2 . In the 1960s, African American mothers noticed something wrong in their children’s seemingly innocent class photos. Every year, youngsters tidied up in their Sunday best for their school picture, yet these treasured images didn’t ____ Black and White children equally. White children were rendered (使成为) as they look in everyday life, while African American children lost ____ of their faces and turned into ink blots (墨渍). The film could not simultaneously capture both dark and light skin. For decades, this flaw of the film remained out of ____, when Black boys and girls and white boys and girls were photographed separately. But with the integration of schools, Black mothers ____ that color film left their Black children in the shadows.

In 2015, two London-based photographers, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, wanted to find out why the film could not capture the ____ of children of all races in a school photograph. When these photographers tested the film, they found the film was optimized for ____ skin. It was this film’s hidden history that was the ____ faces in a class photo came out so differently.

All that changed, ____, when large corporations made a fuss about Kodak’s film, which they bought in bulk for advertising. A team of two unlikely businesses – furniture makers and chocolate manufacturers – ____ against Kodak’s films for discriminating against dark hues.

Kodak employees worked hard to fix the film, making new film formulations and testing them by taking photos. While the complaints from Black mothers could not change Kodak, those from these companies could. By the late 1970s, new - and more ____ - formulations of color film were in the works, and the new and improved Kodak Gold film was on the market by the following decade.

Technologies, such as photographic films, sometimes capture the beliefs and values of the times. This bias built into technology has ____ today. Today, some web cameras, following instructions from algorithms (算法), are unable to recognize a dark face, but do so ____ for a white one.

What the makers of film and cameras and other technologies have experienced is a tacit (心照不宣的) subscription to a belief of a standard. ____, they have gotten on the escalator of “this is how we do things” without asking why. Scholars would describe this type of bias as one that implicitly (完全地) and ____ accepts norms. But it isn’t the ____ fault; they are only doing what the lines of code written by humans tell them to do. These devices capture the biases that exist in our world and, in turn, speak to whom a culture values.

1.

A．treat

B．capture

C．reflect

D．divide

2.

A．characters

B．expressions

C．features

D．colors

3.

A．fashion

B．print

C．range

D．sight

4.

A．recommended

B．witnessed

C．maintained

D．urged

5.

A．likeness

B．frankness

C．carelessness

D．darkness

6.

A．dark

B．yellow

C．white

D．black

7.

A．coincidence

B．reason

C．consequence

D．result

8.

A．therefore

B．however

C．furthermore

D．meanwhile

9.

A．guarded

B．insured

C．went

D．protested

10.

A．inclusive

B．persuasive

C．decisive

D．offensive

11.

A．echoes

B．conclusions

C．objections

D．intentions

12.

A．quickly

B．equally

C．easily

D．similarly

13.

A．As a result

B．In other words

C．For example

D．On the contrary

14.

A．inconsistently

B．unexpectedly

C．inevitably

D．uncritically

15.

A．cameras’

B．technologies’

C．films’

D．humans’

3 . The most thoroughly studied intellectuals in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial American was “so much important attached to intellectual pursuits.” According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological（神学的）innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church --- important subjects that we may not neglect. But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture, adjusting to New would circumstances. The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity.

The early settlers of Massachusetts Bay included men of impressive education and influence in England. Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629, there were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston. These men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New English an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.

We should not forget, however, that most New Englanders were less will educated. While few craftsmen or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed. Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality. A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs. Sexual confusion, economic frustrations, and religious hope --- all came together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words: “come out from among them, touch no unclean thing, and I will be your God and you shall be my people.” One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in Puritan churches.

Meanwhile, any settlers had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New World for religion. “Our main end was to catch fish.”

1. The author notes that in the seventeenth-century New England______.

A．Puritan tradition dominated political life.

B．intellectual interests were encouraged.

C．Politics benefited much from intellectual endeavors.

D．intellectual pursuits enjoyed a liberal environment.

2. Which of the following meaning is closest to that of the underlined word in para.2?

A．a virtue	B．an intelligent mind
C．a taste for fine arts	D．a nice character

3. It is suggested in paragraph 2 that New Englanders __________.

A．experienced a comparatively peaceful early history.

B．brought with them the culture of the Old World

C．paid little attention to southern intellectual life

D．were obsessed with religious innovations

4. The early ministers and political leaders in Massachusetts Bay______.

A．were famous in the New World for their writings

B．gained increasing importance in religious affairs

C．abandoned high positions before coming to the New World

D．created a new intellectual atmosphere in New England

5. The story of John shows that less well-educated New Englanders were often_________.

A．influenced by superstitions

B．troubled with religious beliefs

C．puzzled by church sermons

D．frustrated with family earnings

4 . The Battle of Chancellorsville, one of the most famous battles of the Civil War, took place in Virginia in the spring of 1863. For months, the two armies had been staying on opposite banks of a narrow river. The Confederate(南方联盟) troops were led by perhaps     1     (honored) military tactician(战略家) in American history, General Robert E. Lee. The Union (北方联盟)soldiers were led by “Fighting” Joe Hooker.

In appearance, personality, and lifestyle, these men were nearly perfect opposites. Lee, an older man in poor health with a gray beard, had a solemn, measured character. Hooker was a blond, broad-shouldered young man     2     pride over his appearance was but one aspect of his self-centeredness. Whereas Lee was loyal and principled, Hooker was known for his rollicking enjoyment of both women and whiskey.

Despite the fact that the Confederacy     3     (win) the last four major battles and the Union soldiers were starving,     4     (exhaust), and demoralized, Hooker proclaimed, “My plans are perfect. And when I start to carry them out,     5     God have mercy on Bobby Lee, for I shall have none.” Why was Hooker so confident?

Hooker had used spies, analysts, and even hot air balloons to compile a vast amount of intelligence about Lee’s army. He had already been aware, for example,     6     Lee had only 61,000 men to Hooker’s own 134,000. Supported by his superior numbers, Hooker secretly moved 70,000 of his men fifteen miles up and across the river, and then ordered them to sneak back down to position themselves     7     Lee’s army. In effect, Hooker had cut off the Confederate soldiers in front and behind. They were trapped. Satisfied with his advantage, Hooker became convinced that Lee’s only option was to retreat to Richmond, thus     8     (assure) a Union victory.

Yet Lee, despite his disadvantages of both numbers and position, did not retreat. Instead, he moved his troops into position to attack. Union soldiers who tried to warn Hooker that Lee was on the offensive     9     (dismiss) as cowards. Having become convinced that Lee had no choice but     10     (retreat), Hooker began to ignore reality. When Lee’s army attacked the Union soldiers at 5:00 p.m., they were eating supper, completely unprepared for battle. They abandoned their rifles and fled as Lee’s troops came shrieking out of the brush, bayonets drawn. Against all odds, Lee won the Battle of Chancellorsville, and Hooker’s forces withdrew in defeat.