2018-2019学年晋元高级中学英语高二下3月月考

晋元高二月考

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.

If you used the term“business echics”in the 1970s, when the field was just starting to develop, a common response was: Isn’t that an oxymoron（矛盾修辞法）?”That jump（妙语）would often be followed by a recition of Milton Friedman’s famous quotation ___21___ corporate executives’ only social responsibility is to make as much money for shareholders ___22___ is legally possible.

Over the next 40 years, however, business people stopped ___23___（quote）Friedman and began to talk of their responsibilities to their companies’ stakeholders, a group that includes not only shareholders, but also customers, employees and members of the communities ___24___ they operate.

In 2009, an oath ___25___（circulate）among the first class of Harvard Business School to graduate after the global financial crisis. ___26___ who took it—admittedly, a minority—swore to pursue their work“in an ethical manner”and to run their enterprises“in good faith, guarding against decisions and behavior that advance my own narrow ambitions but harm the enterprise and the societies ___27___ serves.”

___28___ then, the idea has spread, with students from 250 business schools taking a similar oath. This year, all Dutch bankers, 90,000 of them, are swearing that they will act with integrity, ___29___（put）the interests of customers ahead of others（including shareholders），and behave openly, transparently, and in accordance with their responsibilities to society. Australia has a voluntary Banking and Finance Oath, which obliges those taking it（more than 300 people have so far），among other things, speak out ___30___ wrongdoing and encourage others to do the same.

Section B

Directions：Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note

Google’s DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee ___31___ after about three and a half hours, with 28 minutes and 28 seconds remaining on his clock. The series is the first time a professional 9-dan Go player has taken on a computer, and Lee is ___32___ for a $1 million prize.

“I was very surprised,”said Lee after the match.“I didn’t expect to lose. But I didn’t think AlphaGo would play the game in such a perfect manner.”DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis expressed“huge ___33___ for Lee Se-dol and his amazing skills.”calling the game“hugely exciting”and“very tense.”Team lead David Silver said it was an“amazing game of Go that really pushed AlphaGo to its ___34___.”

Go is an ancient Chinese board game that has long been considered one of the great ___35___ faced by AI. While computer programs ow best the world’s leading human players of games like checkers and chess, the high level of intuition and ___36___ required by Go has made it tough for computers to crack. DeepMind’s AlphaGo program is the most ___37___ effort yet, using a complex system of deep neural networks and machine learning; it beat