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(2017·江苏省重点中学高三联考)If you're the kind of person who loves travel but finds it difficult to break down language barriers, you may want to check out IconSpeak, a T-shirt covered in basic pictographs (图画文字) ranging from clocks to bathrooms. Simply point to the symbol associated with your need, and hopefully, the person you're talking to will understand you soon. I can tell you that it's better than having to make gestures with strangers.

IconSpeak is the brainchild of friends George Horn and Florian Nast. They were traveling through Asia in 2013 and found themselves in a remote village with no vehicle, no tourism, and just some locals. The problems they had while trying to express their needs to the locals inspired them to start working on a simple yet effective solution to the language gap. Two years later, they came up with the IconSpeak T-shirt. “In the furthest and deepest corners of our world we were repeatedly left with no words, either in breathtaking awe due to the scenery or in empty silence due to our lacking linguistic talents，” the IconSpeak website states. “Such situations got us thinking about how to bridge language barriers with utmost simplicity, on a global level. The answer came to us after a remarkable experience in the depths of Vietnamese backcountry: ICONs. Because with ICONs, you can SPEAK, you can SPEAK to the world.”

The IconSpeak collection consists of three types of T-shirts — long, short, sleeveless — as well as tote bags and hats that feature fewer icons. The products are available internationally through the IconSpeak website, with the founders attesting that they work anywhere in the world. “I have used it in Norway，” said Horn. “It works beautifully — the people you ask are surprisingly quick in getting what you want/mean since they are anyway thinking in a certain context (depending on who they are or where they are). If you point to the bus and the clock on the shirt and you do this at a bus stop — anybody will know that you want to know when the next bus leaves.”

IconSpeak is a clear example that the answer to complex problems can be very

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simple. I have yet to try the shirt, but somehow I have no doubt that it actually works. It might not always help, but for common problems, like finding a telephone, the nearest hotel or an ATM, IconSpeak seems like a good solution.

语篇解读：本文是说明文。旅行者现在可以借助名为“IconSpeak”的T恤衫在异国缓解语言不通的尴尬。 ★1.What should people do when they turn to the T-shirt for help? A．Draw a picture on it.

B．Scan the pictographs on it by phone. C．Point to the symbols on it.

D．Use the translation equipment built in it.

解析：选C 事实认定题。根据第一段的“Simply point to the symbol associated with your need, and hopefully, the person you're talking to will understand you soon.”可知，穿戴者只要指着T恤衫上的图标，就可以让对方明白他要表达的意思。故选C项。

2．What's Paragraph 2 mainly about? A．How IconSpeak was born.

B．How IconSpeak was promoted to customers. C．What concepts IconSpeak conveys.

D．What contributed to IconSpeak's popularity.

解析：选A 段落大意题。根据第二段的内容可知，本段主要介绍了IconSpeak是怎样被设计出来的。故选A项。

3．Which of the following can replace the underlined word “attesting” in Paragraph 3?

A．Advertising. C．Remembering.

B．Proving. D．Suspecting.

解析：选B 词义猜测题。根据下文Horn所说的话可知，他在挪威借助这个T恤衫解决了自己的交流问题，故可推出画线词所在部分的意思是创建者亲自证实了这种T恤衫能够起作用。故选B项。

★4.What does the example of IconSpeak indicate? A．Successful people tend to be creative. B．Cultural differences deserve to be valued. C．Traveling is the source of inspiration. D．We may find easy solutions to the headache.

解析：选D 事实认定题。根据最后一段中的“IconSpeak is a clear example that the answer to complex problems can be very simple.”可知，我们可以通过这个T恤衫的例

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子知道，有时候复杂问题的解决办法可能很简单。故选D项。

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(2017·南通高三调研)The more time young adults use social media, the more likely they are to experience sleep problems and to have symptoms of depression, according to a new research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers looked at data on more than 1,700 U．S. adults aged 19 through 32 who took part in the research, using questionnaires to determine social media use and established measurement tools to assess depression and sleep disturbances.

They asked about 11 popular social media platforms, such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Plus. On average, the participants visited social media up to 30 times each week and used social media more than an hour a day.

Nearly 30 percent of the participants had high levels of sleep disturbance. People who checked social media more frequently were more likely to experience sleep problems than those checking less frequently. More than a quarter of participants were classified as having high indicators of depression. As with sleep problems, increased risk of depression was associated both with more frequent checking of social media and with more time spent on social media.

Similarly, depressed people could be turning more to social media or exposure to social media could contribute to depression. The authors suggest a few possibilities: People who engage in a lot of social media use may feel they are not living up to the idealized description of life that other people tend to present in their profiles. Spending too much time on social media could lead to the feeling of just “wasting time”．

These findings are particularly disturbing as a report published by the World Health Organization in October said depression is now the leading cause of disability worldwide.

Dr Brian Primack, who led the study, said, “We hope that this research may provide one clue to the puzzle of how we can best use powerful tools such as social media. We certainly do not recommend that people stop using social media. Social media is obviously an extremely important part of modern-day society and has many important functions. Hopefully the knowledge that there can be emotional risks associated with its use may help individuals to make better choices about the extent

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to which they use social media and the way in which they use it.”

语篇解读：研究表明，频繁并长时间使用社交媒体会导致睡眠问题，并增加患抑郁症的风险。 ★5.What does the new research mentioned above find? A．Heavy social media use causes sleep problems and depression. B．Young adults waste their time in checking social media. C．Sleep problems have become a common phenomenon.

D．It is time that social media was forbidden in daily life.

解析：选A 事实认定题。根据文章第一段及第三段的内容可知，过度使用社交媒体会影响年轻人的睡眠并增加其患抑郁症的风险，故选A项。

6．Why does social media contribute to depression? A．Sleep problems go with depression. B．Checking social media takes much time. C．Depressed people crowd social media. D．People may have much envy.

解析：选D 推理判断题。根据第四段中的“People who engage in a lot of social media use ...tend to present in their profiles.”可知，其他人往往在他们的资料中展示别人眼中理想化的生活，而大量使用社交媒体的人可能会觉得他们达不到那样的生活(标准)，因而感到抑郁。也就是说，对他人生活的忌妒可能导致了抑郁。故选D项。

★7.How will people react to the research result? A．They will turn their nose up at it. B．They think it is a common thing. C．They may feel kind of anxious. D．They express strong disapproval.

解析：选C 事实认定题。根据第五段的内容可知，这些研究发现尤其令人不安，因为世界卫生组织在10月发布的一份报告称抑郁现在是人类(心理)残疾的主要原因。由此可推知，人们对该研究结果应该是感到不安的。

8．What does Dr Brian Primack indicate? A．We should stop using social media. B．We should find out causes and effects. C．We should use social media to our advantage. D．We should be cautious when using social media.

解析：选C 推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“We hope that this research may provide one clue to the puzzle of how we can best use powerful tools such as social media ...”

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