江西师大附中临川一中2010届高三联考英语试卷(7)

高三英语

The Colonel ask Ashenden a good many questions and then suggested that he had

particular qualifications for the Secret Service. Ashenden knew several European languages

and the fact that he was a writer provided excellent cover: on the pretext that he was writing

a book he could, without attracting attention, visit any neutral country.

It was while they were discussing this point that the Colonel said, "You know you might

get material that would be very useful to you in your work. I'll tell you an incident that

occurred only recently. Very dramatic. A foreign government minister went down to a

Mediterranean resort to recover from a cold and he had some very important documents

with him that he kept in a dispatch case(公文箱). A day or two after he arrived, he picked up

a blonde at some restaurant or other, and he got very friendly with her. He took her back to

his hotel, and when he came to himself in the morning, the lady and the dispatch-case had

disappeared. They had one or two drinks up in his room and his theory is that when his back

was turned the woman slipped a drug in his glass.

"Do you mean to say that happened the other day?" said Ashenden wearily.

"The week before last."

"Impossible," cried Ashenden. "Why, we've been putting that incident on the stage for

sixty years, we've written it in a thousand novels. Do you mean to say that life has only just

caught up with us?"

"Well, I can guarantee for the truth of the story." said the Colonel, "And believe me, the

government concerned has been put to no end of trouble by the loss of the documents."

"Well sir, if you can't do better than that in the Secret Service," sighed Ashenden, "that

I'm afraid that as a source of inspiration to the writer of fiction, it's washout."

68. How did the Colonel suggest that Ashenden's being a writer would relate to his work as

a spy?

A. It would make traveling abroad more possible.

B. It would make it easier for him to meet people.

C. It would enable him to avoid arousing suspicion.

D. It would enable him to use the languages he knew.

69. The reason for the Minister's trip was ________ .

A. to fetch some documents B.

C. to meet a spy D. to deliver some papers

70. According to the Colonel the incident happened _______ .

A. a few days before B. a few weeks before

C. two weeks before D. sixty years before

71. Ashenden cried 'Impossible' after hearing the Colonel's story because he thought

______ .

A. it could not possibly happen B. it was too embarrassing

C. it was too close to fiction D. it was too recent

E

Now let us look at how we read. When we read a printed text, our eyes move across a

page in short, jerky movement. We recognize words usually when our eyes are still when

they fixate. Each time they fixate, we see a group of words. This is known as the recognition

span or the visual span. The length of time of which the eyes stop ---the duration of the

fixation ----varies considerably from person to person. It also varies within any one person

according to his purpose in reading and his familiarity with the text. Furthermore, it can be

affected by such factors as lighting and tiredness.

Unfortunately, in the past, many reading improvement courses have concentrated too

much on how our eyes move across the printed page. As a result of this misleading emphasis

on the purely visual aspects of reading, numerous exercises have been devised to train the

eyes to see more words at one fixation. For instance, in some exercises, words are flashed on

to a screen for, say, a tenth or a twentieth of a second. One of the exercises has required

students to fix their eyes on some central point, taking in the words on either side. Such word