上海市金山中学2024-2024学年高一下学期期中考试英语试
题
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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 other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, almost everyone in China wears a face mask to protect themselves and other people 1． the virus. However, many people in the West feel reluctant to wear masks 2． there is an increasing number of their compatriots(同胞）being infected.
According to the Global Times, different attitudes toward 3． (wear) masks largely lie in the cultures. In the West, 4． people generally believe is that unless one is already ill, wearing a mask is simply unnecessary.
Siva Kumar from the US is one of them. “Masks can only protect you from particulate matter in the air you breathe, but they can't filter (过滤) out microbes (微生物), \China Daily. “wearing a mask when you're healthy 5．(cause) tension for others.\
US infection prevention specialist Eli Perencevich told Forbes, \person 6． not wear masks.\ incorrectly it can increase the risk of infection because they're touching their faces more often.\
However, for people in Asian countries like China, wearing a mask is engrained (根深蒂 (Value) collectivism (集体主义), people in Asia always want to make 固的) in their culture. 7．
contributions to the groups 8．they belong to. In such uncertain and potentially dangerous time, many people have taken the responsibility 9．(wear) face masks to ensure the safety of their communities.
Chen Xinjie, a media worker in Beijing said: \stuffy(闷热的) and uncomfortable…But as a member of the group, it's our duty to do so.\
10．(Influence) by social cultures, the attitudes toward wearing a mask can be different in the East and West. But as US essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.\
二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文
Directions: Complete the following paragraphs 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 Bad Idea
Think you can walk, dive, take phone calls, e-mail and listen to music at the same time? Well, New York's new law says you can't. And you'll be 11． $S100 if you do it on a New York City street.
The law went into force last month, following research and a(n) 12．number of accidents that involved people using electronic gadgets when crossing the street.
Who's to13． ? Scientists say that our multitasking abilities are limited.
\Marois, a neuroscientist in Tennessee. “But a major limitation is the inability to14．on two things at once\
The young people are often considered the great multitaskers. However, an Oxford University research suggests this idea is open to question. A group of 18-to 21-year-olds and a group of 35-to 39-year-olds were given 90 seconds to translate15．into numbers, using a simple code. The younger group did 10 percent better when not interrupted. But when both groups were interrupted by a phone call or a(n) 16．message, the older group matched the younger group in speed and 17．. It is difficult to measure the productivity18．by multitaskers. But it is probably a lot. Jonathan Spire, chief analyst at Basex. a business-research firm, estimates the cost of interruptions to the American economy at nearly $650 billion a year.
The19．is based on surveys with office workers. The surveys conclude that 28 percent of the workers' time was spent on interruptions and20．time before they returned to their main tasks.
三、完形填空
The huge thirst for jobs in the civil service has made the national civil servant exam
one of China's most Competitive tests. The first exam was held in 1995, and since then more and more people have 21 for it, with applications reaching peak over the last two years.
The latest online 22 , carried out by China Youth Daily and www.qq.com, 23 that more than 73 percent of young people want to work as civil servants. Of the 17,330 participants, about 83 percent said they were attracted by the job's 24 , guaranteed health care and pension(抚恤金). 25 , 55 percent said it could bring “practical profits.”
Nearly 1 million people 26 to take the exam last year, yet only just over 10,000 were finally 27 .This year the stiff (severe) competition continued. The exact number of applicants is not known, with the final day for 28 today.
But the influx of applicants has already broken the exam's website once. China Youth Daily 29 that the site was forced to close for maintenance due to 30 high traffic on the night of October 16. In a typical year several hundred applicants will apply for many of the jobs listed. For example, the five job vacancies 31 by the secretariat of the Central Committee of the Party have this year 32 more than3,880 applicants.
In general, the exam means 50 people competing for one post, the report said. 33 as civil servants are attractive, not only because of the stable income and good health care, but also because of the low risks 34 with the power and 35 the positions enjoy. Among the total 6 million public servants, around 20,000 were dismissed between 1996 and 2003. 21．A．put up 22．A．discussion 23．A．found 24．A．interest 25．A．But 26．A．entered 27．A．employed
B．signed up B．search B．told B．concept B．Otherwise B．adopted B．won
C．made up C．survey C．spoke C．difficulty C．Meanwhile C．allowed C．succeeded C．vote C．praised C．commonly C．supplied C．attracted C．Work
D．taken up D．project D．insisted D．stability D．Instead D．applied D．dismissed D．decision D．reported D．naturally D．planned D．drawn D．Positions
28．A．examination B．applications 29．A．declared 30．A．generally 31．A．provided 32．A．grasped 33．A．Spots
B．translated B．unusually B．introduced B．pulled B．Locations
上海市金山中学2024-2024学年高一下学期期中考试英语试题
