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1、四川省广元市2017高考英语一轮阅读理解基础选习三阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项。Youve probably heard about sports coaches, fitness coaches, voice and music teachers, career counselors, psychiatrists(精神病医师) and other specialists who teach skills and help us cope with daily life. But theres a rapidly growing kind of
2、 professional who does a little bit of everything. She or he is called a “ life coach ”. People who are at crossroads in their lives, and corporations that want to give certain employees a career boost, are turning to them for help.The idea that one persons success story can change other peoples liv
3、es for the better goes back at least to the 1930s. Dale Carnegies famous self-improvement program “How to Win Friends and Influence People” came along soon thereafter.But this new style of life coaches includes more than enthusiastic speakers or writers. They use their own experiences in business, s
4、ports, military service, or psychotherapy (心理疗法)to help others make critical life decisions.They often give their approach a slogan, such as “energy coaching” or “fearless living” or “working yourself happy”.Dave Lakhani in Boise, Idaho, for instance, works with salespeople to develop what he calls
5、a “road map”. He says an ongoing relationship with a coach is like having a personal fitness trainer for ones career and life outside work.Lakhanis Bold Approach coaching firm also donates some of its time to help people who are anything but successful-including battered women and struggling single
6、mothers.But others in the so-called “helping professions” are not thrilled about the life-coaching movement. They say that anyone, trained or untrained, can call himself or herself a life coach, and that slick(华而不实的) promoters who mess with peoples lives can do more harm than good.1. Which of the fo
7、llowing is the best title for the passage?A. Working Yourself Happy.B. Life Coaches Help with Tough Decisions.C. How to Cope with Daily Life with Life Coaches.D. The Life-Coaching Movement.2. The underlined phrase “life coach” in Paragraph 2 means“_”.A. The career counselor who teaches skillsB. The
8、psychiatrist who helps us cope with daily lifeC. The fitness coach who teaches us lessonsD. The specialist who helps us make important life decisions3.The last paragraph is mainly about_.A. the introductions of life coach B. the disagreements of life coachC. the effects of life coach D. the experien
9、ces of life coach4.What is the authors attitude towards life coaches?A. Cautious B. Approving C. Casual D. Disapproving参考答案14、BDBA2014高考英语阅读理解（社会生活、说理议论）2014北京卷 DStore scent(香味)What is the first thing you notice when you walk into a shop? The products displayed(展示) at the entrance? Or the soft backg
10、round music?But have you ever noticed the smell? Unless it is bad, the answer is likely to be no.But while a shops scent may not be outstanding compared with sights and sounds, it is certainly there. And it is proving to be an increasingly powerful tool in encouraging people to purchase.A brand stor
11、e has become famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines. A smell may be attractive but it may not just be used for freshening air. One sports goods company once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores, c
12、ustomers intention to purchase increased by 80 per cent.When it comes to the best shopping streets in Paris, scent is just as important to a brands success as the quality of its window displays and goods on sale. That is mainly because shopping is a very different experience to what it used to be.So
13、me years ago, the focus for bread name shopping was on a few people with sales assistants disproving attitude and donttouchwhatyoucantafford displays. Now the rise of electronic commerce (ecommerce)has opened up famous brands to a wider audience. But while eshops can use sights and sounds, only bric
14、ksandmortar stores(实体店) can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the moment they leave. Another brand store seeks to be much more than a shop, but rather a destinationAnd scent is just one way to achieve this.Now, a famous store uses complex manmade smell to mak
15、e sure that the soft scent of baby powder floats through the kid department, and coconut(椰子) scent in the swimsuit section. A department store has even opened a new lab, inviting customers on a journey into the stores windows to smell books，pots and drawers, in search of their perfect scent.67. Acco
16、rding to the passage, what is an increasingly powerful tool in the success of some brand stores?A. Friendly assistants.B. Unique scents.C. Soft background music.D. Attractive window display.68. Eshops are mentioned in the passage to _A. show the advantages of bricksandmortar storesB. urge shop assistants to change thei
