虱子上海市上海中学2018届高三上学期周练英语试题(二) Word版含答案

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上海中学高三周考

II. Grammar
(10’)

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, use one word that best fits each blank.

A great deal of attention (1)_________ (pay) today to the so-called digital divide--the division
of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor at present. And that divide does exist
today.
My
wife
and
I
lectured
about
this
looming
danger
twenty
years
ago.
What
was(2)_______
(visible) then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are
reasons to be optimistic.
There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. (3)______ the Internet
becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after
all, the
more people online, the
more potential customers there are. More and more governments,
afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or
two, one to two billion people on the planet (4)_______(net) together. As a result, I now believe the
digital divide will narrow (5)______ ______widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news
because the Internet(6)______well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we've
ever had.
Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the
only tool we have. But it has enormous potential.
(7)_________(take)advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over
their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries(8)________ still
think
foreign
investment
is
an
invasion
of
their
sovereignty
might
well
study
the
history
of
infrastructure(the
basic
structural
foundations
of
a
society)
in
the
United
States.
When
the United
States
built(9)________industrial
infrastructure,
it
didn't
have
the
capital
to
do
so.
And
that
is(10)_______ America's Second Wave infrastructure- including roads, harbors, highways, ports and
so on-were built with foreign investment.


being paid



visible










be netted



than





take





8. that






III. Vocabulary (10’)

Directions:

Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be
used once. Do note that there is one word more than you need.




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A.

A. sympathy
E.

E. serve
I.

I. obligation

I’m a 50
-
something male, the father of two mostly grown girls. I’m happy to say that both my
parents
are
still
kicking.
I’m
on
good
1



with
my
brothers
and
sisters
most
of
the
time.
I
am
blessed
with
good
friends
and
other
relations,
and
tend
to
get
on
well
with
my
co-workers.
I
am
fortunate in so many ways, but feel like I consistently disappoint everyone I know.




I cannot, for the life of me, give a genuine 2



. It simply doesn’t come naturally. When I try,
and I do, in order to maintain all the relationships, it feels forced, more a matter of 3



than a gift
that might put wind in the sails of someone I truly care for. I feel strongly that giving should spring
from joy, or at least from a 4



desire to see the recipient enlivened by it. When I have nothing to
offer in response to a job well done, everyone loses. I feel like I’ve twisted the emotional and social
development
of
my
children,
alienated
(
疏远
)
any
number
of
perfectly
wonderful
lovers,
and
generally kept the world at arm’s length.





After
years
of
psychotherapy
and
the
obsessive
(
强迫症
)
self-examination
common
to
my
generation, I believe I know where this meanness of spirit comes from. Six kids in total, at a very
tender
age,
there
were
five
younger,
cuter
kids
standing
between
me
and
the
object
of
our
5


.
Mama was driven to 6


, to put it mildly, by the demands placed on her, but it was the 1950s and
she set a selfless and hardy example. I had complete 7



for her difficult situation, even at the time.
The fact remains, however, that, as a young child, I needed more than I got. I 8


for my mother’s
attention. I needed to know that she 9


me as more than her helper, her strong little man. I clearly
recall, at the ripe old age of 7, coming to the conclusion that I would never get it.
reckoned,
You can imagine the sibling rivalry in a big family. Eventually I took haven in the written word to
get away from it. But even before I learned to read, I had realized that giving any sign of approval or
encouragement
to
my
brothers
and
sisters
could
only



10



to
increase
the
gulf
between
me
and my mom. Does that make sense? I can ratio
nalize otherwise, of course, and now we’re all
big happy family
to reach into that purse, however, it’s pretty much empty.


答案
D F I B KG A H C E

IV
. Cloze (15’)

Directions:

For each blank in the following passage there are four words marked A, B, C and D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.




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B.

B. heartfelt
F.

F. compliment
J. devoted
C.

C. valued
G
. distraction
K. affection
D.

D. terms
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A
true
story
of
retirement
planning
is
that
your
future
is
riding
on
the
quality
of
your
assumptions. Humble __1__ can be dangerous.




For example, eight years into this bull market expecting stocks to deliver as-strong returns over
the next decade is an uncertain proposition many are nonetheless __2__.
Another potential __3__ assumption is that you will be able to keep working past 65. Yet the
recently
released
2017
Retirement
Confidence
Survey
by
the
nonpartisan
Employee
Benefit
Research Institute finds that more than half of workers say they expect to still be on the clock past
age 65. By __4__,
less than 15 percent of today’s retirees kept working that long.

“If you plan on working longer as a way to get by in retirement, you are going to be in trouble,”
says
Craig
Copeland,
senior
research
associate
at
EBRI.
“It
should
be
a
complement
to
a
soli
d
savings and spending plan, not the __5__.”

It’s
simply
too
__6__
to
assume
you
will
indeed
be
able
to
work
longer.
A
survey
by
the
Transamerica
Center
for
Retirement
Studies
found
that
nearly
two-thirds
of
retirees
left
the
workforce earlier than expected because they were laid off, reorganized out of a position, or due to
general unhappiness with a job. Only 16 percent of retirees who __7__ the work force earlier than
they expected did so because they felt they could __8__ afford to.
__9__, a new report from Prudential puts a dollar value on why your current employer may not
be
inclined
（倾向于）
to
do
back
flips
to
keep
an
older
you
happy
and
engaged.
The
estimated
one-year cost to a firm when an employee __10__ retirement: $$50,000.
Prudential
estimates
that
on
a
company- wide
level,
delayed
retirement
can
__11__
overall
workforce costs by 1 percent to 1.5 percent. That’s not nothing. And it goes a long way in explaining
why
employers
may
be
more
inclined
to
focus
on
“financial
wellness”
strategies
to
get
worke
rs
ready to retire __12__ than programs to help workers delay retirement.
Fewer than one-third of employees surveyed by TCRS report their employer has some sort of
“transition” program such as flexible work schedules, reduced hours or __13__ to a different
role.
“Workers’
vision
of
retirement
is
changing
faster
than
employers’
business
__14__,”
said
Catherine Collinson, president of TCRS. That makes it ever more crucial for pre-retirees to take the
steps today that will increase that __15__ they can continu
e to work longer, if that’s part of the plan.




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1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
A.
pessimism
A.
relying on
A.
reliable
A.
contrary
A.
foundation
A.
ridiculous
A.
extended
B.
optimism
B.
casting on
B.
possible
B.
compromise
B.
basement
B.
sensible
B.
exited
C.
concern
C.
accounting on
C.
flawed
C.
compliment
C.
founding
C.
risky
C.
existed
C.
financially
C.
Nevertheless
C.
gets
C.
increase
C.
faster
C.
ranging
C.
customs
C.
chances
D.
consideration
D.
falling on
D.
unlikely
D.
contrast
D.
construction
D.
logical
D.
remained
D.
physically
D.
Moreover
D.
decides
D.
transform
D.
slower
D.
functioning
D.
operations
D.
outputs
A.
economically
B.
mentally
A.
However
A.
delays
A.
decrease
A.
later
A.
shifting
A.
deals
A.
abilities
B.
Therefore
B.
expects
B.
influence
B.
sooner
B.
altering
B.
practices
B.
capabilities
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V
. Reading Comprehension
Section A

Directions:
Read
the
following
four
passages.
Each
passage
is
followed
by
several
questions
or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the
one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)
The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded(
预示着
…
的到来
) a new
era for climate action. For the first time, the world’s nations agreed to keep global warming well
below 2
℃
.




This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations. Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for
more than half of the world’s gr
eenhouse gas emissions. In a study published in Nature Scientific



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Reports, we reveal just how deep this injustice runs.




Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are
essentially climate “free
-
riders”: causin
g the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas
emissions, while incurring(
招致
) few of the costs such as climate change’s impact on food and water.
In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels,
while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.




On the flip side, there are many “ forced riders”, who are suffering from the climate change
impacts despite having scarcely contributed to the problem. Many of the world’s most climate
-
vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small
quantity of emissions. This is much like a non-smoker getting cancer from second-hand smoke,
while the heavy smoker is fortunate enough to smoke in good health.




The Paris agreement has been widely hailed as a positive step forward in addressing climate
change for all, although the details on addressing “climate justice” can be best described as sketchy.





The goal of keeping global temperature rise “well below” 2 degree is commendable(
值得称赞
的
) but the emissions- reduction pledges submitted by countries leading up to the Paris talks are very
unlikely to deliver on this.




More than $$100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations
to reduce emissions. However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between
developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring
historical emissions. There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly,
who is responsible for their provision. Securing these funds, and establishing who is responsible for
raising them will also be vital for the future of climate-vulnerable countries.




The most climate-vulnerable countries in the world have contributed very little to creating the
global disease from which they now suffer the most. There must urgently be a meaningful
mobilization(
组织，动员
) of the policies outlined in the agreement if we are to achieve national
emissions reductions while helping the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change.
And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether
they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.
1. The author is critical of the Paris climate agreement because .
A) it is unfair to those climate- vulnerable nations



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