2016年高考英语二轮专题复习命题预测25_高考复习指南

2016年高考英语二轮专题复习命题预测25

　　D. the role of leaders in social groups

　　40. The passage mentions all of the following ways in which people can become leaders EXCEPT ______.

　　A. recruitment

　　B. formal election process

　　C. specific leadership training

　　D. traditional cultural patterns

　　41. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.

　　A. a person who is an effective leader of a particular group may not be an effective leader in another group

　　B. few people succeed in sharing a leadership role with another person

　　C. a person can best learn how to be an effective leader by studying research on leadership

　　D. most people desire to be leaders but can produce little evidence of their qualifications

　　42. The author of the passage may agree that ______.

　　A. few people qualify as “natural leaders”

　　B. there is no proof that “natural leaders” exist

　　C. “natural leaders” are easily accepted by the members of a group

　　D. “natural leaders” share a similar set of characteristics

　　Writing articles about films for The Front Page was my first proper job. Before then I had done bits of reviewing — novels for other newspapers, films for a magazine and anything I was asked to do for the radio. That was how I met Tom Seaton, the first arts editor of The Front Page, who had also written for television. He hired me, but Tom was not primarily a journalist, or he would certainly have been more careful in choosing his staff.