- 1 -青岛市青岛市 20142014 高考英语阅读理解、完形填空及阅读类训练（高考英语阅读理解、完形填空及阅读类训练（4 4） （答案（答案及解析）及解析）Words：330 难度系数： 建议用时：9 分钟Enter a typical high school, and the first thing you see is the front office, where the principal dwells and grades are stored.The front office also reinforces familiar hierarchy: principal at the top, teachers in the middle, kids on the bottom, sitting with hands folded at their desks.Now, imagine a school where the organizational structure is completely flat.At the New Country School in Henderson, Minn, there is no front office.Visitors are immediately embraced by an airy atrium that is the centerpiece of this oneroom schoolhouse.And all around the room, 124 students sit at desksreal office desksworking at their own personal computers on their own projects.When Dee Thomas and her colleagues got together 15 years ago to design a new high school，they knew there was one thing that had to do：The bell.“You dont go into your job in the morning and say，OK，for the first 45 minutes of my job，Im going to do the math part.And then a buzzer goes off，and you do the social history part of your job.You dont do that.”Thomas said.There are no teachers at New Country.Every few weeks，students must present projects theyve been working on to the rest of the school community.To prepare for their presentations，they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their “advisers.”Kids at New Country test better than their peers on the state tests and on the precollege ACT.The school sends 90 percent of its graduates to college.But that doesnt tell the whole story.New Country struggles to keep its seniors from leaving.The schools senior project is demanding300 hours of work.But for some students，New Country offers a rare alternative，a choice they cant find anywhere else.And the school is constantly visited by educators from around the world looking for new ideas.Thats the foundation of efforts to reform American high schools todaythat theres a need to experiment with an institution that is failing millions of students.5The author mentioned the typical high school in the lst paragraph _.Ato tell us what the typical high school is like in USA- 2 -Bto present a sharp contrast with the experimental school, New CountryCto introduce the topic，New Country，of the passageDto call on students to register in the typical high school解析：选 C。段落理解题。文章主要介绍了美国的一所实验学校 New Country 的情况，文章开篇提到 typical high school 的情况是为了引起下文。6The following statements about New Country are all true except that _.ANew Country students sit in an open environment that looks a lot like a typical officeBstudents consult with“advisers” ， who“teach” in the traditional senseCno bells in New Country, students choose how to spend their timeDno traditional classes, students work on projects they select themselves解析：选 B。细节理解题。B 项错在 who“teach”in the traditional sense，只有在：To prepare for their presentations，they gather at tables in the middle of the school atrium and present their work to their “advisers.”才去求助于 advisers。7Compared with a typical high school, New Country is well received for its _.Ahigh test scores Balternative natureCcomfortable conditions Dteaching methods解析：选 B。细节理解题。最后一段第一句中 New Country offers a rare alternative，a choice they cant find anywhere else.，可看出选 B 项。8The passage mainly tells us_.Athe concepts of an experimental schoolBtypical high school and experimental schoolCnew schools in future in AmericaDeducation reform in America解析：选 A。主旨概括题。文中主要讲述的是 experimental school，所以 B 错误；C、D 太笼统。*结束Surfing the Internet for fun will make you a better employee, according to an Australian study.The University of Melbourne study shows that people who use the Internet for - 3 -their own reasons at work are about 9 percent more productive than those who do not. Study author Brent Coker said, “Surfing the Internet at times helps increase an employees attention.”“People need to relax for a bit to get back their attention,” Coker said on the universitys website. “Having a short break, such as a quick surfing of the Internet, helps the mind to rest itself, leading to a higher total Internet attention for a days work, and as a result, increases productivity(生产效率),”he said.According to the study of 300 workers, 70 percent of people who use the Internet at work surf the Internet for their own reasons during office hours. Among the most popular surfing activities are searching for information about products, reading online news, playing online games and watching videos. “Firms spend a lot of money on software to block their employees from watching video, using social networking sites or shopping online,” said Coker. “Thats not always a good idea.”However, Coker said the study looked at people who surfed the Internet in moderation (适度), or were on the Internet for less than 20 percent of their total time in the office. “Those