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1 江苏省扬州中学 2019 届高三考前调研测试试题 英 语 本试卷分五部分。满分 120 分。考试时间 120 分钟。 第 I 卷（选择题,三部分,共75分） 第一部分 听力（共两节，满分 20 分） 做题时，现将答案标在试卷上，录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的 答案转涂到答题卡上。 第一节（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 5 分） 听下面 5 段对话，每段对话后有一个小题。从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选 出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有 10 秒钟的时间来回答 有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。 例： How much is the shirt? A. £ 19.15 B. £ 9.18 C. £ 9.15 答案是 C。 1. What are the speakers talking about? A. Having a birthday party. B. Doing some exercise. C. Getting Lydia a gift. 2. What is the woman going to do? A. Help the man. B. Take a bus. C. Get a camera. 3. What does the woman suggest the man do? A. Tell Kate’s to stop. B. Call Kate’s friends. C. Stay away from Kate. 4. Where does the conversation probably take place? A. In a wine shop. B. In a supermarket. C. In a restaurant. 5. What does the woman mean? A. Keep the window closed. B. Go out for fresh air, C. Turn on the fan. 第二节 （共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分） 听下面 5 段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三 个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅 读各个小题，每小题 5 秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出 5 秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独 白读两遍。 听第 6 段材料，回答第 6、7 题。 6. What is the man going to do this summer? A. Teach a course. B. Repair his house. C. Work at a hotel.2 7. How will the man use the money? A. To hire a gardener. B. To buy books. C. To pay for a boat trip. 听第 7 段材料，回答第 8、9 题。 8. What is the probable relationship between the speakers? A. Schoolmates. B. Colleagues. C. Roommates. 9. What does Frank plan to do right after graduation? A. Work as a programmer. B. Travel around the world. C. Start his own business. 听第 8 段材料，回答第 10 至 12 题。 10. Why does the woman make the call? A. To book a hotel room. B. To ask about the room service. C. To make changes to a reservation. 11. When will the woman arrive at the hotel? A. On September 15. B. On September 16. C. On September 23. 12. How much will the woman pay for her room per night? A. $179 B. $199 C. $219 听第 9 段材料，回答第 13 至 16 题。 13. What is the woman’s plan for Saturday? A. Going shopping. B. Going camping. C. Going boating. 14. Where will the woman stay in Keswick? A. In a country inn. B. In a five-star hotel. C. In her aunt’s home. 15. What will Gordon do over the weekend? A. Visit his friends. B. Watch DVDs. C. Join the woman. 16. What does the woman think of Gordon’s coming weekend? A. Relaxed. B. Boring. C. Busy. 听第 10 段材料，回答第 17 至 20 题。 17. Who is Wang Ming? A. A student. B. An employer. C. An engineer. 18. What does the speaker say about the college job market this year? A. It’s unpredictable. B. It’s quite stable. C. It’s not optimistic. 19. What percentage of student job seekers have found a job by now? A. 20% B. 22% C. 50% 20. Why are engineering graduates more likely to accept a job? A. They need more work experience. B. The salary is usually good. C. Their choice is limited.3 第二部分 英语知识运用(共两节，满分 35 分) 第一节 单项填空 (共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分) 请认真阅读下面各题，从题中所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并 在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 21. You can apply for a foreign university on the Internet by yourself, or _______ you can turn to a special agency which can do it for you. A. approximately B. alternatively C. actively D. apparently 22. Quite a few people do extreme sports regularly nowadays, one of _______ aims is to become more capable of staying calm and centered in stressful situations. A. which B. whose C. what D. their 23. An agreement can be easily reached when the ideas in the minds of both sides of the negotiation _______. A. contact B. contradict C. commit D. correspond 24. I _______ table tennis so well; however, even so I lost the match with friends yesterday. A. play B. have played C. played D. would play 25. I have had enough of my partner Marry. It’s _______ of her to complain any time about anything. A. normal B. reliable C. typical D. frequent 26. Fortunately, I met Mrs. King, who is _______ to me as my mother, when I fell ill on the trip to the USA. A. as considerate a lady B. as a considerate lady C. considerate as a lady D. so considerate a lady 27. --- Shall I take the dress? --- Sure. It really _______ the colour of your eyes. A. takes out B. brings out C. turns out D. puts out 28. It is a phenomenon known as “the first night effect” _______ people often experience trouble sleeping in a different bed in unfamiliar surroundings. A. where B. which C. why D. that 29. The corporation urgently recalled their products from the market _______ growing complaints about the engines. A. in the light of B. in terms of C. in the event of D. in advance of 30. --- How do you find about these pictures? --- Never before _______ such high-quality pictures directly from the children’s point of view. A. had I seen B. have I seen C. I had seen D. I have seen 31. A database of Europe-wide population of 340 bird species _______, researches drew a conclusion that some 36% of European migratory bird species were in decline. A. being analyzed B. had been analyzed4 C. analyzed D. to be analyzed 32. --- Dad, Peter is able to fly like a batman! --- _______, Tom. You know that’s not true. A. Go ahead B. Get out C. Count my blessings D. Come off it 33. If we don’t take any measures at once, all the crops _______ by tomorrow morning. A. will have been flooded B. have been flooded C. are to flood D. will have flooded 34. --- What a pity! I missed the basketball match between Huston Rockets and San Francisco Warriors last night. --- I _______, too, if my father hadn’t reminded me. A. did B. would C. had had D. would have 35. --- Which do you like better, rock music or blues? --- It’s _______. Rock, of course. A. child’s play B. a tough nut C. a no-brainer D. white as a sheet 第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，共 20 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选 项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Some of the world’s most famous musicians recently gathered in Paris and New Orleans to celebrate the first annual International Jazz Day. UNESCO(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) recently 36 April 30 as a day to raise awareness of jazz music, its significance, and its potential as a unifying (联合) voice 37 cultures. Despite the celebrations, 38 , in the U.S. the jazz audience continues to 39 and grow older, and the music has failed to connect with 40 generations. It’s Jason Moran’s job to help change that. As the Kennedy Center’s artistic 41 for jazz, Moran hopes to 42 the audience for jazz, make the music more 43 , and preserve its history and culture. “Jazz seems like it’s not really a part of the American 44 ,” Moran tells National Public Radio. “What I’m hoping to accomplish is that my generation and younger start to 45 and understand that jazz is not black and white anymore. It’s actually 46 , and it’s actually digital.” Moran says one of the 47 with jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost. “The music can’t be 48 today the way it was in 1908 or 1958. It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is 49 ,” says Moran. Last year, Moran worked on a project that 50 Fats Waller’s music for a dance party, “just to kind of put it back in the mind that Waller is dance music 51 it is concert music,” says Moran. “For me, it’s the recontextualization (情景重构). In music, where does the 525 lie? Are we, as humans, gaining any 53 into how we talk about ourselves and 54 something as abstract as a Charlie Parker record gets us into a dialogue about our emotions and our thoughts? Sometimes we lose sight that the music has a wider context,” says Moran, “so I want to continue those 55 .” 36. A. saluted B. set C. marked D. laid 37. A. through B. around C. across D. outside 38. A. regardless B. thus C. though D. rather 39. A. expand B. boycott C. extend D. shrink 40. A. younger B. smaller C. elder D. larger 41. A. inventor B. adviser C. visitor D. officer 42. A. widen B. strengthen C. enforce D. enrich 43. A. available B. admirable C. avoidable D. accessible 44. A. category B. appeal C. appetite D. recipe 45. A. reconstruct B. reshape C. restore D. reconsider 46. A. colorful B. meaningful C. creative D. sensitive 47. A. connections B. problems C. satisfactions D. conflicts 48. A. described B. revealed C. presented D. exposed 49. A. transferring B. changing C. recovering D. processing 50. A. managed B. arranged C. conveyed D. conducted 51. A. as much as B. as long as C. as far as D. as soon as 52. A. reality B. emotion C. melody D. future 53. A. comprehension B. access C. appreciation D. insight 54. A. why B. which C. how D. what 55. A. trends B. dialogues C. messages D. contexts 第三部分 阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分） 请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选 项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A The 9th China International Garden Expo May 18 --- November 18 Beijing News Green-Fingered Beijing Garden Expo Opens to Public International Garden Expo Opens in Beijing 13,000 Volunteers Prepare for Beijing Garden Expo Beijing Garden Expo Encourages Family Gardening Cover stories Land Rehab6 Beijing Garden Expo presents a combination of traditional beauty and enlightened urban development African Pavilions Open for Business Beijing Garden Expo’s International Exhibition Area still developing Impetus for Development For your information Opening time: 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m. Location: Beijing Garden Expo Park, Fengtai District Ticket price: 100 yuan ($16) on normal days; 150 yuan ($24) on 16 designated days Transportation: - Subway: Garden Expo Park Station on Line 14 - Shuttle bus: Start from Beijing West Railway Station and Beijing South Railway Station - Bus: Line 310, 843, 327, 385 Beijing Garden Expo in photos Garden Valley Formerly a 30-meter-deep large sand pit covering 20 hectares of land area, in the Garden Expo Park on the western bank of the Yongding River in Beijing’s Fengtai District (CHINANEWS.COM) Ginkgo Avenue in the Garden Expo Park (CHINANEWS.COM) European-Style Garden (SHI GANG) Beijing Park (XINHUA) Hong Kong Garden (CHINANEWS.COM) Taiwan Garden (CRI) Harbin Park It features the white Russian-style church, one of the core landscapes in the park (CHINA DAILY) Hefei Park Four stone lions around the memorial arch represent majesty and decency. The vivid stone lotus carved on the arch stands for incorruptibility, which corresponds with the design concept of the park (CHINA DAILY) Related reports 2011 International Horticultural Exposition 2010 Shanghai World Expo Beijing in Pictures 56. Which of the statements is TRUE? A. Visitors can take subway Line 14 starting from Beijing West Railway Station. B. The two photos of Ginkgo Avenue and Harbin Park come from the same source. C. Visitors can appreciate the beauty of the stone lotus in Hefei Park at the Expo. D. A family of three will pay 300 yuan to visit the Garden Expo on any day. 57. The purpose of this passage is to _______.7 A. offer information about the Garden Expo B. introduce volunteers to the Garden Expo C. promote the gardening industry in China D. attract more visitors to the Garden Expo B We’re all used to the latest generations of mobile telecoms—so is 5G “just another upgrade?” Far from it—5G is a huge leap forward—like the shift from the horse and cart to cars. And it isn’t just a network: 5G will become the foundation of the entire global digital economy, capable of generating trillions of pounds of value. Everyone and every industry will feel its effects. Compared to today, 5G will be 10 to 20 times faster and support billions of digital devices with much greater reliability and security. 5G provides the platform for the Internet of Things—everything from self-driving cars, to enhanced medical and social care, to all manner of new industrial and business applications. Well established online services like media and entertainment will see significant improvements such as ultra-high definition video and very low latency (延时) online gaming. 5G couples a full fibre fixed network approach with high capacity, high reliability and low latency mobile plus advanced software approaches such as edge computing and network virtualisation. New techniques such as network slicing allow different types of services to run at the same time, vastly increasing the scope of applications and services that can be supported. In effect, one 5G network can act as thousands, or even billions, of virtual networks, each specialised for a particular task or dedicated to a single customer, but all running on one physical infrastructure. While consumers may be the most obvious beneficiaries of faster, more intelligent and useful services, 5G will also bring enormous benefits and opportunities to businesses by allowing enhancements and differentiators to existing products and services or by providing a platform for entirely new digital services. 5G is an industrial game-changer and one that you can’t ignore. With trials enabling technology already underway around the world, 5G will become an increasing reality within the next couple of years. 5G is of such critical importance to the UK economy that the Government is strongly backing efforts to help the UK become a market leader in exploiting the technology. It has recently published a strategy to create an exciting UK 5G world and arrange the actions needed to speed its introduction. It is actively coordinating efforts to accelerate making 5G a reality and is funding trials of the technology, ground-breaking applications and innovative business partnerships across a wide range of urban and rural applications. 58. What can we learn about 5G from this article? A. 5G will be a regular upgrade of the latest generations of mobile telecoms. B. 5G will be more reliable and secure than the earlier generations of mobile telecoms. C. 5G will allow every single customer to have one physical infrastructure to run.8 D. 5G will be on trial around the world within the next couple of years. 59. What does the underlined word “beneficiaries” in paragraph 4 probably mean? A. People who make contributions. B. People who make gains. C. People who have creativity. D. People who suffer losses. 60. What attitude does the UK hold towards 5G? A. Hesitant. B. Cautious. C. Concerned. D. Ambitious. C When asked whether there is an ideal number of children to have, many parents give multiple, sometimes conflicting answers. In the United States, nearly half of adults consider two to be the ideal number of children, according to Gallup surveys, with three as the next most popular option, preferred by 26 percent. The two-child ideal is a major departure from half a century ago: In 1957, only 20 percent of Americans said the ideal family meant two or fewer children, while 71 percent said it meant three or more. The economy seems to have played some role in this shift. Steven Mintz, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin, says, “that number dropped as the cost of raising children rose and as more women entered the workforce and felt a growing sense of frustration (沮丧) about being reduced to childbearing machines.” _______ “As a parent who prizes his own mental and physical health,” says Robert Crosnoe, a sociology professor who is also at the University of Texas at Austin, “I had to stop at two, because this new style of intensive parenting that people feel they have to follow these days really wears one out.” At the same time, having only one kid means parents miss out on the opportunity to have at least one boy and one girl, an arrangement they have tended to prefer for half a century. Though in the long run, one researcher found that having all girls or all boys doesn’t meaningfully affect the happiness of mothers who wanted at least one of each. Perhaps the most meaningful difference isn’t a matter of going from one to two children, or two to three, but from zero to one. “Having just one child makes various aspects of adults’ lives—how time, money, emotion, and mind are used and how new social networks are formed—child-centered,” says Kei Nomaguchi, a sociologist at Bowling Green State University. “If you want to enjoy adult-centered life, love expensive leisure activities, cherish close relationships with your partner, and both you and your partner want to devote your time to your careers, zero kids would be the choice.” Mothers, of course, stand to lose more than fathers when they have kids in their household. Having children is more stressful for women than it is for men, and mothers suffer professionally after having children in a way that fathers don’t. Whether the ideal number of children is greater than zero is a question many researchers have tried to address. A 2014 review of existing research, whose authors were skeptical of “overgeneralizations that most parents are miserable or that most parents are joyful,”9 discovered other broad patterns: Being a parent tends to be a less positive experience for mothers and people who are young, single, or have young children. And it tends to be more positive for fathers and people who are married or who became parents later in life. 61. Which of the following can be best filled in the blank in paragraph 3? A. The costs of raising children are not just financial. B. Families with two children have been popular since then. C. Besides, the ways of raising children have changed. D. Many parents also find raising children quite annoying. 62. According to Kei Nomaguchi, a female candidate for department manager may decide to _______. A. to have no child B. have one boy and one girl C. devote more time to children D. sacrifice her career for children 63. It can be inferred from the passage that _______. A. more women feel disappointed with their children B. couples with one boy and one girl feel the happiest C. fathers don’t have any problems with their careers D. the happiness of having children varies individually 64. The passage mainly talks about _______. A. the ideal number of children families prefer to have B. the reasons behind the change in people’s idea of raising kids C. what number of children makes parents happiest D. different opinions researchers have of whether to have kids D Recently I rolled into a local restaurant to try an Impossible Burger, an all-plant meat-like pie invented by the Silicon Valley company Impossible Foods. It’s famous for having a weirdly chewy, even bloody, meat-like quality, a surprising verisimilitude ( 逼 真 ) that has made it “perhaps the country’s most famous burger,” as New York magazine recently wrote. One bite into its gorgeous, smoky flavor, and I was convinced. This is good news, because the time has come to mass-produce fake(假的) meat, fast. Why? Because in the fight to ease climate change, meat replacement is one of the lowest-hanging fruits. Meat production chews up land and lets out methane(沼气) by the kiloton, accounting for about two-thirds of all greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. A University of Oxford study recently found that, to keep global warming below 2 degrees this century, we need to be eating 75 percent less beef and 90 percent less pork globally. “Without concentrated change, we really risk going beyond key environmental limits,” Marco Springmann, one of the Oxford researchers, warns me. Diets are culturally enshrined (神圣的), so changing them will be hard. Fake meat can10 help camouflage (掩饰) that dramatic transformation with slight adjustment. Still, even the most exceptional substitutes for meat face a huge challenge if they’re going to replace 75 to 90 percent of beef and pork. The first taste of an Impossible Burger—a moment when low expectations work a powerful magic in the product’s favor—is one thing. But how do you keep meat-eaters asking for more after their sixth, and their 26th? Fortunately, the science here is playing an important role. Impossible Foods owes much of its appeal to a bioengineering process that turns out big, blood-red tanks of “heme,” a crucial molecule (分子) that gives veggie (素食主义者) meat “that slightly metallic bloody flavor,” as David Lipman, chief science officer of Impossible Foods, tells me. Meanwhile, “cultured meat,” created by growing actual animal cells in a basin, is becoming a reality. In New York, the scientists at Ocean Hugger Foods have engineered a process to transform tomatoes into mock tuna. And over in the Netherlands, a company called The Vegetarian Butcher is developing a Nespresso-style device: You pour in a bag of vegetable protein (蛋白质) and out pops fake meat. The company aims to release it in two years. To get to true mass adoption, fake meat will need to compete favorably with the real thing on multiple fronts. Impossible Foods’ goal is to drive the price of its product below that of Safeway’s 80/20 hamburger meat, at which point people will simply vote with their wallets. The new industry also wants to improve on animal flesh in various ways. Fake meat will outcompete traditional meat because “you won’t need to refrigerate it if you’re making it as you go,” co-founder Niko Koffeman says. That’d give unmeat an enormous advantage for energy-poor developing regions. Plus, fake meat could provide more choices. “You could have very soft and tender meat for elderly people,” Koffeman adds. “You could have a custom meat for whatever you need.” We could speed this dietary shift with smart public policy too. Beginning in 2006, New York City cut the number of adults consuming one or more sugary drinks per day by 35 percent by running appealing public service campaigns and requiring the labeling of their high calorie counts (含量) in fast-food restaurants. Imagine similar measures promoting fake meat: “Save the planet, bite by bite.” Save your health too. Speaking of your conscience, industrial-scale animal farming is ethically (道德上) unpleasant . You can tell the world is shifting this way, because the ranchers (牧场主) are nervous. Last year, the US Cattlemen’s Association asked the government to define “meat” as a product “obtained directly from animals.” That anxiety, which is no doubt caused by science, goes to show that this grand shift isn’t impossible. 65. The author was convinced by the Impossible Burger because _______. A. it looks like a traditional meat burger B. it contains no meat but tastes like meat C. its flavor is different from that of normal ones D. more vegetables are used in the burger 66. What does the author mean by saying “lowest hanging fruits” in paragraph 2?11 A. A task that is difficult to fulfill. B. An approach that is economical. C. A product that is environment-friendly. D. A goal that is easy to achieve. 67. The author is most likely to agree that _______. A. fake meat is worthy of investment for its great potential B. fake meat is unlikely to change people’s dietary habits C. a decline in meat consumption can relieve global warming D. fake meat will replace real meat because of its lower price 68. Fake meat has an advantage over traditional meat in that _______. A. fake meat will not be necessarily stored in a refrigerator B. the price of fake meat will be one-fourth of the traditional meat’s C. fake meat will win over the older people thanks to its quality D. fake meat has a bloody flavor that is not found in traditional meat 69. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. The US government doesn’t give enough support to ranchers. B. The world will probably accept the idea of fake meat. C. People don’t like to eat meat produced by the ranchers now. D. The definition of meat has been revised because of fake meat. 70. Which is probably the suitable title for the passage? A. Let’s speed up the dietary shift B. Let’s welcome the fake meat C. Fake meat or traditional meat, must we choose? D. Traditional meat, an environment killer12 第Ⅱ卷 (两部分 共 35 分) 第四部分 任务型阅读 (共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分) 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的 单词。 注意：每个空格只填 1 个单词。请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。 How to Strengthen Willpower Many people believe with more willpower they would all eat right, exercise regularly, avoid drugs and alcohol, stop procrastinating ( 拖 延 ) and achieve all sorts of noble goals. Willpower is not a new concept, but we still do not have widespread awareness of it. As it turns out, your willpower is like a muscle. And similar to how your muscles get tired at the end of a workout, the strength of your willpower fades as you make more decisions. This makes sense. In a research study published by the National Academy of Sciences, psychologists examined the factors that impact whether or not a judge approves a criminal for parole (假释). At the beginning of the day, a judge will give each case a fair shot. But as their energy starts to fade? Deny, deny, deny. A large body of research has been developed in recent years to explain many aspects of willpower. Most of the researchers exploring self-control do so with an obvious goal in mind: How can willpower be strengthened? Avoiding temptation is one effective strategy for maintaining self-control. In Walter Mischel’s marshmallow (软糖) study, the children who stared directly at the treat were less likely to resist it than were kids who closed their eyes, turned away or otherwise distracted themselves. This principle applies to adults, too. One recent study, for instance, found office workers who kept candy in a desk drawer ate less than when they kept the candy in plain sight. Another helpful technique for improving self-control is an “implementation ( 履 行 ) intention.” For example, someone who is watching their alcohol intake might say before a party, “If anyone offers me a drink, then I’ll ask for club soda.” Research among adolescents and adults has found that implementation intentions improve self-control, even among people whose willpower has been reduced by laboratory tasks. Just like a muscle that gets tired with heavy use, there is another aspect to the muscle comparison. While muscles become exhausted by exercise in the short term, they are strengthened by regular exercise in the long term. Similarly, regularly exercising self-control may improve willpower strength. The evidence from willpower-depletion studies also suggests that making a list of resolutions (心愿) on New Year’s Eve is the worst possible approach. Being used in one area can reduce willpower in other areas, so don’t try to quit smoking, adopt a healthy diet and start a new exercise plan at the same time. Taking goals one by one is a better approach. Once a good habit is in place, you’ll no longer need to draw on your willpower to maintain the behavior. Eventually healthy habits will become routine and won’t require making decisions at all.13 So next time in the face of temptation, you don’t have to worry about the drain on your willpower. With proper approaches, you can train your willpower to stay strong. How to Strengthen Willpower Passage outline Supporting details A (71) ▲ resource ★Just like muscle, willpower decreases as you use it more. In the parole instance, the judge made more (72) ▲ judgments as time passed. Ways to strengthen willpower ★ Willpower can be maintained by (73) ▲ away from temptations. Research found that office workers ate less candy when it was out of (74) ▲ . ★Having a (75) ▲ ahead of time will not exhaust your willpower when making decisions. For example, one may decide before a party that if offered a drink, ask for soda (76) ▲ . ★Willpower can be strengthened through regular (77) ▲ . ★Don’t try to accomplish too many goals at a (78) ▲ . As evidence shows, New Year resolutions don’t work because your willpower is (79) ▲ up. Good (80) ▲ about willpower People can strengthen their willpower with the right approaches.14 第五部分 书面表达 (满分 25 分) 81. 请阅读下面文字及图片，并按照要求用英语写一篇 150 词左右的文章。 So Close, Yet So Far Where am I? What am I doing? If you’re one of my 500 friends online, you’ll always be the first to know. My phone and laptop are never out of touching distance, so I’m constantly posting updates on social media—whether I’m having a coffee, on my way to school, watching TV… even when I’m in the shower. I have a never-ending flow of messages and updates from all the people I associate with online. I live in a university dorm with a couple of great roommates. Yet the truth of the matter is: I feel lonely. A few days ago, I went out for a dinner get-together with some friends. My best friend left the table for 30 minutes because he had to take a call. Some spent the dinner bent over their phones, texting friends online but ignoring the one who sat right in front of them. And the extraordinary thing is no one thought this was rude; it’s just how life is nowadays. 【写作内容】 1. 用约 30 个单词概述上述文字所描述的现象； 2. 分析造成该现象的原因（两至三点）； 3. 请你给 Mark 提两到三条建议。 【写作要求】 1. 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句； 2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称； 3. 不必写标题。 【评分标准】 内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词数适当。