2017年华二高三上学期期中考试卷详细分析版

2017年华师大二附中高三上期中考试卷——解析版

On paper alone you would never guess that I grew up poor and hungry. These years my _____(21)_____（recent）annual salary was over $ 700,000. I am a Truman National Security Fellow and a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. My publisher has just released my latest book series on quantitative finance in worldwide distribution.

_____(22)____ of it feels like enough. I feel (23)_____ _____ I am wired (极度紧张的) for a permanent state of fight or flight, waiting for the other shoe to drop. I ‘ve chosen not to have children, partly because - __(24)____ any success- I still don’t feel I have a safety net. If you knew me personally, you ___(25)__ get glimpses of stress, self-doubt, anxiety, and depression.

In my childhood, I spent a lot of my time ___(26)____ (ponder) basic questions. Where will my next meal come from? Will i have electricity tomorrow? I ___(27)_____ (acquaint) with the embarrassment of my mom trying to hide our food stamps at the grocer store checkout. I remembered panic setting in as early as age eight, at the prospect of a perpetual uncertain about everything in life, from food to clothes to education. I knew that the life I was living couldn’t be normal. I just wasn’t sure ___(28)___ it was that was wrong with the tiny microcosm I was born into.

As an adult I thought I’d figured that out. I’d always thought my upbringing had made me wary and caution, in “lessons learned” kind of way. Over the past decades, though, that narrative __(29)____ (evolve). We’ve learned that the stresses ___(30)____ (associate) with poverty have the potential to change our biology in ways we hadn’t imagined. It can reduce the surface area of your brain, shorten your telomeres, and lifespan, increase your chance of obesity, and make you more likely to take outsized risks.

Keys: 21. most recent 22. none23. as if24. despite 25. might

26. pondering27. was acquainted28. what29. has evolved

30. associate

解析：

24.因为右面有提示词still

25.虚拟语气的用法，如果你了解我，你可能会看到。。。

26.Spend time doing

27.acquaint sb with sth.

28.强调句，不确定，我出生的社会哪里出了问题

29.标志词Over the past decades

30.客观性陈述，故用一般现在时

词汇积累：

1. wired

ADJ If someone is wired, they are tense, nervous, and unable to relax. 紧张的; 不安的[美国英语][非正式]例：

Tonight he is manic, wired and uptight.

他今晚焦躁不安，紧张易怒。

2.fight or flight 战或逃

3.wait for the other shoe to drop 提心吊胆的等待最后的结果

4.ponder 仔细思考

5.acquaint v. ~ sb with sth. 使了解（正式）

6.food stamps 美国政府发放给低收入者以兑换食物的票券

7.set in (不好的事物)来了

8.perpetual 永恒的，无休止的

9.microcosm n. 社会的缩影

10.wary and caution 小心谨慎

11.outsized 特大的，极大的

DreamWorks Animation Bringing Broadway to Shanghai

DreamWorks animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg’s quest to build what he hopes will be China’s answer to New York’s Broadway has taken a big step ____31_____.

Construction workers have begun work on the foundation of a 13-level tower that will be the new ____32____ of Oriental Dream Works and linked to a large, X-shaped IMAX cinema complex via a pathway ____33___ as an extended red carpet.

The waterfront development is ____34__ to open in late 2017 on a choice parcel south of Shanghai’s historic Bund district.

The Oriental Dream Works movie studio will have room for 500-plus animators, up from the company’s current 250 employees, and will be at the ___35___ heart of the complex.

Situated on the grounds of a shuttered cement factory, the complex will have five major live-performance venues with 8500 seats in total, including a 3000 seat facility housed in a dome where cement was once mixed. In addition to hosting international touring productions of musicals and dramas, the Dream Center is visualized as a ___36___ for pop, rock and jazz concerts; sporting events such as mixed martial arts and motorbikes racing; fashion shows and awards ceremonies; and conferences, art fairs and ___37___ exhibitions.

Planning is also underway for a Lego Discovery Centre and an attraction ___38__ called Kung Fu Panda Experience. The complex is designed by New York __39____ firm Kohn Pedesen Fox Associates, which is behind the massive Hudson Yards redevelopment project on Manhattan’s West Side.

The IMAX theater, meanwhile, will have eight to nine screens and presumably be the ___40____ venue to host premiers of productions from oriental dream works-though it won’t be ready in time for the studio’s first effort, “Kung Fu Panda 3”, scheduled for release in January.

Keys: DKFBI AEJGC

解析：

31.take a big step forward 向前迈进一大步