-
TEXT A
1 We have a
crisis on our hands. You mean global warning? The
world economy? No, the
decline of
reading
. People are just not doing it
anymore, especially the young.
Who
?
s responsible?
Actually, it
?
s
more like, What is
responsible
? The Internet,
of course, and everything that comes
with it
—
Facebook, Twitter
(
微博
). You can write your own
list.
The
first
paragraph
the
author
puts
forward
a
question
and
provides
an
answer.
Internet
is
responsible for the
decline of reading. The topic:
Background knowledge
：
Facebook
，
twitter
脸谱网，推特网，类似微博
2
There
?
s been a warning about
the
imminent death
of
literate civilization for a long time.
91
In
the
20
th
century, first it was
the movies, then radio, then television that
seemed to
spell doom for
the written world. None did. Reading
survived; in fact it not only survived, it has
flourished. The
world
is
more
literate
adj.
受过教育的；精通文学的
than
ever
before
—
there
are
more
and
more readers, and more and more books.
imminent danger
（法）迫在眉睫的危险
imminent threat
紧迫的威胁；逼近的威胁
spell
our inevitable doom
引来灭顶之灾
81. Which of the following paragraphs
briefly reviews the historical challenges for
reading?
A. Paragraph One.
B. Paragraph Two.
C. Paragraph Three.
D. Paragraph Four.
3 The fact that we often get our
reading material online today is not something we
should
worry over. The
electronic and digital
revolution
of the last two decades has
arguably shown the
way
forward
for
reading
and
for
writing.
Take
the
arrival
of
e-book
readers
as
an
example.
Devices
like
Kindle
make
reading
more
convenient
and
are
a
lot
more
82B
environmentally
friendly
than the
traditional paper book.
82. The
following are all cited as advantages of e-books
EXCEPT
A. multimodal content.
B. environmental
friendliness.
C. convenience for
readers.
D. imaginative
design.
electronic commerce
电子商务
electronic
equipment
电子设备
electronic
product
电子产
品；电子设备制造业
electronic industry
电子工业
e-book
reader
电子阅读器
?
Almost every
other
e-reader
supports this
open standard, but Amazon has balked,
preferring to push its own format
-
which, of course, no other
e-book reader
can utilize.
几乎所有其它的电子阅读器都支持这种开放的标准，
但是亚马逊却将其拒之门外，
因为亚马
逊更喜欢
自己的格式，当然，此举是为了其他的电子阅读器不能使用他自己的格式。
Kindle
kindle
电子书可
以识别原生
pdf
，
屏幕大小如同真实
32
开书籍，
采用的是最新
E-ink
技术，
保护视力，可以在阳光下阅读。
其电池可在无线网络关闭下持续十天，这是笔记本无
法做到的。最重要的是，它有很多专
门为电子书设计的功能，朗读，查字典，在美国还可以
在线购买书籍，免费查维基百科。
4
As
technology
makes
new
ways
of
writing
possible,
new
ways
of
reading
are
possible.
Interconnectivity
allows
for
the
possibility
of
a
reading
experience
that
was
barely
imaginable
before. Where
traditional books had to
make do
with
photographs and illustrations, an
e-book can
provide readers with an
unlimited number of links: to texts, pictures, and
videos. In the future, the
way people
write novels, history, and philosophy
will
resemble
nothing seen
in the past.
make way1.
让路，让开，让
…
过去；让位
(for)2.
取得进展，起作用：
(
特指风俗习惯、观
点等
)
深入人心，为人们所接受
make
do with
设法应付；勉强对付
make do with
something
将就过去
,
凑和
5
On the other hand, there is the
danger
of trivialization
. One Twitter group is
offering its
followers 83 single-
sentence-long
“
digests
”
of the great novels.
War and Peace
in a sentence?
You
must
be
joking.
83
We
should
fear
the
fragmentation
of
reading
.
There
is
the
danger
that
the
high-speed
connectivity
of
the
Internet
will
reduce
our
attention
span
—
that
we
will
be
incapable of reading
anything of length or which requires deep
concentration.
trivialize
['trivi
?
laiz]
vt.,
vi.
使琐碎；使似乎不重要；轻视；使平凡
83.
Which
of
the
following
can
best
describe
how
the author
feels
toward
single-sentence-long
novels?
A. Ironic. B.
Worried. C. Sarcastic. D. Doubtful.
6 In such a fast-changing world, in
which reality seems to be remade each day, we need
the
ability
to
focus
and
understand
what
is
happening
to
us.
This
has
always
been
the
function
of
literature
and
we
should
be
careful
not
to
let
it
disappear.
84
Our
society
needs
to
be
able
to
imagine
the
possibility
of
someone
utterly
in
tune
with
modern
technology
but
able
to
make
sense
of a dynamic,
confusing world.
in tune with
（与
...
）一致；（与
...
）协调
?
84. According to the passage, people
need knowledge of modern technology and
to
survive in the fast-changing society.
A. good judgment
B. high sensitivity
C. good imagination
D. the ability to focus
7 In
the
15
th
century,
Johannes
Guttenberg
’
s
invention
of
the
printing
press
in
Europe
had
a huge impact on
civilization. Once upon a time the physical book
was a challenging thing.
We should
remember this before we assume that technology is
out to destroy traditional culture.
约翰内斯·谷登堡
（
Johannes
Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg
，又译作
谷登堡
、
[1]
古登堡
、
古滕贝格
）
，约
1398
年
出生于
德国美因茨
，
1468
年
2
月
3
日
逝世于美因茨，是
[2]
第一位发明<
/p>
活字印刷术
的欧洲人
，
< br>他的发明引发了一次媒介革命，并被广泛认为是
现代史
[
3]
上的最重要的事件之一。
其印刷术在
欧洲
迅速传播，
并被视为在随后兴起的欧洲
< br>文艺复兴
、
宗教改革
、
启蒙时代
和
科学革命
等
运动中都扮演了重要角色，
为现代的
知识经济
< br>和
知识传播
[4]
给大众
（
英语
：
Democ
ratization
of
knowledge
）
奠定了物质基础。
他的主要成就——
《
谷
登堡圣经
》，享有极
高的美学及技术价值之美名。
除了其在欧洲发明的
活字印刷术
对
印刷术
的发
展有着巨大贡献之外，
他还合成了一种十分实
用的含
锌
、
铅
和
锑
的
合金
和一种含油
墨水
。
85. What is the main idea of the
passage?
A. Technology pushes the way
forward for reading and writing.
B.
Interconnectivity is a feature of new reading
experience.
C. Technology is an
opportunity and a challenge for traditional
reading.
D. Technology offers a greater
variety of reading practice.
TEXT B
1 I know when the
snow melts and the first robins
(
知更鸟
) come to call, when the
laughter
of children returns to the
parks and playgrounds, something wonderful is
about to happen.
2 Spring cleaning.
3 I
?
ll admit
spring cleaning is a difficult notion
for modern families to grasp
.
Today
?
s busy
families hardly have time to
load the dishwasher
, much less clean
the doormat.
86-87
Asking
the
family to spend the
weekend
collecting winter dog
piles
from the melting snow in the
backyard is
like announcing there will
be no more Wi-Fi. It interrupts the natural order.
abbr.
无线保真技术（
wireless
fidelity
）；无线上网技术
86. According to the passage,
“
…
spring cleaning
is difficult notion for modern families to
grasp
”
means that
spring cleaning
A. is no longer an easy
practice to understand.
B.
is no longer part of modern family life.
C. requires more family members to be
involved.
D.
calls for more complicated skills and knowledge.
87. Which of the following
is LEAST likely to be included in family spring
cleaning?
A. Beating the rugs.
B. Cleaning the window.
C. Restoring
Wi-Fi services.
D. Cleaning
the backyard.
4
“
Honey, what say we spend
the weekend beating the rugs, sorting through the
boxes in the
?
?
basement and
painting our bedroom a nice lemony
yellow?
”
I say.
5
“
Can we at least wait until
the NBA matches are over?
”
my husband answers.
6
But
I
tell
my
family,
spring
cleaning
can
’
t
wait
.
88
The
temperature
has
risen
just
enough
to melt snow but not enough for Little
League
（美）少年棒球联合会
practice to start.
Some
flowers are
peeking out of the thawing
ground
, but there is no lawn to seed,
nor garden to
tend.
Newly
wakened
from
our
winter
?
s
hibernation
(
冬眠
),
yet
still
needing
extra
blankets
at
night, we open our windows to the first
fresh air floating on the breeze and all of the
natural world
demanding
“
Awake and be
clean!
”
?
sun
peeking
from behind a
building
vi.
过冬；（动物）冬眠；（人等）避寒
?
hibernate
vi.
过冬；（动物）冬眠；（人等）避寒
88. Why does the author say
“
spring cleaning
can
’
t
wait
”
?
A. Because
there will be more activities when it gets warmer.
B. Because the air is fresher and the
breeze is lighter.
C. Because the whole
family is full of energy at spring time.
D. Because the snow is melting and the
ground is thawing.
7
Biologists offer a theory about this primal
impulse to
clean out
every
drawer and closet in
the house at
spring
?
s first light, which
has to do with
melatonin,
the sleepytime hormone (
激素
)
our bodies produce when
it
?
s dark.
89
When
spring
?
s light comes, the
melatonin diminishes, and
suddenly
we
are
awakened
to
the
dusty,
virus-filled
house
we
?
ve
been
hibernating
in
for
four
months.
89.
Which
of
the
following
interpretations
of
the
biologists
?
theory
about
melatonin
is
INCORRECT?
A. The production
of melatonin in our bodies varies at different
times.
B. Melatonin is more likely to
cause sleepiness in our bodies.
C. The
reduction of melatonin will cause wakefulness in
our bodies.
D. The amount of melatonin
remains constant in our bodies.
8 I tell my family about the science
and psychology of a good healthy cleaning at
spring
?
s
arrival.
I speak to them about life
?
s
greatest rewards waiting in the removal of
soap scum
皂垢
from the bathtub, which
hasn
?
t been properly cleaned
since the first snowfall.
Mix it with
salt as a great
soap scum
cleaner.
和盐混合可以制成很好的泡沫清洁剂。
9
“
I
?
ll
do it,
”
says the eldest
child, a 21-year-old college student who lives at
home.
10
“
You
will? Wow!
”
I exclaim.
11 Maybe after all these years,
he
?
s finally grasped the
concept. Maybe he
?
s
expressing his
rightful position as
eldest child and
role
model
榜样
. Or maybe
he
?
s going to Florida for a
break
in a couple of weeks and
he
?
s being nice to me who is
the
financial-aid officer
.
财务援助总监
12 No
matter. Seeing my adult son willingly cleaning
that dirty bathtub
90 gives me
hope
for
the future of his
12-year-old brother who, instead of working, is
found to be sleeping in the seat of
the
window he is supposed to be cleaning.
13
“
Awake and be
clean!
”
I say.