2019-2020学年浦外高三上英语开学考
Ⅱ, Grammar and Vocabulary
初中英语电子课本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 Citizens Out Of Sorts Over New Trash Separation Rules
Houhold trash has occupied the minds of Shanghai residents this week: specifically, are the contents of their bins “wet”, “dry”, “hazardous” or “recyclable”?
收到来信的英文 Residents of the city one of the world’s biggest with about 23 million people, __21__ arrange their trash according to tho labels under a mandatory（强制的）sorting scheme
__22__ (start) on July 1.
北村韩屋村 Citizens, however, are finding __23__ new system complicated enough, __24__ every item of waste now under careful scrutiny, from receipts and half-eaten crayfish to soggy cups of “bubble tea.” Residents are also unhappy about getting their hands dirty. “It’s really a lot of trouble,” said a 68-year old resident called Shen. “Plastic bags have to be put in one bin and if they are dirty they must __25__ (clean out), and then your hands get filthy. It’s really unhygienic.”
Huang Rong, deputy cretary general of the Shanghai government, said on Friday more than 70% of residential districts should be compliant（遵守）with the new trash sorting rules by next year.
Though Shanghai has hired 1,700 instructors and conducted 13,000 training ssions, confud residents on social media are demanding to know to sort items like batteries, human hair, meat on a bone, or fruit eds and skins. The government __26__ (t up) an app to handle enquiries. __27__ citizens are unsure about which of the four tr
ash categories --- recyclable, hazardous waste, kitchen waste and residual waste --- something they need to discard belongs to, they open the app, type in the object and receive a definitive answer.
Shanghai aims to eventually burn or recycle all waste. By next year, dry waste incineration and wet waste treatment rates __28__ (expect) to reach 27,800 tonnes a day, around 80% of the city’s total garbage.
China is building hundreds of “waste to energy” plants __29__ u garbage to generate power. It is also establishing a “waste-free city” scheme and constructing high-tech “comprehensive utilization bas” across the country.
Huang said the new sorting measures were just the beginning, and would not instantly resolve Shanghai’s mounting garbage challenges. “We need to step up the propaganda, and we can’t help but __30__ (step up) the construction of infrastructure and guarantee that the paration of trash meets our requirements,” he said.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with proper word chon from the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. term B. bittersweet C. guilty D. name AB. uncover AC. longing 带丽的成语AD. attached BC. highlighting BD. pure CD. determined ABC. analyzing |
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The Unique Joy of Learning New Words
With all that’s happening in the news, life can feel like an exerci in determining the particular kind of bad we are experiencing the. Are we anxious or depresd? Lonely, or stresd?
风景画素描 Tim Lomas, a nior lecturer in positive psychology at the University of East London, is engaged in the opposite endeavor, __31__ all the types of well-being that he can find. Specifically, Lomas is eking to __32__ psychological insight by collecting untranslatabl
e words that describe pleasurable feelings we don’t have a __33__ for in English. “It’s almost like each one is a window onto a new landscape,” Lomas says. So far, with the help of many contributors, he has amasd nearly 1000 in what he calls a “positive lexicography” --- including the Dutch pretoogies, which refers to the twinkling eyes of someone engaged in benign mischief; The Arabic 关于春节的故事tarab, a word for musically induced ecstasy; And the Creole tabanca, which describes the __34__ feeling of being left by someone you love.
People are fascinated with untranslatable words in part becau they are uful: How el could we talk to each other about the __35__ pleasure of schadenfreude? But Lomas also e them as a means of showing us “new possibilities for ways of living,” describing them as invitations for people to experience happy phenomena that may previously have had been “hidden from them” or to revel in feelings they couldn’t previously __36__. Consider the Japane ohanami, a word for gathering with others to appreciate lowers.
Linguists have long argued about how much the language we speak --- partly __37__ by factors like geography and climate --- limits the thoughts we are capable of having or the actions we can take. The words in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels __38__,” wrote the theorist Edward Sapir.
