The communications revolution has influenced both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time,but there have been（ ）views about its economic,political,social and cultural implications.A.competitive B.controversial C.distracting D.
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The communications revolution has influenced both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time,but there have been（ ）views about its economic,political,social and cultural implications.
A.competitive
B.controversial
C.distracting
D.irrational
B.controversial
C.distracting
D.irrational
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第1题：
●Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries.Yet much had happened between.As was discussed before，it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant preelectronic mediam，following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the company of the periodical.It Was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded up，beginning with transport，the railway，and leading on through the telegraph，the telephone，radio，and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane.Not everyone sees that processin perspective.It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized，however，that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century，(66) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s，radically changed the process，although its impact on the media was not immediately(67).As time went by，computers became smaller and more powerful，and they became "personal"too，as well as(68)，with display becoming sharper and storage(69)incteasing.They were thought of，like people，(70)generations，with the distance between generations much smaller.
It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe thecontext within which we now live.The communications revolution has influenced both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time，but there have been controversial view about its economic，political，social and cultural implications."Benefits" have been weighed against"harmful"outcomes.And generalizations have proved difficult.
(66)A.brought B.followed C.stimulated D.characterized
(67)A.apparent B.desirable C.negative D.plausible
(68)A.institutional B.universal C.fundamental D.instrumental
(69)A.ability B.capability C.capacity D.faculty
(70)A.by means of B.in terms of C.with regard to D.in line with
正确答案：B,A,A,C,B
【解析】文章背景分析：这是一篇有关人类信息社会发展过程问题的社科类说明文。文章中心主线分析：文章的中心主线在文章的首句以及第2句就已经明确了。(Comparisons were... drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the15th and 16th centuries.Yet much had happened between)。我们要在以电视发展为标志的20世纪和以印刷术的传播为标志的15、16世纪之间做比较。但是，在这两个阶段之间又有许多发明出现了。
从文章的头两句话可以读出本文探讨的主题是有关人类信息社会的发展过程，而且重点是讲述在20世纪和15、16世纪两个阶段之间发生的事情。
文章结构分析：由于此篇文章讲述的主题是有关人类信息社会的发展过程，时间阶段就成为贯穿全文的一个重要线索。通过总结和比较这些时间阶段，可以很快掌握文章的结构为总分结构。 -
第2题：
Too much work and no time for rest is a ( ) on him both physically and mentally.
A.deposit
B.burden
C.cover
D.revolution
参考答案：B
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第3题：
Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened between. As was discussed before, it was not until the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre- electronic(61), following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the(62)of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution(63)UP, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world of the motor car and the air plane. Not everyone sees that process in(64). It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized,(65), that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century,(66)by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, although its impact on the media was not immediately(67). As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as(68), with display becoming sharper and storage(69)increasing. They were thought of, like people,(70)generations, with the distance between generations much(71).
It was within the computer age that the term "information society" began to be widely used to describe the(72)within which we now live. The communications revolution has(73)both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been(74)view about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed(75)"harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
A．means
B．method
C．medium
D．measure
正确答案：C
解析：文章背景分析：这是一篇有关人类信息社会发展过程问题的社科类说明文。文章中心主线分析：文章的中心主线在文章的首句以及第2句就已经明确了。(Comparisonsweredrawnbetweenthedevelopmentoftelevisioninthe20thcenturyandthediffusionofprintinginthe15thand16thcenturies．Yetmuchhadhappenedbetween)。我们要在以电视发展为标志的20世纪和以印刷术的传播为标志的15、16世纪之间做比较。但是，在这两个阶段之间又有许多发明出现了。从文章的头两句话可以读山本文探讨的主题是有关人类信息社会的发展过程，而且重点是讲述在20世纪和15、16世纪两个阶段之间发生的事情。文章结构分析：由于此篇文章讲述的主题是有关人类信息社会的发展过程，时间阶段就成为贯穿全文的一个重要线索。通过总结和比较这些时间阶段，可以很快掌握文章的结构为总分结构。英语知识运用分析：(61)空是考查名词的专业术语，主语newspaper显然是一种medium(媒体)。 -
第4题：
A
I have two friends． They are Tom and Jim． We go to school at seven o'clock． We go home at five in the afternoon． We go to bed at about nine thirty．
I have a clock． I put it on the desk． Tom has an old watch and Jim has a new watch． Well， what's the time now? It-s about four twenty-five． It's time to play games． We go to bed at 9：30．
( )31．I have _______．
A． an old watch
B． two friends
C． a clock
D． Both B and C
正确答案：D
31.D【解析】根据第一段第一句和第二段第一句可得知。 -
第5题：
Text 2 Should we be thinking of Facebook as a news site?Is that how Facebook thinks of itself?No,not primarily,Facebook now says.In a document posted on Wednesday,the company explained,for the first time,the"values"that govem its news feed,the scrolling list of posts that Facebook presents to its l.65 billion users every time they log on.Though it is couched in the anodyne language of a corporate news release,the document's message should come as a shock to everyone in the media business.According to these values,Facebook has a single overriding purpose,and it isn't news.Facebook is mainly for telling you what's up with your friends and family.Adam Mosseri,the Facebook manager in charge of the news feed,said in a recent interview that informing and entertaining users was also part of the company's mission.But he made clear that news and entertainment were secondary pursuits."We think more,spend more time and work on more projects that try to help people express themselves with their friends or learn about their friends or have conversations with their friends,"he said.As if to underscore the point,the company is making a tweak to its news feed ranking system to increase the prominence ofcoiitent from your friends and family over posts by news companies and other organizations.It is also waming news companies that their traffic might decline as a result of the change.These moves highlight a truth that tends to get lost in commentary about the social network's influence over the news:At Facebook,infonrung users about the world will always take a back seat to cute pictures of babies..Because Facebook does not think ofitself primarily as a news company,it seems to want us to stop expecting it to act like one.Whether we should,though,is a more complicated matter.The company has long been hounded by journalists and activists over its power to shape the news through its algorithms,or the code that determines which stories you see,in the news feed.The question of how to think about Facebook's role in the news-and whether we should demand the same standards of accuracy,objectivity,transparency and fairness that we expect from traditional outlets-may be the primary puzzle ofour new media age.According to Facebook,the values outlined in the document have been the informal governing philosophy of its news feed since it was started a decade ago,and Mr.Zuckerberg and Chris Cox,Facebook's chiefproduct officer,were deeply involved in drafiing the new document.29.Mr.Zuckerberg and Chris Cox believe that.A.serious news is the most valuable to be posted to their users.
B.the standards ofnews they post are accurate and objective.
C.they have the conventional governing policy ofits news.
D.the intefaction with friends is the most important news.答案：D解析：推理判断题。本题询问的是扎克伯格先生和克里斯·考克斯先生的观点，文中最后一段提到两人参与了的文件的发表，证明文件中表达的内容是他们认同的观点，即脸书更注重与朋友及家人的互动，故选D项。【干扰排除】A项“严肃的新闻对他们的用户是最有价值的”和B项“他们所发表的新闻的标准是准确和客观的”，文中第八段提到，我们是否应该要求脸书像传统新闻媒体那样准确、客观、透明和公正，因为它的核心价值不在于此，所以A项和B项不属于扎克伯格先生和克里斯·考克斯先生的观点；C项“他们有传统的新闻管理政策”，文中最后一段提到在10年前，脸书就有“非正式的新闻管理理念”，所以C项错误。 -
第6题：
Text 2 Should we be thinking of Facebook as a news site?Is that how Facebook thinks of itself?No,not primarily,Facebook now says.In a document posted on Wednesday,the company explained,for the first time,the"values"that govem its news feed,the scrolling list of posts that Facebook presents to its l.65 billion users every time they log on.Though it is couched in the anodyne language of a corporate news release,the document's message should come as a shock to everyone in the media business.According to these values,Facebook has a single overriding purpose,and it isn't news.Facebook is mainly for telling you what's up with your friends and family.Adam Mosseri,the Facebook manager in charge of the news feed,said in a recent interview that informing and entertaining users was also part of the company's mission.But he made clear that news and entertainment were secondary pursuits."We think more,spend more time and work on more projects that try to help people express themselves with their friends or learn about their friends or have conversations with their friends,"he said.As if to underscore the point,the company is making a tweak to its news feed ranking system to increase the prominence ofcoiitent from your friends and family over posts by news companies and other organizations.It is also waming news companies that their traffic might decline as a result of the change.These moves highlight a truth that tends to get lost in commentary about the social network's influence over the news:At Facebook,infonrung users about the world will always take a back seat to cute pictures of babies..Because Facebook does not think ofitself primarily as a news company,it seems to want us to stop expecting it to act like one.Whether we should,though,is a more complicated matter.The company has long been hounded by journalists and activists over its power to shape the news through its algorithms,or the code that determines which stories you see,in the news feed.The question of how to think about Facebook's role in the news-and whether we should demand the same standards of accuracy,objectivity,transparency and fairness that we expect from traditional outlets-may be the primary puzzle ofour new media age.According to Facebook,the values outlined in the document have been the informal governing philosophy of its news feed since it was started a decade ago,and Mr.Zuckerberg and Chris Cox,Facebook's chiefproduct officer,were deeply involved in drafiing the new document.28."Take a back seat to cute pictures of babies"probably means that.A.babies are more important for the specific users.
B.babies are the whole world for some users.
C.we should support and care about our babies.
D.most people prefer pictures of adorable babies.答案：A解析：推理判断题。本题询问的是“把可爱的婴儿的照片放在世界新闻前”的含义。take a back seat意思是“处于次要位置”，根据第四、五段可知，脸书注重的是用户与亲人朋友的互动，并非世界新闻，故A项“婴儿对特定用户来说更重要”为正确答案。【干扰排除】B项“婴儿是一些用户的全部”，第五段提到世界新闻只是处于照片的后面，并没有说完全没有新闻，所以B项错误；C项“我们应该支持和关心我们的孩子”，文中没有提到对孩子的关心和支持，故C项错误；D项“大多数人更喜欢可爱的婴儿的照片”，文章中没有提到多数人喜欢婴儿照片，故D项错误。 -
第7题：
Social customs and ways of behaving change．Things which were considered impolite many years ago are now acceptable．Just a few years ago,it was considered impolite behaviour for a man to smoke on the street．No man who thought of himself as being a gentleman would make a fool of himself by smoking when a lady was in a room.
Customs are also different from country to country．Does a man walk on the left or the right of a woman in your country?Or doesn't it matter?What about table manner?Should you use both hands when you are eating?
The Americans and the British not only speak the same language but also share a large number of social customs．For example,in both America and England people shake hands when they meet each other for the first time．Also,most Englishmen will open a door for a woman or offer their seat to a woman,and so will most Americans．Promptness is important both in England and in America．That is,if a dinner invitation is for 7 o'clock,the dinner guest either arrives close to that time or calls up to explain his delay.
The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable--especially if they are your guests．There is an old story about a man who gave a dinner party．When the food was served,one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife．The other guests were amused or shocked,but the host calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way．It would have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or uncomfortable.
Which of the following do you think is the best title for this passage?A.Social Customs and Behaviou
B.Social Lif
C.American and British Custom
D.Promptness Is Importan答案：A解析：根据每段大意：第一段为“社会习俗与行为方式因时而异”；第二段为“社会习俗与行为方式因地而异”；第三段为“英美在习俗与行为方式上的异同点”；最后一段介绍“社会习俗与行为方式方面应注意的一个重要原则”。每段都围绕“社会习俗与行为方式”这一主题，故选A。 -
第8题：
Text 3 The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution,but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and fragile recoveries.And yet,it would be a mistake to think we are right now simply experiencing the painful side of a boom and bust cycle.Certain jobs have gone away for good,outmoded by machines.Since technology has such an insatiable appetite for eating up human jobs,this phenomenon will continue to restructure our economy in ways we can't immediately foresee.When there is rapid improvement in the price and performance of technology,jobs that were once thought to be immune from automation suddenly become threatened.This argument has attracted a lot of attention,via the success of the book Race Against the Machine,by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee,who both hail from MIT's Center for Digital Business.This is a powerful argument,and a scary one.And yet,John Hagel,author of The Power of Pull and other books,says Brynjolfsson and McAfee miss the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U.S.that tend to be“tightly scripted”and“highly standardized”ones that leave no room for“individual initiative or creativity.”In short,these are the types of jobs that machines can perform much better at than human beings.That is how we have put a giant target sign on the backs of American workers,Hagel says.It's time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted,since we are still relying ona very 20th century notion of work,Hagel says.In our rapidly changing economy,we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination“to respond to unexpected events.”That's not something machines are good at.They are designed to perform very predictable activities.As Hagel notes,Brynjolfsson and McAfee indeed touched on this point in their book.We need to reframe race against the machine as race with the machine.In other words,we need to look at the ways in which machines can augment human labor rather than replace it.So then the problem is not really about technology,but rather,“how do we innovate our institutions and our work practices?”
Which of the following could be the most appropriate title for the text?A.How to Innovate Our Work Practices?
B.Machines will Replace Human Labor
C.Can We Win the Race Against Machines?
D.Economic Downturns Stimulate Innovations答案：C解析：主旨题【命题思路】这是一道主旨题，考查对文章的归纳总结，且正确选项应具有“宏观覆盖性”。【直击答案】综合各段大意可知，本文讨论的核心是“人机相争”这一现象。面对机器对人类岗位的吞噬，作者强调要改变我们的工作模式，注重在工作中发挥人的主动性与创造力，使机器帮助人。因此正确答案为选项C。【干扰排除】选项A出现在最后一段最后一句话。但该句仅指出了解决人机相争问题的方向，而文中并未涉及“究竟如何革新工作方式”的内容。文章首段提到了“某些工作被机器所淘汰”，但并不能推出选项B，且该选项与全文意思不合。选项D只是第一段提到的细节信息，不具有概括性。 -
第9题：
Text 2 A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay,and 7million people arrived while about 2 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had an affectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio,”birds of passage.Today,we are much more rigid about immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We don't need more categories,but we need to change the way we think about categories.We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving in the gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home healthcare aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle laws,jurisdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
The author suggests that the birds of passage today should be treated____A.as faithful partners
B.with economic favors
C.with legal tolerance
D.as mighty rivals答案：C解析：推理题【命题思路】本题为推理题，侧重考查对原文细节信息的理解和概括。【直击答案】根据题干，可定位至第五段。首句指出我们应有新态度，第二句进行具体阐述，末句说包含那些在现今体系中难以合法理解的，即说明要给予法律宽容。首句的“logic of right or wrong”和末句的“legally”为同义表达。故C项正确，该选项是第五段的概括表达。【排除干扰】A、B和D项在文中未提及，是命题人根据文章主题给出的无中生有的干扰项。 -
第10题：
填空题I think it’s about time we talked ____（严肃地）about our relationship.正确答案： seriously解析：
句意：我想现在该是认真严肃地谈谈我们之间关系的时候了。seriously“严肃地”。 -
第11题：
问答题◆Topic 7：TV—the Pandora’s Box to Children? Questions for Reference: 1) Some people think children’s spending time on TV and video is good, while others think it is bad. Discuss both views. 2) Give your own opinion about this issue. 3) What can we do to ensure the TV and video make a positive effect on our children?正确答案： 【参考答案】
It is true that a lot of children, from below 3 to high school, would like to spend time in watching a range of TV programs and videos. One of the most obvious reasons for this is that these are so attractive, vivid and touching our lives that the children who are curious cannot resist their temptation at all.
Some people, especially the parents, argue that this is very damaging. They probably begin by pointing out that their children who are limited in self-control and self-principle will easily take too much time in watching instead of being back to study after doing for a short while. In addition to this, it is well aware that the amount of violence and unhealthy pictures are filled with videos for some reasons. When children who are still simple watch too much amount without any correct guidance, some of them will easily break the laws in the realistic world by imitating the details of crimes.
However, others who disbelieve watching TV or video is bad claim that TV programs and the amount of videos can fully help children understand outside world or relax their stressful brains after intense study. Obviously, those who often watch TV have a wider range of knowledge and better understandings to our society than those who do not. All of this is beneficial to children’s growth and their future social life.
Overall, I would like to say that watching TV or videos are necessary for children who need knowledge and information, but the point is that parents must ensure their children not to watch too much or too long, and at the same time the Government should give a harsh warning to media with overuse of unhealthy contents. 解析： 暂无解析 -
第12题：
问答题Practice 2 Globalization is a fact of life. But we have underestimated its fragility. The problem is this. The spread of markets grows faster than the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take. History teaches US that such an imbalance between the economic, social and political realms can never be sustained for very long. The industrialized countries learned that lesson in their bitter and costly encounter with the Great Depression. In order to restore social harmony and political stability they adopted social safety nets and other measures. That made possible successive moves towards liberalization, which brought about the long post-war period of expansion.正确答案：
【参考译文】
全球化已经成为无法回避的事实。但是我认为我们低估了它的脆弱性。问题就在于此。市场的扩展已经远远超出社会及其政治制度的适应能力,而引导市场发展更无从谈起。历史教育我们:这种经济、社会和政治领域发展的不平衡绝不会持续很久。
工业化国家在大萧条的痛苦和代价高昂的遭遇中吸取了这一教训。为了恢复社会和谐和政治稳定,他们采用了社会安全网和其他一些措施。这使后来迈向自由化的举措得以实施,并带来了长期的战后市场扩张。解析： 暂无解析 -
第13题：
We laugh at jokes，but seldom about how they work．
A．we think
B．think we
C．we do think
D．do we think
正确答案：D
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第14题：
How do you think of the theme of our event?()
A. It's pretty good.
B. I feel so sorry about that.
C. I'd like to have some tea.
参考答案：A
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第15题：
— How do you think I should receive the reporter? — How you feel about him, try to be polite.()
正确答案:错
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第16题：
请阅读短文，完成此题。
It is frequently assumed that the mechanization of work has a revolutionary effect on the livesof the people who operate the new machines and on the society into which the machines have beenintroduced. For example, it has been suggested that the employment of women in industry takethem out of the. household, their traditional sphere and fundamentally alter their position in society.In the nineteenth century, when women began to enter factories, Jules Simon, a French politician,warned that by doing so, women would give up their femininity. Fredrich Engels, however,predicted that women would be liberated from the"social, legal, and economic subordination" ofthe family by technological developments that made possible the recruitment of "the whole femalesex .., into public industry." Observers thus differed concerning the social desirability ofmechanization's effects, but thev agreed that it would trmsiorm women's lives.
Historians, particularly thnse investigating the history of women, now seriously question thisassumption of transforming power. They conclude that such dramatic technological innovations asthe spinning jenny, the sewing tnachine, the typewriter, and the vacuum cleaner have not resultedin equally dramatic social changes in women's economic position or in the prevailing evaluation ofwomen's work. The employment of young women in textile mills during the Industrial Revolutionwas largely and extension of an older pattern of employment for young, single women as domestics.It was not the change in office technology, but rather the separation of secretarial work, previouslyseen as an apprenticeship for beginning managers, from administrative work that in the 1880'screated a new class of "dead end" jobs, thenceforth considered "women's work". The increase inthe numbers of married women enployed outside the home in the twentieth century, had less to dowith the mechanization of housework and an increase in leisure time for these women than it didwith their own economic necessity and with high marriage rates that shrank the available pool ofsingle women worke, previously, in many cases, the only women employers would hire.
Women's work has changed considerably in the past 200 years, moving from the household tothe ofiice or the factory, and later becoming mostly white-collar instead of blue-collar work. Fundamentally, however, the conditions under which women work have changed little since the Industrial Revolution: the segregation of occupatious by gender, lower pay for women as a group,jobs that require relatively low levels of skill and offer women little opportunity for advancement all persist, while women's household labour remains demanding. Recent historical investigation has led to a major revision of the notion that lec.hnology is always inherently revolutionary in its effectson society. Mechanization may even have slowed any change in the traditional position of womeu both in the labour market and in the home.
What is the main idea of the first paragraph?
查看材料A．The mechanization of work has a revolutionary eftct.
B．The social mechanization would "aftct women's lives.
C．The social status of women has changed.
D．Observers have different ideas about the effect of social mechanizatiou.答案：B解析：第一段讲到，普遍认为：劳动的机械化对操作机器的人以及引进机器的社会都有革命性的影响。工业中雇佣妇女使她们从家务这样的传统领域中解放出来，并且从根本上改善了她们在社会上的地位。接着讲到，观察者关于社会机械化对妇女的影响持有不同观点，但他们一致认为这必将改变妇女们的生活。由此可知，第一段主要讲了社会机械化对妇女的影响，B项符合。 -
第17题：
Text 2 Should we be thinking of Facebook as a news site?Is that how Facebook thinks of itself?No,not primarily,Facebook now says.In a document posted on Wednesday,the company explained,for the first time,the"values"that govem its news feed,the scrolling list of posts that Facebook presents to its l.65 billion users every time they log on.Though it is couched in the anodyne language of a corporate news release,the document's message should come as a shock to everyone in the media business.According to these values,Facebook has a single overriding purpose,and it isn't news.Facebook is mainly for telling you what's up with your friends and family.Adam Mosseri,the Facebook manager in charge of the news feed,said in a recent interview that informing and entertaining users was also part of the company's mission.But he made clear that news and entertainment were secondary pursuits."We think more,spend more time and work on more projects that try to help people express themselves with their friends or learn about their friends or have conversations with their friends,"he said.As if to underscore the point,the company is making a tweak to its news feed ranking system to increase the prominence ofcoiitent from your friends and family over posts by news companies and other organizations.It is also waming news companies that their traffic might decline as a result of the change.These moves highlight a truth that tends to get lost in commentary about the social network's influence over the news:At Facebook,infonrung users about the world will always take a back seat to cute pictures of babies..Because Facebook does not think ofitself primarily as a news company,it seems to want us to stop expecting it to act like one.Whether we should,though,is a more complicated matter.The company has long been hounded by journalists and activists over its power to shape the news through its algorithms,or the code that determines which stories you see,in the news feed.The question of how to think about Facebook's role in the news-and whether we should demand the same standards of accuracy,objectivity,transparency and fairness that we expect from traditional outlets-may be the primary puzzle ofour new media age.According to Facebook,the values outlined in the document have been the informal governing philosophy of its news feed since it was started a decade ago,and Mr.Zuckerberg and Chris Cox,Facebook's chiefproduct officer,were deeply involved in drafiing the new document.27.By"making a tweak",Facebook means to.A.adjust the ranking system of the different news.
B.give priority to news about friends and family.
C.solve the traffic problem online.
D.wam media companies to change their organizations.答案：B解析：事实细节题。第四段第一句提到脸书网“making a tweak”是为了increase the prominence of content from your friends and family（我们看到的大都是和朋友及家人有关的消息），B项priority和prominence是同义词，因此可推测B项“优先考虑朋友和家人的消息”是正确选项。【干扰排除】A项“调整不同新闻的评级系统”，第四段第一句提到ranking system（评级系统），但是调整的是来自朋友和家人的消息，而并非各种新闻，故A项排除；C项“在线解决交通问题”，第四段第二句提到traffic might decline（浏览量会下降），指的是新闻的访问量下降，并非真正的交通问题，所以C项排除；D项“警告媒体公司改变他们的组织机构”，第四段第二句提到waming news companies（对新闻公司的警示），指的是他们的浏览量会下降，而不是警告他们要改变组织机构，所以D项排除。 -
第18题：
Text 2 Should we be thinking of Facebook as a news site?Is that how Facebook thinks of itself?No,not primarily,Facebook now says.In a document posted on Wednesday,the company explained,for the first time,the"values"that govem its news feed,the scrolling list of posts that Facebook presents to its l.65 billion users every time they log on.Though it is couched in the anodyne language of a corporate news release,the document's message should come as a shock to everyone in the media business.According to these values,Facebook has a single overriding purpose,and it isn't news.Facebook is mainly for telling you what's up with your friends and family.Adam Mosseri,the Facebook manager in charge of the news feed,said in a recent interview that informing and entertaining users was also part of the company's mission.But he made clear that news and entertainment were secondary pursuits."We think more,spend more time and work on more projects that try to help people express themselves with their friends or learn about their friends or have conversations with their friends,"he said.As if to underscore the point,the company is making a tweak to its news feed ranking system to increase the prominence ofcoiitent from your friends and family over posts by news companies and other organizations.It is also waming news companies that their traffic might decline as a result of the change.These moves highlight a truth that tends to get lost in commentary about the social network's influence over the news:At Facebook,infonrung users about the world will always take a back seat to cute pictures of babies..Because Facebook does not think ofitself primarily as a news company,it seems to want us to stop expecting it to act like one.Whether we should,though,is a more complicated matter.The company has long been hounded by journalists and activists over its power to shape the news through its algorithms,or the code that determines which stories you see,in the news feed.The question of how to think about Facebook's role in the news-and whether we should demand the same standards of accuracy,objectivity,transparency and fairness that we expect from traditional outlets-may be the primary puzzle ofour new media age.According to Facebook,the values outlined in the document have been the informal governing philosophy of its news feed since it was started a decade ago,and Mr.Zuckerberg and Chris Cox,Facebook's chiefproduct officer,were deeply involved in drafiing the new document.26.According to the first paragraph,we can infer that Facebook.A.was originally designed to be a news website.
B.presents important news to its l.65 billion users.
C.values the relationship with your family and friends most.
D.doesn't want to work with media business.答案：C解析：推理判断题。本题是对第一段内容的推断。根据第一段最后一句“是为了与你分享你的朋友和家人的最新动态”，可以推测C项是正确答案。【干扰排除】A项“最初被设计为一个新闻网站”，第一段第三句已经提到，脸书网不是新闻网站；B项“向其16.5亿用户提供重要新闻”，第一段第四句提到16.5亿用户，但是这16.5亿用户一登录，看到的是关于朋友和家人的最新动态，而并非重要新闻，所以B项排除；D项“不想与媒体业务合作”，第一段第五句提到a shock to everyone in the media business（媒体从业人员还是被震惊到了），但没有提到脸书不想与媒体合作，D项可排除。 -
第19题：
Text 2 A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay,and 7million people arrived while about 2 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had an affectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio,”birds of passage.Today,we are much more rigid about immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We don't need more categories,but we need to change the way we think about categories.We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving in the gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home healthcare aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle laws,jurisdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
According to the author,today's birds of passage want____A.financial incentives
B.a global recognition
C.opportunities to get regular jobs
D.the freedom to stay and leave答案：D解析：细节题【命题思路】细节题的解答要求考生准确回文定位，并且逐一对应判断出答案。需要注意的是细节题的正确选项很少是原文信息的复现，而是概括性总结或者前后几句话的概括。错误选项则往往是原文信息的过度推理和断章取义的理解或者是无中生有。【直击答案】根据题干定位至第三段。题干的want与原文的prefer to是同义词，因而解题关键在于对最后两句话的理解。They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.强调的是工作机会。故D项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A项是对原文的片面理解，通过第三段第二句They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas判断出吸引移民者的不仅仅是来自金钱的激励（money），还有工作机会和工作理念（work and ideas），A项financial incentives（经济鼓励）仅仅是money，因而错误。B项选和C项在文中未提及也不选。 -
第20题：
Text 2 A century ago,the immigrants from across the Atlantic included settlers and sojourners.Along with the many folks looking to make a permanent home in the United States came those who had no intention to stay,and 7million people arrived while about 2 million departed.About a quarter of all Italian immigrants,for example,eventually returned to Italy for good.They even had an affectionate nickname,“uccelli di passaggio,”birds of passage.Today,we are much more rigid about immigrants.We divide newcomers into two categories:legal or illegal,good or bad.We hail them as Americans in the making,or brand them as aliens to be kicked out.That framework has contributed mightily to our broken immigration system and the long political paralysis over how to fix it.We don't need more categories,but we need to change the way we think about categories.We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal.To start,we can recognize the new birds of passage,those living and thriving in the gray areas.We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges.Crop pickers,violinists,construction workers,entrepreneurs,engineers,home healthcare aides and physicists are among today's birds of passage.They are energetic participants in a global economy driven by the flow of work,money and ideas.They prefer to come and go as opportunity calls them.They can manage to have a job in one place and a family in another.With or without permission,they straddle laws,jurisdictions and identities with ease.We need them to imagine the United States as a place where they can be productive for a while without committing themselves to staying forever.We need them to feel that home can be both here and there and that they can belong to two nations honorably.Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.Looking beyond the culture war logic of right or wrong means opening up the middle ground and understanding that managing immigration today requires multiple paths and multiple outcomes,including some that are not easy to accomplish legally in the existing system.
It is implied in paragraph 2 that the current immigration system in the US_____A.needs new immigrant categories
B.has loosened control over immigrants
C.should be adopted to meet challenges
D.has been fixed via political means答案：C解析：推理题【命题思路】推理题考查的不仅是对文章信息的理解，更考查了对全文主题的了解。因此需要准确定位，并根据段落中心甚至全文中心来最终得出答案。【直击答案】根据题干定位到第二段。由最后一句话We might then begin to solve our immigration challenges（然后也许我们就能开始面对移民挑战了）可以判断出，本段第四句至第六句的we need to…和we can….是我们可以面对这个挑战的前提，即我们应该如何去迎接这些挑战。故C项为正确答案。【排除干扰】A、B、D三个选项都错在混淆原文信息，虽然句式或者信息与原文中很相似或者重合，但是选项中却改写了其中的某些成分。A项“need categories”与第二段第四句We don't need more categories表达意思相反。B项“loosen control”与本段第五句We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal的strict（严格的）相反。D项“political means”（政治手段），与原文中第五句话We need to look beyond strict definitions of legal and illegal不一致。 -
第21题：
共用题干
第三篇
Reading Poem
No poem should ever be discussed or"analyzed",until it has been read aloud by someone, teacher or student.Better still,perhaps,is the practice of reading it twice,once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end,so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.
All discussions of poetry are,in fact,preparations for reading it aloud,and the reading of the poem is,finally,the most telling"interpretation"of it,suggesting tone,rhythm, and meaning all at once.Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice,on records or on film,is obviously a special reward.But even those aids to teaching can not replace the student and teacher reading it or, best of all,reciting it.
I have come to think,in fact,that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than"analyzing"it,if there isn't time for both.I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry.Poetry is"a criticism of life","a heightening of life,enjoyment with others".It is"an approach to the truth of feeling",and it"can save your life".It also deserves a place in the teaching of languages and literature more central than it presently occupies.
I am not saying that every English teacher must teach poetry.Those who don't like it should not be forced to put that dislike on anyone else.But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature,about its sound as well as its sense,and they must make room in
the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.The recitation of a poetry by the teacher or a student in the classroom______.
A:is the best way to understand it
B:easily arouses some discussion among the students
C:helps the teachers to analyse it
D:can not take the place of the poet reading it analyse答案：A解析：第一段第一句强调朗读诗应置于讨论和“分析”诗歌之前，第二段第一句进一步说讨论诗都是为朗读做准备，并且朗读诗最终是对诗歌最生动有效的诊释。第三段第一句也强调朗读诗的重要性远大于“分析”诗。因此，朗读、讨论、分析三者比较，朗读诗是能够更好地理解诗的最好方式。
第二段最后一句说即使教学辅助设备也无法取代学生和教师朗读诗，最好能够背诵。由此可以推断出背诵是理解诗的最好方式。
第三段讲我认为作为英语教师，我们的目标之一是使学生热爱诗歌。所以答案是热爱诗。
第三段最后一句说在语言和文学教学中，诗也理应占据比现在更重要的位置。所以应强调诗歌教学，应选A。注：" stress”是“强调”的意思。
" make room for”本意是“为······腾出空位”。此处应理解为在课上安排时间聆听和思考诗歌，即“leave a certain amount of time”之意。 -
第22题：
问答题Passage 1 Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened between. As was discussed before, it was not 1 the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic medium, following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the company of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution speeded 2 , beginning 3 transport, the railway, and leading on through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures into the 20th-century world 4 the motor car and the airplane. Not everyone sees that 5 in perspective. It is generally recognized, however, that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, followed 6 the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, 7 its impact 8 the media was not immediately apparent. 9 time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became “personal” too, as 10 as institutional, with display becoming sharper and storage capacity 11 . They were thought of, like people, in terms of generations, with the distance between generations much smaller. It was within the computer age that the term “information society” began to be widely used to describe the context 12 we now live. The communications revolution has 13 both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, 14 there have been controversial views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. “Benefits” have been weighed 15 “harmful” outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.正确答案： 1. until 本句为It is not until…that…的强调句型,意思为“直到……才……”。这句话是说直到19世纪报纸才成为在电子时代之前最重要的媒介。
2. up speed up加速发展;超速行驶。这里表示通信革命加速发展,用speed up。speed up
3. with begin with以……开始。这里指通信革命以交通开始。
4. of 句意:信息革命以火车开始,引领各种产业继续发展,从电报、电话、无线电和电影,再到20世纪的汽车和飞机。本题填入of,
5. process 空格前面提到了信息革命逐渐加速的这一具体过程,空格后面提到一般认为计算机的引进和集成电路的发明从根本上改变了这个进程。由此可推测,此处意思为:并不是所有人都正确地看待这个过程。in perspective通盘地,正确地。
6. by “20世纪初计算机的采用”这个事件发生在前,而“20世纪60年代集成电路的发明”这个事件发生在后,所以用followed by表示“紧跟其后”。
7. although 上文讲述到计算机和集成电路的发明根本上改变了这个进程,而下文又叙述其对媒体的影响并没有即刻体现出来,所以上下文之间是让步关系,故填入although。
8. on impact on sth.对……造成影响。
9. As 本句主句结构完整,因此空格部分应该填入连词,引导状语从句。As time goes by随着时间的流逝。
10. well as well as也;和……一样。句意:计算机变得更小巧、工作能力更强,而且也变得更加私人和机构化。小巧和能力变强是对比关系,“personal(个人的)”和institutional(社会机构的)对照。
11. increasing 句意:显示屏变得更加清晰,而储存容量不断增加。storage capacity储存容量。根据上下文语境,此处应该是指储存容量增加。
13. where 空格部分后面接定语从句修饰context。根据上下文可知,本句是指在计算机时代,信息社会被广泛用来形容我们现在的生活背景,因此此处需要使用where。
13. influenced 该段主要是介绍信息革命对我们生活的影响。因此此处填入influenced。
14. but 空格的前面部分讲到信息革命影响了我们的工作、娱乐等等,空格后面讲到关于其各方面的影响存在争议,前后两部分构成转折,因此此处填入连词but。
15.against weigh against权衡,一般用于两个相对的事物。这里是说益处和坏处的权衡。解析： 暂无解析 -
第23题：
单选题Both passages suggest which of the following about evolution?AThe fossil record is incomplete, so we must supplement it with other evidence.
BOur claims about evolutionary processes should be supported with clear evidence.
CHumans are no longer closely related to other species on the planet.
DMacroevolution has been shown to take place millions of times since life began.
EIndisputable evidence for evolution can be found in humans' genetic code.
正确答案： B解析：
第一篇文章用一些基因来证明进化，而第二篇文章认为进化论这个观点是可疑的，因为缺乏足够的证据。