imagined a story like that. They proved that they were not rigid or passive and they could be creative enough to make things for themselves.”
Indeed, Romance of the Western Chamber is known for opposing traditional norms associated with marriage and love during a more orthodox era. It has a positive take on marriage, emphasizing that true love should prevail（占上风）.
24. What can we know about Romance of the Western Chamber? A. It was composed earlier than The Peony Pavilion. B. The characters in the story have supernatural powers. C. It represents the highest achievement in Chinese literature. D. The appeal of the play is mainly found in its complex plot. 25. What can we infer from Rachel Leung’s statements?
A. Courage and perseverance are of vital importance to social connections. B. It was believed that our ancestors were conservative and lacked creativity. C. Romance of the Western Chamber enjoys popularity among the Marvel fans. D. Everyone should take a positive and unconventional attitude toward marriage. 26. What does the underlined word “orthodox” in the last paragraph mean? A. Open-minded.
B. Dynamic.
C. Ambiguous.
D. Conventional.
27. What is the best title of the passage? A. The Rise of China’s Love Comedies B. Wang Shifu and His Most Popular Works C. Marriage and Traditional Norms D. Love Comes First
C
In June 2014, Huffington Post and Mail Online reported that three-year-old Victoria Wilcher, who had suffered facial scarring, had been kicked out of a KFC because she was frightening customers. Later, KFC announced that no evidence had been found to support the story. This phenomenon is largely a product of the increasing pressure in newsrooms that care more about traffic figures.
Brooke Binkowski, an editor, says that, during her career, she has seen a shift towards less editorial
oversight in newsrooms. “Clickbait is king, so newsrooms will uncritically print something unreal. Not all newsrooms are like this, but a lot of them are.”
Asked what the driving factor was, a journalist said, “You’ve an editor breathing down your neck and you have to meet your targets. And there are some young journalists on the market who are inexperienced and who will not do those checks. So much news that is reported online happens online. There is no need to get out and knock on someone’s door. You just sit at your desk and do it.”
Another journalist says, “There is undoubtedly pressure to churn out（粗制滥造）stories in order to get clicks, because they equal money. At my former employer in particular, the pressure was on due to the limited resources. That made the environment quite horrible to work in.”
In a February 2015 report for Digital Journalism, Craig Silverman wrote, “Today the bar for what is worth giving attention to seems to be much lower. Within minutes or hours, a badly sourced report can be changed into a story that is repeated by dozens of news websites, resulting in tens of thousands of shares. Once a certain critical mass is reached, repetition has a powerful effect on belief. Thus, the rumor simply becomes true for readers.”
And, in spite of the direction that some newsrooms seem to be heading in, a critical eye is becoming more, not less important, according to the New York Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan. “Reporters and editors have to be more careful than ever before. It’s extremely important to question and to use every verification（验证） method available before publication.” Yet those working in newsrooms talk of doubtful stories being tolerated because, in the words of some senior editors, “a click is a click, regardless of the advantage of a story”. And, “if the story does turn out to be false, it’s simply a chance for another bite at the cherry.”
Verification and fact-checking are regularly falling victim to the pressure to bring in the numbers, and if the only result of being caught out is another chance to bring in the clicks, that looks unlikely to change. 28. According to Brooke Binkowski, newsrooms produce false news because ______. A. clicks matter a lot
B. resources are limited D. journalists lack experience
C. money is needed for news
29. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 5 probably mean? A. Lies can’t sell without an atom of truth.
B. Rumors are like a flame blown by the wind. C. You can hear rumors, but you can’t know them. D. A lie, repeated frequently enough, will end up as truth. 30. What’s Margaret Sullivan’s attitude towards false news online? A. Negative.
B. Supportive.
C. Skeptical.
D. Neutral.
31. What is the passage mainly about? A. Consequences of false stories. C. Inability of journalists.
B. Causes of online false news. D. A craze to get clicks. D
Who cares if people think wrongly that the Internet has had more important influences than the washing machine? Why does it matter that people are more impressed by the most recent changes?
It would not matter if these misjudgments were just a matter of people’s opinions. However, they have real impacts, as they result in misguided use of scarce resources.
The fascination with the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution, represented by the Internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so “yesterday” that they should try to live on ideas. This belief in “post-industrial society” has led those countries to neglect their manufacturing sector（制造业）with negative consequences for their economies.
Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the “digital divide” between the rich countries and the poor countries. This has led companies and individuals to donate money to developing countries to buy computer equipment and Internet facilities. The question, however, is whether this is what the developing countries need the most. Perhaps giving money for those less fashionable things such as digging wells, extending electricity networks and making more affordable washing machines would have improved people’s lives more than giving every child a laptop computer or setting up Internet centres in rural villages, I am not saying that those things are necessarily more important, but many donators have rushed into fancy programmes without carefully assessing the relative long-term costs and benefits of alternative uses of their money.
In yet another example, a fascination with the new has led people to believe that the recent changes in
the technologies of communications and transportation are so revolutionary that now we live in a “borderless world”. As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back. Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.
Understanding technological trends is very important for correctly designing economic policies, both at the national and the international levels, and for making the right career choices at the individual level. However, our fascination with the latest, and our under valuation of what has already become common, can, and has, led us in all sorts of wrong directions.
32. Misjudgments on the influences of new technology can lead to ______. A. a lack of confidence in technology C. a conflict of public opinions
B. a slow progress in technology D. a waste of limited resources
33. The example in Paragraph 4 suggests that donators should ______. A. take people’s essential needs into account B. make their programmes attractive to people C. ensure that each child gets financial support D. provide more affordable internet facilities
34. What has led many governments to remove necessary regulations? A. Neglecting the impacts of technological advances. B. Believing that the world has become borderless. C. Ignoring the power of global economic development. D. Over-emphasizing the role of international communication. 35. What can we learn from the passage?
A. People should be encouraged to make more donations. B. Traditional technology still has a place nowadays. C. Making right career choices is crucial to personal success. D. Economic policies should follow technological trends. 第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 An impulse purchase, also called an impulse, is an act of buying an item without considering its real need. The purchase can be as small as a candy bar or as large as an automobile. 36 . The following are the cases where the impulse purchases occur.
37 . Retailers（零售商） normally stock these passageways with small, inexpensive items that shoppers tend to add to their chosen purchases while they are waiting in line. This arrangement is based on the assumed needs of the general shopper and low cost.
Another popular situation that often leads an impulse buy is a sale table or shelf. 38 .
In this case, they have a tendency to start loading their shopping carts with the bargains. They normally give no careful thought to the actual need for the products. Actually, the decision is generally based on the cost savings involved.
There is an impulse buy that often occurs in an automobile dealership showroom. A potential car buyer comes to the showroom and begins to look through the showroom offerings. He or she actually just wants to gather some information on cars. 39 . The buyer frequently doubts the quick decision in a short period of time.
There are various reasons for an impulse buy. 40 . Others tend to believe the act is based on internal fears of running out of goods such as food or drinks. Another theory suggests shoppers need to make a purchase of an item not on their list to exercise their right naturally.
A. Service attitude influences consumers’ purchasing behavior. B. An impulse buy may happen only occasionally or be a habitual practice. C. Shoppers frequently find a sign that advertises hugely discounted items. D. Impulse buying interrupts the normal decision-making models in consumers’ brains. E. Some experts think the human need for instant satisfaction is the cause for the behavior. F. The most common type of impulse purchase is usually a small one made at checkout stands. G. However, a persuasive salesperson can persuade the potential buyer to make a purchase on the spot soon. 第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）
四川省成都石室中学2021届高三上学期开学考试 英语(含答案)
