浙江省2021届百校高三12月联考英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛.docVIP

第 PAGE 8 页 共 NUMPAGES 8 页 浙江省2021届百校高三12月联考英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛 姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________ 题型 选择题 填空题 简答题 xx题 xx题 xx题 总分 得分 评卷人 得分 第 1 题：Most kids can walk into a library or bookstore and find hundreds of books they’re able to read. But it’s not that simple for kids who are blind; Laurie is a book lover. She can’t imagine what life looks like without books for those kids, so she learned to be a braille transcriber (盲文转录员) who makes books that can be read by people with vision loss. Braille transcribers change the printed words of a story or textbook into a code of raised dots. People who are unable to see can read these dots with their fingers. Groups of these raised dots make up the braille alphabet. There are dots for numbers, symbols, and musical notes, too. When Laurie first saw the dots of the braille alphabet, she wondered if she’d ever be able to read and write them easily. She took a class for about six months. First she learned to form letters in braille. Then she began forming words and punctuation. “Practice，practice, and more practice were the keys to learning,” Laurie says. Today，Laurie works for a publisher called National Braille Press (NBP). One of her jobs is to transcribe children’s print books into braille. To do this, she first types the story into a computer, and then she uses a computer program to translate those words into the braille code. “The next challenge,” she says, “is to go through to see if the computer translator made a mistake.” She looks over the translation three to five times to make sure it’s mistake-free. After that, a copy of the braille story is printed with a special printer that produces raised dots. When a book is ready, many copies of it are printed and become available to the public, Some are sold through the NBP Web site. Others are sent to the National Library Service for the blind. “I love this mission,” Laurie says. “Through my brain power and my fingers, I am putting the d