An advantage is the company's ability to adapt to local demands, ________ following a fixed procedure．

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A．rather than

B．other than

C．more than

D．less than

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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆貴州省遵義四中高三第二次月考英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解

Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive people are happier and healthier，have better marriages and have more respectable occupations. Personal consultants give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants(被告)．But in the executive circle，beauty can become a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder，it is harmful to a woman.
Handsome male executives were thought as having more integrity than plainer men；effort and ability were thought to account for their success.
Attractive female executives were considered to have less integrity than unattractive ones；their success was attributed not to ability but to factors such as luck.
All unattractive women executives were thought to have more integrity and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly，though，the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was attributed more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able？An attractive woman is thought to be more feminine and an attractive man more masculine(有男子氣概的)than the less attractive ones. Thus，an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs，but an attractive woman in a traditionally masculine position appears to lack the “masculine” qualities required.
This is true even in politics. “When the only clue is how he or she looks，people treat men and women differently，”says Anne Bowman，who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs，one of men and one of women，in order of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again，in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males utterly defeated unattractive men，but the women who had been ranked most attractive invariably received the fewest votes.
【小題1】The underlined word “l(fā)iability”(in Para.1)most probably means “________”．

A．misfortuneB．instabilityC．disadvantageD．burden
【小題2】In traditionally female jobs，attractiveness________.
A．reinforces(加強)the feminine qualities required
B．makes women look more honest and capable
C．is of primary importance to women
D．often enables women to succeed quickly
【小題3】Bowman's experiment reveals that when it comes to politics，attractiveness________.
A．turns out to be an obstacle to men
B．a(chǎn)ffects men and women alike
C．has as little effect on men as on women
D．is more of an obstacle than a benefit to women
【小題4】It can be inferred from the passage that people's views on beauty are often________.
A．practicalB．prejudicedC．old­fashionedD．pessimistic
【小題5】The author writes this passage to________.
A．demand equal rights for women
B．emphasize the importance of appearance
C．discuss the negative aspects of being attractive
D．give advice to job­seekers who are attractive

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科目：高中英語 來源：2012-2013學(xué)年浙江省某重點高中高一12月月考英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解

Old Computers Make for Unhappy Workers --- Survey
LONDON  (Reuters) ----- Dealing with the dissatisfaction of aging and unreliable office computers leads to workers' unhappiness and more sick leave, a survey showed on Wednesday.
A survey carried out by caro4free.net of over 2,700 European office workers from the UK, France and Germany found that workplace dissatisfaction increased greatly with the age of the computer equipment.
"We do know that job satisfaction is falling in Britain and most advanced nations," said Stephen White, a researcher from the Work Foundation. "The actual reasons for this are the subject of very heated discussion. It's certainly one interesting theory that technology may be the cause of this in some way," White added.
A quarter of these using outdated computers in Britain said they were "quite" or "very dissatisfied" with their everyday job compared to the percent of those who had enjoyed an advantage from up-to-date technology.
The survey also said that among workers dealing with outdated equipment, there was a 35 percent greater probability they would take six or more days of sick leave per year compared with the average worker. In France, where more workers use old computers, the probability jumped to 55 percent.
Results also showed that women in the three countries were more likely to be using outdated equipment. In the UK, where more workers have up-to-date computers than in the other countries surveyed, the number of women using old equipment doubled that of men.
White pointed out that there were two sides to this problem, saying that continuously having to deal with new technology and equipment can also be a source of worry. "Old and faulty equipment is a major cause of office dissatisfaction. There is no question about it; but you also have to say that the frequent change of equipment is also, or could be, a main cause of dissatisfaction."
【小題1】The underlined word "this" (paragraph 3) refers to ______.

A．workplace dissatisfactionB．computer use in most jobs
C．the aging off office computersD．the survey by care4@ free. net
【小題2】How many office workers use old computers in Britain expressed their dissatisfaction?
A．16%B．25%C． 35%D．55%
【小題3】According to White, why were the women surveyed more likely to use old computers?
A．Most office workers use old computers.
B．They do some of their work with computers.
C．Dealing with new equipment can cause anxiety.
D．They are easier to be satisfied with new technology.
【小題4】What is the subject of the news story?
A．Poor working conditions in offices
B．Research work of the Work Foundation
C．Influence of technology in the workplace.
D．Different attitudes to old computers.

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科目：高中英語 來源：2011屆福建省莆田一中高三上學(xué)期第三次月考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解

Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new 47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be lost to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs.
Fox Point is operated by Palladia, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy people. Palladia received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providing support to housing developers.
ECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (環(huán)境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly building materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.
Michael. Bloomberg, New York's mayor plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for 500,000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York City’s greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused by housing. So he recently announced that the city’s Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the city’s supply of affordable housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECP’s green standards.
Similar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New York’s DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.
【小題1】What is the purpose of describing the boiler room in the first paragraph?

A． To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people.
B． To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.
C． To show how the environment-friendly building works.
D． To compare old and new boiler rooms.
【小題2】What is an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards?
A． Lower running costs.
B． Costing less in construction.
C． Less air to be lost in hot days.
D． Better prices for homeless people.
【小題3】 It can be learned from the text that, ____________________.
A． New York City is seriously polluted
B． people’s daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York City
C． a great number of people in New York City don't have houses to live in
D． some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City
【小題4】What is the main purpose of this text?
A． To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.
B． To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.
C． To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.
D． To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.

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Cheating is common in various kinds of exams in college. Students don’t feel shame to cheat in exams. They know that if caught cheating in an exam, the punishment will not be serious. This leads to frequent cheating in exams.
At the University of Nevada, after students photographed test questions with their cellphone cameras, transmitted them to classmates outside the exam room and got the answers back in text messages, the university put in place a new monitoring system.
With their electronic tools, students these days find it easier to cheat. So college officials find themselves in a new game of cat and mouse, trying to gain an advantage over would-be cheats this exam season with a range of strategies—cutting off Internet access from laptops, or demanding the surrender of cellphones before tests.
Mr. Dapremont said technology had made cheating easier, but added that plagiarism（剽竊）in writing papers was probably a bigger problem because students can easily lift other people’s writings off the Internet.
Still, some students said they thought cheating these days was more a product of an attitude, not the tool at hand. Pressure to succeed sometimes clouds everything and makes people do things that they shouldn’t do. Students today feel more pressure to do well in order to graduate from school and secure a job.
Whatever the reasons for cheating, college officials say the battle against it is wearing them out. First, people who cheat in exams will lose interest in studying. Second, they believe studying isn’t meaningful. Even though they don’t do anything, they can still pass. Third, people who cheat in exams will influence others. Plenty of hardworking people will see that their results are lower than people who cheat in exams. Thus, we must prevent cheating in exams. We reduce the opportunities for cheating in exams.
The vast majority of Americans still believe that honesty is an important part of the American character. For that reason, there are numerous watchdog committees at all level of society. Although signs of dishonesty in school, business, and government seem much more numerous in recent years than in the past, could that because we are getting better at revealing such dishonesty?
Many educators feel that as students gain confidence in themselves and their abilities, they are less likely to cheat. Surprisingly, some efforts to prevent cheating may actually encourage cheating—a person may feel “ they don’t trust me anyway”, and be tempted to “ beat the system”. Distrust can be contagious（可傳染的）. But, so can trust.
Title: Cheating in exams in college

Facts
◇ Cheating in exams is common in college.
◇ Students don’t take cheating in exams as    1   behaviour.
Means of cheating and plagiarism
◇ Use     2    .
◇ Surf the Internet.
   3  for cheating
◇ Cheats are not     4    seriously.
◇ The latest technology makes it     5    for students to cheat.
◇ Heavy pressure makes students want to do well so as to ensure    56  and a job.
    7  of cheating
◇ People will become     8   in studying.
◇ People will believe studying doesn’t make     9    .
◇ People cheating in exams will influence others negatively.
Solution
Educators and students should      10    each other.
 

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科目：高中英語 來源：2008年普通高等學(xué)校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試江西卷英語試題 題型：閱讀理解

Topping the class academically was certainly an advantage. Studying was a breeze for

Nigel. The reward was certainly incomparable to the little effort that he had to put it. It begin when he was selected to help the teachers in the computer laboratories.

The peak of his school career came not when he topped the school but when he was selected for the nationwide competition. Unlike everyone else, Nigel wanted to join the contest because he liked playing with the Lego sets and making something out of them. Nigel spent the next two months rebuilding the robot. It was during the time that Nigel found out about the prizes for the competition. Its well us auspices competitor. Alicia, from a neighboring school. His early intentions were forgotten. Getting the thousand-dollar prize was more important than anything else. Nigel decided to befriend Alicia. Unaware of his intentions, she told him all about the robot that she had been building for the competition. He even helped her to put the finishing branches to her robot. He was glad with the way things had progressed. His robot looked even better than Alicia’s and it was able to become a ball with its arms, something Alicia had failed to do.

On the day of the competition, he says Alicia. Everything dawned on her the minute she saw him among the competition. She stared at him, puzzled at first, then angry and finally a look of helplessness came over her.

The flashbulbs of the camera exploded in Nigel’s try. The robot bird performed actions so unique and different that the specialist judgments were the same. Nigel was so personal with himself that he did not even notice the girl standing a few feet away from him. Without her, he would never win the competition.

1.What reward did Nigel receive for doing well in his school work?

A．He was offered a part-time job

B．He was honored with a scholarship

C．He helped his teacher construct a robot

D．He helped in the computer laboratories

2.Nigel’s original intention of joining the contest was to ___.

A．be the top student of the school

B．being great honor to his school

C．constructs a robot with the Lego sets

D．wins the thousand-dollar prize

3.Why did Nigel help Alicia finish her robot?

A．He tried to make friends with her

B．He was fond of building robots

C．He intended to help her

D．He didn’t want her to suspect him

4.What is the author’s attitude towards Nigel’s actions?

A．He is mildly critical

B．He is strongly critical

C．He is in favor of them

D．His attitude is not clear

 

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