2016凉山二诊英语试题及答案(2)

    "I am a historian," she said. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the past, and about how
it shapes the future. No university in thecountry, perhaps the world, had as remarkable a past as
Harvard’s."
    "And ourcommon enterprise is to make Harvard’s future even more remarkable than its past.
That will mean recognizing and building on what we already do well. It will also mean recognizing what we don’ t do as well as we should, and not being satisfied until we find ways to do better."
    It is her great desire for improvement and willingness to try out ideas that have given Drew
success in a world controlled by men. "This is a man’s world, my girl, and the sooner you learn
that, the better off you’11 be." Drew Faust recalls her mother telling her this when she was young,
but she didn’t accept it.
    Faust grew up in a well-off family in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley in the 1950s. Even then
She was a trailblazer(先驱).A conversation with her family's black handyman and driver inspired
Her to write a letter, on school notebook paper, to President Dwight Eisenhower.
She asked whether he could help bring US citizens together in the south, a much divided
part of the country at the time.
"Drew Faust is a historian with her eyes on the future," said Susan Graham, a professor of
Harvard. Many of the university’s schools said that they believe Harvard will have a brighter
future under the leadership of Drew Faust.
21. Why does the writer Drew Faust has made history? Because            
A. she was president Harvard University              B. Harvard has a remarkable past
C. she was the first woman to be president of Harvard University   D. She is a historian 
22. What do we know about historians? They               
    A. usually study history or write about it    B. are usually women
    C. are usually born in well-off families     D. are usually presidents of universities
23. What did her mother mean by saying "This is a man’s world, my girl..."? To           
    A. encourage her to do men’s work          B. tell her to do things as a girl should do
    C. ask her to be well-off                   D. expect her to be a historian
24. Which of the following is true according to the passage?
    A. Faust was born in the north of the US.
    B. She wrote a letter to President Eisenhower when she became president of Harvard.
    C. Faust’s desire for improvement and willingness to try out new ideas has given her success.
    D. Historians just care about great things that happened in the past.
B
      People feel differently about advertising.People who are against it often argue that it is
immoral. They say ads are full of tricks. They also contain mistakes in grammar. Other people say
advertisers have a right to speak freely. This is guaranteed by law. They point out that people do
not have to view the ads.
    Weasel words   Advertisers often use special words or phrases.Thesewordsor phrases are
often misleading. These words are called "weasel words". Advertisers are free to use them as long
as they stick to the rules. The government decides what these rules are. Examples of weasel words
are "helps", "virtual", "new and improved"，and "like".
    "Helps"   People often think"help"means stop.Advertisers use it so  that  they can say
things  that  aren’t necessarily  true.  Legally,  help  means  to  aid  or  assist.  For example,  a product can "help" cure indigestion. In fact, the product down’tcure indigestion. Can you think of some ads that use“help"?
    "virtually"   To  advisers,  "virtually"  means  "not really"  or  "not in fact". If you  see  an ad that says  this cold medicine  relieves  virtually all  symptoms,  the  ad〔ould  really  mean it doesn't relieve any symptoms. Can you think of some ads that use "virtually"?
    "New and Improved"  A product can only be considered new for six months. Any small
change in a product will make it new. Often, this change does not make a product better. Yet, the
change often makes it more expensive. New is often used with  "improved". Can you think of some ads that use "new" and "improved"?
     "Like" "Like" can mean "not in fact". Some products claim they work  "like magic”.Like often  takes  the audience’s  attention off the product.Think of "like magic.”If  things  are  like magic，they are not magic.Can you think of some ads that use "like" or "like magic”?
25. Advertisers are fond of using "weasel words"