61. What can we learn about CCS in Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A. Scientists believe global warming will be avoided if CO2 is pumped underground.
B. It’s been a common practice in many plants to capture and store CO2 underground.
C. There is no guarantee that CO2 will not escape even if pumped underground.
D. It requires decades to turn CO2 into liquid form and be locked underground.
62. What materials should be involved in the project CarbFix?
A. Water, CO2, soda water and basalts
B. Water, soda water, a pump and calcite
C. CO2, basalts, a pump and calcite
D. Water, CO2, a pump and basalts
63. According to Edda Aradottir, the result of the project was beyond the researchers’ expectations, because .
A. it’s disappointing to discover new problems caused by rapid change
B. it’s amazing to see 95% of the carbon dioxide turn into calcite that fast
C. it’s puzzling to find the encouraging but unexpected result of the project
D. it’s exciting to sense the problem of storing CO2 likely to be solved
64. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To inform us of a breakthrough in storing CO2.
B. To praise the efforts of scientists in storing CO2.
C. To show the different ways to fight against CO2.
D. To urge people to produce the least possible CO2.
高考英语阅读理解【4】
“What defines you?” That’s what Lizzie Velasquez asked the crowds of people who came to hear her motivational speeches.
Due to a rare syndrome(综合症), from the second when Velasquez was born incredibly ugly, the doctors prepared her parents to accept absolutely nothing out of her, no crying, no walking, no crawling and literally nothing. But her parents decided to take her home, love her and raise her the best as they could. They brought her up completely normally, so normally that when she started kindergarten she had no clue that she was different.
Unfortunately she had to find it out in a way like a big slap of reality for a 5-year-old. No one wanted to play with her or stand by her. No one wanted to have a single thing to do with her. As a little girl, she couldn’t understand, because she was raised still normally. So she had to go home and ask her parents. And they encouraged her to go back to school and be herself so eventually everyone would see she was just like them. So again, at such a young age, she was forced to a situation where she could either choose to be happy or choose to give up. Luckily, she chose to be happy.
When she was in high school, one day she was shocked to click on one video of herself labeled “the World’s Ugliest Woman”, which was only 8 seconds long but had over 4 million views. The comments that went along were horrible. “Why would her parents keep her?!” read one; “Kill it with fire!” said another. And they continued on and on. She wanted to fight back at some of the commentators, like one specifically who told her to put a gun to her head and kill herself. So again, she was put in the position to choose happiness or to choose to give up.
And again with the help of family, Velasquez found the strength to channel the hatred into motivation and to rise above the cruelty. At that moment, she was going to let her goals, her success and her accomplishments be the things that define her, not her outer appearance, not the doctors who said she would accomplish nothing or those people who called her a monster.
She decided to be a motivational speaker and 2013 was the eighth year of her motivational speaking. She decided to write a book. During her first year in college, she published her first book Lizzie is beautiful in English and Spanish and then the second one Be beautiful, be you and then the third. She decided to graduate from college and she got her degree from Texas State University in May, 2013. One of the biggest motivations for her to accomplish all those things was that Youtube video. She will go back to that video and look at every hateful and nasty comment and it will inspire her to keep going and work even harder.
Lizzie Velasquez once made the headlines as the world’s ugliest woman, but she finally shrugged off the hurtful comments about her looks as just words. Now, she is not letting anything or anyone hold her back and is using her devotion to religion to help diminish the hatred that comes her way by overriding it with an inspirational message of love and acceptance. She has resolved to take charge of her life by killing the negativity with ambition and is consistently redefining what it means to be beautiful on her own terms. And she wins!
65. Reactions towards Velasquez’s appearance are as follows EXCEPT .
A. the doctors advised accepting nothing out of her
B. her parents decided to bring her up as normal
C. her classmates refused to keep her company
D. netizens intentionally pushed her to kill herself
66. According to Velasquez, what is the best response to those who commented bitterly online?
A. Fighting right back.
B. Deleting the comments.
C. Turning to her family.
D. Making achievements.
67. The underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably means .
A. she could be easily set off by those hurtful comments
B. she painfully managed to focus on her achievements
C. she didn’t care about those hurtful comments eventually
D. she felt sad whenever looking back on the hurtful words
68. Which of the following can best describe Velasquez?
A. Optimistic and determined. B. Flexible and sympathetic.
C. Diligent and outspoken. D. Brave and considerate.
69. The sentence ‘‘At that point she was deciding how she was going to revenge(报复) and finally he decided to fight back in a different way.’’ can be put at the end of Paragraph .
A. 3 B. 4 C. 5 D. 6
70. What is the best title of the passage?
A. Appearance: something to define you
B. Velasquez: a brave and beautiful heart
C. Achievement: something to support you
D. Speech: a way to make you stronger
参考答案：
56-57 BB
58 – 60 ACC
61-64 CDBA
65-70 DDCACB
