1、全国百强校学年上师大附中高三下英语三月月考解析版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 th
2、e other 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 ph
3、ones 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 t
4、his seemingly 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
5、four 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
6、end up 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.【答案】1. have included 2. should 3. even if 4. to help 5. what 6. ruled 7. conquering 8. le
7、ss visual 9. which/that 10. or【解析】本文是说明文。智能手机曾经是科技行业甚至我们所有人的福音。然而现在大家对手机具有难以抵抗的着迷。如何才能摆脱对手机屏幕的狂热迷恋?本文讲述了科技巨头们正在打造手机最新款的一个功能让我们的眼睛可以远离手机。【1题详解】考查动词时态。句意:在iPhone首次亮相11年后,智能手机几乎纳入了其他所有的小设备。根据since the iPhone made its debut得知主句中谓语动词要用现在完成时,故填have included 。【2题详解】考查情态动词。句意:令人惊讶的是,智能手机改变了所有业务。should翻译成竟然,
8、故填should。【3题详解】考查状语从句。句意:但是即使如今智能手机已经取得了统治地位,变革的硝烟再起。前后语境得知是让步关系,故填even if 。【4题详解】考查动词不定式。句意:然后,每家公司都公布了另外一个东西:帮助你大幅减少手机使用时间的软件。表示目的用不定式结构,故填 to help 。【5题详解】考查表语从句。句意:在制造更好的手机和对手机已经过于成瘾的担心之间,科技公司感受到了这种紧张关系是有原因的。我把这称之为,我们已达到了“屏幕顶峰”。be动词后是表语从句,缺少宾语用what,故填what 。【6题详解】考查非谓语动词。句意:在过去十年的大部分时间中,被智能手机统治的技术
9、行业所追求的目标一直是完全占领我们的眼睛。句中有谓语动词has pursued,得知第二个动词rule要用非谓语形式,统治和技术行业是被动关系,用过去分词表示被动,故填ruled。【7题详解】考查动名词。句意:在过去十年的大部分时间中,被智能手机统治的技术行业所追求的目标一直是完全占领我们的眼睛。介词后用doing形式,故填 conquering 。【8题详解】考查形容词。句意:因此,科技巨头正在打造某种新的开头:一个不总是视觉的科技世界,形容词修饰名词,根据语境得知是不总是视觉的,用形容词比较级。故填 less visual。【9题详解】考查定语从句。句意:一个依靠声音辅助、耳机、手表以及其
10、他可穿戴设备减轻眼睛负担的数字图景。先行词是landscape,在定语从句中做主语,故填which/that 。【10题详解】考查连词。句意:我们可能会不再把这些新的设备加入我们沉迷屏幕的生活当中。否则,它可能会再次改变一切。根据语境得知是表示否则,故填or。Section BDirections:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.The Smit
11、hsonians 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 domestic violence on several occasions,”receiving“punishments ranging from comm
12、unity 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 any asterisks(星号).Now, museums around the world are _13_ with the implicatio
13、ns 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 controversy. Mr. Cloze has called the allegations“lies”and said he is“being severely
14、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 Paris, as well as by high-spending collectorsand whether the work of other artis
15、ts 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 major visual artists from different eras and the institutions that have long c
16、ollected 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 body of Mr. Closes work.“Now we have to think to ourselves,Do we need to do
17、 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 do about Mr. Close, some say they can no longer afford to simply present art
18、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.【答案】11. E 12. B 13. I 14. F 15. G 16. J 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. K【解析】本文是说明文。史密森尼国家肖像画廊在准备2014年文本墙时展出了拳击手梅威瑟Jr的照片。华盛顿博物馆注意到梅威瑟先生“由于被指控多次使用家庭暴力” 接
19、受“从社区服务到监禁的各种惩罚”。这一艺术举动很有争议性,表现出个人行为的创造性输出从流行文化到主要视觉艺术家领域和制度的差异。【11题详解】考查形容词。句意:这样的背景对艺术中有争议的主题来说是常见的。表示“有争议的”,故选 E controversial.【12题详解】考查形容词。句意:但是他们的作品还挂在著名的博物馆而没有任何标注。故选B famous.【13题详解】考查动词。句意:现在世界各地的博物馆正在为这一决定可能带来的影响斟酌着。表示“斟酌”此处是进行时,故选I wrestling.【14题详解】考查动词。句意:世界各地的博物馆正在考虑无限制的推迟Chuck的展览。表示“无限制地
20、”修饰动词postpone用副词,故选F indefinitely.【15题详解】考查动词。句意:因为Chuck承认卷入对模特的性骚扰。表示“承认”,故选G claims.【16题详解】考查动词。句意:这种推迟引出如何处理close先生的那些作品的问题。由the修饰做主语用名词,表示“延期,推迟”,故选J postponement.【17题详解】考查动词。句意:是否被指责有问题行为的其他艺术家的作品需要重新审视。表示“行为”,故选D conduct.【18题详解】考查动词。句意:因为公众争议要把个人行为的创造性输出与个人行为分离。表示“分离”,介词后用动词-ing形式,故选C separati
21、ng.【19题详解】考查动词。句意:不论博物馆最终要决定如何处理close先生的作品。表示“最后,最终”,故选A ultimately.【20题详解】考查动词。句意:博物馆不会在没有处理这位问题艺术家的情况下展出他的艺术的。表示“处理”,介词后用动词-ing形式,故选K addressing. Reading Comprehension.Section ADirections:For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each b
22、lank 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 jobs. Gates is only one of many people in the tech world who have worried about automa
23、tion 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 drivers might soon find their jobs threatened by driverless trucks. Though in the past, techn
24、ology 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 from workers to company owners.Another _27_ is that even if the mass of humanity ultimatel
25、y 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 Tyler Cowen has noted, wages in Britain fell for four decades at the start of the Indus
26、trial 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 worth it to _29_ that revolution and give them time to adjust.The main argument against ta
27、xing 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 productivity, combined with falling business investment, suggests that _31_ of new technology i
28、s 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 proposal is that its very hard to tell the difference between new technology that _32_ humans
29、 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 learning to operate those looms. If taxes had slowed the development of power looms, the ev
30、entual 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 unintended consequences of automation. But given the importance of sustaining innovation
31、, 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 example 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. modernism B. availability C. popularity
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