2017学年度第一学期高三英语周二练习2017.9.12
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20％) 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.
Over the past sixteen years of my life, I have grown to be a very independent person. This can be both good and bad in the sense that I am able to do things (21)______ my own, yet at times struggle with taking advice from others. Sometimes, hearing what other people have to say can be one of the hardest things to do. However, getting advice from (22)_______ cares about you can impact your life in great way. Because of this, I began realizing that my mom’s guidance throughout my life has never steered me wrong. This is why I believe you( 23) __________ always listen to your mother.
This belief has not been easy (24) _______ (realize). It has taken endless amount of time in which I decided to go against what my mother had tosay, and later discovered that she was right. I think we can all agree that (25) ____ (admit) your mother was right is always a hard thing to do. But what else are you supposed to say (26) _______ you are standing outside in the freezing cold, shaking because you did not wear that extra jacket you (27) __________ (tell) to wear?
When I was twelve years old, I had the experience of a lifetime. However, I would have missed out if it hadn’t been for my mom. She had been planning a trip to Turkey
for work, (28) _____ (offer) to bring my sister and me along with her. When I first heard about this opportunity, I was terrified. Never had I been out of the country before. I thought to (29)______ “Is she crazy? my mom then began to say, (30) “_____ is known to all, one needs to step out of his comfort zone and try something new in order to encounter larger-than-life ideas.” After going back and forth with my own thoughts, I decided to go on the trip. And boy, she was right. Going to Turkey will forever be one of my greatest memories and I am thankful I got to visit that amazing country.
Section B
Directions: 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. A. flexibility B. shift C. hungry D. improvement E. dominated F. released G. secure H. adapting I. familiar J. burying K. distinguish 1
The New York Times has changed a lot in the past 10 years, embracing digital subscriptions and growing into online video and specialty areas like cooking. It has not been enough to prepare the company for the future, according to the paper's own 2020 report ___31__ on Tuesday.
\the authors wrote in the opening of the report. \through workarounds; now we must tear apart the barriers. We must __32___ between mission and tradition: what we do because it’s essential to our values and what we do because we’ve always done it.\
The report indicated how far the paper has come in ___33___ itself for the digital age while also pointing out what needs to be done.
The areas that need ____34___ are focused on the newsroom, particularly in the tools and internal structures that journalists must deal with to produce their work.
Many of the report's recommendations are___35___ to anyone who closely follows the Times or newspapers in general: A(n) __36___ away from print's outsized importance on the newsroom's operations, better ways to include multimedia in stories and a renewed effort at creating more a diverse newsroom with a variety of skills.
The paper has an ongoing goal that started in 2016 of doubling digital revenue to $800 million by 2020. \expand substantially our number of subscribers by 2020.\
The report also calls into some question that formats on which the Times — and most other newspapers — rely on, namely a mix of news stories and features that are text heavy. \our daily report remains dominated by long strings of text,\
The report stresses that the Times should do more to educate readers. \readers are ___39___ for advice from The Times. Too often, we don’t offer it, or offer it only in print-centric forms,\the form of critiques from the paper's own journalists. Reporters said they would like to see less incremental news, flexibility in choice of how to tell certain stories, and some disagreement about what kind of tone the Times should embrace going forward.
III. Reading Comprehension (45%) 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 or phrase that best fits the context.
Have We Reached Peak Trade?
Globalization is usually defined as the free movement of people, goods and capital. It’s been the most important 41 force of modernity. Until the financial crisis of 2008, global trade grew twice as fast as the global economy itself. 42 , thanks to both economics and politics, globalization as we have known it is
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developing fast.
The question is: Have we reached peak trade? If you think of it in terms of the flow of digital data and ideas, no--it’s actually 43 .’ Indeed, the cross-border flow of digital data-e-commerce, web searches, online video, machine-to-machine interactions -has grown 45 times larger since 2005 and is 44 to grow much faster than the global economy over the next few years.
There’s no doubt globalization has increased wealth at both global and national levels. But free trade can also widen the 45 gap within countries, in part by creating concentrated groups of economic losers. Free trade has made goods and services cheaper for Americans - think of all the inexpensive Chinese-made goods at Walmart - but it hasn’t always 46 their job prospects. From l990 to 2008, the areas most 47 to foreign competition saw almost no net new jobs created. That’s one reason the new generation of Americans is on track to be 48 than their parents.
The gains of free trade do not always 49 the losses. This realization that the tide of 50 doesn’t raise all boats has fed into the anti-free trade movement. And companies themselves are 51 globalization. Nevertheless, there is one reason to be 52 about the future of globalization–at least, the new information-based kind. McKinsey data estimate that the companies responsible for the jump in flows of digital goods, services and information will include a much higher proportion of small businesses than in the past. An estimated 86% of tech-based startups surveyed by McKinsey now do some cross-border business 53 before the arrival of the Internet, when globalization was dominated by super powers. That means that more of the wealth generated by globalization could flow down to the 80% of the population that hasn’t 54 as much as it should have.
If those individuals feel they are being empowered by open borders and free trade, it could help swing the political pendulum（钟摆）back toward globalization in some form. Despite its laws, it has been an economic force that has lifted more people out of 55 than anything else the world has ever known.
41. A. political B. cultural 42. A. Otherwise 43. A. depressing 44. A. projected 45. A. price
B. Hence
C. economic
D. natural D. Yet
C. Moreover
C. approving
B. increasing B. tracked
D. operating D. needed D. wealth
D. reversed
C. signaled
C. pension
B. welfare B. helped
46. A. ruined C. foreseen C. exposed C. wealthier
C. suffer
47. A. resistant B. suited 48. A. happier B. healthier 49. A. outweigh
B. balance
D. inaccessible
D. poorer
D. substitute
D. consumption D. insisting on D. curious
50. A. materialism B. modernization C. globalization
C. profiting from C. optimistic
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51. A. withdrawing from B. counting on 52. A. confused
B. concerned