第Ⅱ卷（共 35 分）
第四部分：任务型阅读（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意：请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只写一个单词。
Technology can make us smarter or stupider, and we need to develop a set of principles to guide our everyday behavior and make sure that tech is improving and not holding up our mental processes. One of the big questions being debated today is: What kind of information do we need to have stored in our heads, and what kind can we leave “in the cloud” to be accessed as necessary?
An increasingly powerful group within education are supporting “digital literacy”. In their view, skills beat knowledge, developing “digital literacy” is more important than learning more content, and all facts are now Google-able and therefore unworthy of committing to memory. But even the most sophisticated digital literacy skills won?t help students and workers handle the world if they don?t have a broad base of knowledge about how the world actually operates. If you focus on the delivery mechanism and not the content, you?re doing kids a disservice (帮倒忙).
Indeed, evidence from cognitive (认知的) science challenges the idea that skills can exist independent of factual knowledge. Data from the last thirty years leads to a conclusion that is not scientifically challenging: thinking well requires knowing facts, and that?s true not only because you need something to think about. The very processes that teachers care about most—critical thinking processes—are closely intertwined (交织) with factual knowledge that is stored in long-term memory.
In other words, just because you can Google the date of Black Tuesday doesn?t mean you understand why the Great Depression happened or how it compares to our recent economic decline. There is no doubt that the students of today, and the workers of tomorrow, will need to innovate, cooperate and evaluate. But such skills can?t be separated from the knowledge that gives rise to them. To innovate, you have to know what came before. To cooperate, you have to share knowledge with your partners. And to evaluate, you have to compare new information against knowledge you?ve already mastered.
So here?s a principle for thinking in a digital world, in two parts. First, acquire a base of factual knowledge in any field in which you want to perform well. This base supplies the essential foundation for building skills, and it can?t be committed to a search engine.
Second, take advantage of computers? invariable memory, but also the brain?s elaborative memory. Computers are great when you want to store information that shouldn?t change. But brains are the superior choice when you want information to change, in interesting and useful ways: to connect up with other facts and ideas, to acquire successive layers of meaning to immerse for a while in your accumulated knowledge and experience and so produce a richer mental brew(混合物).
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Does Technology Make Us Smarter or Stupider? How can we distinguish between information about thinking Lead-in question skills and information about 71. ▲ knowledge? Technology helps us develop skills and 72. ▲ us of much Technology trouble in learning facts. makes us smarter. Technology makes it 73. ▲ to memorize all facts that can be accessed on the internet. Technology won?t help with our professional competence if we 74. ▲ the factual knowledge needed. Technology makes us stupider. Technology makes us ignore the fact that thinking skills are 75. ▲ in factual knowledge. Not only general thinking but also critical thinking 77. ▲ knowledge. Skills 76. ▲ on knowledge. Tomorrow?s professional competence can?t be separated from the acquiring, the sharing and the 78. ▲ of knowledge. Base your skill development on the knowledge in your 79. ▲ A two-part instead of “on the cloud”. principle Use computers for 80. ▲ information and brains for the opposite.
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第五部分：书面表达（满分 25 分）
请阅读下列材料，并按要求用英语写一篇150词左右的文章。 材料1：
各国对迟到时间容忍度的情况调查（单位：分钟）
706050403020100AmericaChinaIndia
材料2：
There are few habits as annoying as someone making us wait. However, some punctually-challenged people have no intention of offending anyone. They still want to keep friends, family and bosses happy. They are often painfully aware and ashamed of the damage their lateness could do to their relationships, reputations, careers and finances.
Johnson, a doctor in New York, says his reputation for being unpunctual can sometimes be attributed to a misunderstanding of opinion. “A friend will ask me to come over, and he?ll say ?come anytime from seven.? But if I do turn up at eight or later, he will be annoyed.”
Joanna, a teacher in London, for whom the most distressing thing is writing school reports, never makes the deadline for herself. “I always spend weeks carefully considering everything about the reports,” she says, “just for fear that any error arises.” 【写作内容】
1.用约30个单词为以上材料撰写概要；
2.用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括： （1）迟到带来的不良影响（至少两点）；
（2）给Johnson和Joanna提出你的建议，至少两条。 [写作要求]
1．写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句； 2．作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称； 3．不必写标题。
[评分标准]
内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。
扬州市2017届高三考前调研测试
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英语试卷答案及作文评分标准
第一部分： 听力 1-5 BBCBC 6-10 CAACA
第二部分：英语知识运用 第一节：单项填空 21-25 CDCAB 26-30 BDBCA 第二节 完型填空 36-40 BABCD 41-45 CDDBA
第三部分：阅读理解 56-57 CD 58-60 BCBD
第四部分：任务型阅读
71. factual 75. rooted/anchored 78. comparing
11-15ACBCB 16-20 CBCAB
31-35 CAADB 46-50 BCCDA
51-55 ABCAD
61-64 DAC 66-70 ABCACD
72. rids/frees 76. depend/rely/count 79. brain(s)/mind 73. unnecessary/needless 74. lack 77. requires/involves/demands/needs 80. invariable/unchangeable
第五部分：书面表达
Possible version:
Different countries adopt different tolerance towards one?s lateness. Actually, some people are late not deliberately but because they misunderstand others? opinions or pay too much attention to details.
As we all know, frequent lateness will have negative effects on one?s daily life. On the one hand, unpunctual people tend to leave a bad impression on those who have made the appointment with them. Others usually regard being punctual as a sign of keeping the promise. On the other hand, lateness sometimes brings about much trouble in solving urgent problems.
As for those who are unintentionally late, like Johnson and Joanna, I have two suggestions as follows. First, whenever you make appointments with others, make sure you have understood all the details and try to get there a few minutes before the appointed time. Second, make good preparations for the appointments but never become too particular about every detail.
完形填空解析
41.shut down本意为“关闭”，此处引申为“自我封闭”。 51.根据下文中的confident可知。
阅读理解解析
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A篇
这是一篇应用文，介绍了如何查询未被领取的钱。 56. 答案为C。细节理解题，本题要求选出错误信息。根据“Search for unclaimed money and property in every state where you have lived”可知，某个州或者几个州可能欠你的钱，证明A选项符合事实；根据“And keep an eye out at state fairs and even malls, where state treasurers and other officials hold public awareness events”可知，在集市或者购物商场，财政主管和其他官员可能会对公众进行宣传，告知公众取回自己应得的钱，因此B选项符合事实；“And scammers may try to trick you with fake promises of money from the government”中的trick和fake等词表明了C答案与事实相反；根据“You also may be owed a pension if a company you worked for went out of business”可知D选项符合事实。
57. 答案为D。细节理解题。文中给出了FDIC的全称“Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation”，根据“insured financial institution”以及“deserves your trust”可知这是一种被保险的、值得信任的金融机构，符合句意；ST表示“州财政主管”，“CP”表示“现雇主”，PP表示“前雇主”，不是放钱的地方。
B篇
这是一篇说明文，讲述的是人们对幸福的追求。
58. B 细节理解题。A选项中的easily错误；参考第五段首句后面的“once the basic needs of food, clothing, and shelter have been met”可知C选项缺少条件；D选项中的“shrink from”没有依据。
59. C 写作功能题。根据原文中的“misery may love company, but so does happiness”的后半句，以及所举的例子，可知C为作者所要表达的内容；A答案很片面；BD两个选项都不是作者想要表达的主要意思。
60. B 推理判断题。由第五段第2、3句中的“??social network”和“Being socially active??”可知。A选项中的the meaning of life错误；C选项中的your problems错误；D选项没有依据。
61. D 主旨大意题。文章前半部分讲述了幸福的重要性和益处，后半部分讲述了幸福的来源，因此ABC三个选项都片面。
C篇
这是一篇科普说明文，介绍了河流如何调节全球的碳循环。
62. D 细节理解题。根据第3段最后两句“At the same time, rivers also erode carbon-containing rocks into particles. This process sends the previously locked-up carbon back into the atmosphere.”可知河流侵蚀含碳的石头，石头变成颗粒，最终石头中的碳返回大气。
63. A 猜测词义题。根据后半句子中的“for the first time”可以推测出词义。
64. C推断理解题。根据第4段最后一句“They also discovered that the more erosion occurs along the river, the more carbon it transfers to sea and disconnects from the air.”可以得知在
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