serves to stop mobile email service for some works from 30mnutes after quitting time until 30 minutes before starting time. These measures may sound dramatic and possibly impractical, but there is a data to suggest they are needed. A recent research suggested that limiting the number of times a day that we check email or work-chat services—from say 10 or 20 to three or four –can not only reduce stress levels but also increase the overall productivity.. But in order for any solution to succeed, works have to be willing to regulate their own habits. And that is especially tough in a country in the U.S, where being superbusy, or at least appearing to be superbusy, is a point of pride. Even if more U.S employers were to implement the kinds of limits that Volkswagen do, experts are skeptical that they’d work. ‘If the social norm is to be on the time, you don’t want to be the odd one out,’ says Angela Leaney, a New Jersey based marketing consultant, adding that some bosses will think less of employees for not answering emails after work hours, even if they say they won’t. Moreover, dictating when and how employees should use their connected devices will inevitably hamper many workers. There are plenty of people who do their best work at 3 a.m. In fact, a majority of working adults say that being able to check work email at home makes it easier to get more done; many also said it improved their relationships with their colleagues. For now, it seems, the best way for employers to foster a fulfilled, productive workforce is to be flexible , both inside and outside the office. One example, although Andy Monfried, the CEO and founder of Lotame, a New York-based data management company, say those kinds of time limits wouldn’t work for his business—it’s too global –he does give his employees flexibility on when and where they can work. He’s also vigilant about burnout. ‘I vowed that I would not crest company where people had the Sunday-night blues—the kind where you go to bed sick to your stomach,’ he says. ‘I tell people if that’s happening repeatedly, it’s a sign of work-life imbalance and they should come talk to me.’ 63. From stopping employees getting exhausted, employers have tried to _________ A. promise to make their staff happier and more productive B. allow pet dogs in the office C. encourage meditation in the work place D. suggest ways to disconnect their mobile devices 64. Which of the following statements is true according to the article? A. employers will find ways to regulate workers’ working habit. B.U.S experts cast doubt on the feasibility of limiting connected time. C.U.S employers won’t think of contacting employees after work. D. Volkswagen’s policies will also apply to U.S. companies. 65. The underlined word ‘hamper’ is closet in meaning to ‘_________’ A. facilitate B. handicap C. relieve D. toughen 66. Which of the following can be inferred from the article? A. There seems to be no right way to unplug from work B. Flexibility on when and where to work is the best way to avoid burnout C. Employees applaud the way to cue down their connected time. D. Impractical as the measures sound, they will work well for employers. Keys: A:【答案】1.A 2.C 3.B 4.D B:【答案】1.D 2.C 3.A C:【答案】1.D 2.B 3.B 4.A 【六选四】*2 (1) A. Even being good at getting others to fight most efficiently is not being civilized. B. Most people believe those who have conquered the most nations are the greatest. C. However, every year conflicts between countries and nations still claim thousands of lives. D. And not only has it won, but also because it has won, it has been in the right. E. So there has been little time to learn in, but there will be oceans of time in which to learn better. F. People don’t fight and kill each other in the streets, but nations still behave like savages. Most of the people who appear most often and most gloriously in the history books are great conquerors and generals, while the people who really helped civilization forward are often never mentioned. We do not know who first set a broken leg, or launched a seagoing boat, or calculated the length of the year but we know all about the killers and destroyers. People think so much of them that on all the highest pillars in the great cities of the world you will find the figure of a conqueror or a general. ____67_________ It is possible they are, but they are not the most civilized. Animals fight, so do savages; so to be good at fighting is to be good in the way an animal or a savage is good, but it is not to be civilized. ____68_______. People fight to settle quarrels. Fighting means killing, and civilized peoples ought to be able to find some ways of settling their disputes other than by seeing which side can kill off greater number of the other side, and then saying that the side which has killed most has won. ___69______. For that is what going to war means; it means power is right. This is what the story of mankind has been like. But we must not expect too much. After all, the race of men has only just started. From the point of view of evolution, human beings are very young indeed, babies of a few months old. Scientists assume that there has been life of some sort on the earth for about twelve hundred million years; but there have been men for only one million years, and there has been civilized men for about eight thousand years. ____70_____. Taking man’s civilized past at about seven or eight hours, we may estimate his future at about one hundred thousand years. Thus mankind is only at the beginning of its whole a pretty beastly business, a business of fighting and killing. We must not expect even civilized peoples not to have done these things. All we can ask is that they will sometimes have done something else. (2016高三八校联考) KEYS: 67-70 BADE A．The real-life evidence of taxing power is powerful. B. Smoking is believed to kill an estimated one million people through tobacco related diseases across the world each year. C. True, but so do the deadly effects of smoking, far worse than a tax. D. But some states - Kentucky, South Dakota and Alabama to name just a few - seem to have missed the message that smoking is deadly. E. The government has tried to curb smoking by imposing bans on smoking groups in taxis, schools and hospitals. F. But the surest way toprevent smoking, particularly among price-sensitive teens, is to raise taxes. The war on smoking, now five decades old and counting, is one of the nation's greatest public health success stories - but not for everyone. As a whole, the country has made amazing progress. In 1964, four in ten adults in the US smoked; today fewer than two in ten do. (1) Their failure is the greatest disappointment in an effort to save lives that was started on Jan.11,1964, by the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. Its finding that smoking is a cause of lung cancer and other diseases was major news then. The hazards of smoking were just starting to emerge. The report led to cigarette warning labels, a ban on TV ads and eventually an anti-smoking movement that shifted the nation's attitude on smoking. Then, smokers were cool. Today,many are outcasts, rejected by restaurants, bars, public buildings and even their own workplaces. Millions of lives have been saved. The formula for success is no longer guesswork: Adopt tough warning labels, air public service ads, fund smoking cessation programs and impose smoke-free laws.(2) If you can stop them from smoking, you've won the war. Few people start smoking after turning (3) The 10 states with the lowest adult smoking rates slap an average tax of $2.42 on every pack -- three times the average tax in the states with the highest smoking rates. New York has the highest cigarette tax in the country, at $4.35 per pack, and just 12 percent of teens smoke, far below the national average of 18 percent. Compare that with Kentucky,where taxes are low (60 cents), smoking restrictions are weak and the teen smoking rate is double New York's. Other low-tax states have similarly dismal records. Enemies of high tobacco taxes cling to the tired argument that they fall disproportionately on the poor. (4) The effect of the taxes is amplified further when the revenue is used to fund initiatives that help smokers quitor persuade teens not to start. Anti-smoking forces have plenty to celebrate this week, having helped avoid 8 million premature deaths in the past 50 years. But as long as 3,000 adolescents and teens take their first puff each day, the war is not won. (2017进才中学第一次月考) KEYS: 1.D 2. F 3.A 4. C 【翻译】*5 Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1. 没什么比读这本历史小说更能吸引我的了。(appeal) 2. 真正荣获2016校园歌手大赛冠军的是一位男生。(It) 3. 他半年前转到一所寄宿制学校，但发现自己难以适应那里的新环境。(transfer) 4. 各国领导人不仅就气候变化达成了共识，还强调了经济全球化、技术进步的重要性。(Not only) 5. 暑假期间，他参加了各种志愿者活动，为地震中的幸存者筹集善款，这使他受益匪浅。(which) Keys: 1. Nothing can appeal to memore than readingthe/ this historical fiction/ novel. Nothing can hold/have more appeal to methan readingthe/this historical fiction /novel. 2. It was a boy (student) who / thatwon the championship ofthe 2016 Campus/School Singer Competition. It is a boy (student) who / thathas been the champion ofthe 2016 Campus/School Singer Competition. 3. He transferred toa boarding school half a year ago, but he found it hard toadapt (himself) to the new environment there. 适应的其他翻译方式如：adjust (himself), become accustomed to, be used to等都可以给分 4. Not only did leaders from different countries agree on climate change but (also) they (also) emphasized/ placed emphasis on the importance ofeconomic globalization and technological advances. 5. During the summer holiday(s) /vacation, he took part/participated inall kinds of / various / a variety of volunteer activitiesto raise money for the survivors of the earthquake, which benefited him a lot.