DOC《英语模拟考试试题》

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t allow those moments to weaken you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. Use them to show you what is possible. Every struggle is rich with opportunities. You define your own race when you define your own goals. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your results to achieve anything you want in life. 24. Why did the author sign up for the race? A. She was bored with the volunteer work. B. The people doing the race inspired her. C. She was really interested in running. D. She wanted to prove that she was the best. 25. The defining moment came when the author _______. A. found racing was uninteresting B. didn'

t know if she could finish C. fell behind an old man D. crossed the finish line 26. The author felt ______ at her race result. A. regret B. embarrassment C. satisfaction D. amazement 27. According to the article, if you find you are not as good as others, you should A. change or redefine your goal B. try to explore other skills you might have C. avoid comparing yourself with others D. try to motivate yourself C Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior is regarded as all too human , with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well. The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of goods and services than males. Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnan'

s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different. In the world of monkeys,grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if one received a grape without having to provide her token in exchange at all, the other either shook her own token at the researcher, or refused to accept the cucumber. Indeed, the mere presence of a grape in the other room (without an actual monkey to eat it) was enough to bring about dissatisfaction in a female monkey. The researches suggest that these monkeys, like humans, are guided by social senses. In the wild, they are co-operative and group-living. Such co-operation is likely to be firm only when each animal feels it is not being cheated. Feelings of anger when unfairly treated, it seems, are not the nature of human beings alone. Refusing a smaller reward completely makes these feelings clear to other animals of the group. However, whether such a sense of fairness developed independently in monkeys and humans, or whether it comes from the common roots that they had

35 million years ago, is, as yet, an unanswered question. 28. According to the passage, which of the following statements is true? A. Only monkeys and humans can have the sense of fairness in the world. B. Women will show more dissatisfaction than men when unfairly treated. C. In the wild, monkeys are never unhappy to share their food with each other. D. Monkeys can exchange cucumbers for grapes, for grapes are more attractive. 29. The underlined statement it is all too monkey means that A. monkeys are also angry with lazy fellows B. feeling bitter at unfairness is also monkey'