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1、2014届高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练43 AThis is the age of being busy. Many of us live in busy places and have busy lives.Even the roads are busy as we try to get from here to there.Adults are busy going to jobs and taking care of their families.Kids are busy，too，going to school and doing lots of homework after scho
2、ol and on weekends.Being busy isnt bad，necessarily.If youre not busy enough you might be bored.But if youre too busy，you might break down.For instance，if you have a soccer game that runs late on a school night and you havent eaten dinner or done your homework.Thats a notsofun kind of busy.We wanted
3、to know what kids thought，so we did a Kids Poll about being busy with 882 girls and boys aged 9 to 13. Almost all of them said they felt stressed because they were too busy.About half said they felt this way once in a while or some of the time.But 17%said they felt this way most of the time and 24%
4、said they felt like this all the time! Oh dear，thats no fun.Only 4% of kids said they wanted less free time and 18%said they already had just the right amount. But, no big surprise, 61% of kids wish they had a lot more free time.If they had more time, most would spend it hanging out or playing with
5、friends.Often，adults plan large parts of a kids day，especially during the school year.Kids cant tell their parents theyll be skipping school(逃学)today to get more free time! But they can tell their parents theyd like to play a game or read a book during their free time instead of watching TV.1The pur
6、pose of the first paragraph is to _.Aintroduce the topic Bsupport the main ideaCraise the topic sentence Dattract the readers attention2By giving the example of a late soccer game，the writer intends to tell us _.Abeing too busy is bad for the kids Bit is no fun to be busy for the kidsChomework shoul
7、d go before game Dbeing busy may cause the kids to feel bored3According to the passage，the Kids Poll is done to carry out research on_.Ahow kids arrange their free time Bwhat kids think of being busyChow many kids felt stressed Dwhat kids do with their study4According to the Kids Poll，what conclusio
8、n can we draw?A91% of the kids think being busy is no fun. B22% of the kids dont need more free time.C61% of the kids spend free time playing.D24% of the kids like the busy way.5From the passage, we can infer that the writer agrees kids can _.Aspend their free time hanging or playing outBget a lot m
9、ore free time from their parentsChave a right amount of free time with permissionDget more free time from school work sometimes*结束链接3.2010福建卷Larger companies have an extra motivation to look at reducing their carbon footprint, as new rules next year will require businesses to buy carbon allowances t
10、o make up for their emissions（排放）. Those that have taken early action will have a head start. More than two thirds of consumers are not clear about which companies are environmentally responsible. This suggests that firms that are able to relay clearly their message to the public will be in a pole p
11、osition to attract shoppers.The Carbon Trust believes that it can help by informing customers about the good work companies are doing. “When companies are granted（授予）the standard, they can use a logo（标识）in all their marketing which makes it clear that they are working towards cutting emissions,” Mr.
12、 Morrison said. 64Whats the main idea of the passage?ABusinesses are finding ways to send their message to the shoppers.BCompanies will soon get information about cutting carbon emissions.CFirms are making efforts to encourage customers to keep goods at home.DFirms are urged to cut carbon emissions
13、by shoppers environmental awareness.65The underlined word “inform” in Paragraph 2 probably means“ ”.Aaffect Bchange Cdisturb Dreject66According to Harry Morrison, businesses .Awill benefit from cutting carbon emissionsBshould buy carbon allowances for shoppersCare required to make up for their carbo
14、n emissionsDhave encouraged shoppers to take their custom elsewhere67 We can learn from the passage that businesses will .Ahave a strong desire to reduce costsBuse the same logo in their marketingCgain advantages by taking early actionDattract more shoppers by storing goods分析解读： 65. 很多考生认为时今年和去年的购买对于环境的考虑发生了变化，从而选择了B项，实际这是由于没有仔细分析，仅从字面意思了解得出的错误结论。如果考生把这一段仔细解读一下，在理解的前提下，再找一下关键词汇，例如：aware of , effect 等，就会觉得affect这个选项好了。67. 本题有不少考生选择了A项，因为他们觉得既然减排对企业有利，那么一些企业必然会有很大的愿望减排。实际本篇文章的第一句就表明了减排对企业是一个困难的时间，因此企业开始应该是没有意愿减排的，本文是来描述减排的好处，给企业以提醒的，因此选C。*结束 4
