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Tencent announced yesterday that it will limit the daily time for youngsters to play its popular King of Glory game after parents and schools in Shanghai and other areas complained their children had become addicted to playing it.
From tomorrow, children younger than 12 will only be allowed to play the game for a maximum(最大值) of one hour a day, and after 9 pm, they will be banned from logging into it, said
Tencent. Those older than 12 will be able to play a maximum two hours a day.
The game system will remind players the time they have been playing and young players will be forced to log out when the time is up.
Tencent claimed these were the strictest measures in China’s game industry to prevent addiction and the company expected they would ease parents’ anxiety.
The company also said it had updated its system for parents to keep tabs on their children using its games.
Since February, parents can receive messages when children log in and spend money on the
game after they connect children’s game accounts with their mobile phone numbers.
Now, parents can connect phones, tablets or computers that their children use to play games, so that they can keep an eye on the children even if they have several game accounts, Tencent said.
Song Zhe, a father of a Shanghai high school student, welcomed the measures but was not sure
if they would be sufficiently effective. “I like the system that could lock up the devices as children can register many accounts,” he said, “but children are so clever that they can always think out counter measures.”
28．What can we infer from Paragraph 2?
A．Kids under 11 could play the game for at most 7 hours in a week. B．Girls under 8 are able to log in the game at 10 pm.
C．Those older than 16 are able to play the game all the time.
D．Children over 13 can log in the game after playing 3 hours in a day. 29．The underlined phrase “keep tabs on” is closest in meaning to “_ ”.
A．be careful with B．be in control of C．have an eye on
D．keep contact with
30．What can we learn about the game system according to the passage?
A．Parents can monitor their children even if they try to register different game accounts. B．Parents need to connect their tablets or computers to the game accounts of their children.
C．Parents can be reminded of the time their children have been playing the games. D．Parents should pay attention to their phones all the time in case they miss any message. 31．What did Song Zhe’s father think of the game system?
A．The game system was absolutely welcomed by him. B．Children were too dull to break out of the system.
C．He was uncertain about the effectiveness of the system.
D．Children could register lots of accounts to unlock the devices. D
Vinegar is great. It makes salad, fries and dumplings taste better, and you can even clean your windows with it. And now, according to scientists, it may even help the planet ’s population to ease hunger.
Researchers from the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS)
in Japan found that growing plants in vinegar makes them more resistant to droughts. This could mean that in the future, worries about climate change affecting the world’s supply of food will be much lower.
The discovery was made after the researchers studied the Arabidopsis, a plant known for its ability to survive in dry weather. It was found that when the plant was placed in drought-like
conditions, it produced a chemical called acetate(醋酸盐) – the main component of vinegar.
After discovering this, the scientists experimented further by adding acetate to the soil of other plants, before they stopped giving them water completely. After leaving the plants for 14 days, they found that the ones treated with acetate had survived, while the untreated plants had dried up and died. It’s hoped that this simple method of survival could soon be used to help farmers in dry countries keep their crops alive.
Jong Myong Kim, co-author of the study, told Popular Science magazine that he’s already been
in touch with people all over the world who are interested in trying this simple and cost-effective method out for themselves from flower growing companies to amateur gardeners. Although at this point keeping thirsty plants alive isn’t as easy as just pouring vinegar over them, Kim said he and his team are working on making the process as simple as possible. “Now we are trying to cooperate with some farmers,
and also some companies, to make a method to apply this system.” he said.
And for those of us who always forget to ask our neighbors to water our plants when we go away, hopefully this means the end of returning home from a trip to find our favorite flowers have died. 32．What is mentioned as a feature of the
Arabidopsis?
A．It produces acetate in wet conditions. B．It is mainly composed of acetate. C．It can survive in nowhere but desert. drought.
D．It can be tolerant of
A．find a simple way of keeping the crops of farmers alive B．add acetate to the soils of other plants to stop watering C．check the effectiveness of the acetate to resist drought D．treat the dried-up plants by adding acetate to them
34．What is the author’s attitude to the discovery?
A．objective B．Unsupportive C．indifferent D．optimistic 35．What may be the best title for the text?
A．Vinegar could end hunger
B．Vinegar keeps plants living forever
D．Advantages and functions of
C．How to survive climate change vinegar
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。
Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years. 36 . I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then.
1. Caring too much just puts yourself in trouble. 37 . There are only a few things that truly
count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.
2. Following the latest fashion blindly in work or in life is spiritual and intellectual suicide.
38 ; or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours.
3. 39 . The worst way to spend your time is even spreading more. People who spread unreal news are the virus-carriers of our day. Cockroaches(蟑螂) are cleaner, kinder creatures in comparison.
4. Hoping for the best is not always the right attitude. Maybe something will take twice as long as you plan for and produce results about half as good as you hope. 40 . Just allow for it and move on.
The most efficient way of learning is to bear the above in your mind and take action now. Waiting until you can be sure of doing something exactly right means waiting forever.
A. Much of what you get excited about, or anxious about, turns out not to matter.
B. Killing time is bound to ruin your career and future.. C. There’s no reason to be downhearted about this. D. So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago. E. You can be a cheap imitation of the ideal of the moment
33．The scientists experimented further in order to
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F. Listening to gossip is the quickest way to damage your relationship with others. G. There is no better way for you to learn and develop.
第三部分 英语知识运用（共两节， 满分 45 分）
第一节：完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下面短文，从短文
后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处 的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
After Mum died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was weak and
41 slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly 42 orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note 43 , “Drink your juice.” Such a gesture, I knew, was as 44
as Dad had ever been able to go in 45 his love. In fact, I remember, as a child I had questioned
Mum, “Why doesn’t Dad love 46 , “Who said he doesn’t love me?” Mum
you?” “Well, he