E 80. Asakawa, 45, has spent the past eight years making the Internet a friendly place for people who can’t see. In 1997 her research group at IBM Japan put out one of the world’s first browsers specifically made to read aloud the contents of Web pages. And last July, her team released software that helps Web designers figure out how to make their home pages accessible to people with poor or no eyesight. 81. Accessibility is a serious issue. The Internet is becoming an increasingly important source of information and services. For people who are blind, the Internet lets them do things on their own for which they previously needed a lot of help, like going shopping. 82. At age 11, Asakawa accidentally hit her head into the side of a pool while swimming, damaging her optic nerves. Three years later, she was completely blind. At a vocational school for the blind, Asakawa learned to program in various computer languages. To read code printouts she used a device that translated the code into raised letters sensed with the fingers. It was a struggle, she recalls, “ But it was possible. 83. In the mid-1990s, she began surfing the Internet, using a combination of software that read out what was on the screen. But there were problems: The system only read English. On-screen fill-out forms stumped the reader, and tables with vertical columns came out as gibberish. Asakawa decided to develop software specifically designed to handle the coding used for Web pages. She inserted aural cues to help browsing, like using a man’s voice for text and a woman’s for links. In 1997 she put out IBM’s first Home Page Reader in Japanese, then in English followed by nine other languages. 84. Asakawa is now doing basic research on using the sense of touch to direct the attention of the blind, as colors do for the sighted. She hopes this kind of research will also be useful for people with normal vision. “ Sighted people don’t use the sense of touch very much, she laughs. “ What a waste! 第Ⅱ卷 查看更多

 

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第四部分写作(共两节,满分35分)

对话填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

 阅读下面对话,掌握其大意,并根据所给字母的提示,在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式,使对话通顺。

   M: I must say, I'm w___76___about this i___77__.                76      

77      

  W: Why? You are the r___78___ person they are looking for.         78      

  M: I know, but I haven't had much e___79___.                     79      

  W: I don't think that m___80___. You are sure to get the job.          80      

  M: I r___81__ need it. And there's another thing.                    81      

I don't think I'm good at l____82___.                                82      

  W: But your German is really good. I was i___83___by the way        83      

you talked to those people we met on holiday last year.

  M: It's very nice of you to try to c___84__ me up, but I still            84      

don't think I'm going to get the job.

  W: Well, we’ll just have to wait and see, w___85___we?              85      

 

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第四节:写作(共两节,满分35分)

第一节:对话填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

Lin Hai:I can't wait to get my driving license!Then I can buy my own car. There are so many cars (76) a______ now that prices have really fallen. It's great!

Wang Jun:Are you serious? The increase in new cars has (77) b______ our roads and has made pollution even worse here.

Lin Hai:More cars mean lower prices. I like that!

Wang Jun:What about the environment?(78) W______ more cars on the road, traffic problems, accidents and pollution will get much worse.

Lin Hai:Hmmm, you (79) e______ don't like cars or you don't know much about them.

Wang Jun:Yes,I do. I know cars can be useful, but they can cause a lot of (80)d  .

Lin Hai:People need cars, and if cars do so much damage, they wouldn't be (81) a______ on the roads.

Wang Jun:Hmmm,I don't think you have read much about this problem.

Lin Hai:No,and I don't need to,(82) b______ I don't think there is a problem.

Wang Jun:Yes, there is. It's reported in the newspaper that there are more cars on our roads now (83) t______ at any time in history. There are millions of possible car buyers,and car makers are busy making cars for them.

Lin Hai:So what?

Wang Jun: By 2020, there will be seven times the(84) n______of cars on our roads, and the effect of these cars will be pollution,(85) e______  in big cities.

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第四部分 写作 (共两节,满分35分)

对话填空 (共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

 阅读下面对话,掌握其大意,并根据所给字母的提示,在标有题号的右边横线上写出一个英语单词的完整、正确形式,使对话通顺。

   M: I must say, I'm w___76___about this i___77__.                76      

                                                              77      

  W: Why? You are the r___78___ person they are looking for.         78      

  M: I know, but I haven't had much e___79___.                     79      

  W: I don't think that m___80___. You are sure to get the job.          80      

  M: I r___81__ need it. And there's another thing.                    81      

I don't think I'm good at l____82___.                                 82      

  W: But your German is really good. I was i___83___by the way        83      

you talked to those people we met on holiday last year.

  M: It's very nice of you to try to c___84__ me up, but I still            84      

don't think I'm going to get the job.

  W: Well, we’ll just have to wait and see, w___85___we?              85      

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When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship(奖学金)and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story”, shown in late April.

 Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted(吸毒)parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.

 Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets.“What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society,”she wrote in her book Breaking Night.

 She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “next to nothing could hold me down”. She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University. But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time.”

  Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “as simple as making a decision”.

1.In which order did the following things happen to Liz?

  a. Her mother died of AIDS.    b. She worked at a petrol station.

  c. She got admitted into Harvard. d. The movie about her life was put on.

  e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.

A.b, a, e, c, d  

B.a, b, c, e, d

C.e, d, b, a, c

D.b, e, a, d, c

2.The main idea of the passage is ________.

A.how Liz managed to enter Harvard University

B.what a hard time Liz had in her childhood

C.why Liz loved her parents so much

D.how Liz struggled to change her life

3.What actually made her go towards her goal?

A.Envy and encouragement.

B.Willpower and determination.

C.Decisions and understanding.

D.Love and respect for her parents.

4.When she wrote “What drove me to live on...I had only experienced a small part of the society”, she meant that ________.

A.she had little experience of social life

B.she could hardly understand the society

C.she would do something for her own life

D.she needed to travel more around the world

 

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Erik Weihenmayer was born with an eye disorder. As a child his  eyesight became worse and then, at the age of 13, he lost his sight  completely. However, he did not lose his determination to lead a  full and active life  Erik became an adventurer. He took up parachuting, wrestling and scuba diving. He competed in long-distance biking, marathons and  skiing. His favorite sport, thought, is mountaineering.  As a young man, Erik started to climb mountains. He reached the summit of Mount McKinley in 1995 and then climbed the dangerous  1000-metre rock wall of EI Capitan. Two years later, while climbing   Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya with his girlfriend, they stopped for a  time at 13,000 feet above sea level-in order to get married. In 1999, he climbed Aconcagua, the tallest mountain in South America.  And then , on May 25, 2001, at the age of 33, Erik successfully completed the greatest mountaineering challenge of all. He climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. Erik invented his own method for climbing mountains. He carries two long poles: one to lean on and the other to test the way ahead of  him. The climber in front of him wears a bell to guide him. Erik is  a good team member. He does his share of the job, such as setting up tents and building snow walls.  Although he could not enjoy the view, Erik felt the excitement of  being on the summit of Everest. He hopes that his success will change how people think about the blind. “When people think about a  blind person or blindness, now they will think about a person standing on the top of the world.

1.When was Erik born?

A. In 1967.        B. In 1995.       C. In 1968..         D. In 1969.

2.What was unusual about his wedding?

A. He got married on the summit of Mount McKinley.

B. He got married when climbing Mount Everest.

C. His wedding was held at 13,000 feet above sea level

D. His wedding was held after he prepared a lot.

3.What is Erik’s special method for climbing a mountain?

A. He takes his girlfriend with him.  B. He uses two long poles to help himself

C. He does his share of  the jobs.   D. He keeps a good team around him.

4. Which of the following shows the right order of what happened?

a. He topped Mount McKinley.

b. He became blind.

c. He challenged Mount Everest.

d. He reached the peak of Kilimanjaro.

e. He climbed the rock wall of EI Capitan.

A. b a e d c    B. b e d c a       C. a b e d c       D. b a c d e

 

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