I was really 59 by what she said! I did hold my head up and soon got through the difficult time.
So 60 in trouble, just face it bravely and you are sure to overcome your difficulty sooner or later.
41. A. awful 42. A. fees
B. relaxed
B. bills
C. lonely
C. fines
D. breathless
D. prices D. traffic
D. buildings
43. A. listeners 44. A. trees
B. background
B. street
C. instrument C. crowd
45. A. shocked 46. A. technique 47. A. presence 48. A. aside
B. excited B. energy B. mood B. down
C. comforted
D. amused D. courage
C. patience
C. thought C. over
D. appreciation D. off
D. seriously
49. A. quietly 50. A. elderly 51. A. creating 52. A. rough
B. curiously B. unhealthy
C. deliberately C. unconscious
D. negative
B. enjoying B. wonderful
C. sharing
C. tense
D. teaching
D. crazy D. emotional D. superior
53. A. enthusiastic 54. A. available 55. A. ashamed 56. A. condition
B. hopeful C. energetic C. helpful
B. essential B. sure
C. particular
C. conflict C. aid
D. anxious D. problem D. happiness
D. smile
B. situation
B. success B. look
57. A. opportunity 58. A. concentrate 59. A. occupied 60. A. however
C. fight
B. inspired B. whenever
C. moved D. satisfied
C. whoever D. wherever
第三部分：阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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Welcome to the new and improved Enjoy Rome webpage, the main resource for your Rome travel guide.
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Enjoy Rome, staffed entirely by English-speakers, is an independent tourist office offering a
variety of services to independent travellers in Rome, Italy.
Enjoy Rome provides a variety of services. You might start with our online Rome travel tourist
office, providing a large amount of information for visitors, everything from how to get to the airport to secrets of how to see the city with less cost.
Rome was not built in a day and can’t be seen in a day. But if you’re planning on staying for any amount of time, you’ll surely need a place to stay. We can provide free bookings for accommodation in Rome hotels and hostels around the city. We also run some award-winning hotels and hostels of our own. In our Accommodation sections, you can reserve a room online, as well as find out about other options, such as renting apartments.
Once you’ve found a place to stay, you’ll want to see the city. But Rome is a giant place with thousands of sight. Where should you start? Our Walking Tours provide the perfect introduction. Several different routes show different sides of the city. Choose the ones that you like. We also provide private Rome tours, Vatican tours, and Pompeii tours.
For those who would rather see the city in more peaceful fashion, Enjoy Rome books (through Vastours) bus tours of the city, the countryside and the rest of Italy.
For those who need to get to Fiumicino Airport during the hours when public transportation is not running, we now offer a shuttle service, making your trip simpler than ever.
And, of course, we provide a page of links where you can look for more information both on and off the web on the city of Rome and its wonders.
We are quite popular with visitors. Praise has been showered upon Enjoy Rome by countless guidebooks, including Let’s Go, Time Out, Rough Guides, Lonely Planet, Guide du Routard, Frommer’s, Rick Steves’ Europe, the Berkeley Guides, and Cognoscenti.
Enjoy Rome can be found at Via Marghera, just north of the main train station, Termini. Exit to
the north (the Via Marsala exit), keep going straight for three blocks, we’re on the left. Our telephone number is +39 06 4451843 (or +39 06 4456890); our fax number is +39 06 4450734.
If you’re unsure how to call internationally, click here for more information. We do, of course, speak English. Email us at info@enjoyrome.com.
61. According to the passage, Enjoy Rome can help you in the following ways EXCEPT ______.
A. booking bus tours of Rome
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B. helping your travel outside Rome
C. renting apartments for your travel in Rome
D. offering a shuttle service when public transportation is busy 62. The purpose of the passage is to ______.
A. advertise Enjoy Rome
B. employ new staff
D. tell us how to travel in Rome B
In the age of reality television, success isn’t the only way to the public eye. Failure can also create fame(名声), just like William Hung, 21, a native of Hong Kong.
Hung recently has made an agreement with US -based entertainment firms Koch Records and fuse Music Network. They will publish a full-length record, titled “The True Idol” on April 6.
The idol (偶像) is a civil engineering student at the University of California at Berkeley. He did a version (改写本) of Ricky Martin’s “She Bangs” on the television show “American Idol 3\on January 27. The Fox TV singing contest searches for pop stars among ordinary people. In the case of Hung, however, his act was so bad that the judges cut him off in mid-act. Hung’s response? “I already gave my best, so I have no regrets at all.” That’s good, because any common person would have found plenty to regret: The off-key singing. The blue Hawaiian shirt worn with pants pulled up too high. The terrible dancing. The hips jerking (摇摆) to a beat that did not belong to the song, maybe not even to this planet. It was, by all accounts, bad.
But, it was this very bad act that sold well.
Marc Juris, president of Fuse, explained it this way: “Everyone of us is happily guilty of singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs with complete freedom, completely off-key and completely unworried. That’s what William did and immediately won the hearts of America.”
Whatever it is, for the moment it’s big. Three websites devoted to Hung have gone up on the Internet in the past few weeks. Versions of his performance have been remixed with hip hop and techno music and have made it to the top 10 request list at a Chicago radio station. So, what does Hung think of this?
“There were all these people saying things about me. A lot were saying I was very courageous and that I was great on the show, but some didn’t have much respect for me and some were kind of mean.” Now he says he’s not so sure whether to distance himself from the glamour (魅力) or to accept it. Returning to normal hasn’t been easy.
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C. attract travelers to Rome
63. What is the main idea of this passage?
A．Sometimes an idol behaves quite foolishly. B．Hung's performance attracted the public eye. C．How an unsuccessful person became famous. D．Success sometimes does not require hard work.
64．Hung was popular in America for all the following reasons EXCEPT ________ A．his hips jerking
B．his off-key singing
C．his excellent version D．his shirt and pants 65．What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 6 refer to? A．Hung's bad act C．Hung’s website.
B．. William Hung.
D．The public’s opinion.
66．Which of the following shows the correct order of what happened to Hung? a．The entertainment firms made an agreement with Hung. b．The judges cut Hung off in mid-act in the singing contest. c．Hung became popular among Americans.
d．Hung gave a terrible performance though he tried his best. e. Three websites put Hung’s funny performance on the Internet.
A．a, c, d．b, e B．d, b, e, c, a C．a, d, b, c, e D．d, b, a, e, c 67．Why was Hung able to win the hearts of America? A．His success was based on his own hard work. B．He attracted people’s attention in the contest. C．He was good-looking though he didn’t sing well. D．His character was completely different from other idols’ C
The defeat of Lee Sedol, the world’s strongest Go (围棋) player, by a Google artificial intelligence (AI) program, looks like another milestone towards a world where computers can do almost
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anything a human can. It is not. There are uncountable things that only a human can do, and that no computer seems close to. The problem is that the purely human things are not economically useful to anyone. The things that computers can be taught to do are by contrast economically fantastic. But even the most powerful programs are not human, just as a shovel (铲车). They have no feelings. What they have is power, but this power is growing at a rate that should frighten us all.
It might be less frightening if computers were truly intelligent, but even the most powerful networks are less human than monstrous Martians (火星人). Their power will be used to make money for the firms that finance their development, and then for others quick and clever enough to take advantage of the new world. It is far more likely that they will increase inequality and still further remove the middle classes as we move towards an hourglass (以金钱来衡量的) society in which everyone is either very rich or very poor and likely indebted.
One of the ill effects of the spread of more intelligent computer networks is, at the same time, the spread of what might be called artificial stupidity. If AI is employed largely to replace unskilled labour, it is most productive when labour is kept unskilled or redefined that way. So much of the work in service industries is now simplified until it might be automated (自动化). And robots will never need pensions. AI is slowly reducing skilled work, like some forms of medical diagnosis, at the same time, as older doctors complain that the traditional human skills of diagnosis are falling out of medical training. The belief that everything worthwhile can be measured and then managed is far more damaging to humanity than the threat of artificial intelligence on its own.
But no victory in complicated Go games can bring us closer to truly human-like computers.
68. By mentioning the defeat of Lee Sedol, the author intends to tell us that ______. A. computers can completely replace humans in everything B. the power of computers is growing at a frightening rate C. humans are of no practical economic values to the society D. AI programs can not compare with humans economically
69. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that the power of computers will ______. A. improve the quality of human life B. promote equality at work places
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2020学年高一英语上学期期中试题 人教版新版
