1、1阅读理解（文化教育类）05十二、(Q = Question; A = Answer)Situation IQ: If someone sits right next to me in an empty movie theater, is it rude to move?A: Maybe, but nobody will fault you for it. Chances are that the close sitter doesnt realize he disturbs you, so he may miss your annoyance. You undoubtedly arent t
2、he first person hes met who needs enough room. Forgive his bad judgment, move quietly and enjoy the show.Situation IIQ: If 1 use the bathroom at a store, do I need to buy something?A: Consider frequency and urgency. Is this a one-time thing or an emergency? If so, you dont have to buy anything, but
3、it would be kind if you did. However, if you regularly use the bathroom at this place, then you arc a customer, and you should act like one.Situation IIIQ: If someone is talking loudly on the bus, is there a nicc way to ask him to keep it down?A: No. Try other means: 1) Stare at him until he gets aw
4、are of it and quiets down. 2) Lift your finger in a silence motion（动作） and smile. 3) Put on earphones and ignore him.Situation IVQ: If I remember my friends birthday a day late, should I apologize or just wish her a happy birthday like nothing happened?A: This is the reason why the word belated was
5、invented. “Happy belated birthday!” is short for: “Well. I know I forgot, but then I remembered. Forgive me and happy birthday.”Situation V2Q: Can I lie about seeing a text because I was loo busy or lazy to respond to it?A: Dont lie. Receiving a text does not mean you need to respond(回复) to it. Why
6、waste a perfectly good lie when the truth will serve? “Yes,” you can say if ever asked, “I saw it.” No explanation is needed as to why you dont respond.25.You will get annoyed in a theater when .A. a person is too activeB. a person is too rude to youC. a person talks too loudlyD. a person sits too c
7、lose to you26.How will you quiet someone down in a public place?A. By making fun of him continuously.B. By looking purposefully at him.C. By talking to him directly.D. By pointing angrily at him.27.The underlined word “belated” in Situation IV probably means .A. prcdictcd B. returned C. cancelled D.
8、 delayed28. What is the passage mainly about?A. Modern ways to mind your manners.B. Different ways to change others manners.C. Proper manners to offer help to others.D. Good manners to talk to people.【考点】考察教育类阅读【文章大意】本文中列举了在 5种不同的情况下，如何表现得有礼貌的方法。25. 【答案】D 【试题解析】推理题。根据 Situation I中的 Q: If someone sit
9、s right next to me in an empty movie theater, is it rude to move?A: Maybe, but nobody will fault you for it. Chances are that the close sitter doesnt realize he disturbs you。可知在电影院里，如果有人坐得理你太近，这也许会是一件让人恼怒的事情。故 D正确。326. 【答案】B【试题解析】细节题。根据 Situation III中的 Stare at him until he gets aware of it and quie
10、ts down可知如果一个人讲话声音太大，你可以瞪着他看，直到他意识到为止。故 B正确。27. 【答案】D 【试题解析】猜测词义题。根据 Situation IV中 If I remember my friends birthday a day late, 和 This is the reason why the word belated was invented.可知这是在你忘记了对方的生日之后的补救措施。故该词应该是指“delayed”迟到的，晚来的。故 D正确。28. 【答案】A 【试题解析】主旨大意题。本文中列举了在 5种不同的情况下，如何表现得有礼貌的方法。故 A正确。【长难句解析】
11、Chances are that the close sitter doesnt realize he disturbs you, so he may miss your annoyance.【翻译】很有可能那个坐得较为靠近的人并没有意识到你打扰到你了，所以他可能没有注意到你生气了。【分析】本句中有一个固定句式 chances are that很可能；另外动词 realize后面含有一个宾语从句 he disturbs you。十三、Travis is the manager of G&G where he is responsible for forty employees（雇员） and
12、profits (利润) of over $2 million per year. Hes never late to work. He does not get upset on the job. When one of his employees started crying after a customer screamed at her, Travis took her away. “Your working uniform is your shelter,” he told her. “Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you. You will
13、always be as strong as you want to be.”Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an 4employees occupation. The training has, Travis says, changed his life. G&G has taught him how to live, how to focus,
14、how to get to work on time, and how to master his emotions（情绪）. Most importantly, it taught him willpower.At the center of that education is an extreme focus on an all-important habit: willpower. Dozens of cases show that willpower is the single most important habit for a person s success.And the be
15、st way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. “Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control arent working hardbut thats because theyve made it automatic,” Angela Duckworth, one of the University of Pennsylvania researchers said. “Their willpower occurs without them having to t
16、hink about it.”The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train employees on self-control. Managers wrote workbooks that serve as guides to how to make willpower a habit in workers lives. Those courses are, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company into a large one
17、with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.33. We learn from Paragraph 2 that employees in G&G must .A. learn to give lecturesB. attend education programsC. design a working uniformD. develop a common hobby34.Willpower will become a habit when employees can
18、. A. focus on the profitsB. benefit from the jobC. protect themselves wellD. control their feelings well 35. What can we infer from the passage?A. G&G has grown into a large company.B. G&G will spend half its profits training employees.5C. G&G may become more successful in the future.D. G&G has to p
19、roduce more workbooks for managers.【考点】考察文化教育类阅读【文章大意】本文通过 G&G的培训课程告诉我们人的意志力是我们是否能够取得成功的关键。33. 【答案】B 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第二段 1,2行 Travis picked up that lecture in one of his G&G training courses, an education program that began on his first day and continues throughout an employees occupation.可知 G&G的培训课程在
20、新员工入职第一天就开始了，而且在贯穿与员工的工作之中。也就是说 G&G的员工都得参加这样的培训课程。故 B正确。34. 【答案】D 【试题解析】推理题。根据第三段 1,2行 And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit. “Sometimes it looks like people with great self-control arent working hardbut thats because theyve made it automatic可知加强意志力最好的方法就是让意志力成为一种习惯。有时候
21、有很强自我控制里的人工作并不努力，你是因为他们还没有把自我控制当成一种习惯。也就是说当人们能够很好地控制我们的感情时，我们就会让意志力成为习惯。我们就能表现得很好。故 D正确。35. 【答案】C 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章最后一段第一句 The company spent millions of dollars developing programs of study to train employees on self-control.和 最后一句 Those courses are, in part, why G&G has grown from a sleepy company int
22、o a large one with more than seventeen thousand stores and profits of more than $10 billion a year.可知这家公司在培训员工方面花了很多钱，而且也让公司发展得很好，也正是因为在员工培训方面的投入很大，所以他们可能在未来会取得更大的成功。故 C正确。【长难句解析】And the best way to strengthen willpower is to make it into a habit.【答案】加强意志力最好的方法就是让意志力成为一种习惯。【分析】在本句中不定式的用法得到了充分的体现。本句中
23、主语 the best way后面有不定6式 to strengthen willpower作为定语来修饰这个名词，还可以使用 the best way of strengthening willpower。另外本句中的表语 to make it into a habit也是一个不定式，表示具体的一次性的行为。十四、The kids in this village wear dirty, ragged clothes. They sleep beside cows and sheep in huts made of sticks and mud. They have no school. Ye
24、t they all can chant the English alphabet, and some can make words. The key to their success: 20 tablet computers(平板电脑 ) dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child. The goal is to find out whether kids using todays new technology can teach themselv
25、es to read in places where no schools or teachers exist. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers analyzing the project data say theyre already amazed. “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,” said M
26、att Keller, who runs the Ethiopia program. The fastest learnerand the first to turn on one of the tabletsis 8-year-old Kelbesa Negusse. The devices camera was disabled to save memory, yet within weeks Kelbesa had figured out its workings and made the camera work. He called himself a lion, a marker o
27、f accomplishment in Ethiopia. With his tablet, Kelbasa rearranged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. “Seven months ago he didnt know any English. Thats unbelievable,” said Keller. The project aims to get kids to a stage called “dee
28、p reading,” where they can read to learn. It wont be in Amharic, Ethiopias first language, but in English, which is widely seen as the ticket to higher paying jobs. 62. How does the Ethiopia program benefit the kids in the village? A. It trains teachers for them. B. It contributes to their self-stud
29、y. C. It helps raise their living standards. 7D. It provides funds for building schools. 63. What can we infer from Kellers words in Paragraph 3? A. They need more time to analyze data. B. More children are needed for the research. C. He is confident about the future of the project. D. The research
30、should be carried out in kindergartens. 64. It amazed Keller that with the tablet Kelbesa could _. A. learn English words quickly. B. draw pictures of animals. C. write letters to researchers. D. make phone calls to his friends. 65. What is the aim of the project? A. To offer Ethiopians higher payin
31、g jobs. B. To make Amharic widely used in the world. C. To help Ethiopian kids read to learn in English. D. To assist Ethiopians in learning their first language. 【考点】考察文化教育类阅读【文章大意】本文介绍了在非洲的 Ethiopian进行的一项研究，通过使用平板电脑，孩子们学会了英语单词。文章仔细介绍了这个计划的具体信息。62. 【答案】B 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第三段 The goal is to find out wh
32、ether kids using todays new technology can teach themselves to read in places where no schools or teachers exist.和 “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,”可知这个计划的目的是为了看在没有学校没有老师的情况下，孩子是否可以自学。结果证明这是完全有可能的。很多孩子都通过自
33、学，掌握了一些知识。说明这个计划促进了孩子的自学能力。故 B正确。63. 【答案】C 【试题解析】推理题。根据本段最后 2行 “What I think has already happened is that the kids have already learned more than they would have in one year of kindergarten,”可知他的看法已经被证明了。孩子们学习的内容比预料的还多。说明他对中计划的未来是很乐观的。故 C正确。864. 【答案】A 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第五段 With his tablet, Kelbasa rearr
34、anged the letters HSROE into one of the many English animal names he knows. Then he spelled words on his own. “Seven months ago he didnt know any English. Thats unbelievable,”孩子们用平板电脑非常迅速地学会了拼写单词而且速度很快。故A正确。65. 【答案】C 【试题解析】细节题。根据文章最后一段第一句 The project aims to get kids to a stage called “deep reading,
35、” where they can read to learn.可知这个计划的目的就是让孩子进入一个深度学习的状态，让他们学会学习等。故 C正确。【长难句解析】The key to their success: 20 tablet computers(平板电脑) dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February by a U.S. group called One Laptop Per Child.【翻译】他们的成功的关键是：被称为 One Laptop Per Child的一个美国的组织在 2月份留给这个埃塞俄比亚村子的 20台平板电脑。【分析】本句中的名词 the key通常要和介词 to连用表示“的关键” ；同时句中有两个过去分词短语做定语：dropped off in their Ethiopian village in February修饰 20 tablet computers；called One Laptop Per Child 修饰 a U.S. group。9
