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1、英语高考模拟卷 一、阅读理解共 15 小题；每题 2 分，总分值 30 分 After a homeless man offered a college student in England all the money he had so shed be able to get home safely, the woman is paying it forwardin a massive way. The story began in early December. It was about 3 a.m. and Harrison-Bentzen was panic. “I came out
2、after a student night out and realized I didnt have any battery on my phone. Id lost my friends, the 22-year-old told BBC Radio 5. Shed also lost her bank card, she discovered, and she had no money. Just then, a homeless man, known only as Robbie, approached the young woman and asked her if she need
3、ed help. He reached into his pocket and pulled out all the money he hadloose change amounting to about $4.60. He insisted that Harrison-Bentzen take it to pay for a taxi so shed get home safely. Harrison-Bentzen, a student at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, England, says she refused
4、 to take Robbies money and found another way to get home. But following her encounter偶然相遇with the generous man, she says she couldnt get him out of her mind. For the next few days, the student searched for Robbie, driving around the streets with her mom and using social media in an attempt to locate
5、 the man. In that time, Harrison-Bentzen says she learned more about Robbie and discovered that he actually had a reputation for helping strangers. Finally, after four days of driving around Preston, Harrison-Bentzen found Robbie. She was determined to do something to help change Robbies life. So, e
6、arlier this month, the student launched a fundraising campaign in Robbies name. She explained that she would be spending 24 hours on the streets, so as to “understand the difficulties that the homeless face on a daily basis. Harrison-Bentzen says she had initially最初hoped to raise about $780 with her
7、 campaign. Her expectations, however, were quickly blown out of the water. As of Thursday morning, 4,800 people have donated almost $50,000. 1What happened to Harrison-Bentzen in early December? A.She was robbed by a bad guy. She met with a kind homeless man. She lost everything she had with her. Sh
8、e was injured in a traffic accident 2Which of the following words can best describe Robbie? A.Warm-hearted. Strange. Clever. Hard-working. 3Why would Harrison-Bentzen be spending 24 hours on the streets?,To make her campaign more famous. To raise more money for the homeless. To save the homeless fro
9、m the difficult life. To experience the homeless peoples life. 4What can we learn from the text? A.Harrison-Bentzen accepted Robbies help at last. B.With Robbies help, Harrison-Bentzen took a taxi to go home safely. C.Harrison-Bentzen was a college student when the story was happening. D.Harrison-Be
10、ntzen and her friends spent four days finding Robbie to thank him. Ownership used to be about as straightforward as writing a cheque. If you bought something, you owned it. If it broke, you fixed it. If you no longer wanted it, you sold it or threw it away. In the digital age, however, ownership has
11、 become more slippery. Since the coming of smartphones, consumers have been forced to accept that they do not control the software in their devices; they are only licensed to use it. As a digital chain is wrapped ever more tightly around more devices, such as cars and thermostats, who owns and who c
12、ontrols which objects is becoming a problem. Buyers should be aware that some of their most basic property rights are under threat. The trend is not always harmful. Manufacturers seeking to restrict what owners do with increasingly complex technology have good reasons to protect their copyright, ens
13、ure that their machines do not break down, support environmental standards and prevent hacking. Sometimes companies use their control over a products software for the owners benefit. When Hurricane Irma hit Florida this month, Tesla remotely updated the software controlling the batteries of some mod
14、els to give owners more range to escape the storm. But the more digital strings are attached to goods, the more the balance of control leans towards producers and away from owners. That can be inconvenient. Picking a car is hard enough, but harder still if you have to dig up the instructions that te
15、ll you how use is limited and what data you must give. If the products are intentionally designed not to last long, it can also be expensive. Already, items from smartphones to washing machines have become extremely hard to fix, meaning that they are thrown away instead of being repaired. Privacy is
16、 also at risk. Users become terrified when iRobot, a robotic vacuum cleaner, not only cleans the floor but also creates a digital map of the inside of a home that can then be sold to advertisers (though the manufacturer says it has no intention of doing so). Cases like this should remind people how jealously they ought to protect their property rights and control who uses the data that is collected. Ownership is not about to go away, but its meaning is changing. This requires careful inspection.
