[单选题]There was an inclination to treat geography as a less important subject.

正确答案 ：B

tendency

解析：译文：曾经存在过一种倾向，就是地理被作为一门不太重要的学科来对待。句中划线单词inclination意思是：倾向；倾斜度；趋向；意愿point：点；观点；要点；重点tendency：趋势；倾向；趋向；偏好result：结果finding：判决；裁决；调查发现；调研结果本题中的划线词通过直接查字典可以找出B选项tendency是意思最相近的。本句中不定式动宾结构to treat geography as a less important subject.被用来补充说明inclination（趋势）。考点近义词辨析

[单选题]The symptoms of the disease manifested themselves ten days later.

正确答案 ：B

appeared

解析：译文：该疾病的症状十天之后才显现出来。划线词manifest有显示，显现的意思。ease有减轻 的意思，improve是改进，改善的意思，而relieve是减轻的意思，只有appear是出现、显现的意思，词义最为相近。考点近义词辨析

[单选题]This was disaster on a cosmic scale.

正确答案 ：B

huge

解析：译文：这是一场超级的灾难。划线词cosmic是宇宙的，表明灾难的程度是无边的、巨大的按照这一上下文只有huge是巨大的意思，词义最为相近，本题更多考察的是上下文中语义的引申含义，从宇宙引申为宇宙的特性是巨大的，modest是谦逊的，commercial是商业的，national是国家、民族的。考点近义词辨析

[单选题]阅读判断：下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。When Our Words Collide“Wanna buy a body?” That was the opening line of more than a few phone calls I got from freelance(自由职业 ) photographers when I was a photo editor at U.S. News. Like many in the mainstream press, I wanted to separate the world of photographers into “them”, who trade in picture of bodies or chase celebrities, and “us”, the serious news people. But after 16 years in that role. I came to wonder whether the two worlds were easily distinguishable.Working in the reputable world of journalism, I assigned photographers to cover other people’s nightmares. I justified invading moments of grief, under the guise(借口) of the reader's right to know. I didn’t ask photographers to trespass(冒犯) or to stalk(跟踪),but I didn’t have to: I worked with pros(同行) who did what others did: talking their way into situations or shooting from behind police lines to get pictures I was after. And I wasn’t alone.In the aftermath of a car crash or some other hideous incident when ordinary people are hurt or killed, you rarely see photographers pushing past rescue workers to capture the blood and gore(血雨腥风). But you are likely to see the local newspaper and television photographers on the scene - and fast.How can we justify our behavior? Journalists are taught to separate doing the job from worrying about the consequence of publishing what they record. Repeatedly, they are reminded of a news-business dictum(格言): leave your conscience in the office. You get the picture of the footage: the decision whether to print or air it comes later. A victim may lie bleeding, unconscious, or dead: your job is to record the image. You put away your emotions and document the scene.We act this way partly because we know that the pictures can have important meaning. Photographs can change deplorable(凄惨的) situations by mobilizing public outrage or increase public understanding.However, disastrous events often bring out the worst in photographers and photo editors. In the first minutes and hours after a disaster occurs, photo agencies buy pictures. Often an agency buys a picture from a local newspaper or an amateur photographer and put it up for bid by major magazines. The most keenly sought “exclusives” command tens of thousands of dollars through bidding contests.Many people believe that journalists need to change the way they do things, and it’s our pictures that annoy people the most. Readers may not believe, as we do, that there is a distinction between sober-minded “us” and sleazy(低级庸俗的) “them”. In too many cases, by our choices of images as well as how we get them, we prove our readers right.

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解析：译文：编辑们有时候为了买到独家的图片要支付很多钱。相关段落为第六段However, disastrous events often bring out the worst in photographers and photo editors. In the first minutes and hours after a disaster occurs, photo agencies buy pictures. Often an agency buys a picture from a local newspaper or an amateur photographer and put it up for bid by major magazines. The most keenly sought “exclusives” command tens of thousands of dollars through bidding contests.该题难度和前一题相当，题干部分的关键词可以帮助我们准确的定位，pay a lot of money和exclusive.原文的意思是图片社从当地报纸或业务摄影爱好者手中购买图片，以竞价的形式将图片再卖给杂志，许多“独家”(exclusive)图片通过各家竞价可以达到数千美元的价格。因此题干部分的表述同原文的实质性含义相符，因此选择right.

[单选题]概括大意与完成句子：The Storyteller1.Steven Spielberg has always had one goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen．And that’s what he has always been about．The son of a computer scientist and a pianist, Spielberg spent his early childhood in New Jersey and, later, Arizona．From the very beginning, his fertile imagination filled his young mind with images that would later inspire his filmmaking．　　2.Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits．He believes that E．T．is the result of the difficult years leading up to his parent’s 1966 divorce, “It is really about a young boy who was in search of some stability in his life．”“He was scared of just about everything,” recalls his mother, Leah Adler．“When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed．And that’s just the kind of scary stuff he would put in films like Poltergeist．”3.Spielberg was 11 when he first got his hands on his dad’s movie camera and began shooting short flicks about flying saucers and World War ΙΙ battles．Spielberg’s talent for scary storytelling enabled him to make friends．On Boy Scout camping trips, when night fell, Spielberg became the center of attention．“Steven would start telling his ghost stories,” says Richard Y．Hoffman Jr．, leader of Troop 294, “and everyone would suddenly get quiet so that they could all hear it．”4.Spielberg moved to California with his father and went to high school there, but his grades were so bad that he barely graduated．Both UCLA and USC film schools rejected him, so he entered California State University at Long Beach because it was close to Hollywood．Spielberg was determined to make movies, and he managed to get an unpaid, non-credit internship（实习）in Hollywood．Soon he was given a contract, and he dropped out of college．He never looked back．5.Now, many years later, Spielberg is still telling stories with as much passion as the kid in the tent．Ask him where he gets his ideas, Spielberg shrugs．“The process for me is mostly intuitive (凭直觉的),” he says．“There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons, for personal reasons, for reasons that I want to have fun, that the subject matter is cool, that I think my kids will like it．And sometimes I just think that it will make a lot of money, like the sequel(续集) to Jurassic Park．”

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解析：第2段开篇提到斯皮尔伯格很多热门影片的创意来源于他深刻的童年记忆。B选项“电影的灵感”是最为贴近本段的意思的。考点段落主旨

[单选题]概括大意与完成句子：The Storyteller1.Steven Spielberg has always had one goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen．And that’s what he has always been about．The son of a computer scientist and a pianist, Spielberg spent his early childhood in New Jersey and, later, Arizona．From the very beginning, his fertile imagination filled his young mind with images that would later inspire his filmmaking．　　2.Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits．He believes that E．T．is the result of the difficult years leading up to his parent’s 1966 divorce, “It is really about a young boy who was in search of some stability in his life．”“He was scared of just about everything,” recalls his mother, Leah Adler．“When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed．And that’s just the kind of scary stuff he would put in films like Poltergeist．”3.Spielberg was 11 when he first got his hands on his dad’s movie camera and began shooting short flicks about flying saucers and World War ΙΙ battles．Spielberg’s talent for scary storytelling enabled him to make friends．On Boy Scout camping trips, when night fell, Spielberg became the center of attention．“Steven would start telling his ghost stories,” says Richard Y．Hoffman Jr．, leader of Troop 294, “and everyone would suddenly get quiet so that they could all hear it．”4.Spielberg moved to California with his father and went to high school there, but his grades were so bad that he barely graduated．Both UCLA and USC film schools rejected him, so he entered California State University at Long Beach because it was close to Hollywood．Spielberg was determined to make movies, and he managed to get an unpaid, non-credit internship（实习）in Hollywood．Soon he was given a contract, and he dropped out of college．He never looked back．5.Now, many years later, Spielberg is still telling stories with as much passion as the kid in the tent．Ask him where he gets his ideas, Spielberg shrugs．“The process for me is mostly intuitive (凭直觉的),” he says．“There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons, for personal reasons, for reasons that I want to have fun, that the subject matter is cool, that I think my kids will like it．And sometimes I just think that it will make a lot of money, like the sequel(续集) to Jurassic Park．”

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解析：译文:一些斯皮尔伯格最为成功的电影来自于_________?原文中相关的信息为:Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits．甚至是数十年之后,斯皮尔伯格提到他早年的经历仍然记忆犹新,这些成为了他日后人们影片的素材。题干中的“most successful movies”对应文中的biggest hits（大片）。早年的记忆 clear memories of his earliest years,只有D选项。his childhood memories最为符合。考点细节信息查找

[单选题]概括大意与完成句子：The Storyteller1.Steven Spielberg has always had one goal: to tell as many great stories to as many people as will listen．And that’s what he has always been about．The son of a computer scientist and a pianist, Spielberg spent his early childhood in New Jersey and, later, Arizona．From the very beginning, his fertile imagination filled his young mind with images that would later inspire his filmmaking．　　2.Even decades later, Spielberg says he has clear memories of his earliest years, which are the origins of some of his biggest hits．He believes that E．T．is the result of the difficult years leading up to his parent’s 1966 divorce, “It is really about a young boy who was in search of some stability in his life．”“He was scared of just about everything,” recalls his mother, Leah Adler．“When trees brushed against the house, he would head into my bed．And that’s just the kind of scary stuff he would put in films like Poltergeist．”3.Spielberg was 11 when he first got his hands on his dad’s movie camera and began shooting short flicks about flying saucers and World War ΙΙ battles．Spielberg’s talent for scary storytelling enabled him to make friends．On Boy Scout camping trips, when night fell, Spielberg became the center of attention．“Steven would start telling his ghost stories,” says Richard Y．Hoffman Jr．, leader of Troop 294, “and everyone would suddenly get quiet so that they could all hear it．”4.Spielberg moved to California with his father and went to high school there, but his grades were so bad that he barely graduated．Both UCLA and USC film schools rejected him, so he entered California State University at Long Beach because it was close to Hollywood．Spielberg was determined to make movies, and he managed to get an unpaid, non-credit internship（实习）in Hollywood．Soon he was given a contract, and he dropped out of college．He never looked back．5.Now, many years later, Spielberg is still telling stories with as much passion as the kid in the tent．Ask him where he gets his ideas, Spielberg shrugs．“The process for me is mostly intuitive (凭直觉的),” he says．“There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons, for personal reasons, for reasons that I want to have fun, that the subject matter is cool, that I think my kids will like it．And sometimes I just think that it will make a lot of money, like the sequel(续集) to Jurassic Park．”

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解析：译文：斯皮尔伯格说他拍电影是为了______。原文中对应的部分是：There are films that I feel I need to make, for a variety of reasons有些电影我感觉需要去拍，出于不同的原因，显然原文中的films即为题干部分movies的替换形式（paraphrase）a variety of reasons 不同的原因，因此只有F选项a number of reasons几个原因是最为符合原文的意思的。考点细节信息查找

[单选题]阅读理解：请根据短文内容，为每题确定l个最佳选项。The National Trust。The National Trust in Britain plays an increasingly important part in the preservation for public enjoyment of the best that is left unspoiled of the British countryside. Although the Trust has received practical and moral support from the Government, it is not a rich government department. It is a voluntary association of people who care for the unspoiled countryside and historic buildings of Britain. It is a charity which depends for its existence on voluntary support from members of the public. Its primary duty is to protect places of great natural beauty and places of historical interest.The attention of the public was the first drawn to the dangers threatening the great old houses and the castles of Britain by the death of the Lord Lothian, who left his great seventeenth-century house to the Trust together with the 4500-acre park and estate surrounding it. This gift attracted wide publicity and started the Trust’s “Country House Scheme” Under this scheme, with the help of the Government and the general public, the Trust has been able to save and make accessible to the public about 150 of these oil houses. Lats year, about 1.75 million people paid to visit these historic houses, usually at a very small charge.In addition to country houses and open spaces, the Trust now owns some examples of ancient wind and water mills, nature reserves, 540 farms and nearly 2500 cottages or small village houses, as well as some complete villages. In these villages no one is allowed to build, develop or disturb the old village environment in any way and all the houses are maintained in their original 16th century style. Over 4,000 acres of coastline , woodland, and hill country are protected by the Trust and no development or disturbances of any kind are permitted. The public has free access to these areas and is only asked to respect the peace, beauty and wildlife.Over the past 80 years the Trust has become a big and important organization and an essential and respected part of national life. It helps to preserve all that and of historical significance not only for future generations of Britons but also for the millions of tourists who each year invade Britain in search of a great historic and cultural heritage.

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解析：译文：第4自然段中“invade”和下列哪个选项意思最为相近？本题不是单纯的考查近义词，而要通过上下文来考查词汇的意思，通过查字典无法直接找到，必须要根据文章的情境来进行判断。It helps to preserve all that and of historical significance not only for future generations of Britons but also for the millions of tourists who each year invade Britain in search of a great historic and cultural heritage.原文的意思是：国家信托不仅仅是为英国的下一代人保护具有历史意义上的建筑，而且也是为每年数以百万计的来英国寻找历史文化的游客而进行保护。显然根据上下文，invade无法直接翻译成侵略，Come in without permission.这一选项是迷惑选项，而文中的意思是指数以百万计来英国观光旅游的游客，因此Visit in large numbers.是最为符合的。考点推理判断

[单选题]阅读理解：请根据短文内容，为每题确定l个最佳选项。How We Form First Impression。We all have first impression of someone we just met. But why? Why do we form an opinion about someone without really knowing anything about him or her - aside perhaps from a few remarks or readily observable traits?The answer is related to how your brain allows you to be aware of the world. Your brain is so sensitive in picking up facial traits. Even very minor difference in how a person’s eyes, ears, nose, or mouth are placed in relation to each other makes you see him or her as different. In fact, your brain continuously processes incoming sensory information - the sights and sounds of your world. These incoming signals are compared against a host of “memories” stored in the brain areas called the cortex(皮质) system to determine what these new signals “mean”.If you see someone you know and like at school, your brain says “familiar and safe”. If you see someone new, it says, “new and potentially threatening”. Then your brain starts to match features of this strangers with other “known” memories. The more unfamiliar the characteristics, the more your brain may say, “This is new, I don’t like this person” Or else, “I’m intrigued(好奇的)”. Or your brain may perceive a new face but familiar clothes, ethnicity, gestures - like your other friends; so your brain says: “I like this person”. But these preliminary impressions can be dead wrong.When we stereotype people, we use a less mature form of thinking (not unlike the immature thinking of a very young child) that makes simplistic and categorical impressions of others. Rather than learn about the depth and breadth of people - their history, interest, values, strengths, and true character - we categorize them as jocks(骗子), peeks(反常的人), or freaks(怪人).However, if we resist initial stereotypical impressions, we have a chance to be aware of what a person is truly like. If we spend time with a person, hear about his or her life, hopes, dreams, and become aware of our cortex, which allow us to be humane.

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解析：译文：当我们用刻板的印象去判断别人的时候，我们的想法总是不够成熟，这是因为_________。 首先按照顺序原则，找到相应的段落，再根据题干给出的关键词来判断，形容词mature（成熟的）可以帮助我们找到：When we stereotype people, we use a less mature form of thinking（题干中的our thinking is not mature enough） (not unlike the immature thinking of a very young child) (可以判断C选项不正确our thinking is similar to that of a very young child.)that makes simplistic and categorical impressions of others. Rather than learn about the depth and breadth of people - their history, interest, values, strengths, and true character - we categorize them as jocks(骗子), peeks(反常的人), or freaks(怪人). 文中提到我们经常忽略人们的价值观、兴趣爱好等具有深度的广度的信息而是简单化把人归类。因此只有A选项we neglect （忽略）their depth and breadth.最为符合。 考点 细节信息查找

[单选题]完形填空：下面的短文有l5处空白，请根据短文内容为每处空白确定l个最佳选项。Obesity(肥胖) Causes Global Warming.The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming.This ______(51)comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study ______(52) how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. ______(53)There has been ______(54) for taxes on junk food in recent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food ______(55)to people’s cars. "We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost," Schmidt said. "Similarly, leading a lazy life style will end ______(56) costing taxpayers more."US political scientist Eric Oliver said his first instinct was to laugh at these gas and fast food arguments. But such ______(57) are getting attention.At the US Obesity Society's annual meeting, one person ______(58) obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked whether there was really a cause-and-effect relationship. " The funny thing was that everyone took it ______(59)." Oliver said.In a 1960s study, children were ______(60) drawings of children with disabilities and without them, and a drawing of an obese child. They were asked ______(61) they would want for a friend? The obese child was picked last.Three researchers recently repeated the study ______(62) college students. Once again, ______(63) no one, not even obese people, liked the obese person. " Obesity was stigmatized." the researchers said.But, researchers say, getting______ (64) is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end, many succeed. Obesity is different. Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight Genes also______ (65) a part.

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解析：文中的意思是研究人员利用大学生进行研究。这里用using是合适的，seeing看见，helping帮助，surveying调查。

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