成都市2018届高中毕业班第二次诊断性检测英语试题及答
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apples and sweet potatoes A If B While C Because D Since 第二节 完型填空(共known overnight
This is the principle behind “quiz” or “game” shows, which put ordinary people on TV to play a game for prizes and money A quiz shocan make anyone a star, and it can give away thousands of dollars Charles Van Doren, an English instructor, became rich and famous after winning money on several shows He even had a career as a television personality But one of the losers proved that Charles Van Doren was cheating It turned out that the show’s producers, who were pulling the strings, gave the answers to the most popular contestants beforehand Why? Because if the audience didn’t like the person who won the game, they turned the shooff The result of this cheating was a huge scandal(丑闻) Based on the shooff, a movie titled “Quiz Show” is on 40 years later
Charles Van Doren is no longer involved with TV But game shows are still here, though they aren’t taken seriously In fact, some of them try to be as ridiculous as possible There are shows that send strangers on vacation trips together, or that try to cause newly-married couples to fight on TV, or that punish losers by humiliating(羞辱) them The entertainment nois to see what people will do just to be on TV People still win money, but the real prize is to be in front of an audience of millions
45 What is the most important thing as to television? A Homany viewers they can attract B Being the best seller on the list
C Homuch money can be given away D The number of people attending shows
46 What does the underlined part “pulling the strings” probably mean?
A Planning the shows with effort B Drawing the curtain on the stage
C Controlling the result secretly D Playing “quiz” or “game” openly
47 Charles Van Doren stopped his career as a television personality because ________
A he had earned enough wealth and fame B one of the participants had told the truth C the film “Quiz Show” was being shown D his frequent appearance had bored the audience 48 It can be inferred from the passage that _______ A TV Game Shows are more popular than before
B the scandal was not made known until 40 years later C getting money is the only purpose of people taking part in shows
D people can make themselves famous by taking part in shows C
I sometimes wonder if old Finchley has the right personality to be a research scientist He keeps asking when he’ll be ing back After all, it was his own fault Nobody tries out what has just been invented on themselves any more but Finchley Well, he must have pumped about a thousand c c s into himself
before I noticed he was clearly being smaller
It was funny watching him, because his clothes remained the same in size They simply piled up around him so that he looked like a small boy in his father’s clothes But he kept getting smaller and smaller As my colleague Dawson and I watched him, he disappeared! All we could see was Finchley’s clothes on the floor They looked so strange, because the lab coat was on top, shirt and trousers inside and, I suppose, underclothes inside again It gave me a strange feeling, and I think Dawson was a bit shaken, too
Dawson was sitting on his chair in front of a microscope he’d been using to examine a family of mites(螨虫) He looked through the scope kind of absently again, and was nearly scared to lose awareness when he found old Finchley waving back from the other end
It seems as if Finchley had taken a free ride on a dust mite and landed on the land of the mite family Of course, we didn’t knotill Finchley told us later But anyhow, as I said, Dawson nearly passed out He jumped off his chair and pointed at the microscope, to shocked to speak
49 Finchley disappeared because ________ A he took something poisonous B he was changed into a dust mite
C his father’s clothes totally covered him up
D what he and his colleagues invented resulted in his disappearace
50 It frightened Dawson to see Finchley _______
A got into his scope by accident B was waving through his telescope