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1、高三英语阅读理解限时训练23ASydney Opera House Guided Walking TourDuration: 60 minutes approxLocation: Sydney, AustraliaGo behind the scenes listed at the World HeritageSydney Opera House, one of the worlds must-see attractionsOn your one-hour guided walking tour of the Sydney Opera House, youll see what goes on

2、 behind the worlds most recognizable sailsYoull hear the various stories of the buildings construction, as interesting as any opera story, brought alive by the tours new interactive audiovisual 音视频的 presentationLikely to Sell OutThe Sydney Opera House Guided Tour regularly sells out weeks in advance

3、, so book now to avoid disappointmentThe Sydney Opera House was intended for greatness ever since it opened in 1973, and today it is one of Australias most recognizable marksYour guide will bring to life the mysterious stories behind this wonder of architecture and engineering on your one-hour tourY

4、oull visit one of the major concert halls in the opera house, where over 1500 performances are staged each year, and lose yourself in the beautiful world of Australias wonderful performing arts centerThe short one-hour tour leaves you with plenty of time in the day free to enjoy yourselves in Sydney

5、Tour and Pricing OptionsClick the link below for a price on your preferred travel dateOur pricing is changing with the latest information to make sure you always receive the lowest price possible we 100% guarantee 保证itYour currency 货币 is set to US dollarsClick here to change your currencySchedule De

6、tailsDeparts 出发: DailyDeparture Point: Sydney Opera House Information DeskDeparture Time: Tour starts every half hour between 9:00 am and 5:00 pmNew Years Eve tours end at 12:00 pmNew Years Day tours begin at 11:00 amReturn Details: Returns to the starting pointAdditional Information: Wheelchair acc

7、essible, please advise at time of booking if you have limited ability to move aroundPricing details for August $ 2910 Adult; $ 2337 Child; Free Infant41What does the tour allow visitors to enjoy?AThe beautiful views of SydneyBThe various stories of the operasCThe performances in the arts centerDThe

8、buildings wonderful construction42What can we say about the price of the tour?AIts growing BIts very low CIts changeable DIts acceptable43Which is true to visitors according to the text?AThey will get back to where they set outBThey can change money at the information deskCThey have to wait for half

9、 an hour to start the tourDThey are free to enjoy other places of interest in Sydney44What s the purpose of the text?ATo guide the visitorsBTo attract visitors to the tourCTo introduce Sydney Opera HouseDTo explain the one-hour walking tourBFound a nice hotel but wondering if your room will really f

10、it the bill? Launched Thursday, Room 77 wwwroom77com claims to be the worlds first room search engineThere are hundreds of sites where you can get information about a hotel, but inside the hotel itself, the rooms are largely a black box, said Kevin Fleiss, the sites general manager and vice-presiden

11、t of productOften you don t know anything about your room until you really step inside it To deal with that problemRoom 77 carries out a hotel s floor plan with Google Maps to determine the exact place of each individual roomBased on the request users make eghigh or low floor, importance of a view,

12、etc, room choices are various, each one with a computer-generated, clear image 图像 of the real viewAt the Hyatt Regency Waikiki, for example, rooms 1010 and 1410 are both considered Grand Ocean View DoubleOn Room 77, however, you quickly discover that the former looks right into the Waikiki Police St

13、ation; the latter, over the top of itAll Grand Ocean View Doubles, it seems, are not equalAt this point, you can only search within a hotel youve re-selected, but, still, theres no general hotel search feature and theres no guarantee that youll get the exact room youve chosen although the company is

14、 working on both ideasThere is, however, an iPone app, an especially handy tool when a dishonest front desk clerk claims no better rooms are availableInstead of going upstairs and deciding your rooms not a good match, you can see it for yourself along for choices, said FleissIts all at your fingerti

15、ps45The underlined part probably means the rooms are _Alarge in sizeBbadly lightedCtoo expensiveDmostly unknown to guests46The author gives the example in the third paragraph to say that _Ait s easy for guests to be misledBRoom 77 gives a real view of the roomsCGrand Ocean View Doubles are very popu

16、larDhotel room prices are different from floor to floor47What is special about Room 77?AGuests can easily book rooms on itBIt shows which hotel provides good serviceCIt can tell whether the selected room is availableDGuests can see the inside of the rooms in advance on it48According to the text, an

17、iPhone app can help _Aintroduce nice hotels to youBget to know a dishonest clerkCselect a suitable hotel room for youDcheck which rooms have been bookedCA dead six-ton satellite passed over the West Coast and near Auckland before burning up over a remote area of the Pacific Ocean, Nasa maps showThe

18、20-year-old Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite UARS dropped about 24 pieces of metal debris 碎片 over 800 km as it entered Earths atmosphere on SaturdayNasa data tracks its descent 下落 from above the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa to the Pacific Ocean at 141 degrees south latitude and 1898 degr

19、ees east longitudeNew Zealand was the only major land mass on its re-entry pathNasa says satellite debris scattered 撒落 over the south Pacific Ocean about as far away from large land masses as you can getIt says the US Air Force calculated the satellite entered Earths atmosphere generally above Ameri

20、can SamoaBut pieces of it did not start hitting the water for another 480 kilometres to the northeast, southwest of Christmas IslandExperts believe the metal pieces fell over an 800-kilometre spanOn Saturday, scientists said it was possible some pieces could have reached northwestern Canada, but Nas

21、a said overnight that new calculations show it landed earlier than they thought, nowhere near North AmericaNick Johnson, Nasas chief scientist for orbital debris, said the satellite had descended well within the range predicted 预测 by the Joint Space Operations Center JSOCThis was not an easy re-entr

22、y to predict because of the natural forces acting on the satellite as its orbit decayed 轨道变形Some other nations around the world also were monitoring the satellites descent in the last two hours and all the predictions were well within the range estimated by JSOCUARS was launched aboard space shuttle

23、 Discovery in 1991Nasa stopped using the satellite in , after moving it into a lower orbit that cut its life short by 20 years49Which is the right re-entry path of the falling satellite?AIONZPO BAIONA CPOIONZ DIOPONAIO=Indian Ocean; NZ=New Zealand; PO=Paciflc Ocean; A=Africa; NA=North America50Which

24、 is true about the debris according to the text?ASome reached North AmericaBFew fell about American SamoaCSome reached the sea a little laterDMost dropped onto the land and some into the Pacific51What can we infer from Nick Johnson s words?AJSOC did a good job in predictingBThe satellite descended i

25、n a set wayCThe satellite was controlled by JSOCDIt was not easy for the satellite to re-enter52From the text we can know that the satellite was at first designed to use for about _ .A15 years B20 years C35 years D40 yearsDOne of my main concerns when I am helping people achieve their goals is how t

26、hey measure success I see individuals getting frustrated 挫败 as they struggle hard for successOne of the main reasons that cause this frustration is that people allow their definition 定义 of success to be determined by someone or something elseAnother is that they become frustrated at their own appare

27、nt 外表的 lack of success when comparing themselves to other peopleWe are individuals with individual wants, skills and experiencesWe should look our own skills to determine what is successful to usWe should look inward to determine what it would mean for us to be successful in our own mind rather than

28、 someone else sEvaluating 评价 a successful person needs to look at his pathway to success, his actions, his determination and translate that into his own experience to see how he can improve himselfYou must set your own course of action, and stay on your courseYou alone must determine what success me

29、ans to youDo what you do to the best of your ability and the rest will take care of itselfFor example, I believe that I am successful but I am not a millionaire! Others may not see me as successful in their eyes but that does not matterIt is how I see myself that is important to me and my life Here

30、is the truthBeing a success is doing your best, not being the bestSuccess is not something you become; it is something you continue beingWhen we get to that point, we will experience a lot more joy and a lot less frustrationAnd that sounds good to us!Remember the great quote from Napoleon Hill, If y

31、ou cannot do great things, do small things in a great way53In talking about success, the author thinks people feel frustrated because they _Aoften failBstruggle too hardCknow little about themselvesDcare too much about others thoughts54What does the author ask us to do?ABelieve success is aheadBLear

32、n from others to succeedCGain as more skills as possibleDSet a suitable goal and stick to it55Which is true according to the text?AIt is important to do small thingsBWhat matters is the course of trying to succeedCYou will be successful once youve made up your mind.DWhether one can succeed depends o

33、n his determination.EGary Kidd had a pretty good idea that what his 3-year-old grandson had found was no rock, but the tooth of a woolly mammoth 猛犸Thats because he had found one himself nine years agoKaleb Kidd was catching some squirrels last Monday near La Crosse when he spotted what looked like a

34、n unusual rockGrandpa, whats that? Kaleb askedHe told his grandson it looked like the tooth of the extinct 灭绝 woolly mammothNext stop was the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin, which proved that it was, indeed, the tooth of a mammothConnie Arzigian, the centers lab

35、 director, said it could be 10,000 to 30,000 years oldIt weighs 2 pounds and measures 15 centimeters long and 76 centimeters wideThe center already has a woolly mammoth tooth in its collection, but its always fun to see someone discover another one, Arzigian saidIts wonderful to get an idea of what

36、was here in the past, she saidThe latest find is in better shape than the one Gary Kidd brought up from the bottom of the Mississippi River while clamming 捕蛤蚧 in 1998That tooth was water-soaked and had fallen apart, he was told when he took it to the centerGary Kidd, 46, said it would be up to Kaleb

37、 s father, Travis, to decide what to do with the toothFor now it is on display at Satori Arts Gallery, much to Kalebs sadnessWhen we dropped it down at the art gallery, he was cryingHe didnt want to let it go, his granddad saidAt first he thought it was just a rockNow hes all excited56In what order

38、did the whole thing happen?aKaleb Kidd discovered a tooth of the woolly mammothbThe tooth was on display at Satori Arts GallerycGary Kidd clammed on the Mississippi RiverdTravis will decide what to do with the tootheGary Kidd took his find to the centerAa; c; b; d; e Bc; e; a; b; d Cb; d; a; e; c Dc

39、; a; b; d; e57What can we infer from Connie Arzigians words?AThe mammoth tooth looks really funnyBOnly two mammoth teeth have been found so farCThere were some mammoths living there in the pastDThe mammoth tooth in the center is the one found by Gary Kidd58Which do the underlined words That tooth re

40、fer to?AThe latest findBGary Kidds findCKaleb Kidds findDThe find already in the center59What was Kaleb Kidds desire?AKeeping the toothBSelling the tooth to the centerCDisplaying the tooth at the galleryDEarning more money through the tooth60What does the text mainly talk about?AMammoths were extinct long agoBA 3-year-old boy found a mammoth toothCA mammoth tooth can be worth a lot of moneyDThe Mississippi River is a pace for study on mammoths