上海市行知中学2022-2023学年高三上学期期末质量检测英语试卷

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2022-2023 学年上海市行知中学高三上学期期末质量监测

英语试卷

I. Listening Comprehension

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II. Grammar and Vocabulary (每题 1 分;共 20 分)

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.

Video Games Foster Creativity?

Video games that foster creative freedom can increase creativity under certain conditions, according to new

research from Iowa State University. The experimental study compared the effect f playing Mine-craft(《我的世

界》-一款游戏), with or without instruction, to watching a TV show or playing a race video game. Those

____1____ (give) the freedom to play Mine-craft without instruction were most creative.

“It’s not just that Mine-craft can help induce creativity. There seems to be something about choosing to do it

that also matters

” said Douglas Gentile, a professor of psychology.

____2____ you are not familiar with the game, Gentile says Mine-craft is like a virtual Lego world. The game,

which has sold more than 100 million copies, allows players to explore unique worlds and create anything they can

imagine. Study participants randomly assigned to play Mine-craft were split into two groups. The one receiving

instruction was told to play as creatively as possible.

After 40 minutes of play or watching TV, the 352 participants completed several creativity tasks. ____3____

(measure) creative production, they were asked to draw a creature from a world much different than Earth. More

human like creature scored low for creativity and those less human-like scored high. Surprisingly, those instructed

to be creative while playing Mine-craft were the ____4____ (creative).

Gentile says there’s no clear explanation for this finding. In the paper published by Creativity Research

Journal, he, Jorge Blanco-Herrera, lead author and former master’s student in psychology: and Jeffrey Rokkum,

former Ph. D. student in psychology, outlined possible reasons why the instructed Mine-craft group scored lower.

Blanco-Herrera says the instructions may have changed subjects’ motivation for play.

“____5____ (tell) to be creative may have actually limited their options while playing, resulting in a less

creative experience,” Blanco-Herrera said. “It’s also possible they used all their ‘creative juices’ while playing and

had ____6____ left when it came time to complete the test.”

Video games can have both harmful and beneficial effects. Gentile’s previous research has shown the amount,

content and context and video games ____7____ (influence) what players learn through repeated experiences.

____8____ much of Gentile’s research has focused on aggression or pro-social behavior, he says the same appears

to be true for creativity.

Most video games encourage players to practice some level of creativity. For example, players may create a

character and story for role-playing games or be rewarded for creative strategies in competitive games. The

researchers say even first-person shooter games ____9____ potentially inspire creativity as players think about

strategy and look for advantages in combat.

“The research is starting to tell a more interesting, nuanced picture. Our results are similar to other gaming

research ____10____ you get better at what you practice, but how you practice might matter just as much, ” Gentile

said.

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that

there is one word more than you need.

spare B. respectable C. exhaust D. accidental E. designed F. critics

G. advocates H. mine I. commercially J. relieving K. theoretically

Major companies are already in pursuit of commercial applications of the new biology

They dream of

placing enzymes(酶)in the automobile to monitor ____11____ and send data on pollution to a microprocessor that

will then adjust the engine. They speak of what The New York Times calls “Metal-hungry microbes(微生物)that

might be used to ____12____ valuable trace metals from ocean water.” They have already demanded and won the

right to patent new life forms.

Nervous ____13____, including many scientists, worry that there is corporate, national, international, and

inter-scientific competition in the entire biotechnological field. They create images not of oil spills, but of “microbe

spills” that could spread disease and destroy entire populations. The creation and ____14____ release of extremely

poisonous microbes, however, is only one cause for alarm. Completely rational and ____15____ scientists are

talking about possibilities that stagger(动摇)the imagination.

Should we breed people with cow-like stomachs so they can digest grass and hay, thereby ____16____ the

food problem by modifying us to eat lower down on the food chain? Should we biologically alter workers to fit the

job requirement, for example, creating pilots with faster reaction time or assembly-line workers ____17____ to do

our monotonous work for us? Should we use genetic forecasting to pre-eliminate “unfit” babies? Should we grow

reserve organs for ourselves, each of us having, as it were, a “savings bank” full of ____18____ kidneys, livers or

hands?

Wild as these notions may sound, everyone has its ____19____ (and opposers) in the scientific community as

well as its striking commercial application. As two critics of genetic engineering, Jeremy Rifkin and Ted Howard,

state in their book Who Should Play God? “Broad scale genetic engineering will probably be introduced to America

much the same way as assembly lines, automobiles, vaccines, computers and all the other technologies. As each

new genetic advance becomes ____20____ practical, a new consumer need will be exploited and a market for the

new technology will be created.”

III. Reading Comprehension (41 – 55 题，每题 1分; 56 – 70 题，每题 2分; 共45 分)

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.

Deliberation is not always the best option

Humans have developed over millions of years of evolution to respond to certain situations without thinking

too hard. If your ancestors ___21___ movement in the undergrowth, they would run first and ask questions later. At

the same time, the ___22___ to analyse and to plan is part of what distinguishes people from other animals.

The question of when to trust your gut(直觉)and when to test your ___23___—whether to think fast or slow,

in the language of Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist—___24___ in the office as much as it does in the savannah(大

草原).

Deliberative thinking is the feature of a well-managed workplace. Strategic changes and budget discussions

are built on rounds of meetings, memos, formulas and presentations. Processes are increasingly designed to

___25___ instinctive responses. From blind screening of job applicants to using “red-teaming” techniques to pick

apart a firm’s plans, precision ___26___ instinct.

Yet instinct also has its place. Some decisions are more connected to emotional responses and inherently(固有

的)less ___27___ to analysis. Does a marketing campaign capture the ___28___ of your company, say, or would

this person work well with other people in a team? In ___29___ customer-service situations, intuition is often a

better guide to how to behave than a script.

Gut instincts can also be ____30____. Plenty of research has shown that intuition becomes more unfailing

with experience. In one well-known experiment, conducted in 2012, volunteers were asked to ____31____ whether

a selection of designer handbags were fake or real. Some were instructed to operate on instinct and others to

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