1、2016 届江苏省南通市高三下学期第一次调研测试英语1Faced with economic slowdown, some companies are planning to use robots to _ human workers to reduce their labor costs.A. compensate B. substituteC. symbolize D. discriminate2Ever since the new park was opened to the public last month, I _ a walk in it every morning.A. am
2、taking B. takeC. have taken D. have been taking3Simon will listen to music every time he comes across a maths problem.You know, music is the source of _ in life.A. inspiration B. identificationC. reaction D. recreation4The project is far behind schedule. Its impossible for you to _ it in a week.A. c
3、atch up on B. live up toC. add up to D. hold on to5Many netizens are impressed with the excuse given by a teacher for quitting her job _ she owes the world a visit.A. because B. that C. where D. why6We can gain valuable wisdom from mistakes which _ to prevent them from happening again.A. should be a
4、voided B. might be avoidedC. must have been avoided D. could have been avoided7Helen is going to Manchester for further education next month.Im _ because I have to stay at home and work.A. green with envy B. white as a sheetC. tickled pink D. black and blue8They arrived at the border between Kenya a
5、nd Tanzania at 2 pm, _ lies a national nature reserve.A. what B. which C. where D. when9Though _ behind and feeling awkward, Jack kept on running until he reached the finishing line.A. leaving B. having left C. left D. being left10Alice has just lost her husband to heart failure.Her _ smile cant hid
6、e her sorrow.A. arbitrary B. artificialC. compulsory D. conventional11Didnt you go fishing with your friends last Sunday?No. I _ to the nursing home as usual.A. went B. go C. have gone D. had gone12Having a hobby does do good to you. It doesnt matter what it is _ it drives you to move forward.A. if
7、only B. in caseC. as long as D. in order that13For the Chinese dream _ at an earlier date, we must accelerate the pace of reform and opening up.A. being realized B. to realizeC. realizing D. to be realized14As I opened my eyes, in _ direction I looked, I could see smiling, peaceful, calm and content
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13、xercise without disturbing others at work, you can choose the item from _.A. Stamina B. ExerpeuticC. MagneTrainer D. DeskCycle58. According to the passage, we can infer that _.A. you dont have to pay for the delivery of the items advertisedB. the producers may be trying to reduce the range of resist
14、anceC. the limit of choice in color may affect the popularity of the productD. the monitoring system is something these products have in commonTheres a case to be made, from things like Google search figures, that Robert Frosts poem The Road Not Taken you know, the one about two paths diverging (分开)
15、 in a wood is the most popular in modern history. Yet people still cant agree what it means. On the surface, its a fridge-magnet clich (陈词滥调) on the importance of taking risks and choosing the road less travelled. But many argue it slyly mocks (暗讽) that American belief in the individuals power to de
16、termine his or her future. After all, the poet admits that both paths look roughly similarly well-travelled. And how could he be sure he took the right one? Hell never know where the other leads. Looking back at our life histories, we tell ourselves we faced important dilemmas and chose wisely. But
17、maybe only because its too awful to admit were stumbling (跌跌撞撞地走) mapless among the trees, or that our choices dont make much difference.Two psychologists, Karalyn Enz and Jennifer Talarico, throw light on these matters in a new study with a title that nods to Frost: Forks In The Road. They sought t
18、o clarify how people think about “turning points” versus “transitions” in life. A turning point, by their definition, is a moment that changes your future deciding to leave a job or marriage, say but often isnt visible from the outside, at least at first. “Transitions” involve big external changes:
19、going to university, marrying, emigrating (迁出). Sometimes the two go together, as when you move to a new place and realize its where you belong. (“New Yorkers are born all over the country,” Delia Ephron said, “and then they come to New York and it hits them: oh, thats who I am.”) But its turning po
20、ints we remember as most significant, Enz and Talarico conclude, whether or not they also involve transitions.The distinction is useful: it underlines how the most outwardly obvious life changes arent always those with the biggest impact. Hence the famous “focusing illusion”, which describes how we
21、exaggerate (夸大) the importance of a single factor on happiness: you switch jobs, or spouses, only to discover you brought the same troublesome old you to the new situation. Before it became a joke, “midlife crisis” referred to a turning point that happens because your circumstances dont change, when
22、 your old life stops feeling meaningful. Turning points can be caused by mundane (世俗的) things the offhand remark that makes you realize youre in the wrong life or by nothing at all.18Why do some people think the poem makes fun of the American belief?A. Because the two roads are more or less similar
23、in the poets view.B. Because Americans believe they can decide their future themselves.C. Because Americans can find their way easily in a forest just with a map.D. Because Americans surely know which road to take without consideration.19Which of the following can be considered as a transition?A. Yo
24、ur experience of midlife crisis.B. Your choice of the road to take.C. Your decision to travel abroad.D. Your move into a new flat.20What can we infer from this passage?A. Turning points involving transitions are often remembered as most significant.B. The biggest impact is often characterized with o
25、bvious outside changes.C. A fundamental change is often affected by more than one single factor.D. We can rid ourselves of the unpleasant past with the change of a job.21Whats the best title of the passage?A. Is our fate in our own hands?B. Must people make changes in life?C. Should we choose the ro
26、ad less travelled?D. Are turning points connected with transitions?THE idea came to Ralph Liedert while he was sweating in the Californian sunshine, having been standing with his daughter for over an hour in a queue for a ride at Disneyland. What, he thought, if his T-shirt had a cooling system he c
27、ould turn on, at the tap of a smart phone app, when he needed it. Luckily, Mr Liedert does have the means to make the dream reality, for he works at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, as one of a team there studying the rapidly growing field of microfluidics (微流控技术).Cooling vests already
28、exist (used by racing drivers, motorcyclists and people who work in hot conditions). But the tubes through which the cooling water is being pumped, and the vests need to be connected to outside units that cool this water, make them huge and clumsy. Mr Liedert thought VTTs microfluidics department co
29、uld do things better.As its name suggests, microfluidics is the art of building devices that handle tiny amounts of liquid. Inkjet-printer cartridges (喷墨打印机墨盒) are a familiar example. Less familiar, but also important, are “labs-on-a-chip” (芯片实验室). These are tiny analytical devices that transport fl
30、uids such as blood through channels half a millimetre or less in diameter (直径), in order to carry them into what holds analytical reagents (试剂). Sensors, then detect the resulting reactions and provide an instant analysis of a sample (样本). Designing labs-on-a-chip is the VTT microfluidics department
31、s day job. One of its chips, for example, can tell whether water is affected by the bacteria that cause Legionnaires disease.The departments biggest contribution to the field, though, is to have developed a way of printing microfluidic channels onto large rolls of thin, flexible plastic. It works by
32、 passing the plastic between two heated rollers, one of which contains raised outlines of the required channels. As the rollers squeeze the plastic they create a pattern of channels into one surface. A second plastic film is then melted over the top as a cover. This process might, thought Mr Liedert
33、, be suitable for printing a microfluidic cloth that was thin enough and pleasant enough to wear as a cooling vest.The groups first model showed that such a material could indeed be made and used to circulate cooled water. They are also looking at ways the water being circulated through the microcha
34、nnels might be cooled. They have identified two. One uses a small heat-exchanger, the details of which they are keeping secret at this stage. The other employs evaporation (蒸发). It thus works in the same way that heat from circulating blood is removed by the evaporation of sweat.Whichever cooling sy
35、stem is applied, the electronics needed to power and control it would be shrunk into a small package contained on the back of the vest. This could be operated by hand or, as Mr Liedert originally envisaged in his Californian queue, by a wireless link to a smart phone. Moreover, what can cool down ca
36、n also, if run in an opposite way, warm up. In Finland, where winter temperatures fall as far as -50C, that might be the technologys killer app.22Microfluidics has been used in _.A. racing cars B. printing industryC. testing material D. clothing industry23We can learn from the passage that _.A. VTT
37、is a company which mainly works on the research into microfluidicsB. the new cooling vest of VTT will be smaller and work more effectivelyC. the technology of microfluidics may have a positive effect on medical scienceD. heat-exchanger as well as the way of evaporation will be used to cool the weare
38、r24_ plays the key role in making the new cooling vest.A. The special cloth B. The cooling systemC. The tiny liquid D. The wireless link25The underlined word “envisaged” most likely means _ .A. imagined B. discovered C. viewed D. plannedIm sitting here in this coffee shop. You know the one there by
39、Allen street. The town is filled with thousands of middle class college kids living off their parents money.The coffee shop is where the ones come to play the part of sophisticated bohemians (放荡不羁的文化人). The pretensions (自命不凡) glow from their line-less faces as they sip cappuccinos and chew strawberr
40、y cookies. The boys to my right are discussing Nabokov with a serious air, a copy of Sartres Cuba lies on the table.The young woman on my left is declaring that she can never allow her creativity to be killed by entering the work force. The man with her scratches his goatee (胡子) in agreement, occasi
41、onally suggesting they go back to his place to hear his new Washington Squares CD. Matt has just designed a new international symbol for peace. He moves from table to table trying to sell hand painted T-shirts that bear the design. Tomorrow hes leaving for the 25th anniversary Woodstock concert wher
42、e he hopes to strike it rich with his creation.Gopha the skinny Indian boy feels like singing me a verse of It Aint Me Babe when I ask him if hes a friend of Monicas. Jason is trying to talk Gopha into a dollar bet on a game of chess. Between times Jason will chew your ear off with his plans to conq
43、uer the music industry while studying entertainment law, but when it comes to his never ending dollar chess matches hes quiet as a church mouse.I sit among them. To all surface appearances one and the same. If they could only see I would rather reach into their flesh and tear out their shallow littl
44、e hearts than listen to another second of their prattle (闲扯).With no job, no gigs, and my girlfriends so far gone she might as well be on another planet, Ive been leading the writers quiet cafe life, spending my free time outdoors drinking iced teas and cheap wines. I chat warmly with whoever decide
45、s to squander away their hours in my surrounding area.But behind my eyes is an unspoken challenge to any and every one of these social elites (精英) to just once say one thing that would inspire me. Just one little idea which is new and meaningful. Unfortunately original thoughts are zero here.In my s
46、ecret mind I wish to run like a madman banging gongs and speaking in tongues. Or maybe jump on a table and sing the Star Spangled Banner in the forgotten language of the Hottentots. I know these thoughts only reveal me as a fool because the spark I search for cannot be found in acts of shocking perf
47、ormance art. Where it truly comes from is one of the mysteries which will always hang around me.26The college students in the coffee shop can be described as _.A. shallow and aimless B. determined and independentC. vain and ambitious D. honest and hardworking27Which of the following statements is tr
48、ue according to the passage?A. Matts T-shirts will be a hit at the concert and bring him wealth.B. Jason seems to show more enthusiasm in the dollar chess matches.C. The young woman agrees to listen to a new Washington Squares CD.D. The hero envies the lifestyle of the college students in the coffee shop.28Why is the hero in the coffee shop?A. To recall the pleasant memories.B. To relieve his sorrows and worries.C. To know what is in fashio
