2015宁夏银川一中高三第四次月考英语试题及答案(2)

Then he added, “That's the way it is with every living organism.”
That's how it is with people. Challenged and tested, we come alive! Like coral pounded by the sea, we grow. Physical demands can cause us to grow stronger. Mental and emotional stress can produce tough-mindedness and resiliency. Spiritual testing can produce strength of character and faithfulness. So, you have problems? No problem! Just tell yourself, "There I grow again!" 
Remember: A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
21. Who has no problems according to the passage?
A. The persons who are very famous.    B. The persons who have much money.
C. The persons who have been born.     D. The persons who are living in the cemeteries. 
22. In the writer's opinion, ________.
A. problems bring us much trouble
B. problems have two sides, good or bad
C. we should try to stay away from any trouble
D. the fewer things we do, the less trouble we'll meet
23. The reason why lagoon side of the reef has no life is _______.
A. it hasn't got any sunlight              B. it has less energy than others
C. it never faces any challenge and tests    D. it has no work to do every day
24. After reading this passage, we should ________.
A. regard any problem as challenge        B. learn from the lagoon side 
C. worry your problem                   D. enter into cemeteries


B
A study of more than five million books, both fiction and non-fiction, has found a marked decline in the use of emotional words over time. The researchers form the University of Bristol used Google Ngram Viewer, a facility for finding the frequency of terms in scanned books, to search for more than 600 particular words identified as representing anger, dislike, fear, joy, sadness and surprise.
They found that almost all of the categories showed a drop in these “mood words” over time. Only in the category of fear was there an increase in usage.
“It is a steady and continuous decrease,” said Dr Alberto Acerbi. He assumed that the result might be explained by a change in the position occupied by literature, in a crowded media landscape. “One thing could be that in parallel to books the 20th century saw the start of other media. Maybe these media — movies, radio, drama, had more emotional content than books.”
Although both joy and sadness followed the general downwards trend, the research, published in the journal PLOS One, found that they also exhibited another interesting behaviour：the ratio (比率) between the two varied greatly, apparently mirroring historical events.
During the Roaring Twenties the joy-to-sadness ratio reached a peak that would not occur again until before the recent financial crash. But the ratio plunged at the height of the Second World War. Nevertheless, the researchers held a reserved opinion about their claim that their result reflected wider social trends. In the paper, they even argue that the reverse could be true.
“It has been suggested, for example, that it was the suppression (压抑) of desire in ordinary Elizabethan English life that increased demand for writing ‘filled with romance and sex’… perhaps,” they conclude, “songs and books may not reflect the real population any more than catwalk models reflect the average body.”
25. The word "decline" (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to_________.
   A. increase B. rise C. decrease D. change
26. A study of more than five million books indicated a decrease in “mood words” over time except_______.
   A. in the use of the words of historical events      B. in the category of fear
   C. in the category of literature                  D. in the category of joy
27. What’s the main idea of this passage?
   A. A study of emotional words.      B. A study about vocabulary in literature.
C. Reasons for the use of emotional words decreases in literature.
   D. A study on increase in the category of fear.
C

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