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1、2022年综合类每日一练08-14-综合类1、It is said the houses along this street will soon be pulled down.（）A. demolishedB. constructC. pulled offD. pulled in2、Telling Tales about People ? ?One of the most common types of nonfiction, and one that many people enjoy reading, is stories about peoples lives. These storie

2、s fall into three general categories: autobiography, memoir, and biography. ? ?An autobiography is the story of a persons life written by himself or herself. Often it begins with the persons earliest recollections and ends in the present. Autobiography writers may not be entirely objective in the wa

3、y they present themselves. ?However, they offer the reader a good look at the way they are and what makes them that way. People as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Helen Keller have written autobiographies. ?Other writers, such as James Joyce, have written thinly fictionalized accounts of their live

4、s. These are not autobiographies, but they are very close to it. ? ?Memoirs, strictly speaking, are autobiographical accounts that focus as much on the events of the times as on the life of the author. Memoir writers typically use these events as backdrops for their lives. ?They describe them in det

5、ail and discuss their importance. ?Recently, though, the term memoir seems to be becoming interchangeable with autobiography. A memoir nowadays may or may not deal with the outside world. ? ?Biographies are factual accounts of someone elses life. In many senses, these may be the hardest of the three

6、 types to write. Autobiography writers know the events they write about because they lived them. But biography writers have to gather information from as many different sources as possible. Then they have to decide which facts to include. Their goal is to present a balanced picture of a person, not

7、one that is overly positive or too critical. A fair, well-presented biography may take years to research and write. The writer introduces each category in the passage by_A. giving an exampleB. explaining why it is hard to writeC. defining itD. telling when people first began writing it3、American Spo

8、rtsThe United States is a sports-loving nation. Sports in Americatake a variety of forms: organized competitive struggles, which draw hugecrowds to cheer their favorite team to victory; athletic games,played forrecreation anywhere sufficient space is found; and hunting and fishing. Mostsports are se

9、asonal, so that what is happening in sports depends upon the timeof year. Some sports are called spectator sports, as the number of spectatorsgreatly exceeds the number playing in the game.Baseball is the most popular sport in the US. It is playedthroughout the spring and summer, and professional ba

10、seball teams play wellinto the fall. Although no other game is exactly like baseball, perhaps the onemost nearly like it is the English game of cricket.Football is the most popular sport in the fall. The gameoriginated as a college sport more than 75 years ago. It is still played byalmost every coll

11、ege and university in the country, and the football stadiumsof some of the largest universities seat as many as 80, 000 people. The game isnot the same as European football or soccer. In American football there are 11players on each team, and they are dressed in padded uniforms and helmetsbecause th

12、e game is rough and injuries are likely to occur.Basketball is the winter sport in American schools and colleges.Like football, basketball originated in the US and is not popular in othercountries. Many Americans prefer it to football because it is played indoorsthroughout the winter and because it

13、is a faster game. It is a very populargame with high schools, and in more than 20 states, state-wide high schoolmatches are held yearly.Other spectator sports include wrestling, boxing, and horseracing. Although horse-racing fans call themselves sportsmen, the accuracy ofthe term is questionable, as

14、 only the jockeys who ride the horses in the racescan be considered athletes. The so-called sportsmen are the spectators, who donot assemble primarily to see the horses race, but to bet upon theoutcome of each race. Gambling is the attraction of horse racing.Basketball in American is so popular with

15、 universities thatnationwide university matches are held yearly.A. RightB. WrongC. Not mentioned4、He is sure of a house-building boom after the new investment policies are put into practice.（）A. decreaseB. increaseC. influenceD. preparation5、The conference Uexplored/U the possibility of closer trade

16、 links.A. rejectedB. investigatedC. proposedD. postponed6、下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。B第一篇/B? ?Electronic Mail? ?During the past few years, scientists all over the world have suddenly found themselves productively engaged in task they once spent their lives avoid

17、ingwriting, any kind of writing, but particularly letter writing. Encouraged by electronic mails surprisingly high speed, convenience and economy, people who never before touched the stuff are regularly, skillfully, even cheerfully tapping out a great deal of correspondence.? ?Electronic networks, w

18、oven into the fabric of scientific communication these days, are the route to colleagues in distant countries, shared data, bulletin boards and electronic journals. Anyone with a personal computer, a modem and the software to link computers over telephone lines can sign on. An estimated five million

19、 scientists have done so with more joining every day, most of them Communicating through a bundle of interconnected domestic and foreign routes known collectively as the Internet, or net.? ?E-mail is starting to edge out the fax, the telephone, overnight mail, and of course, land mail. It shrinks ti

20、me and distance between scientific collaborators, in part because it is conveniently asynchronous (异步的). (Writer can type while their colleagues across time zones sleep; their message will be waiting). If it is not yet speeding discoveries, it is certainly accelerating communication.? ?Jeremy Bernst

21、ein, the physicist and science writer, once called E-mail the physicists umbilical cord (脐带). Later other people, too, have been discovering its connective virtues. Physicists are using it; college students are using it; everybody is using it; and as a sign that it has come of age, the New Yorker ha

22、s celebrated its liberating presence with a cartoonan appreciative dog seated at a keyboard, saying happily, On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog. What will happen to fax, land mail, overnight mail, etc. according to the writer?A. Their functions cannot be replaced by E-mailB. They will co-exis

23、t with E-mail for a long timeC. Less and less people will use themD. They will play a supplementary function to E-mail7、BShopping online/B? ?Internet retailer AMAZON. COM on Wednesday released a rare and revealing peek at its customers shopping habits, taken from a September e-mail poll of 2,072 cus

24、tomers of its French, German and United kingdom sites.? ?The company said the research was done in the name of improving customer service. We have to learn from the nuances and idiosyncrasies of each nations shopping habits to see how we can serve our customers better this Christmas, said Robin Terr

25、ell, managing director of Amazon. co. uk.? ?The findings paint a unique picture of the shopping habits of the worlds largest online retailer, plus their motivation and preferences.? ?For instance, the round-the-clock convenience of e-commerce ranked above price as the prime motivating factor for onl

26、ine shoppers, the company said.? ?And more purchases are made from home than work. According to the poll results, 31 percent of shoppers plunk down their credit card during work hours, against 67 percent at home or in a home office.? ?The notable exception is Ireland, where 46 percent of shoppers po

27、lled do so while at their office desk. The British are the second worst offenders, with 40 percent admitting to on-the-job shopping, while the Danes are the most honorable, with one in five making a purchase while on the job.? ?At 53 percent, the majority of Europeans shop in the evenings at home. A

28、ustrians and Germans are the most avid night owl shoppers, with 63 percent and 62 percent, respectively, reporting this habit. The Germans, though, are the least likely group to shop online after 10 p. m., the study said.? ?Other findings include: the French and British are most active shoppers with

29、 three in 10 visiting e-commerce sites more than 10 times per month; and the Irish have the greatest concentration of shopaholicsone in ten hit the cybershops more than 20 times a month, twice the European average.? ?In contrast, just 1 percent of Italians polled shop online more than 20 times per m

30、onth.? ?The least active group are the Dutch, with 25 percent reporting they shop online once a month or less. But among the senior set, Dutch silver surfersInternet users above the age of 50shop online 20 percent of the time, Amazon said.? ?The French, meanwhile, like to get an early and late crack

31、 at online shopping with 18 percent logging on after 10 p.m. and 11 before 10 a. m., the company said.? ?And what about the Swedes? According to the survey, the Swedes are most likely among those polled to buy something they hadnt planned on purchasing.What does log on (Para. 11, Line 2) mean in thi

32、s passage?A. Stop.B. Begin.C. Dwell.D. Wait.8、The boss put great (stress) on the workers so that they could work harder.A. angerB. controlC. pressureD. nerve9、? ?下面的短文有15处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定1个最佳选项。? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? BThe Ideal Husband/B? ?Science now might

33、be able to explain womens fascination with Brad Pitts face and George Clooneys eyes. Women seem toU ?(51) ?/Upotential mates by how masculine their features are, new research shows. Men with square jaws and well-defined brow ridges are seen as good short-term partners,U ?(52) ?/Uthose with more femi

34、nine traits such as a rounder face and fuller lips are perceived as better long-term mates.? ?In the study by Daniel Kruger at the USs University of Michigan, 854 subjects viewed a series ofU ?(53) ?/Uhead shots that had been digitally changed to exaggerate or minimize masculine traits They thenU ?(

35、54) ?/Uquestions about how they expected the men in the photos to behave.? ?Most participants said that those with more masculine features wereU ?(55) ?/Uto be risky, competitive, and more apt to fight, challenge bosses, cheat on spouses and put less effort into parenting. Those with more feminineU

36、?(56) ?/Uwere seen as good parents and husbands, hard workers and emotionally supportive mates.? ?But, despite all the negative characteristics, when asked who they would choose for a short-term relationship, women selected the more masculineU ?(57) ?/Umen. Brad and George, both chiseled jaws and we

37、ll-defined brows, then would be good for aU ?(58) ?/Uromance, not for something longer.? ?The study was published in the December issue of the US journal Personal Relationships.? ?Kruger said that from an evolutionary perspective, thisU ?(59) ?/Usense. The key is testosterone, the hormone responsibl

38、eU ?(60) ?/Uthe development of masculine facial features and other sexual characteristics. It has been found to affect the bodys ability to fight disease: men with high levels of the hormone are typicallyU ?(61) ?/Uand healthy-traits women want to pass on to their children.? ?However, increased test

39、osterone has also been linked toU ?(62) ?/Uand violence in relationships. So, these menU ?(63) ?/Uproduce high quality offspring, but they dont always make great parents or faithful mates, Kruger says.? ?The scientific community haveU ?(64) ?/Uskepticism toward physiognomy, which links facial charac

40、teristics to certain behavioural traits. But Kruger argues that the research is a valuable tool for understanding mating strategies. And, of course, for explaining why Tony Leung and Takeshi Kanesshiro have millions of femaleU ?(65) ?/U. It might have to do with their genes. Or something to do with

41、ours.A. seemingB. appearingC. lookingD. pretending10、BYoung people and their parents/B? ?It is natural for young people to be critical of their, parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more or less justly, that their parents are

42、 out of touch with modern ways; that they are possessive and dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crisis; that they talk too much about certain problemsand that they have no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships.? ?I think it is true that parents often undere

43、stimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when young.? ?Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been

44、accepted. So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, it turns out that their music or entertainers or vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents. This gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in small way, and that they are leaders in style

45、 and taste.? ?Sometimes you are resistant, and proud because you do not want your parents to approve of what you do. If they did approve, it looks as if you are betraying your own age group. But in that case, you are assuming that you are underdog: you cant win but at least you can keep your honor.

46、This is a passive way of looking at things. It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under your parents control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible for yourself.? ?If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that

47、 plan. You can charm others, especially your parents, into doing things the way you want. You can impress others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you the authority to do what you want to do.The author is primarily addressing _.A. parents of teenagersB. newspaper readersC. those who give advice to teenagersD. teenagers