camera江苏卷2017年高考英语试题全解析解析版

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四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上

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For a long time Gabriel didn’t want to be involved in music at all. In his first years of high school,

Gabriel

would look pityingly at music students,

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across the campus with their heavy instrument cases.

37

at

school for practice hours

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anyone else had to be there. He swore to himself to

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music, as he hated

getting to school extra early.

__40___, one day, in the music class that was __41__of his s

chool’s standard curriculum

, he was playing idly

（随意地）

on

the

piano

and

found

it

____42___to

pick

out

tunes.

With

a

sinking

feeling,

he

realized

that

he

actually __43__doing it. He tried to hide his __44__pleasure from the music teacher, who had __45__over to listen.

He

might

not

have

done

this

particularly

well,

__46__the

teacher

told

Gabriel

that

he

had

a

good

___47__

and

suggested that Gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there __48__ him. There he

decided to give the cello

（大提琴）

a __49__. When he began practicing, he took it very __50__. But he quickly

found that he loved playing this instrument, and was __51__to practicing it so that within a couple of months he

was playing reasonably well.

This

__52__,

of

course,

that

he

arrived

at

school

early

in

the

morning,

__53__

his

heavy

instrument

case

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across the campus to the __54__ looks of the non-musicians he had left __55__.

36.A. travelling

B. marching

C. pacing

D. struggling

37. A. rising up

B. coming up

C. driving up

D. turning up

38. A. before

B. after

C. until

D. since

39. A. betray

B. accept

C. avoid

D. appreciate

40. A. Therefore

B. However

C. Thus

D. Moreover

41. A. part

B. nature

C. basis

D. spirit

42. A. complicated

B. safe

C. confusing

D. easy

43. A. missed

B

. disliked

C. enjoyed

D. denied

44. A. transparent

B. obvious

C. false

D. similar

45. A. run

B. jogged

C. jumped

D. wandered

46. A. because

B. but

C. though

D. so

47. A. ear

B. taste

C. heart

D. voice

48. A. occurred to

B. took to

C. appealed to

D. held to

49. A. change

B. chance

50. A. seriously

B. proudly

B. used

B. showed

B. dragging

B. pitying

B. aside

C. mission

D. function

C. casually

C. limited

C. stressed

C. lifting

D. naturally

D. admitted

51. A. committed

52. A. proved

53. A. pushing

54. A. admiring

55. A. over

D. meant

D. rushing

D. teasing

D. out

C. annoying

C. behind

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30

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请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上

< br>将该项涂黑。

A

CHRONOLOGICA

——

The Unbelievable Years that Defined History

DID YOU KNOW…

In 105 AD paper was invented in China?

When Columbus discovered the New World?

The British Museum opened in 1759?

CHRONOLOGICA

is

a

fascinating

journey

through

time,

from

the

foundation

of

Rome

to

the

creation

of

the

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internet. Along the way are tales of kings and queens,

hot air balloons…and monkeys

in space.

Travel

through

100

of

the

most

unbelievable

years

in

world

history and learn why being a Roman Empe

ror wasn’t always as

good as it sounds,

how the Hundred Years’ War didn’t actually

last

for

100

years

and

why

Spencer

Perceval

holds

a

rather

unfortunate record.

CHRONOLOGICA is an informative and entertaining tour into

history,

beautifully

illustrated

and

full

of

unbelievable

facts.

While

CHRONOLOGICA

tells

the

stories

of

famous

people

in

history

such

as

Thomas

Edison

and

Alexander

the Great, this book also gives an account of the lives of

lesser-known individuals including the explorer Mungo Park

and sculptor Gutzon Borglum.

This

complete

but

brief

historical

collection

is

certain

to

entertain readers young and old, and guaranteed to present even the biggest history lover with something new!

is CHRONOLOGICA according to the next?

A

．

A biography.

C

．

A history book.

B

．

A travel guide.

D

．

A science fiction.

does the writer recommend CHRONOLOGICA to readers?

A

．

By giving details of its collection.

B

．

By introducing some of its contents.

C

．

By telling stories at the beginning.

D

．

By comparing it with other books.

B

Before birth, babies can tell the difference between loud sounds and

voices.

They

can

even

distinguish

their

mother’s

voice

from

that

of

a

female stranger. But when it comes to embryonic learning (

胎

教

), birds

could

rule

the

roost.

As

recently

reported

in

The

Auk:

Ornithological

Advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before

they

hatch

(

孵化

).

New-

born

chicks

can

then

imitate

their

mom’s

call

within a few days of entering the world.

This educational method was first observed in 2012 by Sonia Kleindorfer, a biologist at Flinders University in

South Australia, and her colleagues. Female Australian superb fairy wrens were found to repeat one sound over and

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over again while hatching their eggs. When the eggs were hatched, the baby birds made the similar chirp to their

mothers

—a sound that served as their regular “feed me!” call.

To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds, the researchers sought the red-backed fairy

wren,

another

species

of

Australian

songbird.

First

they

collected

sound

data

from

67

nests

in

four

sites

in

Queensland

before

and

after

hatching. Then

they

identified

begging

calls

by

analyzing

the

order

and

number

of

notes. A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

It turns out that baby red-backed fairy wrens also emerge chirping like their moms. And the more frequently

mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies’ begging

calls. In addition, the team set up a

separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that most closely

imitated their mom’s voice were rewarded

with the most food.

This observation hints that effective embryonic learning could signal neurological (

神经系统的

) strengths of

children to parents. An evolutionary inference can then be drawn. “As a parent, do

you invest in quality children, or

do

you

invest

in

children

that

are

in

need?”

Kleindorfer

asks.

“Our

results

suggest that

they

might

be

going

for

quali

ty.”

underlined phrase in Paragraph 1 means

“

”

.

the worst

the best

the as bad

just as good

are Kleindorfer

’

s findings based on?

rities between the calls of moms and chicks.

observation of fairy wrens across Australia.

data collected from Queensland

’

s locals.

lled experiments on wrens and other birds.

nic learning helps mother birds to identify the baby birds which

.

receive quality signals

in need of training

the environment better

the loudest call

C

A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry,urging antitrust

（反垄断）

regulators

to step in to check those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns

ares being raised by the giants

（

巨头）

that deal in data, the oil of the digital age. The most valuable firms are Google,

Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. All look unstoppable.

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