2017-2018上海嘉定一中高三英语第一次月考
第 Ⅰ 卷
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary（共20分，每题1分）
Section A
Directions：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, u one word that best fits each blank.
Shanghai opened its first community fridge, with the aim of cutting food waste and helping residents in need. It is located on Puxiong Road, Putuo District.
The fridge ___21___（hou）in a community reading room for the elderly and can be ud from 8:30 am to 11:30 am and 1:30 pm to 5 pm. The stock yesterday included boxes o
f milk, yogurt and pastries. The foods are supplied by two local supermarkets nearby, a restaurant and a food bank.
___22___（co-launch）by Puxiong Community and Shanghai Oasis Public Service Development Center, the project was inspired by“solidarity fridges”in Spain, ___23___ residents and restaurants can drop off leftovers to curb food waste.
However, ___24___（ensure）food safety and sourcing, the fridge in Puxiong Community so far only accepts food from certain institutions. Five volunteers take turns to be responsible for accepting food and cleaning the fridge.
“I think this is a brilliant idea, and would be even better if it can spring up around the city,” a 79-year-old resident Zhu Guoxin told Shanghai Daily.“However, I hope in the future individual residents can also be able to put their leftovers or other edible snacks here. Just ___25___ the scheme in Spain.”
26______ ______ the shared fridge, the community and Shanghai Oasis Public Service
Development Center are also working on a food bank scheme ___27___（rve）low-income families as well as providing medical treatment in the community.
“Packaged food that can be prerved for a long time will be put in food bank to rve residents most in need,”said Ella Zhang, the program director with the public rvice center, “___28___ cooked food or fresh food will be nt to the sharing fridge”. She said the Green Food Bank project first started in 2014 and operated from about 50 spots in Shanghai, with food supplied mainly by local farms, food manufactures, retailers and restaurants.“Now some five-star hotels ___29___（contact）us to share their leftovers too.”
The project in Puxiong Community is sponsored by Changshou Funds of Changshou subdistrict government. If successful, the program will be spread to the ___30___ 34 communities in the subdistrict.
Section B
Directions：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. propod B. contact C. otherwi D. shallow E. subject F. prove G. connect H. planned I. key J. meaning K. fundamental |
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Would you be happier if you spent more time discussing the state of the world and the meaning of life--- and less time talking about the weather?
It may sound counterintuitive（违反直觉的）, but people who spend more of their day having deep discussions and less time engaging in small talk em to be happier, said Matthias Mehl, a psychologist at the University of Arizona who published a study on the ___31___.
“We found this so interesting, becau it could have gone the other way — it could have been ‘Don't worry, be happy’ — as long as you surf on the ___32___ level of life yo
u're happy, and if you go into the esntial depths you'll be unhappy,” Dr. Mehl said.
But, he ___33___, deep conversation emed to hold the ___34___ to happiness for two main reasons: both becau human beings are driven to find and create ___35___ in their lives, and becau we are social animals who want and need to ___36___ with other people.
“By engaging in meaningful conversations, we manage to impo meaning on a(n) ___37___ pretty messy world,”Dr. Mehl said.“And interpersonally, as you find this meaning, you bond with your interactive partner, and we know that interpersonal connection and integration is a core ___38___ foundation of happiness.”
Dr. Mehl’s study was small and doesn’t ___39___ a cau-and-effect relationship between the kind of conversations one has and one’s happiness. But that’s the ___40___ next step, when he will ask people to increa the number of deep conversations they have each day and cut back on small talk, and vice versa.
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions：For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phras marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
Robert Frank, an economist at Cornell, believes that his profession is restricting cooperation and generosity. In the U.S., economics professors give __41__ money to charity than professors in other fields. Economics students in Germany are more likely than tho from other majors to recommend an overpriced plumber (水管工) when they are paid to do it. Economics majors tend to rate __42__ as “generally good,” “correct,” and “moral” more than their peers.
Does studying economics change people? Maybe not. It could be lf-lection: students who already believe in lf-interest are __43__ to economics. But this doesn't exclude the possibility that studying economics pushes people further toward the lfish extreme. By spending time with like-minded people, economics students may become __44__ that
lfishness is widespread and reasonable -- or at least that giving is rare and foolish.
