上外版必修2《Unit 3 Food》2021年單元測(cè)試卷

II. Grammar and VocabularySection B

• 1．Social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years，（1）

  in the home or the workplace.Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way，said Cynthia Breazeal，chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.
      （2）

  household robots today do the normal housework，social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools.For example，these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad.This allows them（3）

  （respond） more appropriately to the user.
      The Jibo robot，（4）

  （arrange） to ship later this year，is designed to be a personalized assistant.You can talk to the robot，ask it questions，and make requests for it to perform different tasks.The robot doesn't just deliver general answers to questions；it responds based on（5）

  it learns about each individual in the household.It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.
      Social robots are not just finding their way into the home.They have potential applications（6）

  everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.
      Fellow Robots is one company（7）

  （bring） social robots to the market.The company's "Oshbot" robot is built to assist customers in a store，（8）

  can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product's location in the store.It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.
      The more interaction the robot has with humans，（9）

  （much） it learns.But Oshbot，like other social robots，（10）

  （not intend） to replace workers，but to work alongside other employees. "We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us，but with us，" said Breazeal.
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II. Reading ComprehensionSection A

• 2．Corporate scandals （丑聞），like political scandals，start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage.This is where executives can start reestablishing their（1）

  —or deepen the damage.
     Since they were forced to（2）

  one of the biggest frauds（欺詐行為）in auto industry history last month，the executives at Volkswagen have offered（3）

  and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars（柴油車）.But they haven't explained who ordered，（4）

  and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting（5）

  on the road.Nor has Volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars，which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel（6）

  and clean.
     On October 8，German prosecutors broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation.Meanwhile，Matthias Muller，the（7）

  appointed chief executive，continued to insist that the former executive，Martin Winterkorn，who resigned shortly after the scandal，knew（8）

  . "Do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software？" he said in a recent interview，as if the problem was some（9）

  shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to（10）

  regulators and customers around the world.
     If Mr.Winterkorn was not responsible，who was？Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have（11）

  this scheme without any support.Hans-Dieter Potsch，a supervisory board chairman，issued a statement earlier this month，saying it would take time before Volkswagen could make（12）

  the findings of its internal investigations. "We must overcome the crisis，" he explained， "but we must also ensure that Volkswagen continues to grow." That seems to miss the point that Volkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some（13）

  answers and explanations.
     Even if they manage to fix millions of cars，Volkswagen executives will still face an enormous（14）

  from lawsuits，lost sales and the（15）

  to Volkswagen's reputation.There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face.Apologizing is just the easy part.
  
  

  （1）	A．reputation	B．revenge	C．responsibility	D．revolution
  （2）	A．commit	B．recognize	C．a(chǎn)dmit	D．revise
  （3）	A．gratitude	B．a(chǎn)pologies	C．guidance	D．a(chǎn)uthorities
  （4）	A．a(chǎn)pproved	B．chose	C．withdrew	D．undertook
  （5）	A．light	B．a(chǎn)shes	C．smell	D．pollutants
  （6）	A．effective	B．efficient	C．extinct	D．essential
  （7）	A．officially	B．voluntarily	C．temporarily	D．newly
  （8）	A．a(chǎn)nything	B．something	C．nothing	D．everything
  （9）	A．minor	B．major	C．inferior	D．superior
  （10）	A．conceal	B．confuse	C．a(chǎn)ttract	D．deceive
  （11）	A．held on	B．got rid of	C．carried out	D．made up
  （12）	A．clear	B．public	C．possible	D．convenient
  （13）	A．convincing	B．likely	C．factual	D．solid
  （14）	A．conflict	B．opportunities	C．competitions	D．challenges
  （15）	A．response	B．blow	C．solution	D．key
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Section B

• 3．To take the apple as forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians（基督徒）have ever cooked up.For them，the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil.So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America，a land mistakenly considered to be Eden，everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden，the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.
     What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake，a plant that thought to have come from Hell.What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit，the general population considered them one and the same，too terrible to touch.
     Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato，and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet.In the 1880s，the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the "introduction of this wonderful new fruit — or is it a vegetable？" As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an "evil fruit".
     But in the end tomatoes carried the day.The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson，and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820，people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. "What are you afraid of？" he shouted. "I'll show you fools that these things are good to eat!" Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he survived and，according to a local story set up a tomato-canning factory.
  
  （1）The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because

  .
  A．it made Christians evil
  B．it was the apple of Eden
  C．it came from a forbidden land
  D．it was religiously unacceptable
  （2）What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly？

  
  A．To make himself a hero.
  B．To remove people's fear of the tomato.
  C．To speed up the popularity of the tomato.
  D．To persuade people to buy products from his factory.
  （3）What is the main purpose of the passage？

  
  A．To challenge people's fixed concepts of the tomato.
  B．To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato.
  C．To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato.
  D．To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence.
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WritingSection ADirections： Translate the following sentences into English， using the words given in the brackets.

• 10．直到最近幾年病人才能很便捷的下載他們的醫(yī)療記錄以獲取如檢測(cè)結(jié)果之類的信息。（access）
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Section B

• 11．Directions：Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
  假設(shè)你是育新中學(xué)學(xué)生王明，你校正在開(kāi)展"綠色校園"主題活動(dòng)，通過(guò)校英語(yǔ)報(bào)向全校學(xué)生政績(jī)有助于節(jié)能的建議。你決定向校報(bào)投稿，內(nèi)容包括：
  1.你認(rèn)為校園里還可以采取哪些措施來(lái)達(dá)到節(jié)能的目的（1至2個(gè)措施）；
  2.這些措施如何實(shí)施，可以帶來(lái)怎樣的好處。
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