【正文】 it these two sisters. Just being greeted at the door was a joy. They couldn?t be 64 (happy) when seeing me. I always heard about the people who were there before me. Every person 65 (talk) about in a positive way. The conversation would go something like this, “Oh, Kay, so and so was here yesterday, she 66 (be) just the ?salt of the earth?, isn39。請你根據(jù)以下要求，寫一篇英語演講稿，要點如下： 1．你的理想職業(yè)； 2．選擇的理由； 3．實現(xiàn)的途徑。 they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thoughts and sights, not pace.” 24. According to Paragraph 2, when taking pictures, people tend to ___________. A. fet to appreciate something attractive on the spot B. find it hard to learn skills of taking good pictures C. find a good way to keep things in their minds D. have a chance to meet the challenge of new technology 25. According to Ruskin, what should travelers do to best express their appreciation of and desire foromething beautiful? A. To speak it out openly. B. To photograph it instantly. C. To purchase it directly. D. To paint it immediately. 26. From the fourth paragraph, we can infer that Ruskin encourages us to be ___________. A. considerate and determined B. active and adventurous C. creative and thoughtful D. sensitive and ambitious 27. The underlined word “deplored” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ___________. A. appreciated B. criticized C. favored D. ignored C When Marco Polo travelled to Hangzhou, China 700 hundred years ago, never had he thought he39。 10. Why didn?t the man realize his childhood dream? A. His parents didn?t support him. B. He was offered another job. C. He lost interest in it later. 11. What did the woman want to be when she was a little girl? A. A pilot. B. A scientist. C. A . What language is the woman good at? A. English and French. B. English and Italian. C. French and 9段材料，回答第 13 至 16 題。 2017 屆 12 月份高三階段性測試 英 語 試 題 注意事項： Ⅰ卷（選擇題）和第Ⅱ卷（非選擇題）兩部分。 8. Where does the woman advise the man to apply for a job? A. In a newspaper office. B. In a travel agency. C. In a car factory. 9. What does the man ask the woman about the job? A. The pay. B. The working conditions. C. The experience. 聽第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 題。s photo on Reddit on the Inter. B. She plans to post pictures to Sam?s account every day. C. She plans to buy more cats. D. She plans to sell Sam products. B Whenever something looks interesting or beautiful, there is a natural desire of us to capture (捕捉 )and preserve it— which means, in this day and age, that we are likely to reach for our phones to take a picture. Though this would seem to be an ideal solution, there are two big problems associated with taking pictures. Firstly, we are likely to be so busy taking pictures that we fet to look at the world whose beauty and interest encourage us to take a photograph in the first place. And secondly, because we feelthe pictures are safely stored on our phones, we never get around to looking at them, so sure are we that we?ll get around to them one day. The first person to notice the problems was the English art critic(評論家 ), John Ruskin. He was a keen traveler who realized that most tourists make a poor job of noticing or remembering the beautiful things they see. He argued that humans have a natural tendency to respond to beauty and desire to have it, but there are better and worse expressions of this desire. At worse, we get into buying souvenirs or taking photographs. But, in Ruskin?s eyes, there?s just one thing we should do—attempting to draw the interesting things we see, regardless of whether we happen to have any talent for doing so. Ruskin said, “Drawing can teach us to see: to notice properly rather than gaze absentmindedly. In the process of recreating with our own hand what lies before our eyes, we naturally move from a position of observing beauty in a loose way to one where we acquire a deep understanding of its parts.” Ruskin deplored the blindness and hurry of modern tourists, especially those who prided themselves on travelling around the whole Europe in a week by train, “No changing of places at a hundred miles an hour will make us stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, if they ever walked slowly。