杨浦区2017学年度第二学期高三模拟质量调研
英语学科试卷
II. Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
appeal When it comes to innovative countries, we always think of places like the US, the UK and Germany. However, Israel is also a global leader (21)______ innovation.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017, Israel is the cond (22)______ (innovative) nation in the world, just after Switzerland.
Many of us (23)______ not be aware, but technologies developed in Israel have changed our lives. For example, antivirus software (24)______ protects our computers was first developed in Israel in the 1970s, according to The Telegraph. In addition, features on our mobile phones such as voicemail and SMS were also developed in Israel.
So it comes as no surpri that Israel plans to u its innovative strength (25)______ (power) the cooperation with China in the Belt and Road Initiative. (26)______ ______ ______ Israel is needed, it will spare no effort to contribute to the project, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to China in March, according to Xinhua News Agency.
Many Israeli environmental technology companies have already t up facilities in Shandong province, (27)______ (bring) Israeli techniques to many areas such as recycling water for agricultural u, reported the Times of Israel.
(28)______ (found) on very dry land, Israel had been worried about water for a very long time. However, in recent years, the quality and quantity of water in Israel (29)______ (improve), with the help of techniques that turn Mediterranean awater and wastewater into usable water.
In fact, such innovations have led to more and more Chine students (30)______ (ek) quality higher education in Israel. “When Chine students who study here go bac
k home, they will be in positions to influence China-Israel relationships in the future,” Emma Afterman, manager of Israel-China Academic Relations at the Council for Higher Education, told the Jerusalem Post.
Section B
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Parents have been concerned about their kids’ u of technology since the dawn of technology – or at least since the invention of the transistor radio in the 1950s. Today, technology is everywhere, and kids are growing up __31__ to their smartphones, tablets and laptops in ways that ‘50s moms and dads could never have dreamed of. Parental concern has grown along with this tech __32__. But now, even tho in the industry are wondering if technology has taken a truly __33__ hold on all of us – and especially children.
gstar No less than Melinda Gates, wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, wrote an editorial in the Washington Post last summer expressing regret for the Pandora’s Box she and her husband helped open. “I spent my career in technology. I wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids,” she wrote. “Phones and apps aren’t good or bad by themlves, but for adolescents who don’t yet have the emotional tools to deal with life’s complication and __34__, they can add to the difficulties of growing up.”
A study, which came out this year, looked at yearly surveys of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders in the U.S. between 1991-2016, and __35__ markers of psychological well-being, such as lf-esteem, life satisfaction and happiness. It found that such well-being suddenly decread after 2012 – just at the time that the u of smartphone and social media __36__. There was a direct correlation between the amount of time spent on electronics and unhappiness. Happiness was highest among kids who participated in sports, followed by in-person socializing and __37__ rvices. The lowest? Online computer games – the abu of which has recently been __38__ a recognized mental health disorder by the World Health Organization – and social media.
Early this year, big players formerly of tech companies such as Google and Facebook created the Center for Humane Technology and, in partnership with the nonprofit organization Common Sen Media, __39__ a full media and advertising attack on the very industry they had a hand in building. Their initiative, the Truth about Tech, is pouring millions of dollars into a(n) __40__ to warn parents, teachers and students that the technology they u is in fact engineered to addict them.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
If you could be anybody in the world, who would it be? This is usually just a theoretical question. The idea of suddenly taking the form of your neighbor, a celebrity or even your dog is fun to think about, but emingly impossible to __41__.大连日语培训机构排名
Yet a few people have experienced what it might be like to step into the skin of another person, thanks to an unusual virtual reality device. “The first conds are just overwhelmi托福中文官网>arturas
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cmmmng,” says Rikke Frances Wahl, a woman who __42__ became a man. “It feels mysterious. You start to feel more and more comfortable in it, and you start to really get the __43__ of how it would be if it were your body.”
Wahl, an actress, model and artist, was one of the participants in a body swapping(替换) experiment at the Be Another lab, a project developed by a group of artists bad in Barcelona. She __44__ her new body using a machine called The Machine to be Another. The t-up is relatively simple. Both urs put on a virtual reality headt with a camera installed to the top of it. The video from each camera is piped to the other person, so what you e is the exact view of your __45__. If she moves her arm, you e it. If you move your arm, she es it. To get ud to eing another person’s body without actually having control of it, participants start by moving their arms and legs very slowly, so that the other can follow along. __46__, this kind of slow, synchronized(同步) movement becomes comfortable, and participants really start to feel as though they were living in another person’s body. “It was so natural,” Wahl says, laughing, “and at the same time it was so unnatural.”
