2016年10月浙江卷
第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分35分)
第一节(共10个小题;每小题2.5分，满分25分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Suddenly another thought went through Kate’s mind like an electric shock. An express train was due to go past about thirty minutes later. If it were not stopped, that long train, full of passengers, would fall into the stream. “Someone must go to the station and warn the station-master，” Kate thought. But who was to go? She would have to go herself. There was no one else.
In wind and rain she started on her difficult way. Soon she was at the bridge that crossed the Des Moines River, a bridge also built of wood, just like the bridge across honey Creek. The storm had not washed this away, but there was no footpath across it She would have to cross it by stepping from sleeper (枕木)to sleeper. With great care she began the dangerous crossing, sometimes on her hands and knees, hardly daring to look down between the sleepers into the wild flood waters below. If she should slip, she would fall between the sleepers, into the rapidly flowing stream.
At last she never knew how long it had taken her - she felt solid ground under her feet. But there was no time to rest. She still had to run more than half a mile and had only a few minutes left. Unless she reached the station before the express did, many, many lives would be lost.
She did reach the station just as the train came into sight. Fortunately the station-master was standing outside. “The bridge is down! Stop the train! Oh, please stop it!” Kate shouted breathlessly.
The station-master went pale. He rushed into the station building and came back with a signal light. He waved the red light as the train came into the station. It was not a second too early.
21. What did Kate decide to do?
A. Stop the express train. B. check the signal light.
C. Meet the passengers. D. Visit the station-master
22. Which of the following words best describes Kate’s journey?
A. Fruitless. B. Boring. C. Well-planned. D. Risky.
23. Why did the station-master turn pale?
A. He suddenly fell ill. B. He realized the danger.
C- He discovered his mistake. D. He became over-excited.
答案解析：
21. A 从文章第一段可以看出，Kate意识到如果不在三十分钟后阻止那列满载乘客的快车，它将会坠入河流。因此，她决定亲自去车站警告站长，以阻止火车。选项A正确描述了她的决定。
22. D 文章描述了Kate在风雨中艰难行进，尤其是在没有步行道的木桥上，她不得不小心翼翼地踩着枕木过桥，有时甚至用手和膝盖爬行，不敢往下看汹涌的洪水。这表明她的旅程非常危险。因此，选项D "Risky"(危险的)最符合描述。
23. B 当Kate气喘吁吁地告诉站长桥塌了，需要停止火车时，站长脸色变得苍白。这表明他意识到了即将到来的危险，并立即采取了行动。选项B正确解释了站长变色的原因。 总结： 这三个问题都基于对文章细节的理解。通过仔细阅读和分析，我们可以找到支持每个答案的证据。
B
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike linked to a generator (发电机)，The idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. Guests staying at Plaza Hotel will be given meat tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity. The bicycles will have smart phones attached to the handlebars measuring how much power is being generated for the hotel.
The plan, a world-first, will start on 19 April and run for a year. Only guests staying at the hotel will be able to take part. Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, “Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym. There might be people who will cycle just to get a free meal, but generally I don’t think people will take advantage of our programme,”
Copenhagen has a long-standing cycling tradition and 36% of locals cycle to work each day, one of the highest percentages in the world, according to the website visitcopenhagen.dk. US environmental website treehugger.com recently voted Copenhagen the world’s best city for cyclists. “Because Copenhagen is strongly connected with cycling，we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile (形象)."
If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.
24. What is the main purpose of the free meal programme?
A. To promote the hotel's green concept.
B. To make the city known to the world.
C. To attract people to the hotel restaurant.
D. To get guests to stay longer at the hotel.
25. How can a participant get a free meal?
A. By becoming a professional cyclist. B. By cycling to produce some electricity.
C. By linking a smart phone to a bicycle. D. By monitoring his or her carbon footprint.
26. Who are most likely to enter for the programme?
A. The poor local people.
B. The environment activists.
C. Health-conscious hotel guests.
D. Visitors fond of Copenhagen food.
27. according to paragraph 3, Copenhagen has one of the world's ______.
A. best chain hotels B. greenest natural environments
C. longest bike paths D. highest rates of people cycling to work
答案解析：
24. A 文章第一段提到，哥本哈根的Crowne Plaza酒店提供免费餐食给能够通过连接到发电机的运动自行车为酒店发电的客人。第二段最后一句提到“...we felt the bicycle would work well as a symbol of the hotel’s green profile (形象).” 这表明酒店推出这个计划的主要目的是为了推广其绿色环保的理念。因此，选项A正确。
25. B 文章第一段明确指出，客人需要通过骑自行车产生至少10瓦时的电力才能获得免费餐食券。因此，选项B是获得免费餐食的正确方式。
26. C 文章第二段提到，酒店的发言人表示“Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym.” 这表明酒店的客人很多是注重健康的商务人士，他们喜欢健身。因此，最有可能参加这个计划的是注重健康的酒店客人，选项C正确。
27. D 文章第三段提到，哥本哈根有着悠久的自行车传统，36%的当地居民每天骑自行车上班，根据visitcopenhagen.dk网站的数据，这是世界上最高的比例之一。因此，选项D正确描述了哥本哈根的特点。
C
Digital technology - email and smart phones especially - have vastly improved workers' ability to be productive outside of a traditional office. Even so, most white-collar work still happens in an office. One reason is that, according to findings of a new survey of office workers conducted by Wakefield research for the IT company Citrix, most bosses are doubtful about remote working. Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it» and only 35 percent say it’s tolerated.
Skeptical bosses will likely have their doubts reinforced (加深)by the same survey, which shows that 43 percent of workers say they’ve watched TV or a movie while “working” remotely, while 35 percent have done housework，and 28 percent have cooked dinner.
It is true, however，that working at home makes people much more efficient (高效的)， because it allows workers to take care of annoying housework while still getting their jobs done. It’s much faster, for example, to shop for groceries at a quarter to three than to stand in line during the after-work rush.
The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted reflects how far we haven't come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.
More broadly, the Wakefield survey suggests that employers may be missing a low-cost way to give workers something of value. Sixty-four percent of those survey participants who haven’t worked remotely would rather give up some bonus in order to get even one day a week working from home. Under such circumstances, smart firms need to find ways to let their employees have enough flexibility to manage their time efficiently.
28. Why do some employers hesitate to allow remote working?
A. They fear losing control of their workers.
B. They want to stick to their routine practice.
C. They have little trust in modern technology.
D. They are used to face-to-face communication.
29- What seems to be most workers’ attitude toward remote working?
A. Doubtful. B. Favorable.C. Reserved. D. Disapproving.
30. What does the author suggest smart firms do?
A. Shorten their office hours.
B. Give employees a pay raise.
C. adopt flexible work patterns.
D. reduce their staff’s workload.
答案解析：
28. A 文章第一段提到，根据Wakefield Research的调查，许多老板对远程办公持怀疑态度，50%的受访者表示他们的老板不接受远程办公，只有35%的人表示可以容忍。这表明雇主的主要担忧是担心失去对员工的控制。因此，选项A正确。
29. B 文章最后一段提到，64%的受访者表示愿意放弃部分奖金来换取每周一天在家工作的机会。这表明大多数员工对远程办公持积极态度，选项B正确。
30. C 文章最后一段提到，智能公司需要找到让员工能够高效管理时间的方法，并指出灵活的工作模式可以作为一种低成本的激励方式。因此，作者建议智能公司采用灵活的工作模式，选项C正确。
