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一、阅读理解（本大题共
11
小题，共<
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22.0
分）
A
Called
，
Raymond Loewy
must be one of the most influential designers of
all time
．
He
revolutionized
the
industry
，
working
as a consultant for more than 200 companies and
creating designs for
everything from
packaging to refrigerators
，
from cars to the interiors of
spacecraft
．
Loewy's design all had one thing in
common
．
They were
shaped by the MAYA principle -
Most
Advanced Yet Acceptable
．
His idea was that people will not
accept solutions to design
problems if
the solutions are too different from current
designs
．
After a short period as a fashion
illustrator
，
Loewy started his career in industrial
design in
1929 by re-designing a
copying machine for the British
manufacturer
，
Sigmund
Gestetner
．
The 28-year-old designer completed the
task in three days and the design of the
machine lasted for the next 40
years
．
The Gestetner copying machine was the
beginning of many designs which used streamlining
He described this as
．
He spent the
（流线型）
．
next 50
years streamlining everything from postage stamps
and company logos to the interiors
of
stores
．
The
famous Greyhound bus and Studebaker car show his
use of streamlining in
action
．
He is perhaps most famous
for his re-design of the Lucky Strike
packaging
．
In
1940
，
the
President of the Lucky Strike
Manufacturing Company
，
George Washington
Hill
，
bet Loewy <
/p>
美元
50
，
00
0 that he could not improve the appearance of the
green and red Lucky
Strike
．
Loewy accepted the
challenge
．
He
changed the background of the packet from green
to white
．
Then he put the red lucky strike target
on both sides of the packet
．
This made it
more eye-
catching and greatly increased
sales
．
It is now
recognized as a design
classic
．
Loewy's logo design aimed at
．
He wanted to
make sure that anyone who
saw the
logo
，
even for a
short while
，
would never forget
it
．
He designed
many highly visible
logos for famous
companies such as Shell Oil
，
Exxon
，
Greyhound and
Nabisco
．
By the mid-20th
century
，
his
industrial design firm was so famous that he could
say
average
person
，
leading a
normal life
…
is bound to be
in daily contact with some of the
things
，
service
or structure
．
1.
Loewy's
biggest influence was in ______
．
A.
completely changing the design industry
B.
successfully shaping
Americans' taste
C.
changing
people's idea about design
D.
building a professional design team
2.
Loewy's
designs were based on the idea of ______
．
A.
providing most immediately recognizable
designs
B.
providing
completely different designs
C.
speeding up the design process
D.
offering original but not
revolutionary answers to problems
3.
Loewy's logo
designs aimed at ______
．
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页
A.
making the companies well known
B.
bringing freshness for a
short while
C.
attracting
people to the companies' history
D.
making company symbols very memorable
4.
What can we
infer from the last
paragraph
？
______
A.
Loewy
provided service to ordinary
people
．
B.
Loewy's designs were famous and
influential
．
C.
Loewy's design firms existed all over
the world
．
D.
Loewy was welcomed and respected by the
public
．
B
A familiar voice is just few digits
away from you
．
Whether you prefer high-tech options or
more traditional
landlines
，
there
are affordable way to call home when you travel
abroad
，
even if
you don't carry an internationally-capable
cellphone
．
Repaid Calling Cards
Repaid
calling cards provide the ultimate in
flexibility
：
they
can be used from most
locations
，
including pay
phones
，
cell
phones and landlines
．
But not all calling cards are
equal
，
especially
overseas
．
Compare
the rate options associated with different
cards
，
whether
you
buy them before you travel or on
the road
．
Some
charge a pre-connection fee as well as a per
minute fee
，
for example
．
Callback Service
As the name
suggests
，
these
services call you and then place your call at
cheaper rates
．
You
initiate the call by
dialing a
computers
．
Let the call ring once and then hang
up
．
The computer
calls you back from the
United States
using lower international rates and makes the
connection after verifying your
account
number
．
Often
cheaper than direct-dial
calls
，
but the
services may not work at
hotels
，
where staff may not accept the return
calls
．
The
service is welcome to those who make
lots of international
calls
．
Voice Over Internet Protocol
（
VoIP
）
VoIP works by digitalizing your voice
and sending it via the Internet to the person
you're
calling
，
who hears it on his PC
speakers
，
or by
routing it through regular telephone lines to
anyone's standard phone
line
．
VoIP
services generally work best with a broadband or
wireless
Internet connection and can be
used from hotel rooms
，
Internet cafes or wireless hot spots if
you have a notebook
computer
．
Since
most calls use the Internet
，
and connections into and
out
of the Internet are typically local
calls
，
the rates
are astonishing low
．
5.
According to
the passage
，
if computer
technology is not
available
，
travelers are
advised
to call by ______
．
A.
landline
B.
repaid calling card
C.
callback service
D.
pay phone
6.
What is focused on in the callback
service
？
______
A.
Making a
phone call as brief as
possible
．
B.
Taking advantage of the hotel phone
call service
．
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C.
Saving on
calls by calling from home
．
D.
Using the bank account
for call pay in any country
．
7.
The passage is
mainly intended to ______
．
A.
offer tips to travelers
on how to call home for less
B.
help travelers find the easiest way to
call back home
C.
introduce
the optional approaches to family connection
D.
advise travelers to call
home through broadband or wireless Internet
C
Tourism is a leisure
activity
，
whose
prework means just the
opposite
．
Acting
as a tourist is
one of the clear
characteristics of being
，
it is organized within particular place
and occurs for a period of
time
，
which is
arranged
beforehand
．
Tourist relationships arise from a
movement of people to
，
and their stay
in
，
various
destinations
．
This necessarily involves some
movement
，
that is
the journey
，
and
a period of stay in a new place or
places
．
The
journey and the stay are by definition outside the
normal places
，
of residence and
work
，
and are of
a short-term and temporary
nature
，
and
there is a clear intention to return
home within a relatively short period of
time
．
Modern societies engage in such tourist
practices
．
New
socialized forms of transportation and
hotel facilities have developed in
order to cope with the mass character of the gazes
of tourists
，
as
opposed to the individual character of
travel
．
Places
are chosen to be visited and be gazed
upon because there is an anticipation
（期望）
especially
through daydreaming and fantasy of
intense
pleasures
，
either
on a different scale or involving different senses
from those who have
been
there
．
Such
anticipation is also constructed and stays through
a variety of non-tourist
practices
，
such as films
，
TV
，
literature
，
magazines
，
records and videos which construct
and reinforce this
daydreaming
．
Tourists tend to visit features of
landscape and townscape which separate them off
from
everyday
experience
．
Such
aspects are viewed because they are thought to be
in some sense
out of the
ordinary
．
The
viewing of these tourist sights often involves
different forms of social
patterning
with a much greater sensitivity to visual elements
of landscape or townscape than is
normally found in everyday
life
．
People hang
around these sights in a way that they would not
normally do in their home environment
and the vision is objectified or captured through
photographs
，
postcards films and so on which enable
the memory to be endlessly reproduced
and recaptured
．
One of the earliest
research paper on the subject of tourism is
Boorstin's analysis of the
（
1964
）
where he
argues that contemporary Americans cannot
experience
．
Isolated from the host environment and
the local people
，
the mass tourist travels in guided
groups and finds pleasure in fake or
man-made
attractions
，
and
is cheated into enjoying the pseudo-events and
disregarding the
real world
outside
．
Over
time the images generated of different tourist
sights lead to a closed
self-
perpetuating
system of a false belief
that provides the tourist with the basis
（自我延续的）
for selecting or
deciding potential places to
visit
．
Such
visits are made
，
says Boorstin
，
within
the
the
strangeness of the host
environment
．
8.
In the
1
st
paragraph
，
the
author wants to say that before you travel to a
new place
______
．
A.
making a careful travel plan is
necessary
B.
planning travel
involves time and thought
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16
页
C.
getting travel tips from
your friends may save time
D.
choosing unusual tourist attractions
makes a trip memorable
9.
The sentence
patterning
rd
paragraph means ______
．
A.
traveling to an
unfamiliar place is a pleasant change from
everyday routine
B.
new
environmental scenes in a different place will
become more attractive
C.
tourists should find the native people
and share with them ideas and experience
D.
travelling is to see
landmarks and discover unknown ways of life and
values
10.
We can
infer from the last paragraph that ______
．
A.
when travelling
，
many tourists will miss their homes and
friends
B.
visiting popular
tourist attractions is only a waste of time
C.
the virtue of travel is
to interact with a culture different from your own
D.
American tourists like to
visit familiar places when they travel outside
11.
Which of the
following can serve as the best title of the
passage
？
______
A.
Tourism
，
an Outlook on Different Life
B.
Tourism
，
a Direct Hug of Nature
C.
Tourism
，
a New Relation to Familiar Sights
D.
Tourism
，
a False Belief about the World
< br>二、阅读七选五（本大题共
4
小题，共
< br>8.0
分）
A scheme
was first put forward recently by an expert that
certain criminals should be sent to
prison in their own
home
．
(1) One
very experienced social worker expressed his
serious
reservation about the scheme in
a television interview
．
When asked to explain
why
，
he
thought
for a moment and finally confessed
，
I guess because
it's new
．
That's
my only
reason
．
Advocates of the scheme
pointed out that courts frequently sentenced first
offenders to
community service of some
kind rather than send them to
prison
．
(2)
Nothing positive was
achieved by
sending some types of convicted people to
prison
．
(3)
，
what is to
prevent him from killing
somebody
else
？
murderers to
use the bracelet system
．
One criticism put forward was that an
offender could
take off his bracelet
and leave it at home or give it to a friend to
wear while he himself went off
to
commit another crime
．
The reply to this was that the bracelet
would be made so that the
computer
would immediately detect any attempts to take it
off or tamper with it
．
A more serious objection to
the scheme was that the harsh life of prison was
intended to be part
of the deterrent to
crime
．
A prisoner
who was allowed to live at home would suffer no
particular discomfort and thus not be
deterred from repeating his
crime
．
No
immediate action
was taken on the
proposal
．
It was
far too revolutionary and needed to be examined
very
carefully
．
(4) Several governments appointed
experts to investigate the scheme and make
recommendations for or against
it
．
A
．
The
idea
，
however
，
was not rejected
．
B
．
They should spend their lives in
prison
．
C
．
It
met with strong objections
．
D
．
Most of the criminal cases are unpredic
table
．
Directions
：
Read the following
passage
．
Summarize the main idea and the main po
int
（
s
）
of the passage in no more than 60
words
．
Use your own words as far as
possible
．
E
．
Some critics rushed to take extreme
cases
．
F
．
The
shame of having a criminal record was adequate for
them
．
第
4
页，共
16
页
12.
A.
A
B.
B
C.
C
D.
D
E.
E
F.
F
13.
A.
A
B.
B
C.
C
D.
D
E.
E
F.
F
14.
A.
A
B.
B
C.
C
D.
D
E.
E
F.
F
15.
A.
A
B.
B
C.
C
D.
D
E.
E
F.
F
三、完形填空（本大题共<
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15
小题，共
15.0
< br>分）
The novelist's medium
is the written word
．
One might almost say
the(16)world
．
Typically
the novel is
consumed by a silent
，
individual
reader
，
who may
be anywhere at the time
．
The
paperback novel is still
the cheapest
，
most portable and adaptable form of
(17)
entertainment
．
It is limited to a single channel of
information-(18)
．
The narrative can
go
，
effortlessly
，
anywhere
，
into space
，
people's head
，
palaces
，
prisons and pyramids without
any consideration of cost or practical
possibility
．
In
determining the shape and content of his
narrative
，
the writer is restricted by nothing
except purely artistic criteria
（标准）．
The
novelist
keeps absolute control over his text until it is
published and received by the
audience
．
He may be advised by his editor to
revise his (19)
，
but if the writer refused to meet
this condition
，
no one would be
surprised
．
It is
not unknown for a well-established novelist
to deliver his or her manuscript and
expect the publisher to print it(20)as
written
．
However
，
not even the most well-established
playwright or screenplay writer would submit
（提交）
a script and
expect it to be(21) without any
rewriting
．
This
is because plays and
motion pictures
are cooperative forms of
narrative
，
using
more than one channel of
(22)
．
The production of a stage play
involves
，
as well
as the(23)of the author
，
the physical presence
of the
actors
，
their
voices and gestures
，
the
．
Although the script
play is
the essential part of both play and
film
，
it is a(24)
for subsequent revision negotiated
between the writer and other creative
people involved
．
They're given
of a director
and actors and have the right to
attend(25)
，
during which period they may
undertake more(26)
work
．
In the case
of screenplay
，
the writer may have little or no
control
over the final form of his
work
．
Contracts
for the production of plays protect the rights
of(27)
in this
respect
．
In film or television
work
，
on the
other hand
，
the
screenplay has no(28) rights to this degree
of consultation
．
While the script is going through its
various(29)
，
the
writer is in the driver's
seat
，
although sometimes receiving criticism
from the producer and the
director
．
But
once
the production is under
way
，
artistic
control over the project tends to pass to the
director
．
This
is a fact overlooked by most
journalistic critics of television
drama
，
who tend
to give all the(30)
or blame for
success or failure of a production to the writer
and actors
，
ignoring the
contribution
，
for good and ill of the
director
．
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
A.
old-fashioned
A.
social
A.
sourcing
A.
text
A.
simply
A.
performed
A.
information
A.
fame
A.
basis
A.
assemblies
B.
fixed
B.
narrative
B.
surfing
B.
publication
B.
eventually
B.
approved
B.
approach
B.
words
B.
reference
B.
performances
C.
presented
C.
favorite
C.
writing
C.
ambition
C.
freely
C.
covered
C.
setting
C.
presence
C.
plan
C.
rehearsals
D.
printed
D.
easy
D.
receiving
D.
attitude
D.
exactly
D.
continued
D.
communication
D.
rights
D.
rule
D.
negotiations
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5
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16
页
26.
A.
recording
B.
evolving
C.
bargaining
D.
training
27.
A.
actors
B.
directors
C.
audiences
D.
authors
28.
A.
procedural
B.
personal
C.
contractual
D.
equal
29.
A.
drafts
B.
arrangements
C.
additions
D.
definitions
30.
A.
hope
B.
work
C.
credit
D.
profit
四、语法填空（
本大题共
1
小题，共
10.0
分）
31.
A Venturing Pilot
Charles
Lindberg born in December Michigan was raised on a
farm in Minnesota
，
where
his father
（
1
）
______
（
elect
）
to the
U
．
S
．
Congress in 1907
．
From then on
，
he
spent his boyhood
alternatively in Washington
D
．
C
．
and Little Falls
，
Minnesota
．
，
（
2
）
______
Lindbergh exhibited exceptional mechanical
talent
，
in
1921
，
he was
admitted
to the University of Wisconsin
to study engineering
．
______<
/p>
more
challenges
，
（
3
）
（
seek
）
he left university before
graduation and became a
pilot
，
who
performed exciting flight
show at
country fairs and public
assemblies
．
This
unusual and dangerous undertaking
paid
off so greatly in the sense that it allowed him to
gain all-round experience in
flying
．
He was particularly delighted in
（
4
）
______ he
called
parachute
jumping
．
（
5
）
______
（
train
）
in air service for a
year
，
Lindberg
completed his program at the
Brooks and
Kelly airfields at the top of his
class
．
He was
offered a job in Robertson
Aircraft
Corporation of St
．
Louis in Missouri where he retained his
job
（
6
）
______
1927
，
running the routes between
St
．
Louis and
Chicago
．
During
this period
，
he
set
out to win the Raymond
B
，
Orteig prize
of $$25
，
000 to be awarded to
the first pilot
（
7
）
______
（
fly
）
nonstop from New
York to Paris
．
He
knew this ambitious flight
（
8
）
______
（
change
）
his life
．
On board the greatest adventure of his
time
，
Lindberg
left Roosevelt Airport at
5
：
52
a
．
m
．
on
May 20
，
1927 and
landed at Le Bourget Field at
5
：
24
p
．
m
．
the next
day
．
Fearing that he would be unknown when
he arrived
，
Lindberg carried letters of
introduction to the officials in
Paris
，
but when
his plane came to a stop
，
he found himself
（
9
）
______
（
crowd
）
with
welcoming people
．
He was decorated in
France
，
Great
Britain
，
and Belgium
．
President Coolidge sent a specially
designated cruiser
，
the
Memphis to bring him
back
．
His
accomplishments in flying brought
（
10
）
______ more
medals and awards that had ever been
received than any other person in private
life
．
五、选词填空
-
句子（本大题共
5
小题
，共
25.0
分）
A
．
inhabitants B
．
captured C
．
minimum D
．
innovation E
．
network
F
．
apparently G
．
highlighted H
．
equally I
．
humble J
．
expansion
K
．
displays
Is Boasting Good or
Bad Business
？
Sweden is one of the most creative
countries in the world
，
yet has a culture that warns
against boasting about its success in
public
．
And is
this (1) manner a help or an obstacle
when it comes to start-
up
？
From household names such as Spotify
and Skype
，
to
gaming leaders King and
Mojang
，
Sweden is
a land of (2) for industrial changes and new
products
．
Despite
just 10 million
(3) occupying a land
mass largely defined by forest
wildness
，
the
nation has in recent
years created
billion-dollar companies per head than everywhere
else outside Silicon
Valley
．
The more familiar narrative
for Sweden's start-up success story typically
includes the
following
factors
．
It has
strong digital facilities
，
a highly
educated
，
tech-
experienced
workforce
，
and an ideal population size for
testing innovations
．
And for those whose
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6
页，共
16
页
ideas are not in
line
，
there is a
strong social welfare (4) to set them back on
their feet
．
While Ingvar
Kamprad
，
founder
of Ikea
，
has
emphasized his being modest and
economical in his
attitude
，
research is always at the heart of
Ikea's (5)
．
These firm-held
cultural
features have (6) the attention
worldwide
．
Local
and global observers are
admiring their
constant role in promoting Sweden's lively
economy
．
same
page
，
says Lola
Akinmade Akerstrom
，
a cultural
commentator
，
who
(8) this in her recent book
Lagorm
：
The Swedish Secret of Living
Well
．
Rather than focus on a rock star's or a
CEO's
，
in
Swedish business
：
about everybody getting
together
，
making
sure their voices are heard (9)
，
so that they
can all reach a most desirable solution
together
，
．
This culture has its
roots in what Swedes call
，
which describes a century-old
tradition that discourages unnecessary
(10) of wealth or success
．
In other words
，
nobody
should consider
themselves better than anyone
else
．
32.
技术员给他推荐的这款新软件
应能帮助他快速适应新的书写方式．（
adapt
）
______
33.
虽然她有一份收入不错的工作，但是因为她不善管钱而经常入不敷出．（
lack
）
______
34.
你电脑用得越熟练，你找到秘书工作的可能性就越大．（
the
more
…．
the
more
）
______
35.
早餐要营养丰富，易于消化，
使人有饱腹感，这样才能让人们工作时间更长而不感
觉疲惫．（
need
）
______
六、书面表达（本大题共
2
小题，共
35.0
分）
36.
Directions
：
Read
the following passage
．
Summarize in no more than 60 words the
main
idea of the passage and how it is
illustrated
．
Use
your won words as far as
possible
．
Blowing
a Few Tops
Ever stopped to consider the
upside of volcanic
eruptions
？
It's
not all death
，
destruction
and hot liquid
rock-scientists have a plan to cool the planet by
simulating one such
eruption
．
Solar geoengineering involves
simulating a volcano by spraying
aerosols
（气溶胶）
into
the
atmosphere
．
When
they combine with oxygen
，
droplets of sulfuric acid
（硫酸）
form
．
These droplets reflect sunlight away
from Earth
，
cooling the
planet
．
All good
in theory
，
but the consequences are largely
unknown and a few could be
disastrous
．
In
a study recently published in Nature
Communications
，
researchers led by Anthony
Jones
，
a climate scientist from the University
of Exeter
，
found
that using this technology
in the
Northern Hemisphere could reduce the number of
tropical winds hitting the
U
．
S
．
and Caribbean
．
But there's an annoying
exchange
：
more
winds in the Southern
Hemisphere and a
drought across the Sahel region of
Africa
．
That's
because the entire
climate system is
linked-disrupting one region will invariably
affect another
．
How would
a nation react if
another was causing its weather to get much
worse
？
Would that
be an
act of war
？
There is
，
however
，
a case for using solar geoengineering
on a global scale
．
Jones says
it could be used
to
predicting
．
It could be used while the world
searches for more effective
strategies
．
The
study also highlights a far bigger problem with
solar geoengineering
：
its complete
lack of
regulation
．
，
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7
< br>页，共
16
页
says
．
．
It
would cost 1 billion
to 10 billion per
year
．
，
could have such a massive
influence on the climate
，
yet there's just no regulation to stop
countries or even organizations from
doing it
．
Jones
cautions that there is much about the climate
system we do not understand
，
as well
as far more work
that will need to be done before solar
geoengineering is considered
safe-or
too dangerous to even
discuss
．
37.
Directions
：
Write an English composition in 120-150
words according to the instructions
given below in
Chinese
．
校学生会开展了教科书再利用（
the recycling
of textbooks
）的活动，号召高三学生
把自己的教
科书留给新生使用．
你愿意参加这样的活动吗？假如你是李华，
请向学
生会发一份
email
进行回复
，表明你的态度，并说明你的理由．
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