2013高考英语阅读理解（5月）训练（07）及答案 C There were red faces at one of Britain’s biggest banks recently. They had accepted a telephone order to buy ￡100,000 worth of shares from a 15-year-old schoolboy (they thought he was 21). The shares fell in value and the schoolboy was unable to pay up. The bank lost ￡20,000 on the deal which it cannot get back, because, for one thing, the young boy does not have the money, for another, being under 18, he is not legally liable for his debts. If the shares had risen in value by the same amount that they fell, he would have pocketed ￡20,000 profit. It certainly is better than delivering the morning newspaper. In another case, a boy of 14 found, in his grandmother’s house, a suitcase full of foreign banknotes. But they were now not used in their country of origin or anywhere else. This young boy headed straight to the nearest bank with his pockets filled with notes. The cashiers did not realize the country in question had reduced the value of its currency by 90%. They exchanged the notes at their face value at the current exchange rate. In three days, before he was found out, he took ￡200,000 from nine different banks. Amazingly, he had already spent more than half of this before the police caught up with him. Because he is also under 18 the banks have kissed goodbye to a lot of money, and several cashiers have lost their jobs. Should we admire these youngsters for being enterprising and showing initiative or condemn them for their dishonesty? Maybe they had managed for years with tiny amounts of pocket money that they got from tight-fisted parents. Maybe they had done Saturday jobs for peanuts. It is hardly surprising, given the expensive things that young people want to buy, such as fashionable running shoes and computer games, if they sometimes think up more imaginative ways of making money than delivering newspapers. These youngsters saw the chance to make a lot of money and took it. Another recent story which should give us food for thought is the case of the man who paid his six-year-old daughter￡300 a week pocket money. He then charged her for the food she ate a few coins for her piggy bank（存钱灌）“She will soon learn the value of money, ” he said. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch. Everything has to be paid for and the sooner she learns that the better.” At the other extreme there are fond parents who provide free bed and board for their grown-up children, While even the most hard-hearted parents might hesitate to throw their children out on the streets, we all know of people in their twenties who still shamelessly live off their parents. Surely there comes a time when everyone has to leave the parental nest, look after themselves and pay their own way in life. But when is it? 10. Recently one of Britain’s biggest banks _____. A. bought a lot of shares for a customer and brought him a great loss B. lost money as its young customer had no money to pay his debts C. lost much money because the shares they bought fell in value D. received a telephone order to buy shares for a 21-year-old boy 11. The young customer _____. A. would have paid his debts, had he had the money to do so B. would be sent to prison if he didn’t pay his debts C. would have made ￡20,000, had the shares risen in value by the same amount they fell D. would have continued to cheat banks, if he had not been found out 12. The author’s attitude to the example of the two boys who cheated the banks is _____. A. objective B. subjective C. questioning D. negative 13. The man paid his daughter ￡300 a week pocket money and then required her to pay for her living expenses because _____. A. he wanted her to know making money was not easy B. he wanted to save money for her future education C. he thought it useful for family members to bear life hardships together D. he wanted her to learn the value of money 14. It can be concluded from the passage that the author believes that _____. A. children should leave the parental nest as soon as possible B. grown-up children should live on their own C. children should be taught not to cheat others D. parents should give more pocket money to their children 10. B. 首段第3-4行 11. C. 首段第6行 12. A. 第二段后半部分It is hardly surprising… 13. D. 末段“She will soon learn the value of money, ” 14. B. 文章结尾处概括 **************************************************************结束 1.（2011·山东卷）D Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. Brain-computer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines. Recently, two researchers, Jose Milan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic school in Lausanne, Switzerland, demonstrated（展示）a small robotic wheelchair directed by a person’s thoughts. In the laboratory, Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right band. He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts. “our brain has billions of nerve ceils. These send signals through the spinal cord （脊髓）to the muscles to give us the ability to move. But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles,” Tavella says. “Our system allows disabled people to communicate with external world and also to control devices.” The researchers designed a special cap for the user. This head cover picks up the signals from the scalp(头皮) and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the signals and commands the motorized wheelchair. The wheelchair also has two cameras that identify objects in its path. They help the computer react to commands from the brain. Prof. Milan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. “The practical possibilities that BCI technology offers to disabled people can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices. One example is this wheelchair.” He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from. And the other is to guarantee that they can use the technology over long periods of time. A. help to update computer systems B. link the human brain with computers C. help the disabled to recover D. control a person's thoughts 72. How" did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory? A. By controlling his muscles. B. By talking to the machine. C. By moving his hand. D. By using his mind. 73. Which of the following shows the path of the signals described in Paragraph 5? A. scalp→computer→cap→wheelchair B. computer→cap→scalp→wheelchair C. scalp→cap→computer→wheelchair D. cap→computer→scalp→wheelchair 74. The team will test with real patients to A. make profits from them B. prove the technology useful to them C. make them live longer D. learn about their physical condition 75. Which of the following would be the best title for the text? A. Switzerland, the BCI Research Center B. New Findings About How the Human Brain Works C. BCI Could Mean More Freedom for the Disabled D. Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries 【解析】：71-75:BDCBC 【语篇解读】本文是一则新闻报道，介绍了Brain-computer interface(BCI)技术的发明，原理和对残疾人带来的益处。 71. B。细节理解题。从第一段第一句话可知。 72.D．细节理解题。见第二段“Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right band.”。 73.C.细节理解题。见第五段描述。 74.B．细节推断题。见最后一段“to prove that this is a technology they can benefit from.”，证明他们可以从中获得的好处。 75.C.主旨大意题。本文是新闻文体，因此要关注首段的中心，由首段的第二句话“Brain-computer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.”推断选C。 **************************************************************结束 D He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move. "What's the matter, Schatz?" "I've got a headache." "You better go back to bed." "No. I'm all right." "You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed." But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever. "You go up to bed," I said, "You're sick." "I'm all right," he said. When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature. "What's is it?" I asked him. "One hundred and two." Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative(泻药), the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza（流感）can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic(传染病；传染性的) of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia（肺炎）. Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules. "Do you want me to read to you?" "All right. If you want to, " said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached（超然的；冷漠的）from what was going on. I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates（海盗）;but I could see he was not following what I was reading. "How do you feel, Schatz?" I asked him. "Just the same, so far," he said. I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely. "Why don't you try to sleep? I'll wake you up for the medicine." "I'd rather stay awake." After a while he said to me, "You don't have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you." "It doesn't bother me." "No, I mean you don't have to stay if it's going to bother you." I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out with my gun and the young hunting dog….I killed two quail(鹌鹑), and missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey of quail close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day. At the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room. "You can't come in," he said. "You mustn't get what I have." I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed（发红）by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed. I took his temperature. "What is it?" "Something like a hundred," I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths. "It was a hundred and two," he said. "Who said so?" "The doctor." "Your temperature is all right," I said. "It's nothing to worry about." "I don't worry," he said, "but I can't keep from thinking." "Don't think," I said. "Just take it easy." "I'm taking it easy," he said and looked straight ahead, He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something. "Take this with water." "Do you think it will do any good?" "Of course it will." I sat down and opened the Pirate book and began to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped. "About what time do you think I'm going to die?" he asked. "What?" "About how long will it be before I die?" "You aren't going to die. What's the matter with you? " "Oh, yes, I am, I heard him say a hundred and two." "People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two. That's a silly way to talk." "I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can't live with forty-four degrees. I've got a hundred and two." He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning. "You poor Schatz," I said. "Poor old Schatz. It's like miles and kilometers. You aren't going to die. That's different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it's ninety-eight." "Are you sure?" "Absolutely," I said, "It's like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?" "Oh," he said. But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack(松驰的) and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance. 15. The author writes about the doctor’s visit in order to _____. A. show the doctor’s knowledge about influenza and its treatment B. show the boy’s illness was quite serious C. create a situation of misunderstanding around which to build a story D. show the father was very much concerned about the boy’s illness 16. The pronoun “it” in “Papa, if it bothers you” (line 41) refers to _____. A. the boy’s high temperature B. the father giving the medicine to the boy C. the father staying with the boy D. the boy’s death 17. It can be inferred from the story that it is _____ by the time the father gets home from hunting. A. early in the afternoon B. close to evening C. at noon D. late in the morning 18. From the story we know that the boy kept tight control over himself because _____. A. he did not want to be a bother to others B. he wanted to recover quickly so that he could go hunting with his father C. he was afraid that he would die if he lost control over himself D. he thought he was going to die and he must show courage in the face of death 19. That the boy cried very easily at little things of no importance the next day suggests that _____. A. he couldn’t control his emotions when he finally relaxed B. his father would go out hunting without him if he didn’t cry C. something went wrong with his brain after the fever D. he often complained about unimportant things as a spoiled boy 20. The theme of the story is _____. A. death is something beyond a child’s comprehension B. to be calm and controlled in the face of death is a mark of courage C. misunderstanding can occur even between father and son D. misunderstanding can sometimes lead to an unexpected effect 15. C. 本文是海明威的《一天的等待》。叙述了一个九岁男孩由于不知道有两种不同计算方式的温度计，在与父亲交谈的过程中产生了误解，误以为自己将不久于人世。竭力表现出冷静与勇敢的他静静地等待着死亡的降临，直到得知这仅仅是一个误解，才逐渐放松下来。作品体现了海明威所提倡的以人的尊严和勇气面对厄运迎接生活挑战的“硬汉”精神。此处即为下文的误解埋下伏笔。 16. D. 儿子听到医生说102度，就认为自己即将死亡。与下文父亲所说的“it”不是同一概念。 17. B. 故事开头结合下文的after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o'clock I went out …及He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o'clock in the morning. 可知。 18. D. 参考55. 19. A. 一个九岁的男孩前一天竭力表现出冷静与勇敢，静静地等待着死亡的降临。但孩子必竟只是孩子，紧绷的心放松后变得很脆弱。 20. B. 参考55. **************************************************************结束
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