安徽省淮南20xx届高三上学期第四次月考12月英语试题

安徽省淮南20xx届高三上学期第四次月考12月英语试题内容摘要：

he past, as Rault predicts? For those who grew up with living and breathing pets, the mechanical kind might not do. But for our next generation who are in constant touch with smart technology, a future in which lovely pets needn’t have a heartbeat might not be a farfetched dream. 28. What does the underlined phrase “sit well with” means A. be refused by B. be beneficial to C. make a difference to D. receive support from 29. What are the advantages of robot pets a. They are plastic and feel smooth. b. Owners needn’t worry about them when going out. c. They can help cure allergies. d. They save space and costs. A. ab B. bc C. bd D. cd 30. We can learn from the passage that___________. A. Sony is the first pany to produce robot pets Aibo. B. People can develop strong bond with their robot pets. C. Rault thinks robot pets still have a long way to go. D. Robot toys may help people care more about living beings. 31. The passage mainly tells us___________. A. the advantages of robot toys B. the popularity of robot pets C. living pets are dying out D. robot pets are ing D A study has showed that the brain makes decisions about 10 seconds before a person realizes it. Experts involved in the study said that looking at brain activity while making a decision, they could predict the choices the subjects would make, before they realized that they had made a decision. Lead researcher JohnDylan Haynes, a neuroscientist (神经学家 )at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, said that the new findings called into questions for “consciousness” of decisions that people make, and might even challenge ideas as to how “free” people are to make a decision at a particular moment. “We think our decisions are conscious, but these data show that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg,” Nature magazine quoted him as saying. Thinking the results “quite dramatic”, Frank Tong of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said that 10 seconds is “a lifetime” in terms of brain activity. During the study, the brains of 14 volunteers were imaged as they performed a decisionmaking task. The subjects had two buttons before them, each to be operated by a different hand, which they could press when they felt the urge to. They were simultaneously (同时地 )shown a stream of letters, which appeared on a screen at halfsecond intervals. The volunteers had to remember which letter was showing when they decided to press their button. Upon analysis of the data, the researchers realized that the earliest signal they could catch started seven seconds before the volunteers reported having made their decision. Given the delay of a few seconds in the imaging, they estimated that the brain activity could have begun about ten seconds before the conscious decision. The researchers showed that the signals were picked up from a region called the frontopolar cortex (脑额极皮层 ), which is located at the front of the brain, immediately behind the forehead. While writing about the observations made during the research in his study report, Haynes said that the frontopolar cortex might be the brain region where decisions are started. He also showed that the next step in the research would be to speed up the data analysis so as to enable his team to predict people’s choices as their brains would make them. 32. The passage tells us that ______. A. we are aware of our whole process of decisionmaking B. people don’t make decisions until they realize it C. experts have no way to tell what decision one will make D. the decisionmaking process starts before it is made 33. The underlined word “subjects” in Para. 2 probably refers to ______. A. the topic of the experts’ research paper B. the scientific subjects that the experts were studying C. the things that experts don’t know clearly D. the volunteers that the experts worked on for their research 34. The underlined sentence “consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg” in Para. 4 means that ______. A. our decisionmaking is conscious B. the data contains a lot of information besides consciousness C. consciousness is the major part of the data D. 10 seconds is “a lifetime” in terms of brain activity 35. The final purpose of the research ______. A. is not stated clearly in the passage B. is not acknowledged by experts C. is to show where decisionmaking starts D. is to analyze the data picked up 第二节 （共 5 小题：每小题 2 分，满分 10 分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。 For over one hundred and fifty years, Americans of all social classes have worn blue jeans. ___36__ Whether they are worn for work or for fashion today. Strauss39。 invention continues to be popular not only among Americans but also among people around the world. Levi Strauss was born in Germany in 1829. __37 He grew up in Kentucky before moving to New York in 1847. Before being。