60. Sony can provide high-tech fun at the lowest cost because __________.

　　A. players can play free games online B. PS4 owners don’t need any other device

　　C. it gives players adequate experience D. players have purchased expensive PCs

　　61. What is Bose QuietComfort 35 wireless headphones’ selling point promoted in the passage?

　　A. They have various types to meet users’ needs. B. Users can reduce noise manually.

　　C. They work better in the wild. D. Users can make phone calls with the headphones.

　　62. If your friend, who favors everything in the styles of the past, plans to make perfect pictures with a new

　　device, you will most probably recommend __________.

　　A. A smart phone. B. Fujifilm X70. C. Olympus PEN-F. D. Yi M1.

　　(C)

　　Naquela Wright’s life took an unexpected turn when she lost her eyesight as a teenager, but even when her world became dark, the New Jersey resident didn’t want to quit social media.

　　Using Facebook was a challenge at first. Diagnosed in 2010 with pseudotumor cerebri, a rare health condition in which pressure increases around the brain and can result in the loss of vision, Wright learned how to use a screen reader to read the site through the touch of the keyboard and sound of a robotic voice. Still, when a friend sends her a photo, Wright often has no clue what the image shows.

　　Now Facebook is trying to solve this problem by exploiting the power of artificial intelligence to create new tools that not only describe items in a photo but allows users to ask what’s in an image.

　　“I can have a basic picture in my mind of what’s going on in the picture and now I can comment on my own,” said Wright, who got to try out the new tools that are still being tested. “Of course, it’s different, but it’s something more than I had.”

　　An estimated 285 million people are visually disabled globally, according to the World Health Organization, and research conducted by Facebook showed that blind users have trouble figuring out what’s in a photo because the description isn’t clear or doesn’t exist.

　　Facebook has made it easier to skim through the content on its website with a screen reader by improving HTML headings, adding alternative text for images, launching keyboard shortcuts, and more. Using artificial intelligence to describe photos is only a part of these ongoing efforts.

　　With 1.5 billion users, Facebook isn’t the only social media company that wants to improve its website for the visually disabled. Along with Facebook and other major tech firms, Twitter and LinkedIn have their own accessibility teams and belong to an initiative called “Teaching Accessibility”.

　　Jeff Wieland, Facebook’s head of accessibility engineering, said the group wants to educate more engineers, especially early in college, about designing products that are compatible with the disabled and others. “We really don’t want accessibility to be the luxury of a handful of companies,” Wieland said. “We want everything around the world to be built with accessibility in mind.”

　　63. What tool helps the visually disabled to read Facebook?

　　A. A screen reader. B. A special keyboard. C. A helpful robot. D. HTML headings.

　　64. What can be inferred from the passage about the new tool created by Facebook?

　　A. It adds a lot of shortcuts on the keyboard.

　　B. It helps users to employ their senses other than sight.

　　C. It meets no competitors with its advanced technology.

　　D. It inspires more engineers to explore artificial intelligence.

　　65. The underlined phrase in the last paragraph “are compatible with” most probably means __________.

　　A. are unaffordable to B. bring harm to C. keep company of D. well suit

　　66. Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

　　A. Screen reader: tool to access social media

　　B. Ongoing efforts: strength to improve websites

　　C. Artificial intelligence: power to help the blind

　　D. Teaching accessibility: initiative to educate engineers

　　Section C

　　Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

　　(3)But there’s no need for embarrassment.

　　(4)If you want proof, turn on the sports channel.

　　(5)As we grow older, we don’t abandon this system – we internalize it.

　　(6)This so-called inner speech can improve our performance on various tasks.

　　(7)Conducting a dialogue with ourselves might turn out to be one of the keys to human creativity.

　　(8)Psychologists refer to this as private speech – language that is spoken out loud but directed at the self.

　　Your Own Best Friend

　　Talking to yourself may seem a little shameful. If you’ve ever been overheard criticizing yourself for a foolish mistake or practicing a tricky speech ahead of time, you’ll have felt the social restriction against communicating with yourself in words. According to the well-known saying, talking to yourself is the first sign of madness.

　　__67__ Talking to ourselves, whether out loud or silently in our heads, is a valuable tool for thought. Far from being a sign of foolishness, self-talk allows us to plan what we are going to do, manage our activities, regulate our emotions and even create a narrative of our experience.

　　Take a trip to any preschool and watch a small child playing with her toys. You are very likely to hear her talking to herself: offering herself directions and giving voice to her frustrations. __68__ We do a lot of it when we are young – perhaps one reason for our shyness about continuing with it as adults.

　　As children, according to the Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky, we use private speech to regulate our actions in the same way that we use public speech to control the behavior of others. __69__

　　Psychological experiments have shown that the distancing effect of our words can give us a valuable perspective on our actions. One recent study suggested that self-talk is most effective when we address ourselves in the second person: as “you” rather than “I”.

　　We internalize the private speech we use as children – but we never entirely put away the out-loud version. __70__ You’re sure to see an athlete or two getting themselves ready for a sharp phrase or scolding themselves after a bad shot.

　　Both kinds of self-talk seem to bring a range of benefits to our thinking. Those words to the self, spoken silently or aloud, are so much more than lazy talk.

　　IV.Summary Writing

　　Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

　　Moustache(胡子) for Cash

　　“Movember”, as the annual event is known, sees men in countries including the UK, US and Australia grow out their facial hair while collecting sponsorship money from friends, family and colleagues, with the money going to cancer charities.

　　The month of no shaving began unofficially in 2003, when a pair of men from Australia persuaded their family to join them in growing a moustache in order to encourage men to get themselves checked for cancer, which is seen as distasteful by some males. A year later, the group decided to set up the Movember Foundation, asking friends and colleagues to offer donations of money to support their efforts, and raised a massive A,000 which was shared between a number of health projects. With thanks most likely to social media, Movember soon went global and the foundation now operates worldwide, having raised over ￡440 million since 2004. The effects of the fundraising are wide-reaching, which had made a significant discovery in the treatment of cancer.

　　The issue of some men being too self-willed to visit their doctor for a checkup, or perhaps being raised in a culture of “tough it out”, has led some males to neglect their health, which may mean it could be too late if something potentially deadly did develop. However, Movember is helping to break down the shame of male health by making it more accessible, meaning that men are more likely to visit their doctors. They found a way to appeal to men in a way that other campaigns just don’t – with a sort of blokey① jokiness.

　　① blokey: behaving in a way that is supposed to be typical of men , especially men enjoying themselves in a group.

　　V. Translation

　　Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

　　72. 永遠(yuǎn)不要對你孩子的缺點(diǎn)熟視無睹。(blind)

　　73. 任何情況下，你都不應(yīng)該惡意評論他人。(Under…)

　　74. 申請人必須精通英語，否則他無法勝任這個崗位。(command)

　　75. 除了美味的咖啡和甜品，這間咖啡館還提供各種書籍，從小說到詩歌，應(yīng)有盡有，足以讓你安靜地度過一個下午。 (range)

　　VI. Guided Writing

　　Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

　　請簡單描繪圖片內(nèi)容，并用你生活中的一個經(jīng)歷來具體說明。你的文章必須包括：

　　1) 對圖片的簡單描述;

　　2) 對個人經(jīng)歷的具體描寫;

　　3) 你當(dāng)時的感受或想法。

　　2017年高考英語模擬試題參考答案

　　1-10 BDBCA DBCDC 11-20 ADD DAA BDBA

　　21 posted 22 that/which 23 who/that 24 yourself/yourselves 25 the safest 26 until/ before

　　27 to impose 28 not owning 29 will keep 30 for

　　31-40 JDAGK FBHCE

　　41-45 CADBC BABAD CDCAD

　　56-66 CCBB BDC ABDC 67-70 AFCB

　　Summary writing

　　1. Men grow moustache for money used for cancer charities in Movember

　　2. In 2003, two men started Movember . In 2004，the foundation was set up . Since then it has gone global and raised lots of money .

　　3，Its succcss is due to its way to have men visit their doctors with blokey jokiness.

　　Translation

　　72. Never turn a blind eye to your kid’s shortcomings

　　73. Under no circumstances should you make ill/ evil / bad comments on others

　　74. The applicants must have a good command of English / command English well，or he won’t be qualified for the job.

　　75. Besides nice coffee and dessert，the cafe provides all kinds of books，ranging from novel to poetry，so that you can stay for a whole quiet afternoon.

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