students can view the campus and take classes. Today, Second Life allows users to experience both fantasy and reality in the same place.
41. A. persuaded 42. A. explore
B. devoted
C. attracted C. fight
D. contacted D. approach
B. create B. fortune
43. A. environment 44. A. cultivate
C. society
D. economy
D. access D. conducts
D. social D. adaptable D. tolerance
B. purchase C. insure C. deals
45. A. instructions 46. A. entertaining 47. A. available 48. A. suffering
B. withdrawals B. detective
C. different
B. affordable C. applicable C. escape
B. discouragement B. dominations B. Instead of B. As a result
49. A. satisfactions C. conveniences
D. benefits
D. With regard to
50. A. In addition to 51. A. On top of that 52. A. However
C. In view of C. For example
D. Besides D. Additionally D. limitations
B. Basically
C. Inevitably C. connection
53. A. starvation 54. A. exposed 55. A. man-made
Section B
B. imaginations
B. adjusted C. similar
D. essential
D. virtual
B. distinctive C. functional
Directions: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. （A）
Behind most of the bad things we do to our bodies as adults, eating more than we should is the idea we carry with us from childhood. On one hand, we assume that we are indestructible. On the other hand, we think that any damage we impose on ourselves can be undone when we finally clean up our act.
If the evidence for how wrong the first idea is isn’t apparent when you stand naked in front of the mirror, just wait. But what if you eat right and drop all your bad habits? Is there still time to repair the damage?
To a surprising degree, the answer is yes. Over the past five years, scientists have collected a wealth of data about what happens when aging people with bad habits decide to turn their lives around.
The heartening conclusion: the body has an amazing ability to heal itself, provided the damage is not too great.
The effects of some bad habits —smoking, in particular—can haunt you for decades. But the damage from other habits can be largely healed.
“Any time you improve your behavior and make lifestyle changes, they make a difference from that point on.” says Dr. Jeffrey Koplan. “Maybe not right away. It’s like slamming on the brakes. You do need a certain distance. ”
But the distance can be remarkably short. Consider the recent announcements from the front lines of medical research:
—A study concluded that women who consume as little as two servings of fish a week cut their risk of suffering a stroke to half that of women who eat less than one serving of fish a month. —The day you quit smoking, the carbon monoxide levels in your body drop dramatically. Within weeks, your blood becomes less sticky and your risk of dying from a heart attack starts to decline…
Adopting healthy habits won’t cure all that bothers you, of course. But doctors believe that many chronic diseases—from high blood pressure to heart disease and even some cancers—can be warded off with a few sensible changes in lifestyle.
Not sure where to start? Surprisingly, it doesn’t matter, since one positive change usually leads to another. Make enough changes, and you’ll discover you’ve adopted a new way of life.
56. Most people with bad habits of eating more than they should believe that ______. 57. 58.
According to the recent announcements______.
The evidence against the assumption that we are indestructible_____.
B. is clearly shown in the mirror
D. is still a question
A. they can never change the habits that have haunted them for decades B. their bodies cannot be damaged by the bad habits
C. their bodies can heal all the damage without the help from outside D. they can force themselves to clean up the had habits later
A. is seldom apparent
C. will appear obvious sooner or later
A. women should eat as much fish as possible
B. women are at a higher risk of suffering a stroke than men C. men don’t have to eat as much fish as women
D. eating a little more fish can improve women’s health
59. （B）
Beijing is hardly alone in its air pollution problems. The world Health Organization has said that roughly half of the world’s urban population is exposed to pollution at least 2.5 times higher than it recommends.
While it may take years to fix this global problem, innovative minds in the Asia region have come up with creative solutions for living with air pollution. DIY Purifier
Thomas Talhelm started worrying about the air inside his Beijing home during “airpocalypse”(空气末日) in 2013 when Beijing’s air quality index skyrocketed to a terrifying 755.
The scholar couldn’t afford the luxury of an expensive air purifier. “Filters (过 滤器) are actually very simple—a high efficient filter is all you need to get over
96% of the PM2.5,” he said.
With three of his friends, Talhelm created Smart Air, an air purifier consisting of a basic household fan with a high efficient filter attached to it.
It works as efficiently as the big brands selling for thousands of dollars, removing more than 90 percent of PM2.5 in your room, according to Talhelm’s research.
Invisible Mask
Infipure’s “nose mask” claims to cut 99% of PM2.5 without the trouble of
It is implied in the passage that______ .
A. smokers have lower levels of carbon monoxide than non-smokers B. the blood of smokers is more sticky than that of non-smokers
C. smokers will be unlikely to die from heart attack if they quit smoking D. chronic diseases can be cured if we drop our habit of smoking
a surgical face mask.
The filters, made from special materials, are inserted into your nose and aim
to be undetectable.
“People care about their health, but don’t want all the downsides that come with a traditional face mask,” Infipure co-founder Francis Law explained.
Plant Backpack
Taiwanese artist Chui Chih has designed a survival device for an apocalyptic
world. Named Voyage on the Planet, a potted plant is housed inside a clear backpack
hooked up to two tubes to bring fresh air to a face mask. It’s a bold, abstract idea from an oxygen tank.
Smog Vacuum
Daan Roosegaarde has been working on a smog vacuum that will suck pollutants
from the sky to the ground like a vacuum, making way for clean air.
A byproduct of this smog vacuum, namely The Smog Free Tower, is the “smog
ring”—a piece of jewelry made from smog particulates(微粒).
“The pollution we suck up, the small particulates, we don’t throw them away. We put them under pressure for a couple of weeks and they crystallize(结晶), creating something like a diamond,” Roosegaarde explains.
60. Thomas Talhelm invented Smart Air for all the following reasons except _______. A. the high price of the big brands
B. the poor quality of the indoor air D. the simple principle behind the device
C. the help from three of his friends
61. If someone wants to travel around in those polluted days, which product will he most
probably choose for the sake of convenience?
A. Smart Air.
B. The Smog Free Tower.
D. Infipure’s nose
C. Voyage on the Planet. mask.
62. In which solution the inventor also makes use of the dust collected from the polluted air? A. Invisible Mask. Smog Vacuum.
C. Plant Backpack. Purifier. （C）
A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-month-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common. After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world, and the baby is, well, just playing…right? Perhaps, but
D. DIY
B.
some developmental psychologists have argued that this“play”is more like a scientific investigation than one might think.
Take a closer look at the baby playing at the table. Each time the bowl of rice is pushed over the table edge, it falls to the ground—and, in the process, it brings out important evidence about how physical objects interact; bowls of rice do not float in mid-air, but require support to remain stable. It is likely that babies are not born knowing this basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it. Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact. Though their ranges and tools differ, the baby’s investigation and the scientist’s experiment appear to share the same aim(to learn about the natural world), overall approach (gathering direct evidence from the world), and logic (are my observations what I expected?).
Some psychologists suggest that young children learn about more than just the physical world in this way—that they investigate human psychology and the rules of language using similar means. For example, it may only be through repeated experiments, evidence gathering, and finally overturning a theory that a baby will come to accept the idea that other people can have different views and desires from what he or she has, for example, unlike the child, Mommy actually doesn’t like Dove chocolate.
Viewing childhood development as a scientific investigation throws light on how children learn, but it also offers an inspiring look at science and scientists. Why do young children and scientists seem to be so much alike? Psychologists have suggested that science as an effort—the desire to explore, explain, and understand our world—is simply something that comes from our babyhood. Perhaps evolution provided human babies with curiosity and a natural drive to explain their worlds, and adult scientists simply make use of the same drive that served them as children. The same cognitive (认知的) systems that make young children feel good about figuring something out may have been adopted by adult scientists. As some psychologists put it, “It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.”
63. According to some developmental psychologists, _________. A. a baby’s play is nothing more than a game. B. scientific research into babies’ games is possible
C. the nature of babies’ play has been thoroughly investigated D. a baby’s play is somehow similar to a scientist’s experiment
64. We learn from Paragraph 2 that_______.
上海市金山中学2017-2018学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题(含听力)
