《精准解析》上海市洋泾中学2021届高三下学期三月考试英语试题（原卷版）

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上海市洋泾中学 2020 学年(第二学期)三月质量检测

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

语法填空

One way of capturing the scale of the devastation that forest fires have inflicted on Australia is through

figures. Some 11 million hectares of the Lucky Country have gone up in smoke ___1___September, almost the

same area as Bulgaria. So far at least 26 people are known ___2___(lose) their lives, and over 2,300 homes have

been destroyed with over half a billion animals ___3___(burn) alive or choked to death. But numbers tell only part

of the story. A plume of smoke has drifted across the South Pacific Ocean, reaching Buenos Aires. Australia's

normally calm society ___4___(shake). Shane Warne, the most distinguished sportsman in a sports-mad nation, has

gone so far as to raise money for the relief effort by auctioning off the baggy cap he wore as part of Australia's all-

conquering cricket team.

You ___5___think dial Australia is particularly vulnerable to forest fires, but that would be a mistake. Many

other countries share the same conditions that have set Australia burning, physically and politically, including

similar terrain and a leadership that has yet to wake up fully to the new reality ___6___climate change is creating.

Worldwide, fire seasons ___7___(get) longer and more damaging. The areas al risk include America's west coast,

the Mediterranean, southern Africa and swathes of Central Asia. If that sounds frightening, remember that in 2018

California had the deadliest forest fires in its history,___8___(kill) over 80 people and causing parts of Los Angeles

to be evacuated, while over 100 people died in wildfires in Greece.

As a result, the lessons from Australia's tragedy are important.___9___is that climate change is making

infernos more likely. It is true that forest fires arc a long-standing part of some territories' ecology, but ____10____

the world gets holler and drier, their incidence and severity are rising. In 2019 Australia's mean temperature was the

highest since records began in 1910, 1.5 Cabove the long-run average. The amount of rainfall, meanwhile, was 40%

below the long-term average and at the lowest level since 1900.

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. investigation；B. issued；C. justifiable；D. apparently；E. contracting

F. transmission；G. likely;H. resulting；I. irreparable；J. blow ；K. venture

Gene-Edited Babies Trigger Worldwide controversy

THE WAVE of condemnation is far from over for He Jiankui, a Chinese researcher who claimed to have

produced the world's first gene-edited babies. His research was aimed at helping millions of children at risk of

___11___ the HIV vims. He had altered a gene in embryos with the goal of making the babies resistant to HIV. He

said the pregnancy had been successful and that ___12___healthy twin girls were born a few weeks earlier.

The Southern University of Science and Technology said in a statement that the university was unaware of the

experiment he conducted. The university believes that his research has seriously violated academic ethics and rules,

and it has immediately set up an independent ___13___ team on the matter. Hours after a video of his work was

leaked, a total of 122 Chinese scientists in the field of gene-editing across the world ___14___ a joint statement of

condemnation. It reads, “Pandora's box has been opened, but we may still have a chance to close it before it is

___15___. They added that his behavior has dealt a heavy ___16___to the international reputation of Chinese

science.

Many researchers in stem cell science, immunology and medical ethics also described the experiment as

“absurd” and “rogue. For one, the experimentation is considered unnecessary given China's mature technology in

preventing the mother-to-child ___17___of HIV during pregnancy and early infancy. On the other hand, while the

removal of the CCR5 gene can help immunize humans from AIDS, it ___18___ makes the body more susceptible

to other viruses and illnesses. Moreover, DNA changes are also inherited by future generations, ___19___ in

unpredictable consequences in the human gene pool.

But not all scientists oppose He's experiment. George Church, a renowned geneticist at Harvard University,

told The Associated Press, “I think this is ____20____ as HTV is a major and growing public health threat.” Some

netizens support Church, claiming that human gene editing is just another piece of technology like organ

transplantation.

It remains a mystery as to whether the babies can indeed resist all forms of the HIV virus throughout their

entire lives.

III, Reading Comprehension

Section A

The Chinese government has a plan to link the cities of Hong Kong, Macau, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai,

Foshan, Zhongshan, Dongguan, Huizhou, Jiangmen and Zhaoqing into an economic and business powerhouse. It

will be called The Greater Bay Area. Some in China's central bank are looking to the European Union and Britain

to ___21___ how best to do this.

The Greater Bay Area already has a total economy almost ___22___ to Australia's. But the area is divided

___23___ Hong Kong and Macau have their own money and legal systems. This makes ___24___ difficult.

China's central bank's branch in Shenzhen created a 295-page report on financial and economic integration in

the bay. It suggested building a___25___ market similar to the 28-state European Union. The report was written

with China Merchants Bank's chief economist and published last month. The report notes some of the ___26___ of

European integration. But it also points to some of the problems China faces as it tries to control an area that

___27___ has international financial markets, industrial centers and technology sectors.

In the report, the head of the Shenzhen central bank, Xing Yujing, was clear about the importance of the free

movement of people and money in the bay. The report also pointed to what could be ___28___ from Britain’s

planned exit from Europe.

The European Union and the common market have strengthened “the welfare of the European people

" the

Shenzhen branch of the People's Bank of China said in a statement. It added that suggestions do not represent

official policy ___29___. Britain has made professional decisions to reduce the effects of Brexit

____30____keeping "integration with European economy and finance," the report also said.

The European common market ____31____ the free movement of labor. So should the Greater Bay Area, said

Gary Smith. He is a London-based director at Barings Investment Institute. “That's the way that the economic

benefits maximized,” he said.

Europe has ____32____ border control between 26 of its 28 countries. In the Greater Bay Area, there are still

borders between Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China. This is the ____33____ of the "One Country, Two

Systems" agreement that permits the two cities to keep their way of life while under Chinese rule.

For a(n) ____34____ solution, Xing noted Britain's idea of a ‘soft’ border with Ireland after Brexit. The soft

border would permit the free movement of people, money and products between the Republic of Ireland and

Northern Ireland. The report said an ____35____ border could be put in place in the bay and businesses could pay

taxes online after crossing it.

21. A. consult B. decide C. maximize D. emphasize

22. A. equal B. subject C. inferior D. crucial

23. A. suppose B. though C. provided D. because

24. A. division B. association C. integration D. assembly

A. single B. prosperous C. diverse D. continental

26. A. consequences B. influences C. benefits D. factors

27. A. barely B. originally C. initially D. already

28. A. obtained B. learned C. extracted D. derived

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