1、3. 考试结束后,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。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)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。A Mid-February of 2018 brings us two key events: Valentines Day and the start of the Year of the Dog. Happiness and romance are in the air. Both at home and abroad various celebrations are held for the
2、two western and Chinese festivals. Here are some activities recommended to you, which few people will miss the chance to participate in them.Dog themed exhibition held in Beijing to greet the Spring FestivalThe Chinese Lunar New Year will start on Feb 16, making start of the Year of the Dog. To cele
3、brate it, an exhibition entitled “Best Wishes from the Auspicious Dog” will be opened.The place: At the Capital Museum in Beijing.The exhibition time: From Feb 14, 2018 till March 18 9:00 am 6:00 pm per day.The main theme: The relationship between dogs and humans, the exhibition has collected cultur
4、al relics, pictures, historical facts to show that dogs have accompanied us throughout history.Admission: 80 yuan for per adult, children under 15 free.Favorable items: Anyone with their sweetheart will enjoy free admission.A large celebration held by Boston Chinese community to celebrate the Year o
5、f the DogDate: From February 14 to February 16, 2018. 9:30 am5 pm.Place: In Copley Square Hotel, Boston.Programs: Dragon dance, lion dance, magic show, Beijing opera and ballet.Food: Many traditional Chinese foods such as hotpots, dumplings, rice cakes.Fare: Sponsored by a large Chinese Cooperation,
6、 all the fees are free.Highlights: Anyone whose birthday is in the Year of the dog will receive a mascot of the dog.Attention: Participants need to register in advance by visiting the website: .The 2018 Dingsheng Royal Lantern Fair to welcome the coming Chinese lunar new year.With the theme of embra
7、cing the Year of the Dog, the 2018 Dingsheng Royal Lantern Fair kicks off in Chengde city, North Chinas Hebei province. More than 50 groups of Lanterns in various shapes and sizes are illuminated during the festival to promote Chinese Spring Festival culture. In addition to the carved ice exhibition
8、, visitors can also watch folk performances.Opening time: From February 14, Valentines Day till March 2. An dating area will be set aside for the singles to find the other half of theirs. 1. 100 yuan for each adult, children under 15 free.2. Anyone who married in the year of the dog will enjoy the h
9、alf price.1Which celebration will last longest according to the text?AThe dog themed exhibition in Beijing.BThe large celebration in Boston.CDingsheng Royal Lantern Fair in Chengde.DThe celebration in Copley Square Hotel.2In Boston celebration, a mascot of the dog will be received by anyone born in
10、_.A2004 B1996C2012 D19943How much will a couple married in the year of dog pay for Dingsheng Lantern Fair admission?A60 yuan. B100 yuan.C200 yuan. D150 yuan.Doctors in hospital emergency rooms often see accidental poisonings. A frightened parent arrives with a child who swallowed a cleaning liquid.
11、Or perhaps the harmful substance is a medicine. Or it might be a product meant to kill insects. These are common causes of accidental poisonings.In cases like this, seek medical help as soon as possible. Save the container of whatever caused the poisoning. And look for information about anything tha
12、t stops the effects of the poison in the container. Save anything expelled from the mouth of the victim. That way, doctors can examine it.Millions of people know how to give abdominal thrusts (腹部按压) to save a person choking on something trapped in the throat. The American Red Cross says a rescuer sh
13、ould first hit the person on the back five times between the shoulder bones. If the airway is still blocked, the Red Cross suggests pushing hard five times on the victims abdomen. You can do these abdominal thrusts by getting directly behind a sitting or standing person.The Mayo Clinics health cente
14、rs suggest several steps if bleeding is severe. First, if possible, remove dirt from the wound and press it with a clean cloth or piece of clothing. In the past, people were advised to stop severe bleeding with a tourniquet (止血带). But experts now say tourniquets are dangerous because they can crush
15、(压坏) blood passages and nerves. If a wound seems infected, let the victim rest. Physical activity can spread the Infection. Treat the wound with a mixture of salt and water until medical Help arrives.To learn more about first aid, ask a hospital or an organization like the Red Cross or Red Crescent
16、Society for information. Training may be offered in your area.If you know first aid methods, you can be calmer and more helpful in case of emergency.4Which of the following is NOT the cause of accidental poisonings according to the passage?AA harmful medicine. BAn insect-killing chemical.CA cleaning
17、 liquid. DPoisonous insects.5The underlined word “expelled” in Paragraph 2 can be replaced by “_”.Acoming out Btaking upCgoing away Dgetting down6From the passage, we can know _.Anow people still use a tourniquet to stop bleedingBthe container of poison is not helpful to doctorsCrest can do good to
18、an infected woundDabdominal thrusts are for the unconscious7Where can you learn more about first aid according to the passage?AA hospital or the Red Cross. BA hospital or a magazine.CThe Red Cross or a patient. DThe Red Crescent Society or a book.CSeveral Jobs That Will Be Automated By Artificial In
19、telligence(AI) And RobotsTranslatorImage recognition software and voice recognition software are bringing some major advances to language translationApplications like Googles Word Lens can translate words from signs and documents in real time and there are a lot of translation apps that allow you to
20、 type in a word or phrase and will translate it for youSome will even speak the phrase for you and raw word-to-word translation will be fully automated soonFast food workersAutomated ordering booths have already made their way into a few McDonalds restaurants around the world,and cooking positions c
21、ould be removed nextThe booths probably cant handle customer service problems well,so televideo systems could bring in an office employee to deal with complaintsField technicianNew advances in the Internet of Things could make this work obsolete.Low-cost sensors combined with high availability cellu
22、larsatellite communications and cloud technology are being started to automate and alarm these sites, and can be checked and maintained from a desktop or mobile device.Sales representativeBut, e-commerce is changing how we make purchasing decisions, especially those where there isnt much differentia
23、tion among the major competitors.If youre selling a high-differentiation product andor a high-price, low-volume product you have some job security, but if youre selling a high-volume, low-differentiation product, you better start polishing your resume, said Doug Camplejohn, CEO of Fliptop. “These ki
24、nd of product sales are all moving online.”8What can Googles Word Lens do?ATranslate by image and voice recognition software.BSpeak the phrase or word for you.CMake real-time translation.DAllow you to type in a word or phrase.9What can we infer from the second part?AAll the restaurants own automated
25、 ordering booths.BService problems cant be handled automatically.CCooks will not be automated by AI and robots.DCustomers will have no complaints because of AI10What does the underlined word“obsolete”mean in Part 3?AAbandoned. BWelcome.CForbidden. DEfficient.11What does the author mean by“you better
26、 start polishing your resume” in the last paragraph?AYou must value your present work.BYou have some job security.CYour resume needs correcting further.DYou should consider changing the job.D For art, the year 2115 will be one full of events. In May of that year in Berlin, the philosopher-artist Jon
27、athon Keats century cameras cameras with a 100-year-long exposure (曝光)time will be brought back from hiding places around the city to have their results developed and exhibited Six months after that, the Future Library in Oslo, Norway, will open its doors for the first time, presenting 100 books pri
28、nted on the wood of trees planted in the distant past of 2015.As Katie Paterson, the creator of the Future Library, puts it: *Future Library is an artwork for future generations/ These projects, more than a century in the making, are part of a new wave of slow art intended to push viewers and partic
29、ipants to think beyond their own lifetimes. They aim to challenge todays short-term thinking and the brief attention spans of modem consumers, forcing people into considering works more deliberately. In their way, too, they are fighting against modem culture not just regarding money, but also the wa
30、y in which artistic worth is measured by attention.In a similar fashion, every April on Slow Art Day, visitors are encouraged to stare at five works of art for 10 minutes at a time a tough task for the average museum visitor, who typically spends less than 30 seconds on each piece of art.Like the Fu
31、ture Library, the century cameras are very much a project for cities, since its in cities that time runs fastest and the pace of life is fastest. Since I started living in a city, Ive somehow been quite disconnected/ Anne Beate Hovind, the Future Library project manager, who described how working on the library drew her back to the pace of life she knew when she was growing up on a farm in her youth, told the Atlantic magazine.1
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