高考英语阅读-观点态度题

观点态度题

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第1招：辨别文体、捕捉反映行文基调的词语

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Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words which have powerful effects on our minds and feelings. This clever use of words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can express his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should therefore learn to choose our words carefully and use then correctly, or they will make our speech silly and common.

the last paragraph, what does the author suggest that we should do

A. Use words skillfully

B. Associate with listeners

C. Make musical speeches

D. Learn poems by heart

第2招：利用人名或组织机构名称进行定位

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Surprisingly, the man responsible for one of the most progressive green-design competitions has doubts about ideas of eco-friendly buildings. “I don't believe in the new green religion,” Gerner says.” Gerner says. “Some of the building technologies that you get are impractical. I'm interested in those that work.” But he wouldn't mind if some green features inspire students. He says he hopes to set up green energy systems that allow them to learn about the process of harvesting wind and solar power. “You never kno w what's going to start the interest of a child to study math and science,” he says.

does Gerner think of the ideas of green schools

A. They are out of date.

B. They are questionable.

C. They are practical.

D. They are advanced.

第3招：结合所举例子进行判断

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For New Yorkers, talking about other parts of the world means Brooklyn and Queens in New York. But at Mallery's, when I said that I had been to Myanmar recently, people knew where it was. In New York people would think it was a usual new club.

is the author's opinion of some New Yorkers from her experience

A. . . . Self-centered.

第4招：结合文章主题综合推断

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Our best hope in keeping our best reporters, copy editors, photographers, artists —everyone —is to work harder to make sure they get the help they are demanding to reach their potential. If we can't do it, they'll find someone who can.

letter aims to remind editors that they should ______.

A. give more freedom to their reporters

B. keep their best reporters at all costs

C. be aware of their reporters' professional development

D. appreciate their reporters' working styles and attitudes

即讲即练

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Few laws are so effective that you can see results just days after they take effect. But in the nine days since the federal cigarette tax more than doubled — to $ per pack —smokers have jammed telephone “quit lines” across the country seeking to kick the habit.

This is not a surprise to public health advocates. They've studied the effect of state tax increases for years, finding that smokers, especially teens, are price sensitive. Nor is it a shock to the industry, which fiercely fights every tax increase.

The only wonder is that so many states insist on closing their ears to the message. Tobacco taxes improve public health, they raise money and most particularly, they deter people from taking up the habit as teens, which is when nearly all smokers are addicted. Yet the rate of taxation varies widely.

In Manhattan, for instance, which has the highest tax in the nation, a pack of Marlboro Light Kings cost $ at one drugstore Wednesday. In Charleston, ., where the 7-cent-a-pack tax is the lowest in the nation, the price was $.

The influence is obvious.

In New York, high school smoking hit a new low in the latest surveys — %, far below the national average. By comparison, 26% of high school students smoke in Kentucky. Other low-tax states have similarly depressing teen-smoking records.

Hal Rogers, Representative from Kentucky, like those who are against high tobacco taxes, argues that the burden of the tax falls on low-income Americans “who choose to smoke.”

That's true. But there is more reason in keeping future generations of low-income workers from getting hooked in the first place. As for today's adults, if the new tax drives them to quit, they will have more to spend on their families, cut their risk of cancer and heart disease and feel better.

text is mainly about ______.

A. the effect of tobacco tax increase

B. the price of cigarettes

C. the rate of teen smoking

D. the differences in tobacco tax rate

underlined word "deter" in Paragraph 3 most probably means ______.

A. benefit

B. free

C. discourage

D. remove

' attitude towards the low-income smokers might be that of ______.

A. doubt

B. sympathy

C. unconcern

D. tolerance

can we learn from the last paragraph

A. Adults will depend more on their families.

B. The new tax will be beneficial in the long run.

C. Future generations will be hooked on smoking.

D. Low-income Americans are more likely to fall ill.

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All too often, a choice that seems sustainable (可持续的) turns out on closer examination to be problematic. Probably the best example is the rush to produce ethanol (乙醇) for fuel from corn . Corn is a renewable resource —you can harvest it and grow more, almost limitlessly. So replacing gas with corn ethanol seems like a great idea.

One might get a bit more energy out of the ethanol than that used to make it, which could still make ethanol more sustainable than gas generally, but that's not the end of the problem. Using corn to make ethanol means less corn is left to feed animals and people, which drives up the cost of food. That result leads to turning the fallow land —including, in some cases, rain forest in places such as Brazil — into farmland, which in turn gives off lots of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the air. Finally, over many years, the energy benefit from burning ethanol would make up for the forest loss. But by then, climate change would have progressed so far that it might not help.

You cannot really declare any practice “sustainable” until you have done a complete lift-cycle analysis of its environmental (环境的) costs. Even then, technology and public policy keep developing, and that development can lead to unforeseen and undesired results. The admirable goal of living sustainable requires plenty of thought on an ongoing basis. underline word “it” in the second paragraph refers to “______”.

A. the forest loss

B. burning ethanol

C. climate change

D. the energy benefit

author thinks that replacing gas with corn ethanol is ______.

A. useless

B. Impractical

C. Acceptable

D. admirable

does the author mainly discuss in the text

A. Technology.

B. Environmental protection.

C. Ethanol energy.

D. Sustainability.

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While all my classmates seen to be crazy about a one-way ticket to Mars (火星), I'd rather say Mars is totally unsuitable for human existence. People won't have enough food supplies there, and the terrible environment would make it impossible for them to live a long life .Besides, the journey won't be safe. Can anybody explain to me just why people would go to Mars, never to return？

Steve Minear, UK

Here are the things you can think of: the desire to explore a foreign and unique environment, the excitement of being the first humans to open up a new world, the expectation of fame and glory… For scientists there is another reason. Their ob servations and research will probably lead to great scientific achievements.

Donal Trollop, Canada

There are already too many people on the Earth. I think that sometime before the end of the century, there will be a human colony (殖民地) on Mars. It will happen when people finally realize that two-way trips to the red planet Mars are unnecessary. Most of the danger of space flight is in the launches (发射) and landings. Cutting the trip home would therefore reduce the danger of accidents, save a lot of money, and open the way to building an everlasting human settlement on another world.

Enough supplies can be sent on ahead. And every two years more supplies and more people will be sent to the new colony. Mars has all the materials for a colony to produce or make everything it needs, and Mars is far more pleasant than the other planets in the outer space. Paul Davies, USA

main purpose of Steve Minear's writing is ______.

A. to show his agreement on going to Mars

B. to invite an answer to his question

C. to report his classmates' discussion

D. to explain the natural state of Mars

of the following best states Donal Trollop's idea

A. It is possible to build an Earth-like environment on Mars.

B. There are many reasons for going to Mars.

C. There is a plan to send humans to Mars.

D. Scientists become famous by doing research on Mars.

does Paul Davies think of human existence on Mars

A. Humans will find Mars totally unsuitable for living.

B. Humans will have to bring all they need from the Earth.

C. Humans can produce everything they need.

D. Humans can live longer in the colony on Mars.

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It was the summer of 1965. DeLuca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked DeLuca about his plans for the future. “I'm going to college, but I need a w ay to pay for it,” DeLuca recalls saying. “Buck said, ‘You should open a sandwich shop.'”

That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $1 000. DeLuca rented a storefront (店面) in Connecticut, and when they couldn't cover their start-up costs, Buck kicked in another $1 000.

But business didn't go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, “After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn't know how ba dly, because we didn't have any financial controls.” All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs.

DeLuca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They'd meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. “We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, ‘We are so successful, we are opening a second store.'” An d they did — in the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error.

But the partners' learn-as-you-go approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand-deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. “It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn't necessary, but as a result, the suppliers got to know me very well, and the personal relationships established really helped out,” DeLuca says.

And having a goal was also important. “There are so many problems that can get you down. You just have to keep working toward your goal,” DeLuca adds.

DeLuca ended up founding Subway Sandwich, the multimillion-dollar restaurant chain. of the following is true of Buck

A. He was studying at the University of Bridgeport.

B. He was a professor of business administration.

C. He put money into the sandwich business.

D. He rented a storefront for DeLuca.

can we learn about their first shop

A. It stood at an unfavorable place.

B. It lowered the prices to promote sales.

C. It lacked control over the quality of sandwiches.

D. It made no profits due to poor management.

contributes most to their success according to the author

A. Learning by trial and error.

B. Making friends with suppliers.

C. Finding a good partner.

D. Opening chain stores.

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Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.

Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself, each extra dollar makes less and less difference.

Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.

“Dollars buy status, and status makes people feel better,” conclude some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways — scientists or actors, for example — may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.

In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires — not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health —rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap (差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income.” says Mic halos.

Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied” asks Professor Laura Carstensen.

In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotions questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people, but negative emotions much less often.

Why are old people happier Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they're more realistic about their goals, only setting ones that they know they can achieve. But Carstensen thinks that with time running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don't.

“People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.”

to the passage, the feeling of happiness ______.

A. has little to do with wealth

B. increases gradually with age

C. is determined partly by genes

D. is measured by desires

actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs ______.

A. make them feel much better

B. provide chances to make friends

C. improve their social position

D. satisfy their professional interests

people are more likely to feel happy because they are more ______.

A. optimistic

B. Practical

C. Successful

D. emotional

Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if ______.

A. they have a stronger desire for friendship

B. the hope for good health is greater

C. their income is below their expectation

D. the gap between reality and desire is bigger

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One of our biggest fears nowadays is that our kids might some day get lost in a “sea of technology” rather than experiencing the natural world. Fear-producing TV and computer games are leading to a serious disconnect between kids and the great outdoors, which will change the wild places of the world, its creatures and human health for the worse, unless adults get working on child's play.

Each of us has a place in nature we go sometimes, even if it was torn down. We cannot be the last generation to have that place. At this rate, kids who miss the sense of wonder outdoors will not grow up to be protectors of natural landscapes. “If the decline in parks use continues across North America, who will defend parks against encroachment (蚕食)” asks Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods.

Without having a nature experience, kids can turn out just fine, but they are missing out a huge enrichment of their lives. That applies to everything from their physical health and mental health, to stress level, creativity and cognitive (认知的) skills. Experts predict modern kids will have poor health than their parents — and they say a lack of outside play is surely part of it; research suggests that kids do better academically in schools with a nature component and that play in nature fosters (培养) leadership by the smartest, not by the toughest. Even a tiny outdoor experience can create wonder in a child. The three-year-old turning over his first rock realizes he is not alone in the world. A clump of trees on the roadside can be the whole universe in his eyes. We really need to value that more.

Kids are not to blame. They are over-protected and frightened. It is dangerous out there from time to time, but repetitive stress from computers is replacing breaking an arm as a childhood rite (仪式) of passage.

Everyone, from developers, to schools and outdoorsy citizens, should help regain for our kids some of the freedom and joy of exploring, taking friendship in fields and woods that cement (增强) love, respect and need for the landscape. As present, we should devote some of our energies to taking our kids into nature. This could yet be our greatest cause.

main idea of Paragraph 2 is that ______.

A. parks are in danger of being gradually encroached

B. Richard Louv is the author of Last Child in the Woods

C. children are expected to develop into protectors of nature

D. kids are missing the sense of wonder outdoors

to the author, children's breaking an arm is ______.

A. the fault on the part of their parents

B. the natural experience in their growing-up

C. the results of their own carelessness in play

D. the effect of their repetitive stress from computers

writing this passage, the author mainly intends to ______.

A. encourage children to protect parks from encroachment

B. show his concern about children's lack of experience in nature

C. blame children for getting lost in computer games

D. inspire children to keep the sense of wonder about things around

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Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change — to find poetry where no one has ever seen or experienced it before.

Landscape (风景) is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things

like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography (摄影术) to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom.

Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods.

Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings.

underlined word “poetry” most probably means ______.

A. an object for artistic creation

B. a natural scene

C. a collection of poems

D. an unusual quality

is the author's opinion of artistic reality

A. It is expressed in a fixed artistic form.

B. It will not be found in future works of art.

C. It does not have a long-lasting standard.

D. It is lacking in modern works of art.

does the author suggest about the arts in the last paragraph

A. They are considered important for variety in form.

B. They express people's curiosity about the past.

C. They make people interested in everyday experience.

D. They are regarded as a mirror of the human situation.

of the following is the main topic of the passage

A. Basic questions of the arts.

B. Use of modern technology in the arts.

C. New developments in the arts.

D. History of the arts.

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Hunting

The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals which still survive.

Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely out earliest forefathers, who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often hunted by meat-eating animals.

I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside. There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design; these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high opinion of yourself.

The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives (动机). One of them wrote.

“You must properly respect what you a re after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's own territory (领地). You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. This is better than letting him grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other animals. Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing — not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people.”

I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears (矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger- shoots I have seen, in which modern weapons were used. The so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.

is the author's view on the tiger-shoots he has seen

A. Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons.

B. Modern hunters should put their safety first.

C. Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers.

D. Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face.