杨浦区2018学年度第一学期高三期中考试
英语学科试卷 2018.11
Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary
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.
Time to fight gaming problem
If you’re a gamer constantly ___21___（glue）to your phone, it could be time to ask for medical help. On June 18, the WHO officially listed“gaming disorder”___22___ a mental illness, like drug or gambling addiction. Video gaming is like a non-financial kind of gambling from a psychological point of view. Gamblers use money as a way of keeping score, ___23___ gamers use points.
However, playing your favorite game every now and then is no reason to be worried. People need to understand this doesn’t mean every child who spends hours playing games ___24___（be）an addict, otherwise doctors ___25___（flood）with requests for help.
But according to the WHO, ___26___ you lose control over your gaming habits and put gaming above everything else in life, you should be prepared to face serious problems. According to a study published by China Youth Day in July, about one in five young Chinese play online video games for at least four to five hours per day. Thankfully, measures have been taken ___27___（address）the problem. In April, the Ministry of Education issued a notice asking Chinese schools and parents to prevent students from becoming addicted to the Internet and games.
Other countries have also taken action. In 2011, South Korea passed a“shutdown law”to stop children under the age of 16 from playing video games between the hours of midnight and 6 am. Meanwhile, in Japan, some mobile phones have a special mode for children ___28___ lets their parents control what games they can download and ___29___ ______ they can play them for. In the United States, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, a nonprofit organization, puts age restrictions on most games, ___30___（mean）the children under a certain age are unable to buy them.
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. possessing B. subject C. indicator D. guarantee E. vocational F. assessing G. abandoned H. barrier I. potential J. emphasized K. critical College degrees still necessary?
We’re often told that if we can’t graduate from university, we’re unlikely to land a good job. However, some big-name companies say that you don’t need a college degree to do well in life.
According to a list released by job review platform Glassdoor in August, a total of 15 famous companies have ___31___ college degrees as a requirement for some of their jobs, including Apple, Google, IBM, and Starbucks. The phenomenon of requiring a college degree for a position that actually doesn’t need it is called degree inflation（膨胀），according to Forbes. About 6 million jobs in the US are potentially ___32___ to degree inflation, according to a report released by Harvard Business School in 2017.
This is because many employers regard having a college degree as equal to ___33___ a variety of soft skills. “Especially at a time when recruiters（招聘人员）complain that workers lack ___34___ soft skills—the ability to solve problems, work in teams and communicate—college is seen as the place that develops such abilities,”Jeffrey J. Selingo, a professor of practice at Arizona State University, US, wrote on The Washington Post. However, for some companies, a college degree doesn’t ___35___ that an applicant is a good performer. “They did some research and they saw that the individual strengths and future ___36___ rather than the academic performance of those they hired were a greater ___37___ of success in working at the firm,”Larry Nash, EY’s US director of recruiting, told Fast Company. EY, a UK-based finance company, dropped the requirement for a college degree when seeking hires in the UK in 2015.
Meanwhile, in many tech sector positions, ___38___courses and on-the-job experience are more meaningful than a college degree, Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, told Quartz.
However, this doesn’t mean a college degree is completely useless. Indeed, a college degree is still considered when ___39___ a job candidate, but it“no longer acts as a ___40___ to getting a foot in the door,”Maggie Stilwell, a recruitment expert at EY, told HuffPost.
For some companies recent college graduates are no better than people who learned the same skills by themselves. As Quartz put it,“What a person knows is more important than how they learned it.”
Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions：For each blank in the following passages 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.
This summer we said goodbye to unnecessary plastic waste. Starbucks committed to ___41___ plastic straws in all locations by 2020, IKEA banned all single-use plastics from its stores, and entire cities banned the use of plastic bags and straws. And now we have one more thing to add to our consciousness-raising list: People are starting to understand the ___42___ of contact lenses（隐形眼镜）.
According to a new research out of the American Chemical Society, 20 percent of people who wear contact lenses throw them away in the toilet or sink. But as medical ___43___, contact lenses are specifically designed to be resistant in touch environments, and ___44___ they don’t biodegrade easily. Throwing contact lenses into toilet is particularly concerning because their size and ___45___ allow them to slip through filters（过滤器）meant to keep non-biological waste out of wastewater treatment plants.
The study found that the chemical and mechanical processing at these treatment facilities were unable to ___46___ break down contact lenses, leaving them as part of the treated water. Post-treatment wastewater is typically spread on fields, where contact lenses can make their way into surface water and cause environmental damage.
It may seem like a small thing, but with over 45 million contact ___47___ in the United States, all that plastic adds up. We are talking about 22 tons of contact lenses being improperly thrown away every year here, unnecessarily adding to the hundreds of thousands of tons of microplastics ___48___ in our oceans. So what is the right way to throw away contact lenses?
It turns out that properly dealing with contact lenses is pretty ___49___. One option is to throw them in the garbage. While this will keep them out of our water ___50___, it sends them to landfill—which is not really any better. Unfortunately, you can’t just throw your contacts in the recycling bin and call it a day, either. Due to their size and packaging materials, recycling facilities typically cannot ___51___ contact lens processing, so they go to landfills. In order to actually be recycled, contact lenses need to be ___52___ at a specialty recycling facility. This doesn’t mean that all eco-conscious contact-wearers must stick to glasses, though. Fortunately, in an effort to ___53___ the waste produced by contact lenses and facilitate the recycling process, some eye care companies have started their own recycling ___54___. Through these programs, individuals can ship their used contacts to TerraCycle（a company that ___55___ in recycling the hard-to-recycle）for free.
41. A. eliminating 42. A. role
B. deleting B. function B. devices
C. producing C. impact C. tools C. however
D. saving D. efficiency D. equipment D. therefore D. similarity D. fully
43. A. terms 44. A. moreover 45. A. flexibility
B. nevertheless B. possibility B. respectively
C. capability
46. A. restrictedly C. comparatively
2018-2019学年上海市杨浦区高三上英语期中试卷(含答案)
