2016凉山二诊英语试题及答案(3)

    A. so that they might mislead consumers   B. so that they are able to show their wisdom
    C. because the government allows them to   D. because they have the freedom of speech
26. By using the word "help", advertisers intend to                
    A. mean what they say                B. show they are honest
    C. tell the consumer the truth           D. trick consumers into trusting their products
27. The author seems to believe that an "improved" product is often            .
    A. better           B. newer            C. dearer             D. less expensive
C
     Psychologists have discovered that even the most independent-minded of us will conform to
social pressure when we are with a group of people. In one classie experiment, people were shown
a vertical line and asked to find a line of identical length from a selection of three.
    You might think that this is an absurdly easy task, and when people perform it by themselves
they do it very well. However, psychologists have discovered that we are very easily swayed by the opinions of other people when we do this task in a group. In one study, a group of three people
was set up,where two of the people were confederates(同伙)of the experimenter.When the confederates deliberately gave wrong answers,people were often swayed to give the wrong answer also. In fact, 75% of people gave at least one wrong answer, with some people conforming to peer pressure on every occasion.
    But why do people conform in this way?  In an easy task like this,  it seems that people do
not want to step out of line with the prevailing opinion of the group. On more difficult tasks, people also conform because they lose〔onfidence in their own ability to make decisions and prefer
to trust the majority opinion instead.
    A typical example of this kind of conformity arises when we come across people in distress.
Would you help a woman who has been attacked in the street?It turns out that you are much more  likely to go to her assistance if you are alone.When other people are also around,a diffusion of responsibility occurs. People are paralysed into inaction, because everyone assumes that someone else will go to the woman' s assistance.
28. In Paragraph 1, the underlined word "conform" probably means“            ”
A. seek independence     B. disobey orders
C. seek pleasure         D. follow what others do
29.What is the purpose of the experiment described in Paragraph 2? To         
A. explain why people would be influenced by the opinions of others
B. prove that people are easily influenced by the opinions of others
C. train the confederates of the experimenter as independent-minded
D. describe how people would be influenced by the opinions of others
30. In the last paragraph, according to the author,why wouldn’t one help the woman ?He      .
A. thinks he has no responsibilities to give a hand B.thinks he has has nothing to do with it
C. is too shy to give his helping hand           D .thinks someone else will offer assistance
3l.What method does the author mainly use to develop the text?               
A. Giving examples.         B. Cause-effect analysis.
C. Comparative analysis.     D. Process analysis.
D
   A MENTORING(导师制)program is giving life changing opportunities to Banbury  youth.Young Inspirations was founded two years ago to provide mentoring sessions for students  and unemployed young adults aged 11 to 21.
    Alex Goldberg, the program’s founder, said:"We set up Young Inspirations because we wanted to give young people experiences which will potentially be life changing and broaden  their outlook."
"We try to create work experience opportunities that will really make a difference to our youth. For example, we've secured internships(实习)with world-famous firms such as Honda.
At a time of funding cutbacks where schools are finding it more and more difficult to offer this
kind of mentoring,it is extremely important that these opportunities are available both to help
youth  with  their  school  work  and  grades  and  to  give  them  opportunities  which  may  help  shape their futures."
    Kieran Hepburn,  14, is one of a group of Banbury youth who has benefited from the program so far. On October the Banbury School pupil was ac companied by Young Inspirations staff to Paris where he was an observer at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s(UNESCO) International Youth Forum(论坛).
    The event was held for young people from  around  the world  to  seek their views on how the future of youth and education should look. Kieran joined several hundred observers, mostly in their 20s  and  was  the  only  UK  school  pupil  to  attend  the  event.  Kieran  thinks  the  trip  was  a  life changing  experience. "Before  we  left I  didn't  quite  know  what to  make  of  it,  but when  we  got there we didn't stop. It was amazing." he said, "We went to three or four hours of debates each day and then did something cultural each afternoon."