上海市杨浦区学年高三上学期期中英语试题.docx

1、上海市杨浦区学年高三上学期期中英语试题上海市杨浦区2020-2021学年高三上学期期中英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、用单词的适当形式完成短文Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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 o

2、ther blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Its that time of the year again: school has started in full swing, homework is piling up and you realize that you cant possibly wait for summer next year.“I need a holiday,” you 1 be thinking.But wait- is it a holiday that you truly need? When we t

3、hink of holidays, we think of travelling, benches, fun and adventure. But the reality is, we spend most of our holidays on our personal devices. Smartphones have taken the world by storm, 2 (influence) the manner we interact with each other. Does this sound like you? If so, it sounds like you need a

4、 digital detox(数码产品戒毒期).3 it may seem that sending a quick text message or uploading a photo to Wechat 4 (take) little time, these things eventually add up without us even knowing it.It was discovered in a study 5 (conduct) on Lastminute. com that 90 percent of Britons spend more than four hours a d

5、ay using their electronic devices while they are on holiday. Whether to give yourself a digital detox is a difficult decision 6 (make). To help you along, it is probably a good idea to choose a remote area, somewhere close to nature, 7 you can truly relax yourself, and most importantly, not 8 (tempt

6、) to switch on your smartphone.Taking a tech-free holiday would be a good time to pick up something new, 9 return to hobbies which you never had time 10, You could sketch the view-of the-coast, or take photos with your old film camera, If youre going with friends or family, perhaps bring along some

7、board games to spend time rebuilding tired relationships二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文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.A pen has always been a(n) 11 tool when it comes to taking exams. However, in

8、 this digital age, this traditional tool may become a thing of the past.Cambridge University in Britain is considering ending 800 years of written exams and allowing students to use laptops or ipads to take exams instead.The move comes after Cambridge teachers complained that students handwriting is

9、 becoming too hard to recognize. The 12 in being able to write neatly could largely be down to the 13 on laptops in lectures and elsewhere.“There has definitely been a(n) 14 trend. It is difficult for both the students and the examiners as it is harder and harder to read these scripts, Sarah Pearsal

10、l, a senior lecturer at the university, told The Telegraph.As a result, more and more students with poor handwriting are being 15 to return to university during the summer holidays to read their answers aloud to university administratorsHowever, some 16 the move, fearing the handwritten word would b

11、ecome a lost art. Tracy Trussell, a handwriting expert at the British Institute of Graphologists, 17 Cambridge to make sure that students continue to write by hand, particularly in lectures. She told The Telegraph that writing by hand could help students improve their memory and understand lessons b

12、etter.Meanwhile, there are also concerns that primary and secondary schools could follow Cambridges exampleIn fact, a similar plan was carried out for some first- and second-year students at Edinburgh University in the UK in 2011, reported The Scotsman. Senior officials at the university believed it

13、 was 18 to expect students to use pens and paper during exams when most of their coursework was done using computers.The move also echoes the opinions of Harvard professor Eric Mazur, known as the father of the flipped classroom(翻转课堂). He believes that the rise of mobile Internet 19 means that we li

14、ve in an age in which we dont need to memorize anything Students should be tested on their creative and 20 skills, rather than the ability to remember information, he said during the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in September.三、完形填空 There was once a time that I would only do what I kn

15、ew was comfortable for me. Stuck in a continuous cycle of repetitive choices, I knew what was 21 when it came to making decisions. I knew what wouldnt 22 me too much, what would me glued to the floor of where I already was 23 little did I realize at the time that this was not the right path for me.A

16、fter living the same type of life for so long I decided bat there was more for me. Although it was uncomfortable at first, I pushed myself to get 24 in things that I wouldnt normally do, I decided to open up and talk to other people that I didnt think I would have the 25 to show my face to, and I started to share more about myself with others that already knew me. By do