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贵州省贵阳市第一中学2014届高三英语第五次月考试卷 本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分, 满分120分。考试用时100分钟。 第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共70分） 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必用黑色碳素笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号在答题卡填写清楚，并请认真填涂准考证号。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。在试题卷上作答无效。 第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A Reading a bedtime story to his son one evening, Carl Honore noticed that he was reading very quickly. He was thinking about all the things he had to do later: check email, make phone calls, book a flight, prepare things for work, and so on. He suddenly realized that he had become caught in the trap of speed, rushing here and there, getting up early in the morning and burning the midnight oil at night. The more he thought about the fast pace of modern life, the worse he felt. He had ended up speed-reading to his son because he was so busy. As a journalist, he was curious about the phenomenon he was experiencing, so he did some research. He found that Americans now spend forty percent less time with their children than they did in the 1960s. Honore decided to write a book about the subject called In Praise of Slow. He wanted to let people know about the benefits of slowing down. He does not ask readers to throw out their TVs and become farmers. Instead, he describes the harmful effects of our love of speed in our lives, such as stress and health problems, he also explains the philosophy of the Slow Movement. A growing number of people around the world are choosing to take things easy, to do less, in order to lead a fuller life. There is even an International Day of Slowness on June 21. Cark Honore strongly believes that if people would only slow down, they would enjoy life so much more. According to the passage, if American parents in the 1960s spent 6 hours with their kids, American parents now spend ___________ hours with their kids. 2 B. more than 6 C. 2.4 D. 3.6 If John burned the midnight oil at night, he was ___________. at play B. at