2018上海市普通高中学业水平考试(春考)英语

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2018上海春考高考十一选十和完型原文（1）

2018上海春考⾼考⼗⼀选⼗和完型原⽂（1）⼗⼀选⼗原⽂Castles | Nonfiction Reading Test 3Palaces are knownfor their beauty andsplendor, but they offer little protection against attacks. It is easy to defend a fortress, but fortresses are not designed with the comfort of a king or queen in mind. When it comes to structures that are both majestic andwell-fortified, the classic European castle is the pinnacle of design. Across the ages castles changed, developed, and eventually fell out of use, but they still command the fascination of our culture.Castles were originally builtin Englandby Norman invaders in 1066. As William the Conqueror advancedthrough England, he fortified key positions to secure the land he had taken. The castles he built allowed the Norman lords to retreat to safety when threatened by English rebellion. Castles also served as bases of operation for offensive attacks. Troops wereCastles served many purposes during the MiddleAges.As the nobility accumulated wealth, England became increasingly attractive to those who sought to plunder. Raids by Vikings and other marauders increased in regularity. In response to these attacks, castle defenses were updated and improved. Arrow-slits were added. These were small holes in the castle, large enough for an arrow to fit through, which allowed defenders to fire from nearly invulnerable positions. Towers were built from which defenders could provide flanking fire. These towers were connected to the castle by wooden bridges, so that if one tower fell, the rest of the castle was still easy to defend. Multiple rings of castle walls were constructed, so that even if attackers made it past one wall, they would be caught on a killing ground between inner and outer walls. Advances such as these greatly increased the defense of castles. The demise of castles can ultimately be attributed to gunpowder. Gunpowder was first introduced to Europeduring the 14th century, but the first gunpowder weapons were unreliable, inaccurate, and weak by later standards. During the 15th century, artillery became powerful enough to break through stone walls. This greatly undermined the military rolesummoned to, organized around, and deployed from castles. In this way castles served both offensive and defensive roles in military operations.Not limited to military purposes, castles also served as offices from which the lord would administer control over his fiefdom. That is to say, the lord of the land would hold court in his castle. Those that were socially beneath the lord would come to report the affairs of the lands that they governed and pay tribute to the lord. They would address disputes, handle business, feast, and enjoy festivities. In this way castles served as important social centers in medieval England. Castles also served as symbols of power. Built on prominent sites overlooking the surrounding areas, castles constantly loomed in the background of many peasants' lives and served as a daily reminder of the lord's strength.The first castles constructedin Englandwere made from earth and timber. Those who constructed them took advantage of natural features, such as of castles. Castles were then replaced by artillery forts that had no role in civil administration, and country houses that were indefensible. Though castles no longer serve their original purposes, remaining castles receive millions of visitors each year from those who wish to experience these majestic vestiges of a time long passed.hills and rivers, to increasedefenses. Since thesecastles were constructedfrom wood, they werehighly susceptible toattacks by fire. Woodencastles were graduallyreplaced by stone, whichgreatly increased thestrength of thesefortifications; however,being made from stone didnot make these castlesentirely fireproof.Attackers could hurlflaming objects into thecastle through thewindows or ignite thewooden doors. This ledto moving the windowsand entrances off of theground floor and up to thefirst floor to make themmore difficult to access.完型原⽂Imagine this scenario: Two commercial fishermen head out to sea at the break of dawn, and spend the next ten hours hauling in the day’s catch. When they wearily return to dock and count their take, one has three times as many fish in his hold. How should the two fishermen be compensated for the long day’s work?Many people consider this a no-brainer. Three times the fish, three times the pay — simple. Reward is based on merit — in this case, successful fi shing. In academic jargon, it’s called“merit-based distributive justice.”The alternative — one alternative — is to divide the spoils equally. After all, both fishermen spent ten hours under the hot sun working, and brought back fish that will feed the community. And both need the money, so perhaps this is fairer, more equitable?The weight of evidence supports merit pay as the fairer approach. Humans are markedly averse to giving workers more than they deserve, and indeed many will settle for less in order to compensate work equitably. What’s more, this attitude appears very early in childhood: Children as young as three believe that hard work merits more reward. By the time they enter school, children are like little adults in their commitment to distributive justice.But is this impulse universal? Perhaps not, says psychological scientist Marie Sch?fer of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. According to Sch?fer, nobody has ever looked at how young children from different cultures think about merit when sharing rewards. Thereis reason to suspect that meritocracy may be more of a Western concept and value, so she and several colleagues decided to put this to the test, studying the behavior of children, four to 11 years old, in three different cultures.Some of the children were German, of suburban working parents. Another group was from a remote rural area of Namibia, anegalitarian foraging tribe called the Haillom, who gather bush food and occasionally work for wages. The third group was the Samburu, from a remote rural region of Kenya, who live on livestock, gardening and occasional wage work. The children were all studied in their own communities.The scientists asked the children to, well, go fishing. They fished two at a time, in two adjacent tanks. In this case, the “fish”were metallic objects in the tanks, which the children tried to “catch” with magnetized fishing rods. Only the game was rigged by the scientists in advance: In some cases, the two children would catch exactly the same number of fish, while in other cases, one child would catch three times as many fish. In another condition, the children didn’t fish at all, but were simply given unequal catches.The idea was to test how much the children valued merit. So each child was given a number of sweets equal to the total number of fish in the catch, and was told to distribute the sweets any way he or she wanted — without adults in the room to influence them. If they valued merit, children should distribute the sweets according to shares of the catch. That is, if they had landed the same number of fish, they would choose to reward each one equally, but if one fared much better at fishing, rewards would also be disproportionate. In the case where they were simply given the fish, rewards should be unrelated to catch size — since no effort was involved.Culture matters. That’s the main finding among many from the study, as described in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science. The German children distributed the spoils of the day precisely in proportion to productivity, even when this meant a very unbalanced distribution of rewards. By contrast, children from the two rural African societies barely took merit into consideration at all. These findings suggest that the basic notion of merit and distributive justice is far from universal in our species, and that fairness is culturally defined.But why? The scientists offer some thoughts on this. It could be that in large-scale societies like Germany, a meritocra cy is important for regulating transactions between people who don’t know each other and may not interact again. The focus is on equitable interactions, because things won’t be “evened out” in the future. In small scale societies, by contrast, most exchang es take place between people who are familiar with one another. It may be more important in such societies to buildlong-term relationships based on equity — rather than to insist on equity in a single transaction. In egalitarian forager societies, such as the Haillom, sharing is an important leveling mechanism, balancing asymmetries in wealth and increasing harmony. Children may internalize these social values early on, and apply them even when the fishing trip is imaginary. Follow Wray Herbert’s reporting on psychological science in The Huffington Post and on Twitter at @wrayherbert.。

2018上海春考英语作文

Spring Exam English Essay Reflection andExpansionIn the 2018 Shanghai Spring Exam, the English essay topic was undoubtedly a thought-provoking one, asking students to delve into the complexities of modern life and the role of technology in shaping our worldviews. The essay prompt encouraged a deep reflection on how we perceive the world through screens and the impact this has on our understanding and interpretation of reality.In this era of rapid technological advancement, screens have become ubiquitous, serving as windows to the world and mediums for communication. They are not just tools for entertainment or information; they are also shapers of our perspectives. The world we see through screens is often a curated version of reality, filtered and refracted through the lenses of technology and social media. This raises questions about the authenticity of our experiences and the reliability of the information we consume.Firstly, screens have transformed the way we consume information. Gone are the days when news was delivered through newspapers or television broadcasts. Nowadays, wehave access to a constant stream of information, updates, and opinions through our smartphones and other devices. While this has made information more accessible, it has also led to a fragmented and often superficial understanding of the world. We are bombarded with so much information that it becomes difficult to process and digest it all, leading to a shallow understanding of complex issues.Secondly, screens have altered our social interactions. Social media platforms have allowed us to connect with people across the globe, sharing our lives and experiences. However, this virtual connectivity has also led to a decrease in face-to-face interactions. We are more likely to text or tweet than to have a meaningful conversation with someone sitting next to us. This has the potential to erode our ability to empathize and understand the perspectives of others.Moreover, screens have influenced the way we perceive beauty and success. Social media and online platforms often present a glossy and idealized version of reality, painting a picture of perfection that is often unachievable. Thiscan lead to feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, as we compare ourselves to these unrealistic standards. It is important to remember that the world we see through screens is not the real world; it is a constructed reality,designed to capture our attention and engagement.In conclusion, screens have indeed become windows tothe world, but they are not without their flaws. They shape our perspectives and influence our understanding of reality, often in ways that are not entirely accurate or beneficial. It is crucial that we are aware of this and strive to maintain a balanced and nuanced view of the world, one that does not rely solely on screens but also incorporates other sources of information and experiences.**春考英语作文反思与拓展**在2018年的上海春季高考中，英语作文题目无疑是一个引人深思的话题，它要求学生们深入探索现代生活的复杂性以及技术在塑造我们世界观方面所起的作用。

2018年上海春季高考题

2018年上海春季高考第二部分：阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)第一节(共15小题;每小题2分，满分30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，并在答题卡上将选项涂黑。

AHorniman Museum and GardensThe Horniman Museum and Gardens is a fascinating,family-friendly attraction in South London’s Forest Hill. It has been open since Victorian times when Frederick John Horniman first opened his house and extraordinary collection of objects to visitors. It includes internationally important collections of anthropology (人类学) and musical instruments, as well as a highly praised aquarium (水族馆) and natural history collection. Unusually in such an important museum, you can see the collection up close and face to face. You can even pick up, try on and play with some of the objects. Visitors come time and time again to explore the museum, take part in various activities and enjoy the 16-acre gardens.Join Horniman membersBecome a member of the Horniman Museum and Gardens and enjoy a year of inspiration, surprise and enjoyment at our wonderfulfamily-friendly Museum and Gardens. By joining as a member, you will receive some fantastic benefits.Join today with just £20 and receive:·Free entry to the aquarium. Enjoy free, unlimited entry to our much-loved aquarium.·Free entry to exhibitions. Explore the world with free, unlimited entry to our exhibitions.·10% discount at the shop. Bring some of the Horniman’s magic home with a 10% discount in our shop.·Free e-newsletter. Learn more about what’s happening at the Horniman and be the first to hear about upcoming members’ events.How to join Horniman membersYou can join Horniman members online or by visiting the Ticket Desk at the Horniman.·Save £4 if you pay yearly by direct debit (银行自动扣款)—download the form, and either post to us or bring to the Ticket Desk.·Remember all children under 3 go free throughout the museum. 21.What do we know about the HornimanMuseum and Gardens?A.People can visit it free of charge anytime.B.It was started by Horniman in Victorian times.C.There are many rare animals and plants in it.D.It offers unusual exhibits that cannot be touched.22.What benefits can the members of the Horniman get?a. Enjoying a 10% discount on admission.b. Entering the aquarium for free for a year,c. Visiting the museum for free all the time.d. Being kept informed of the newest information.A.a，bB.b, dC.a, dD.a, c23.How much should Mr. and Mrs. Smith pay yearly by direct debit to join Horniman members with their 2-year-old son?A.£32.B.£20.C.£40.D.£48.BTwenty-five years ago, as a parent educator, I began reading about the dangers of praise. I was completely shocked by what I was learning: praise is not good for kids. How could that be? So I spent years talking with experts, reading about the effects of praise, and finally decided to close the door on praise and focus on building an encouraging family.Even today, with many studies available to parents, I still hear people say, “How can that be? How can saying ‘Good job’ or ‘You’re smart’ be bad?” I understand. It can be a difficult habit to break.If we tell a boy “You are smart!” when he brings home an A in his math test, how does he feel when he comes home with a D? If we’ve told him that he is smart, then he will more likely feel a failure when he struggles with homework—“I’m supposed to be smart. Why can’t I do this?”Praise trains children to depend on constant feedback on what a “great job” they are doing. This dependency damages children’s confidence. Praise trains children to ask, “Do you like it?” “Did I do a good job?” They begin to believe that what others think is more important than what they think about their achievements and mistakes.Praise breaks the relationship between parents and children. Without even realizing it, parents may be using praise as a tool to direct the child’s behavior. The message is clear — I approve of you when you ... and I don’t approve of you when you ... Living with this kind of constant judgment damages the relationship.The solution to the problem of praise is encouragement. Encouragement can be given at any time, to anyone, in any situation. It is a comment, an acknowledgment, a statement that focuses on effort, improvement or choice. Hearing “You are smart!” can leave a child at a loss when they don’t do well. Using “T hat took a lot of work to come home with an A in your test …” gives a child the chance to be something else.24.What can be inferred from the first two paragraphs?A.Many parents can’t get on well with their children.B.The author never shows any approval to his children.C.The author spent 25 years changing people’s opinion on praise.D.It’s hard for many parents to believe praise is harmful.25.According to the passage, it seems that parents’ praise ______.A.can lead to children’s being smartB.helps them get along well with their childrenC.is a good tool to educate their childrenD.might have just the opposite effect26.Which of the following is a good example of encouragement?A.You didn’t think you could finish on time, but you did.B.You are the best artist I have ever seen.C.You have a problem and you have to fix it.D.You are very good at math.27.What can be the best title for the passage?A. A study on praise and encouragementB.Mind your words when praising your childrenC.Replace praise with your encouragementD.The difference between praise and encouragementCSeventy-three-year-old George McNeilon selected his food in Value Mart very carefully. After leaving the cashier, he calculated that he had saved 80 cents and thought that he had got good value for his money again.At the exit, the chilly wind reminded him of his gloves. “Where are they?” He searched here and there, but nowhere could he find them. George was sure he was wearing them when he entered the store. It was obvious that they must have been dropped somewhere inside the store.George bought the gloves at a 25% discount, for just $30, ten years ago. They were genuine lambskin (小羊皮). Until then, he had worn cheaper ones that lasted no more than three years. His impulsive decision to buy the expensive gloves turned out to be a good one, which even promoted hissocial status on the bus, as passengers stared at him enviously for six months out of the year. He enjoyed being envied.Bad luck, George thought, to lose his gl oves on New Year’s Eve. He, calm on the outside but frantic in the inside, reentered the store. Several minutes of search turned out to be in vain. “Society has changed. People have changed…’’ he murmured to himself. “Years ago, if people picked up somethi ng lost, they would give it back.”Back home, George was at a loss. In deep winter, he could not do anything without a pair of gloves.After the holiday, George decided to buy another pair of leather gloves. Before boarding the subway, he stepped into Value Mart again to see if by any chance his gloves had been returned to the lost and found office.“What color are they?” the woman in the office asked.“Black,” he answered.She looked into her drawer and drew out a pair of men’s leather gloves.“Are they?”“Yes! Those are mine!”28.What is the most probable reason for George’s shopping?A.To kill time in Value Mart as usual.B.To prove how wise he was with money.C.To prepare for the coming New Year.D.To see whether there were gloves on sale.29.Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “frantic” in Para. 4?A.Ashamed.B.Anxious.C.Afraid.D.Angry.30.What do we know about old George McNeilon?A.Economical but vain.B.Clever but simple.C.Pure but impolite.D.Warmhearted but poor.31.What can be inferred from the passage?A.In daily life, accidents will happen.B. A penny saved is a penny earned.C.Never ever jump to conclusions.D. A loss may turn out to be a gain.DThe sharing economy, represented by companies like Airbnb or Uber, is the latest fashion craze. But many supporters have overlooked the reality that this new business model is largely based on escaping regulations and breaking the law.Airbnb is an Internet-based service that allows people to rent out spare rooms to strangers for short stays. Uber is an Internet taxi service that allows thousands of people to answer ride requests with their own cars. There are hundreds of other such services.The good thing about the sharing economy is that it promotes the use of underused resources. Millions of people have houses or apartments with empty rooms, and Airbnb allows them to profit from these rooms while allowing guests a place to stay at prices that are often far less than those charged by hotels. Uber offers prices that are competitive with standard taxi prices and their drivers are often much quicker and more trustworthy.But the downside of the sharing economy has gotten much less attention. Most cities and states both tax and regulate hotels, and the tourists who stay in hotels are usually an important source of tax income. But many of Airbnb’s customers are not paying the taxes required under the law.Airbnb can also raise issues of safety for its customers and trouble for hosts’ neighbors. Hot els are regularly inspected to ensure that they are not fire traps and that they don’t form other risks for visitors. Airbnb hosts face no such inspections.Since Airbnb is allowing people to escape taxes and regulations, the company is simply promoting thefts. Others in the economy will lose by bearing an additional tax burden or being forced to live next to an apartment unit with a never-ending series of noisy visitors.The same story may apply with Uber. Uber is currently in disputes over whether its cars meet the safety and insurance requirements imposed on standard taxis. Also, if Uber and related services flood the market, they could harm all taxi drivers’ ability to earn a minimum wage.This downside of the sharing needs to be taken seriously, but that doesn’t mean the current tax and regulatory structure is perfect.32.What is the positive thing about the sharing economy?A.It is a globaltrend.B.It is beyond regulations.C.It brings in modest profits.D.It takes advantage of spare resources.33.What is the problem with Airbnb customers according to the passage?A.They can be noisy to hosts’ neighbours.B.They are likely to commit thefts.C.They are allowed not to pay taxes.D.They are not regularly inspected.34.What is the argument over Uber according to the passage?A.Whether it provides reliable services.B.Whether it guarantees customers’ safety.C.Whether it lowers customers’ expenses.D.Whether it can compete with standard taxis.35.What will be talked about in the following paragraphs?A.Existing regulations and laws.B.Further development of Airbnb and Uber.C.Necessary improvements of current laws.D.More downsides of Airbnb and Uber.第二节(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

上海市嘉定一中2018届第二学期高三英语学业水平检测(二)

嘉定一中2017学年第二学期高三英语学业水平检测Ⅱ. Grammar and VocabularyDirections：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Technology offers conveniences such as opening the garage door from your car or changing the television station without touching the TV. Now one American company is offering its employees a new convenience: a microchip implanted in their hands. Employees who have these chips can do all kinds of things just by waving their hands.Three Square Market is offering to implant microchips in all of their employees ___21___ free. Each chip costs $300 and Three Square Market will pay for the chip. Employees can volunteer to have the chips implanted in their hands. About 50 out of 80 employees ___22___（choose）to do so. The president of the company, his wife and their children are also getting chips implanted in their hands. The chip is about the size of a grain of rice. Implanting the chip only takes about a second and is said to hurt only very briefly. The chips go under the skin between the thumb and forefinger.A microchip was shown compared with a dime, Aug. 1, 2017, at Three Square Market in River Falls, Wis., ___23___ the company held a“chip party”for employees who volunteered to have the microchip embedded in their hands.With a chip in the hand, a person can enter the office building, buy food, sign into computers and more, simply by waving that hand near a scanner. The chips also will be used to identify employees. Employees who want convenience, ___24___ do not want to have a microchip implanted under their skin, can wear a wristband or a ring with a chip instead. They can perform the same tasks with a wave of their hands ___25___ ______ they had an implanted chip.Three Square Market is the first company in the United States ___26___（offer）to implant chips in its employees. Epicenter, a company in Sweden, has been implanting chips in its employees for a while. Three Square Marketing says the chip cannot track the employee. The company says scanners can read the chips only ___27___ they are within a few inches of them.Three Square Market says that the chips protect against identity theft by being encrypted, similar to credit cards. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ___28___（approve）the chips back in 2004, so they should be safe for humans, according to the company.In the future, people with the chips ___29___ be able to do more with them, even outside the office. Todd Westby is Chief Executive Officer of Three Square Market. He says, "Eventually, this technology will become standardized, ___30___（allow）you to use this as your passpor t, public transit, all purchasing opportunities, etc.”Section BDirections：Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there isof them with their heads down, tapping the screens of their tablets or ___31___ on their smart phones. While these folks may be making good use of their time by staying ___32___, their bodies are paying a heavy price for such convenience.As hand-held devices such as smart phones and tablets are becoming more common, users are reporting some new ___33___ problems. Florida chiropractor (脊椎按摩师) Dean Fishman began noticing an increased number of his patients ___34___ of neck and shoulder pain. He traced these ___35___ to the overuse of hand-held devices, specifically the action of bending the neck, and created the term “Text Neck.” As if the painful symptoms weren’t bad enough, Fishman warns that an untreated case of Text Neck could lead to ___36___ spinal (脊柱的) damage. He founded the Text Neck Institute in an effort to treat and educate those suffering from Text Neck. Treatments offered there include chiropractic care, physical therapy, massage therapy and exercise planning.In order to avoid or reduce the possibility of getting Text Neck, use the following basic principles:●Avoid awkward positioning. Don’t strain (滥用) your neck, and stay aware of how your body is ___37___ in relationto the device.●Take frequent ___38___ when using any kind of mobile device.●When using a tablet, use a case that can back up the device at comfortable ___39___ angle.For those who ___40___ can’t take their eyes off their devices, there is an ironic twist–downloading a special app could help. Dr. Fishman has released an app called the Text Neck Indicator App, which measures the angle of your smart phone. When the angle is appropriate, a green light appears in the upper corner of your screen. But when the angle puts you at risk for neck strain, the light turns red, obliging you to adjust your angle.Ⅲ. Reading ComprehensionSection AIn any planning system, from the simplest budgeting to the most complex corporate planning, there is an annual process. This is partly due to the fact that firms ___41___ their accounting on a yearly basis, but also because similar ___42___ often occur in the market.Usually, the larger the firm, the longer the planning takes. But ___43___, planning for next year may start nine months or more in advance, with various stages of evaluation leading to ___44___ of the complete plan three months before the start of the year.Planning continues, however, throughout the year, since managers ___45___ progress against targets, while looking forward to the next year. What is happening now will ___46___ the objectives and plans for the future.In today's business climate, as markets constantly change and become more difficult to ___47___, some analysts believe that long-term planning is ___48___. In some markets they may be right, as long as companies can build the sort of flexibility into their operations which allows them to ___49___ to any sudden changes.Most firms, however, need to plan more than one year ahead in order to ___50___ their long-term goals. This may reflect the time it takes to commission and build a new production plant, or, in marketing ___51___, it may be a question of how long it takes to research and launch a range of new products, and reach a certain ___52___ in the market. If, for example, it is going to take five years for a particular airline to become the ___53___ choice amongst business travelers on certain routes, the airline must plan for the various ___54___ involved.Every one-year plan, therefore, must be ___55___ in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain die stages that are necessary to achieve the final goals.41. A. make up B. carry out C. bring about D. put down42. A. patterns B. guides C. designs D. distributions43. A. surprisingly B. centrally C. equally D. typically44. A. approval B. permission C. admiration D. objection45. A. value B. confirm C. review D. survey46. A. restore B. promote C. influence D. maintain47. A. guess B. advocate C. recognize D. predict48. A. pointless B. meaningful C. realistic D. inevitable49. A. lead B. respond C. refer D. contribute50. A. share B. handle C. develop D. benefit51. A. expressions B. descriptions C. words D. terms52. A. reputation B. position C. situation D. direction53. A. reserved B. selected C. preferred D. supposed54. A. acts B. steps C. means D. points55. A. handed over B. left behind C. made out D. drawn upSection B（A）The Shepherd’s Life by James RebanksReviewed by HelenaNo lyrical, romantic account, but a hard-bitten, dull and down-to-earth story of a family, a community and an environment. A story of cycles---of seasons, years, people, generations, stretchesback centuries.A story of farming which only exists now in the remoter, wilder region of the UK, where the land istoo hard and the environment too harsh for farming to be an“agribusiness”. Where success, survivalof farms, their sheep are dependent on knowledge passed down through generations and shared between farmers and shepherds in a small, close-knit and mutually-dependent community. A story of people hefted to their land every bit as much as their sheep are hefted to their fells.A Month in the Country by J.L. CarrReviewed by L.R. FisherIt is unbelievably simple and delightfully slow-paced, full of Lawrence-like description of a vanished（消失的）country landscape. The focal points are a casual and peculiar friendship between two war-scarred, shell-shocked men Tom Birkin and Moon. In a book barely 100 pages long, the author not only manages to give us a story that flows like a stream, but also achieves impressive characterization, bitter feelings of war and a corresponding celebration of peace, a little suspense, and even a twist in the tail.A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonReviewed by T. BentlyHaving read all of Bill Bryson’s travel books, this was the last one left. I hadn’t read this because I had been told it was one of his weakest one. But I decided, through no other reason that I needed a hit of Bryson, to read it.People couldn’t have been more wrong. From the very beginning of assessing the feasibility,arranging for Katz to accompany him to the purchasing of his equipment and the purchasing of“alarge knife for killing bears and hillbillies”，Bryson is at his absolute best. His cute eye-is a wisewitness to this beautiful but fragile trail. His encounters along the trail and Katz anti-social,childish antics（滑稽动作）make the first 150 pages more than a laugh-out-loud-hike. I couldn’thave been more surprised. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is destined to become a modern classic.56. In The Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks takes readers through a shepherds’ life ______.A. featuring a hard struggle in the remote and beautiful areaB. alternated by the seasons and changed by the generationsC. little noticed, and deeply attached to the harsh landD. spent in a profitable agricultural and friendly community57. From the review of A Month in the Country we can learn that Tom and Moon ____.A. have lived in a slow-paced country throughout their lifeB. are war survivors with troubled memoriesC. were deafened by the explosion of a shell in the warD. will make the end of their story more fascinating to read58. By saying“People couldn’t have been more wrong”，the reviewer wants to say that _____.A. Bryson’s travel book is the best seller in travelling literatureB. Bryson’s travelling experience is laughableC. It’s a pity that people turn a blind eye to Bryson’s travelling expe rienceD. A Walk in the Wood combines artistic quality well with natural beauty（B）Malaria, the world’s most widespread parasitic（寄生虫引起的）disease, kills as many as three million people every year—almost all of whom are under five, very poor, and African. In most years, more than five hundred million cases of illness result from the disease, although exact numbers are difficult to assess because many people don’t (or can’t) seek car e. It is not unusual for a family earning less than two hundred dollars a year to spend a quarter of its income on malaria treatment, and what they often get no longer works. In countries like Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Gambia, no family, village, hospital, or workplace can remain unaffected for long.Malaria starts suddenly, with violent chills, which are soon followed by an intense fever and, often, headaches. As the parasites multiply, they take over the entire body. Malaria parasites live by eating the red blood cells they infect. They can also attach themselve s to blood vessels in the brain. If it doesn’t kill you, malaria can happen again and again for years. The disease passed on to humans by female mosquitoes infected with one of four species of a parasite. Together, the mosquito and the parasite are the most deadly couple in the history of the earth—and one of the most successful. Malaria has five thousand genes, and its ability to change rapidly to defend itself and resist new drugs has made it nearly impossible to control. Studies show that mosquitoes are passing on the virus more frequently, and there are more outbreaks in cities with large populations. Some of the disease’s spread is due to global warming.For decades, the first-choice treatment for malaria parasites in Africa has been chloroquine, a chemical which is very cheap and easy to make. Unfortunately, in most parts of the world, malaria parasites have become resistant to it. Successful alternatives that help prevent resistance are already available, but they have been in short supply and are very expensive. If these drugs should fail, nobody knows what would come next.59. According to paragraph 1, many people don’t seek care because ________.A. they are too poorB. it is unusual to seek careC. they can remain unaffected for longD. there are too many people suffering from the disease60. Which of the following may be the reason for the wide spread of the disease?A. Its resistance to global warming.B. Its ability to pass on the virus frequently.C. Its outbreaks in cities with large populations.D. Its ability to defend itself and resist new drugs.61. It can be inferred from the passage that ____.A. no drugs have been found to treat the diseaseB. the alternative treatment is not easily available to most peopleC. malaria has developed its ability to resist parasitesD. nobody knows what will be the drug to treat the disease62. Which of the following questions has NOT been discussed in the passage?A. How can we know one is suffering from malaria?B. How many people are killed by malaria each year?C. Why are there so many people suffering from malaria?D. What has been done to keep people unaffected for long?（C）Hollywood’s theory that machines with evil minds will drive armies of killer robots is just silly. The real probl em relates to the possibility that artificial intelligence(AI) may become extremely good at achieving something other than what we really want. In 1960 a well-known mathematician Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics（控制论）, put it this way: “If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere, we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire.”A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish topreserve its own existence. For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead. So if we send out a robot with the single instruction of fetching coffee, it will have a strong desire to secure success by disabling its own off switch or even killing anyone who might interfere with its task. If we are not careful, then, we could face a kind of global chess match against very determined, super intelligent machines whose objectives conflict with our own, with the real world as the chessboard.The possibility of entering into and losing such a match should concentrate the minds of computer scientists. Some researchers argue that we can seal the machines inside a kind of firewall, using them to answer difficult questions but never allowing them to affect the real world. Unfortunately, that plan seems unlikely to work: we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines.Solving the safety problem well enough to move forward in AI seems to be possible but not easy. There are probably decades in which to plan for the arrival of super intelligent machines. But the problem should not be dismissed out of hand, as it has been by some AI researchers. Some argue that humans and machines can coexist as long as they work in teams—yet tha t is not possible unless machines share the goals of humans. Others say we can just “switch them off” as if super intelligent machines are too stupid to think of that possibility. Still others think that super intelligent AI will never happen. On September 11, 1933, famous physicist Ernest Rutherford stated, with confidence, “Anyone who expects a source of power in the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.” However, on September 12, 1933, physicist Leo Szilard invented the neutron-induced(中子诱导) nuclear chain reaction.63. Paragraph 1 mainly tells us that artificial intelligence may _____.A. run out of human controlB. satisfy human’s real desiresC. command armies of killer robotsD. work faster than a mathematician64. Machines with specific purposes are associated with living things partly because they might be able to ____.A. prevent themselves from being destroyedB achieve their original goals independentlyC. do anything successfully with given ordersD. beat humans in international chess matches65. According to some researchers, we can use firewalls to _____.A. help super intelligent machines work betterB. be secure against evil human beingsC. keep machines from being harmedD. avoid robots’ affecting the world66. What does the author think of the safety problem of super intelligent machines?A. It will disappear with the development of AI.B. It will get worse with human interference.C. It will be solved but with difficulty.D. It will stay for a decade.Section CDirections：Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.A. We should try our best to be wise thinkers.B. Data can make our life easier and more comfortable.C. But sometimes we may find that data aren’t everything.D. Now and then the so-called specific data puzzle us very much.E. The exact data should come from assessment of an actual event.F. There are many things in our life which cannot be measured by data.As is known to all, many things can be measured in terms of data. Sometimes data can indeed tell the truth. With the help of data we can easily know the price of a can of Coke in the supermarket or the result of a football match. ___67___ What is more important, data seem to be fairer than words or statements. If the data are true, we don’ t have to worry about being cheated. Nowadays, as lies exist in the world, data are expected to tell the truth. Therefore, many of us would rather believe data.On the other hand, if we judge things only by data from the so-called specific research, aren’t we a little too narrow-minded? Many people often treat the so-called specific data unwisely just to make sure that they are making the right decisions. ___68___ For example，how can you tell that somebody isn’t a good student just because he or she doesn’t get high marks in the final examination?___69___ For example，the degree of your feeling happy in your life, the depth of love between you and your friends, and the faith you have in your country. We can only feel them in our hearts but can never express them in data.There is no doubt that analyzing the exact data is important to assessment of an actual event. But data should be dealt with wisely. We often get wrong data which mislead us. Sometimes our hearts and mind are more sensitive than data. Remember, data have no feeling but we humans have. Data do not mean much to people if we do not have the abilities to analyze the data with the knowledge and confidence to judge whether they are true or false. ___70___Ⅳ. Summary WritingDirections：Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.To many web-building spiders, most of whom are nearly blind, the web is their essential window on the world: their means of communicating, capturing prey, meeting mates and protecting themselves. A web-building spider without its web is like a men cast away on an island of solid rock, totally out of touch and destined to starve to death.So important is the web to an orb-web spider's survival that the animal will continue to construct new webs daily even if it is being starved. For 16 days the starving spider builds completely normal webs. Then, as the animal gets scrawnier（憔悴的）, it constructs a wider-meshed web using fewer strands. Such webs would only trap larger prey, which is more economical from the perspective of a starving spider.The spider stores energy by recycling web protein. It simply eats its own web each evening and reuses it to produce new silk. In studies with radioactivity, labeled materials, it was found that 95 percent of web protein reappears in the next day web. Most of the energy needed for web-building is used in walking over the strands as they are laid down.Scientists are impressed by the adaptability of the spider's highly preprogrammed brain, which is larger for its size than the brain of any other invertebrate（无脊椎动物）. If web-building is interrupted, or if some of the existing strands are destroyed, the spider simply goes back to see where the web is left off and then finishes building a normal web. One spider will finish building the incomplete web of another.Ⅴ. TranslationDirections：Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72. 人们相信好书如益友。

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第I卷（共100分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A.Her working all day long. B.The family reunion.C.The annoying housework.D.The intense schedule.2. A.The kids were frightened by the movie.B.The kids enjoyed the movie.C.The movie is not suitable for kids to see.D.The movie is quite boring.3. A.She is drinking tea at a table. B.She is interested in reading magazines.C.She likes the pictures in the magazines.D.She doesn’t know any Chinese.4. A.Supermarket. B.Drug store. C.Barber shop. D.Shopping center.5. A.He likes cooking food himself. B.He thinks frozen food is healthier.C.He accepts the woman’s invitation.D.He prefers to buy frozen food.6. A.A full-time student. B.An exchange student.C.A visiting scholar.D.A part-time student.7. A.She is bossy. B.She is shy.C.She is arrogant(傲慢的).D.She is trustworthy.8. A.He’s a teacher. B.He’s a writer.C.He’s a businessman.D.He’s a journalist.9. A.1 hour. B.2 hours. C.3 hours. D.4 hours.10. A.The bad weather stopped him. B.His shoes were worn out.C.He didn’t like the hiking trip.D.He’s too tried to continue.Section BDirections: In Section B,you will hear two passages and one longer conversation.After each passage or conversation,you will be asked several questions.The passages and conversation will beread twice,but the questions will be spoken only once.When you hear a question,read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A.They became more active in water.B.Symptoms of depression disappeared.C.Their digestion developed.D.They suffered from depression.12. A.Neon lights. B.Kindle screens.C.Overweight.D.Closed window curtains.13. A.Turn off all the electronic devices. B.Read a book and drink some water.C.Take some sleep pills.D.Go on a diet and lose some weight. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A.71% of the poor live a day with less than ten dollars.B.The population of people live in poverty has decreased in the past decade.C.Economic growth has made global poverty worse than before.D.The middle class are now one step away from poverty.15. A.The middle class has expanded in the 111 countries.B.The number of middle class has increased but it is not a global phenomenon.C.Great progress has been made for the people in poverty with impressive results.D.Once getting out of poverty,those people will live a better life.16. A.The middle class would not allow those poor to make a better living.B.Whatever progress is made,nothing will be changed.C.Good changes are too tiny to make those poor live a totally different life.D.Developed countries suffer from the question from both poverty and the middle class. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A.A thunderstorm accident. B.A cable emergency.C.An appointment on Saturday.D.A computer system breakdown.18. A.Lightning. B.Power failure. C.Cable cut. D.System failure.19. A.Plug the TV off. B.Keep the cable connected.C.Stay at home.D.Call the cable center for sure.20. A.On Saturday morning. B.On Saturday afternoon.C.On Tuesday morning.D.On Tuesday afternoon.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.My Kid-Free LifeI had expected to have more free time after my sons,Evan and Alex,each left for college,and I do.The kitchen calendar looks spare.Rarely (21)__________ I need to prepare family dinner every day.There is a lot (22)__________ (little) laundry.When the boys were infants,I wondered how I (23)__________ (spend) all the hours beforethey were born.(24)__________ __________ I have those hours back,I can focus on my own needs.I had also expected to worry about them when they were away.And I do.Did they get their flu shots(流感疫苗注射)?Will they remember the talks about “good choices”?On the other hand,the worry is mixed with relief.I have seen (25)__________ vigorously they grow without me.Do I missed them?Yes.Both more and less than I’d guessed.Do I feel united for having lost my primary role in life?No,because over the year,I took great pride (26)__________ the fact that my identity was not dependent on theirs.But,surprisingly,yes.(27)__________ (be) a different kind of mother defines me now.The missing comes at unexpected moments:seeing the school bus drive by,starting to put too many plates on the table...When they have doubts about friendships or job prospects,I can only say, “I’m sure you will figure it out.”And yet,the spaces (28)__________ (empty) by loss are more than filled by what I’ve found.I now have the chance (29)__________ (see) them as the whole world does but also like no one else ever will.As adults I happened to help create.The rooms (30)__________ the boys used to live look vacant.I feel sadness but also joy.I knew they would leave,but they will find their way back.My home is empty.But overflowing.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.It’s easy to defend a fortress(堡垒),but fortresses are not designed with the comfort of a king or queen in mind. When it comes to structures that are both (31)__________ and well-fortified, the classic Europe castle is the pinnacle(小尖顶) of design. Across the ages castles changed, developed, and eventually fell out of use, but they still command the (32)__________ of our culture.Castles were (33)__________ built in England by Norman invaders in 1066. As William the Conqueror (34)__________ through England, he fortified key positions to secure the land he had taken. The castles he built allowed the Norman lords to retreat to safety when threatened by English (35)__________. Castles also served as bases of operation for offensive attacks. Troops were summoned to, organized around, and deployed from castles. In this way castles served both (36)__________ and defensive roles in military operations.Not limited to military purposes, castles also served as offices from which the lord would administer control over his fiefdom(领地). That is to say, the lord of the land would hold court in his castle. Those that were socially beneath the lord would come to report the affairs of the lands that they (37)__________ and pay tribute to the lord. They would (38)__________ disputes, handle business, feast, and enjoy festivities. In this way castles served as important social centers in medieval England. Castles also served as symbols of power. Built on prominent sites (39)__________ the surrounding areas, castles constantly loomed in the background of many peasants' lives and served as a daily (40)__________ of the lord's strength.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Humans hate markedly to give workers more than they deserve,and indeed many will settle for less to compensate work equitably.But is this impulse (41)__________?Perhaps not,says psychological scientist Marie Schafer in Germany.According to Schafer,nobody has ever looked at how young children from different (42)__________ think about merit when sharing rewards.There is reason to suspect that meritocracy may be more of a Western concept and value,so she and several colleagues decided to put this to the test,studying the (43)__________ of children,four to 11 years old,in three different cultures.The idea was to test how much the children valued merit.So each child was given a number of sweets equal to the total number of fish in the catch,and was told to distribute the sweets any way he or she wanted—without adults in the room to influence them.If they valued merit,children should (44)__________ the sweets according to shares of the catch.That is,if they had landed the same number of fish,they wold choose to reward each one (45)__________,but if one fared much better at fishing,rewards would also be disproportionate.In the case where they were simply given the fish,rewards should be unrelated to catch size—since no effort was involved.(46)__________ matters.That’s the main finding among many from the study,as described in a forthcoming issue of the journal Psychological Science.The German children distributed the spoils of the day precisely in proportion to (47)__________,even when this meant a very unbalanced distribution of rewards.By contrast,children from the two rural African forager(狩猎) societies barely took merit into consideration at all.These findings suggest that the basic notion of merit and distributive justice is far from universal in our species,and that (48)__________ is culturally defined.But why?The scientists offer some (49)__________ on this.It could be that in large-scale societies like Germany,a meritocracy is (50)__________ for regulating transactions between people who don’t know each other and may not interact again.The focus is on equitable interactions,because things won’t be “evened out”in the future.In small scale societies,(51)__________,most exchanges take place between people who are (52)__________ with one another.It may be more important in such societies to build long-term relationships based on equity—rather than to insist on equity in a single transaction.In egalitarian forager societies,such as the Haillom,(53)__________ is an important leveling mechanism,(54)__________ asymmetries in wealth and increasing harmony.Children may internalize these social values early on,and apply them even when the fishing trip is (55)__________.41. A.unblocked B.universal C.unconscious D.unique42. A.cultures B.cases panies D.aspects43. A.mood B.behavior C.emotion D.habit44. A.collect B.load C.stress D.distribute45. A.really B.deliberately C.equally D.happily46. A.Scene B.Object C.Culture D.Trend47. A.productivity B.benefit C.interest D.survey48. A.tiredness B.business C.thickness D.fairness49. A.feelings B.thoughts C.lives D.emotions50. eful B.major C.small D.important51. A.in a word B.in addition C.by contrast D.what’s more52. A.familiar B.delighted C.satisfied D.same53. A.cooperating B.smiling C.equaling D.sharing54. A.forcing B.judging C.balancing D.experiencing55. A.creative B.imaginary C.innovative D.logicSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.(A)We Have a Painter to Thank for YellowstoneBefore artist Thomas Moran set foot in the park,it was seen as an unhappy place.After,it was market as a wonderland.Before Thomas Moran arrived,Yellowstone in the popular imagination was a harsh,will place pocked with hellish geysers.After the painter’s work was finished,Yellowstone was established as a national park and marketed as a wonderland.In 1871 Moran and photographer William Henry Jackson had joined the first U.S. government survey of the region.For two weeks Moran filled a sketchbook with the landscape’s most stunning sights.The survey results,Jackson’s photos,and Moran’s watercolors—the first color renderings of the area—were presented to Congress that fall. “The photographs were proof that what the artist was showing really existed,”says Eleanor Harvey,senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.In March 1872 lawmakers officially made Yellowstone a national park,the world’s first.By April,Moran had transformed some of his sketches into a 7-by-12-foot painting.The gold-splattered valley and billowing Lower Falls of “The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone”attracted the public. “It is too grand and wonderful for words,”declared the Ladies’Repository that August, “and none can ever judge of its wonders from any engraving or photograph in mere black and white.”Though Moran later painted Lake Superior,the Grand Canyon,and the Rockies,hsi reputation was so intertwined with Yellowstone that he took to signing his paintings “TYM,”for Thomas “Yellowstone”Moran.56.What can we know about Yellowstone according to the passage?A.It was a popular park with geysers before Thomas Moran finished transformation.B.It was an imagination of a harsh and wild place.C.It became a national park with the efforts of Moran and Jackson.D.It is an attractive grand valley.57.What does the “pocked” mean in the first sentence (paragraph 2)?A.Packed.B.Dotted.C.Blocked.D.Stuck.58.What are the characteristics of Thomas Moran’s paintings about Yellowstone Park?A.Paying attention to color rendering of paintings.B.His magnificent and wonderful paintings.C.His reputation closely linked to Yellowstone Park.D.His paintings with nothing special.59.What does the passage mainly talk about?A.The Significance of Thomas Moran’s paintings to Yellowstone Park.B.How Yellowstone Park is established as a National Park.C.The Great Painter—Thomas Moran.D.The process of Yellowstone Park being labelled as a fairyland.(B)Why UPS Trucks (Almost) Never Turn LeftBy favoring right-hand turns at all times—unless a left is unavoidable—the carrier saves millions of gallons of fuel each year,and avoids emissions equivalent to over 20,000 passenger cars.The practice started decades ago,before computers and GPS,and is now managed by a software that conjures the most efficient route for each truck.What’s wrong with turning left?Left-hand turns are generally considered unsafe and wasteful on right-hand driving roads,such s those in the U.S.“Left-turning traffic typically has to turn against a flow of oncoming vehicles,”explains Tom Vanderbilt,author of the book “Traffic:Why we drive the way we do.”“This can not only be dangerous,but makes traffic build up,unless you install a dedicated left-turn ‘phase’,which is fine but basically adds 30 or 45 seconds to everyone else’s single time,”he said.A study on crash factors in intersection-related accidents from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Association shows that turning left is one of the leading “critical pre-crash events”(an event that made a collision inevitable),occurring in 22.2 percent of crashes,as opposed to 1.2 percent for right turns.About 61 percent of crashes that occur while turning or crossing an intersection involve left turns,as opposed to just 3.1 percent involving right turns.Left turns are also three times more likely to kill pedestrians than right ones,according to data collected by New York City’s transportation planners.The right way to save fuel“A left-hand turn is also less fuel efficient,”said Jack Levis,UPS Senior Director of Process Management, “because your car’s idling(未熄火) longer,which is also not good for your vehicle.”（此处应有图片）UPS does not ban left turns outright,says Levis: “We will make left hand turns,but not ones that are unnecessary.We don’t need to go in circles all day long by making only right hand turns.We have tools analyze the number of left hand turns for each route,and we can work out which ones are avoidable.”The procedure is now incorporated in most countries around the world.To this end,the carrier created its own maps,which it says are more accurate that commercially available ones: “We can differentiate more important left-hand turns from unimportant ones.Google Maps has no concept of not making a left-hand turn,it just shows the most direct way to reach your destination.We have the ability to penalize some of those,”Levis told CNN.The system knows about parking lots,private driveways,variable speed limits and roads that are inaccessible for a truck.The software can give an undesirable left turn a penalty that adds 20 seconds to the estimated route time.In that case,going around the block and turning always right might offset that 20-second penalty: “We were able to turn off left hand turns,” said Levis.Taking a longer route while still saving time and fuel might sound confusing,even to UPS drivers,according to Vanderbilt: “I’ve actually been to UPS’s logistics center and discussed this with their lead engineers,”he said.“A lot of individual drivers felt the new routing software was making their trips longer,but they were later proven wrong.This is the thing about traffic,it’s such a complex system that often the individual cannot get a sense of the overall efficiency of the system,and optimize accordingly.It’s also one of the counter intuitive, ‘slower-is-faster’ effects you often see in traffic.”The rule,says Levis,can also be applied to left-hand driving countries,such as Australia and the UK,where it discourages right-hand turns.60.How much resources can UPS trucks save by avoiding turning left?A.UPS trucks will consume millions of gallons of fuel.B.The emission of UPS trucks is equivalent to that of over 2000 passenger cars.C.UPS trucks estimate to save 100,000 metric tons of CO2 emission a year.D.UPS trucks estimate an increase of 6 to 8 miles per route.61.In Tom Vanderbilt’s View,how to Deal with the Left Turn Problem in the United States?A.Install a dedicated left turn phase.B.Traffic planners manage road conditions.C.Operators make their own traffic maps.D.National policy encourages left turn of vehicles.62.Which of the following options is NOT TRUE according to the passage?A.It’s unsafe to turn left on right-hand driving roads.B.Turning left is resource-efficient on right-hand driving roads.C.Left turning is likely to cause traffic accidents.D.Left-turn is discouraged in all countries.(C)“Is data the new oil?”asked proponents of big data back in 2012 in Forbes magazine.By 2016,and the rise of big data’s turbo-powered cousin deep learning,we had become more certain: “Data is the new oil,”stated Fortune.Amazon’s Neil Lawrence has a slightly different analogy:Data,he says,is coal.Not coal today,though,but coal in the early days of the 18th century,when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine.A Devonian ironmonger,Newcomen built his device to pump water out of the south west’s prolific tin mines.The problem,as Lawrence told the Re-Work conference on Deep Learning in London,was that the pump was rather more useful to those who had a lot of coal than those who didn’t:it wasgood,but not good enough to buy coal in to run it.That was so true that the first of Newcomen’s steam engines wasn’t built in a tin mine,but in coal works near Dudley.So why is data coal?The problem is similar:there are a lot of Newcomens in the world of deep learning.Startups like London’s Magic Pony and SwiftKey are coming up with revolutionary new ways to train machines to do impressive feats of cognition,from reconstructing facial data from grainy images to learning the writing style of an individual user to better predict which word they are going to type in a sentence.And yet,like Newcomen,their innovations are so much more useful to the people who actuall copious(丰富的) amounts of raw material to work from.And so Magic Pony is acquired by Twitter,SwiftKey is acquired by Microsoft and Lawrence himself gets hired by Amazon from the University of Sheffield,where he was based until three weeks ago.But there is a coda to the story:69 years later,James Watt made a nice tweak to the Newcomen steam engine,adding a condenser to the design.That change,Lawrence said, “made the steam engine much more efficient,and that’s what triggered the industrial revolution.”Whether data is oil or coal,then,there’s another way the analogy holds up:a lot of work is going into trying to make sure we can do more,with less.It’s not as impressive as teaching a computer to play Go or Pac-Man better than any human alive,but “data efficiency”is a crucial step if deep learning is going to move away from simply gobbling up oodles of data and spitting out the best correlations possible.“If you look at all the areas where deep learning is successful,they’re all areas where there’s lots of data,”points out Lawrence.That’s great if you want to categorize images of cats,but less helpful if you want to use deep learning to diagnose rare illnesses. “It’s generally considered unethical to force people to become sick in order to acquire data.”63.According to the passage,why data is seen as the new coal?A.It can drive the steam engine to pump water.B.It can help people make more coals.C.It can help the areas of deep learning.D.It can help cure diagnose rare illnesses.64.According to Lawrence,why big data is less helpful to diagnose rare illnesses?A.Because there is no such demand.B.Because it can only use to categorize images of cats.C.Because it’s unethical to acquire data by forcing people to become sick.D.Because it needs too much data.65.Which areas are most likely to be successful in in-depth learning?A.Some small start-ups.B.Areas with large amounts of data.C.Coal and Petroleum Development Field.D.Areas for tackling rare diseases.66.According to the content of the article,which is NOT TRUE about the big data?A.We still have a lot of work to study the big data.B.It requires countless data to be collected.C.The purpose of studying big data is to save parents’ costs.D.“Data efficiency” is a critical step to explore more data.Section CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Shared decision making requires you to be an active participant.Politicians and policymakers are discussing what parts of the Affordable Care Act to change and what to keep.While most of us have little control over those discussions,there is one health care topic that we can control:what we talk about with our doctor.The Institute of Medicine (IOM) released the landmark publication Crossing the Quality Chasm 15 years ago.The report proposed six aims for improvement in the U.S. health system,identifying that health care should be patient-centered,safe,effective,timely,efficient and equitable.The idea that health care should be patient-centered sounds obvious,but what does that mean?The IOM defines it as care that is “respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences,needs,and values”and that ensures “patient values guide all clinical decisions.”For this to truly happen,doctors’ appointments need to cover more topics than how one is feeling and what can be done.Does your doctor know your values?(67)__________ Fewer than half of people report that their physician or other health care provider asks about their goals and concerns for their health and health care.Your doctor can discuss medical tests and treatments without knowing your life goals,but sharing your values and needs with your doctor makes discussions and decisions more personalized and may lead to better health.How does patient-centered care happen?In order for your health care to center around you,your doctor needs to know your values,preferences and needs.Everyone is different.(68)__________As a neurologist,when I’m working with a 76-year-old widow whose main goal is to remain independent in her home,we frame her care in that context.(69)__________ We discuss how a walker helps her be more independent rather than less,as she can move around her home more safely.When a stressed college student comes to my office for a bothersome tremor,his preference is to avoid medications that he might forget to take or that might harm his school performance.This guides our discussion of the pros and cons of different options,including using medications but also doing nothing,an option that almost half of patients feel strongly should always be discussed.(70)__________ In sharing their values and goals with me,these individuals enabled a health care approach that respected their needs and also responded to their life circumstances.IV. Summary WritingDirections:Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.To Laugh Is HumanMost of us don’t know why we laugh at some jokes and not at others.Scientists know that we are able to laugh at birth.Babies begin to laugh at three to four months of age,well before they produce their first words.What scientists are interested in is why we laugh.Scientists believe humans laugh with others primarily because it makes us feel connected with one another,which in turn gives us a sense of trust and comfort.To scientists,laughter is an unconscious reaction;consequently,when we laugh,others can be certain that it is an hones reaction,and honesty is key when building and maintaining friendships.Since laughter is seen as a social signal that we send to others,it can also help explain why it is so infectious.Studies have proven that when people see or hear something funny,they are 20 times more likely to a laugh when they are with others than when they are alone.Wanting to be accepted by others is part of human nature.And mirroring other people’s laughter is a way to signal to others that you feel the way they do,which makes us feel more connected with one another. Humans have not always laughed just so they can feel closer to others,however.Scientists point out that this social function of laughter was born out of an even more fundamental human ughter,they believe,came about because it contributed to our very survival as a species.Scientists assume that sharing laughter ensured our ancestors a higher survival rate because it led to greater cooperation between individuals.Humans learned quickly that greater cooperation led to survival,and the brain in turn realized that laughing with others increased out chances of finding people to cooperate,hunt,eat,live,and eventually,survive with.第II卷（共40分）V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1.少喝含糖饮料，否则你会容易发胖。

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普通高等学校招生全国统一考试上海英语试卷II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.“Zootopia” Broke Disney RecordsLast weekend, the latest Disney movie, “Zootopia,” broke records. The mov ie had the largest opening weekend for a Disney animation (动画片). People across the United States bought more than $75 million worth of tickets.“Zootopia” is a city of animals. The movie stars a rabbit police officer and a fox criminal 21 team up to find a missing otter (水獭). He is among several animals that have suddenly disappeared from the city.“Zootopia”22 (praise) for its sharp humor and strong message since its release. The film explores racism and other issues in its description of relations 23 two kinds of animals in the city.Jared Bush and Phil Johnston wrote “Zootopia.” They told reporters that it started out as a spy movie 24 (set) in several different contexts. But they changed the story 25 they found the animal world especially interesting. They said to 26 something like this. “What’s this world like? What’s the history of this world?” And then, Bush said, they went to the experts. Not only 27 the writers speak with people who study couture (时装) and group behavior, but also they talked with animal experts like zookeepers.The creators have noted that the variety of animals was not easy 28 (produce) in drawings. In the movie, 64 species live in multiple neighborhoods 29 (represent) differen t animals’ living environments. Disney says “Zootopia” is its30 (complex) animation yet. The extra effort is certainly paying off at the box office.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. EachWhy your Password May Not Be As Safe As It SeemsDoes “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 31 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.When ten million passwords were leaked on to the Internet, they appeared to 32 that attempts by Internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”, there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to 33 . The problem was that people seemed to do so in the same way.“Users are becoming slightly more 34 of what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an I nternet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of atext phrase. That makes it better, right?”But 35 no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this and in 20 percent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo is giving users the option to associate their mobile phone with an account, and has a single use password texted to it each time they want to 36 on.Although the service is voluntary, Dylan Casey, an executive at Yahoo, said that it was “the first step to 37 passwords”. He said it was a(n) 38 that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than so me people’s improving upon“password” by using “wasspord” or, tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 13tt3r5.“We are, for the most part, predictably39 when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups,” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 40 , and so do password crackers.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Ever been just about to call someone when the phone rings and the person in question is on the other end? Or have you e xperienced a sudden feeling of unease or danger even though you’re in a(n) 41 situation? If you don’t believe in it, you’ll put it down to 42 and on overactive imagination. But some people believe it is 43 that there is a sixth sense beyond smell, taste, touch, hearing and sight. Now, scientists are carrying out experiments not only to prove that it exists, but also to find out how you can 44 it to your advantage.Dean Radin, a researcher in California, has set up the Boundary Institute in Los Altos and is currently using its website to recruit (招募) 4,000 people in 57 countries to find out if there are any 45 instances of sixth sense or, as he calls it, “precognition”— the ability to predict outcomes. The results so far are 46 . In a card test, where you have to 47 which of the five cards on a computer screen will be turned over to reveal a picture, the top scorers hit the right card 48% of the time — the 48 of this happening are 2,669 to 1.49 , Radin’s most famous study involves participants looking at a variety of images that are designed to stimulate a specific responses. In the experiment, participants sit alone in a room in front of a computer, with devices attached to their bodies to measure changes in skin resistance and blood flow, which are measures of emotional arousal. Radin has found that one in six people has a rise in arouse before they see the road accident-type pictures, while remaining 50 before the tree-type pictures.But even if you do accept that a sixth sense exists, the question is, does it actually 51 ? Radin says it does. “The future of our civilization depends on 52 that are being made now, whether it’s about how we farm our food, how we get rid of our waste or whether we allow chemicals to be included in everyday products. We don’t have answers to these important questions, yet what we decide on will 53 our lives for decades or longer. Anything we can do to improve our ability to predict future events is well worth the 54 ,” he says. “If it turns out that some people can genuinely forecast the future some of the time, as I believe the data shows, then 55 this ability is as important as cutting-edge science.41. A. unfamiliar B. tough C. harmless D. ridiculous42. A. coincidence B. resistance C. innovation D. distraction43. A. mystery B. evidence C. falsehood D. innocence44. A. alter B. define C. find D. use45. A. historical B. strange C. mistaken D. true46. A. extraordinary B. inevitable C. alarming D. disappointing47. A. ask B. guess C. recall D. learn48. A. figures B. methods C. scores D. chance49. A. However B. Otherwise C. Meanwhile D. Consequently50. A. active B. calm C. silent D. alert51. A. serve any purpose B. take any advantageC. make any progressD. win any support52. A. inquiries B. decisions C. donations D. comparisons53. A. ruin B. improve C. affect D. wait54. A. expense B. risk C. effort D. wait55. A. proving B. challenging C. limiting D. understandingSection BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.AWhat happens in a particular class on a particular day depends on the interactions that occur between the teacher, the students, and the material being studied. The classroom context, generally speaking, includes all those factors that influence what happens during teaching and learning. These factors operate on different levels.The physical context, for example, influences what happens in the classroom. Space may restrict participation, depending on how a teacher interprets the situation. Some teachers use their surroundings to promote learning. Notice boards reflect themes or topics being studied; a display area presents students’ written work for others to read. Of course, some teachers remain unaware of the physical environment that they and their students inhabit together. A room, after all, is just a room. Yet the physical environment of the classroom affects the nature and types of interactions that will occur. Straight rows of tables, for example, are favourable to classroom lectures and turn-taking routines in which students one by one, recite answers to a teacher’s questions.A room isn’t just a room for teachers who seek to make the physical environment suitable for interactive learning. Interactive learning invites thinking, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and sharing. Such classrooms are arranged for individuals rather than for the “class” as a whole; they welcome students as active participants. Various physical arrangements encourage interactive learning, but they depend on the size of the room and the furniture that is available.A class can be organized for individual, group, or whole-class activities. Students are initially assigned seats at a combination of small and large tables. However, when the students work individually or in groups, they are free to abandon the assigned seating. The chalkboard occupies a central position in the room to accommodate whole-class study.56. According to the passage, “the physical context” (paragraph 2) may include .A. teachers’ rolesB. themes being studiedC. a display areaD. students’ participation57. Which of the following is the most suitable for a classroom lecture?58. From the last paragraph, we can learn that .A. classrooms should be arranged for the class as a wholeB. the chalkboard should be abandoned during group workC. seating can be changed for different classroom activitiesD. interaction can be encouraged by combining small and large tables59. What is the passage mainly about?A. The physical classroom environment varies with different types of interaction.B. The physical environment is a deciding factor for a successful lesson.C. Interactive learning depends on individuals ’ active involvement.D. 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D. $ 225.00 SD.61. If you hope your framed order will reach your friend in Germany for Christmas, you’d better place your order by .A. December 20B. December 9C. November 30D. November 1962. The above advertisement is mainly intended to promote .A. a painting exhibitionB. superior printsC. Germany as a romantic destinationD. high-quality custom framesCWe’ve all heard the dangers of helicopter parenting. Remaining too involved in a kid’s life, especially throughout college, can lead to depression, lack of self-reliance and feelings of entitlement.This wisdom seems sound. But some academics and educators now say they see signs of a troubling resistance. The concern: that too much of warnings and horror stories —the cover of Julie Lythcott-Haims’ bestseller How to Raise an Adult instructs moms and dads to avoid “the overparenting trap” — is discouraging parents from getting involved at all.“Yes, parents can be intruders,” says Marjorie Savage, a researcher in the University of Minnesota. “At the same time, there are increasing examples of parents refusing to step up when students genuinely need their family.” At Hofstra University, for example, parents now ask embarrassedly about mental-health and campus-safety resources, as if bringing up those topics were forbidden, says Branka Kristie, who heads the family-outreach programs. And Savage recalls talking to a mom who kept quiet about her son’s signs of depression until right before he failed a semester. She did not want to “helicop ter in.”That means colleges, which have spent the past decade learning to cope with parents who get too involved, now have a different problem. In recent years, hundreds of colleges have either launched or increased their parent offices, which serve as one-stop shops for moms and dads looking to make complaints, report problem and generally stay in touch.Much of this began, of course, because schools were forced to cope with a generation of students connected with their parents like never before. On average, they communicate 22.1 times per week, according to research from Barbara Hofer, a psychology professor at Middlebury College. That’s more than twice the rate of a decade ago, before almost every student had a smartphone.With some moms and dads thinking twice of contacting the school in the first place, some programs are being used to encourage a more balanced approach, often through email and other social media. Hofstra’s Kristic advises parents to “be a guide, while granting that the student owns the journey.” That means asking questions, listening to answers, being patient and trusting kids to resolve their own problems. But if issues persist, or if a student is in serious mental or physical danger, it also means hopping in the chopper, at least for a little while.63. In paragraph 3, parents of Hofstra University students are mentioned to .A. show that parents have gone to the other extreme of overparentingB. provide educators with a new understanding of overparentingC. give a further example of supportive overparentingD. place emphasis on the necessity of overparenting64. The phrase “hopping in the chopper” in the last paragraph refers to .A. having trust in kidsB. stepping in to solve kids’ problemsC. joining a family-outreach programD. turning to social media for help65. What can be inferred from the passage?A. Mental-health and campus-safety resources are forbidden topics among parents.B. How to Raise an Adult encourages parents to get engaged in family education.C. Overparenting is no longer a problem because of students’ self-reliance.D. There was less student-parent communication in the past than today.66. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Why Colleges Need Helicopter ParentsB. How to Improve Parent-school RelationsC. Why Overparenting Is in QuestionD. How to Communicate More as ParentsSection CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.A. The two types of comics are created in very different ways.B. But for people who love comic books, they can be a fantastic escape from the tough realities of modern life.C. They find it hard to understand why comic books appeal so many people.D. Comics have lost its charm in America.E. In Japan, the contrast couldn’t be greater.F. Manga heroes look smaller, younger than all-conquering American heroes who have large muscles and lots of themed clothes.Japanese and American Comic Book HeroesTo some people, the idea of reading comic books seems childish. 67 Comics are published globally, but Japanese and American versions dominate the market despite the fact — or perhaps because — they differ in a number of ways.68 American comics are a group effort, beginning with the story-writing team and the artist who produces drawings of initial ideas. When these drafts are finalized, the outlines, dialogue, and color are added. Also, creators of comic superheroes sometimes sell their titles to other creative teams, who keep the superhero “alive.” This is in sharp contrast to manga（日本漫画）creators, who are often individual authors merely responsible for the storylines, dialogue, and artwork. When a manga creator decides to stop, so does the hero.Another difference is the appearance of the heroes. 69 Also, manga heroes rarely look Japanese, and the stories do not typically take place in a Japanese context. However, American comic heroes, despite their masks, are proudly American and are admired for their readiness to defend U.S. cities.Probably the biggest difference is the readership. Up until the 1950s, American comic books were read by both children and adults, with popular titles such as Superman selling as many as half a million copies per month. The arrival of TV, however, led to a decline in sales so that now the average reader of an American comic book is a teenage boy with an interest in superheroes. 70 There manga sales are still booming, reaching as high as $ 7 billion each year largely because readers range from young boys and girls up to middle-aged men and women. Manga for men and boys, like the American comics, tend to be action-oriented, while manga for women and girls tend to be focused on relationships.IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.ShynessIf you suffer from shyness, you are not alone, for shyness is a universal phenomenon. It is not surprising that social scientists are exploring its environmental causes.The first environmental cause of shyness may be a child’s home and family life. Today’s children are growing up in smaller and smaller families, with fewer and fewer relatives living nearby. Growing up in homes in which both parents work full time, children may not have the socializing experience of frequent visits by neighbors and friends. Because of their lack of social skills, they may begin to feel shy whenthey start school.A second environmental cause of shyness in an individual may be one’s culture. In a large study conducted in Japan, 57 percent of participants rated themselves as shy. Researchers Lynne Henderson and Philip Zimbardo say, “One explanation is that in Japan, an individual’s performance success is credited externally to parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, and others, while failure is entirely blamed on the person.” Therefore, Japanese learn no t to take risks in public and rely instead on group-shared decisions.Technology may also play a role. In the United States, the number of young people who report being shy has risen from 40 percent to 50 percent in recent years. Due to our huge advances in technology, watching television, playing video games, and surfing the Web have replaced recreational activities that involve social interaction for many young people. Adults, too, are becoming more isolated as a result of technology. Face-to-face interactions with bank clerks, gas station attendants, and shop assistants are no longer necessary because people can use machines to do their banking, fill their gas tanks, and order goods. In short, they become shy.It appears that most people have experienced shyness at some time in their lives. Therefore, if you are shy, you have lots of company.第II卷(共40分)V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72. 你不必在乎他人对你的评论。

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2017、2018年春考&秋考语填、词汇、完型专项（一）2017年春II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.“Zootopia” Broke Disney RecordsLast weekend, the latest Disney movie, “Zootopia,” broke records. The movie had the largest opening weekend for a Disney animation（动画片）. People across the United States bought more then $75 million worth of tickets.“Zootopia” is a city of animals. The movie stars a rabbit police officer and a fox criminal (21) team up to find a missing otter（水獭）.He is among several animals that have suddenly disappeared from the city.“Zootopia” (22) (praise) for its sharp humor and strong message since its release. The film explores racism and other issues in its description of relations (23) two kinds of animals in the city.Jared Bush and Phil Johnston wrote “Zootopia.” They told reporters that it started out as a spy movie (24) (set) in several different contexts. But they changed the story (25) they found the animal world especially interesting. They said to (26) something like this. “What’s this world like? What’s the history of this world?” And then, Bush said, they went to the experts. Not only (27) the writers speak with people who study couture and group behavior, but also they talked with animal experts like zookeepers.The creators have noted that the variety of animals was not easy (28) (produce) in drawings. In the movie, 64 species live in multiple neighborhoods (29) (represent) different animals’ living environments. Disney says “Zootopia” is its (30) (complex) animation yet. The extra effort is certainly paying off at the box office.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box.Does “qaz2ws” strike you as a nice safe password? What about “adgjmptw”? An analysis has found them to be among the passwords that are most 31 used, which of course means they are not secure at all.When ten million passwords were leaked on to the internet, they appeared to 32 that attempts by internet security experts to make us improve our password strength had been successful, even if, in the specific case of the leaked passwords, they are also completely pointless.While many of the passwords were still single words, such as “password”, there was also a clear attempt by many to make them harder to 33 . The problem was that people seemed to doso in the same way.“Users are becoming slightly more 34 of what makes a password strong,” explained WP Engine, an internet company that performed the analysis. “For instance, adding a number or two at the end of a text phrase. That makes it better, right?”But 35 no. They found that almost half a million passwords did this---and in 20 per cent of those all people did was put the number “1” at the end.Perhaps this is why some companies are now trying to move gradually beyond passwords. Yahoo! is giving users the option to associate their mobile phone with an account, had have a single use passwords texted to it each time they want to 36 on.Although the services is voluntary, Dylan Casey an executive at Yahoo!, said that it was “the first step to 37 passwords”. He said it was a(n) 38 that it was increasingly hard for people to remember all the passwords they had. “I don’t think we, as an industry, have done a good enough job of putting ourselves in the shoes of the people using our products,” he said.It would certainly be a more sensible strategy than same people’s improving upon “password” by using “wasspord” or, tran5p053d numb3r5 f0r 13tt3r5.“We are, for the most part, predictably 39 when it comes to choosing passwords, despite a decade of warnings from password strength checkers during sign-ups,” said WP Engine. “We love taking a(n) 40 , and so do password crackers.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Ever been just about to call someone when the phone rings and the person in question is on the other end? Or have you experienced a sudden feeling of unease or danger even though you’re in a(n) 41 situation? If you don’t believe in it, you’ll put it down to 42 and on overactive imagination. But some people believe it is 43 that there is a sixth sense beyond smell, taste, touch, hearing and sight. Now, scientists are carrying out experiments not only to prove that it exists, but also to find out how you can 44 it to your advantage.Dean Radin, a researcher in California, has set up the Boundary Institute in Los Altos and is currently using its website to recruit（招募）4,000 people in 57 countries to find out if there are any 45 instances of sixth sense or, as he calls it, “precognition”—the ability to predict outcomes. The results so far are 46 . In a card test, where you have to 47 which of the five cards on a computer screen will be turned over to reveal a picture, the top scorers hit the right card 48% of the time—the 48 of this happening are 2,669 to 1.49 , Radin’s most famous study involves participants looking at a variety of images that are designed to stimulate a specific responses. In the experiment, participants sit alone in a room in front of a computer, with devices attached to their bodies to measure changes in skin resistance and blood flow, which are measures of emotional arousal. Radin has found that one in six people has a rise in arouse before they see the road accident-type pictures, while remaining 50 before the tree-type pictures.But even if you do accept that a sixth sense exists, the question is, does it actually 51 ? Radin says it does. “the future of our civilisation depends on 52 that are being made now,whether it’s about how we farm our food, how we get rid of our waste or whether we allow chemicals to be included in everyday products. We don’t have answers to these important questions, yet what we decide on will 53 our lives for decades or longer. Anything we can do to improve our ability to predict future events is well worth the 54 ,” he says. “If it turns out that some people can genuinely forecast the future some of the time, as I believe the data shows, then 55 this ability is as important as cutting-edge science.41. A. unfamiliar B. tough C. harmless D. ridiculous42. A. coincidence B. resistance C. innovation D. distraction43. A. mystery B. evidence C. falsehood D. innocence44. A. alter B. define C. find D. use45. A. historical B. strange C. mistaken D. true46. A. extraordinary B. inevitable C. alarming D. disappointing47. A. ask B. guess C. recall D. learn48. A. figures B. methods C. scores D. chance49. A. However B. Otherwise C. Meanwhile D. Consequently50. A. active B. calm C. silent D. alert51. A. serve any purpose B. take any advantage C. make any progress D. win any support52. A. inquiries B. decisions C. donations D. comparisons53. A. ruin B. improve C. affect D. wait54. A. expense B. risk C. effort D. wait55. A. proving B. challenging C. limiting D. understanding2017、2018年春考&秋考语填、词汇、完型专项（二）2017年秋II.. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.In the presence of animalsA professor of public health at UCLA says that pet ownership might provide a new form of health care. As far back as the1790s, the elderly at a senior citizens' home in England 21___________ (encourage) to spend time with farm animals. This would help patients' mental state more than the cruel therapies 22__________ (use) on the mentally ill at the time. In recent years, scientists have finally begun to find proof 23__________ contact with animals can increase a sick person's chance of survival and has been shown 24___________(lower) heart rate, calm upset children, and get people to start a conversation.Scientist think that animal companionship is beneficial 25___________animals are accepting and attentive, and they don't criticize or give orders. Animals have the unique ability to be more social. For example, visitors to nursing homes get more social responses from patients when they come with animal companions.Not only do people seem 26___________ (anxious) when animals are nearby, but they may also live longer. Studies show that a year 27___________ heart surgery, survival rates for heart patients were higher for those with pets in their homes than those without pets. Elderly people with pets make fewer trips to doctors than those without animal companions, possibly because animals relieve loneliness. Staying with animals is believed to create a peaceful state of mind, 28___________(result) in a favourable environment for everyone.Research confirms that the findings concerning senior citizens can be applied to restless children. They are more easy-going when there are animals around, with 29___________ company they tend to calm down more easily. They involve 30___________ in playing with animals and the presence of animals comforts them greatly.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in theII. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Fa mous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, (41) ______ a huge amount of dull work. Anyone who wants to master a skill must run through the cycle of practice, (42)______ feedback, modification, and increasing improvement again, again, and again. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take pleasure in their gradual improvement. Yet others find this kind of focused, time-intensive work to be (43) ______ or boring. Why?The difference may turn on the ability to enter into a state of “flow,” the feeling of being completely (44) ______ in what you are doing. Wh ether you call it being “in the zone,” or something else, a flow state is a special experience. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed the (45) ______ of flow in the 1970’s, it has been a mainstay of positive-psychology research. Flow states can happen in the course of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well-defined goals and is at a(n) (46) ______ skill level, and where the individual is able to (47) ______ their performance to clear and immediate feedback.Csikszentmihalyi suggested that those who most (48) ______ entered into flow states had an “autotelic personality(自带目的性人格)”—a disposition to seek out challenges and get into a state of flow. While those without such a personality see difficulties, autotelic individuals see opportunities to build skills. Autotelic individuals are receptive and open to new challenges. They are also (49) ______ and have low levels of self-centeredness. Such people, with their capacity for “disinterested interest” have a great (50) ______ over others in developing their innate abilities.Fortunately for those of us who aren’t (51) ______ blessed with an autotelic personality, there is evidence that flow states can be (52) ______ by environmental factors. (53) ______, the learning framework prescribed by Montessori schools seems to encourage flow states.While there isn’t (yet) a pill that can turn dull practice into a thrilling activity for anyone, it is heartening that we seem, at least to some (54) ______, to be able to push ourselves toward flow states. By giving ourselves unstructured, open-ended time, minimal (55) ______, and a task set at a moderate level of difficulty, we may be able to love what we’re doing while we put in the hard work practicing the things we love doing.2017、2018年春考&秋考语填、词汇、完型专项（三）2018年春Ⅱ. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.My Kid-Free LifeI had expected to have more free time after my sons, Evan and Alex, each left for college, and I do. The kitchen calendar looks spare. Rarely (21) ______ I need to prepare family dinner every day. There is a lot (22) ___________ (little) laundry.When the boys were infants, I wondered how I (23) __________ (spend) all the hours before they were born. (24) ______ ______ I have those hours back, I can focus on my own needs.I had also expected to worry about them when they were away. And I do. Did they get their flu shots (流感疫苗注射)? Will they remember the talks about "good choices"? On the other hand, the worry is mixed with relief. I have seen (25) ______ vigorously they grow without me.Do I miss them? Yes. Both more and less than I'd guessed. Do I feel united for having lost my primary role in life? No, because over the years, I took great pride (26) ______ the fact my identity was not dependent on theirs. But, surprisingly, yes. (27) ___________ (be) a different kind of mother defines me now.The missing comes at unexpected moments: seeing the school bus drive by, starting to put too many plates on the table… When they have doubts about friendships or job prospects, I can only say, “I'm sure you will figure it out.”And yet, the spaces (28) ___________ (empty) by loss are more than filled by what I've found. I now have the chance (29) ___________ (see) them as the whole world does but also like no one else ever will. As adults I happened to help create.The rooms (30) ______ the boys used to live look vacant. I feel sadness but also joy. I knew they would leave, but they will find their way back.My home is empty, but overflowing.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box.CastlesPalaces are known for their beauty and magnificence, but they offer little protection against attacks. By comparison, classic European castles are both ___31___ and well-fortified (防御坚固的) against attacks. Across the ages castles changed, developed, and eventually fell out of use, but they still command the ___32___ of English culture.Castles were ___33___ built in England by Norman invaders in 1066. As the invaders ___34___ through England, they fortified key positions to secure the land they had taken. The castles they built allowed the Norman lords (贵族) to move back to safety when threatened by English ___35___. Castles also served as bases of operation for attacks. Troops were assembled and organized around castles. In this way castles served both ___36___ and defensive roles in military operations.Not limited to military purposes, castles also served as offices from which the lord administered control over his land. That is to say, the lord of the land often held meetings in his castle. Those that were socially beneath the lord came to report the affairs of the lands that they ___37___ and pay respect to the lord. They ___38___ arguments, handled business, feast, andenjoyed festivals. In this way castles served as important social centers in the Middle Ages in England. Castles also served as symbols of power. Built on high sites ___39___ the surrounding areas, castles were constantly there in the background of many peasants’ lives and served as a daily ___40___ of the lord’s strength.Ⅲ. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.The idea that “you get what you earn” is widely accepted as what is “fair” in most Western societies. __41__, this attitude appears very early in childhood: Children as young as three believe that hard work deserves more reward. But is this belief __42__?German psychologist Marie Schafer and her team decided to put this to the test, studying the __43__ of children, four to eleven years old, in three different cultures: Germany, Namibia and Kenya. The scientists asked the children to go fishing. In this case, the “fish” were metal balls, which the children tried to “catch” with magnetized fishing rods (磁性钓鱼竿). The idea was to test how much the children valued merit (值得嘉奖的成果). So each child was given a number of sweets equal to the total number of fish in the catch, and was told to __44__ the sweets any way he or she wanted. If they valued merit, children should divide up the sweets according to shares of the catch. This is, if they caught the same number of fish, they would choose to reward each one __45__, but if one did a better job of fishing, rewards would also be disproportionate.__46__ matters. That’s the main finding from the study published in the journal Psychological Science. The German children divided up the rewards exactly in proportion to __47__, even when this meant a very unbalanced distribution of rewards. __48__, children from Namibia and Kenya, the two rural African societies, barely took merit into consideration at all. These findings suggest that the basic concept of merit and distributive justice is far from universal in our species, and that __49__ is culturally defined.But __50__? The scientists offer some thoughts on this. It could be that in large-scale societies like Germany, merit is __51__ for regulating interactions between people who don’t know each other and may not interact again. In small-scale societies, however, most exchanges take place between people who are __52__ with one another. It may be more important in such societies to build long-term relationships based on equity (公道)---rather than to insist on equity in a single __53__. In societies like the one where the group of children from Namibia came from, sharing is an important approach to __54__ differences in wealth and increasing harmony. Children may accept these social values early on, and apply them even when the fishing trip is __55__.41. A. On the contrary B. First of all C. In addition D. What’s more42. A. universal B. old-fashioned C. childish D. deep-rooted43. A. intelligence B. growth C. behavior D. emotion44. A. contribute B. distribute C. move D. claim45. A. specially B. additionally C. generously D. equally46. A. Quality B. Relationship C. Culture D. Justice47. A. status B. productivity C. difficulty D. progress48. A. For instance B. In particular C. By contrast D. On average49. A. success B. fairness C. tradition D. diligence50. A. how B. where C. when D. why51. A. crucial B. inadequate C. debatable D. vague52. A. patient B. satisfied C. familiar D. honest53. A. interaction B. society C. individual D. factor54. A. highlighting B. exploring C. indicating D. balancing55. A. imaginary B. boring C. occasional D. informal2017、2018年春考&秋考语填、词汇、完型专项（四）2018年秋Ⅱ. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.S&A’s plan to fight theftThe S&A Supermarket is the only place where residents in Boise can go shopping. It’s also the most frequently (21) __________ (visit) shop for local police. In the first six months of 2016,14% of the city’s reports originated there, most for shoplifting(商店货物扒窃)---a figure that would be even higher if S&A called the police for every minor theft.(22) __________ (ease) that burden and reduce shoplifting losses, S&A is starting to do police work. Earlier this summer, 90 employees (23) __________ (hire) to guard its doors and check receipts. As part of a program called Justice, they will work with existing employees to manage some small crimes internally. If an employee catches a thief (24) _______ name is not in the police database---that is, a first-time offender---that person will get a choice: pay to take an online course about the consequences of their actions, or face charges. This idea, according to S&A, is to educate lawbreakers (25) _______ involving the police.But the efforts (26) __________ (raise) concerns. For one, it’s unclear (27) _______ the online courses are as helpful as they seem. It is because one of the administrative organizations is being accused of both overcharging and falsely (28) __________ (send) so-called shoplifters to prison. And ______ ______ there are extra staff members, S&A will remain difficult to secure because of its size and accessibility, especially during late-night hours, when fewer employees are working.Still, there are signs (30) _______ the program could work. The local police department says the program reduced police calls to the store by 40.5% from last October through July. But something truly transformational will likely take years---and more police runs in the meantime.Section BDirections: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.Some Very “American” Words Come from ChineseMany of the Chinese words that are now part of English were borrowed long ago. Some are from Cantonese(广东话).The English word kowtow is a verb that means to agree too easily to do what someone else wants you to do, or to obey someone with power in a way that seems ___31___. It comes from the Cantonese word kau tau, which refers to the act of kneeling and lowering one’s head as a sign of respect to ___32___. In 1793, Britain’s King set Lord George Macartney and other tradesmen to China to ___33___ a trade agreement. The Chinese asked them to kowtow to the emperor. Lord Macartney refused for his ___34___ to do more than bend their knees. Soon after, the English word “kowtow” was born.Another borrowed word that came about through ___ 35___ between two nations is gung-ho. In English, the word gung-ho means extremely excited about doing something. The Chinese characters “gong” and “he” together mean “work together, cooperate.” The original term---gongyehezuoshe---means Chinese Industrial Cooperatives. Evans Carlson of the United States Marine Corps observed these cooperatives while in China. He was impressed, saying “…all the soldiers ___36___ themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over.” He thenbegan using the term gung-ho in the Marine Corps to create the same spirit he had ___37___.In English, a typhoon is a very powerful and ___38___ storm occurring around the China Sea and in the South Pacific. According to the Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, the first typhoons reported in the English language were India and were called “touffons.” Later, when English ships encountered violent storms in the China Sea, Englishmen learned the Cantonese world taifung, which means “great wind.” It is a coincidence that the word is ___39___ to touffon. The modern form of the word---typhoon---was influenced by the Cantonese but ___40___ to make it appear more Greek.Ⅲ. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.When 17-year-old Quattro Musser hangs out with friends, they don’t drink beer or drive around with their dates. __41__, they stick to activities such as rock-climbing or talking about books.They are in good company, according to a new study showing that teenagers are increasingly delaying activities that had long been seen as signs of passage into __42__. The study found that the percentage of adolescents in America who have a driver’s license, who have tried alcohol, who date and who work for pay has dropped since 1976, with the most dramatic __43__ in the past decade. To be sure, more than half of teens still engage in these activities, but the __44__ have slimmed considerably. Between 1976, 86 percent of high school seniors had gone on a date; between 2010 and 2015, only 63 percent had, the study found.“People say, ‘Oh, it’s because teenagers are more responsible, or more lazy, or more boring,’ but they’re __45__ the larger trend,” said Jean Twenge, lead author of the study. Instead, she said, youths may be less __46__ activities such as dating or driving because in today’s society, they no longer need to be.According to an evolutionary-psychology theory, a person’s life strategy slows down or speeds up depending on the person’s __47__. Thus, exposure to a fierce and unpredictable environment leads to faster development, while a more resource-rich and secure environment has the __48__ effect. In the first __49__, “you’d have a lot of kids and be in survival mode, start having kids young, expect your kids will have kids young, and expect that there will be more __50__ and fewer resources,” said Twenge. A century ago, when life expectancy was lower and college education less common, “the goal back then was survival, not violin lessons by 5,” Twenge said. In that model, a teenage boy might be thinking more __51__ about marriage, and driving a car and working for pay would be important.But the United States is shifting more toward the __52__ model, and the change is apparent in socioeconomic terms, Twenge said. “Even in families whose parents have never been to college, the idea that children need to be carefully __53__ has become widely accepted.”The __54__ of “adult activities” could not be due to more homework or after-school activities, the study said, nothing that teens today spend fewer hours on homework than they did I the 1990s and the same amount of time on after-school activities. Nor could the use ofsmartphones and the Internet be entirely the __55__, the report said, since the decline began before they were widely available.41. A. Rather B. Consequently C. Moreover D. Unfortunately42. A. adolescence B. work C. schooling D. adulthood43. A. effects B. conflicts C. decreases D. costs44. A. options B. majorities C. responsibilities D. resources45. A. predicting B. challenging C. analyzing D. missing46. A. interested in B. distracted from C. particular about D. disappointed in47. A. contributions B. virtues C. surroundings D. outlooks48. A. equivalent B. opposite C. insignificant D. immediate49. A. round B. place C. strategy D. case50. A. disease B. opportunities C. properties D. benefits51. A. regretfully B. hesitantly C. seriously D. innovatively52. A. smarter B. slower C. more scientific D. more responsible53. A. observed B. organized C. selected D. educated54. A. arrangement B. implementation C. postponement D. promotion55. A. cause B. burden C. trend D. pattern2017、2018年春考&秋考语填、词汇、完型专项Keys:2017年春II. Grammar21. who 22. has been praised 23. between 24. set 25. because 26. themselves 27. did 28. to produce 29. representing 30. most complexIII. Vocabulary 31-35 CDFEB 36-40 IGAKJIV. Cloze 41-45 CABDD 46-50 ABDCB 51-55 ABCCD2017年秋21. were encouraged 22. used 23. that 24. to lower 25. because/as/ since26. less anxious 27. after 28. resulting 29. whose 30. themselves41-55 BDACA BDCBC ADABD。

2018年全国高考英语试题及答案-上海卷jingxuan

上海英语试卷解读-2018年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. MoiqkFSUFc1.W: Can you describe what you do?M: I wash office building windows. I go high up in the basket to reach the windows.MoiqkFSUFcQ: What is the man's job?A.A basketball player.B.A laundry worker.11.A window washer.12.A rock climber【答案】C. A window washer.【解读】这是一道事实细节题。

从对话中可知，男士清洗办公楼的窗户。

所以选项为C，他是个窗户清洁工。

关键词句：I wash office building windows；to reach the window.MoiqkFSUFc2.M: Should we go out or eat in tonight?W: I am too tired to do any cooking.Q: What does the woman imply?A.She is not hungry.B.She wants to cook.C.She is not tired.D.She wants to dine out.【答案】D. She wants to dine out.【解读】这是一道推理题。

2018年1月上海春季高考英语听力试运转(含试题、音频MP3、答案以及听力原文)

2018年1月上海春季高考英语听力试运转I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and a question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. She’s too sick to have any visitor. B. Her sister’s flight was canceled.C. Her sister has changed her plans.D. She picked up her sister last night.2. A. The library closes at five o’clock. B. She’ll get the things the man needs.C. Mary wants to go to the classroom too.D. There isn’t enough time to go to the classroom.3. A. Take less medicine each day. B. Visit him as often as possible.C. Have more stretching exercises.D. Try a new kind of headache medicine.4. A. The next bus leaves in 15 minutes.B. The man can go to the exhibition by bus.C. The man missed the subway train to the exhibition.D. The subway will arrive at the exhibition before 11:30.5. A. The cell phone cannot be repaired.B. The woman misunderstood what he said.C. He doesn’t know what’s wrong with the cell phone.D. The problem is different from what he thought it was.6. A. She wished she had gone to sleep earlier. B. She missed the beginning of the program.C. She fell asleep before the program ended.D. She was awakened in time to see the program.7. A. More copies of the letter are needed.B. It’s too late to apply for the university.C. The man should get a more recent reference letter.D. The principal is the best person to write the letter of reference.8. A. He wants to talk to Sally and Mark.B. The woman should not let out others’ secret.C. He will explain to the woman what happened.D. The woman shouldn’t get involved in the situation.9. A. He wants the woman to postpone the lecture.B. He hasn’t finished preparing for his lecture.C. He can’t explain the simple concepts of economics.D. He regularly gives lectures to high school students.10. A. Hire a tutor before the mid-term exam. B. Avoid making any mistake in the exam.C. Turning to the same tutor that she had.D. Work hard to catch up with others.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Most canals were not wide enough for the boats.B. Other means of transportation became accessible.C. The boats were no longer considered fashionable.D. They learned the boats were bad for the environment.12. A. Some people get frustrated with their speed.B. They are mainly used for transportation.C. People can have easy access to them.D. A license is needed to operate them.13. A. The changing role of narrow boats.B. The uniqueness of the design of narrow boats.C. The importance of narrow boats in the 18th century.D. The reason why British people say hello to strangers.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. To get new design ideas. B. To make furniture used in space.C. To take part in scientific training.D. To create an environment similar to Mars.15. A. It is operated by NASA.B. It offers people a taste of isolated life on Mars.C. It is used to train people for an educational purpose.D. It helps people to get used to living with limited resources.16. A. How to store things. B. How to think creatively.C. How to live in space.D. How to cut down the cost.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Profession. B. Manners. C. News reports. D. Psychology tests.18. A. By travelling worldwide. B. By testing the door holder.C. By dropping a pile of papers.D. By putting cups of coffee on a tray.19. A.35. B.55. C.70. D.90.20. A. She impressed the reporter with what she held in her hands.B. She helped the reporter even though her hands were full.C. She was looking for what she could do for others.D. She told the reporter a warm enough story.1-5 CDABD 6-10 CCDBA 11-15 BCAAD 16-20 ABCAB2018上海春季高考英语听力试运转录音原文I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and a question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Text 1Man: I thought you would be picking up your sister to the airport.W: Oh, she called last night to say she had the flu.Question: What does the woman imply?Text 2M: I think I’ll run down to the classroom and take up a few things.W: But aren’t we going to meet Mary at the library? She is expecting us at five. It’s almost that now. Question: what does the woman mean?Text 3W: Doctor Smith, those stretching exercises you recommended are really helpful to my sore muscles. But the pills I took are giving me a headache.M: Let’s try cutting back to just one pill a day.Question: What does the man suggest the woman do?Text 4M: Do you know where the nearest subway station is? I need to be at the industry exhibition by eleven thirty.W: The No. 8 B us nearby will take you directly there and it’s only a fifteen minute ride.Question: What does the woman imply?Text 5W: Two hundred dollars to fix my cell phone. I thought you said you could do it for forty dollars.M: I did, but it’s not the screen after all, the major part inside the phone does cost a lot more.Text 6M: I really enjoyed that TV Special about dolphins last night. Did you get home in time to see it?W: Well, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.Question: What does the woman mean?Text 7M: That university I am applying for requires a letter of reference. I guess the one my principal wrote for me last term should be fine.W: It’s a little date, though.Question: What does the woman imply?Text 8W: Sally and Mark, haven’t been talking to each other lately? I wonder what happened.M: I’d stay out of it if I wer e you.Question: What does the man mean?Text 9W: What’s the problem, Paul?M: I’m going to give a lecture about economics at a high school this afternoon, but I have no idea how I’m going to simplify some of the concepts for them.Question: What can be inferred about the man?Text 10M: I’m having a hard time keeping up my chemistry class. I’m seriously considering hiring a tutor.W: A word of advice? Don’t make a mistake I made last term and wait until after mid-term exam to do it. Question: What does the woman suggest the man do?Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.Do you know anything about narrow boats in Britain? Their boats, you see in the British canals, which are truly narrow, about two meters wide. They are, however, long enough to have bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms where people can live for weeks at a time. These days, more and more people are spending their vacations on narrow boats. We can trace the origin of the boats to the beginning of the industrial revolution. In the mid-eighteenth century, British people constructed many canals all over the island of Great Britain. The canals were narrow, and the boats had to be narrow, too. The boats were usedto transport coal, iron and steel. After railroads became common, narrow boats went out of fashion and were forgotten. Only the canals remained.Why are the boats so popular today? First, as there are canals all over Britain, narrow boats can be easily accessed. People do not have to travel far or rush to an airport to start their vacations. Second, the boats are safe and easy to steer (掌舵), even though they have engines now, they sail just a little faster than walking speed, so no license is required. Finally, the slow pace makes the voyage fun. People on board enjoy saying hello to other boarders when they pass each other. Since most of the canals are for leisure use, nobody is in a hurry. In this way, British people can refresh themselves and forget about their busy life. What used to carry iron and steel now provides a slow, peaceful experience.Now, listen again, please.11. Why did people once stop using narrow boats?12. According to the passage, what is true of modern narrow boats?13. What is the passage mainly about?Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.Ikea (宜家家居) is known for designing furniture that people can put together themselves. Recently, five Ikea designers spent three days inside a Mars research center to get new design ideas. The Mars desert research station in the US state of Utah, operated by the Mars society, attempts to create a Mars environment for humans taking part in experiments and training. There are also separate areas for eating, sleeping and other activities to prepare future space travelers for living in very small areas with limited supplies. Constance Adams, a space architect from NASA, said the experience was meant to show the team how conditions in space affect the whole design process. For example, air is very limited in space and must be reused for many months, even years. Another consideration is the huge cost of space transportation. Adams said it would currently cost about two million dollars to transport just one kilo of mass to the surface of Mars. Marcus I nman is ikea’s head of design. My dream outcome would be to solve the biggest problem on earth. I guess it’s the same problem in space. And that is the thing about storage. How could you make storage in a completely new way? Being put in such a different and demanding environment forces us to think much more creatively. The Ikea designers are also working with NASA to create a space in Spired furniture collection to launch in 2019. And who knows? Ikea might even make it to Mars someday. If so, the company’s popular products could be discovered by new life forms we don’t even yet know about.Now, listen again, please.14. Why did Ikea send a team to a Mars research center recently?15. What is true of the Mars desert research station?16. What’s the biggest problem Ikea is facing when designing space in Spired furniture?Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.M: Today our guest is Sarah Jones, who recently did a survey of manners. I’ll let her explain what she did. Welcome.W: Thank you. Many people are complaining lately that people are becoming very rude. So we tried to find out if that’s true.M: I see. But it’d be hard to test manners. How did you do it?W: We sent reporters to large cities all around the world, to be exact, thirty five countries. We tested many different people, men, women, business people, high school students, police officers, anyone and everyone.M: So what’s the test?W: Well, the reporters did two things, adore test and a paper drop. First, we wanted to see if people would hold the door open for the reporters.M: That’s simple. Then a paper drop.W: The reporters dropped a pile of papers to see if people would help pick them up.M: So what did you find?W: Ninety percent of the people passed the door test.M: Wow.W: But only fifty five percent helped pick the papers up.M: Only fifty five? That’s not very good. But sometimes you just can’t help. What if your hands are full? W: Yes. But one woman had two cups of coffee on a tray and her keys and wallet in the other hand. She put everything in one hand and helped. The reporter wanted to help her.M: Did the reporter ask why she wanted to help?W: Well, she said I was standing there. Of course, I would help.M: Uh, what a warm story!Now, listen again, please.17. What is the survey mainly concerned about?18. How did the reporters test people in the survey?19. How many countries were involved in the survey?20. Why does Sarah Jones mention the woman at the end of the interview?That’s the end of listening comprehension.听力试运转到此结束。

2018年1月上海春季高考英语听力试题(含试题,MP3,答案及录音原文)

2018年1月全国普通高等学校招生统一考试上海英语听力试题I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speaks. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and a question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. Her working all day long. B. The family reunion.C. The annoying housework.D. The intense schedule.2. A. The kids were frightened by the movie. B. The kids enjoyed the movie.C. The movie is not suitable for kids to see.D. The movie is quite boring.3. A. She is drinking tea at a table. B. She is interested in reading magazines.C. She likes the pictures in the magazines.D. She doesn’t know any Chinese.4. A. Supermarket. B. Drug store. C. Barber shop. D. Shopping center.5. A. He likes cooking food himself. B. He thinks frozen food is healthier.C. He accepts the woman’s invitation.D. He prefers to buy frozen food.6. A. A full-time student. B. An exchange student.C. A visiting scholar.D. A part-time student.7. A. She is bossy. B. She is shy.C. She is arrogant (做慢的).D. She is trustworthy.8. A. He’s a teacher. B. He’s a writer.C. He’s a businessman.D. He’s a journalist.9. A. 1 hour. B. 2 hours. C. 3 hours. D. 4 hours10. A. The bad weather stopped him. B. His shoes were worn out.C. He didn’t like the hiking trip.D. He’s too tired to continue.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. They became more active in water. B. Symptoms of depression disappeared.C. Their digestion developed.D. They suffered from depression.12. A. Neon lights. B. Kindle screens. C. Overweight. D. Closed window curtains.13. A. Turn off all the electronic devices. B. Read a book and drink some water.C. Take some sleep pills.D. Go on a diet and lose some weight.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. 71% of the poor live a day with less than ten dollars.B. The population of people living in poverty has decreased in the past decade.C. Economic growth has made global poverty worse than before.D. The middle class are now one step away from poverty.15. A. The middle class has expanded in the 111 countries.B. The number of middle class has increased but it is not a global phenomenon.C. Great progress has been made for the people in poverty with impressive results.D. Once getting out of poverty, those people will live a better life.16. A. The middle class would not allow those poor to make a better living.B. Whatever progress is made, nothing will be changed.C. Good changes are too tiny to make those poor live a totally different life.D. Developed countries suffer from the question from both poverty and the middle class.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. A thunderstorm accident. B. A cable emergency.C. An appointment on Saturday.D. A computer system breakdown.18. A. Lightning. B. Power failure. C. Cable cut. D. System failure.19. A. Plug the TV off. B. Keep the cable connected.C. Stay at home.D. Call the cable center for sure.20. A. On Saturday morning. B. On Saturday afternoon.C. On Tuesday morning.D. On Tuesday afternoon.答案1-5 BCDAC 6-10 ADBCD 11-15 DDABB 16-20 CBAAC录音原文I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In section A, you will hear 10 short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear conversation and question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Text 1M: Kate, happy New Year! Are you doing anything special?W: Oh, Bob, thanks. I’m very busy and very tired. My brother and sister have joined us and we had a big dinner together.Question: What made Kate busy and tired?Text 2M: Caroline, could you take the kids to the movie Spiderman?W: Yeah, but don’t you think the movie is too violent for them?Question: What does the woman mean?Text 3M: Take a seat here. There’s an interesting magazine on the T-table.W: Thank you. I guess I can only understand the pictures because they are all Chinese magazines. Question: What can we know about the woman?Text 4M: I need toothpaste and shampoo. Do you think we can find a drug store here?W: I’m sure we can, but those items are often cheap in the supermarket. Let’s go dow n to the other end of the mall.Question: Where would the speakers most probably go?Text 5W: Why don’t you come over? I was thinking about doing some cooking.M: I suppose I could. It will probably be healthier than my frozen food options.Question: What does the man imply?Text 6M: Is there any way that I can take six courses?W: It depends. If you’re a full-time student, you can. If you are a visiting scholar, a part-time student or an exchange student, you can take up to five courses.Question: Who can take as many as six courses?Text 7M: Many of your colleagues describe you as “South Spoken”, do you?W: Well, I’m not bossy. They seem to regard me as reliable.Question: How is the woman in her colleagues’ eyes?Text 8W: John first was businessman and then a teacher. 10 years later, he quitted his job and started to write novels.M: And he has been doing nothing else ever since.Question: What is John now?Text 9W: If we hurry, we can take the express train rather than the local train and save an hour.M: Great! The express train takes only two hours to get to Shanghai.Question: How long does it take the local train to get to Shanghai?Text 10W: I heard you did some hiking last weekend.M: Yes, I really wore myself out so I stopped halfway.Question: Why did the man give up his hiking trip halfway?Section BDirection s: In section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice.But the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear the question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.Researchers from Ohio State University exposed their lab mice to artificial light and they found that it only took a few weeks for the mice to develop signs of depression, such as being less active, having less interest in their favorite foods and more anxiety when placed in water. The brains of the mice also show similar changes what occur to depressed people. Artificial light at night, like televisions, computer screens and night lights have been linked to other negative health effects. Night-time lighting can disturb the body’s clock and increase the risk of overw eight and certain diseases. The good news is that the signs of depression in the mice went away after they went back to a regular sleep schedule (that is 84 hours of darkness at night). This means that by unplugging the electronics and closing the window curtains in your bedroom, you may be able to undo some of the harmful effects of your smartphone letting out light all night.11. What happened to the mice after they were exposed to the artificial light at night for weeks?12. Which of the following will most prob ably disturb your body’s clock?13. What are recommended to do at night according to the research?Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.Here is the good news: global poverty has followed by half over the past decade. But here is the bad news: 71% of the world’s population remain s low-income or poverty. They live off 10 dollars or less a day according to a new Pure Research Centre report that looks at the changes of income for 111 countries between 2001 and 2011. Unlike America where the middle-class has been facing difficulty in recent years, some researchers say that strong economic growth in developing countries has helped shrink poverty and expand the middle class globally. But the report from the centre disagrees, saying that the global middle class is far from reality. True, the global middle class nearly doubled over the decade to 13% in 2011, but is still represents a small part of the world’s population. Professor Recashe Kochler, associate director at the centre said “The world has made tremendous progress in pulling people out of poverty, but most of the growth has been limited. People are potentially one step away fr om slipping back into poverty.”14. What does the passage mainly tell us?15. Which of the following statement is true according to the Pure Research Centre Report?16. Which of the following worries Professor Recashe Kochler at the centre?Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversationM: Charger Cable. Can I help you?W: Yes, quite. We have an emergency. Our TV went out in the middle of our favorite show—American Idol.M: I’m sorry to hear that, ma’m. Can I have your name and account number please?W: Yes, it’s Guin Steppania and my account number is 854452.M: Can you give me the last four digits of your social security number?W: It’s 0253.M: Okay, our system is showing that there is strong thunder strike in your area. Did you hear noise when it went on?W: Yes, we heard loud noise.M: Oh, your TV could have been struck by lightening. Is the TV still on?W: Yeah, it’s on but the screen is all blank.M: Okay. Please turn the TV off until one of our technicians come out and take a look at it.W: Can someone come right now to fix it?M: I don’t think so, ma’m. Let me check our computer systems. The next available appointment is going to be next Tuesday morning.W: But it’s Saturday!M: I’m sorry. That’s the earliest available time.W: Alright, I can be home Tuesday morning. What time?M: A technician will be there sometime between 8 am and 11 am.W: Okay. I’ll be home during that time.M: Is there anything else I can do for you today?W: No, thank you.M: Good bye.17. What are the speakers mainly talk about?18. According to the man, wha t caused the woman’s emergency?19. What does the man suggest woman do before the technician comes?20. What is the technician most likely to arrive?(That’s the end of the listening comprehension.)。

上海2018高三英语春考作文范文

上海2018高三英语春考作文范文In the age of globalization, cultural diversity has become an inevitable trend. As students preparing for the college entrance examination in Shanghai, we are often confronted with the challenge of understanding and respecting different cultures. The spring English examination in 2018 perfectly illustrates this challenge, asking us to compare and contrast two different culturesand discuss their values.In the given passage, we are introduced to two cultures: one represented by the festival of Spring Festival, and the other by the custom of gift-giving in the United States. These two cultures, though vastly different, both embodythe deep-rooted values of their respective societies. The Spring Festival, a time of reunion and celebration, is a testament to the importance of family and community in Chinese culture. On the other hand, the custom of gift-giving in the United States, with its emphasis on thoughtfulness and sincerity, reflects the value of individualism and self-expression.Comparing these two cultures, it becomes evident that while they may differ in form and practice, they share a common goal: to promote love, harmony, and understanding among people. The Spring Festival, through its rituals and traditions, fosters a sense of belonging and unity among Chinese families. Similarly, the custom of gift-giving in the United States serves to strengthen social bonds and foster meaningful relationships.In today's interconnected world, it is crucial that we embrace cultural diversity and strive to understand and appreciate the differences that make each culture unique. By doing so, we not only enrich our own cultural identity but also contribute to building a more inclusive and understanding global community.The spring English examination in Shanghai serves as a reminder that cultural exchange and understanding are essential for personal growth and societal progress. By examining the values embedded in different cultures, we are able to gain a deeper understanding of the world and ourselves. In this way, we can overcome cultural barriers and establish a world of harmony and mutual respect.**跨越文化差异，建立世界大同**在全球化的时代，文化多样性已成为不可逆转的趋势。

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