杭 州 外 国 语 学 校 2020-2021 高 一 年 级 英 语 阶 段 性 测 试 -- 试 题 卷 第 一 部 分 听 力 （ 略 ） 第二部分 阅读理解 30%（共两节，15 小题，满分 30 分第一节（共 10 个小题，每小题 2 分，满 分 20 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卷上相应位置 写上相应的字母。 A After immersing himself in his studies for several years, Albert Mhangami, 27, student from Zimbabwe at Tsinghua University in Beijing last month finally had a chance to interact with the people he had been researching. One of those who impressed him the most was bang. Chuanfeng, a farmer who has become an Internet celebrity. Last year, Zhang's store saw revenue of about 5 million yuan($772,000) and made a profit of 500,000 yuan. Mhangami was also highly impressed by the laughter he heard among farmers during his trip, which he said helped inspire him. In his notebook he wrote that such laughter was not only shared by one particular village, but “by the hundreds of millions of people that have been pulled out of poverty”. On the five-day trip, which was organized by Xinhua News Agency, Mhangami was joined by Michael Chick, a Malaysian media worker, and by South African teacher Shaun Nish and his daughter Rebecca. The foreigners traveled to the once-poor county, Jinzhai, to experience rural life and to witness the nation's poverty alleviation( 减轻) efforts. At the end of last year, some100 million poor rural residents living below the poverty line nationwide had shaken off poverty. All 832 poor counties, including Jinzhai county, had been lifted out of poverty. During their visit, the foreigners were surprised by the level of Internet development and the booming digital economy in the rural area. Shaun Nish said he had been amazed by the amount of local infrastructure(基础设 施 ), adding that he had not been expecting to see such a wide variety. He also thought that roads in the area would be: less wide. He and his daughter, who live in Hefei, capital of Anhui, were also delighted with the easy access to wireless Internet in the villages. Chick, who has traveled to many Southeast Asian countries for TV production work and is now turning his attention to China, said, “It is not just Wi-Fi-it's Internet connectivity. That's pretty much how this village we visited is able to market its products outside.” “When you talk about infrastructure, it is always roads, water and healthcare, but people always forget to mention the Internet. The Internet infrastructure forms the basis for a whole lot of things. It changes your perspective. It opens up your markets.” 21. What is the attitude of farmers, like Zhang, to the nation's poverty alleviation efforts? A. Opposed. B. Unconcerned. C. Supportive. D.Objective. 22. Which of the following benefits that poverty alleviation efforts brought to rural areas is NOT mentioned in the passage? A. Full-covered Wi-Fi. B. Booming digital economy. C. Road infrastructure. D. Wireless Internet connectivity. 23. What is the best title for this article? A. The process of poverty alleviation B. Some achievements in China's poverty alleviation efforts C. China's current economic strength after poverty alleviation D. Trips to areas that have been lifted out of poverty B Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique-a speech of the hand. They offer new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: Whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.., the world's only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher. Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language(ASL)was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English( 混 杂 英 语 ). But Stokoe believed the “hand talk” his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people. actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955, when even deaf people considered their signing as “substandard”. Stokoe's idea was academic heresy(异端邪说). It is 37 years