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高考阅读理解训练新闻专题（四）
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Three months after the government stopped issuing（发放）or renewing permits for Internet cafes because of security（安全）concerns, some cafe owners are having financial（经济的）concerns of their own.
The permits were stopped suddenly three months ago by the government until new safeguards could be put in place to prevent misuse of the information superhighway, but for cafe owners it’s a business breakdown with no fix in sight.
“I handed in a request to open up an Internet cafe and received the conditions,” said the businessman Obeidallah. “I rented a place in the Sharafiah district at SR45,000 and prepared the place with equipment that cost me more than SR100,000. When I went to the local government after finishing everything, I was surprised to find that they’d stopped issuing permits for Internet cafes.”
Having an Internet cafe without Internet is much like having a coffee shop without coffee. “I’m avoiding closing the place, but it’s been more than three months with the situation ongoing as it is.” Obeidallah said. “Who will bear the losses caused by the permit issue?”
The decision took many cafe owners by surprise. “I asked to open an Internet cafe, and I was handed a list of all the things that were needed to follow through, such as a sign for the place, filling out forms,” said Hassan Al-Harbi.
“I did all that was asked and rented a place. And after the Haj vacation I went to the local government and they surprised me, saying that there are new rules that forbid the issuing of any more Internet cafe permits and that one can’t even renew his permit. I’ve lost more than SR80,000,” Al-harbi added.
As for the government, officials say a method to deal with it is on the way. But security concerns come before profit（盈利）.
1．The government stopped issuing or renewing permits for Internet cafes .
A．to prevent misuse of new safeguards in Internet cafes
B．to make cafe owners earn less profit from their business
C．to stop the use of the information superhighway on Internet
D. to make sure of the proper use of the information superhighway
2．The government’s decision led to the fact that many cafe owners .
A．suffered heavy financial losses
B．asked to open up Internet cafes
C．continued to operate Internet cafes
D．asked the government for payment
3．The underlined phrase in the last paragraph “on the way” means .
A.to be studied
B．to be put into practice
C. to be changed
D．to be improved
4．The cafe owners found the government’s decision .
A．surprising and unacceptable
B．understandable and acceptable
C. reasonable but surprising
D．surprising but acceptable
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MONTREAL (Reuters) – Crossing the US-Canada border（边界）to go to church on a Sunday cost a US citizen ＄10,000 for breaking Washington’s strict new security（安全）rules.
The expensive trip to church was a surprise for Richard Albert, who lives right on the Canadian border. Like the other half-dozen people of Township 15, crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert. The nearby Quebec village of St. Pamphile is where they shop, eat and go to church.
There are many such situations in these areas along the largely unguarded 5,530-mile border between Canada and the US-which in some cases actually runs down the middle of streets or through buildings.
As a result, Albert says he did not expect any problems three weeks ago when he returned home to the US after attending church in Canada, as usual. The US customs（海关）station in this area is closed on Sundays, so be just drove around the locked gate, as he had done every weekend since the gate appeared last May, following a tightening of border security. Two days later. Albert was told to go to the customs office, where an officer told him be had been caught on carnera crossing the border illegally（非法）.
Ottawa has given out special passes to some 300 US citizens in that area so they can enter the country when Canadian customs stations are closed, but the US stopped a similar program last May. That forces the people to a 200-mile detour along hilly roads to get home through another border checkpoint.
Albert has requested that the customs office change their decisions on the fine, but he has not attended a Sunday church since. “I feel like I’m living in a prison,” he said.
1．We learn from the text that Richard Albert is .
A．an American living in Township 15
B．a Canadian living in a Quebec village
C．a Canadian working in a customs station
D．an American working in a Canadian church
2．Albert was fined because he .
A．failed to obey traffic rules
B．broke the American security rules
C．worked in St. Pamphile without a pass
D．damaged the gate of the customs office
3．The underlined word “detour” in paragraph 5 means .
A．a drive through the town
B．a race across the fields
C．a roundabout way of travelling
D．a journey in the mountain area
4．What would be the best title for the text?
A．A Cross-country Trip
B．A Special Border Pass
C．An Unguarded Border
D．An Expensive Church Visit
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Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement form their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural (多元文化的)，” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”
Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.
Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “whose customs include market shopping.”
Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as tourist attraction.”
1.What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?
A. To provide different forms of amusement.
B. To keep the cultural variety of the city.
C. To inspire its immigrant community.
D. To satisfy its immigrant merchants.
2.Fidenzio Salvatori, with two other students, has got two thousand dollars from the government ______.
A. to make an experiment
B. to perform a research
C. to start a marketplace
D. to operate a business
3. According to Salvatori, the marketplace may also help to improve Toronto’s ______.
A. market management B. travel industry
C. community service D. city planning
4.It can be inferred from the text that the Canadian government supports ______.
A. the protection of different cultures
B. the plan of an open-air market
C. the request of merchants
D. the attitude of shoppers
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Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert, seeking a million in prize money. To win, they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours. Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part －drivers.
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields. But the Grand Challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. One had its brake lock up in the starting area. Another began by throwing itself onto a wall. Another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9 miles.
One turned upside down. One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote (远距离的) control. One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence; another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock. The “winner,” if there was any, reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long, narrow hole, and the front wheels caught on fire.
“You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things,” says Reinhold Behringer, who helped design two of the car-size vehicles for a company called Sci-Autonics. “Even ants (蚂蚁) can do all these tasks effortlessly . It’s very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines.”
The robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes immediately, Sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice off her face, but she already knows that when there’s a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. She is more advanced, even months old, than any machine humans have designed.
1．Watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because .
A．they did not have any human guidance
B．the road was not familiar to the drivers
C．the distance was too long for the vehicles
D．the prize money was unattractive to the drivers
2．DARPA organized the race in order to .
A．raise money for producing more robotic vehicles
B．push the development of vehicle industry
C．train more people to drive in the desert
D．improve the vehicles for future wars
3．From the passage we know “robotic vehicles” are a kind of machines that .
A．can do effortlessly whatever tasks living thing can
B．can take part in a race across 142 miles with a time limit
C．can show off their ability to turn themselves upside down
D．can move from place to place without being driven by human beings
4．In the race, the greatest distance one robotic vehicle covered was .
A．about eight miles B．six miles
C．almost two miles D．about one mile
5．In the last paragraph, the writer implies that there is a long way to go .
A．for a robotic vehicle to finish a 142-mile race without any difficulties
B．for a little child who has just learned to walk to reach the cookie on the table
C．for a robotic vehicle to deal with a simple problem that a little child can solve
D．for a little child to understand the importance of wiping apple juice off its face
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Pet owners are being encouraged to take their animals to work , a move scientists say can be good for productivity , workplace morale (士气), and the well-being of animals .
A study found that 25% of Australian women would like to keep an office pet . Sue Chaseling of Petcare Information Service said the practice of keeping office pets was good both for the people and the pets . “On the pets’ side , they are not left on their own and won’t feel lonely and unhappy,” she said . A study of major US companies showed that 73% found office pets beneficial (有益的) , while 27% experienced a drop in absenteeism (缺勤).
Xarni Riggs has two cats walking around her Global Hair Salon in Paddington . “My customers love them. They are their favorites ,” she said . “They are not troublesome . They know when to go and have a sleep in the sun .”
Little black BJ has spent nearly all his two years “working” at Punch Gallery in Balmain . Owner Iain Powell said he had had cats at the gallery for 15 years . “BJ often lies in the shop window and people walking past tap on the glass ,” he said .
Ms Chaseling said cats were popular in service industries because they enabled a point of conversation . But she said owners had to make sure both their co-workers and the cats were comfortable .
1．The percentage of American companies that are in favor of keeping office pets is .
A．73% B．27% C．25% D．15%
2．We know from the text that “BJ”
A．works in the Global Hair Salon
B．often greets the passers-by
C．likes to sleep in the sun
D．is a two-year-old cat
3．The best title for this text would be .
A．Pets Help Attract Customers
B．Your Favorite Office Pets
C．Pets Join the Workforce
D．Busy Life for Pets
参考答案
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1.D 2.A 3.B 4.A
1.解析：这是一道细节推断题。根据第二段可判断出政府对网吧停止发放或更新许可证的原因是为了保证使信息高速公路合理运用。
2. 解析：这是一道细节推断题。根据倒数第二段“I’ve lost more than SR80 000.”可判断出政府的决定使网吧经营者在经济上受到很大损失。
3. 解析：这是一道猜义题。根据上文的内容可判断出这个短语的意思是“付诸实施”。
4. 解析：这是一道细节推断题。从倒数第二段网吧老板的话语中可以看出他们既感到吃惊又不愿接受。
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1.A 2.B 3.C 4.D
1. 解析：这是一道细节题。第二段“Like the other half?dozen people of Township 15，crossing the border is a daily occurrence for Albert.”告诉我们Richard Albert是一位住在Township 15的美国人。
2. 解析：这是一道细节题。根据第四段“Two days later，Albert was told to go to the customs office，where an officer told him he had been caught on camera crossing the border illegally.”可判断出Albert受罚的原因是他违反了美国安全条例。
3. 解析：这是一道猜测词义题。根据这段的内容可判断出由于美国停止了Ottawa使用的方法，使得人们不得不迂回200英里通过山回家。
4. 解析：这是一道主旨题。这篇短文讲述了一位美国人为了去教堂而违反了美国安全法，而被罚款$10 000美元。所以An Expensive Church Visit是最佳题目。
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1.B 2.C 3.C 4.A
1. 解析：这是一道细节推断题。根据第一段“It’s a city from many places， and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”可判断出Findenzio Salvatori举办户外市场的目的是帮助保持这个城市文化的多样性。
2. 解析：这是一道细节推断题。根据第四段“Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism， the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open－art market.”可判断出他们从政府接受两千美元来进行研究工作。
3. 解析：这是一道细节题。根据最后一段“But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants， as well as a tourist attraction.”可推断出市场也会帮助发展旅游事业。
4. 解析：这是一道推断题。根据Salvatori和他的同学得到政府的帮助进行这项工作可以推断出政府支持保护文化多样性。
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1.A 2.D 3.D 4.A 5.C
1. 解析：这是一道细节推测题。因为第一段最后一句表明这些汽车都没有驾驶员。
2. 解析：根据第二段for future battlefields可以推测是军事目的，选D。
3. 解析：这是一道猜测词义题。根据第二段第二句“without human guidance”可以推断选D。
4. 解析：这是一道细节题。根据第三段最后一句可知获胜者跑了7.8英里，接近8英里。
5. 解析：这是一道推断题。a long way to go远远不能。根据最后一段“she is more advanced...than any machine...”可知机器远不如人的智力。其他没有提到。
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1.A 2.D 3.C
1. 解析：这是一道细节题。第二段“A study of major US companies showed that 73% found office pets beneficial，while 27% experienced a drop in absenteeism.”说明有73%的美国公司喜欢在办公室养宠物。
2. 解析：这是一道细节题。倒数第二段“Little black BJ has spent nearly all his two years.”表明BJ是一只两岁大的猫。
3. 解析：这是一道主旨题。根据这篇短文的内容以及第四段第一句可知C项正确，其余三项都不全面。