山西省特岗教师招聘考试英语冲刺卷（三）

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Celebrating western holidays, following K-pop bands and going abroad to study, many young people are thought to be not as patriotic (爱国的) as their parents or grandparents.

But data has shown that young Chinese people have demonstrated a growing sense of national pride and patriotism in recent years.

According to website of the Communist Youth League (共青团) of China, a central association representing young people, the organization has more than 15.7 million followers on Sina Weibo. Each post related to topics such as national unity, patriotism and the country’s development has received thousands of comments and “likes”.

On March 5, the league wrote a post celebrating the 123rd anniversary of the birth of China’s first premier, Zhou Enlai, with thousands of young internet users leaving comments expressing how lucky and happy they felt to be living in the country.

One user, “Xu Baobao”, posted “We’ll contribute our young energy to national rejuvenation (复兴).” Another wrote, “May we use our youth to protect China.”

Young people not only expressed their patriotism in words, but also through action. In 2019, when riots (骚乱) related to an extradition (引渡逃犯) bill broke out in Hong Kong, an online community known as Di Bar, comprising young Chinese living around the world, launched a campaign to explain the issue to a global audience and to voice support for the city’s police on digital platforms.

Chinese youths’ patriotism may actually be stronger than ever, and with good reason. Guo Yuanyuan, associate dean of the School of Culture and Communication at Capital University of Economics and Business, said, “The great material improvement can give young people more room for spiritual life.”

“Our older generations experienced a very difficult time, and before reform and opening-up, the economy was far behind those in the West. Now, with China rising to become the second-largest economy in the world, making us roughly on par (不相上下) with the West in many respects, young people’s patriotic sentiment has naturally risen.”

39. What can we learn from the first 2 paragraphs?

A. Many young people are thought to be not patriotic because of following foreign trends.

B. Young people have shown rising sense of national pride in recent years from the data.

C. Our parents and grandparents don’t like following foreign trends.

D. If one celebrates western holidays, he or she may not be patriotic.

40. The underline word “comments” in Paragraph 3 probably means ______.

A. replies B. remarks

C. words D. expressions

41. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Before reform and opening-up, older generation can not show their patriotism.

B. Di Bar is an online community made up of young Chinese living in foreign countries.

C. China-rising is one of the reasons for young people’s growing patriotism.

D. Spiritual life can only be based on the great material improvement.

42. The purpose of the article is probably to show ______.

A. the difference between older generation and younger generation

B. the rising patriotism of young people

C. what the patriotism is

D. China rising

C

Many people believe the glare from snow causes snow blindness. Yet, dark glasses or not, they find themselves suffering from headaches and watering eyes, and even snow-blindness, when exposed to several hours of “snow light”.

The United States Army has now determined that glare from snow does not cause snow-blindness in troops in a snow-covered country. Rather, a man’s eyes frequently find nothing to focus on in a broad expanse of barren snow-covered terrain. So his gaze continually shifts and jumps back and forth over the entire landscape in search of something to look at. Finding nothing, hour after hour, the eyes never stop searching and the eyeballs become sore and the eye muscle aches. Nature offsets this irritation by producing more and more fluid which covers the eyeball. The fluid covers the eyeballs in increasing quantity until vision blurs, then is obscured, and the result is total, even though temporary, snow-blindness.

Experiments led the Army to a simple method of overcoming this problem. Scouts ahead of a main body of troops are trained to shake snow from evergreen bushes, creating a dotted line as they cross completely snow-covered landscape. Even the scouts themselves throw lightweight, dark-colored objects ahead on which they too can focus. The men following can then see something. Their gaze is arrested. Their eyes focus on a bush and having found something to see, stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-blind or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a solid white area is overcome.

43. According to the author, recent work on snow-blindness shows that it is caused by ______.

A. exposure to bright light

B. failure to focus on an object

C. a loss of vision which doesn’t last long

D. focusing on dark colored objects for a very long time

44. The scouts shake snow from evergreen bushes in order to ______.

A. prevent the men behind losing their way

B. beautify the landscape of the terrain

C. warm themselves in the severe cold

D. give the men behind something to see

45. A suitable title for this passage would be ______.

A. Snow-blindness and How to overcome it

B. Soldiers in the Snow

C. Nature’s Cure for Snow-blindness

D. Snow Vision

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