课时作业12 Unit 12 Culture Shock .课时练(一) 阅读理解·组块专练———练速度 (限时：35分钟) 阅读理解(共两节，满分40分) 第一节 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分) 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A [2020·河南省五校联考]There are dozens of movie recommendation engines on the Web. They're all different, but some are definitely better than others. Rotten Tomatoes Instead of telling Rotten Tomatoes which films you like, you can tell it what kind of films you enjoy, which actors you want to see, and other standards to help it find the best movie for you. There's a lot of variability in the quality of Rotten Tomatoes recommendations but it's also a nice way to find the right film for any mood. Netflix Netflix asks you to rate (划分等级) movies to determine which films you'll want to see next. And although it does make it easy to rate movies and it does return huge lists, the ideas it gives you aren't all that strong. It's easy to use, but it's not the best way to get movie recommendations. Jinni Whether you want to search for films based on your mood, time available, or reviews, the site has it all. But Jinni's most amazing feature is its semantic (语义的) search. You can enter a term like “films that show Chris Farley yelling” and the site will return films that match your question. Go to use Jinni. You won't regret it! Criticker Instead of just allowing you to rank films, Criticker compares your ratings to those of other users and see how closely your tastes match those of other users. Once the service finds matches, you can view these users' lists and see which movies they like. 1．Which one does the author recommend most? A．Rotten Tomatoes. B．Netflix. C．Jinni. D．Criticker. 2．What makes Criticker special? A．Comparing users' ratings. B．Ranking your favourite films. C．Offering different standards. D．Finding films based on mood. 3．What is the purpose of the text? A．To recommend the best online movies. B．To show how to use movie search engines. C．To introduce several movie search engines. D．To explain how to find the best online movies. B [2020·江西临川一中等八校联考]When Huang Lizhi took her first class in African sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa in February, her professor asked her and her classmates what impresses them most when it comes to Africa. Unexpectedly, Huang, 31, found that words like“poverty” and “safari” — negative words that were often associated with the continent in media reports — were the kind of terms her African classmates didn't want to hear. Instead, they preferred to hear the question answered in this way: “Africa is the cradle of humankind” and “Africans are passionate and generous”． Apparently, there are some misunderstandings between us. It's true that with incidents like the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and the emergence (出现) of pirates off the coast of Somalia hitting the news, it's easy for us to keep forgetting that Africa has on ... ...
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