上海各区2012届高三英语一模试题分类汇编：阅读理解汇编
(宝山) (A)
Follow the following tips to reduce your stress to manageable levels!
Avoid ―Must thinking‖. Let’s go off the idea that you must do something in a certain way, for example, ―I must get a great score on a test‖, or else. This thought pattern only adds to the stress you’ll feel. Judge your situation calmly, and not as a ―life-or-death‖ situation. Watch the mess. Don’t study in a messy or crowded area. Clear yourself a nice, open space that’s free of distraction.
Set Manageable Goals. Break large projects into smaller-and-practical-parts. You’ll feel a positive sense of achievement as you finish each part.
Ocean Dumping. Imagine yourself walking on a beautiful beach, carrying a sand bucket. Stop at a good spot and put your worries into the bucket. Drop the bucket and watch as it floats away into the ocean.
Think good thoughts. Make a set of good but brief affirmations and repeat them to yourself just before you fall asleep at night. You will feel much better in the morning. Imagine yourself succeeding. Close your eyes and remember a real life situation in which you did well. Imagine facing your stressful situation with the same feelings of success.
Use your bed for sleeping, not studying. Your mind may start to connect your bed with work, which will make it harder for you to fall asleep.
Comforting Sounds. If you want to play music, keep it low in the background. Classical music especially, can help the learning process.
Take a walk. Take a short, vigorous walk. Clear your mind.
65. What is the best title of the passage?
A. How to Reduce Your Stress
B. How to Set Manageable Goals
C. The Cause of Stress
D. The Study of the Human Mind
66. The underlined words ―Ocean Dumping‖ mean that you should ______ , while you are in trouble. A. walk on a beautiful beach B. drop your thoughts into the sea
C. get rid of the worries of your problem D. not pay much attention to any of your feelings
67. In order to complete a large project, we can ______.
A. set practical goals first
B. build a sense of success
C. accept the large project as a whole
D. finish half of the project first and then the other
68. From the passage we can learn ______.
A. you can think clearly while you are in bed
B. rock music can help the learning process
C. thinking your real-life success will do you good while in trouble D. you must treat everything as a ―life-or-death‖ situation
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(B)
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A. Skyline Hotel C. New York Museum
D. 3562367 or 2785161
70. You do not have to pay on Mondays if you go to _____.
B. Lansdowne Park Shopping Center D. Garden Restaurant
71. If you want to enjoy yourself on Sunday morning, you can go to _____. A. 5300 No. 3 Road C. 9020 Bridgeport Road
B. Vanier Park, 1100 Chestnut St D. 3031 No. 3 Road
( C )
The traditional distinction between products that satisfy needs and those satisfy wants is no longer adequate to describe classes of products. In today’s prosperous societies, the distinction has become unclear because so many wants have been turned into needs. A writer, for instance, can work with paper and pencils.
These are legal needs for the task. But the work can be done more quickly and efficiently with a word processor. Thus a computer is soon viewed as a need rather than a want.
In the field of marketing, consumer goods are classed according to the way in which they are purchased. The two main classes are convenience goods and shopping goods. Two lesser types are specialty goods and
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unsought(主动提供的) goods. It must be emphasized that all of these types are based on the way shoppers think about products, not on the nature of the products themselves. What is regarded as a convenience item in France (wine, for example) should be a specialty goods in the United States.
People do not spend a great deal of time shopping for such convenience items as groceries, newspapers, toothpaste, aspirin, and candy. The buying of convenience goods may be done routinely, as some families buy groceries once a week. Such regularly purchased items are called staples. Sometimes convenience products are bought without enough thinking; someone has a sudden desire for an ice cream sundae(圣代) on a hot day. Or they may be purchased as emergency items.
Shopping goods are items for which customers search. They compare prices, quality, and styles, and may visit a number of stores before making a decision. Buying an automobile is often done this way.
Shopping goods fall into two classes; those that are recognized as basically the same and those that are regarded as different. Items that are looked upon as basically the same include such things as home appliances, television sets, and automobiles. Having decided on the model desired, the customer is primarily interested in getting the item at the most favorable price. Items regarded as essentially different include clothing, furniture, and dishes. Quality, style and fashion will either take precedence(优先) over price, or they will not matter at all.
72. It can be learned from the first paragraph that ______. A. a writer needs a word processor
B. needs and wants can’t be separated clearly C. the way to distinguish the products is unimportant D. a computer is a need rather than a want
73. The example of wine is used to illustrate that ______.
A. goods are classified differently in different countries
B. the types of the product lie on the people rather than its nature C. Frenchmen often drink but Americans sometimes do D. one product may belong to many types
74. Staples are items that ______.
A. are convenient to purchase
B. are purchased without enough thinking C. people ―want but don’t need‖ D. people are in constant need of
75. Shopping goods that are considered as basically the same are those that ______. A. consumers don’t care where to buy them B. consumers spend much time searching for C. satisfy similar needs of the consumer D. can be found in nearly every shop 65—68 ACBC
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(A)
A 63-year-old man who hasn't slept for more than two decades has been told there is nothing wrong with
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69—71 ACD 72—75 BBDC
him by doctors.
Ukrainian Fyodor Nesterchuk from the town of Kamen-Kashirsky said the last time he managed to sleep was more than two decades ago.
\more difficult to nod off until eventually I was awake the entire night. I used to read boring scientific magazines in the hope that they would send me to sleep. But as soon as I felt my eyes getting closed and put the magazine down, I would find myself wide awake again. I thought it would just be a period of time but it has gone on for over two decades now and I've simply had to get used to it. Now when everyone else sleeps I get stuck into a good book,\
All attempts by doctors to put him to sleep have failed. Local doctor Fyodor Koshel who has examined Nesterchuk extensively and has been unable to make him fall asleep, said he has no idea of the cause of the insomnia and added medically there is nothing wrong with him. \it's the result of a past illness. But in terms of medical science, he's not in any pain and so there isn't anything actually wrong with him,\
65. What is special about Nesterchuk?
A. He hasn’t slept for more than two decades and is quite weak now. B. Only doctors can make him sleep with the help of medicines. C. He hasn’t slept for over 20 years but he is still healthy.
D. He hasn’t slept for over 2 years and he is worried about himself.
66. The underlined word ―insomnia‖ in the last paragraph probably means _________. A. tiredness B. sleeplessness C. worry D. disappointment 67. Which of the following is TRUE about Nesterchuk’s failing to sleep?
A. Only Nesterchuk himself knows why it started. B. No one is sure about why it started.
C. It must have been a past illness that caused it.
D. With medical analysis, his doctor knows how it started.
68. In which section of a newspaper are you most likely to find this passage? A. Front Page B. Entertainment C. Education D. Life
(B)
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69. If Alice wants her twelve-year-old daughter to learn some German in the summer vacation, it is possible for
her to send her daughter to __________. A. Dallas International School B. Summer Language Courses C. English Courses D. Gulf ESL
70. Jim is going to study in Beijing next year, so you advise him to attend ___________. A. Online School B. English Courses C. Chinese Mandarin Class D. Gulf ESL
71. If Kitty, who is a Chinese student studying in a college in the U.K., wants to stay in a local family while
studying English in the summer vacation, she can apply to _________. A. Dallas International School B. Summer Language Courses C. English Courses D. Gulf ESL
(C)
How the Grand Canyon was created remains one of the geology’s greatest mysteries. Some evidence suggests that the process was a gradual one in which the Colorado River (which runs through the canyon) slowly cut deeper and deeper into the ground over millions of years. But volcanic(火山的) rock samples taken from the canyon(峡谷) now suggest that the canyon was downcut instead.
Downcutting is when a flood of water rushes over a landscape with enough force to cut deeply into the ground and leaves behind a canyon. Such a flood is usually released when a natural or artificial dam bursts.
Robert Webb, a research geologist with U.S. Geological Survey, says natural dams seem to have formed and broken across the Colorado River several times during the last million years. The dams were built when lava(熔岩) from the eruptions(爆发) of nearby volcanoes flowed into the river. The lava hardened into hard rocks and blocked the river, causing it to back up and form a lake. Each time the lake grew so huge that it broke the rock dam, releasing a flash flood that furthered the downcutting process and deepened the canyon. The most recent dam break happened 165,000 years ago, says Webb, and released 15 million cubic(立方) feet of water per second.
Downcutting is not just an earthly event. Satellite photos sent back from Mars (a planet) suggest that the process has happened there, too, say researchers at the National Air and Space Museum.
The photos, taken by the Mars Global Surveyor, indicate that an enormous lake existed on Mars 3.5 billion years ago. The lake, which was big enough to flood Texas and California, eventually spilled into a large nearby hole. One edge of the hole broke, releasing a flash flood that quickly carved out a grand canyon about 2,100 meters deep and 885 kilometers long. Astronauts call the canyon MA’adim Vallis.
The existence of downcutting on Mars is just one more piece of evidence that the cold, dry planet was once warm and wet.
72. In the past, deep canyons were believed to have formed ___________. A. as a result of a sudden break of volcanoes B. due to river flows over millions of years C. owing to the collapse of artificial dams D. thanks to our ancestors’ creative work
73. From the passage we can guess that ___________. A. several volcanoes broke out in the Colorado River
B. several great lakes existed on the upper parts of the Colorado River C. people built high dams on the upper parts of the Colorado River D. the Colorado River crossed the Grand Canyon millions of years ago 74. From the last three paragraphs we learn that __________. A. there are great lakes on Mars
B. there are active volcanoes on Mars
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