云南省玉溪一中2014届高三上学期第二次月考英语试题答案(4)

60. Visitors who have the unusual experience of sleeping at the Poseidon resort can _________.
   A. enjoy the excellent service in the hotel
   B. open windows to see sea life swimming
   C. see sea life around them in the room
   D. only watch videos about sea life
61. Which of the following things needs more courage and stricter rules? 
   A. Trying fire walking
   B. Visiting the Poseidon resort
   C. Getting into the Sabeto Mud Pool
   D. Visiting the Fiji museum
62. The underlined word “artifacts” in Paragraph 5 means__________.
   A. historic things made by man
   B. things invented not long ago
   C. things that look very strange
   D. useful things in people’s daily life

C
Runners in a relay race pass a stick in one direction. However, merchants passed silk, gold, fruit, and glass along the Silk Road in more than one direction. They earned their living by traveling the famous Silk Road.
  The Silk Road was not a simple trading network. It passed through thousands of cities and towns. It started from eastern China, across Central Asia and the Middle East, and ended in the Mediterranean Sea. It was used from about 200 BC to about 1300 AD, when sea travel offered new routes. It was sometimes called the world’s longest highway.
  However, the Silk Road was made up of many routes, not one smooth path. They passed through what are now 18 countries. The routes crossed mountains and deserts and had many dangers of hot sun, deep snow and even battles. Only experienced traders could return safe.
The Silk Road got its name from its most prized product. Silk could be used like money to pay taxes or buy goods. But the traders carried more than just silk. Gold, silver, and glass from Europe were much found in the Middle East and Asia. Horses traded from other areas changed farming practices in China. Indian merchants traded salt and other valuable goods. Chinese merchants traded paper, which produced an immediate effect on the West. Apples traveled from central Asia to Rome. The Chinese had learned to graft (嫁接) different trees together to make new kinds of fruit.
  They passed this science on to others, including the Romans. The Romans used grafting to grow the apple. Trading along the Silk Road led to world-wide business 2,000 years before the World Wide Web.
The people along the Silk Road did not share just goods. They also shared their beliefs. The Silk Road provided pathways for learning, diplomacy, and religion.
63. It’s probable that traders along the Silk Road needed ______.
A. to deal with a lot of difficulties B. to know the making of products
C. to receive certain special training           D. to remember the entire trade route
64. The Silk Road became less important because ______.
A. it was made up of different routes  B. silk trading became less popular
C. people needed fewer foreign goods  D. sea travel provided easier routes
65. New technologies could travel along the Silk Road because people ______.
A. shared each other’s beliefs B. learned from one another
C. traded goods along the route D. earned their living by traveling
66. What is the best title for the passage?
A. The Silk Road: Past and Present     B. The Silk Road: East Meets West
C. The Silk Road: Routes Full of Dangers D. The Silk Road: Pathways for Learning

D
Every hour spent in watching TV, DVDs and videos as an adult reduces lifespan by almost 22 minutes, a study suggests. And viewing TV for an average of six hours a day can cut short your life by five years.
The research shows that a sedentary（久坐的） lifestyle is as bad for health as smoking and obesity, because of the dangers caused by inactivity and the greater opportunities it offers for unhealthy eating.
The researchers set out to calculate the overall risk to lifespan from watching television. Their research involved more than 11,000 people over the age of 25.
Writing in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, they concluded. "TV viewing time may be connected with a loss of life, which is similar to other major chronic disease risk factors such as physical inactivity and obesity."
The researchers, from the University of Queensland, used information from the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study, together with population and death rate data.
But they said: "Although we used Australian data, the effects in other industrialized and developing countries are likely to be similar, considering the large amounts of time spent watching TV and similarities in disease patterns." In the United Kingdom, the average amount of time spent watching TV is four hours a day, compared with five hours in the United States.
Earlier this year, a separate study suggested the risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, or dying early, rises by as much as 20 percent after just two hours a day in front of the box.
England's Chief Medical Officer, Sally Davies, said: "Physical activity offers huge benefits and these studies back what we already know - that a sedentary lifestyle carries additional risks. We hope these studies will help more people realize that there are many ways to get exercise."
67. We can learn from the passage that       .
A. whether you watch TV or not has nothing to do with how long you will live
B. if an adult watches TV for six hours every day, he will probably die five years earlier
C. physical inactivity and obesity won't shorten your life
D. a sedentary lifestyle offers huge benefits.
68. The passage implies that _______.