2010年11月份百题精练（2）

英语试题

第三部分 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

One day, an expert in time management was speaking to a group of students and ,to drive home a point, used an illustration those students will never forget.

Standing before the group of overachievers（成绩超过预料的学生）,he said, "Ok, time for a quiz." He pulled out a one-gallon, wide -mouth jar and set it on the table in front of him. He also produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar. When no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, "Is this jar full?"

Everyone in the class yelled, "Yes." The expert reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. He dumped some gravel in and shook the jar, causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks. He then asked again, "Is this jar full?"

"Probably not." one of them answered. "Good." He replied. He reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in the jar and it went into all of the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, "Is this jar full？”