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上海交通大学附属中学 2022-2023 学年度第二学期
高二英语摸底考试试卷
第 I 卷
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20’+20’)
Section A
Directions: Beneath each of the following sentences there are four choices marked A,B, C and
D. Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence.
1. These teenage girls prefer to take pictures________ stands a famous cubism painting in a gallery.
A. where B. what C. when D. as
2. When guided to reflect on their good fortune, people tend to be more thankful for and appreciative of ________
they have and ________ they are on their path right now, thus more willing to contribute to the common good.
A. which, when B. what, where C. all, which D. all, that
3. —The wounded soldier ________ have been sent to hospital immediately.
—So he ________ , but all efforts made no difference.
A. should, was B. must, did C. ought to, had D. can, has
4. With robots coming to the rescue and appearing on the farm scene, farming has been more efficient with regard to
the time ________takes to inspect crops and dig up weed.
A. what B. it C. one D. which
5. We need________ to have a good command of English as a medical student needs ________a doctor.
A. as long and tough a training, to become B. as long and tough a training, becoming
C. as a long and tough training, to become D. as a long and tough training, becoming
6. The success of Full River Red (Man Jiang Hong) a 2023 historical suspense comedy film directed by Zhang
,
Yimou, is such________ even some western celebrities have started to read Chinese history.
A. as B. like C. that D. making
7. According to economics, money flows to ________ it is that controls the scarce thing, say, the cutting-edge
knowledge.
A. whom B. whomever C. who D. whoever
8. It is natural that the prominent actress ________ charged with tax evasion.
A. were B. would have been C. may have been D. should have been
9. Premier Li Keqiang is going to take questions from both Chinese and foreign correspondents at the annual press
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conference_________ in March.
A. to hold B. to take place C. occurred D. held
10. Given the serious damage and substantial losses caused by the recent 7.8 magnitude earthquake which struck
southern Turkey, just 50 miles from the Syrian border, more financial support from international society _________.
A. remaining to be raised B. remains to be raised
C. remaining to raise D. remains to raise
11. The firm has been taking measures to cut costs to keep its _________up, including purchasing cheaper raw
materials and reducing its workforce.
A. expenditure B. profits C. salaries D. rank
12. The idle afternoon we are going through at home really deserves a fix of coffee or tea to _________our tired
minds.
A. repair B. refresh C. recover D. rescue
13. General Motors(GM) plans to _________ its two plants to electric vehicle production by 2035 and another plant
in Coahuila will make the new model of Chevrolet Blazer from 2024.
A. converse B. convert C. conserve D. preserve
14. Since the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in China, investors from home and abroad have lowered
expectations of these tech companies, making it harder to lift their _________.
A. markets B. prices C. brands D. shares
15. A record 3.3 million Americans applied for unemployment _________in the third week of March 2020, according
to the US Labor Department, as restaurants, hotels, barber shops, gyms and more shut down in a nationwide effort to
slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
A. claims B. benefits C. interests D. objectives
16. On hearing the heart-breaking news, she couldn’t _________herself and broke out crying.
A. regain B. reserve C. compose D. comprise
17. ALK or the gene for anaplastic lymphoma kinase is a stretch of DNA whose mutant (突变的) form has been
associated with human cancers, but, its normal function which has something to do with thinness in humans had not
been _________before the research.
A. founded B. established C. maintained D. received
18. When the candidate presented the results of his experiment on the brain of mice to the pharmaceutical company,
they laughed and paid no _________to the discovery which later turned out to be a brilliant idea for a new product.
A. investigation B. regard C. notice D. inspection
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19. In the 4-day Shanghai Disneyland Tour, you will spend a full day venturing in dream-like Disney castle, gardens,
_________ film scenes, enjoying fabulous kid joy with famous Disney characters and various family entertainment
activities and amusing shows.
A. fancy B. fantasy C. fascination D. fashion
20. The policy _________ “renationalisation”, and throws the country’s financial markets back to the past, complains
the economist shepherding privatization for the former prime minister.
A. accumulates B. amounts to C. equals to D. recovers
Section B:
(A)
Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note
that there is one word more than you need.
A. selected B. distinctive C. signature D. odds AB. domestication AC. decided
AD. individuals BC. tamest BD. conflicted CD. mixed ABC. develop
If you see a house cat the____21____are high that it will have white paws, a look that many owners
,
affectionately call“socks.” But socks are rarely seen in wildcats, the elusive and undomesticated cousin of the house
cat, so why do so many pet cats sport furry white feet?
As it turns out, this story started about 10,000 years ago, when humans and cats ____22____ life was better
together.
This____23____eventually led to uber-prevalent socks on cats, as well as other well-known coat patterns, said
Leslie Lyons, professor emerita and head of the Feline Genetics Laboratory at the University of Missouri College of
Veterinary Medicine.
“As humans became farmers and started staying in one place, they had grain stores and waste piles” that attracted
rodents, Lyons said. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement: the humans had fewer rodents to deal with and the
cats got an easy meal.
The wild, undomesticated ancestor species of house cats, Felis silvestris, lives in Africa and Eurasia. These
felines are tasty snacks as kittens and stealthy predators as adults, so ____24____ born with a coat that offers
camouflage (保护色) have tended to survive and reproduce.
But not every F. silvestiis is born with a coat that blends into its habitat.
“Genetic mutations are occurring all the time.” Lyons said.
There isn’t much evidence to indicate why early cat people chose the individuals they did, but Lyons said the
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range of coats seen on modern domestic cats shows that our agrarian ancestors favored cats with markings that would
have ____25____with their camouflage.
In its native mixed forest or scrub desert environment, a cat with stark white paws would have stood out to
predators and prey.
When humans started taking an interest in cats, these white paws would have stood out to them, too. “There
were probably people saying, ‘I particularly like that kitten because it has white feet . Let’s make sure it survives’”,
Lyons said.
Humans probably also____26____cats who were calm and comfortable around humans, Lyons said. Behavioral
traits seem unrelated to coat color, but for reasons that scientists don’t fully understand, white spots tend to appear
when the _____27_____individuals are selected and bred.
These____28____fur colors and markings emerge while a cat embryo is developing. The cells that give cat fur
its color first appear as neural crest cells, which are located along what will become the back, Lyons said.
Then, those cells slowly migrate down and around the body. If those waves of cells move far enough to meet
each other on the cat’s front side, the embryo will be born a solid-colored kitten, such as an all-black or all-orange
cat. Felines ____29____white feet, faces, chests and bellies when these cells don’t quite make it all the way.
So, the next time you see a kitty wearing white socks, you’ll know that this _______30_______ feature is a
result of genetic mutations, domestication and developmental biology. Although if you try telling the cat that, it will
probably just look at you quizzically before sauntering away.
(B)
Directions: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note
that there is one word more than you need.
A. initially B. formed C. societies D. map AB. officially
AC. constructed AD. potentially BC. investigate BD. perspective CD. boundaries
ABC. consideration
Construction of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the Square Kilometre Array,
has_____31_____begun in Australia after three decades in development.
A huge intergovernmental effort, the SKA has been hailed as one of the biggest scientific projects of this century.
It will enable scientists to look back to early in the history of the universe when the first stars and galaxies were
_____32_____.
It will also be used to _____33_____dark energy and why the universe is expanding, and to
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_____34_____search for extraterrestrial life.
The SKA will _____35_____ involve two telescope arrays — one on Wajarri country in remote Western
Australia, called SKA-Low, comprising 131,072 tree-like antennas. SKA-Low is so named for its sensitivity to low-
frequency radio signals. It will be eight times as sensitive than existing comparable telescopes and will
_____36_____the sky 135 times faster.
A second array of 197 traditional dishes, SKA-Mid, will be built in South Africa’s Karoo region.
Dr Sarah Pearce, SKA-Low’s director, said the observatory would define “the next fifty years for radio
astronomy, charting the birth and death of galaxies, searching for new types of gravitational waves and expanding
the_____37_____of what we know about the universe”.
She added: “The SKA telescopes will be sensitive enough to detect an airport radar on a planet circling a star
tens of light years away, so may even answer the biggest question of all: are we alone in the universe?”
The SKA has been described by scientists as a gamechanger and a major milestone in astronomy research.
“To put the sensitivity of the SKA into _____38_____, it could detect a mobile phone in the pocket of an
astronaut on Mars, 225m kilometres away,” said Dr Danny Price, a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Curtin Institute
of Radio Astronomy. “More excitingly, if there are intelligent _____39_____ on nearby stars with technology similar
to ours, the SKA could detect the aggregate ‘leakage’ radiation from their radio and telecommunication networks —
the first telescope sensitive enough to achieve this feat.”
Prof Alan Duffy, director of the space technology and industry institute at the Swinburne University of
Technology, said the SKA would probably be the largest telescope ______40______, “connecting across continents
to create a world-spanning facility allowing us to see essentially across the entire observable universe”.
III. Reading Comprehension (15’+22’+8’)
Section A
Directions: 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.
The economic case for regifting
Despite its pleasures, gift giving can be problematic.
A recipient wants items A and B (say, a hat and gloves) yet receives items C and D (say, a scarf and mittens).
Another recipient wants C and D, yet receives A and B. The_____41_____ seems simple: The two recipients can
simply pass along the gifts they received to each other.
The _____42_____ however, is more complex. People in a study published in the Journal of Consumer
Behaviour, for instance, used such words as guilty, lazy, thoughtless and disrespectful in describing
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their_____43_____ about regifting. Popular culture casts it as taboo, as well.
Getting stuck with gifts we do not want is no small problem. Consider that the National Retail Federation
calculated that the average holiday-season_____44_____in the U.S. last year spent more than $1,000 on gifts. In a
survey across 14 countries in Europe, meanwhile, 1 in 7 said they were unhappy with what they received for
Christmas, yet more than half simply kept the gifts.
Why can’t more gifts be passed along to people who _____45_____them?
Our research with Francis J. Flynn, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate
School of Business, suggests the shame associated with regifting is largely _____46_____. Indeed, our research
consistently tells us that people overestimate the negative consequences.
We conducted a study in which we asked people to imagine themselves either as a ”giver,” who gives someone
a gift card and later _____47_____it has been regifted; or as a “regifter,” one who receives the gift and gives it to
someone else. The latter group saw more offense. Regifters tended to assume the original givers would be
_____48_____ when they found out. The general _____49_____ of the original givers, however, was: It’s your gift,
do what you want with it.”
Next, we tried to shed light on just how serious the perceived offense is. We asked two group —again givers
and regifters—to______50______ regifting a hypothetical (假设的)wristwatch with throwing it in the trash. For the
original givers, regifting the watch was a much less offensive act than trashing it. The regifters, however,
______51______ assumed that the givers would find both equally offensive.
Finally, given that the feared offense looks more imagined than real, we turned our attention to how people
might be______52______ to break this taboo.
For this part of our research, we invited to our lab at Stanford people who had recently received presents and
divided the people into two groups. When we gave the first group an opportunity to______53______that present, 9%
did so.
When we gave the second group the same opportunity, we added that it was ‘“National Regifting Day,” a
real______54______that happens each year on the Thursday before Christmas. It wasn’t really National Regifting
Day, but the group didn’t know that: 30% of them agreed to regift.
Everyone has received bad gifts in their lives, and we generally accept that we will receive more in the future.
Yet for some reason, we believe that we give only good gifts.
Our research offers a simple solution to the problem of ______55______ gifts. This holiday season, consider
regifting, and encourage people who receive your gifts to do the same if what you give them isn’t quite what they
hope for.
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41. A. result B. cycle. C. trick D. solution
42. A. cause B. psychology C. science. D. theory
43. A. feelings B. ideas C. trick. D. evaluations
44. A. citizen B. retailer C. shopper D. foreigner
45. A. refuse B. appreciate C. envy D. collect
46. A. perceived B. ignored C. unjustified D. immeasurable
47. A. learns B. suspects C. complains D. imagines
48. A. praised B. hurt C. hateful D. grateful
49. A. motto B. code C. principle D. attitude
50. A. replace B. connect C. compare D. exchange
51. A. desperately B. voluntarily C. responsibly D. wrongly
52. A. encouraged B. pushed C. challenged D. forced
53. A. hide B. sell C. regift D. decline
54. A. ceremony B. celebration C. day D. event
55. A. unpopular B. unwanted C. expensive D. meaningless
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. 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.
(A)
Jailbreaking commonly refers to unlocking iOS for iPhones and iPads. Seventeen-year-old George Hotz, or
geohot as he liked to be called, was the first person to jailbreak an iPhone. He accomplished his feat in 2007, and
many others followed his lead.
Jailbreaking an iPhone offers some distinct benefits. With a jailbroken iPhone, you have numerous ways to
change any setting to suit your needs. You can also alter the look and feel of the phone so that it matches your
personality. Another advantage of jailbreaking for iPhone users is the ability to install apps not offered in Apple’s
App Store. Cydia, an alternative app store for jailbroken iOS devices, offers a variety of apps, some of which cost
more than others.
Before jailbreaking your iPhone, you should consider the consequences. Jailbreaking immediately voids (使无
效) your iPhone’s warranty, which means that Apple is no longer required to fix your phone if something goes wrong.
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Jailbreaking also exposes you to the dangers associated with alternative apps. Poor quality apps from alternative app
stores may cause your iPhone to crash more often or stop working altogether. After jailbreaking your iPhone, you
must also be careful not to allow Apple to install new software on your phone.
Apple naturally discourages its customers from jailbreaking their iPhones. According to the company,
jailbreaking doesn’t just affect the security and stability of an iPhone. It can also shorten the phone’s battery life. For
many people, this is an important consideration.
56. Which aspects of jailbreaking does the article discuss?
A. The ways in which jailbreaking can save people time
B. The positives and negatives associated with jailbreaking
C. The clients who got into legal trouble for jailbreaking
D. The best and worst techniques for jailbreaking phones
57. What does the article imply about the first person to jailbreak an iPhone?
A. He apologized for his actions. B. He produced hardware designs.
C. He gave himself a nickname. D. He was turned down for a job.
58. From this article, what can readers learn about the products offered by Cydia?
A. Their prices vary somewhat. B. Their inventors are quite young.
C. They’re still manufactured abroad. D. They take only a few moments to install.
59. According to Apple, what might happen after a person jailbreaks his or her iPhone?
A. It might need a new camera stand. B. It might become harder to sell.
C. It might be easily damaged by water. D. It might use up its battery faster.
(B)
Vanuatu is an island nation in the South Pacific. It is also one of the smallest countries in the world. But for
those interested in adventure and sport, there is a lot to do. Some of the best snorkeling (浮潜) can be found here.
Vanuatu’s islands also offer visitors two of the most exciting and dangerous activities in the world: volcano surfing
and land diving.
Volcano Surfing
On Tanna Island, Mount Yasur rises 300 meters (1,000 feet) into the sky. It is known as the Lighthouse of
the Pacific because of its regular eruptions for hundreds of years. For centuries, both island locals and visitors
have climbed this mountain to visit the top. Some visitors find Yasur terrifying; others captivating. Photographers
are beside themselves at the opportunity to make stunning artwork from such a special point. Recently, people
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have also started climbing Yasur to surf the volcano.
In some ways, volcano surfing, also commonly known as ash boarding, is like surfing in the sea, but in other
ways it’s very different. It was invented by an adventurer journalist named Zoltan Istvan, while on a trip to Vanuatu
Islands in 2002. Volcano surfing is considered as an extreme sport and there are not many practicing it. A volcano
surfer’s goal is to escape the erupting volcano — without getting hit by flying rocks! Riders hike up the volcano
and slide down, sitting or standing, on a thin plywood or metal board. It’s fast, fun, and dangerous — the perfect
extreme sport.
Land Diving
Most people are familiar with bungee jumping, but did you know bungee jumping started on Pentecost Island
in Vanuatu and is almost fifteen centuries old? The original activity, called land diving, is part of a religious
ceremony. A man ties tree vines (藤) to his legs. He then jumps head-first from a high tower. It originated as a
rite (仪式) of passage for young men trying to prove their manhood. The idea is to jump from as high as possible,
and to land as close to the ground as possible. It is also a harvest ritual. The islanders believe the higher the jumpers
dive, the higher the crops will grow. Every spring, island natives (men only) still perform this amazing test of
strength.
60. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?
A. Mount Yasur is a light tower on the Pacific Ocean.
B. The history of volcano surfing dates back centuries.
C. Bungee jumping grew out of land diving.
D. Land diving came to Vanuatu from another country.
61. The underlined word captivating is closest in meaning to ________.
A. distressing B. charming C. disappointing D. relieving
62. Which of the following could be the best title of this passage?
A. Untouched Beauty: VANUATU B. Volcano Adventure: VANUATU
C. Extreme Destination: VANUATU D. Preserved Culture: VANUATU
(C)
The water off the coast of northwest Greenland is a glass-like calm, but the puddles (水坑) on the region’s
icebergs are a sign that a transformation is underway higher on the ice sheet.
Several days of unusually warm weather in northern Greenland have caused rapid melting, made visible by the
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rivers of meltwater rushing into the ocean. Temperatures have been running around 60 degrees Fahrenheit — 10
degrees warmer than normal for this time of year, scientists said.
The amount of ice that melted in Greenland between July 15 and 17 this year alone — 6 billion tons of water
per day — would be enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to data from the US
National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Each summer, scientists worry that they will see a repeat of the record melting that occurred in 2019, when 532
billion tons of ice flowed out into the sea. An unexpectedly hot spring and a July heat wave that year caused almost
the entire ice sheet’s surface to melt. Global sea level rose permanently by 1.5 millimeters as a result.
Greenland holds enough ice — if it all melted — to lift sea level by 7.5 meters around the world. The latest
research points to a more and more threatening situation on the Northern Hemisphere’s iciest island.
“Unprecedented (史无前例的)” rates of melting have been observed at the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet,
a study published in February found, caused by huge quantities of meltwater flowing down from the surface. This
water is particularly concerning because it can destabilize the sheet above it and could lead to a massive, rapid loss
of ice.
And in 2020, scientists found that Greenland’s ice sheet had melted beyond the point of no return. The rate of
melting in recent years exceeds anything Greenland has experienced in the last 12,000 years, another study found —
and enough to cause measurable change in the gravitational field over Greenland.
At the East Greenland Ice-core Project — or EastGRIP — research camp in northwest Greenland, the work of
scientists to understand the impact of climate change is being affected by climate change itself.
Aslak Grinsted, a climate scientist at the University of Copenhagen’s Niels Bohr Institute, said that they have
been trying to get flights into the camp but the warmth is destabilizing the landing site.
Before human-caused climate change kicked in, temperatures near 32 degrees Fahrenheit there were unheard
of. But since the 1980s, this region has warmed by around 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit per decade — four times faster
than the global pace — making it all the more likely that temperatures will cross the melting point.
63. The passage is mainly written to ________.
A. alert people to the rapid melting of Greenland’s ice sheet
B. arouse people’s awareness of protecting the environment
C. inform people of the large amount of ice Greenland holds
D. reveal to people the cause and effect of the rise in sea level
64. What does “a transformation” in the first paragraph refer to?
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A Climate change. B. A rise in sea level.
.
C. Global warming. D. The melting of ice.
65. What can be learned about the ice that melted in 2019?
A. It repeated a record melting of the ice sheet several years ago.
B. Its amount was the largest ever and lifted sea level permanently.
C. It was enough to fill 7.2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools.
D. Its melting rate was so rapid as to result in an unexpectedly hot spring.
66. It is implied in the passage that ________.
A. climate change is a result of human activities
B. the study of climate change is being made easier
C. the melting of Greenland’s ice sheet is reversible
D. temperatures increase 1.5°F or so each decade globally
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the
box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you
need.
Can Whales And Dolphins Fight Cancer?
Whales and dolphins have been shown to be better at fighting cancer than we are and now we may be closer
,
to understanding why cetaceans (鲸目动物) do it. Cetaceans are generally the oldest living mammals, and some
cetaceans have reached their 200th birthday. Their size means their bodies contain far more cells than the human
body.
“_____67_____” says Daniela Tejada-Martinez at the Austral University of Chile. “So, if you are big or live
longer, you have thousands and millions of cells that could become harmful.” _____68_____
“There’s a joke that whales should be born with cancer and not even able to exist because they’re just too big,”
says Vincent Lynch at the University at Buffalo, New York, he says there is a super trivial explanation for how
whales can exist. “They just evolved better cancer protection mechanisms,” he says. _____69_____
Now, Tejada-Martinez and her colleagues have studied the evolution of 1077 tumor suppressor (肿瘤抑制)
genes (TSGs). In all, they compared the evolution of the genes in 15 mammalian species, including seven cetacean
species, Genes regulating DNA damage, tumor spread and the immune system were positively selected among the
cetaceans. _______70_______“It’s not like we’re gonna be taking whale genes and putting them into humans and
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making humans cancer resistant,” says Lynch. “But if you can find the genes that play a role in tumor suppression in
other animals, and if you can figure out what they’re doing, maybe you can make a drug that can be used to treat
people.”
A. They also found cetaceans gained and lost TSGs at a rate 2.4 times higher than in other mammals.
B. If the whale gene was injected into the human body, could humans fight cancer?
C. Some people deny that cetaceans can increase TSGs faster than other mammals.
D. If you have more cells that means that one of those cells has an increased risk of becoming cancerous.
E. In contrast, cetaceans have much lower cancer rates than most other mammals.
F But we still need to learn more about why and how they did this.
.
第 II 卷
IV Grammar (10+10)
(A)
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 farm of the given word; far the other
blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
When Steve Birkinshaw, the British fell running (越野路跑)champion, planned his record- breaking route
across the 214 peaks of the Lake District, it took him six months of preparation and all his years of experience to
figure out ___71___he thought was the perfect path.
Now two physics students from the University of Manchester who had never visited the mountains have
produced a ___72___(short) route using a computer algorithm.
Mr Birkinshaw, 52, a researcher at Newcastle University who lives in the Lake District, has had an admirable
fell running career, including breaking the 72-year-old record set by Joss Naylor ___73___climbing the 214 peaks in
the Lake District in only six days and 13 hours in 2014. His record was beaten by seven hours in 2019 by Paul
Tierney, who followed Birkinshaw’s carefully mapped route over 512km and 36,000m of climbing.
Mr Birkinshaw, who advised the students, thought ___74___ would be impossible to improve the route with a
computer, ” but they ___75___ (prove) me wrong“, he said.
“The problem is you change one thing in the route and it’s a domino effect and everything else changes. I would
have to spend two to three hours a week for six months ___76___ (redraw) the route on a computer to work out how
long a slight adjustment would change the time ___77___ now they have the algorithms they can put in all the peaks
and find out instantly?”
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To figure out their route, the pair used satellite imaging data of the area, with ___78___ complex data functions
were coupled to describe how fest people can move along different routes. This allowed them to work out the energy
costs of moving between each peak.
They ___79___(feed) all that information into an off-the-shelf solver for the travelling salesman problem, a
classic computational science problem for finding out the fastest delivery routes along road networks. Their
achievement opens up possibilities to update running records and ____80____one day help to deliver aid in badly
mapped areas of the world.
(B)
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 farm of the given word; far the other
blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
Sky Kurtz farms in the desert. The co-fbunder and CEO of Pure Harvest Smart Farms—___81___(locate)
outside Abu Dhabi, where temperatures regularly top 113°F—and his team use the challenging environs to trial new
crops and technologies that have the potential to change farming in climate-challenged areas. Pure Harvest also
provides produce to supermarkets and restaurants in Dubai and across the region ___82___(use) less water, which is
important in one of the most arid regions of the world.
Kurtz founded Pure Harvest Smart Fanns in 2017 with his co-founders Mahmoud Adi and Robert Kupstas.
Passionate about food insecurity, they spent the first year studying high-tech food-production systems around the
world, ___83___ searching for the optimal site for their first farm.
Kurtz’s farms in the UAE started out with “___84___ but a PowerPoint, a pile of dirt, and the promise of what
we would do,” says Kurtz. But Pure Harvest quickly proved it was built on more than a promise. The founders’
research and technological innovation led to the development of a proprietary (专利的)Controlled-Environment
Agriculture (CEA) system—a combination of high-tech greenhouses and vertical farms that ___85___ (provide) a
stable year-round climate. The first crop of tomatoes was planted in August 2018 and harvested in October. The
company’s original farm is now its R&D facility, and Pure Harvest has expanded its facilities in the UAE to 16
hectares of growing area. It also operates a 6-hectare farm in Saudi Arabia, and is developing a 6-hectare farm in
Kuwait.
It now produces 14 types of leafy greens; two varieties of strawberries, with seven more ___86___(develop);
and almost 30 varieties of tomatoes, the product that started it all. With limited availability of local, seasonal produce,
the UAE has typically imported much of its food, often air-freighted, ___87___comes at a high cost, both
economically and environmentally. And while they are more expensive compared with locally grown seasonal
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produce, the company says its fruit and vegetables are typically up to 60% cheaper than air-freighted imports of
comparable quality. “I think we’ve fundamentally changed a belief system that said local is ___88___(bad).” says
Kurtz.
Their vision fits in with a larger objective for Dubai to become more self-sufficient. The focus is not just on
growing for premium markets but also developing affordable solutions___89___(help) democratize access to fresh
food.
Kurtz hopes the company’s data-driven technology can become a model for other regions that are experiencing
climate stress. “We believe that we can develop a local-for-local solution ____90____ it’s needed most, and we’ve
battle-tested that capability in one of the harshest environments in the world." he says.
V Translation (3’+3’+4’+4’+6’=20’)
Directions: Translate the fallowing sentences into English, using the -words given in the
brackets.
91. ChatGTP一上市就在学术界引发了热议。(arouse)(汉译英)
92. 毕业在即，我认识到唯有不断学习、努力奋斗才会让梦想成真。(approach) (汉译英)
93. 王阿姨刚要开电视，门铃响了，原来是儿子送给她的妇女节鲜花到了。(Scarcely) (汉译英)
94. 这家公司成功地将数码技术融入鞋子设计之中，目前广受年轻消费者欢迎。(Having...) (汉译英)
95. 这位刚毕业的年轻外科医生全心全意地投入到事业之中，不断追求卓越，所以同事们都寄予他厚望。
(pursue)(汉译英)
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