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[基础性]
Ⅰ.单句语法填空
1.According to the timetable, the train for London ________ (leave) at seven o'clock in the evenin g.
2.It will become warm when spring ________ (come).
3.He told me he ________ (graduate) from middle school two years later.
4.They promised they ________ (do) me a favour and ensure my safety.
5.You needn't hurry her. She ________ (finish) it by the time you are ready.
6.Darwin proved that natural selection ________ (be) the chief factor in the development of species.
7.It's been a long time since I last ________ (see) you. How are you?
8.We ________ (work) on it for several hours but have not yet reached any conclusion.
答案:1~8:1.leaves 2.comes 3.would graduate 4.would do 5.will have finished 6.is
7.saw 8.have been working
[应用性]
Ⅱ.根据汉语提示写出合成词
1.These newlydesigned (新设计的) devices will appear on the exhibition next month.
2.The neverending (无休止的) quarrel among the visitors certainly spoiled their appetite for the banquet.
3.Do you like the snowcovered (白雪覆盖的) mountains in their majesty?
4.I've been making enquiries about the cost of a roundtheworld (环球旅行的) ticket.
5.Although longdistance (长途的) phone calls are going up,the charge for local calls will not alter.
6.Before we start,can I make sure that you are fully aware of the dangers of mountainclimbing (登山)?
7.New government's study into Hong Kong's longterm (长远的) needs shows population will exceed nine million.
8.Many homemade (国产的) machines are becoming more and more popular.
[综合性]
Ⅰ.阅读理解
A
As Internet users become more dependent on the Internet to store information,are people remember less?If you know your computer will save information,why store it in your own personal memory,your brain?Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.
In a recent study,Professor Betsy Sparrow conducted some experiments.She and her research team wanted to know whether the Internet is changing memory.In the first experiment,they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer.The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information.The second group understood that the computer would not save it.Later,the second group remembered the information better.People in the first group knew they could find the information again,so they did not try to remember it.
In another experiment,the researchers gave people facts to remember,and told them where to find the information on the Internet.The information was in a specific computer folder (文件夹).Surprisingly,people later remember the folder location (位置) better than the facts.When people use the Internet,they do not remember the information.Rather,they remember how to find it.This is called “transactive memory (交互记忆)”.
According to Sparrow,we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.Instead,computer users are developing stronger transactive memories;that is,people are learning how to organize huge quantities of information so that they are able to access it at a later date.This doesn't mean we are becoming either more or less intelligent,but there is no doubt that the way we use memory is changing.
[语篇解读] 本文是议论文。文章主要讨论了互联网给人类的记忆带来的影响。互联网使用者越来越依赖互联网来储存信息,人们这样做是否会丧失记忆事物的能力呢?专家怀疑互联网可能正在改变人们的记忆内容和方式。
1.The passage begins with two questions to ______ .
A.introduce the main topic
B.show the author's attitude
C.describe how to use the Internet
D.explain how to store information
解析:A [写作意图题。根据第一段“Experts are wondering...remember and how.”可知,作者使用两个问句是为了引出要讨论的话题。故选A。]
2.What can we learn about the first experiment?
A.Sparrow's team typed the information into a computer.
B.The two groups remembered the information equally well.
C.The first group did not try to remember the information.
D.The second group did not understand the information.
解析:C [细节理解题。根据第二段“People in the first group...remember it.第一组的人知道他们可以再次找到这些信息,所以他们没有尽力去记住。”可知,第一组的人没有努力去记住这些信息。故选C。]
3.In transactive memory,people ________ .
A.keep the information in mind
B.change the quantity of information
C.organize information like a computer
D.remember how to find the information
解析:D [细节理解题。根据倒数第二段“Rather,they remember...memory”可知,在交互记忆里,人们记得怎样找到信息。故选D。]
4.What is the effect of the Internet according to Sparrow's research?
A.We are using memory differently.
B.We are becoming more intelligent.
C.We have poorer memories than before.
D.We need a better way to access information.
解析:A [细节理解题。根据最后一段“but there is no doubt that...is changing”可知,互联网对人们的记忆产生的影响是它改变了我们使用记忆力的方式。故选A。]
B
Angel Garcia Crespo is a computer engineer at Carlos Ⅲ University of Madrid in Spain. His group has invented a new way for deafblind people to “watch” TV. The idea for the technology grew out of previous work by his group. The team had already worked on making audiovisual(视听的)materials accessible to people with either vision or hearing disabilities. But the group wanted to help people with both challenges. So they asked some deafblind people what would help.
In addition to relying on their sense of touch to communicate, deafblind people can also get and send information with a Braille line. The Braille system uses patterns of raised dots to stand for letters and numbers. A Braille line is an electronic machine with a changeable Braille display. Dots rise up or drop down based on the information sent to the machine.
Now the new system changes TV signals to data a Braille line can use. “The key to the system is the possibility of using subtitles (字幕) to collect TV information,” Garcia Crespo explains. “Subtitles travel with the image (影像) and the audio in electromagnetic waves we don't see. But an electronic system can keep those waves.”
First, a computer programme, or an app, pulls out the subtitles and visual descriptions from the broadcast signal. The system then combines both the information and changes into data for Braille.
Now another app gets to work, which sends the data out to people's Braille lines on demand. “This is done in real time, in less than a second,” Garcia Crespo says. This lets a deafblind person “watch” TV as it's broadcasting. The system will work with various Braille lines, as long as there's a bluetooth connection available. Now, the system is only used in Europe, and it should soon be available in the US.
[语篇解读] 本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了一种新技术,这种新技术让聋盲人能在电视节目播出时“观看”电视。
5.What inspired Garcia Crespo's group to work on the new technology?
A.Deafblind people's poor life.
B.Their pity on the disabled people.
C.The challenges they faced in work.
D.His group's previous research.
解析:D [推理判断题。根据第一段中“His group has invented a new way for deafblind people to‘watch’TV.The idea for the technology grew out of previous work by his group. (他的团队发明了一种让聋盲人‘看’电视的新方法。这项技术的想法源于他的团队之前的工作)”可知,加西亚·克雷斯波团队之前的研究激发了他们从事这项新技术。故选D。]
6.Why can the electronic system collect TV information?
A.It can combine all kinds of broadcast signals.
B.It can keep the waves with subtitles travelling.
C.It can work together with a variety of Braille lines.
D.It can pull out the subtitles and visual descriptions.
解析:B [细节理解题。根据第三段“Now the new system changes TV signals to data a Braille line can use.‘The key to the system is the possibility of using subtitles(字幕) to collect TV information,’Garcia Crespo explains.‘Subtitles travel with the image (影像) and the audio in electromagnetic waves we don't see.But an electronic system can keep those waves.’(现在,新的系统将电视信号转换成盲文线可以使用的数据。‘这个系统的关键是让使用字幕来收集电视信息成为可能,’加西亚·克雷斯波解释说。‘字幕以我们看不到的电磁波的形式与影像和音频一起运行。而电子系统可以保存那些字幕电磁波。’)”可知,故选B。]
7.What does the author think of the future of the new technology?
A.Challenging. B.Bright.
C.Rewarding. D.Hopeless.
解析:B [推理判断题。根据最后一段中“Now,the system is only used in Europe,and it should soon be available in the US.(目前,该系统仅在欧洲使用,并且应该很快将在美国推出)”可知,作者认为新技术的未来是大有希望的。故选B。]
8.What should be a suitable title for the text?
A.New Technology Is Improving Deafblind People's Life
B.A New Braille Line Is Applied to Disabled People's Life
C.A Spanish Group Makes TV Accessible to Blind People
D.New Technology Helps Deafblind People “Watch” TV
解析:D [主旨大意题。根据最后一段中“This lets a deafblind person ‘watch’TV as it's broadcasting. The system will work with various Braille lines, as long as there's a bluetooth connection available.(这让聋盲人能在电视节目播出时‘观看’电视。只要有蓝牙连接,该系统就可以使用各种盲文线)”,可知,文章最佳标题是“新技术帮助聋盲人‘看’电视”。故选D。]
Ⅱ.完形填空
It was a few years ago. A friend ____1____ me a restaurant gift card for Christmas and I picked a sunny Sunday afternoon to use it. It felt good taking my two grown sons and daughter to a nice ____2____ instead of the fast food places we usually ate at. The meal was delicious and we all had a good time just being together. When the waitress brought the ____3____ , I noticed that the gift card ____4____ almost all of it. I ____5____ my wallet to get enough cash to afford the rest.
At that moment my ____6____ flashed back to 30 years ago. I was working as a(n) ____7____ in a restaurant much like the one we were in. It was long hours of hard work for low incomes. I went home just barely making enough to ____8____ my young family. I also remembered how more than once I saw the waitresses counting their few tips while worrying about how they were going to pay the house rent and ____9____ their kids the things they needed.
I blinked (眨眼) and was back to the ____10____ again, with my fingers touching the smaller bill in my wallet. I smiled, pushed it back down, and ____11____ out the much larger bill. As we all got up from the table I handed the larger bill to the hardworking waitress. “You keep the ____12____ ,”I said with a ____13____ smile and a happy heart.
We are all one family in this world. We live together, rejoice(欣赏) together, and suffer together. Do your best to be a ____14____ person. Do your best to ____15____ the suffering with joy.
[语篇解读] 这是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了几年前作者带着家人去餐馆吃饭,想到了自己以前做服务生的艰苦经历,所以挑了自己钱包里最大的钞票作为小费给了服务员。
1.A.helped B.borrowed C.sent D.lent
解析:C [根据后文“a restaurant gift card for Christmas”可知,一位朋友寄给(send)作者一张餐厅的圣诞礼品卡,作者选择在一个阳光明媚的星期天下午使用。故选C。]
2.A.restaurant B.fair
C.supermarket D.hotel
解析:A [根据后文“I was working as a(n) ____7____ in a restaurant much like the one we were in.”可知,带着两个成年的儿子和女儿去一家不错的餐馆(restaurant)而不是他们经常去的快餐店,感觉很好。故选A。]
3.A.bill B.money C.dish D.food
解析:A [根据后文“I noticed that the gift card ____4____ almost all of it”以及“I ____5____ my wallet to get enough cash to afford the rest.”可知,当服务员拿来账单(bill)时,作者注意到礼品卡几乎涵盖了所有。故选A。]
4.A.spent B.covered C.cost D.offered
解析:B [根据前文the gift card以及后文all of it可知,这里指礼品卡几乎涵盖了(cover)作者买的东西。故选B。]
5.A.reached into B.prepared for
C.put out D.turned in
解析:A [根据后文“my wallet to get enough cash to afford the rest”可知,作者把手伸进(reach into)钱包,以拿取足够的现金支付剩余的部分。故选A。]
6.A.sense B.idea C.mind D.heart
解析:C [根据后文“flashed back to 30 years ago”并结合选项可知,在那一刻,作者的思绪(mind)突然回到了30年前。故选C。]
7.A.waiter B.cook C.actor D.teacher
解析:A [根据语境和后文“much like the one we were in”并结合选项可知,作者在一家餐馆做服务生(waiter),那家餐馆和他们去的餐馆很像。故选A。]
8.A.treat B.value C.feed D.miss
解析:C [根据语境和后文“my young family”可知,作者回家时勉强能挣到足够的钱养(feed)家。故选C。]
9.A.buy B.show C.find D.pay
解析:A [根据前文“counting their few tips”和“how they were going to pay the house rent”以及后文“their kids the things they needed”可知,作者还记得曾不止一次地看到女服务员一边数着她们为数不多的小费,一边担心如何付房租和给孩子买(buy)他们需要的东西。故选A。]
10.A.future B.past C.present D.instant
解析:C [根据语境和后文“with my fingers touching the smaller bill in my wallet”可知,作者眨了一下眼睛再次回到现实(present)中来,作者的手指触摸到了钱包里面值较小的钞票。故选C。]
11.A.carried B.handed C.burned D.picked
解析:D [根据语境及后文“the much larger bill”可知,作者笑了,把它推回去,挑选(pick)出那张面值大得多的钞票。故选D。]
12.A.tip B.ticket C.wallet D.card
解析:A [句意:“你留着当小费吧,”我带着满意的微笑和快乐的心情说。tip小费;ticket票;wallet钱包;card卡片。根据前文“As we all got up from the table I handed the larger bill to the hardworking waitress.”可知,作者让女服务员留着当小费(tip)。故选A。]
13.A.tired B.amazed
C.satisfied D.forced
解析:C [根据后文“smile and a happy heart”可知,此处是指作者带着满意的(satisfied)微笑和快乐的心情。故选C。]
14.A.successful B.different
C.good D.humorous
解析:C [根据前文“We are all one family in this world. We live together, rejoice(欣赏)together, and suffer together.”并结合选项可知,作者认为世界是个大家庭,大家应该同甘共苦,所以要尽最大努力做个好(good)人。故选C。]
15.A.punish B.provide C.equip D.greet
解析:D [根据后文“the suffering with joy”可知,作者认为要尽最大努力用欢乐迎接(greet)一切苦难。故选D。]
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