1、阅读理解成都七中第一节(共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AOld Computers Make for Unhappy WorkersLONDON (Reuters)-Dealing with the dissatisfaction of aging and unreliable office computers leads to workers,unhappiness and more sick -leave, a survey showed on Wednesday.A survey carri
2、ed out by carefree. net of over 2, 700 European office workers from the UK,France and Germany found that workplace dissatisfaction increased greatly with the age of the computer equipment.“We do know that job satisfaction is falling in Britain and most advanced nations, "said Stephen White, a r
3、esearcher from the Work Foundation. “The actual reasons for this are the subject of very heated discussion. It's certainly one interesting theory that technology may be the cause of this in some way,”White added.A quarter of those using outdated computers in Britain said they were"quite&quo
4、t; or " very dissatisfied"with their everyday job compared to 16 percent of those who had enjoyed an advantage from up-to-date technology.The survey also said that among workers dealing with outdated equipment, there was a 35 percent greater probability they would take six or more days of
5、sick-leave per year compared with the average worker. In France, where more workers use old computers, the probability jumped to 55 percent.Results also showed that women in the three countries were more likely to be using outdated equipment. In the UK, where more workers have up-to-date computers t
6、han in the other countries surveyed, the number of women using old equipment doubled that of men.White pointed out that there were two sides to this problem, saying that continuously having to deal with new technology and equipment cap also be a source of worry. "Old and faulty equipment is a m
7、ajor cause of office dissatisfaction. There is no question about it; but you also have to say that the frequent change of equipment is also, or could be, a main cause of dissatisfaction.”21. The underlined word"this"(paragraph 3) refers to_.A. computer use in most jobsB. workplace dissatis
8、factionC. the aging of office computersD. the survey by cared free. net22. How many office workers using old computers in Britain expressed their dissatisfaction?A.16%B.35%C.25%D.55%23. According to White, why were the women surveyed more likely to use old computers?A. Most office workers use old co
9、mputersB. They do some of their work with computers.C. They are easier to be satisfied with new technologyD. Dealing with new equipment can cause anxiety.24. What is the subject of the news story?A. Influence of technology in the workplace.B. Research work of the Work Foundation.C. Poor working cond
10、itions in offices.D. Different attitudes to old computers.BNervous suspects(嫌疑犯) locked up in Britain's newest police station may feel relieved by a pleasant yellow colour on the door. If they are close to confessing a crime, the blue on the wall might tip the balance.Gwent Police have abandoned
11、 colours such as greys and browns of the 20th-century police cell(牢房) and have used colour psychology to decorate them.Ystrad Mynach station, which recently opened at a cost off5 million has four cells with glass doors for prisoners who suffer from claustrophobia（幽闭恐怖症）, Designers have painted the f
12、rames yellow, which researchers say is a calming colour. Other cells contain a royal blue line because psychologists believe that the colour is likely to encourage truthfulness.The station has 31 cells, including 12 with a"live scan" system for drunken or disturbed prisoners, which detects
13、 the rise and fall of their chest. An alarm alerts officers if a prisoner's breathing stops and carries on ringing until the door is opened.Designers and psychologists have worked for years on colour. Blue is said to suggest trust, efficiency, duty, logic, coolness, thinking and calm. It also su
14、ggests coldness and unfriendliness.It is thought that strong blues will stimulate clear thought and lighter, soft colours will calm the mind and aid concentration.Yellow is linked with confidence, self-respect and friendliness. Get the colour wrong and it could cause fear, depression and anxiety, bu
15、t the right yellow can lift spirits and self-respect.Ingrid Collins, a psychologist who specializes in the effects of colour, said that colour was an"energy force", She said: "Blue does enhance communication but I am not sure it would enhance truthful communication.”Yellow, she said,
16、affected the mind. Red on the other hand, should never be considered because it could increase aggression. Mrs Collins praised the designers for using colours in the cells. Gwent is not the first British force to experiment with colour to calm down or persuade prisoners to co-operate. In the 1990s S
17、trathclyde Police used pink in cells based on research carried out by the US Navy.25. The expression"tip the balance" in paragraph 1 probably indicates that the blue might_.A. let suspects keep their balance.B. make suspects cold and unfriendly in law court.C. help suspects to confess thei
18、r crimes.D. enable suspects to change their attitudes to colours.26. Which of the following colours should not be used in cells according to the passage?A. PinkB. Red C. BlueD. Yellow27. Which of the following helps alert officers if someone stops breathingA. Royal blue lines.B. Scannin
19、g equipment.C. Glass doors.D. Yellow frames.28. The passage is mainly concerned with_.A. the relationship between colours and psychology.B. a comparison of different functions of colours.C. scientific ways to help criminals reform themselves in prison.D. the use of colours in cells to affect crimina
20、ls psychology.CTo take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的). So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious c
21、onclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was thought to have come from Hell(地狱 ) What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a d
22、ried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s m
23、ost of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known farmer wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the "introduction of this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable? ""As late as the tw
24、entieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an "evil fruit".But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to wa
25、tch him drop dead. "What are you afraid of? "he shouted. "T"ll show you fools that these things - are good to eat! Then he bit into the tomato, Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.29. The tomato was shut out of the
26、 door of early Europeans mainly because_.A. it was religiously unacceptableB. it was the apple of EdenC. it came from a forbidden landD.it made Christian evil30. What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?A. The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down.B. The tomato was still refuse
27、d in most western countries.C. There was little progress in the study of the tomato.D. Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.31. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?A. To make himself a hero.B. To persuade people to buy products from his factor.C. T
28、o speed up the popularity of the tomato.D. To remove people's fear of the tomato.32. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To present the change of people' s attitudes to the tomato.B. To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato.C. To challenge people's fixed concep
29、ts of the tomato.D. To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence.DHow is it that siblings(兄弟姐妹) can turn out so differently? One answer is that in fact each sibling grows up in a different family. The firstborn is, for a while, an only child, and therefore has a completely diff
30、erent experience of the parents than those born later. The next child is, for a while, the youngest, until the situation is changed by a new arrival. The mother and father themselves are changing and growing up too. One sibling might live in a stable and close familyin the first few years; another m
31、ight be raised in a family crisis, with a disappointed mother or anangry father.Sibling competition was identified as an important shaping force as early as in 1918.But more recently, researchers have found many ways in which brothers and sisters are a lasting force in each others'lives. Dr. Ann
32、ette Henderson says firstborn children pick up vocabulary more quickly than their siblings. The reason for this might be that the later children aren't getting the same one-on-one time with parents. But that doesn't mean that the younger children have problemswith language development. Later
33、-borns don't enjoy that much talking time with parents, but instead they harvest lessons from bigger brothers and sisters, learning entire phrases and getting an understanding of sodial concepts such as the difference between"I"and"me".A Cambridge University study of 140 chil
34、dren found that siblings created a rich world play that helped them grow socially. Love-hate relationships were common among the children.Even those siblings who fought the most had just as much positive communication as the other sibling pairs.One way children seek more attention from parents is by
35、 making themselves different from their siblings, particularly if they are close in age. Researchers have found that the first two children in a family are typically more different from each other than the second and third. Girls with brothers show their differences to a maximum degree by being more
36、 feminine than girls with sisters. A 200.3 research paper studied adolescents from 185 families over two years, finding that those who changed to make themselves different from their siblings were successful in increasingthe amount of warmth they gained from their parents.33. The underlined part &qu
37、ot;in a different family"(in Para. 1)means“_”。A. in different familiesB. in a different family traditionC. in different family crisesD. in a different family environment34. In terms of language development, later- borns _.A. learn a lot from their elder siblingsB. get their parents' i
38、ndividual guidanceC. experience a lot of difficultiesD. pick up words more quickly35. What was found about fights among siblings?A. Siblings learned to get on together from fights.B. Siblings in some families fought frequently.C. Sibling fights led to bad sibling relationships.D. Siblings hated figh
39、ting and loved playing.BCDA CBBD ABDA DAA福建省师大附中第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 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。 A Someone sent me an email urging me to acquire a lot more resources, suggesting that I could do so much more good if I had an 8 or 9 figure net income (净收入) instead of 6 like Ive been
40、doing for years. He claimed to have acquired a great deal of wealth himself and found it highly beneficial to fueling his path with a heart.As I consider his suggestion, I find myself not having much clarity (清晰的思维) as to what Id do with 1 million or 10 million more money flowing through my life. I
41、put so much attention on creativity, fulfillment, exploration, relationships, etc. that I find it difficult to intelligently imagine how more financial resources could provide extra fuel for that, except in small ways or in ways that arent particularly meaningful to me.Lately Ive been considering wh
42、at it would be like to deliberately reduce my income for a while and see if I could live on much less, just for the experience. What if I capped my net personal income at $10,000 per year, for instance? That isnt such a big deal to me, though, since I already went through a period of low income like
43、 that during the 1990s, and I learned that I could still do what I love regardless of income.Ive never worked in a business environment the only job Ive ever had was working for $ 6/hour in a video game store while I was in college. So Ive never seen how larger operations allocate resources. Thats p
44、robably why I havent pushed myself to acquire more. As I mentioned in my book Money and Your Path With a Heart, my main financial goal in life was to make money irrelevant in my life.Im not interested in building an empire. What interests me is exploring personal growth and sharing what I learn alon
45、g the way. In some ways I feel that acquiring and allocating more resources could become a big distraction. Im already doing what I want to be doing, so why risk distracting myself to acquire more resources, especially when I lack the idea about how I should treat such resources? I like having freed
46、om and flexibility, and I dont really see how more resources would meaningfully improve that.21. Why did the man email the author? A. To ask the author to fuel his path.B. To lend some money to the author. C. To share his opinion about wealth.D. To urge the author to earn more money.22.
47、Which of the following can describe the authors personality?A. Optimistic and devoted.B. Independent and cooperative.C. Unfortunate but positive.D. Wealthy but hardhearted.23. What does the underlined word “capped” in Paragraph 3 probably mean? A. Increased B. SpentC. LimitedD. Distributed24.
48、The following are true EXCEPT _.A. the author might be a professional writerB. the author is good at designing video gamesC. the author is interested in exploring his personal growthD. the author might be a person who likes sharing his knowledge BIf youre secretly worried about your smartphone
49、 addiction, then the new NoPhone might be just the thing you need. Its the perfect smartphone comfort it looks and feels exactly like a smartphone, but it does nothing. Its just a piece of plastic that you can carry around in your hand to fool yourself.NoPhone is currently a prototype (模型) that will cost merely $12 once it hits the market. Its makers are trying t
