上海市行知中学2022-2023学年高三上学期期末质量检
测英语试卷
一、用单词的适当形式完成短文
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.计算公式表
Video Games Foster Creativity?
Video games that foster creative freedom can increa creativity under certain conditions, according to new rearch from Iowa State University. The experimental study compared the effect f playing Mine-craft(《我的世界》-一款游戏), with or without instruction, to watching a TV show or playing a race video game.秦桧的儿子
Tho 1 (give) the freedom to play Mine-craft without instruction were most creative.
“It’s not just that Mine-craft can help induce creativity. There ems to be something about choosing to do it that also matters,” said Douglas Gentile, a professor of psychology.
2 you are not familiar with the game, Gentile says Mine-craft is like a virtual Lego world. The game, which has sold more than 100 million copies, allows players to explore unique worlds and create anything they can imagine. Study participants randomly assigned to play Mine-craft were split into two groups. The one receiving instruction was told to play as creatively as possible.
河南安全教育平台After 40 minutes of play or watching TV, the 352 participants completed veral creativity tasks. 3 (measure) creative production, they were asked to draw a creature from a world much different than Earth. More human like creature scored low for creativity and tho less human-like scored high. Surprisingly, tho instructed to be creative while playing Mine-craft were the 4 (creative).
Gentile says there’s no clear explanation for this finding. In the paper published by Creativity Rearch Journal, he, Jorge Blanco-Herrera, lead author and former master’s student in psychology: and Jeffrey Rokkum, former Ph. D. student in psychology, outlined possible reasons why the instructed Mine-craft group scored lower. Blanco-Herrera says the instructi ons may have changed subjects’ motivation for play.
“ 5 (tell) to be creative may have actually limited their options while playing, resulting in a less creative experience,” Blanco-Herrera said. “It’s also possible they ud all their ‘creative juices’ while playing and had 6 left when it came time to complete the test.”
Video games can have both harmful and beneficial effects. Gentile’s previous rearch has shown the amount, content and context and video games 7 (influence) what players learn through repeated experiences. 8 much of Gentile’s rearch has focud on aggression or pro-social behavior, he says the same appears to be true for creativity.
Most video games encourage players to practice some level of creativity. For example, players may create a character and story for role-playing games or be rewarded for creative strategies in competitive games. The rearchers say even first-person shooter games 9 potentially inspire creativity as players think about strategy and look for advantages in combat.
“The rearch is starting to tell a more interesting, nuanced picture. Our results are similar to other gaming rearch 10 you get better at what you practice, but how you practice might matter just as muc h, ” Gentile said.
二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chon from the box. Each word can
Major companies are already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology. They dream of placing enzymes(酶)in the automobile to monitor 11 and nd data on pollution to a microprocessor that will then adjust the engine. They speak of what The New York Times calls “Metal-hungry microbes(微生物)that might be ud
to 12 valuable trace metals from ocean water.” They have already d emanded and won the right to patent new life forms.
Nervous 13 , including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and inter-scientific competition in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills, but of “microbe spills” that could spread dia and destroy entire populations. The creation and 14 relea of extremely poisonous microbes, however, is only one cau for alarm. Completely rational
自律用英语怎么说and 15 scientists are talking about possibilities that stagger(动摇)the imagination.
Should we breed people with cow-like stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby 16 the food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? Should we biologically alter workers to fit the job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction time or asmbly-line workers 17 to do our monotonous work for us? Should we u genetic forecasting to pre-eli
minate “unfit” babies? Should we grow rerve organs fo r ourlves, each of us having, as it were, a “savings bank” full of 18 kidneys, livers or hands?
Wild as the notions may sound, everyone has its 19 (and oppors) in the scientific community as well as its striking commercial application. As two critics of genetic engineering, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard, state in their book Who Should Play God? “Broad scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America much the same way as asmbly lines, automobiles, vaccines, computers and all the other technologies. As each new genetic advance becomes 20 practical, a new consumer need will be exploited and a market for the new technology will be created.”
三、完形填空
Deliberation is not always the best option
Humans have developed over millions of years of evolution to respond to certain situations without thinking too hard. If your ancestors 21 movement in the undergrowth, they would run first and ask questions later. At the same time,
the 22 to analy and to plan is part of what distinguishes people from other animals.
The question of when to trust your gut(直觉)and when to test your 23 —whether to think fast or slow, in the language of Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist— 24 in the office as much as it does in the savannah(大草原).
Deliberative thinking is the feature of a well-managed workplace. Strategic changes and budget discussions are built on rounds of meetings, memos, formulas and prentations. Process are increasingly designed to 25 instinctive respons. From blind screening of job applicants to using “red-teaming” techniques to pick apart a firm’s plans, precision 26 instinct.
Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional respons and inherently(固有的)less 27 to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the 28 of your company, say, or would this person work well with other people in a team? In 29 customer-rvice situations, intuition is often a better guide to how to behave than a script.银渐层
Gut instincts can also be 30 . Plenty of rearch has shown that intuition becomes more unfailing with experience. In one well-known experiment, conducted in 2012, volunteers were asked to 31 whether a lection of designer handbags were fake or real. Some were instructed to operate on instinct and others to deliberate over their decision. Intuition worked better for tho who owned at le
ast three designer handbags; indeed, it 32 analysis. The more expert you become, the better your instincts tend to be.李鸿章名言
33 , the real reason to embrace fast thinking is that it is, well, fast. Instinctive decision-making is often the only way to get through the day. Rearchers at Cornell University once estimated that people make over 200 decisions a day about food alone. The workplace is 34 but a succession of choices, a few big and many small: what to 35 , when to intervene, whom to avoid in the lifts and, now, where to work each day.
21.
A．uncovered B．spotted C．blocked D．encountered
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A．capacity B．motive C．reluctance D．urge 23.
A．consultation B．anticipation C．assumptions D．reaction 24.
A．integrates B．matters C．works D．abus
25.
A．bring out B．pick out C．make out D．stamp out 26.
A．equals B．compris C．beats D．boosts
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A．manageable B．adaptable C．familiar D．nsitive 28.
A．attention B．opportunity C．status D．esnce 29.
A．rough B．tough C．nervous D．neutral
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A．improved B．copied C．transferred D．weakened 31.
A．ensure B．extinguish C．clarify D．asss
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A．undertook B．outperformed C．facilitated D．paralleled 33.
A．Likewi B．However C．Conquently D．Moreover
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A．anything B．something C．nothing D．everything
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A．cooperate B．prioritize C．convince D．strive
四、阅读理解
I had always been one of tho quiet boys who preferred dreams to the real world. I was, in addition, absurdly shy, and therefore often mistaken for a fool, which upt me deeply. For nothing terrified me more than the prospect of correcting a fal impression. Though I was often blamed by mistakes made by my classmates, I never dare to say a word in lf-defen. I would simply go home to hide in a corner and cry. My greatest pleasure was to sit alone, reading, and let my thoughts drift away in the stories.
司法考试题My daydreams were in sharp contrast to real life; they were full of adventures and heroic deeds. They left marks on me. There was, for instance, a book about the history of the Roman Empire, in which an ambassador, while negotiating a treaty, was told that he was to accept the terms offered, on pain of death: his respon was to plunge his arm into a fire and continue with his deliberations, in absolute calm. Inspired by his courage, I proceeded to test my own powers of resilience by plunging my own hand into the fire, only to burn my fingers badly. I can still e that ambassador, smiling calmly through his pain. Father hated my reading all the time, and sometimes he threw away my books. Some nights he refud to let me turn on the light in my bedroom. But I could always find a way, and after he caught me reading by the light of a string-wick lamp, he gave up and left me to it.
There was a time when I tried my hand at writing; indeed, I even made a few little poems, but I quickly abandoned my efforts. No matter what I had bottled up inside me, I was extremely anxious about letting it out, and so my adventures in writing ended. I did, however, carry on painting. There was, I thought, no risk of revealing anything personal.
I just took something from the outside world and brought it to life on paper. Sometimes I did hide some personal expression in it, but I made sure that it was visible enough to be en and trivial enough to be ignored. The first time I showed my painting to my father, he was caught in sil ence for
a while and then he breathed deeply, and said: “My son finally made something.” Then here I am, as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, wondering how everything happened, from my daydreams to painting.
行测答题技巧总结
36. The ntence “They left marks on me.” (in paragraph 2) means ________. A．daydreams did nothing but hurt the writer badly
B．daydreams influenced the writer's behavior in real life
C．the writer had lasting memory of the books he read
