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1、2015 高考英语（三月）信息匹配、任务型及阅读理解训练（高考英语（三月）信息匹配、任务型及阅读理解训练（12）附答案）附答案【杭州市杭州市】 阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C 和 D) 中, 选出最佳选项。 Irina，now 46，never imagined shed one day make a living as a balloon artist.The daughter of an engineer and a teacher，she won top academic awards in high school，went on to medical schoo
2、l and became an emergency room physician in a small city. “I loved the science of medicine， ” she says today， “but being a doctor was very hard.I saw things people dont normally seewomen giving birth in the street，people getting drunk and killing someone.” Medications were scarce，making it very diff
3、icult to treat those in need.When Irina was 33，a girlfriend showed her a magazine photo of an American named Wes Patterson.They began exchanging letters，and married that December.Irina took a public relations job.Then，a few years ago，she watched a man at a party twist a skinny balloon into the shape
4、 of a dog.Kismet! Irina soon purchased a tiny pump and a supply of balloons and began practicing on the sidewalks.Observers challenged her to create all kinds of figures.Now，Irina says， “Theres nothing I cant make.” Many years ago，Irinas husband developed a serious disease which now keeps him homebo
5、und.“But he is a very wonderful man， ” Irina says.Thanks to her new career，she is able to support them both，performing about five events weekly and earning as much as $2,000 per appearance. “Irinas a wonder， ” says Marlene Berg，chief development officer for the Florida Heart Research Institute.“She
6、turned the evening into magic.” “My whole life has become magic， ” Irina says， “and its all come from a balloon.” 1Whats Irinas job now? AAn emergency room physician.BA researcher. CA public relations worker.DAn artist. 解析： 根据文章第一段第一句“Irina，now 46，never imagined shed one day make a living as a ballo
7、on artist”可知，Irina 目前的工作是“气球艺术家” 。 答案： D 2We can conclude from the underlined word “kismet” that_. AIrina was lucky enough to meet the man BThe party was organized well by the man CKismet was the name of the mans dog DThe shape of a dog is easy to make into 解析： 上一句提到 Irina 曾经从事过公共关系工作，碰到这位气球艺人是她的人生转
8、折 点，从此她声名鹊起，从而可以推断，画线词是说她很幸运。 答案： A 3Which of the following statements about Irina is NOT true? AHer father and mother both received good education. BShe studied very well when she was in high school. CHer husband gave up his job in order to support her. DShes been busy and popular among people arou
9、nd. 解析： 文中只提到她的丈夫因患重病而不得不呆在家里，未提到他是为了支持妻子而 放弃工作。根据第一段第二句可判断 A、B 两项正确；根据倒数第二段末句可知她每周大约 要演出 5 次，因此会很忙碌，再结合最后一段的内容可知她很受欢迎，所以 D 项也是正确的。 答案： C 4All the following words below can be used to describe Irina except_. AProud BHardworking CHonest DClever 解析： 根据第三段末句可判断她很“自豪” ，根据第一句可知她很“刻苦” ；她现在几 乎可以用气球做成各种形状的东
10、西，由此可推断她很“聪明” 。 答案： C 5The main purpose of this passage is_. Ato introduce Irina and her wonderful work Bto encourage people to work at the balloon Cto tell readers to change their jobs if necessary Dto remind us of the importance of medicine 解析： 通读全文可知，本文主要介绍了 Irina 及她的出色的工作。 答案： A。 阅读理解。 People fr
11、om East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why. Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterne
12、rs fix their attention on the eyes. “We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,“ Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth.“ According to Jack and her co
13、lleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations. The researchers studied cultural diffe
14、rences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately p
15、articipants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies. It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection
16、 of cultural difference in facial expressions,“ Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.“ In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it come
