2016学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷

ruling an open casinos(赌场)on their reservations, many Native Americans moved from a life of poverty to a life of wealth.

Although there are many advantages to legalized gambling, there has also been a good deal of criticism of state-supported gambling. As states increase their support of state lotteries, they seem to encourage commercial gambling in all its forms. About 50 percent of the U. S. population plays the lottery, according to a study by the University of Chicago. This trend has led to an increase in habitual gambling. More than 5 million Americans suffer from gambling addiction. Those most at risk of becoming addicted include the poor, young people between twelve and eighteen years old, and women over the age of fifty, who are looking for some entertainment. As a result, many of them will end up in prison or even homeless. The promise of winning big fortune has created big problems.

Perhaps the most important concern is the moral issue of legalized gambling. The lottery is the only form of gambling that is essentially a government control. Critics ask whether gambling is a proper function of government. Should the government be the spokesman for the expansion of gambling? Critics say state advertising of lotto emphasizes luck over hard work, instant happiness over careful planning, and entertainment over savings. The traditional work ethic(道德准则)is being devalued by the pipedream of striking it rich, and this is sending confusing messages to young people.

In 1996, Congress created a commission to conduct a legal study of the social and economic impacts of gambling in the United States. After two years of study, the Commission recommended an end to the expansion of legalized gambling and a ban on Internet gambling. Some feel- this will severely hurt the gambling industry. Others fear that it is not enough and are asking the government to take a tough stand against gambling. 63. According to the passage, we know that __________ .

A. any forms of gambling were banned before 1964 in the USA

B. the economical problems led to the rise of gambling industry in the USA C. all American states have legalized gambling since 1964

D. only five states have now legalized gambling because of the depressed economies 64. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A. State lottery system helps to raise money to improve people's public welfare. B. Gambling industry helps to change the American way of life.

C. Gambling industry helps to improve the life of some poor Native Americans. D. State lottery system helps to increase state sales or income taxes. 65. What is the author most concerned about? A. The expanding of the gambling industry.

B. The suffering of the gambling-addicted people.

C. The moral problems brought about by the legalized gambling. D. The disadvantage of Internet gambling.

66. In Paragraph 5, the word \

A. wonderful idea B. creative idea C. unworkable plan D. practical plan

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Section C

Directions: Read the passage carefully. 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. A. When children today play Angry Birds, they won't wonder why the birds are so ill-tempered. B. Hollywood is actually such a power featuring its creativity, imagination and efficiency in giving rise to its entertainment products. C. It led the way for a number of other equally silly, equally addictive games to invade cell phones everywhere. D. Lego, by putting forward its education solutions, is now striving to help kids to stand up to a problem and solve it. E. Never mind that these games made absolutely no sense from a narrative viewpoint. F. In its efforts to feed the audience's curiosity, Hollywood may in fact be killing it. A few years ago, a Finnish app took the mobile gaming world by storm. Its set-up was simple and its idea illogical: Angry Birds was little more than a shooting game, with birds instead of bullets and green pigs in place of targets. _67_ Shortly after Angry Birds took off, audiences found a new distraction in Fruit Ninja, a game where the object was to chop falling produce. Then there was Candy Crush, where players could save a candy kingdom by matching like-colored bonbons. _____68 ____ That was their charm, after all: They were knowingly ridiculous or illogical, an attack into mindless amusement. In games like Angry Birds, players found an escape from reality. All they had to do is resign themselves to the logic of the game, a world of simple cause-and-effect: Slingshot a bird, kill a pig, score points.

Fast forward t0 2016, and there's now an Angry Birds movie, here to fill you in on all the details you never wished to know. The birds have been given personalities, motives and back-stories, and so have the evil green pigs. Meanwhile, the game's nonsense had to be made sense of due to a necessary plot for a movie. Logic replaced illogic. Angry Birds is not alone in having its gray areas sketched in for the big screen. Hollywood has made an industry of answering the questions no one ever thought to ask; to the point of even giving a brand of toy blocks its own story in 2014's The Lego Movie. Countless secondary characters have also been pulled from the sidelines and given their own opportunities to show on the screen. That includes the forgetful blue fish Dory from 2003's Finding Nemo. 69 Viewers no longer have the luxury of imagining back-stories for their favorite characters, or debating the open-ended questions in a film's source materials: An endless flow of prequels(前传),sequels (续集) and spin-offs (衍生产品) fill in those blanks for them.

__ 70 __ They'll know. Everything will be determined for them: According to the movie, the main bird Red gets picked on for his bushy eyebrows, and that leaves him feeling isolated and, well, angry. In some ways, Hollywood has taken on the role of fan fiction writers, by expanding and exploring every corner of its fictional universes. But when these universes expand too widely, what will be left to imagine?

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IV. Summary Writing

Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.

Are we born with a preference for certain kinds of faces? Or is it just something that people learn, without realizing it? To find out, psychologist Judith Langlois and her team at the University of Texas in Austin worked with young children and babies.

The researchers showed each baby photos of two faces. One face was more attractive than the other. The scientists then recorded how long the infants looked at each face.

Babies spent longer viewing the attractive faces than the unattractive ones. That meant they preferred the pretty faces. These findings suggest that people prefer pretty faces very early in life. However, it's still possible that we learn that preference. After all, Schein, who worked with Judith, points out, \

That experience can make a difference. Research conducted at the University of Delaware found that babies' brains are better at processing faces from their own race. So infants quickly come to prefer these faces, Schein says.

It's well-known in psychology that familiar things are more attractive, says Coren Apicella. She is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. \more attractive because they seem more familiar.\

Indeed, her research backs this up. Apicella and Little worked with two groups of young adults: British and Hadza. The Hadza are hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, a nation in East Africa. Apicella chose them for her experiment because they had not been exposed to Western culture and standards of beauty.

She showed people from both groups two images and asked which was more attractive. One image was an average of five British faces or five Hadza faces. The other was an average of 20 British faces or 20 Hadza faces. People of both cultures preferred the face that was more average -- that is, compiled from 20 faces instead of five. The British participants found both Hadza and British faces beautiful. The Hadza, in contrast, preferred only Hadza faces.

\average European face looks like,\can they prefer it?\

Her findings show how biology and the environment work together to shape our values. \preference for average itself is biologically based,\Apicella says. But people must first experience other faces to learn what an average face should look like.

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V. Translation

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

72．我以为你会和我一起乘高铁去北京。(think)

73．每月她都会留出一部分钱以各不时之需。 (in case)

74．站在山顶，极目远望，大自然的壮美让我们惊叹不已。(amaze)

75．被称为“发展中国家”并不一定是坏事，只有这样我们才能永远在发展的路上前进，追求更为高远的目标。 (It)

VI. Guided Writing

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given Below in Chinese.

如今在上海街头，共享单车(ride-sharing)忽然流行起来。你班同学最近就共享单车这一 新兴事物展开了热烈的讨论。请根据下表提示用英语写一篇短文，介绍你班讨论的情况，并谈谈你的看法。

（文中不得出现考生姓名、学校等任何真实信息）

┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓ ┃ 大部分同学充满信心 ┃ 少数同学不看好 ┃ ┣━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╋━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┫ ┃1、方便出行，不受堵车影响： ┃1、手机应用运行不稳定，不利计费； ┃ ┃2、经济实惠： ┃2、郊区覆盖面不大； ┃ ┃3、减少碳排放，有利环保； ┃3、许多人不文明使用，导致车辆受损严重， ┃ ┃4、骑行有利健康。 ┃不便使用。 ┃ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┻━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛

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2016学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷 高三英语答案:

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

21. even though/if 22. a 23. to be thrown 24. Have featured 25.his 26. can 27. from 28. will be mirrored 29. which 30. using

Section B

31.-35. B E A J F 36-40.H K C G I

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

41-45. BCABD 46-50.DACBC 51-55.BDDAC

Section B

56-58. DAA 59-62.BDCA 63-66.BBCC Section C 67-70.C E F A

IV. Summary Writing

Babies’ preference to attractive faces indicates that people begin to prefer pretty faces at an early age. Researches also show that average faces are more attractive because they are more familiar to people. Meanwhile, people’s experience with faces matters a lot. The more people experience with certain faces, the more preference they will have to the average of these faces.

V. Translation

72. I thought you would go to Beijing with me by high-speed rail. 73. She sets aside some money monthly in case of need.

74. Standing at the top of the mountain and looking as far as the eye can see, we are amazed at the magnificence of nature.

75. It is not necessarily a bad thing to be called ”developing country”, since only in this way can we stick to the road of developing forever for higher goals.

VI. Guided Writing(略)。

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