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1、福州市 2015 高考英语【三月】阅读类训练（3）及答案【由江西省吉安一中 2014 模拟改编】 阅读理解。阅读下面短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 To Whom It May Concern:Your address was forwarded to us by How to Magazine. All of us here think The International Institute of Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world. You know how to avoid unnece
2、ssary activities! As a matter of fact, we closely followed the advice in your article. First, we replaced all our telephones with carrier pigeons. Simply removing the jingle of telephones and replacing them with the pleasant sounds of birds has had a remarkable effect on everyone. Besides, birds are
3、 cheaper than telephone service. After all, we are a business. We have to think of the bottom line. As a side benefit, the birds also fertilize the lawn outside the new employees sauna(桑拿房).Next, we sold the computers off to Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty, a firm of lawyers nearby. Our electricity bill
4、 went way down. Big savings! The boss is impressed. We have completely embraced paper technology. Now that we all use pencils, doodling is on the increase, and the quality of pencil woman ship is impressive, as you can tell from my handwriting in this letter. By the way, if you can, please send this
5、 letter back to us. We can erase and reuse it. Just tie it to Maggies leg and shell know where to take it.Now its very calm and quiet here. You can notice the difference. No more loud chatter on the telephones! All we hear is the scratching of pencil on paper, the sound of pigeons, and the delivery
6、of inter-office correspondence by paper airplane.Wonderful! Ive always wanted to work for an insurance company ever since I was a little girl. Now its perfect.Sincerely yours,Eleanor LightlySpokeswoman and Company Hair StylistABC Activity Insurance: insure against overdoing it1. Which of the followi
7、ng best describes the life the author is leading?A. A simple, slow-paced life. B. A life of hard work and security.C. A religious, peasant-like life. D. A life away from paper and pencils.2. Where is Eleanors letter sent to?A. How To Magazine. B. ABC Activity Insurance Company.C. Stab, Grab, Grit, a
8、nd Nasty Law Firm. D. The International Institute of Not Doing Much.3. Which of the following is practiced in the authors company?A. Replacing the manual work system with modern technology.B. Turning off lights in the daytime to save electricity.C. Recycling paper resources whenever possible.D. Buyi
9、ng birds and pets as company for the staff.4. What is true about Maggie?A. She works as a manager in the authors company.B. She sometimes helps fertilize the lawn outside the sauna.C. She often helps with inter-office correspondence using e-mail.D. Her handwriting has improved a lot after entering t
10、he company.5. What is the purpose for the person to write this letter?A. to show his dissatisfaction with the new environment.B. to complain about the bad working condition.C. to persuade people to live a simple life.D. to express his gratitude for the good advice.【参考答案】1-5、ADCBD 【由安徽省合肥市 2014 高考模拟题
11、改编】 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。 When I decided to quit my job as a wedding photographer, I was in my late twenties, fresh from my divorce from Bob who had left me empty and confused. I decided to leave the US and travel. I had no savings, plus more than $5,000 in debt. What I did have wer
12、e two sponsored tasks as a travel photographer- and with that along, I thought, it would be easy. My first experience was a road trip from Toronto to Las Vegas, paid for by a car delivery service. Other trips followed and then I started a travel blog (博客). It was intended to be my calling card for a
13、ssignment travel photography. Yet even with my blog and past experience, email after email I sent to publications, trying to get work, went unanswered. When they did get in touch, editors told me that I had no chance of making a career with travel photography. While I struggled to get on the path th
14、at I wanted, and as I expanded my blog to help get me there, I found myself wearing the hat of a full-time blogger.Luckily, I got in at the right time. It was 2010，and the travel industry was just starting to turn its attention to bloggers. As I never could have predicted, my blogging-not my photogr
15、aphy-did take me around the world successfully. At first，I thought it was for personal reasons, but I realized later that it was for free marketing for my blogging. Within two years, I was being asked to speak at travel blogging conferences, which helped me to raise a network of friends around the w
16、orld. Even more meaningful, however, was when I saw that my travels were also helping other people. My blog and social media followers saw that I chased my dreams and told me over and over again how they needed that kind of example, which was absent in their lives elsewhere. 51 After the author quit her job, she decided to _.A. divorce her husbandB. be a wedding photographer C. pay off all her debtD. go travelling abroad 2. What
