江苏2020年高考英语全真模拟试卷一

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    When I was a boy of nine, I used to mow the lawn of Mrs. Long, an elderly lady. She paid me very little. But she did promise me, "when Christmas come, I shall have a present for you. " I spent much time 1 what it would be.

    "It would not be a 2 glove," I 3 with myself. "She wouldn't know much about baseball." Since she was a fragile little person, I also4 the bicycle, for how could she 5 such a big thing?

    As December arrived and ice began to form on the 6. I began to imagine myself upon the 7, trying my 8 on the surface of it. On the 22st of December, couldn't wait any more and marched down the street, 9 myself at the door of the house whose lawn I had 10 all summer. What she had was a(n) 11 parcel. When I 12 it from her, I found it weighed almost nothing. I was 13 disappointed. "A kind of magic. Do open it on Christmas morning." Mrs. Long said. Anyway, her words again set my mind 14 with new possibilities.

    How long the 15 was! On Christmas morning, with great 16, I opened the package and found a 17 box, in which I only saw ten 18 of black paper. Was it magic? Aunt Laura who taught school, said "It really is!". She showed me how to write.

    That a pencil could write on one piece of paper and mysteriously record on another was a magic which satisfied my childish mind. It reached me at that 19 Christmas when I was able to comprehend it.

    Since then I have received some pretty thundering Christmas presents but none that ever came close to the 20 of this one.

    When she first started learning about the climate change from one of her elders, Fawn Sharp was invited on a helicopter flight over the Olympic Mountains to survey the Mount Anderson glacier. But the glacier was gone, melted by the warming climate. Sharp had a deep sense of loss when she discovered the glacier wasn't there anymore.

    Loss is a growing issue for people working and living on the front lines of climate change. And that gave Jennifer Wren Atkinson, a full-time lecturer at the University of Washionton Bothell, US, an idea for a class.

    This term, she taught students on the Bothell campus about the emotional burdens of environmental studies. She used the experiences of Native American tribes(部落), scientists and activists, and asked her 24 students to face the reality that there is no easy fix—that "this is such an intractable(棘手的)problem that they're going to be dealing with it for the rest of their lives."

    Student Cody Dillon used to be a climate science skeptic(怀疑论者). Then he did his own reading and research，and changed his mind.

    Dillon wasn't going into environmental work- he was a computer-science major. Yet, the potential for a worldwide environmental catastrophe seemed so real to him five years ago that he quit his job and became a full-time volunteer for an environmental group that worked on restoration projects.

    Six months into the work he decided that Atkinson's class was just what he was looking for--a place where he could discuss his concerns about a changing climate.

    Atkinson said she hopes the class helped her students prepare themselves for the amount of environmental loss that will happen over their lifetimes.

    "We are already changing the planet—so many species are going to be lost, displaced or massively impacted," she said, "The future isn't going to be what they imagined."

    On August 29th, as Hurricane Dorian tracked towards America's east coast, Elon Musk, the boss of Tesla, an electric-car maker, announced that some of his customers in the storm's path would find that their cars had suddenly developed the ability to drive farther on a single battery charge. Like many modern vehicles, Mr. Musk's products are best thought of as internet-connected computers on wheels. The cheaper models in Tesla's line-up have parts of their batteries disabled by the car's software in order to limit their range. At the tap of a keyboard in Palo Alto, the firm was able to remove those restrictions and give drivers temporary access to the full power of their batteries.

    Mr. Musk's computerized cars are just one example of a much broader trend. As computers and connectivity become cheaper, it makes sense to bake them into more and more things that are not, in themselves, computers, creating an "internet of things".

    Such a world will bring many benefits. Consumers will get convenience, and products that can do things non-computerized versions cannot. Businesses will get efficiency, as information about the physical world that used to be uncertain becomes concrete and analyzable.

    In the long term, though, the most obvious effects will be in how the world works. Ever more companies will become tech companies; the internet will become everywhere. As a result, a series of unresolved arguments will spill over from the virtual world into the real one.

    Start with ownership. As Mr. Musk showed, the internet gives firms the ability to stay connected to their products even after they have been sold, transforming them into something closer to services than goods. That has already made the traditional ideas of ownership unclear. When Microsoft closed its ebook store in July, for instance, its customers lost the ability to read titles they had bought(the firm offered refunds). That shifts the balance of power from the customer to the seller.

    Virtual business models will jar in the physical world. Tech firms are generally happy to move fast and break things. But you cannot release the beta version(测试版)of a fridge. Apple, a smartphonemaker, provides updates for its phones for only five years or so after their release; users of Android smartphones are lucky to get two. But goods such as washing machines or industrial machinery can have lifespans of a decade or more. Firms will need to work out how to support complicated computerised devices long after their original programmers have moved on.

    Data will be another flashpoint. For much of the internet the business model is to offer "free" services that are paid for with valuable user data, collected with consent(同意)that is half-informed at best. In the virtual world, arguments about what should be tracked, and who owns the resulting data, can seem airy and theoretical. In the real one, they will feel more urgent.

    Predicting the consequences of any technology is hard—especially one as universal as computing. The emergence of the consumer internet, 25 years ago, was met with starry-eyed optimism. These days the internet's faults dominate the headlines. But the people have the advantage of having lived through the first internet revolution—which should give them some idea of what to expect.

    When Lauren Marler began having disturbing symptoms at the age of 15, she somehow knew it was cancer. After some research, she realized she was right. But that was just the beginning of her horrific cancer journey. Marler's doctors discovered that what she had was truly unlucky—but she's still here to tell her tale.

    In 2005, Marler noticed blood in her stool; she was too embarrassed to tell anyone. For two years she kept silent. "I looked up my symptoms and knew I had all the signs for colon cancer," she says. "However, my mom thought I was overreacting." Eventually, the doctor she visited confirmed she had a colon cancer at the age of 17.

    "The doctor said that I needed to get to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre immediately," Marler recalls. There she met with Miguel Rodriguez­Bigas, who removed Marler's entire colon and almost all of her rectum(直肠).

    But just nine months later, the cancer returned. "When my mom told me, I just felt like, 'You've got to be kidding me. I just want to be a normal kid.'" After another surgery, three months of chemotherapy(化疗), Marler believed that her cancer battles had to be over.

    Then, during a routine scan to ensure that she was still in remission(重病的缓解期)five years later, 23­year­old Marler got a call. "The doctor called to tell me that the scan showed a spot in my uterus(子宫)and it was endometrial cancer, an aggressive one. We went back to MD Anderson to meet with Pedro T. Ramirez, who recommended a full hysterectomy(子宫切除)."

    Puzzled by Marler's history, Dr. Rodriguez-Bigas recommended that she get genetic testing. The testing revealed the bad news: Marler had an incredibly rare disorder called CMMRD. Dr. Rodriguez-Bigas explained that the disorder makes a person likely to suffer from different cancers. There is no treatment for the disorder, only preventive care—primarily regular scans to catch any developing cancers early. Armed with an answer for the grief and suffering she had endured for the past decade of her life, Marler actually felt a sense of relief. "It's heartbreaking, but at least I have an answer."

    Three years later, Marler was unable to shake what she thought was sinus infection(鼻窦感染). Marler's mother knew something wasn't right when Marler refused to go back to the hospital because of the level of pain she felt.

    On this trip to the hospital, Marler was admitted and scanned. "I couldn't believe it was happening again. The medical test showed that it was lymphoma(淋巴瘤), one of the hardest types to treat. The doctors told me the treatment was going to be so painful that I would hate them by the time it was over. They were right." Marler endured six different types of chemotherapy at the same time, one of which was delivered through her spinal cord. She was required to be admitted to the hospital every other week for six days. "I was so weak that I couldn't get off my couch. I lost all of my hair, and I had severe body aches，" she recalls.

    Today, at 28, Marler is once again in remission—something she definitely doesn't take for granted. She credits her family for her ability to endure her repeated battles with a smile. She says, "I laugh a lot. That's one thing my family does really well—we can find the humour in any situation. I've always found a way to laugh. I do worry about what's next, but I can't let it consume me. I've learned to live with it."

Raising Optimistic Kids in an Era of Pessimism

    I want a hopeful outlook for my children. I think most of parents do. But we live in particularly pessimistic times, especially when we consider the environment, the government and education. Fortunately, research suggests ways to help our children grow up with the resilient "can do" attitude that's the mark of the optimist—and maintain a happier disposition(性情)ourselves. Here's what I've learned, and what I'm trying.

    Pay attention to the positive

    There's one problem with the pessimist's perspective: progress is happening everywhere. Humanity has improved by many measures—life expectancy, poverty, malnutrition, illiteracy, religious tolerance, gender equality. But that success has become the water in which we swim, and like fish, we take the water for granted. While we fail to notice the positive, our brains naturally emphasize the negative.

    But with practice, we can help our brains give the good stuff equal weight. When you hear a great story or achieve something in your own life or just find yourself in a beautiful place with those you love, deliberately rest your mind on that experience and stay with it. Describe what you're doing to your kids, and encourage them to talk about their joys and pleasures as well.

    Moderate your news intake

    On any given day, ugly things have been said and done, justice has not been served—and vast forces are now aligned to ensure we don't miss a minute of it. But those lashes of anxiety are mostly pointless. I may need and want to know what's going on in the world, but news delivered in that manner evokes fear rather than information, and it makes our children worried as well. It's difficult for them to feel secure when they see us reacting constantly to outside events that are often invisible to them. That's why I've turned my news notifications off.

    Involve yourself in your community

    Following the "big scary" news can not only leave us feeling helpless and distraught, it can also distract(使分心)us from the smaller issues where knowing the facts and then acting might make a difference. So put your energy toward making sure you and your family are a part of the world immediately around you. That might mean volunteering or voting, but it might also mean simply joining and being part of local institutions and clubs that feed our natural human need for connection.

    Raising optimistic kids is hard, in part, because it demands that parents give up the cynical(愤世嫉俗的)perspective, which is the easiest response to an era of pessimism. But while I don't know what I or you or our kids can do to make the news better, I do know that we need to find ways to try—and that means answering the "optimists wanted" call, and raising our children to do the same. Hopeful, resilient problem solvers needed. No application necessary. Just show up, and make the best of it.

    One day Li Hua was showing some friends from England around the Forbidden City. When the foreign friends saw the decorative patterns of dragons in the palace, they were amazed, for in the western culture, the dragon is a symbol of devil, while it is the totem(图腾)of Chinese nation, which interested them. And then they asked Li Hua to brief them on dragons' relevant information.

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