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第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节 （共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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Everyone at Pacsafe is always eager to get out in the world and enjoy new cultures, food, and experiences. With that in mind we asked a few of our top travel bugs（旅游达人） for their best travel destination recommendations for 2020. They also included their favorite Pacsafe bag to take on the trip. Enjoy and hopefully get some ideas for your own globe-trotting（环球游览） adventure. Sri Lanka---Alison Hanko, Global Marketing Director
I’m going to Sri Lanka this summer holiday and can’t wait. It’s close to Hong Kong where I live and I’ve always wanted to go. The food is supposed to be amazing. It seems really relaxing and I really want to do the Kandy to Badulla train ride, which looks just stunning. We’ve booked a good mix of beaches, some time in a safari tent to hopefully see elephants in the wild.
For my bag, I’ll most likely take the Quiksilver 40L Pack because it has the built-in wet pack for my bikinis（比基尼）. It’s also a great size for a week-long trip in a warm climate. Japan---Ben Barras, Creative Director
Japan is definitely my best travel destination recommendation. The culture, the streets, the architecture, the inspiration you get from all of that is amazing. The food is also fascinating. It’s where I’m most planning to go. Tokyo obviously, but also visiting the mountains. You can go snowboarding, which I haven’t done for years.
I have a Vibe 25L Backpack which you can pack a lot in. The thing I like most about it is that it’s compact, but still fits plenty in. I’ll pair that up with a larger travel bag for the rest of my things and use the backpack to get around day to day.
Berlin---Phil Hayes, Executive VP of Global Design
For me, it’s definitely Berlin. I’m particularly excited about the fashion, which I hear is pretty full on. Also the art galleries and history. Food, nightlife. Everything I’ve heard about Berlin is pretty cool, so I’m going to suck as much as I can out of it. World’s Global Style Network had the Berlin shopping list that came out recently, so I’m going to follow that through as well.
Bag wise, it will be the Quiksilver X Collab Bag. It’s the 25L Anti-theft Backpack. It’s normally my go-to bag for city trips because it’s super easy to lock on the plane and in bars, and it’s just the right amount of space. 1. Which of the Pacsafe bag is a good choice for beach travel?
A. The Quiksilver 40L Pack. B. The Vibe 25L Backpack. C. The Quiksilver X Collab Bag. D. 25L Anti-theft Backpack. 2. If you are interested in fashion, which destination should you choose? A. Sri Lanka. B. Japan. C. Hong Kong. D. Berlin. 3. What can you enjoy in all the three places mentioned?
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A. Beautiful beaches. B. Amazing food. C. Fascinating art. D. Cool snowboarding. 4. The main purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. share personal travelling experiences B. offer practical tips on taking adventure C. present cultures in different countries D. recommend favorable travel destinations
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On March 25, 2010, Kate and David heard the words every parent dreads: Their newborn wasn’t going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds each. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he’d stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live.
“I saw him gasp (喘息), but the doctor said it was no use,” Kate told the Daily Mail five years later. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn’t going to give up easily.”
Still, the couple knew this was likely a goodbye. In an effort to cherish her last minutes with the tiny boy, Kate asked to hold him.
“I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us,” Kate told Today. “We’d resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments.”
Kate unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and asked David to take his shirt off and join them in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would improve his condition. They also talked to him.
“We were trying to persuade him to stay,” Kate told the Daily Mail. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to have him.”
Then something miraculous happened. Jamie gasped again—and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father’s finger.
The couple’s lost boy had made it.
“We’re the luckiest people in the world,” David told Today.
Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The couple only recently told the kids the story of their birth. “Emily burst into tears,” Kate said. “She was really upset, and she kept hugging Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more.” 5. What can we learn about the newborn babies?
A. The boy’s heart had stopped beating. B. The boy was 2 minutes older than the girl. C. The twins were born 14 weeks before the due date. D. The twins were expected to live for only 20 minutes.
6. When the couple knew they would lose the boy, they ________.
A. begged the doctor to save him B. took his shirt off and then put him in bed C. wrapped him with his blanket to keep him warm
D. talked to him and made close physical contact with him 7. What’s the best title for the passage?
A. The Power of Hug. B. The Miracle of Love.
C. The Bond Between Twins. D. The Responsibility of Parents.
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.It’s common knowledge that the woman in Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting seems to look back at observers, following them with her eyes no matter where they stand in the room. But this common knowledge turns out wrong. A new study finds that the woman in the painting is actually looking out at an
angle that’s 15.4 degrees off to the observer’s right—well outside of the range that people normally believe when they think someone is looking right at them. In other words, said the study author, Horstmann, “She’s not looking at you.” This is somewhat ironic, because the entire phenomenon of a person’s gaze (凝视) in a photograph or painting seeming to follow the viewer is called the “Mona Lisa effect” . That effect is absolutely real, Horstmann said. If a person is illustrated or photographed looking straight ahead, even people viewing the portrait from an angle will feel they are being looked at. As long as the angle of the person’s gaze is no more than about 5 degrees off to either side, the Mona Lisa effect occurs.
This is important for human interaction with on-screen characters. If you want someone off to the right side of a room to feel that a person on-screen is looking at him or her, you don’t cast the gaze of the character to that side—surprisingly, doing so would make an observer feel like the character isn’t looking at anyone in the room at all. Instead, you keep the gaze straight ahead.
Horstmann and his co-author were studying this effect for its application in the creation of artificial-intelligence avatars(虚拟头像) when Horstmann took a long look at the “Mona Lisa” and realized she wasn’t looking at him.
To make sure it wasn’t just him, the researchers asked 24 people to view images of the “Mona Lisa” on a computer screen. They set a ruler between the viewer and the screen and asked the participants to note which number on the ruler intersected Mona Lisa’s gaze. To calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze as she looked at the viewer, they moved the ruler farther from or closer to the screen during the study. Consistently, the researchers found, participants judged that the woman in the “Mona Lisa” portrait was not looking straight at them, but slightly off to their right.
So why do people repeat the belief that her eyes seem to follow the viewer? Horstmann isn’t sure. It’s possible, he said, that people have the desire to be looked at, so they think the woman is looking straight at them. Or maybe the people who first coined the term “Mona Lisa effect” just thought it was a cool name. 8. It is generally believed that the woman in the painting “Mona Lisa”___________.
A. attracts the viewers to look back B. seems mysterious because of her eyes C. fixes her eyes on the back of the viewers D. looks at the viewers wherever they stand 9. What gaze range in a painting will cause the Mona Lisa effect?
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A B C D 10. The experiment involving 24 people was conducted to______.
A. confirm Horstmann’s belief B. create artificial-intelligence avatars
C. calculate the angle of Mona Lisa’s gaze D. explain how the Mona Lisa effect can be applied 11. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Horstmann thinks it’s cool to coin the term “Mona Lisa effect”. B. The Mona Lisa effect contributes to the creation of artificial intelligence. C. Feeling being gazed at by Mona Lisa may be caused by the desire for attention. D. The position of the ruler in the experiment will influence the viewers’ judgement.
D
For some time, psychologists have been studying how personality traits affect health and health-related choices. Not surprisingly, they have found that people blessed with innate（天生的） conscientiousness, meaning that they are organized and predictable, typically eat better and live longer than people who are disorderly. They also tend to have immaculate offices.
What has been less clear is whether neat environments can produce good habits even in those who aren’t necessarily innately conscientious. To find out, researchers at the University of Minnesota conducted a series of experiments. In the first experiment, they randomly assigned a group of college-age students to spend time in two office spaces, one of which was very neat, the other wildly cluttered (乱堆) with papers and other work-related stuff. The students spent their time filling out questionnaires unrelated to the study. After 10 minutes, they were told they could leave with an apple or a chocolate bar. Those students who sat in the orderly office were twice as likely to choose the apple as those who sat among the mess.
A second experiment, however, found that working in chaos has its advantages, too. In this one, college students were placed in a messy or a neat office and asked to dream up new uses for Ping-Pong balls. Those in messy spaces generated（产生） ideas that were significantly more creative, according to two independent judges, than those in offices where stacks of papers and other objects were neatly arranged.
The results were something of a surprise, says Dr. Vohs, the leader of the study. Few previous studies found much virtue in disorder. The broken window theory, proposed decades ago, holds that even slight disorder and neglect can encourage indifference and poor discipline.
But in the study by Dr. Vohs, disordered offices encouraged originality and a search for novelty. In the final
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portion of the study, adults were given the choice of adding a health “boost” to their lunchtime smoothie（新鲜的绿叶蔬菜） that was labeled either “new” or “classic.” The volunteers in the messy space were far more likely to choose the new one; those in the tidy office generally chose the classic version.
“Disorderly environments seem to inspire breaking free of tradition,” Dr. Vohs and her co-authors conclude in the study, “which can produce fresh insights.”
The implications of these findings are also practical. “My advice would be, if you need to think outside the box for a future project”, Dr. Vohs says, “then let the clutter rise and free your imagination. But if your primary them in data.
There is no doubt that analyzing the exact data is important to assessment of an actual event. But data should be dealt with wisely. We often get wrong data which mislead us. _____19______Remember, data have no feeling but we humans have. Data do not mean much to people if we do not have the abilities to analyze the data with the knowledge and confidence to judge whether they are true or false. ______20_____
Data are data after all. Life is much more colorful than the pale data. So give the cold data a warm heart and we’ 11 find that the world is far more wonderful than the pale data can describe. goal is to eat well or to go to the gym, pick up around your office first. By doing this, the naturally messy can acquire some of the discipline of the conscientious.”
12. The underlined word “immaculate” in paragraph 1 probably means ______. A. messy B. tidy
C. terrible D. comfortable
13. Which of the following can best explain the broken window theory?
A. Chaos begets chaos. B. Misfortune may be an actual blessing. C. Bad news has wings. D. When a door shuts, a window opens. 14. Which of the following will Dr. Vohs probably agree with?
A. More virtue exists in organized people. B. Creativity results from tidiness and discipline. C. Disorderly surroundings help to create new ideas. D. Workers’ good habits guarantee the success of a project. 15. What can we conclude from the study results? A. The naturally neat people tend to be very creative. B. A messy office will cause quite low working efficiency. C. Environments can affect people’s way of thinking and behavior. D. People’s personalities are determined by their working environments. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分, 共10分）
As is known to all, many things can be measured in terms of data. Sometimes data can indeed tell the truth. With the help of data we can easily know the price of a can of Coke in the supermarket or the result of a football match. _____16______What is more important, data seem to be fairer than words or statements. If the data are true, we don’ t have to worry about being cheated. Nowadays, as lies exist in the world, data are expected to tell the truth. Therefore, many of us would rather believe data.
On the other hand, if we judge things only by data from the so -called specific research, aren’t we a little too narrow-minded? Many people often treat the so -called specific data unwisely just to make sure that they are making the right decisions. _____17______For example,how can you tell that somebody isn’t a good student just because he or she doesn’t get high marks in the final examination?
_____18______For example,the degree of your feeling happy in your life,the depth of love between you and your friends, and the faith you have in your country. We can only feel them in our hearts but can never express
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A. We should try our best to be wise thinkers. B. Data can make our life easier and more comfortable. C. But sometimes we may find that data aren’t everything. D. Sometimes our hearts and mind are more sensitive than data. E. Now and then the so-called specific data puzzle us very much. F. The exact data should come from assessment of an actual event.
G. There are many things in our life which cannot be measured by data. 第二部分 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分, 满分30分）
I was studying chemistry at college because my family thought it was the key to success. One day, my professor took me aside and asked a very simple question, “Why are you in my class when it’s obvious that you have little or no 21 in chemistry?”
I came up with an explanation by 22 pressure from my dad, but he knew it was just a /an 23 excuse. He gave me the following advice.
“Success can only be measured by oneself, and each of us is 24 . Your success will not be the same as mine, as your neighbor’s or your parents’. There is no secret formula(公式), no examination you have to 25 , and no guarantee, but there is a secret ingredient— 26 . To be successful in life in the broadest sense, you must pursue your passion. 27 it is fixing cars or exploring the world, you must be passionate about your 28 and set a path to achieve it. Only then will you find true 29 .”
Since I was just nineteen years old, that was pretty profound advice to 30 , but I knew instinctively (本能地) that he was 31 . I made a conscious self-examination of my short life to 32 where my passion was hiding. It was so 33 that even my kid sister could have told me my true passion was music. It was in my genes. I could play the piano by ear, but had 34 considered music as a hobby.
Could I be a successful musician? Or a songwriter? Or a music critic? There was only one way to find out, so I took my professor’s 35 and switched to the university’s music school. I studied harmony and composition, learned how to play a clarinet(单簧管) and 36 the symphony orchestra. I felt as though I was on top of the world, and that 37 has never left me.
I’m now fifty-four years old, and a very happy and 38 man. As I look at the walls of my small office, I still get a thrill at seeing the records I 39 , the photos of the famous musicians I was lucky enough to play with, and the praises from many of the finest instrumentalists in the world who I am honored to call my friends.
Life was a long journey, and not a/an 40 one, but I followed my passion and succeeded.
21. A. achievement B. doubt C. interest D. belief 3
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22. A. blaming B. gathering C. overcoming D. reducing 23. A. accurate B. weak C. direct D. innocent 24. A. different B. perfect C. honest D. creative 25. A. design B. pass C. control D. stand 26. A. knowledge B. confidence C. passion D. effort 27. A. Unless B. Because C. While D. Whether 28. A. study B. need C. goal D. gift 29. A. fortune B. friendship C. character D. happiness 30 .A. confirm B. absorb C. remember D. seek 31. A. sensitive B. generous C. kind D. right 32.A. choose B. report C. discover D. follow 33.A. likely B. obvious C. popular D. practical 34. only B. even C. never D. seldom 35.A. message B. lecture C. advice D. view 36.A. helped B. started C. hosted D. joined
37.A. feeling B. experience C. expression D. appreciation 38.A. independent B. patient C. brave D. contented 39.A. bought B. made C. received D. copied 40.A. easy B. good C. ordinary D. safe
E (普通班选做)
Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these failures as a necessary part of the learning process. But all too often we convey to our children either by words or by actions that failure is something to be ashamed of, that nothing but top performance meets our approval(赞许).
Donnie was my youngest third-grader. His fear of failure kept him from classroom games that other children played excitedly. He seldom answered questions — he might be wrong. He seldom finished his work because he repeatedly checked with me to be sure he hadn’t made a mistake.
I tried my best to build his self-confidence. But nothing changed until midterm, when Mary Anne, a student teacher, was assigned to our classroom. She was young and pretty, and she loved children. My pupils, Donnie included respected her. But even enthusiastic, loving Mary was baffled by this little boy who feared he might make a mistake.
Then one morning we were working math problems. Donnie had copied the problems with painstaking neatness and filled in answers for the first row. Pleased with his progress, I left he children with Mary. But when I returned. Donnie was in tears. He’d missed the third problem.
Mary looked at me in despair. Suddenly her face brightened. From the desk we shared, she got a canister(小筒)filled with pencils.
“Look, Donnie,” she said. “I’ve got something to show you.” She removed the pencils and placed them on his desk. “See these pencils, Donnie?” she continued. “They belong to Mrs. Lindstrom and me. See how the erasers are worn? That’s because we make mistakes too. But we erase the mistakes and try again. That’s what you must learn to do, too.”
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She kissed him and continued: “I’ll leave one of these pencils on your desk so you’ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, even teachers.” Donnie looked up with love in his eyes and just a glimmer(少许)of a smile.
The Pencil became Donnie’s prized possession. That, together with Anne’s frequent encouragement and praise for even Donnie’s small successes gradually persuaded him that it’s all right to make mistakes — as long as you erase them and try again.
41.Why did Donnie rarely finish his work?
A.Because he seldom answered those difficult questions B.Because he spent too much time checking his answers C.Because he couldn’t work together with his classmates D.Because he never did his work until the very last minute
42.The word “baffled” in Paragraph 3 most probably means . A.encouraged
B.impressed
C.satisfied
D.confused
43.Which of the following words best describe Mary Anne as she is shown in the article? A.Patient and inspiring B.Creative and modest C.Determined and strict
D.Considerate and proud 44.The story was written mainly to . A.tell us who influenced Donnie greatly B.sing the praises of Mary Anne C.give a life lesson about failure
D.show us how to use erasers
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Nezha is the subject of the latest cartoon film, which _____1____ (official) opened in cinemas in China on July 26. Nezha has got wonderful reviews and is rated higher than Monkey King :Hero is Back. Since July 26, the film ____2_____ (earn) more than 140 million yuan at the box office, and the film has a score of 8. 8 ____3_____ (point) (out of 10) on China’s largest filming rating site, Douban.
Yang Yu, _____4____ is the director of it, made up his mind _____5____ (produce) a film on the theme of breaking old rules and changing fate. Yang chose Nezha as his character, the _____6____ (combine) of the rebellious (叛逆的) but straight youth. The film is loosely based on the Chinese novel The Investiture of the Gods. In the novel, Nezha is born during the Shang dynasty and is famous ____7_____ fighting against the Dragon King.
It took Yang Yu two years to polish the script, and the film was in production for three years. It is _____8____ most complex cartoon production ever ____9_____ (make) in China. It has more than 1,300 special effects shots, and it took over 20 Chinese special effects studios, ____10_____ (employ) more than 1,600 people, to realize the film's fairy tale setting, the mysterious Dragon King's palace. One spectacular scene alone 4
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2. 短文改错（每小题1分）
Good afternoon! It’s a great honor to share my ideas about honesty here with you on behalf of our school. Under no circumstances should we underestimate the important of honesty. As the saying goes that, people can’t stand out without honesty and a country was not able to be prosperous without sincerity. With this golden
rule, it’s impossible for a person to cheating in the exam or betray their friends. In other word, it can shape people’s lives, but even the destiny of a nation. For this reason, people，who is honest, trustworthy, compassionate and caring, can make difference in the development of society. However, by no means should we be dishonest.
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阅读：A篇：ADBD; B篇：CDB; C篇：DBAC; D篇：BACC; 七选五BCGDA： 完形：21-25 CABAB 26-30 CDCBD 31-35 DCBAC 36-40 DADBA 选做BDAC 语法填空:1. officially 2. has earned 3. points 4. who 5. to produce
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