福建省泉州市2014届高三质检英语试题(7)

B．the wide application of online education

C．the popularity of the course Artificial Intelligence

D．the opening of MOOCs on the edX platform in China

61．According to Lu Fang, MOOCs have become popular because___________．

A．high quality educational resources are in demand

B．students can attend courses in famous universities

C．college students have access to famous teachers

D．MOOCs have brought about revolution in education

62．What can we learn from the passage?

A．Most of the MOOCs focus on professional training for college graduates．

B．There are barriers for MOOCs to replace the present education system．

C．International companies prefer applicants who graduate from MOOCs．

D．More and more undergraduates have realized the limits of MOOCs．

63．The author’s attitude towards MOOCs is___________．

A．doubtful B．negative C．critical D．optimistic

C

Hong Kong plays host to exciting events ranging from colourful festivals to world class arts and

sports events. When planning your next visit，be sure to include these signature events in your

plans.

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64．Where can sport lovers order tickets for sports events?

A．At www．hkticketing．com． B．At www． hksevens．com．

C．At Hong Kong Stadium． D．At Auditorium，Kwai Tsing Theatre．

65．How much should you pay at least to attend both the jazz concert and Writer’s Block?

A．HK $260. B．HK $310. C．HK $440. D．HK $500.

66．In which event can audience see Woody Allen in person?

A．Affordable Art Fair. B．Jazz Concert— HKCO + Howard MeCrary.

C．Writer’s B10ck. D．Hong Kong Sevens 2014.

D

What’s the greenest place in America? If you answered something like the warm sunlight of

Santa Barbara, you’d be wrong. The greenest place in America has almost no sign of nature— the

buildings outnumber the trees— and the air isn’t all that great. What it has is density(密度)and

efficiency— the twin qualities that finally define green in the global warming time. Applying those

standards，the greenest place in America is New York City— particularly，the overcrowded，overpriced island of Manhattan, which produces 30％ less per-capita(人均)greenhouse gas than that of the nation．

It’s that density that makes Manhattan so green. Manhattan’s population density is 800 times

the national average. Density comes with negatives，certainly— small living spaces，air pollution

— but it also enables amazing efficiencies．Over 80％ of Manhattanites travel to work by public transport, by bike or on foot— compared to an average of about 8％ everywhere else in the country. Manhattan’s apartment buildings are far more energy-efficient than the houses in the suburbs.

What’s true of New York City is more or less true of other American urban areas, which explains why a

growing part of the environmental movement now focuses on greening cities, hoping to attract more Americans back downtown. There’s an effort to make cities more sustainable(可持续的)，by improving public transport，reducing air pollution and upgrading energy efficiency. But even more important, it is quite urgent to change decades of government policies that have been in favor of the suburbs，with disastrous consequences for energy，the environment and the climate.

That’s exactly the difficult point. For all the high efficiency and convenience and richness of

living in a city，there are disadvantages too．New York，for example，has some of the highest childhood asthma(哮喘)rates in the U.S.

So it’s welcome news that New York has continued to push its P1aNYC scheme, a long-term program to make the city greener and more sustainable over the next decades. Recently it announced an update to the plan ork City apartment buildings by 2030，to be replaced with cleaner natural gas.

67．Manhattan is considered as the greenest place in America because of its__________

A．buildings and trees B．density and efficiency

C．sunlight and nature D．transport and population

68．We can infer from the passage that___________.

A．New Yorkers have urged the city government to carry out green policies

B．the public transport and living space are quite satisfactory in New York

C．life in the countryside is more comfortable and energy efficient than that in cities

D．the significance of making cities greener is gained in promoting energy efficiency

69．The underlined word “it” in the last paragraph refers to___________.

A．New York city B．PlaNYC scheme

C．Manhattan D．Santa Barbara

70．The underlined part “phasing out” in the last paragraph probably means___________.

A．rapidly promoting dealing with

B．widely suggesting researching on

C．gradually stopping using

D．immediately forbidding producing

71．What would be the best title for the passage?

A．Manhattan the Greenest Place in America?

B．The Higher Density，the Greener City?

C．PlaNYC Scheme：New York City’s Future

D．Living in Cities Does Good to the Environment

E

For many centuries，countless scholars have asked the question：What is beauty? As designers

update the latest fashions and artists create their masterpieces, what is considered beautiful changes

at an alarming pace. Fifty years ago，the full-figured Marilyn Monroe was a symbol of the American aesthetic(美学的)value；today，many Hollywood actresses different in appearance from Marilyn’s have taken her place. However，aesthetic values not only differ from generation to generation，but do so along cultural lines as well. Often, what is considered disgusting to one civilization is just the

aesthetic appeal in another. Thus it is difficult to give an absolute definition(定义)of beauty.

As fundamental(基础的)physicists，my colleagues and I like to believe that we are involved in a search for a beauty that affects definition. The beauty that we search for is not what is set up

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