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1、新课标最新版新课标最新版 2014 届高考英语三轮阅读理解精编冲刺模拟卷届高考英语三轮阅读理解精编冲刺模拟卷A 2013湖南卷 Planning a visit to the UK? Here we help with ways to cut your costs. AVOID BIG EVENTS Big sporting events, concerts and exhibitions can increase the cost of accommodation and make it harder to find a room. A standard double room at the
2、 Thistle Brighton on the final Friday of the Brighton Comedy Festival (19 Oct.) cost 169.15 at B. A week later, the same room cost 118.15. If you can be flexible and want to know dates to avoidor youre looking for a big event to pass your timecheck out sites such as W, which allow you to search for
3、events in the UK by city, date and category. STAY AWAY FROM THE STATION If traveling to your destination by train, you may want to find a good base close to the station, but you could end up paying more for the sake of convenience at the start of your holiday. Dont be too choosy about the part of to
4、wn you stay in. Booking two months in advance, the cheapest room at Travelodges Central Euston hotel in London for Saturday 22 September was 95.95. A room just a tube journey away at its Covent Garden hotel was 75.75. And at Farringdon, a double room cost just 62.95. LOOK AFTER YOURSELF Really centr
5、al hotels in cities such as London, Edinburgh and Cardiff can cost a fortune, especially at weekends and during big events. As an alternative consider checking into a selfcatering flat with its own kitchen. Often these flats are hidden away on the top floors of city centre buildings. A great example
6、 is the historic ONeill Flat on Edinburghs Royal Mile, available for 420 for five days in late September, with room for four adults. GET ON A BIKE Londons “Boris bikes” have attracted the most attention, but other cities also have similar programmes that let you rent a bicycle and explore at your ow
7、n pace, saving you on public transport or car parking costs. Among the smaller cities with their own programmes are Newcastle (casual members pay around 1.50 for two hours) and Cardiff (free for up to 30 minutes, or 5 per day) 56. The Brighton Comedy Festival is mentioned mainly to show big events m
8、ay _A. help travelers pass time B. attract lots of travelers to the UKC. allow travelers to make flexible plans D. cause travelers to pay more for accommodation 57 “Farringdon” in Paragraph 5 is most probably _A. a hotel away from the train station B. the tube line to Covent GardenC. an ideal holida
9、y destination D. the name of a travel agency 58The passage shows that the ONeill Flat _A. lies on the ground floor B. is located in central LondonC. provides cooking facilities for tourists D. costs over 100 on average per day in late September59Cardiffs program allows a free bike for a maximum peri
10、od of _A. half an hour B. one hourC. one hour and a half D. two hours B 2013广东卷 While Jennifer was at home taking an online exam for her business law class, a monitor(监控 器)a few hundred miles away was watching her every move. Using a web camera equipped in Jennifers Los Angeles apartment, the monito
11、r in Phoenix tracked how frequently her eyes moved from the computer screen and listened for the secret sounds of a possible helper in the room. Her Internet access was lockedremotelyto prevent Internet searches, and her typing style was analyzed to make sure she was who she said she was: Did she en
12、ter her student number at the same speed as she had in the past? Or was she slowing down? In the battle against cheating, this is the cutting_edge and a key to encourage honesty in the booming field of online education. The technology gives trust to the entire system, to the institution and to onlin
13、e education in general. Only with solid measures against cheating, experts say, can Internet universities show that their exams and diplomas are validthat students havent just searched the Internet to get the right answers.Although online classes have existed for more than a decade，the concern over
14、cheating has become sharper in the last year with the growth of “open online courses.” Private colleges，public universities and corporations ar e jumping into the online education field, spending millions of dollars to attract potential students，while also taking steps to help guarantee honesty at a
15、 distance. Aside from the web cameras, a number of other hightech methods are becoming increasingly popular. Among them are programs that check students identities using personal information，such as the telephone numbers they once used.Other programs can produce unique exams by drawing on a large li
16、st of questions and can recognize possible cheaters by analyzing whether difficult test questions are answered at the same speed as easy ones. As in many university classes，term papers are scanned against some large Internet data banks for cheating. 60Why was Jennifer watched in an online exam? ATo correct her typing mistakes. BTo find her secrets in
