20XX届高三徐汇区高三英语一模
2016.12
II. Grammar and vocabulary 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.
Please mind the silence
Despite being used by 1.34 billion people each year, traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely. An unwritten rule encouraging silence, mixed with classic British reserve, means that (21)_____ _____ you’re packed into an enclosed space with hundreds of other people, the morning commute (上下班) can leave you feeling somewhat isolated. One London resident, however, is trying to change this. “You get on the Tube here and ifs completely silent and ifs weird,\an American living in London, who has, ironically, started (22)_______ worldwide dialogue after giving out badges (徽章) with the slogan “Tube chat?” last month, encouraging commuters in London to get talking to one another. “I handed out 500 badges during rush hour in a city of 8 million, expecting many refusals and most of them (23) _______ (throw) away, but after about 24 hours it completely snowballed,” he says. Dunne and his “Tube chat” campaign (24) _______(feature) in media across the world ever since, seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the UK, as well as countless website, newspaper and magazine appearances. Although Dunne says he’s received mostly positive feedback, not everyone agrees with his sentiment. Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of (25) _____ own, handing out 500 badges with the words ‘‘Don’t even think about it” on them. “I (26) ______ hardly stand the idea of having to talk to strangers on the Tube on my way to work,” he told the BBC. Michael Robinson, 24, a student from London, agrees. “Being on the Tube is the only peace and quiet some people get on their journeys to and (27) ______work. It doesn’t need to be spoiled by people coming up and chatting to you,” he says. While London has its seemingly antisocial set of regulations to follow, not everywhere lacks a sense of community. Does Dunne hope that some of this community spirit (28) __________(mirror) in the UK following his campaign? “People assume that I just walk up and talk to strangers, (29) ______ I don’t, but it’s been a great way to meet people you would never have normally spoken to,” he says. “On Monday, Oct 10, the curator (馆长) of the London Transport Museum had me over for tea.” So if you ever end up (30) ______ (use) public transport in the West, why not say hello to the person next to you? Just make sure to check for a badge first.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. overtook B. promising G beliefs H. reasonable C. likelihood I. trend D. ridiculous E. shared F. controlled J. tracked K. demonstrated The rise in stories describing events that never happened, often involving fake people in fake places, has led to Facebook and Google’s (31) ____ to deal with them. But are we really so easy to fool? According to several studies, the answer is yes: even the most obvious fake news starts to become believable if it’s (32)_____ enough times. In the months running up to the US election there was a surge(大浪) in fake news. According to an analysis by Craig Silverman, a journalist, during this time the top 20 fake stories in circulation (33)_____ the top 20 stories from 19 mainstream publishers. Paul Horner, a creative publisher of fake news, has said he believes Donald Trump was elected because of him. “My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time… His followers don’t fact-check anything – they’ll post everything, believe anything,” he told the Washington Post. Silverman previously (34)_____ rumours circulating online in 2014 and found that shares and social interactions around fake news articles dwarfed (使...相形见绌) those of the articles that exposed them. According to Silverman, fake news stories are engineered to appeal to people’s hopes and fears, and aren’t (35)_____ by reality, which gives them the edge in creating shareable content. You might think you’re immune to falling for these lies, but a wealth of research disagrees. Back in the 1940s, researchers found that “the more a rumour is told, the more (36)_____ it sounds”. They suggested this means that a rumour born out of mild suspicion can, by gaining currency, shift public thinking and opinion. This false impression of truth was (37)_____ practically in 1977 when researchers in the US quizzed college students on the actuality of statements that they were told may be true or false. The researchers found that simply repeating the statements at a later date was enough to increase the (38)______ of the students believing them. Last year, Lisa Fazio at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and her team found that students become more likely to believe a statement that they know must be false if it is repeated. “Our research suggests that false news can and likely does affect people’s (39)_____. Even if people are conscious that a headline is false, reading it multiple times will make it seem more trustworthy,” Fazio says. Reassuringly, the team found that a person’s knowledge still has a large influence over their beliefs, but it’s still a worrying (40)______ given that falsehoods appear repeatedly in our newsfeeds every day.
III. Reading Comprehension Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there arc four words or phrases marked A, B,C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. Two key climate change indicators — global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent — have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest (41)________ month globally in the modern temperature record, which (42)______1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with a(n) (43)________ temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.
Five of the first six months of 2016 also (44)_______ the smallest respective monthly Arctic sea ice (45)_______ since regular satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developed by scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The one (46)_____, March, recorded the second smallest for that month. (47)_____ these two key climate indicators have broken records in 2016, NASA scientists said it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continuing their decades-long trends of change. Both trends are ultimately driven by rising (48)_______ of heat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically (49)______ 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent in September, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been (50)_______ at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade. \o event in the tropical Pacific this winter (51)_______ the gaining global temperatures from October, it is the basic trend which is producing these record numbers,\Director Gavin Schmidt said. (52)______ El Ni?o events have driven temperatures to what were then record levels, such as in 1998. But in 2016, even as the effects of the recent El Ni?o wear off, global temperatures have risen well beyond those of 18 years ago (53)_______ the overall warming that has taken place in that time. The global trend in rising temperatures falls behind the regional (54)_____ in the Arctic, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA Goddard. \the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme,\well as unusual weather (55)______ have led to the record low sea ice extents so far this year.\41. A. resistant B. respective C. resolved D. remote 42. A. makes sense of B. keeps up with C. dates back to D. goes ahead of 43. A. average B. ordinary C. common D. temporary 44. A. confirmed B. witnessed C. involved D. conducted 45. A. standard B. content C. amount D. extent 46. A. datum B. example C. month D. exception 47. A. While B. When C. After D. As 48. A. combinations B. reductions C. concentrations D. applications 49. A. includes B. covers C. approaches D. indicates 50. A. increasing B. changing C. declining D. moving 51. A. ended up with B. gave rise to C. broke away from D. resulted from 52. A. Frequent B. Natural C. Disastrous D. Previous 53. A. in return for B. in case of C. in spite of D. because of 54. A. warming B. falling C. gathering D. changing 55. A. forecasts B. varieties C. patterns D. illustrations
Section B
Directions: 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 have just read.
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