新课标最新版新课标最新版 2014 届高考英语三轮阅读理解精编冲刺模拟卷届高考英语三轮阅读理解精编冲刺模拟卷A Football is , I believe , the most important game in England : one has only to go to one of the important matches to see this . Rich and poor , young and old , one can see them all there , shouting for one side or the other . To a stranger , one of the most surprising things about football in England is the great knowledge of the game which even the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the players in most of the important teams . He has pictures of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches . He will tell you who he expects will win such a match, and his opinion is usually as good as that of men three or four times his age . Most schools in England take football seriouslymuch more seriously than nearly all European schools , where lessons are all that are important, and games are left for the children themselves . In England, it is believed that education is not only a matter of filling a boys mind with facts in classroom, it also means the training of character by means of games , especially team games , where they boy or girl has to learn to work with others for the team instead of working for himself alone . The school therefore plans games and matches for its pupils . Football is a good team game ; it is good for both the body and the mind . That is why it is every schools game in England . 56In Paragraph 1, “this” means .Apeople often shout at each other in a football match Bpeople , rich and poor , young and old , often play football Cfootball is the most popular game in England Dpeople usually go to the important matches 57People often one football team or the other by shouting . Abeat Bwin over Csupport Dlaugh at 58Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage ? AEnglish children know more about football than adults BNearly all European schools consider lessons the most important CIt is surprising that English children have great knowledge of football DEnglish schools attach more importance to football than nearly all European schools 59What does education mean in England ?AFilling a boys mind with facts . BTeaching how to work with others for the team . CTraining character by means of games . DMore than the teaching of knowledge . 60From the passage , we learn that . Afootball is popular mostly among English children Bschools in England make use of football for the training of body and mind Cfootball is more important than lessons in England Dother European schools consider football unimportant B VeronicaBy Mary Gaitskill.Pantheon Books, $ 23. This attractively dark novel from the author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin is narrated by a former Paris model who is now sick and poor; her reflections on beauty and cruelty have clarity and an uncanny bite. On Beauty By Zadie Smith. Penguin Press, $ 25.95 In her new book, a cultural politics novel set in a place like Harvard, the author of White Teeth brings everything to the table: a crisp intellect, a lovely wit and enormous sympathy for the men, women and children who read her story. Saturday By Ian McEwan. Nan A. Talese / Doubleday. $ 26. As exciting and as carefully constructed as anything McEwan has written, this astringent (尖锐的) novel traces a day in the life of an English neurosurgeon who comes face to face with senseless violence. De Kooning: An American Master By Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan. Alfred A. Knopf, $ 35. A brilliant biography, impressively researched and absorbingly written, of the talented immigrant who stood at the vortex (中心) of mid 20th century American art.A History of Europe Since 1945 By Tony Judt. Penguin Press, $ 39.95. Judts massive, learned, truthfully detailed account of Europes recovery from the wreckage of World War presents a whole continent in panorama (全景) even as it sets off detonations (爆炸) of insight on almost every page. 61According to the passage, the most probable non fiction novel is . AVeronicaBSaturday COn BeautyDA History of Europe Since 1945 62If youre fond art, which of the following would be your favorite? AOn BeautyBSaturday CVeronicaDDe Kooning : An American Master 63The novels published by the same company are .AOn Beauty often conditions in the work place had very bad effects on the health of the workers. Of course sometimes there were real disasters which attracted the attention of governments and which showed the need for changes. Also scientists who were doing research into the health of workers sometimes produced information which governments could not ignore. At such times, there were inquiries into the causes of the disasters or the problems. New safety rules were often introduced as a result of these inquiries; however, the new rules came too late to protect the people who died or two became seriously ill. Today many governments have special depar