上海市延安中学2016-2017学年高三上学期英语专题复习

上海市延安中学

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学年高三上学期专题复习

I.

词汇填空

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be use only once. Note that there is

one word more than you need.

A. public

B. inadequate

C. lowered

D. released

E. disappointment

F. casting

G. possibility

H. objective

I. desperately

J. balance

K. compared

Why Aren’t Women Happier?

Why

aren’t

women

happier

these

days?

That’s

the

q

uestion

raised

by

a

thought- provoking

study,

The

Paradox

of

Declining Female Happiness, __31__ last month. The research showed that over the past 35 years women’s happiness has

declined, both __32__ to the past and relative to men even though the lives of women in the US have improved in recent

decades by most __33__ measures.

The research, by University of Pennsylvania economists Stevenson and Wolfers, and made __34__ by the National

Bureau

of

Economic

Research,

found

the

decline

in

happiness

to

be

widespread

among

women

across

a

variety

of

demographic (

人口统计的

) groups. The researchers, for instance, measured similar declines in happiness among women

who were single parents and married pare

nts, “__35__ doubt on the hypothesis

(

假设

) that trends in marriage and divorce,

single parenthood or work/family __36__ are at the root of the happiness declines among women,” they wrote.

One theory for the decline in happiness is that expectations for workplace and general advancement were raised too

high by the women’s movement and women might feel __37__ for not “having it all,” as a Los Angeles Times columnist

recently put it.

The researchers acknowledge that’s a __38__

:

“If the women’s

moveme

nt raised women’s expectations faster than society was able to meet them,” the paper says,

“they

would be more likely to experience __39__ in their lives.” But they add things could change for the

better: “As

women’s expectations move into

adjustment

with their experiences, this decline in happiness may reverse.”

Readers, why do yo

u think women are unhappier than in the past? Do you think that if expectations for “

having it

all” were __40__ to “move into

adjustment

with experiences,” women might be happier?

A statuses

B. relevantly

C. reserves

D. highlighting

E. population

F. estimated

G. downgraded

H. driving

I. critically

J. enforced

K. reverse

Good

news

for

giant

panda

lovers:

the

cute

and

cuddly

creature

has

just

been

brought

back

from

the

edge

of

extinction.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) __31__ the species from

“endangered” to “vulnerable”

as the union released its updated Red List on Sept. 4 at Hawaii with their __32__ growing by 17 percent in the decade

leading up to 2014.

Chinese

conservation

efforts,

including

forest

protection

and

reforestation,

are

considered

to

be

the

__33__

force

behind the animal's re-prosperity. The number of panda __34__ in China has also jumped to 67, from 13 in 1992. Nearly

two-thirds of all wild pandas live there. Restoring the

panda’s habitat ha

s given them back their space with food available

to them.

Apart from giant pa

ndas, the Tibetan Antelope has also moved from “endangered” to “near t

h

reatened”

. According to

a

statement

from

IUCN,

the

animal's

numbers

have

shrunk

severely

-

dropping

from

around

1

million

to

a(n)

__35__

65,000 -- 72,500 in the 1980s and early 1990s - due to commercial poaching (

偷猎

). Rigorous protection has since been

__36__ to protect the beasts and the population is now likely to be between 100,000 and 150,000.

Despite the improved __37__

，

wild animals like the giant panda and the Tibetan Antelope still face challenges. The

IUCN warned, for example, that ongoing threats from climate change could eliminate more than 35 percent of the panda's

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bamboo habitat in the next 80 years, which would __38__ the species recent gains.

Good progress has been made but there is still work to do. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is devoted to

__39__ species from around the world and their statuses in relation to their risk of extinction. The list currently has eight

categories, including extinct, extinct in the wild, __40__ endangered, endangered, vulnerable, near threatened, least

concern and data deficient. These categories are based on criteria relating to population trends, size and structure, and

geographic range.

II.

完形填空精选

About five years ago, when the first generation of wearable fitness trackers became popular, they were announced as

the dawn of a revolution. Health experts and busniess people alike said that giving people access to real-time calorie (

卡路

里

)- burning and step-count data would inspire them to lose weight, eat better and -most important-

____41____

more.

But even as the U.S. market for ___42____ devices hits $$7 billion this year, there’s evidence that their promise isn’t quite

paying off.

The U.S. has an exercise problem, with 28% of Americans ages 50 and over considered wholly ___43____. That

means 31

million adults

move no

more than is necessary to perform

the

most basic functions of daily life. Wearables,

experts ___44___, were going to change that.

But limited academic research has been done to ____45____ whether wearables change

people’s behavior in the long

term.

The

little

research

that

does

exist

isn’t

____46____.

For

a

recent

study

in

the

Journal

of

the

American

Medical

Association, researchers wanted to see whether activity trackers would help overweight people lose more weight over two

years than if they just did a weight-loss intervention(

干预

) alone. They didn’t. “We found that just giving people a device

doesn’t mean it’s going to ____47____ something you think it’s going to lead to,” says John Jakicic, the author of the

study, from the University of Pittsburgh. “These activity trackers don’t engage people in strategies that make a ___48___

in terms of long-

term change”

Another new study highlighted a different challenge: user ____49___. By the end of a year long study of 800 people,

just

10%

of

participants

were

still

wearing

the

trackers,

according

to,

Eric

Finkelstein,

a

professor

at

the

Duke-

NUS

Medical

School

in

Singap

ore.

“We

didn’t

find

that

Fitbits

really

have

much

of

an

effect,”

he

says.

This

may

well

be

because

people

expect

trackers

to

do

something

they’re

not

designed

to

do

--

____50____,

force

them

to

change

their

behavior. “There’s ____51____ among people about their function, a measurement

tool and an intervention,” Finkelstein

says. A scale counts pounds, ____52____, but won’t teach you how to eat less. “When people put these devices on, they

might interact with the app(

应用程序

) for the first few weeks, maybe the first few months, but there comes a point where

that starts to fall off,” says Finkelstein.

To be ____53___, some of the costlier add higher-tech wearables have features baked into them that encourage users

to move more, says Shelten Yuen, Fitbit’s vice president of research. Amon

g them: shaking sensors, movement reminders

and

social-

media

combination,

all

designed

to

____54____

users

to

make

better

health

choices

every

day.

But

more

research

will

be

needed

to

determine

whether

or

not

these

____55____

--

or

others

like

them --measurably

improve

people’s health and fitness levels.

41.

A. learn

B. purchase

C. exercise

D. perform

42.

A. wearable

B. electronic

C. hi-tech

D. built-in

43. A. misunderstood

B. inactive

C. discourage

D. depressed

44.

A. announced

B. determined

C. hoped

D. noticed

45.

A. make up

B. focus on

C. worry about

D. figure out

46.

A. encouraging

B. interesting

C. pioneering

D. challenging

47.

A. benefit from

B. result in

C. add to

D. seek after

48.

A. design

B. movement

C. profit

D. difference

49.

A. reduction

B. participation

C. creation

D. expectation

50.

A. namely

B. therefore

C. however

D. similarly

51.

A. argument

B. popularity

C. confusion

D. interaction

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