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第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分35分）
第一节（共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、 C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上奖
该项涂黑。
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Suddenly another thought went through Kate's mind like an electric shock. An expresstrain
was due to go past about thirty minutes later. If it were not stopped, that long train, fullof
passengers, would fall into the stream. “Someone must go to the station and warn
thestation-master,” Kate thought. But who was to go? She would have to go herself. There wasno
one else.
In wind and rain she started on her difficult way. Soon she was at the bridge that crossedthe
Des Moines River, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across Honey storm
had not washed this away, but there was no footpath across it. She would have tocross it by
stepping from sleeper (枕木) to sleeper. With great care she began the dangerouscrossing,
sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild
flood waters below. If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, intothe rapidly flowing
stream.
At last—she never knew how long it had taken her—she felt solid ground under her
there was no time to rest. She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a fewminutes left.
Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives wouldbe lost.
She did reach the station just as the train came into sight. Fortunately the station-masterwas
standing outside. “The bridge is down! Stop the train! Oh, please stop it!” Kate
shoutedbreathlessly.
The station-master went pale. He rushed into the station building and came back with asignal
light. He waved the red light as the train came into the station. It was not a second tooearly.
21. What did Kate decide to do?
A. Stop the express train. B. Check the signal light.
C. Meet the passengers.D. Visit the station-master.
22. Which of the following words best describes Kate's journey?
A. Fruitless. B. Boring. C. Well-planned. D. Risky.
23. Why did the station-master tum pale?
A. He suddenly fell ill. B. He realized the danger.
C. He discovered his mistake. became over-excited.
B
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to
produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机). Theidea is to
get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least10 watt hours
of electricity—roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average staying at
Plaza Hotel will be given meal tickets worth $$36 once they have produced10 watt hours of
electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebarsmeasuring how much
power is being generated for the hotel.
The plan, a world- first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying atthe
hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said,“Many of our
visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be peoplewho will cycle
just to get a free meal, but generally I don't think people will take advantage ofour programme.”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work eachday,
one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website
environmental website recently voted Copenhagen the world's best cityfor cyclists.
“Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling, we felt the bicyclewould work well as a
symbol of the hotel's green profile (形象).”
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plazahotels in
the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
24. What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?
A. To promote the hotel's green concept.
B. To make the city known to the world.
C. To attract people to thehotel restaurant.
D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.
25. How can a participant get a free meal?
A. By becoming a professional cyclist. B. By cycling to produce some electricity.
C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle.D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.
26. Who are most likely to enter for the programme?
A. The poor local people.
B. The environment activists.
C. Health- conscious hotel guests.
D. Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.
27. According to paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the world's ______.
A. best chain hotelsB. greenest natural environments
C. longest bike pathsD. highest rates of people cycling to work
C
Digital technology—email and smart phones especially—have vastly improved
workers'ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work
stillhappens in an office. One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey (调查) ofoffice
workers conducted by WakefieldResearch for the IT company Citrix, most bosses aredoubtful
about remote working. Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only35 percent say
it's tolerated,
Skeptical bosses will likely have their doubts reinforced (加深) by the same survey,which
shows that 43 percent of workers say they've watched TV or a movie while “working”remotely,
while 35 percent have done housework, and 28 percent have cooked dinner.
It is true, however, that working at home makes people much more efficient (高效
的),because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their
jobsdone. It's much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand
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