阜阳三中 2018--2019 学年第一学期高二年级第二次调研考试

英 语 试 卷

满分：150 分 时间：120 分钟

第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 30 分）第Ⅰ卷

第一节 听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项， 并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每 段对话仅读一遍。

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）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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

The blooming of social media and interactive smartphone-based apps has proved that e-marketing is an unchangeable trend. In the case of China, the latest battlefield is beauty camera apps, which have become an overnight hit in the West.

1. MeituPic

Developed by the Xiamen-based Meitu Inc, MeituPic is the company’s flagship beauty camera app and was the first to become a big hit among Western users. The app has drawn some 456 million users, who use it to post more than 6 billion photos every month.

In addition to MeituPic, Meitu Inc has developed a series of beauty camera apps such as Beauty Plus, Poster Labs and Meipai, each specializing in facial feature improvement, video editing and many other features.

2. Tiantianpitu

Tiantianpitu, is a beauty app developed by China’s Internet giant Tencent. Similar to other photo-editing apps, Pitu offers a number of beautifying filters, blemish（瑕疵）removing tools and virtual makeup choices for users to choose from.

Launched in 2014, Pitu has accumulated 106 million monthly active users (MAUs). While the number is not as impressive as that of Meitu’ s apps, some argue that the user base of Tencent’ s gaming products and chat applications, such as QQ and WeChat, gives Pitu great potential for further growth. According to Chinese app watchers, Pitu’ s target audience is younger and more individualized than that of MeituPic. 80 percent of Pitu’ s users are younger than 25, giving the app more room to try out more new features.

3. FaceU

In contrast with most other beauty apps, FaceU, focuses more on the social feature, encouraging users to video chat with friends and even strangers while playing with its fun stickers ( 贴纸) — and the strategy is undoubtedly working. Launched in 2016, the app, which mainly targets female users between 15 and 35, has

twice made it onto the Apple store’ s Chart for top apps.

21. Meitu Inc has developed a series of beauty camera apps except .

A. Meipai B. MeituPic C. Beauty Plus D. Tiantianpitu

22. What gives Tian Tian Pi Tu more room to grow potentially?

A. The amount of Meitu Apps’s potential users.

B. Users of Tencent’s gaming products and chat apps. C. The various kinds of photo-editing functions.

D. The room to try out more new features.

23. According to the passage, what do the three Apps have in common?

A. They mainly target young users. B. They all launched in 2016.

C. They are popular and hot. D. They specialize in photo editing.

B

Matthew Shifrin got his first Lego blocks when he was 5. “I have been in love with Legos ever since,”

he says. Shifrin is blind. Now 18, he has spent years trying to make Legos easier for blind kids to enjoy.

The blocks themselves are not difficult for blind people to put together. But Lego’s large sets –––– including bridges, starships, historic scene, and famous buildings –––– are a different story. They have hundreds or even thousands of pieces and complex written instructions. These make it very hard for blind people to build a set without a lot of help from a person who can see. “I was always just drooling over the sets because they sounded so amazing,” Shifrin says. “But I knew that I would never have access to them.”

That changed on Shifrin’s 13th birthday. Lilya Finkel, a family friend, gave him the Lego set Battle of Alamut, a castle with 821 pieces. She had translated the instructions into Braille( 盲文). She had also made other changes, like dividing the pieces into plastic bags based on which step they were to be used in. Shifrin

could build the set without his parents’ help. “This was a rare case in which the impossible was made possible and the playing field was leveled,” he says.

Now Shifrin hopes to share accessible Lego instructions with other blind kids. He and Finkel have translated more than 20 Lego instructions for the blind. Shifrin has also set up a website, Lego for the Blind, where people can download instructions and volunteer to help translate instructions into Braille. “I hope that the next generation of blind children will benefit and will feel the level playing field that I felt when I built that first set,” he says.

24. What does the underlined word mean in para 2?

A. creative B. crazy C. indifferent D. unconcerned

25. What was special about Shifrin’s birthday gift from Finkel?

A. It was a castle. B. It was bagged well.

C. It was blind-friendly. D. It was hard to put together.

26. Which of the following words can best describe Shifrin?

A. Helpful. B. Childish C. Optimistic. D. Cautious.

27. What is the best title for the text?

A. Amazing success. B. Games for children. C. The way to build with Legos. D. For the love of Lego.

C

Londoners are great readers. They read and buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and of books

–––– especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy “proper” books, too, printed on good paper and bound(装订) between

hard covers.

There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book–selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charring Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being “the biggest bookshop in the world” to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens’ time. Some of these shops stock, or will obtain, any kind of books, but many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books on philosophy, politics or any other of the countless subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes only in books about ballet!