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Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note
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第一部分 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，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。
A
Two billion children in the developing world can’t receive good education—the key to human development.However，technology offers an answer which allows the poor in developing countries to learn.It is a tool which holds the ability to change the lives of the poor，as it provides a means of learning and communicating.
Educational programs must break away from old systems.New companies such as One Laptop(笔记本电脑) Per Child (OLPC)，an organization founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte have been active in solving the world’s education problem.
The Internet has changed the world，allowing educational services to help with the global fight against poverty.Khan Academy is one such service.Like OLPC，it is an organization founded by Harvard Business School graduate Salman Khan with the task of “providing a worldclass education to anyone，anywhere.”The education offered includes a large number of mathrelated topics.
The GMAT Pill Review is another company that trains MBA candidates(应考人) worldwide to prepare for the GMAT exam on both the Quant and Verbal section.Founded by Stanford graduate Zeke Lee，the company offers services which are priced at about 75% less than other similar programs.It allows students from developing countries who might not be able to afford similar courses to have access to these services.
Whether paid or free these services provide educational opportunities to those who would never have had the chance in the past.As a result of the technology revolution(革新)，business schools may see more students from different corners of the world.Because of the Internet，people in developing nations have access to better and more affordable educational opportunities.More and more people will try to improve their lives through educational opportunities outside of their homeland—an idea usually uncommon in developing countries.
1．According to the text，technology can .
A．improve people’s reading ability
B．solve the problems facing the whole world
C．help the poor to reduce poverty
D．cause poverty in developing countries
答案 C
解析 细节理解题。根据第一段第三句“It is a tool which holds the ability to change the lives of the poor，as it provides a means of learning and communicating.”可知，由于科技提供学习和交流的方法，所以它是能够改变穷人命运的工具。
2．We can learn from the text that Khan Academy aims to .
A．help the poor pay for good courses
B．provide every child with a computer
C．help train MBA candidates
D．make everyone receive good education
答案 D
解析 细节理解题。根据第三段第三句“Like OLPC，it is an organization founded by Harvard Business School graduate Salman Khan with the task of ‘providing a worldclass education to anyone，anywhere.’”可知，该组织的目的是使每一个人都得到世界一流的教育。
3．Which of the following about GMAT Pill Review is TRUE?
A．It only accepts students from developing countries.
B．It was started by Professor Nicholas Negroponte.
C．It charges students about 25 percent of other similar programs.
D．The education it offers includes a lot of mathrelated topics.
答案 C
解析 细节理解题。根据第四段第一句可知，GMAT Pill Review在全世界范围内招生，A项错误；由第四段第二句可知，它由Zeke Lee创办，学费比其他同样的学校便宜75%，因此B项错误，C项正确；D选项是叙述Khan Academy的，因此错误。
4．In the past，people in developing countries .
A．had no educational opportunities in their homeland
B．seldom thought of receiving foreign education to change themselves
C．always believed education was of great importance
D．wouldn’t leave their homeland to reduce poverty
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。由文章最后一句“More and more people will try to improve their lives through educational opportunities outside of their homeland—an idea usually uncommon in developing countries.”可知，现在越来越多的人通过本国之外的教育机会来改善他们的生活，这一点在过去的发展中国家是不常见的。由此可以推断出，过去发展中国家的人们很少想到通过接受国外的教育来改变自己的命运。
B
My grandfather was a teacher.He was the headmaster of a school for boys between the ages of thirteen and eighteen.I know that he was a kind and gentle man at heart，because when I was young (and he was old)，he gave me presents，seated me on his knees，and told me stories，but I believe the boys at his school were afraid of him.
At school，when he walked into a room full of noisy boys，there was silence at once.When he looked at a boy with a certain look in his eyes，that boy went red in the face，and looked down at his shoes.If a boy brought him poor，careless work，which was not the best that the boy could do，my grandfather would pick up the boy’s book and threw it across the room，shouting，“Do it all again，and bring it back early in the morning！”If the boy was late，or if he forgot to bring the work，he had to do it again and again，and yet again.My grandfather never forgot.
He was a very different man at school，from the man I saw day by day at his own home.
5．I knew my grandfather was kind and gentle，because .
A．he was the headmaster of a school for boys
B．he gave me presents and told me stories
C．he told me stories about how kind he was
D．he never scolded me
答案 B
解析 细节理解题。从第一段第三句可知，“我”的爷爷给我买礼物，让“我”坐在他的膝盖上，还给“我”讲故事。故选B项。
6．When he looked at a boy in a certain way，that boy .
A．went red and could not look my grandfather in the eye
B．looked back at my grandfather’s red face
C．changed another one
D．went red in the face because his shoes were dirty
答案 A
解析 细节理解题。从第二段第二句可知，这个学生脸变红了，低头看着自己的鞋子。故选A项。
7．My grandfather didn’t like to receive .
A．worse work than he could do himself
B．work that the boys could not do
C．work that was not as good as the boys could do
D．the work that the boys did
答案 C
解析 细节理解题。从第二段第三句可知选C项。
8．When he received poor work，my grandfather .
A．shouted at the boy and threw his book across the room
B．went red in the face
C．threw the book on the floor，and shouted across the room
D．threw the book at the boy
答案 A
解析 细节理解题。从第二段第三句可知答案为A项。
C
Up to now，some scientists have suggested that cloning existing people might be ethically acceptable in some cases.One possibility is generating replacement for a dying relative.All such possibilities，however，raise the concern that the clone would be treated as less than a complete individual，because he or she would likely suffer from limitations and expectations based on the family’s knowledge of the genetic “twin”．Those expectations might be false，because human personality is only partly determined by genes.The clone of an extrovert(性格外向的人)could have a quite different way of behavior.Clones of athletes，movie stars，or scientists might well choose different careers because of chance events in early life.
Some people have also pointed out that couples in which one member is infertile(不生育)might choose to make a copy of one or the other partner.But society ought to be concerned that a couple might not treat naturally a child who is a copy of just one of them.Because other methods are available for the treatment of all known types of infertility，and the traditional choice seems more appropriate.None of the suggested uses of cloning for making copies of existing people is ethically acceptable to my way of thinking，because they are not in the interests of the resulting child.It should go without saying that I am strongly opposed to allowing cloned human embryos to develop so that they can be tissue donors.
In spite of this，it seems clear that cloning from cultured(人工培育的) cells will offer important medical opportunities.Predictions about new technologies are often wrong；societal attitudes change；unexpected developments occur.Time will tell.But biomedical researchers looking into the potential of cloning now have plenty to do.
9．Towards cloning an existing person，what concern does the author show?
A．The clone created is unlikely to fulfill your expectations.
B．The clone created is ethically unacceptable.
C．The clone created will be mistreated.
D．The clone created will have one defect or another.
答案 C
解析 细节理解题。由第一段第三句可知，作者担心克隆人会受到错误地对待。
10．From the text we know that a clone will .
A．be partly similar in personality to the person it is created from
B．share the same characteristics with the person it is created from
C．choose the same career as the person it is created from
D．behave in the same way as the person it is created from
答案 A
解析 细节理解题。由第一段第四、五、六句可以得出克隆人只是部分上与其原型个性相似。
11．According to the passage，which of the following is TRUE?
A．One’s personality is determined by neither their genes nor the environment they live in.
B．One’s personality is determined by both their genes and the environment they live in.
C．One’s personality is determined by their genes.
D．One’s personality is determined by the environment they live in.
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。由第一段第四句可知，人的个性只是部分由基因决定，故选B。
12．In the author’s view，which of the following uses of cloning is reasonable?
A．To help childless couples to have a baby.
B．To culture cells for medical purpose.
C．To develop tissue donors.
D．To replace a lost relative.
答案 B
解析 推理判断题。由第二段第四句可知，不赞同用克隆来帮助不孕夫妇；由第二段第五句可知作者坚决反对克隆人的胚胎以供器官捐献用；由第一段第三句可知，作者不赞同用克隆人来代替死去的亲人。由最后一段第一句可知培养细胞用于医学研究是作者赞同的。
D
Shopping online in search of a bargain can often leave you feeling disappointed or out of pocket rather than satisfied.You can avoid this by following our simple advice：
PRODUCT—Before you look for the cheapest price，you need to decide what product you actually want.You can do this by researching online，the easiest way is to Google for different products so that you can decide on what would be best for you.
SEARCH & COMPARE—You are now ready to use a comparison website to try and find out the best prices.You should never just use one comparison website；using two or more will give you a balanced view of the market.Comparison websites are necessary.
You need to first check out what kind of technology a site uses.Although the idea behind Froogle (now called Google Products) is attractive，the technology it uses is not as advanced as sites such as Kelkoo and Pricerunner.Froogle uses a regular search engine.
And don’t expect price comparison sites to be a surefire way of getting a bargain.The sites will only show products from companies who pay them.This is not necessarily a bad thing—suppliers value their reputation and their business relationships.
AND SEARCH AGAIN—Before you buy you should search the product using a price comparison service，then try again just using a standard search engine—it might find the product with a cheaper price.
If you use Firefox to surf the web then there’s an addon(附加的)tool that you can download which finds the cheapest price for a product for you.
It is called the Invisible Hand and it is free to download.For example，if you’re shopping online at Amazon，the Invisible Hand will pop up and tell you that it is ￡ 56 cheaper at Dixons.
The tool will only work when you are looking at products，so it shouldn’t disturb your day to day internet surfing.The addon is supported by wellknown brands (品牌) such as BT，Comet and HMV but obviously it won’t search every single site out there，so it is still best to use a comparison site in addition to the tool.
13．According to the passage，how to decide what product to buy?
A．By shopping online.
B．By searching online.
C．By looking for the cheapest price.
D．By deciding which is best.
答案 B
解析 细节理解题。由第二段可知“想要决定自己真正想买的东西最容易的方式就是通过Google等搜索引擎在线搜索不同的物品，以便作出最佳的选择”。
14．We can learn from the passage that .
A．we don’t need to use two or more comparison websites
B．comparison websites often give us wrong views and choices
C．all the search engines are the same advanced
D．different comparison websites use different technologies
答案 D
解析 细节理解题。由第三、四段可知A项错在don’t need；B项错在wrong；C项错在the same，尤其是第四段通过例证说明不同的“比较网站”使用的是不同的搜索引擎技术。故D项正确。
15．What’s the exact meaning of the underlined phrase “pop up” in Paragraph 8?
A．Shout. B．Appear.
C．Disappear. D．Hide.
答案 B
解析 词义猜测题。根据倒数第二段可知，“如果你在亚马逊网购物时，the Invisible Hand就将会自动出现并告诉你这个物品在Dixons网卖得要便宜56英镑”。故pop up意为“出现”。
第二节(共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分)
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Around the world young people are spending unbelievable sums of money in listening to rock music. 16 “It doesn’t make sense，” says Johnny Mathis，one of the oldest music millionaires，who made a million dollars a year when he was the most popular，in the 1950s.“Performers aren’t worth this kind of money.In fact，nobody is.” But the rock stars’ admirers seem to disagree.Those who love rock music spend about two billion dollars a year for records.They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.
17 According to one theory，rock music has a special attraction because no real training is needed to produce it.There is no gulf between the audience and the performer.Every boy and girl in the audience thinks，“I could sing like that.” Young people are glad to pay to admire a rock star because it is a way of admiring themselves.
Luck is a keyword for explaining the success of many. 18 Then，too，like most performers，McLean writes his own music，so he earns an additional two cents on every single record of the song.
19 Around the world young listeners soon want to see the star in movies，on television，and in person.Neil Young，who performs in torn blue jeans，sometimes sings to an audience of 10,000，each of whom has paid at least five dollars for a ticket.After paying expenses，Young leaves with about 18,000 in his blue jeans at the end of an evening.
How do the rock stars use their money？What do they do when the money starts pouring in like water？ 20 England’s Elton John gave someone a 38,000 Rolls Royce automobile and bought himself a 5,000 pair of eyeglasses.He also bought himself two cars，“one for each foot”．
However，after two or three years richness and fame are gone.Left with his memories and his tax problems，the lonely experformer spends his remaining years trying to impress strangers.New stars have arrived to take his place.
A．Records provide only part of a star’s income.
B．Most of the young stars simply throw the money around.
C．One of the luckiest was Don McLean，who wrote and sang “American Pie”．
D．Some observers think the customers are buying more than music.
E．Forbes Magazine claims that at least fifty rock stars have incomes of between two million and six million dollars per year.
F．When they need money again，they do another tour.
G．A star can earn much money by recordselling.
答案 16.E 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.B
第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空(共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
This short play is a stage version of the Necklace，one of Maupassant’s best known short stories.It 21 about a vain woman，the wife of a small clerk，who 22 a diamond necklace to go to the palace ball.But 23 she lost the necklace.Then she and her husband had to work ten 24 years to pay for it.
The heroine was named Mathilde，who used to 25 a pretty girl.Born into a clerk’s family，she had no 26 of marrying a rich and important man. 27 she let herself be married to Pierre Loisel，a small clerk 28 a government office.They
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