2017年高考英语二轮专题复习命题预测63

　　2017年高考英语二轮专题复习命题预测63

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　　请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　A

　　Du Fu, the famous Tang Dynasty poet, is getting the business these days. In response to the 1,300th anniversary of the poet’s birth, the meme, “Du Fu is busy,” is spreading through the Internet and turning the iconic poet into a figure of fun.

　　A meme is a cultural phenomenon. It’s an idea or image that somehow strikes a chord with Internet users and prompts them to comment on it, change it, or use it in different situations. In Du’s case, the meme is a picture of the poet taken from a textbook. The picture shows a very serious Du sitting on a rock, clothed in loose robes. His chin is pointed resolutely upward and his eyes gaze calmly into the distance. It is a picture of a man with a great mind and a heroic spirit.

　　That image is changed in the meme. Du Fu is now seen holding a gun or listening to an iPod or dressed as a Japanese cartoon character. In today’s world, it seems fewer people respect great minds or heroic spirits.

　　This is sad because it means we are losing our sense of idealism. Du Fu led a life of poverty and humiliation. I visited his thatched cottage in Chengdu and imagined the hardship he endured: the loneliness, the cold, and the hunger. Yet, hardship didn’t kill his spirit, and his great poetry reflects his inner strength.

　　Internet users may find that giving Du Fu the business is entertaining, but it cannot diminish his greatness. And that enduring image of greatness is the one that truly matters.

　　56. Which expression can be used to replace the underlined part in Para. 1?

　　A. getting along very well with his business

　　B. getting busier and busier

　　C. becoming a successful businessman

　　D. being made to look foolish

　　57. Which of the following pictures is mentioned in the passage?

　　A.

　　B.

　　C.

　　D.

　　58. What’s the main idea of the passage?

　　A. Meme is more and more popular.

　　B. Du Fu is no longer a famous poet.

　　C. Du Fu is getting the business.

　　D. Du Fu has become a new hero.

　　B

　　Culture is one of the most challenging elements of the international marketplace. This system of learned behavior patterns characteristic of the members of a given society is constantly shaped by a set of dynamic variables: language, religion, values and attitudes, manners and customs, aesthetics, technology, education, and social institutions. To cope with this system, an international manager needs both factual and interpretive knowledge of culture. To some extent, the factual knowledge can be learned; its interpretation comes only through experience.

　　The most complicated problems in dealing with the cultural environment lie in the fact that one cannot learn culture—one has to live it. Two schools of thought exist in the business world on how to deal with cultural diversity. One is that business is business the world around, following the model of Pepsi and McDonald’s. In some cases, globalization is a fact of life; however, cultural differences are still far from converging (会合).

　　The other school proposes that companies must adapt business approaches to individual cultures. Setting up policies and procedures in each country has been compared to an organ transplant; the critical question centers around acceptance or rejection. The major challenge to the international manager is to make sure that rejection is not a result of cultural myopia(近视) or even blindness.

　　Fortune examined the international performance of a dozen large companies that earn 20 percent or more of their revenue overseas. The internationally successful companies all share an important quality: patience. They have not rushed into situations but rather built their operations carefully by following the most basic business principles. These principles are to know your adversary(对手), know your audience, and know your customer.

　　59. According to the passage, which of the following is true?

　　A. All international managers can learn culture.

　　B. Business diversity is not necessary.

　　C. Views differ on how to treat culture in business world.

　　D. Most people do not know foreign culture well.

　　60. According to the author, the model of Pepsi___________________.

　　A. is in line with the theories that the business is business the world around

　　B. is different from the model of McDonald’s

　　C. shows the reverse of globalization

　　D. has converged cultural differences

　　61. The two schools of thought_____________________.

　　A. both propose that companies should adapt business approaches to individual cultures

　　B. both advocate that different policies be set up in different countries

　　C. both admit the existence of cultural diversity in business world

　　D. both A and B

　　62. This article is supposed to be most useful for those _____________________.

　　A. who are interested in researching the topic of cultural diversity

　　B. who have connections to more than one type of culture

　　C. who want to travel abroad

　　D. who want to run business on International Scale

　　C

　　Teaching Boys: Developing classroom practices that work

　　Amanda Keddie and Martin Mills

　　Bridges the gap between theory and practice to offer a practical and sustainable framework for teaching boys in classrooms of all levels.

　　Sales points

　　? Teaching boys remains one of the most concerned issues in education today

　　? Many books have been published analysing why boys perform less well than girls, and why some boys struggle at school. But they don’t show teachers what will work: this book does

　　? The authors offer a research-based framework for classroom strategies that work with boys—and don’t disadvantage girls

　　Description

　　Boys’ education continues to be a focus of public anxiety among teachers. Concern about boys’ general educational under-achievement and the impact this under-achievement has on the boys themselves, as well as on the broader society, continues to fuel disagreement and debate on the best approach to take in response.

　　Teaching Boys provides a framework for developing practical and sustainable ways to improve boys’ education.

　　The book indicates how what teachers do in the classroom can enable boys’ academic and social outcomes. With detailed case studies, Keddie & Mills outline a range of practical classroom strategies that will assist teachers to meet the challenge of teaching boys, without neglecting the girls in the process.

　　About the Authors

　　Amanda Keddie is a researcher at the University of Queensland. Her research interests and teaching areas focus on classroom teaching, curriculum and educational sociology.

　　Martin Mills is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of Queensland. He has written several books, and is co-author of Teachers and Schooling Making a Difference (Allen & Unwin, 2010).

　　63.?The purpose of this passage is ________.

　　A. to promote classroom teaching

　　B. to advertising a book

　　C. to analyzing boys’ academic performance

　　D. to introduce two educators

　　64.?What problem is NOT mentioned in the passage?

　　A. Boys’ general educational under-achievement and its impact.

　　B. Teachers’ anxiety to teach boys.

　　C. Lack of practical strategies for teaching boys.

　　D. Public opinions on classroom teaching.

　　65. The book Teaching Boys is intended for ________.

　　A. parents??? ??????? B. teachers??? ??????? C. students???? ??????? D. boys

　　66. What can we know from the passage?

　　A. Teachers’ concern makes the disagreement and debate on the best approach more heated.

　　B. Teachers’ concern brings about the disagreement and debate on the best approach.

　　C. The strategies recommended by the book are of no benefit to girls.

　　D. Teaching boys to improve their achievement is a newly-raised issue.

　　D

　　The longest bull run in a century of art-market history ended on a dramatic note with a sale of 56 works by Damien Hirst, Beautiful Inside My Head Forever, at Sotheby’s in London on September 15th 2008. All but two pieces sold, fetching more than ￡70m, a record for a sale by a single artist. It was a last victory. As the auctioneer called out bids, in New York one of the oldest banks on Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy, starting the most severe financial crisis since the 1920s.

　　The world art market had already been losing momentum(势头) for a while after rising confusingly since 2003. At its peak in 2007 it was worth some $65 billion, thinks Clare McAndrew, founder of Arts Economics, a research firm — double the figure five years earlier. Since then it may have come down to $50 billion. But the market generates interest far beyond its size because it brings together great wealth, enormous egos(自负), greed, passion and controversy in a way matched by few other industries.

　　In the weeks and months that followed Mr. Hirst’s sale, spending of any sort became deeply unfashionable. In the art world that meant collectors stayed away from galleries and salerooms. Sales of contemporary art fell by two-thirds, and in the most overheated sector, they were down by nearly 90% in the year to November 2008. Within weeks the world’s two biggest auction houses, Sotheby’s and Christie’s, had to pay out nearly $200m in guarantees to clients who had placed works for sale with them.

　　The current downturn in the art market is the worst since the Japanese stopped buying Impressionists at the end of 1989. This time experts suppose that prices are about 40% down on their peak on average, though some have been far more volatile (动荡的). But Edward Dolman, Christie’s chief executive, says, “I’m pretty confident we’re at the bottom.”

　　What makes this fall different from the last, he says, is that there are still buyers in the market, while in the early 1990s, when interest rates were high, there was no demand even though many collectors wanted to sell. Christie’s earnings in the first half of 2009 were still higher than in the first half of 2006. Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell. The three Ds — death, debt and divorce — still deliver works of art to the market. But anyone who does not have to sell is keeping away, waiting for confidence to return.

　　67. In the first paragraph, Damien Hirst’s sale was referred to as “a last victory” because _______.

　　A. the art market had witnessed a succession of victories

　　B. the auctioneer finally got the two pieces at the highest bids

　　C. Beautiful inside My Head Forever won over all masterpieces

　　D. it was successfully made just before the world financial crisis

　　68. What do we learn about the art market from the passage?

　　A. Nobody has confidence in the future of the art market.

　　B. The art market surpassed many other industries in momentum.

　　C. The art market generally went downward in various ways.

　　D. Sales of contemporary art rose dramatically from 2007 to 2008.

　　69. The three Ds mentioned in the last paragraph are .

　　A. auction houses’ favorites　

　　B. contemporary trends　

　　C. factors promoting artwork circulation D. styles representing impressionists

　　70. What is mainly discussed in the passage?

　　A. Art market in decline.　

　　B. Up-to-date art auctions.

　　C. Volatility of art prices.　

　　D. Shifted interest in arts.

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