1、满分120分,考试时间100分钟。答案写在答题卡上,交卷时只交答题卡。第一部分:阅读理解(共两节, 满分30分)第一节 (共10小题,每小题2分,满分20分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。A Were a nation a globe, in fact obsessed with our hair. Analysts estimate the global hair product industry to be worth 22.6 billion, growing at a rate of up to seven percent a year. Ther
2、e seems to be no limit on what well spend to avoid a bad hair day. But for devotees of an underground beauty movement, the secret lies in throwing away the shampoo, in fact all the hair products, for good. The “nopoo” method, which involves using natural substitutes or just water in place of shampoo
3、 and conditioner, is supported by several circles. Beauty insiders, including writers for womens magazines and professional hairdressers, speak highly of how hair becomes thicker, fuller, softer and brighter. And environmentalists who are mindful of money feel great joy at the lack of chemicals in a
4、nd on their bodiesnot to mention the impact on their budgets. Now one devotee is hoping to take it mainstream. Lucy Aitken Read, whose book Happy Hair: The definitive guide to giving up shampoo was released last week, hasnt used shampoo for two years and her glowing brown hair is visibly in perfect
5、condition. For her, the motivation came after reading a study that claimed women put 515 chemicals on their bodies daily. “I initially thought Ha! They didnt research me!,” Aitken Read says. “Then I looked at the back of my shampoo bottle and realized there were loads of chemical components I didnt
6、recognize in the slightest.” Strangely its oily hair that could benefit the most from giving up shampoo. The theory behind the “nopoo” method is that shampoo removes the hair from its natural oils, which causes the scalp (头皮) to generate more oils to replace them. This results in oil overload oily h
7、airwhich we then attempt to “fix” with more shampoo. Its a vicious (恶性的) circle and quite a brilliant success for the shampoo industry, because the more shampoo you use, the more you need to use and the more frequently you need to use it. Left to its own devices or washed with natural substitutes, t
8、he scalp eventually theoretically returns to its natural balance. The result should be healthier hair that is stronger, thicker and fuller as it is less damaged than shampooed hair.1. What can we know from the first paragraph?A. More and more people produce hair products.B. More and more people wast
9、e money on their hair.C. More and more hair products are wasted every year. D. More and more hair products are produced every year.2. According to Para 5, environmentalists are in favor of “nopoo” method because _.A. it has the same chemicals as shampoo doesB. it helps reduce their budgets on daily
10、expenses in a wayC. natural substitutes are friendly to the environment D. they know shampoo has an impact on their health3. What can we learn from Lucys words?A. She didnt realize shampoo contains so many harmful chemicals.B. She didnt realize shampoo contains all the necessary chemicals.C. She cou
11、ldnt recognize the description on the shampoo bottle.D. She didnt recognize she was quite different from other women.4. What is the main trouble with shampoo?A. It adds more oils to the hair. B. It prevents the scalp producing oils.C. It badly impacts the shampoo industry. D. It makes people addicte
12、d to using it more often.B Along with its neighbors, Sweden features near the top of most sex-equality rankings. The World Economic Forum rates it as having one of the narrowest sex gaps in the world. Sweden is not only a good place for a woman, but it appears to be one for new dads. Close to ninety
13、 percent of Swedish fathers take paternity leave (陪产假). Last year some 340,000 dads took a total of 12 million days leave, that is, approximately seven weeks each. Women take even more leave days to spend time with their children, but the gap is shrinking. Why do Swedish dads take so much time off w
14、ork to raise their children? Forty years ago Sweden became the first country in the world to introduce a paid parental-leave allowance. Benefits consisted of ninety percent of wages for 180 days per child, and parents were free to share the days between them in whatever way they pleased. But the pol
15、icy was hardly a hit with dads: in the policys first year men took only 0.5% of all paid parental leave. Today they take a quarter of it. One reason is that the policy has become more generous, with the number of paid leave days for the first child increasing from 180 to 480. In 1995 the first so-ca
16、lled “daddy month” was introduced. Under this reform, families in which each parent took at least one month of leave received an additional month to add to their total allowance. The policy was expanded in 2002 so that if the mother and father each took at least two months leave, the family would get two e
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