上海中学高三周考（20171017）

II. Grammar (10’)

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.

A great deal of attention (1)_________ (pay) today to the so-called digital divide--the division of the world into the info(information) rich and the info poor at present. And that divide does exist today.My wife and I lectured about this looming danger twenty years ago. What was(2)_______ (visible) then, however, were the new, positive forces that work against the digital divide. There are reasons to be optimistic.

There are technological reasons to hope the digital divide will narrow. (3)______ the Internet becomes more and more commercialized, it is in the interest of business to universalize access-after all, the more people online, the more potential customers there are. More and more governments, afraid their countries will be left behind, want to spread Internet access. Within the next decade or two, one to two billion people on the planet (4)_______(net) together. As a result, I now believe the digital divide will narrow (5)______ ______widen in the years ahead. And that is very good news because the Internet(6)______well be the most powerful tool for combating world poverty that we've ever had.

Of course, the use of the Internet isn't the only way to defeat poverty. And the Internet is not the only tool we have. But it has enormous potential.

(7)_________(take)advantage of this tool, some impoverished countries will have to get over their outdated anti-colonial prejudices with respect to foreign investment. Countries(8)________ still think foreign investment is an invasion of their sovereignty might well study the history of infrastructure(the basic structural foundations of a society) in the United States. When the United States built(9)________industrial infrastructure, it didn't have the capital to do so. And that is(10)_______ America's Second Wave infrastructure- including roads, harbors, highways, ports and so on-were built with foreign investment.

【答案】1.is being paid 2.less visible 3.As 4.will be netted 5.rather than 6.may 7.To take 8. that 9.its 10.why 【分析】

(1).分析可知，此处应为被动语态，‖today‖提示为现在进行时。 (2).形容词改为比较级。 (3).As引导原因状语从句。

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(4).分析可知，此处应为被动语态，‖ Within the next decade or two‖提示为将来时。 (5).分析可知，表示转折，因此填‖ rather than‖。 (6).分析可知，填情态动词。

(7).分析可知，应为非谓语，做目的状语。 (8).分析可知，定语从句。 (9).分析可知，代词。

(10).分析可知，表语从句，表原因。

III. Vocabulary (10’)

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Do note that there is one word more than you need. A. sympathy E. serve I. obligation

I’m a 50-something male, the father of two mostly grown girls. I’m happy to say that both my parents are still kicking. I’m on good1 with my brothers and sisters most of the time. I am blessed with good friends and other relations, and tend to get on well with my co-workers. I am fortunate in so many ways, but feel like I consistently disappoint everyone I know.

I cannot, for the life of me, give a genuine 2 . It simply doesn’t come naturally. When I try, and I do, in order to maintain all the relationships, it feels forced, more a matter of 3than a gift that might put wind in the sails of someone I truly care for. I feel strongly that giving should spring from joy, or at least from a 4 desire to see the recipient enlivened by it. When I have nothing to offer in response to a job well done, everyone loses. I feel like I’ve twisted the emotional and social development of my children, alienated (疏远) any number of perfectly wonderful lovers, and generally kept the world at arm’s length.

After years of psychotherapy and the obsessive (强迫症) self-examination common to my generation, I believe I know where this meanness of spirit comes from. Six kids in total, at a very tender age, there were five younger, cuter kids standing between me and the object of our 5 . Mama was driven to 6 , to put it mildly, by the demands placed on her, but it was the 1950s and she set a selfless and hardy example. I had complete 7 for her difficult situation, even at the time. The fact remains, however, that, as a young child, I needed more than I got. I 8 for my mother’s attention. I needed to know that she 9 me as more than her helper, her strong little man. I clearly recall, at the ripe old age of 7, coming to the conclusion that I would never get it. \

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B. heartfelt F. compliment j. devoted C. valued G. distraction K. affection D. terms H. thirsted

reckoned, \

You can imagine the sibling rivalry in a big family. Eventually I took haven in the written word to get away from it. But even before I learned to read, I had realized that giving any sign of approval or encouragement to my brothers and sisters could only 10 to increase the gulf between me and my mom. Does that make sense? I can rationalize otherwise, of course, and now we’re all \gracious and giving, but when I even think to reach into that purse, however, it’s pretty much empty.

答案D F I B KG A H C E

解析：

(1).分析可知，填名词，根据句意，填D，表达，说辞。

(2).根据句意，填名词，根据上下文，我相处不好人际关系，不能给予表扬，所以选F。 (3).分析可知，填名词，填I，强迫。

(4).分析可知，填形容词，所以选B，真心的。 (5).分析可知，填名词，所以选K，喜爱。

(6).分析可知，填名词，根据句意，填心烦意乱，所以选G (7).分析可知，填名词，根据句意，填A，同情心。 (8).根据分析，填动词，根据句意，填渴望，所以选H。

(9).根据分析，填动词，所以选C，评价。

(10).根据分析，填动词，所以选E，提供…服务，这里有导致的意思。

IV. Cloze (15’)

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

A true story of retirement planning is that your future is riding on the quality of your assumptions. Humble __1__ can be dangerous.

For example, eight years into this bull market expecting stocks to deliver as-strong returns over the next decade is an uncertain proposition many are nonetheless __2__.

Another potential __3__ assumption is that you will be able to keep working past 65. Yet the recently released 2017 Retirement Confidence Survey by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that more than half of workers say they expect to still be on the clock past age 65. By __4__, less than 15 percent of

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today’s retirees kept working that long.

―If you plan on working longer as a way to get by in retirement, you are going to be in trouble,‖ says Craig Copeland, senior research associate at EBRI. ―It should be a complement to a solid savings and spending plan, not the __5__.‖

It’s simply too __6__ to assume you will indeed be able to work longer. A survey by the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies found that nearly two-thirds of retirees left the workforce earlier than expected because they were laid off, reorganized out of a position, or due to general unhappiness with a job. Only 16 percent of retirees who __7__ the work force earlier than they expected did so because they felt they could __8__ afford to.

__9__, a new report from Prudential puts a dollar value on why your current employer may not be inclined （倾向于）to do back flips to keep an older you happy and engaged. The estimated one-year cost to a firm when an employee __10__ retirement: $50,000.

Prudential estimates that on a company-wide level, delayed retirement can __11__ overall workforce costs by 1 percent to 1.5 percent. That’s not nothing. And it goes a long way in explaining why employers may be more inclined to focus on ―financial wellness‖ strategies to get workers ready to retire __12__ than programs to help workers delay retirement.

Fewer than one-third of employees surveyed by TCRS report their employer has some sort of ―transition‖ program such as flexible work schedules, reduced hours or __13__ to a different role.

―Workers’ vision of retirement is changing faster than employers’ business __14__,‖ said Catherine Collinson, president of TCRS. That makes it ever more crucial for pre-retirees to take the steps today that will increase that __15__ they can continue to work longer, if that’s part of the plan. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

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A. pessimism A. relying on A. reliable A. contrary A. foundation A. ridiculous A. extended

B. optimism B. casting on B. possible B. compromise B. basement B. sensible B. exited

C. concern C. accounting on C. flawed C. compliment C. founding C. risky C. existed C. financially C. Nevertheless

D. consideration D. falling on D. unlikely D. contrast D. construction D. logical D. remained D. physically D. Moreover

A. economically B. mentally A. However

B. Therefore