山东省枣庄三中2014届高三上学期10月学情调查英语试题答案(4)

51. The bad weather caused the following troubles except
   A. school children headed out, playing in the snow
   B. more than 3000 schools had been closed
   C. bus services were withdrawn in London
   D. hundreds of flights were cancelled
52. The underlined word “stranded” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to _____________.      .
   A. hungry     B. sleepy     C. trapped      D. excited
53. We can infer from the passage that ____________________.        .
   A. few people will travel around in the future days
   B. heavy snow will hit Britain more frequently in the future
   C. only school children benefit from the heavy snow
   D. employees are glad to be free because of the snow
54. From what Boris Johnson said we can learn that _________________________.
   A. the UK will always be ill-prepared for heavy snow
   B. the snow now moving northwards will cause no trouble
   C. London can’t afford to buy snow-ploughs and other equipments
   D. London doesn’t have enough snow-ploughs and other equipments
55. Which of the following statements can be the best title of the passage?
A. Hardest snow hit south-east of England.       
B. Heavy snow caused chaos in Britain.
C. Unexpected snowfall, pleasant time for children. 
D. Great loss to businesses and the economy in Britain.
D
Nearly a thousand people laugh heartily together for half an hour every morning in a park in Shenzhen. Guangzhou Daily took a closer look at those happy people.
They are members of a group named Laughing Club, and when they get together, all they do is laugh.
Zhang Lixin, the founder of the club and regarded as the ‘laugh leader’, told the paper that laughing does him a lot of good. He started after he read some advice in a book and tried giggling after quarrelling with his wife to relax.
After laughing for a few days, Zhang found himself more outgoing and relaxed. Soon his wife joined him, bringing the family more laughter and less bickering.
When he got to know a kind of “laughing yoga” is good for the health, Zhang went to Bombay to learn from the locals and developed what he learned into more than 30 ways of laughing.
The “lion bellow (吼)”is to shout with the fingers outstretched near the ears. There is the “open mouth laugh”, the “bow-pulling laugh”, the “welcoming laugh” and even the “quarrelling laugh”, with different arm movements of laugh style.
The “laugh movement” swept over Shenzhen in a few of months, attracting tens of thousands of people to join, and has been followed in nearby cities such as Guangzhou.
Every morning at the lake front and at 8 pm on every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at the mountain peak square in Lianhua Mountain Park, club members gather to laugh and shout loudly.
56. From the first paragraph we know that _________________________.
   A. Guangzhou Daily is the source of the information
   B. those happy people come from Guangzhou Daily
   C. there is a Guangzhou Daily office near Laughing Club
   D. Guangzhou Daily supported the laugh movement
57. The people in Laughing Club laugh because they _____________________.
   A. live a happy life        B. always feel happy
   C. just can’t help it        D. want to relax themselves
58. Which of the underlined words has a meaning similar to “laughing”?
   A. Giggling.  B. Quarrelling.     C. Outgoing.     D. Bickering.
59. According to the passage, when cannot you see club members practicing laughing in Lianhua Mountain Park?
   A. At 8 pm on Sunday.     B. At 8 pm on Monday.
   C. At 8 pm on Friday.     D. At 8 pm on Wednesday.
60. What’s the idea expressed by the last two paragraphs?
   A. The members of Laughing Club are increasing.
B. The laugh movement is becoming popular.
   C. The laughing is done only in parks.       
D. Laughing Club is practicing laughing hard.
E
Have you ever picked a job based on the fact that you were good at it but later found it made you feel very uncomfortable over time? When you select your career, there’s a whole lot more to it than assessing your skills and matching them with a particular position. If you ignore your personality, it will hurt you long-term regardless of your skills or the job’s pay. There are several areas of your personality that you need to consider to help you find a good job. Here are a few of those main areas:
Do you prefer working alone or with other people? There are isolating(使孤立)jobs that will drive an outgoing person crazy and also interactive jobs that will make a shy person uneasy. Most people are not extremes in either direction but do have a tendency that they prefer. There are also positions that are sometimes a combination of the two, which may be best for someone in the middle who adapts easily to either situation.
How do you handle change? Most jobs these days have some elements of change to them, but some are more than others. If you need stability in your life, you may need a job where the changes don’t happen so often. Other people would be bored of the same daily routine.
Do you enjoy working with computers? I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic. There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a computer, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day. Again, these are extremes and you’ll likely find a lot of positions somewhere in the middle as well.