London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going

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London taxis, with their friendly drivers who actually know where they are going, are ranked best in the world, according to an annual taxi survey.
The survey by travel website hotels.com found London taxis, despite being the most expensive, beat rivals（对手）across the globe to head the list for the third consecutive（连续的）years, scoring a total of 59 percent in votes on several categories by travelers.
London taxi drivers were voted both friendliest and most knowledgeable. Drivers in the English capital must pass a rigorous examination called The Knowledge to earn their taxi license.
New York"s yellow taxis came second in the list, scoring 27 percent which was up 10 percentage points from last year even though Manhattan"s cab drivers tied （打成平局）with Parisian taxi drivers as the rudest.
Travelers said New York had the most convenient taxis.
Taxi drivers in Rome were voted the worst drivers in the world with almost one in 10 travelers thinking the Italian capital had the world"s worst taxi drivers when it came to the quality of driving.
"Traveling by taxi is one of the first experiences that many travelers have upon arrival in a new city. In fact, the research found that cabs are by far the most popular method of traveling from the airport to their hotel," a spokesman for hotels.com said in a statement.
The global survey scored city based taxis for their levels of cleanliness, value, quality of driving, knowledge of the area, friendliness, safety and convenience.
Rounding out the top five were Tokyo with a total score of 26 percent, Berlin with 17 percent, and Bangkok famed for its tuk-tuks scoring 14 percent.
The survey for hotels.com, part of the Expedia group, was conducted among over 1,900 travelers between May 11-28 this year.
小题1:Which of the following about London’s taxi drivers is wrong?

A．They are the friendliest.	B．They are the most knowledgeable.
C．They charge the most money.	D．They drive fastest.

小题2:What does the underlined word “rigorous” mean in the third paragraph? .

A．strict

B．important

C．official

D．lawful

小题3:The writer introduced the result of the study by ___________.

A．interviewing city leaders	B．interviewing the taxi drivers
C．listing the ranks of cities concerned	D．reading forms concerned

小题4:Rome’s taxi drivers are lack of __________.

A．good manners	B．driving skills
C．the sense of cleanliness	D．the sense of safety

答案

小题1:D
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:B

解析

试题分析：本文讲述了世界各地的出租车司机的排名问题，伦敦司机排名第一位，并分析了原因。
小题1:D 细节题。根据文章2,3段London taxi drivers were voted both friendliest and most knowledgeable.
和The survey by travel website hotels.com found London taxis, despite being the most expensive说明ABC三项内容都是伦敦司机的优点，D文章没有提及。
小题2:A 细节题。根据文章第三段1,2行London taxi drivers were voted both friendliest and most knowledgeable. Drivers in the English capital must pass a rigorous examination called The Knowledge to earn their taxi license.说明伦敦的司机都要通过这样的一个严格的考试才能拿到驾驶证件，故A正确。
小题3:C 细节题。根据文章倒数第二行Rounding out the top five were Tokyo with a total score of 26 percent, Berlin with 17 percent, and Bangkok famed for its tuk-tuks scoring 14 percent.说明文章是对相关城市进行了排名，是通过这样的发生来介绍调查的结果，故C正确。
小题4:B 细节题。根据文章倒数第四段最后一行the Italian capital had the world"s worst taxi drivers when it came to the quality of driving.说明涉及到驾驶技术的时候，意大利的司机最糟糕。故B项正确。
点评：本文内容十分有趣，考查了很多的细节题，要求考生仔细阅读短文，，对于文章中的细节题，要注意文本内容的理解。关键是找出原文的根据，认真核查题支和原文的异同，常犯错误有：绝对化语言，范围扩大或缩小，以偏概全，张冠李戴等。带着问题，再读全文，找出答题所需要的依据，完成阅读。

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GAOMI, Shandong, Oct．11（ Xinhua）—Chinese writer Mo Yan said last Thursday that he was "very surprised" at winning the Nobel Literature Prize．
Speaking to reporters at a hotel in his hometown Gaomi city in east China"s Shandong Province, Mo said, "（I was）very surprised upon winning the prize because I felt I was not very senior in terms of qualification（among Chinese writers）．There are many good writers and my ranking was not so high．"
"I am very happy," he said．"I was having dinner when I received the news．I was surprised．”
"Thank you for coming all the way to Gaomi．This should be a season of red sorghum, but no such crop is planted any more．I believe none of you have seen the crop," he said．
"The Nobel Literature Prize is a very important literature prize, but not the top award．It represents the opinions of the jury（评审团）．I am satisfied with my major works and I still keep writing by hand．My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature．They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country"s unique culture and folk customs．Meanwhile, my novels described human beings in the broad sense．I wrote in the perspective of a human being．These works stand beyond regions and ethnic groups," he said．
"The folk arts and folk culture accompanied my growth and I was influenced by the cultural elements I witnessed through my childhood．When I picked up the pen for literature creation, the folk cultural elements inevitably entered my novels and affected and even determined the artistic styles of my works," he added．
Mo"s win brought joy to other writers and readers throughout the country as he is the first Chinese national to win the Nobel Literature Prize in its century--long history．
Born into a farmer"s family in a village in Gaomi, Mo has been known since the late 1980s for his novels such as Big Breasts and Wide Hips and Red Sorghum, which was later adapted into a film by director Zhang Yimou．
小题1:Mo Yan was surprised at winning the Nobel Prize because he felt ．

A．he was not the best writer in China

B．he was not as famous as other writers

C．he was born in a farmer"s family

D．he didn"t have good education

小题2:By reading Mo Yan"s works, we can ．

A．increase our sense of national pride

B．learn a lot about the Chinese folk culture

C．form a vivid picture of his childhood

D．learn more about the history of the Nobel Prize

小题3:Which of the following words can best describe Mo Yan?

A．romantic	B．self--confident
C．modest	D．humorous

小题4:Where might you find the article?

A．In a novel．	B．In a travel book．
C．In a student book．	D．In a newspaper．

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Every day on the road, accidents are caused. They do not only happen. The reason may be easy to see: an overloaded tray, a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road. But more often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune-frustration, tiredness or just bad temper-that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.
Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.
By definition, an accident is something you cannot predict or avoid, and the idea which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused by a minority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.
It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety actions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are absent from work due to an accident. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment-noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.
小题1:This passage might be written to .

A．college students	B．drivers
C．ordinary citizens	D．businessmen

小题2:“Accident-prone” in Paragraph 2 means .

A．likely to have accidents	B．injured in accidents
C．likely to die in accidents	D．responsible for road accidents

小题3:The passage suggests that .

A．accidents mostly result from slippery roads

B．accidents are usually caused by psychological factors

C．doctors run three times the normal risk of accidents in factories

D．about 50,000 people lost their lives at work in Britain every day

小题4:Which of the following is NOT discussed as a factor of accidents in this passage?

A．Mood

B．Carelessness

C．Tiredness

D．Weather

小题5:What do you think would be the best title for the passage?

A．Accidents and Human	B．Why accidents happen
C．Human Factors in Accidents	D．How to Prevent Accidents

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Researchers at the University of Kansas say that people can accurately judge 90 percent of a stranger"s personality simply by looking at the person"s shoes．
"Shoes convey a thin but useful slice of information about their wearers," the authors wrote in the new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality．"Shoes serve a practical purpose, and also serve as nonverbal cues with symbolic messages．People tend to pay attention to the shoes they and others wear．"
Medical Daily notes that the number of detailed personality traits detected in the study include a person"s general age, their gender, income, political affiliation, and other personality traits, including someone"s emotional stability．
Lead researcher Omri Gillath said the judgments were based on the style, cost, color and condition of someone"s shoes．In the study, 63 University of Kansas students looked at pictures showing 208 different pairs of shoes worn by the study"s participants．Volunteers in the study were photographed in their most commonly worn shoes, and then filled out a personality questionnaire．
So, what do your shoes say about your personality?
Some of the results were expected: People with higher incomes most commonly wore expensive shoes, and flashier footwear was typically worn by extroverts（外向性格的人）．
However, some of the more specific results are intriguing．For example, "practical and functional" shoes were generally worn by more "agreeable" people, while ankle boots were more closely aligned with "aggressive" personalities．
The strangest of all may be that those who wore "uncomfortable looking" shoes tend to have "calm" personalities．
And if you have several pairs of new shoes or take exceptional care of them, you may suffer from "attachment anxiety," spending an inordinate amount of time worrying about what other people think of your appearance．
There was even a political calculation in the mix with more liberal types wearing "shabbier and less expensive" shoes．
The researchers noted that some people will choose shoe styles to mask their actual personality traits, but researchers noted that volunteers were also likely to be unaware that their footwear choices were revealing deep insights into their personalities．
小题1:We learn from the text that shoes one wears may ．

A．be used to judge others’ personality accurately

B．show thick and useful information about one’s personality

C．convey useful information including one’s emotional stability

D．only convey some information about one’s personality

小题2:Which of the following is not true according to the text?

A．People who wear practical and functional shoes may be hard to deal with．

B．People with high incomes probably wear expensive shoes．

C．Ankle boots are closely aligned with “aggressive” personalities．

D．People wearing “uncomfortable looking” shoes tend to be calm．

小题3:What can be the best title for this article?

A．Shoes and Information	B．Shoes and One’s Personality
C．Shoes One Wears	D．Judging One’s Personality

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Nicole Delian, 17, suffers from a condition that makes her sleep up to 19 hours a day and as much as 64 days in a row． Nicole Delian is tired of sleeping．
This 17-year-old teenager from North Fayette, Pa．, has a rare condition called Kleine-Levin Syndrome -- or "Sleeping Beauty Syndrome" -- that makes her sleep 18 to 19 hours a day．
And when she does wake up, she is often so tired out that she is in a sleepwalking state and doesn"t remember doing basic things like eating, according to KDKA-TV．
Nicole"s sleepwalking state has been so severe that she once slept through the holidays, awaking one day in January when she finally opened Christmas gifts alongside her family, according to ChartiersValley．Patch．com．．
"She"s never really adjusted to it," her mother, Vicki Delien told the website． "She"s 17 now and it really upsets her． She"s missed out on a lot．"
Delien told talk show host Jeff Probst that the teen has at times slept 32 to 64 days in a row, waking only in sleepwalking mode to eat．
Kleine-Levin Syndrome is incredibly rare, only affecting about l,000 people worldwide, and very hard to diagnose．
In Nicole"s" case, it took 25 months for doctors to diagnose her, according to ChartiersValley．Patch．com, and everything from a virus, to epilepsy（癫痫） to West Nile was mentioned, including, unfortunately, the possibility she was faking it for attention．．
When a typical episode of Sleeping Beauty Syndrome begins, the patient becomes progressively drowsy（昏昏欲睡的） and sleeps for most of the day and night, waking only to eat or go to the bathroom, according to the Klein-Levin Syndrome Foundation website． "When awake, the patient"s whole behavior is changed, often appearing “stupid" or childlike． When awake he experiences confusion, complete lack of energy, and lack of emotions．"
Patients also report that everything seems out of focus, and that they are hypersensitive to noise and light． Some patients also have intense food cravings（渴望）．
The Delians did not say whether Nicole has experienced these symptoms．
There is no known cure, but Nicole"s family is using a combination of epilepsy and narcolepsy（发作性嗜睡病）medication to minimize the incidents to just two a year．
小题1:What"s the reflection of Nicole"s sleepwalking state?

A．Being forgetful．	B．Missing Christmas．
C．Sleeping around the clock．	D．Being exhausted and bad-tempered．

小题2:According to the passage, Kleine-Levin Syndrome ．

A．is not impossible for doctors to diagnose

B．affects approximately l,000 people all round the country

C．is also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome which only affects females

D．makes those suffering this condition sleep as much as 64 days in a row without eating

小题3:Frorn the passage we can infer that ．

A．the disease will change the patients" behavior for good

B．the case of Nicole has been covered several times by different media

C．the．patients of this kind are more and more sleepy when the syndrome begins

D．the patients of this kind become too sensitive to being exposed to any noise and light

小题4:According to the passage, Nicole ．

A．was once suspected of lying about her condition

B．has a good appetite for food because of the disease

C．has adapted to the condition and can well cope with it

D．will be cured of the disease by using the combined medication

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There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process．People have generally viewed personal growth as an external（外部的） result or product that can easily be identified and measured．The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language--- all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts．
By contrast, the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way．The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they go through new experiences and unexpected obstacles．In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept．
In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to be faced with the unknown, and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first．How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow．
These feelings of insecurity and self – doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow．If we do not face and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow．We become trapped inside a shell of our own making．
小题1:A person is generally believed to achieve personal growth when______．．

A．he has given up his smoking habit

B．he has made great efforts in his work

C．he is interested in making anything new

D．he has tried to determine where he is on his journey

小题2:In the author’s eyes, one who views personal growth as a process would______．

A．judge his ability to grow from his own achievements

B．succeed in climbing up the social ladder

C．face difficulties and take up challenges

D．aim high and reach his goal each time

小题3:When the author says “a new way of being” （para．3）, he is referring to _____．

A．a new way of taking risks

B．a new approach to experiencing the world

C．a new system of adapting to change

D．a new method of finding ourselves

小题4:For personal growth, the author may not support __________．．

A．curiosity and more chances

B．being quick in self – adaptation

C．open – minded to new experiences

D．avoidance of internal fears and doubts

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