2020-2021学年上海市闵行区华二紫竹桂花几月份开花
高三下学期英语3月摸底考试卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20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.
Tweenbots are human-dependent cardboard robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they
and rely on pasr-by they come across to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal.
物理实验课I walked out to Washington Square Park on a sunny summer day, (22) (place) my first Tweenbot on the sidewalk, and walked away. From a distance, I obrved as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.
It was incredible.
(23) _______ a Tweenbot got caught under a park bench, ground repeatedly against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some pasr-by would always rescue it and nd it toward its goal. Never once (24) a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the "right" direction, if that direction meant (25) (nd) the robot into a dangerous situation. One man turned the robot back in the
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the road."
The Tweenbot’s unexpected prence in the city created an unfolding narrative that speaks to the power of a
【答案】
21. displayed 22. placed 23. Every time 24. was 25. nding 26. from which 27. to create
28. they 29.without 30. As
Section B (10分)
Directions: Complete the passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Narrowing the Gap between College Degrees and Practical Skills
Getting a university degree has never emed more important: college graduates earn more money, live longer, and are happier. But college degrees are expensive (especially in the US), 31 focud(especially in the UK), and often fail to build the skills employers want (true in most countries).
A new university in the UK wants to change that.
The London Interdisciplinary School(LIS), which will 32 . in 2021 with a target of 100 students, will scrap traditional academic subjects and offer a three-year bachelor of arts and sciences degree designed to 33 real-world issues. The 34 is built around interdisciplinary problems-knife crime, childhood obesity, palm oil in supply chains, plastic pollution----as well as quantitative and qualitative rearch skills. Employers like the Met Police, Innocent, and Virgin will provide project ideas and offer five-week work experience for students.
The idea is similar to a US liberal arts degree (a rarity in the UK) but also more explicitly focud on "interdisciplinarity, "or drawing on 35 subjects-economics, psychology, sociology, statistics-to solve 36 problems like childhood obesity. In other words, the problem, not the subject, sits at the center of the curriculum. The skills students develop, the founders hope, will more cloly agree with what an
Al-infud, automated world demands: 37 between people and machines, critical thinking, speaking and writing skills, and data management, to name just a few things.
Students will tackle problems through various disciplines: knife crime, for example, by understanding cultural and socioeconomic factors in different neighborhoods, data science, statistics, publicly 38 data, an economics or psychology lens.
In the UK, students apply through a central clearinghou, and exam results are of primary importance. At LIS, students will instead apply 39 and all will be invited to a"lection day" which will include a face-to-face interview so that LIS can understand a students' background，motivations, and passions. Interviews will be conducted by a panel to minimize bias. Conditional offers will be 40 bad on personal background, circumstances and, also, grades.
答案：31-35 J I E K H 36-40 A G F D C
III. Reading Comprehension (45 分）
Section A
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 of phra that best fits the context.
Reading award-winning literature may boost your ability to read other people, a new study suggests. Rearchers at the New School for Social Rearch found that when they had volunteers read works of
古诗题西林壁acclaimed(受到称赞的) “literary fiction”, it emed to temporarily improve their
ability to (41)________ other people's emotions. The same was not (42)________ of nonfiction or
“popular" fiction, the mystery, romance and science fiction books that often dominate bestller lists.
Rearchers (43)________ a ries of five experiments which participants read either literary fiction, popular fiction, nonfiction or nothing at all before taking some standard tests. One of the tests is known as "Reading the Mind in the Eyes”. People have to look at photos of actors’ eyes, and then guess what emotion is being expresd in each. The test is considered a(n) (44)________ of empathy. Overall, study participants scored better after reading literary fiction, versus the other three (45)________.
It was a(n) (46)________ improvement, according to the principal rearcher David Comer Kidd, "It's
not like taking people from a ‘C' to an ‘A' ," he said. But, Kidd added, the effect was en after only about 10 minutes’ reading, and it was a statistically strong finding, meaning it's unlikely to have been due to (47)________.
What's so (48)________ about literary fiction? It's usually more focud on character than on plot. There is usually no single "dominant narrator" who takes readers through the story. It (49)________ that the readers should think about the characters and fill in the gaps. The author doesn't tell you what to think. Readers have to make (50)________ about characters. And that's often what people are doing in the real-life conversations.
"This is great study!" said Raymond Mar, an associate professor of psychology at York University, who was not involved in the new study. (51)________, he added that the overall rearch in this area is "still in its infancy" and one key question is whether literary fiction really (52)________ other types of fiction. So, it's too early to tell people to (53)________ their romance novel for Nobel literature, at least if the goal is boosting empathy.
But it is (54)________ that the findings suggest literature is important beyond entertainment or improving vocabulary. “There’s a common belief that reading literature is frivolous(可笑的), or not pra
ctical,” Mar said. “But there's a growing body of evidence that it's important in (55)________ that we need in our lives.”
41. A. evaluate B. manage C. spell D. interpret
42. A. true B. successful C. critical D. compulsory
43. A. participated in B. went through C. t up D. compared to
44. A. tool B. measure C. standard D. source
45. A. subjects B. books C. conditions D. studies
46.A. moderate B. invaluable C. significant D. unnoticeable
47. A. reading B. time C. mistake D. chance
48. A. curious B. inten C. special D. professional
49. A. demands B. reveals C. confess D. favors
认真的反义词是什么
50. A. contact B. inferences C. assumptions D. images
51. A. Besides B. However C. Therefore D. Even
52. A. outweighs B. challenges C. dominates D. reduces
53. A. cling to B. trade in C. invest in D. wear out
54. A. expected B. suspected C. criticized D. agreed
55. A. conversations B. moods C. skills D. innovations
天堂寨keys: 41-45 DACBC 46-50 ADCAB 51-55 BABDC
Section B
Directions:Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by veral questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
There are few situations more unpleasant than a television prenter trying to hang on to a job. Whe
n one of the prenters of the BBC program Crimewatch resigned recently, rather than suffer the inevitable indignity of being unfinished and replaced by a younger version, he made the usual hurt nois about his masters’ overemphasis on youth. People in the media listened sympathetically before he slid from view to join the ranks of television’s has-beens.
The prenter’s argument, that the viewers don’t care how old you are so long as you can ”do the job,” unfortunately is not backed up by the evidence. When you're on TV, viewers are always thinking about whether you're losing your hair or your figure and, lately, whether you've had cosmetic work done. This is what they’re actually doing when you think they’re listening to the wi things you say. Viewers actually don't understand much of what the job involves, they just e you sitting there looking the part. Like the ability to pat one’s head while rubbing one's stomach, TV prenting is just one of tho skills. Some of tho who posss this skill can hit the big name. inevitably as they become more attached to the lifestyle this brings, however, the more likely they are to overstate the skill.川味回锅肉
In reality，if somebody is paying you a lot of money to do a job，it's often on the tacit(心照不宣的)understanding that you may be fired suddenly---it's part of the deal. Unlike football managers, TV prenters pretend not to understand this. If they’ve had many years being paid silly sums to read a
script from an autocue(自动题词机)，it's difficult for them to accept that they³ve been the beneficiary of good fortune rather than anything el; even harder to face the fact that an editor could all too easily nd them to the shopping channels.
Something similar eventually awaits all the people who are currently making fortunes that would have been unimaginable to earlier generations of prenters. One day we'll decide that their face no longer fits and they³ll be dragged away complaining about the same ageist policy from which they no doubt previously profited. Show business is a brutal(残忍的)business. The one thing it reliably punishes is age, particularly among women. That's why, at the age of fifty, female TV prenters become female radio prenters and why girl bands planning to re-form need to get it done before they're forty, after which it will get too hard for everyone to suspend their collective disbelief.
56. What does the writer imply about the Crimewatch prenter he mentions in the first paragraph?
A. He was unwi to resign when he did.
B. He will soon be forgotten by the viewers.
C. He may well have had a valid point to make.
D. He was treated innsitively by his employers.
57. The underlined pronoun “this" in paragraph 2 refers to
A. a public image
B. a level of success
C. an overstatement
D. a common misunderstanding
58. Why does the writer mention football managers in paragraph 3 ?
A. To support his view that prenters are overpaid.
B. To stress how important luck is in certain occupations.
C. To show how relatively cure TV prenters are in their jobs.
D. To illustrate a general rule that applies to certain types of job.
决定的英语
59. According to the writer, TV personalities who may worry about ageism
A. should look for work in other forms of broadcasting
B. may have benefited from it themlves at some point
C. are less well respected than prenters of the past
D. are being unfair to up-and-coming younger colleagues
【答案】
56. B 57.B 58. D 59. B
(B)
