2015福建漳州八校联考英语试题试卷及答案(4)

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66. Which of the following bakeries has the shortest history?
   A. Crepes’ Quality Bakery     B. Betty’s Cakes & Candy Shop
   C. Olympia Candy Kitchen D. Maple Lane Bakery
67. The author wrote this passage mainly to __________.
   A. tell readers some travel information
   B. persuade more people to eat pies
   C. make the bakeries better known to readers
   D. warn customers to order bakeries in advance


D
Have you read " 'To Kill a Mockingbird’ The only navel by Harper Lee offers moral lessons about racial justice and respect．It tells the story of a young girl named Scout and her father, Atticus Finch, a lawyer．He defends a black man ． 
Tom Robinson wrongfully accused of raping（强奸） 
a white woman．In the end, an all-white- jury （陪审团） 
sentences Tom Robinson to death．
The book is set in the American, South in the 1930s．
But it came out on July11^th, 1960 as the civil rights 
movement in the United States was gaining strength. 
Laws and customs in the South, however, still kept blacks 
and whites mostly separated．
A mockingbird is a land of gray songbird．The book
gets its title from something Atticus Finch was told in his 
childhood when his father gave him a gun. Atticus Finch said, "I remember when my daddy first gave me that gun, he told me that I should never point at anything in the house, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted, if I could hit them．But remember, it was a sin （罪过） to kill a mockingbird, for they don't hurt anyone, they just make music．"
Some people said, " 'To Kill a Mockingbird' treats racism in a way that is simplisite（过分单纯化的）, even offensive to blacks, and out of date in today's America．" Still, it has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold over forty million copies. It is often required reading in high schools. Harper Lee won a Pulitzer Prize in America in 1961 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007.
The story takes place in a town that Harper Lee called Maycomb. But she based the characters on real people she knew growing up．Since then her hometown Monroeville has changed a lot．A number of African-Americans serve m the local government．The courthouse, made famous by the book, is now a museum．A small shop and a fast-food restaurant called Mel's Dairy Dream have replaced Harper Lee's childhood home．
68．We can learn from the passage that Harper Lee     __．
A．has written more than-one novel in her life  
B．lived in a town called Maycomb as a child
C．had been awarded two prizes in America by 2007
D．likes a mockingbird very much that makes music
69．According to the passage, __ in the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” is compared to a Mockingbird．
A．Harper Lee     B．Scout     C．Attricus Finch D．Tom Robison


70．What is the main idea of the 4th paragraph?
A．A mockingbird doesn't hurt anyone at all． 
B．To tell readers how the novel gets its title,  
C．A mockingbird is a kind of gray songbird．
D．To kill a mockingbird is more than a hunting．
71．We can infer from the passage that the novel "To Kill Mockingbird" __．
A．was published about 60 years ago  
B．was very popular in the late 1930s
C．has been read by millions of high school students
D．gets its title from a story told by Harper Lee's father


                                     E
With only a click of the mouse, rumors can be forwarded between microblogs very quickly. As an example, recently, perceptive netizens discovered that some photos displayed on microblogs depicting Beijing’s June rainstorm had actually been fabricated.
Sina.com is one of the major internet portals(门户网站) in China with hundreds and thousands of users, and a majority of celebrities and renowned citizens have their microblog accounts on this portal. As recently as six months ago, the website decided to establish a specialized team to verify rumors and provide accurate information for its users. Tan Chao is in charge of the team.
“Before I took the job, I usually couldn’t identify what information was real and what was fake. But during the rumor verification process, we discovered that a lot of information was false, including fake photos, fake news stories and rumors that had been spread through microblogs.”
It‘s not just website portals which are taking on fact-checking responsibilities, but also a number of civic-minded netizens, who recently set up a Rumor Verification Federation on Sina.com’s microblog system to help netizens identify fake information online.
　　Dianzizheng is the team leader of the federation. He says they’ve publicized more than 150 pieces which refute rumors, which attracted more than 10 thousand visitors within two months.
　　“We live in an age of new media, so we can’t use the old methods to verify rumors. We can’t wait for the media to verify the facts with related administrative departments and then release a formal announcement. We can’t allow rumors to run rampant and then deal with it, we need to fight rumors while they’re spreading. I think that this is the best way to deal with rumors nowadays.”
　　Some experts say this demonstrates the advantages of the internet compared to other traditional media. The open platform allows information to be examined and clarified by netizens. But experts like Ding Wenguo, President of the Journalism and Communication College at the China University of Political Science and Law says this self-correction function of the internet is still quite limited.