上海市上海中学届高三上学期周练英语试题二 含答Word格式.docx

1、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.A great deal of attention （

2、1）_ （pay） today to the so-called digital divide-the division of the world into the info（information） rich and the info poor at present. And that divide does exist today. My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was（2）_ （visible） then, however, were the new, positive fo

3、rces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic.There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. （3）_ the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, th

4、e more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet （4）_（net） together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow （5）_ _wide

5、n in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet（6）_well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that weve ever had.Of course, the use of the Internet isnt the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has enormous potential.

6、（7）_（take）advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries（8）_ still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure（the basic st

7、ructural foundations of a society） in the United States. When the United States built（9）_industrial infrastructure, it didnt have the capital to do so. And that is（10）_ Americas Second Wave infrastructure- including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.1.is be

8、ing paid 2.less visible 3.As 4.will be netted 5.rather than6.may 7.To take 8. that 9.its 10.whyIII. Vocabulary （10）Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Do note that there is one word more than you need.A. A. sympathyB. B. heartfeltC. C. value

9、dD. D. termsE. E. serveF. F. complimentG. distractionH. thirstedI. I. obligationJ. devotedK. affectionIm a 50-something male, the father of two mostly grown girls. Im happy to say that both my parents are still kicking. Im on good1 with my brothers and sisters most of the time. I am blessed with goo

10、d friends and other relations, and tend to get on well with my co-workers. I am fortunate in so many ways, but feel like I consistently disappoint everyone I know. I cannot, for the life of me, give a genuine 2 . It simply doesnt come naturally. When I try, and I do, in order to maintain all the rel

11、ationships, it feels forced, more a matter of 3 than a gift that might put wind in the sails of someone I truly care for. I feel strongly that giving should spring from joy, or at least from a 4 desire to see the recipient enlivened by it. When I have nothing to offer in response to a job well done,

12、 everyone loses. I feel like Ive twisted the emotional and social development of my children, alienated （疏远） any number of perfectly wonderful lovers, and generally kept the world at arms length. After years of psychotherapy and the obsessive （强迫症） self-examination common to my generation, I believe

13、 I know where this meanness of spirit comes from. Six kids in total, at a very tender age, there were five younger, cuter kids standing between me and the object of our 5 . Mama was driven to 6 , to put it mildly, by the demands placed on her, but it was the 1950s and she set a selfless and hardy ex

14、ample. I had complete 7 for her difficult situation, even at the time. The fact remains, however, that, as a young child, I needed more than I got. I 8 for my mothers attention. I needed to know that she 9 me as more than her helper, her strong little man. I clearly recall, at the ripe old age of 7,

15、 coming to the conclusion that I would never get it. Thats OK, I reckoned, I can get by without it. it being her love.You can imagine the sibling rivalry in a big family. Eventually I took haven in the written word to get away from it. But even before I learned to read, I had realized that giving any sign of approval or encouragement to my brothers and sisters could only 10 to increase the gulf between me and my mom. Does that make sense? I can rationalize otherwise, of course, and now were all one big happy family, but the damage is done. l want to be graci