There are multiple experiences a Westerner can describe as a “culture shock” in China, one of the fastest-growing economies, like eating mouthwatering baozi for breakfast. These experiences, however, paled in comparison to the one I experienced during my time in an organization I’ve been serving in for two years to provide free educational tours at my leisure — the advancement and equalizing of China’s known wealth disparity（差异）through the social network and cashless payment giant（巨头）, WeChat, which I rarely used before.
Last month, the organization led a thrilling trip to camp. Initially, we went through a village kept alive by the residents. The views there are so attractive and refreshing. Walking through endless red apple trees, I saw an elderly woman who gently offered to sell me apples. Unfortunately, I informed her I didn’t have cash on hand. She quickly told me to scan the QR code（二维码）on her phone, which in seconds would get my money into her bank account via WeChat. Needless to say, I was blown away. And of course, the apples were tasty.
As an advocate of financial growth opportunities in under-served communities, it was inspiring to witness that technology lets people contribute to the economy regardless of socioeconomic background in China. Though the socioeconomic problems remain to some extent, access to and adoption of technology creating financial opportunities transforms the lives of everyday citizens and enables communities to flower.
While I once didn’t believe a “cashless society” was possible and thought it could cause more unfavorable conditions, I now stand corrected. Perhaps it might take longer for New York City to adapt, as we lag behind in this transformation and there is so much we can learn. I also wonder what the human race can achieve when technology provides endless opportunities for people of all backgrounds to advance.
1.What does the first paragraph tell us about the author?
A.She is struggling with culture shock.
B.She really enjoys Chinese breakfast.
C.She does voluntary work when free.
D.She likes using social networks.
2.Which of the following surprised the author during the trip?
A.Scenery of the village. B.Taste of the apples.
C.Popularity of WeChat. D.The way of paying.
3.What is the author’s attitude to a cashless society?
A.Critical. B.Positive.
C.Concerned. D.Curious.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.Technology helps narrow the wealth gap
B.New York will be the next cashless society
C.Humans will achieve more with technology
D.China becomes the fastest-growing economy
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题
There are multiple experiences a Westerner can describe as a “culture shock” in China, one of the fastest-growing economies, like eating mouthwatering baozi for breakfast. These experiences, however, paled in comparison to the one I experienced during my time in an organization I’ve been serving in for two years to provide free educational tours at my leisure — the advancement and equalizing of China’s known wealth disparity（差异）through the social network and cashless payment giant（巨头）, WeChat, which I rarely used before.
Last month, the organization led a thrilling trip to camp. Initially, we went through a village kept alive by the residents. The views there are so attractive and refreshing. Walking through endless red apple trees, I saw an elderly woman who gently offered to sell me apples. Unfortunately, I informed her I didn’t have cash on hand. She quickly told me to scan the QR code（二维码）on her phone, which in seconds would get my money into her bank account via WeChat. Needless to say, I was blown away. And of course, the apples were tasty.
As an advocate of financial growth opportunities in under-served communities, it was inspiring to witness that technology lets people contribute to the economy regardless of socioeconomic background in China. Though the socioeconomic problems remain to some extent, access to and adoption of technology creating financial opportunities transforms the lives of everyday citizens and enables communities to flower.
While I once didn’t believe a “cashless society” was possible and thought it could cause more unfavorable conditions, I now stand corrected. Perhaps it might take longer for New York City to adapt, as we lag behind in this transformation and there is so much we can learn. I also wonder what the human race can achieve when technology provides endless opportunities for people of all backgrounds to advance.
1.What does the first paragraph tell us about the author?
A.She is struggling with culture shock.
B.She really enjoys Chinese breakfast.
C.She does voluntary work when free.
D.She likes using social networks.
2.Which of the following surprised the author during the trip?
A.Scenery of the village. B.Taste of the apples.
C.Popularity of WeChat. D.The way of paying.
3.What is the author’s attitude to a cashless society?
A.Critical. B.Positive.
C.Concerned. D.Curious.
4.What is the best title for the text?
A.Technology helps narrow the wealth gap
B.New York will be the next cashless society
C.Humans will achieve more with technology
D.China becomes the fastest-growing economy
高三英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
Prosocial behaviors are those intended to help other people. Behaviors that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy(同感) and concern for others and behaving in ways to help or benefit other people.
Prosocial behavior has long posed a challenge to social scientists seeking to understand why people engage in helping behaviors that are beneficial to others, but costly to the individual performing the action. Why would people do something that benefits someone else but offers no immediate benefit to the doer?
Psychologists suggest that there are a number of reasons why people engage in prosocial behavior. In many cases, such behaviors are fostered during childhood and adolescence as adults encourage children to share, act kindly, and help others. Prosocial behaviors are often seen as being compelled by a number of factors including egoistic reasons (doing things to improve one's self-image), reciprocal benefits (doing something nice for someone so that they may one day return the favor), and more altruistic reasons (performing actions purely out of empathy for another individual).
Characteristics of the situation can also have a powerful impact on whether or not people engage in prosocial actions. For example, if you drop your purse and several items fall out on the ground, the likelihood that someone will stop and help you decreases if there are many other people present. This same sort of thing can happen in cases where someone is in serious danger, such as when someone is involved in a car accident. In some cases, witnesses might assume that since there are so many other present, someone else will have surely already called for help. All the examples are what we call the bystander effect, the tendency for people to become less likely to assist a person in distress when there are a number of other people also present.
Why do people help in some situations but not in others? Experts have discovered a number of different situational variables that contribute to (and sometimes interfere with) prosocial behaviors. First, the more people that are present decreases the amount of personal responsibility people feel in a situation. People also tend to look to others for how to respond in such situations, particularly if the event contains some level of ambiguity. Fear of being judged by other members of the group also plays a role. People sometimes fear leaping to assistance, only to discover that their help was unwanted or unwarranted. In order to avoid being judged by other bystanders, people simply take no action.
Experts have suggested that some key things must happen in order for a person to take action.
1.What can we learn from paragraph 2?
A.Social scientists feel it hard to understand why helping behaviors exist.
B.Helping behaviors are costly to people who receive the action.
C.Social scientists have been researching on prosocial behavior for quite long.
D.It is quite challenging for people to perform helping behaviors.
2.Prosocial behaviors are motivated for all the following reasons EXCEPT ______.
A.empathy for another individual B.instant benefits of helping others
C.parental influences in the early life D.the desire to better one's self-image
3.Why does the author use the examples in paragraph 4?
A.To show that some people are in need of immediate help.
B.To indicate that some people think their help is not needed.
C.To suggest that some people perform helping behaviors quickly.
D.To demonstrate how the situation can impact helping behaviors.
4.Which situation can be described as the bystander effect?
A.When hearing an injured lady crying for help, the neighbors didn't take action.
B.Seeing an old man slipping on the icy road, many people volunteered to help.
C.A woman had a heart attack on the train and you were the only doctor there.
D.On the scene of your colleague's traffic accident, you called the police for help.
5.After the last paragraph, the most possible topic could be ______.
A.possible benefits of prosocial behavior
B.various reasons for prosocial behavior
C.situational influences on prosocial behavior
D.skills and knowledge to provide assistance
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阅读下面短文'，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
As Alison Gopnik described in her recent book, there are two kinds of parents in modern America: The Carpenter and the Gardener. The “carpenter” thinks that his or her child can1.(shape). “The idea is that if you just do the right things, get the right skills and read the right books, you^e going to be able to turn your child 2.a particular kind of adult，” she said
The “gardener”，however, is seldom concerned about 3. (control) what the child will become and instead provides a protected space 4.explore). The style is all about:“creating a rich, nutritious but also variable, diverse，active ecosystem”.
Gopnik, a psychology and philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said. " Many parents are carpenters, and 5.is really necessary for them to bring up their children.” She spent decades researching children's development and finally 6.(find) that parents often focused too much on what their children would be as adults. The harm is that parents and their children may become7. (anxiety),tense or unhappy.
"We re so concerned about our children 8. we think have difficulty mastering their own future that we’ re unwilling to allow them to 9. (free) explore the world." she says. The truth is that the 10. (little)that parents worry about outcomes, the better their children may live in life.
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28．Besides hotels，there are also families_____visitors can experience the warmth and kindness of the local people．
| A．which | B．that | C．what | D．Where |
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—I keep on meeting with difficulties in the experiment. I can hardly go on.
—Where there are difficulties, there are ways to get over them. ________
A. Suit yourself. B. Good for you
C. Pull yourself together! D. What’s the deal?
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四、Multiple choice(单项选择)15分
It looks as if they are going to _________ us a lot of money for the concert hall.
A.demand B.cost C.charge D.ask
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All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson’s mission. “I wish everyone could join me , ____ there are so many bad things going on in the world; I mean every day,” said Karla.
Karla had the ____ and sense of duty in December of 2013. The single mother of three said she tended to feel down around the holidays, so she ____ to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and ____ her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to prisoners. She hoped to ____ others.
“We have to do something. Our ____ can make a difference in someone’s day. You ____ know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude,” Karla ____.
Karla’s greatest ____ had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla’s birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the ____ $127 to pay for other people’s drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-thru(汽车餐厅)holding a ____ reading “Have a great day.” She ended up ____ about 23 customers. “It was really fun. It was ____ one of the best birthdays ever,” she said. Her kindness that day didn’t go ____. One couple was so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their ____.
Karla’s acts of kindness have become a ____ affair. Her two sons are always ____ others. “Sometimes I’ll ask Kyle, ‘So, did you do anything extra nice today?’ and he would say ‘Somebody ____ something in the hallway and I picked it up’ or ‘I held the door for someone’, that kind of thing,” said Karla.
It’s because of Mom that the boys think it’s ____ to give a hand to others. “I think it’s a great idea of hers. It’s always nice to help someone out especially when they are going through ____ things,” said Karla’s 15-year-old son Chad.
1.A. however B. though C. as D. therefore
2.A. commitment B. appointment C. preference D. success
3.A. managed B. agreed C. hesitated D. decided
4.A. did B. shared C. mentioned D. missed
5.A. greet B. inspire C. introduce D. remember
6.A. kindness B. happiness C. stories D. sadness
7.A. still B. often C. never D. even
8.A. whispered B. explained C. argued D. complained
9.A. interest B. challenge C. concern D. moment
10.A. cashier B. customer C. beggar D. secretary
11.A. mark B. flag C. sign D. symbol
12.A. paying for B. picking up C. paying off D. picking out
13.A. occasionally B. usually C. probably D. hardly
14.A. unoccupied B. unnoticed C. far D. up
15.A. wisdom B. existence C. generosity D. appreciation
16.A. society B. love C. holiday D. family
17.A. encouraging B. inviting C. helping D. affecting
18.A. dropped B. bought C. found D. stole
19.A. formal B. great C. strange D. funny
20.A. nice B. new C. good D. bad
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All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson’s mission. “I wish everyone could join me. There are so many ____ things going on in the world; I mean every day,” said Karla.
Karla had the ____ and sense of duty in December of 2013.The single mother of three said she tended to get down around the holidays, so she ____ to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and ____ her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to the incarcerated (囚犯). She hoped to ____ others.
“We have to do something. Our ____ can make a difference in someone’s day. You ____ know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude,” Karla ____.
Karla’s greatest ____ so far had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla’s birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the ____ $127 to pay for other people’s drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-thru holding a ____ that read, “Have a great day.” She ended up ____ about 23 customers. “It was really fun. It was ____ one of the best birthdays ever,” she said. Her kindness that day didn’t go ____. One couple was so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their ___.
Karla’s acts of kindness have become a ____ affair. Her two sons are always ____ others. “Sometimes I’ll ask Kyle, ‘So, did you do anything extra nice today?’ and he’s like ‘Somebody ____ something in the hallway and I picked it up’ or ‘I held the door for someone’, that kind of thing,” said Karla.
It’s because of Mom that the boys think it’s ____ to give a hand to others. “I think it’s a great idea of hers. It’s always nice to help someone out ____ they really need it,” said Karla’s 15-year-old son Chad.
1.A. goodB. badC. newD. casual
2.A. commitmentB. appointmentC. preferenceD. success
3.A. managedB. agreedC. hesitatedD. decided
4.A. didB. mentionedC. sharedD. missed
5.A. greetB. inspireC. introduceD. remember
6.A. kindnessB. happinessC. storiesD. sadness
7.A. stillB. oftenC. neverD. even
8.A. whisperedB. explainedC. reportedD. replied
9.A. surpriseB. challengeC. concernD. moment
10.A. cashierB. customerC. beggarD. secretary
11.A. markB. signC. symbolD. flag
12.A. paying forB. picking upC. paying offD. picking out
13.A. occasionallyB. usuallyC. probablyD. hardly
14.A. unoccupiedB. unnoticedC. unorganizedD. unquestioned
15.A. wisdomB. existenceC. generosityD. appreciation
16.A. societyB. loveC. holidayD. family
17.A. encouragingB. invitingC. helpingD. affecting
18.A. droppedB. boughtC. foundD. stole
19.A. strangeB. luckyC. coolD. funny
20.A. afterB. thoughC. unlessD. when
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There are as many as five student clubs in our school．You can join _____ interests you most．
A．whatever B．whichever
C．whenever D．wherever
高三英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析
There are as many as five student clubs in our school. You can join _____ interests you most.
A. whatever B. whichever C. whenever D. wherever
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