- 1 -2014高考英语阅读理解展望训练（2）及答案Tykoon is an online website that allows you to teach your child financial principles through allowances, assignment of tasks and daily chores. As the parent, you can assign a cash value to the things you want your child to do. Then, your child can go in, accept the task and add to their wish list of what they would like to purchase with the money that they earn.Lets start with the parent side of things. The parent must be the one to set up the account. You simply enter your information and your childs information to get started. You are then able to assign allowance amounts to your child.Then you can add tasks for your child to accept and link them to either their weekly allowance or a pre-determined amount. Your child is then able to accept or decline their tasks. They can see how much each task earns, how often they need to do it and what they will get if they do! They can add items that they are working toward earning and can even earn nn-cash incentives such as extra TV time or staying up late!Tykoon is a great way to start teaching your child about responsibility and financial principles in fun and safe way. Through the creation of their own profile and the ability to accept or decline tasks, they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets! So, head over and sign up for a free account today and watch your child get excited about doing their chores!And right now, as a special reward, if you share Tykoon with your friends and have five friends sign up and stay active for more than a month, youll earn a 25 Amazon.com gift card! So get your child enrolled(注册), tell your friends and lets start teaching all our kids about the important financial principles today!66.The purpose of the text is to_.- 2 -A. make an advertisement B. share teaching experienceC. describe an online website D. present a way of making money【答案】A【解析】第一段介绍 Tykoon，二，三，四段介绍怎样操作以及所带来的好处， 最后一段是奖励措施。因此， 本文的目的是做广告，吸引大家都来参与。67.The underlined word“incentives” in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “_”.A. promises B. rewards C. gifts D. tasks【答案】B【解析】根据下文 such as extra TV time or staying up late!，可见，“incentives”表示的是一种奖励。68.What can kids learn from Tykoon?A. The ability to manage their budgets. B. The responsibility to do daily chores.C. The skills to earn their own living. D. The tricks to accept or refuse tasks.【答案】A【解析】根据第四段 they are taught the skills that they will need later in life when they are managing their own budgets!他们被教给在以后生活中他们自己管理自己财务时需要的技巧。69.It can be inferred from the last paragraph that_.A. no parents will resist the special reward B. Amazon is a very popular websiteC. Tykoon wants to attract more visitors D. friends should share information【答案】C【解析】如果你能分享给 5个朋友，让他们也签约并且保持活跃至少一个月，你就会得到价值 25美元的亚马逊礼品卡。70.What is the best title of the text?A. TykoonA Safe Way to Manage Your Financial Issues- 3 -B. How to Create Funny Tasks for Your Kids on the WebsiteC. Opening an Online Account with the Help of TykoonD. Teaching Your Kids Financial Principles with Tykoon【答案】D【解析】纵观全文可知。When you think of an artist, you probably think of someone painting on canvas (画布). But Guido Daniele creates fantastic paintings of birds, elephants, tigers, and giraffes by painting on skin. Born in Soverato, Italy, Guido Daniele has been called “Hand Gogh” (after artist Vincent van Gogh) since he began creating works of art on peoples hands in 1990.Painting on the hands can be a challenge because, unlike canvas, the skin moves when rubbed. Danieles models must remain perfectly still for hours as he paints. He often uses his daughter and his son as his “canvases”.Before he can begin to create his “manimals” (the artists name for his hand animals), Daniele studies photographs of the animal that he will be painting in order to be able to understand its character and give it life. “Next,” he says, “I look at the hand from different perspectives (视角) ,and I begin to imagine what is the best way to position the hand for me to paint the animal. “He also studies the skin of the model, preferring it to have little hair and few blemishes (瑕疵).Daniele starts by drawing on the models hand with a pencil. He next paints the skin using watercolors made specifically for body art. The eyes of Danieles painted animals look amazingly real, and they are the most difficult part to paint.Paintings on hands must eventually be washed away. Guido Daniele says that hes gotten used to this part and that he doesnt really mind seeing his work washed down the drain (排水沟). “Tomorrow, I will paint the next one. The - 4 -important thing is to take many good photo- graphs before washing the hand!”9. Danieles paintings are mainly about _.A. scenery B. plants C. stories D. animals10. In paragraph 3 the author mainly tells us _.A. what Daniele needs to do before paintingB. why Daniele chooses to paint “animals”C. how Daniele de