A. avenues B. criteria C. scales D. versions
32. －Did you hear about the company’s second quarter loss?
－Almost everyone knows it Rumor has It that the company will lay off 25,000 employees . A. under its umbrella
B. in its wake
C. beyond Its means
D. to its knowledge
33. －A student Is said to have got a suspension from school for cheating in the exam. －honesty is concerned, no compromise is acceptable. A. When
B. Where
C. What
D. Once
34. －Is the poor man any better now?
－Don’t worry! The doctor will follow up his operation for occurrence of severe symptoms, . A. if necessary
B. if so
C. if ever
D. If any
35. －I believe Mike when he said what the employees of the company lacked was a sense of belonging, －Absolutely, It’s no wonder that so many of them resigned in such a short time. A. struck home
B. Mew smoke
C. stay put
D. broke even
第二节 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Leafing through your family’s antique media makes clicking through social media a feast of empty calories (36) we should throw our computers and phones away, then open every box in every attic and read whatever (37) such as what I recently found — diaries written by my grandmother when she was 16.
I (38) the diaries would be dark and old-fashioned, but my teenage grandmother had much fun and her genius was so well presented in labeling boys she cared for that I can (39) keep up with her crushes, wondering who the mysterious ‘Sunshine’ was, the sweetest young man in my grandmother’s eyes.
Arguments with adults are only referred to but never described in (40) . She doesn’t resist her mother’s strict (41) , even when she gets a “lovely (42) “ for finishing someone else’s ice cream. (43) , I recorded every (44) I suffered in my teenage diary. This, however, further (45) bitterness. I think my teenage grandmother’s superior (46) was due to her being 16 before the invention of ‘cool’ as a symbol of (47) , or for that matter, ‘teenager’ as an identity.
I have not (48) reading the diaries and I do not want to, But my favorite passage so far was the one (49) on a Monday evening in late summer in 1911. She was sitting on the porch with friends when a neighbor started playing an (50) tune. The girls ‘flew’ across the street to listen, and when the neighbor started up with ‘Put Your Arms (51) Me, Honey’, something (52) happened: ‘We couldn’t help
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dancing (53) on the street and felt so sweet arid nice’ And then, just when my teenage grandmother thought things couldn’t get any (54) , Harvey walked by, like a ray of (55) . 36. A. because 37. A. falls out
B. so
C. yet
D. while D. drops out D. bet D. readily D. effect D. discipline D. scolding D. In fact D. loss
D. corresponds to D. intelligence D. virtue D. opposed D. celebrated D. odd D. On D. magical D. hard D. sweeter D. comfort
B. pulls out B. assumed B. precisely B. vain B. control B. scream
C. holds out C. doubted C. barely
38. A. concluded 39. A. closely 40. A. detail
C. defence C. planning C. treat
41. A. treatment 42. A. credit
43. A. In addition 44. A. injustice
B. In general B. defeat
C. In contrast C. disease
45. A. responds to 46. A. habit 47. A. slogan 48. A. finished
B. fends to B. personality B. fight
C. leads to C. effort
C. principle C. skipped C. remembered C. original C. Around
B. regretted B. recorded B. antique B. Behind
49. A. mentioned 50. A. Irresistible 51. A. Over
52. A. abnormal 53. A. right 54. A. easier 55. A. sunshine
B. imaginary B. straight B. quicker B. heat
C. mysterious C. fast C. crazier C. hope
第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 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A、B、C和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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MARIJUANA RESEARCH GETS SERIOUS
Eight states voted to legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use in 2016, putting the total number of states with some form of legal pot at 28. In states where it is legal, doctors already prescribe it for things like pain, depression, migraines and PTSD — but research has been limited by federal drag laws. A growing quorum of scientists is calling for legitimate research into marijuana’s potential as a form of medicine.
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SUPERBUGS BECOME A SUPERTHREAT
In 2016, global, leaders promised to address the growing Issue of drug resistance ― meaning bacteria that can no longer be treated with antibiotics — during a historic meeting at the U.N. headquarters In New York City. Major progress is yet to be seen, but companies like McDonald’s have vowed to phase out antibiotics in their chicken, and scientists are hunting for new drug compounds in places like caves and the oceans. CRISPR TACKLES CANCER
CRISPR is the most hyped technology in medicine for good reason: it allows scientists to easily and inexpensively edit any place of DNA from nearly any species. Recently Chinese scientists have used CRISPR to treat a person with lung cancer. Meanwhile, U.S. scientists are working on the first human trials using CRISPR to treat cancer stateside－the first of what will surely be many studies like it. CLIMATE CHANGE AS PUBLIC- HEALTH THREAT
Climate change and pollution are contributing to the spread of infectious disease, less nutritious food, asthma and dangerous heat waves. In response, the U.S. and other nations have committed to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. It remains to be seen if President-elect Donald Tramp will honor that commitment, but scientists say the issue is only growing more critical 56. Where is the passage probably taken from? A. A magazine.
B. A self-help book.
C. A brochure.
D. A manual
57. From the passage we know that . A. marijuana will surely be more widely prescribed by doctors for medical treatment in the U.S. B. McDonald’s chicken treated with antibiotics has contributed to the spread of super bacteria. C. Chinese arid U.S. scientists have made progress in using CRISPR technology to treat disease. D. U.S. President will observe the commitment as climate change is threatening public health.
B
Early last year, the World Economic Forum issued a paper warning that technological change is on the verge of upending the global economy. To fill fee sophisticated jobs of tomorrow, the authors argued, the ‘reskilling and upskilling of today’s workers will be critical’. Around the same time, the then president Barack Obama announced a ‘computer science for all’ programme for elementary and high schools in the United States. ‘We have to make sure all our kids are equipped for the jobs of the future, which means not just being able to work with computers but developing the analytical and coding skills to power our innovation economy,’ he said.
But the truth is, only a tiny percentage of people in the post-industrial world will ever end up working in software engineering, biotechnology or advanced manufacturing, Just as the huge machines of the industrial
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revolution made physical strength less necessary for humans, the information revolution frees us to complement, rather than compete with, the technical competence of computers. Many of the most important jobs of the future will require soft skills, not advanced algebra.
Back in 1983, the sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined the term ‘emotional labour’ to describe the processes involved in managing the emotional demands of work. She explored the techniques that flight attendants used to maintain the friendly manners their airline demanded in the face of abusive customers: taking deep breaths, silently reminding themselves to stay cool, or building empathy for the nasty passenger. ‘I try to remember that if he’s drinking too much, he’s probably really seared f flying,’ one attendant explained. ‘I think to myself: “He’s like a little child.”’
Across the economy, technology is edging human workers into more emotional territory. In retail Amazon and its imitators are rapidly devouring the market for routine purchases^ birt to the extent that bricks-and-mortar shops survive. It is because some people prefer chatting with a clerk to clicking buttons,. Already, arguments for preserving rural post offices focus less on their services-handled mostly online-than on their value as centers for community social life.
In the sphere of medicine, one of the loudest moments of a physician’s job is sitting with a patient, surveying how a diagnosis will alter the landscape of that patient’s life. That is work no technology can match-unlike surgery, where autonomous robots are learning to perform with superhuman precision. With AI now being developed as a diagnostic tool, doctors have begun thinking about how to complement these automated skills. As a strategic report for Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) put it in 2013: ‘The NHS could employ hundreds of thousands of staff with the right technological skills, but without the compassion to care, then we will have failed to meet the needs of patients.’
A growing real-world demand for workers with empathy and a talent for making other people feel at ease requires a serious shift in perspective. It means moving away from our singular focus on academic performance as the road to success. It means giving more respect, and better pay, to workers too often genetically dismissed as ‘unskilled labour’. And, it means valuing skills more often found among working-class women than highly educated men.
58. What can we know from the first two paragraphs?
A. President Obama launched a programme to develop people’s soft skills. B. There is no need for people to continue developing technical skills. C. Today’s workers have to update their skills to compete with machines. D. Future jobs will require less physical strength but more soft skills.
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