衡阳八中2017届高三英语模拟试卷

概要：Believed it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes.Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons, painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down.Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next y

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Believed it or not, optical illusion(错觉) can cut highway crashes. Japan is a case in point. It has reduced automobile crashes on some roads by nearly 75 percent using a simple optical illusion. But stripes, called chevrons, painted on the roads make drivers think that they are driving faster than they really are, and thus drivers slow down. Now the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety in Washington D.C. is planning to repeat Japan’s success. Starting next year, the foundation will paint chevrons and other patterns of stripes on selected roads around the country to test how well the patterns reduce highway crashes.

www.88haoxue.com Excessive (too great) speed plays a major role in as much as one fifth of all fatal traffic accidents, according to the foundation. To help reduce those accidents, the foundation will conduct its tests in areas where speed-related hazards(danger) are the greatest curves , exit slopes, traffic circles, and bridges. Some studies suggest that straight, horizontal bars painted across roads can initially cut the average speed of drivers in half. However, traffic often returns to full speed within months as drives become used to seeing the painted bars. Chevrons ,scientists say, not only give drivers the impression that they are driving faster than they really are but also make a lane appear to be narrower. The result is a longer lasting reduction in highway speed and the number of traffic accidents. 66. The passage mainly discusses___________. A. a new way of highway speed control     B. a new pattern for painting highways C. a new way of training drivers            D. a new type of optical illusion 67. On roads painted with chevrons, drivers tend to feel that__________. A. they should avoid speed-related hazards   B. they are driving in the wrong lane C. they should slow down their speed        D. they are coming near to the speed limit 68. The advantage of chevrons over straight, horizontal bars is that the former________. A. can keep drivers awake                  B. can cut road accidents in half C. will look more attractive                 D. will have a longer effect on drivers 69. The American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety plans to ________. A. try out the Japanese method in certain areas B. change the road signs across the country C. replace straight, horizontal bars with chevrons D. repeat the Japanese road patterns 70. What does the author say about straight, horizontal bars painted across roads? A. They are suitable only on broad roads. B. They are falling out of use in the United States. C. They are ignored in a long period of time. D. They cannot be used successfully to traffic circles PART FOUR WRITING (45 marks) SECTION A (10marks)        Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in the numbered blanks by using the information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. Many universities are providing more financial aid for their students. Harvard already offers a free education to students from families that earn up to sixty thousand dollars a year. This has helped increase the numbers of lower-income and minority students. Now the aim is to help all but the wealthiest American families pay for a Harvard education. What Harvard has done is change the way it offers financial aid. College students will not be expected to take out loans.(贷款). Increase in grant aid(助学金) will replace loans. Also, Harvard officials will no longer consider the value of a family’s home when deciding how much aid to give. Harvard says it expects to spend up to twenty-two million dollars more a year in financial aid. This will come from its own fund. School invest their money to earn more. Harvard’s fund is valued at thirty-five billion dollars. Harvard university’s expanding financial aid is putting pressure on other universities to do the same. Other universities with large funds are also changing their financial aid policies. Examples include Yale, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania. Yale’s fund is the second largest after Harvard, at twenty-two and a half billion dollars. This week, Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, announced that it will use more of that money for financial aid as well as scientific research, which will attract more students. Some colleges, however, say they simply do not have enough money to compete with the new policies that are being announced. Critics of the rising costs of a college education say universities are making these changes in an attempt to avoid action by Congress. Some lawmakers have criticized universities for raising their prices even as their funds grow larger and larger.

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