江苏省海门中学2015届高三英语同步练习 高三英语备课组 OPENING HOURS The exhibition is open late on Fridays until 20：30. ￡10, members free EXHIBITION AND EVENTS BOOKING www. britishmuseum.org 020 7323 8181 MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR VISIT *On weekdays, take advantage of a classic afternoon tea package in the Court Restaurant for just ￡26(including exhibition ticket). *The exhibition catalogue(￡25 paperback) and other related titles are available in the museum shops or online at www.britishmuseum.org/shop. *The exhibition Multimedia Guide(￡1) is available at the exhibition entrance. *If you are visiting with a group, ask for the group ticket price. Details on group lecture packages are available at www.britishmuseum.org/groupvisits. SPECLAL EVENTS *Nowruz Monday 18 March, 17：30. Nowruz, or New Year, is celebrated in many countries from Afghanistan and Iran to Uzbekistan. 17：30～18：00 Entrance to exhibition. 19：00 Talks and discussion on Nowruz. ￡ 15(including exhibition entry). *Performance: The art of the Afghan rubab. Tuesday 14 May, 16：30～17：30. Afghan rubab virtuoso Soudi Homayun Sakhi and tabla player Yusuf Mahmoud give a performance of a full raga and folk pieces. ￡5，members ￡3. *Easter holiday activities Thursday 18～Monday 22 April, 11：00～16：00. Explore the rich culture of Afghanistan. Listen to stories of Alexander the Great, try making a kite and be inspired by the treasures from the Hill of Gold. Suitable for all ages. Free, just drop in. 1. If you arrive at the museum on April 20th, what can you enjoy?
A. New Year celebration. B. Performance: The art of the Afghan rubab. C. Easter holiday activities. D. The exhibition without any special events.
2. When seeing ―The art of the Afgahan rubab‖， a tourist can pay less by ________． A. booking tickets online B. attending talks and discussion on Nowruz C. calling at 020 7323 8181 D. becoming a member of the British Museum 3. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Of all the special events Performance costs least.
B. Museum officials saved these objects from destruction.
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C. The Multimedia Guide is offered to visitors without any charge.
D. You can learn details about group visit either on website or by phone. 4. Where can you most probably find this passage?
A. In a high school text book. B. In a history magazine C. In a state－owned newspaper. D. In a traveler's booklet.
B
I began writing poems fifteen years ago while I was in college. One day I was in the library, working on a term paper, when I came across a book of contemporary poetry. I don't remember the title of the book or any of the titles of the poems except one：―Frankenstein's Daughter‖. The poem was wild, almost rude, and nothing like the rhyme－and－meter poetry I had read in high school. I had always thought that poetry was flowery writing about sunsets and walks on the beach, but that library book contained direct and sometimes shocking poetry about dogs, junked cars, rundown houses, and TVs. I checked the book out, curious to read more.
Soon afterward, I started filling a notebook with my own poems. At first I was scared, partly because my poetry teacher, to whom this book is written for, was a serious and strict man who could see the errors in my poems. Also, I realized the seriousness of my devotion. I gave up geography to study poetry, which a good many friends said offered no future. I ignored them because I liked working with words, using them to reconstruct the past, which has always been a source of poetry for me.
When I first studied poetry, I was single－minded. I woke to poetry and went to bed with poetry. I memorized poems, read English poets because I was told they would help shape my poems, and read classical Chinese poetry because I was told that it would add clarity to my work. But I was most taken by the Spanish and Latin American poets, particularly Pablo Neruda. My favorites of his were the odes—long, short－lined poems celebrating common things like tomatoes, socks and scissors. I felt joyful when I read these odes, and when I began to write my own poems, I tried to remain faithful to the common things of my childhood—dogs, alleys(小巷), my baseball mitt(手套) and the fruit of the valley, especially the orange. I wanted to give these things life, to write so well that my poems would express their beauty.
I also admired our own country's poetry. I saw that our poets often wrote about places where they grew up or places that impresses them deeply. James Wright wrote about Ohio and West Virginia, Philip Levine about Detroit, Gary Snyder about the Sierra Nevadas and about Japan, where for years he studied Zen Buddhism(禅宗佛教). I decided to write about the San Joaquin Valley, where my hometown, Fresno, is located. Some of my poems are absolute observations and images of nature—the orange yards, the Kings River, the Sequoias(红杉). I fell in love with the valley, both its ugliness and its beauty, and quietly wrote poems about it to share with others.
5. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. The author's experiences with poetry. B. The author's method of writing poetry. C. The author's appreciation of poetry. D. The author's interest in studying poetry. 6. From the first paragraph, we can learn that ________． A. “Frankenstein's Daughter” was a flowery poetry B. the author was able to memorize most poems he read
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C. the author began to get in contact with poetry of different styles D. the author was curious to read more of rhyme－and－meter poetry
7. Which of the following would the author most probably write about in his poem? A. Moving love stories in history. B. Observations of classical poems. C. True feelings of human friendship. D. Appreciation of wild valley flowers. 8. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. The author's friends all encouraged him to give up geography to poetry. B. The author became devoted to poetry because of his teacher's strictness. C. The author loved to find sources of poetry from nature and from the past.
D. Spanish and Latin American poems influenced the author as much as Chinese ones.
C
Global Positioning Systems are now a part of everyday driving in many countries. These satellite－based systems provide turn－by－turn directions to help people get to where they want to go. But they can also cause a lot of problems, sending you to the wrong place or leave you completely lost. Many times, the driver is to blame. Sometimes a GPS error is responsible. Most often, says Barry Brown, it is a combination of the two.
Barry Brown is with the Mobile Life Centre in Stockholm, Sweden. The center studies human－computer interaction, or HCI, especially communications involving wireless devices. We spoke to Mr Brown by Skype. He told us about an incident involving a friend who had flown to an airport in the eastern United States. There he borrowed a GPS－equipped car to use during his stay.
Barry Brown：―And they just plugged in an address and then set off to their destination. And, then it wasn't until they were driving for thirty minutes that they realized they had put in a destination back on the West Coast where they lived. They actually put their home address in. So again, the_GPS_is_kind_of_“garbage_in_garbage_out”．
Mr Brown says this is a common human error. But, he says, what makes the problem worse has to do with some of the shortcomings, or failures, of GPS equipment.
Barry Brown：―One problem with many GPS units is they have a very small screen and they just tell you the next turn. Because they just give you the next turn, sometimes that means that it is not really giving you the overview that you would need to know that it's going to the wrong place.‖
Barry Brown formearly served as a professor with the University of California, San Diego. While there, he worked on a project with Eric Laurier from the University of Edinburgh. The two men studided the effects of GPS devices on driving by placing cameras in people's cars. They wrote a paper based on their research. It is called ―The Normal, Natural Troubles of Driving with GPS”．
Barry Brown：―One of the things that struck us, perhaps the most important thing was that you have to know what you're doing when you use a GPS. There are these new skills that people have developed. There are these new competencies that you need to have to be able to use a GPS because they sometimes go wrong.‖
Barry Brown says this goes against a common belief that GPS systems are for passive drivers
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who lack navigational(导航) skills.
“The Normal, Natural Troubles of Driving with GPS” lists several areas where GPS systems can cause confusion for drivers. These include maps that are outdated, incorrect or difficult to understand. They also include timing issues related to when GPS commands are given.
Barry Brown says to make GPS systems better we need a better understanding of how drivers, passengers and GPS systems work together.
9. What is the best title for this pasage?
A. Is GPS system reliable to use? B. What is the use of GPS? C. How to make the most of GPS? D. Blame! GPS or Passengers? 10. What is the implication of the underlined part?
A. GPS is just a garbage device. B. GPS will not correct human errors. C. GPS adjusts your wrong destination. D. GPS is just as smart as human beings. 11. Which is NOT mentioned as a GPS shortcoming in the passage?
A. Small screen. B. Timing of commands. C. Outdated maps. D. Dear cameras GPS uses.
12. According to the passage, people commonly believe that ________． A. you have to know where to go when using GPS
B. you need to have new competencies to use GPS well C. GPS is proper for drivers with little sense of direction D. GPS is fit for people having good understanding of maps
D
Facebook—A Social Network Website
Most young people know that Facebook is a free access to Internet social networking websites popular among teenagers and adults, too. It was founded by a Harvard University student named Mark Zuckerberg and launched on Feb 4，2004. Initially, it was intended only as a networking site for Harvard's campus community, providing a handy tool to help everyone on campus—students, faculty, and other staff—get to know each other. Almost immediately, it expanded to include Stanford, Columbia, and Yale Universities, and then several more Ivy League Schools (常青藤学校). Now, Facebook has developed into a vast social network for anyone over the age of 13, with more than 65 million active users.
As the name suggests, faces are an integral (必需的) part of the website, and of social networking, too, one could say. Facebook.com is the top Internet site for uploading photos, with 14 million photos uploaded every day! People continue to expand their personal profiles with photos, though a feature that allows blogging was soon added to the site. Some of the other features now include a Marketplace site, allowing users to post free classified ads. Similarly, under other network headings, people can let others know about events and post videos. There is even a way to send friends virtual “gifts”—such as a happy face balloon, heart－shaped boxes of virtual chocolates, and dog bones from Facebook's virtual gift shops! In this way, Facebook has increased in popularity and broadened its usership, and it has increased its value for the owner. So far, Zuckerberg has declined to sell his site (competitor networking site MySpace.com was sold to News Corp) even though he has received offers of up to a billion dollars!
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