(天水市一中2006级2008-2009学年第二学期第四次考试题E篇)

Everyone’s at it, even my neighbors. I thought I might be the only person left in the world who hadn’t done an eBay deal. So I decided to try my hand at online auction(网上拍卖).

Buying for beginners: Sign up on WWW.eBay.com Most items(e.g. tables, computers, and books) ready for auction will come with a picture and a short description; others may be marked with “Buy It Now” and have a fixed price. You can buy these right away.

If the item is being auctioned, you offer the highest price you are prepared to pay and eBay bids (出价) for you. The bid will be increased little by little until it goes beyond your highest bid, then you are emailed and asked if you would like to bid again. Auctions last up to 10 days and when they finish you get an email telling you whether you have won the item.

How to pay: Sellers decide how they would like to be paid and you need to check this before placing a bid as you might not want to post a cheque or postal orders. The easiest way is through PayPal, an online payment system that takes the money away from your credit card.

Selling made simple: If you plan to sell on eBay, it helps to include a picture of the item. I followed my friends’ advice and put up the items I wanted to sell for a 10- day auction, starting on a Thursdayy. This way buyers had two weekends to bid.

The big things in life: It’s easy to post a small item, but furniture is a big part of eBay and this has to be collected or sent by deliverymen. Check the ways of delivery before you bid.

57. What is the passage mainly about ?

A. How to make payment online.                 B. Ways of making delivery online.

C. Advantages of an online-auction system.     D. How to use an online-auction system.

58. After bidding for an item, a buyer _______ .

A. can’t buy other items any more               B. should make payment immediately

C. has chances to make higher bids            D. must give your credit card to the seller

59. You should _______if the item is being auctioned.

A. make loud noises                                

B. get the others not to bid

C. ask the other people’s price               

D. offer the highest price you are ready to pay

60. The easiest way of making payment mentioned in the passage is _______.

A. through an online payment system           B. through a local bank system

C. by sending the money to the seller          D. by paying the delivery man directly

 (天水市一中2006级2008-2009学年第二学期第四次考试题C篇)

Forgiving someone who has hurt you or let you down is never an easy thing. Several new studies, however, say that it could have a lot of health benefits. When you think of forgiveness, you probably don’t think of it as being a health or medical problem. Studies from Stanford University, on the other hand, show that something like anger can change your well-being.

When cartoon book characters like the incredible(难以置信) Hulk get angry, they change colours and often gain special power. In the real world, anger is less obvious and may be more dangerous. That’s why Professor Fred Luskin, founder of the Stanford Forgiveness Project and author of Forgive for Good, says holding on to anger and hatred can harm your physical and mental health. Two new studies seem to show the same idea.

The studies find that people who are able to forgive feel less stress, less back pain, and less depression（沮丧）. They also have fewer headaches, lower blood pressure, and fewer problems on sleeping.

So it doesn’t matter if your anger is caused by the traffic or other things. Learning to let it go is important. Techniques such as deep breath or thought can help. Or just ask yourself if it’s worth hurting yourself by staying angry with someone else.

Forgiveness does not mean that you simply accept what happened and say it’s OK. Instead, it’s a way of making peace with yourself about what happened in the past.

49. The author of the passage tries to make his viewpoint clear ______.

   A. by raising his own examples.                 B. based on his own experience.

   C. by mentioning some studies.                 D. by mentioning some typical patients.

50. The example of the cartoon book characters is taken in the passage to____.

   A. support the viewpoint that anger and hatred harm physical and mental health.

   B. introduce a famous expert.

   C. let the reader know the different colours of cartoon faces.

   D. show how to control one’s temper.

51. The underlined phrase “holding on to” in this passage possibly means“__”.

   A. removing.      B. keeping up.       C. getting rid of.      D. learning about.

52. The best title for this passage is probably _______.

   A. Forgiveness.                           B. Forgiveness Is Good for Health.

C. A Secret to Keeping Health.               D. Anger Is Bad for Health.

 (福建省厦门外国语学校2009届高三最后一次模拟E篇)

Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a standard people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.

Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances（泛泛之交）. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then asked me back with his finger minutes later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.

I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon （勤杂工） by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

Once I graduated, I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked .

I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

My job title made people treat me politely. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to satisfy others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.

I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

72. The author was disappointed to find that ____   ___.

A. one’s position is used as a standard to measure one’s intelligence

B. talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job

C. one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person

D. professionals tend to look down upon manual waitresses

73. What does the author intend to say by the example in the second paragraph?

A. Some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them.

B. People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be absent-minded.

C. Waitresses are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.

D. Some customers like to complain because of the waitress’ poor service.

74. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?

A. She felt it unfair to be treated as a mere servant by professional.

B. She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.

C. She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.

D. She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

75. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 7 means “           ”.

A. those who satisfy others’ needs are sure to be looked down upon.

B. those working in the service industry shouldn’t be treated as servants.

C. those serving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn a living.

D. the majority of customers tend to look on a servant as server nowadays.

 (福建省厦门外国语学校2009届高三最后一次模拟A篇)

Cole Bettles had been rejected by a number of universities when he received an e-mail from the University of California, San Diego, last month, congratulating him on his admission and inviting him to tour the campus. His mother booked a hotel in San Diego, and the 18-year-old Ojai high school senior arranged for his grandfather, uncle and other family members to meet them at the campus for lunch during the Saturday tour.

“They were like ‘Oh my God, that’s so awesome （棒的）’, ” Bettles said. Right before he got in bed, he checked his e-mail one last time and found another message saying the school had made a mistake and his application had been denied.

In fact, all 28, 000 students turned away from UC San Diego, in one of the toughest college entrance seasons on record, had received the same incorrect message. The students’ hopes had been raised and then dashed （破灭） in a cruel twist that shows the danger of instant communications in the Internet age.

UCSD admissions director Mae Brown called it an “administrative error” but refused to say who had made the mistake, or if those responsible would be disciplined （受训）.

The e-mail, which began, “We’re thrilled that you’ve been admitted to UC San Diego, and we’re showcasing （展示） our beautiful campus on Admit Day, ” was sent to the full 46, 000 students who had applied, instead of just the 18, 000 who got in, Brown said.

The error was discovered almost immediately by her staff, who sent an apology within hours.

“It was really thrilling for a few hours; now he’s crushed （压垮）, ” said Cole’s mother, Tracy Bettles. “It’s really tough on them.”

The admissions director said she was in the office on Monday until midnight answering e-mails and phone calls from disappointed students and their parents. She said she took full responsibility for the error. “We accessed the wrong database. We recognize the incredible pain receiving this false encouragement caused. It was not our intent.”

56. How many students received an admission e-mail from the University of California, San Diego （UCSD）?

A. 18, 000                           B. 28, 000                  C. 46, 000                           D. 18

57. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the wrong e-mail message?

A. The mistake was made on purpose to cause pain among the applicants.

B. It was UCSD admissions director Mae Brown who made the mistake.

C. UCSD admissions staff got information from the wrong database.

D. Staff did not discover the mistake until next Monday.

58. The admissions director Mae Brown did what she could to __________.

A. protect the person who made the mistake             

B. punish herself for the mistake

C. make up for the mistake          

D. help the disappointed students enter the university

59. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Cole Bettles was admitted to the UCSD.         

B. Cole Bettles was rejected y a famous university.

C. USCD admissions office often makes “administration errors”.

D. False admission information raised the students’ hopes and then dashed them.

 (福建省厦门双十中学09届高三热身考试E篇)

“Image is everything.” An entire industry has been built upon the precondition that image is everything, but when it comes down to it, an appealing image is not enough. If there is no substance behind the image, the product, service or person will fail at length.

       First of all, one should consider how important image is in the selling of products and services. Advertising agencies have raised the art of creating an image to a state of near perfection. Public concept of that product or service is certainly managed by the images created by the advertising agencies. But if the product or service does not live up to the image that was created, the customer will be very dissatisfied and possibly ask for their money back. For example, the Arthur Andersen accounting firm had spent decades building up an image of trustworthiness. But the recent scandal (丑闻) showed that behind that image, it had dishonest business practices. Despite the previous positive image, the firm is being accused of criminal actions and it will probably not survive as a business unit. Although the image had been nearly perfect, the reality behind the image has led to the downfall of the world famous accounting firm.

       Similarly, personal consultants can build up a public image for politicians and movie stars. Putting out positive news releases, making sure that only the best photographs are published, and ensuring that the person is seen in all the right places can build up a very positive image in the view of the general commons. But once again, history is filled with examples of both politicians and movie stars that fell from grace (体面) like the story of the Hollywood actor giving in to the pressures of fame and fortune. With people, just as with products and services, image is certainly important, but without positive substance behind the image, failure is close.

       To summarize, it is clear that an appealing image is extremely important to success, whether that image is related to selling a product or service or to the "selling" of a person. But image is only half of the equation. What lies behind that image is every bit as important as the image itself — the person or product must deliver on that image or there is little chance for long-term success.

72．The downfall of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm is due to ______.

     A．its bad management                                         B．its previous images

       C．its dishonesty in business                           D．its poor service

73．Why did some famous people fall from grace?

    A．Their images were not well built up.

    B．They failed to live up to their images.

    C．They felt much pressure from the public.

D．They paid little attention to fame and fortune.

       A: Argument                 P: Point                 C: Conclusion

75．The author tries to argue that______.

    A．image creates everything

    B．image is the key to success

    C．truth goes hand in hand with image

    D．truth and image are equally important

 (福建省厦门双十中学09届高三热身考试B篇)

They have appeared on clothes labels for four decades, each one chosen by international experts for its simplicity and clarity. Yet for most people, washing instructions might as well be written in Martian.

According to a new poll, 9 in 10 people are unable to understand common symbols used on clothes labels. Even those who have mastered the difference between a wool and a synthetics (合成纤维织物) wash admit being puzzled by the boxes, circles and crosses used to give advice about drying and bleaching (漂白).

The findings come from a poll of 2,000 people carried out by YouGov for Morphy Richards. A third of the people surveyed said that they recognized none of the six symbols shown, while the only symbol recognized by more than half of the people was the iron with a single dot. Around 70 per cent knew it meant “iron on a low heat”. Just 10 per cent knew the sign for “do not dry clean”, while only 12 per cent were familiar with “drip dry only”.

Despite the sexual revolution, women are stir more knowledgeable than men. Awareness was highest among 18- to 29-year-old women, for whom taking care of clothes is clearly important.

Chris Lever, from Morphy Richards, said, “Clothes Care symbols are a unique language, clearly a language that few people in the UK have taken the time to learn.”

“Learning the basics such as which icon represents tumble dry (滚动热干) and which represents normal wash would go a long way to getting the best out of clothes.”

The Home Laundering Consultative Council, which promotes symbols, said it was not surprised to learn that people were unfamiliar with them. “It’s disappointing that there is a lack of recognition, but it’s a story that’s repeated time and time again,” said a spokesman, Adam Mansell. “We are a small organization and we don’t have a big budget.”

60．Why are these six washing symbols chosen by international experts?

A．Because people in the UK are interested in them.

B．Because they are simple and clear.

C．Because it’s a long way to getting the best out of clothes.

D．Because they are a unique language.

61．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the text?

A．Clothes care symbols have appeared on clothes labels for forty years.

B．Few people in the UK have taken the time to learn about clothes care symbols.

C．A third of the people surveyed said that they recognized the six symbols shown.

D．Women have a better knowledge of the common symbols used on clothes labels than men.

62．Which symbol did most of people recognize according to the survey?

63．By the underlined part in the first paragraph “for most people, washing instructions might as well be written in Martian”, the author means __________.

  A．the washing instructions are written in Martian

B．most people can understand the washing instructions

C．most people can understand the instructions if they are written in Martian

D．most people think it impossible to understand the washing instructions

 (湖北省钟祥六中2009年高三高考冲刺最后一卷E篇)

Madame de Stael says that only the people who can play with children are able to educate them. For success in training children, the first condition is to become a child oneself. It means to treat the child as really one’s equal, that is, to show him the same consideration, the same kind of confidence one shows to an adult. It means not to affect the child to be what we ourselves want him to become, but to be affected by the impression of what the child himself is; not to treat the child with cheating, or by force, but with the seriousness and true love suitable to his own character.

       Not leaving the child in peace is the greatest problem of present methods of training children. Parents do not see that during the whole life, the need of peace is never greater than in the years of childhood, an inner peace under all outside liveliness.

But what does a child experience? Corrections, orders, interference (干涉), the whole livelong day. The child is always required to leave something alone, or to do something different, to find something different, or want something different from what he does, or finds, or wants. He is always guided in another direction from the true inner will that is leading him. All of this is caused by our so-called enthusiasm in directing, advising, and helping the child to become the same model produced in one assembly line (流水线). Understanding, the deepest characteristic of love, is almost always absent.

       To bring up a child means carrying one’s soul in one’s hand; it means never placing ourselves in danger of meeting the cold look on the face of the child. It means the truth that the ways of injuring the child are limitless while the ways of being useful to him are few. How seldom does the educator remember that the child, even at four or five years of age, has already had a sharp feeling! The smallest mistrust and unkindness, the least act of injustice, leave wounds that last for life in the heart of the child. While, on the other hand, unexpected friendliness and kindness make quite as deep an impression on those soft senses.

67. The passage mainly talks about _______.

A. misleading zones and right ways in educating children

B. current problems in training children

C. what should be taught to children                          

D. the importance of educating children

68. Children, according to the passage, are experiencing _______.

A. corrections, orders and peace                B. orders, interference and peace

C. interference, orders and corrections           D. peace, guide and praise

69. If you were a parent, which of the following methods is TRUE according to the text?

A. You could treat your children not so seriously for they don’t understand many things. B. You could train your children as you wish them to be since you are parents.

C. You should sometimes leave your children in peace as they wish in their childhood.

D. You should correct your children immediately if their behavior is not what you want.

70. We may conclude that the author believes people should _______.

A. play with the children with enthusiasm all day long just to please them

B. try to give an order, advice and suggestions to their children at any time

C. treat their children just as the way they treat an adult in their daily life

D. regard their children as an equal to them and have understanding of the inner peace of them

 (湖北省宜昌市一中2009届高三5月仿真模拟考试B篇)

You're in a department store and you see a couple of attractive young women looking at a sweater. You listen to their conversation:

   "I can't believe it--a Lorenzo Bertolla! They are almost impossible to find. Isn't it beautiful? And it's a lot cheaper than the one Sara bought in Rome."

   They leave and you go over to see this incredible sweater. It's nice and the price is right. You've never heard of Lorenzo Bertolla, but those girls looked really stylish. They must know. So, you buy it. You never realize that those young women are employees of an advertising agency. They are actually paid to go from store to store, talking loudly about Lorenzo BertoHa clothes.

   Every day we notice what people are wearing, driving and eating. If the person looks cool, the product seems cool, too. This is the secret of undercover marketing. Companies from Ford to Nike are starting to use it.

   Undercover marketing is important because it reaches people that don't pay attention to traditional advertising. This is particularly true of the MTV generation----consumers between the age of 18 and 34. It is a golden group. They have a lot of money to spend, but they don't trust ads.

   So advertising agencies hire young actors to "perform" in bars and other places where young adults go. Some people might call this practice misleading, but marketing executive Jonathan Ressler calls it creative. "Look at traditional advertising. Its effectiveness is decreasing."

   However, one might ask what exactly is "real" about of young women pretending to be enthusiastic about a sweater? Adverting executives would say it's no less real than an ad. The difference is that you know an ad is trying to persuade you to buy something. You don' t know when a conversation you overhear is just a performance.

55. The two attractive young women were talking so that they could ________.

    A. get the sweater at a lower price        B. be heard by people around

    C. be admired by other shoppers           D. decide on buying the sweater

56. Lorenzo Bertolla is __________.

    A. a very popular male singer                B. an advertising agency

    C. a clothing company in Rome            D. the brand name of a sweater

57. Which of the following can be inferred from the passage? 

    A. The two girls are in fact employed by the Lorenzo Bertolla Company.

    B. The MTV generation tends to be more easily influenced by ads.

    C. Traditional advertising is becoming less effective because it's too direct.

    D. Undercover marketing will surely be banned soon by the government.

58. Which of the following would be the best rifle for the text?

    A. Two Attractive Shoppers                  B. Lorenzo Bertolla Sweaters

    C. Ways of Advertising                                D. Undercover Marketing

 (湖北省新洲区实验高中2009届高三5月检测B篇)

SHANGHAI, June 7（AP）—A 16-year-old girl's suicide after she was barred from a key exam draw attention to increasing worries over academic pressures, as millions of Chinese students began annual college entrance tests on Wednesday.

The three-day exam, viewed as important to future career and financial success, has a record 9.5 million high school students across China competing for just 2.6 million university places. For kids and parents alike, it's a difficulty that experts say causes extreme emotional distress. "Pressure from study and exams is a top reason for psychological problems among Chinese youth," said Jin Wuguan, director of the Youth Psychological Counseling Center at Shanghai's Ruijin Hospital.

In China's increasingly success oriented, pressure-cooker cities, academic stress is seen as a rising cause of youth suicides and even murders of parents by children who are driven crazy by intolerable pressure to perform.

According to her family and newspaper accounts, 16-year-old Wu Wenwen drowned herself after she was stopped at the exam room door because her hair wasn't tied back as her school required. Returning in tied hair, she was then told the end-of-term exam had already started and she was too late to take it. In tears, Wu called her mother, and then disappeared. Her body was found the same night in a nearby lake.

China doesn't keep comprehensive statistics on student suicides, but Jin said health care professionals see the problem worsening, even among elementary students. Most Chinese schools still lack advisers and teachers receive little training in spotting symptoms of emotional distress, Jin said. Parents are little help, often piling on pressure while ignoring their children's emotional development, he said. "It's a basic unwillingness or inability to recognize and deal with with emotional problems," Jin said.

Wang Yufeng, of Peking University's Institute of Mental, estimates the rate of emotional disorders such as depression among Chinese students under age 17 at up to 32 percent , a total of 30 million students.

Others say that figure may be as high as 50 percent. A survey last year by the government's China Youth and Children Research Center showed 57.6 percent of students felt highly distressed by academic pressures.

65. What is the function of the first paragraph?

A. To explain the meaning of academic pressures.    

B. To lead to the main topic.

C. To describe the girl’s suicide.    

D. Tell how important the college entrance tests are.

66. The 16-year-old girl committed suicide because ______.

A. she did not tied back her hair as required  

B. she couldn’t get high mark in the exam

C. she had an unpleasant talk with her mother  

D. she wasn’t allowed to attend the examination

67. We can learn from the passage that ____.

A. the problem of student suicides is getting worse according to a research on the accurate statistics

B. teachers have enough ability to sense the emotional distress of students

C. parents place neither pressure nor care on their children

D. both teachers and parents should learn more to deal with the problem of student suicides.

68. Where will we most probably find the article?

A. In a newspaper.                      B. In a magazine.

C. In a text book                  D. In a survey.

（江西省白鹭洲中学2010届高三第三次月考）

D

    The huge thirst for jobs in the civil service has made the national servant exam one of China’s most competitive tests. The first exam was held in 1995 and since then more and more people have signed up for it, with applications reaching a peak over the last two years.

The latest on-line survey, carried out by China Youth Daily ，found that more then 73 percent of young people want to work as civil servants. Of the 17.330 respondents, about 83 percent said they were attracted by the job’s stability, guaranteed health care and pension. Meanwhile,55 percent said it could bring“practical profits”.Nearly 1 million people applied to take the exam last year, yet only just over 10,000 were finally employed.

This year the competition continued. The exact number of applicants is not known, with the final day for applications today. But the flood of applicants has already broken the exam’s website once. China Youth Daily reported that the site was forced to close for maintenance due to unusually high traffic on the night of October 16.

In a typical year several hundred applicants will apply for many of the jobs listed. For example, the five job vacancies provided by the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party have this year attracted more then 3,880 applicants. In general, the exam means 50 people competing for one post, the report said. Positions as civil servants are attractive, not only because of the stable income and good health care, but also because of the low risks compared with the power and resources the positions enjoy. Among the total 6 million public servants, around 20,000 were dismissed between 1996 and 2003.                                                         

68. Which of the following could NOT be the reason for the attraction of civil servant?

    A. The stable income.                      B. Good health care

      C.Practical power and profits.             D. Low work stress level.

 69. Which paragraph states the fact that the number of applicants of this year is even larger than last year?

      A. Paragraph 1.   B. Paragraph 2.   C. Paragraph 3.   D. Paragraph 4.             

70. Choose the correct statement from the following according to the passage.

       a. Civil servant exam has been held for more than 10 years.

       b. Civil servant exam was carried out by China Youth Daily .

       c. About one percent of applicants were finally employed last year.

       d. Once passing the exam, one will work as a public servant forever.

       e. More and more people sign up for civil servant exam.

       A. c, d, e   B. a, c, e   C. a, b, e   D. b, c, d

71. What would be the best title for the passage?

      A. Civil servant exam in China        B. Deadline for application

      C. Many applicants for one position   D. Civil servant exam turns together