江苏省2018年高考学科基地密卷英语(八)

Born and raised in a rural area, the middle-aged lady didn’t     that she could leave the countryside and go to Beijing some day.

A. anticipate                 B. deduce                 C. exploit                            D. preview

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:动词/动词短语

A

     

Coral reefs are at the top of the biodiversity system                  almost all kinds of living murine categories have representative species living among them

A. that                            B. when                            C. where               D. which

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:定语从句

C

     

Each misfortune you come across will carry in               the seed of tomorrow’s good luck. So hang on until you succeed.

A. one                            B. that                            C. it                            D. some

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:代词/不定代词

C

     

I think it is compulsory that all motorcyclists                  necessary facilities to ensure the safety of themselves and other road-users.

A. are equipped with                                          B. to be equipped with

C. were equipped with                                          D. be equipped with

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:虚拟语气

D

     

Don't speak needlessly, as nobody will accept your excuses which lack               consistency.

A. crucial                            B. fragile                            C. internal              D. massive

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:形容词作定语,表语和宾语补足语等的用法

C

     

一Would you              tell              me what the lecture delivered yesterday was about?

—Sorry, I was just                  for the lecturer had a strong accent.

A. carried over              B. held back                            C. split up              D. turned off

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:动词/动词短语

D

     

Pop star Taylor Swift on Wednesday made              officials described as a generous donation to the Foundation, helping the survivors of domestic violence.

A. what                            B. it                            C. how                            D. that

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:连词/连接词

A

     

Honestly speaking,                 our advice you wouldn’t have been caught in such an awkward situation.

A. you followed                                          B. you had followed

C. should you              follow                            D. had you followed

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:虚拟语气

D

     

Although strict tobacco control regulations are               in Nantong, violations still take place at entertainment venues and in restaurants and office buildings.

A. in place               B. in force              C. in practice                             D. in charge

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:介词/介词短语

B

     

Heihe, in China’s Heilongjiang province,               Russia, was part of a Japanese puppet state known as Manchukuo in the area of Manchuria at that time.

A. bordered                                          B. to border

C. bordering                                          D. having bordered

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:动词-ing形式

C

     

Many celebrities declared that they would stand ready to help    they could after the awful attack in Las Vegas on October 1, 2017.

A. wherever              B. whatever              C. whoever              D. however

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:连词/连接词

D

     

Jack and some off his classmates     to help the elderly in the nearby nursing home during the summer holiday to come.

A. volunteered                                                        B. are volunteering

C. will be volunteering                            D. have been volunteering

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:将来进行时及其被动式

C

     

Many of us, climate experts warn, seem unable to     the potential disasters global warming might bring about.

A. get up lo                            B. wake up to                            C. live up lo                            D. look up to

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:动词/动词短语

B

     

Behind the president     some distinguished guests, who are here to discuss the investment.

A. walks                            B. walk                            C. walking              D. are walking

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:一般现在时及其被动式

B

     

—It's surprising that Robert should be cheated by such a simple trick.

—      .

A. No man is wise at all times              B. There is no smoke without fire

C. The pot calls the kettle black              D. A word to the wise is sufficient

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:谚语、习语

A

     

Loneliness can be seen as a social phenomenon in modern society. It is a very common, though normally temporary,36 of a breakup, divorce, or loss of any important log-term relationship. In these cases, loneliness may result both from the loss of a specific person and from the 37 from social circles. The loss of a significant person in one's life will typically initiate a(n) 38 response.

Loneliness may also result from any socially disruptive(破裂的)event, such as moving from one's home town into 39 communities leading to homesickness. Loneliness can also occur in places with low population densities in which there are comparatively few people to 40.

There are many different ways used to 41 loneliness. What most doctors recommend to patients is therapy. Short term therapy typically occurs over a period of ten to twenty weeks. During therapy,              42 is put on understanding the cause of the problem, reversing the negative thoughts, feelings, and attitudes resulting from the problem, and 43 ways to help the patient feel connected. Some doctors also recommend 44 therapy as a means to connect with other sufferers and establish a support system. Some patients may also develop a resistance lo a certain type of medication and need to 45 periodically.

Another treatment is animal-assisted therapy. Studies and surveys indicate that the 46 of animal companions can 47 feelings of loneliness or depression among some sufferers. Beyond the companionship the animal itself provides there may also be increased opportunities for 48 with other pet owners. There are a number of other health benefits associated with pet ownership, such as lowered blood pressure. In addition, some other 49 approaches may include exercise, dieting, etc, which many patients find have a 50 effect on relieving symptoms. Results of a study also suggest that correcting maladaptive social cognition (认知)offers the best chance of 51 loneliness.

52 , loneliness can sometimes play an important role in the 53 process. Temporary or prolong loneliness can sometimes lead to notable artistic and creative 54              , for example, as was the case with poet Emily Dickinson. This may have an influence on the subject matter of the artist and more likely he 55 in individuals engaged in creative activities.

36.A. pressure                                          B. concern                                          C. consequence                            D. evidence

37.A. protection                            B. departure                            C. opposition                            D. withdrawal

38.A. grief                                                        B. emotion                                          C. offence                                          D .horror

39.A. informal                                          B. uncertain                            C. relevant                                          D. unfamiliar

40.A. turn to                                          B. interact with              C. long for                                          D. share with

41.A. release                                          B. observe                                          C. monitor                                          D. treat

42.A. emphasis                                          B. attention                            C. analysis                                          D.operation

43.A. studying                                          B. exploring                            C. searching                            D. finding

44.A. long-term                                          B. sightseeing                            C. patient                                          D. group

45.A. quit                                                        B. evolve                                          C. switch                                          D. exercise

46.A. presence                                          B. absence                                          C. experiment                            D. assignment

47.A. confirm                                          B. protest                                          C. enhance                                          D. ease

48.A. socializing                            B. interfering                            C. comparing                            D. coping

49.A. traditional                            B. controversial              C. alternative                            D. aggressive

50.A. historic                                          B. restorative                            C. decisive                                          D. permanent

51.A. promoting                                          B. enhancing                            C. reducing                                          D. striving

52.A. Therefore                                          B. Nevertheless                            C. Otherwise                            D. Thus

53.A. creative                                          B. musical                                          C. artistic                                          D. poetic

54.A. impression                            B. expression                            C. breakthrough                            D. production

55.A. absorbed                                          B. lost                                                        C. present                                          D. weak

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:完型填空

36-40 CDADB 41—45 DABDC 46—50 ADACB 51—55 CBABC

     

Cinque Terre, Italy

Autumn is the best season to see and sense the explosion of colours in the woods and paths high above the Mediterranean as you walk from one town in Italy’s Cinque Terre to another. The Sentiero Azzurro connects the villages between Monterosso al Mare and Riomaggiore over 12km and will take you from shady copses sheltered by red-and gold-leafed trees lo deep green olive groves before you emerge into sunlit walkways with views of the shimmering sea. However, some of the route is closed at present ( most famously the Via del’ A more at Riomaggiore, reopening in 2019) duo to landslides, and in autumn there are often closures as wet weather damages paths. On some sections there's a charge if 5 -7 lo use the path—-the money helps with repair bills.

Finnish Lapland

A cycling trip in Finland, north of the Arctic Circle, in September is incredibly colourful. Autumn is one of the eight seasons for the indigenous Sami people: time to round up their free-roaming reindeer. The Finnish word for autumn colour is ruska: it's the time when silver birches turn gold, the forest floor becomes thick with jewel-coloured blueberries and lingonberries, and mountain ash is heavy with scarlet berries. All this is set against a backdrop of evergreen firs, the taiga stretching from Norway to Siberia, and the silver of Finland's 180,000 lakes, soon to turn white with ice and snow. The midnight sky joins in too, illuminated with the greens and reds of the northern lights.

Dolgoch ‘ rainforest ’ , north Wales

Snowdonia national park provides some of the richest, and most unspoilt autumnal views in the world. The Talyllyn Railway spoils visitors not just with a seven-mile journey from the Tywyn seafront up the beautiful Fathew valley towards the peak of Cader Idris oil steam trains, but also gives direct access to the autumnal majesty of the Dolgoch Falls and Nant Gwernol woodland. Alighting at Dolgoch station and following the waymarked trails, visitors are soon amid the valley's temperate rainforest habitat, sometimes referred to as the Celtic Rainforesl, surrounded by ancient trees and carpets of moss and ferns. This habitat is full of life and, in autumn, the landscape glows in lush greens and golden browns.

Kamikochi national park, Honshu

In central Honshu, three hours’ drive north-east of Nagoya, is one of the most beguiling places in the Japanese Alps (also called the Hida mountains). The mountain slopes are covered with forests of larch and beech that blaze scarlet and orange in the autumn. Wisps of smoke hang in the still air above Yakedake volcano, and the glass surface of Taisho Pond perfectly reflects the trees and snow-dusted mountains. There are well-signposted walking trails, and the climb offers spectacular views across the valleys. We stayed in the Konashidaira log cabins ( cabin for four people from £ 60 a night, on Facebook) in woods close to the river Azusa, and which we shared with families of macaques that swung from tree to tree above us. You can bathe at the public hot spring baths in the nearby hotels.

56. If you’d like to go to a place that has not been changed or built on, the best choice is                  .

A. Cinque Terre, Italy

B. Finnish Lapland

C. Dolgoch ‘ rainforest ’ , north Wales

D. Kamikochi national park, Honshu

57. From the four advertisements above, we know that a visitor will most probably                 .

A. sense the explosion of colours freely in Cinque Terre

B. cycle to enjoy both the forest floor and mountain ash

C. feel tired because of the long journey on steam trains

D. walk on the glass surface of Taisho Pond elegantly

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:科普环保类阅读

56—57 CB

     

The first of two new museums dedicated to Yves Saint Laurent has been opened in Paris, offering a glimpse into the world of the shy, mysterious man who revolutionised women’s fashion.

The Paris mansion where Saint Laurent shook up dress codes for more than three decades has been turned into an exhibition space for his haute couture creations. A larger museum, also paid for by the foundation set up by his late lover and business partner Pierre Berge to safeguard Saint Laurent’s legacy, opens next month in Marrakesh.

The Moroccan city was one of the couple's favourite places, where Saint Laurent would often sketch out his collections.

“Coco Chanel liberated women, but Yves Saint Laurent gave them power,” Berg6 once said. He did this by appropriating the symbols of the traditional male wardrobe—dinner jackets, safari suits and jumpsuits-and remarking them for women.

“I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes,” said Saint Laurent, who died in 2008, in a rare interview. “ So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos and pea coats lo give women the same confidence. ”

His black tuxedo for women, known as le smoking—often worn over bare flesh—caused a scandal in 1966, with the New York socialite Nan Kempner dropping her trousers when she was told by a Manhattan restaurant that women would not be admitted in such attire.

Saint Laurent would later design a jacket as a thigh-skimming mini dress just as Kempner, one of his best customers, had worn it.

The heart of the Paris museum is Saint Laurent’s studio, the inner sanctum where he would work night and day in the run-up to his shows. It remains just as he left it in 2002, his desk festooned with photos of his inner circle of glamorous female friends, including Catherine Deneuve, Bianca Jagger and Paloma Picasso. But pride of place goes to a New Year’s card he made from a painting by his friend Andy Warhol of his French bulldog Moujik.

One wall of the room is completely mirrored, which allowed Saint Laurent to work directly on his live models so he could see his creations from all angles as they progressed.

The museum offers insight into Saint Laurent’s creative process, showing how he developed his clothes from basic sketches into complex designs that, in the case of some of his haute couture creations, could take thousands of hours to make.

“Unlike many other designers, Saint Laurent began systematically archiving his work in the early 1960s—encouraged by Berge—and so we can follow the evolution of each item,” said a spokesman for the museum, which holds 5 ,000 prototypes for his creations.

Other rooms in the museum are given over to Saint Laurent’s inspiration and the “imaginary voyages” his collections often look to Asia, Africa and most famously Russia. But other than his sojourns in Morocco—which reminded him of Algeria, where he was born in 1936 when it was a French colony—the designer was not much of a travellor.

With Berg6 he built up a considerable art collection and he borrowed liberally from artists such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Vincent van Gogh, most famously with his Mondrian dress, which became an instant pop icon when it hit the catwalk in 1965.

Berge always believed that Saint Laurent, who began his career by stepping into the shoes of Christian Dior when he was 21, was nothing less than an exceptional artist, calling him " the greatest designer of the second half of the 20th century”.

Having “spent all my life helping Yves Saint Laurent build his work, which I want to last”, Berge died this month before he could see the museums opened. The American landscape artist Madison Cox, whom Berge married this summer,told AFP that “10 days before he died he told me that ‘I am going to die totally at peace’, and I think that was true. He was a very determined man and he had put everything in place.”

Cox said the museum were also a tribute to Berge’s work supporting and protecting the fragile Saint Laurent, who had drink and drug addictions.

“Of course I and the whole team are profoundly sad that he will not be here, ”said Cox, who now heads the charitable foundation.“ But he would have wanted that we go on. ”

58. The main contribution that Yves Saint Laurent made was that    .

A. He established a new trend toward women's fashion

B. he made major changes to women's clothing styles

C. he made women more powerful by remaking female; symbols

D. women wearing the clothes he tailored became more confident

59. Which of the following is FALSE according to the passage?

A. Some of his works were so unconventional as caused controversy.

B. His creations were watched from all angles with a mirror in the room.

C. Some haute couture creations took a lol more time to be developed.

D. He valued a New Year's card more than photos festooning his desk.

60. In what aspect did Pierre Berge help Yves Saint Laurent?

A. Saint was advised to travel to foreign countries to seek inspiration.

B. Berge firmly believed that Saint could become an outstanding designer.

C. Saint was encouraged to build up a large collection of 5,000 prototypes.

D. Berge worked to protect Saint from being drunk and addicted to drugs.

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:科普环保类阅读

58—60 BBC

     

Neuroscientists have explained the risky, aggressive or just plain confusing behavior of teenagers as the product of a brain that is somehow compromised. Groundbreaking research in the past 10 years, however, shows that this view is wrong. The teen brain is not defective(有缺陷的). It is not a half-baked adult brain, either. It has been forged by evolution lo function differently from that of a child or an adult.

Foremost among the teen brain’s features is its ability to change in response to the environment by modifying the communication networks that connect brain regions. It allows teenagers to make enormous in thinking and socialization. But the change also makes them sensitive to dangerous behavior and serious mental disorders.

The most recent studies indicate that the riskiest behavior arises from a mismatch between the maturation of networks in the limbic system(边缘系统), which drives emotions and intensifies at (青春期), and the maturation of networks in the prefrontal cortex (前额皮质) , which occurs later and promotes sound judgment and the control of impulses. Indeed, we now know that one’s prefrontal cortex continues to change prominently until his 20s. And yet puberty seems to starling earlier, extending the “mismatch years”.

The plasticity of networks linking brain regions—and not the growth of those regions, as previously thought—is key to eventually behaving like an adult. Understanding that, and knowing that a widening gap between the development of emotional and judgment networks is happening in young people today, can help parents, teachers, counselors and teenagers themselves. People will better see that behavior such as risk-taking, sensation-seeking, and turning away from parents and toward peers are not signs of cognitive or emotional problems. They are a natural result of brain development, a normal part of adolescents learning how to negotiate a complex world.

The same understanding can also help adults decide when to intervene. A 15-year-old girl’s departure from her parents' tastes in clothing, music or politics may be a source of anxiety for Mom and Dad hut does not indicate mental illness. A 16-year-old boy’s tendency to skateboard without a helmet or to accept risky challenges from friends is not unimportant but is more likely a sign of short-range thinking and peer pressure than a desire to hurt himself. Other exploratory and aggressive actions might be red flags, however. Knowing more about the unique teen brain will help all of us learn how to separate, unusual behavior that is age-appropriate from that which might indicate illness. Such awareness could help society reduce the rates of teen addiction, motor vehicle accidents and depression.

61. How is Paragraph 1 mainly developed?

A. By drawing a comparison.

B. By confirming a prediction.

C. By making an assumption.

D. By correcting a misunderstanding.

62. What can we know about the changeability of teens’ brains?

A. It is predictable and avoidable.

B. It is a double-edged sword.

C. It is related to their brain development in the childhood.

D. It results from serious functional disorders.

63. The limbic system and the prefrontal cortex are mentioned in Paragraph 3 to               .

A. show how the mismatch between their maturation of networks happens

B. explain the relationship between early puberty and them

C. explain what leads to teens’ riskiest behavior

D. show the differences between them

64. What are the last two paragraphs mainly about?

A. The important role of adults in teenagers, development.

B. Long-term prospects for the research of teenagers’ brains.

C. Possible cognitive and emotional problems of teenagers.

D. The significance of the new discovery.

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:健康保健类

61—64 DBCD

     

“ I take words from anywhere,” says Amineh Abou Kerech,moments after winning the 2017 Betjeman poetry prize for 10 - to - 13-year-olds last week. “I take them from songs and films, from what I see on the computer or the television. And I put them all together."

She makes it sound so simple. It’s anything but, according to her older sister Ftoun, who is smiling at Amineh across a pub table in London's St Pancras station. “She sits in her bedroom all the time and practices, practises. ’’

Amineh, who was born in Syria 13 years ago, nods. She started writing poems during the four years her family spent in Egypt, but since moving to England last summer, with a new language to master and a new culture to get to grips with, she has been working doubly hard on her verses.

Her prizewinning poem, Lament for Syria, was written half in English, half in Arabic, and translated fully into English with help from her sister, her teacher and Google Translate. At the prizegiving, which took place on National Poetry Day last Thursday, next to the statue of John Betjeman at St Pancras, she read the first part of it in English before Switching to Arabic at the words “ I am from Syria. ”

Amineh was eight when they left. The civil war had begun a year earlier, in 2011, sparked by the Arab spring and kindled by disaffection towards the Assad regime. Her family lived in Darayya, a Damascus suburb known as a centre of anti-government protest. When violence flaredup, Amineh’s parents Tammam and Basmeh fled the city with their young family. They moved around for a year, sleeping wherever they could find shelter, until remaining in Syria was no longer viable and they escaped to Egypt.

“In Syria, all the time we were scared,” says Amineh. When they settled in Cairo, despite the fact that her family had lost everything ( her father had owned a shop in Damascus selling fabric) and were living in the most basic conditions, Amineh’s fear reduced. She began writing poetry, she says, as a way of putting her dislocation into words. “ When I remember my Syria I feel so sad and I cry and start writing about her. ’’ She tells me she doesn’t remember the country very well, though her poem suggests otherwise: it is, she writes, “ a land where people pick up a discarded piece of bread,so that it does not get “a land where people pick up a discarded piece of bread, so that it does not get trampled on ••• a place where old ladies would water jasmine trees at dawn.

After four years, the family moved to England as refugees, settling in Oxford where Amineh and her two siblings—Ftoun, 14, and Mohammad, 11 — now go to school. At Oxford Spires, a multicultural academy in the east of the city where more than 30 languages are spoken, the two sisters joined a workshop led by the Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh. That’s where they met Scottish author Kate Clanchy, the school’s writer-in-residence since 2009, who has been nurturing Amineh and Fton’s talents a weekly classes.

When I speak to Clanchy at the prizegiving, she marvels that Amineh has been speaking English for only a year. “Some of my most amazing writers lost a language at an early age,” she says, “ in the sense that they arrive suddenly in England and are no longer able to tell stories and make themselves powerful in that way. It can turn them in on themselves. But I also think they have a special capacity at that age to produce really unusual rhythms and sounds in English, which makes them into really interesting poets.”

This year’s judges, the poet Rachel Rooney and Observer cartoonist Chris Riddell (until recently, children’s laureate), agree that Amineh’s poem stood out from more than 2,000 entries, drawn from schools across the UK and the Republic of Ireland. “I found it really moving,” says Rooney. “It was passionate and complex. She was asking: ‘How can I do myself justice through a poem? How can I create a homeland on paper? ’And then she was actually doing it. Amazing.”

“It addresses a contemporary issue that’s been breaking all our hearts,” adds Riddell. “ It has a solemnity to it, but also the profound view that you get through a child’s eyes. It stands up as a poem, in any context.”

Though it's named after a most English poet, the Betjeman prize has been showcasing diverse voices since it was set up in 2006. The perspective here is global—one of Amineh’s fellow finalists, 10-year-old Shanelle Furtado, evokes her grandparents’ home in Mangalore in six vivid haikus—and it shows that adults are not the only ones with important and timely things Lo say.

Speaking before the winner is announced, its director ( and Betjeman's granddaughter) Imogen Lycett Green makes a case for poetry’s importance in an uncertain world. “ Poets are in the fringes of society, they’re not in the establishment,” she says. They look at events, at lives, at love and at themselves from a sideways position. And in glancing from the side, the truth can sneak in. If adult poets are seeking the truth, I think children who are burgeoning writers are even closer to the truth. ”

When her poem won, Amineh looked stunned, then buried her head in her hands and wept. A moment later, as her family gathered round to congratulate her, she was beaming.

“ It’s a surprise for me, like a dream,” her father tells me afterwards. He never imagined his daughter winning a prize like this: poetry doesn’t run in the family. “I used to write simple things, but after the war, after the hard time that we had, we didn’t think that we needed to write anything,” he says. “We survived.”

At the end of her poem, Amineh asks, “Can anyone teach me how to make a homeland?” Although the future of her birthplace remains gravely uncertain, there are consolations to be had in her new home. “ I feel so happy here because I have a future and things won’t be scary any more,” she tells me. “Everything will be good,” she adds, “and we will always be in peace.”

65. According to the passage, why did the judges award the poetry prize to Amineh Abou Kerech?

A. She took words from songs and films, from anywhere.

B. The poem was so simple as to be understood by peers.

C. It was her endless practice that motivated the judges.

D. The judges considered her poem sticking out from others.

66. What is the right order of the following things that happened?

1. their family moved to England

2. the Syria civil war broke out

3. the prizegiving look place

4. Amineh began writing poems

5. Amineh left Syria for Africa

A. 3-2-5-4-1                            B. 2 -5 -4 - 1 -3

C. 2-5-1 -3-4                            D. 1 -2 - 5-4-3

67. From the passage we learn that Amineh first learned to write poetry in order to    .

A. be reminded of those scary days from time to time

B.win a prize one day to compensate for her family loss

C. recall her native country through writing poems

D. place her emotion on poetry due to a displaced life

68. From the seventh and eighth paragraphs, we learn that    .

A. Kate Clanchy has been cultivating Amineh’s talents in poetry since 2009

B. without doubt one can make an amazing poet as long as he has a special capacity

C. Kate Clanchy was impressed that Amineh could learn to apply English so quickly

D. over 30 languages are taught to meet the needs of refugees from different countries

69. What can be inferred from the passage as to the Metjeman prize?

A. Children poetry are playing a more important role in contemporary society.

B. Only the poems focusing on justice or one’s homeland can be included.

C. Amineh’s poem written solemnly and profoundly got across to children.

D. Adult poets are also seeking the truth, influenced by burgeoning writers.

70. What attitude does Amineh hold towards the future?

A. Optimistic.               B. Indifferent.               C. Uncertain.                             D. Critical.

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:政治经济文化类阅读

65—70 DBDCAA

     

Today I’d like to give you some idea about how life at an American university or college might he different from the way it is in your country. To be sure, the student body on a U. S. campus is a pretty diverse group of people. First of all, although most students start college at around the age of 18, you will see students in their 30s and 40s and even occasionally in their 60s and 70s. Students on a U. S. campus come from a wide variety of socioeconomic backgrounds. Many students work at least part-time, and some of them work full-time. Some of the students live in dormitories on campus, some have their own apartments usually with other students, unci others live at home. Some colleges and universities have students from many different racial and ethnic minorities. Some schools have a fairly large foreign student population. So you can see that one meets all kinds of people on a U. S. college or university campus.

Now that you have some general ideas of differences in the student body population, I’d like to talk a few minutes about what I think an average student is. Foreign students are often surprised at how poorly prepared American students are when they enter a university. Actually, at very selective schools the students are usually very well prepared, but at less selective schools, they may not he as well prepared as students in your country are. Schools in the States simply admit a lot more students than is usual in most other countries. Also, most young American university students have not traveled in other countries and are not very well-versed in international matters. Foreign students usually find them friendly but not very well-informed about their countries or cultures.

What kind of academic experiences will this so-called “ average” student have? The average undergraduate student takes five classes a semester and is in class about 15 hours a week. If he or she takes a class that has a laboratory, this will require two or three more hours. Many introductory undergraduate classes are given in large lectures of 100 or more students. However, many of these classes will have small discussion groups of 15 to 20 students that meet once a week. In these smaller groups, a teaching assistant will lead a discussion to help clarify points in the lectures. Other kinds of classes—for example, language classes—will be much smaller so that students can practice language. In general, American professors are informal and friendly with their students, and, as much as possible, they expect and invite participation in the form of discussion. A large amount of reading and other work is often assigned to be done outside class, and students are expected to take full responsibility for completing these assignments and asking questions in class about those areas they don't understand. As a rule of thumb, students spend two to three hours preparing for each hour they spend in class. American professors often encourage their students to visit them during office hours, especially if the students are having problems in the class.

Life at an American university or college

The (71)   of

the student body

•Students of (72)   ages can be seen to start their college career.

•Students can study on a U. S. campus (73 )   of their socioeconomic backgrounds.

•There’s no racial or ethnic (74)   as to the admission of students.

•Students from home and abroad can enjoy their life and study in the U. S.

The view on an average student

•Most American college students haven't travelled (75)   and know little

about international matters. As a result, they are found to be poorly

(76 )    about foreign countries and cultures.

•Students are actually doing much (77)   at selective schools.

Academic experiences

•Based on their (78)   , necessary classes, such as introductory classes, lectures, language classes are taken by students.

•Students are (79)               to join in the discussion and visit their professors in

case there are problems.

•Students are responsible for completing the assignments and asking

questions in class.

• (80)    , students should spend more than double time preparing

before class.

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:阅读填空

71. diversity 72. all/different 73. regardless 74. discrimination/prejudice 75. abroad 76. knowledgeable/ informed

77. better 78. sizes 79. encouraged 80. Generally.

     

阅读下面的短文,然后按照要求用英语写一篇150词左右的作文。

Chinese consumers drop cash and skip cards to create world’s largest mobile payment market.

A German named Thomas Derksen spent an entire day shopping in a major Chinese city without cash or a credit card.

The 24-hour adventure in Hangzhou, which was streamed lived on the Internet, saw Derksen ride a bus, buy a bouquet of flowers for his wife and even enjoy a street snack, all paid by using apps downloaded to his smart phone.

“Going out without cash is something I couldn't imagine doing back home in Frankfurt”, says Derksen.

After traveling to hundreds of cites in more than 30 countries, he believes Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province and home of Internet giant Alibaba Group, is NO. 1 in terms of mobile payment.

Statistics from the Hangzhou-headquarter Ant Financial Services Group , the operator of Alipay, China's largest mobile payment service provider, how that about 98 percent of supermarkets, and more than 40,000 restaurants allow customers to pay with apps.

Hangzhou is not unique in China, though. In most cities, especially developed metropolises, mobile payment apps are now a part of everyday life.

【写作内容】

1.用约30个单词写出上文概要。

2.用约120个单词阐述你对移动支付的看法,并用2 -3个理由或论据支撑你的看法。

【写作要求】

1.写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句。

2.作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称。

不必写标题。

【参考词汇】

QR code 二维码

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

答案解析:
答案及解析:

知识点:书面表达

One possible version

Mobile payment is becoming increasingly popular in China, especially in big cities. A German’s 24-hour experience of going out without cash or a credit card in Hangchou serves as a good example.

Obviously, mobile payment is good and should be encouraged. In the first place, mobile payment offers us a new level of convenience. With payment apps on our smart phones, we only need to scan the QR code to pay and within one or two seconds, the payment process can be completed

In the second place, mobile payment signifies safely. Since no cash is needed in the future, we needn't worry about wallet or money being stolen any more. Nor do we need to be afraid of receiving fake money.

Last but not least, mobile payment does good to the environment. Not using cash means saving a lot of trees which are used to make paper.