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We learn from Paragraph 2 that outside directors are supposed to be______.A．generous investorsB．unbiased executivesC．share price forecastersD．independent advisers
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We learn from Paragraph 2 that outside directors are supposed to be______.
A．generous investors
B．unbiased executives
C．share price forecasters
D．independent advisers
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第1题：
We can learn from the last paragraph that McKay .
A. preferred fight to his study
B. went to war before graduation
C. left a picture for Corey Everrett
D. set an example for his fellow students
正确答案：B
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第2题：
What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Fighting wastefulness is difficult.
B. Needless material is mostly recycled.
C. People like collecting recyclable waste.
D. The author is proud of their consumer culture.
正确答案：A推理判断题。文章讲述了人们对于过度包装的危害的认识及人们应有的积极态度，所以最后一段给我们带来了希望，但是最后一句we have a mountain to climb.提示我们事情不会一蹴而就，所以A项正确。
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第3题：
From Paragraph 5,we can learn that_______.
A.mushrooms should not be eaten
B.vegetables are safer than meat and seafood
C.natural poisons are more dangerous than chemicals
D.different types of food should be handled differently
正确答案：D由第五段第一句话可以推测出D恰当，A太绝对B。C无细节支持
高考考点：考查推测分析能力
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第4题：
We can learn from the second paragraph of the passage that there are some equations of market which can explain the demand and supply of the currency of a country.
A．Right
B．Wrong
C．Doesn't say
正确答案：B
解析：结合第二段第二、三句，意指在经济模型中有许多解释货币供需的等式联合求解，且货币供需的理由很详细以确保每个等式成立，但并不像题中所说的有些等式可以解释一国的货币供求(the demand and supply of the currency)。 -
第5题：
What can we learn from the article?(1．5分)
________________________________________________
正确答案：
It's important to be satisfied with what you’ve got． -
第6题：
We learn from the text that “the honest ones” in the fourth paragraph most probably refers to colleges 。
A. that are protected by campus security
B. that report campus crime by law
C. that are free from campus crime
D. that enjoy very good publicity
正确答案：B细节推理判断题。 -
第7题：
Text 1 Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000;a year later she became president of Brown University.For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism.But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman's compensation committee;how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked?By February the next year Ms.Simmons had left the board.The position was just taking up too much time,she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful,yet less biased,advisers on a firm's board.Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere,they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.If the sky,and the share price,is falling,outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.The most likely reason for departing a board was age,so the researchers concentrated on those“surprise”disappearances by directors under the age of 70.They found that after a surprise departure,the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%.The likelihood of being named in a federal classaction lawsuit also increases,and the stock is likely to perform worse.The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive,it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.Often they“trade up，”leaving riskier,smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news break,even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms.Simmons,once again very popular on campus.
We learn from Paragraph 2 that outside directors are supposed to be_____A.generous investors
B.unbiased executives
C.share price forecasters
D.independent advisers答案：D解析：细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要对第二段进行锁定，从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干直接定位到第二段首句“Outside directors…on a firm's board.”从这句话我们得知外部董事所扮演的角色是advisers（顾问），其特点是helpful,less biased。接下来，第二句话“they…the chief executive's proposals.”表明外部董事实际是具有独立性的顾问，因此，D项为正确答案。【干扰排除】A项属于无中生有，“made their wealth…elsewhere”“在别处创造了财富”并不等于“慷慨的投资者”。B项干扰来自yet less biased，文章中确实提到了“less biased advisers”，但是选项中是executive并不是advisers，另外less biased不等于选项中的unbiased，偷换了概念，故不对。C项的干扰来自文章第二段最后一句“If the sky,and the share price…having weathered their own crises”。这句话仍然说明outside director作用是advisers，并不是股价预测者。 -
第8题：
Text 1 Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000;a year later she became president of Brown University.For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism.But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman's compensation committee;how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked?By February the next year Ms.Simmons had left the board.The position was just taking up too much time,she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful,yet less biased,advisers on a firm's board.Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere,they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.If the sky,and the share price,is falling,outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.The most likely reason for departing a board was age,so the researchers concentrated on those“surprise”disappearances by directors under the age of 70.They found that after a surprise departure,the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%.The likelihood of being named in a federal classaction lawsuit also increases,and the stock is likely to perform worse.The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive,it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.Often they“trade up，”leaving riskier,smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news break,even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms.Simmons,once again very popular on campus.
According to the researchers from Ohio University,after an outside director's surprise departure,the firm is likely to_____A.become more stable
B.report increased earnings
C.do less well in the stock market
D.perform worse in lawsuits答案：C解析：细节题【命题思路】这是一道局部细节题，需要根据题干的关键信息对文章相关内容进行锁定，从而在准确定位之后得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干定位到第三段第四句和第五句，这两句列出了外部董事离开后可能出现的三种情况。其中“the stock is likely to perform worse”即为C项的意思，选项中的“do less well”等于原文中的“perform worse”，故C项正确。【干扰排除】从文中可知外部董事突然离开公司后，公司需要重申盈利的可能性增加了近20%，说明外部董事的离开会让公司境况变得不好，A项与原文信息完全相反，应排除。B项干扰来自文中“the probability…earnings increases…”分析句子主干“the probability increases by nearly 20%”可知不是earnings增加20%。D项干扰来自文中“The likelihood…also increases”。表现不佳是在“stock”中（the stock is likely to perform worse），选项把对“stock”的描述强加到“lawsuit”上，张冠李戴，故不选。 -
第9题：
Text 1 Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000;a year later she became president of Brown University.For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism.But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman's compensation committee;how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked?By February the next year Ms.Simmons had left the board.The position was just taking up too much time,she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful,yet less biased,advisers on a firm's board.Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere,they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.If the sky,and the share price,is falling,outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.The most likely reason for departing a board was age,so the researchers concentrated on those“surprise”disappearances by directors under the age of 70.They found that after a surprise departure,the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%.The likelihood of being named in a federal classaction lawsuit also increases,and the stock is likely to perform worse.The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive,it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.Often they“trade up，”leaving riskier,smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news break,even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms.Simmons,once again very popular on campus.
According to Paragraph 1,Ms.Simmons was criticized for_____A.gaining excessive profits
B.failing to fulfill her duty
C.refusing to make compromises
D.leaving the board in tough times答案：B解析：推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要对第一段进行锁定，从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干关键词Paragraph 1和Ms.Simmons was criticized for定位到首段第三句。文中短语“be under fire”是对题干中“criticized”一词的同义替换，答案在“for”后的部分。这句话用一个反问句说明她做的事情，作为薪酬委员会的成员让巨额款项流失，属失职行为，因此答案选B项。【干扰排除】A项的干扰来自“have let those enormous bonus payouts pass”，发放巨额奖金是对其他人而言，而获得太多利益是针对个人，主体不同，故A项不对。C项“拒绝妥协”属于无中生有，原文首段并未提到。D项属于因果颠倒，“the next year Ms.Simmons had left the board”，并不是受到批评的原因，而是结果。 -
第10题：
单选题What can we learn from the passage?AThe rickshaws in Kolkata have loud horns.
BThe rickshaw is still a part of public transport in Kolkata.
CThe local government offer many other jobs to the rickshaw drivers.
DThe people in Kolkata are supposed to take rickshaws instead of cars.
正确答案： B解析：
推理判断题。根据最后一句“So for the moment，the people of Kolkata still go by rickshaw.”可知，到目前为止，人力车仍然是加尔各答市公共交通中的一部分。 -
第11题：
单选题We learn from the second paragraph that the American oil industry _____.Ashows little interest in tapping oil in ANWR
Bexpects to stop oil imports from Saudi Arabia
Ctends to exaggerate America’s reliance on foreign oil
Dbelieves that drilling for ANWR will produce high yields
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。D项同义替换了根据第二段前两句内容。“believes”替换原文中的“goes with”。首句中的“the range”指上文的“from 3 billion to 16 billion barrels”，“the high end”指“16 billion barrels”。选项A与第二段意思相反；B项中的“stop”与第二段第二句中的“cutback on”不符；C项与第二段第二句的后半句意思相反。 -
第12题：
单选题From the third paragraph we learn that _____.Athe means by which we analyze a literary work cannot be applied to film analysis
Ba good film and a good story have many elements in common
Cwe should not pay extra effort to study films
Dusing the principles of literary analysis makes no difference in film analysis
正确答案： A解析：
第三段第三句：Literature and films do share many elements and communicate many things in similar ways明确表明，电影和文学作品有很多共同点，文学作品的分析方法对电影分析也有一定的帮助。 -
第13题：
From the first paragraph, we learn that ______.
A. the number of prisoners in America is increasing
B. America has the largest prison in the world
C. crime in America is getting much more serious
D. it is easy for a person to be locked up in America
正确答案：A37．答案为A。根据第一段第四句，That shows an increase of nearly 840,000 prisoners during the 1990s and makes the United States the country with the highest prisoner population in the world作出该项选择。选项B“the largest prison”与原文不符；选项C“crime is getting much more serious”与原文不符；选项D“easy”不恰当。
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第14题：
From the last paragraph we can learn that __
A. some pipes have to be re-arranged in winter
B. the system can do more than warming up the building
C. the exchangers will pick up heat from the street surface
D. less heat may be collected in winter than in summer
正确答案：B
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第15题：
We can learn from the fourth paragraph that
[A] a substantial cut in annual revenue is called for.
[ B] defense and social welfare programs should undergo cuts.
[ C] we should leave intact programs for bettering people's living.
[D] we should exercise less control over monetary policy.
正确答案：A
43．A【精析】该题为细节题。根据第四段第四句“To be significant， the 1981 budget should be cut by at least 20 billion dollars from 616 billion President Carter proposed.”可以看出，为了显著改善通货膨胀情况，1981年卡特总统提议的6160亿的政府预算应该至少减少200亿，即应该大量减少税收来改善通货膨胀情况，故A项符合文意；根据第四段最后一句“It's impossible if you save defense and all the programs indexed for changes in the cost ofliving．”可以看出，我们不可能通过减少国防投入和节省改善大众生活条件项目的资金来减少政府预算，故B项的表述错误；第四段没有关于如何改善人民生活的表述，故不选择C项；根据第四段第一句 “You have to start with revenue and monetary restraint.”可以看出，为了控制通货膨胀，我们应该增强对税收及货币政策的限制，而 D项的表述与文意相反，故不选择D项。 -
第16题：
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors______.
A．may stay for the attractive offers from the firm
B．have often had records of wrongdoings in the firm
C．are accustomed to stress-free work in the firm
D．will decline incentives from the firm
正确答案：A
解析：推理题。题干定位在最后一段，没有明确的定位。因此需要分析段落结构，找到作者所暗示的内容。最后一段首先提到独立董事会在公司坏消息出现前离开以避免影响自己的声誉。然后提到了需要奖励来留住他们，否则Simmons女士的例子会重现。 -
第17题：
We learn from Paragraph 1 that ( ).
A． the government is usually the first to name a place
B． many places tend to have more than one name
C． a ceremony will be held when a place is named
D． people prefer the place names given by the government
正确答案：B
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第18题：
From Paragraph 1 we learn that the villagers .
A. worked very hard for centuries
B. dreamed of having a better life
C. were poor but somewhat content
D. lived a different life from their forefathers
正确答案：C
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第19题：
Text 1 Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000;a year later she became president of Brown University.For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism.But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman's compensation committee;how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked?By February the next year Ms.Simmons had left the board.The position was just taking up too much time,she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful,yet less biased,advisers on a firm's board.Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere,they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.If the sky,and the share price,is falling,outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.The most likely reason for departing a board was age,so the researchers concentrated on those“surprise”disappearances by directors under the age of 70.They found that after a surprise departure,the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%.The likelihood of being named in a federal classaction lawsuit also increases,and the stock is likely to perform worse.The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive,it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.Often they“trade up，”leaving riskier,smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news break,even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms.Simmons,once again very popular on campus.
It can be inferred from the last paragraph that outside directors____A.may stay for the attractive offers from the firm
B.have often had records of wrongdoings in the firm
C.are accustomed to stressfree work in the firm
D.will decline incentives from the firm答案：A解析：推理题【命题思路】这是一道封闭式推理题，需要对最后一段进行锁定，从而得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干定位到最后一段第二句“Firms who…create incentives.”这句话的意思是“想要在困难时期留住外部董事的公司可能不得不采取一些激励政策。”由此可以推断出外部董事可能会因为公司采取的政策而留下。A项和原文意思吻合，故是正确答案。【干扰排除】B项与原文意思不符。原文最后一段最后一句只是说外部董事在公司犯错时还在公司任职，但并未说外部董事自己居公司留下劣迹，故不选。最后一段并没有提到外部董事的工作压力，C项属于无中生有，故不选。文末两句“Firms who…the example of Ms.Simmons…”只谈到了公司不得不采取一些激励措施，至于外部董事接受还是拒绝，没有提及。D项属于过度推理，不选。 -
第20题：
Text 1 Ruth Simmons joined Goldman Sachs's board as an outside director in January 2000;a year later she became president of Brown University.For the rest of the decade she apparently managed both roles without attracting much criticism.But by the end of 2009 Ms.Simmons was under fire for having sat on Goldman's compensation committee;how could she have let those enormous bonus payouts pass unremarked?By February the next year Ms.Simmons had left the board.The position was just taking up too much time,she said.Outside directors are supposed to serve as helpful,yet less biased,advisers on a firm's board.Having made their wealth and their reputations elsewhere,they presumably have enough independence to disagree with the chief executive's proposals.If the sky,and the share price,is falling,outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.The researchers from Ohio University used a database that covered more than 10，000 firms and more than 64，000 different directors between 1989 and 2004.Then they simply checked which directors stayed from one proxy statement to the next.The most likely reason for departing a board was age,so the researchers concentrated on those“surprise”disappearances by directors under the age of 70.They found that after a surprise departure,the probability that the company will subsequently have to restate earnings increases by nearly 20%.The likelihood of being named in a federal classaction lawsuit also increases,and the stock is likely to perform worse.The effect tended to be larger for larger firms.Although a correlation between them leaving and subsequent bad performance at the firm is suggestive,it does not mean that such directors are always jumping off a sinking ship.Often they“trade up，”leaving riskier,smaller firms for larger and more stable firms.But the researchers believe that outside directors have an easier time of avoiding a blow to their reputations if they leave a firm before bad news break,even if a review of history shows they were on the board at the time any wrongdoing occurred.Firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.Otherwise outside directors will follow the example of Ms.Simmons,once again very popular on campus.
The author's attitude toward the role of outside directors is_____A.permissive
B.positive
C.scornful
D.critical答案：B解析：态度题【命题思路】本题需要在理解文章主旨要义的前提下能够识别出作者对外部董事的态度。态度有正向答案，也有负向答案，此题首先考查考生锁定哪个方向的答案；其次考查考生在方向正确的基础上结合原文具体信息进行判断，从而得出作者对外部董事所持有的态度。【直击答案】根据题干信息“The author's attitude”和“the roleof outside directors”定位到第二段“Outside directors…on a firm's board.”。其中原文中的“be supposed to”等于题干中的“The author's attitude”，“serve as”等于题干中的“the role”。根据这句可知“外部董事在公司中应扮演有益而又相对公正的顾问角色。”由此可以判断出作者对外部董事这一角色持肯定态度。另外根据文章最后一段可知“想要在困难时期留住外部董事的公司可能不得不采取一些激励政策。”这说明外部董事对公司还是有积极作用的，综合全文，B项正确。【干扰排除】根据对文章第二段分析可知作者对外部董事的态度应是正向的，故C项和D项感情色彩错误，均不选。纵观整篇文章，作者只是对外部董事进行客观描述，并没有宽容放纵的态度，故A项错误。长难句解析 -
第21题：
问答题What can we infer from the last sentence in Paragraph 2?正确答案： Dad refused the meal prepared according to a new recipe.解析：
推理题。根据题干定位至原文的第二段。根据该段的第一句话：“Dad was a creature of habit. He didn’t always greet new experiments in cooking with glee.”可知，“父亲的习惯常年不变，不喜欢尝试新食物。”而后文提到“我刚开始学习烹饪，喜欢邀请父母品尝新手艺，”该段的最后一句话说到：Dad would look at his plate suspiciously and ask, “Am I the ‘guinea pig’ for this meal?”由此可见，当父亲看到盘子中的菜时，怀疑自己是女儿实验用的“小白鼠”，而不愿意吃其中的食物，因此父亲拒绝品尝新手艺。 -
第22题：
单选题What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?AShe will be deported sooner or later.
BShe is allowed to stay permanently.
CHer case has been dropped.
DHer fate remains uncertain.
正确答案： B解析：
细节题。根据对尾段倒数第二句进行细节推断。Castro的案件有待最终审理，无法确定她最终是会被驱逐出境还是被允许留在美国，故选D。A项缺乏依据；C项与原文相反。B项是根据文章尾句设置的干扰选项。“While she awaits the outcome”表Castro只是被允许在最终结案之前在美国停留一段时间，并非长期，故排除B。 -
第23题：
单选题What do we learn from the last paragraph?AIf we focus our attention on the thing, we might forget another.
BMemory depends to a certain extent on the environment.
CRepetition helps improve our memory.
DIt we keep forgetting things, we’d better return to where we were.
正确答案： C解析：
段落主旨题。你在走进某一房间时，脑子里想着别的事，所以反而把进屋要干什么 事给忘记了，这与A项相符。