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宝山区
2017-2018
学年第二学期教学质
量监测
高三年级英语学科试卷
Ⅱ
. Grammar and
Vocabulary
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,
use one word that best fits each blank.
How Much of the Jetsons’ World Has
Become a Reality?
For most of our
readers, The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name.
However, for many American born in or
before
the
1980s,
it
is
a
name
we
fondly
remember.
The
Jetsons
was
a
popular
cartoon
that
featured
a
family
living in an advanced
world ___21___ people settle in houses built in
the sky, work only three days a week and
drive flying cars that resemble flying
saucers. While sky-high houses and
three-
day workweeks don’t appear to be
on the horizon, other visions of the
future ___22___
（
turn
< br>）
into practical realities.
Flying cars have been on the minds of
scientists and inventors for decades. They are
part of a typical imaging
of the future
fast-paced and luxurious, ___23___
（
allow
）
us to speed
through the skies. As ___24___
（
< br>see
）
in
The
Sky
’
s No longer
the Limit
, this flight of fancy may
soon be a reality in Dubai. Aiming ___25___
（
become
）
the
world’s most advanced city, Dubai is
currently testing the first
-ever flying
taxi.
___26___ money still exists in its
current cash-based form in The Jetsons, people
today are looking toward a
world where
even cash is out-of-date. Bitcoin is a type of
digital money that has taken the world by storm.
Since
its introduction, the money’s
price ___27___
（
increase
）
to rates as high as US$$ 19,000.
This, however, may not
predict well for
the future of digital currency, as experts warn
that Bitcoin is a bubble and ___28___ crash soon.
It’s possible that some dreams of the
future may still be ___29___ ______ our
reach.
Other more probable
technologies already exist, for example, future
flying eye hospitals in
A Hospital with
Wings
, unusual-engineered
folding paper in
Clever Folding
and the population of endangered
corals
（珊瑚）
in
Lab-
Bred Coral to the Rescue
, etc. All
these show ___30___ humans are already capable of.
So, what else could
the future have in
store for us?
Section B
Directions
：
After
reading the passage below, fill in each blank with
a proper word given in the box. Each word
can be used only once. Note that there
is one more word than you need.
A.
adapted
B.
harder
C.
alternatives
D.
features
E.
cooperation
F. questions
G
. accuracy
H. captured
I.
regardless
J. opposite
K. analyzing
Computer reads brain activity to find
out the music each person is listening to
In
the experiment, six volunteers heard 40 pieces of
classical music, rock, pop, jazz, and others. The
Neural
（神经的）
fingerprint
of
each
song
on
participants
’
brain
was
___31___
by
the
Magnetic
Resonance
（
MR
）
machine
while a computer was learning to identify the
brain patterns drawn out by each musical piece.
Musical
___32___ such as tone, volume,
rhythm and beat were taken in account by the
computer.
After that, researchers expected that
the computer would be able to do the ___33___ way:
identify which song
participants were
listening to, based on their brain activity
–
a technique known as brain
decoding. When faced two
options, the
computer showed up to 85% ___34___ in identifying
the correct song, which is a great performance,
comparing to previous studies.
Researchers then pushed the test even
___35___ by providing not two but 10
options
（
e.g. one correct and
nine
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to the
computer. In this situation, the computer
correctly identified the song in 74% of the
decisions.
In
the
future,
studies
on
brain
decoding
and
machine
learning
will
create
possibilities
of
communication
___36___ any
kind of written or spoken
language.
“
Machines will be
able to translate our musical thoughts into
songs,
”
says
Sebastian Hoefle,
researcher from D’Or
Institute and PhD
student from Federal
University of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
The study is a result of a ___37___ between
Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Germany,
Finland and India.
According
to
Hoefle,
brain
decoding
researches
provide
___38___
to
understand
neural
functioning
and
interact
with
it
using
artificial
intelligence.
In
the
future,
he
experts
to
find
answers
for
___39___
like
“
what
musical
characteristics
make
some
people
love
a
song
while
others
don
’t?
Is
our
brain
___40___
to
prefer
a
specific
kind of music?
”
Ⅲ
. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions
：
For
each blank in the following passages there are
four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill
in each blank with the word or phrase
that best fits the context.
Having a clear
picture in mind of what their future will look
like can motivate students to keep going despite
the challenges of college life. This
___41___ seems to be particularly effective for
female students from relatively
low
socioeconomic status
（
SES
）
backgrounds says Mesmin Destin
of Northwestern University in the US. College
is a time of great opportunity for
some, but can be ___42___ for others. It is often
the first time that many students
are
away
from
the
regular
and
familiar
support
of
their
family
and
friends.
Weak
students
from
lower
SES
backgrounds
often
encounter
greater
financial
and
psychological
challenges
than
others,
and
this
can
lead
to
___43___ and even
withdrawal from difficult situations, such as when
interacting with their lecturers or taking
tests and exams.
Destin and his
colleagues wanted to understand if students’
___44___ to academic challenges improve when
they
look
forward
to
the
future.
This
idea
is
built
around
the
theory
of
identity-based
motivation.
It
holds
that
people can take positive action during
times of unfavorable conditions when they ___45___
a successful future for
themselves.
“
The
theory of identity-based motivation proposes that
stimulating a focus on a successful future
identity may
be especially ___46___ in
motivating students who are weak during
challenging academic situations to develop a
sense of action
readiness,
”
explains Destin.
This involves feeling ready and able to take
appropriate action when
___47___
difficulty.
In
two
almost
identical
laboratory
experiments
—
one
involving
93
female
students,
the
other
185
students
（
including
101 women
）
-- participants
were first asked either to write about their past
or their future ___48___.
After their
deep thoughts, the participants were filmed during
an limited interview with a so-called lecturer,
and
then had to ___49___ a difficult
academic test. The research team noted whether
participants’ body language was
bold
and confident, and measured the amount of effort
participants’ ___50___ the academic
test.
The results were in
agreement with the theory of identity
–
based motivation. Destin
and his team found that
having
a
successful
future
identity
can
prevent
especially
female
students
from
lower
SES
backgrounds
from
___51___
during
challenging
academic
situations.
Specially,
lower
SES
women
who
wrote
about
their
future
identities
displayed
greater
action
___52___
compared
to
those
who
considered
their
past.
They
showed
more
confident body
language. It helped them to make more effort to
tackle the test, and had an indirect effect on
their
___53___.
“
Simulating
imagined
successful
future
identities
appears
to
provide
a
___54___
pathway
to
enable
weak
students
to
effectively
navigate
everyday
stressors,
”
says
Destin.
“
The
findings
___55___
suggest
that
certain
students may benefit
from strategies that remind them to image their
successful futures before any difficult and
important task that they might
otherwise be likely to
avoid.
”
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41. A. instruction
B. strategy
C. challenge
D. psychology
42. A. disgraceful
B. shameful
C. harmful
D. stressful
43.
A. hesitation
B. intention
C. depression
D. decision
44. A.
willingness
B.
options
C.
responses
D.
applications
45. A. destroy
B. imagine
C. abandon
D. substitute
46. A. powerful
B. upright
C. unique
D. ambitious
47.
A. avoiding
B.
overcoming
C.
surrendering
D.
encountering
48. A. experience
B. suffering
C. success
D. failure
49. A. design
B. complete
C. comment
D. revise
50. A.
put away
B. put
on
C. put out
D.
put into
51. A. withdrawing
B. transforming
C. advancing
D. engaging
52. A. quantity
B.
dullness
C.
readiness
D.
inability
53. A. fascination
B. ignorance
C. dilemma
D. performance
54. A. tolerable
B. potential
C. straight
D. academic
55.
A. therefore
B.
however
C.
otherwise
D.
meanwhile
Section B
Directions
：
Read
the
following
three
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
）
I
believe in getting lost. Lost in the text of the
novel that is particular to your thoughts and
feelings that you
consider
special.
The
song
that
reminds
you
of
your
childhood
summers,
where
you
close
your
eyes
and
lose
yourself reliving a memory; feeling the
warm wind brushing against your arm, the smell of
the dusty sand that you
stir up as
you ride
your bicycle,
murmuring the tune of that song. Like
the unprepared Sunday Drive, with no
destination. You’re free to wander,
take paths that you’ve never noticed, discover
places you haven’t been. Then
falling
off on the path to lead you back home, leaving you
to test directions and alertly absorb your
surroundings
in order to find your way
back; that kind of lost.
I
get
lost
daily,
whether
it’s
in
thought,
or
the
unplanned
drive
I
just
decided
to
go
on.
Getting
lost
is
an
adventurous learning experience that
trains you how to be more aware of your
surroundings. A few of my most
favorite
memories involve physically getting lost. That one
late night trip back to Ludington from Grand
Rapids I
took with a few friends. We
finally realized we were going the wrong way when
we hit South Haven, almost three
hours
out of our way. There was also the time
where
I
got lost
in the De V
os Place in Grand Rapids
after the
President’s Ball and then the
parking garage for a solid two hours. I felt like
my
life was that one scene of an
American television situation comedy,
minus the air conditioner. At the time, these are
nervous experiences that
get
your
anxiety
pumping.
You’re
fearful
that
you
won’t
be
safe,
but
it
always
works
itself
out
in
the
end.
Physically losing yourself prepares you
for how you manage when you emotionally or
mentally lose yourself.
You don’t always have to be
lost in a literal sense
to
“
get
lost
”
and some of the time,
losing yourself may not be
a positive
experience. There are times where I lose sight of
who I am. While lost, I test our metaphorical
paths and
sometimes they turn out to be
the right direction and other times they were a
wrong turn. I make note of these
wrong
turns, so I can avoid them further on up the road
of finding my way back to who I am.
In Walden,
Henry David Thoreau
wrote
“
Not till we are lost,
in other words not till we have lost the world, do
we begin to find ourselves, and realize
where we are and the infinite extent of our
relations.
”
Getting lost
fuels my
curiosity and teaches me
lessons on finding my way back to the right track.
I believe in getting lost through day
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dreams,
a
misplacement,
adventures,
and
difficult
times
where
you
make
discoveries
about
yourself
and
the
atmosphere
around
you.
In
order
to
truly
find
yourself,
I
believe
that
you
should
put
down
the
map
and
get
wonderfully lost.
56. In the first paragraph,
the author mainly expresses that ______.
A. lost in a novel is a special feeling
B. songs remind
us of past experiences
C. wandering is
a wonderful discovery
D. getting lost brings us benefits
57. The author mentions the experiences
of physically getting
lost
（
in paragraph
2
）
in order to say _______.
A. physically
getting lost is most difficult to deal with
B. we can enjoy
trips while physically getting lost
C. people are easy to get
physically lost in our daily life
D. we realize our
surroundings while physically getting lost
58. Words from Henry David
Thoreau
（
in the last
paragraph
）
imply that getting
lost ______.
A.
enables us to look within and to see outward
B. pulls people
back into the previous moment
C. enables us to remind
ourselves of adventures
D. helps us enjoy ourselves wherever we
are
59. Which of the following might be
the best title of the passage?
A. I Once Was Lost
B. Wonderfully Lost
C. Physically
Getting Lost
D. Mentally Getting Lost
（
B
）
Two in three Americans shower once a
day or more, according to a YouGov poll. Here’s
why you might be
better off showering
less frequently
（
and here are
other ways you might be showering
wrong
）
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