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1、2012高考英语二轮复习专题限时训练（江苏专用）专题2 阅读理解 14（35分钟）AMore than 1.5 billion people around the world live without electricity. Finding better ways to bring light to the poor is the goal of researchers like Professor Irvine. In the late 1990s, he was working in Nepal when his return flight was canceled. A delay g
2、ave him time to take a fourteen-day hiking trip in the Himalayas. One day he looked in the window of a school and noticed how dark it was. This is a common problem for millions of children around the world. Many families use kerosene oil (煤油) lamps. There are many problems with these lamps. They pro
3、duce only a small amount of light. They are dangerous to breathe. And they are a big fire danger, causing many injuries and deaths each year. Kerosene costs less than other forms of lighting, but it is still costly in poor countries. Professor Irvine says many people spend over 100 dollars a year on
4、 the fuel.When he returned to Canada, he began researching ways to provide safe and clean lighting. He began experimenting with light-emitting diodes (发光二极管), LEDs, at his lab. As a professor of renewable energy, he already knew about the technology. Light-emitting diodes are small glass lamps that
5、use much less electricity than traditional bulbs (灯泡) and last much longer. He used a one-watt bright white LED made in Japan. He found it on the Internet and connected it to a bicycle-powered generator (发电机). He remembers thinking it was so bright that a child could read by the light of a single di
6、ode. In 2000, after much research and many experiments, he returned to Nepal to put the systems into homes. Now the homes of 25,000 people in 51 countries have been equipped with it. “The one-time cost of our system which basically lives forever, as well as the solar panel is less than one hundred d
7、ollars. So, one year of kerosene would pay for a solid-state lighting system,” he said. Now his aim is to develop a lower-cost lighting system. In January, Irvine is leaving the University of Calgary. He has also decided to start his own company in India.1. We can learn from the second paragraph tha
8、t kerosene oil lamps _. A. cost more than other forms of lightingB. have damaged childrens eyesightC. have wasted only a little fuelD. have a lot of disadvantages2. Irvine connected a white LED to a bicycle-powered generator to prove _.A. whether it can work without electricityB. whether it can work
9、 well with less electricityC. whether it can last longer than a generatorD. whether it is brighter than a traditional bulb3. We can learn from the text that Irvine _. A. likes India rather than NepalB. is good at making new kinds of bulbsC. is giving up his job in the universityD. is to earn much mo
10、ney from his companyBIn our culture, the sources of what we call a sense of “mastery” feeling important and worthwhile and the sources of what we call a sense of “pleasure” finding life enjoyable are not always the sameWomen often are told “You cant have it all.” Sometimes what the speaker really is
11、 saying is: “You choose a career, so you cant expect to have closer relationships or a happy family life.” or “You have a wonderful husband and children whats all this about wanting a career?” But women need to understand and develop both aspects of well-being, if they are to feel good about themsel
12、ves.Our study shows that, for women, well-being has two aspectsOne is mastery, which includes self-respect, a sense of control over your life, and low levels of anxiety and depressionMastery is closely related to the “doing” side of life, to work and activityPleasure is the other aspect, and it is m
13、ade up of happiness, satisfaction and optimismIt is tied more closely to the “feeling” side of lifeThe two are independent of each otherA woman could be high in mastery and low in pleasure, and vice versa（反之亦然）For example, a woman who has a good job, but whose mother has just died, might be feeling
14、very good about herself and in control of her work life, but the pleasure side could be damaged for a time.The concepts of mastery and pleasure can help us identify the sources of well-being for women, and correct past mistakesIn the past, women were encouraged to look only at the feeling side of li
15、fe as the source of all well-beingBut we know that both mastery and pleasure are importantAnd mastery seems to be achieved largely through workIn our study, all the groups of employed women were valued significantly higher in mastery than women who were not employed.A womans well-being is developed
16、when she takes on multiple rolesAt least by middle adulthood, the women who were involved in a combination of roles marriages, motherhood, and employment were the highest in well-being, in spite of warnings about stress and strain.4It can be inferred from the first paragraph that _.Afor women, a sense of “mastery” is more important than a sense of “pleasure”Bfor women, a sense
