江苏省海门中学2016届高三英语一轮复习 编制人：东雪珍2016-4-12

第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

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AA wo juu就 Tickets to go A world-class family focused theatre on sale from 1 Nov.2015 company proudly presents Show Dates:15 to 23 December 2015 Venue: Drama Center Theatre Duration: 90 minutes with15 minutes interval Grimm’s Fairy Tales have fed the imaginations of A NOTE TO PARENTS generations of people. Why watch one story when you can enjoy a whole This musical is collection? What stories will we tell? Look out for recommended for children Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood of 4 years of age and above. and The Valiant Little Tailor! This musical will If you have questions about entertain people of all ages. It is filled with the content, please do not beautifully crafted stories for the young ones hesitate to email us at coupled with subtext and multi-layered grimms@atheatre.org performances to challenge and engage the adults. Nobody in the family will be left out! TICKETING INFORMATION Enjoy Early Bird discount of 10% off regular ticket prices before 15 November 2015 Cat 1 Cat 1 Cat 2 Cat 2 (Early Bird) (Early Bird) Single Child/Adult $30.00 $27.00 $25.00 $22.50 Family package of 4 $108.00 $97.20 $90.00 $81.00 A FREE resource pack will be given Tickets are on sale through SISTIC website: ww.sistic.com.sg. to schools that make a group SISTIC hotline: 6123 4567 and booking. Contact A-Theatre at SISTIC authorized agents 6333 2222 for more details. island-wide. 15% Discount – Passion Card members, NTUC Card members G rimm’s Fairy tales 10% Discount –Students (Local &International), Senior Citizens (Above 55 years old) 5 *Applicable for bookings after 14 November 2015 江苏省海门中学2016届高三英语一轮复习 编制人：东雪珍2016-4-12

Look out for these learning points: 1. Problem solving 2. Identifying key moral issues 3. Creative thinking and teamwork 4. Exploration of the oral tradition of storytelling using theatre Written and directed by Brian Seward. Music composed and arranged by Bang Wenfu. Official Sponsors: Supported by: ntuc a.r.t.s. fund 56. 57. How do schools enquire about the free resource pack? A. Contact A-Theatre at 6333 2222 B. Contact SISTIC hotline at 6123 4567 C. Email enquiries to grimms@atheatre.org D. Visit any SISTIC authorized agents island-wide Which of the following statement is TRUE? A. Grimm‘s Fairy Tales is recommended only for children above 4 years of age. B. The stories, subtext and performances are designed mainly to attract children. C. People can buy tickets more than one month ahead of the show date. D. Bang Wenfu is the writer, director and music composer of the event. B

Manchester on the rise

IT is its soccer culture that has put the city on the world map. But the UK Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping that Manchester has more to offer than just successful soccer teams. He wants more from the city, aiming to make it as successful as US cities Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta, according to a Daily Mail report from last week.

Cameron said the UK cannot just rely on London‘s success: ―We need a strong London, but we need a northern powerhouse too.‖

You may be wondering what can be found in Manchester to make it a ―powerhouse‖. Well, it turns out the city has a rich history and an interesting present to explore. As with many northern British cities, it has a working class past as a factory town from Britain‘s

industrialization (工业化), far away from posh (优雅的) London. It was also the place where Germans Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began to write the Communist Manifesto (《共产党宣言》) at Chetham Library, the oldest library in the English-speaking world.

In addition, Manchester has long had a reputation for having a great cultural scene. Popular bands such as Oasis started out in Manchester, and the city‘s music scene was so famous in the late 1980s and 1990s that it had its own name ―Madchester‖. Even nowadays the city‘s many students and other young people keep nightclubs busy into the early hours. There is also a great media tradition, as The Guardian newspaper started there and a lot of the BBC has now moved from London to MediaCityUK in Manchester.

Manchester is still a major city in the UK, and its locals will not be shy to tell you that

because they are “known for many virtues (美德) but not for their modesty”, according to The Economist. Why not look beyond London and pay it a visit? It has much more to offer than two successful soccer teams, after all.

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江苏省海门中学2016届高三英语一轮复习 编制人：东雪珍2016-4-12

58. What is the author‘s main purpose in writing the article? A. To report on David Cameron‘s impression of Manchester. B. To show all the differences between Manchester and London. C. To explain what makes Manchester stand out in the UK.

D. To introduce the reader to the history of Manchester‘s splendid football culture. 59. Which of the following statements is TRUE about Manchester according to the article? A. Located in the south of Britain, it is where the industrial revolution began. B. Karl Marx once worked as a librarian at Chetham Library in the city. C. It is where The Guardian newspaper and the BBC started. D. A music scene named ―Madchester‖ developed in the city. 60. How is Paragraph 4 mainly developed? A. By giving examples. B. By making comparisons. C. By following the order of time. D. By analyzing causes and effects.

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One problem with much personality research is that it examines and rates whatever traits the researchers are interested in at the time: conscientiousness, emotional stability and so on. But when we describe someone in real life, we don‘t consider an array(大量) of personality measures; instead, we focus on a few distinctive traits that sum up the essence of the person. One is particularly anxious, another is consistently reliable, yet another is a ―live wire‖. While we might hesitate to characterize individuals along every personality dimension, we can accurately identify them by their key characteristics.

In research at Stanford University, Daryl Ben and Andrea Allen tested this idea by first asking college students if they were consistently or only occasionally friendly and then asking their parents and friends how friendly the students were. Ben and Allen observed how the students acted under two specific conditions: how much they spoke in small groups and how quickly they started up a conversation with strangers. The researchers found that students who considered themselves consistently friendly were indeed more likely to be friendly in both circumstances than were those who rated themselves only occasionally friendly. Beyond that, the friendliness ratings by parents and peers of the students who were consistently friendly were very similar to the students‘ self-ratings and predicted accurately how they would act in two conditions. It seems that we can judge ourselves accurately and that others can rate us very well on traits that serve as our trademarks.

To predict how someone will behave in a given situation, we must match the requirements of the situation with the trademark characteristics of the person involved. People who are strongly of one type or another should react predictably in a given situation, while the behavior of other more diffuse(分散的) personalities is harder to anticipate. Ben and David formalized this approach in their ?ideal‘ matching strategy.

The two psychologists suggest that certain ?ideal‘ approaches to life can be described and used to predict behavior under certain circumstances. If we then measure how close to this ?ideal type‘ any actual person is, we should be able to anticipate the likelihood that this person will behave in a certain way. For example, people adopt very different strategies in a game called ?The Prisoner‘s Dilemma‘, which is often used in psychological experiments. In it, participants must choose to be cooperative or competitive. Bern and Charles Lord of Princeton University

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found that students‘ playing styles could be accurately predicted from roommates‘ assessments of them. Those rated as most negative and unhelpful in life usually employed a competitive strategy rather than a cooperative one. 61. According to the author, _______.

A. everyone‘s personality can be clearly predicted if we classify our personality into fine

details as conscientiousness, emotional stability and so on

B. only the personality of a few people who have very strong characters can be predicted C. people‘s personality is hard to predict since they often act differently on different

conditions

D. most people can be classified as one kind of personality or another according to certain personality

62. The ?trademark‘ (Line2, Para3) most probably means ?______‘. A. the brand of goods B. the most representative C. a term used in trade D. matching strategy 63. Most people‘s self-ratings about their personality are _______. A. similar to what their parents and peers think them to be B. different from what is expected of them by researchers C. usually not true to their actual behavior D. true on one occasion but unreal on another

64. People who rated themselves as friendly are most probably more _______. A. competitive B. challenging C. cooperative D. stylish 65. From the passage, we can infer that______.

A. people with different personality act consistently in different situations B. a variety of characteristics affects how an individual reacts to an event C. people with different personality act differently in different situations

D. a variety of characteristics affects how an individual reacts to routine tasks.

D

You may have heard of the man who decided to repair the roof of his house. To be safe, he tied a rope around his waist and threw the other end of it over the top of the house. He asked his son to tie it to something secure. The boy fastened the safety rope to the bumper of their car parked in the driveway. It seemed like a good idea at the time. But a little while later, his wife, unaware of the rope securing her husband, she started the car and drove away. Imagine what the result would be.

This story, factual or not, points to a great truth. It is a truth about where we place our security; about those things to which we‘ve tied our safety lines. What is your rope tied to? Think about it. What do you depend on to keep you from disaster? Is your rope tied to a good job? Is it tied to a relationship with somebody you rely on? Is it tied to a company or an organization?

Writer Susan Taylor tells of discovering how unreliable some of our safety lines really are. She tells of lying in bed in the early hours of the morning when an earthquake struck. As her house shook, she fell out of bed and managed to go to the doorway, watching in horror as her whole house cracked down around her. Where her bed had once stood, she later discovered nothing but a pile of bricks. She lost everything — every button, every dish, her automobile,

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