C. The views remind us that we are in a wooden house. D. The lakes outside the windows are quite different in color.
42. By mentioning the names of the trees, the author aims to show that .
A. the kids like playing in trees B. the kids are very familiar with trees C. the kids have learned much knowledge D. the kids find trees useful learning tools
43. What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph mean?
A. The change of seasons is easily felt. B. The seasons make the scenes change. C. The weather often changes in the forest.
D. The door is a good position to enjoy changing seasons.
44. What is the main purpose of the author writing the text?
A. To describe the beauty of the scene around the house. B. To introduce her children?s happy life in the forest. C. To show that living in the forest is healthful. D. To share the joy of living in the nature.
B
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C
I left university with a good degree in English Literature, but no sense of what I
wanted to do. Over the next six years, I was treading water, just trying to earn an income. I tried journalism, but I didn?t think I was any good, then finance, which I hated. Finally, I got a job as a rights assistant at a famous publisher. I loved working
with books, although the job that I did was dull.
I had enough savings to take a year off work, and I decided to try to satisfy a
deep-down wish to write a novel. Attending a Novel Writing MA course gave me the structure I needed to write my first 55, 000 words.
It takes confidence to make a new start--- there?s a dark period in-between where
you?re neither one thing nor the other. You?re out for dinner and people ask what you do, and you?re too ashamed to say, “Well, I ?m writing a novel, but I?m not quite sure if I?m going to get there. ” My confidence dived. Believing my novel could not be published, I put it aside.
Then I met an agent（代理商） who said I should send my novel out to agents. So,
I did and, to my surprise, got some wonderful feedback. I felt a little hop that I might actually become a published writer and, after signing with an agent, I finished the second half of the novel.
The next problem was finding a publisher. After two-and-a-half years of no
income, just waiting and wondering, a publisher offered me a book deal --- that publisher turned out to be the one I once worked for.
It feels like an unbelievable stroke of luck--- of fate, really. When you set out to
do something different, there?s no end in sight, so to find myself in a position where I now have my own name on a contract（合同）of the publisher--- to be a published writer --- is unbelievably rewarding（有回报的）. 49. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 mean?
A. I was waiting for good fortune. B. I was trying to find an admirable job. C. I was being aimless about a suitable job. D. I was doing several jobs for more pay at a time.
50. The author decided to write a novel .
A. to finish the writing course B. to realize her own dream C. to satisfy readers? wish D. to earn more money
51. How did the writer feel halfway with the novel?
A. Disturbed
B. Ashamed.
C. Confident.
D. Uncertain.
52. What does the author mainly want to tell readers in the last paragraph?
A. It pays to stick to one?s goal. B. Hard work can lead to success. C. She feels like being unexpectedly lucky.
D. There is no end in sight when starting to do something.
D
In a recent announcement, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(MIT) said that they have joined forces to offer free online courses in an effort to attract millions of online learners worldwide.
Beginning this fall, a number of courses developed by teachers at both
universities will be offered online through a new $60 million program, known as edX. “Anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world can use our online courses,” Harvard President Drew Faust said during a meeting to announce the plan.
MIT has offered a program called OpenCourseWare for ten years that makes
materials from more than 2, 000 classes free online. It has been used by more than 100 million people. In December, the school announced it also would begin offering a special certificate, known as MITx, for people who complete certain online courses. Harvard has long offered courses to a wider population through a similar program.
The MITx will serve as the foundation for the new learning platform.
MIT President Susan Hockfield said more than 120, 000 people signed up for the
first MITx course. She said Harvard and MIT hope other universities will join them in offering courses on the open-source edX platform.
“Fasten your seatbelts, ” Hockfield said.
Other universities, including Stanford, Yale and Carnegie-Mellon, have been
experimenting with teaching to a global population online.
The Harvard-MIT program will be monitored by a not-for-profit（非盈利的）
organization based in Cambridge, to be owned equally by the two universities. Both MIT and Harvard have provided $30 million to start the program. They also plan to
use the edX platform to research how students learn and which teaching methods and tools are most successful.
53. According to this text, edX is .
A. a part of the free MIT OpenCourseWare B. a free computer program by MIT and Harvard C. a Harvard-MIT platform of free online courses D. a free program online for universities worldwide
54. What is said about online education in the text?
A. Universities have been trying online courses. B. About 2, 000 online courses have been offered. C. Over 100 million people have finished courses online. D. Stanford and Yale together have courses similar to edX.
55. The underlined part in the text probably means “ ”.
A. Get ready for the difficulties B. Get ready for this educational change C. Get prepared to complete the online courses D. Get prepared to make materials for the edX courses
56. What can be said about MITx according to the text?
A. It is first offered as part of the edX learning program. B. It is another free MIT-Harvard online learning program. C. It is a standard to recognize online learners? achievement. D. It is a new kind of free online course of Harvard and MIT.
E
Plants are flowering faster than scientists predicted in reaction to climate change,
which could have long damaging effects on food chains and ecosystems.
Global warming is having a great effect on hundreds of plant and animal species
around the world, changing some living patterns, scientists say.
Increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the air from burning coal and oil can have an
effect on how plants produce oxygen, while higher temperatures and changeable rainfall patterns can change their patterns of growth.
2012年四川高考英语试题及答案(精校对)
