综合英语(二)2018年4真题试题及答案解析(00795)

你与你妹妹长得如此相像，我经常会误把她当作你。

TOPIC: Explain the reasons why people have changed from hero-worship to celebrity-worship based on the text “Icons.” You can use this outline:

● The distinctions between a hero and a celebrity;

● The development in mass media that results in such a change.

我希望你对这一多数人做出的决定给予更多的尊重。

有些人的皮肤很敏感，即使是少置的日晒都能导致晒伤。

科技改变着我们的生活方式，为我们带来了更多的便利。

他说话带有浓重的地方口音，我很难听懂。

Although she is not officially our boss, she is in_______control of the office. (effect)

He resigned suddenly, leaving the company's financial affairs in complete______.(order)

We must be careful not to do anything that might________the economic recovery. (danger)

Through painstaking effort, they at last worked out a way to_______that substance. (pure)

In the film the main character is depicted as a(n)_______for the door. (agree)

It is a(n)_______fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.(fortunate)

Linda reads her children a_______story every night. (bed, time)

The room was completely dark and I fumbled________for the door. (blind)

To show our_________for all your hard work, we’d like to give you a bonus.(appreciate)

What is the passage mainly about?

Getting the two leaders to sign the peace treaty was his greatest________.(accomplish)

How do visitors learn in modem museums like the Cleveland Museum of Art?

Which of the following is closest in meaning to the word “antiquated” in Paragraph 5?

Which of the following represents the new trend of modem museums?

Which of the following sayings best fits the story?

Which might be one of the reasons that caused the servant to fall over?

Passage 2

When Americans stood in line for hours to see King Tut in the 1970s, a new kindof museum exhibition took hold: the blockbuster (盛大展出). Featuring spectacular artifacts from the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the“Treasures of Tutankhamen”traveled to six cities across the United Slates between November 1976 and April 1979, and drew millions of people into museums, many for the first time.Large-scale, artifact-rich exhibitions like these, whether permanentreinstallations of major collections or traveling shows that toured to five or six cities, were the heart of the museum enterprise for more than 30 years. Now, however, the field is changing.While exhibitions were traditionally the mainstay of the museum field, many organizations now see them as only the beginning point of a larger conversation with the public. Leaders in the field began moving in this direction over a decade ago, giving new priority to community engagement and placing less emphasis on large-scale exhibitions. There are many reasons for this, not least of which is that exhibitions are expensive to produce and expensive to put on tour. A national exhibition tour, perhaps conceivable in the 1980s, is today beyond the reach of most institutions.More fundamentally, the change speaks to a shift in the relationship between a museum and its public audiences. If you walked into a large museum in the 1980s or 1990s, you would have seen galleries full of objects from the museum's collection, carefully chosen and arranged by a curator (博物馆馆长), with a label written in the authoritative voice of the curator, explaining what you were looking at.Today this kind of static display seems almost antiquated. Museum goers now have the expectation, when they walk into a museum, that they will be interacting with the content on display—curating their own virtual exhibits, sharing information about museum artifacts via social media, or participating in some kind of public dialog around issues important to them. Institutions like the Cleveland Museum of Art have pioneered new approaches to draw visitors into the curatorial process: Cleveland’s innovative Gallery One invites visitors to explore objects in the collection through a 40-foot-high touch screen. iPads in museum galleries, interactive tables, and creative uses of social media all offer visitors a more immediate and participatory role.Museums are also realizing that if they want to bring new audiences into their institutions and reflect the diverse communities around them, they need to break down the gallery walls. Leading urban institutions such as the Oakland Museum of California, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and the Brooklyn Historical Society have collaborated with their communities to create exhibits that reflect the experiences of many different kinds of people. In all three cities, those exhibits have served as springboards (平台)for powerful and important community dialog.It's not only that museums are changing how they think about their audiences; it’s also that their audiences are changing how they think about museums. The role of the museum is being reimagined from within and without, amounting to an epic shift in expectations. Their dedication to art, history, and culture remains, but their social function is different from what.

What was the exhibition of “Treasures of Tutankhamen” like in the 1970s?

Why did the man remake his bed before he went to bed?

Which of the following is closet in meaning to the word“improvised”in Paragraph 5?

It may be that in time we shall become used to change as in our older wisdom we had become used to the unchanging.

Passage 1

One autumn I went to spend the hunting season with some friends in a country castle in Picardy. My friends were fond of practical jokes. I do not care to know people who are not. A princely reception at my arrival right away awakened suspicion in my mind, “Look out. They have something in preparation for you.” During the dinner, I smelled a practical joke in the air, as a dog smells game. But what was it? I did not let a word or a gesture escape me. Everyone seemed to me an object of suspicion, and I even looked distrustfully at the faces of the servants.The hour struck for retiring; and the whole household came to accompany me to my room. I entered the apartment, shut the door, and remained standing, without moving a single step, holding the wax candle in my hand. I cast a glance round the walls, the furniture, the ceiling, the hangings, and the floor. I saw nothing to justify suspicion. I heard persons moving about outside my door. Without doubt they were spying on me. “My candle may suddenly go out and leave me in darkness.” I lighted all the wax candles. After that I cast another glance around me without discovering anything. I went over to the window and shut all the large wooden shutters with great care. Then I drew the enormous velvet curtains, and placed a chair in front of them, so as to have nothing to fear from outside.Then I cautiously sat down. The armchair was solid. But the bed was particularly suspicious-looking. I pulled at the bedcover. It seemed to be secure. All the same, there was danger. I was going perhaps to receive a cold shower-bath from overhead, or perhaps, the moment I stretched myself out, to find myself sinking to the floor with my mattress. I searched in my memory for all the practical jokes of which I ever had experience. I certainly did not want to be caught. A bright idea suddenly came into my head. I caught hold of the side of the mattress carefully, and very slowly drew it toward me. It came away, followed by the sheet and the rest of the bedclothes. I dragged all these objects into the very middle of the room, facing the door. I made my bed over again as best as I could at some distance from the comer which had filled me with such anxiety. Then I extinguished all the candles, and, groping my way, I slipped under the bed clothes. For at least another hour I remained awake, starting at the slightest sound. Everything seemed quiet in the castle. I fell asleep.I must have been in a deep sleep for a long time, but all of a sudden I was awakened with a start by the fall of a heavy body tumbling right on top of me, and, at the same time received on my face, on my neck, and on my chest a burning liquid which made me utter a howl of pain. I was suffocating beneath the weight that was crushing me and preventing me from moving. I stretched out my hand to find out what was the nature of this object. I felt a face, a nose, and whiskers. Then, with all my strength, I launched out a strike at this face. But I immediately received a hail of blows which made me jump straight out of the soaked sheets, and rush in my nightshirt into the corridor.Oh, heavens! It was broad daylight. The noise brought ray friends hurrying into my apartment, and we found, sprawling over my improvised bed, the dismayed servant, who, while bringing me my morning cup of coffee, had tripped over this obstacle in the middle of the floor and fallen on his stomach, spilling my breakfast over my face. The precautions I had taken in closing the shutters and going to sleep in the middle of the room had only brought about the practical joke I had been trying to avoid.Oh, how they all laughed that day!

What can we learn about the author from Paragraph 1 ?

Then something in the storm and the lighthouse and the old man exalted Rudolf, ...He wanted to strike a work of fire and stars into being for the old man.

By word of mouth during the holidays, by phrases in letters during term time,I was kept up to date with John's cleverness and progress.

...nor did he trouble to see what had become of his flowering stick.

The disease was one of the frightening aftershocks of the bomb.

Then he (Hughie) had tried selling dry sherry. That did not answer, the sherry was a little too dry.

I had only to hold out this one more day, and the whole nightmare for me would be over, though it would go on and on for millions of others.

These hands spoke of the stubbornness of mankind.

If such a work is hundreds or thousands of years old and is still admired, there is probably something to it.

A cross response signals that the parents are in inner conflict.

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John quitted, for the job did not provide him with enough_______for his organizing ability.

Living in the city will change you sooner or later. You often get louder, ruder,and use slang that outsiders don't understand. These classic    16  of urban living can also be seen in birds. Like people, birds that live in the city are louder,  17  , and more stressed out than their country cousins.A study found that city birds start singing earlier than    18  in the countryside. Researchers observed that sparrows start singing earlier  19   , not because of light pollution, but to avoid noise from the traffic.  20  every city resident, the birds have learned that you need to start your day early if you want to avoid the rush hour. City-dwelling species like birds  21 their volume or alter their songs to   22   amid the noise of the bustling metropolis,    23   , rural birds may not be able to make sense of   24  their big-city cousins are singing about.Rural birds may also find their city cousins rather rude. In crowded places,urban sparrows are more  25  because, although there is more food in cities, it is often more work to claim it and keep it away from other  26  . All this hustling makes city birds, like its people, smart. In a recent study, bullfinches living in cities  27   their country cousins in cognitive tests, by acting more boldly and creatively when presented with unfamiliar or difficult-to-reach   28   of food.City birds might be louder, tougher, and even smarter. Compared to their rural   29  , they also die younger. Researchers found that their cells aged 30   than their country cousins. They have to cope with a lot of stress.

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He_______ a sum of money every month for his old age.

What a_______office! How did you fit so much into so little space?

A_______change in policy is needed if relations between the two countries are ever to improve.

He was usually very kind, so his sudden_______greatly surprised us.

She is such an irritating woman. I don't know how you can_______her.

Hotel receptionists must be_______at all times, even when they are very tired.

_______that he will not succeed tomorrow simply because he has failed many times.

Excuse me, but it’s time to have your temperature_______.

If she doesn't tell him the truth now, he will simply keep on asking her until she______.

He heard an unusual noise from the tire and guessed that the brakes needed______.

I feel it an honor_______to speak here on this formal occasion.

When Jane fell off the slide, the other children_______.

It seems very unlikely to happen, but if it______, we need to be well-prepared.

The teacher asked the students to hand in their papers when they______the test.