临汾市2014年
高考考前适应性训练考试（三）英 语本
试卷分第i卷（选择题）和第ii卷（非选择题）。满分150分；考试时间120分钟。考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。第 i 卷注意事项： 1. 答第i卷题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上。 2. 选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在本试卷上，否则无效。 3. 听力部分满分30分，不计入总分，考试成绩录取时提供高校作参考。第一部分 听力（共两节，满分30分，不计入总分）略第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分）第一节 (共15小题；每小题3分，满分45分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上讲该选项涂黑。 a you must know what byd stands for? yes, build your dream. have you built your dream and spare no effort to achieve it? here is an inspiring story from http://www.naijamotiveation.com eddie arcaro dreamed of becoming the world’s greatest jockey（赛马骑师）. but after watching him ride a horse for five minutes, reality reflected a rough contradiction. he was awkward and clumsy, and in his early years in the saddle he couldn’t do one thing right. in his first 100 races he never even came close to winning. still, he got right back on and trained again. even as a schoolboy, arcaro had set his own track in life. because he was only a little over five feet tall (1.5 meters) and weighed barely 80 pounds (36kg), the other students picked on him. so he skipped school, hanging out at the local race track where a trainer let him ride horses. his father reluctantly agreed to let him pursue a career as a jockey. the trainer had told him so. “send him back to school,” he said. “he’ll never be a rider.” in spite of that, arcaro was determined not just to ride, but to become the world’s greatest joc
