上海市嘉定一中2018届第二学期高三英语学业水平检测（二）

嘉定一中2017学年第二学期高三英语学业水平检测

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary

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.

Technology offers conveniences such as opening the garage door from your car or changing the television station without touching the TV. Now one American company is offering its employees a new convenience: a microchip implanted in their hands. Employees who have these chips can do all kinds of things just by waving their hands.

Three Square Market is offering to implant microchips in all of their employees ___21___ free. Each chip costs $300 and Three Square Market will pay for the chip. Employees can volunteer to have the chips implanted in their hands. About 50 out of 80 employees ___22___（choose）to do so. The president of the company, his wife and their children are also getting chips implanted in their hands. The chip is about the size of a grain of rice. Implanting the chip only takes about a second and is said to hurt only very briefly. The chips go under the skin between the thumb and forefinger.

A microchip was shown compared with a dime, Aug. 1, 2017, at Three Square Market in River Falls, Wis., ___23___ the company held a“chip party”for employees who volunteered to have the microchip embedded in their hands.

With a chip in the hand, a person can enter the office building, buy food, sign into computers and more, simply by waving that hand near a scanner. The chips also will be used to identify employees. Employees who want convenience, ___24___ do not want to have a microchip implanted under their skin, can wear a wristband or a ring with a chip instead. They can perform the same tasks with a wave of their hands ___25___ ______ they had an implanted chip.

Three Square Market is the first company in the United States ___26___（offer）to implant chips in its employees. Epicenter, a company in Sweden, has been implanting chips in its employees for a while. Three Square Marketing says the chip cannot track the employee. The company says scanners can read the chips only ___27___ they are within a few inches of them.

Three Square Market says that the chips protect against identity theft by being encrypted, similar to credit cards. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ___28___（approve）the chips back in 2004, so they should be safe for humans, according to the company.

In the future, people with the chips ___29___ be able to do more with them, even outside the office. Todd Westby is Chief Executive Officer of Three Square Market. He says, \（allow）you to use this as your passport, public transit, all purchasing opportunities, etc.”

Section B

Directions：Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. breaks B. viewing C. texting D. permanent E. positioned F. connected G. physical H. symptoms I. complaining J. effectively K. simply The next time you’re riding a subway or bus, pay attention to your fellow, passengers. Chances are that you’ll see plenty of them with their heads down, tapping the screens of their tablets or ___31___ on their smart phones. While these folks may be making good use of their time by staying ___32___, their bodies are paying a heavy price for such convenience. As hand-held devices such as smart phones and tablets are becoming more common, users are reporting some new ___33___ problems. Florida chiropractor (脊椎按摩师) Dean Fishman began noticing an increased number of his patients ___34___ of neck and shoulder pain. He traced these ___35___ to the overuse of hand-held devices, specifically the action of bending the neck, and created the term “Text Neck.” As if the painful symptoms weren’t bad enough, Fishman warns that an untreated case of Text Neck could lead to ___36___ spinal (脊柱的) damage. He founded the Text Neck Institute in an effort to treat and educate those suffering from Text Neck. Treatments offered there include chiropractic care, physical therapy, massage therapy and exercise planning.

In order to avoid or reduce the possibility of getting Text Neck, use the following basic principles:

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? Avoid awkward positioning. Don’t strain (滥用) your neck, and stay aware of how your body is ___37___ in relation

to the device.

? Take frequent ___38___ when using any kind of mobile device.

? When using a tablet, use a case that can back up the device at comfortable ___39___ angle.

For those who ___40___ can’t take their eyes off their devices, there is an ironic twist– downloading a special app could help. Dr. Fishman has released an app called the Text Neck Indicator App, which measures the angle of your smart phone. When the angle is appropriate, a green light appears in the upper corner of your screen. But when the angle puts you at risk for neck strain, the light turns red, obliging you to adjust your angle.

Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension

Section A

In any planning system, from the simplest budgeting to the most complex corporate planning, there is an annual process. This is partly due to the fact that firms ___41___ their accounting on a yearly basis, but also because similar ___42___ often occur in the market.

Usually, the larger the firm, the longer the planning takes. But ___43___, planning for next year may start nine months or more in advance, with various stages of evaluation leading to ___44___ of the complete plan three months before the start of the year.

Planning continues, however, throughout the year, since managers ___45___ progress against targets, while looking forward to the next year. What is happening now will ___46___ the objectives and plans for the future.

In today's business climate, as markets constantly change and become more difficult to ___47___, some analysts believe that long-term planning is ___48___. In some markets they may be right, as long as companies can build the sort of flexibility into their operations which allows them to ___49___ to any sudden changes.

Most firms, however, need to plan more than one year ahead in order to ___50___ their long-term goals. This may reflect the time it takes to commission and build a new production plant, or, in marketing ___51___, it may be a question of how long it takes to research and launch a range of new products, and reach a certain ___52___ in the market. If, for example, it is going to take five years for a particular airline to become the ___53___ choice amongst business travelers on certain routes, the airline must plan for the various ___54___ involved.

Every one-year plan, therefore, must be ___55___ in relation to longer-term plans, and it should contain die stages that are necessary to achieve the final goals. 41. A. make up B. carry out C. bring about D. put down 42. A. patterns B. guides C. designs D. distributions 43. A. surprisingly B. centrally C. equally D. typically 44. A. approval B. permission C. admiration D. objection 45. A. value B. confirm C. review D. survey 46. A. restore B. promote C. influence D. maintain 47. A. guess B. advocate C. recognize D. predict 48. A. pointless B. meaningful C. realistic D. inevitable 49. A. lead B. respond C. refer D. contribute 50. A. share B. handle C. develop D. benefit 51. A. expressions B. descriptions C. words D. terms 52. A. reputation B. position C. situation D. direction 53. A. reserved B. selected C. preferred D. supposed 54. A. acts B. steps C. means D. points 55. A. handed over B. left behind C. made out D. drawn up

Section B

（A）

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The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks Reviewed by Helena

No lyrical, romantic account, but a hard-bitten, dull and down-to-earth story of a family, a community and an environment. A story of cycles---of seasons, years, people, generations, stretches back centuries.

A story of farming which only exists now in the remoter, wilder region of the UK, where the land is too hard and the environment too harsh for farming to be an“agribusiness”. Where success, survival of farms, their sheep are dependent on knowledge passed down through generations and shared

between farmers and shepherds in a small, close-knit and mutually-dependent community. A story of people hefted to their land every bit as much as their sheep are hefted to their fells. A Month in the Country by J.L. Carr Reviewed by L.R. Fisher

It is unbelievably simple and delightfully slow-paced, full of Lawrence-like description of a vanished（消失的）country landscape. The focal points are a casual and peculiar friendship between two war-scarred, shell-shocked men Tom Birkin and Moon. In a book barely 100 pages long, the author not only manages to give us a story that flows like a stream, but also achieves impressive characterization, bitter feelings of war and a corresponding celebration of peace, a little suspense, and even a twist in the tail.

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson Reviewed by T. Bently

Having read all of Bill Bryson’s travel books, this was the last one left. I hadn’t read this because I had been told it was one

of his weakest one. But I decided, through no other reason that I needed a hit of Bryson, to read it. People couldn’t have been more wrong. From the very beginning of assessing the feasibility, arranging for Katz to accompany him to the purchasing of his equipment and the purchasing of“a large knife for killing bears and hillbillies”，Bryson is at his absolute best. His cute eye-is a wise witness to this beautiful but fragile trail. His encounters along the trail and Katz anti-social, childish antics（滑稽动作）make the first 150 pages more than a laugh-out-loud-hike. I couldn’t have been more surprised. An adventure, a comedy, and a celebration, A Walk in the Woods is

destined to become a modern classic.

56. In The Shepherd’s Life, James Rebanks takes readers through a shepherds’ life ______. A. featuring a hard struggle in the remote and beautiful area B. alternated by the seasons and changed by the generations C. little noticed, and deeply attached to the harsh land

D. spent in a profitable agricultural and friendly community

57. From the review of A Month in the Country we can learn that Tom and Moon ____. A. have lived in a slow-paced country throughout their life

B. are war survivors with troubled memories

C. were deafened by the explosion of a shell in the war D. will make the end of their story more fascinating to read

58. By saying“People couldn’t have been more wrong”，the reviewer wants to say that _____. A. Bryson’s travel book is the best seller in travelling literature B. Bryson’s travelling experience is laughable

C. It’s a pity that people turn a blind eye to Bryson’s travelling experience D. A Walk in the Wood combines artistic quality well with natural beauty

（B）

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Malaria, the world’s most widespread parasitic（寄生虫引起的）disease, kills as many as three million people every year—almost all of whom are under five, very poor, and African. In most years, more than five hundred million cases of illness result from the disease, although exact numbers are difficult to assess because many people don’t (or can’t) seek care. It is not unusual for a family earning less than two hundred dollars a year to spend a quarter of its income on malaria treatment, and what they often get no longer works. In countries like Tanzania, Mozambique, and the Gambia, no family, village, hospital, or workplace can remain unaffected for long.

Malaria starts suddenly, with violent chills, which are soon followed by an intense fever and, often, headaches. As the parasites multiply, they take over the entire body. Malaria parasites live by eating the red blood cells they infect. They can also attach themselves to blood vessels in the brain. If it doesn’t kill you, malaria can happen again and again for years. The disease passed on to humans by female mosquitoes infected with one of four species of a parasite. Together, the mosquito and the parasite are the most deadly couple in the history of the earth—and one of the most successful. Malaria has five thousand genes, and its ability to change rapidly to defend itself and resist new drugs has made it nearly impossible to control. Studies show that mosquitoes are passing on the virus more frequently, and there are more outbreaks in cities with large populations. Some of the disease’s spread is due to global warming.

For decades, the first-choice treatment for malaria parasites in Africa has been chloroquine, a chemical which is very cheap and easy to make. Unfortunately, in most parts of the world, malaria parasites have become resistant to it. Successful alternatives that help prevent resistance are already available, but they have been in short supply and are very expensive. If these drugs should fail, nobody knows what would come next.

59. According to paragraph 1, many people don’t seek care because ________. A. they are too poor

B. it is unusual to seek care

C. they can remain unaffected for long

D. there are too many people suffering from the disease

60. Which of the following may be the reason for the wide spread of the disease? A. Its resistance to global warming.

B. Its ability to pass on the virus frequently. C. Its outbreaks in cities with large populations. D. Its ability to defend itself and resist new drugs. 61. It can be inferred from the passage that ____. A. no drugs have been found to treat the disease

B. the alternative treatment is not easily available to most people C. malaria has developed its ability to resist parasites

D. nobody knows what will be the drug to treat the disease

62. Which of the following questions has NOT been discussed in the passage? A. How can we know one is suffering from malaria? B. How many people are killed by malaria each year? C. Why are there so many people suffering from malaria? D. What has been done to keep people unaffected for long?

（C）

Hollywood’s theory that machines with evil minds will drive armies of killer robots is just silly. The real problem relates to the possibility that artificial intelligence(AI) may become extremely good at achieving something other than what we really want. In 1960 a well-known mathematician Norbert Wiener, who founded the field of cybernetics（控制论）, put it this way: “If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot effectively interfere, we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire.”

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to

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