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四川省岳池县2016高考英语阅读理解寒假【二轮】统编（1）
【高考英语模拟题】
A woman was walking her dog along a beach in New Zealand in late June when she saw something that looked like a white ball in the sand. It turned out to be a young Emperor penguin that was lost. At his age, he should have been close to Antarctic, swimming for fish and playing on the ice floes(冰川). But this penguin started swimming north and just kept going.
The penguin attracted a lot of attention in New Zealand. It has been 40 years since an Emperor penguin was last seen there. Researchers at the Department of Conservation were called in. They decided to watch the penguin closely, but not to disturb it in any way. Many New Zealanders came to Peka Peka Beach to look at the elegant penguin. They were careful to keep their dogs away from it so it wouldn’t be frightened.
The public nicknamed the animal Happy Feet. Researchers started to notice that Happy Feet didn’t seem well. It turns out that he had been eating the sand from the beach, likely thinking it was snow.
The public raised more than 11,000 pounds for an operation to get the sand out of his stomach. The operation was a success, and Happy Feet was taken to a zoo in Wellington, NZ. A group of experts met to decide how to help Happy Feet return to the wild.
Last Sunday, they put him on a boat called the Tangaroa, in a specially built ice-filled box and took him out into the Southern Ocean, southeast of New Zealand. There, they released him into the ocean, which is his natural habitat. He took one last look at his human helpers and then dived into the ocean.
“Emperor penguins spend their first five years at sea,” said Peter Simpson of New Zealand’s Department of Conservation. “ What happens now is up to the penguin.”
Happy Feet was fitted with a satellite transmitter(发射机)so they can monitor his progress using the Internet. So far, the trackers shows that he swam northeast
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for a little while before getting his bearings and heading south. 29. Where is the young penguin supposed to appear?
A. On the sunny beach. B. Near the Antarctic.
C. Inside the hole in the ice. D. In the depths of the ocean. 30. The public collected some money to______.
A. build a home for the penguin B. get the sand out of the penguin’s belly
C. do some research on the penguin D. return the penguin to his habitat 31. What does Peter Simpson mean by saying “ What happens now is up to the penguin.”?
A. The penguin needs no protection from human. B. Human beings can do noting to help penguins. C. No one knows what will happen to the penguins. D. Whether the penguin can survive depends on himself. 【参考答案】(C) BBD
【2014高考英语模拟题】
Market analysts in the United States have recently been quoted as saying that the biggest threat to the luxury (奢侈品) industry in the US is the tech industry. This is according to an article by fellow journalist Ashley Lutz. Her suggestion is sound. The main idea of her article is that products from Tiffany & Co. find their biggest competition not from other luxury brands but from companies like Apple. Lutz points out that luxury products are often only for “show,” while the attraction behind tech products is functionality.
You find few people in the United States today willing to purchase luxury goods at full price. It didn’t use to be that way. Luxury goods used to be actually exclusive. That meant you needed to travel to the right store to purchase them, and you didn’t even have the option of getting a deal.
Today, no one wants to pay full price for luxury goods. People have the
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unfortunate belief that fakes (赝品) somehow are equal to originals, and if you can’t get a deal on eBay, Amazon, or in an outlet store, purchasing a luxury product probably isn’t worth it. Luxury brands struggle to remain high-end (高档的) images despite the reality that the American consumer is motivated much more by discounts than they are by brand names or image.
Yet people stand in line to pay full price for a new product from Apple and crowds gather to hear about a new smart phone. While electronics are updating every day, people are purchasing technology at full prices much more than they are purchasing luxury goods. What are high-tech makers doing right that luxury makers are pitifully failing at?
Carefully looking at the situation, it would appear as if the Internet didn’t hurt the luxury industry, expectation from the consumers did. What people want these days more than anything is stuff that does something. They want cars that drive, shoes that are comfortable, games that are fun to play, screens that are beautiful to look at, tools that are useful, and entertainment that is entertaining. Little of that fits into what the luxury industry has typically offered with its status, image, and fine materials. The sad reality is that luxury products aren’t that luxury any more.
64. What does this passage mainly talk about? A. Nobody likes luxury goods any more. B. Luxury goods are of poor quality nowadays. C. Tech products become the new “luxury goods”. D. Iphones have taken the place of luxury products.
65. The underlined word “exclusive” in paragraph 2 means _______. A. unique and with no bargain
B. low in price
C. hard to find D. easy to sell 66. From paragraph 3 we can know that _______.
A. people have found that some luxury goods are fakes B. people can buy luxury goods at a low price on eBay C. luxury brands will give up high-end images
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D. consumers prefer brand names to discounts 【参考答案】64—66、CAB
【浙江省金丽衢十二校2014高考英语第二次联考】
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的．四个选项（A,B,C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项标号涂黑。
A
Recently I had a conversation in Beijing with an adult Chinese friend who was complaining
how difficult it was to study English..No surprises there. It is a difficult language to master, just
like Chinese. I made a few suggestions based on my～experience. One involved a very valuable
fact which I learned from my high school Latin and Greek teacher, Dr. Smith．He is a gifted linguist （语言学家），and has an amazing ability to memorize things, like poetry, essays, speeches, etc．His advice to us students is that for memorization purposes, there is forty minutes each day in which our memory is more receptive than it is during the other 23 hours and 20 minutes.
This 40-minute \memory\period is divided into two parts: the 20 minutes before we
sleep, hnd the 20 minutes after we first awake. The theory supporting this is pretty simple. First,
the last information we input into our brain before bed has a better chance of taking root than
information obtained during the noisy daytime; and，second, our mind is free of disturbance when
we first awake in the morning一so more receptive to inputs, like a blank slate（石板）．
I took the advice to heart and it served me well in my school years．In my
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