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Text l Cycling in London is less pleasant than in many European cities.Main roads teem with lorries;winding back streets are hard Lo navigate.The number of bicycle journeys has nonetheless doubled since 2000.Nationally,just 2qo pedal to work.In Hackney,in

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Text l Cycling in London is less pleasant than in many European cities.Main roads teem with lorries;winding back streets are hard Lo navigate.The number of bicycle journeys has nonetheless doubled since 2000.Nationally,just 2qo pedal to work.In Hackney,in London's East End,fully 9%do.But only 2%of women cycle to work in London,compared with 5%of men.Blacks and other ethnic minorities are reluctant to do it,too.Bori6 Johnson,London's mayor,oversaw the introduction of a bike-hiring scheme,which was started by his predecessor but quickly became known as the"Boris bike".He pushed for bright blue cycle paths on some busy roads.But the new cycle highways are far more ambitious and permanent.One will run east-west through the City and the West End.Another will run two miles from Elephant and Castle in the south to Farringdon in north London.Four existinE;routes will also be improved,while around 30 0f the city's busiest junctions wiU be made a bit less dangerous.The new superhighways ought io be much safer than London's existing cycle lanes.A raised pavement will keep cyclists away from cars and lorries.Junctions will be redesigned and some parking bays-including a rew for the disabled-will be removed.Cars will be prevented from turning down certain streets.Similar schemes exist elsewhere:since 2007 around 30 miles of protected cycle lanes have been created in New York.In Amsterdam,where lanes have existed for decades,old people and women are far more inclined to cycle.Greens have long lobbied for cycle paths on the grounds that movin8 people out of cars cuts air poUution.A series of highly publicised accidents,including one involving a newspaper journalist,and several deaths in the city have also put pressure on the mayor to make London safer.And the social transformation of the capital has encouraged officials to smile on cyclists.The population of inner London is rebounding as affluenL folk move in.The new inhabitants want cleaner streets and fewer cars,which are viewed as suburban.Cycling was once a means of transport for the poor.But it has become an imporlant marker of an affluent world city,argues Isabel Dedring,the deputy mayor for transport."There's more pressure on cities to be nice places to live,"she says.
The Green Party's aLtitude towards cycling is——

A.optimistic
B.impartial
C.critical
D.favorable
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第1题：

In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a "weight problem". To many people, the cause is obvious: we eat too much. But scientific evidence does little to support this idea. Going back to the America of 1910, we find that people were leaner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less, and didn't watch TV.

Several modern studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on average than thinner people. In fact, some investigations, such as a 1979 study of 3, 545 London office workers, report that, on balance, fat people eat less than slimmer people.

Studies show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Stanford University found the following interesting fact:

The more the man ran, the greater loss of body fat.

The more they ran, the greater their increase in food intake.

Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.

1、What kind of physical problem do many adult Americans have?____

A、They are too slim.

B、They work too hard.

C、They are too fat.

D、 They lost too much body fat.

2、Based upon the statistics given in the article, suppose there are 500 adult Americans, about how many of them will have a "weight problem"?____

A、 30.

B、 50.

C、100.

D、150.

3、Is there scientific evidence to support that eating too much is the cause of a "weight problem"?____

A、Yes, there is plenty of evidence.

B、Of course, there is some evidence to show this is true.

C、There is hardly any scientific evidence to support this.

D、We don't know because the information is not given

4、In comparison with the adult American population today, the Americans of ____.

A、ate more food and had more physical activities

B、ate less food but had more activities

C、 ate less food and had less physical exercise

D、had more weight problems

5、What have modern medical and scientific researches reported to us?____

A、Fat people eat less food and are less active.

B、 Fat people eat more food than slim people and are more active.

C、 Fat people eat more food than slim people but are less active.

D、 Thin people run less, but have greater increase in food intake.


正确答案：1C 2D 3C 4A 5A


第2题：

A new scheme for getting children to and from school is being started by the education authorities in part of Eastern England． This could end the worries of many parents fearful for their children's safety on the roads．
Until now the Country Council has only been prepared to provide bus services for children living more than three miles from their school, or sometimes less if special reasons existed． Now it has been decided that if a group of parents ask for help in organizing transport they will be prepared to go ahead, provided the arrangement will not lose money and that children taking part will be attending their nearest school．
The new scheme is to be tried out this term for children living at Milton who attend Impington school． The children live just within the three-mile limit and the Council has said in the past it will not undertake to provide free transport to the school． But now they have agreed to organize a bus service from Milton to Impington and back, a plan which has the support of the school's headmaster．
Between 50 and 60 parents have said they would like their children to take part in． Final calculations have still to be carried out, but a council official has said the cost of parents should be less than $6．50 a tenn．
They have been able to arrange the service at a low cost because there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington． The same bus would now just make an extra journey to pick up the Milton children． The official said they would get in touch with other groups of parents who in the past had asked if transport could be provided for their children, to see if they would like to take part in the new scheme．
The new bus service will run__________．

A.on morning journeys to school only
B.in connection with an existing service
C.only for children living more than three miles away
D.only in wet weather

答案：B
解析：
根据第三段“ne children live just within the three—mile limit”和第五段“there is already an agreement with the bus company for a bus to take children who live further away to Impington”结合起来考虑，可以排除A、C，D项没有提及，故选B。

第3题：

根据下列材料请回答 26～30 题：

B

Today there are policemen everywhere, but in 1700, London had no policemen at all. A few old men used to protect the city streets at night and they were not paid.

About 300 years ago, London was starting to get bigger and more and more people began to live there. The city was very dirty and many people were poor. There were so many thieves who stole money in the streets that people stayed in their homes as much as possible.

In 1750, Henry Fielding started to pay a group of people to stop thieves. They were like policemen and were called "Bow Street Runners" because they worked near Bow Street.

Fifty years later, there were 120 "Bow Street Runners", but London had become very big and needed more policemen. So in 1829, the first Metropolitan (or London)Police Force was started with 3,000 officers. Most of the men worked on foot, but a few rode horses. Until 1920 all the police in London were men.

Today. the London police are quite well paid and for the few police officers who still ride horses, the pay is even better than for the others.

第 26 题 In 1700, the men who protected the streets were paid __________.

A． a few

B． nothing

C． a little

D． a lot


正确答案：B
根据第一段最后中的they were not paid可以知道他们没有任何报酬，所以答案选B。

第4题：

Text 4 Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June,along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent,as good news.And they were right.For now it appears the economy is creating jobs at a decent pace.We still have a long way to go to get back to full employment,but at least we are now finally moving forward at a faster pace.However,there is another important part of the jobs picture that was largely overlooked.There was a big jump in the number of people who report voluntarily working part-time.This figure is now 830,000（4.4 percent）above its year ago level.Before explaining the connection to the Obamacare,it is worth making an important distinction.Many people who work part-time jobs actually want full-time jobs.They take part-time work because this is all they can get.An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.There was an increase in involuntary part-time in June,but the general direction has been down.Involuntary part-time employment is still far higher than before the recession,but it is down by 640,000（7.9percent）from its year ago level.We know the difference between voluntary and involuntary part-time employment because people tell us.The survey used by the Labor Department asks people if they worked less than 35 hours in the reference week.If the answer is“yes”,they are classified as working part-time.The survey then asks whether they worked less than 35 hours in that week because they wanted to work less than full time or because they had no choice.They are only classified as voluntary part-time workers if they tell the survey taker they chose to work less than 35 hours a week.The issue of voluntary part-time relates to Obamacare because one of the main purposes was to allow people to get insurance outside of employment.For many people,especially those with serious health conditions or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.However,Obamacare has allowed more than 12 million people to either get insurance through Medicaid or the exchanges.These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.With Obamacare there is no longer a link between employment and insurance.
The text mainly discusses____

A.employment in the US
B.parttimer classification
C.insurance through Medicaid
D.Obamacare's trouble

答案：A
解析：
主旨题【命题思路】这是一道主旨题。主要考查考生对全文主题的把握，要求考生能用具有概括性的语言全面总结全文中心思想。【直击答案】本题难度稍大，建议归纳各段要点，综合排除得出正确答案。文章首段指出目前的失业率呈现出下降的趋势；第二段提出在这种失业率下降的好现象中，我们忽略了那些自愿（voluntary）参加兼职工作的人。第三段就自愿兼职工作者和非自愿兼职工作者的区别展开描述。最后两段表明，那些自愿参加兼职工作的人是因为有了一项名为Obamacare的政策，该政策旨在使那些没有全职工作的人也有可能获得保险，从而提升就业率。可见，全文都是围绕美国的就业形势展开讨论。故A项正确。【干扰排除】B项无中生有。C项中的“Medicaid”仅出现在文章结尾，属于细节干扰。D项与作者立场相反，故排除。

第5题：

Text l Cycling in London is less pleasant than in many European cities.Main roads teem with lorries;winding back streets are hard Lo navigate.The number of bicycle journeys has nonetheless doubled since 2000.Nationally,just 2qo pedal to work.In Hackney,in London's East End,fully 9%do.But only 2%of women cycle to work in London,compared with 5%of men.Blacks and other ethnic minorities are reluctant to do it,too.Bori6 Johnson,London's mayor,oversaw the introduction of a bike-hiring scheme,which was started by his predecessor but quickly became known as the"Boris bike".He pushed for bright blue cycle paths on some busy roads.But the new cycle highways are far more ambitious and permanent.One will run east-west through the City and the West End.Another will run two miles from Elephant and Castle in the south to Farringdon in north London.Four existinE;routes will also be improved,while around 30 0f the city's busiest junctions wiU be made a bit less dangerous.The new superhighways ought io be much safer than London's existing cycle lanes.A raised pavement will keep cyclists away from cars and lorries.Junctions will be redesigned and some parking bays-including a rew for the disabled-will be removed.Cars will be prevented from turning down certain streets.Similar schemes exist elsewhere:since 2007 around 30 miles of protected cycle lanes have been created in New York.In Amsterdam,where lanes have existed for decades,old people and women are far more inclined to cycle.Greens have long lobbied for cycle paths on the grounds that movin8 people out of cars cuts air poUution.A series of highly publicised accidents,including one involving a newspaper journalist,and several deaths in the city have also put pressure on the mayor to make London safer.And the social transformation of the capital has encouraged officials to smile on cyclists.The population of inner London is rebounding as affluenL folk move in.The new inhabitants want cleaner streets and fewer cars,which are viewed as suburban.Cycling was once a means of transport for the poor.But it has become an imporlant marker of an affluent world city,argues Isabel Dedring,the deputy mayor for transport."There's more pressure on cities to be nice places to live,"she says.
Riding a bike in London is unpleasant because of the city's——

A.enormous number of cyclists
B.numerous winding main sLreets
C.heavy traffic and complex terrain
D.complicated and changeable weather

答案：C
解析：
细节题。根据题干nding a bike in London is unpleasant定位到首段首句：Cycling in London is less pleasant than in many European cities.题干问原因，答案句来自原文第二句：Main roads teem with lorries;winding back streets are hard Io navigate.“主干道上挤满了卡车；里弄小巷又很难骑行。”与答案句相符的选项为[C]heavy traffic and complex terrain“交通拥堵．地形复杂。”其中main roads teem wirh lorries说明“交通拥堵”，winding back streets are hard to navigate说明“地形复杂”。选项[A]enormous number of cyclists“大量自行车骑行者”；该项与答案句毫无关联，可以排除。[B]numerous winding main streets“无数蜿蜒曲折的主干道”；原文说的是winding back streets“蜿蜒曲折的小路”，而不是main streets“主干道”，该项属于偷换概念。[D]complicated and changeable weather“复杂多变的天气”；该项文章并无提及，属于无中生有。综上，本题答案为[C]。

第6题：

Traffic in India means a mixture of all kinds of vehicles on the road.About 700 000 new cars have been sold in India in the last twelve months, and about twice that many used cars have been traded

The country' s 35 million motorcycles and scooters make it the world s largest two-wheel market.But because there are still big differences in people' s incomes, the roads are full of a whole variety of vehicles, lots of them not motorised

A ride with a taxi driver in New Delhi gives a flavour of a typical Indian-style. traffic jam with all kinds of vehicles held up in city streets or in long lines on narrow country lanes Cars, lorries and buses back up behind a cart pul led by or animal or another."India has everything on the roads."the taxi driver says."You have to watch out for pedestrian

bicycles, carts, cows, donkeys and even elephants.Three things were recommended to drive here, a horn, brakes and good luck Just then we were stopped by a young boy and his cow.(判断正误)

26.The number of second-hand cars traded in the last twelve months is 1, 400, 000.()

27.Because there are 35 million people in India.India is the world’ s largest two- wheeled market.()

28.Because the amount of money that people earn is so different there are so many different types of vehicles in India.()

29.Because the roads are very bad, motor vehicles often held up in India.()

30.The brakes.the horn and luck are three important things in India.()


参考答案：TFTFT

第7题：

If American people borrow money from the bank for 25 years，this means that the person who borrows__________．

A.has twenty-five years to pay back the money
B.has more than twenty-five years to pay back the money
C.has less twenty-five years to pay back the money
D.has about twenty-five years to pay back the money

答案：A
解析：
从文章第一段“The bank usually lends money or gives a mortgage for twenty—five years”得出银行的借期是25年，是一个准确的数字，而不是多于、少于或大约25年。故选A项。

第8题：

Today, London police officers who ride horses are paid __________.

A． the same as their Workmates

B． more than their workmates

C． half as much as their workmates

D． less than their workmates


正确答案：B
根据最后一段后面the pay is even better than for the others可以知道他们比其他的工作人员报酬高，所以答案选B。

第9题：

Kentish Town Road is 8 humdrum high street in north London.It contains pawnbrokers,pound shops,hairdressers and some long-in-the-tooth hardware slores.Unlike Camden Town to the south,full of bars and tattoo parlours,or Hampstead to the west,with its bisLros and boutique clothing shops,little seems to have changed on the street for the past three decades."It's never quite got going,"admiLs Gary McLaren,a local bookseller.Yet the lack of change is odd-and hints at some of the strangeness of London.Kentish Town has excellent Lransport links to ceniral London,and plenty of residenLs prepared to pay good money for thai.Off the high street streich rows of pretty Victorian terraced houses,which sell for as much as 2m a piece.Between 2007 and 2014 property prices in the posLcode area surrounding the main Tube and railway station more than doubled.An influx of French parents,drawn by a school that opened in 2011,is pushing prices even higher.Yet Kentish Town's shops and cafes are almost invariably untrendy and in some cases mouldering.A hair salon,a butcher and a sportswear shop have each been owned by the same men for more than a quarter of a century.Why?One explanation is Lhat,in common with other parts of London,Kentish Town has lots of social housing as well as costly Viclorian terraces.Camden Council,the local authority,is building even more in the borough.This helps cheaper shops survive,suggests Tony Travers of the London School of Economics:council tenants are less likely to drive and so rely more on local outlets.And the sheer volume of car and lorry traffic on the busy high street,which is a main road into the city,might deter shoppers from visiting and swanky businesses from setting up in the area.Demography plays a part,too.Fully 72%of the population of Kentish Town is white,including a good number of Irish residents-higher than the proportion in London as 8 whole,at 60%.Unlike the high streets around Peckham and Brixton in south London,which cater for African shoppers who may travel far to reach them,few specialist shops draw people to Kentish Town."We're not a destinaLion high street,"sighs one local trader.NIMBYs have not always helped.Lots of civic groups are active in the area,campaigning against late licences and the like,says Dan Camer of the Camden New Journal,a newspaper.A local business association is also good at complaining.Partly because of this,a big supermarket has not yet opened on the high street-though Lidl,a discounter,will seL up shop this year."We quite like that il is rough around the edges,"says Michael Williams,a writer and local.Paradoxically,soarinS;house prices in the area might be another brake on change.Wealthy family buyers mean that some houses once split into flats have been tumed back into homes,says Mr Carrier.The result is fewer shoppers on the high street.Wealthy residents are more likely to get their groceries online or drive to bigger stores.And most will go out to the West End rather than a local restaurant.Such"counter-currents"will prevent Kentish Town from gentrifying fully,suggests Gillian Tindall,a local historian.And they affect many other streets in London,too.Lupus Street in Pimlico serves a large council block on one side and white stucco houses on the other.Caledonian Road in Islington,close to rapidly-changing King's Cross,is still fuU of kebab shops.London is a global city,but it is also a collection of villages,cranky and resistant to change.

Gary McLaren admits that

A.few tourists come to visit the town.
B.social housing tenants often shop at local outlets.
C.demography plays a central role in the change.
D.the road remains unchanged for decades.
E.housing price may be an obstacle of change.
F.counter-currents have influenced many streets.
G.property prices near subway and railway station have doubled.

答案：D
解析：
根据Gary McLaren定位到第一段倒数第二、三行：“It's never quite got going,"admits Gary McLaren,a local bookseller.其中，Gary McLaren说的话是紧接着上一句的背景，故上一句与答案密切相关。该句指H liule seems to have changed on the street for the past three decades。选项[D]the road remains unchant;ed for decades与该句表述接近。其中，the road=the streel;remains unchanged=little seems to have changed;for decades=for the pasl three decades。故本题选择[D]。

第10题：

Text l Cycling in London is less pleasant than in many European cities.Main roads teem with lorries;winding back streets are hard Lo navigate.The number of bicycle journeys has nonetheless doubled since 2000.Nationally,just 2qo pedal to work.In Hackney,in London's East End,fully 9%do.But only 2%of women cycle to work in London,compared with 5%of men.Blacks and other ethnic minorities are reluctant to do it,too.Bori6 Johnson,London's mayor,oversaw the introduction of a bike-hiring scheme,which was started by his predecessor but quickly became known as the"Boris bike".He pushed for bright blue cycle paths on some busy roads.But the new cycle highways are far more ambitious and permanent.One will run east-west through the City and the West End.Another will run two miles from Elephant and Castle in the south to Farringdon in north London.Four existinE;routes will also be improved,while around 30 0f the city's busiest junctions wiU be made a bit less dangerous.The new superhighways ought io be much safer than London's existing cycle lanes.A raised pavement will keep cyclists away from cars and lorries.Junctions will be redesigned and some parking bays-including a rew for the disabled-will be removed.Cars will be prevented from turning down certain streets.Similar schemes exist elsewhere:since 2007 around 30 miles of protected cycle lanes have been created in New York.In Amsterdam,where lanes have existed for decades,old people and women are far more inclined to cycle.Greens have long lobbied for cycle paths on the grounds that movin8 people out of cars cuts air poUution.A series of highly publicised accidents,including one involving a newspaper journalist,and several deaths in the city have also put pressure on the mayor to make London safer.And the social transformation of the capital has encouraged officials to smile on cyclists.The population of inner London is rebounding as affluenL folk move in.The new inhabitants want cleaner streets and fewer cars,which are viewed as suburban.Cycling was once a means of transport for the poor.But it has become an imporlant marker of an affluent world city,argues Isabel Dedring,the deputy mayor for transport."There's more pressure on cities to be nice places to live,"she says.
Which of the following is true about Boris Johnson?

A.He initiated a bike-hiring scheme called"Boris bike".
B.He made great effort to build infrastrucLure for cycling.
C.He is a man with strong ambition and great perseverance.
D.He supervised the construction of the new cycle highway.

答案：B
解析：
细节题。根据Boris Johnson定位到第二段。[A]He iniliated a bike-hiring scheme called“Bons bike”，“他发起名为‘鲍里斯自行车’的自行车租赁计划。”原文明确指出：…a bike-hiring scheme,which was started by his predecessor but quickly became known as the“Boris bike”，由此可见这个自行车租赁计划的创始人是其前任，而非Boris Johnson本人，故该项错误。[B]He made great effort to build infrastniciure for cycling.”他为建设自行车基础设施作出巨大努力。”原文说：He pushed for bright blue cycle paths on some busy roads.“他积极推进在一些繁忙道路上建设宝蓝色的自行车通道。”其中push for表示“为……努力，奋力争取”，等于该项的made great effort；原文cycle paths=该项infrastructure for cycling。故该项表述正确。[C]He is a man with strong ambiLion and great perseverance.“他是个志向远大、坚持不懈的人。”与该项相关的原文句子是：Bul the new cycle highways are far more ambitious and permanent.原文提到这些新的自行车高速公路更长远、更持久，但并未提到Boris是个什么样的人，故该项错误。[D]He supervised the construction of the new cycle highway.“他监督新自行车高速公路的建设。”原文首句提到：Boris Johnson...oversaw the introduction of a bike．hiring scheme.原文说Boris监督自行车租赁计划的引进，并没有说他监督“新自行车高速公路的建设”，该项属于偷换概念。综上，本题选择[B]。

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