进才中学 2018高三周测试卷
齐大教务处-亚航行李规定
进才中学 2018-2019 学年高三第一学期周测
英语试卷
（考试时间 120 分钟；满分 140 分） 2018.9
第
I 卷
Ⅰ. Listening (略)
Ⅱ. Grammar and
Vocabulary
Section A (10%）
Directions:
After reading the passage below, fill in the
blanks to make the passage coherent and
grammatically correct. For the blanks with a
given word, fill in each blank with the proper II,
blank-
filling (10%) form of the given word;
for the other blanks, use one word that best fits
each blank.
Something You don’t Know about
Boss
Working is usually not a likable thing.
But if the salary is good, we
1 put up
with it.
However, if you unfortunately have a
very difficult boss, then it is 2
story.
Sometimes, you
do come across that kind of
boss who keeps giving verbal consent , but never
taking the commitment
seriously.
You may
have already met this kind of boss. At first they
agreed to let you push forward a new
project,
then somehow they changed their minds and acted
agreed to it. Or, your boss may never fulfill
what he
3 they had never
4
(promise) you and stop mentioning
it at all.
Such a boss can turn a good working
environment into
5 uncomfortable and
unhappy
workplace. But he is the boss. He has
the power to assign tasks and ultimately fire us.
This power
imbalance is why we should struggle
to figure out a way out.
Tip 1: Figure out
why.
Some bosses might be forgetful while
others might receive benefits to which they
6
7 (entitle) and see you a threat, in
which case you must know how to defend yourself.
(talk) to your boss the problems in a
humble, polite and professional manner can help
you solve the
problem.
Tip 2: Make full
preparations.
At each important point,
confirm with them the
8 (agree) things,
keep them updated
9_____ the progress, then
confirm the direction again, and wait for them to
give a new promise
1
before you continue.
Tip 3: Speak up
in the public.
It is best not to talk
with your boss in private, but let some other
colleagues participate in the
conversation.
For example, if you communicate in emails, you
may copy it to all the people involved. If it is a
verbal communication, then you may choose
somewhere someone else is present
___10_____(have) the conversation.
Section B (10%)
Directions: Fill in
each blanks with a proper word chosen from the
box. Each word can be used
only once. Note
that there is one word more than you need.
A. bows
G. marks
B. cracks
H. cheating
C.
basically D. officially
I. assumption
E.
conditioned F. confessed
J. proudest K.
imperfection
On an otherwise ordinary
afternoon in mid-December, the Hakata to Tokyo
express pulled into
Nagoya and a thousand
passengers were ordered off the train. The burning
smell and unusual sound
turned out to be_____
1
in the chassis(底盘).
It was the
first time that the Shinkansen(新干线), the country’s
symbol of industrial power and
“made in Japan”
engineering quality, had given way to a(n)
2 designated “serious
incident”. Once upon
a time, the cracks would have been unthinkable;
the nation---along with the
outside world---
has long been 3
4
to think of
different scandals, Japan’s problem is that
is
far less unthinkable than it used to be.
The
bullet train breakdown 5 the peak of months of
public admissions by some of
Japan’s greatest
names---including Nissan Motor, Subaru, Toray
Industries, Kobe Steel and
Mitsubishi
Materials---that they have either been
sell
products of a lower quality than stated.
6 on quality tests or faking documents to
Data have been made up on materials used in
everything from Boeing aircraft and nuclear plants
to space rockets and Uniqlo thermal underwear.
Factories have been deprived of their Japanese
Industrial Standards certifications and chief
executives have felt obliged to make deep 7 of
2
apology. For an
industrial economy that has built its global name
on its reputation for quality, these are
nerve-racking times.
No one thought that
Japanese companies were basically more honest than
their counterparts
around the world, says one
former Toshiba executive, but there was an
assumption both inside and
outside Japan that
everyone on the factory floor was devoted to the
perfection of monzoukuri, the
craftsmanship
that represents what is arguably the 8 of Japanese
corporate boasts. “That
9
is
what has taken the heaviest beating,” he said.
When Hiroya Kawasaki, the chief executive of
Kobe Steel, first 10 that the company
had
been taking part in data falsification that dated
back to the 1970s, his statement was almost
apocalyptic (灾难性的)：“Trust in our company has
fallen to Zero,”he said.
Ⅲ. Reading
comprehension.
Section A (15%)
Directions:
For each blank in the following passage there are
four words or phrases marked A, B, C,
D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase that best
fits the context.
A baby born in west
today will more likely than not live to be 105,
write Lynda Gratton and
Andrew Scott of London
Business School in their book, The 100-Year Life.
That may sound like
science fiction. 1 , it’s
only cautiously optimistic.
If turning 100
becomes normal, then the authors predict “a
fundamental redesign of life”. We
currently
live “the three-stage life”: education, career,
then retirement. The book 2 that
if today’s
children want to retire on livable pensions, they
will need to work until about age 80. That
would be a
work.
3 to the past:
in 1880, nearly half of 80-year-old Americans did
some kind of
But few people will be able to
bear the
4 and tedium of a 55-year
career in a single
sector. Anyway,
technological changes would make their education
obsolete long before they
reached 80. The new
life-path will
5 have more than three
stages.
Two new life-stages appeared in the
past century: teenagers and retirees. Now another
stage is
6
, say Gratton and Scott:
the years from 18 to 30, which people increasingly
spend 7
from education to full-time work. Of
course, many of today’s young have no choice: they
simply
cannot find good jobs. But the
18-to-30s have also been
3
8 to
understand the gift of extra
years, say the authors. Many young people are
now consciously searching and experimenting,
9
how they want to spend the next
seven or so decades.
The authors predict that
more will do two degrees: first a general
undergraduate course, which
teaches thinking
skills with lifelong value, and then a more 10
vocational degree that
teaches a specific
sector’s current needs. After studying, the young
will spend time travelling,
exploring
different sectors, and
11 a “posse”
of friends and acquaintances who can sustain them
at work and outside
for 70 years.
Future careers will contain many
transformations. People will have to make more
12 :
next year, should you work hard
in your job, return to education, or transition to
an entirely new
sector? There will be time to
achieve
be
13 in multiple domains.
No longer will women
14 careers because they
took five or 10 years out to raise kids. That will
still leave
them 50-plus working years.
And people will change their use of leisure.
When you could expect a 40-year career followed by
fat state or corporate pensions, you could
spend your free time chilling and buying stuff.
But the
100-year life
15 more
saving. You might also need to spend much of your
non-working time reskilling
or exercising to
maintain your body and brain for those extra
decades.
1. A. In particular
2. A.
evaluates
3. A. review
4. A. exhaustion
5. A. however
6. A. rising
7. A.
transitioning
8. A. the slowest
prepared
9. A. working out
10. A. general
11.
A. reuniting
B. In fact
B.
calculates
B. reward
B. interest
B.
conversely
B. shifting
B. ranging
B.
the quickest
C. At least
C. expects
C. return
C. mismatch
C. therefore
C. functioning
C. pursuing
C. the
more reluctant
D. First of all
D. insists
D. reverse
D. revolution
D. instead
D. emerging
D. revolutionizing
D. the
least
B. depending on
B. specific
B.
assembling
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C. consisting in
C.
definite
C. equipping
D. coming up
D.
peculiar
D. supporting
12. A. options
13. A. wisdom
14. A.
denied
15. A. equals
B.
obligations
B. efforts
B. dismissed
B.
requires
C. duties
C. mastery
C.
deprived
C. generates
D. benefits
D.
comments
D. withdrawn
D. spends
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
Young
people are losing faith in an elitist education
system. “If you don’t have the ability then
blame your parents,” wrote Jung Yoo-ra on
social media in 2014, after being accepted into a
famous
university. Her mother, it turns out,
had gone to great lengths to secure a spot for
her, persuading
Ehwa Women’s University to
alter its admissions policy in a manner tailor-
made for Ms. Jung.
Last month a court ruled
that the nine people involved in this deception
had fundamentally
shaken the “values of
fairness of our society”. Above all, the “feelings
of emptiness and betrayal
they caused in
hardworking students” could not be excused.
University was once seen as a source of social
mobility in South Korea. But so important is
the right degree to a student’s prospects in
life that rich families began spending heavily on
coaching to improve their children’s chances,
leaving poorer families behind.
By 2007
over three-quarters of students were receiving
some form of private tuition,
maximizing
the three necessities to win a place at a good
university: “father’s wealth, mother’s
information, child’s diligence”.
Many
South Koreans believe that the rich and
influential do not just spend more on
education, they also manipulate the system, as
Ms. Jung’s mother, a close friend of the previous
president, did so spectacularly.
According
to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, only a
fifth of those aged 18-33 believe
that working
hard brings success.
5
An ever-growing dictionary of slang proves the
perception: people speak of using “back”
(backing, or connections) to get jobs; when
Ms. Jung refused to return to South Korea to face
charges related to her university admission,
the local press described it as a “gold-spoon
escape”.
1. It can be inferred from
the article that Jung
A. was
admitted into the university without the slightest
effort.
B. believed children's prospect
was determined by their parents' capability.
C. was spared a legal punishment because of
her connection.
D. held a strong belief
in social mobility in Korea.
2. The
feeling of betrayal and emptiness comes from
A. Ms. Jung’s ignorance in the university
admission
B. their lack of resources to
support their children
C. the decline in
the elite education system
D. the loss of
education equality and social mobility opportunity
3. Why do only a few people stick to the
belief that success comes from hard work?
A. The purse of their parents is a determining
factor in success.
B. They feel inferior
to their rich peers.
C. Rich people take
great pains in the educating their children
D. The good-spoon escape has shaken their
value.
B
Sure, your family and
friends may think you've lost your marbles when
you announce plans for a
midlife career
change, but take heart. There are a number of
considerations that go into a successful
career change.
1. Making a rash decision
Before changing occupations, you should
do a deep dive to assess why you want to leave
your
current one. Ask yourself why you're
unhappy—and answer honestly. You may simply be
having a
bad week or a bad month—or you may
just hate your boss, not your industry.
phases
of unhappiness with our jobs,
2. Choosing
a new career based on salary
6
You obviously need to be
financially strategic when choosing your next
career, but don't base
your decision solely on
earning potential.
interests, values, or
strengths, you're not going to be happy,
the
novelty will likely wear off sooner than later.
3. Not researching the job market in your next
field
Not sure what field you want to go
into? Research industries and positions to find a
good match
for your skills and career goals,
Genser says. Otherwise, you're throwing darts in
the dark.
4. Quitting without having another
job lined up
Research shows it's easier
to get a job offer when you're still employed,
which makes sense
since gaps on a resume might
make a hiring manager think twice about calling
you in for an
interview. Consequently, it's in
your best interest to stay at your current job
until you have your next
one set up.
1.
Which of the following is correct
according to the passage?
A. If you can't
get along well with your boss, it's better to
change your job.
B. Show disregard to
salary when evaluating the job options
C.
You may stick to the current job until a new
opportunity shows up.
D -Going back to
the school may increase the job prospect.
2.
What does the underlined word “throw
darts in the dark” mean?(para 4 line 2)
A,
B. waste your skills and experience.
C. overshadow others in the competition.
D.-lose yourself in the interview
3.
Which of the following might be the guiding
principle of the writer in job-hopping?
A. Enjoy the pleasure of life here and now.
B. Success is favored by the people who
are fully prepared
C. Greed is the most
real poverty, satisfaction the most real wealth.
D. Nurture is above nature.
4.
Where does the passage probably come from?
A. Career Orientation Magazine
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B. Tourism Leaflet.
C.
Family Counselling Brochure
C
Google has
been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging
discrimination against conservative-
minded
white men, in a legal case that threatens a fresh
round of the culture wars that engulfed the
internet company last summer.
The suit has
been brought by James Dam ore, an engineer who was
sacked in August after his
questioning of
Google policies to increase the hiring of women
and minorities caused an outcry
inside the
company. It also names a second engineer, David
Demanding, who has also claimed
wrongful
termination after leaving the company in 2016. The
company did not immediately have a
response to
the suit.
Since leaving Google, Mr Dam ore has
spoken out widely against the company, attacking
it for
what he calls “group think” over gender
and other diversity issues. His case became a
rallying point
for conservatives last year at
a time when cultural battles stirred by President
Donald Trump were
intensifying nationally.
The class action lawsuit, filed in superior
court in California on Monday, was brought on
behalf
of all employees whom Google is alleged
to have discriminated against either because of
“their
perceived conservative political
views . . . their male gender . . . [or] their
Caucasian race”.
The lawsuit claims that there
is “open hostility for conservative thought” at
the company and
that people who diverge from
the mainstream are singled out for expressing
views on subjects such
as diversity hiring
policies, bias sensitivity and social justice.
Employees are “distracted, belittled and
punished for their heterodox political views, and
for
the added sin of their birth circumstances
of being Caucasians andor males”, the suit
alleges. It
accuses Google of being an
“ideological echo chamber” that is hostile to some
workers, and of
maintaining illegal hiring
quotas for women and minorities. The suit will
move forward only if a
judge certifies it as a
valid action on behalf of an entire class of
workers.
Mr Dam ore was dismissed by Sundae
Archaic, Google’s chief executive, after writing
an
internal memo questioning the company’s
diversity policies. His paper was widely
circulated and
aroused a backlash inside
Google. But his treatment brought an outcry from
conservatives who saw
Mr Pharisaic reaction as
an attack on open discussion of an important
social issue.
Among the allegations, the
lawsuit claims that “the presence of Caucasians
and males was
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D: Graduation
Advisory Lecture
mocked with
‘boos’ during company-wide weekly meetings” at
Google.
1. James Damore was fired by
Google on the grounds that
A. he
embraced the vision that women were underemployed
in Google
B. he found it hard to adapt
himself to the corporate culture of Google
C. Google is intolerable of different
viewpoints of employees on Sexpuff
D. he
expressed the sexist attitude towards women’s
professional fulfillment
2. Which of the
following CAN’T explain Google’s being adder fire
by James
Damore?
A. The code of conduct
and basic values of Google does harm to some
employees.
B. Google attached no
importance to female fulfillment.
C.
Google weeded out discrimination rather than take
a permissive approach.
D. white people
were underrated and blamed for their so-called
ethnic political
Opinions.
3. What does
the underlined phrase probably mean?
A.
resistance
B sympathy C.
affectation. D indifference
4. The passage is
chiefly concerned with
A. arguing
against a reversed discrimination from a dismissed
Google employee
B. warning the application of
Google value affecting the employees negatively
C. advocating the same treatment in
workplace
D. exploring the legal remedies
for inequality among workers
Section C
Directions: complete the following
passage by using the sentence given below. Each
sentence can be
used only once. Note that
there are two more sentences than you need.
A. Such flowery writing would deserve to be
pulled out by the roots.
B. They keep a
continuous check on advertising.
C. They
misrepresent the products they are advertising.
D. What does the ASA do to advertisers who
deceive the public?
E. What makes an
advertisement misleading?
F. For this to be
believable, the ASA has to be totally independent
of the business.
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The Advertising Standards Authority: An
Advertising Watchdog
Do adventurists
sometimes distort the truth? The short answer is
yes, some do. Nearly all of
them play fair
with the people they are addressed to. But
a handful do not.
1
The function of
the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA)is to make
sure these ads are found and
stopped. 2
If
a physical training course had turn a 45-kilogram
weakling into a strong man, the fact could
be
advertised because it can be proved. But a promise
to build ‘you’ into a 95-kilogram he-man
would
be misleading because the promise could not always
be kept.
‘Make you look younger’ might be a
reasonable claim for a cosmetic. But promising to
‘take
years off your life’ would be an
counterclaim similar to a promise of eternal
youth.
A garden center’s claim that its
seedlings would produce ‘a bright show of colour
in just a few
days’ might be quite contrary to
the reality.
3
Why it’s a
two-way process?
Because of the large
amount of advertisements, the ASA cannot watch
over every advertiser all
the time. So the
public is encouraged to help by reporting about
advertisements they ought not to
have
appeared. Last year 7500 people wrote to ASA.
Whose interests does the ASA really reflect?
The Advertising Standards Authority was
not created by law and was no legal powers, so not
unnaturally some people are skeptical about
its effectiveness. In fact the ASA was set up by
the
advertising business to make sure the
system of self-control worked in the public’s
interest.
4 Neither the chairman
nor the majority of the
ASA council members is
allowed to have anything to do with advertising.
Thought the ASA uses
influence over the ASA
decisions.
Ⅳ. Summary Writing (10%)
Directions: Read the following passage.
Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea
and
the main point(s) of the passage and how
it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as
possible.
What keeps us healthy and happy
as we go through life? If you were going to invest
now in your future
best self, where would you
put your time and your energy?The Harvard Study of
Adult Development
10
may
be the longest study of adult life that's ever
been done. After 75 years of study, we’ve learned
three big lessons about relationships.
The
first is that social connections are really good
for us, and that loneliness kills. It turns out
that people who are more socially connected to
family, to friends, to community, are happier,
they're
physically healthier, and they live
longer than people who are less well connected.
And the
experience of loneliness turns out to
be harmful. People who are more isolated than they
want to be
from others find that they are less
happy, their health declines earlier in midlife,
their brain
functioning declines sooner and
they live shorter lives than people who are not
lonely.
And we know that you can be lonely in
a crowd and you can be lonely in a marriage, so
the
second big lesson that we learned is that
it's not just the number of friends you have, and
it's not
whether or not you're in a committed
relationship, but it's the quality of your close
relationships that
matters. It turns out that
living in the midst of conflict is really bad for
our health. High-conflict
marriages, for
example, without much affection, turn out to be
very bad for our health, perhaps
worse than
getting divorced. And living in the midst of good,
warm relationships is protective.
And the
third big lesson that we learned about
relationships and our health is that good
relationships don't just protect our bodies,
they protect our brains. It turns out that being
in a securely
attached relationship to another
person in your 80s is protective, that the people
who are in
relationships where they really
feel they can count on the other person in times
of need, those
people's memories stay sharper
longer. And the people in relationships where they
feel they really
can't count on the other one,
those are the people who experience earlier memory
decline. And those
good relationships, they
don't have to be smooth all the time. Some of our
octogenarian couples
could bicker with each
other day in and day out, but as long as they felt
that they could really count
on the other when
the going got tough, those arguments didn't take a
toll on their memories.
So the clearest
message that we get from this 75-year study is
this: Good relationships keep us
happier and
healthier.
Ⅴ. Translation
Directions:
Translate the following sentences into English
using the words given in the brackets.
1.
为了增加可性度，Facebook 将优先考虑高质量的信息。（priority）
2.
游客越是依赖网评做决定，网络口碑越重要。（the more…the more）
3.
老
专家把大学生感到难以适应校园生活的这个现象归因于缺乏包容和相互理解。（owe）
人
很
好
奇
，
这
11
个
素
不
相
Ⅵ. Guided
writing (25%)
Directions: Write an English
composition in in 120-150 words according to the
instructions given
below.
近期，你就影响选择大学也的考虑因
素在高三学生中做了调研，结果如图所示，请结合图表信
息写一份调研报告，须包括以下内容：
1. 图表产生的背景和基本内容：
2.
就你个人而言，你会考虑哪些因素？请列出其中你认为相对重要的两项因素，并说明
理由。
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参考答案：
【语法】1. might
as well 2. another 3. as if 4. has promised
4. an 6. are entitled 7. Talking 8. agreed 9.
on 10. to have
【钓鱼】Keys: 1-5 B D E K G 6-10 H
A J I F
【完型】Keys: 1-5 B B C A C 6-10 D A
B A B 11-15 B A C A B
【阅读】BDA CABA DBAA
CDAF
【概括】Good relationships can make us
happier and healthier according to a study of
adult life. The
first lesson is that social
connections are good for us in the contrast of
harmful loneliness. The
second one is that the
quality of close relationships is really important
and protective. The last one is
that a
securely attached relationships protect our
brains.
【翻译】
1. To become more trust
worthy, Facebook will give the top priority to the
reliability of products.
2. The more dependent
visitors are to make decisions relying on the
online review, the more
important reputations
of the internet will be.
3. The old man was
curious about why the stranger had transferred
money to his account, only to
find that the
stranger was a liar.
4. The experts owed the
phenomenon that the freshman who was new here felt
it difficult to adapt
himself to the campus
life to the lack of tolerance and understanding.
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进才中学 2018-2019
学年高三第一学期周测
英语试卷
（考试时间 120 分钟；满分
140 分） 2018.9
第 I 卷
Ⅰ. Listening (略)
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
(10%）
Directions: After reading the passage
below, fill in the blanks to make the passage
coherent and
grammatically correct. For the
blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with
the proper II, blank-
filling (10%) form of
the given word; for the other blanks, use one word
that best fits each blank.
Something You don’t
Know about Boss
Working is usually not a
likable thing. But if the salary is good, we
1 put up with it.
However, if you
unfortunately have a very difficult boss, then it
is 2
story. Sometimes, you
do come
across that kind of boss who keeps giving verbal
consent , but never taking the commitment
seriously.
You may have already met this
kind of boss. At first they agreed to let you push
forward a new
project, then somehow they
changed their minds and acted
agreed to it.
Or, your boss may never fulfill what he
3 they had never
4 (promise) you and
stop mentioning
it at all.
Such a
boss can turn a good working environment into
5 uncomfortable and unhappy
workplace. But he is the boss. He has the
power to assign tasks and ultimately fire us. This
power
imbalance is why we should struggle to
figure out a way out.
Tip 1: Figure out why.
Some bosses might be forgetful while
others might receive benefits to which they
6
7 (entitle) and see you a threat, in
which case you must know how to defend yourself.
(talk) to your boss the problems in a
humble, polite and professional manner can help
you solve the
problem.
Tip 2: Make full
preparations.
At each important point,
confirm with them the
8 (agree) things,
keep them updated
9_____ the progress, then
confirm the direction again, and wait for them to
give a new promise
1
before you continue.
Tip 3: Speak up
in the public.
It is best not to talk
with your boss in private, but let some other
colleagues participate in the
conversation.
For example, if you communicate in emails, you
may copy it to all the people involved. If it is a
verbal communication, then you may choose
somewhere someone else is present
___10_____(have) the conversation.
Section B (10%)
Directions: Fill in
each blanks with a proper word chosen from the
box. Each word can be used
only once. Note
that there is one word more than you need.
A. bows
G. marks
B. cracks
H. cheating
C.
basically D. officially
I. assumption
E.
conditioned F. confessed
J. proudest K.
imperfection
On an otherwise ordinary
afternoon in mid-December, the Hakata to Tokyo
express pulled into
Nagoya and a thousand
passengers were ordered off the train. The burning
smell and unusual sound
turned out to be_____
1
in the chassis(底盘).
It was the
first time that the Shinkansen(新干线), the country’s
symbol of industrial power and
“made in Japan”
engineering quality, had given way to a(n)
2 designated “serious
incident”. Once upon
a time, the cracks would have been unthinkable;
the nation---along with the
outside world---
has long been 3
4
to think of
different scandals, Japan’s problem is that
is
far less unthinkable than it used to be.
The
bullet train breakdown 5 the peak of months of
public admissions by some of
Japan’s greatest
names---including Nissan Motor, Subaru, Toray
Industries, Kobe Steel and
Mitsubishi
Materials---that they have either been
sell
products of a lower quality than stated.
6 on quality tests or faking documents to
Data have been made up on materials used in
everything from Boeing aircraft and nuclear plants
to space rockets and Uniqlo thermal underwear.
Factories have been deprived of their Japanese
Industrial Standards certifications and chief
executives have felt obliged to make deep 7 of
2
apology. For an
industrial economy that has built its global name
on its reputation for quality, these are
nerve-racking times.
No one thought that
Japanese companies were basically more honest than
their counterparts
around the world, says one
former Toshiba executive, but there was an
assumption both inside and
outside Japan that
everyone on the factory floor was devoted to the
perfection of monzoukuri, the
craftsmanship
that represents what is arguably the 8 of Japanese
corporate boasts. “That
9
is
what has taken the heaviest beating,” he said.
When Hiroya Kawasaki, the chief executive of
Kobe Steel, first 10 that the company
had
been taking part in data falsification that dated
back to the 1970s, his statement was almost
apocalyptic (灾难性的)：“Trust in our company has
fallen to Zero,”he said.
Ⅲ. Reading
comprehension.
Section A (15%)
Directions:
For each blank in the following passage there are
four words or phrases marked A, B, C,
D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase that best
fits the context.
A baby born in west
today will more likely than not live to be 105,
write Lynda Gratton and
Andrew Scott of London
Business School in their book, The 100-Year Life.
That may sound like
science fiction. 1 , it’s
only cautiously optimistic.
If turning 100
becomes normal, then the authors predict “a
fundamental redesign of life”. We
currently
live “the three-stage life”: education, career,
then retirement. The book 2 that
if today’s
children want to retire on livable pensions, they
will need to work until about age 80. That
would be a
work.
3 to the past:
in 1880, nearly half of 80-year-old Americans did
some kind of
But few people will be able to
bear the
4 and tedium of a 55-year
career in a single
sector. Anyway,
technological changes would make their education
obsolete long before they
reached 80. The new
life-path will
5 have more than three
stages.
Two new life-stages appeared in the
past century: teenagers and retirees. Now another
stage is
6
, say Gratton and Scott:
the years from 18 to 30, which people increasingly
spend 7
from education to full-time work. Of
course, many of today’s young have no choice: they
simply
cannot find good jobs. But the
18-to-30s have also been
3
8 to
understand the gift of extra
years, say the authors. Many young people are
now consciously searching and experimenting,
9
how they want to spend the next
seven or so decades.
The authors predict that
more will do two degrees: first a general
undergraduate course, which
teaches thinking
skills with lifelong value, and then a more 10
vocational degree that
teaches a specific
sector’s current needs. After studying, the young
will spend time travelling,
exploring
different sectors, and
11 a “posse”
of friends and acquaintances who can sustain them
at work and outside
for 70 years.
Future careers will contain many
transformations. People will have to make more
12 :
next year, should you work hard
in your job, return to education, or transition to
an entirely new
sector? There will be time to
achieve
be
13 in multiple domains.
No longer will women
14 careers because they
took five or 10 years out to raise kids. That will
still leave
them 50-plus working years.
And people will change their use of leisure.
When you could expect a 40-year career followed by
fat state or corporate pensions, you could
spend your free time chilling and buying stuff.
But the
100-year life
15 more
saving. You might also need to spend much of your
non-working time reskilling
or exercising to
maintain your body and brain for those extra
decades.
1. A. In particular
2. A.
evaluates
3. A. review
4. A. exhaustion
5. A. however
6. A. rising
7. A.
transitioning
8. A. the slowest
prepared
9. A. working out
10. A. general
11.
A. reuniting
B. In fact
B.
calculates
B. reward
B. interest
B.
conversely
B. shifting
B. ranging
B.
the quickest
C. At least
C. expects
C. return
C. mismatch
C. therefore
C. functioning
C. pursuing
C. the
more reluctant
D. First of all
D. insists
D. reverse
D. revolution
D. instead
D. emerging
D. revolutionizing
D. the
least
B. depending on
B. specific
B.
assembling
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C. consisting in
C.
definite
C. equipping
D. coming up
D.
peculiar
D. supporting
12. A. options
13. A. wisdom
14. A.
denied
15. A. equals
B.
obligations
B. efforts
B. dismissed
B.
requires
C. duties
C. mastery
C.
deprived
C. generates
D. benefits
D.
comments
D. withdrawn
D. spends
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
Young
people are losing faith in an elitist education
system. “If you don’t have the ability then
blame your parents,” wrote Jung Yoo-ra on
social media in 2014, after being accepted into a
famous
university. Her mother, it turns out,
had gone to great lengths to secure a spot for
her, persuading
Ehwa Women’s University to
alter its admissions policy in a manner tailor-
made for Ms. Jung.
Last month a court ruled
that the nine people involved in this deception
had fundamentally
shaken the “values of
fairness of our society”. Above all, the “feelings
of emptiness and betrayal
they caused in
hardworking students” could not be excused.
University was once seen as a source of social
mobility in South Korea. But so important is
the right degree to a student’s prospects in
life that rich families began spending heavily on
coaching to improve their children’s chances,
leaving poorer families behind.
By 2007
over three-quarters of students were receiving
some form of private tuition,
maximizing
the three necessities to win a place at a good
university: “father’s wealth, mother’s
information, child’s diligence”.
Many
South Koreans believe that the rich and
influential do not just spend more on
education, they also manipulate the system, as
Ms. Jung’s mother, a close friend of the previous
president, did so spectacularly.
According
to the Pew Research Centre, a think-tank, only a
fifth of those aged 18-33 believe
that working
hard brings success.
5
An ever-growing dictionary of slang proves the
perception: people speak of using “back”
(backing, or connections) to get jobs; when
Ms. Jung refused to return to South Korea to face
charges related to her university admission,
the local press described it as a “gold-spoon
escape”.
1. It can be inferred from
the article that Jung
A. was
admitted into the university without the slightest
effort.
B. believed children's prospect
was determined by their parents' capability.
C. was spared a legal punishment because of
her connection.
D. held a strong belief
in social mobility in Korea.
2. The
feeling of betrayal and emptiness comes from
A. Ms. Jung’s ignorance in the university
admission
B. their lack of resources to
support their children
C. the decline in
the elite education system
D. the loss of
education equality and social mobility opportunity
3. Why do only a few people stick to the
belief that success comes from hard work?
A. The purse of their parents is a determining
factor in success.
B. They feel inferior
to their rich peers.
C. Rich people take
great pains in the educating their children
D. The good-spoon escape has shaken their
value.
B
Sure, your family and
friends may think you've lost your marbles when
you announce plans for a
midlife career
change, but take heart. There are a number of
considerations that go into a successful
career change.
1. Making a rash decision
Before changing occupations, you should
do a deep dive to assess why you want to leave
your
current one. Ask yourself why you're
unhappy—and answer honestly. You may simply be
having a
bad week or a bad month—or you may
just hate your boss, not your industry.
phases
of unhappiness with our jobs,
2. Choosing
a new career based on salary
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You obviously need to be
financially strategic when choosing your next
career, but don't base
your decision solely on
earning potential.
interests, values, or
strengths, you're not going to be happy,
the
novelty will likely wear off sooner than later.
3. Not researching the job market in your next
field
Not sure what field you want to go
into? Research industries and positions to find a
good match
for your skills and career goals,
Genser says. Otherwise, you're throwing darts in
the dark.
4. Quitting without having another
job lined up
Research shows it's easier
to get a job offer when you're still employed,
which makes sense
since gaps on a resume might
make a hiring manager think twice about calling
you in for an
interview. Consequently, it's in
your best interest to stay at your current job
until you have your next
one set up.
1.
Which of the following is correct
according to the passage?
A. If you can't
get along well with your boss, it's better to
change your job.
B. Show disregard to
salary when evaluating the job options
C.
You may stick to the current job until a new
opportunity shows up.
D -Going back to
the school may increase the job prospect.
2.
What does the underlined word “throw
darts in the dark” mean?(para 4 line 2)
A,
B. waste your skills and experience.
C. overshadow others in the competition.
D.-lose yourself in the interview
3.
Which of the following might be the guiding
principle of the writer in job-hopping?
A. Enjoy the pleasure of life here and now.
B. Success is favored by the people who
are fully prepared
C. Greed is the most
real poverty, satisfaction the most real wealth.
D. Nurture is above nature.
4.
Where does the passage probably come from?
A. Career Orientation Magazine
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B. Tourism Leaflet.
C.
Family Counselling Brochure
C
Google has
been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging
discrimination against conservative-
minded
white men, in a legal case that threatens a fresh
round of the culture wars that engulfed the
internet company last summer.
The suit has
been brought by James Dam ore, an engineer who was
sacked in August after his
questioning of
Google policies to increase the hiring of women
and minorities caused an outcry
inside the
company. It also names a second engineer, David
Demanding, who has also claimed
wrongful
termination after leaving the company in 2016. The
company did not immediately have a
response to
the suit.
Since leaving Google, Mr Dam ore has
spoken out widely against the company, attacking
it for
what he calls “group think” over gender
and other diversity issues. His case became a
rallying point
for conservatives last year at
a time when cultural battles stirred by President
Donald Trump were
intensifying nationally.
The class action lawsuit, filed in superior
court in California on Monday, was brought on
behalf
of all employees whom Google is alleged
to have discriminated against either because of
“their
perceived conservative political
views . . . their male gender . . . [or] their
Caucasian race”.
The lawsuit claims that there
is “open hostility for conservative thought” at
the company and
that people who diverge from
the mainstream are singled out for expressing
views on subjects such
as diversity hiring
policies, bias sensitivity and social justice.
Employees are “distracted, belittled and
punished for their heterodox political views, and
for
the added sin of their birth circumstances
of being Caucasians andor males”, the suit
alleges. It
accuses Google of being an
“ideological echo chamber” that is hostile to some
workers, and of
maintaining illegal hiring
quotas for women and minorities. The suit will
move forward only if a
judge certifies it as a
valid action on behalf of an entire class of
workers.
Mr Dam ore was dismissed by Sundae
Archaic, Google’s chief executive, after writing
an
internal memo questioning the company’s
diversity policies. His paper was widely
circulated and
aroused a backlash inside
Google. But his treatment brought an outcry from
conservatives who saw
Mr Pharisaic reaction as
an attack on open discussion of an important
social issue.
Among the allegations, the
lawsuit claims that “the presence of Caucasians
and males was
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D: Graduation
Advisory Lecture
mocked with
‘boos’ during company-wide weekly meetings” at
Google.
1. James Damore was fired by
Google on the grounds that
A. he
embraced the vision that women were underemployed
in Google
B. he found it hard to adapt
himself to the corporate culture of Google
C. Google is intolerable of different
viewpoints of employees on Sexpuff
D. he
expressed the sexist attitude towards women’s
professional fulfillment
2. Which of the
following CAN’T explain Google’s being adder fire
by James
Damore?
A. The code of conduct
and basic values of Google does harm to some
employees.
B. Google attached no
importance to female fulfillment.
C.
Google weeded out discrimination rather than take
a permissive approach.
D. white people
were underrated and blamed for their so-called
ethnic political
Opinions.
3. What does
the underlined phrase probably mean?
A.
resistance
B sympathy C.
affectation. D indifference
4. The passage is
chiefly concerned with
A. arguing
against a reversed discrimination from a dismissed
Google employee
B. warning the application of
Google value affecting the employees negatively
C. advocating the same treatment in
workplace
D. exploring the legal remedies
for inequality among workers
Section C
Directions: complete the following
passage by using the sentence given below. Each
sentence can be
used only once. Note that
there are two more sentences than you need.
A. Such flowery writing would deserve to be
pulled out by the roots.
B. They keep a
continuous check on advertising.
C. They
misrepresent the products they are advertising.
D. What does the ASA do to advertisers who
deceive the public?
E. What makes an
advertisement misleading?
F. For this to be
believable, the ASA has to be totally independent
of the business.
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The Advertising Standards Authority: An
Advertising Watchdog
Do adventurists
sometimes distort the truth? The short answer is
yes, some do. Nearly all of
them play fair
with the people they are addressed to. But
a handful do not.
1
The function of
the Advertising Standard Authority (ASA)is to make
sure these ads are found and
stopped. 2
If
a physical training course had turn a 45-kilogram
weakling into a strong man, the fact could
be
advertised because it can be proved. But a promise
to build ‘you’ into a 95-kilogram he-man
would
be misleading because the promise could not always
be kept.
‘Make you look younger’ might be a
reasonable claim for a cosmetic. But promising to
‘take
years off your life’ would be an
counterclaim similar to a promise of eternal
youth.
A garden center’s claim that its
seedlings would produce ‘a bright show of colour
in just a few
days’ might be quite contrary to
the reality.
3
Why it’s a
two-way process?
Because of the large
amount of advertisements, the ASA cannot watch
over every advertiser all
the time. So the
public is encouraged to help by reporting about
advertisements they ought not to
have
appeared. Last year 7500 people wrote to ASA.
Whose interests does the ASA really reflect?
The Advertising Standards Authority was
not created by law and was no legal powers, so not
unnaturally some people are skeptical about
its effectiveness. In fact the ASA was set up by
the
advertising business to make sure the
system of self-control worked in the public’s
interest.
4 Neither the chairman
nor the majority of the
ASA council members is
allowed to have anything to do with advertising.
Thought the ASA uses
influence over the ASA
decisions.
Ⅳ. Summary Writing (10%)
Directions: Read the following passage.
Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea
and
the main point(s) of the passage and how
it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as
possible.
What keeps us healthy and happy
as we go through life? If you were going to invest
now in your future
best self, where would you
put your time and your energy?The Harvard Study of
Adult Development
10
may
be the longest study of adult life that's ever
been done. After 75 years of study, we’ve learned
three big lessons about relationships.
The
first is that social connections are really good
for us, and that loneliness kills. It turns out
that people who are more socially connected to
family, to friends, to community, are happier,
they're
physically healthier, and they live
longer than people who are less well connected.
And the
experience of loneliness turns out to
be harmful. People who are more isolated than they
want to be
from others find that they are less
happy, their health declines earlier in midlife,
their brain
functioning declines sooner and
they live shorter lives than people who are not
lonely.
And we know that you can be lonely in
a crowd and you can be lonely in a marriage, so
the
second big lesson that we learned is that
it's not just the number of friends you have, and
it's not
whether or not you're in a committed
relationship, but it's the quality of your close
relationships that
matters. It turns out that
living in the midst of conflict is really bad for
our health. High-conflict
marriages, for
example, without much affection, turn out to be
very bad for our health, perhaps
worse than
getting divorced. And living in the midst of good,
warm relationships is protective.
And the
third big lesson that we learned about
relationships and our health is that good
relationships don't just protect our bodies,
they protect our brains. It turns out that being
in a securely
attached relationship to another
person in your 80s is protective, that the people
who are in
relationships where they really
feel they can count on the other person in times
of need, those
people's memories stay sharper
longer. And the people in relationships where they
feel they really
can't count on the other one,
those are the people who experience earlier memory
decline. And those
good relationships, they
don't have to be smooth all the time. Some of our
octogenarian couples
could bicker with each
other day in and day out, but as long as they felt
that they could really count
on the other when
the going got tough, those arguments didn't take a
toll on their memories.
So the clearest
message that we get from this 75-year study is
this: Good relationships keep us
happier and
healthier.
Ⅴ. Translation
Directions:
Translate the following sentences into English
using the words given in the brackets.
1.
为了增加可性度，Facebook 将优先考虑高质量的信息。（priority）
2.
游客越是依赖网评做决定，网络口碑越重要。（the more…the more）
3.
老
专家把大学生感到难以适应校园生活的这个现象归因于缺乏包容和相互理解。（owe）
人
很
好
奇
，
这
11
个
素
不
相
Ⅵ. Guided
writing (25%)
Directions: Write an English
composition in in 120-150 words according to the
instructions given
below.
近期，你就影响选择大学也的考虑因
素在高三学生中做了调研，结果如图所示，请结合图表信
息写一份调研报告，须包括以下内容：
1. 图表产生的背景和基本内容：
2.
就你个人而言，你会考虑哪些因素？请列出其中你认为相对重要的两项因素，并说明
理由。
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参考答案：
【语法】1. might
as well 2. another 3. as if 4. has promised
4. an 6. are entitled 7. Talking 8. agreed 9.
on 10. to have
【钓鱼】Keys: 1-5 B D E K G 6-10 H
A J I F
【完型】Keys: 1-5 B B C A C 6-10 D A
B A B 11-15 B A C A B
【阅读】BDA CABA DBAA
CDAF
【概括】Good relationships can make us
happier and healthier according to a study of
adult life. The
first lesson is that social
connections are good for us in the contrast of
harmful loneliness. The
second one is that the
quality of close relationships is really important
and protective. The last one is
that a
securely attached relationships protect our
brains.
【翻译】
1. To become more trust
worthy, Facebook will give the top priority to the
reliability of products.
2. The more dependent
visitors are to make decisions relying on the
online review, the more
important reputations
of the internet will be.
3. The old man was
curious about why the stranger had transferred
money to his account, only to
find that the
stranger was a liar.
4. The experts owed the
phenomenon that the freshman who was new here felt
it difficult to adapt
himself to the campus
life to the lack of tolerance and understanding.
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