1、Part 3 Reading and writing(第三部分 讀寫)VI. Reading comprehension(閱讀理解)（共50分）A.Choose the best answer(根據短文內容，選擇最恰當的答案)（12分）Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as “honor” help you create thi

2、s life of good feelings.Heres an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent and profit from the clerks mistake, we would drive home with a sense of sneaky excitement. Later we might tell our family or friends about out g

3、ood fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?In the first ca

4、se, where we dont tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise we advertise our dishonor by tell

5、ing our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing error to the clerks attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we

6、 take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And its easy to thin

7、k and act honorably again when were happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, one its easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important to our happiness.1.According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our _ . A. s

8、elf-respect B. sneaky excitement C. financial rewards D. friendly relationship2.The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to _ . A. lying B. stealing C. cheating D. advertising3.What dose the underlined word “sneaky” mean in paragraph 3? A. secret B. unnoticeable C. sil

9、ent D. public4.The phrase “bringing the error to the clerks attention” (in Para.5) means _ . A. telling the truth to the clerk B. offering advice to the clerk C. blaming the clerk for the error D. reminding the clerk of the charged item5. How will we feel if we let the clerk know the mistake? A. Wel

10、l be very excited B. Well feel unfortunate C. Well have a sense of honor D. Well feel sorry for the clerk6. What is the article mainly about? A. How to live truthfully. B. Importance of peacefulness. C. Ways of gaining self-respect. D. Happiness through honorable actions.【答案】1-6 ABAACD【分析】1.細節題。 根據文

11、章例子中所講的positive action有助于什么。答案可在第1段和第2段中找到，positive action等于文章所提到的honorable actions，BCD所提及的內容均未在第1，2段中出現，排除法可選A，另外第1段中self-respect也在第1段中出現，故選A。2.細節題。作者認為對沒有收費的東西，保持沉默不該素收銀員相當于什么？第5段開始的部分就圍繞這一點展開了論述，用了deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief，故選B。3.詞義猜測題。第3段講keep silent and profit f

12、rom the clerks mistake, 然后just drive home，也就是意味著不說出來，所以是秘密地，偷偷地 ，故選A。4.詞匯語義題。第5段中用了對比法， 先講如果不告訴收銀員意味著什么，如果告訴收銀員意味著什么，中間用了in contrast來連接，形成對比，bring.to，也就是答案telling the truth to the clerk，故選A。5.細節題。還是對第5段的內容進行提問，如果告訴收銀員，我們會有什么感覺，倒數第2句話說到we feel honorable and our self-respect is increase，故選C。6.主旨題。問文章的

13、標題，也就是主題，happiness和honorable是文章中出現頻率最高的兩個詞，故選D。B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage(選擇最恰當的單詞或詞語完成短文)（12分）Celebrities, in other word, famous people, have become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now th

14、e public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to a specific product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost (1) the practice of putting models on the cover because they don't sell nearly as well as famous faces. (2) , celebrities have realized their unbelievably po

15、werful market potential, moving from advertising for others products to developing their own.As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.However, for every success story, theres a related wa

16、rning tale of a celebrity who (3) his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the products origin is, if it (4) to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty r

17、eturning to labels which have proved to be reliable.Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever, but its rate of turnover(逆轉) has (5) as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebritys shelf life and the same newspaper or magazine tha

18、t once brought him fame has no problem severely criticizing him and taking everything from him when the opportunity appears. Still, the egos(自我的) potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see (6) as the next frontier to be con

19、quered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time and as a matter of fact, fashion - like celebrity - has always been temporary. So the next time celebrities introduce their lines of fashion, lets just wait and see how lon

20、g they will stay.1. A. abandoned B. promoted C. enhanced D. developed2. A. All in all B. As a resultC. Above all D. On the contrary 3. A. ignored B. disapproved C. overvalued D. estimated 4. A. intends B. fails C. manages D. strengthens 5. A. slowed down B. called off C. speeded up D. faded away 6.

21、A. audience B. fashion C. charm D. performance 【答案】16 ABCBCB【分析】1.考察動詞。 A abandoned 遺棄；丟棄。B. promoted 提高C. enhanced 加強D. developed 發展。“時尚雜志幾乎已將封面只放模特的這種做法遺棄了”，根據翻譯，故選A2.考察連詞。A. All in all 總的來說B. As a result 結果C. Above all 總體來說D. On the contrary 相反。前面說到了時尚雜志這么做的原因，后因出結果，最終，他們從代言廣告到不斷發展自我，由此推斷，選B3.考察動

22、詞。A. ignored 忽視B. disapproved 不支持；反對C. overvalued 過于重視；估價過高D. estimated 估計 。前面有轉折詞，however，那么后面引出有些名人自己對消費者的影響力自視過高，即高估了自己，由此推斷，選C4.考察動詞。A. intends to do sth. 打算做.B. fails to do sth. 做.失敗C. manages to do sth.成功做成.；D. strengthens 加強；“不管什么產品，如果質量沒過關，給顧客留下不好印象，那么也會直接影響到名人本身” 因此，選B5.考察動詞詞組。A. slowed dow

23、n 減速B. called off 取消C. speeded up 加速D. faded away 逐漸消失；前面已經說了流行文化圈越來越大，那么轉動速度也會越來越快。因此，選C6.考察名詞。A. audience 觀眾；聽眾B. fashion 時尚C. charm 魅力；D. performance 表演 名人在收獲了財富和名利時，就會將時尚作為下一個要征服的目標。因此，選BC. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.(在短文的空格內填入適當的詞，使其內容通順。每空格限填一詞，首字母已給)（14分）【答案】【分析

24、】DAnswer the questions.(根據短文內容回答下列問題)（12分）When Danny Bowman was at school, he was so desperate to attract girls, he spent 10 hours a day taking more than 200 selfies trying to find the perfect image.But his addiction, which began at the age of 15, caused him to drop out of school and lose almost two

25、 stone in weight. He would take 10 photos of himself before he washed and would sneak out of class three times every hour. At 16, he dropped out of school so he could focus on his addiction, and his diet began to deteriorate.He did not leave his house in Newcastle upon Tyne for six months, and when

26、he failed to take the flawless shot, he tried to kill himself by taking an overdose. His mother, Penny, managed to save him, but he was forced to seek help after his addiction had spiralled out of control.The 19-year-old believed to be Britain's first selfie addict, has now had therapy to treat

27、his technology addiction, OCD and Body dysmorphic disorder an excessive anxiety about personal appearance.He has not taken a picture of himself in seven months, and has realized that achieving perfection is impossible. He told the Sunday Mirror: 'I was constantly in search of taking the perfect

28、selfie and when I realized I couldnt I wanted to die. I lost my friends, my education, my health and almost my life.' The only thing I cared about was having my phone with me so I could satisfy the urge to capture a picture of myself at any time of the day. 'He would look at photos of his &#

29、39;idol' Leonardo Di Caprio and would then replicate his poses. Danny's dream was to become a male model.The selfie craze has grown in past five years, with stars, ­politicians and even Pope Francis posting getting involved in the sensation. But one psychologist at a clinic where Danny was treated said the addiction with taking selfies has now become a mental illness. Now determined to raise awareness of the anxiety disorder, Danny is working with Fixers a national charity helping young people to fix the issues that matter to them. He said their h