天津高考英语阅读理解专项训练（word版附答案解析）
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Welcome to the official Louvre online sales siteThe Musée du Louvre is reopening and we are glad to be able to welcome you back again. In line with the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visitors will be required to wear a mask. According to government recommendations, all visitors to the Louvre aged 12 years and two months or older must show a Health Pass. All visitors, including those entitled to free admission, must book a time period. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.
Individual tickets for the MuseumAdmission and reservation of a time period to access the permanent collections. Tickets valid for the selected date only. Full list of visitors entitled to free admission at Louvre.fr. General admission: ?18
The Musée du Louvre is open every day — except Tuesdays, January 1, May 1 and December 25 — from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Visitors will be asked to leave the exhibition rooms 30 minutes before closure.All tickets purchased online are time-stamped and nominative (记名的); you may therefore be asked to provide proof of identity. They are only valid for the service, date and time selected. They cannot be used to skip the queue but do guarantee access to the museum within half an hour of the time shown on the ticket. Any holder of an online ticket who does not arrive within the assigned time period for admission to the museum shall be subject to the same admission and waiting conditions as visitors without tickets.
Visitors entitled to free admission (other than Louvre members) — Under 18s, proof of ID required — 16-25 year-old residents of the European Economic Area (European Union, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein), proof of ID and residency required Professionals — Teachers working in France, valid “ Pass Education ” required — Teachers of art, art history or the applied arts, valid proof of employment stating subject taught required — Artists with the Maison des Artistes or International Association of Art, valid proof required Other — Jobseekers, valid proof and ID required (dated within the last year or indicating a period of validity) — Disabled visitors and the person accompanying them
1．What rules should visitors follow when visiting the Musée du Louvre A．All visitors have to show a Health Pass before entering the Musée du Louvre.
B．Masks must be worn to keep COVID-19 from spreading during the visit.
C．Only visitors with free admission need to book a time period in advance.
D．Visitors can’t stay in the museum overnight without official permission.
2．This passage mainly aims at ________.
A．introducing the exhibits at the Louvre B．providing ticketing information of the Louvre
C．listing restrictions on admission to the Louvre D．illustrating the services provided at the Louvre
3．If a family in Norway, including the wife, an art teacher, the husband, an IT engineer, and a 10-year-old son, want to visit the Louvre this weekend, they should pay at least ________ in all.
A．?18 B．?36 C．?45 D．?54
4．What can be learned about the Louvre from the passage
A．It is open every day except on Tuesdays.
B．Its online tickets ensure access to it at any time.
C．Proof of ID is required for anyone buying its tickets online.
D．Ticket holders may be refused to enter it if arriving an hour late.
5．Where can you probably find the passage
A．In a travel guide. B．In a geography book.
C．In job advertisement. D．In a documentary article.
When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages
Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks.” The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.
Blinkist has been around since 2012. It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.” Well, yes, of course, “So many books, so little time,” declares a poster I once bought at a book market. But I judge the quality of someone’s library by the books he or she has yet to read.
That’s because a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader. The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite: Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake (吸收) of key ideas. No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency.
When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.
6．What does the underlined part “the joke was on us” in Paragraph 1 mean
A．We were actually joking. B．We were laughed at by others.
C．We were underestimating ourselves. D．We were just embarrassing ourselves.
7．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about
A．What Blinkist is. B．Why Blinkist is popular.
C．How to use Blinkist. D．Where you can use Blinkist.
8．What is mentioned as a problem about reading in paragraph 3
A．There are few new books of quality. B．Many books are hard to understand.
C．People do not have enough time to read. D．People do not like reading as much as before.
9．What is an ideal pattern of reading according to the author
A．Obtaining key ideas efficiently. B．Further confirming our beliefs.
C．Accumulating in formation quickly. D．Deeply involving ourselves in books.
10．What is the author’s attitude to Blinkist
A．Positive. B．Negative C．Uncaring. D．Tolerant.
Robots in the art world are nothing new. In fact, for centuries, people have built robots as art objects — or simple machines that perform a series of movements — in ancient China and Japan. However, what’s different now is that artists and engineers are building robots that actually create art.
In 1973, British-born painter Harold Cohen wrote a computer program and called it AARON. At first, AARON only made simple outlines whose color and details Cohen would later add. Fifty years later, landscapes add just about anything else a human could paint. So can AARON be called an artist or creative In 2010, Cohen addressed these questions. He explained, “AARON can generate unlimited numbers of images.” So according to Cohen, the simple answer is yes — AARON is creative.
It’s not just paintings that robots are creating, though. Last year, a robot called Shimon released its first album on Spotify. Shimon began life as a simple robot marimba, however, it’s learned how to jam, write original songs and compose lyrics. Shimon does this by analyzing huge amounts of music-roughly 50,000 rock.
It may be cool to hear a song created by a robot, but is there any other reason to build robots that can play music According to Gil Weinberg, one of Shimon’s creators, he and his team “hope and believe that these new abilities would push human cooperators to new uncharted directions that could not be achieved in human-to-human cooperation.”
While questions about robots creating art are fun to think about, there are many other ways that robots can help artists in the way they create their works. For example, advancements in 3D-printing technology will allow artists to build more complex pieces for their sculptures.
11．What was AARON able to do at first
A．Paint people and landscapes.
B．Prepare basic outlines for Cohen.
C．Draw pictures of itself and Cohen.
D．Color paintings under Cohen’s instructions.
12．What does the article tell us about Shimon
A．It is both a marimba and guitar player.
B．It has created about 50,000 original songs.
C．It is expected to push humans to achieve more.
D．Its creators hope that it can outperform humans.
13．What does the author’s attitude towards robots that create art
A．Positive. B．Worried. C．Neutral. D．Doubtful.
14．What might be the biggest challenge of creating songs by a robot
A．Analyzing huge amounts of music.
B．Composing lyrics.
C．Playing guitar.
D．New abilities to new uncharted directions.
15．What could be the best title for the passage
A．AARON and Shimon
B．Robots in the Real World
C．Programmed Creativity
D．Advancements in Technology
There’s a song by the great Jamaican singer Bob Marley called So Much Trouble In The World. Marley understood that part of the reason why there are so many problems in the world is the lack of tolerance between people. The UN understands this too that’s why it made Nov 16 “International Day for Tolerance”.
But first of all, what is tolerance French philosopher Voltaire (1694—1778) can give us some help. According to him, tolerance “is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty (脆弱) and error; let us pardon each other’s folly- -that is the first law of nature.”
Nobody’s perfect. When we’re tempted to criticize another person, we should perhaps remember our own imperfections first.
Very often, people don’t realize that they’re intolerant. This is because intolerance has a lot to do with ignorance. For example, the UN’s campaign is in part about the treatment of females by males. But often, the behavior of men toward women is intolerant because men don’t put themselves in the shoes of women.
It’s worth thinking a little about the words “tolerance” and “intolerance”. Are they the best words to describe the evils of which we’re speaking here To agree to be “tolerant” of someone isn’t necessarily a very respectful thing. When someone is tolerated, it implies that there’s something wrong with them.
But it seems wrong that people should agree to “tolerate” people with black skin, for example. And should women think they have received the respect they are due when men agree to “tolerate” them
Still, what Voltaire said stands: We humans are not perfect and this weakness is something that we all share. That’s the reason we should be tolerant.
It’s a little like generosity. We can give things to another person, and we can also give our forgiveness. Bob Marley understood this. In the song mentioned above, he advised: “Write your love on a rock so it stays for eternity (永恒); write your hate in the sand so the waves will wash it away.”
16．What’s the purpose of the UN “International Day For Tolerance”
A．To arouse peoples awareness of tolerance among people.
B．To celebrate the founding of the UN.
C．To solve the problem of global community.
D．To change people’s opinions towards globalization.
17．According to Voltaire, tolerance is ________.
A．being willing to express your love to others
B．trying to overcome your imperfections
C．giving a hand to vulnerable groups (弱势群体)
D．accepting each other’s weaknesses
18．Why are people usually unaware of their intolerance, according to the article
A．They are used to finding faults.
B．They consider tolerance a kind of frailty.
C．They don’t see things from the angle of others.
D．They are intolerant of themselves too.
19．In what sense is “tolerance” similar to “generosity”
A．Humans are advised to treat others better. B．Humans learned to find faults in others.
C．Humans need to give something to others. D．Humans will change their attitudes to others.
20．What’s the text mainly about
A．The origin of the International Day of Tolerance.
B．The meaning and importance of tolerance.
C．The philosophy behind Bob Marley’s song.
D．Effective ways to show tolerance.
A recent study found that experiencing or even just anticipating uplifting events in daily life was related to feeling less depressed that same day. The study, conducted by Professor Lisa Starr at University of Rochester, found that a decrease in depression was especially marked when the experience included interpersonal uplifts, such as participating in fun activities with friends or family.
A number of laboratory-based studies suggest that the mood of people with depression is relatively unresponsive to positive stimuli(刺激物). In other words, when people with depression experience a positive event in the laboratory—like receiving a financial reward—their mood is unlikely to improve markedly. The issue here is that laboratory research doesn’t always translate to real-life settings.
The Rochester study is one of a growing number of studies examining how real life events with direct relevance to study participants affect their mood. The authors wanted to know if people with different levels of depression felt better when good things happened to them. The answer is simple—yes. The same is true for the expectation of good things to come.
The study included 157 young adults of whom two-thirds had mild, moderate, or severe depressive symptoms. The remaining third had no symptoms, allowing the authors to examine whether the level of depressive symptoms changes the way people respond to positive experiences. The study subjects completed a two-week online diary, tracking their mood as it related to recent and anticipated positive events in their lives—like time spent with friends, or exercising.
Those who reported higher levels of depressive symptoms at the beginning of the study, showed stronger associations between daily uplifts and lower daily depressive symptoms, particularly when the uplifts were interpersonal in nature.
“The findings have really important implications for treatment and are compatible with a treatment model called Behavioral Activation, which suggests that if you can help depressed people to engage in positive experiences—despite their low motivation to do so—their mood may improve,” says Starr. In other words: If you’re feeling seriously blue, make an effort to do something fun with friends.
21．What did the new study find
A．Sociable people are less likely to experience depression.
B．People with depression are good at predicting the future.
C．Every one of us experiences depression from time to time.
D．Positive social activities can reduce people’s depressive mood.
22．What can we learn about the positive stimuli of the Rochester study
A．They produced little effect. B．They were laboratory-based.
C．They were financial rewards. D．They were related to real-life events.
23．What is Paragraph 4 mainly about
A．How the study was conducted. B．What the result of the study is.
C．What affects participants’ mood. D．How long the study took.
24．Which participants’ mood was most responsive to daily uplifts
A．Those with no depressive symptoms.
B．Those with mild depressive symptoms.
C．Those with severe depressive symptoms.
D．Those with moderate depressive symptoms.
25．What does the underlined word “compatible” in the last paragraph mean
A．Unrelated. B．Consistent. C．Comfortable. D．Popular.
Internet is a great invention for us, and there are many wonders of the web.
Google Works Miracles
COOGIE (www.) is a daily miracle to millions of people. If the Internet had only this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. It is the most popular search on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Yahoo! You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references. If knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.
Yahoo Becomes Giant
YAHOO (www.) was the first wonder of the web, and in many respects, it still is. It started in January 1994 when we California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, started compiling (编译) a database of links, mainly for their personal use. But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today. In the past seven years, Yahoo has grown rapidly, partly through a long string of buys. Yahoo offers almost everything you could want: emails, instant messages, chats, clubs, photo albums, and a lot more.
eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell
eBay (www.ebay.com), which deals with online trading and shopping services, is the most impressive large Internet company where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide. It has, for instance, opened a global marketplace in which people from Beijing. San Francisco, or Moscow can bid against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London. The company’s online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse through listed items that is available online seven days a week.
Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience
Amazon (www.amazon.com) started out as an online bookstore, constantly putting up new book titles it offered for sale. In the late 1990s. Amazon had more than four million titles after adding CDs, videos, DVDs and games. It continued to add new lines of business including toys, computer software, electronics, like power tools, home improvement products and online sales. For regular users, Amazon has made itself the shortest possible path between wanting and buying.
26．What is Google mainly used for
A．Commanding the gateway. B．Searching for information.
C．Storing reference books. D．Providing extra space.
27．“Rome is not built in one day” but Yahoo is built in one ________.
A．year B．day C．month D．minute
28．What goods did Amazon sell when it started its business
A．Videos and games. B．Different books.
C．Power tools. D．Home improvement products.
29．Which of the following is TRUE
A．Buying and selling can only be done through Amazon
B．If you type unclearly, Google will refuse to do the searching.
C．Yahoo owns more market shares than any other company on the web.
D．eBay company’s online service is always there for its users.
30．What’s the best title for the passage
A．Four Websites sample B．Websites Work Miracles
C．Four Wonders of the Web D．Websites and Daily Life
参考答案
1．B
2．B
3．A
4．C
5．A
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这是一篇应用文。主要介绍了卢浮宫的票务信息，涉及时效性、价格以及使用权限等。
1．
细节理解题。根据Welcome to the official Louvre online sales site下的“In line with the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visitors will be required to wear a mask. (根据防止新冠肺炎传播的措施，游客将被要求佩戴口罩)”可知，参观卢浮宫期间，游客必须佩戴口罩，防止新冠肺炎传播。故选B。
2．
主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章介绍了卢浮宫的票务信息，涉及时效性、价格以及使用权限等。再结合标题“Official Ticketing Service (官方票务服务)”推知，本文主要是提供卢浮宫的票务信息。故选B。
3．
细节理解题。根据Individual tickets for the Museum下的“General admission: ?18 (一般入场费：18欧元)”可知，身为IT工程师的丈夫需要18欧元；根据Visitors entitled to free admission (other than Louvre members)下的“Under 18s, proof of ID required (未满18岁者，须提供身份证明)”可知，他们10岁的儿子是免费的，以及Professionals下的“Teachers of art, art history or the applied arts, valid proof of employment stating subject taught required (艺术、艺术史或应用艺术的教师，必须提供有效的工作证明，说明所教科目)”可知，作为美术老师的妻子是免费的。综上，这一家人去参观卢浮宫总共需要付18欧元。故选A。
4．
细节理解题。根据第四栏第二段“All tickets purchased online are time-stamped and nominative (记名的); you may therefore be asked to provide proof of identity. (所有在线购买的门票都有时间戳并且是实名的；因此，你可能会被要求提供身份证明)”可知，在网上买票需要提供身份证明。故选C。
5．
推理判断题。通读全文可知，文章主要介绍了卢浮宫的票务信息，涉及时效性、价格以及使用权限等。结合选项推知，本文最有可能出现在一本旅游指南上。故选A。
6．D
7．A
8．C
9．D
10．B
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这是一篇议论文。在一切都追求速度的今天，我们的阅读似乎也快了起来，Blinkist是一款新的以被标记为“眨眼”的快速拍摄形式来总结非虚构作品的应用。然而在作者看来，这款应用所提供的的阅读方式并不是真正的阅读，因为真正的阅读是需要我们深深地沉浸其中的。
6．
词句猜测题。根据文章第一段“As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages (事实证明，这个笑话是针对我们的。一句话怎么能传达一本超过五百页的杰作的精髓呢？)”可知，事实证明我们的试图用一句话来总结一本好书的想法是不现实的。由此推知，划线句的意思是“我们只是在让自己难堪”。故选D项。
7．
主旨大意题。根据文章第二段“Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks.” (Blinkist是一个网站和一款应用程序，现在它以被标记为“眨眼”的快速拍摄形式总结非虚构作品)”可知，文章第二段主要是在介绍Blinkist这款阅读应用和网站。故选A项。
8．
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.” Well, yes, of course, “So many books, so little time,”(“几乎没有人，”编辑们向我们保证，“有时间读我们所有想读的东西。”是啊，当然“书那么多，时间那么少。”)”可知，阅读中的一个问题是人们没有足够的时间去阅读。故选C项。
9．
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can.(当我们阅读一本书的时候，我们需要沉浸其中，让它接管我们，向我们提出要求，教会我们它所能教给我们的)”可知，在作者看来理想的阅读方式是让我们自己深深地沉浸其中。故选D项。
10．
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.(相反，Blinkist是一个为那些实际上不想阅读的人更换书籍的服务。15分钟的总结忽略了阅读的要点；用这款应用进行快速阅读根本不是在阅读)”可知，作者对于这款应用的态度是否定的。故选B项。
11．B
12．C
13．A
14．A
15．C
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这是一篇说明文。机器人在艺术节并不是什么新鲜事，文章主要说明了机器人在艺术世界的广泛应用情况。
11．
细节理解题。根据第二段中“ln 1973, British-born painter Harold Cohen wrote a computer program and called it AARON.At first,AARON only made simple outlines whose color and details Cohen would later add.(1973年，英国出生的画家Harold Cohen编写了一个计算机程序，并将其命名为AARON。一开始，AARON只画了一些简单的轮廓线，后来Cohen会把轮廓线的颜色和细节都加进去)”可知，AARON一开始只能画出Cohen的轮廓线。故选B。
12．
细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中“According to Gil Weinberg, one of Shimon's creators, he and his team "hope and believe that thesenew abilities would push human cooperators to new uncharted directions that could not be achieved in human-to-human cooperation."(Shimon的创造者之一Gil Weinberg表示，他和他的团队“希望并相信，这些新能力将推动人类合作伙伴走向人类之间合作无法实现的新方向。”)”可知，Shimon有望推动人类取得更多成就。故选C。
13．
推理判断题。根据第一段中“However, what's different now is that artists and engineers are building robots that actually create art.(然而，现在的不同之处在于，艺术家和工程师们正在制造能够真正创造艺术的机器人)”以及第三段中“It's not just paintings that robots are creating, though.(然而，机器人创造的不仅仅是画作)”可推知，作者对创造艺术的机器人持积极的态度。故选A。
14．
推理判断题。根据第三段中“Shimon began life as a simple robot marimba, however, it’s learned how to jam, write original songs and compose lyrics. Shimon does this by analyzing huge amounts of music-roughly 50,000 rock.（Shimon最初是一个简单的机器人木琴，然而，它学会了如何即兴演奏、创作原创歌曲和作词。Shimon通过分析大量的音乐（大约50000个摇滚乐）来做到这一点。）”可知，机器人创造歌曲时最大的挑战就是需要分析大量的音乐。故选A。
15．
主旨大意题。根据第一段中“However, what's different now is that artists and engineers are building robots that actually create art(然而，现在的不同之处在于，艺术家和工程师们正在制造能够真正创造艺术的机器人)”结合文章主要说明了机器人在艺术世界的广泛应用情况。故C选项“编程的创造力”最符合文章标题。故选C。
16．A
17．D
18．C
19．C
20．B
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这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了联合国将11月16日定为“国际宽容日”，其目的是为了唤起人们对宽容的意识，此外文章着重介绍了宽容的意义和重要性。
16．
推理判断题。根据第一段中“Marley understood that part of the reason why there are so many problems in the world is the lack of tolerance between people. The UN understands this too that’s why it made Nov 16 “International Day for Tolerance”.( Marle明白，世界上存在这么多问题的部分原因是人与人之间缺乏宽容。联合国也理解这一点，这就是为什么它把11月16日定为“国际宽容日”。)”可知，联合国知道世界上存在这么多问题的部分原因在于人与人之间缺乏宽容，所以为了唤起人们的宽容意识，联合国决定把每年11月16日定为“国际宽容日”，故选A。
17．
细节理解题。根据第二段中“According to him, tolerance “is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty (脆弱) and error; let us pardon each other’s folly- -that is the first law of nature.”(在他看来，宽容是人性的结果。我们都是由脆弱和错误组成的；让我们彼此原谅的愚蠢——这是自然的第一法则。”)”可知，伏尔泰认为宽容是接受对方的弱点，故选D。
18．
细节理解题。根据第四段中“Very often, people don’t realize that they’re intolerant. This is because intolerance has a lot to do with ignorance...But often, the behavior of men toward women is intolerant because men don’t put themselves in the shoes of women.(很多时候，人们并没有意识到他们是不宽容的。这是因为不宽容与无知有很大的关系......但通常，男人对女人的行为是不能容忍的，因为男人没有把自己放在女人的位置上。) ”可知，人们通常没有意识到自己的不宽容，这是因为人们没有从别人的角度看待事情，故选C。
19．
细节理解题。根据最后一段中“It’s a little like generosity. We can give things to another person, and we can also give our forgiveness.(这有点像慷慨。我们可以给别人东西，我们也可以给予我们的宽恕。)”可知，宽容类似于慷慨，这是因为对别人宽容，意味着我们给予别人宽容，这就像对别人慷慨一样，我们需要给别人一些东西，故选C。
20．
主旨大意题。第七段“Still, what Voltaire said stands: We humans are not perfect and this weakness is something that we all share. That’s the reason we should be tolerant.(尽管如此，伏尔泰的话仍然站得住脚：我们人类并不完美，这个弱点是我们共有的。这就是我们应该宽容的原因。)”可知，文章主要介绍了宽容的意义和重要性，故选B。
21．D
22．D
23．A
24．C
25．B
【解析】
【导语】
本文为一篇说明文。最近的一项研究发现，在日常生活中经历或仅仅是预测令人振奋的事件，可以让你在当天感觉不那么抑郁。本文介绍了实验的研究过程和实验发现。
21．
细节理解题。根据文章第一段“A recent study found that experiencing or even just anticipating uplifting events in daily life was related to feeling less depressed that same day.”（最近的一项研究发现，在日常生活中经历或仅仅是预测令人振奋的事件，可以让你在当天感觉不那么抑郁。）可知，新的研究发现，积极的社交活动可以减轻人们的抑郁情绪。故选D项。
22．
推理判断题。根据文章第二段“A number of laboratory-based studies suggest that the mood of people with depression is relatively unresponsive to positive stimuli.”（许多基于实验室的研究表明，抑郁症患者的情绪对积极刺激相对没有反应。）及下一段“The Rochester study is one of a growing number of studies examining how real life events with direct relevance to study participants affect their mood.”（罗彻斯特的研究是越来越多的研究之一，这些研究旨在研究与参与者直接相关的真实生活事件如何影响他们的情绪。）可推知，在Rochester的研究中，积极刺激与现实生活中的事件有关。故选D项。
23．
主旨大意题。根据文章第四段“The study included 157 young adults of whom two-thirds had mild, moderate, or severe depressive symptoms. The remaining third had no symptoms, allowing the authors to examine whether the level of depressive symptoms changes the way people respond to positive experiences. The study subjects completed a two-week online diary, tracking their mood as it related to recent and anticipated positive events in their lives—like time spent with friends, or exercising.”（这项研究包括157名年轻人，其中三分之二有轻度、中度或严重的抑郁症状。剩下的三分之一没有症状，这让作者可以研究抑郁症状的程度是否会改变人们对积极体验的反应方式。研究对象完成了为期两周的在线日记，记录他们与生活中近期或预期的积极事件（如与朋友相处或锻炼）相关的情绪。）可知，第四段解释了研究是如何进行的。故选A项。
24．
细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段“Those who reported higher levels of depressive symptoms at the beginning of the study, showed stronger associations between daily uplifts and lower daily depressive symptoms, particularly when the uplifts were interpersonal in nature.”（那些在研究之初就报告了较高程度的抑郁症状的人，表现出了日常情绪高涨和较低的日常抑郁症状之间更强的联系，尤其是当这种情绪高涨在本质上是人际关系时。）可知，有严重抑郁症状的人的情绪对日常的情绪高涨最敏感。故选C项。
25．
词义猜测题。根据文章最后一段“The findings have really important implications for treatment”（这些发现对治疗有非常重要的意义）及“a treatment model called Behavioral Activation, which suggests that if you can help depressed people to engage in positive experiences—despite their low motivation to do so—their mood may improve”（一种被称为行为激活的治疗模式，它表明，如果你能帮助抑郁症患者参与积极的体验——尽管他们动机不高——他们的情绪可能会改善）可知，这些发现对治疗有非常重要的意义，并且与一种叫做行为激活的治疗模型是一致的，consistent与compatible意义相近，表示“一致的”。故选B项。
26．B
27．A
28．B
29．D
30．C
【解析】
【导语】
这是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了谷歌、雅虎、易趣和亚马逊这四个网络奇迹。
26．
细节理解题。根据“Google Works Miracles”部分倒第二句“You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references.”(你在提供的空格里输入几乎任何东西，不管它有多模糊，它马上就会出现数百条引用。)可知，谷歌主要用于查询信息。故选B。
27．
细节理解题。根据“Yahoo Becomes Giant”部分第二句中的“It started in January 1994”(它始于1994年1月)和第三句“But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today.”(但在这年年底之前，它就已经成为了我们今天熟知的雅虎。)可知，雅虎成立于一年之内。故选A。
28．
细节理解题。根据“Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience”部分第一句“Amazon (www.amazon.com) started out as an online bookstore, constantly putting up new book titles it offered for sale.”(亚马逊（www.amazon.com）最初是一家在线书店，不断推出新书。)可知，亚马逊在创业之初出售的是不同的书籍。故选B。
29．
细节理解题。根据“eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell”部分最后一句“The company’s online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse through listed items that is available online seven days a week.”(该公司的在线服务允许卖家列出待售商品，允许买家对感兴趣的商品进行竞价，允许易趣用户每周七天浏览列出的商品。)可知，易趣公司的在线服务永远为用户服务。故选D。
30．
主旨大意题。根据第一段“Internet is a great invention for us, and there are many wonders of the web.”(互联网对我们来说是一项伟大的发明，网络有许多奇迹。)，小标题“Google Works Miracles”(谷歌创造奇迹)，“Yahoo Becomes Giant”(雅虎成为巨头)，“eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell”(易趣使每个人都能买卖)和“Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience”(亚马逊让购买成为一种全新的体验)可知，文章主要介绍了四个网络奇迹。故选C。
Welcome to the official Louvre online sales siteThe Musée du Louvre is reopening and we are glad to be able to welcome you back again. In line with the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visitors will be required to wear a mask. According to government recommendations, all visitors to the Louvre aged 12 years and two months or older must show a Health Pass. All visitors, including those entitled to free admission, must book a time period. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.
Individual tickets for the MuseumAdmission and reservation of a time period to access the permanent collections. Tickets valid for the selected date only. Full list of visitors entitled to free admission at Louvre.fr. General admission: ?18
The Musée du Louvre is open every day — except Tuesdays, January 1, May 1 and December 25 — from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. Visitors will be asked to leave the exhibition rooms 30 minutes before closure.All tickets purchased online are time-stamped and nominative (记名的); you may therefore be asked to provide proof of identity. They are only valid for the service, date and time selected. They cannot be used to skip the queue but do guarantee access to the museum within half an hour of the time shown on the ticket. Any holder of an online ticket who does not arrive within the assigned time period for admission to the museum shall be subject to the same admission and waiting conditions as visitors without tickets.
Visitors entitled to free admission (other than Louvre members) — Under 18s, proof of ID required — 16-25 year-old residents of the European Economic Area (European Union, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein), proof of ID and residency required Professionals — Teachers working in France, valid “ Pass Education ” required — Teachers of art, art history or the applied arts, valid proof of employment stating subject taught required — Artists with the Maison des Artistes or International Association of Art, valid proof required Other — Jobseekers, valid proof and ID required (dated within the last year or indicating a period of validity) — Disabled visitors and the person accompanying them
1．What rules should visitors follow when visiting the Musée du Louvre A．All visitors have to show a Health Pass before entering the Musée du Louvre.
B．Masks must be worn to keep COVID-19 from spreading during the visit.
C．Only visitors with free admission need to book a time period in advance.
D．Visitors can’t stay in the museum overnight without official permission.
2．This passage mainly aims at ________.
A．introducing the exhibits at the Louvre B．providing ticketing information of the Louvre
C．listing restrictions on admission to the Louvre D．illustrating the services provided at the Louvre
3．If a family in Norway, including the wife, an art teacher, the husband, an IT engineer, and a 10-year-old son, want to visit the Louvre this weekend, they should pay at least ________ in all.
A．?18 B．?36 C．?45 D．?54
4．What can be learned about the Louvre from the passage
A．It is open every day except on Tuesdays.
B．Its online tickets ensure access to it at any time.
C．Proof of ID is required for anyone buying its tickets online.
D．Ticket holders may be refused to enter it if arriving an hour late.
5．Where can you probably find the passage
A．In a travel guide. B．In a geography book.
C．In job advertisement. D．In a documentary article.
When I was young, a friend and I came up with a “big” plan to make reading easy. The idea was to boil down great books to a sentence each. “Moby-Dick” by American writer Herman Melville, for instance, was reduced to: “A whale of a tale about the one that got away.” As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages
Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks.” The end result is more than one sentence, but not by much. Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café” is broken into 11 screens of information; Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” fills 13.
Blinkist has been around since 2012. It calls its summaries “15-minute discoveries” to indicate how long it takes to read a Blinkist summary. “Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.” Well, yes, of course, “So many books, so little time,” declares a poster I once bought at a book market. But I judge the quality of someone’s library by the books he or she has yet to read.
That’s because a book is something we ought to live with, rather than speed through and categorize. It offers an experience as real as any other. The point of reading a book is not accumulating information, or at least not that alone. The most essential aspect is the communication between writer and reader. The idea behind Blinkist, however, is the opposite: Reading can be, should be, measured by the efficient uptake (吸收) of key ideas. No, no, no. What’s best about reading books is its inefficiency.
When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can. Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.
6．What does the underlined part “the joke was on us” in Paragraph 1 mean
A．We were actually joking. B．We were laughed at by others.
C．We were underestimating ourselves. D．We were just embarrassing ourselves.
7．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about
A．What Blinkist is. B．Why Blinkist is popular.
C．How to use Blinkist. D．Where you can use Blinkist.
8．What is mentioned as a problem about reading in paragraph 3
A．There are few new books of quality. B．Many books are hard to understand.
C．People do not have enough time to read. D．People do not like reading as much as before.
9．What is an ideal pattern of reading according to the author
A．Obtaining key ideas efficiently. B．Further confirming our beliefs.
C．Accumulating in formation quickly. D．Deeply involving ourselves in books.
10．What is the author’s attitude to Blinkist
A．Positive. B．Negative C．Uncaring. D．Tolerant.
Robots in the art world are nothing new. In fact, for centuries, people have built robots as art objects — or simple machines that perform a series of movements — in ancient China and Japan. However, what’s different now is that artists and engineers are building robots that actually create art.
In 1973, British-born painter Harold Cohen wrote a computer program and called it AARON. At first, AARON only made simple outlines whose color and details Cohen would later add. Fifty years later, landscapes add just about anything else a human could paint. So can AARON be called an artist or creative In 2010, Cohen addressed these questions. He explained, “AARON can generate unlimited numbers of images.” So according to Cohen, the simple answer is yes — AARON is creative.
It’s not just paintings that robots are creating, though. Last year, a robot called Shimon released its first album on Spotify. Shimon began life as a simple robot marimba, however, it’s learned how to jam, write original songs and compose lyrics. Shimon does this by analyzing huge amounts of music-roughly 50,000 rock.
It may be cool to hear a song created by a robot, but is there any other reason to build robots that can play music According to Gil Weinberg, one of Shimon’s creators, he and his team “hope and believe that these new abilities would push human cooperators to new uncharted directions that could not be achieved in human-to-human cooperation.”
While questions about robots creating art are fun to think about, there are many other ways that robots can help artists in the way they create their works. For example, advancements in 3D-printing technology will allow artists to build more complex pieces for their sculptures.
11．What was AARON able to do at first
A．Paint people and landscapes.
B．Prepare basic outlines for Cohen.
C．Draw pictures of itself and Cohen.
D．Color paintings under Cohen’s instructions.
12．What does the article tell us about Shimon
A．It is both a marimba and guitar player.
B．It has created about 50,000 original songs.
C．It is expected to push humans to achieve more.
D．Its creators hope that it can outperform humans.
13．What does the author’s attitude towards robots that create art
A．Positive. B．Worried. C．Neutral. D．Doubtful.
14．What might be the biggest challenge of creating songs by a robot
A．Analyzing huge amounts of music.
B．Composing lyrics.
C．Playing guitar.
D．New abilities to new uncharted directions.
15．What could be the best title for the passage
A．AARON and Shimon
B．Robots in the Real World
C．Programmed Creativity
D．Advancements in Technology
There’s a song by the great Jamaican singer Bob Marley called So Much Trouble In The World. Marley understood that part of the reason why there are so many problems in the world is the lack of tolerance between people. The UN understands this too that’s why it made Nov 16 “International Day for Tolerance”.
But first of all, what is tolerance French philosopher Voltaire (1694—1778) can give us some help. According to him, tolerance “is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty (脆弱) and error; let us pardon each other’s folly- -that is the first law of nature.”
Nobody’s perfect. When we’re tempted to criticize another person, we should perhaps remember our own imperfections first.
Very often, people don’t realize that they’re intolerant. This is because intolerance has a lot to do with ignorance. For example, the UN’s campaign is in part about the treatment of females by males. But often, the behavior of men toward women is intolerant because men don’t put themselves in the shoes of women.
It’s worth thinking a little about the words “tolerance” and “intolerance”. Are they the best words to describe the evils of which we’re speaking here To agree to be “tolerant” of someone isn’t necessarily a very respectful thing. When someone is tolerated, it implies that there’s something wrong with them.
But it seems wrong that people should agree to “tolerate” people with black skin, for example. And should women think they have received the respect they are due when men agree to “tolerate” them
Still, what Voltaire said stands: We humans are not perfect and this weakness is something that we all share. That’s the reason we should be tolerant.
It’s a little like generosity. We can give things to another person, and we can also give our forgiveness. Bob Marley understood this. In the song mentioned above, he advised: “Write your love on a rock so it stays for eternity (永恒); write your hate in the sand so the waves will wash it away.”
16．What’s the purpose of the UN “International Day For Tolerance”
A．To arouse peoples awareness of tolerance among people.
B．To celebrate the founding of the UN.
C．To solve the problem of global community.
D．To change people’s opinions towards globalization.
17．According to Voltaire, tolerance is ________.
A．being willing to express your love to others
B．trying to overcome your imperfections
C．giving a hand to vulnerable groups (弱势群体)
D．accepting each other’s weaknesses
18．Why are people usually unaware of their intolerance, according to the article
A．They are used to finding faults.
B．They consider tolerance a kind of frailty.
C．They don’t see things from the angle of others.
D．They are intolerant of themselves too.
19．In what sense is “tolerance” similar to “generosity”
A．Humans are advised to treat others better. B．Humans learned to find faults in others.
C．Humans need to give something to others. D．Humans will change their attitudes to others.
20．What’s the text mainly about
A．The origin of the International Day of Tolerance.
B．The meaning and importance of tolerance.
C．The philosophy behind Bob Marley’s song.
D．Effective ways to show tolerance.
A recent study found that experiencing or even just anticipating uplifting events in daily life was related to feeling less depressed that same day. The study, conducted by Professor Lisa Starr at University of Rochester, found that a decrease in depression was especially marked when the experience included interpersonal uplifts, such as participating in fun activities with friends or family.
A number of laboratory-based studies suggest that the mood of people with depression is relatively unresponsive to positive stimuli(刺激物). In other words, when people with depression experience a positive event in the laboratory—like receiving a financial reward—their mood is unlikely to improve markedly. The issue here is that laboratory research doesn’t always translate to real-life settings.
The Rochester study is one of a growing number of studies examining how real life events with direct relevance to study participants affect their mood. The authors wanted to know if people with different levels of depression felt better when good things happened to them. The answer is simple—yes. The same is true for the expectation of good things to come.
The study included 157 young adults of whom two-thirds had mild, moderate, or severe depressive symptoms. The remaining third had no symptoms, allowing the authors to examine whether the level of depressive symptoms changes the way people respond to positive experiences. The study subjects completed a two-week online diary, tracking their mood as it related to recent and anticipated positive events in their lives—like time spent with friends, or exercising.
Those who reported higher levels of depressive symptoms at the beginning of the study, showed stronger associations between daily uplifts and lower daily depressive symptoms, particularly when the uplifts were interpersonal in nature.
“The findings have really important implications for treatment and are compatible with a treatment model called Behavioral Activation, which suggests that if you can help depressed people to engage in positive experiences—despite their low motivation to do so—their mood may improve,” says Starr. In other words: If you’re feeling seriously blue, make an effort to do something fun with friends.
21．What did the new study find
A．Sociable people are less likely to experience depression.
B．People with depression are good at predicting the future.
C．Every one of us experiences depression from time to time.
D．Positive social activities can reduce people’s depressive mood.
22．What can we learn about the positive stimuli of the Rochester study
A．They produced little effect. B．They were laboratory-based.
C．They were financial rewards. D．They were related to real-life events.
23．What is Paragraph 4 mainly about
A．How the study was conducted. B．What the result of the study is.
C．What affects participants’ mood. D．How long the study took.
24．Which participants’ mood was most responsive to daily uplifts
A．Those with no depressive symptoms.
B．Those with mild depressive symptoms.
C．Those with severe depressive symptoms.
D．Those with moderate depressive symptoms.
25．What does the underlined word “compatible” in the last paragraph mean
A．Unrelated. B．Consistent. C．Comfortable. D．Popular.
Internet is a great invention for us, and there are many wonders of the web.
Google Works Miracles
COOGIE (www.) is a daily miracle to millions of people. If the Internet had only this very fast search engine, it would have justified its existence many times over. It is the most popular search on the web with a 54% market share, ahead of Yahoo! You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references. If knowledge is power, then Google commands the gateway.
Yahoo Becomes Giant
YAHOO (www.) was the first wonder of the web, and in many respects, it still is. It started in January 1994 when we California graduate students, Jerry Yang and David Filo, started compiling (编译) a database of links, mainly for their personal use. But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today. In the past seven years, Yahoo has grown rapidly, partly through a long string of buys. Yahoo offers almost everything you could want: emails, instant messages, chats, clubs, photo albums, and a lot more.
eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell
eBay (www.ebay.com), which deals with online trading and shopping services, is the most impressive large Internet company where people buy and sell goods and services worldwide. It has, for instance, opened a global marketplace in which people from Beijing. San Francisco, or Moscow can bid against each other for products put up for sale by someone in London. The company’s online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse through listed items that is available online seven days a week.
Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience
Amazon (www.amazon.com) started out as an online bookstore, constantly putting up new book titles it offered for sale. In the late 1990s. Amazon had more than four million titles after adding CDs, videos, DVDs and games. It continued to add new lines of business including toys, computer software, electronics, like power tools, home improvement products and online sales. For regular users, Amazon has made itself the shortest possible path between wanting and buying.
26．What is Google mainly used for
A．Commanding the gateway. B．Searching for information.
C．Storing reference books. D．Providing extra space.
27．“Rome is not built in one day” but Yahoo is built in one ________.
A．year B．day C．month D．minute
28．What goods did Amazon sell when it started its business
A．Videos and games. B．Different books.
C．Power tools. D．Home improvement products.
29．Which of the following is TRUE
A．Buying and selling can only be done through Amazon
B．If you type unclearly, Google will refuse to do the searching.
C．Yahoo owns more market shares than any other company on the web.
D．eBay company’s online service is always there for its users.
30．What’s the best title for the passage
A．Four Websites sample B．Websites Work Miracles
C．Four Wonders of the Web D．Websites and Daily Life
参考答案
1．B
2．B
3．A
4．C
5．A
【解析】
【导语】
这是一篇应用文。主要介绍了卢浮宫的票务信息，涉及时效性、价格以及使用权限等。
1．
细节理解题。根据Welcome to the official Louvre online sales site下的“In line with the measures taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visitors will be required to wear a mask. (根据防止新冠肺炎传播的措施，游客将被要求佩戴口罩)”可知，参观卢浮宫期间，游客必须佩戴口罩，防止新冠肺炎传播。故选B。
2．
主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章介绍了卢浮宫的票务信息，涉及时效性、价格以及使用权限等。再结合标题“Official Ticketing Service (官方票务服务)”推知，本文主要是提供卢浮宫的票务信息。故选B。
3．
细节理解题。根据Individual tickets for the Museum下的“General admission: ?18 (一般入场费：18欧元)”可知，身为IT工程师的丈夫需要18欧元；根据Visitors entitled to free admission (other than Louvre members)下的“Under 18s, proof of ID required (未满18岁者，须提供身份证明)”可知，他们10岁的儿子是免费的，以及Professionals下的“Teachers of art, art history or the applied arts, valid proof of employment stating subject taught required (艺术、艺术史或应用艺术的教师，必须提供有效的工作证明，说明所教科目)”可知，作为美术老师的妻子是免费的。综上，这一家人去参观卢浮宫总共需要付18欧元。故选A。
4．
细节理解题。根据第四栏第二段“All tickets purchased online are time-stamped and nominative (记名的); you may therefore be asked to provide proof of identity. (所有在线购买的门票都有时间戳并且是实名的；因此，你可能会被要求提供身份证明)”可知，在网上买票需要提供身份证明。故选C。
5．
推理判断题。通读全文可知，文章主要介绍了卢浮宫的票务信息，涉及时效性、价格以及使用权限等。结合选项推知，本文最有可能出现在一本旅游指南上。故选A。
6．D
7．A
8．C
9．D
10．B
【解析】
【导语】
这是一篇议论文。在一切都追求速度的今天，我们的阅读似乎也快了起来，Blinkist是一款新的以被标记为“眨眼”的快速拍摄形式来总结非虚构作品的应用。然而在作者看来，这款应用所提供的的阅读方式并不是真正的阅读，因为真正的阅读是需要我们深深地沉浸其中的。
6．
词句猜测题。根据文章第一段“As it turned out, the joke was on us. How could a single sentence convey the essence (精髓) of a masterpiece with over five hundred pages (事实证明，这个笑话是针对我们的。一句话怎么能传达一本超过五百页的杰作的精髓呢？)”可知，事实证明我们的试图用一句话来总结一本好书的想法是不现实的。由此推知，划线句的意思是“我们只是在让自己难堪”。故选D项。
7．
主旨大意题。根据文章第二段“Blinkist, a website and an app, now summarizes nonfiction titles in the form of quick takes labeled “blinks.” (Blinkist是一个网站和一款应用程序，现在它以被标记为“眨眼”的快速拍摄形式总结非虚构作品)”可知，文章第二段主要是在介绍Blinkist这款阅读应用和网站。故选A项。
8．
细节理解题。根据文章第三段“Almost none of us,” the editors assure us, “have the time to read everything we’d like to read.” Well, yes, of course, “So many books, so little time,”(“几乎没有人，”编辑们向我们保证，“有时间读我们所有想读的东西。”是啊，当然“书那么多，时间那么少。”)”可知，阅读中的一个问题是人们没有足够的时间去阅读。故选C项。
9．
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“When reading a book, we need to dive in, let it take over us, demand something of us, teach us what it can.(当我们阅读一本书的时候，我们需要沉浸其中，让它接管我们，向我们提出要求，教会我们它所能教给我们的)”可知，在作者看来理想的阅读方式是让我们自己深深地沉浸其中。故选D项。
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推理判断题。根据文章最后一段“Blinkist is instead a service that changes books for people who don’t, in fact, want to read. A 15-minute summary misses the point of reading; speed-reading with the app isn’t reading at all.(相反，Blinkist是一个为那些实际上不想阅读的人更换书籍的服务。15分钟的总结忽略了阅读的要点；用这款应用进行快速阅读根本不是在阅读)”可知，作者对于这款应用的态度是否定的。故选B项。
11．B
12．C
13．A
14．A
15．C
【解析】
【导语】
这是一篇说明文。机器人在艺术节并不是什么新鲜事，文章主要说明了机器人在艺术世界的广泛应用情况。
11．
细节理解题。根据第二段中“ln 1973, British-born painter Harold Cohen wrote a computer program and called it AARON.At first,AARON only made simple outlines whose color and details Cohen would later add.(1973年，英国出生的画家Harold Cohen编写了一个计算机程序，并将其命名为AARON。一开始，AARON只画了一些简单的轮廓线，后来Cohen会把轮廓线的颜色和细节都加进去)”可知，AARON一开始只能画出Cohen的轮廓线。故选B。
12．
细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中“According to Gil Weinberg, one of Shimon's creators, he and his team "hope and believe that thesenew abilities would push human cooperators to new uncharted directions that could not be achieved in human-to-human cooperation."(Shimon的创造者之一Gil Weinberg表示，他和他的团队“希望并相信，这些新能力将推动人类合作伙伴走向人类之间合作无法实现的新方向。”)”可知，Shimon有望推动人类取得更多成就。故选C。
13．
推理判断题。根据第一段中“However, what's different now is that artists and engineers are building robots that actually create art.(然而，现在的不同之处在于，艺术家和工程师们正在制造能够真正创造艺术的机器人)”以及第三段中“It's not just paintings that robots are creating, though.(然而，机器人创造的不仅仅是画作)”可推知，作者对创造艺术的机器人持积极的态度。故选A。
14．
推理判断题。根据第三段中“Shimon began life as a simple robot marimba, however, it’s learned how to jam, write original songs and compose lyrics. Shimon does this by analyzing huge amounts of music-roughly 50,000 rock.（Shimon最初是一个简单的机器人木琴，然而，它学会了如何即兴演奏、创作原创歌曲和作词。Shimon通过分析大量的音乐（大约50000个摇滚乐）来做到这一点。）”可知，机器人创造歌曲时最大的挑战就是需要分析大量的音乐。故选A。
15．
主旨大意题。根据第一段中“However, what's different now is that artists and engineers are building robots that actually create art(然而，现在的不同之处在于，艺术家和工程师们正在制造能够真正创造艺术的机器人)”结合文章主要说明了机器人在艺术世界的广泛应用情况。故C选项“编程的创造力”最符合文章标题。故选C。
16．A
17．D
18．C
19．C
20．B
【解析】
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这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了联合国将11月16日定为“国际宽容日”，其目的是为了唤起人们对宽容的意识，此外文章着重介绍了宽容的意义和重要性。
16．
推理判断题。根据第一段中“Marley understood that part of the reason why there are so many problems in the world is the lack of tolerance between people. The UN understands this too that’s why it made Nov 16 “International Day for Tolerance”.( Marle明白，世界上存在这么多问题的部分原因是人与人之间缺乏宽容。联合国也理解这一点，这就是为什么它把11月16日定为“国际宽容日”。)”可知，联合国知道世界上存在这么多问题的部分原因在于人与人之间缺乏宽容，所以为了唤起人们的宽容意识，联合国决定把每年11月16日定为“国际宽容日”，故选A。
17．
细节理解题。根据第二段中“According to him, tolerance “is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty (脆弱) and error; let us pardon each other’s folly- -that is the first law of nature.”(在他看来，宽容是人性的结果。我们都是由脆弱和错误组成的；让我们彼此原谅的愚蠢——这是自然的第一法则。”)”可知，伏尔泰认为宽容是接受对方的弱点，故选D。
18．
细节理解题。根据第四段中“Very often, people don’t realize that they’re intolerant. This is because intolerance has a lot to do with ignorance...But often, the behavior of men toward women is intolerant because men don’t put themselves in the shoes of women.(很多时候，人们并没有意识到他们是不宽容的。这是因为不宽容与无知有很大的关系......但通常，男人对女人的行为是不能容忍的，因为男人没有把自己放在女人的位置上。) ”可知，人们通常没有意识到自己的不宽容，这是因为人们没有从别人的角度看待事情，故选C。
19．
细节理解题。根据最后一段中“It’s a little like generosity. We can give things to another person, and we can also give our forgiveness.(这有点像慷慨。我们可以给别人东西，我们也可以给予我们的宽恕。)”可知，宽容类似于慷慨，这是因为对别人宽容，意味着我们给予别人宽容，这就像对别人慷慨一样，我们需要给别人一些东西，故选C。
20．
主旨大意题。第七段“Still, what Voltaire said stands: We humans are not perfect and this weakness is something that we all share. That’s the reason we should be tolerant.(尽管如此，伏尔泰的话仍然站得住脚：我们人类并不完美，这个弱点是我们共有的。这就是我们应该宽容的原因。)”可知，文章主要介绍了宽容的意义和重要性，故选B。
21．D
22．D
23．A
24．C
25．B
【解析】
【导语】
本文为一篇说明文。最近的一项研究发现，在日常生活中经历或仅仅是预测令人振奋的事件，可以让你在当天感觉不那么抑郁。本文介绍了实验的研究过程和实验发现。
21．
细节理解题。根据文章第一段“A recent study found that experiencing or even just anticipating uplifting events in daily life was related to feeling less depressed that same day.”（最近的一项研究发现，在日常生活中经历或仅仅是预测令人振奋的事件，可以让你在当天感觉不那么抑郁。）可知，新的研究发现，积极的社交活动可以减轻人们的抑郁情绪。故选D项。
22．
推理判断题。根据文章第二段“A number of laboratory-based studies suggest that the mood of people with depression is relatively unresponsive to positive stimuli.”（许多基于实验室的研究表明，抑郁症患者的情绪对积极刺激相对没有反应。）及下一段“The Rochester study is one of a growing number of studies examining how real life events with direct relevance to study participants affect their mood.”（罗彻斯特的研究是越来越多的研究之一，这些研究旨在研究与参与者直接相关的真实生活事件如何影响他们的情绪。）可推知，在Rochester的研究中，积极刺激与现实生活中的事件有关。故选D项。
23．
主旨大意题。根据文章第四段“The study included 157 young adults of whom two-thirds had mild, moderate, or severe depressive symptoms. The remaining third had no symptoms, allowing the authors to examine whether the level of depressive symptoms changes the way people respond to positive experiences. The study subjects completed a two-week online diary, tracking their mood as it related to recent and anticipated positive events in their lives—like time spent with friends, or exercising.”（这项研究包括157名年轻人，其中三分之二有轻度、中度或严重的抑郁症状。剩下的三分之一没有症状，这让作者可以研究抑郁症状的程度是否会改变人们对积极体验的反应方式。研究对象完成了为期两周的在线日记，记录他们与生活中近期或预期的积极事件（如与朋友相处或锻炼）相关的情绪。）可知，第四段解释了研究是如何进行的。故选A项。
24．
细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段“Those who reported higher levels of depressive symptoms at the beginning of the study, showed stronger associations between daily uplifts and lower daily depressive symptoms, particularly when the uplifts were interpersonal in nature.”（那些在研究之初就报告了较高程度的抑郁症状的人，表现出了日常情绪高涨和较低的日常抑郁症状之间更强的联系，尤其是当这种情绪高涨在本质上是人际关系时。）可知，有严重抑郁症状的人的情绪对日常的情绪高涨最敏感。故选C项。
25．
词义猜测题。根据文章最后一段“The findings have really important implications for treatment”（这些发现对治疗有非常重要的意义）及“a treatment model called Behavioral Activation, which suggests that if you can help depressed people to engage in positive experiences—despite their low motivation to do so—their mood may improve”（一种被称为行为激活的治疗模式，它表明，如果你能帮助抑郁症患者参与积极的体验——尽管他们动机不高——他们的情绪可能会改善）可知，这些发现对治疗有非常重要的意义，并且与一种叫做行为激活的治疗模型是一致的，consistent与compatible意义相近，表示“一致的”。故选B项。
26．B
27．A
28．B
29．D
30．C
【解析】
【导语】
这是一篇应用文。文章主要介绍了谷歌、雅虎、易趣和亚马逊这四个网络奇迹。
26．
细节理解题。根据“Google Works Miracles”部分倒第二句“You type almost anything, however unclear, into the space provided and in a second it has come up with hundreds of references.”(你在提供的空格里输入几乎任何东西，不管它有多模糊，它马上就会出现数百条引用。)可知，谷歌主要用于查询信息。故选B。
27．
细节理解题。根据“Yahoo Becomes Giant”部分第二句中的“It started in January 1994”(它始于1994年1月)和第三句“But well before the end of the year, it had become recognizable as Yahoo we know today.”(但在这年年底之前，它就已经成为了我们今天熟知的雅虎。)可知，雅虎成立于一年之内。故选A。
28．
细节理解题。根据“Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience”部分第一句“Amazon (www.amazon.com) started out as an online bookstore, constantly putting up new book titles it offered for sale.”(亚马逊（www.amazon.com）最初是一家在线书店，不断推出新书。)可知，亚马逊在创业之初出售的是不同的书籍。故选B。
29．
细节理解题。根据“eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell”部分最后一句“The company’s online service permits sellers to list items for sale, buyers to bid on items of interest, and eBay users to browse through listed items that is available online seven days a week.”(该公司的在线服务允许卖家列出待售商品，允许买家对感兴趣的商品进行竞价，允许易趣用户每周七天浏览列出的商品。)可知，易趣公司的在线服务永远为用户服务。故选D。
30．
主旨大意题。根据第一段“Internet is a great invention for us, and there are many wonders of the web.”(互联网对我们来说是一项伟大的发明，网络有许多奇迹。)，小标题“Google Works Miracles”(谷歌创造奇迹)，“Yahoo Becomes Giant”(雅虎成为巨头)，“eBay Enables Everyone to Buy and Sell”(易趣使每个人都能买卖)和“Amazon Makes Buying a New Experience”(亚马逊让购买成为一种全新的体验)可知，文章主要介绍了四个网络奇迹。故选C。