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1、福州市 2015 高考英语信息匹配类、阅读理解四月自练（13）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
2、 unnecessary 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, bi
3、rds are 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 electric
4、ity bill 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 s
5、end this 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
6、delivery 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 Lightly Spokeswoman and Company Hair Stylist ABC Activity Insurance: insure against overdoing it 1. Which
7、 of the following 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.
8、 Stab, Grab, Grit, and 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 w
9、henever possible. D. Buying 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 i
10、mproved a lot after entering the 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.
11、 【参考答案】1-5、ADCBD 【来自全国高考卷 II】 For those who study the development of intelligence（智力）in the animal world, self- awareness is an important measurement. An animal that is aware（意识）of itself has a high level of intelligence. Awareness can be tested by studying whether the animal recognizes itself in th
12、e mirror, that is, its own reflected image（反射出的影像） Many animals fail this exercise bitterly, paying very little attention to the reflected image. Only humans, and some intelligent animals like apes and dolphins, have been shown to recognize that the image in the mirror is of themselves. Now another
13、animal has joined the club. In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers report that an Asian elephant has passed the mirror self-reflection test. “We thought that elephants were the next important animal,“ said Diana Reiss of the Wildlife Conservation Society, an author of th
14、e study with Joshua M. Plotnik and Fans BM. de Waal of Emory University. With their large brains, Reiss said, elephants “seemed like cousins to apes and dolphins.“ The researchers tested Happy, Maxine and Patty, three elephants at the Bronx Zoo. They put an 8-foot-square mirror on a wall of the anim
15、als play area (out of the sight of zoo visitors) and recorded what happened with cameras, including one built in the mirror. The elephants used their long noses to find what was behind it, and to examine parts of their bodies. Of the three, Happy then passed the test, in which a clear mark was paint
16、ed on one side of her face. She could tell the mark was there by looking in the mirror, and she used the mirror to touch the mark with her long nose. Diana Reiss said, “We knew elephants were intelligent, but now we can talk about their intelligence in a better way.“ 1. What can mirror tests tell us about animals? A. Whether they have large brains. B Whether they have self-awareness. C. Whether they enjoy outdoor exercises. D. Whether they enjoy playing with mirr
