四川省眉山市高考英语 阅读理解完形填空专题训练7.docx

1、四川省眉山市高考英语 阅读理解完形填空专题训练7四川省眉山市2014高考英语阅读理解、完形填空专题训练（7）附答案 阅读理解Words：366难度系数：建议用时：9分钟How Much to Tip(2012安徽师大附中摸底)Youre out to dinner.The food is delicious and the service is fine.You decide to leave a big fat tip.Why? The answer may not be as simple as you think.Tipping, psychologists have found, is

2、 not just about service.Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiters choice of words, to how they carry themselves while taking orders, to the bills total.Even how much waiters remind customers of themselves can

3、 determine how much change they pocket by the end of the night.“Studies before have shown that mimicry (模仿) brings into positive feelings for the mimicker，” wrote Rick van Baaren, a social psychology professor.“These studies show that people who are being mimicked become more generous toward the per

4、son who mimics them.” So Rick van Baaren divided 59 waiters into two groups.He requested that half serve with a phrase such as, “Coming up！” Those in the other half were instructed to repeat the orders and preferences back to the customers.Rick van Baaren then compared their takehome.The results wer

5、e clear it pays to mimic your customer.The copycat(模仿者) waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.Leonard Green and Joel Myerson, psychologists at Washington University in St.Louis, found the generosity of a tipper may be limited by his bill.After research on the 1,000 tips

6、left for waiters, cabdrivers, hair stylists, they found tip percentages in these three areas dropped as customers bills went up.In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau (达到稳定水平) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100.“Thats als

7、o a point of tipping，” Green says.“You have to give a little extra to the cab driver for being there to pick you up and something to the waiter for being there to serve you.If they werent there, youd never get any service.So part of the idea of a tip is for just being there.”1Apart from service, how

8、 many other factors affecting the customers tipping are mentioned in the passage?A1. B2.C3. D4.解析：选D。考查细节理解。根据第二段Instead, studies have shown that tipping can be affected by psychological reactions to a series of different factors from the waiters choice of words, to how they carry themselves while t

9、aking orders, to the bills total.可知选D。2These studies show that _.Atipping can be affected by physical reactions to many different waiters factorsBpeople who are being mimicked usually tip less to the person who mimics them Cthe mimic waiters can get almost twice as much money as the other groupDmimi

10、cry makes the mimicker feel bad解析：选C。考查推理判断。根据第四段The results were clear it pays to mimic your customer.The copycat(模仿者) waiters earned almost double the amount of tips to the other group.可推知C正确。3According to the passage, which of the following will be likely to show the right change of the tip perce

11、ntages?解析：选C。考查推理判断。根据第五段In fact, tip percentages appear to plateau (达到稳定水平) when bills topped $100 and a bill for $200 made the worker gain no bigger percentage tip than a bill for $100.可推知C正确。4We know from the passage that the writer seems to _.Aobject to Mr.Greens idea about tippingBthink part of

12、 Mr.Greens explanation is reasonableCgive his generous tip to waiters very oftenDsupport the opinions of Mr.Green and Rick van Baaren about tipping解析：选D。考查推理判断。作者引用他们的调查结果来证明自己的观点。所以作者持赞成态度。*结束Levi Strauss, who was born in 1830 and went to the USA at the age of 17, sat in the saloon and drank his be

13、er slowly. He began to think. Business was not good. Nobody wanted to buy anything. He thought about the canvas and the pots and pans on the wagon. Then he remembered the hole in Hanks trousers. Suddenly, he had an idea “pants”, he jumped up and shouted, “Everyone needs pants.” He hurried to a tailo

14、r and gave him all his canvas. “I want you to make pants with this canvas,” he said. “Can you do that?” “Yes, of course,” said the tailor, “What name is it?” “Strauss, Levi Strauss.” It was the beginning of jeans. Now more than a hundred years later, people wear jeans all over the world and everyone

15、 knows the name of Levi Strauss. In the 1860s, farmers, rail-road workers, cowboys and miners helped to develop the new land. Life was hard. They worked for long hours in all kinds of weather. They wore trousers made by Levi Strauss. They were the first people to wear jeans in America. Jeans first c

16、ame to Europe with the American soldiers during World War II. Soon, workers in Europe were wearing them. Workers liked them: they were cheap, hardwearing and practical. They were not popular with young people generally until the late 1950s and early 1960s. It came suddenly. It started in America and

17、 it crossed the Atlantic quickly. It was a new kind of music, a new kind of dance. Rock n Roll. The king of Rock n Roll was Elvis Presley. Teenagers loved him. At home he wore a T shirt, an old leather jacket and blue jeans, so more and more teenagers began to wear jeans. They liked them tight.57. A

18、ll the following statements are TRUE except _.A. Jeans could first be seen in Europe during the Second World War B. Jeans were not popular with all Americans until the late 1950s and early 1960s C. Many people all over the world show interest in jeans at the present timeD. Farmers, railroad workers,

19、 cowboys and miners were the first people to wear jeans in America58. Which of the following is the right order in jeans spreading? a. More and more teenagers began to wear jeans. b. More than a hundred years later people wear jeans all over the world. c. Farmers, railroad workers, cowboys and miner

20、s started to wear jeans. d. Soon, workers in Europe were wearing jeans. e. Not until the late 1950s and early 1960s were jeans popular with young people. f. Levi Strauss had jeans made at 17.A. f,c,d,b,e,a B. c,d,f,e,a,b C. a,c,d,e,b,f D. f,c,d,e,a,b 59. Jeans became popular among the teenagers beca

21、use _.A. they were cheap, hardwearing and practical B. they liked them tightC. their idol liked wearing them D. they came out like a new kind of music or dance60. The best title for the passage can be _.A. Levi Strauss, First Man to Invent Jeans B. The Best Trousers JeansC. How Jeans Comes Out And S

22、preads D. Reasons for Jeans Spreading参考答案57-60 BDCC*结束 ADior was born in Normandy in 1905, and his familys original plans for him included a career in the diplomatic service, but by the time he was twenty-three, with his parents money, he opened a small art gallery in Paris. By 1931, the money had b

23、een used up. Diors friends in the art gallery ,asked him to draw and he took his first step at designing and drawing. His first job was with Lucien Lelong from whom Dior learned his craft (手艺）.In February, 1947, Dior started the New Look in his first major Paris collection. He was backed by a famous

24、 textile producer, Boussac , who looked after the dollars, while Dior looked after the fashions. Dior knew nothing about cutting and sewing, but he was good at fashion design.The New Look started an entirely different look to costume, with a tiny waist, a rounded shoulder and a shapely bust (胸围）,usu

25、ally with a low-cut neckline and a long full skirt. To women who had lived through the war years, the femaleness of the New Look was a great success ,for people were tired of extremely plain, wartime restrictive fashions.It is said that dresses by Dior were constructed like buildings, but young peop

26、le were attracted to his design, and all over the western world, manufacturers plunged (投入)into the production of his new style. Diors revolutionary designs lighted up a whole cycle of fashion ,rounded, gentle, feminine, a delight in elegance. A New Look House of Dior opened in 1948，followed by one

27、in London. Considered as King of Couture (womens clothing) for years, the Diorempire grew until it covered every country in the western world, and included furs, hosiery ,jewelry, perfumes, mens wear and on and on. More than 1,000 people worked at the Paris headquarters then.His sudden death in 1957

28、 when he was 53 years old did not stop the growth of the House of Dior. Even now, so many years after his death, his name is closely connected with fashion throughout the world, and indeed is one of the most recognized names in the world. His first, great New Look, with its long skirts was an expres

29、sion of freedom in the late 1940s.41. Which of the following designs is close to Diors?42. According to the passage, in Diors life, he did NOT _ .A. make creative fashion designs B. work in a diplomatic serviceC. learn craft as his first job D. open a New Look House43. We can infer from the passage

30、that _A. Dior and his supporter had different interests in businessB. Diors New Look had little influence on people thenC. Dior is only a brand of womens fashion in the western worldD. Diors fashion was not accepted at first but at last was successful44. What is probably the best title for the passa

31、ge?A. The History of the New Look B. The Growth of the Dior EmpireC. An Expression of Freedom 一 Dior D. The Founder of the New Look Dior*结束AWhy do people drink too much, eat too much, smoke cigarettes or take drugs? Whats to blame for all the bad behavior? Most people would say that, while these self-destructive (自我毁灭的) acts can have many root causes, they all have one obvious thing in common: they are all examples of failures of self-control, lacking the will power to resist them. According to a recent study, however, if you r