襄阳五中高二年级期中考试英语试题及答案(编辑修改稿)

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C. he worked very hard. D. he knew how to run a restaurant. 55． To save a failing restaurant, Mr. Kazi did all the following things EXCEPT to____. A. clean it up B. improve the food. C. retrain the employees. D. advertise for it. B Most people believe they don39。 t have much imagination. They are wrong. Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we bee adults, fet how to access it. Creativity isn39。 t always connected with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time routinely think of creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you. This technique involves taking unrelated ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the ideas/words associated with candles: light, fire, matches, wax: night, silence, etc. Think of as many as you can. The next stage is to relate the ideas to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original present。 you could buy him tickets to a match or take him out for the night. Imagine that normal limitations don39。 t exist. You have as much time/space/money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new possibilities. If, for example, your goal is to learn to ski, you can now practice skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now adapt this to reality. Maybe you can practice skiing every day in December, or every Monday in January. Look at the situation from a different point of view. Good negotiators(谈判者） use this technique in business, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the characters in their books. They ask questions: what does this character want? Why can39。 t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? What does she dream about? If your goal involves other people, put yourself in their shoes. The best fishermen think like fish! 56． According to the passage, when we bee adults______. A. we can still learn to be more creative. B. most of us are no longer creative. C. we are not as imaginative as children. D. we are unwilling to be creative. 57． The second technique suggests that you just imagine_____. A. setting a goal is as simple as skiing. B. you have every resource to achieve your goal. C. new possibilities will soon appear. D. December and January are the best months for skiing. 58． The phrase “ put yourself in their shoes” in paragraph 4 is closest in meaning to_____. A. dress yourself like them. B. do as they ask you to. C. think as they would. D. put on their shoes, 59． We learn from the third technique that a good salesman should ask himself: A. what do I usually do? B. what did my boss tell me to do? C. what are my customers39。 needs? D. how should I sell my products? C Do you want to live forever? By the year 2050, you might actually get your wish— if you are willing to leave your biological body and live in silicon circuits （半导体电路）． But long before then, perhaps as early as 2020, some measures will begin offering a semblance of immortality （虚拟的永生）． Researchers are confident that technology will soon be able to track every waking moment of your life． Whatever you see and hear, all that you say and write, can be recorded, analyzed and added to your personal chronicles （履历） , By the 2030, it may be possible to catch your nervous （神经） systems through electrical activities, which would also keep your thoughts and emotions． Researchers at the laboratories of British Telemunications have given the name of this idea as Soul Catcher． Small electronic equipment will make preparation for Soul Catcher． It would use a wearable superputer, perhaps in a wristwatch, with wireless links to micro sensors under your scalp （头皮） and in the nerves that carry all five sensory signals． So wearing a video camera would no longer be required． At first, the Soul Catcher39。 s panion system — the Soul Reader — might have trouble copying your thoughts in plete details． Even in 2030, we may still be struggling to understand how the brain is working inside, so reading your thoughts and understanding your emotions might not be possible． But these signals could be kept for the day when they can be transferred to silicon circuits to revitalize minds everlasting entities （永生实体） .Researchers can only wonder what it will be like to wake up one day and find yourself alive inside a machine． For people who choose not to live in silicon, semblance of immortality would not be as useless as they thought． People would know their lives would not be fotten, but would be kept a record of the human race forever． And future generations would have a much fuller understanding of the past． History would。