked down on me，now all said “congratulations!” to memy teacher hugged (擁抱) me and

31、cried excitedly since then，everything has changed for mewhen i do anything，i try to tell myself to be sure and i will find myselfthis is true not only for a person but also for a country （）11the classmates often laughed at the boy，because _ ahe believed himself bhe was too young che was too shy dhe

32、was too sad （）12the boy did well in the contest，because _ ahe did his best before the contest bhe was very clever chis classmates helped him dthe contest was easy （）13what changed the boys life? athe topic he chose bthe classmates congratulations cthe classmates cheers dthe english speech contest （）

33、14the story tells us when we do anything，we must _ abelieve in ourselves bchoose a good topic cpractice it over 100 times dlook down on ourselvesng after the completion of high school2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招聘考試沖刺題六來源：考試大2012年2月17日【有了考試大，考遍全天下】本文導(dǎo)航 第1頁：閱讀理解：ab 第2頁：閱讀理解：cd 第3頁：閱讀理解：ef e believe it or not，optica

34、l illusion(視覺錯覺)，can cut highway accidentsjapan is a case in pointit has reduced car accidents on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion bent stripes，called chevrons(人字型)painted on the roads made drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are，and thus driver

35、s slow downnow the american automobile association foundation for traffic safety in washington dc，is planning to repeat japans successstarting next year，the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway

36、accidentshigh speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all deadly traffic accidents，according to the foundationto help reduce those accidents，the foundation will carry out its tests in areas where speed related dangers are the greatest curves，exit slopes(斜坡)，traffic circles，and bridgessom

37、e studies suggest that straight，horizontal(水平的)bars painted across roads can cut the average speed of drivers in halfhowever，traffic often returns to full speed within months as drivers become used to seeing the painted barschevrons，scientists say，not only give drivers the impression that they are d

38、riving faster than they really are but also make a road appear to be narrowerthe result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents （） 15the passage mainly discusses _ aa new way of highway speed control ba new way of painting highways ca new way of training dr

39、ivers dthe uses of optical illusion （） 16on roads painted with chevrons，drivers tend to feel that _ athey should keep distances from other cars bthey are driving in the wrong way cthey should slow down their speed dthey are close to the speed limit f the very wealthy english baron fitzgerald had onl

40、y one child，a son，who understandably was the apple of his eyehis wife died when the child was in his early teensso fitzgerald devoted himself to fathering the kidunfortunately the son died in his late teens meanwhile，fitzgeralds wealth greatly increasedhe spent a lot on art works of the masterslater

41、 fitzgerald himself became seriously illbefore his death，he had carefully prepared his will as to how his wealth would be settledto sell his entire collection at an auction(拍賣) because of the large quantity and high quality of his collection，a huge crowd of possible buyers gathered for the auctionma

42、ny of them were museum directors and private collectors who eager to bid(出價)before the auction，the art works were shown，among which was a painting of fitzgeralds son by an unknown artistbecause of its poor quality，it received little attention when it was time for the auction，the auctioneer gaveled(敲

43、槌) the crowd to attentionfirst the lawyer read from fitzgeralds will that the first art work to be auctioned was the painting of his son the poorquality painting didnt receive any biddersexcept onethe old servant who had served the son and loved him，and who for emotional reasons offered the only bid

44、 as soon as the servant bought the painting for less than one english pound，the auctioneer stopped the bidding and asked the lawyer to read again from the willthe crowd became quiet，and the lawyer read from the will：“whoever buys the painting of my son gets all my collection”then the auction was ove

45、r （）17the english baron fitzgerald was_ aa museum director ba master of art can art collector dan art dealer （）18why did the old servant bid for the painting of fitzgeralds son? ahe was devoted to the family bhe saw that no one bid for it che knew the content of the will dhe found it cheap for him t

46、o buy （）19fitzgeralds will showed _ ahis desire to fool the bidders bhis invaluable love for his son chis sadness at the death of his son dhis regret of having no children to take over his wealth2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招聘考試沖刺題七來源：考試大2012年2月17日【有了考試大，考遍全天下】本文導(dǎo)航 第1頁：閱讀理解：gh 第2頁：閱讀理解：ij 第3頁：閱讀理解：kl 2012年小學(xué)英語特崗教師招

47、聘考試沖刺題七reading comprehension directions：read the following three passageseach passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statementsfor each of them mere are four choices marked a，b，c and dchoose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read g

48、 media alarms have been loud recently：electronic commerce(電子商務(wù))is in dangera crime wave threatens to bring damage on the world wide webany web site is their target，no matter how big predictably，officials in washington responded feverishly as fbi antihacking squads(反黑客小組)moved into actionthe unlucky

49、firms were mostly huge players in ecommerce and news broadcasting，accustomed to always reaching large number of peopleso，the attacks from the internet is easy“we are committed in every way to find out those who are responsible，”said the team leader top judges are eager to catch the criminal who inte

50、rferes with the computer systems of large companiesbut there is no search for clues as to millions of american are excluded from big media if they happen to be poorwhat about their right to be widely heardthrough，tv，radio，newspapers or heavily trafficked web sites?facing the danger of american busin

51、ess and government agencies，the hacker now making headlines are living dangerouslytheir slight interference with the rights of companies to be widely heard is a definite nonotoo bad we havent been able to speak against the social orders continual interference with the rights of poor people to be hea

52、rd by the public in effect，unfairness exists in the americanstyle freedom of speechthose with deep pockets enjoy its full of freedom in news media，those with empty pockets are pretty much beside the point；the constant blocking they face creates no headlines and sparks “the law，in its majestic equali

53、ty，forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges，to beg in the streets and to steal bread，” the writer anatole rance commented a century agotoday，the media offers a similar kind of equality （）20the passage is mainly concerned with_ aamerican business bthe media cthe action of fbi dthe

54、problem of hackers （）21attacks from the internet is easy because_ athe web site is designed to reach many people bthe technique of hacking is easy cthe fbi have not been doing their job properly dinternet itself is too big （）22the 3rd and 4th paragraph implies that the hacking is_ acaused by the jud

55、ges who have wronged some people bdue to large companies carelessness cdue to the lack of right of speech of poor people through legal ways dcaused by the fact that the hacked web sites have too many enemies （）23the latter half of this passage is basically_ aa continued discussion of internet safety

56、 ba discussion of the freedom of speech of the us cabout business on the internet dabout fbis action h computer programmer david jones earns mym35，000 a year designing new computer games，yet he cannot found a bank ready to let him have a credit cardinstead，he has been told to wait another two years，until he is 18the 16 year old boy works for a small firm in liverpool，where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a jobdavids firm releases(推出) two new games for the fast growing c