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2023学年度第一学期高三 9月教学质量检测
英语学科 （2023.09）
考生注意：考试时间 120分钟，试卷满分 140分。
Listening Comprehension
Section A Short Conversations
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end
of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the
questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read
the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question
you have heard.
1. A. A professor. B. A coach.
C. A shop assistant. D. A school librarian.
2. A. People often invite him to parties. B. He does not like to attend parties.
C. He does not work on Fridays. D. People enjoy his company.
3. A. Spend more time doing sports. B. Join an interesting club.
C. Give up the extra courses. D. Focus on his academic work.
4. A. He does not know Amy’s new phone number.
B. He forgot to phone Amy earlier today.
C. Amy’s phone number has not changed.
D. The woman should ask Amy for the phone number.
5. A. He doesn’t care about what Professor Smith said.
B. Professor Smith forgave him for his absence this time.
C. He has never missed Professor Smith’s class.
D. Professor Smith ran out of patience with him.
6. A. She is going to start a new experiment.
B. She is planning to finish the experiment on Friday.
C. She has been given more time to finish the experiment.
D. She has finished the experiment despite so many problems.
7. A. Nancy will go play tennis soon.
B. He is much less patient than Nancy.
C. The woman should play tennis with Nancy.
D. Nancy should pick up her bat at the post office.
8. A. She thinks the man is funny. B. She got sick from last night’s dinner.
C. She feels better than she did last night. D. She enjoyed the seafood last night.
9. A. He thinks Betty should take a class for diplomats.
B. He got angry with Betty at the meeting.
C. He admires Betty for expressing her opinion.
D. He did not understand what Betty said.
10. A. He did not pay attention to the time.
B. His class lasted longer than usual.
C. He got lost on the way to the movie.
D. He did not know what time the movie started.
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Section B Passages
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you
will be asked three questions on each of the passages and conversation. The passages and
conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a
question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best
answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Applying some time in advance. B. Being wealthy enough.
C. Owning a restaurant. D. Destroying his own college room.
12. A. They cause damage to the place where they meet.
B. They have begun to enroll girl students recently.
C. They have never been arrested despite what they do.
D. They are allowed by the police to break something not so valuable.
13. A. Club members are usually young but mature.
B. Club members don’t need to regret their deeds.
C. Some former club members have become important people.
D. Some former club members actually don’t like what they did.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. The development of the Elm Society. B. Growing new kinds of elm trees.
C. The importance of elm trees. D. A problem affecting the American elm.
15. A. The extremely dry weather.
B. Insects that introduce some bacteria to the tree.
C. Nearby stronger trees that get more water.
D. Bugs that destroy the trees’ roots.
16. A. By controlling the carriers of the disease. B. By growing a stronger kind of the elm.
C. By watering infected elm trees. D. By cutting down all infected elms.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. In a classroom. B. On the beach.
C. In a physics lab. D. On the train.
18. A. How to walk on the hot sand. B. How to stay cool on a hot day.
C. What happened in the physics class. D. What is meant by specific heat.
19. A. The hot sand. B. The cold water.
C. His physics class. D. The woman’s curiosity.
20. A. Its temperature does not change very much.
B. Its specific heat is hard to measure.
C. It takes quite a lot of energy to raise its temperature.
D. It becomes warmer as it comes in contact with sand.
Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
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.
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Agree to Disagree
I am old enough to remember running through the whipping rain to find a phone booth, only
(21) ________ (get) cut off in the middle of the call because I ran out of change. I remember
having posted hand-written letters home from overseas that would take two weeks to arrive.
In comparison, the world of social media is truly a miracle. Free of charge, you
(22)________ contact anybody, anywhere, anytime. Social media enables us to debate with people
the world over. And this is a good thing in some aspects. In the market-place of ideas, you get to
try on other people’s shoes and see (23) _______ the world looks like from their perspective. In
the ’90s, experts predicted an end to historical conflict because people would become more
open-minded and tolerant. But this is sadly not turning out to be the case. As psychologist
Jonathan Haidt said in his article “The Coddling of the American Mind,” social media (24)
_______ (create) people who are addicted to conflict and is driving polarization (分化).
Because online disagreements are no longer being conducted between two people in an
enclosed room, but are instead happening in a public space with thousands of onlookers, many
debates have evolved into nothing more than a popularity contest--whoever walks away with the
most “likes” (25) ________ (crown) the winner. People often say things they don’t believe in
order to get more likes. (26) ________ sugar—the more likes you get, the better you feel.
Meanwhile, social media algorithms (算法 ) reinforce an echo chamber (回音室). By (27)
________(expose) you to articles and videos similar in opinion to those you’ve clicked on before,
they lure you down the rabbit hole (28) _______ the media you consume is reinforcing the
opinions you already have.
Many of us have probably got (29) _______(stick) in a heated debate over some controversial
topic. This may not matter much if the conflict occurs between strangers. But when it comes to
close family or friends, the result can be unpleasant. Many people find it really hard to feel close
to their friends (30) _______ they have the same beliefs.
My advice here is to bear in mind the following: You are entitled to your opinion; I just
happen to think otherwise. So let’s agree to disagree.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used
only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. personally B. readiness C. safe D. demonstrate E. ensure F. comfortable
G. facilitate H. courage I. intensively J. appreciate K. identity
Inspired Minds Think Alike
As a researcher and storyteller about people who make a large positive impact on the world
and what they do differently, I have seen that individuals who have the real “goods” to inspire
others have something that other folks don’t. In fact, they __31__ several critical traits that enliven
us, light a spark inside of us, and make us want to be better, stronger and bigger.
*They have used all of themselves to make a difference
Look at the most popular TED talks that have gone viral and touched millions of people, and
you will see people who struggled in their past but decided to use what they had __32__
experienced to learn more, dig deeper, and finally, help __33__ positive change for others. These
inspirers have grown __34__ being totally authentic (本真的) and open about who they really are.
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They no longer worry about being rejected, scorned or put down. They have grown beyond feeling
that they have to hide or suppress parts of themselves in order to be accepted. And it is their very
__35__ to use all of themselves—openly and courageously—that inspires and encourages us to do
the same.
*They express love and appreciation openly, and have deep empathy for others
Those who inspire us to be better are fully capable of experiencing empathy, and they openly
express their ability to understand our personal “stories” and what we feel deep down. Instead of
overprotecting us, they __36__ who we are inside. This makes us feel __37__ about revealing our
more authentic selves to others and allows for us to even more fully broaden the definition and
sense we have of our own __38__, all without having to worry about being embarrassed in the
process. Love and acceptance is at the basis of what they do. Look at those who have made the
biggest positive difference throughout history. Invariably, there is compassion and appreciation at
that heart of who they are and what they stand for.
*They believe in collective power
Those who inspire others believe in collective power so that positive change can happen
more quickly. Their focus is not directed at __39__ or solely trying to build up their own wealth,
power and influence. They want to see others rise, grow and expand. That’s what fuels them and
motivates their actions, business, and growth strategies. In doing so, they can become wealthy,
powerful and influential, but this is only a by-product of their focus, which is directed at
expanding collective strength and power, while working to __40__ that whatever they do
continues to make a positive impact on the world.
Which of these traits inspires you most to be more of yourself
III. Reading Comprehension
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.
I imagine a young man, a senior in high school. His academic performance is good enough.
However, just as his parents are about to send the ____41____ check to a college where he has
been accepted, the young man admits that he doesn’t want to go to college. He wants to work, to
earn a living, to be out on his own.
Children have to build their own lives. But parents don’t want them to commit errors that will
make it harder to build those lives. How should children and their parents think about this
___42____
College is often discussed as a(n)___43____ in the future: You pay up front so you can
benefit abundantly for the rest of your life. The financial benefits of a college education over the
past decades indeed look great. However, past performance won’t necessarily ensure future returns.
To make the plots more ____44____, from 1989 to 2016, college tuition went up by 98 percent.
This has led to a lot of student-loan debt.
It may be worth the cost for some kids who want to go into a field that requires a college
degree, but others don’t know what they want to do after college, so for them college is like
buying an expensive ____45____for future employment. Still, it’s worth noting that in 2019, just
66 percent of college graduates were in jobs requiring a college degree. What’s more, as of 2010,
only 27 percent were in jobs related to their college major.
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Perhaps you don’t primarily use ___46___ analysis to make decisions about your life or your
child’s. But everyone wants to be happy, and wants their child to be happy as well. So let’s look at
the___47___ effects of college.
Some scholars have found that, when controlling for other factors in life such as income and
religious faith, education by itself has no independent explanatory ____48___ over happiness.
Some actually believe that education is negatively linked to happiness, and hypothesize that some
college attendees exchange life satisfaction for their academic ____49____. And there’s all that
student debt to consider. According to a Gallup study, student debt is negatively correlated with
financial and physical health and sense of purpose, and is ___50____ low well-being on these
dimensions for as long as 25 years after graduation.
____51____, the only thing we can say with assurance is, “It depends.” On what On the
unique ____52____ of each person. A child’s gifts, circumstances, and career ambitions all affect
whether college is the right choice. Most of all, it depends on what they want to do. As a longtime
academic, I can assure you that the No. 1 ____53____of a failure to thrive in college is not
wanting to be there in the first place.
That may be obvious to would-be students, but to many of their parents it isn’t. The college
decision is often as much about the parents as it is about their kids. It’s easy to ____54____our
own desires onto our kids—to try to see our own potential come alive through them.
But it’s a mistake. No one can build a life alone—we all need help—but in the end, our lives
are our own. Each of our lives is a start-up enterprise, and there is not just one path to success. The
college-for-all fever that has overtaken much of our culture ____55___gifts that our kids have to
develop and share. In fact, building their life with integrity and grit is what all parents could ever
ask.
41. A. security B. deposit C. information D. routine
42. A. dilemma B. landscape C. consequence D. disappointment
43. A. shelter B. investment C. prospect D. victory
44. A. evident B. compelling C. complicated D. realistic
45. A. insurance B. scam C. maintenance D. lesson
46. A. trial-error B. question-answer C. cost-benefit D. pros-cons
47. A. health B. society C. happiness D. education
48. A. concern B. power C. favor D. advantage
49. A. prejudice B. panic C. ambition D. unemployment
50. A. applied to B. blamed on C. informed of D. associated with
51. A. However B. Therefore C. Otherwise D. Furthermore
52. A. fates B. decisions C. attributes D. inputs
53. A. qualification B. coverage C. witness D. predictor
54. A. project B. owe C. adjust D. prefer
55. A. highlights B. justifies C. ignores D. visualizes
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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
Two things changed my life: my mother and a white plastic bike basket. I have thought long
and hard about it and it’s true. I would be a different person if my mom hadn’t turned a silly
bicycle accessory into a life lesson that I carry with me today.
My mother and father were united in their way of raising children, but it mostly fell to my
mother to actually carry it out. Looking back, I honestly don’t know how she did it. Managing the
family budget must have been a very hard task, but she made it look effortless. If we complained
about not having what another kid did, we’d hear something like, “I don’t care what so-and-so got
for his birthday, you are not getting a TV in your room, a car for your birthday or a lavish
sweet-16 party.” We had to earn our allowance by doing chores around the house. I can still
remember how long it took to polish the legs of our coffee table. My brothers can no doubt
remember hours spent cleaning the house. Like the two little girls growing up at the White House,
we made our own beds (no one left the house until that was done) and picked up after ourselves.
We had to keep track of our belongings, and if something was lost, it was not replaced.
It was summer and, one day, my mother drove me to the bike shop to get a tire fixed — and
there it was in the window. White, shiny, plastic and decorated with flowers, the basket winked at
me and I knew — I knew— I had to have it.
“It’s beautiful,” my mother said when I pointed it out to her. “What a neat basket.”
I tried to hold off at first. I played it cool for a short while. But then I guess I couldn’t stand it
any longer: “Mom, please can I please, please get it I’ll do extra chores for as long as you say. I’ll
do anything, but I need that basket. I love that basket. Please, Mom. Please ”
I was desperate.
“ You know,” she said, gently rubbing my back while we both stared at what I believed was
the coolest thing ever, “If you save up you could buy this yourself.”
“By the time I make enough it’ll be gone!”
“Maybe Roger here could hold it for you,” she smiled at Roger, the bike guy.
“He can’t hold it for that long, Mom. Someone else will buy it. Please, Mom, please ”
“There might be another way,” she said.
And so our paying plan unfolded. My mother bought the beautiful basket and put it safely in
some hiding place I couldn’t find. Each week I eagerly counted my growing savings increased by
extra work here and there (washing the car, helping my mother make dinner, delivering or
collecting things on my bike that already looked naked without the basket in front). And then,
weeks later, I counted, re-counted and jumped for joy. Oh, happy day! I made it! I finally had the
exact amount we’d agreed upon....
Days later the unthinkable happened. A neighborhood girl I’d played with millions of times
appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and
whistles. I rode hard and fast home to tell my mother about this disaster. This horrible turn of
events.
And then came the lesson I’ve taken with me through my life: “Honey, your basket is
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extra-special,” Mom said, gently wiping away my hot tears. “Your basket is special because you
paid for it yourself.”
56.What can we learn from the first two paragraphs
A. The mother raised her children in an unusual way.
B. The writer envied the daughters of the U.S. president.
C. The writer’s parents shared the duty to bring up children.
D. Managing budget is an effortless job to most housewives.
57. By using “naked” (Paragraph 12), the author seems to stress that the basket was ________.
A. well worth the effort she had made B. the most valuable she had ever obtained
C. an unnecessary accessory to her bike D. something the bike couldn’t do without
58. To the author, it seemed to be a horrible turn of events that ________.
A. the basket cost more than she had saved
B. someone else had got a basket of the same kind
C. her paying plan was spoiled
D. a neighborhood girl bought a nicer bike
59. What is the life lesson the author learned from her mother
A. Save money for a rainy day. B. Good advice is beyond all price.
C. Earn your bread with your sweat. D. God helps those who help themselves.
B
Become an Atlantis Jr. Aquarist and spend 3 days working with marine life! Food prepping to
feeding the animals to snorkeling（浮潜） and learning about coral reefs, it’s a week of marine
adventure!
Marine Adventure Camp
June 24--28; Monday—Friday
July 8--12; Monday—Friday
July 29--August 2; Monday—Friday
August 12--16; Monday—Friday
5 days/4 nights Camp Hours
Ages: 10 to 14 Monday: 5:45 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Price: $595 (not inclusive of room cost) Tuesday: 8:00 a. m. to 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Friday: Check out (or you may extend your
stay on your own).
*Please note: Programming subject to change
based on weather conditions.
Package Components Dress Code
1. Amenity（便利设施）Package T-Shirts
—Camp Name Badge Shorts
—Mask and Snorkel（水下呼吸管） Swimsuits
—Messenger Bag Water Shoes (Since most water shoes are
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—Cap uncomfortable for the amount of walking they
—Towel do, especially when wet, they are not allowed
—Marine Life Guide to change into water shoes when they prepare
—Water Bottle to swim.)
2. Welcome Dinner Sun Block
3. Lunch for 3 days (venue to be determined) Important Notes
4. Behind the Scenes with our SeaKeeper Team All attendees must be able to swim without
5. Behind the Scenes with our Marine Mammal assistance.
Team All attendees must speak fluent English.
6. Fish food preparation and hand feeding Camp name badge must be worn daily.
7. Ruins Snorkel Attendees MUST be at least10 years of age.
8. Stingray（魟）Snorkel
9. Blue Adventure Snorkel Trip
10. Shark Walk with Stuart Cove
60. You can get to know all the information about the Marine Adventure Camp
EXCEPT________.
A. camp hours B. camp price C. things to bring D. daily schedules
61. The Marine Adventure camp is suitable for _________.
A. Tom, who has just graduated from high school
B. Jerry, who has saved up 600 dollars for summer holiday
C. Mary, a local 6 grader who likes swimming
D. Edward, who has just been employed as an aquarist
62. Which of the following can be learned from the passage
A. Attendees don’t wear water shoes when they go swimming.
B. All attendees must check out on the last day of the camp.
C. The programs are fixed and no minor changes will be made.
D. Attendees will have a 5-day experience working with marine life in the camp.
C
In the early days of covid-19, the tech industry was consumed by a sense of excitement. With
billions of people locked down at home, work and play were shifting online. Many hoped that the
new normal would spark a huge productivity boom as firms digitized and workers spent less time
commuting. The excitement was most evident in stockmarkets, where any firm related to this
trend saw its share price surge. The tech-heavy NASDAQ rose by 88%.
The craze has ended. Today the lockdown lunacy inde（x 疯狂指数）—which includes Netflix,
a streaming service; Peloton, a maker of fancy exercise bikes; Robinhood, a stock-trading app;
Shopify, an e-commerce platform; and Zoom, a videoconferencing firm—has fallen by more than
80% from its peak.
How worrying is this return to Earth To be sure, some of it reflects gloomier prospects for
the global economy. And it is disappointing that two years of digitization and remote work have
not provided clear evidence of a productivity boom. Yet there are reasons still to be
techno-optimistic. Much of the early enthusiasm may simply have been focused on the wrong
types of firm. Though the pandemic darlings have fizzled, the shift towards ever greater
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digitization continues. The true winners are not the flashy consumer-tech firms, but the companies
that provide the infrastructure to enable this shift.
Look beyond the boom and bust of consumer tech, and you see the real successes. The
market for the infrastructure technology that underpins people’s daily lives, such as cloud
computing, cybersecurity and digital payments, is booming. The cloud-computing industry is
expected to grow to almost $500bn this year, up from $243bn in 2019. Amazon’s cloud offering,
the largest in the world, is still growing at 33% each year. It accounted for three-quarters of the
firm’s operating income over the past 12 months, and is supporting the tech giant’s ailing （困扰
的）e-commerce business.
Cloudification has created new demands for cybersecurity, another tech winner. The
combined revenue at the three largest listed cybersecurity firms has almost doubled since the start
of the pandemic. Their market capitalization has tripled, and has come down only a fraction since
the start of the year. Digital payments are another bright spot, thanks to lockdowns and social
distancing. Three-quarters of iPhone owners use Apple Pay, up from half in 2019, and nine out of
ten American retailers now accept it as a payment method. Almost 200m people in India and
China have used some form of digital payment for the first time since the onset of covid.
The bubble may have burst on the pandemic’s darlings, but the drumbeat of digitization
continues. The less obvious technologies that provide the underlying infrastructure for the shift are
the true beneficiaries of covid. Whether these will fuel a productivity boost one day remains to be
seen. But there was more going on during the pandemic than lockdown craze.
63. According to the article, which of the following statements is TRUE
A. Tech industry predicted a productivity boom in the lockdown, which proved true.
B. The share prices of customer-tech companies sharply rocketed and then declined.
C. Robinhood is a tech company specializing in meeting demands for cybersecurity.
D. The prospects of the tech industry are too gloomy to be optimistic.
64. What does the underlined word “fizzled” in paragraph 3 mean
A. emerged B. benefited C. failed D. sustained
65.What can be inferred from the last three paragraphs
A. Digital payment wasn’t available to Indians at all until the start of covid.
B. In the past year, Amazon has mainly depended on its e-commerce business for profits.
C. In the shift of working online, cloudification is no longer optional.
D. The market capitalization of three largest listed cybersecurity firms has kept rising.
66. What is the best title of the article
A. Techno-pessimists Rule the Lockdown
B. The Lockdown Index Sounds the Alarm
C. Economic Depression Is Arriving
D. Tech Losers and Winners of the Pandemic
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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.
A. In other words, exercise does not directly affect creative thinking.
B. They equipped these volunteers with activity trackers for five days.
C. Through exercise, people tend to feel refreshed and focused on what they’re doing.
D. Creativity is an innate ability, which can be brought out to its full potential with sufficient
exercise.
E. In people, too, exercise improves our moods and tends to sharpen our abilities to reason
and remember.
F. This suggested that it was not improved moods, but physical activity, that had a greater
influence on creativity.
Can Exercise Make You More Creative
If you often exercise, there is a good chance you also tend to be more creative, according to
a study of the links between physical activity and imagination. The study, which was published in
Scientific Reports, finds that active people come up with more and better ideas during tests of
their inventiveness than people who are relatively sedentary.
Science already offers plenty of evidence that physical activity influences how we think.
Many studies on people and animals show that our brains change in response to physical activity,
in part because during exercise we marinate (浸泡 ) our brains with extra blood, oxygen and
nutrients. In rodent (啮齿动物 ) studies, animals that regularly exercise produce far more new
brain cells than sedentary counterparts, even if they are elderly. (67) ________
However, creativity is one of the most abstract of thinking skills, and its relationship with
exercise has not been clear. Some past research had speculated that good moods might be the
intermediary linking activity and creativity. According to that idea, moving makes people happier,
and their good cheer in turn stimulates their creativity. (68) ________
To learn more about how being active could possibly affect creativity in the first place,
researchers at the University of Graz in Austria tracked the normal activities of a group of healthy
adults. (69) ________ Then they asked them to visit the lab and let their imaginations soar,
conceiving new uses for car tires and umbrellas and finishing partial drawings. The researchers
then rated their output on its originality and other measures. The volunteers also completed
standardized questionnaires about their moods.
Crosschecking the data, the scientists found that the most active of the volunteers proved to
be also the most creative, especially if they often walked or exercised moderately. Active people
also tended to be in high spirits, although their moods were highest if they engaged in vigorous
activities, rather than moderate ones. However, the correlations between activity, creativity and
moods were slight. (70) _________
The study was associational, though, meaning that it looked at a brief moment in people’s
lives. It did not involve a randomized experiment and cannot tell us how exercise and other
activities might shape creativity, if not by raising moods, or show whether a brisk walk now helps
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us better finish a newspaper column or some other creative venture later. But the results do
suggest that active imaginations start with active lives.
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.
71. The World Should Welcome the Rise of the Robots
The word “robot” was coined in 1920 by the Czech playwright Karel Capek, who imagined
artificial, fully functional servants. For most of their history, however, robots have been dumb,
inelegant mechanical devices sitting out of sight in factories.
Things are starting to change, however. Robots have benefited from rapid innovations in
smartphones, which brought cheap cameras and sensors, fast wireless communications and
powerful, smaller computer chips. More recent advances in machine learning have added software
to make robots better informed about their surroundings and equipped them to make wiser
decisions. Robots are leaving carefully managed industrial settings for everyday life. In a
pandemic-ravaged world, short of workers but with lots of elderly folk to look after, having more
robots to boost productivity would be a good thing.
And yet many people fear that robots will destroy jobs. A paper in 2013 by economists at
Oxford University was widely misinterpreted as meaning that 47% of American jobs were at risk
of being automated. In fact, concerns about mass unemployment are overblown. The evidence
suggests robots will be disruptive but ultimately beneficial for labour markets. Japan and South
Korea have the highest robot penetration but very strong workforces. A Yale University study that
looked at Japanese manufacturing between 1978 and 2017 found that an increase of one robot unit
per 1,000 workers boosted a company’s employment by 2.2%. Research from the Bank of Korea
found that robotization moved jobs away from manufacturing into other sectors, but that there was
no decrease in overall vacancies.
Inevitably, some people will be on the losing end of change even as the robots make society
as a whole better off. It may trigger a political backlash, because the losers feel left behind. That is
one more reason why firms and governments would do well to recognize the value of retraining
and lifelong learning. As jobs change, workers should be helped to acquire new skills.
The potential gains from the robot revolution are huge. There is no reason to think the robots
will revolt against their human masters and cause mass unemployment and worse.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72. “每月一测” 的制度适用于所有考生。（basis）
73. 这部电影，还原生活，它提醒观众们幸福来之不易。（remind）
74. 海啸袭击后，市长第一时间赶赴现场，部署各部门救援工作，为了一切能尽快恢复正常。
（Hardly）
75. 正如公民媒体领域的专家所告诫，无论新闻标题多么吸睛，如果报道的内容经不起推敲
或完全无中生有，那么将追究作者的责任。（however）
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VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given
below in Chinese.
假如你是明启中学的高三学生李华。为了更贴近学生生活，满足学生需求，你所在的学
校计划在校园网站上增加一个栏目，拟从四个栏目里选择一个：“学生来信”、“心理聊天室”、
“职业发展规划”和“校园热搜”。学校正在向全体师生征求建议，给校方写一封信。信中
必须包含：
1. 你会选择增加的栏目；
2. 你的理由。
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