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1、河北省秦皇岛2016高考英语阅读理解暑假训练（3）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。 Its hard to find Alice Munro in the mediaEven after she won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Canadian writer just appeared for a quick interview and then dropped out of 8ightOn Dec 29, she still didnt seek the spotlight（聚光灯）when she
2、 was named one of the rive Women of the Year by the Financial Times In Munros eyes, ordinary lives always hide larger dramas So she records what we casually think of as the everyday actions of normal people, She often focuses on life in her hometown, a small village in Ontario which 8he is most fami
3、liar withShe writes about the ordinary things in the villagefox forming;, trees felled in the Ontario wilderness, poor country achool8 and long last illnessesAbove all, she talk8 about girls and women who have seemingly ordinary lives but struggle against daily misfortune She has a special talent fo
4、r uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary These are ordinary people, ordinary stories, but she has the magic Her precise language, depth of detail and the logic of her storytelling have made her stories inviting Runaway, one of Munros representative works, is a good example of her writing style
5、One of the stories centers on the life of an ordinary woman Carla, who lives in a small Canadian town with her husband ClarkThe story slowly forms a picture of Carla, trapped in a bad marriage, her unhappiness building into desperation until she decide8 to fleeThe story of Carla is a story of the po
6、wer and betrayals of loveIt is about lost children and l08t chance8 that we can all find in life, There is pain beneath the surface, like a needle in the heart Since she published her first collection of 8hort stories in 1968, Munro has won many a wards, with the Nobel Prize being her bigge8t honorO
7、n Oct 10, 2013, the Nobel Prize commit-tee named Munro the master of the contemporary short story1We learn from Paragraph 1 that Alice MunroAdidnt get on well with the mediaBwas 8urprised at winning the Nobel PrizeCdidnt value the title of Women of the YearDremained modest though very successful2Man
8、y of Alice Munros worksAfocus on everyday life of ordinary peopleBare about betrayals of love and violenceCcenter on the happy life of country womenDare romantic stories setting in her hometown3What makes Alice Munros stories fascinating according to the text?AThe complicated plotsBHer writing techn
9、iquesCThe humorous languageDHer rich imagination4In her representative work Runaway, CarlaAleads a happy life with ClarkBis a faithful wife to her husbandCtries to run away from her husbandDloses all hopes for a better life5What is the text mainly about?AAlice Munro and her hometownBThe awards Alice
10、 Munro wonCAlice Munros literary lifeDAlice Munro and her writing style【参考答案】15、DABCA 【2013界广东珠海市高三上期末质量监测】阅读理解Anger is good for you as long as you control it properly，according to new psychology researchA new study from Carnegie Mellon University shows anger may help people reduce the negative impa
11、cts of stress and help you become healthier“Here getting emotional is not bad for you if you look at the case of anger，”said Jennifer Lerner of Carnegie Mellon“The more people display anger，the lower their stress responsesLerner studied 92 UCLA students by asking them to count back from 6，200They mu
12、st say out loud every thirteenth numberResearchers disturbed them by asking them to count faster or ask them other questionsIf they made any mistakes，they had to restart from the very beginningMany students felt depressed about making so many mistakes or got angry because the researchers were interr
13、upting them.Lerner used a hidden video camera and recorded all their facial expressions during the testThe researchers describe their reactions as fear，anger and disgustOther researchers recorded the students blood pressure，pulse and production of a highstress hormone（荷尔蒙）called cortis01People whose
14、 faces showed more fear during the experiment had higher blood pressure and higher levels of the hormoneBoth can have lasting effects such as diabetes（糖尿病），heart disease，depression and extra weight gainWhen people feel fear，negative impacts increase, but when they get angry，those negatives go down，a
15、ccording to the study “Having that sense of anger leads people to actually feel some power in what otherwise is a maddening situation，”Lerner saidLerner previously studied Americans emotional response to the 911 terrorist attacks two months after the incidentShe found people who reacted with anger were more optimisticThese people are healthier compared with those who were frightened during the eventSo in maddening situations，anger is not a bad thing to haveIts a healthier response than fear36Which statement will Jennifer Lerner agree with?AIts better to be angry than to b
