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黄浦区 2022 学年度第一学期高三年级期终调研测试
英 语 试 卷
（完卷时间：120 分钟 满分：140 分）
2022 年 12 月
第 I 卷（共 100 分）
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each
conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken
only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper,
and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. In a coffee shop. B. On a farm.
C. In a furniture store. D. In a theatre.
2. A. Cleaning a house. B. Finding things in the house.
C. Living a simple life. D. Doing housework efficiently.
3. A. Calming the woman down. B. Playing bridge.
C. Reading a book. D. Reflecting on himself.
4. A. The man recommends people to speak the same language.
B. The woman thinks it unnecessary to save dying languages.
C. The woman admires those devoted to preserving dying languages.
D. The man appeals for more action to be taken to protect dying languages.
5. A. He has realized his own problem. B. The woman is sure to get a second job.
C. He disagrees with the woman’s comments. D. The woman should care more about money.
6. A. She has many friends to text. B. She can’t focus her mind on study.
C. She can’t make long speeches. D. She has many classes to attend.
7. A. Enjoy her college life. B. Put off hard assignments.
C. Set a post-college goal. D. Ease academic pressure.
8. A. It makes no sense. B. It needs training.
C. It can’t solve her problem. D. It is worth trying.
9. A. She is a music lover. B. She is good at asking questions.
C. She prefers art to sports. D. She knows Brazilians well.
10. A. The specials are the man’s best choice. B. She is fully confident of the quality-steak.
C. Her house is a suitable place for having steak. D. The man should find by himself the nicest wine.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages. After each conversation
or passage, you will be asked several questions. The conversation and the passages will be read twice, but the
questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and
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decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 14 are based on the following conversation.
11. A. Cars. B. Computers. C. Dollars. D. Services.
12. A. It’s the real money paid to purchase items.
B. Each Time Dollar records the value of trading stuff.
C. Different music lessons equal different Time Dollars.
D. It represents the service time you exchange with others.
13. A. To provide him with a part-time job. B. To ensure him that he can serve others.
C. To guarantee him that he can make a living. D. To demonstrate to him how barter is kept on.
14. A. To apply for membership. B. To sign up for walking.
C. To use the free pass. D. To check the time for barter.
Questions 15 through 17 are based on the following passage.
15. A. Have a whole idea of the character’s look. B. Examine the actor’s or the actress’ face and body.
C. Try various colors on actors’ or actresses’ hair. D. Get a clear picture of the character’s skin tone.
16. A. A film with a magic ending. B. A film stimulating her creativity.
C. A film reflecting her delicacy. D. A film with several celebrities.
17. A. They both lead the fashion. B. They both emphasize details.
C. They both tell good stories. D. They both require harmony.
Questions 18 through 20 are based on the following passage.
18. A. The ability to recall. B. The invention of camera.
C. The chance of revisiting. D. The application of wi-fi.
19. A. To send us to sleep. B. To develop technology.
C. To refresh our memory. D. To offer us comfort.
20. A. Digital camera. B. Fantastic daydream.
C. Memory journey. D. Virtual reality.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically
correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other
blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
How Reading Saved Me
During my first decade in prison, I busied myself with exercising and hanging out in the big yard. I hardly
grew as __21__ person. It wasn’t until I began college in prison in my 30s that I started to realize my full
potential.
Through my journey in college, I became engaged in reading and writing, striving to escape prison life by
expanding my mind beyond the environments I __22__ (trap) in. I became good at using concepts and terms in
conversations that were previously far over my head. More importantly, I eventually better understood __23__ I
had used violence to solve my problems.
Throughout the country, prison officials have rejected or tried every means __24__ (ban) books about biology,
sketching, dragons and even the moon. __25__ (claim) such bans are necessary for the safety and security of
prisons seems stupid. Practically every author I have encountered while in prison __26__ (play) a role in my
efforts to grow and become a better person — someone who can live in society by adding to it, as opposed __27__
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taking from it.
Without college and without access to books and materials __28__ expanded my mind beyond the towering
concrete walls, I might still be wasting my time on the yard. My worldview would still be shaped by violence and
harm. That’s not who I want to be __29__ I leave this prison. It’s not who I want to see __30__ (send) back into
society.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once.
Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. access B. annoyances C. appealing D. customer-focused E. enormously F. expansion
G. fueled H. in-person I. marched J. reinventing K. respectively
One Medical
On Thursday, Amazon announced its first major acquisition(收购) under Mr. Jassy’s occupation as C.E.O.,
spending $3.9 billion for One Medical, a chain of primary care clinics around the country. The deal is a sign of
Amazon’s health care ambitions. As the company has __31__ from one business to another — including books,
CDs, electronics, dog food and clothes — it has had to look in less obvious spots to find opportunities that can
provide meaningful __32__.
Health care has been __33__ to Amazon executives who believe it is an extremely large market, filled with
inefficiencies and generally lacking the kind of __34__ approach that Amazon tries to take with its businesses.
“We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need __35__,” Neil Lindsay, the senior vice president
of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement announcing the deal. He also listed some of the __36__ of modern
health care: booking appointments, sitting in waiting rooms, even finding a parking spot.
Amazon wants to be the “front door” through which customers __37__ health care. That One Medical sees
about five times as many virtual visits as __38__ appointments most likely made it attractive to Amazon. The
company also has something Amazon values __39__: data. One Medical built its own electronic medical records
system, and it has 15 years’ worth of medical and health-system data. While individual patient records are
generally protected under federal health privacy laws, the big data skill that has __40__ Amazon’s success can be
powerful in health care — for predicting costs, targeting interventions and developing products and treatments.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Colleges today often operate as machines for putting too many opportunities before already advantaged
people. Our educational system focuses too much on helping students take the next step. But it does not give them
adequate __41__ in thinking about the substance of the lives toward which they are advancing. Many institutions
today have __42__ that it is an essential part of education to teach the young the art of choosing, and to train them
to use __43__ to decide which efforts deserve the investment of their lives.
We spent many years teaching on a college campus, trying to help students struggling with their confusion.
Eventually, we sought to address this problem __44__, by designing a course intended to introduce the young to
the art of choosing. The course begins with Plato’s “Gorgias” — a messy dialogue that turns on a(n) __45__ over
whether the pursuit of virtue or of pleasure is the way to a good life. The dialogue ends __46__; no one is satisfied.
But with remarkable regularity, it __47__ the kind of thinking that students need to better understand the choices
that shape their lives.
Students’ first reaction to the “Gorgias” is disbelief, sometimes even horror. It is the dialogue’s __48__ that
alarms them: the idea that we can seriously argue about what represents the human good. Everything in their
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education has led them to believe that such arguments cannot bear fruit.
Most students are __49__ to discover this art of choosing. Learning to reason about happiness is as delightful
as discovering that one’s voice can be made to sing. Why, then, do institutions __50__ teach it In some cases,
intelligence members are encouraged to __51__ specialized research rather than thinking about the good life. In
others, they share the belief that feeling is a more __52__ guide to happiness than the mind.
Colleges should self-consciously prioritize initiating students into a culture of __53__ reflection on how to
live. Doing so will hold them __54__ performing their proper work: helping young people learn to give reasons
for the choices that shape their lives and to __55__ about the ends they pursue.
41. A. assistance B. protection C. recognition D. treatment
42. A. forgotten B. promised C. repeated D. responded
43. A. determination B. imagination C. memory D. reason
44. A. controversially B. effortlessly C. resistantly D. systematically
45. A. argument B. lecture C. performance D. session
46. A. automatically B. inconclusively C. indirectly D. unnecessarily
47. A. abuses B. awakens C. demonstrates D. echoes
48. A. assumption B. pattern C. progress D. variation
49. A. grateful B. quick C. reluctant D. shocked
50. A. commonly B. effectively C. rarely D. strictly
51. A. direct B. emphasize C. review D. sponsor
52. A. detailed B. formal C. qualified D. reliable
53. A. logical B. moral C. spiritual D. theoretical
54. A. eager for B. patient with C. responsible for D. skilled at
55. A. complain B. experiment C. question D. reflect
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished
statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according
to the information given in the passage you have read.
(A)
Julia Whelan climbed into the recording room in her home office. In preparation, she had avoided alcohol the
night before, had avoided milk since waking at 6 a.m. and had run through the warm-up voice exercises.
Whelan, 38, is the calm, confident female voice behind more than 400 other audiobooks, as well as the
narrated versions(叙事版本) of many articles. Once she has taken on a project, she reads through the book once or
twice, deciding on themes to highlight when she gets into the recording room by using different tones and accents,
and emphasizing certain words. “Narrating a book really is a performance,” she said, “and it can be harder to do
than acting, because I can’t use my eyes or facial expressions to convey something to the audience.”
As she spent time subsuming herself in the writing of others, she began to think more about her own
creative ambitions. Just before the pandemic, she began “Thank You for Listening,” combining her writing with
the experiences she has collected as a narrator.
Writers say that Whelan has helped them understand their own work. “When I listen to Julia read my stories,
it sounds like she is calling you over to tell you a great story,” said Nuzzi, whose work has been narrated by
Whelan. “When I write now, I try to think like that, that I am calling a reader over to tell him a great story. It has
completely changed my approach.” Whelan said that she also learns about her writing when she experiences it as a
narrator. “There is something about it that changes when you’re performing it,” she said. “I read the book out loud
during every stage of its revisions but it’s different when you sit down and have the microphone in front of you,
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when I finally am in all the characters and the story comes to life.”
56. Before recording a book, Whelan __________.
A. acts out its narrated version B. builds up strength through exercise
C. determines the focus of its subject D. varies its emphasized words
57. The underlined phrase “subsuming herself in the writing of others” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to
“__________ herself in the writing of others”.
A. dismissing B. involving C. maintaining D. presenting
58. How does narrating help Whelan do her own writing better
A. It enables her to think in readers’ view. B. It inspires her to be absorbed in the story.
C. It provides her with diverse life experiences. D. It reminds her to pursue her creative ambition.
59. What can be concluded from Whelan’s experience as a narrator and writer
A. Excellent narration is based on convincing stories.
B. Narrating is a more rewarding ambition than writing.
C. An influential writer is definitely a wonderful narrator.
D. Experiences as a narrator can change the writing approach.
(B)
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60. In order to be kept informed of the privacy information, you’d better __________.
A. examine the Privacy Policy regularly B. check the official notification weekly
C. express your changing needs privately D. evaluate the business practices critically
61. Which of the statements is TRUE about Bundaberg’s collecting users’ personal information
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In 2020, OpenAI, a research lab in San Francisco, revealed a system called GPT-3. It is what artificial
intelligence researchers call a neural(神经系统的) network, after the web of neurons in the human brain. A neural
network is really a mathematical system that learns skills by locating patterns in vast amounts of digital data. By
analyzing thousands of cat photos, for instance, it can learn to recognize a cat. “We call it ‘artificial intelligence,’
but a better name might be ‘finding statistical patterns from large data sets,’” said Dr. Gopnik, the Berkeley
professor.
More recently, researchers at places like Google and OpenAI began building neural networks that learned
from enormous amounts of prose, including digital books and Wikipedia articles by the thousands. GPT-3 is an
example. As it analyzed all that digital text, it built what you might call a mathematical map of human language
— more than 175 billion data points that describe how we piece words together. Using this map, it can perform
many different tasks, like penning speeches, writing computer programs and having a conversation.
But there are limitations. If you ask GPT-3 for 10 speeches in the voice of Mark Twain, it might give you five
that sound remarkably like the famous writer — and five others that come nowhere puter programmers
use the technology to create small snippets(一小段) of code they can slip into larger programs, but more often than
not they have to edit and adjust whatever it gives them.
Still, Dr. Gopnik described this kind of system as intelligent. “It is not intelligent in the way humans are. It is
like an unfamiliar form of intelligence,” he said. “But it still counts.”
Dr. Gopnik and many others in the field are confident that they are on a path to building a machine that can
do anything the human brain can do. This confidence shines through when they discuss current technologies. He
admits that some A.I. researchers “struggle to differentiate between reality and science fiction.” But he believes
these researchers still serve a valuable role. “They help us dream of the full range of the possible,” he said.
Perhaps they do. But for the rest of us, these dreams can get in the way of the issues that deserve our
attention.
63. Which of the following statements correctly describes GPT-3
A. It is meant to monitor human’s neuron webs.
B. It stores limitless data in its mathematical system.
C. It can identify images and employ human language.
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D. It studies pictures and digital books to invent patterns.
64. In paragraph 3, the example of computer programmers is used to __________.
A. illustrate GPT-3 is far from perfect
B. warn programmers against technology
C. show the process of slipping code into program
D. explain why GPT-3 fails to find Mark Twain’s speeches
65. What does Dr. Gopnik think of the mathematical system of GPT-3
A. He finds it valuable because it maximizes the current technologies.
B. He doubts its worth though it is remarkably similar to a human brain.
C. He thinks highly of it because it plays a valuable role in A.I. research.
D. He believes it will interrupt our thinking though it differs from science fiction.
66. What’s the author’s attitude towards A. I.
A. Enthusiastic. B. Opposed. C. Supportive. D. Unconcerned.
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence
can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
A. What skills and talents do you already have
B. Stress can also keep people from being kind to others.
C. Why are recipients less likely to appreciate a random act of kindness
D. But an act of kindness is unlikely to fail, and in some instances it can create even more kindness.
E. People who perform a random act of kindness tend to underestimate how much the recipient will
appreciate it.
F. But researchers who study kindness and friendship say they hope the new findings strengthen the
scientific case for making these types of gestures more often.
How to show others you care
The idea that kindness can boost happiness is hardly new. Studies have shown that prosocial behavior —
basically, voluntarily helping others — can help lower people’s daily stress levels, and that simple acts of
connection, like texting a friend, mean more than many of us realize. __67__
“I have found that kindness can be a really hard sell,” said Tara Cousineau, a clinical psychologist, “People
desire kindness yet often feel troubled by the thought of being kind.” __68__ They may question whether their
gesture or gift will be misinterpreted, or whether it will make the recipient feel pressured to pay it back.
__69__ Jennifer Oldham, who lost her 9-year-old daughter Hallie in July, recently created a Facebook group
— Keeping Kindness for Hallie — that encourages participants to engage in random acts of kindness. People have
bought groceries and donated school supplies in Hallie’s honor. “It will help your own heart, maybe even more
than the recipients,” said Ms. Oldham.
If you are not already in the habit of performing random kind acts, or if it does not come naturally to you,
start by thinking about what you like to do. It’s not about you being like, ‘Oh man, now I have to learn how to
bake cookies in order to be nice’. It’s about: __70__ And how can you turn that into an offering for other people
IV. Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no
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more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.
The risk of pre-schooling
“Young children learning to read is one of the most important things primary education does. It’s
fundamental to children making progress in life,” says Dominic Wyse, a professor of primary education at
University College London, in the UK. “While learning literacy is vital to childern, the way we teach it really
matters.”
In a 2022 report, he states that English school system’s intense focus on phonics – a method that involves
matching the sound of a spoken word or letter, with individual written letters, through a process called “sounding
out” – could be failing some children. A reason for this is that the tests used to assess that early learning may have
little to do with the skills actually needed to read and enjoy books or other meaningful texts. For example, the tests
may ask pupils to “sound out” and spell nonsense words, to prevent them from simply guessing, or recognising
familiar words. Since nonsense words are not meaningful language, children may find the task difficult and
puzzling. It doesn’t end up being meaningful, it ends up being memorising rather than understanding context.
Children who attend intensive preschools do not have higher academic abilities in later grades than those
who did not attend such preschools, several studies now show. Early education can however have a positive
impact on social development – which in turn feeds into the likelihood of graduation from school and university
as well as being associated with lower crime rates. In short, attending preschool can have positive effects on later
achievement in life, but not necessary on academic skills.
Too much academic pressure may even cause problems in the long run. A study published in January 2022
suggested that those who attended a preschool with a strong academic emphasis, showed lower academic
achievements a few years later, compared to those who had not gained a place.
第 II 卷 （共 40 分）
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. 这个问题至今已经困扰了我好几天。（puzzle）
73. 要在竞争中立于不败之地，公司要不断创新。（survive）
74. 有些节食减肥十分有害，可能引发食物摄入量不足，而这是非常不健康的。（which）
75. 我们也许都有无论如何努力都无法实现的梦想，但付出的努力一定不会白白浪费。（reach）
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
假设你是明启中学学生李华，学校正在征求学生对云课堂的感受和建议。请发送一封邮件至校长信箱，
你的邮件内容须包括：
1）详细描述一节云课堂以及你的感受；
2）简单阐述你对云课堂的态度和建议。
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黄浦区 2022 学年度第一学期高三年级期终调研测试
英 语 试 卷 参 考 答 案
I. Listening Comprehension
1-5 ACABC 6-10 BCAAA
11-14 DDBA 15-17 ABD 18-20 ADC
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
21. a 22. had been / was trapped 23. why 24. to ban
25. Claiming / To claim 26. has played 27. to 28. that / which
29. when / after 30. sent
31-35 IFCDJ 36-40 BAHEG
III. Reading Comprehension
41-45 AADDA 46-50 BBAAC 51-55 BDACD
56-59 CBAD 60-62 ADC 63-66 CACB
67-70 FBDA
IV. Summary Writing
Learning literacy is important for children, and how they learn it counts. A study shows too much phonics
learning negatively affects children because passing the tests only requires meaningless pronunciation and spelling
instead of understanding. Although pre-schooling does good to the development of society, studies also show too
much of it has nothing to do with later academic achievements.
V. Translation
72. This question has been puzzling me for a few days now.
73. In order to survive the competition, a company should keep innovating.
74. Some dieting is so harmful that people might not eat enough food, which can be quite unhealthy.
75. We may all have dreams that are out of reach whatever efforts we make, but the efforts are sure to pay off.
VI. Guided Writing
略
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黄浦区 2022 学年度第一学期高三年级期终调研测试
英 语 试 卷
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each
conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken
only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper,
and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. W: I’ll have my coffee with cow’s milk, and I’ll have it here, please.
M: No problem. Take a seat, and we will bring that over.
Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place
2. M: When you only have the things you need, your life is very simple. Like, it’s easy to find
everything in the house.
W: And it only takes 20 minutes to clean.
Q: What are the two speakers mainly talking about
3. W: Why am I so afraid of a bridge Why aren’t the books helping me Why can’t you help
me
M: I am helping you, Grace. The books are helping, too. You’re going to cross this bridge by
yourself. You will. Now keep going.
Q: What is the man doing
4. M: Many people are devoting themselves to preserving these dying languages.
W: Why do they want to do that There are so many languages! Isn’t it easier when people speak
the same language anyway
Q: What can we learn from the conversation
5. W: It’s okay to buy new clothes, but don’t spend so much. Money doesn’t grow on tree, you
know.
M: You always say that. Maybe, you should get a second job, if you’re so worried about it.
Q: What does the man imply
6. M: Do you multitask while you study or attend class
W: Well, yeah, I do, for sure. I text my friends during class a lot, especially during long, boring
lectures. It’s hard to concentrate.
Q: Why does the woman multitask in class
7. W: I put off hard assignments. Sometimes I just don’t know how to get started. And besides,
there’re so many fun things to do in college!
M: That’s true, but for me, I hate putting things off. It’s too stressful. Besides, I think you need
to think about what you want to achieve after college, which might help you concentrate on
your school work.
Q: What does the man advise the woman to do
8. M: Ok, so our last question: “Which strategies do you want to try ” Me, I’m definitely to
schedule my time better.
W: Really All that stuff about lists and schedules sounds like too much work!
Q: What does the woman think of the man’s strategy
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9. W: Why do you like soccer
M: Why Ha! That is not even a question in Brazil. Soccer is our life. It is an art. It’s like music.
Does anyone ever ask you, “Why do you like music ”
Q: What can we know about the woman from the conversation
10. M: Hi, I am looking to get a wine with my steak. What do you recommend
W: Any of our house specials will pair nicely with your steak.
Q: What does the woman imply
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages. After each conversation
or passage, you will be asked several questions. The conversation and the passages will be read twice, but the
questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and
decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 14 are based on the following conversation.
W: Good morning. My name is Carol, and I’d like to welcome you to the City Barter Network. First,
I want to tell you a little about bartering – what bartering is. Then I’ll explain how you can barter in our
network. OK. Let’s get started. First of all, do you know what bartering is
M: Bartering is trading stuff, right Like, I trade my car for your computer, or something like that
W: Well, that’s one kind of bartering – exchanging one item for another item – but in our barter
network, we only exchange services – things you can do for another person.
M: Oh, I see.
W: Well, here’s how it works. First, when you join the network, you sign your name on our member list and you
list all of the services you can provide. Then every member gets a copy of the list or they can read it on our
website.
M: So, what kinds of services do members provide
W: Well, most members provide services that a lot of people need like cooking, cleaning, or fixing things. But
some people provide more unusual services like taking photographs, designing a website, or even giving
music lessons.
M: Wow! That’s great!
W: It sure is! But remember that when you barter, you need to provide a service before you can get
one. So that brings me to the next step, how to barter. After you become a member, another
member can ask you to provide a service, to do something for them. For every hour of work you
do for someone, you earn one Time Dollar.
M: So, you can earn money
W: Well, no, you can’t. Time Dollars aren’t real money. Basically, each Time Dollar just equals one
hour of time that you spend providing a service. Later, you can spend your Time Dollars to get
a service from someone else.
M: So, all the members earn one Time Dollar per hour, no matter what kind of work they do
W: Yes. That’s right. In our network, everyone’s time is equal. No service is more valuable than
another one.
M: I have a question. What if you don’t know how to do anything I mean I don’t really have any
skills.
W: Hmm … can you walk
M: Walk Well, of course I can walk.
W: Ok, it’s a deal. You can do dog-walking! I need someone to take my dog for a walk when I’m
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not home. Why don’t you do it
M: Well, I suppose I could.
W: Great! It looks like you’re ready to barter! But, let’s get signed up first. Next, I’ll pass out some
forms …
11. What is traded in the City Barter Network
12. Which of the statements is true about Time Dollar
13. Why does Carol recommend the man to do dog-walking
14. What will the man most probably do next
Questions 15 through 17 are based on the following passage.
I’m a make-up designer who creates the look of the characters for a film. I come up with the ideas and the
concepts and how a character is going to look. I look at the totality of the person, the hair, skin tone, who is this
person going to be. So it is delicacy and a slide of colours and details on a person’s face and body. I’ve worked
with everyone from Tom Cruise to Mike Myers. Each one meant something to me and so my aim was to choose
films that made me feel like I was doing something creative and also each time something different. I don’t look at
the whole face and go: “Okay, I need to do the eyes, then I go to the lips and then I go to ...” I may do very little. I
may just make the skin look the feature. I may just do things like that, just delicacy, details, little shades. I just
love that moment when the actor or the actress is this person. That’s the magic moment. I always see a film as a
big concert and everybody plays an instrument and it all has to be in total harmony, together. In the end, hopefully
we have something where it is telling a story.
15. What does a make-up designer do before making-up a character in a film
16. What kind of film can attract this make-up designer to be involved
17. According to the make-up designer, why can a film be compared to a concert
Questions 18 through 20 are based on the following passage.
Throughout our lives, we spend a lot of time and even more money engineering pleasant experiences. We
book airline tickets, visit beaches, watch elephants drinking and so on. However, the idea of making a big deal of
revisiting an experience in memory sounds a little strange or simply sad. We may feel we have to dismiss them as
daydreaming or thinking about nothing.
Part of why we feel the need for so many new experiences may simply be that we’re so bad at absorbing the
ones we’ve had. To help us focus more on our memories, we need nothing technical. We certainly don’t need a
camera. Because there is a camera in our minds already, and it’s always on; it takes everything we’ve ever seen.
When we can’t sleep, when there is no wi-fi, we should always think of going on memory journeys.
Our experiences have not disappeared. We can remain in touch with so much of what made them pleasurable
simply through the art of recall. We talk endlessly of virtual reality, yet we have the finest virtual reality machines
already in our own heads. We can, right now, shut our eyes and travel into and stay among the very best and most
comforting and life-enhancing bits of our past.
18. What can help us focus on our memories
19. What benefit can past pleasant experiences bring
20. What’s the passage mainly about
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