上海市各区2024届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
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Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757, he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he convinced his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became occupied in astronomy. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor on August 25th,1822, and Caroline on September 1st,1848.
Herschel‘s first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axialrotation (绕轴自转). Herschel struck fame in 1781, when on March 13th, he discovered the planet Uranus (天王星) while engaged in work aimed at determining stellar parallax (恒星视差). This being the first new planet discovered since ancient times, Herschel, until then a mere amateur astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a historically proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum, in honor of the then ruling English king George III. The trick worked once again, as King George III gave William and Caroline the titles of ―The King‘s Astronomer‖ and ―Assistant to the King‘s Astronomer‖, an honor which came with a life‘s pension for both. In 1782 they moved to Bath, and shortly thereafter to Slough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschels went on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.
While Caroline became increasingly occupied with the search for comets at which she was quite successful, William became for a time interested in the Sun. Inspired by Wilson‘s 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspot, an opinion that continued to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1800, he became interested in the solar spectrum (太阳光谱), and uncovered the first evidence for solar energy output outside of the visible spectrum, in what is now known as the infrared (红外线). In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started the field of solar influences on Earth‘s weather.
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上海市各区2024届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
56. Herschel made himself known to the world mainly by __________.
A. discovering the planet Uranus B. determining stellar parallax C. discovering two moons of Uranus D. uncovering the evidence for the infrared
57. It can be inferred from the passage that George III __________.
A. liked science and technology
B. liked Herschel‘s naming of the new planet C. was interested in astronomy
D. gave Herschel a lot of useful suggestions 58. What do we know about Caroline from the passage?
A. She was successful in music.
B. She was titled ―The King‘s Astronomer‖. C. She died later than her brother. D. She published two papers. 59. This passage mainly tells readers .
A. some information about Herschel and his sister B. how Herschel and his sister discovered the planet Uranus C. Herschel and Caroline got along well with each other D. Herschel and Caroline‘s major scientific publications
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(B)
OSCAR THEATRE
BOOKING - in person The Box Office is open Monday to Saturday, 10 am-8 pm. - by post Stating the performance and choice of seats, enclosing a cheque, postal order, or your credit card details to Oscar Theatre Box Office, PO Box 220, Main street. All cheques should be made payable to Oscar Theatre. - by telephone Ring 0844 847 2484 to reserve your tickets or to pay by credit card (Visa, MasterCard accepted). - on-line Complete the on-line booking form at www.oscartheatre.com. DISCOUNTS Saver: $2 off any seat booked any time in advance for performances from Monday to Thursday inclusive, and for all matinees (下午场). Savers are available for children up to 16 years old, over 60s and full-time students. Supersaver: half-price seats are available for people with disabilities and one companion. It is advisable to book in advance. There is a maximum of eight wheelchair spaces available and one wheelchair space will be held until one hour before the show (subject to availability). Standby: best available seats are on sale for $6 from one hour before the performance for people eligible(有资格的) for Saver and Supersaver discounts and thirty minutes before for all other customers. Group Bookings: there is a ten per cent discount for parties of twelve or more. Schools: school parties of ten or more can book $9 tickets in advance and will get every tenth ticket free. Please note: we are unable to exchange tickets or refund money unless a performance is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. 60. When booking by post , you can pay for a ticket by __________.
A. visiting the website of a post office
B. going to your local bank in person
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上海市各区2024届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
C. enclosing your MasterCard in an envelope D. providing your credit card information
61. What benefit can bookers enjoy according to the text?
A. A group of ten adults going to a performance can claim a discount.
B. A school party of 15 persons that book in advance pay $135 in total for a performance. C. Someone accompanying a wheelchair user to a performance receives a discount. D. An 18-year-old teenager is eligible for Saver discounts. 62. According to the text, __________ can get Standby tickets.
A. 65-year-olds buying tickets an hour and a half before a performance begins B. full-time students buying tickets 45 minutes before a performance begins C. Theatre-goers who are unexpectedly unable to be present at a performance D. Anyone who buys tickets an hour before a performance begins
(C)
Here‘s the scary thing about the identity-theft ring that the feds cracked last week: there was
nothing any of its estimated 40,000 victims could have done to prevent it from happening. This was an inside job, according to court documents. A lowly help-desk worker at Teledata Communications, a software firm that helps banks access credit reports online, allegedly (据说）stole passwords for those reports and sold them to a group of 20 thieves at $60 a pop. That allowed the gang to cherry-pick consumers with good credit and apply for all kinds of accounts in their names. Cost to the victims: $3 million and rising.
Even scarier is that this, the largest identity-theft bust to date, is just a drop in the bit bucket.
More than 700,000 Americans have their credit hijacked every year. It‘s one of crime‘s biggest growth markets. A name, address and Social Security number--which can often be found on the Web--is all anybody needs to apply for a bogus（伪造的）line of credit. Credit companies make $1.3 trillion annually and lose less than 2% of that revenue（收入）to fraud, so there‘s little financial incentive for them to make the application process more secure. As it stands now, it‘s up to you to protect your identity.
The good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are
opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of ―pre-approved‖ credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later.
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But the most effective way to keep your identity clean is to check your credit reports once or
twice a year. There are three major credit-report outfits: Equifax (at equifax.com), Trans-Union (www.transunion.com) and Experian (experian.com). All allow you to order reports online, which is a lot better than wading through voice-mail hell on their 800 lines. Of the three, I found TransUnion‘s website to be the cheapest and most comprehensive--laying out state-by-state prices, rights and tips for consumers in easy-to-read fashion.
If you‘re lucky enough to live in Colorado, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey
or Vermont, you are entitled to one free report a year by law. Otherwise it‘s going to cost $8 to $14 each time. Avoid services that offer to monitor your reports year-round for about $70; that‘s $10 more than the going rate among thieves. If you think you‘re a victim of identity theft, you can ask for fraud alerts to be put on file at each of the three credit-report companies. You can also download a theft-report form at www.consumer.gov/idtheft, which, along with a local police report, should help when irate creditors come knocking. Just don‘t expect justice. That audacious help-desk worker was one of the fewer than 2% of identity thieves who are ever caught. 63. The expression ―inside job‖(Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means _________.
A. a crime committed by a person working for the victim B. a crime that should be punished severely C. a crime that does great harm to the victim
D. a crime that poses a great threat to the society
64. You can protect your identity in the following way except _________.
A. destroying your junk mail
B. leaving your Social Security card at home C. visiting the credit-report website regularly
D. obtaining the free report from the government 65. It is easy to have credit-theft because __________. A. More people are using credit service
B. The application program is not safe enough
C. Creditors usually disclose their identity D. Creditors are not careful about their identity 66. The best title of the text is __________. A. The danger of credit-theft
B. The loss of the creditors
D. Why the creditors lose their identity
C. How to protect your good name
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