泸州高级教育培训学校年仿真考试英语试题答案(3)

第三部分: 阅读理解（共2小题；每小题2分，满分40分）
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.
My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single mother at the age of eighteen. While I was growing up, we lived a very hard life. We had little money, but my mom gave me a lot of love. Each night, she seated me on her lap and spoke the words that would change my life, “Kemmons, you are certain to be a great man and you can do anything in life if you work hard enough to get it.”
At fourteen, I was hit by a car and the doctors said I would never walk again. Every day, my mother spoke to me in her gentle, loving voice, telling me that no matter what those doctors said, I could walk again if I wanted to badly enough. She drove that message so deep into my heart that I finally believed her. A year later, I returned to school－walking on my own!
When the Great Depression hit, my mom lost her job. Then I left school to support the both of us. At that moment, I was determined never to be poor again.
Over the years, I experienced various levels of business success. But the real turning point occurred on a vacation I took with my wife and five kids in 1951. I was dissatisfied with the second-class hotels available for families and was angry that they charged an extra $ 2 for each child. That was too expensive for the average American family. I told my wife that I was going to open a motel(汽车旅馆) for families that would never charge extra for children. There were plenty of doubters at that time.
Not surprisingly, mom was one of my strongest supporters. She worked behind the desk and even designed the room style. As in any business, we experienced a lot of challenges. But with my mother’s words deeply rooted in my soul, I never doubted we would succeed. Fifteen years later, we had the largest hotel system in the world－Holiday Inn. In 1979 my company had 1,759 inns in more than fifty countries with an income of $ 1 billion a year.
You may not have started out life in the best situation. But if you can find a task in life worth working for and believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.
41．According to the author, who played the most important role in making him walk back to school again?
A．Doctors.   B．Nurses.     C．Friends.        D．Mom
42．What caused Kemmons to start a motel by himself?
A．His terrible experience in the hotel.     B．His previous business success of various levels.
C．His mom’s support.                  D．His wife’s suggestion.
43．Which of the following best describes Kemmons’ mother?
A．Modest, helpful, and hard-working.      B．Loving ,supportive and strong-willed.
C．Careful, helpful and beautiful.          D．Strict, sensitive and supportive.
44．Which of the following led to Kemmons’ success according to the passage?
A．Self-confidence, hard work, higher education and a poor family.
B．Mom’s encouragement, clear goals, self-confidence and hard work.
C．Clear goals, mom’s encouragement, a poor family and higher education.
D．Mom’s encouragement, a poor family, higher education and opportunities.
                            
B
Have you ever seen a 250-mile-wide bath sponge? Well, take a look at Hyperion, one of Saturn’s (土星) moons. Recent photos of the hamburger-shaped moon reveal a strange world covered with large and small craters (陨石坑). The photos were taken by high-tech cameras aboard the spacecraft Cassini, which has been exploring Saturn and its moons since 2004.
Scientists studying the photos have recently identified something surprising: dark and reddish material on Hyperion’s surface. They believe that the substance may be organic material, including combinations of the chemical elements hydrogen and carbon. That’s important because all life, including human life, is built from organic building blocks. “Organic material is the key to understanding life in the solar system. When we try to understand how life formed on Earth and whether life could form on other planets, this is one of the things we look at,” says Dr. Amanda Hendrix. She is a planetary scientist who works on the Cassini project. So how did such material get on a lifeless moon circling Saturn? Scientists suspect it was deposited by meteors (陨石). “Craters on Hyperion are the result of meteoroid impact,” said Dr. Hendrix. “A meteoroid is the leftover material from the formation of planets.”
The largest crater on Hyperion is 75 miles across and 6 miles deep! But even though Hyperion looks like a sponge, it most likely doesn’t feel like one. Cassini has found that the moon is made mainly of ice.
Cassini may give scientists many more surprises. It is scheduled to orbit Saturn until next year, but NASA scientists also hope to extend the spacecraft’s mission until 2010. Unlike Earth, which has only one moon, Saturn has 48 moons. The extra two years will give scientists an opportunity to learn more about Saturn’s many moons. “This mission not only has given us a lot of answers but also has posed a lot of new questions,” says Hendrix.
45. Why are scientists interested in organic material in space?
A. Because it appears on Hyperion which forms building blocks.
B. Because it combines the chemical elements hydrogen and carbon.
C. Because it is dark and reddish material on Hyperion’s surface.