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1、2015 西安市高考英语西安市高考英语【四月四月】阅读理解、完形填空选练（阅读理解、完形填空选练（13）答案）答案阅读理解。Once, the Paiter-Surui tribe(部落)lived a happy life in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. But after the tribes first meeting with Westerners several decades ago, they were nearly wiped out; diseases brought by outsiders reduced
2、the Suruis numbers from 5, 000 to about 250. Today, some 1, 300 tribe people live in 23 villages across 600, 000 acres. Though they are as likely to wear T-shirts and jeans as feathered headdresses, the Surui are determined to preserve and protect the tribal culture of their homeland. Now they are u
3、nder threat again, from illegal logging and deforestation(滥伐), but this time its different. The Surui have put aside their bows and arrows and taken up a new weapon: the Internet. The tribe people learned to use the Web from their leader, Chief Almir Narayamoga. “We decided to use computers and tech
4、nology to bring attention to our situation, ”says Narayamoga, 36. The first in his tribe to attend college, Chief Narayamoga learned how to use computers at the Federal University of Gois in Goinia, a city of 1. 2 million. In 2007, he fled the Surui homeland after his fight against loggers who place
5、d a $100, 000 reward on his head. He traveled to the United States and paid a visit to Google headquarters in California. He came armed with a big idea. Narayamogas visit to Google was considered a great success. And Google sent teams to the Amazon to train the Surui in using computers, cameras, and
6、 smart phones to photograph logging sites, which could be pinpointed using GPS technology and then uploaded to Google Earth. The Surui have now mapped the entire reserve and recorded the biodiversity and the rainforest within it. 【文章大意】本文主要讲了巴西土著居民正在利用因特网让世人知道他们的处境, 并开始保护他们的家园。1. What caused the pop
7、ulation of the Amazon tribe to reduce greatly? A. The change of their lifestyles. B. Deforestation. C. Diseases. D. Fighting. 【解析】选 C。细节理解题。从文章第一段最后一句可知, 由外来者带来的疾病导致土著人口剧减。2. Chief Narayamoga fled his homeland because . A. he owed a large debtB. the loggers wanted to kill himC. he wanted to learn co
8、mputersD. he failed to fight against logging【解析】选 B。细节理解题。从文章倒数第二段可知, 酋长逃离家乡的原因是伐木者悬赏捉拿他并置他于死地。3. What kind of idea did Chief Narayamoga have after he returned to his homeland? A. He could ask the US government for help. B. He could negotiate with the loggers. C. He could save their land with the In
9、ternet. D. He could make a map of their land. 【解析】选 C。推理判断题。联系文章最后两段可知, 酋长从美国回来, 开始用“谷歌”搜索和全球定位技术来引发世人关注, 从而利用社会舆论来保护自己的家园, 由此可知 C 项正确。4. What can we learn from the last paragraph? A. Deforestation has been stopped in Amazon. B. Narayamogas efforts are paying off. C. The Internet is still something
10、new to the tribe people. D. Logging has been stopped due to the use of GPS technology. 【解析】选 B。推理判断题。文章最后一段说明, 酋长的美国之行获得了成功, 现在土著民族正运用高科技来测量自己的领地, 由此推断, 他们的努力正在获得回报。阅读理解阅读理解Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular br
11、and(品牌) of product on the shelf.Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged (包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold
12、 or silver. When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective . Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white packageblue because we think of it as safe, and white a
13、s calm.The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesnt contain as much as it appears to. It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average,70 per cent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!The most successful producers know that its not enou
14、gh to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius(天才) to sell it.”11 Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the
15、 text?A. The cost of its package.B. The price of the product.C. The colour of its package.D. The brand name of the product.12.The underlined part “the colours turned the customers off”(in Para.3 ) means that the colours_.A. attracted the customers stronglyB. had weak effects on the customersC. trick
16、ed the customers into shoppingD. caused the customers to lose interest13.Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?A. The way to promote goods.B. The discovery of a genius.C. The team to produce a good product.D. The brand name used by successful producers.14.According to the passage, which of the following statement is true?A. Making soap is so easy that any fool in the world can make it.B. Greens, yellows or silver are considered to be healthy
