第四部分书面表达(27分)

如今，许多学生都使用电子词典。请你根据下表 提示写一篇英语短文,谈谈使用电子词典的利与弊

注意:1.对所给要点逐一陈述，适当发挥，不要简单翻译。

2. 词数：120 -150.

3. 参考词汇:便携的portable;功能function

第三部分完成对话(10分)

选出合适的句子填在横线上(有多余选项) 。

Ralph ： Pardon me,are you waiting in line for class regis-tration (注由*) ?

Ann：Yes,I am. 55 Ralph:I can't believe it!This line is huge. 56 Ann：About twenty minutes. It seems that the line goes pretty fast,but it's a long line.

Ralph ： 57 Ann ： I think the problem might be that the deadline is tomorrow.

Ralph ： 58 Ann：I do too. I tried to use the telephone system to register,but it wasnH working right. 59 Ralph： Yeah. I've used that system before too,but I have to pay in person.

   A. I hope they don't close before we get to the front of the line.

   B. How long have you been waiting?

   C. When did you come here?

   D. That's probably another reason why the line is so long today.

   E. Do you have any idea why there are so many people?

   F. Fm afraid we can^ have the chance for class registration today.

   G. I think everybody in this line is as well.

第二节阅读表达(共5小题;每小题2分，共10分) (2013 •山东)

阅读下面短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到题后相应 的位置上(请注意问题后的词数要求) 。

    [1 ] Jean Paul Getty was bom in 1892 in Minneapolis,Minnesota. He became a millionaire when he was only 24.His father was wealthy,but he did not help his son. Getty made his millions alone. He made his money from oil. He owned Getty Oil and over 100 other companies. The Fortune magazine once called Getty the richest man in the world.

   [2] But money. He married five times and divorced five times. He had five children but spent little time with them. None of Getty's children had very happy lives.

    [3] Getty loved to make money and loved to save it. In spite of his great wealth,Getty was a miser. Every evening,he wrote down every cent he spent that day. He even put pay telephones in the guests’ bedrooms in his house so he could save money on phone bills.

  [4] In 1973,kidnappers took his 16-year-old grandson,and demanded a large amount of money for his safe return. Getty's son asked his father for money to save his child. But Getty refused. The kidnappers were merciless and Getty5s son made repeated requests for help from his father. Finally,Getty agreed to lend the money,but at 4 percent interest.

    [5 ] Getty started a museum at his home in Malibu,California. He bought many important and beautiful pieces of art for the museum. When Getty died in 1976,the value of the collection in the museum was $ 1 billion. He left all his money to the museum. After his death,the museum grew in size. Today it is one of the most important museums in the United States. Getty made a large fortune in his life,but he gave his money to the art world because he wanted people to learn about and love art.

50. What is the main idea of Paragraph 1 ? (no more than 8 words)

51. Fill in the blank in Paragraph 2 with proper words. (no more than 7 words)

52. Explain the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3.

53. What did the kidnappers do to Getty's family? (no more than 10 words)

54. What does the author want to tell us about Getty in the last paragraph? (no more than 10 words)

    Scientists are trying to teach robots to read,so they can understand road signs and shop names to “live” for themselves. Experts believe developing literate artificial intelligence should be relatively simple because computers are already able to turn scanned books into text.

    A team of roboticists are working on a test robot— named Marge—which has been fitted with advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) reading software. It is hoped the fledgling technology can be used in rescue operations and work out where they are going inside buildings from signs. The early prototype version has been fitted with a dictionary and spellchecker so it can interpret text which is not clearly written.

     Doctor Ingmar Posner,a roboticist at the University of Oxford,says that a machine that can read will be a significant step forward. “By reading a label on a closed door you can sometimes get a good idea of what can be found behind it,he tells New Scientist. u Reading can help you detect things you cannot directly see. M However,the robot has had difficulties working out what is and is not writing—and still cannot read text on curved surfaces.

    Dr Posner adds, “The OCR software does not cater for the fact that it might not be seeing text. It tries its level best to force everything into text一brick walls,chimney stacks,everything. ”

    Once Marge has successfully read a word,it scans news websites like the MailOnline to look at its context and establish a meaning. It has already been able to work out that Barclays is a bank and Strada is a restaurant.

   Dr Posner is working on the scheme with Peter Corke at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia. Gregory Dudek,from McGill University in Montreal,Canada,describes teaching machines to read as ‘‘ refreshingly original I personally believe that exploiting OCR methods in a mobile robotics context makes a lot of sense, ” he says. “In fact,once you reflect on it,there is no doubt it will be highly useful. ”

46. According to the passage,robots are taught to read to

   A. let them guide the way for people

   B. help doctors to make operations

   C. develop their potential intelligence

   D. make them do things by themselves

47. According to Gregory Dudek,applying OCR to robots is.

   A. simple   B. useful

   C. creative   D. successful

48. The underlined word “detect” in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by

   A. remember   B. discover

   C. control   D. ensure

49. Which column of the newspaper is the passage probably taken from?

   A. Science. B. Education.

   C. Travel. D. Economy.

    Since Martha Payne's fight against a council ban on her publishing photographs of her school dinners became an Internet event,she has been tired with promises of book,TV and movie deals. But it has emerged the nine-year-old accepted only one offer after her successful bat-tle against censorship (审查) became an international big event on Friday.

    The selfless Scottish schoolgirl has now agreed to team up with Nick Naim,the celebrity chef (名厨) ，to help local council provide more nutritious meals for her and her classmates. The move emerged as Roddy McCuish,the local authority's leader,admitted the council had been wrong and offered to apologise to Martha when they meet later this week. Martha's case has become the world's third most talked about subject on the social networking site Twitter.

   David Payne,her father,yesterday said his daughter remains calm after the global attention,which drew more than five million people to her blog,NeverSeconds,where she posts photographs of her school dinners and rates them out of ten. “ Since this started,we’ve had offers to appear on television shows from all around the world—daytime TV from Japan and from Australia. We’ve had Hollywood agents talking about a book and TV and maybe a film,”the father said.

   “But we’ve turned them all down. Martha will be back in school on Monday and no doubt writing her blog. M However,she and her fellow pupils at Lochgilphead Primary School have agreed to help the council create a new menu. Martha has now raised more than

£ 75,000 for development charity Mary's Meals after 5 ,500 people contributed.

    Her blog attracted the wide attention last month when she posted a picture of a meal consisting of a pizza and lone potato croquette (炸丸子) ，saying she would struggle to concentrate in lessons because of so little food. Soon thousands of people from around the world were visiting the website to see what Martha had eaten that day,leaving comments and sending in photographs of their own lunches. But the council banned her from taking pictures last week,citing coverage in a Scottish newspaper calling for the school's dinner ladies to be fired.

41. Martha Payne became world famous for .

   A. publishing her own book

   B. her promises to play on TV

   C. her promises to play on movie

   D. publishing photos of her school dinners

42. What kind of man was Roddy McCuish?

   A. Interested in nutritious meals.

   B. Honest and considerate.

   C. Selfless and generous.

   D. Warm-hearted and hardworking.

43. How many foreign countries are mentioned to interview David Payne?

   A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.

44. The family refused to all the interviews to make Martha devoted to.

   A. her blog writing

   B. raising more money

   C. creating a new menu

   D. her study in school

45. According to the passage,when students are hungry,they are.

   A. difficult to concentrate on class

   B. likely to go out for food

   C. likely to post a picture of their meal

   D. ready to see what others eat

    Confucius (551—497 BC) was a thinker,educator,and founder of the Ru School for Chinese thought.

    He was a well-known leader in philosophy and he also made many wise phrases and theories about the law,life,and the government that helped many people learn about nature,the world,and human beings.

Confucius's social philosophy largely centres around the concept of ‘‘ ren ”，which is “ loving others ” and

    ‘‘ honouring one's parents”. Those who have developed “ren” are “simple in manner and slow of speech”. For Confucius,such concern for others is proved through the practice of the Golden Rule ：u What you do not wish for yourself,do not do to others. ”

    Confucius thinks a good ruler is to have “de” or  virtuewhich allows one to win peopled support without using any force and keep good order in his state without troubling himself,and that a ruler should rule his people by his own example and treat them with love and concern.

     A characteristic of Confucius's thoughts is his emphasis (强调) on education and study. u A good teacher is someone who knows well the ways of the past and the practices of the ancients ” and he also thinks “ He who leams but does not think is lost. He who thinks biit does not learn is in great danger”.

    Confucius did not write down the principles of his philosophy;these were handed down only through his students. a book compiled (编撰) by some of his students,is considered the most dependable source of information about his life and teachings. One of the historical works that he is said to have compiled and edited,The Spring and Autumn Annals,is describing Chinese history in the state of Lu from 722 BC to 481 B C.

     Since Confucius teachings and philosophy was so advanced,it was the education for China for 2 ,000 years. It is called Confucianism.

36. The passage mainly discusses.

   A. Confucius and his great thoughts

   B. the life of Confucius

   C. Confucius's influence on students

   D. Confucius's teaching methods

37. Confucius's philosophical thinking can help people know about all the following EXCEPT .

   A. humans   B. nature

   C. the world   D. the sun

38. Which of the following expresses Confucius’ s  educational idea?

   A. What you do not wish for yourself,do not do to others.

   B. Learning and thinking should go hand in hand.

   C. “Loving others ”and “honouring one's parents”.

   D. A ruler should love and care about his people.

39. According to the passage,which of the following is NOT true?

   A. Confucius was founder of the Ru School of Chinese thought.

   B. The Spring and Autumn Annals is a historical book.

   C. Confucius has a great effect on Chinese society.

   D. Lun Yu is a book compiled by Confucius.

40. We can infer from the passage that a teacher should be a person who .

   A. is old and experienced enough

   B. leams but doesn’t think

   C. does things according to good old ways

   D. thinks a lot but doesn’t learn

第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1. 5分，共30分) The concept of solitude (独处) in the digital world is almost non-existent. In the world of digital technology,e-mail,social networking and online video games,information is meant to be 16 Solitude can be hard to discover 17 it has been given up. In this respect,new technologies have 18 our culture.

The desire to be connected has brought solitude to a (n) 19 as we’ve known it. People have become so 20 in the world of networks and connections that one can often be contacted 21 they’d rather not be. Today we can talk,text,e-mail,chat and blog (写博客 ) ， not only from our 22 but from our mobile phones as well.

Most developed nations have become 23 on digital technology simply because they We grown accustomed to it,and at this point not 24 it would make them an outsider. 25 , many jobs and careers require people to be 26 . From this point of view,technolo- gy has changed the culture of work. Being reachable might feel like a 27 to those who may not want to be able to be contacted at all times.

I suppose the positive side is that solitude is still possible for anyone who 28 wants it. Computers can be shut 29 and mobile phones can be turned off. The ability to be “connected ”and “on”has many 30,as well as disadvantages. Travellers have ended up 31 on mountains,and mobile phones have saved countless lives. They can also make people feel 32 and forced to answer unwanted calls or 33 to unwanted texts. Attitudes towards our connectedness as a society 34 across generations. Some find today's technology a gift. Others consider it a curse. Regardless of anyone's view on the subject,it's hard to imagine what life would be like 35 daily advancements in technology.

16. A. updated   B. received

   C. shared   D. collected

17. A. though   B. until

   C. once   D. before

18. A. respected   B. shaped

   C. ignored   D. preserved

19. A. edge   B. stage

   C. end   D. balance

20. A. sensitive   B. intelligent

   C. considerate   D. reachable

21. A. even if   B. only if

   C. as if   D. if only

22. A. media   B. computers

   C. databases   D. monitors

23. A. bent   B. hard

   C. keen   D. dependent

24. A. finding   B. using

   C. protecting   D. changing

25. A. Also   B. Instead

   C. Otherwise   D. Somehow

26. A. connected   B. trained

   C. recommended   D. interested

27. A. pleasure   B. benefit

   C. burden   D. disappointment

28. A. slightly   B. hardly

   C. merely   D. really

29. A. out   B. down   C. up   D. in

30. A. aspects   B. weaknesses

   C. advantages   D. exceptions

31. A. hidden   B. lost

   C. relaxed   D. deserted

32. A. trapped   B. excited

   C. confused   D. amused

33. A. turn   B. submit

   C. object   D. reply

34. A. vary   B. arise   C. spread   D. exist

35. A. beyond   B. within   C. despite   D. without

15. —I remember telling him the time of the meeting.

— ，why hasn’t he turned up yet?

   A. What for   B. So what

   C. If so   D. How come

14. Difficulties and hardships have the best character of the young geologist.

   A. brought in   B. brought up

   C. brought out   D. brought about

13. Modem China is experiencing a completely new period respect for science and creativity has become the guiding principle of society.

   A. of which   B. where

   C. in which   D. that