2014届高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练36.docVIP

2014届高考英语一轮复习限时阅读训练36 (A) The following article is to tell you how to behave better in an IELTS oral English test. Everyone will make necessary preparations for some possible topics in order to increase their performance in the interview. 1 What would you do if you were asked in an interview to talk about how you feel about your hometown if in fact you really dislike living there？Some people might think that being truthful in this situation and giving a negative answer, they would not do the right thing. 2 Talk about how they love living there and give a positive answer which sounds more attractive. 3 And giving a negative opinion of something is not important, either. 4 If you have more to say by being truthful, even if it is to express a negative opinion, then that is what you should talk about. 5 And follow it up with your reasons for disliking it instead of saying “I like my hometown. . . ”and then struggle to find something to say. We should consider how to deal with this situation in the best way. A. Actually, truthfulness is not important in such an interview. B. What is your true feeling about your hometown? C. It would be much better to say “Actually I don’t really like my hometown. . . ” D. However, sometimes, you will be asked to talk about something that you don’t really like or don’t really want to talk about. E. No one should have a negative feeling about their hometown. F. The important thing is that you have something to express. G. Instead, they try to hide their true feelings. (B) Cheating is when a person misleads, deceives or acts dishonestly on purpose. 6 If a basketball team is for kids under 8, it’s cheating for a 9-year-old to play on the team. At school, in addition to cheating on a test, a kid might cheat by stealing someone else’s idea for a science project. 7 This kind of cheating is called plagiarizing (抄袭). 8Jeff is doing it by sneaking answers to a test. And it’s also cheating t