玉溪一中2014届高三第一次月考英语试题答案(4)

    ●Either have a trusted neighbor pick up your mail and newspapers, or tell your mailperson to hold your mail until you return． Nothing says “Hey, we are not home!” like when your postbox is filled with all kinds of mails and you have many different newspapers in your driveway．
    ● Set several different lights in your house on random timers（随机定时器）. Don't leave your outdoor lights on all the time．Instead, put your outside light on timers to be on during the nights. If an outdoor light remains on for days at a time, it means that nobody is home to turn it off．
   ● If you have pets that you are not taking with you on vacation, leave them with friend, rather than having someone come into your house every day to take care of them, When thefts see a neighbor or friend entering your house every day, they will know you are not home．
    ● Close all your curtains when you leave town. This is effective to deter possible thefts, as no one can see what is in your house. If they don't know what there is to take, then the risk is even greater for them to break in．
    ●This article just has suggested a few tips to help you keep your house safe on holiday．Nothing can truly protect your home unless you have it monitored by a professional home security system．
61．What is the main idea of the passage?
    A．To let the outdoor lights on all the time．
    B．To tell us how to prevent the thefts around the holidays．
    C．To tell us many families suffering from the thefts while they are on holiday．
    D．To tell us to have our neighbor go to our house to take care of our pets．

62．If you are on holiday in other places, the lights in your house should            .
    A．be turned on only once a day     B．be kept on all the night
    C．be replaced by random timers    D．be lit in an irregular way
63．To make your home well protected, what does the writer advise you to do?
    A．Equip your home with security system．
    B．Stop your mail service at once．
    C．Turn to your close neighbors or friends．
    D．Have all the curtains closed．
64．The underlined word “deter” probably means            .
A．discover        B．surprise          C．discourage      D．attract

C
Ashley and Chris work in the same department designing postcards. Chris had a college degree in art and deeply felt that the degree of his designs was excellent. His last postcard showed the depth of a desert’s beauty and delights.
“It’s just a picture of the desert,” Ashley said. “Not deep at all.”
“Some people desire seeing beauty,” Chris replied. “Mine delivers that”.
Ashley laughed and said, “well, that depends on what you think beauty is.”
Days later, someone delivered a letter to Ashley. The letter said, “You are worthy of the bad things that will come your way. You will know the taste of defeat, and I will destroy you.”
Ashley suddenly felt very cold. It was as if the room temperature had dropped 30 degrees. “Who would do such a shocking deed?” she wondered. “I will not let a simple letter defeat me.”
Just then, Chris came into the room and offered Ashley a piece of his sandwich.
“Try some,” he smiled widely. “It’s delicious.”
“Are you trying to poison me?” Ashley asked. Chris’s answer was delayed from confusion. “What’s your problem?” he asked.
The next day, Ashley brought a bat to use to defend herself. When Chris saw her bat, he joked, “Defend and win one for the team.”
Ashley took no notice of him. She spent the whole day reading self-defending books and placed her work on delay. “You can’t delay your work. Our job demands us to do our work on time,” Chris said. “We must meet the demands of our job.”
“You‘re not the boss,” Ashley replied. “Don’t make demands of me.”
Because Ashley failed to do her work, she was fired.
Chris glanced at Ashley’s empty desk and smiled.
65. What kind of work did Chris and Ashley do?
A. Drawing.              B. Designing.
C. Painting.              D. Building.


66. What did Ashley think of the last postcard designed by Chris?
A. Excellent. 
B. Too bad.  
C. It didn’t show the real beauty of the desert.
D. He expressed himself in an indirect way.
67. We may infer from this passage that ___________.
A. Chris was not a good designer
B. Chris and Ashley were friendly to each other
C. Chris herself must have written the letter
D. It may sometimes bring about bad luck to speak out one’s mind

D
Research suggests that a newly-identified gene known as insomniacs(失眠症患者) may play a role in keeping us asleep. By cloning and testing this gene in about 21,000 fruit flies, Rockefeller University researchers say they have discovered an entirely new mechanism (机制) by which sleep is controlled.
By studying these flies, the researchers discovered that mutations(变异) in the insomniac gene were associated with a great reduction in sleep. While a typical fruit fly slept for an average of 927 minutes a day, the mutant flies slept for just 317. They also slept for shorter periods of time, and slept and woke more frequently.