甘肃省兰州市2013高三实战考试英语试题答案(3)

Next to his plate Andrew found a beautiful lettered note. It was from his wife. It read: “Congratulations, my love! I knew you’d get the raise! I prepared this dinner to show just how much I love you. I am so proud of your accomplishments!” He read it and stopped to reflect on how sensitive and caring Tina was.
After dinner, Andrew was on his way to the kitchen to get dessert when he noticed that a second card had slipped out of Tina’s pocket onto the floor. He bent forward to pick up. It read: “Don’t worry about not getting the raise! You do deserve one! You are a wonderful provider and I prepared this dinner to show you how much I love you though you did not get the increase.”
Suddenly tears welled in Andrew’s eyes. Total acceptance! Tina’s support for him was not conditional upon his success at work.
The fear of rejection is often softened and we can face almost any difficulty when we know someone loves us regardless of our success or failure.
36．What was Andrew’s plan that Friday?
A．To request a wage increase from his boss．   B．To get a promotion．
C．To celebrate his success．                 D．To ask his boss to come for dinner.
37．On his way home, Andrew was         .
A．nervous   B．relaxed    C．excited   D．punished
38．Which of the following statements about the passage is FALSE?
A．Andrew was afraid that his request would be refused.
B．Andrew had worked hard and done his part for the company.
C．Andrew’s boss agreed to his request.
D．One of Andrew’s colleagues had told his wife the good news.


39．We can conclude from the passage that         .
A．unconditional love brings courage and strength
B．work hard and you will be rewarded.
C．many fears turn out to be unfounded
D．we should never be afraid to claim what is due to

B
Women are overtaking men in education and in the workplace, a senior Government minister said yesterday – creating a new generation of stay-at-home fathers.
Universities minister David Willetts predicted relationships and traditional household structures will be transformed as the females power ahead, and women earn more than their male partners.
Successful women will have to ‘marry down’ by choosing partners less qualified than them – and may increasingly select men based on how supportive they might be to their careers, rather than whether they can support them financially.
And experts say women will often become the main breadwinners, with more men staying at home to look after children.
Mr. Willetts said there was clear evidence from schools that boys are ‘lagging behind’, and are being overtaken by female students at university．He said: “I am not against women having those advantages but there is now a rather striking gap, if you look at the statistics, where it looks as if approximately 50 percent of women are graduating from university by the time they’re 30 and perhaps about 40 percent of men.” He added: “It may lead to changes in the patterns of household living．So there are some deep questions here.”
The Philadelphia-based Pew Research Centre study, published in The Atlantic magazine, suggests female graduates are being put in similar situation to that faced for some time by black women．In America, 70 percent of black women have no husband and there are twice as many black women as black men with university degrees.
Many educated British women believe there is already a dearth of traditional husbands．Claire Davis, 33, who works in financial services and lives in south London, told The Times: “I have a good job, my own flat and I can pretty much do what I want, but a lot of the men I meet aren't really of the right standard. If I look at the friends I went to university with, the men don't tend to be doing as well as the women.”
40．David Willetts’s attitude toward women’s overtaking men in education and in the workplace could be described as         .
A．excited    B．positive    C．supportive    D．worried
41．Claire Davis’s example is used to indicate that         .
A．a lot of women prefer to be single 
B．black women do not want to be married
C．excellent women have difficulty in looking for a good husband
D．women are less excellent than men in general
42．The underlined word “dearth” in the last paragraph most probably means        .
A．pride   B．respect    B．oversupply    D．shortage
43．The best title of this passage would probably be         .
A．successful women forced to “marry down”
B．A poor generation of stay-at-home fathers
C．The marriages’ influence on economy
D．The advantages of the traditional family pattern

C
Generally speaking, there are three different learning types: Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic. You can be a combination of learning types, but most people have one type that dominates.
1．Visual learners learn best by seeing. If you seem to easily retain information from pictures, graphs, and videos, you are likely a visual learner.
2．Auditory learners learn best by hearing. If you seem to remember things by hearing them, whether listening to a lecture or repeating information out loud, then you are likely an auditory learner.
3．Kinesthetic learners learn best by doing. If you seem to learn best by working with your hands or testing out what you are shown, you are likely a kinesthetic learner.