上海英语模拟试卷3
纸笔考试
文秘专业I. Grammar and Vocabulary惠风和畅书法
Section A梦幻街少女
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.
Fold Everything
At one time or another in your life you have probably done origami (折纸)，even if it was just making a paper airplane or something more complicated like a paper crane. The chances are that as you did it5 you reflected on (21) ________interesting this traditional
art is. Animals, boxes, flowers, boats: it all can be created from a single square or rectangular sheet of paper simply by folding it. No cutting, no pasting.
But did you ever stop (22) ________(think) how the same techniques might be applied to engineering? Equipment that could be of real practical u? Origami meets the demand for things that need to be small when (23) ________ (transport) and large when they arrive, like the everyday umbrella. In fact, origami-inspired creations (24) ________ (flow) in space already; in 1995, Japane engineers launched a satellite with solar panels (太阳能板)that folded like a map. And very soon origami engineering may well (25)________(e) in a host of other applications.
"It's now mathematically proven that you can pretty much fold anything," says physicist Robert J. Lang, (26) ________quit his engineering job eight years ago to fold things fall time. Lang, an origami enthusiast since age six, advid a well-known car manufacturer (27) ________ the best way to fold an airbag into a dashboard. He is currently working on a space telescope lens that, (28) ________ all goes according to plan, should be able to unfold to the size of a football field.
There's no doubt that (29) ________(save) space has become important in our world, as the arch for ever smaller electronic components shows. Computers of the future may contain tiny, folded motors or capacities for faster processing and better memory.
独身者 Applications for origami engineering go further than many of us might imagine. "Some day,” says MIT's Erik Demaine, "we'll build robots that can fold on their own from one thing into (30) ________," like Transformers. Too much like science fiction to be true? Maybe—though you certainly wouldn't want to bet against it.
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. escape B. features C. frustrated D. ideally E. initially F. myths G. prents H. produced L psychological J. restored K. typical |
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Heard It All Before
Ever been watching a film or reading a book that had the feeling you've heard it all before? You know the bad guy is going to lo or be killed, or the team will win their last game. What's really surprising is that we don't have this feeling more often, becau, according to Christopher Booker's brilliant book Why We Tell Stories, nearly all stories are bad around just ven basic plots and in each plot we e the same character types and the same _____31____ events over and over again.
Take the first plot, which Booker calls Overcoming the Monster. Stories of this kind all have veral common ____32____ .
手绘卡通人物1.A community is threatened by a monster or a bad guy and a hero is called to save it. The hero prepares to meet the monster and is either given a special weapon or learns about a particular weakness that the monster has.
2.The hero approaches the monster and ____33 ____everything goes according to plan.
3.The hero meets the monster for the first time and is ____34____ . They reali the huge challenge that the monster ____35____ .
4.There is a terrible stage. The hero is trapped and faces death.
5.Finally, the hero makes an amazing____ 36____ . succeeds in destroying the monster usually with the help of their special weapon or by exploiting the monster's only weakness. They are rewarded and order is ____37____ .
You can e the features in ancient ____38____ like Peru killing Medusa or George and the Dragon, religious stories like David defeating the giant Goliath, modem tales like Dracula or Harry Potter, and films such as Jaws, Star Wars or James Bond movies, Booker argues that we don't tire of the plots becau they fulfill a deep ____39____need for love and moral order. Indeed, where stories don't follow the plots, we may find them unsatisfying or they may reveal issues in the author and society that ____40____ them.
II. Reading Comprehension
Section A
表示痛苦的成语Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.
"All puppies are cute," explains Clive Wynne, the head of Arizona State University's canine(犬科的)-science laboratory. "But not all puppies are_____ 21 _____ cute.” Indeed, breeders have long found that puppies become their cutest lves at the eight-week mark. And recent rearch indicates that peak puppy cuteness rves important purpos—and might play a fundamental role in _____22_____ dog and owner together.
