广东高考英语历年真题及答案(2)
(C)
Car makers have long told this story to Americans: "We don't have the technology to build good electric cars. Customers don't want electrics because they are so unattractive, slow and hard to charge. We would build them if only people wanted them." Chris Paine casts serious doubt on that story in his hard-hitting documentary film, Who Killed the Electric Car? The title suggests a murder mystery, and that's what Paine provides. Well, some of it is a mystery. We know the victim from the start - an electric car called the EV1. Also, we can see that Paine will largely blame the General Motors Corporation (GM).
GM built the EV1 because the California Air Resources Board (CARB) ruled that cars in the state had to stop adding pollution to the air. The EV1, being electric, did not bum gasoline or put out any pollution. With technology available in 1990, GM had no trouble producing a car that could go 100 miles on a single charge and could recharge from an ordinary household electrical outlet. Remember the auto companies' claim that they don't have good electric-car technology? If that were true, the EV1 would never have been born. The company made 1000 EV1s and leased them to customers in Southern California. (In a lease, a customer does not own a car but pays to use it for a certain time.)
Because of its anti-pollution rule, CARB was sued (起诉) by oil companies, car companies, and the federal government. Under such pressure, CARB dropped its rule. No longer needing the EV1 to obey California's rules, GM responded by attacking its own child. The company ran advertisements saying how bad the EV1 was. Company representatives went on TV and radio shows to say it was unreliable. The company wanted to get the cars back and destroy them. The fact that EV1 were leased, not sold, is an important part of Paine's tale. GM still owned every car and could legally take them back. A few of them went to museums, but GM crushed most of them flat. If EV1s had been owned by their drivers, they would probably still be on the road. Many people who drove them loved them. In fact a group of EV1 drivers offered GM class="con">
广东高考英语历年真题及答案(2)
Paine's criticism of the car industry, Washington's close relationships with the oil industry, and California's state government are harsh. Each, he says, played a role in the murder of the EV1. Each has also defended itself in the wake of the film, but Paine's excellent documentary will be hard for them to dismiss.
74. What's Paine's attitude towards car makers’ story?
A. Supportive. B. Indifferent. C. Doubtful. D. Neutral.
75. The E VI is invented to ______.
A. show the advanced technology of GM B. obey California's rules about air pollution
C. help those who can't afford to buy a car D. get rid of the cars burning gasoline
76. Which of the following statements is TRUE about EV1s?
A. They are not popular because their users don't like them.
B. They are not reliable because of technical problems.
C. They need special equipment to get them charged.
D. They are owned by GM rather than customers.
77. What can be inferred from Paine's documentary?
A. CARB is to blame for the murder of the EV1.
B. The drive of profits leads to the disappearance of the EV1.
C. People can no longer see EV1s because they have been destroyed.
D. Pressures from car-related companies forced CARB to stick to its rules.
Section C
The sounds you make while chewing have a significant effect on the amount of food you eat, a new study has found. The results suggest that people are likely to consume less if they can hear themselves eating.
Researchers at Brigham Young University and Colorado State University have found that your TV, radio and computer are making you fat. Not by bombarding (轰炸) you with food ads (though, they totally are) but by blocking the sounds of your chewing. In a recent study, they found that the noise your food makes while you're eating can have a significant effect on how much food you eat.
"Sound is typically labeled as the forgotten food sense," adds Ryan Elder, assistant professor of marketing at BYU's Marriott School of Management. "But if people are more focused on the sound the food makes, it could reduce consumption.”
"For the most part, consumers and researchers have overlooked food sound as an important sensory cue in the eating experience," said study coauthor Gina Mohr, an assistant professor of marketing at CSU.
The team carried out three separate experiments to quantify the effects of food sound on quantity of food consumed during a meal. In one experiment, participants were given snacks to eat while they wore headphones playing either loud or quiet noises. The ones loud enough to mask the sound of chewing made subjects eat more - 4 pretzels compared to 2.75 pretzels for the "quiet" group.
In another of their experiments they found that just having people hear chewing sounds through an advertisement can decrease the amount they eat.
Elder and Morh call this the "Crunch Effect". The main takeaway of their work should be the idea of mindfulness, they said. Being more mindful of not just the taste and physical appearance of food, but also of the sound it makes can help consumers to eat less.
"When you mask the sound of consumption, like when you watch TV while eating, you take away one of those senses and it may cause you to eat more than you would normally." Elder said.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS)
78. Why do TV, radio and computer make people fat?
79. The researchers intended to find out the effects of food sound through experiments by observing _________
80. What will happen to people if they hear chewing sounds through a food advertisement?
81. Apart from sound, other sensory cues such as ______ may influence food consumption.
第II卷 (共47分)
I. Translation
1. 由于天气恶劣，我在网上订购的礼物比预计晚到了一周。(order)
2. 虚拟现实将会如何改变人们未来的生活还不得而知。(remain)
3. 你认为什么导致了这位年轻科学家的英年早逝? (contribute)
4. 看到明星上传的照片以后，他的粉丝们争抢着第一个去和那个邮筒合影。(strive)
5. 自从派了更多的警察在路口指挥交通，交通违章的人数大大减少了。(since)
II. Guided Writing
请简要描述图片，并根据图片的内容谈谈你对友谊的看法。
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