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1、- 1 -苏州市 2014高考英语阅读理解、完形填空及阅读类训练（18） （答案及解析）Winter-swimming has become popular in Beijing. Three years ago, few people would go swimming in the city waters. But now there is a Winter-swimming Enthusiasts Club(冬泳爱好者协会)and it has more than 2, 000 members. The oldest is 84 years of age and the youngest
2、 is only 7. The members are from all ways of life. They may be workers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, students.Though it is now the coldest part of the season and the water temperature in the citys lakes is around 0C, many winter-swimmers still swim in the icy waters, even when it is snowing. They e
3、njoy themselves in the lake, while the people by the side of the lake are wearing heavy clothes.Why are so many people interested in winter-swimming? Because winter-swimming can be good for ones health.Bei Sha is a good example. He is 69 years old, and he once suffered from heart trouble for 26 year
4、s. After ten years of winter-swimming he is now in good health. Scientists are now studying the effects of winter-swimming on health.1. Among the winter-swimmers the oldest man is _ years older than the youngest one.A. 91 B. 84 C. 77 D. 72. Guess what “The members are from all ways of life” means.A.
5、 The members do different jobs at different places.B. They come from all parts of Beijing.C. They are persons of different ages.D. They are men and women, old and young.3. Winter-swimming has become popular in Beijing because _.A. more and more people like to swim in winterB. it is more interesting
6、than swimming in summerC. winter-swimmers are brave men- 2 -D. winter-swimming does a lot of good to ones health4. The best title for this passage should be _.A. People in Beijing Like Swimming in WinterB. Winter-swimming A Craze(狂热) in BeijingC. People Benefit from Winter-swimmingD. Winter-swimmers
7、 Are Brave Men【答案与解析】本文报道了北 京人流行冬泳的现象，并分析了其原因。1. C。细节题。根据文章第 1段倒数第 3句 The oldest is 84 years of age and the youngest is only 7 可推知答案为 C。2. A。句子理解题。根据其下文 They may be workers, peasants, soldiers, teachers, students.可推知此题答案为 A。3. D。细节题。根据文章第 3段第 2句 Because winter-swimming can be good for ones health.可推
8、知此题答案为 D。4. B。主旨题。根据文章第 1句 Winter-swimming has become popular in Beijing及全文内容可推知此题答案为 B。*结束Words：310 难度系数：建议用时：8 分钟I once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “twohour business plans”I separated them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain.The more original their idea, t
9、he better, I said.Finally, five of the six groups presented plans for restaurant chains.The sixth proposed a catering(餐饮) service.Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my disappointment.My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from stateowned ent
10、erprises and global companies.They were not without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness.The scene I just described came in different forms during my two years teaching at the school.Papers were ofte
11、n copied from the Web and the Harvard Business Review.Case study debates were written up and just memorized.Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inventing and creating.- 3 -In China, every product you can imagine has been made and sold.But so few welldev
12、eloped marketing and management minds have been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions like Yale and MIT have been established.And then theres the “thousandtalent scheme”： this new governme
13、nt program is intended to improve technological modernization by attracting top foreigntrained scientists to the mainland with big money.But there are worries about Chinas research environment.Its hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness，and even big salary offers may not be attr
14、active enough to overcome this.At last, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnerships with top western universities.Nor is it about gathering a group of welleducated people and telling them to think creatively.Its about establishing a rich learning environment f
15、or young minds.Its not that simple.【解题导语】这是一篇教育类夹叙夹议文，讲述了作者通过教学发现教育中存在的问题。5Why does the author feel disappointed at his students?ABecause there is one group presenting a catering service.BBecause the six groups made projects for restaurant chains.CBecause all the students copied a case for the diffi
16、cult topic.DBecause the students ideas were lacking in creativeness.解析：选 D。推理判断题。根据第一段和第二段的信息可知， “我”对学生们缺乏创新意识和批判性思维感到很失望。6Which of the following scenes is NOT considered as lack of creation?APapers were often downloaded from the Internet.BStudents often said that copy ing is a preferable business strategy.CStudents combine knowledge and critical thoughts to solve a prob
