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1、为深入贯彻落实党的十九大精神和习近平总书记的重要指示精神，保障人民安居乐业、社会安定有序、国家长治久安、进一步巩固党的执政基础，束城镇深入贯彻全市扫黑除恶会议精神，强化措施，深入扎实开展扫黑除恶专项斗争Unit 3Computers.阅读理解A(2017河南省高三质量检测)Ever since Grumpy Cat first appeared online, the_Internet_cant_get_enough_of_her. But attention is not the only thing that this cat is getting. Her fortune is esti
2、mated at $ 100 million, more than many famous actors and musicians earn.So how did it all start?Grumpy Cats owner Tabatha Bundesen was working as a waitress when her brother Bryan decided to take a photo of her funnylooking cat and post it on Reddit, a social news site. In a matter of hours, she bec
3、ame a sensation(轰动)It got 1 million views on Imgur in 48 hours.Grumpy Cats real name is Tardar Sauce and she actually has a condition called dwarfism, which makes her constantly frowning. But that unique frown turned out to be worth millions of dollars.Tabatha, who lives in Arizona in the US, isnt c
4、omplaining. She still remembers that September 22, 2012, when her life turned upside down.Since her cat became a worldwide phenomenon, she was able to quit her job and devote her life to managing her cats modeling career. Sounds unbelievable, but its true. She says that her only job now is to book T
5、ardars photo shoots, commercials (商业广告), and other appearances.What are the other benefits of owning a milliondollar cat?Apart from not having to work, Tabatha can travel all the time. She has time and money to visit her family more often and enjoy her life. She never could have imagined just how hu
6、ge her cat would become, but she always knew Tardar was very special. And she is glad to see her cat bringing joy to so many people around the world.As for the millions of dollars Tardar has earned, they come from all the products, commercials and a bestselling book. She even has her own movie Grump
7、y Cats Worst Christmas Ever.【解题导语】本文主要介绍了Grumpy Cat和她的主人Tabatha Bundesen的相关情况。1What does the underlined part “the Internet cant get enough of her” mean?A. The Internet cant stand her any more.B. The Internet cant pay more attention to her.C. People dont focus on her any longer on the Internet.D. The
8、 Internet cant find enough information about her.答案与解析：B考查推理判断。根据“But attention is not the only thing that this cat is getting”可知，这只猫得到的不仅仅是关注。由此可推断出，“the Internet cant get enough of her”的意思为：这只猫在网络上得到了很大的关注。故选B。2What made Grumpy Cat become famous?A. Her unusual appearance.B. Her bad temper.C. Her s
9、hort and fat body.D. Her unique fur.答案与解析：A考查细节理解。根据第三段中的“take a photo of her funnylooking cat”和第五段中“which makes her constantly frowning. But that unique frown”可知，是这只猫特别的长相使她出名了。故选A。3About Tabatha Bundesen, we know that _.A. she now works as a waitressB. she feels very tired of her famous catC. she
10、only manages her cats modeling careerD. she is too busy to go home to visit her career答案与解析：C考查细节理解。根据第七段第一句中的“she was able to quit her job and devote her life to managing her cats modeling career”可知，选C。4The general idea of the last paragraph is _.A. how the cat can become so famousB. how the cat ca
11、n make so much moneyC. what the film about the cat is namedD. how the cats owner spends so much money答案与解析：B考查段落大意。文章最后一段的内容告诉我们Tardar是如何赚如此多的钱的。故选B。B(2017福建省高中质量检查)Goldfish have pretty boring lives, so maybe its a good thing they can only concentrate for nine seconds! But according to new research,
12、 humans are becoming like goldfish. Our attention span (时长) is getting shorter . and its all because of technology.“We move quickly from one site to another on the web，” says Doctor Ted Selker, a computer scientist from Massachusetts，“and we are losing the ability to concentrate.” With millions of w
13、ebsites to choose from, the attention span of the average internet user is just seconds. There are other digital distractions (分心) too: email, instant messaging and quickie movies on websites.Some people are worried about the effect on young people. “You need time to understand and think about what
14、you read，” says Julia Wood, from London. “Young people search the net all the time and their brains become full of useless information but there is no time to make sense of it. I am trying to persuade my pupils to read more books, so that they concentrate on one subject for longer.”Other teachers ar
15、e trying more unusual methods to improve students concentration. Anne Savan, from Wales, was so worried about her students that she started playing Mozart during her science lessons. She says that it had an amazing effect：“The music made them calmer, and their concentration was much better.”But not
16、everyone believes that there is a problem. Ray Cole, an educational psychologist says：“On the web, young people learn to make quick decisions about what is and isnt worth reading. They might look at five unhelpful websites very quickly, before stopping and reading a sixth useful website more carefully. In a world with so much information available, th
