高三英语下联考卷1
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
On Oct. 12, 2017, McDonald’s Chine business changed its company’s name from Maidanglao to Jingongmen. The fast food chain stated on its blog that China will still bear the old name ___21___ the fans can be reassured and consumers can still belovin’ it.
The now logo had its start in 1952, ___22___ the McDonald’s brothers were interviewing architects to design the first McDonald’s location. But the brother’s plan to construct a restaurant with two arches（拱门）on each side ___23___（deny）by the first three architects.
Then, they found Stanley Clark Meston. Meston designed the McDonald’s location to stand out amongst the surrounding buildings, ___24___（grab）the attention of hungry drivers who could be convinced to pull over and buy a quick burger. Two golden arches, one on ea
ch side of the building, did just that.
Originally, the two arches were not meant to form an尼米兹级航空母舰“M”. However, as the building design became famous, the chain created a logo ___25___（intend）to be a simple artistic view of a McDonald’s location, with a roof and two arches lining up to form an M.
By the late 1960s, McDonald’s ___26___楠溪江在哪里（abandon）the two-arch design, with the golden arches appearing instead on signs. This is the era in which Ray Kroc had taken over the business, using the golden arches as a logo, not as an architectural instruction. Strangely, ___27___ many people may not realize is that the McDonald’s arches symbolized a mother’s nourishing breasts in Freudian terms, so Louis Cheskin, a design consultant, said McDonald’s ___28___ as well maintain its branding.
Nearly two decades ago, Thomas Friedman came up with his“Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention”.探索外太空 The idea ___29___ no two countries that had McDonald’s restaurants would go to wat suited the post-cold was 1990s. Unfortunately, as war is now back on the menu, McDonald’s is ___30___（likely）to prevent a fifth war between India
and Pakistan. Newer American brands, such as Apple, Uber and Starbucks, are powering ahead.
Section B
主谓宾怎么区分
| 戒酒的最好办法 A. precision B. unreliable C. accustomed D. alert 书信格式图片E. unlock F. invasions G. inevitable H. identified I. launched J. suspected K. spot |
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The iPhone X, Apple’s new smartphone, is equipped with facial recognition. Its scanner can ___31___ the system almost instantly. It requires no buttons to be presd, being always ready to read your face.
For the millions of people who will soon depend on facial recognition to check their email, nd a text or make a call, it will be easy and pretty“cool”to u. However, as we grow __瞎的成语
_32___ to the technology, we cannot become numb（麻木的）to the problems that come with it.
Facial recognition is already ud everywhere. In China, police u the technology to ___33___ people who jaywalk（乱穿马路）. In the United States, more than half of all adults are in a facial recognition databa that can be ud for criminal investigation. Retailers u the technology in their stores to identify ___34___ shoplifters.
However, different us of facial recognition produce different levels of ___35___. Camera distance, lighting, facial po all affect the accuracy. Officials at the New York Police Department, for example, have ___36___ at least five misidentifications by their facial recognition system. If the iPhone’s new system is similarly ___37___, no one will consider it to be acceptable curity for our personal information. Luckily, it probably won’t be. But for many of the systems elwhere, mistakes and ___38___ of privacy might be unavoidable.
As the smartphone of choice for many urs, the iPhone’s inclusion of facial recognition
may encourage consumers to accept the technology elwhere. However, even as we choo to explore the convenience, facial recognition might offer, we should also be ___39___ to the many ways it can be ud. Facial recognition may well be ___40___. Its risks need not be.
虎头蛇尾打一生肖Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension
Section A
In interview, famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to“do what you love.”But ___41___ a skill, even one that you deeply love, calls for plenty of drills. Any challenging activity—from computer programming to playing a musical instrument to athletics—requires ___42___ practice. A perfect golf swing or faultless butterfly stroke（蝶冰）takes countless hours of practice and repetitions to perfect.
Anyone who wants to have a good command, a skill must go through the ___43___ of practice, critical feedback, polish, and increasing improvement again, again, and again. S
ome people em able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take ___44___ in their gradual improvement. Yet others find this kind of focud, time-intensive work to be ___45___ or boring. Why?
The ___46___ may depend on the ability to enter into a state of “flow,” the feeling of being completely involved in what you are doing. Flow states can happen in the cour of any activity, and they are most common when a task has definite goals and where the individual is able to ___47___ their performance to clear and immediate feedback. Whether you call it being “in the zone,” “in a groove,” or something el, a flow state is a special experience. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed the concept of flow in the 1970’s, it has been a mainstay of positive-psychology rearch. Flow states can happen in the cour of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well-defined goals and is at an appropriate skill level, and where the individual is able to adjust their performance to clear and immediate feedback.
