19全国卷III 英语

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段材料，回答第

17

至

20

题。

17. What did John enjoy doing in his childhood?

A. Touring France.

A. He did business.

A. For food.

B. Playing outdoors.

C. Painting pictures.

C. He worked on a farm.

C. For money.

18. What did John do after he moved to the US?

B. He studied biology.

B. For pleasure.

19. Why did John go hunting?

20. What is the subject of John

’

s works?

A. American birds.

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第一节

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15

小题；每小题

2

分，满分

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阅读下列短 文，从每题所给的

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、

B

、

C

和

D

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OPENINGS AND PREVIEWS

Animals Out of Paper

Yolo

！

Productions and the Great Griffon present the play by Rajiv Joseph

，

in which an origami

（折纸术）

artist invites a teenage talent and his teacher into her studio. Merri Milwe directs. In previews. Opens Feb.12.

（

West

Park Presbyterian Church

，

165 W.86th St.212-868-4444.

）

The Audience

Helen Mirren stars in the play by Peter Morgan

，

about Queen Elizabeth II of the UK and her private meetings

with twelve Prime Ministers in the course of sixty years. Stephen Daldry directs. Also starring Dylan Baker and

Judith Ivey. Previews begin Feb.14.

（

Schoenfeld

，

236 W.45th St.212-239-6200.

）

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B. At 3:30.

C. At 3:45.

B. A department manager.

C. A sales assistant.

B. On Wednesday.

C. On Thursday.

16. When will the man hear from the woman?

B. Natural scenery.

C. Family life.

Hamilton

Lin- Manuel Miranda wrote this musical about Alexander Hamilton

，

in which the birth of America is presented

as an immigrant story. Thomas Kail directs. In previews. Opens Feb .17.

（

Public

，

）

On the Twentieth Century

Kristin Chenoweth and Peter Gallagher star in the musical comedy by Betty Comden and Adolph Green

，

about

a Broadway producer who tries to win a movie star's love during a cross-country train journey. Scott Ellis directs

，

for Roundabout Theatre Company. Previews begin Feb.12.

（

American Airlines Theatre

，

227 W.42nd St.212-719-

1300.

）

21. What is the play by Rajiv Joseph probably about?.

A.A type of art.

C.A great teacher.

A. Helen Mirren.

C. Dylan Baker.

B.A teenager's studio.

D.A group of animals.

B. Peter Morgan.

D. Stephen Daldry.

B.

The Audience.

D. O

n the Twentieth Century.

B

For Western designers, China and its rich culture have long been an inspiration for Western creative.

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)of inspiration for designers,

creative officer at A+E Networks, a global media company and home to some of the biggest fashion(

时尚

)shows.

Earlier this year, the China

Through A Looking Glass

exhibition in New York exhibited 140 pieces of China-

inspired fashionable clothing alongside Chinese works of art, with the aim of exploring the influence of Chinese

aesthetics(

美学

)on

Western

fashion

and

how

China

has

fueled

the

fashionable

imagination

for

centuries.

The

exhibition had record attendance, showing that there is huge interest in Chinese influences.

that sell dreams to women all over the world, which means Chinese women are not just consumers of fashion

—

they

are central to its movement.

the best designers of contemporary fashion are themselves Chinese.

taking on Galiano, Albaz, Marc Jacobs-and beating them hands down in design and sales,

For Hill, it is impossible not to talk about China as the leading player when discussing fashion.

famous designers are Chinese, so are the models, and so are the consumers,

market; in many senses it has become the market. If you talk about fashion today, you are talking about China-its

influences, its direction, its breathtaking clothes, and how young designers and models are finally acknowledging

that in many ways.

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22. Who is the director of The Audience?

23. Which play will you go to if you are interested in American history?

A.

Animals Out of Paper.

C.

Hamilton.

can we learn about the exhibition in New York?

A. It promoted the sales of artworks.

C. It showed ancient Chinese clothes.

A. They are setting the fashion.

C. They admire super models.

A. learning from

B. It attracted a large number of visitors.

D. It aimed to introduce Chinese models.

B. They start many fashion campaigns.

D. They do business all over the world.

C. working with

D. competing against

does Hill say about Chinese women?

do the underlined words

B. looking down on

can be a suitable title for the text?

A. Young Models Selling Dreams to the World

B.A Chinese Art Exhibition Held in New York

C. Differences Between Eastern and Western Aesthetics

D. Chinese Culture Fueling International Fashion Trends

C

Before the 1830s,most newspapers were sold through annual subscriptions in America, usually $$8 to $$10 a year.

Today $$8 or $$10 seems a small amount of money, but at that time these amounts were forbidding to most citizens.

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades. In addition, most newspapers

had little in them that would appeal to a mass audience. They were dull and visually forbidding. But the revolution

that was taking place in the 1830s would change all that.

The trend, then, was toward the

It meant any inexpensive newspaper; perhaps more importantly it meant newspapers that could be bought in single

copies on the street.

This

development

did

not

take

place

overnight.

It

had

been

possible(but

not

easy)to

buy

single

copies

of

newspapers before 1830,but this usually meant the reader had to go down to the printer's office to purchase a copy.

Street sales were almost unknown. However, within a few years, street sales of newspapers would be commonplace

in eastern cities. At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and

some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents. But the phrase

fancy, and soon there would be papers that did indeed sell for only a penny.

This new trend of newspapers for

企

业

)were immediate failures. Publishers already in business, people who were owners of successful papers, had little

desire to change the tradition. It took a few youthful and daring businessmen to get the ball rolling.

of the following best describes newspapers in America before the 1830s?

A. Academic.

B. Unattractive.

C. Inexpensive.

D. Confidential.

did street sales mean to newspapers?

A. They would be priced higher.

C. They could have more readers.

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B. They would disappear from cities.

D. They could regain public trust.

were the newspapers of the new trend targeted at?

A. Local politicians.

B. Common people.

D. Rich businessmen.

B. It was a temporary success.

D. It was a disaster for printers.

D

Monkeys seem to have a way with numbers.

A team of researchers trained three Rhesus monkeys to

associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of

numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward. The researchers then tested how the

monkeys combined

—

or added

—

the symbols to get the reward.

Here's how Harvard Medical School scientist Margaret Livingstone, who led the team, described the experiment:

In their cages the monkeys were provided with touch screens. On one part of the screen, a symbol would appear, and

on the other side two symbols inside a circle were shown. For example, the number 7 would flash on one side of the

screen and the other end would have 9 and 8. If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be

rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the

numbers

—

17 in this example.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more

than

half

the

time,

indicating

that

they

were

performing

a

calculation,

not

just

memorizing

the

value

of

each

combination.

When the team examined the results of the experiment more closely, they noticed that the monkeys tended to

underestimate

< br>（低估）

a sum compared with a single symbol when the two were close in value

—

sometimes choosing,

for example, a 13 over the sum of 8 and 6. The underestimation was systematic: When adding two numbers, the

monkeys always paid attention to the larger of the two, and then added only a fraction

（小部分）

of the smaller

number to it.

“

But in

this experiment what they're doing is paying more attention to the big number than the little one.

”

32. What did the researchers do to the monkeys before testing them?

A. They fed them.

C. They trained them.

B. They named them.

D. They measured them.

B. By touching a screen.

D. By mixing two drinks.

B. They could understand simple words.

C. Young publishers.

can we say about the birth of the penny paper?

A. It was a difficult process.

C. It was a robbery of the poor.

33. How did the monkeys get their reward in the experiment?

A. By drawing a circle.

C. By watching videos.

34. What did Livingstone's team find about the monkeys?

A. They could perform basic addition.

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