10.Do you have a spare room in your house?Do you like to share your driveway in front of your garage with others?(36)B Many people are benefiting from this new business of renting.
Perhaps the best-known example of a company in this field is Airbnb-an American web business which allows you to rent out your spare room to holidaymakers.It says it operates in34,000cities and it has 800,000listings of rooms and apartments.(37)A
A British company is doing something with parking spaces.JustPark's founder,Anthony Eskinazi,says,"when I had the original idea.I spotted a driveway close to a spots stadium.It would have been so convenient if I could have just parked in that driveway rather than in a commercial car park."(38)DAround 20,000people have advertised their spaces on the website,and he says around half a million drivers use it.
(39)EThey are people who run things like traditional hotels and commercial car parks.They are afraid of ending up losing money.
(40)C Regulations for these new businesses are unclear.How will renting out your driveway affect your neighbour?Because this is a new business world,those rules aren't there yet.
A.They seem to have occupied the majority of the market.
B.Both of these can help you make money.
C.And there is another problem.
D.And his great idea has proved a success.
E.But the new business of renting has its competitors.
F.There are many ways to earn money.
G.A commercial car park is inconvenient.

分析 本文是一片應(yīng)用文,主要介紹了一些能夠獲益的方法與例子.文中通過幾個(gè)例子告訴我們只要能夠用心觀察每一處的機(jī)會(huì),你就會(huì)成功從中獲益.

解答 36-40 BADEC
36題答案是B.考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷.前句提到兩個(gè)問句,分別用兩個(gè)疑問句來引出下文;后句中說道很多人都通過這種新的出租生意獲益了.由此可判斷此處說的是如果你那樣做了,你會(huì)賺到錢,所有選項(xiàng)中只有選項(xiàng)B.Both of these can help you make money符合句意,起到承接作用,故選B.
37題答案是A.考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷.前句中提到Airbnb這個(gè)網(wǎng)站應(yīng)用在34,000座城市之間,而且它還具有800,00分房間和公寓的單子,由此可判斷此處指的是這個(gè)網(wǎng)站公司看起來占據(jù)了大多數(shù)市場,在所有選項(xiàng)中只有選項(xiàng)A.They seem to have occupied the majority of the market符合語境,起到承接上文的作用,故選A.
38題答案是D.考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷.前句中提到的是一位成功人士的想法:如果我可以就近停在那個(gè)車庫里就比停在停車場方便多了;后句中提到很多人都看到了這個(gè)廣告,而且半個(gè)億的司機(jī)都用了,由此可判斷此處表達(dá)的意思是他的這種想法取得了巨大的成功,所有選項(xiàng)中只有選項(xiàng)D.And his great idea has proved a success符合語境,起到承接上下文的作用,故選D.
39題答案是E.考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷.后句提到在這個(gè)行業(yè)中有人也緊跟著想要進(jìn)行這種事業(yè),由此可判斷此處表達(dá)的意思是停車的這種生意也有它的競爭對手,所有選項(xiàng)中只有選項(xiàng)E.But the new business of renting has its competitors符合語境,承接下文,故選E.
40題答案是C.考查對上下文的理解和推理判斷.后句中的疑問句提出了出租車道的弊端-會(huì)影響到周圍的鄰居,由此可判斷此處表達(dá)的意思應(yīng)該是這種新型事業(yè)還存在的另一些問題,所有選項(xiàng)中只有選項(xiàng)C.And there is another problem符合句意,故選C.

點(diǎn)評 本文是政治經(jīng)濟(jì)類閱讀理解.做這類題材閱讀理解時(shí)要求考生對文章通讀一遍,做題時(shí)結(jié)合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關(guān)語句進(jìn)行仔細(xì)分析,結(jié)合選項(xiàng)選出正確答案.推理判斷題也是要在抓住關(guān)鍵句子的基礎(chǔ)上合理的分析才能得出正確答案,切忌胡亂猜測,一定要做到有理有據(jù).

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19.According to researchers,money can buy happiness,but only if you spend it on someone else.
Spending as little as 5 a day on someone else could significantly bring you happiness,the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found.Their experiments  on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably(適度地)happier when they  spent money on others---even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier."We wanted to test our theory that how peoplespend their money is at least asi mportant as how much money they earn,"said Elizabeth Dunn,a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness,report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills,gifts for themselves,giftsfor others and donations to charity(慈善機(jī)構(gòu))."Regardless of  how much income each person made,those who spent money on others reported greater happiness,while those who spent more on themselves did not,"Dunn said in a statement.Dunn's team also surveyed(調(diào)查)16 employees at acompany in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharingbonus(獎(jiǎng)金)of between3,000 and 8,000."Employeeswho devoted more of their bonus to pro-social(有益社會(huì)的)spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus,and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor(預(yù)示)oftheir happiness than the size of the bonus itself,"they wrote in their report,published in the journal Science.They gave  their volunteers 5 or20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it.Those who spentthe money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it."These findings suggest that veryminor alterations(改動(dòng))in spending allocations(分配)---as little as $5---may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,"Dunn said.

32.According to the passage,B.
A.the more money you spend on others,the happier you are
B.spending money on others can bring you happiness
C.Elizabeth Dunn is a psychologist from Harvest Business School
D.six hundred volunteers took part in the experiment
33.The 16employees mentioned in the passageD.
A.were given clear instructions on how to spend the bonus
B.had more happiness than the size of the bonus itself
C.experienced greater happiness after receiving their bonus
D.felt happier after they contributed much of the bonus to charities
34.Dunn's statement suggested thatA.
A.those who spent money on others felt happier no matter how much they earned
B.those who spent more money on themselves felt happier
C.people thought spending money could make themselves happier
D.the money spent was as important as the money earned
35.The best title of this passage isC.
A.Experiment on Money Spending
B.Devoting Your Money to Charities
C.Spending Money on Others Makes One Happier
D.Bonus and Pro-social Spending.

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科目:高中英語 來源: 題型:閱讀理解

20.As in the field of space travel,new technologies continue to appear in undersea exploration.They share a number of similarities with each other-as well as some important differences.
Manned submersibles (潛水器),like spaceships,must maintain living conditions in an unnatural environment.While a spaceship must simply be sealed against the vacuum space,a submersible must be able to bear extreme pressure if it is not to break up in deep water.
In exploring space,unmanned vehicles were employed before astronauts.In undersea exploration,on the other hand,men paved the way,and only recently have unmanned remote-operated vehicles (ROVs) been put to use.
One reason for this is that communicating with vehicles in orbit is much easier than talking to those underwater.A vacuum is an ideal medium for radio communications,but underwater communications are limited to much slower sound waves.Thus,most undersea vehicles-particularly ROVs-operate at the end of long ropes.(電纜終端)
For a similar reason,knowing where you are undersea is much more difficult than in space.A spaceship's position can be located by following its radio signal,or by using telescopes and radar.For an undersea vehicle,however,a special network of sonar (聲納系統(tǒng))devices must be laid out in advance on the ocean floor in the area of a dive to locate the vehicle's position.
Though undersea exploration is more challenging than outer space in a number of respects,it has a distinct advantage:going to the ocean depths doesn't require the power necessary to escape Earth's gravity.Thus,it remains far less expensive.
64.The purpose of the passage isD
A.to persuade you to explore the depths of the ocean
B.to stress the importance of the undersea exploration
C.to make you believe that the undersea exploration is better
D.to tell some differences between two kinds of explorations 
65.By saying"men paved the way"in Paragraph 2 the author means that in undersea explorationC.
A.unmanned vehicles were used in the beginning
B.men covered the ocean floor with stones and bricks
C.manned vehicles were employed before unmanned ones      
D.men invented unmanned remote-operated vehicles in the past
66.The sonar devices must be placedC.
A.from time to time               
B.a(chǎn)fter the undersea vehicles dive
C.before the undersea vehicles dive
D.when the undersea vehicles are diving
67.What can we infer from the passage?C
A.Submersibles usually break up in deep water.
B.Undersea vehicles can receive signals immediately.
C.Going to space needs power to escape the gravity.
D.Radio communications are quite difficult in a vacuum.

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