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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
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
Ec
onomic Forum’s Global Competitiveness
Report 2016
-2017, Israel is the
second (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
surprise
that
Israel
plans
to
use
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
set
up
facilities
in
Shandong
province,
(27)______ (bring) Israeli techniques to many
areas such as recycling water for agricultural
use,
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 seawater and
wastewater into usable water.
In
fact,
such
innovations
have
led
to
more
and
more
Chinese
students
(30)______
(seek)
quality
higher
education
in
Israel.
“When
Chinese
students
who
study
here
go
back
ho
me,
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
A. dangerous
B. measured
C. continuous
D. peaked
E. explosion
F. classified
G.
confusion
H. religious
I. effort
J.
launched
K. attached
Parents have been concerned
about their kids’ use 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
those in the
industry are wondering if technology
has taken a truly __33__ hold on all of us
–
and especially children.
No
less
than
Melinda
Gates,
wife
of
Microsoft
founder
Bill
Gates,
wrote
an
editorial
in
the
Washington
Pos
t 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 themselves, 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.
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between
1991-2016,
and
__35__
markers
of
psychological
well-being,
such
as
self-
esteem,
life
satisfaction
and happiness. It found that such well-being
suddenly decreased after 2012
–
just at the time
that the use 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__ services. The lowest? Online computer games
–
the abuse
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 Sense 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
use 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 seemingly
impossible to __41__.
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 seconds are
just overwhelming,” 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 based in
Barcelona. She __44__ her new
body
using a machine called The Machine to be Another.
The set-up is relatively simple. Both users put on
a virtual reality headset with a camera
installed to the top of it. The video from each
camera is piped to the
other person, so
what you see is the exact view of your __45__. If
she moves her arm, you see it. If you
move your arm, she sees it. To get used
to seeing 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.”
Interestingly, using such technology
__47__
to alter people’s behaviour
afterwards –
potentially for
the better. Studies have shown that
virtual reality can be __48__ in fighting implicit
racism(
隐性种族歧
视
).
Researchers
at
the
University
of
Barcelona
gave
people
a
questionnaire
called
the
Implicit
Assoc
iation Test, which
measures the strength of people’s associations
between.
Another
study
showed
that
using
the
so-
called
“rubber
hand
illusion(
错觉
)”
can
have
the
same
__49__.
When
that
rubber
hand
is
a
colour
unlike
their
skin,
participants
__50__
lower
on
tests
for
implicit racism than when they watched
a hand of the same skin colour.
The idea is that once you’ve “put
yourself in another’s shoes” you’re less likely to
think __51__ of
them, because your
brain has __52__ the feeling of being that person.
W
ahl says that
she’d jump at the chance to swap bodies with
someone again. “I would really, really
__53__ it to everyone, everyone should
try this thing,” she says. “We all have different
feelings and points
of views about
things,” says Pointeau, “and it’s
really strongly related to our __54__
experience. With this
kind
of
experience
we
can __55__
empathy
–
the
action
of understanding,
but
also
maybe
help
people
better understand themselves
too.”
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41.
A. execute
42.
A. contemporarily
43.
A. passion
44.
A. inherited
45.
A. reflection
46.
A. Consciously
47.
A. requires
48.
A. progressive
49.
A. impact
50.
A. analyzed
51.
A. highly
52.
A. expressed
53.
A. connect
54.
A. bodily
55.
A. endure
Section B
B. excuse
B. permanently
B. fantasy
B.
altered
B.
partner
B. Constantly
B. prefers
B. informative
B. instruction
B. scored
B.
ill
B. mixed
B. advertise
B. sensitive
B.
promote
C. explore
C. temporarily
C.
familiarity
C. endured
C. colleague
C. Eventually
C.
promises
C. realistic
C. initiative
C. predicted
C.
straight
C. internalized
C. register
C. mental
C. honor
D.
exhibit
D. secretly
D.
energy
D. acquired
D. image
D. Equivalently
D.
volunteers
D. intention
D.
intention
D. valued
D.
fairly
D. deleted
D.
recommend
D. initial
D.
identify
(A)
A
British hospital director told me he was hunting
for staff to replace the foreign doctors and
nurses
leaving because of
Brexit(
脱欧
). He hadn’t found
many qualified Britons queuing
to
replace them.
In an age
when the “war for talent” is a global business
trend, the UK is fighting a war against talent.
But if I were a Brexiter, I’d say:
Brexit should be the prompt for Britain to finally
start training enough of
its own
talent. If UK wants to avoid economic decline, it
will need to train far more of its own nurses,
construction
workers,
architects,
etc.
For
a
country
whose
policy
has
always
been
not
to
educate
the
working class, that would be a reversal
of history.
Before Brexit,
high-skilled immigrants staffed world-class
British sectors such as the City of London
and
the
creative
economy.
In
healthcare,
the
UK
developed
a
brilliant
way:
let
a
poor
country
like
Romania
fund
a
nurse’s
education,
then
underpay
her
to
look
after
sick
Bri
ts.
Low-skilled
immigrants
eager
to
work
all
hours
for
little
money
gave
the
UK
cafes
and
corner
shops
that
seldom
closed.
Low-
skilled Britons could
have done these jobs, but mostly
didn’t.
The
coming wave of British talent is largely immigrant
too: the k
ids who have made London’s
state
schools
the
UK’s
best,
plus
the
offspring
of
Russian,
Chinese
and
other
foreign
elites(
精英
)
who
fill
private
schools. Many of these would love to stay and make
the UK richer.
But
Brexiters want to cut immigration. The obvious
solution: equip working-class Brits to do jobs
from nursing to banking. Jonathan
Portes, economics professor at King’s College
said: “The problem of
UK vocational
education has been known for at least a century.
We’ve always neglected it.” In fact, in
August the UK removed the state
bursary(
助学金
) for people
training to be nurses, midwives and speech
therapists. Students now have to fund
courses themselves, then earn a low salary for a
lifetime.
If Britain
doesn’t upskill its workers fast, it will lose
skilled jobs. It will continue to have the world’s
best universities per capita only if it
can find enough Britons to replace foreign
academics who leave the
UK.
Much
the
same
applies
to
finance
or
design.
Meanwhile,
low-skilled
foreign
fruit
pickers
have
already melted away
since the pound plunged. With few Britons queuing
to replace them, much of this
year’s
produce rotted in the fields.
So the likely post-Brexit
outcome is a UK that cannot keep itself in the
style to which it has become
accustomed.
The
war
against
talent
will
probably
leave
Br
itain
looking a
bit
more
like
today’s
English
seaside towns, or most of the country
in the 1970s: culturally
homogeneous(
同种类的
),
relatively poor
and under-serviced.
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56.
57.
58.
59.
The UK is fighting a war against talent
because ______.
A. skilled immigrants
leave the country after Brexit
B. it
doesn’t have enough fund to train its own
citizens
C. too many
qualified Britons are queuing for creative jobs
D. it is trying a different approach to
attracting talent
Which is FALSE about
the situation in the UK before Brexit?
A. Hospital employed many immigrant
nurses.
B. Much attention was paid to
the nurse training.
C. Many Brits were
unwilling to do low-paid jobs.
D.
Immigrant elites could find creative and decent
jobs.
What can we learn from the
passage?
A. Most well-educated
immigrants had no plan to stay in the UK.
B. The government now gives nurses-to-
be some financial support.
C. A lot of
fruits rotted in the fields for the lack of
skilled fruit pickers.
D. The outflow
of talent only existed in the field of education
and healthcare.
According to the
writer, the post-Brexit Britain is likely to
______.
A. be as rich and powerful as
it used to be
B. be as convenient as it
was before Brexit
C. be different in
style but the same in essence
D. go
backward in economy and social service
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