江苏省南京市2014届高三9月学情调研英语试题答案(4)

    "Couldn't you go to school，too？ I would help you with your lessons.，，
        "But you will not have to stay for a very long time，little Sara，”he had always said. "You
    will grow so fast that it will seem scarcely a year before you are big enough and clever enough to
    come back and take care of Papa.”
          She had liked to think of that．She liked to talk to him and read his books-that would be
    what she would like most in the world，and if one must go away to "the place，， in England to
    attain it，she must mAke up her mind to go．She liked books more than anything else，and was，
    in fact，always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
        Captain Crewe held her very closely in his arms as the cab rolled into the big，dull square in
      which stood the house which was their destination．
      60. The story happened_______．
        A. on a moonless night B. on a foggy day
        C. on a hot day D. on a starry night
     
61．Sara Crewe came to England to_______
          A. visit her relatives B. see her mother's house
        C. receive education D. buy books for her father
      62. We can learn from the story that Sara Crewe was_______．
        A. sceptical B. curious C. cheerful D. imaginative

 C
        The Green Microgym in Portland，Oregon has all the usual
      stuff you'd expect-sweaty people，loud music，smooth exercise
      equipment-but it has some extras as well. Everywhere you
      look，there are power wires. And these aren't the typical kind
    that let you surf the Web while you ride a spin cycle-although
      you can do that too．The gym uses special exercise equipment
    that captures（捕获）the energy you create while riding,
    converts（转换）it into electricity and channels it into the power
    outlets（插座）．
        The idea of using exercise equipment to produce electricity is
    not new. A gym in Hong Kong has been doing this since 2007. But clean (and healthy）energy is
    just now starting to catch on in U. S. gyms·"We have seen a significant increase in interest in the
    past six months，which is a good sign that fitness centers are ready to spend money on green
    technologies，” says Mike Curnyn，co-founder of the Green Revolution，a Connecticut-based firm
    that wires bikes into a central battery that can store energy.
        The Green Microgym，first opened in 2008，has more than 200 members and is doing so well
that owner Adam Boesel opened another one five miles from the original．Although membership
costs about the same as ordinary gyms，customers can earn gift certificates from local businesses
for watts produced while exercising．An average workout creates 37. 5 watt hours，which is
enough to power a phone for a week．
        Boesel uses spin bikes made by Resource Fitness，a Seattle company he co-owns，that
captures energy produced from the flywheel. Wires send the converted AC current（交流电流）
into any standard wall outlet-for this reason，the product line's name is Plug Out-and the
energy created is used before the building draws power from the grid（电网）．Unlike the Green
Revolution equipment，Plug Out machines cannot store extra energy. A third company，the
Florida-based ReRev，is adding converters to a specific brand of spin bikes. But since the
converters add＄1，000 to the price of the equipment，the ReRev and Green Revolution machines
are at a disadvantage．
        Resource Fitness，by contrast，sells its equipment for the same＄1，200 price as non-
electricity-producing machines，removing the question of how long it will be until the energy
savings pay for the cost of the unit．The company can afford to do this because its designs don’t
call for the extra wiring needed for battery packs and large converters．It is also trying to price
competitively with standard equipment so more gyms-and gym Boers-will make the switch．

63．Members of the Green Microgym earn gift certificates for＿．
    A ．using the man-powered exercise equipment
    B. saving electricity for local businesses
  C. producing green electricity to power their phones
    D. paying higher membership fees
64．The spin bikes made by Resource Fitness are different from those by Green Revolution in that
    A. they are easier to ride B. they are more expensive
    C. they don't have wires connected D. they can not store extra electricity
65．What might prevent the green exercise equipment from getting more popular？
    A ．People's unwillingness to go green．
    B. The high cost of making it．