上海市闵行区2014学年第一学期期中考试八校联考高二英语试卷

1 上海市闵行区2014学年第一学期期中考试八校联考

高二年级英语学科 试卷

满分：100分 完卷时间：90分钟 命题 陈应宏

II. Grammar & vocabulary

Section A (10%)

Directions: After reading the passages 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.

(A)

Good morning, everyone. Now I’d like to talk to you about the final exam you are going to

come across. The exam (18)________ (hold) next Thursday. Unlike the previous exam of this term,

this test will not include multiple choice questions. It will consist entirely of essays, (19)________

involve many skills of writing. You will have to answer three of the five questions. The exam will

be comprehensive. This means you will be responsible for all of the subject matter we’ve covered

in class. I suggest you go over (20)________ we have learned thoroughly. To be more exact, I

mean you should review all your corrected test papers and your class notes (21)____ ____

____ the textbook. This exam will count for 50% of your grade in the course, the research project

will count for 20%, and your rest work 30%.

I’ll be available in my office almost all day on Tuesday next week. If you run into any

problems, don’t hesitate (22)________ (ask) me for help. You are always welcome. Best wishes

and good luck for you on Thursday.

(B)

Tom, a reporter friend of ours, passed the large street windows of the New York Public

Library. He noticed a man on the other side of the window (23)________ (read) that day's

newspaper. With delight Tom saw that the paper was open to the very page for which he had

written a big article.

The reporter stopped, with his eyes (24)_______ (fix) on the man. Would the man read

deeply into the article? To the bottom of the page? It was one of those rare, unexpected moments,

of which a writer dreams. The writer's nose got closer to the glass. The page wasn't turned: Good,

the reader was interested. Our friend stayed there a bit longer to learn the answer (25) ________

the important question:

Would the reader turn to the page (26)________ the story was continued?

Two minutes passed. Four minutes. Nothing. The man must be a very slow reader indeed.

The writer didn’t realize the reader had fallen asleep (27)_______ he stepped forward and saw the

reader’s closed eyes.

Section B ( 10%)

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.

2 A. encouraged B. means

C. maintaining D. coexisting AB. economic AC. used

AD. morality BC. artificial BD. mostly CD. policymakers ABC. interact

Science fiction in the 20th

century predicted many early versions of today’s technologies. If

you are a Star Trek fan, you’ll notice the gadgets (小装置) often look like modern technologies

like smartphones. But Neal Stephenson argues that sci-fi’s greatest contribution is to show how

technology interacts with social and (28)________ systems — what authors call “world-building”.

Denise Caruso, a science policy researcher at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, agrees.

In an interview with Smithsonian magazine, she said science fiction not only helps scientists think

about how the work they’re doing might eventually turn out,

it can also help them think about

(29)________.

For example, US writer Isaac Asimov’s 1950 book I, Robot is a collection of stories about

robots (30)________ with humans. In these stories, Asimov (31)________ readers to think about

moral (道德的) issues like whether (32)________ beings should enjoy legal rights and equal

social status with humans. He also discussed the dilemmas that could result from programming

robots with moral directives.

Upon Asimov’s death in 1992, the journal Computer Engineers praised him for

demonstrating “the enormous potential of information technology” and highlighting the

difficulties of (33)________ “reliable control over semi-autonomous machines.”

Participants in the Hieroglyph Project hope their audience may extend to not only scientists

and innovators, but also to politicians and (34)________ who can influence our society for

generations to come.

“If the government has to decide what to fund and what not to fund, they are going to get

their ideas (35)________ from science fiction… rather than in technical papers,” Arizona State

University roboticist and project participant Srikanth Saripalli told the BBC.