高中英语真题： 厦门某中学学2017 届高三高考考前模拟考试英语试题Word版.doc 一、阅读理解(共 4 题) 1. Bill Gates recently predicted that online learning will make place-based colleges less significant, and five years from now, students will be able to find the best lectures in the world online. I applaud Mr. Gates. But what s taking us so long?As early as 1997, MIT( 麻省理工 ) decided to post videos of all university lectures online. for free, for all people. But today, how many students have you met who mastered advanced mathematics or nuclear physics from an MIT online video? Unfortunately, the answer is not many. The problem is the poor quality of online education websites and the experience they provide to students. Those who go to the MIT website and watch courses online are surely very smart people, but it s not like playing a video game such as World of Warcraft. Only the most ardent students, those who are highly motivated, will devote themselves to studying these boring online videos. The real question is why we aren t spending more to develop better online education platforms. Where is the Avatar of education? Think about this. The market for Hollywood films per year is worth around 30 billion USD. Education in the world is a trillion-dollar-a-year market, hundreds of times bigger than Hollywood movies. Yet the most expensive digital learning system ever built cost well under 100 million dollars. Bill Gates prediction is going to happen. There is no doubt about it. But it will only happen when we create high level educational content and experiences that engage and excite more than has ever been possible in the real world. 21.What has Bill Gates forecast about online learning? A. It will concentrate on physics lectures B. It will completely replace real universities C. It will help to make universities more successful D. It will play an increasingly important role in education 22.Wha t does the underlined word “ ardent” in Paragraph 3 mean?A. Creative B. Enthusiastic C. Well-behaved D. Experienced 23.According to the author, what is holding back the popularity of online learning? A. The lack of lectures available online B. The high cost of access to the websites C. The low standard of educational websites D. The competition with online computer games 24.Why does the author mention Hollywood? A. To show that Hollywood produces many successful movies B. To prove that education is more profitable than entertainment C. To argue that movie directors should produce educational content D. To urge that more money be spent developing educational websites 2. Imagine that you re looking at your company -issued smartphone and you notice an e-mail from Linkedln:” These companies are looking for candidate like you!” You aren t necessarily searching for a job, but you re always open to opportunities, so out of curiosity, you click on the link. A few minutes later your boss appears at your desk. “ We ve noticed that you re spending more time on Linkedln lately, so I wanted to talk with you about your career and whether you re happy here,” she says. Uh -oh. It s an awkward scene. Attrition(损 耗 ）has always been expensive for companies, but in many industries the cost of losing good workers is rising, owing to tight labor markets. Thus companies are making greater efforts to predict which workers are at high risk of leaving so that managers can try to stop them. Methods range from electronic monitor to sophisticated analyses of employees social media lives.Some of this work may be a reason to let employees to quit. In general, people leave their jobs because they don t like their boss, don t see opportunities for promotion or growth, or are offered a higher pay; these reasons have held steady for years. New research conducted by CEB, a Washington-based technology company, looks not just at why workers quit but also at when. “ We ve learne d that what really affects people is their sense of how they re doing compared with other people in their peer group, or with where they thought they would be at a certain point in life, says Brian Kropp, who heads CEB s HR practice. “ We ve learned to focus on moments that allow people to make these comparisons.”Technology also provides clues about which star employees might be eyeing the exit. Companies can tell whether employees using work computers or phones are spending time on (or even just opening e-mails from) career websites, and research shows that more firms are paying attention to these things. Large companies have also begun tracking badge swipes( 浏览痕迹 )- employees use of an ID to enter and exit the building or the parking garage-to identify patterns that suggest a worker may be interviewing for a job. 25.From the first paragraph, we can infer Linkedln is . A. an e-mail B. a job from the Internet C. a professional social network D. a world-famous company 26.What s the main idea of the second paragraph?A. The cost of losing good workers is rising B. Companies are stricter with workers than before C. Measures have