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The future of the press?
Interesting things are happening in press. Newspaper circulation in Europe is falling and Ireland and the UK have experienced the biggest drop. 1. Global newspaper sales are increasing and revenue from ads is still very strong. Nevertheless, it is clear that newspapers need to change to meet the demands of a rapidly changing readership in a digital world.
The industry in Europe has made a number of changes, such as introducing more colour and moving from the big broadsheets to the much more user-friendly tabloid（娱乐小报）size. The greatest innovation has been the introduction of online newspapers, which have boomed since their introduction a little over ten years ago. 2. On the one hand, it is clear from the massive increase in online readers that e-papers are popular. On the other hand, their financial future is not so certain. This is basically because most people are not prepared to pay for online news. In fact, if it wasn’t for advertising, online newspapers would have a very hard time indeed.
A growing number of people are reading electronic newspapers instead of the print press and with good reason. First of all, they can read the news whenever they want. Secondly, readers are free to explore a subject as much or as little as they want. Thirdly, it is the perfect medium for‘real-time’news. 3. Readers were able to get minute-by-minute coverage at any hour of the day. Only 24-hour news on TV could compete with that.
The general view is that the future‘paper’will be a multimedia mix. Advanced technology and programming software will allow the user to create their own‘news package’. And it will arrive instantaneously, fed by superfast internet connections. The reader will receive up-to-the-minute news about everything from their local traffic problems to updates on news of specific interest to them. Nobody knows for sure what will happen, but as one expert put it,‘we won’t be saying“Here is the news”, we will be saying,“4.”’
A. But are online papers here to stay?
B. The news is everywhere.
C. Take, for example, the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.
D. But how different are online papers from printed ones?
E, Despite this, the news isnt all bad for the industry.
F. Here is your news.
高二英语六选四困难题
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Speeding off in a stolen car, the thief thinks he has got a great catch. 1.. The car is fitted with a remote immobiliser (锁止器), and a radio signal from a control centre miles away will ensure that once the thief switches the engine off, he will not be able to start it again.
The idea goes like this. A control box fitted to the car contains a mini-cellphone, a micro- processor and memory, and a GPS (全球定位系统) satellite positioning receiver.
In the UK, a set of technical fixes is already making life harder for car thieves. "The pattern of vehicle crime has changed” says Martyn Randall, a security expert. He says it would only take him a few minutes to teach a person how to steal a car, using a bare minimum of tools.2.
Modern cars are far tougher to steal, as their engine management computer won’t allow them to start unless they receive a unique ID code beamed out by the ignition (点火) key.
But determined criminals are still managing to find other ways to steal cars, often by getting hold of the owner’s keys. 3..
If the car travels 100 metres without the driver confirming their ID, the system will send a signal to an operations centre that it has been stolen. 4.. Staff at the centre will then contact the owner to confirm that the car really is missing, and keep police informed of the vehicle’s movements via the car’s GPS unit.
A. And key theft is responsible for 40% of thefts of vehicles fitted with a tracking system
B. In the UK, technologies like this have helped achieve a 31% drop in vehicle-related crime since 1997.
C. But he is going to experience an unwelcome surprise.
D. The hundred metres minimum avoids false alarms due to inaccuracies in the GPS signal.
E. If the car is stolen, a coded cellphone signal will tell the control centre to block the vehicle’s engine management system and prevent the engine staring.
F. But only if the car is more than 10 years old.
高二英语六选四中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Almost 90% of people are biased against women, according to a new index that highlights the ‘shocking’ extent of the global backlash towards gender equality.
Despite progress in closing the equality gap, 91% of men and 86% of women hold at least one bias against women in relation to politics, economics, education, violence or reproductive rights.
The first gender social norm index analyzed data from 75 countries that, collectively, are home to more than 80% of the global population. It found that almost half of the people surveyed felt men were superior political leaders and that more than 40% believed men made better business executives. 1..
The U.N. Development Program (U.N.D.P.), which published its findings on March 5, is calling on governments to introduce laws and policies that address deep-rooted prejudice.
‘We all know we live in a male-dominated world, but with this report, we are able to put some numbers behind these biases,’ said Pedro Conceição, director of the U.N.D.P.’s human development report office. ‘And I consider these numbers shocking. What our report shows is a pattern that repeats itself again and again. 2., but when we go deeper, we seem to be hitting a wall.’
3.. While in many countries, these biases were shrinking, in many others, the biases were actually increasing, he pointed out.
The figures are based on two sets of data collected from almost 100 countries through the World Values Survey, which examines changing attitudes in almost 100 countries and how they impact on social and political life. The figures cover periods from 2005-09 and 2010-14, the latest year for which data is available.
4.. But while more than 50% of people in Andorra, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway and Sweden were free from gender prejudice, even in those places the pattern was not one of complete progress.
Sweden, for example, was one of several countries in which the percentage of people who held at least one bias increased over the nine years the data covered. More than half of the people in the U.K. and the U.S. held at least one bias.
A.Of the 75 countries studied, there were only six in which the majority of the people surveyed held no bias towards women.
B.Conceição said the data shows that opinions and expectations in society about the role of women were prejudiced against them.
C.Conceição pointed out that gender discrimination is increasingly destroy the social welfare in many aspects.
D.Perhaps more alarmingly, almost a third of men and women think it’s acceptable for a man to beat his wife.
E.The figures serve as a warning towards the social mechanism of developed countries.
F.Big progress has been made in more basic areas of participation and empowerment.
高二英语六选四困难题查看答案及解析
Directions：Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
The future of the press?
Interesting things are happening in press. Newspaper circulation in Europe is falling and Ireland and the UK have experienced the biggest drop. 1. Global newspaper sales are increasing and revenue from ads is still very strong. Nevertheless, it is clear that newspapers need to change to meet the demands of a rapidly changing readership in a digital world.
The industry in Europe has made a number of changes, such as introducing more colour and moving from the big broadsheets to the much more user-friendly tabloid（娱乐小报）size. The greatest innovation has been the introduction of online newspapers, which have boomed since their introduction a little over ten years ago. 2. On the one hand, it is clear from the massive increase in online readers that e-papers are popular. On the other hand, their financial future is not so certain. This is basically because most people are not prepared to pay for online news. In fact, if it wasn’t for advertising, online newspapers would have a very hard time indeed.
A growing number of people are reading electronic newspapers instead of the print press and with good reason. First of all, they can read the news whenever they want. Secondly, readers are free to explore a subject as much or as little as they want. Thirdly, it is the perfect medium for‘real-time’news. 3. Readers were able to get minute-by-minute coverage at any hour of the day. Only 24-hour news on TV could compete with that.
The general view is that the future‘paper’will be a multimedia mix. Advanced technology and programming software will allow the user to create their own‘news package’. And it will arrive instantaneously, fed by superfast internet connections. The reader will receive up-to-the-minute news about everything from their local traffic problems to updates on news of specific interest to them. Nobody knows for sure what will happen, but as one expert put it,‘we won’t be saying“Here is the news”, we will be saying,“4.”’
A. But are online papers here to stay?
B. The news is everywhere.
C. Take, for example, the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004.
D. But how different are online papers from printed ones?
E, Despite this, the news isnt all bad for the industry.
F. Here is your news.
高二英语六选四困难题查看答案及解析
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My wife and I recently welcomed a child into the world．His only interest right now is keeping us awake 24/7．But one day，he'll need to learn something about finance．When he does，here are some suggestions．
1. You might think you want an expensive car，a fancy watch，and a huge house．But you don't． 1. You think having expensive stuff will bring it．It almost never does-especially from the people you want to respect and admire you．
2. I hope you're poor at some point．Not struggling，and not unhappy，of course．But there's no way to learn the value of money without feeling the power of its scarcity．It teaches you the difference between necessary and desirable． 2. These are essential survival skills．
3. Don't stay in a job you hate because you made a career choice at 18．Almost no one knows what he or she wants to do at that age．Many people don't know what they want until they're twice that age．（These are the signs you're in the wrong career．）
4. The best thing money buys is to control over your time． 3. One day you'll realize that this freedom is one of the things that makes you truly happy．
5. Your savings rate has a little to do with how much you earn and a lot to do with how much you spend．I know a dentist who lives paycheck to paycheck，always on the edge of ruin．I know another person who never earned more than 50，000and saved a fortune．The difference is entirely due to their spending． 4.．
6. Don't listen to me if you disagree with what I've written．The world you grow up in will have different values and opportunities than the one I did．More important，you'll learn best when you disagree with someone and then are forced to learn it yourself．（On the other hand，always listen to your mother．）
A. It’ll make you learn to enjoy what you have, fix what’s broken. and shop for a bargain.
B. Spending more is likely to stimulate your motivation for more earning.
C. It gives you options and frees you from relying on someone else’s priorities.
D. Living with less is the most efficient way to control your financial future.
E. Actually, your parents have already given you too much.
F. What you want is respect and admiration from other people.
高二英语六选四中等难度题查看答案及解析
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A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech integrated systems. 1. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
“It’s extremely important for us to think about this as a whole system and not just the sum of a bunch of individual components,” said Robert Wood, the Harvard engineering professor who has been working on the robotic fly project for over a decade. 2. “The added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own,” he said.
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. “The seemingly simple system which just moves the wings has a number of inter-dependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well, but then has to be matched well to everything it’s connected to,” said Wood. The flight device was built into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, 3. “Basically it should be able to take off, land and fly around,” he said.
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. 4. “You can start thinking about using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead,”
A. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications.
B. A few years ago, his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components.
C. There used to be few ways like this to study how insects fly.
D. There are a lot of technologies and open interesting scientific questions that are really what drives humans on a day-to-day basis.
E. Thus, it might some day perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers’ fields or on the battlefield.
F. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly.
高二英语六选四中等难度题查看答案及解析
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The true story of two female wrestlers overturning gender stereotypes (刻板印象) has become the highest-grossing Indian film ever in China. It’s got people asking when China will make a film like this?
Dnagal is not your typical song-and-dance heavy Bollywood romance. 1. Staring hugely popular Aamir Khan, it tells the story of Indian wrestler and coach Mahavir Singh Phogat who trained his daughters to become wrestlers-defying social norms.
2. And the family faced great adversity to realize his wrestling dreams. One of his daughters Geeta Phogat went on to win India’s first ever gold medal is wrestling at the Commonwealth Games in 2010 and became the first Indian female wrestler to qualify for the Olympic Games.
Since its release on 5 May in China, the film has already made more than 487m yuan ($70.7m; £54. 5 m) at the box office, according to state news agency Xinhua and continues to do strong business. Many social media users and critics are inevitable comparing Dangal to Chinese films, saying it was better than a lot of domestic cinema. 3. ”
“Dangal was based on a true story, but its artistic level — from the script-writing to the actors’ and actresses’ performance, and from the pace to the musical score — is amazing.” He said it had “taught Chinese cinema a lesson. We have so many champions in China but we have failed to make a decent sports movie. 4.” he said.
Film critic Nan Jiang told the BBC she thinks it’s because the Chinese film market is dominated by commercial interests. “Some film makers are only concerned with money. They barely care about feminism or female empowerment,” she said.
A.The real-life family is from conservative Haryana state, known for the high popularity of social issues such as gender inequality and child marriage.
B.Chinese critics say Dangal has helped break China’s “prejudice” against Bollywood films, including their great length and well-designed but “puzzling” dance scenes.
C.Instead, it is a story of female empowerment.
D.So what does India make of all this success for Dangal in China? — Lots of pride, a little disbelief and several cries of “madness”.
E.This is a case worthy of reflection.
F.Yin Hong, a professor from the Tsinghua University and a film critic, told the Beijing Evening News that Dangal puts Chinese movies” to shame
高二英语六选四中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Bicycles, roller skates and skateboards are dangerous. I still have scars on my knees from my childhood run-ins with various wheeled devices. Admittedly, I was a foolish kid, but I’m glad I didn’t spend my childhood trapped indoors to protect me from every bump and bruise.
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” 1. And now technology has become the new field for the age-old battle between adults and their freedom-seeking kids.
Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends, teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones to gossip and socialize with their friends. What they do online often mirrors what they might otherwise do if their mobility weren’t so heavily restricted in the age of helicopter parenting. Social media and smart phones have become so popular in recent years. 2..
As teens have moved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imagining all the potential dangers that youth might face-from violent strangers to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their life.
Rather than helping teens develop strategies to deal with public life and the potential risks of interacting with others, fearful parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. 3. “Protecting” kids may feel like the right thing to do, but it denies teens the chances of learning as they come of age in a technology-soaked world,
The key to helping youth in the modern digital life isn’t more restrictions. It’s freedom— plus communication. Urban theorist Jane Jacobs used to argue that the safest neighborhoods were those where communities collectively took interest in and paid attention to what happened on the streets. Safety didn’t come from surveillance cameras or keeping everyone indoors but from a collective willingness to watch out for one another and be present as people struggled. The same is true online.
What makes the digital street safe is when teens and adults collectively agree to open their eyes and pay attention, communicate and work together to deal with difficult situations. Teens need the freedom to wander the digital street, but they also need to know that caring adults are behind them and supporting them wherever they go. The first step is to turn off the tracking software.4..
A. Safety didn’t come from keeping everyone indoors.
B. But parents can’t handle it when teenagers put this theory into practice.
C. Then ask your kids what they’re doing when they’re online and why it’s so important to them.
D. Teens want the freedom to explore their identity and the world around them, so they jump online.
E. These don’t help teens develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations, assess risks and get help when they’re in trouble.
F. The safest neighborhood were those where communities collectively took interest in and paid attention to what happened on the streets.
高二英语六选四困难题查看答案及解析
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Meal kits(餐具)cut food waste but packaging is a problem
Home delivery meal kits can slash(大幅消减)food waste by more than two-thirds, but suppliers need to switch to reusable packaging to make them environmentally friendly.
1. That means leftovers are minimized. But while the delivery services score well on reducing food waste, buying the same ingredients from the supermarket almost always saves energy overall simply because meal kits use so much single-use packaging. The good news is that if you have meals that are tailored for consumption, people won’t over-buy and you have less food waste. You fine-tune the portions to what people will actually eat.
Beyond the cost of the waste itself, thrown-away food generates methane(甲烷)that contributes to climate change. 2. A 2018 report from the Boston Consulting Group found that the waste was set to soar by a third by 2030 when global food waste was estimated to reach 2.1 bn tonnes.
Meal kits can reduce transport emissions if they mean people take fewer trips to the supermarket. If people only went to buy goods that are unlikely to decay such as soap and toilet paper, they might only have to visit the supermarket once every couple of months. That delivery truck can carry meals for you and dozens of neighbors. 3.
The study found that even if delivered meal kits reduced food waste to zero, they would still use up more energy overall than buying the same food from the supermarket unless the energy used for the meal kit packaging was cut by a fifth. 4. All the environmental benefits are lost. But if the packaging can be reused, you can get some benefits.
A. However, meal kits are likely heading for the mainstream.
B. If it’s single-use and thrown away, the packaging is a killer.
C. In that case, you might replace dozens of car trips with one truck trip.
D. Meal knits arrive on your doorstep by truck filled with every ingredient you need.
E. Tailor-made meal kits save waste by providing precise quantities of fresh ingredients.
F. If food waste was a country, it would rank third in emissions behind the US and China.
高二英语七选五中等难度题查看答案及解析
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This Way to Dreamland
Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing. 1. They can seem forgetful and clumsy. They stare off into space and wander by themselves. They annoy us because they seem to be ignoring us and missing the important things.
But daydreamers are also responsible for some of the greatest ideas and achievements in human history. 2. Can you imagine what kind of world we would have without such ideas and inventions?
So how can you come up with brilliant daydreams and avoid falling over tree roots or otherwise looking like a fool?
First, understand that some opportunities for daydreaming are better than others. Feeling safe and relaxed will help you to slip into daydreams. 3. And if you want to improve your chances of having a creative idea while you’re daydreaming, try to do it while you are involved in another task—preferably something simple, like taking a shower or walking, or even making meaningless drawings.
It’s also important to know how to avoid daydreams for those times when you really need to concentrate. “Mindfulness”, being focused, is a tool that some people use to avoid falling asleep. 4.
Finally, you never know what wonderful idea might strike while your mind has moved slowly away. Therefore, it’s a good idea to keep a notebook or voice recorder nearby when you are in the daydream zone.
Always remember that your best ideas might come when your head is actually in the clouds.
A.Having interesting things to think about also helps.
B.Without wandering minds, we wouldn’t have relativity or Post-it notes.
C.At one time, daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses.
D.Daydreamers have a bad reputation for being unaware of what’s happening around them.
E.It involves slow, steady breathing for self-control that helps people stay calm.
F.Daydreams are often very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand
高二英语六选四中等难度题查看答案及解析
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Turning clay into art
Many residents bought clay figurines in the past, especially during festivals or holidays, as they believed the items would bring good fortune, ward off evil spirits and prevent calamities 1.
Multiple skills, such as paper-cutting, embroidering, carving and New Year’s painting, are used to make the figurines. Local craftspeople use strong colors (such as bright red, light yellow and green) to create figurines, to convey people’s blessings for happiness and good luck, and to embody their desire to enjoy the good life. The artworks, characterized by vivid images depicted in an exaggerated way, have attracted countless people from both home and abroad 2. Moreover, as the unique art form embodies Fengxiang’s aesthetic, literary and artistic ideologies, the figurines have high historical and cultural value.
3. There are two ways to produce clay figurines; first, the mold-making method, during which the artists creates the figurines, such as the God of Longevity and the God of Wealth, from clay set in molds. The second technique is the hand-kneading method, during which the artist kneads clay into the shapes of different animals, such as the Chinese zodiac (the 12 animals, which represent the 12 Earthly Branches, to symbolize the years is which people are born) and scenes depicted in operas and stories.
Past generations of craftpeople did their best to pass on the craft to younger generations. 4. That has negatively affected the development of the handmade items. In 2006, China added the craft of making Fengxiang’s clay figurines to the list of the country’s intangible cultural heritage.
A.During past millennia, craftspeople have created numerous exquisite figurines, which have had tremendous aesthetic value.
B.For millennia, the figurines have brought happiness to countless Chinese families.
C.However, given the rapid industrial and technological development during the past several decades, clay figurines have been produced in a great number of molds with more complicated designs.
D.As a resule, the popularity of the art from has increased, both at home and abroad.
E.So far, Fengxiang’s clay figurines have been displayed in various cultural activities held in more than 30 countries, including France, Germany and the United States.
F.Making clay figurines involves several complcated procedures, including processing the new materials, designing the artworks, creating molds, and shaping, baking and painting.
高二英语六选四中等难度题查看答案及解析