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上海市各区2018届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
62. In which module are you likely to learn how to advertise your business? A. Module 4. B. Module 6. C. Module 7. D. Module 10.
(C)
All across America, students are anxiously finishing their \I Want To Be ..\college applicationessays, advised to focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) by experts and parents who insist that's the only way to become workforce ready. But two recent studies of workplace successcontradict the traditional wisdom about \Google originally set its hiring systems to sort for computer science students with top grades from top science universities. In 2013, Google decided to test its hiring theory by quickly dealing with large amounts hiring, firing, and promotion data collected since the company's establishment.
Project Oxygen shocked everyone by concluding that, among the eight most important qualities ofGoogle's top employees, STEM capability comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success atGoogle are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing comprehensioninto others, being supportive of one's colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver, and beingable to make connections across complex ideas.
Those characteristics sound more like what one gains as an English or theater major than as a programmer.Could it be that top Google employees were succeeding despite their technical training, not because ofit? After bringing in more experts to dive even deeper into the data, the company enlarged its previous hiringpractices to include humanities majors, artists, and even the MBAs (Master of Business Administration).
Project Aristotle, a study released by Google this past spring, further supports the importance of soft skillseven in high-tech environments. Project Aristotle analyzes data on inventive and productive teams. Googletakes pride in its A-teams, assembled with top scientists, each with the most specialized knowledge and able tothrow down one creative idea after another. Its data analysis revealed, however, that the company's mostimportant and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don't always have to bethe smartest people in the room.
Project Aristotle shows that the best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills: equality, generosity,curiosity toward the ideas of your teammates, understanding, and emotional
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上海市各区2018届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
intelligence. And topping the list:emotional safety. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and makingmistakes. They must know they are being heard.
STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted,is not enough. We desperately need those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as thecomputational.
63. The underlined word:―contradict‖most probably means ―_____‖.
A. add to B. back up C. bring about D. conflict with
64. Google conducted the studies of workplace success in order to ______.
A. determine what makes a workplace-ready student B. check whether its hiring system serves the purpose C. prove soft skills are more important than hard ones D. impress its competitors with the employees‘ excellence 65. What can be inferred from Project Aristotle?
A. Emotional safety enables people to express themselves freely. B. Listening and hearing helps develop problem-solving abilities. C. Learning from mistakes doesn‘t necessarily mean improvement. D. Those without specialized knowledge can also make inventions. 66. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. STEM skills our society needs for better education B. The principal focus students have on application essays C. The surprising thing Google learned about its employees D. The soft skills Google programmers lack for career growth Keys:
56-58: CAC
59-62: CBBB 63-66: DAAD
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Directions：Read the passage carefully. 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)
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上海市各区2018届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
In 1982, I had responsibility for Stephen Hawking‘s third academic book for the Press,
Superspace and Supergravity. This was a messy collection of papers from a technical workshop on how to devise a new theory of gravity. While that book was in production, I suggested he try something easier: a popular book about the nature of the Universe, suitable for the general market.
Stephen hesitated over my suggestion. He already had an international reputation as a
brilliant theoretical physicist working on rotating black holes and theories of gravity. And he had concerns about financial matters: importantly, it was impossible for him to obtain any form of life insurance to protect his family in the event of his death or becoming totally dependent on nursing care. So, he took precious time out from his research to prepare the rough draft of a book.
At the time, several bestselling physics authors had already published non-technical books on
the early Universe and black holes. Stephen decided to write a more personal approach, by explaining his own research in cosmology and quantum theory.
One afternoon, in the 1980s, he invited me to take a look at the first draft, but first he wanted
to discuss cash. He told me he had spent considerable time away from his research, and that he expected advances and royalties(定金和版税) to be large. When I pressed him on the market that he foresaw, he insisted that it be on sale, up front, at all airport bookshops in the UK and the US. I told that was a tough call for a university press. Then I thumbed the typescript. To my dismay, the text was far too technical for a general reader.
A few weeks later he showed me a revision, much improved. Eventually, he decided to place
it with a mass market publisher rather than a university press. Bantam published A Brief History of Time in March 1988. Sales took off like a rocket, and it ranked as a bestseller for at least five years. The book‘s impact on the popularization of science has been incalculable.
56. What suggestion did the writer give to Stephen Hawking?
A. Simplifying Superspace and Supergravity. B. Formulating a new theory of gravity.
C. Writing a popular book on the nature of the universe. D. Revising a book based on a new theory.
57. Which of the following was Stephen Hawking most concerned about?
A. Financial returns. C. Publishing houses.
B. Other competitors. D. His family‘s life insurance.
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上海市各区2018届高三英语二模试卷分类汇编：阅读理解
58. The underlined word ―thumbed‖ is closest in meaning to _______.
A. praised
B. typed
C. confirmed
D. browsed
59. The greatest contribution of the book A Brief History of Time lies in _______.
(B)
Conventional wisdom may tell you that a master‘s degree from Harvard Business School in the US is the key to a Fortune 500 job, while the same degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, US, means a possible career on Wall Street.
It seems that the graduate school you go to somewhat decides your future. And a recent New York Times article reveals the correlation between MBA（Master of Business Administration）graduates at certain US schools and career prospects. To work at Amazon Ross School of Business（University of Michigan）
Amazon regularly hires more MBAs from top 10 business schools than big Wall Street firms. And a large chunk of American‘s employees are from Ross. Graduate Peter Faricy, vice president of Amazon Marketplace, says the reason behind this is that Ross‘s curriculum-related offerings, a problem-solving course for instance, are particularly well suited to Amazon.
To work at McKinsey&Company Kellogg School of Management（Northwestern）
For an MBA, landing a job at Mckinsey is like trying to get into a competitive business school over again. However, Kellogg graduates perform well in the fierce competition. The school‘s MBAs are in demand at elite consulting firms, which hired 35 percent of Kellogg graduates last year, a higher percentage than at Harvard（23 percent）and Stanford（16 percent）.
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A. bringing him overnight fame in the scientific world B. keeping up the living standard of his family
C. making popular science available to the general public D. creating the rocketing sales of a technical book