53. A. interest 54. A. feeling 55. A. demand
B. patience
C. love
D. effort
D. overlooing
B. discovering
C. satisfying
B. agree C. prefer D. attempt
第三部分 阅读理解（共两节，40分） 第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，共30分〉
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上 将该项涂黑。
A
She was waling home from wor one evening when she got the idea. Rosa didn’t lie her job at the factory, but it was better than no job at all. So, while she was trying not to thin about wor, she saw the pots in an alley. They were cheap plastic pots, but there were doens of them piled up behind the flower shop. Such a waste, she thought. When the pots were still there three days later, Rosa went in and ased if she could tae some. The flower shop lady said she didn’t mind, so Rosa carried home a tower of pots, pretending she was a circus performer on the way.
At home, Rosa set them on the fire escape outside her tiny apartment. And there they sat. Once a gust of wind sent them slipping to the street three floors below, and she had to go to run after and catch them before the gathering storm.
Every day, Rosa went to wor and thought about her pots- She was wailing for something, but she had patience.
At last, the newspaper brought good news. A hardware store had a sale on potting soil. Rosa carefully counted her money, then waled si blocs to the store. She bought si bags and carried them home. She bought seeds, too. Rosa slept well that night and dreamed of masses of flowers and fat, glowing fruits,
Sundays were always good days. Rosa didn’t have to wor on Sundays. But Rosa couldn’t remember when she had had such a good Sunday. She got up early and ate her breafast on the fire escape with her pots. Then, she began to put dirt into the pots. She sang a little song until all si of her bags of soil were empty. Then, she laid her precious seed pacets out and planned her garden. Tomatoes for the biggest pots. and peppers for the net-biggest ones. Flowers in all the rest.
At the end of the day, Rosa sat in her garden and watched the sunset. Soon, she thought, there will be
masses of flowers and fat, glowing fruits.
56. Why did Rosa wail 3 days before she ased about the pots? A. She didn’t lie the pots at first. B. She had been waiting for a discount. C- She had no idea how to mae use of them. D, She needed to mae sure they were unwanted. 57. What can we learn about Rosa? A. She was a woraholic. C. She was poor.
B. She lied taing wals. D. She lied the sunset.
58. How did Rosa feel when planting her garden? A. Hopeful.
B. Proud.
C. Anious.
B
Priner Color Your Way
Tattoos always loo so cool, but actually getting one is quite a commitment. After all, apart from using epensive laser removal therapy, they stay on your sin forever.
The Priner is here to change the game. It is a device (设备) that lets you create or print any image or temporary tattoos within a matter of seconds. It is connected to your smartphone and you can select a bunch of preloaded tattoos available in the app.
This device was ehibited at The International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. It is manufactured by a orean startup company called “SetchOn”.
You can setch your ideas out on your sin with this portable device that is almost twice the sie of a computer mouse. This is a nice way to support your team in the match by printing its logo or design onto your sin. You can also share your tattoo designs with others through the app. It is also a fun and creative toy for ids to play with.
In order to print the design, all you need to do is select or draw a design on your mobile and then press and rub the base of the device against your sin and you are done. These designs and images are water resistant but can be washed off with soap water. The in of the Priner is non-toic and is made only from certified cosmetic ingredients. Each cartridge (墨盒) contains enough in for about 1,500 tattoos, or as J+ R.
D. Lonely.
Smith would call it, “a good start.”
The Priner is developed by a small team of five members. The company is planning to launch the device in China and then in the United States. The device is currently commercialiing in orea as a rental device. The agencies and organiations pay $150 for a day to use it in their events or mareting.
The current version of Priner is aimed towards business users (thin festivals, carnivals, sports events, promotion campaigns). But the company is woring on a home version, and hopes to have it available to buy before the end of 2018. SetchOn estimates the personal model will retail at $200. The company is currently seeing to partner with international agencies for distribution opportunities.
Although Priner is currently aimed towards novelty and creative purposes, its technologies could eventually be adapted for use by professional tattoo artists or medical professionals who provide tattoos for patients, such as after a breast cancer operation or sin graft. 59. According to the passage, tattoos by Priner ______. A. can stay permanently C. can draw more attention
60. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Priner can be used to create any image in a short time. B. Priner is preloaded with many tattoo designs inside. C. Priner is available for ids in their daily activities. D. Priner has been adapted for professional use. 61. Where can we probably use Priner at present? A. At a company annual meeting. C. At a family gathering at home. 62, The passage is intended to . A. persuade people to buy Priner
B. promote various methods of getting tattoos C. introduce a new tattoo printing device to readers D. search for business partners for further epansion
C
B. At a surgical ward in the hospital. D. At a professional tattoo shop. B. are convenient to print D. are epensive to remove
A large body of research has been developed in recent years to eplain many aspects of willpower. Most of the researchers eploring self-control do so with an obvious goal in mind How can willpower be strengthened? If willpower is truly a limited resource, as the research suggests, what can be done to mae it stay strong?
Avoiding temptation (诱惑）is an effective method for maintaining self-control, which is called the “out of sight, out of mind” principle. One recent study, for instance, found office worers are less attracted to candy in the des drawer than that on top of their dess, in plain sight.
The research suggesting that we possess a limited reservoir of self-control raises a troubling question. When we face too many temptations, are we to fail? Not necessarily. Researchers don’t believe that one’s willpower is ever completely ehausted. Rather, people appear to hold some willpower in reserve, saved for future demands. The right motivation allows us to tap into those reserves, allowing us to carry on even when our self-control strength has been run down. High motivation might help overcome weaened willpower—at least to a point.
Willpower may also be made less vulnerable (脆弱) to being ehausted in the first place. Researchers who study self-control often describe it as being lie a muscle that gets tired with heavy use. But there is another aspect to the muscle comparison, they say. While muscles become ehausted by eercise in the short term, they are strengthened by regular eercise in the long term. Similarly, regular practices of self-control may improve willpower strength.
The evidence from willpower-ehaustion studies also suggests that maing a list of resolutions on New Year’s Eve is the worst possible approach? Being ehausted in one area can reduce willpower in other areas, so it maes more sense to focus on a single goal at a time. In other words, don’t try to quit smoing, adopt a healthy diet and start a new eercise plan at the same time. Taing goals one by one is a better approach. Once a good habit is in place, Baumeister says, you’ll no longer need to draw on your willpower to maintain the behavior. Eventually healthy habits will become routine, and won’t require maing decisions at all.
Many questions about the nature of self-control remain to be answered by further research. Yet it seems liely that with clear goals, good self-monitoring and a little practice, you can train your willpower to stay strong in the face of temptation.
63. From the studies in the passage we learn that ______.
A. people have unlimited self-control B. high motivation ensures one’s success C. willpower is hardly completely ehausted D. too many temptations often lead to failure
64. The underlined phrase “tap into” in Paragraph 3 most probably means ______. A. mae use of C. build
B. run out of D. increase
65. The author compares self-control to muscles ______. A. to prove the long-term effects of willpower B. to show the significance of regular eercise C. to argue that self-control can be easily used up D. to eplain the benefits of practicing self-control
66. To develop a good habit, which of the following does the author prefer? A. “I will give up dessert and do eercise.” B. “I will set three goals this new semester.” C. “I will eep myself from any temptation.” D. “I will read an English novel every month.”
D
The aggressive spread of maret economics and communication technologies~often under the control of Western multinational companies—brings new challenges to local cultures and values in non-Western societies. Sometimes it seems as if a tidal wave of the worst Western culture is creeping across the globe lie a giant strawberry milshae spill oat and over the planet, with a flavor that is distinctly sweet, sicly and apparently homogeneous (同质的).
For some, especially the young, change may mean escape from oppressive traditions. It may also bring new opportunities for cultures to be combined in creative ways. However, there is genuine cause for concern about the rate at which cultures are being worn away in such a globalied world.
Perhaps by far the most important far-reaching effect of cultural globaliation is the commercialiation of culture, which has a disturbing impact on local people’s eisting values. They are increasingly bombarded
北京市海淀区2018届高三上学期期中考试 英语
