学年上师大附中高三下英语三月月考原卷版.docx

1、学年上师大附中高三下英语三月月考原卷版2018-2019学年上师大附中高三下英语三月月考. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections：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 oth

2、er blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Smart phones were once the best thing to happen to the tech industry. In the 11 years since the iPhone made its debut, smart phones _1_（include）just about every other gadget. And it is surprising that it _2_ alter every business.But _3_ smart phones

3、have achieved dominance, revolution is again in the air.At Googles and Apples recent developer conference, executives took the stage to show how much more irresistible they were making our phones. Then each company unveiled the software _4_（help）you use your phone a lot less.Theres reason for this s

4、eemingly contradictory engineering effort, and its _5_ I call“Peak Screen”.For much of the last decade, a technology industry _6_（rule）by smart phones has pursued a singular goal of completely _7_（conquer）our eyes. Tech has now captured pretty much all visual capacity. Americans spend three to four

5、hours a day looking at their phones, and thats the minimum estimaton.So tech giants are to build the beginning of something new: a _8_（visual）tech world, a digital landscape _9_ relies on voice assistants, headphones, watches and other wearables to take some pressure off our eyes.We may simply end u

6、p adding new devices to our screen-addled lives, _10_ it could change everything again. As I argued, in many ways screens have become to dominant in our lives. The sooner we find something else, the better.Section BDirections：Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word ca

7、n only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.The Smithsonians National Portrait Gallery was preparing the wall text in 2014 to accompany an image of the boxer Mayweather Jr. During the process, the Washington museum decided to note that Mr. Mayweather had been“charged with dom

8、estic violence on several occasions,”receiving“punishments ranging from community service to jail time.”Such context is common for _11_ subjects in art, but far less so for artists themselves. Men like Picasso or Schiele were known for mistreating women, but their works hang in _12_ museums without

9、any asterisks（星号）.Now, museums around the world are _13_ with the implications of a decision, by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, to _14_ postpone a Chuck Close exhibition because of _15_ of sexual harassment（骚扰）involving potential portrait models that have involved the artist in controver

10、sy. Mr. Cloze has called the allegations“lies”and said he is“being severely criticized.”The _16_ has raised difficult questions about what to do with the paintings and photographs of Mr. closeheld by museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London and the Pompidou in Pari

11、s, as well as by high-spending collectorsand whether the work of other artists accused of questionable _17_ needs to be revisited.It is a provocative（引起争论的）moment for the art world, as the public debate about _18_ creative output from personal behavior moves from popular culture into the realm of ma

12、jor visual artists from different eras and the institutions that have long collected and exhibited their pieces.“Were very used to having to defend people in the collection, but its always been for the sitter”rather than the artist, said Kim Sajet, director of the Portrait Gallery, which has a large

13、 body of Mr. Closes work.“Now we have to think to ourselves,Do we need to do that about Chuck Close?”“You cant talk about portraiture in America without talking about Chuck Close,”she added.“There are lots of amazing artists who have been less than admirable people.”Whatever museums _19_ decide to d

14、o about Mr. Close, some say they can no longer afford to simply present art without _20_ the issues that surround the artistthat institutions must play a more active role in educating the public about the human beings behind the work. Reading Comprehension.Section ADirections：For each blank in the f

15、ollowing passages 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 peoples eye in a recent interview, when he suggested that robots should be taxed in, order to help humans keep their

16、 jobs. Gates is only one of many people in the tech world who have worried about automation and its _21_ to workers.Its easy to see why the tech world is _22_. The rise of machine learning has increased the fear that _23_ humans could simply become out of date-_24_, 3.5 million American truck driver

17、s might soon find their jobs threatened by driverless trucks. Though in the past, technology usually complemented workers _25_ replacing them, theres no law of nature saying the technology of the future will work the same. A few economists even claim that cheap automation has already _26_ income fro

18、m workers to company owners.Another _27_ is that even if the mass of humanity ultimately does find new ways to add value by complementing new technologyto“race with the machines,”as economist Erik Brynjofsson puts itthis transition could take a long time and hurt a lot of people. As Bloomberg Views

19、Tyler Cowen has noted, wages in Britain fell for four decades at the start of the Industrial Revolution. More _28_, weve 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 wor

20、th it to _29_ that revolution and give them time to adjust.The main argument against taxing the robots is that it might hold back _30_. Growth in rich countries has slowed markedly in the past decade, suggesting that its getting harder and harder to find new ways of doing things. Stagnating producti

21、vity, combined with falling business investment, suggests that _31_ of new technology is currently too slow rather than too fastthe biggest problem right now isnt too many robots, its too few. Taxing new technology, however its done, could make that slowdown worse.The problem with Gates basic propos

22、al is that its very hard to tell the difference between new technology that _32_ 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. _33_, people eventually became more productive, by lear

23、ning 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 _34_ 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 u

24、nintended consequences of automation. But given the importance of sustaining innovation, we should look at _35_ policies.21. A. resistance B. threat C. admission D. dedication22. A. frightened B. worried C. intolerant D. offensive23. A. few B. several C. many D. any24. A. in other words B. for examp

25、le C. of course D. by contrast25. A. in case of B. because of C. in face of D. instead of26. A. distracted B. digested C. directed D. disclosed27. A. fear B. proposal C. adjustment D. complement28. A. possibly B. recently C. primarily D. technically29. A. slowdown B. makeup C. getover D. giveup30. A

26、. modernism B. availability C. popularity D. innovation31. A. persuasion B. adoption C. interruption D. elimination32. A. complements B. engages C. invades D. matures33. A. However B. Therefore C. Consequently D. Furthermore34. A. from B. against C. by D. besides35. A. uppermost B. stimulating C. pe

27、rsistent D. alternativeSection BDirections：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 hav

28、e just read.（A）I remember meeting him one evening with his pushcart. I had managed to sell all my papers and was coming home in the snow. It was that strange hour in downtown New York when the workers were pouring homeward in the twilight. I marched among thousands of tired men and women whom the fa

29、ctory whistles had unyoked. They flowed in rivers through the clothing factory districts, then down along the avenues to the East Side.I met my father near Cooper Union. I recognized him, a hunched, frozen figure in an old overcoat standing by a banana cart. He looked so lonely, the tears came to my

30、 eyes. Then he saw me, and his face lit with his sad, beautiful smile-Charlie Chaplins smile.Arch, its Mikey, he said. So you have sold your papers! Come and eat a banana.He offered me one. I refused it. I felt it crucial that my father sell his bananas, not give them away. He thought I was shy, and

31、 coaxed and joked with me, and made me eat the banana. It smelled of wet straw and snow.You havent sold many bananas today, pop, I said anxiously.He shrugged his shoulders.What can I do No one seems to want them.It was true. The work crowds pushed home morosely（愁眉苦脸的）over the pavements. The rusty sk

32、y darkened over New York buildings, the tall street lamps were lit, innumerable trucks, street cars and elevated trains clattered by. Nobody and nothing in the great city stopped for my fathers bananas.I ought to yell, said my father dolefully. I ought to make a big noise like other peddlers, but it makes my throat sor