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A. The film is terrible. B. The film can be seen online. C. The film is worth the money.
5. Where does the conversation most probably take place?
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A. At home. B. At a hospital. C. At a drug store.
英语试题
第二节 （共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分）
听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5 秒钟；听完后，各小题给出
注意事项:
1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考生号等填写在答题卡和试卷指定位置上。
2.回答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。回答非选择题时，将答案写在答题卡上，写在本试卷上无效。3.考试结束后，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分） 第一节 (共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)
听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例：How much is the shirt? A. ￡19.15. B. ￡9.15. C. ￡9.18. 答案是B。 1. What will the man do next?
A. Turn off the TV. B. Study with the woman. C. Watch a movie. 2. How old is the woman now?
A. 20 years old. B. 45 years old. C. 65 years old. 3. What is small for the woman? A. The T-shirt. B. The hat.
C. The skirt.
4. What does the man mean?
5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。 6. What does the man like about his hometown? A. It’s really very big.
B. It has colorful nightlife. 7. What is the weather like in the fall in the man’s hometown? A. Sunny. B. Cold. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。
8. What time was the plane originally scheduled to leave?
A. At 3:00. B. At 4:00. 9. Why is the woman worried?
A. The weather is bad. B. The report is not finished. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。
10. Why does the man’s brother go to the man’s place? A. To study.
B. To work.
11. Where does the man work in the morning? A. At a university.
B. At a restaurant.
12. What language is the woman starting?
A. French. B. Spanish. 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
C. It’s not expensive to live there.
C. Wet.
C. At 5:00. C. An appointment will be delayed. C. To travel.
C. At a bookstore.
C. Japanese.
A. What job to do in the future. B. Which professor to follow. C. What abilities to possess.
14. What subject does the man probably prefer?
A. History. B. Politics. C. Art.
15. What do the woman’s parents expect her to be?
A. A restaurant manager. B. A politician. C. A teacher. 16. What is the woman good at doing?
A. Dealing with people. B. Working with kids. C. Painting pictures. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。
17. How did the servants deal with their earnings in Victorian times? A. They paid for the housing. B. They bought food and clothes. C. They sent them to their families. 18. What was a nurse’s main duty?
A. Cooking meals. B. Looking after children. C. Educating children. 19. How did the Victorian upper class parents treat their children actually? A. Cruelly.
B. Kindly. C. Strictly.
20. What will the speaker talk about next? A. Lower class families.
B. Upper class children’s situation.
C. Comparisons between upper and lower classes.
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A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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“Museum of the World” Travel Plan “Museum of the World” Travel Plan
Here’s the travel plan for some of the more unusual museums on our “Museum of the World” tour. I’ll send you the full itinerary (The Museum of Bad Art 行程) next week.
(MOBA) (Boston, USA) shows what it describes as “art too bad to be
ignored”. The museum hopes to bring the worst of art to the widest possible audience. As part of the visit, we’ll be shown some truly awful portraits, landscapes and sculptures.
The Devil’s Rope Museum (in Mclean, Texas) and The Kansas Barbed Wire Museum (in Lacrosse, Kansas) both claim to have the best barbed (有刺的) wire collections, telling the story of the wire’s role in the development of America. We’ll be visiting both of these.
The Washington Banana Museum (Auburn, Washington, USA) contains 4,000 objects related to the history of what the museum describes as “the world’s most perfect fruit.” During a guided tour around the museum, we’ll learn all sorts of interesting things, such as the fact that bananas were introduced to the USA in 1878 in the same exhibition as Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, and that banana is now the US’s number-one selling fruit.
21. What do these four Museums have in common?
A. They are all located in the USA. B. They accept exhibits donated by visitors. C. They exhibit the things with a long history. D. They show some odd things around the world. 22. What does The Museum of Bad Art (MOBA) show? A. Complete collections of barbed wire. B. A large number of samples of people’s hair. C. Some really terrible but noticeable art works. D. Some beautiful portraits drawn by famous people.
23. Why was Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone mentioned in paragraph 4? A. To explain the origin of bananas. B. To arouse visitors’ interest in the museum. C. To emphasize the importance of the exhibition.
D. To compare the value of bananas and telephones.
B
Following Christmas dinner, my family was relaxing around the table. We had all enjoyed traditional turkey and sweet potatoes lightly shining with brown sugar. The good cooking smells still filled the air; and the oven remained warm. My sister, our chef, was enjoying the admiration.
My nephew, never one to sit still for long, began dribbling (运球) his basketball around the table. Upon nearing Dad, he stopped — almost uncertainly. With shaking wrinkled hands, Dad had reached out for the ball.
The boy, confused, looked up and over at us.
I watched my father closely to see what he would do. The twinkle in his eyes shone brighter than any Christmas lights. Holding the ball and reaching forward with a playful smile, Dad bounced it and then caught it.
This action was repeated. Gently throwing the ball away, Dad began a game of catch. The ball continued to be passed through eager pairs of outstretched hands. Cries of “Over here!” rang through the warm kitchen. Dad’s active participation was remarkable to me, for he had advanced Alzheimer’s disease, which had robbed him of many memories and the recognition ability. Despite this, Dad clearly recognized the ball and what you could do with it.
In my younger years, playing with Dad was rare. To his credit, Dad worked hard and provided for us. He was very private and never showed nor shared much emotion; his game of choice was chess, which he did eventually teach me how to play. As an adult, I had become a caregiver as Dad declined. Connecting moments between father and son had been few and far between before he took the basketball.
I’m not sure how long we played catch. What I do know is that our game ended all too soon, and it was time to face the reality of dirty dishes piled high on countertops. The moment, though, will certainly last forever.
24. What can we know about the family’s Christmas dinner?
A. Dishes were cleaned up. B. All food was sugar-free. C. It was a sweet moment. D. It was disturbed by the game. 25. Why was Dad’s active participation in the game remarkable to me? A. He rarely played basketball.
B. He had severe Alzheimer’s disease.
C. He had astonishing skills. D. He played with family members. 26. How was Dad getting along with kids in earlier years?
A. He often accompanied kids. B. He was willing to share feelings. C. He forced kids to learn chess. D. He seldom interacted with kids. 27. What can be the best title for the passage?
A. A game of catch B. A devoted father
C. A dinner of reunion D. A bond between father and son
C
A star athlete at the college where I work recently stopped by my office. After committing a few unforced errors during a weekend match, she suffered severely by self-criticism.
This student, like many I teach, strongly believes she should be able to control the outcomes of her life
by virtue of her hard work. In her mind, “Nothing can stop me but myself”. So when these students fall short of what they imagine they should accomplish, they are filled with self-blame, reasoning, “If my accomplishments are mine to control, my failures must be entirely my faults, too”, which makes it extremely difficult for them to move on.
We often owe young adults struggling with failure to their parents’ overprotection of them from discomfort. But there is another factor at play: a message transmitted by indulging (纵容的) parents who have falsely promised them that they can achieve anything if they are willing to work for it. However, the cruel reality of life is that you can do everything in your power — and still fail. Then what should be done to help?
Psychologists Luthar and Kumar urge parents and teachers to spend time helping students find purpose, or goals they genuinely love to pursue and that make an impact on the world, which may help them gain greater life satisfaction and become more psychologically mature. Besides, instead of allowing our kids to beat themselves up when things don’t go their way, we might all question a culture where one is considered lazy without full devotion. The point is to remind them that life has a way of sucker-punching (出其不意) us when we least expect it. It’s often the people who learn to say “stuff happens” who get up the fastest. 28. What does the underlined phrase “by virtue of” in paragraph 2 mean?
A. in addition to
B. in spite of
C. by means of
D. for fear of
29. The author believes that young adults find it hard to struggle with failure because __________.
A. they are not taught how to deal with difficulties B. they are short of the ability to handle failure C. they are under the protection of their parents D. they are misled by their parents’ false message
30. What did psychologists Luthar and Kumar urge parents and teachers to do?
A. To teach students how to avoid faults. B. To lead students to set their truly loved goals. C. To help students to discover a path to success. D. To allow kids to blame themselves. 31. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. Students don’t care about failure at all.
B. Students are sure to succeed if they try their best. C. Students should bear all the failures on their own. D. Students with positive attitudes can move on more easily.
D
Some cities and lawmakers are resisting crime-fighting tech owing to bias (偏见) and accuracy concerns. Police departments around the U.S. are asking citizens to trust them to use facial recognition software as a handy tool in their crime-fighting toolbox. But some lawmakers — and even some technology giants — are against it.
Take the western Massachusetts city of Springfield, where many residents are Latino or black. Springfield police say they have no plans to use facial recognition systems, but some City Council members are moving to block any future government use of the technology anyway.
At an October hearing on the subject, Springfield City Councilman, Orlando Ramos, defended the technology. “The facial recognition technology does not drop a net from the sky and put you to prison,” he said, noting that it could serve as a useful investigative tool. However, he doesn’t want to take any risks. “It would only lead to more racial discrimination.” he said, citing studies that found higher error rates for facial recognition software used to identify women and people with darker skins.
Similar debates across the country are highlighting racial issues and concerns about the technology’s accuracy. Axon, which supplies body-worn cameras nationwide, had already formed an artificial intelligence ethics board (伦理委员会)that concluded facial recognition technology isn’t yet dependable enough to justify its use on police cameras. Axon Chief Executive Rick Smith said, “Even if facial recognition software was perfectly accurate, the ability to track people raises privacy concerns. “Do we want everybody who walks near a police officer to get their face identified and logged in a database?” he said.
Nevertheless, Todd Pastorini, general manager at biometric forensics (生物取证) company DataWorks Plus, said it’s the “extremely effective” method of running images through photos to help identify a suspect. “Society and the public are going to get frustrated, if governments refuse to adopt a technology that keeps improving”, he said. In his eyes, facial recognition hits are just one part of an investigation. 32. What is Orlando Ramos’ attitude towards facial recognition? A. Hopeful.
B. Cautious.
C. Ambiguous.
D. Tolerant.
33. What is one focus of the debates about facial recognition? A. Gender discrimination.
B. Speed limit.
C. Accuracy rate.
D. Steadiness control.
34. What does Rick Smith think of facial recognition? A. It appears to cause prejudice. B. It brings about privacy concerns. C. Its technology is reliable.
D. Its accuracy needs improving.
35. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Facial recognition tool meets with resistance. B. All the people disapprove of facial recognition. C. Facial recognition is the only tool of investigation. D. Governments should ban facial recognition.