2021-2022學(xué)年上海大學(xué)附中高三（上）期中英語(yǔ)試卷

Ⅰ.Grammar and

• 1．Directions：After reading the passage below，fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.
      Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta as part of a major rebrand.The company said it would better "encompass" what it does，as it broadens its reach beyond social media into areas like virtual reality （VR）.The change does not apply to its individual platforms，such as Facebook，Instagram and WhatsApp，only the parent company （1）

  owns them.
      The move follows a series of negative stories about Facebook， （2）

  （base） on documents leaked by an ex-employee，F(xiàn)rances Haugen，who has accused the company of putting "profits （3）

  safety."
      In 2015，Google restructured its company calling its parent firm Alphabet，however，the name has not caught on.Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg announced the new name as he unveiled plans to build a "metaverse" - an online world （4）

  people can game，work and communicate in a virtual environment，often using VR jye.aiadsets.He said the existing brand could not "possibly represent （5）

  that we're doing today，let alone in the future"，and needed to change. "Over time，I hope that we are seen as a metaverse company and I want to anchor our work and our identity on （6）

  we're building towards，" he told a virtual conference.
      The company also unveiled a new sign at its headquarters in Menlo Park，California，on Thursday， （7）

  （replace） its thumbs-up "Like" logo with a blue infinity shape.Mr Zuckerberg said the new name reflects that over time，users will not need to use Facebook to use the company's other services.
      The word "meta" comes from the Greek word meaning "beyond".To an outsider，a metaverse may now look like a version of VR， （8）

  some people believe it could be the future of the internet.Instead of being on a computer，people in a metaverse might use a headset to enter a virtual world connecting all sorts of digital environments.
      It （9）

  （hope） the virtual world could be used for practically anything from work，play and concerts，to （10）

  （socialize） with friends and family.
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Directions： Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

• 2．

  A.healing	B.prioritize	C.assigned	D.symbolizing E.secondary	F.peculiar
  G.featuring	H.engaged	I.patterned	J.followed	K.embracing

  The Healing Power of Art Dreams have no age limit.A 79 year old lady who restarts her life by painting proves that it is never too late to（1）

  oneself.
     Meeting the 77-year-old Li Yufeng at her workshop in the Lingang Special Area，I am soon infected by her energy and passion.（2）

  pumpkins，Hami melons，pebbles and playing cards，a number of her paintings hang on the wjye.ais.All her works are inspired by the everyday things in her life.As the Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed when we meet，Li's latest works portrays a moon-cake（3）

  with a dragon and phoenix.
     Natural and peaceful，her paintings have（4）

  power.They enable viewers to feel the beauty of small things，which we easily ignore in our daily lives.Last year，she was invited to hold a painting exhibition at the Xuhui Art Museum.To many people's surprise，Li（5）

  with art just three years ago.
     Li spent her childhood in the confusion of civil war.Her father was（6）

  to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as a teacher in a middle school，and Li and her mother（7）

  him to the land of rugged mountains and vast desert basins.
     "The green lawn and the camphor tree in front of our house in Human have always been impressed in my childhood memories，" said Yin.
     （8）

  prosperity and freshness，green is Li's favorite color，which she frequently uses in her paintings.She recalls that she wore a green tweed coat on her wedding day in 1963.
     Li used to work as an electric welder（電焊工）.Lacking proper eye protection，the flash from the welding equipment eventually damaged her vision.However，that hasn't stopped her from（9）

  colors.
     Li became fully engaged in painting after her husband's passing away in 2017.Painting brought her into the present moment and let her forget the pain of losing her husband and her diseases.In the flow of painting，it is hard to dwell on so many troubles.For Li，her improved painting skills are（10）

  to the joy that art brings her.
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Ⅱ.Reading ComprehensionsDirections： 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.

• 3．Fait Diver：More Than Brief Stories Every day，there are items in the news believed too minor to report at length.For these（1）

  stories，F(xiàn)rench newspapers of old had a solution：a section called fait divers：stories of a paragraph or a few lines.These brief stories were typically of some（2）

  or odd occurrence：train accidents，lovers' quarrels，drownings，suicides.The fait divers remained a practical form，intended to convey a story without（3）

  too much space，but it also developed into an art.In French literature，it crossed the line from low to high culture and influenced the writing of（4）

  as varied as Stendha（司湯達(dá)），F(xiàn)lauber（福樓拜），and Camus（加繆），sometimes as the（5）

  inspiration for what later became a novel.（6）

  a version of it was present in American newspapers，it never quite caught on in the English press as a literary form.
     Perhaps the finest flowering of fait divers was in the reports filed by the art critic Felix Feneon 1906.He gave the form more wit，more emotional（7）

  and formal perfection，than it had had before.In his hands，it became ironic，dark，and very funny.His collected fait divers，published in English as Novels in Three Lines，was a（n）（8）

  to me.It inspired me to undertake（9）

  projects.One was a sequence of fait divers set in contemporary Nigeria and（10）

  from the newspapers jye.aire.The other was based on stories from New York City's newspapers in 1912：the New-York Tribune，the New York Herald，the New York Times.I called my projects small fates." an acknowledgment that so many of these stories are（11）

  about the strange workings of chance.
     One can go days in New York without really thinking about how（12）

  these streets once were by crowds of people，all of whom are now dead.I found in writing the small fates that these long-gone New Yorkers suddenly came back to the（13）

  tense when you are not even ready for it.The fine details made their lives vivid and（14）

  .They were no longer（15）

  ，and at times seemed even more real to me than the latter-day outside my window.
  
  

  （1）	A．curious	B．tiny	C．ridiculous	D．detailed
  （2）	A．tragedy	B．coincidence	C．imagination	D．thriller
  （3）	A．turning up	B．putting up	C．showing up	D．taking up
  （4）	A．images	B．imagination	C．figures	D．portraits
  （5）	A．motivative	B．sudden	C．original	D．weak
  （6）	A．Though	B．When	C．Since	D．Before
  （7）	A．expression	B．peace	C．health	D．discomfort
  （8）	A．identification	B．secret	C．a(chǎn)ppeal	D．a(chǎn)pproach
  （9）	A．a(chǎn) series of	B．a(chǎn) pair of	C．a(chǎn) collection of	D．a(chǎn) set of
  （10）	A．received	B．inspired	C．eliminated	D．drawn
  （11）	A．finally	B．a(chǎn)ccidentally	C．previously	D．unexpectedly
  （12）	A．fascinating	B．populated	C．brilliant	D．sophisticated
  （13）	A．previous	B．future	C．present	D．past
  （14）	A．believable	B．considerable	C．understandable	D．a(chǎn)pproachable
  （15）	A．deadly	B．lonely	C．lively	D．ghostly
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Section BDirections： Read the following two passage. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A， B， C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

• 4．The Undergoing Welfare Reform While still in its early stages，welfare reform has already been judged a great success in many states -- at least in getting people off welfare.It's estimated that more than 2 million people have left the rolls since 1994.
     In the past four years，welfare rolls in Athens County have been cut in half.But 70 percent of the people who left in the past two years took jobs that paid less than ﹩6 an hour.The result：The Athens County poverty rate still remains at more than 30 percent -- twice the national average.For advocates for the poor，that's an indication that much more needs to be done.
     "More people are getting jobs，but it's not making their lives any better，" says Kathy Lairn，a policy analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington.
     A center analysis of US Census data nationwide found that last year，a greater percentage of single，female-headed households were earning money on their own，but that average income for these households actually went down.
     But for many，the fact that poor people are able to support themselves almost as well without government aid as they did with it is in itself a huge victory.
     "Welfare was a poison.It was a toxin that was poisoning the family，" says Robert Rector，a welfare-reform policy analyst. "The reform is changing the moral climate in low-income communjye.aiies.It's beginning to rebuild the work ethic，which is much more important."
     Mr.Rector and others argued that once "the habit of dependency is cracked，" then the country can make other policy changes aimed at improving living standards.
  
  （1）Why don't people enjoy their lives better when they get jobs？

  
  A．Because they are used to relying on welfare to make livings.
  B．Because the cost of living is higher than before.
  C．Because many families are not satisfied with their income.
  D．Because their wages are very low.
  （2）From the passage we know that the reconstruction of

  is the core of the reform.
  A．government aids
  B．work ethic
  C．welfare funds
  D．moral awareness
  （3）From the example of the Athens Country，we know great efforts should be made for the poor to

  .
  A．improve their living standards
  B．help them be employed
  C．get them off welfare
  D．increase their wage
  （4）From the passage，it can be inferred that the author

  .
  A．is completely certain about the success of welfare reform
  B．thinks that welfare reform has done little good for the poor
  C．considers welfare reform successful on the whole
  D．insists welfare reform has increased the government's burden
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Ⅳ.TranslationDirections： Translate the following sentences into English， using the words given in the brackets.

• 11．為了解決中國(guó)學(xué)生日益嚴(yán)重的游戲成癮問(wèn)題，法律要求其只能再有限的假期里才能接觸網(wǎng)絡(luò)游戲。（access）
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• 12．請(qǐng)排隊(duì)等候列車(chē)到達(dá)，先下后上。請(qǐng)給年老、殘疾、懷孕和懷抱嬰兒的乘客讓座。（exit）
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