黑龙江省哈尔滨师范大学附属中学2019届高三英语上学期开学考试试题(含答案)

B

Dining in a completely dark room, unaware what’s on your plate while sitting next to a complete stranger may not sound like an ideal restaurant experience but it’s certainly an intriguing way to spend a rainy night in London.

Dans le Noir, close to London’s financial district, is a restaurant full of blind waiters and waitresses who become your eyes around the restaurant, whose original Paris branch opened in 2004.

In the bar with the light, you choose whether you want the fish, meat or vegetable, but the dishes themselves remain a secret, as do the ingredients of the “surprise” cocktails. Bags, coats and devices(设备) that light up, including watches and mobile phones, are kept in the bar. Placing your hand on the shoulder of your guide, you are led to a table in a black dining room that sets up to 60 people. And it is dark. The waiters tell you when the food is being placed down in front of you, then the fun begins, trying to get food into your mouth, then identifying just what it is that’s on your plate, and finally whether you have missed any of it.

It’s also a great chance to break social convention and eat using your fingers. Those same fingers are also the only way you can tell how much wine you’re pouring into your glass.

The happy atmosphere in the dining room also made the night memorable. You can’t really avoid talking to the person next to you at the long tables and guessing what the dishes are certainly provides adequate fuel for the conversations.

All will be revealed at the end of the meal when you are led back out into the lit bar. Not only do you finally get to see what you’ve just been eating but also who you’ve been talking to for the last 90 minutes.

25. What does the underlined word “intriguing.” in the first paragraph mean? A. Terrible.

B. Interesting.

C. Expensive.

D. New.

26. According to the text, “Dans le Noir” __________. A. is far from London’s financial district B. has its first branch opened in Britain C. is very popular among blind customers

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D. has a dining room which can seat up to 60 people

27. We know from the text that the customers in “Dans le Noir” _________. A. are forbidden to eat with their fingers B. can talk to the strangers at table C. will look at the menu in a dark bar

D. can take their mobile phones into the dining room 28. What’s the main purpose of the text?

A. To help blind people find a job in restaurants. B. To show how to open a restaurant with a new idea. C. To show how to enjoy the time in a dark restaurant. D. To introduce and attract customers to “Dans le Noir”.

C

Which tablet computer should YOU be buying: They are this year’s must have ... and there’s a style to suit everyone. Best for young children Best for teenagers LeapPad Explorer 2, ￡68 Aimed at children between three and nine (though a nine-year -old might find it a little simple), it comes in pink or blue and with five iPad 4th generation, ￡399-￡659 The iPad is still the market leader, and for good reason. If the teenager in your house enjoys playing computer built-in education games (you can buy more). games, the latest offering from Apple is Besides, the LeapPad does not allow access to the one to choose. the internet — so it is impossible for your child to stumble across Pros: No other tablet can compete with anything the near one million ‘apps’ (the name Apple created for specially-designed inappropriate. Pros: The education games are well- downloadable programs) available for the designed, the built-in video camera is a fun iPad. Simple to use, even for those who way to play at being a film director. usually struggle with technology. - 6 -

Cons: Some of the games are shockingly Cons: Considerably more expensive than expensive. And the power adaptor is not most competitors. included. Best for working parents Best for bookworms Amazon Kindle Paperwhite, ￡109 are Nearly all tablets let you download books. It's a great way to take a mountainous pile of Microsoft Surface, ￡399-￡559 Tablets brilliant for leisure — but what if you want to do a bit of work? No tablet can yet compete with a full-size laptop hardbacks on holiday without stuffing your computer, but this is the only tablet that suitcase. allows you to use Microsoft Word, Excel and But most tablets have a shiny screen Powerpoint (they are all pre-installed and — which can be very distracting (分心) included in the price) and you can buy a when you're trying to read. The Paperwhite pretty lovely mini-keyboard for typing is different: its matt screen and crisp letters and emails, which also doubles up as black lettering imitate the look of words the cover. on paper brilliantly. And yet you can Pros: The Surface is good for watching still read the words in the dark. movies — a bonus when stuck in the airport Pros: Easy on the eye, excellent on a business trip — and surfing the battery life, 180,000 free books (if you internet. subscribe to the Amazon Prime customer Cons: The keyboard is an expensive loyalty service) plus hundreds of add-on — costing up to ￡109. It might be thousands more to buy. cheaper to buy a laptop (though a tablet is much smaller and lighter).

29. The underlined phrase “stumble across” most probably means “_________”. A. quarrel with B. compare with C. meet with 30. Which of the following about Surface is TRUE?

A. The keyboard can serve as a cover. B. You have to pay extra to install

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Cons: No TV, films, games, internet or camera. D. compete with

Microsoft Word.

C. The keyboard will not add to the cost. D. You cannot watch movies or surf the internet with it.

31. If you are a game lover, which tablet is least likely to be your choice? A. LeapPad Explorer 2. C. Microsoft Surface.

B. iPad 4th generation.

D. Amazon Kindle Paperwhite.

D

These days, it seems that almost all of us are too serious. My older daughter often says to me, “Daddy, you’ve got that serious look again.” Even those of us who are committed to non-seriousness are probably too serious. People are frustrated and anxious about almost everything—being five minutes late, witnessing someone look at us wrong or say the wrong thing, paying bills, waiting in line, overcooking a meal, making an honest mistake -- you name it, and we all lose perspective（理性判断）over it.

The root of being anxious is our unwillingness to accept life as being different,

in any way, from our expectation. Very simply, we want things to be a certain way but they’re not a certain way. Life is simply as it is. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin said it best: “Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don’t fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.” We spend our lives wanting things, people, and events to be just as we want them to be—and when they’re not, we fight and we suffer.

The first step in recovering from over-seriousness is to admit that you have a

problem. You have to want to change, to become more easygoing. You have to see that your own anxiety is largely of your own creation—it’s made up of the way you have set up your life and the way you react to it.

The next step is to understand the link between your expectations and your

frustration level. Whenever you expect something to be a certain way and it isn’t, you’re upset and you suffer. On the other hand, when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you’re free.

A good exercise is to try to approach a single day without expectation. Don’t

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