**==(本文系转载自网络，如有侵犯，请联系我们立即删除)==** 贵州省贵阳市第一中学2018届高三2月月考（市一模模拟）
英语试题
第二部分 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，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Staff Responsibilities
Your job as restaurant greeter requires that you greet every guest mannerly and instantly. Upon greeting our early Sunset diners, be sure to provide them with the regular dinner menu as well as the special Sunset menu. In addition, every evening the chef posts daily specials on the chalkboard at the entrance. Be sure to remind the customers of the dishes too.
You will be working with a team of three additional members: the person who sets the table and provides the water and place settings, the waiter/waitress who actually takes each order to the exact specification of each diner, and the cashier who will accept the diners’ payments upon their way out the door after dining. Your job is to ensure that the diners feel welcomed, informed, and are served pleasantly in every possible way.
Our goal is satisfied, happy customers who will return to visit us again and will recommend our establishment to their friends. Each employee plays an important role in ensuring that our goal is met. If you smile, greet diners pleasantly, seat them as soon as possible, and provide them with our goal is met. If you smile, greet diners pleasantly, seat them as soon as possible, and provide them with the full range of diner options, you should have every reason to believe that you have done your job well.
When customers have been unhappy in the past with the quality of service by the person who filled your position, it was generally because of one of the following reasons:
·Customers were left standing in the foyer(门厅) as the entry greeter continued
a personal phone call ignoring them.
·Customers were not told of their eligibility(资格) or ineligibility for the early Sunset dinner.
·Customers’ seating preferences were not honored.
1. What are greeters required to do besides welcoming customers? A. Politely take customers’ orders. B. Introduce the menu to customers. C. Quickly list the specials for customers.
D. He kept them waiting unnecessarily at the entrance. 3. Where does this text probably come from? A. A work report. B. A job description. C. A want advertisement. D. An employee training plan.
B
The other day I came across an Instagram post from my friend and colleague Danielle. It was a photo of a review of Danielle’s recent photography exhibit. The review was positive, but also critical. That’s why Danielle posted it. She was proud of her work, no matter what her critics thought.
I was shocked by the post—it was one of the most honest things I’ve ever seen on social media! Usually when I scroll(滚读)through Facebook or Instagram, everything I see is perfect. Perfect vacations, perfect babies, perfect birthday cakes…
I’m guilty of it too. I only post photos of happy stuff. If someone saw my Instagram, they’d probably think, “Wow, this girl doesn’t have a care in the world…and also she must really, really love ice cream.”
Danielle’s post didn’t show a perfect world. And yet that didn’t make me think less of her. Quite the opposite—I respected her even more as an artist. That got me thinking. Maybe social media could be more meaningful if we showed off our mistakes or our struggles. And not a world where everything’s perfect, ice cream never melts and the lighting’s always just right.
I’m going to try it out. Start with this blog post, which I’ll share on social
media. I’ve included a photo here. It’s about a story I worked on for Guideposts magazines. See all those cross-outs and rewrites? That’s just the first of five pages of edit after edit from Guideposts editor-in-chief Edward Grinnan.
I remember the horrible day it happened like it was yesterday. I admit that I wept some tears over it. I considered giving up writing for a career. Eventually, though, I faced the music. I talked to Edward and asked him to explain the edits in detail so I could do better next time. The whole situation was rough. But, looking back now, it was a great learning experience.
4. Why was the author surprised at Daniellie’s post? A. It showed a perfect exhibit. B. It showed a beautiful photo. C. It showed a strange picture. D. It included an objective review.
5. What was the influence of Daniele’s post on the author? A. She realized the world is not perfect. B. She was no longer afraid of mistakes. C. She stopped posting ice cream photos. D. She began changing her posting habit.
6. What is the author’s newly-posted photo about? A. Her artworks. B. Her happy times.
C. Her failures as a writer. D. Her favorite magazines.
7. Which can replace the underlined part “faced the music” in the last paragraph? A. Listened to music. B. Stuck to my opinions. C. Accepted the criticisms. D. Played a piece of music.
C
Patients in the early of Alzheimer’s disease often struggle to remember recently learned information, meaning they
forget things like important appointments or where they left their keys. But it seems that these memories are not lost. They are still filed away in the brain somewhere; they just can’t be easily accessed.
Now, researchers at MIT have developed a means of getting back memories in mice suffering from Alzheimer’s.
The method relies on a technique that uses light to control genetically modified neurons (转基因神经元). Currently it is too early to be used in human trials as it involves inserting light emitting (发光) equipment into the subjects’ brains, but the same principles still apply, the researchers said.
“The important point is that this is evidence of concept. That is, even if a memory seems to be gone, it is still there. It’s a matter of how to get it back,” said senior researcher Susumu Tonegawa.
The team took two groups of mice, one genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer’s and one healthy. They then placed them into a room and gave them a mild electric shock. All of the mice showed fear when put back in an hour later. When placed in the room a third time several days later, the Alzheimer’s mice acted normally. They had forgotten the shock.
The researchers were then able to bring back the memory of the shock by activating (激活) the cells in which the memories were stored. Even when the mice were put into an unfamiliar room, they showed fear when the cells associated with the shock were activated.
“Short-term memory seems to be normal, on the order of hours. But for long-term memory, these early-Alzheimer’s mice seem to be damaged,” said lead researcher Dheeraj Roy. “Directly activating the cells that we believe are holding the memory helps them get it back. This suggests that it is indeed an access problem to the information, not that they’re unable to learn or store this memory.”
8. What can we learn about the researchers at MIT? A. They can get back memories in mice with Alzheimer’s. B. They can cure Alzheimer’s using the new method. C. They have used the method in human trials. D. They are the pioneers of brain research.
