英语 热门试卷

第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。

                                A

    You may haveknown YouTube quite well. This website is pretty famous for video viewing andsharing on the Internet. Apart from YouTube, there are other websites that alsohave a large video library.

    Vimeo

    One of the mostpopular websites to upload and show videos is Vimeo. You can trust the privacyof these videos as Vimeo gives you the freedom to decide who views the videos.You can connect to people by following them and receive updates from themalongside sending messages to them. The Vimeo Video School will help yousharpen your video skills by taking their video tutorials.

    Videojug

    From food anddrink to technology and cars, Videojug has a huge video library with 60,000+“how to” videos and guides. They have experts on each topic who carefullyexamine every video, and it is only after this check that the videos arepublished. If you like any video and want to use it in your blog, you can usetheir embed code (嵌入代码) for the same.

    Veoh

    If you want towatch movies online for free, then you must log on to Veoh. You can watch fullepisodes (集) of your favorite television shows, even on your iPod touch,iPhone, or iPad. They also offer a software application, Veoh Web Player, wherefull-length videos can be viewed. Before a user may share a video through Veoh,he must register.

    SchoolTube

    This website iscompletely devoted to educational videos. All the content is monitored byteachers before uploading. Thousands of school kids are users of this site, whoupload about 1,000 videos a day. Whenever a student wants to upload a video, ateacher from the same school has to first approve of it before uploading thesame.

What can we do on Vimeo?

                                B

    “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame.

    “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldn’t wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies.

    As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced.

    But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahir’s The Namesake. I began to realize that aperson’s culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of.

    Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “It’s not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“It’s a prayer mark, a tilak.”

What was the author’s attitude towards Indian culture when he was a teen?

                                A

    You may haveknown YouTube quite well. This website is pretty famous for video viewing andsharing on the Internet. Apart from YouTube, there are other websites that alsohave a large video library.

    Vimeo

    One of the mostpopular websites to upload and show videos is Vimeo. You can trust the privacyof these videos as Vimeo gives you the freedom to decide who views the videos.You can connect to people by following them and receive updates from themalongside sending messages to them. The Vimeo Video School will help yousharpen your video skills by taking their video tutorials.

    Videojug

    From food anddrink to technology and cars, Videojug has a huge video library with 60,000+“how to” videos and guides. They have experts on each topic who carefullyexamine every video, and it is only after this check that the videos arepublished. If you like any video and want to use it in your blog, you can usetheir embed code (嵌入代码) for the same.

    Veoh

    If you want towatch movies online for free, then you must log on to Veoh. You can watch fullepisodes (集) of your favorite television shows, even on your iPod touch,iPhone, or iPad. They also offer a software application, Veoh Web Player, wherefull-length videos can be viewed. Before a user may share a video through Veoh,he must register.

    SchoolTube

    This website iscompletely devoted to educational videos. All the content is monitored byteachers before uploading. Thousands of school kids are users of this site, whoupload about 1,000 videos a day. Whenever a student wants to upload a video, ateacher from the same school has to first approve of it before uploading thesame.

While visiting Veoh, you must      .

                                C

    This evening,while searching through the files on an old shelf trying to look for aself-improvement book, I found an aged file containing some of the examinationpapers I’d taken during my pre-university days. It was on economics, a subjectthat I didn’t really like much back then.

    As I lookedthrough the papers, memories of the past flooded my mind. I saw myself sittingon one of the study tables, burying my head into some ten years’ series. Backthen, it was popular for most Singaporean students to treat the ten years’series, which basically is a collection of past years’ Cambridge A levelexamination papers, as if their life depended on it.

    It was duringthose times that I first started to set goals for myself. I didn’t know muchabout goal setting then. I didn’t use any goal tracking tool either. All I knewwas that I had to make it to university. I skipped breaks to go through mylecture notes and stayed back late after a tiring school day for more revisionswith my classmates, so much so that I would miss the school lock-out hours andhad to climb college gates in order to leave. It was perhaps this attitude thatignited my determination to go through what I had to do to get this far.

    Yes, it may havebeen hard. But the sweet taste of victory experienced at the point of receivingmy result slip was wonderful and it was something that I would never forget forthe rest of my life.

    I closed the fileand dropped it into the dustbin in the room. It’s time to get kicking off withmy next goal. And by writing this, I know I’m getting closer.

What was the author’s purpose of staying back late after school?

                                A

    You may haveknown YouTube quite well. This website is pretty famous for video viewing andsharing on the Internet. Apart from YouTube, there are other websites that alsohave a large video library.

    Vimeo

    One of the mostpopular websites to upload and show videos is Vimeo. You can trust the privacyof these videos as Vimeo gives you the freedom to decide who views the videos.You can connect to people by following them and receive updates from themalongside sending messages to them. The Vimeo Video School will help yousharpen your video skills by taking their video tutorials.

    Videojug

    From food anddrink to technology and cars, Videojug has a huge video library with 60,000+“how to” videos and guides. They have experts on each topic who carefullyexamine every video, and it is only after this check that the videos arepublished. If you like any video and want to use it in your blog, you can usetheir embed code (嵌入代码) for the same.

    Veoh

    If you want towatch movies online for free, then you must log on to Veoh. You can watch fullepisodes (集) of your favorite television shows, even on your iPod touch,iPhone, or iPad. They also offer a software application, Veoh Web Player, wherefull-length videos can be viewed. Before a user may share a video through Veoh,he must register.

    SchoolTube

    This website iscompletely devoted to educational videos. All the content is monitored byteachers before uploading. Thousands of school kids are users of this site, whoupload about 1,000 videos a day. Whenever a student wants to upload a video, ateacher from the same school has to first approve of it before uploading thesame.

Which website should you visit if you want to learn how to build a car model?

                                B

    “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame.

    “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldn’t wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies.

    As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced.

    But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahir’s The Namesake. I began to realize that aperson’s culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of.

    Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “It’s not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“It’s a prayer mark, a tilak.”

What did the author do after hearing the young boy’s words?

                                B

    “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame.

    “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldn’t wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies.

    As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced.

    But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahir’s The Namesake. I began to realize that aperson’s culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of.

    Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “It’s not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“It’s a prayer mark, a tilak.”

According to Paragraph 4, The Namesake      .

                                B

    “Your forehead isbleeding,” a young boy told me, staring at the red prayer powder on myforehead. My embarrassment was immediate. My four-year-old self turned awayfrom my classmates and ran into the bathroom. Only water could erase my shame.

    “I washed theblood off,” I told him later. He smiled, and I was satisfied. I was one of themagain. Tomorrow I would tell my mother that I wouldn’t wear the tilak (吉祥痣), the prayermark that was applied during major religious ceremonies.

    As a teen, Irefused to take Indian food for lunch. I deleted Bollywood songs from my iPodin case a friend saw them. I hated my name which was too long. I was tired ofhaving to correct new teachers when they mispronounced it. But even as Ioutwardly avoided my culture, inwardly I was attached to it. The holiday thatexcited me most was Diwali, when my mom would cook a banquet. To me, theprettiest woman in the world was Bollywood actress Priyanka Chopra, and I oftenfound myself concerned about major social issues in India. Clearly, I wastwo-faced.

    But with age camethe intellectual maturity that reconciled (协调) my inner and outeridentities. I attended McNair, a school that took pride in its diversity. I wasexposed to books like Jhumpa Lahir’s The Namesake. I began to realize that aperson’s culture framed his perspectives and that a true understanding of theworld could only be achieved if different cultures were openly accepted. Withthis understanding came a new-found comfort in myself. My Indian ethnicity wassomething to be proud of.

    Now looking inthe mirror, I lightly run my fingers over the spot on my forehead where thetilak belongs. “It’s not blood,” I whisper to a long-lost four-year-old boy.“It’s a prayer mark, a tilak.”

What do the author’s words in the last paragraph imply?

                                C

    This evening,while searching through the files on an old shelf trying to look for aself-improvement book, I found an aged file containing some of the examinationpapers I’d taken during my pre-university days. It was on economics, a subjectthat I didn’t really like much back then.

    As I lookedthrough the papers, memories of the past flooded my mind. I saw myself sittingon one of the study tables, burying my head into some ten years’ series. Backthen, it was popular for most Singaporean students to treat the ten years’series, which basically is a collection of past years’ Cambridge A levelexamination papers, as if their life depended on it.

    It was duringthose times that I first started to set goals for myself. I didn’t know muchabout goal setting then. I didn’t use any goal tracking tool either. All I knewwas that I had to make it to university. I skipped breaks to go through mylecture notes and stayed back late after a tiring school day for more revisionswith my classmates, so much so that I would miss the school lock-out hours andhad to climb college gates in order to leave. It was perhaps this attitude thatignited my determination to go through what I had to do to get this far.

    Yes, it may havebeen hard. But the sweet taste of victory experienced at the point of receivingmy result slip was wonderful and it was something that I would never forget forthe rest of my life.

    I closed the fileand dropped it into the dustbin in the room. It’s time to get kicking off withmy next goal. And by writing this, I know I’m getting closer.

Why did the author search through the files on an old shelf?

                                C

    This evening,while searching through the files on an old shelf trying to look for aself-improvement book, I found an aged file containing some of the examinationpapers I’d taken during my pre-university days. It was on economics, a subjectthat I didn’t really like much back then.

    As I lookedthrough the papers, memories of the past flooded my mind. I saw myself sittingon one of the study tables, burying my head into some ten years’ series. Backthen, it was popular for most Singaporean students to treat the ten years’series, which basically is a collection of past years’ Cambridge A levelexamination papers, as if their life depended on it.

    It was duringthose times that I first started to set goals for myself. I didn’t know muchabout goal setting then. I didn’t use any goal tracking tool either. All I knewwas that I had to make it to university. I skipped breaks to go through mylecture notes and stayed back late after a tiring school day for more revisionswith my classmates, so much so that I would miss the school lock-out hours andhad to climb college gates in order to leave. It was perhaps this attitude thatignited my determination to go through what I had to do to get this far.

    Yes, it may havebeen hard. But the sweet taste of victory experienced at the point of receivingmy result slip was wonderful and it was something that I would never forget forthe rest of my life.

    I closed the fileand dropped it into the dustbin in the room. It’s time to get kicking off withmy next goal. And by writing this, I know I’m getting closer.

When the author first started to set goals for himself, he      .

                                D

    In an effort tocontrol America’s deadly opioid (类鸦片) crisis, federal healthofficials are urging doctors to largely avoid prescribing (开处方) highlyaddictive painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin when treating patients forchronic (慢性的) pain.

    The newguidelines, issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,are directed at primary care providers, who issue about half of all opioidprescriptions.

    Since 1999, suchprescriptions and sales have increased largely in the United States, whichhelped create the current opioid abuse and overdose (过量). In 2012 alone,doctors handed out 259 million opioid prescriptions — one bottle for everyadult in the United States.

    “More than 40Americans die each day from prescription opioid overdoses. We must act now,”CDC Director Tom Friedan said in a statement on Tuesday. “Overprescribingopioids largely for chronic pain is a key driver of America’s drug-overdose.The guideline will give physicians and patients the information they need tomake more informed decisions about treatment.”

    The 12 guidelinespromote the use of non-opioid treatment when possible and aim to help primarycare doctors determine when and if opioids are necessary to treat chronic pain.When they are prescribed, doctors should use the lowest possible amount, theCDC said. For short-term pain, the agency said a prescription of three days orless will often be enough. The guidelines do not apply to cancer andend-of-life care.

    In December, theCDC had delayed publication of its guidelines, opening them up to a 30-daypublic comment period. The drug industry and pain doctors voiced strongopposition, arguing that the recommendations could prevent real patients fromobtaining needed medications, according to The New York Times.

    The CDC notedTuesday that in developing the guidelines, it followed an “accurate scientificprocess using the best available scientific evidence, consulting with experts,and listening to comments from the public and partner organizations.”

According to the passage, Vicodin is      .

                                C

    This evening,while searching through the files on an old shelf trying to look for aself-improvement book, I found an aged file containing some of the examinationpapers I’d taken during my pre-university days. It was on economics, a subjectthat I didn’t really like much back then.

    As I lookedthrough the papers, memories of the past flooded my mind. I saw myself sittingon one of the study tables, burying my head into some ten years’ series. Backthen, it was popular for most Singaporean students to treat the ten years’series, which basically is a collection of past years’ Cambridge A levelexamination papers, as if their life depended on it.

    It was duringthose times that I first started to set goals for myself. I didn’t know muchabout goal setting then. I didn’t use any goal tracking tool either. All I knewwas that I had to make it to university. I skipped breaks to go through mylecture notes and stayed back late after a tiring school day for more revisionswith my classmates, so much so that I would miss the school lock-out hours andhad to climb college gates in order to leave. It was perhaps this attitude thatignited my determination to go through what I had to do to get this far.

    Yes, it may havebeen hard. But the sweet taste of victory experienced at the point of receivingmy result slip was wonderful and it was something that I would never forget forthe rest of my life.

    I closed the fileand dropped it into the dustbin in the room. It’s time to get kicking off withmy next goal. And by writing this, I know I’m getting closer.

Which of the following can best replace the underlined word “ignited” in Paragraph 3?

                                D

    In an effort tocontrol America’s deadly opioid (类鸦片) crisis, federal healthofficials are urging doctors to largely avoid prescribing (开处方) highlyaddictive painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin when treating patients forchronic (慢性的) pain.

    The newguidelines, issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,are directed at primary care providers, who issue about half of all opioidprescriptions.

    Since 1999, suchprescriptions and sales have increased largely in the United States, whichhelped create the current opioid abuse and overdose (过量). In 2012 alone,doctors handed out 259 million opioid prescriptions — one bottle for everyadult in the United States.

    “More than 40Americans die each day from prescription opioid overdoses. We must act now,”CDC Director Tom Friedan said in a statement on Tuesday. “Overprescribingopioids largely for chronic pain is a key driver of America’s drug-overdose.The guideline will give physicians and patients the information they need tomake more informed decisions about treatment.”

    The 12 guidelinespromote the use of non-opioid treatment when possible and aim to help primarycare doctors determine when and if opioids are necessary to treat chronic pain.When they are prescribed, doctors should use the lowest possible amount, theCDC said. For short-term pain, the agency said a prescription of three days orless will often be enough. The guidelines do not apply to cancer andend-of-life care.

    In December, theCDC had delayed publication of its guidelines, opening them up to a 30-daypublic comment period. The drug industry and pain doctors voiced strongopposition, arguing that the recommendations could prevent real patients fromobtaining needed medications, according to The New York Times.

    The CDC notedTuesday that in developing the guidelines, it followed an “accurate scientificprocess using the best available scientific evidence, consulting with experts,and listening to comments from the public and partner organizations.”

What can we infer from the passage?

                                D

    In an effort tocontrol America’s deadly opioid (类鸦片) crisis, federal healthofficials are urging doctors to largely avoid prescribing (开处方) highlyaddictive painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin when treating patients forchronic (慢性的) pain.

    The newguidelines, issued Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,are directed at primary care providers, who issue about half of all opioidprescriptions.

    Since 1999, suchprescriptions and sales have increased largely in the United States, whichhelped create the current opioid abuse and overdose (过量). In 2012 alone,doctors handed out 259 million opioid prescriptions — one bottle for everyadult in the United States.

    “More than 40Americans die each day from prescription opioid overdoses. We must act now,”CDC Director Tom Friedan said in a statement on Tuesday. “Overprescribingopioids largely for chronic pain is a key driver of America’s drug-overdose.The guideline will give physicians and patients the information they need tomake more informed decisions about treatment.”

    The 12 guidelinespromote the use of non-opioid treatment when possible and aim to help primarycare doctors determine when and if opioids are necessary to treat chronic pain.When they are prescribed, doctors should use the lowest possible amount, theCDC said. For short-term pain, the agency said a prescription of three days orless will often be enough. The guidelines do not apply to cancer andend-of-life care.

    In December, theCDC had delayed publication of its guidelines, opening them up to a 30-daypublic comment period. The drug industry and pain doctors voiced strongopposition, arguing that the recommendations could prevent real patients fromobtaining needed medications, according to The New York Times.

    The CDC notedTuesday that in developing the guidelines, it followed an “accurate scientificprocess using the best available scientific evidence, consulting with experts,and listening to comments from the public and partner organizations.”

What’s the main idea of the fifth paragraph?