（整理版高中英語）高三英語閱讀理解限時訓(xùn)練（23）

1、高三英語閱讀理解限時訓(xùn)練23asydney opera house guided walking tourduration: 60 minutes approxlocation: sydney, australiago behind the scenes listed at the world heritagesydney opera house, one of the world's "must-see" attractionson your one-hour guided walking tour of the sydney opera house, you&#

2、39;ll see what goes on behind the world's most recognizable sailsyou'll hear the various stories of the building's construction, as interesting as any opera story, brought alive by the tour's new interactive audiovisual 音視頻的 presentationlikely to sell outthe sydney opera house guided

3、 tour regularly sells out weeks in advance, so book now to avoid disappointmentthe sydney opera house was intended for greatness ever since it opened in 1973, and today it is one of australia's most recognizable marksyour guide will bring to life the mysterious stories behind this wonder of arch

4、itecture and engineering on your one-hour touryou'll visit one of the major concert halls in the opera house, where over 1500 performances are staged each year, and lose yourself in the beautiful world of australia's wonderful performing arts centerthe short one-hour tour leaves you with ple

5、nty of time in the day free to enjoy yourselves in sydneytour and pricing optionsclick the link below for a price on your preferred travel dateour pricing is changing with the latest information to make sure you always receive the lowest price possible we 100% guarantee 保證ityour currency 貨幣 is set t

6、o us dollarsclick here to change your currencyschedule detailsdeparts 出發(fā): dailydeparture point: sydney opera house information deskdeparture time: tour starts every half hour between 9:00 am and 5:00 pmnew years eve tours end at 12:00 pmnew year's day tours begin at 11:00 amreturn details: retur

7、ns to the starting pointadditional information: wheelchair accessible, please advise at time of booking if you have limited ability to move aroundpricing details for august $ 2910 adult; $ 2337 child; free infant41what does the tour allow visitors to enjoy?athe beautiful views of sydneybthe various

8、stories of the operascthe performances in the arts centerdthe building's wonderful construction42what can we say about the price of the tour?ait's growing bit's very low cit's changeable dit's acceptable43which is true to visitors according to the text?athey will get back to wher

9、e they set outbthey can change money at the information deskcthey have to wait for half an hour to start the tourdthey are free to enjoy other places of interest in sydney44what' s the purpose of the text?ato guide the visitorsbto attract visitors to the tourcto introduce sydney opera housedto e

10、xplain the one-hour walking tourbfound a nice hotel but wondering if your room will really fit the bill? launched thursday, room 77 wwwroom77com claims to be the world's first room search engine"there are hundreds of sites where you can get information about a hotel, but inside the hotel it

11、self, the rooms are largely a black box," said kevin fleiss, the site's general manager and vice-president of product"often you don t know anything about your room until you really step inside it" to deal with that problemroom 77 carries out a hotel' s floor plan with google m

12、aps to determine the exact place of each individual roombased on the request users make eghigh or low floor, importance of a view, etc, room choices are various, each one with a computer-generated, clear image 圖像 of the real viewat the hyatt regency waikiki, for example, rooms 1010 and 1410 are both

13、 considered grand ocean view doubleon room 77, however, you quickly discover that the former looks right into the waikiki police station; the latter, over the top of itall grand ocean view doubles, it seems, are not equalat this point, you can only search within a hotel you've re-selected, but,

14、still, there's no general hotel search feature and there's no guarantee that you'll get the exact room you've chosen although the company is working on both ideasthere is, however, an ipone app, an especially handy tool when a dishonest front desk clerk claims no better rooms are ava

15、ilable"instead of going upstairs and deciding your room's not a good match, you can see it for yourself along for choices," said fleiss"it's all at your fingertips"45the underlined part probably means the rooms are _alarge in sizebbadly lightedctoo expensivedmostly unknow

16、n to guests46the author gives the example in the third paragraph to say that _ait' s easy for guests to be misledbroom 77 gives a real view of the roomscgrand ocean view doubles are very populardhotel room prices are different from floor to floor47what is special about room 77?aguests can easily

17、 book rooms on itbit shows which hotel provides good servicecit can tell whether the selected room is availabledguests can see the inside of the rooms in advance on it48according to the text, an iphone app can help _aintroduce nice hotels to youbget to know a dishonest clerkcselect a suitable hotel

18、room for youdcheck which rooms have been bookedca dead six-ton satellite passed over the west coast and near auckland before burning up over a remote area of the pacific ocean, nasa maps showthe 20-year-old upper atmospheric research satellite uars dropped about 24 pieces of metal debris 碎片 over 800

19、 km as it entered earth's atmosphere on saturdaynasa data tracks its descent 下落 from above the indian ocean off the coast of africa to the pacific ocean at 141 degrees south latitude and 1898 degrees east longitudenew zealand was the only major land mass on its re-entry pathnasa says satellite d

20、ebris scattered 撒落 over the south pacific ocean about as far away from large land masses as you can getit says the us air force calculated the satellite entered earth's atmosphere generally above american samoabut pieces of it did not start hitting the water for another 480 kilometres to the nor

21、theast, southwest of christmas islandexperts believe the metal pieces fell over an 800-kilometre spanon saturday, scientists said it was possible some pieces could have reached northwestern canada, but nasa said overnight that new calculations show it landed earlier than they thought, nowhere near n

22、orth americanick johnson, nasa's chief scientist for orbital debris, said the satellite had descended "well within" the range predicted 預(yù)測 by the joint space operations center jsoc"this was not an easy re-entry to predict because of the natural forces acting on the satellite as it

23、s orbit decayed 軌道變形some other nations around the world also were monitoring the satellite's descent in the last two hours and all the predictions were well within the range estimated by jsoc"uars was launched aboard space shuttle discovery in 1991nasa stopped using the satellite in , after

24、 moving it into a lower orbit that cut its life short by 20 years49which is the right re-entry path of the falling satellite?aionzpo baiona cpoionz dioponaio=indian ocean; nz=new zealand; po=paciflc ocean; a=africa; na=north america50which is true about the debris according to the text?asome reached

25、 north americabfew fell about american samoacsome reached the sea a little laterdmost dropped onto the land and some into the pacific51what can we infer from nick johnson' s words?ajsoc did a good job in predictingbthe satellite descended in a set waycthe satellite was controlled by jsocdit was

26、not easy for the satellite to re-enter52from the text we can know that the satellite was at first designed to use for about _ .a15 years b20 years c35 years d40 yearsdone of my main concerns when i am helping people achieve their goals is how they measure success i see individuals getting frustrated

27、 挫敗 as they struggle hard for successone of the main reasons that cause this frustration is that people allow their definition 定義 of success to be determined by someone or something elseanother is that they become frustrated at their own apparent 外表的 lack of success when comparing themselves to othe

28、r peoplewe are individuals with individual wants, skills and experienceswe should look our own skills to determine what is successful to uswe should look inward to determine what it would mean for us to be successful in our own mind rather than someone else' sevaluating 評價 a successful person ne

29、eds to look at his pathway to success, his actions, his determination and translate that into his own experience to see how he can improve himselfyou must set your own course of action, and stay on your courseyou alone must determine what success means to youdo what you do to the best of your abilit

30、y and the rest will take care of itselffor example, i believe that i am successful but i am not a millionaire! others may not see me as successful in their eyes but that does not matterit is how i see myself that is important to me and my life here is the truthbeing a success is doing your best, not

31、 being the bestsuccess is not something you become; it is something you continue beingwhen we get to that point, we will experience a lot more joy and a lot less frustrationand that sounds good to us!remember the great quote from napoleon hill, "if you cannot do great things, do small things in

32、 a great way"53in talking about success, the author thinks people feel frustrated because they _aoften failbstruggle too hardcknow little about themselvesdcare too much about others' thoughts54what does the author ask us to do?abelieve success is aheadblearn from others to succeedcgain as m

33、ore skills as possibledset a suitable goal and stick to it55which is true according to the text?ait is important to do small thingsbwhat matters is the course of trying to succeedcyou will be successful once you've made up your mind.dwhether one can succeed depends on his determination.egary kid

34、d had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock, but the tooth of a woolly mammoth 猛犸that's because he had found one himself nine years agokaleb kidd was catching some squirrels last monday near la crosse when he spotted what looked like an unusual rock"gran

35、dpa, what's that?" kaleb askedhe told his grandson it looked like the tooth of the extinct 滅絕 woolly mammothnext stop was the mississippi valley archaeology center at the university of wisconsin, which proved that it was, indeed, the tooth of a mammothconnie arzigian, the center's lab d

36、irector, said it could be 10,000 to 30,000 years oldit weighs 2 pounds and measures 15 centimeters long and 76 centimeters widethe center already has a woolly mammoth tooth in its collection, but it's always fun to see someone discover another one, arzigian said"it's wonderful to get an

37、 idea of what was here in the past," she saidthe latest find is in better shape than the one gary kidd brought up from the bottom of the mississippi river while clamming 捕蛤蚧 in 1998that tooth was water-soaked and had fallen apart, he was told when he took it to the centergary kidd, 46, said it would be up to kaleb' s father, travis, to decide what to do with the toothfor now it is on display at satori arts gallery, much to kaleb's sadness"when we dropped it down at t