江苏省泰兴中学2017届高三12月阶段性检测英语试题

helping the majority of Americans at their job, then what is required? Many jobs require a skill. Electricians and contractors have specific skills that allow them to complete their jobs. Whether students go to a four-year school or not, I think it’s important for everyone to have a skill. After all, a Forbes article states that half of college graduates are working at jobs that don’t require a degree. Clearly, being smart and qualified isn’t always enough to make it in the real world.

I’m going to encourage my kids to go to college and earn a degree. I’m also going to encourage them to think outside of the box and give them a practical education too. After all, you never know where life will take you.

58. The author mentions his student teaching in order to ______. A. show his experiences in teaching B. tell us the importance of experiences C. introduce the topic of the text D. advise us to learn well at school

59. What does the underlined word “Rambo” in the second paragraph refer to? A. Name of a film. C. A kind of plants.

B. A film producer. D. Name of a subject.

60. From the passage we know the author emphasizes _______ in high schools. A. teaching students how to think

B. providing students with more actual practice in life C. learning more about cooking for students D. giving students real restaurant menus 61. What does the Gallup poll show us?

A. More and more Americans hate to go to school.

B. American schools don’t prepare their students for their jobs. C. Most of the rich Americans don’t graduate from colleges. D. Most of American jobs do not require high degrees. 62. What’s the topic of this passage?

A. No one is too sure about his or her own life. B. More practical education should be given to students. C. college degree is more important than anything else.

D. Half of college graduates don’t live on their degree.

C

Richard Satava, program manager for advanced medical technologies, has been a driving force in bringing virtual reality to medicine, where computers create a “virtual” or simulated environment for surgeons and other medical practitioners.

“With virtual reality we’ll be able to put a surgeon in every trench,” said Satava. He envisaged（设想）a time when soldiers who are wounded fighting overseas are put in mobile surgical units equipped with computers.

The computers would transmit images of the soldiers to surgeons back in the U.S. The surgeons would look at the soldier through virtual reality helmets that contain a small screen displaying the image of the wound. The doctors would guide robotic instruments in the battlefield mobile surgical unit that operate on the soldier.

Although Satava’s vision may be years away from standard operating procedure, scientists are progressing toward virtual reality surgery. Engineers at an international organization in California are developing a tele-operating device. As surgeons watch a three-dimensional image of the surgery, they move instruments that are connected to a computer, which passes their movements to robotic instruments that perform the surgery. The computer provides feedback to the surgeon on force, textures, and sound.

These technological wonders may not yet be part of the community hospital setting but increasingly some of the machinery is finding its way into civilian medicine. At Wayne State University Medical School, surgeon Lucia Zamorano takes images of the brain from computerized scans and uses a computer program to produce a 3-D image. She can then maneuver the 3-D image on the computer screen to map the shortest, least invasive surgical path to the tumor. Zamorano is also using technology that attaches a probe to surgical instruments so that she can track their positions. While cutting away a tumor deep in the brain, she watches the movement of her surgical tools in a computer graphics image of the patient’s brain taken before surgery.

During these procedures—operations that are done through small cuts in the body in which a miniature camera and surgical tools are maneuvered—surgeons are wearing 3-D glasses for a better view. And they are commanding robot surgeons to cut away tissue more accurately than human surgeons can.

Satava says, “We are in the midst of a fundamental change in the field of medicine.”

63. According to Richard Satava, the application of virtual reality to medicine _____. A. will greatly improve medical conditions on the battlefield. B. can raise the spirits of soldiers wounded on the battlefield. C. will enable surgeons to be physically present on every battlefield. D. can shorten the time for operations on soldiers wounded on the battlefield. 64. Richard Satava has visions of ______

A. wounded soldiers being operated on by specially trained surgeons.

B. wounded soldiers being saved by doctors wearing virtual reality helmets on the battlefield. C. using a remote-control technique to treat wounded soldiers fighting overseas. D. setting up mobile surgical units overseas.

65.Virtual reality operations are an improvement on conventional surgery in that they __________.

A. cause less pain to the wounded.

B. are done by robot surgeons with greater precision. C. will make human surgeons’ work less tedious. D. allow the patient to recover more quickly.

D

After breakfast the boys wandered out into the playground. Here the day-boys were gradually

assembling. They were sons of the local clergy, of the officers at the depot, and of such manufactures or men of business as the old town possessed. Presently a bell rang, and they all trooped into school. This consisted of a large, long room at opposite ends of which two undermasters conducted the second and third forms, and of a smaller one, leading out of it, used by Mr. Watson, who taught the first form. To attach the preparatory to the senior school these three classes were known officially, on speech days and in reports, as upper, middle, and lower second. Philip was put in the last. The master, a red-faced man with a pleasant voice, was called Rice; he had a cheerful manner with boys, and the time passed quickly. Philip was surprised when it was quarter to eleven and they were let out for ten minutes’ rest.

The whole school rushed noisily into the playground. The new boys were told to go into the middle, while the others stationed themselves along opposite walls. They began to play Pig in the Middle. The old boys ran from wall to wall while the new boys tried to catch them: when one was seized and the mystic words said—one, two, three and a pig for me—he became a prisoner and, turning sides, helped to catch

those who were still free. Philip saw a boy running past and tried to catch him, but his limp gave him no chance; and the runners taking their opportunity, made straight for the ground he covered. Then one of them had the brilliant idea of imitating Philip’s clumsy run. Other boys saw it and began to laugh; then they all copied the first; and they ran round Philip, limping comically, screaming with shrill laughter. They lost their heads with the delight of their new amusement, and choked with helpless merriment. One of them tripped Philip up and he fell, heavily as he always fell, and cut his knee. They laughed all the louder when he got up. A boy pushed him from behind, and he would have fallen again if another had not caught him. The game was forgotten in the entertainment of Philip’s deformity. Philip was completely scared. He could not make out why they were laughing at him. His heart beat so that he could hardly breathe, and he was more frightened than he had ever been in his life. He stood still stupidly while the boys ran round him, mimicking and laughing; they shouted to him to try and catch them; but he did not move. He did not want them to see him run any more. He was using all his strength to prevent himself from crying. 66. From the beginning of the passage we learn that _______. A. All pupils lived in the school B. the school only accepted day-boys

C. Philip’s class was part of the senior school D. the school had only three classes 67. What was Philip’s reaction to his class? A. He seemed to have enjoyed it. C. He thought class was too short.

B. He found his class surprising. D. He wanted to change class.

68. In the game Philip lost his ground because______. A. the game wasn’t fit for new boys like him B. he could not run as quickly as other boys C. he did not know the rules of the game D. the playground wasn’t big enough for the game 69. What did the boys do after Philip lost his ground? A. They continued with the game. C. They stopped to make fun of him. 70. How did Philip feel in the end? A. He was ashamed of himself.

B. He was very nervous.

B. They stopped and went inside. D. They changed to another game.