2019-2020学年 上海市行知中学高一上英语10月月考英语试卷

上海市行知中学2019学年第一学期

高一年级第一次月考英语试卷

I. 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.

Mistakes that work

The best way to learn something is to make mistakes first. Thomas Edison, (1) __________ invented the light bulb, told his colleagues: “Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something was able to incorporate (融入) into the next attempt.” Benjamin Franklin, the US statesman and scientist once said: “I haven’t failed. I have had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work.”

(2) __________ of these people understood that failures and false starts are the condition of success. In fact, (3) __________ surprising number of everyday objects had their beginnings in a mistake or a misunderstanding. Post-it notes, packets of crisps and even bread are all unexpected inventions. In 2600 BC, a tired Egyptian slave invented (4) __________ is now called bread when the dough (面团) rose during his sleep. And crisps were first cooked by a cook in the USA when a customer suggested his fried potatoes be (5) __________ (thin) than they were.

In 1968 Spencer Silver was trying to develop a strong glue when he accidentally invented a very weak glue instead. His colleague, Art Fry decided to use it six years later, in1974, to have his bookmarks (6) __________ (hold) in his books and the post-it note was invented.

Successful businesspeople have often made big, expensive mistakes in their past. When an employee of IBM made a mistake that cost the company $600,000, Thomas Watson, the chairman, (7) __________ (ask) if he would fire the man. “No,” he replied. “I have just spent $600,000 (8) __________ (train) him. I won’t let another company (9) __________ (benefit) from the experience.

The important thing to remember is that you need to learn from your mistakes. (10) __________ you don’t, then there is no point making them.

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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. tools

B. funded

C. likely

D. projects

E. pregnant

F. total

G. stated

H. extend

I. prevent

J. wealthy

K. outbreaks

Health Workers Aim to Save Lives of Mothers, Babies with Smartphone Data

A new project in India and Uganda is aimed at helping health workers save the lives of mothers and babies with information from electronic devices.

The $100 million project is (11) __________ by the Rockefeller Foundation, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank and other groups. Officials plan to (12) __________ the project to a total of 10 countries. The goal is to (13) __________ the premature deaths of 6 million women and children by 2030.

Raj Shah is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, which leads the project. The group is providing $60 million of the $100 million (14) __________ cost. Shah said the plan is to give health workers low-cost tools to help them gather the information they need to help communities and families most at risk.

The project will provide (15) __________ such as real-time risk maps to help health workers reach mothers and children. Workers also will be able to study non-health data on climate or social media patterns to predict and prepare for local disease (16) __________ or health emergencies.

Shah told Reuters, "A few years ago, these community health workers had no real technology ... today the vast majority of them have smartphones with data and software technologies in their hands --- and with those, we can help them do their work better."

A U.N. report published last week (17) __________ that more women and newborn babies survive now than ever before. But the report said that a baby or a (18) __________ woman still dies every 11 seconds somewhere in the world.

Deaths of mothers are nearly 50 times higher for women in sub-Saharan Africa than in (19) __________ countries. The report also found that babies in Sub-Saharan Africa are 10 times more (20) __________ to die in their first month of life.

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