建平中学高三英语周二练习（11.21）
II. Grammar and Vocabulary（20%） SectionA（10%）
Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent
and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Kazuo Ishiguro, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar.u The 62-year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter, like last year’s winner, Bob Dylan.
His friend and former publisher Robert McCrum recalls the young Ishiguro 21) (turn) up at the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories in one hand and a guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories22) earned him the great honor he received two weeks ago
23) his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a British citizen who writes in English. He24) (educate) at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers.
Ishiguro’s writing is highly restrained. His characters are often reluctant to express25), except in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to 26) he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, which later became a successful film.
The central character of the book is a butler called Stevens. He is an extremely loyal servant to an English lord, and is a character who some might call repressed. He misses out on affection andlove27) he will not confess his feelings toanyone. The story is told by Stevens, and his style is as polite and unrevealing as his behavior. Of course,we28 read between the lines to uncover the ―real‖ story, which isn’t quite the one the butler is telling. Stevens finds it a challenge 29) (communicate), and communication is often a theme in Ishiguro’snovels.
In this author’s sense of the world, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate them. The Nobel Committee emphasized thistheme30) it talkedabout Ishiguro’s work. The writer has, the committee claimed, ―in novels of great emotional force ... uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world‖.
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Section B（10%）
Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words inthebox.
be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. dominate F. criticism K. dominant B.echoed G.vision C.appeal D.dedicated H.interpreter I.featured
Each word canonly
E. highlights J. transform There are few symbols of pure American culture more powerful than the Disney theme parks. TowalkdownMainStreets,U.S.A.,istowalkthroughaparticular31) ofAmerican’scollective memory. It’s small-town values.It’s optimism.It’s energy.It’s innovation .It’s a certain kind of innocence. It is by design,the story of the ―American Way‖ -and one that has played a(n) 32) role in shaping the collective memory of Americanhiatory
Though Disney Parks today are well-established cultural icons,the Walt Disney Company’s startasa(n)33 ofAmericanhistoryandidealsbeganlongbeforeitopenedthegatesof Disneyland. It is a sophisticated process. From its creation in 1923 as ―The Disney Brothers CartoonStudio,‖theDisneyoperationwasproducingfilmsthat34) Americans’ideal version ofthemselves.
Often set in a glorified 19th century rural American heartland,theseanimations35) a hero(usuallytheindomitable (不屈不挠的) MickeyMouse)whosestrongworkethicandbravery in thefaceofrisk always found the ―littleguy‖ and ―commonman‖triumphantover his foe(敌人).
Such optimistic sentiment heldgreat36) inthe country’s
Depressionyears,andmostcertainly led Mickey and company to become householdnames.
This narrative of upholding American values continued at the brand’s theme parks, where Walt Disney translated it into a physical experience using American folk history. ―Disneyland,‖he said at the park’sgrandopening,‖is37) to the ideals,the dreams,and the hard factsthathavecreatedAmerican.‖
Visitors are made to feel as if they are stepping into moments of history, ones chosen to fit a
tidy narrative that 38) the nation’s past and future commitment to lift, liberty, and the pursuit ofhappiness.
To be sure, Disney’s unique abilityto39) American history in its own nostalgia-tinged (带有怀旧气息的)image---whathascometobecalled‖Disneyfiction‖--hasdrawnsignificant 40) .Butwhenitcomestocollectivememory,itmustbenotedthatthepartcanbe remembered one way and exist faithfully in another, and that many different versions can have their place in the American mind. Even as characters change and Tomorrowland becomes an artifact of yesterday,DisneylandcontinuestobeatouchstoneofAmericancollectivememory.
III. ReadingComprehension（45%）
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Section A（15%）
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,
B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Whether it's from an awful breakup or a painful life event, some memories can haunt us for our entire lives. But, what if science 41) your bad memories so that you can start all over again? As is known ta all, memory is an incredibly complex 42) . While scientists used to believe it was like a filing cabinet and particular memories were stored in different sections of the brain, we now know thisis43) .
In fact, each memory is a brain wide process. If you end up remembering something, it’s becausethecellsinyourbrainarebeingfired44) new connections and linksandliterally rewiring the circuitry of your mind. And this change is partially 45) by proteins in the brain. So what if the proteins aren’tavailable?
Simply put, memories can’t be made. Seriously, scientists have tested this by giving animals drugs that prevent these proteins from forming.46), the animals have no recollection of the things that took place shortly after the drug was taken. From this research, scientists actually found a way to target long term memories for 47) . You see, every singletime you remember a memory,your brain is once again firing andrewiring.
In fact, each time you reflect on a memory, you are physically changing that memory in your mind. A nd each time that memory is altered a little, reflecting your 48)thoughts. Remembering is an act of 49) and imagining,meaning the more you reflect on old memories, the less accurate they become. And scientists have actually quantified this change.
After 9/11, hundreds od people were asked about their memories of the dreadful day. A year later, 37％of the details had changed. By 2004, nearly 50% of the details had changed or gone50) .Andbecausememoriesareformedandrebuilteverytime,ifyouadminister(服药)theprotein-preventingdrugwhilerecallingamemorycanbe51) removed. To test this, scientists took lab rats and played a sound for them, shortly followed by an electric shock. After doing this multiple times, the rats quickly learned that if they heard the sound, a shock wan soon to follow. 52), they would stress up and freeze every time they heard it. Months later, these rats wouldstill53) the noise; however, if they administeredthedrug first, the rats would lose the memory of the sound, and simply continue on. They had lost their memory of that specificnoise.
To be sure the drug wasn’t just causing large-scale brain damage, scientists repeated these experimentswithmultipletonesthistime.Bothsoundswouldwarnforashock,and54) the mice would fear both. But if they administered the drug and played only one of the sounds,the micewouldonlyforgetthatonetone,whilestillremaining55) of the other.Overtimescientists have discovered specific drugs to target particular proteins across different parts of the brain.
41 . A. refresh 42 . A. range 43 . A. incorrect 44 . A. eliminating 45 . A. identified 46 . A. By contrast 47 . A. evaluation
B. forget B. process B. evident B. decreasing B. stopped
B. On the contrary B. estimation
C. control C. idea C. partial C. bringing C. facilitated C. As a result C. deletion
D. erase D. structure D. complex D. building D. perfected D. For example
D. production
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48 . A. current 49 . A. reception 50 . A. uncontrolled 51 . A. repeatedly 52 . A. Therefore 53 . A. turn to
54 . A. surprisingly 55 . A. suspicious
B.precious B. creation B. complicated B. effectively B. However B. respond to B. especially B. careful
C. terrified C. repetition C. valuable C. hardly C. Besides C. watch out C. eventually C. painful
D. previous D. reproduction D. missing D. consistently D. Instead D. turn down D. similarly D. fearful
Section B（22%）
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
（A）
As a person who writers about food and drink for a living, I couldn’t tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great. But I can tell you that I like this guy. That’s because he plans to ban tipping in favor of paying his servers an actual living wage.
I hate tipping.
I hate it because it’s an obligation disguised as an option. I hate it for the post-dinner math it requires of me. But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every otherindustry.
Most of you probably think that you hate tipping, too. Research suggest otherwise. You actually love tipping! You like to feel that you have a voice in how much money you server makes.
No matter how the math works out, you persistently view restaurants with voluntary tipping systems as being a letter value, which makes it extremely difficult for restaurants and bars to do away with the tipping system.
One argument that you tend to hear a lot from the pro-tipping crowd seems logical enough: the service is better when waiters depend on tips, presumably because they see a benefit to successfully veiling their contempt for you .Well , if this were true we would all be slipping a few 100 dollar bills to our doctors on the way out their doors, too. But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one. Waiters, keen
observers of humanity that they are , are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn’t believe the job they did any impact on the tips theyreceived.
So come on, folks: get on board with ditching the outdated tip system. Pay a little more up – front for your beer or burger. Support Bill Perry’s pub, and any other bar or restaurant that doesn’t ask you to do drunken math.
56. What can we learn about Bill Perry from thepassage? A) He runs a pub that serves excellentbeer. B) He intends to get rid of the tippingpractice.
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