2021届湘豫名校高三下学期英语联考试题
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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)科技英语
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Nothing energizes office workers more than complaining about meetings. And it ems some of the world's greatest tech success agree. Here's some of their advice.
Mark Zuckerberg: A decision or a discussion?
The Facebook CEO reportedly improved the effectiveness of meetings by asking managers to explain the point of a meeting: to make a decision or to have a discussion.
"If there's no point, then there are no decisions," Microsoft founder Bill Gates might agree. He is suppod to have said, "You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question."
Elon Musk:号外是什么意思 It is not rude to leave.
Elon Musk once nt out an email to staff in which he made some "recommendations".
"Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren't adding value," he went on. "It is not rude to leave; it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time."
Jeff Bezos: The "two--pizza rule".
The Amazon founder meets investors for just six hours a year, and tries to avoid early morning meetings.
Business Insider reports that Mr.冠词练习题 Bezos also has a strict policy: Never have a meeting in which you couldn't feed the whole group with two pizzas. The businessman believes small groups are far more efficient than large ones, and the "two-pizza rule" helps him prevent large meetings.
Steve Jobs:spm No need for PowerPoint.光棍节英文
Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs shows the creative genius behind the 历史上的今天iPhone making an attack on slideshow urs. "People who know what they are talking about don't need PowerPoint," he said.
"Generally PowerPoint prentations are a great distraction(使人分心的事物), unless it's data or a graph," said Professor Andre Spicer. "Long slides mean no information being conveyed."
21. What did Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates both stress?
A. How to have a meeting. B. When to have a meeting.
C. The purpo of having a meeting. D. The importance of having a meeting.
22. Why was the "two-pizza rule" put forward?
A. To offer better rvices for a meeting. B. To reduce the cost of a meeting.
C. To encourage short meetings. D. To limit the size of a meeting.
23. From the underlined part in the last paragraph, Andre Spicer's opinion on slides is 勺子 英文.
A. less is more B. the more the merrier
C. something is better than nothing D. a picture is worth a thousand words
B
Fou Ts'ong, a Chine-born pianist known for his nsitive interpretations of Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.died on Monday at a hospital in London, where he had lived for many years. He was 86.
A lover of classical music from a young age, Mr. Fou began taking piano lessons when he was 7. Mr. Fou made his first stage appearance in 1952. The concert caught the attention of officials in Beijing, who lected him to compete and tour in Eastern Europe. Mr. Fou soon moved to Poland, where he studied at the Warsaw Conrvatory(音乐学校)on a scholarship. To prepare for the fifth Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1955.he practiced so diligently that he hurt his fingers and was nearly cut from the first round of the competition.
Mr. Fou was one of the first Chine pianists to achieve global prominence when he took the third place in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in不定式 1955. He also won a special prize for his performance of Chopin's mazurkas(马祖卜舞曲). Almost overnight, he became a national hero. To China, Mr. Fou's recognition in a well-known int
ernational competition was proof that the country could stand on its own artistically in the West. Chine reporters flocked to interview Mr. Fou, while many others sought out his father, Fu Lei, for advice on child-rearing.
In 1981, a volume of letters written by his father, primarily to Mr. Fou, was published in China. Full of advice, encouragement, life teachings and strict paternal love, the book Fu Lei's Family, Letters became a best-ller in China. Besides influencing a generation of Chine, Mr. Fu's words resonated(共鸣)long after his death with the person for whom right here waiting for youthey were intended.
"My father had a saying that 'First you must be a person, then an artist, and then a musician, and only then can you be a pianist.'" Mr. Fou once recalled in an interview. "Even now, I believe in this order-that it should be this way and that I am this way."
24. What can be learned from Paragraph 2?
A. Fou Ts'ong competed and toured in Beijing.
B. Fou Ts'ong first performed on the stage at 7.
C. Fou Ts'ong made great efforts for competitions.
