于使用的支付技术,他们可以从中提取数据和小费。运行现金经济背后的基础架构需要付出高昂的成本,这些基础设施包括自动取款机,载有纸币的货车,接受硬币的出纳员。大多数金融公司都渴望放弃它,或者以高昂的费用劝阻老式客户。也就是供应商为了减少成本,获取数据和小费,开发了更便捷的支付方式,导致现金支付的减少。故选B。
（4）考查推理判断。纵观全文可知，,作者提到无现金支付即电子支付的好处,也提到电子支付引起的担忧,对待电子支付是客观的,故选C。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理解和推理判断两个题型的考查，是一篇科技类阅读，考生需要准确捕捉细节信息，并根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。
4．阅读理解
Failure is an unavoidable part of life. Though science has named some life skills that promise success, we're told over and over again that no great success was ever achieved without failure -- or many failed attempts. One of life's most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best. But what is the message?
For starters, ignore advice from anyone that tells you, \beat yourself up about it,\no matter how well-meaning they are. According to the new research from the University of Kansas, we absolutely should be beating ourselves up when we fail. Marketing professor Noelle Nelson and her team found that the more emotional a person's response is to failure, the more likely they are to achieve better results the next time they deal with a related task.
The researchers carried out two experiments in which undergraduate students were required to perform specific tasks. In one experiment, they were asked to search online for a squeezer and report the lowest price they could find with the possibility of winning a $50 cash prize. However, the task was controlled, and all participants were told (by a computer) that the lowest price was $3.27 less than their reported price. Consequently, no participant won the cash prize. When the results were announced, some participants were asked to focus on their emotional response, and others on their cognitive (认知的) response. During the next similar task, participants who focused on their emotional response to failure made more effort than those who focused on a cognitive response.
Everybody has their own unique challenges, responsibilities, duties, and projects, but these findings are related to all of us. Your personal failure may be a cake that fails to rise, a presentation that goes wrong, or a deadline that gets missed—it doesn't matter. What matters is how you react to it. Instead of thinking about the failure, let yourself feel bad about it. Then follow this advice on how to bounce back after your failure. （1）What's the relationship between failure and success? A.Failure promises success. B.Failure is the key to success. C.Failure does damage to success. D.Well-handled failure is good for success.
（2）Why does the writer support beating oneself up when failing? A.It's a well-meaning suggestion for failure. B.It's been proved by the study of a university.
C.Being emotional is good for his future success. D.It can make people less emotional about failure. （3）Which can be the best title for the passage? A.Personal Failure Is a Cake That Fails to Appear B.The Most Productive Way to Handle Any Failure C.Different Methods to Change Failure into Success D.The Reason Why Failure Is the Mother of Success 【答案】 （1）D （2）C （3）B
【解析】【分析】这是一篇说明文。文章向读者传达了失败乃是人生不可避免的一部分，但是如何处理失败是很重要的。每次失败后，我们应该自责，自责能让我们下次做得更好。
（1）推理判断题。根据第一段中的we're told over and over again that no great success was ever achieved without failure以及“One of life's most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best.（人生中很重要的一课是学会如何最好地处理失败）”可知，好好处理的失败对成功是好的。故选D。
（2）细节理解题。由第二段中的“we absolutely should be beating ourselves up when we fail（当我们失败的时候我们应该自责）”与“the more emotional a person's response is to failure, the more likely they are to achieve better results the next time they deal with a related task（一个人对失败的情绪越大，下次他遇到相关的任务取得更好的结果的可能越大）”可知，对失败有情绪对将来的成功是很重要的。故选C。
（3）主旨大意题。这是一篇说明文，根据文章第一段中的最后一句“One of life's most important lessons, therefore, has to be how to handle failure best.（人生中很重要的一课是学会如何最好地处理失败）”可知，本文是教给大家如何有效地面对失败。故选B。 【点评】考查阅读理解。涉及细节理解题，推理判断题和主旨大意题。细节理解题要注意根据题目和文章的关键词在文章中寻找答案。推理判断题要注意联系上下文，推断出所需信息，主旨大意题要注意找文章的主题句或主题段落，联系上下文，从而判断出文章的主题。
5．阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
What makes a person a giver or taker? The idea \interactions (互动) and relationships of our lives. We're either giving advice, making time for people, or we're on the receiving end. We keep changing between the two based on different situations on a daily basis, if not an hourly one.
According to Adam Grant, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, most people are matchers. They make careful observations on takers and make it a point for them to pay something back. They hate to see people who act so generously towards others not receive any rewards. Actually, most matchers will try hard to promote and support givers so that they can get the good they deserve.
Is there a gender factor (性别因素) that plays a part in this?
A study led by Hannah Riley Bowles, a professor at Harvard University, focused on this question. She asked 200 senior managers to sit down in pairs where one person would act as the boss and the other as an employee to discuss salary promotions. Male \salary of $146k while the females asked for only $141k. But why did they not bargain as hard as the men? Simply because they were more likely to be givers.
As a woman, I do enjoy the act of giving up my time, my knowledge, and my care and my attention to others. I don't expect anything in return, but I do tend to pull myself away when I feel like I'm being taken for granted. I also tend to get upset when I see a loved one's continuous actions of kindness go unnoticed. So, it's safe to say I'm 50% giver, 35% matcher and 15% taker. I do know someone, however, who is 99% giver. They're constantly devoting their time, sharing valuable insights (洞察力) and going out of their way for everyone who crosses their path. Although they're changed the lives of many people, they rarely see any of it returned. But the universe is slowly repaying them; they're now extremely successful, well known for what they do. （1）We can learn from the first paragraph that ________. A. most people think they are givers B. people are not always givers or takers C. an individual is born to be a giver or a taker D. few differences exist between givers and takers
（2）In Adam Grant's opinion, most people ________. A. hate takers B. prefer giving to taking C. enjoy relying on themselves D. balance giving and taking
（3）Hannah's study focused on ________. A. the role of giving and taking in jobs B. the gender difference in giving and taking C. the role of men and women in society D. the salary difference between women and men （4）The author tends to ________. A. think acts of kindness should be valued
B. expect something in return for giving most of the time C. take giving for granted D. be a complete matcher
（5）What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. Giving is the shortest path to success. B. Sharing is the greatest human quality. C. No good deed goes undone. D. Givers are worth respecting. 【答案】 （1）B （2）D
（3）B （4）A （5）C
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇议论文，大多数人在寻求给予和接受之间的平衡，但是好的行为最终都会得到回报。
（1）考查推理判断。根据第一段中的“We're either giving advice, making time for people, or we're on the receiving end. We alternate between the two based on different situations we face on a daily basis, it not an hourly one.”可知，我们根据每天面对的不同情况在两者之间交替。我们有时是给予者有时是索取者。故选B。
（2）考查推理判断。根据第一段中的“They make careful observations on takers and make it a point for them to pay something back. They hate to see people who act so generously towards others not receive any rewards. Actually, most matchers will try hard to promote and support givers so that they can get the good they deserve.”可知，在Adam Grant看来，大多数人在寻求给予和接受之间的平衡。故选D。
（3）考查细节理解。根据第四段可知，哈佛教授调查发现女子比男子更有可能是给予者，这表明这项实验集中于人们是给予者还是接受者的性别差异，故选B。
（4）考查推理判断。根据第四段中的“I also tend to get upset when I see a loved one's continuous actions of kindness go unnoticed.”可知，作者不期望任何回报，但作者会在觉得他的善意没有受到注意的情况下感到沮丧，所以作者认为一个人的善意应该被珍惜。故选A。
（5）考查推理判断。根据最后一段中的“But the universe is slowly repaying them; they're now extremely successful, well known for what they do.”可知，好的行为最终都会得到回报，善有善报。故选C。
【点评】本题考点涉及细节理和推理判断两个题型的考查，是一篇人生感悟类阅读，考生需要准确掌握细节信息，并根据上下文进行逻辑推理，从而选出正确答案。
6．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
After I was married and had lived in Japan for while, my Japanese gradually improved to the point where I could take part in simple conversations with my husband and his friends and family. And I began to notice that often, when I joined in, the others would look surprised, and the conversational topic would come to a stop. After this happened several times, it became clear to me that I was doing something wrong. But for a long time, I didn't know what it was.
Finally, after listening carefully to many Japanese conversations, I discovered what my problem was. Even though I was speaking Japanese, I was handling the conversation in a Western way. A Western-style conversation between two people is like a game of tennis. If I introduce a topic, a conversational ball, I expect you to hit it back. If you agree with me, I don't expect you simply to agree and do nothing more. I expect you to add something-a reason for agreeing, another example, or a detailed explanation to carry the idea further. But I don't expect you always to agree. I am just as happy if you question me, or challenge me, or completely disagree with me.
Whether you agree or disagree, your response will return the ball to me.
A Japanese-style conversation, however, is not at all like tennis or volleyball. It's like bowling. You wait for your turn. And you always know your place in line. It depends on such things as whether you are older or younger, a close friend or a relative stranger to the previous speaker, in a senior or junior position, and so on.
When your turn comes, you step up to the starting line with your bowling ball and carefully bowl it. Everyone else stands back and watches politely, murmuring encouragement. Everyone waits until the ball has reached the end of the alley（球场）and watches to see if it knocks down all the pins, or only some of them, or none of them. There is a pause, while everyone registers your score.
Then, after everyone is sure that you have completely finished your turn, the next person in line steps up to the same starting line, with a different ball. He doesn't return your ball, and he does not begin from where your ball stopped. And there is always a suitable pause between turns. There is no rush, no scramble for the ball.
If you have been trained all your life to play one game, it is no simple matter to switch to another, even if you know the rules. Knowing the rules is not at all the same thing as playing the game.
（1）The author makes all of the following arguments EXCEPT that _____. A. Japanese-style conversations are like bowling. B. western-style conversations are like tennis or volleyball C. in Japanese-style conversations, you must wait your turn to speak D. western-style conversations are longer than Japanese-style conversations （2）The author's purpose in writhing this article is to _____.
A. instruct B. entertain C. joke D. criticize （3）The main idea of the article is _______. A. people talk differently in Japan than in the West B. it's important to take part in conversations
C. talking with someone from another country proves difficult D. it's rude to interrupt someone who is speaking 【答案】 （1）D （2）A （3）C
【解析】【分析】本文是一篇夹叙夹议文，作者结合自己的切身经历谈论了日式的谈话和西式的谈话的不同之处，由此告诉我们与来自另一个国家的人交谈是困难的。
（1）考查细节理解。根据第四段中的“A Japanese-style conversation, however, is not at all like tennis or volleyball. It's like bowling. You wait for your turn.”可知，日式的谈话不像打网球或排球，而像打保龄球，你需要等着轮到你，由此可知，日式的谈话比西式的时间要长，故选D。
（2）考查推理判断。根据文章内容可知，作者结合自己的切身经历告诉我们日式的谈话和西式的谈话的不同之处，由此可知，作者写这篇文章的目的就是为了给大家一些指导，注意与来自另一个国家的人交谈时谈话方式的差异，故选A。
高一英语阅读理解(人生百味)技巧小结及练习题含解析
