译林版江苏省新高考适应性英语考试阅读每日训练
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What are the foods that you can only taste in memories? Your mother's biscuits? The pies you made as a child? And what are the recipes that help you 41 your memories?
This morning, for the first time in over a year, I made Dutch Babies, a kind of pancake. I’m a poor cook who's always 42 to pull anything out of the oven that isn't burnt. But 43 , I get lucky.
Making Dutch Babies brings to my mind some of the 44 memories of my life. I’ve made Dutch Babies many times for sleepovers and 45 . They were always a hit, 46 I burned them.
After my kids grew up, I didn't cook much for years, except for holidays or other 47 occasions. When we had a family 48 , I'd make Dutch Babies for breakfast.
I can’t recall the last time I made Dutch Babies, before today. I know it was 49 a year, before life was 50 for COVID-19, and we stopped having guests.
So why did I make them this 51 for only my husband and me? It's been a(n) 52 year for all of us, filled with things we couldn't do. I was 53 to celebrate being alive.
Good food can feed a hungry crowd. But if it's made with love and 54 . it can fill a(n) 55 with the hope of better days to come. So, add your own memories.
41. A. shape | B. refresh | C.expand | D. share |
42. A. amazed | B. disturbed | C. embarrassed | D. disappointed |
43. A. rarely | B. occasionally | C. generally ' | D. frequently |
44. A. fantastic | B. regretful | C. sorrowful | D. vague |
45. A. acquaintances | B. colleagues | C. guests | D. students |
46. A. as if | B. in case | C. in that | D. even if |
47. A. various | B. special | C. informal | D. casual |
48. A. reunion | B. problem | C. quarrel | D. discussion |
49. A. less than | B. rather than | C. more than | D. other than |
50. A. broken down | B. put down | C. pulled down | D. shut down |
51. A. evening | B. morning | C. afternoon | D. moment |
52. A. hard | B. easy | C. busy | D. normal |
53. A. persuaded | B. likely . - | C. eager | D. encouraged |
54. A. freedom | B. gifts | C. desire | D. memories |
55. A. belly | B.soul | C. stomach | D. brain2016江苏高考 |
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.“Without trust “writes Rachel Botsman,“society cannot survive, and it certainly cannot thrive."
Clearly, we are in trouble. Two-thirds of people surveyed last year in 28 countries expressed low levels of trust in "mainstream institutions" of business, government and media.
In “Who Can You Trust?" Botsman, an Oxford lecturer offers a timely and accessible framework for understanding what trust is, how it works, why it matters and how it is evolving. It is an important guidance to the obstacles and opportunities we face as a society if we are to repair and redefine trust.
Through human history, trust has evolved in three basic stages: Local trust was enough when people lived in small communities and everybody knew everybody else; industrializ
ation and urbanization required institutional trust so that people could trust complete strangers running governments, corporations, and standards for international trade, commerce and finance. We are now living through a massive global .shift of trust from institutions to individuals: distributed trust facilitated by high-tech platforms, many of which are run by the private sector.
This shift is caused by several factors. First, accountability is unequal. Rich, powerful and well- connected individuals have been able to accumulate vast quantities of often undocumented wealth by avoiding tax and anti-bribery laws, while ordinary people are likely to be caught and punished for lawbreaking. Second, people in power are no longer seen to deserve greater respect as the details of their lives are exposed.
Botsman does not prescribe how we deal with that. But if the old ways of giving and cancelling trust such as . voting, markets and consumer choice are no longer functioning, then we must change or replace them. Systems must be "driven democratically and rationally," become more "transparent, inclusive, and accountable" and, most important, b
e designed to "put people first," which profit-driven platforms have failed to do sufficiently.
Tech executives are responding to the trust crisis mainly with promises of more and better technology. But Batsman warns that the responsibility for ensuring that the robots being used are trustworthy lies with the human beings who design and use them. We have not thought through how we hold those people accountable, let alone their robots. She warns against a natural tendency "to become over- reliant on machines." Ideally machines should be programmed to "understand" their own limitations and even seek human help or intervention.
A growing number of people hope that new trust mechanisms can be established through the use of exciting new technologies such as the blockchain(区块链). In essence, blockchains are digital public ledgers of transactions that cannot be changed, thereby creating greater transparency and accountability and making corruption much harder.
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