2014宁夏银川九中二模英语试题答案(3)

30. What is special about this museum?
A. It is built on the ruins of an old building.  
B. It offers visitors free rides to the museum.
C. It exhibits trucks dating back to 200 years ago. 
D. It’s transformed from an old factory by volunteers.
31. What’s the purpose of writing this passage?  
A. To persuade readers to attend the opening of the museum.
B. To introduce the old history of Bentwood Truck Museum.     
C. To explain why Bentwood Truck Museum was set up. 
D. To call on the visitors to take a ride in old trucks.
                                  D
The Toyota Prius hybrids adapted by Google's engineers have covered 300,000 miles on the roads of California without a human at the wheel, but with only one accident by a human-controlled car．It's clear that driverless cars are much safer than human-controlled ones．40,000 people are killed every year in road accidents in the US, many of which are caused by human error．Besides, driverless vehicles could make better use of the road and reduce the size of car parks, too．
With technology, a machine can perform a complex task without human involvement This means our thought about what machines can and cannot do needs updating urgently．
However, ignore the beautiful words and think about what Google has done．This isn't just about care．Economists are increasingly puzzled by the fact that the rate of job-creation is much lower than expected and the length of time for which people are unemployed has rocketed to 40 weeks twice as long as that during any previous postwar recovery．Economic theory says that when companies begin to grow or become profitable again, they buy equipment and hire workers．But that isn't happening．Companies are still buying equipment, but they're not employing workers．
So where did the jobs go? Andrew McAfee explains his view in his new book Race Against the Machine．" Advances in self-driving car by Google represent the next wave of job-eliminating technology．Many skills （such as driving） may eventually become worthless, at least in the job market．"
And as for those thinking that driverless cars might appeal to most motorists, there is the uncomfortable fact that the car has peaked．We are driving less year on year．Traffic jams reduce the romance from driving．And young people no longer have the desire to own cars like they used to．
32．According to the first paragraph, driverless vehicles are ______．
A．faster           B．safer         C．smaller          D．lighter 
33．The underlined word "updating" in the second paragraph means "          "．
A．renewing   B．abandoning      C．starting             D．returning
34．The third paragraph suggests that ______．
A．technology doesn't ease the pressure on employment
B．companies gain profit by employing more workers
C．it takes people less time to find a job than before
D．people will see another economic recovery in future
35．What will be the influence of driverless cars according to Andrew McAfee?
A．The economic recovery is to be sped up．
B．Many companies may make higher profits.
C．More people may lose their jobs．
D．Traditional skills will be improved．
第二节（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）
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  36   You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!
　　Parapsychologists (灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them.   37  
　　  38   The subjects（受试者）were eating, drinking, reading，studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.
　　For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two way mirror in a laboratory setting.   39   Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at than if they had just guessed.
　　   40    If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said Baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”
A. To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist (心理学家) at the University of Kentucky, performed two experiments.
B. Nobody thinks it’s good to stare at people.
C. In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes.
D. Baker made some mistakes while doing the experiments.
E. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t.
F. Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at.
G. Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched?


第三部分:英语知识运用(共两节,满分45分)
第一节  完形填空(共 20 小题; 每小题 1.5 分, 满分 30 分)
There was a rich man who wanted to choose a husband for his only child from a great number of pursuers. The man   41   all the pursuers to a river and pointed to the crocodiles there, saying, “Anyone who can swim across the river safely will marry my   42  .” The pursuers looked at each other and no one   43   take action. At that moment, a man plunged into the river and swam   44   surprising speed to the other side. All the people there   45    him with a great sense of admiration for his courage.   46  , the man, after landing on the bank, shouted   47  , “who pushed me into the river just now?”