2018苏州高三第一学期期末测试卷(即零模)英语试卷及答案

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Dear doctors,

As I begin to tell my friends and family about the seven days you treated my wife, Laura Levis,

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they

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me

at

about

the

15th

name

that

I

recall.

The

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includes

the

doctors,

nurses,

social workers, and even cleaning staff members who

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her.

“How do you

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any of their names?” they ask.

“How could I not?” I respond.

Every single one of you treated Laura with such professionalism and kindness as she lay

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. When she needed shots, you

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that it was going to hurt a little, whether or not she

could

hear.

You

spread

a

blanket

not

only

when

her

body

temperature

needed

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but

also

when the room was just a little cold and you thought she’d sleep more

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that way.

Then

there

was

how

you

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me.

How

would

I

have

found

the

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to

make

it

through that week without you?

How many times did you

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me to see whether I needed anything, or to see whether I

needed a better

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of a medical procedure or just someone to talk to? How many times did

you hug me and comfort me

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I fell to pieces? How many times did you deliver bad news

with comforting words and

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in your eyes?

On the final day, all I wanted was to be alone with her, so I asked the nurses if they could give

us

one

hour

without

a

single

50

,

and

they

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,

closing

the

curtains

and

the

doors

and

shutting off the lights.

I lay down softly beside her. She looked so beautiful, and I kissed her and laid my

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on

her chest, feeling it rise and fall with each

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, her heartbeat in my ear. It was our last

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moment

as

a

husband

and

a

wife,

and

it

was

more

natural

and

pure

and

comforting

than anything I’d ever felt.

I will remember that last hour together for the rest of my life. It was a

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beyond gifts.

Really, I have all of you to thank for it.

With my gratitude and love,

Peter DeMarco

36. A. help

B. stop

C. neglect

D. bother

37. A. answer

B. entry

C. item

D. list

38. A. worried about

B. checked up

C. cared for

D. came across

39. A. remember

B. identify

C. find

D. confirm

40. A. uncertain

B. unlucky

C. uncomfortable

D. unconscious

41. A. apologized

B. insisted

C. declared

D. displayed

42. A. decreasing

B. monitoring

C. regulating

D. observing

43. A. gently

B. freely

C. deeply

D. comfortably

44. A. treated

B. persuaded

C. showed

D. trusted

45. A. opportunity

B. strength

C. solution

D. motivation

46. A. check on

B. look after

C. count on

D. seek after

47. A. excuse

B. cause

C. explanation

D. instruction

48. A. where

B. though

C. until

D. when

49. A. hopelessness

B. sadness

C. calmness

D. nervousness

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50. A. recognition

B. interruption

C. restriction

D. description

51. A. smiled

B. wept

C. sighed

D. nodded

52. A. eyes

B. hand

C. head

D. body

53. A. choke

B. touch

C. breath

D. tremble

54. A. bitter

B. desperate

C. cheerful

D. sweet

55. A. life

B. gift

C. memory

D. fate

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The latest addition to the Gtech garden power tools range is a lightweight

yet

powerful

wireless

Leaf

Blower.

This

autumn

makes

short

work

of

clearing leaves and garden pieces.

High Performance

The

36V

Lithium-ion

Gtech

Leaf

Blower

has

the

ability

to

clear

pieces from your lawn, courtyard and driveway. Using a turbo fan design

that allows for a straight air passage from intake to outlet, offering maximum airflow and efficiency

that turns the fan at 11,500 times a minute.

Complete control

The Leaf Blower is lightweight, at just 4.3 kg. The product has been designed so that battery

and body weight are reasonably distributed. When in use, it will naturally point towards the ground

to direct airflow. So, you won’t have to worry about

injuring your wrists, even if you use it for the

entire 20-minute run-time on full power. The variable trigger allows for complete control, when you

squeeze or release the trigger you will feel the airflow change to suit your garden needs.

Easy to use

The Gtech Wireless Leaf Blower is easy to use. There is no need to pull wires or top up with

fuel, simply attach the battery and pull the trigger to start. The product’s wireless convenience means

there are no wires to trip you up or limit your access, and no petrol to store or pour

—

simply charge

and it

’

s ready to go. When you

’

re done, you can remove the detachable nozzle

（管嘴）

, so the Gtech

Leaf blower is compact enough to be stored in small places.

Don’t just take our word for it...

We really do care what you think. Go online to see the thousands of independent reviews our

customers have given us, and check out our product videos at .

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56. What should you pay attention to when using the Leaf Blower?

A. Filling it up with good petrol.

B. Taking care not to be tripped up.

C. Charging it when the battery is dying.

D. Wearing the wrist-band if you use it for long.

57. Which is not the advantage of the tool?

A. Truly portable.

B. Fast delivery.

D. Quite powerful.

B

In English the sky is blue, and the grass is green. But in Vietnamese there is just one color

category for both sky and grass:

xanh

. For decades cognitive

（认知）

scientists have pointed to such

examples as evidence that language largely determines how we see color. But new research with

four-to six- month-old babies indicates that long before we learn language, we see up to five basic

categories of color

—

a finding that suggests a stronger biological element to perceive

（感知）

color

than previously thought.

The study, published recently in the

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

,

tested

the

color-discrimination

abilities

of

more

than

170

British

babies.

Researchers

at

the

University

of

Sussex

in

England

measured

how

long

babies

spent

staring

at

color

swatches,

a

system known as looking time. First babies were showed one swatch repeatedly until their looking

time

decreased

—

a

sign

they

had

grown

bored

with

it.

Then

the

researchers

showed

them

a

different sample and noted their reaction. Longer looking times were explained to mean the babies

considered

the

second

sample

to

be

a

new

color.

Their

increasing

responses

showed

that

they

distinguished among five colors: red, green, blue, purple and yellow.

The finding “suggests you come by nature to make color distinctions, but given you

r culture

and language, certain dis

tinctions may or may not be used.” explains lead author Alice Skelton, a

doctoral student at Sussex.

The study systematically explored babies’ color per

ception, revealing how we perceive colors

before we have the words to describe them, says Angela M. Brown, an experimental psychologist at

the Ohio State University’s

Col

lege of Optometry,

who was not involved with the new research.

The

results

add

a

new

challenge

to

the

long

nature- versus-nurture

debate

and

the

so-called

SapirWhorf hypothesis

（假设）

—

the idea that the way we see the world is shaped by language.

In future work, Skelton and her colleagues are interested in testing babies from other cultures.

“The way language and culture interact is a really interesting question,” she says. “We don’t yet

know the exact systems, but we do know how we start off.”

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C. Environmentally friendly.

58. What’s the finding of the new research?

A. It clarifies what makes babies perceive colors.

B. It proves human color recognition is inborn.

C. It finds how many colors babies can perceive.

D. It shows the color culture is shaped by language.

59. According to the new research, we can learn that_________.

A. swatches affect babies in memory and attention

B. longer looking times are based on the psychology

C.

researchers determine babies’ color perception

D. babies can tell the differences of some colors

60. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?

A. Rainbow in the Baby’s World

B. A Journey to the World of Colors

C. A New Challenge: Language vs. Culture

D. Different Babies, Different Color Perception

C

Atticus was weak: he was nearly fifty. When Jem and I asked him why he was so old, he said

he got started late, which we felt reflected upon his abilities and manliness. He was much older than

the parents of our school contemporaries, and there was nothing Jem or I could say about him when

our classmates said, “My father—”

Jem was football crazy. Atticus was never too tired to play keep- away, but when Jem wanted

to tackle him, Atticus would

say, “I’m too old for that, son.”

Our father didn’t do anything. He worked in an office, not in a drugstore. Atticus did not drive

a dump-truck for the county, he was not the police officer, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do

anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.

Besides that, he wore glasses. He was nearly blind in his left eye, and said left eyes were the

tribal

（家族的）

curse of the Finches. Whenever he wanted to see something well, he turned his head

and looked from his right eye.

He did not do the things our schoolmates’ fathers did: he never went hunting; he did not play

poker or fish or drink or smoke. He sat in the living room and read.

With these characteristics, however, he would not remain as inconspicuous

（不显眼）

as we

wished

him

to:

that

year,

the

whole

school

talked

about

him

defending

Tom

Robinson,

none

of

which was complimentary. After my fight with Cecil Jacobs when I committed myself to a policy

of chicken, word got around that Scout Finch wouldn’t fight any more, her daddy wouldn’t let her.

This

was

not

entirely

correct:

I

wouldn’t

fight

publicly

for

Atticus,

but

the

family

was

private

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ground.

I

would

fight

anyone

from

a

third

cousin

upwards

tooth

and

nail.

Francis

Hancock,

for

example, knew that.

When

he gave

us

our

air-

guns

Atticus

wouldn’t

teach

us

to

shoot.

Uncle

Jack

instructed

us

therefore; he said Atticus wasn’t interested in guns. Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot

at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue

jays you want, if you

can hit them, but remember it’s a sin

（罪过）

to kill a mockingbird.”

That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss

Maudie about it.

“Your father’s right,” she said. “Mockingbirds don’t do on

e thing but make music for us to

enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one

thing but sing

their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

61. Who is telling the story?

A. Francis Hancock.

C. Scout Finch.

B. Tom Robinson.

D. Miss Maudie.

62. What did the children think of their father Atticus in the beginning?

A. He was not manly or skilled.

B. He was willing to fight for his family.

C. He was interested in nothing in his spare time.

D. He was still energetic though he was nearly 50.

63. What does the underlined word

“complimentary” in the 6

th

paragraph probably mean?

A. Reasonable argument.

B. Good remarks.

D. Strong criticism.

B. disabled but devoted

D. harmless and helpful

D

Computer security is a contradiction in terms. The arrival

of

the

“Internet

of

Things”

will

see

computers

baked

into

everything from road signs and MRI scanners to artificial body

parts and insulin

（胰岛素）

pumps. There is little evidence that

such

equipment

will

be

any

more

trustworthy

than

desktop

computers.

Hackers

have

already

proved

that

they

can

take

remote control of connected cars and pacemakers.

However,

it

is tempting

to

believe

that

the

security

problem

can

be

solved

with

yet

more

technical wizardry

（魔法）

and a call for further watchfulness. And it is certainly true that many

firms

still

fail

to

take

security

seriously

enough.

That

requires

a

kind

of lasting

insistence

which

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C. Wrong judgment.

A. able but modest

C. intelligent and entertaining

64. Mockingbirds can be compared to people who are _______.

does not come naturally to non-tech firms. Actually, there is no way to make computers completely

safe. Software is hugely complex. Across its products, Google must manage around 2 billion lines

of source code

—

errors are unavoidable. The average program has 14 separate bugs, each of them a

potential

point

of

illegal

entry.

Such

weaknesses

are worsened

by

the

history

of

the

internet,

in

which security was an afterthought.

This

is

not

necessarily

in

despair.

The

risk

from

cheats,

car

accidents

and

the

weather

can

never

be

avoided

completely

either.

But

societies

have

developed

ways

of

managing

such

risk

—

from government regulation to the use of legal liability

（责任）

and insurance to create more

safer behaviours.

Start with regulation. Governments’ first priority is to

control from making the situation worse.

Terrorist attacks often bring calls for codes to be weakened so that the security services can better

monitor what individuals are up to. But it is impossible to weaken codes for terrorists alone. The

same

protection

that

guards

messaging

programs

like

WhatsApp

also

guards

bank

business

and

online identities. Computer security is best served by encoding that is strong for everyone.

The next priority is setting

basic product regulations. A lack of professional knowledge will

always block the ability of computer users to protect themselves. So governments should promote

“public health” for computing. They co

uld insist that internet- connected contents be updated with

fixes

when

faults

are

found.

They

could

force

users

to

change

default

（默认）

usernames

and

passwords.

Reporting

laws,

already

in

force

in

some

American

states,

can

require

companies

to

report

when

they

or

their

products

are

hacked,

which

encourages

them

to

fix

a

problem

instead

of burying it.

Most important, the software industry has for decades disclaimed liability for the harm when

its

products

go

wrong.

Such

an

approach

has

its

benefits.

Silicon

Va

lley’s

fruitful

“go

fast

and

break things” style of innovation is possible only if firms relatively have freedom to put out new

products while they still need perfecting. But this point will soon be illegal. As computers spread to

products

covered

by

established

liability

arrangements,

such

as

cars

or

domestic

goods,

the

industry’s disclaimers will increasingly

be against existing laws.

Firms should recognize that, if the courts do not force the liability issue, public opinion will.

Fortunately,

the

small

but

growing

market

in

cyber- security

insurance

offers

a

way

to

protect

consumers while preserving the computing industry’s ability to innovate. A firm whose products do

not

work

properly,

or

are

repeatedly

hacked,

will

find

its insurance rising, urging it

to

solve

the

problem. A firm that takes reasonable steps to make things safe, but which is damaged nevertheless,

will ask for an insurance payout that will stop it from going bankrupt

（破产）

. It is here that some

problems

could

perhaps

be

negotiated.

Once

again,

there

are

examples:

when

countless

claims

against

American

light-aircraft

firms

threatened

to

bankrupt

the

industry

in

the

1980s,

the

government changed the law, limiting their liability for old products.

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