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篇一:英语长篇阅读
英语长篇阅读(
5
)
201
5
新课标Ⅱ
C
篇
More student
than ever cefore are taking a gap-year
(
间隔年
)before going to used
to
be
called
the
―
year
off
‖
between
school
and
gap-year
phenomenon
originated(
起源
)
with
the
months
left
over
to
Oxbridge
applicants
between
entrance
exams
in
November
and the start of the next academic year.
This year, 25,310 students
who have accepted places in higher education
institutions have put off
their entry until next year, according
to statistics on university entrance provided by
University
and College Admissions
Serbice(UCAS).
That is a
record 14.7% increase in the number of students
taking a gap year. Tony Higgins from
UCAS asid that the statistics are good
news for everyone in higher education.
―
Students who
take a well-planned year out are more
likely to be stisfied with, and complete, their
chosen course.
Students who take a gap
year are often more mature and
responsible,
‖
he
said.
But not everyone is
happy. Owain James, the president of the National
Union of Students(NUS),
argued that the increase is evidence of
student had ship
–
young people are being forced into
earning
money
before
finishing
their
education.
―
New
students
are
now
aware
that
they
are
likely to leave university up to
£
15,000 in debt. It is not
surprising that more and
More students are taking a gap year to
earn money to support their study for the
statistics
show
that
over
40%
of
students
are
forcedto
work
during
term
time
and
the
figure
increases
to 90% during
vacation
periods,
‖
he said. 29. What
do we learn about
the
gap
year
from
the
text?A.
It
is
flexible
in
length.B.
It
is
a
time
for
relaxation.C.
It
is
increasingly popular.D.
It is required by universities.
30.
According
to
Tony
Higgins,students
taking
a
gap
year______.
better
prepared
for
college a lot more about their future
more likely to leave university in
a
better chance to enter top universities
31.
How
does
Owain
James
feel
about
the
gap-year
phenomenon?A.
He's
puzzled.B.
He's worried.C. He's surprised.
D. He's annoyed.
32.
What
would
most
students
do
on
their
vacation
according
to
NUS
statistics?
additional
courses.B. Make plans for the new money for their
r for
their graduate studies.
英语长篇阅读(
6
< br>)
2015
新课标Ⅱ
D
篇
Choose
Your One-Day Tours
Tour
A-Bath
&
Stonchenge
including
entrance
fees
to
the
ancient
Roman
bathrooms
and
Stonehenge-
£
until
26 March and
£
39 thereafter.
Visit
the
city
with
over
2,000
years
of
history
and
Bath
Abbey,the
Royal
Crescent
and
the
Costute enge is one of the
world
’
s most famous
prehistoric monuments dating back
over
5,000 years.
Tour
B-Oxford
&
Stratford
including
entrance
fees
to
the
University
St
Mary
’
s
Church
Tower and Anne
Hathaway's house
一
32
until 12 March and 36 thereafter.
Oxford: Includes a guided of
England
’
s oldest university
city and colleges. Look over the
―
city
of
dreaming
spires(
尖
顶
)
‖
form
St
Mary
’
s
Church
Tower.
Stratford:
Includes
a
guided
tour
exploring much of the Shakespeare
wonder.
Tour
C
—
Windsor
Castle
&
Hampton
Court
including
entrance
fees
to
Hampton
Court
Palace--
£
34 until
March and
£
37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of
Windsor and Hampton Court, Hey
Mill
’
s favourite palace.
Free time to
visit Windsor
Castle
(
entrace fees not
included
)
. With 500 years of
history, Hampton Court was
once the
home of four Kings and one Queen. Now this former
royal palace ia open to the public as
a
major
tourist
attraction.
Visit
the
palace
and
its
various
historic
gardens,
which
include
the
famous
maze(
迷宫
)where it is easy to
get lost!
Tour D-Cambridge
including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary
the Great-
£
33 .until 1
8 March and
£
37 thereafter.
Includes a guided tour of Cambridge,
the famous university town, and the gardens of the
18th
century.
tour
will
you
choose
if
you
want
to
see
England
’
s
oldest
university
city?
D
of the following tours
charges the lowest fee on 17 March? r Castle &
Hampton Court. & Stratford
&Stonehenge. dge.
is
Hampton Court a major tourist attraction? used to
be the home of royal families.
used
to
be
a
well-known
maze
is
the
oldest
palae
in
Britainc
is
a
world-famous
castle.
英语长篇阅读(
7<
/p>
)
2015
湖南卷
C
篇
Have your parents ever inspected your
room to see if you cleaned it properly? Imagine
having
your entire houses, garage, and
yard inspected at any time -- with no warning.
Inspections were a
regular part of
lighthouse (
灯塔
) living, and
a keeper's reputation depended on results. A
few
times
each
year,
an
inspector
arrived
to
look
over
the entire
light
station.
The
inspections
were
supposed to be a surprise, but keeper
sometimes had advance notice.
Once lighthouses had telephones,
keepers would call each other to warn that the
inspector was
approaching. After boats
began flying special flags noting the inspector
aboard, the keeper's
family made it
a game to see who could notice the boat first. As
soon as someone spotted the boat,
everyone would do last-minute tidying
and change into fancy clothes. The keeper then
scurried to
put on his dress uniform
and cap. Children of keepers remember inspectors
wearing white gloves
to run their
fingers over door frames and windowsills looking
for dust.
Despite
the
serious nature of
inspections,
they
resulted
in
some
funny
moments.
Betty
Byrnes
remembered when her mother did not have
time to wash all the dishes before an inspection.
At the
time, people did not have
dishwashers in their homes. In an effort to clean
up quickly, Mrs. Byrnes
tossed all the
dishes into a big bread pan, covered them with a
cloth and stuck them in the oven. If
the inspector opened the oven door, it
would look like bread was baking. he never did.
One day, Glenn Furst's
mother put oil on the kitchen floor just before
the inspector entered
their house. Like
floor wax, the oil made the floors shiny and
helped protect the wood. This time,
though, she used a little too much oil.
When the inspector extended his hand to greet
Glenn's
mother, he slipped on the
freshly oiled surface. "He came across that
floor waving his arms
like a young bird
attempting its first flight," Glenn late
wrote. After he steadied himself, he
shook
Glenn's
mother's
hand,
and
the
inspection
continued
as
though
nothing
had
happened. 66. What does
Paragraph I tell us about the inspection at the
light station?
A. It was
carried
out
once
a
year.
B.
It
was
often
announced
in
advance.
C.
It
was
important
for
the
keeper's fame.
D. It was focused on the garage and
yard.
67. The family began
making preparations immediately after ______.
A. one of the members
saw the boat
B.
a warning call reached the lighthouse
C. the keeper put on the dress uniform
and cap
D. the
inspector flew special flags in the distance
68. Mrs. Byrnes put the
dishes in the oven because this would ______.
A. result in some fun
B. speed up washing them
C. make her home look tidy
D. be a demand from the
inspector
69. If the
inspector had opened the oven door, he would have
seen _______.
A.
an
empty
pan
B.
many
clean
dishes
C.
pieces
of
baked
bread
D.
a
cloth
covering
something
70.
The inspector waved his arms ______.
A. to try
his best to keep
steady
B. to show his
satisfaction with the floor
C. to extend a warm greeting to
Glenn's mother
D. to
express
his intention to continue the
inspection
It was a hot June day and
Sammy couldn
,
t wait to get
in the water.
.
McKinney Falls State Park with his mom<
/p>
,
Kelley
,
his dad
,
Sta-
cey
,
and his brothers
< br>,
Ben
,
eight
,
and
Willy
,
two.
Around 11 a. m.
,
S
ammy
,
s mother and little
brother Ben dropped the family
boat
intoOnion Creek and left. Sammy and Wdly
accompanied their dad to Upper Falls. At the
topof the
waterfall
,
a stone pathway
runs across the creek bed Below is a swimming
hole
,
20feet
deep
in some places.
With his
father watching from the rocks
above
,
Sammy jumped in. He
was a goodswimmer
—
he
< br>’
d been on the swim team in his
hometown of Cypress
,
Texas.
Sammyplayed in the water for a
while
,
eventually
pulling himself out of the swimming hole andonto a
warm stone and watching a
group of
children tramp through the creek bed above. They
were summer campers from Austin
who
,
along with
their teachers
,
were
headedback to the
visitors
,
parking lot after a
morning hike.
As the kids passed Stacey
and Wil-1y
,
a tiny five-year-
old girl reached down to grab a water bottle
and lost her balance. In
aninstant
,
she was swept over
the falls.
―
A
girl went over the
waterfall
!‖
Stacey shouted
Sammy caught a glimpse of
theGirl
’
s arm
and
the top of her dark head as the rolling currents
pushed her into the hollowbeneath the rock
ledge
,
hiding. her
from the crowd above. She struggled in the deep
water.
―
I
’
m
scared at this
point
,
‖
Sammy says now.
His father
,
with
Willy under one arm
,
walked
toward the edge of the
waterfall to
tryto locate the girl
,
but
Sammy was the one in striking
distance.
―
You have to get
her
out
ofthere
!‖
Stacey yelled down
to him. Sammy was nervous
,
bu
t
―
my dad just looked at
me
,
and I
understood what I had to
do.
’
,
Years in the Boy Scouts had taught
Sammy never to enter a dangerous situation with-
out an exit
strategy. The ten-year-old
took a few seconds to consider the
situation
,
andthen he dived
in. In a
few
seconds
,
he was next to the
struggling girl. He asked her if shecould swim.
When she said no
,
Sammy
carefully pulled her onto his back and followed
therock wall
’
s slick
contours around the
edge of the
waterfall toward the shore.
Soon
,
some-one threw a swim
float from the bank and
pulled both
kids from the water.
Now a
seventh grader
,
Sammy
admits
,
―
When I
got in the water
,
I
didn
’
t reallythink about the
consequences.
‖
51
.
When the girl
fell into the
water
,
·
A. Kelleyaccompanying their
dad $$ Ben was accompanying their
mother
’
C. Willy was grabbing a water bottle D.
Stacey was watching the children tramp 52. Why did
Sammy
,
s father
ask him to save the girl?
A. His father should take care of
Willy.
B. His father
was unable to locate the girl.
C He was the perfect boy to
save the girl.
D. He was in
the right
place to save the girl.
.
A. he was taught to do so in the school
B. he was scared and
nervous to dive in
C. he
was
considering the rescue strategy
D. he was thinking about
the consequences
54. From
the passage
,
A. brave
,
calm and
outspokenB. kind
,
outspoken
and professional
C.
calm
,
professional and
clever
D.
cautious
,
brave and
enthusiastic
英语长篇阅读(
7
)
2015
黄冈模考
A
篇
篇二:长篇阅读翻译
长篇阅读翻译:
< br>A
)亚马逊,目前为止是全国最大的图书经销商,它在
5
月
19
日发布报告称,现在销售的
p>
电子
Kindle
版图书多于传统纸质版图
书。这非常惊人,因为
kindle
只存在了
< br>4
年。电子图
书现在占全国图书销售的
< br>14%
,增长速度比图书销售总量快得多。电子图书销售去年上升
了
16%
,而精装本图书销售只增长了
6%
,平装本图书下降了
8%.
B
)难道这就意味着纸质书末日来临
了吗?当然,速度不会这么快,也有可能根本不会发
生。这的确意味着在接下来的十年左
右时间内,图书行业将会经历一次自从古腾堡在
15
世
纪
50
年代引进活版印刷术以来最深刻的变革。
C
)市场
上的纸质书肯定会越来越少。大众市场平装书多年来销量一直下滑,可能将会消
失,推理
小说、恐怖小说、
“言情小说”等的精装本也会消失。这类图书,不管是私人性的
还是公共性的,很少会被永久性收藏,很可能在几年之后,只能在电子书上看到了。
“主题
严肃的”
非小说类和小说类精装书存在时间
肯定会更长。
如果一个作家还出版此类精装图书,
这将会变成他
/
她的标志。
D)
至于儿童类图书的命运,谁又会
知道呢?儿童类图书就像狗粮,购买者并不是消费者,
所以这个市场(和销售)本身就很
奇怪。
E)
要想知道纸质书的未来,让我们看一些技术变化的例子,看看旧的科技发生了什么。
F
)只有在新科技更好、更便宜或二
者兼而有之的时候,一种科技才会取代另一种。新旧
科技之间的区别越大,
新科技取代旧科技的速度就会越快,
也更加彻底。
相
比通过在由羊皮
制成的羊皮纸上手写来出版图书的传统方式而言,活字印刷极大地降低了
生产图书的成本。
《圣经》
——诚然,
是一本很厚的书——所需的羊皮纸得用
300
张羊皮和不计其数
的工时劳
动。在印刷出现之前,一本《圣经》的价格高于一座中产阶级的房子。在
1450
年,整个欧
洲只有大约
50 000
本。到
1500
年,则有
1000
万本。
G
)但是尽管印刷很快导致手写本消
失,手抄文稿依然持续存到了
16
世纪。非常特别的的
书籍仍然偶而用以羊皮纸的形式出版,但是它们只是独一无二的展示品。
H
)有时,一种新科技并不能使旧科
技完全消失,只会使其部分消失,而促使其他大部分
继续发展。
电影被普遍预测会将现场戏剧表演赶出市场,
但是并没有,
这是
因为戏剧有着电
影无法复制的特点。同样,电视也被认为会取代电影,但是同样也没有取
代。
I
)
但是电影的确不可避免地对现场戏剧表演的某些部分产生了影响。
尽管电视没有消灭电
影,但它的确消灭了一些二流的电影院、电影短片和卡通片。
p>
J
)电视业没
有消灭广播。喜剧和戏剧表演《杰克
本尼》
< br>《先知安迪》
《魅影奇侠》全都搬
上了电视荧幕。
但是你无法再开车的同时看电视,
所以上下班高峰时期就是广播的黄金
时期,
音乐、
访谈和新闻类的广播节目的听众数量极大地增加。
和
20
世纪
4
0
年代相比,
今天的无
线电广播是一种
非常不同、也是一种更强大的商业模式。
< br>K
)有时,旧的科技会因为它的象征意义而持续存在数个世纪。公元前
1000
年的战场上,
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