believed-恩的成语
阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）
第一节
（共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分）
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Some people will do
just about anything to save money. And I am one of
them.
Take my family’s last vacation. It was
my six-year-old son’s winter break form
school, and we were heading home from Fort
Lauderdale after a weeklong trip. The
flight
was overbooked, and Delta, the airline, offered us
$$400 per person in credits
to give up our
seats and leave the next day. I had meetings in
New York，So I had
to get back. But that didn't
mean my husband and my son couldn't stay. I took
my
nine-month-old and took off for home.
The next day, my husband and son were offered
more credits to take an even later
flight.
Yes, I encouraged—okay, ordered—them to wait it
out at the airport, to
Now some people may
think I'm a bad mother and not such a great wife
either.
But as a big-time bargain hunter, I
know the value of a dollar. And these days, a
good deal is something few of us can afford to
pass up.
I've made living looking for the best
deals and exposing （揭露） the worst tricks.
I
have been the consumer reporter of NBC's
Today
show for over a decade. I have
written
a couple of books including one titled
Tricks of the Trade: A Consumer Survival
Guide
. And I really do what I believe in.
I tell you this because there is no shame in
getting your money’s worth. I’m
also
tightfisted when it comes to shoes, clothes for my
children, and expensive
restaurants. But I
wouldn't hesitate to spend on a good haircut. It
keeps its shape
longer, and it's the first
thing people notice. And I will also spend on a
classic
piece of furniture. Quality lasts.
56. Why did Delta give the author's family
credits?
A. They took a later flight. B.
They had early bookings.
C. Their flight had
been delayed. D. Their flight had been cancelled.
57. What can we learn about the author?
A.
She rarely misses a good deal. B. She seldom
makes a compromise.
C. She is very strict with
her children. D. She is interested in cheap
products.
58. What does the author do?
A.
She's a teacher. B. She's a housewife.
C. She's a media person. D. She's a
businesswoman.
59. What does the author want
to tell us?
A. How to expose bad tricks. B.
How to reserve airline seats.
C. How to spend
money wisely. D. How to make a business deal.
B
They baby is just one day old and has
not yet left hospital. She is quiet but
alert
（警觉）. Twenty centimeters from her face researchers
have placed a white
card with two black spots
on it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher
removes
the card and replaces it by another,
this time with the spots differently spaced.
As the cards change from one to the other, her
gaze（凝视） starts to lose its focus
— until a
third, with three black spots, is presented. Her
gaze returns: she looks
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at
it for twice as long as she did at the previous
card. Can she tell that the number
two is
different from three, just 24 hours after coming
into the world?
Or do newborns simply prefer
more to fewer? The same experiment, but with three
spots shown before two, shows the same return
of interest when the number of spots
changes.
Perhaps it is just the newness? When slightly
older babies were shown cards
with pictures of
objects (a comb, a key, an orange and so on),
changing the number
of objects had an effect
separate from changing the objects themselves.
Could it
be the pattern that two things make,
as opposed to three? No again. Babies paid more
attention to squares moving randomly on a
screen when their number changed from two
to
three, or three to two. The effect even crosses
between senses. Babies who were
repeatedly
shown two spots became more excited when they then
heard three drumbeats
than when they heard
just two; likewise （同样地） when the researchers
started with
drumbeats and moved to spots.
60. The experiment described in Paragraph 1 is
related to the baby’s__.
A. sense of hearing
B. sense of sight C. sense of touch D. sense of
smell
61. Babies are sensitive to the change
in______.
A. the size of cards B. the
colour of pictures
C. the shape of patterns
D. the number of objects
62. Why did the
researchers test the babies with drumbeats?
A.
To reduce the difficulty of the experiment.
B. To see how babies recognize sounds.
C.
To carry their experiment further.
D. To
keep the babies’ interest.
63. Where does this
text probably come from?
A. Science fiction.
B. Children’s literature.
C. An
advertisement. D. A science report.
C
It
happened to me recently. I was telling someone how
much I had enjoyed reading
Barack Obama’s
Dreams From My Father
and how it had
changed my views of our President.
A friend I
was talking to agreed with me that it was, in his
words, “a brilliantly
（精彩地）written book”.
However, he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama
in a way
which suggested he had no idea of his
background at all. I sensed that I was talking
to a book liar.
And it seems that my
friend is not the only one. Approximately two
thirds of
people have lied about reading a
book which they haven’t. In the World Book Day’s
“Report on Guilty Secrets”,
Dreams From My
Father
is at number 9. The report lists
ten books, and various authors, which people
have lied about reading, and as I’m
not one to
lie too often (I’d hate to be caught out), I’ll
admit here and now that
I haven’t read the
entire top ten. But I am pleased to say that,
unlike 42 percent
of people, I have read the
book at number one, George Orwell’s
1984
.
I think it’s
really brilliant.
The World
Book Day report also has some other interesting
information in it.
It says that many people
lie about having read Jane Austen, Charles
Dickens, Fyodor
Dostoevsky (I haven’t read
him, but haven’t lied about it either) and Herman
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Melville.
Asked why they
lied, the most common reason was to “impress”
someone they were
speaking to. This could be
tricky if the conversation became more in–depth!
But when asked which authors they actually
enjoy, people named J. K. Rowling,
John
Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big sellers, in
other words). Forty-two
percent of people
asked admitted they turned to the back of the book
to read the
end before finishing the story
(I’ll come clean: I do this and am astonished that
58 percent said they had never done so).
64. How did the author find his friend a book
liar?
A. By judging his manner of speaking.
B. By looking into his background.
C. By
mentioning a famous name. D. By discussing the
book itself.
65. Which of the following is a
“guilty secret” according to the World Book Day
report?
A. Charles Dickens is very low on
the top-ten list.
B. 42% of people pretended
to have read
1984
.
C. The author
admitted having read 9 books.
D.
Dreams
From My Father
is hardly read.
66. By
lying about reading, a person hopes to .
A. control the conversation B. appear
knowledgeable
C. learn about the book D.
make more friends
67. What is the author’s
attitude to 58% of readers?
A. Favorable. B.
Uncaring C. Doubtful D. Friendly
D
The National Gallery
Description:
The
National Gallery is the British national art
museum built on the north side
of Trafalgar
Square in London. It houses a diverse collection
of more than 2,300
examples of European art
ranging from 13th-century religious paintings to
more
modern ones by Renoir and Van Gogh. The
older collections of the gallery are reached
through the main entrance while the more
modern works in the East Wing are most easily
reached from Trafalgar Square by a ground
floor entrance
Layout:
The modern
Sainsbury Wing on the western side of the building
houses 13th- to
15th-century paintings, and
artists include Duccio, Uccello, Van Eyck, Lippi,
Mantegna, Botticelli and Memling.
The main
West Wing houses 16th-century paintings, and
artists include Leonardo
da Vinci, Cranach,
Michelangelo, Raphael, Bruegel, Bronzino, Titan
and Veronese.
The North Wing houses 17th-
century paintings, and artists include Caravaggio,
Rubens, Poussin, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Claude
and Vermeer.
The East Wing houses 18th- to
early 20th-century paintings, and artists include
Canaletto, Goya, Turner, Constable, Renoir and
Van Gogh.
Opening Hours:
The Gallery is
open every day from 10am to 6pm (Fridays 10am to
9pm) and is free,
but charges apply to some
special exhibitions.
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Getting
There:
Nearest underground stations: Charing
Cross (2-minute walk), Leicester Square
(3-minute walk), Embankment (7-minute walk),
and Piccadilly Circus (8-minute walk).
68. In
which century’s collection can you see religious
paintings?
A. The 13th. B. The 17th. C. The
18th. D. The 20th.
69. Where are Leonardo da
Vinci’s works shown?
A. In the East Wing.
B. In the main West Wing.
C. In the Sainsbury
Wing. D. In the North Wing.
70. Which
underground station is closest to the National
Gallery?
A. Piccadilly Circus. B. Leicester
Square.
C. Embankment. D. Charing Cross.
第二节 （共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Business is the organized approach to
providing customers with the goods and
services they want. The word business also
refers to an organization that provides
these
goods and services. Most businesses seek to make a
profit（利润）— that is,
they aim to achieve
income that is more than the costs of operating
the business.
71 Commonly called
nonprofits, these organizations are primarily
nongovernmental
service providers. 72
Business management is a term used to describe
the techniques of planning,
direction, and
control of the operations of a business. 73
One is the
establishment（制定） of broad basic
policies with respect to production; sales;
the purchase of equipment, materials and
supplies; and accounting. 74 The third
relates to the establishment of standards of
work in all departments. Direction is
concerned primarily with supervision（监管）and
guidance by the management in
authority. 75
A. Control includes the use of records
and reports to compare actual work with the
set standards for work.
B. In this
connection there is the difference between top
management and operative
management.
C.
Examples of nonprofit business include such
organizations as social service
agencies and
may hospitals.
D. However, some businesses
only seek to earn enough to cover their operating
costs.
E. The second aspect relates to the
application of these policies by departments.
F. In the theory of business management,
organization has two main aspects.
G. Planning
in business management has three main aspects.
41-45 DABAC 46-50 CDDBA 51-55
BCADB 56-60 AACCB
61-65 DCDDB 66-70 BCABD
71-75 DCGEA
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