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1、英语试题 时间 100 分钟分值 150 分 考试要求 1 保质保量按规定的时间自主完成试卷并及时上传答案 2 用 B5 纸张自制答题卡 标明题号 书写工整 拍照清楚 上传 第一部分阅读 共两节 满分50 分 第一节 共15 小题 每小题2 5 分 满分37 5 分 Passage A Five years ago my wife said she d found us a tiny but adorable house It was close to the historic Abbot Kinney However there was a bus depot 公共汽车停车场 across
2、the street Hundreds of buses noisily parked there every night and noisily left every morning It was awful But I was determined to make the best of it It is noisy but it offers us a good way to think about what is required to make a city work I kept telling our 6 year old daughter Then one morning I
3、woke up to find that the buses were gone I allowed myself to get excited My daughter however was unhappy It took me a minute to understand she had got used to the idea of us having a role in city life Shortly afterward a homeless encampment 临时营地 was built there Then I found out what was planned for
4、the bus depot a place to deal with the homeless When I told my daughter about the bridge housing a big smile spread across her face Her first reaction wasn t fear or selfishness She understood instantly how special it was that the bus depot would become a place for people who needed just that to liv
5、e What story about city life could I tell her then I tried to keep fruit in the car so that at traffic lights we could hand out a banana or an apple When a woman put up a tent on the sidewalk in front of our stairs I filled all her water bottles Now we have a couple hundred new neighbours and I ll b
6、e telling anyone who will listen what an honour it is to live among the homeless Without my daughter I might not have come to the same conclusion 1 What was wrong with the author s new house at the beginning A It was too small for family use B It was too close to a tourist attraction C There was too
7、 much noise around D There were too many neighbours around 2 Why was the author s daughter unhappy when she found the buses were gone A She thought she lost the role in city life B She didn t like the idea of bridge housing C She had been used to the presence of buses D She couldn t go out of town w
8、ithout the buses 3 What was the author s purpose of keeping fruit in his car A To meet his family s needs B To make his daughter happy C To thank those who had helped them D To help the homeless when possible Passage B The next time you need to get somewhere you may be able to follow your nose A stu
9、dy has found that a strong sense of smell is associated with a strong sense of direction Researchers conducted an experiment at McGill University in Canada Fifty seven adults were invited to participate in a virtual way finding task in which they had to make their way around a virtual environment Th
10、ey were given 20 minutes to learn about the virtual city After having passed by each of eight landmarks at least twice the participants were placed in front of one of the landmarks and asked to find the most direct route to one assigned by the researchers The participants also smelled 40 scented 有香气
11、的 pens one at a time After a brief sniff the participants chose one word that best identified the smell from four words on a screen An additional exercise used a virtual maze 迷宫 to determine if the participants were more likely to rely on landmarks to find the way or if they used a more habit based
12、method built over time as people travelled the same route over and over again What the researchers found was that those with the ability to correctly identify the smells of the pens also had the easiest time performing the way finding task by way of landmarks A strong sense of smell was not identifi
13、ed in the participants who used the more habit based method The connection between the sense of smell and way finding likely came about as a result of the evolution of the nervous system The original function of the sense of smell in humans may have been intended to support our spatial memory Keep t
14、hat in mind the next time you get lost going to the dentist It won t prevent you from getting horribly lost but it s good food for thought along the way 4 How did the researchers carry out the study A By using typical landmarks in a real city B By combining virtual tests with real life tests C By te
15、sting different senses in a virtual environment D By collecting routine observation data from the participants 5 What were the participants asked to do after they smelled a scented pen A Decide whether they liked the smell B Use a sentence to describe the smell C Choose a suitable word for the smell
16、 D Find the landmark that featured the smell 6 Which of the following factors is better related to a strong sense of direction according to paragraph 5 A More experience in describing things B The way of using landmarks C Quick adjustment to the virtual world D A more habit based way finding method 7 The meaning of the word spatial underlined in Paragraph 6 relates to A the situation B the position C the spirit D the time Passage C I was excited to take my rescue Beagle 比格犬 to the river the othe
