【正文】 Misfortune may be an actual blessing.C.fortable（2）Which of the following can best explain the broken window theory? A.C.tidy. A. The implications of these findings are also practical. My advice would be, if you need to think outside the box for a future project, Dr. Vohs says, then let the clutter rise and free your imagination. But if your primary goal is to eat well or to go to the gym, pick up around your office first. By doing this, the naturally messy can acquire some of the discipline of the conscientious.（1）The underlined word immaculate in paragraph 1 probably means But in the study by Dr. Vohs, disordered offices encouraged originality and a search for novelty. In the final portion of the study, adults were given the choice of adding a health boost to their lunchtime smoothie that was labeled either new or classic. The volunteers in the messy space were far more likely to choose the new one。 A second experiment, however, found that working in chaos has its advantages, too. In this one, college students were placed in a messy or a neat office and asked to dream up new uses for PingPong balls. Those in messy spaces generated ideas that were significantly more creative, according to two independent judges, than those in offices where stacks of papers and other objects were neatly arranged. What has been less clear is whether neat environments can produce good habits even in those who aren39。7．閱讀理解 What a Messy Desk Says About You故選D。 （4）考查主旨大意。根據(jù)最后一段中的a set of locks would provide a shipping channel about twice the width of Panama Canal, permitting upstream ports such as Avonmouth and Cardiff to continue operating.可知,locks的主要作用是提供一條比巴拿馬運河寬一倍的水上運輸渠道,保證上游的港口能夠正常運行。故選A。 （2）考查推理判斷?？芍?the mouth of the River Severn最大的特點就是潮汐差很大。 （1）考查細節(jié)理解。s tidal power station. power in the River Seven. old idea might be made practical.【答案】 （1）A（2）A（3）B（4）D 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，潮汐能發(fā)電站雖然計劃已久,但由于科學家的擔心,很長時間以來都沒有得以實現(xiàn)。s initial attitude towards tidal power? ....（3）What are the locks used for? .. wheels. electricity.（4）What39。The tidal power station has been built there.D.The tidal range there is about 15 meters.B. But there would be nothing old fashioned about Mr Rainey39。 Engineers and governments have been toying with the idea since at least 1925. But none of the suggested projects has materialised. Price is one objection. A study thought that tidal energy might cost between ￡216 and ￡368 ($306 521) per MWh of electricity by 2025, pared with ￡58 75 for seagoing wind turbines (輪機) and ￡55 76 for solar panels. Environmentalists also worry that any plant would change the tides, making life harder for wildlife.6．閱讀理解 【點評】查閱讀理解。根據(jù)本文最后一句And the impact is huge. 可知大聲閱讀對孩子們未來的發(fā)展影響很大。故D項正確。 （4）推理判斷題。s have a holiday for the read aloud可知小男孩的主意是出去度假來宣傳read loudly的好處。根據(jù)第四段第一句What he said was this: Mrs. Allyn, let39。故B項正確。根據(jù)第三段第一句Years later, I was reading aloud a picture book to a small child in a classroom. 可知作者是在教室里向一個小孩大聲朗讀一本圖畫書。故A項正確。根據(jù)第一段最后兩句I remember as if it were yesterday, hearing her voice at my side on a cold wintry night. My mother39。Kids should try to change the world.【答案】 （1）A（2）B（3）A（4）D（5）B 【解析】【分析】短文大意：本文主要介紹了大聲閱讀對孩子們的巨大影響，以及World Read Aloud Day的開端以及后來的發(fā)展。t actually simple.Reading gives a high rate of return.C.Sticking to reading isn39。D.Its purpose.B.Its origin.D.To found LitWorld.B.s idea in Paragraph 3 refer to? A.D.best friendB.motherBy encouraging her to read aloud.（2）According to Paragraph 3, the author was probably the little boy39。By listening to her reading.C.s parent change her life? A. Since the day he shared that good idea with us, World Read Aloud Day has bee a worldwide event reaching over one million people in more than 65 countries around the world. This year we are over 600 cities strong, a number that is growing every day. s have a holiday for the read aloud Therefore, my organization, LitWorld, created a grassroots movement World Read Aloud Day in 2010 to honor this young boy39。 What he said was this: Mrs. Allyn, let39。s language a story of a little girl and her mother out in nature, coexisting with a mother bear and her own baby. The power of the story, of language and of my mother all came together. And it happened many times after that, over and over. The read aloud made me a reader. s voice changed my world. 5．閱讀理解 故選D。最重要的是學習人性，了解真實的人是如何行為和反應的，以及人們希望他們如何行為和反應的。根據(jù)最后一段中的“Leaning to be wise is basically learning what is not possible；and what is possible but so difficult that it is not worth all the trouble one has to go through to get there. Mostly, it is learning about human nature；how real people behave and react, as against how one would like them to behave and react. One can read and hear lot of idealistic stuff about how to make the world a better place, which would be found if it was based on an accurate observation of human nature,”成為智者，要大體上知道什么是不可能的。故選D。最重要的是了解人性，了解真實的人是如何行為和反應的，以及人們希望他們如何行為和反應的。根據(jù)第三段中的“Besides sharpness of brain and experience, here is another thing that is very important, and that is wisdom.... Leaning to be wise is basically learning what is not possible； and what is possible but so difficult that it is not worth all the trouble one has to go through to get there. Mostly, it is learning about human nature；how real people behave and react, as against how one would like them to behave and react.”除了敏銳的頭腦和豐富的經(jīng)驗外，還有一件事是非常重要的，那就是智慧。故選A。根據(jù)第二段“But in certain other types of activity (of which being an author is perhaps one), experience is more important than sharpness of brain, and there one usually finds that a person reaches his or her peak much later in life.”但在某些其他類型的活動中(作家可能是其中一種)，經(jīng)驗比頭