2022年江苏省泰州市姜堰区《小学英语》考试真题答案解析

By morning, Arthur knew what he had to do after sitting all night ___1___. He went out and glanced again at his motorcycle. There was no hiding the ___2___ front lamp and the dent（凹痕）on the side. Arthur let out a sigh and went to run errands（跑腿）for his mother first.

It was late morning before Arthur was free to carry out his ___3___. He went toward Jay Pritchett’s house. When the door opened, Arthur ___4___ his throat and said, “I’m so sorry. I carelessly knocked into your parked car.” Jay looked at the 17-year old youth, ___5___. Arthur continued. “Sorry for not telling you ___6___. I was too frightened.”

Jay was silent for a minute before saying in a ___7___ voice, “You think it is the right thing to ___8___ for your brother?” Arthur went pale, wide-eyed. Jay explained that his brother had admitted how he had ridden Arthur’s motorcycle and lost____9____, resulting in the accident. Arthur asked ____10____, “Will he be arrested?” “No, just a small dent.” Seeing Arthur’s ____11____ expression, he went on, “I hope, ____12____, your brother will learn from this. As for you, remember that it is ____13____ to hide the truth.”

Arthur thanked him and set off home. He was ____14____ of his brother’s courage in admitting everything. He knew he could look forward to a good night’s ____15____.

A

All her life, Carole-Ann Warburton kept a little hope shining at the back of her mind. Her dream was to work in a bookshop.

Warburton has always loved books. As a child, any spare sixpence went on Enid Blyton’s Mary Mouse. Every Saturday morning, she and her parents would “do a gentle shop, then go to the library  in Ashby-de-la-Zouch.  However  many  books  we  got  out,  we  read.” At  university  in Cambridge, she began to buy books—a habit that, in adult life, resulted in a large collection.

In 2010, she retired after having worked for 40 years in an administrative post. She sold her house, bought a shop and, a few weeks after her 65th birthday, The Book Rest opened. Warburton had  8,000  to  9,000  books  with  which  to  fill  it.  But  although  she  dreamed  of working  in  a bookshop,  she  hadn’t  thought  of selling  her  own  books.  “That  took  a  bit  of psychological talking-to,” she says.

Her first sale was hard. “It feels, when a special book goes out, as if some little part of me has been taken away. And then I make common sense come back to me and say: ‘Let someone else learn from it. ‘ It’s a growing up, if you like, an acceptance.”

This year, The Book Rest celebrates its 12th  anniversary. While the shop makes neither profit nor loss, it brings other rewards, including friendship. “There are lots of people who stick their head round the door and say: ‘Are you all right, Carole-Ann?’”

If the days are quiet, no matter. “I am so happy standing here in the middle of a pile of books. I can walk around the shop, pick up a book and sit down and read it. I would like to keep doing this until I no longer can. It’s a wonderful feeling. ”

So while Warburton’s dream came true, what about those of others? “All the dreams are in the books,” she says. “They are all there waiting to be picked up.”

B

Creativity is the ability to generate novel,useful ideas and innovation is the successful application of those ideas.With this in mind,it is easy to think that technology has made us more creative:the digital revolution has clearly produced a large number of innovative products and services.

However,it would be naive(幼稚的）to imply that these activities are truly indicative of creativity,even if quantity does eventually lead to quality.For instance,the probability of taking a great photograph does increase when there are millions of Instagram pictures taken every day,and when 500 million tweets are generated daily,it is highly probable that one or two will be funny.

Yet,much of the content people generate is unimportant and unoriginal.Before the Internet it would have stayed in the minds of their authors,but our thoughts can now be broadcasted to the. world as if they were worthy creations.The only thing that appears to have increased,rather greatly,is people’s self-perceived(自认为的）creativity.From the use of emoji(表情符号）instead of words,to the use of pre-determined functions to express our views-liking,sharing and disliking,these new forms human interaction promote efficient-but lazy-behaviors so that we can devote more time to consuming more content.

Although user-generated content has been growing rapidly in the past decade,much of it is noise and the result is that valuable and trustworthy information is now harder to find.In an age of information glut(过剩）,everything is freely available but knowledge is hard to gain.This paradox highlights the importance of the”less is more”philosophy of life.

Curiosity evolved to make sense of the world and help us master our environments.Our ancestors must have benefited from taking on as much information from their surroundings as they could paying attention to everything and turning into the learning machine.Yet in an age of information glut,the curious mind is forced to ignore as much of the available data as it can,in order to consume only what is valuable.

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Wearing blue jeans, Gary stood in front of an expensive____24____ (tailor) shop. After hesitating for several moments, he finally went in and asked to see the suit in the window. The shop assistant looked____25___ on Gary because of the way he____26____ (dress). Glancing at him____27____ (impatient), he whispered to the owner nearby. With the owner’s ____28____ (permit), he said that the suit had already been sold. Gary was angry that he was judged by ____29____ he was wearing. The next day he returned to the same shop, dressed more properly this time. After seeking out ____30____ assistant, he asked to see an expensive-looking suit on an upper shelf. Not realizing who Gary was, the assistant was eager to carry out his duty properly this time. With great patience and difficulty, he climbed up to bring the suit down, ____31____ (apologize) for keeping Gary waiting. The moment Gary looked at it more closely, ____32____ he said he did not like it. He enjoyed _____33_____ (he), making the assistant bring almost everything in the shop to him before he finally settled on buying a tie. Would you do the same if you were Gary?