题目
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(1)The British summer is extremely beautiful.Trees,flowers,birds and butterflies make the whole country like a big garden.However,many British people have noticed that butterflies have been gradually disappearing from this picturesque scenery during the past several years.What has happened to them?
(2)Butterfly Conservation,a charity in the UK,is running a survey to help answer this question.The result is more serious than people expected.According to the survey,among 59 butterfly species found in Britain,more than three quarters of them are suffering a declining population, including the most popular ones.What’s more,half of all butterfly species are in the danger of dying out.Some common species such as the small Tortoiseshell butterfly and the Wall butterfly are dropping dramatically.The latter cannot even be seen in many parts of central and southern England.The Blue butterfly was commonly seen in the south.However,it has started colonizing (迁徙至)Edinburgh in the past few years.
(3)The numbers of butterflies have dropped to a record low in the past three years largely because the summer in the UK is getting cooler and their habitat is also worsening.Fortunately Britain is experiencing a long hot summer this year compared to the last few summers.Conservationists believe the warm weather will bring some benefit to the butterflies.
(4)Sir David Attenborough,president of Butterfly Conservation,said:“Large quantities of butterflies tell us that all is well with nature.When they decline it’s a warning that other wildlife will be soon .”
(5)The survey is still going on.The public are also encouraged to keep track of the UK’s butterfly population.The organizers hope the survey will help raise public awareness of the value of butterflies in the UK.Butterflies give an indication of the well-being of nature and the environment.
小题1:What is the best title of the passage?(no more than 10 words)
小题2:List two reasons for butterflies’ reduction in number.(no more than 10 words)
① ②
小题3:Complete the following statement with proper words.(no more than 4 words)
But a large number of British people have realized that butterflies from the beautiful scenery since a few years ago.
小题4:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.(no more than 5 words)
小题5:What does the underlined word “them”(paragraph 2)probably refer to?(no more than 4 words)
答案
小题1:Butterflies are suffering a declining population in the UK/ Butterflies have been gradually disappearing in the UK.
小题2:1) The summer is getting cooler. 2)The habitat is worsening.
小题3:have been gradually disappearing
小题4:heading the same way/ on the way to disappearing /disappearing too.
小题5:The 59 butterfly species
解析
小题1:Butterflies are suffering a declining population in the UK/ Butterflies have been gradually disappearing in the UK. 通读全文可知,文章重点讲的是英国蝴蝶数量的减少。
小题2:1) The summer is getting cooler. 2)The habitat is worsening. 根据第三段第二行
小题3:have been gradually disappearing 根据第一段第二、三行
小题4:heading the same way/ on the way to disappearing /disappearing too. 根据“Large quantities of butterflies tell us that all is well with nature.可知,蝴蝶多意味着大自然一切都好,蝴蝶减少,意为这别的生物也在减少。
小题5:The 59 butterfly species 句意为在已经发现的59种蝴蝶种类中,有(59种中的)四分之三强在减少。
核心考点
试题【(1)The British summer is extremely beautiful.Trees,flowers,birds and butterflies】;主要考察你对词法等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions or complete the statements in no more than 12 words.
The first fast food restaurants opened in the United Sates at the end of the 1950s. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the fast food industry continued to expand across the United Sates. Two aspects of American society that helped the fast food industry take off were teenagers and cars. Teenagers were the best workers to fill the low-skill jobs needed to work in fast food restaurants putting together hamburgers, taking orders and frying potatoes. Fast food chains also marketed themselves to people with cars by having drive-thru order windows and car hops. Car hops were waitresses who usually wore roller skates and brought the food outside the restaurant so that people could eat in their cars.
The trend of fast food chains hiring teenagers continues today. One out of every eight Americans has worked at McDonald’s, the largest fast food chain in the United States. Fast food chains used to be found only along highways or in business areas where people need to grab a quick lunch before returning to work. Today, however, fast food restaurants can be found in sports stadiums, airports, gas stations, malls; on college campuses, cruise ships; at K-Mart, Wal-Mart; and in hospital cafeterias.
The popularity of fast food in the United States is related to the idea that people would rather eat in a place they are familiar with rather than try a new place they know nothing about. This is the philosophy behind franchises(特许经营). When a person buys a franchise, they are paying for the use of the company’s name. This system has advantages and disadvantages for the person starting the restaurant. The new franchise owner is called the “franchisee”. The company selling its name is the “franchiser”. The franchiser brings experience, equipment, and a business plan to the deal. The franchisee puts up the money and does all the work. On the negative side, the franchiser gives up some control by not owning each restaurant or store directly. The franchisee gives up her or his ability to make personal decisions because she or he has to obey the rules of the company.
(Note: Answer the question or complete the statement in NO MORE THAN 12 WORDS.)
小题1:Fast food chains hire teenagers because ________________________________________.
小题2:Fast food restaurants used to find its location according to _________________________.
小题3:According to the author, what’s the philosophy behind franchises?
小题4:What is the advantage of franchise to the franchisee?
“Happiness Advantage” Effect
In July 2010 Burt’s Bees, a personal-care products company, was going through enormous change as it began a global expansion into 19 new countries. In this kind of high-pressure situation, many leaders bother their assistants with frequent meetings or flood their in-boxes with urgent demands. In doing so, managers lift everyone’s anxiety level, which activates the part of the brain that processes threats and steals resources from the prefrontal cortex ( 大脑皮层), which is responsible for effective problem solving.
Burt’s Bees’s then-CEO, John Wolfgang, took a different approach. Each day, he’d send out an e-mail praising a team member for work related to global marketing. He’d interrupt his own presentations to remind his managers to talk with their teams about the company’s values. He asked me to further a three-hour session with employees on happiness in the course of the expansion effort. As one member of the senior team told me a year later, Wolfgang’s emphasis on developing positive leadership kept his managers actively involved and loyal as they successfully transformed the company into a global one.
That outcome shouldn’t surprise us. Research shows that when people work with a positive mind-set (思维模式), performance on nearly every level—productivity, creativity, involvement— improves. Yet happiness is perhaps the most misunderstood driver of performance. For one, most people believe that success comes before happiness. “Once I get a promotion, I’ll be happy,” they think. Or, “Once I hit my sales target, I’ll feel great. ”But because success is a moving target—as soon as you hit your target, you raise it again—the happiness that results from success does not last long.
In fact, it works the other way around: People who have a positive mind-set perform better in the face of challenge. I call this the “ happiness advantage”—every business outcome shows improvement when the brain is positive. I’ve observed this effect in my role as a researcher and lecturer in 48 countries on the connection between employee happiness and success. And I’m not alone: In an analysis of 225 academic studies, researchers found strong evidence of cause-and-effect relationship between life satisfaction and successful business outcomes.
Another common misunderstanding is that our genetics, our environment, or a combination of the two determines how happy we are. To be sure, both factors have an impact. But one’s general sense of well-being is surprisingly unstable. The habits you form, the way you interact with colleagues, how you think about stress—all these can be managed to increase your happiness and your chances of success.
Are you truly happy? Do you ever know what it means to be happy and what it takes to achieve happiness?小题1:The following are a few tips that I follow to create happiness in my life.
lMake a plan for achieving goals that you believe will make you happy. Your moods will very likely increase if you are going after something you value.
lSurround yourself with happy people. It is easy to begin to think negatively(消极地) when you are surrounded by people who think that way.小题2:
lWhen something goes wrong, try to figure out a solution instead of being absorbed in self pity. Truly happy people don’t allow setbacks(挫折) to affect their mood because they know that with a little thought they can turn the things back to their favor.
l小题3:These few minutes will give you the opportunity to focus on the positive things in your life and will lead you to continuous happiness.
l小题4:Whether you treat yourself to lunch, take a long, relaxing bath or simply spend a few extra minutes on your appearance, you will be subconsciously(下意识地) putting yourself in a better mood.
lFinding the humor in situations can also lead to happiness. Find a way to make light of a situation that would otherwise make you happy.
lKeeping healthy is another way to achieve happiness. 小题5:
A.What makes one person happy may be very different from what makes someone else happy. |
B.On the contrary, if you are around people who are happy, their emotional state will be easily passed to you. |
C.Being overweight or not eating foods containing nutrition have a negative effect on your mood. |
D.These are important questions for anyone who is seeking happiness to ask themselves. |
F.There are some tips in life that lead to happiness.
G.It’s also important to take some time each day to do something nice for yourself.
[1] Ashley Power’s mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she couldn’t find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, “If I had my own website, I’d make it a really interesting site for teenagers.”
[2]So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called Goosehead. She had no idea how big a success it would be, but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.
[3] After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles, was asked to write a book called The Goosehead Guide to Life. The book is about how to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called “All About Ashley,” where Ashley tells readers what it is like to be the boss of a company when you are only sixteen. “ I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean, I was only sixteen — I didn’t even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you’d be stressed, too!“
[4] In an interview Ashley gave advice to teenagers who wanted to start their own business, “Just be strong and have your dreams and work hard at them. And don’t listen when _______, because I heard ‘no’ a lot. Just keep going until you hear ‘yes’!”
小题1:For what purpose did Ashley create GooseHead?(no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
小题2:What is the main idea of Paragraph 2? (no more than 6 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
小题3:According to paragraph 3, what did Ashley do after GooseHead closed down?(no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
小题4:How did Ashley feel as a young boss of a company?(no more than 5 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________
小题5:Fill in the blank in Paragraph 4 with proper words.
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