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1、英语热身训练（二）试卷 第 1 页 共 8 页20142015 学年度大同市云天补习学校高考热身训练考试英语试卷(二)本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分（总分 150 分，考试时间为 120 分钟）第 I 卷第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分 60 分）第一节：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，并在答题卡上将该选项标号涂黑。 （共 15 小题；每小题 3 分，满分 45 分）A“Life is speeding up. Everyone is getting unwell.” This may sound like somethi
2、ng someone would say today. But in fact, an unknown citizen who lived in Rome in AD 52 wrote it. We all love new inventions. They are exciting, amazing and can even change our lives. But have all these developments really improved the quality of our lives?Picture this: You are rushing to finish your
3、 homework on the computer. Your mobile phone rings, a QQ message from your friend appears on the screen, the noise from the television is getting louder and louder. Suddenly the computer goes blank and you lose all your work. Now you have to stay up all night to get it done. How calm and happy do yo
4、u feel?Inventions have speed up our lives so much that they often leave us feeling stressed and tired. Why do you think people who live far away from noisy cities, who have not telephones, no cars, not even any electricity often seem to be happier? Perhaps because they lead simpler lives.One family
5、in the UK went “back in time” to see what life was like without all the inventions we have today. The grandparents, with their daughter, and grandsons, spent nine weeks in a 1940s house. They had no washing machine, microwave, computer or mobile phones. The grandmother, Lyn, said，“It was hard physic
6、ally, but not mentally.” She believed life was less materialistic. “The more things you have, the more difficult the life becomes.” She said. The boys said they fought less to fight over, such as their computer. They noticed that their grandmother had changed from being a “trendy（时髦的），beer-drinking
7、granny, to one who cooked things.”Here some simple ways to beat the stress caused by our inventions!Dont be available all the time. Turn off your mobile phone at certain times of the day. Dont check your e-mail every day.Dont reply to somebody as soon as they leave message just because you can. It m
8、ay be fun at first, but soon it gets annoying.21The passage is mainly about Aproblem with technologyBimprovements of our life with technologyCthe important roles technology plays in our everyday lifeDmajor changes which will be likely to happen to technology22The writer quoted what a citizen in anci
9、ent Rome said at the beginning of the story in order to Ashare a truth about lifeBtell us what life was like long time agoCmake us wonder what causes such a thing to happenDpoint out that you experience some big problems and they may be the same23Why did the family chose to spend some time in a 1940
10、s house? Because Athey liked to live simple livesBthey were curious about how people lived without modern inventionsCthey were troubled by modern inventionsDliving in a different time would be a lot of fun for them24What do you think the underlined word“available”means?Abusy on line Bfree Cbe able t
11、o Dbe found by othersB2015.5.13英语热身训练（二）试卷 第 2 页 共 8 页Rick Stanley cant remember a time when he didnt love nature，walking around in the forest， looking at birds in the parks and planting trees in the backyard. But he does remember his first camera, which his mother gave him when he was eight. That g
12、ift allowed Rick to turn his love of nature into award-winning photography.Rick, now 17, was named Young Wildlife Photography of the Year for 2006. The yearly competition is held by the National History Museum in London and BBC Wildlife Magazine.His winning photography shows a tree frog in the Domin
13、ican Republic about to be eaten by a snake. Rick, from the US , had been exploring with his friend Rubio when they heard the frog squeaking in fear and pain.“I photographed the drama as the frog dangled（悬挂） in front of me, but Rubio was unable to stop himself helping the frog. He gently touched the
14、snake , which dropped its meal and moved away quickly,” Rubio said.Rick said he was glad to see the frog get away. But “if I had been on my own, I probably would have left it alone.”Thats because Rick thinks that one of the most important lessons a nature photographer can learn is to let nature be n
15、ature. “try not to disturb what you photograph too much,” he said.While some photographers set out knowing what they want to take a picture of , Rick has a different approach. “I like to be ready for whatever I happen to see,” he says，“whenever you go out into the woods, youre going to see something
16、 interesting.”Preserving nature is important to Rick , who plans to study biology at Harvard University in the autumn. But he doesnt plan to give up photography. “I want to do biology work in the field and take photographs,” he said.25Who helped Rick to become a photograph award-winner?AHis mother BRubio Cthe National History Museum DBBC Wildlife Magazine26What was happening when
