综合检测卷
第一部分 听力（满分30分）（略） 第二部分 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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What can technology do to make your world better? Four young people are starting new
businesses to answer that question. Mateusz Mach
Eighteen-year-old Mateusz Mach was the youngest person in Poland to receive money from
investors to expand his company. He started Five, a mobile messaging application for deaf people, which lets deaf people create their own hand signs to communicate with friends. The app has more than 10,000 deaf users now. Ida Tin
Ida Tin was born in Denmark. She is the founder of Clue, a health company for women in
Berlin, Germany. She had problems caused by taking birth control pills in her 20s. She decided to work on making it easier for women to plan when they have children. She made an easy-to-use app called Clue to give women information on their monthly cycles. It has more than two million users in over 180 countries now. William Zhou
William Zhou is the co-founder and leader of Chalk. Com. He was born in Beijing. China,
and grew up in Vancouver Canada. When Zhou was still in high school, he founded his first company Chalk, a group of programs that supports individual teaching and learning. There are more than 100，000 users in 20,000 schools worldwide. Forbes magazine included Zhou in its list of top 30 under-30-old business leaders for education in 2015. George Mtemahanji
George Mtemahanji was born in Tanzania. He moved with his family to Italy in 2002, where
he attended the Technical Institute of Alfredo Ferrari. In 2014,he returned to Tanzania to
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start his own solar energy company—Sun Sweet Solar, which found early success in rural areas of Tanzania. In 2015, his team won the Anzisha Prize as one of the 12 best companies out of 500 led by young people under 22 in Africa. 1. Which one made a great contribution to the disabled? A. Mateusz Mach. C. William Zhou.
B. Ida Tin.
D. George Mtemahanji.
2. What is Ida Tin’s purpose of founding Clue?
A. She founded a health company for women in Berlin. B. She had problems caused by taking birth control pills. C. She wanted to help women to plan when having children. D. She made an easy-to-use app to give women information.
3. Why was William Zhou included by Forbes magazine in 2015?
A. He is the co-founder and leader of Chalk. com. B. His Chalk supports individual teaching and learning. C. His Chalk is used in 20,000 schools worldwide in his 20s. D. He founded his first company when he was in high school.
B
Sweetest Day is always the third Saturday in October. This holiday is much more important in some regions than in others (Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo being the biggest Sweetest Day cities). It is a holiday that is gaining in popularity every year throughout the country.
Sweetest Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in October as a day to make someone
happy. It is an occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged, and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed.
Over 60 years ago, a Cleveland man, believing that the city’s orphans and shut-ins too
often felt forgotten and neglected, formed the idea of showing them that they were remembered. He did this through the distribution of small gifts. With the help of his friends and neighbors, he distributed these remembrances on a Saturday in October. During the years that followed, other Clevelanders began to participate in the celebration ceremony, which came to be called \was broadened
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to include everyone, and became an occasion for remembering others with a kind act or a small gift. And soon the idea spread to other cities all over the country.
Sweetest Day is not based on any single group’s religious belief or on a family
relationship. It is a reminder that a thoughtful word or deed enriches life and gives it meaning. Because for many people remembering takes the form of gift-giving, Sweetest Day offers us the opportunity to show others that we care, in a practical way. 4. Sweetest Day is celebrated to__________ . A. spread religious belief
B. make someone cheer up
C. strengthen family relationship D. help the poor get out of trouble
5. Sweetest Day originated in__________ . A. Detroit C. Buffalo
B. Cleveland D. New York
6. The underlined word \in Paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to \A. tasks C. gifts
B. ideas
D. pills
7. What can we know from the text?
A. Sweetest Day is celebrated in the form of a family party. B. Over 60 years ago, men too often felt forgotten and neglected. C. Only a few religions have the tradition to celebrate the holiday. D. The idea of creating Sweetest Day came from a man who cared for orphans.
C
People are being attracted to Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service without realizing they’re paying for it by giving up large amounts of personal information. Facebook then attempts to make money by selling their data to advertisers that want to send targeted messages.
Most Facebook users don’t realize this is happening. Even if they know what the company is up to, they still have no idea what they’re paying for Facebook because people don’t really know what their personal information is worth.
The biggest problem, however, is that the company keeps changing the rules. Early on, you keep everything private. That was the great thing about Facebook — you could create
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your own little private network. Last year, the company changed its privacy rules so that many things — your city, your photo, your friends' names—were set, by default (默认) to be shared with everyone on the Internet.
According to Facebook’s vice-president Elliot Schrage, the company is simply making changes to improve its service, and if people don’t share information, they have a “less satisfying experience”.
Some people think this is more about Facebook looking to make more money. Its original business model, which was about selling ads and putting them at the side of the page, totally failed. Who wants to look at ads when they’re online connecting with their friends? The privacy issue has already landed Facebook in hot water in Washington. In April, Senator Charles Schumer called on Facebook to change its privacy policy. He also urged the Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for social-networking sites. “I think the senator rightly communicated that we had not been clear about what the new products were and how people could choose to use them or not to use them,” Schrage admits.zx&x&k
I think that whatever Facebook has done so far to invade our privacy is only the beginning, which is why I’m considering stopping using it. Facebook is a convenient site, but I’m upset by the idea that my information is in the hands of people I don’t know. That’s too high a price to pay.
8. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Facebook is becoming a more useful site. B. Facebook is improving its service gradually. C. Facebook is stealing and selling users’ information. D. Facebook is losing more customers.
9. What did Facebook’s business model include at the beginning? A. Selling its service. C. Selling its products.
B. Selling ads.
D. Selling personal information.
10. According to the writer, why Facebook make changes to its rule? A. To provide better service to its users. B. To follow the Federal guidelines.
C. To encourage its users’ communication.
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D. To gain its users’ more personal information. 11. What does the writer plan to do?
A. He is planning not to use Facebook any longer. B. He is considering to fight against Facebook. C. He is planning to change his personal information.
D. He urges Federal Trade Commission to set guidelines for Facebook.
D
Have you ever had trouble trying to choose a gift? Perhaps you need a birthday present for someone who is hard to please. How about clothing? You might be about choosing the wrong size, color, or style. Books or DVDs? You may not know enough about the person’s likes, dislikes, and interests. And giving money may not seem right. Well, how about a gift card?
A gift card is a card that is issued(发行) by a certain store. It’s worth a certain amount of money. It looks like a credit card, but it actually works like cash. A gift card holder can spend the amount of money noted on the card in the store that issued it. These cards are big moneymakers. One reason is that when gift-card holders go to the store, they often see other things to buy, and they end up spending more money than the gift card is worth.
Gift cards are becoming extremely popular in many countries around the world. Why? People love the convenience — cards are easy to buy and easy to use, either in the store or online. The receiver can select his or her own gift, and the giver doesn’t have to worry about finding just the right thing.
Receiving a gift card, however, is not the same as receiving a gift. An actual gift is a better reminder of the person who gave it. It helps us appreciate the thought and effort that went into the choice. The message of a real gift is more likely to be “ I spent some time trying to find the right gift for you because I care about you.”
Often a gift card doesn’t pass on the same message as an actual gift. It may seem to say, “ I was in a hurry. I didn’t have time to think about what you really like.” In today’s busy world, gift cards are convenient. However, they can make us forget the real purpose of giving gifts, which is to build a closer bond between the gift-giver and the gift-receiver. 12. How does the author introduce the main topic?
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