2017-2018上海建平中学高三上英语周练一(老师用)

2017学年度第一学期高三英语周二练习2017.9.12

II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20％)

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.

Over the past sixteen years of my life, I have grown to be a very independent person. This can be both good and bad in the sense that I am able to do things (21)______ my own, yet at times strug gle with taking advice from others. Sometimes, hearing what other people have to say can be one of the hardest things to do. However, getting advice from (22)_______ cares about you can impact your life in great way. Because of this, I began realizing that my mom’s guidance throughout my life has never steered me wrong. This is why I believe you( 23) __________ always listen to your mother.

This belief has not been easy (24) _______ (realize). It has taken endless amount of time in which I decided to go against what my mother had tosay, and later discovered that she was right. I think we can all agree that (25) ____ (admit) your mother was right is always a hard thing to do. But what else are you supposed to say (26) _______ you are standing outside in the freezing cold, shaking because you did not wear that extra jacket you (27) __________ (tell) to wear?

When I was twelve years old, I had the experience of a lifetime. However, I would have misse d out if it hadn’t been for my mom. She had been planning a trip to Turkey

for work, (28) _____ (offer) to bring my sister and me along with her. When I first heard about this opportunity, I was terrified. Never had I been out of the country before. I thought to (29)______ “I s she crazy? my mom then began to say, (30) “_____ is known to all, one needs to step out of his co mfort zone and try something new in order to encounter larger-than-life ideas.” After going back an d forth with my own thoughts, I decided to go on the trip. And boy, she was right. Going to Turkey will forever be one of my greatest memories and I am thankful I got to visit that amazing country.

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.

The New York Times has changed a lot in the past 10 years, embracing digital subscriptions and growing into online video and specialty areas like cooking. It has not been enough to prepare the company for the future, according to the paper's own 2020 report ___31__ on Tuesday.

"While the past two years have been a time of significant innovation, the pace must speed up," the authors wrote in the opening of the report. "Too often, digital progress has been accomplished through workarounds; now we must tear apart the barriers. We must __32___ between mission and tradition: what we do because it’s essential to our values and what we do because we’ve always done it."

The report indicated how far the paper has come in ___33___ itself for the digital age while also pointing out what needs to be done.

The areas that need ____34___ are focused on the newsroom, particularly in the tools and internal structures that journalists must deal with to produce their work.

Many of the report's recommendations are___35___ to anyone who closely follows the Times or newspapers in general: A(n) __36___ away from print's outsized importance on the newsroom's operations, better ways to include multimedia in stories and a renewed effort at creating more a diverse newsroom with a variety of skills.

The paper has an ongoing goal that started in 2016 of doubling digital revenue to $800 million by 2020. "To ___37__ our future, we need to expand substantially our number of subscribers by 2020."

The report also calls into some question that formats on which the Times —and most other newspapers — rely on, namely a mix of news stories and features that are text heavy. "Too much of our daily report remains dominated by long strings of text," the report states.

The report stresses that the Times should do more to educate readers. "Our readers are ___39___ for advice from The Times. Too often, we don’t offer it, or offer it only in print-centric forms," the report states. Perhaps the most interesting part of the report comes at the very bottom in the form of critiques from the paper's own journalists. Reporters said they would like to see less incremental news, flexibility in choice of how to tell certain stories, and some disagreement about what kind of tone the Times should embrace going forward.

III. Reading Comprehension (45%)

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.

Have We Reached Peak Trade?

Globalization is usually defined as the free mov ement of people, goods and capital. It’s been the most important 41 force of modernity. Until the financial crisis of 2008, global trade grew twice as fast as the global economy itself. 42 , thanks to both economics and politics, globalization as we have known it is