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1、甘肃省兰州市甘肃省兰州市2015 届高三实战考试届高三实战考试英英 语语 试试 题题注意事项：1本试卷分第 I 卷（选择题）和第 II 卷（非选择题）两部分。答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考号填写在答题纸相应的位置上。2本试卷满分 120 分，考试用时 100 分钟。3答题全部在答题纸上完成，试卷上答题无效。第 I 卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）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。AAs a substitute teacher, my daily routine involves d
2、riving to a new school almost every day so Im usually unable to anticipate（预料）the days events, good or bad!On one particular day,1 was teaching in a very difficult classroom1 was managing behavior all morning and by lunch time, I knew I needed coffee to even consider surviving the afternoonSo on my
3、lunch break, I drove to a nearby plaza to get a cup of coffeeUpon returning to the car I realized l had locked my keys and my phone inside! I had about 15 minutes to get back to the school which was a good 4 or 5-minute drive awayI contemplated（思考）rushing back, but it being winter, I thought a nasty
4、 fall on ice would only make the situation much worseSo I ran into a McDonalds which was in the same plaza and asked the man at the counter who happened to be the manager to please call me a cabI briefly explained my situation to him, and I could tell by the look in his eyes, that he empathizedHe hu
5、rried to the back to use the phone while I paced in the restaurantI had less than 10 minutes to get back to my school at this pointThe manager returned only to tell me that the cab company had put him on hold and then the line got disconnected, and that he was now on hold again, but had not yet been
6、 able to request the cab yet My expression, I assume, began to resemble some combination of hopelessness and fearWithout a thought, he grabbed his coat and offered to drive me to the school Without hesitation, I followed him into his car and made it back into my classroom with 2 minutes to spare bef
7、ore the bell! calm behavior and kind nature madeUpon arriving at the school, l thanked this man endlesslyHis calm behavior and kind nature made me think he was probably a wonderful manager to work for, and also a wonderful human being to have on this earthThis experience makes me realize that out of
8、 every seemingly hopeless situation, there is the opportunity for acts of kindness to transpire（发生）which can have an unimaginable impact（影响） on those who receive them.1. why did the author want to get a cup of coffee?ABecause he was very thirsty at that timeBBecause he was only interested in drinkin
9、g coffeeCBecause he had to refresh himself for the classes in the afternoon.DBecause he wanted to do something special to pass the whole afternoon2. The author _ so he gave up the idea of going back to school on foot when he found his keys and phone were locked inside the carAwas too tired to walk f
10、urtherBwas afraid of falling down on iceCasked the manager to call him a cabDdecided to take a school bus3The author has probably stayed in the McDonalds for aboutA15 minutesB8-9 minutesC4-5 minutesD2 minutes4What kind of person is the manager?AKind-heartedBFaithfulCGentleDDependableBAlmost everybod
11、y in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cartThey will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many milesBut few will know - or even think to ask - who it was that invented themSylvan NGoldman invented the shopping cart in 1937At that time he was in the superma
12、rket businessEvery day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carryOne day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheelsThe wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more businessOn June 4, 1937, Goldmans
13、first carts were ready for use in his marketHe was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arrivingHe couldnt wait to see them using his inventionBut Goldman was disappointedMost shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a tryAfter a while, Goldma
14、n decided to ask customers why they werent using his carts“Dont you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?“ one shopper repliedBut Goldman wasnt beaten yetHe knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a tryTo this end, Goldman hired a g
15、roup of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing thisthe real customers gradually began copying the phony （假冒的） customersAs Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers to his marketBut not only did more people come - those ho came
16、bough, more. With larger easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater num eof items than before.Todys shopping carts are five times larger than Goldmans original modelPerhaps reason America today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937 - before the coming of the shopping cart5 What does the underlined words “chrome-plated contraptions“ in the
