无所谓的英文2019-2020学年上海复兴高三上英语9月周测二

2021年1月22日发(作者：日语在线词典)
2019-2020
学年复兴高三上英语
9
月周测二

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, will in each blank with the proper form
of the given word: for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.








When
Jason
Hoelscher
was
an
undergraduate
of
fine
art
studies,
there
weren
’
t
any
professional development classes. So, ambition and the timely realization (21) _______ he would
have to determine
“
what
’
s next
”
on his own urged Jason to engage his future self to find direction.
It was 1996, and he was finishing his BFA (Bachelor of Fine Art) in Denver. He was faced with
the choice of sitting back to wait for something (22) _______ (happen), or pursuing a path into the
unknown. He chose the latter.









Jason set up a plan that in five years he (23) _______ (show) his work in the top gallery
in that area of the country. This five-year goal gave him a starting point _______ (24) which to
work backwards.









By setting the goal, all of Jason
’
s efforts (25) _______ (point) in the same direction. He
showed up at different art show openings, and researched as best he could to make (26) _______
familiar with the market environment.









As a result of showing up, Jason took opportunities (27) _______ got him closer to his
goal. He sent work to a student show and was accepted by Robin Rule, the owner of Rule Gallery.
(28) _______ (inspire), Jason spent the next month making new work.









In
April
of
1997,
Jason
went
back
to
Rule
Gallery
with
his
new
work.
(29)
_______
scared to death, he looked confident at the gallery meeting. When he left, he left as the newest
addition to the Rule Gallery roster
（花名册）
, He had his first exhibition there one year later.









Jason could have stopped with the show selection, but what he really wanted was gallery
representation. He
(30)
_______
(strike)
while
the
iron
was
hot, and
in
doing
so, shortened
his
five-year plan into a year and a half.


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.

Alaska
’
s Road to Ruin
’
Could Forever Change Pristine Landscape: Non- Profit

A. route



B. significant




C. construct



D. requiring



E. scheduled

F. adequate



G. increase



H. intended




I. opposition



J. access

K. deliberate







The
National
Parks
Conservation
Association
(NPCA)
has
urged
people
to
speak
out
against a proposed
“
road to ruin
”
in Alaska that could irreversibly alter one of the planet
’
s last
great intact ecosystems.








The state of Alaska wants to (31) _______ a 220-mile- long road to link up with planned
open-pit copper mines in the state
’
s northwest.








The proposed (32) _______ of the Ambler Mining Road would run along the southern
Brooks
mountain
range
in
Alaska,
slicing
through
20
miles
of
the
Gates
of
southern
Brooks
mountain range in Alaska, slicing through 20 miles of the Gates of the Arctic National Park and
Preserve -- a vast pristine wilderness that does not contain any roads.








Along this route, the road will cross hundreds of streams and rivers -- (33) _______ the
construction of 12 major bridges -- and disrupt countless acres of wetlands, as well as interfering
with the subsistence lifestyles of Native Alaskans who live in the region, according to the NPCA.








Furthermore,
the
non-profit
says
the
road
would
disrupt
the
migration
of
the
Western
Arctic caribou -- one of the longest land migrations on Earth. The region is home to about 250,000
of these animals which travel around 2,700 miles every year.








If constructed, the road -- which is only (34) _______ for private use by mining trucks --
would cut across the migration route posing a(n) (35) _______ obstacle to the herd. In addition,
this could push the herd away from Native Alaskans who depend on the caribou for food.








Currently,
engineering
and
environmental
reviews
are
being
carried
out
to
determine
which of two possible routes of the road will be constructed. This process is (36) _______ to e
completed by the end of the year.








On
August
30,
the
Bureau
of
Land
Management
(BLM)
released
an
Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS), which will be open to public comment until October 15.








In
light
of
this,
the
NPCA
is
urging
people
to
take
action
by
writing
to
the
BLM
and
expressing their (37) _______ to the road construction project.








“
Speak
up
right
now
and
tell
the
BLM
to
protect
the
Western
Arctic
caribou,
Alaska
Native communities, and Alaska
’
s spectacular parklands by halting plans for the Ambler mining
road,
”
the NPCA statement read.








The
non-profit
said
BLM
scheduled
the
“
short
”

public
comment
period
during
the
important food harvest season for Native Alaskans, thus
“
not providing (38) _______ opportunity
for meaningful participation from those who will be most directly affected by the road.
”








The Alaska Industrial and Development Export Authority (AIDEA), which proposed the
project, said the road is needed to provide transportation (39) _______ from the Dalton Highway
to the ambler Mining District,
“
allowing for exploration and development of mineral deposits in
the Ambler Mining District.
”








“

According
to
AIDEA,
the
access
corridor,
which
crosses
the
Western
(Kobuk
River)
unit
of
the
Gates
of
the
Arctic
National
Park,
is
needed
to
increase
job
opportunities
and
encourage Alaska
’
s economic growth,
”
the BLM environmental impact statement read.








“
Without
access,
the
mineral
assets
associated
with
the
Ambler
Mining
District
would
likely
remain
stranded,
and
AIDEA
would
be
hindered
（妨碍、阻碍）
in
its
efforts
to
support
economic
development
and
(40)
_______
job
opportunities
within
a
region
known
for
high
unemployment rates.
”


Ⅲ
. Reading Comprehension

Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.








Microsoft
Corp
founder
Bill
Gates
caught
people
’
s
eye
in
a
recent
interview,
when
he
suggested that robots should be taxed in order to help humans keep their jobs. Gates is only one of
many people in the tech world who have worried about automation and its __41__ to workers.








It
’
s easy to see why the tech world is __42__. The rise of machine learning ha increased
the fear that __43__ humans could simply become out of date -- __44__. 3.5 million American
truck
drivers
might
soon
find
their
jobs
threatened
by
driverless
trucks.
Though
in
the
past,
technology usually complemented workers __45__ replacing them, there
’
s no law of nature saying
the
technology
of
the
future
will
work
the
same.
A
few
economists
even
claim
that
cheap
automation has already __46__ income from workers to company owners.








Another __47__ is that even if the mass of humanity ultimately does find new ways to
add value by complementing new technology
-- to
“
race with the machines,
”
as economist Erik
Brynjofsson puts it -- this transition could take a long time and hurt a lot of people. As Bloomberg
View
’
s Tyler Cowen has noted, wages in Britain fell for four decades at the start of the Industrial
Revolution.
More
__48__,
we
’
ve
seen
very
slow
and
painful
adjustment
to
the
impact
of
globalization.
If
the
machine
learning
revolution
hurts
workers
for
40
years
before
ultimately
helping them, it might be worth it to __49__ that revolution and give them time to adjust.








The main argument against taxing the robots is that it might hold back __50__. Growth in
rich
countries
has
slowed
markedly
in
the
past
decade,
suggesting
that
it
’
s
getting
harder
and
harder to find new ways of doing thing. Stagnating productivity, combined with falling business
investment, suggests that __51__ of new technology is currently too slow rather than too fast --
the biggest problem right now isn
’
t too many robots, it
’
s too few. Taxing new technology, however
it
’
s done, could make that slowdown worse.








The
problem
with
Gate’s

basic
proposal
is
that
it
’
s
very
hard
to
tell
the
difference
between
new
technology
that
__52__
humans
and
new
technology
that
replaces
them.
This
is
especially true over the long term. Power looms
（织布机）
replaced human weavers back in the
Industrial Revolution. __53__, people eventually became more productive, by learning to operate
those
looms.
If
taxes
had
slowed
the
development
of
power
looms,
the
eventual
improvements
would have come later.








This is a powerful argument __54__ the taxation of automation. Gates is right to say that
we should start thinking ahead of time about how to use policy to mitigate
（缓和）
the unintended
consequences of automation. But given the importance of sustaining innovation, we should look at
__55__ policies.

41. A. resistance






B. threat







C. admission





D. dedication

42. A. frightened






B. worried






C. intolerant





D. offensive

43. A. few











B. several







C. many








D. any

44. A. in other words


B. for example




C. of course




D. by contrast

45. A. in case of






B. because of





C. in face of





D. instead of

46. A. distracted





B. digested








C. directed





D. disclosed
47. A. fear









B. proposal








C. adjustment



D. complement
48. A. possibly






B. recently








C. primarily




D. technically

49. A. slow ... down



B. make ... up




C. get ... over




D. give ... up

50. A. modernism




B. availability





C. popularity




D. innovation

51. A. persuasion




B. adoption







C. interruption



D. elimination

52. A. complements


B. engages







C. invades






D. matures

53. A. However






B. Therefore






C. Consequently


D. Furthermore
54. A. from









B. against









C. by










D. besides

55. A. uppermost




B. stimulating






C. persistent




D. alternative


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)






Measles
（麻疹）
, which once killed 450 children each year and disabled even more, was
nearly wiped out in the United States 14 years ago by the universal use of the MMR vaccine
（疫
苗）
. But
the
disease
is
making
a
comeback,
caused
by
a
growing
anti-vaccine
movement
and
misinformation that is spreading quickly. Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported
in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.







The numbers might sound small, but they are the leading edge of a dangerous trend. When
vaccination rates are very high, as they still are in the nation as a whole, everyone is protected.
This
is
called
“
herd
immunity
”
,
which
protects
the
people
who
get
hurt
easily,
including
those
who can
’
t be vaccinated for medical reasons, babies too young to get vaccinated and people on
whom the vaccine doesn
’
t work.








But herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in. When some refuse
vaccination and seek a free ride, immunity breaks down and everyone is in even bigger danger.









That
’
s exactly what is happening in small neighborhoods around the country from Orange
County, California, where 22 measles cases were reported this month, to Brooklyn, N. Y., where a