扬州市2020届高三第三次英语调研测试

A

、

B.C

、

D

四个选项中

,

选出最 佳选

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项

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并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I moved to a new city and took a job in marketing. 1

didn’t

' really understand whether

it_ 36 me . I enjoyed doing things that I felt had

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I could see their benefit and

feel their impact. As the months passed, I felt it just wasn't for me. 1 needed to find a way

out.

A job advertisement for a(n)

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for a new youth magazine came at exactly the

right time. I applied and was

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My role was to help teams of young people edit

their

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and help them with their work. I had assumed the magazine would be

a(n)

41

of games and dull reviews, so I was

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when one of the first

pieces written was about social welfare.

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I found something I was interested

in.

I

felt

a

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in

me

straight

away.

I

had

a

purpose

again.

Days

were

lost

to

discussing hot topics and

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the words of their strong and opinionated (

坚持己

见的

)

voices.

46

in

their world,

I

could see

myself

making

a

difference

to

the

team's

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ability. As our website

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increased and the work shifted to

reflect

what

our

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wanted,

I

developed

a

greater

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of

what

young

people might want to read.

The biggest change the job brought,

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, was to my well-being. It is rare you

find

yourself

in

a

job

you

love,

one

that

you

are

happy

to

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each

day.

I

was

thriving (

充实

) in this

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environment, inspired by the talented young people

I was

helping

to

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their careers. Now, I

realize

that

there

are

jobs

that

will

keep you happy,

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and inspired.

36. A. messed with

B. applied to

C. relied on

D. waited for

37. A. purpose

B. convenience

C. restriction

D. entertainment

38. A. reporter

B. lawyer

C. editor

D. typist

39. A. independent

B. intelligent

C. successful

D. ambitious

40. A. courses

B. references

C. software

D. content

41. A. replacement

B. mixture

C. innovation

D. symbol

42. A. amused

B. embarrassed

C. touched

D. surprised

43. A. Naturally

B. Generally

C. Frequently

D. Finally

44. A. contrast

B. shock

C. change

D. shame

45. A. reading

B. translating

C. spelling

D. copying

46. A. Trapped

B. Hidden

C. Invested

D. Imagined

47. A. gaming

B. marketing

C. writing

D. communicating

48. A. hits

B. pages

C. profits

D. advertisements

49. A. monitors

B. sponsors

C. colleagues

D. audiences

50. A. distinction

B. understanding

C. expectation

D. recording

51. A. though

B. instead

C. otherwise

D. therefore

52. A. go into

B. leave behind

C. refer to

D. set aside

53. A. troublesome

B. creative

C. tough

D. conservative

54. A. transfer

B. rescue

C. discipline

D. further .

55. A. lucky

B. popular

C. energetic

D. honest

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请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的

A

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B

、

C

、

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四个选项中，选出最佳选

项

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并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

To Machu Picchu and Cusco, searching for the

lost Inca (

印加人

) city Climb its towering staircases

to

a

ceremonial

temple

set

in

the

mountain

face.

These ruins mark the start of the 4- day Inca Trail to

Machu Picchu, one of the world's most rewarding

hikes. A quicker way to reach the remote Inca city is

catching the train to the riverside town of Aguas and

then jumping on a bus into the misty mountains.

Once

the

clouds

rise from

the

mountain

ridge

above

the

Sacred

Valley,

the

true

splendor of Machu Picchu is finally revealed. It's a humbling experience to stand at an

altitude

of

nearly

8,000

feet,

and

gaze

down

at

the

Inca

city

below.

Overlooking

the

glorious ruins, it's easy to imagine the prosperity(

繁荣

) this peak | must have been almost

600 years ago.

It's one of the world's greatest mysteries what became of the Incas who inhabited

Machu Picchu. What was once major defense works in the largest empire on Earth was

slowly swallowed by the jungle, only to be uncovered a century ago. The Inca dynasty has

| come and gone, but Incan families still survive in the highlands. These modem- day

Children of the Sun still speak Quechua and continue to live off the land, although

many come to Cusco to sell their crops and woolen textiles.

After

dusk,

when

the

story

of

the

Incas

becomes

a

whisper

in

the

night,

Cusco

is

covered under a starry blanket. A landscape so gorgeous that it deserves to be preserved

for ever.

56. The attraction of Machu Picchu lies in

A. its towering staircases

B. its changeable weather

C. its natural scenery and culture

D. its wilderness and inaccessibility

57. We can learn from the passage that

A. the Incas like to stay up chatting

B. Machu Picchu is a military base

C. the Quechua language is lost to the world

D. what happened to the Incas remains unknown

B

In their book, Nine Lies About Work, Buckingham and Goodall make a surprising claim:

they argue that giving people feedback (

反

馈

)-in the sense of telling them what you think

they'

re

doing

right

or

wrong,

and

how

to

do

it

better-is

never

worthwhile.

This

runs

counter to a current corporate trend for

“radical candour

Netflix where,

according to recent reports, employees ’failings are cruelly “sunshined

others.

When

someone

is

fired,

hundreds

of

their

former

colleagues

might

receive

an

email,

cataloguing their flaws (

缺陷

). But it also contradicts an assumption most of us bring to

our lives as parents and friends- that it's helpful, at least sometimes, and providing you do

it nicely to explain to people where they' re making mistakes.

Buckingham and Goodall don't just claim you should keep that knowledge to yourself:

they claim that you don't possess it, and that, in fact, you probably don't know how a

failing

employee

could

most

effectively

change.

It's

an

old

cliché

(

陈词滥调

)

of

marital

advice

that you should use“

I-

statements

you- statements

person how their behaviour makes you feel, rather than attacking them for being selfish

and incompetent. The standard theory is that you- statements cause people to respond

defensively. But another is that you're a terrible judge of whether someone is selfish or

incompetent.

As

Buckingham

writes:

“The

only

area

in

which

humans

are

an

unimpeachable (

无懈可击的

) source of truth is that of their own feelings and experiences.

Plenty

of

research

shows

we're

particularly

bad

at

rating

people

against

abstract

criteria, which means one common feature of workplace performance reviews-- assessing

whether an employee is, say, a strategic thinker or team player- -is essentially pointless.

We should

replace this sort of judgment with“

reactions

of their skills, or how good you think they are; instead, focus on describing your experience

of their work. You're no good at judging how someone else should change their approach

to delivering presentations. But you're the authority on whether a given presentation was

persuasive or boring to you.

And positive reactions, they show, work better than negative ones: we

excel “when

people who know us and care about us tell us what they experience and what they feel,

and in particular when they see something within us that really works

here-that

the

best

kind

of

praise

focuses

on

how

someone

made

you

feel,

not

on

evaluating their talent. Praise them for inspiring you, persuading you, or helping you grasp

a complex issue. You really are the only objective judge of that.

58. The underlined word“

it” in Paragraph 1 refers to“

______

A. giving people feedback

B. cataloguing colleagues' flaws

C. contradicting parents' assumption

D. keeping that knowledge to yourself

59. Feedback is never worthwhile in that______

A. people tend to defend it

B. it is based on theory and truth

C. it is subjective and lacks uniqueness .

D. people will effectively change themselves