甘肃省武威第五中学2014届高三上学期9月月考英语试题答案(3)

    E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
    We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of
staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
  45. The purpose of this passage is to ________.
     A. explain how to use the Internet
     B. describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology
     C. tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet
     D. introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet
  46. The use of E-mail has made it possible for the writer to ________.
     A. have more free time with his child     B. spend less time working     
     C. work at home on weekends           D. work at a speed comfortable to him
  47. According to the writer, E-mail has an obvious advantage over the telephone because the
    former helps one ________.
     A. reach a group of people at one time conveniently
     B. keep one’s communication as personal as possible
     C. pass on much more information than the later
     D. get in touch with one’s friends faster than the later
  48. The best title for this passage is ________.
     A. Computer: New Technological Advances   
B. Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship
C. Computers Have Made Life Easier        
D. Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication
                          C
Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.
　　I am one of those unlucky people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the place I was heading for.
　　I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit（承认）that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite（相反的）direction to that in which you should be going.
　　If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.
　　Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.
　　Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.
49. What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?
　   A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.
　   B. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.
　   C. He will give the very person long list of direction.
　   D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.
50. Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?
　   A. Because of his poor sense of direction.    
B. Because he always forget the way to home.
　   C. Because he did not have any friend.
D. Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.
51. How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?
A. He felt strange.                      B. He felt embarrassed.   
C. He felt very sad.                     D. He felt astonished.
52. Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?
　 A. Someone we don’t know. B. The writer did it for himself.
　   C. The secretary did so. D. A warm-hearted old lady did it
D
Malnutrition (营养失调)remains a serious problem for India. But a new study shows that India’s leading causes of death now also include diseases related to obesity（肥胖）such as heart disease.
India’s National Family Health Survey shows that more than twenty percent of Indians living in cities are overweight or obese. And in the northwestern state of Punjab, that is true for almost forty percent of women.
Aradhna Tripathi is a business professional in New Delhi. She said, “ Eating is the most important thing in any Indian household and how you show your love and gratitude(感激) for a person is through the kind of food you serve him. And the kind of lifestyle we are leading is one of the reasons why we have the number of obese people increasing every day.