上海市闵行区华二紫竹专修学院2021届高三上学期期中英语考试试卷 PDF版含答案

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2020-2021 学年上海市闵行区华二紫竹中学

高三上学期英语期中试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary (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.

How can we help students do better at school? Maybe we should subsiding gym memberships and make-up for

the teachers we already have. (21)________, at least, are the implications of a new study from researchers at the

University of Nevada. They designed a simple experiment to see whether a lecturer's attractiveness has any impact

on (22)_______ _______ of the lecture students remember.

Here is how the experiment was carried out. At first, the researchers conducted the experiment (23)________131

college student were asked to listen to a recording of a 20-minute introductory physics lecture. All of the students,

randomly (24)________(assign) to a male or female lecture, read exactly the same text. While the lecture was playing,

a computer screen displayed a photo of the lecturer--who was highly attractive in some cases and (25)_______(eye-

catching) in others. Taking notes was not allowed in the course.

After the lecture, participants got a 25-question quiz on the lecture. For those with the attractive instructor, the

average score was 18.27; for those with an ordinary one, the average was 16.68, seemingly not huge gap (26)_______

statistically significant, the researchers said.

Participants were asked to evaluate the lecturers after (27) _______ (quiz). Sure enough, students found the

attractive instructors more motivational, easier to follow and (28) _______(possess) greater health, intelligence and

competence. They also generally agreed on the attractiveness of the lecturers.

So do the new findings mean that schools should hire better-looking, teachers? R. Shane Westfall, the lead

author of the new paper, notes that (29)_______ _______ the performance differences in his study amounted to about

half of a letter grade, teaching training, experience and dedication would probably make a bigger difference.

Interestingly, earlier studies have found that good-looking people are more likely to get hired in almost any context-

suggesting that schools may (30)_______(hire) the more attractive teachers.

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Section B (10 分)

Directions: Complete the passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note

that there is one word more than you need.

A. mounting B. stimulus C. distribution D. interventions E. divided F. collapse

G. sustainable H. shrinking I. trembled J. disparities K. reshape

In February the coronavirus pandemic struck the world with the biggest shock since the second world war.

Lockdowns and a slump in consumer spending led to a labour market (31) ________in which the equivalent of nearly

500m fulltime jobs disappeared almost overnight. World trade (32) ________ as factories shut down and countries

closed their borders. An even deeper economic catastrophe was avoided thanks only to unprecedented (33)

________in financial markets by central banks, government aid to workers and failing firms, and the expansion of

budget deficits to near-wartime levels.

The crash was synchronized. As a recovery takes place, however, huge gaps between the performance of

countries are opening up----which could yet (34) ________ the world's' economic order. By the end of next year,

according to forecasts by the OECD, America's economy will be the same size as it was in 2019 but China's will be

10% larger. Europe will still languish beneath its pre-pandemic level of output and could do so for several years-a

fate it may share with Japan, which is suffering a demographic squeeze. The (35) ________ of growth rates across

50 economies was at its widest for at least 40 years.

These adjustments will be immense. The pandemic will leave economies less globalized, more digitized and

less equal. As they cut risks in their supply chains and harness automation, manufacturers will bring production closer

to home. As office workers continue to work in their kitchens and bedrooms for at least part of the week, lower-paid

workers who previously worked as waiters, cleaners and sales assistants will need to find new jobs in the suburbs.

Until they do, they could face long spells of unemployment. In America permanent job losses are (36) ________even

as the headline unemployment rate falls.

Instead America's weakness is toxic and(37) ________politics. This week President Donald Trump seemed

to abandon talks over renewing its (38) ________, meaning that the economy could fall over a fiscal cliff. Critical

reforms, whether to redesign the safety-net for a tech-driven economy or to put deficits on a (39) ________ course,

are all but impossible while two warring tribes define compromise as weakness. Covid-19 is imposing a new

economic reality. Every country will be called on to adapt, but America faces a daunting task. If it is to lead the post-

pandemic world, it will have to reset its politics.

The pandemic has created big performance (40) ________ between the world's economies. They could get

even larger.

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III. Reading Comprehension (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 of phrase that best fits the context.

Internet privacy refers to the vast range of technologies, protocols and concepts related to giving individual

users or other parties more privacy protections in their use of the global Internet. When Congress considered

reversing online privacy rules last week, Steve Wilmot, a Los Angeles songwriter, reacted like many (41) ____

consumers. He looked into signing up for a technology service known as a virtual private network, or VPN.

The online privacy rules, which were just set to go into effect this year but fully (42) ____ on Monday by

President Trump, would have required broadband providers like Comcast to get (43) ____ from customers before

selling their browsing history to advertisers. Without restrictions, the companies can (44) ____ and sell people's

information with greater ease.

A VPN was a natural service to consider in response. That's because the technology creates a virtual tunnel

that (45) ____ your browsing information from your internet service provider.

“I don't really want anybody to have any sort of access to what I'm looking at,” he said. “If anyone is going to

(46) ____ off my privacy, I'd prefer it to be me.”

But while VPNs are worth considering, they are a flawed solution. Some apps and services, (47) ____, may

stop working properly when you are connected to a virtual network.

Here's an overview of the pros and cons, based on tests of VPN services and interviews with(48) _________

experts.

Why go with a VPN?

When you browse the web, a broadband provider helps (49) ____ your device's internet traffic to each

destination website. When you are on the internet, a service provider can see which devices you use and which sites

you visit. But with VPN, all your internet provider would see is the VPN server's IP address connected to the VPN

service.

Does a VPN have any (50) ____?

In my tests with a Mac, download speeds dropped about 85 percent after connecting to F-Secure's Freedome

VPN service, and by 50 percent when connected to another VPN service called Private Internet Access. In other

words, Speeds will (51) ____ depending on the VPN provider’s infrastructure.

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