A. his cup of tea C. a child’s play
B. the apple of his eye D. a slip of the tongue
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
On a recent sunny, dry fall morning, I found the last outdoor table at my favorite café. Reading 36 I nibbled my breafast, I was enjoying the feeling of the cool breee and the warm sun when a table net to me 37 . A woman who had been standing nearby, 38 waiting for a seat, stepped toward the table. But from the other 39 , straight from the paring lot, came a man who got to the table first.
The woman, with a 40 on her face, eplained that she’d been 41 that table for several minutes and had been on her way over. The man, also smiling but 42 , told her she was out of 43 ; he had happened upon the table first. “You snooe, you lose!” he said cheerfully.
She stood off to the side, clearly disappointed, and 44 her friend with the frustrating news. I sat at my table, 45 the scene, when suddenly it occurred to me—I had a(n) 46 here to be ind.
I stood up and 47 her over to my table. Quietly, I told her I had seen what had happened, and I was happy to give her my table. I was only going to be there a few more minutes 48 , so I was happy for her and her friend to have the 49 .
“But where will you sit?” she ased. I was almost done eating, I said, and I would find a seat at the counter 50 . She thaned me and beamed as she 51 for her friend to sit down.
Thining about it as I finished up, I realied that whether or not the woman had fair 52 to the table was unimportant. The emotion of the situation—the loo of hurt on her face—had 53 me, and I had the ability to do something about it.
That isn’t always the case with every feeling, situation, or injustice we 54 unepectedly in our days. But as the early 20th century writer Orison Swett Marden once said, “Don’t wait for etraordinary opportunities. 55 common occasions and mae them great.”
I just hope that woman’s morning at the café was great. I now mine was. 36. A. till
B. after
C. as
D. before D. showed up
37. A. closed up B. opened up C. looed up
38. A. hesitantly 39. A. entrance 40. A. smile
B. clearly B. angle B. shoc B. watching B. impatient B. luc
C. seemingly C. gate
D. steadily D. direction D. gae D. wandering
C. glare C. minding C. elegant C. shape C. loaded C. taing in C. access C. signaled
41. A. monitoring 42. A. firm 43. A. order 44. A. served
D. reluctant
D. place D. greeted
B. compared B. taing up
45. A. taing down 46. A. scene 47. A. followed 48. A. anyway 49. A. floor
D. taing over
D. passion D. rushed D. anywhere D. indness
B. opportunity B. guided B. someway B. spot B. upstairs B. headed
C. somewhere C. moment C. outside C. waited
50. A. downstairs 51. A. gestured 52. A. passage 53. A. shamed 54. A. repeat 55. A. Mar
D. inside
D. sent
D. admission D. scared
B. claim B. surprised
C. approach C. struc
B. hate C. tolerate D. meet
D. Seie
B. Hold C. Celebrate
第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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AFTER AMAON ECHO MISFIRE, WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR OWN PRIVACY Revelations that an Amaon Echo smart speaer accidentally sent a family’s private conversation to an acquaintance highlights some unepected privacy riss of new voice-enabled technologies. There’s no way to totally avoid these sorts of privacy riss ecept unplugging them entirely, but you can minimie the unpleasant privacy surprises with these tips
ILL THE MIC Most smart speaers have a physical button to disable the microphone, so a private conversation can’t be recorded to begin with. You can hit that when you’re having sensitive conversations. It doesn’t mae sense to eep the mic disabled throughout the day, though.
LIMIT THE MIC Disabling the microphone isn’t practical on a smartphone, but you can limit what apps have access to it. Go to the settings and turn off mic access to all but essential apps such as voice recorders or video conferencing.
ABOUT THAT CAMERA Faceboo CEO Mar ucerberg famously puts a piece of tape over his laptop’s camera to prevent spying if anyone were to hac his device. Buy yourself a roll. Or use bandages. If you have a home-security camera that’s connected to the Internet, turn the camera to the wall when you’re home.
BLOC THE SIGNALS For smartphones and other gadgets you carry with you, a “Faraday bag” can help prevent unwanted spying. The good ones will bloc cellular and other signals, meaning privacy-compromising information such as your location won’t lea out either. However, your phone won’t get any calls while it’s in the bag.
Of course, the safest approach is not to buy a new gadget in the first place. That might not be practical these days, but do you really need a smart speaer or a television set that’s connected to the Internet?
56. What does the author suggest we should do in order to be ris-free? buy.
C. Follow the manufacturer’s instructions. D. ill the power or not buy devices at all. 57. If a CEO needs to organie a video conference while on a trip, he is advised to ________. A. ill the MIC
B. limit the MIC B
Cheating is nothing new. But it’s becoming a lot more sophisticated. Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin was caught out once. A photo taen after the speech she’d given on a “return to conservative principles” showed her left hand covered with crib notes. These included the words “energy, budget cuts, ta” and “lift Americans’ spirits”. The word “budget” had been crossed out. Video footage also showed her reading from her hand when ased what top three things a conservative-led congress should do. Writing notes on your hand is one way to cheat in an eam. But these days, it’s a lot easier ... especially with the Internet.
Anyone who wants to cheat in an eam can probably find the answers online. There are hundreds
D. bloc the signals
A. Be cautious about using smart devices.
B. Be particular about the devices we
C. cover the camera
of sites offering solutions to all sorts of tests. And it’s a lucrative business. One operator in Oregon made $700,000 in about nine months before his arrest. The owner of a website in Ohio poceted more than $300,000. And a famous overseas site is estimated to sell about 146,000 sets of answers and tae in about $10 million per year. Actually, getting hold of the eam answers isn’t that hard. Some do the eam themselves and use button cameras or document-scanning pens to copy the tests. Others organie for a group to tae tests repeatedly until they can memorie the entire eam between them. Others simply bribe eam administrators.
At the moment, such business is booming. More and more companies now require their employees to tae professional eams. And hundreds of businesses and trade organiations have introduced formal certification programs to measure employee sills. In the US alone, at least 2 million eams are taen every year for information technology certification. But employees also have to tae eams for all sorts of professions from crane operators to court reporters to school bus drivers and financial planners. Test officials estimate that hundreds of thousands of test-taers have used the Internet to buy answers for professional tests. And a recent survey found that 28 percent of test centres had at least one cheating incident over the last five years. In one incident, tens of thousands of soldiers obtained answers to tests in a range of military sills.
Many see this as a cause for concern. Many tests are for wor in sensitive areas such as defence installations and hospitals. Now, how would you feel if you new that the people in charge of the computers controlling nuclear weapons might have cheated in their tests, and may not really now what they’re doing?
58. Why does the author mention Sarah Palin in the first paragraph?
A. To ehibit the fact that cheating is common in various fields. B. To discourage average people from writing notes on their hands. C. To show much disagreement as to cheating among political leaders. D. To introduce the negative influences of cheating in front of the public.
59. The underlined word “lucrative” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to ________.
A. ripe
B. stable
C. profitable
D. fresh
60. What is the main cause of more cases of cheating?
A. The formation of employee sills.
B. The availability of information technology. D. The requirement of taing professional
C. The popularity of the cheating industry.