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2025-2026学年上海市华东师范大学第二附属中学高二下学期3月练习英语试卷
(考试时间：105分钟 卷面满分：115分)
I. Grammar and Vocabulary (28)
Section A (8)
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. So______ in recent years that it now accounts for over 30% of the country’s GDP.
A. rapidly grew the tech sector
B. has the tech sector grown rapidly
C. rapidly the tech sector grew
D. rapidly has the tech sector grown
2. Researchers have long debated ______ impact of social media on mental health is primarily negative or whether it offers certain benefits.
A. when B. that C. what D. whether
3. With a large amount of redecoration work ______, the office site was shut down temporarily.
A. remaining to do B. remained to do
C. remaining to be done D. remained to be done
4. It was only after he had traveled around the world ______ he came to appreciate the diversity of cultures.
A. that B. and C. before D. so
5. ________ regularly, the online learning platform ________ to become more user-friendly over the past five years.
A. Updating; has continued B. Updated; has continued
C. Updating; continued D. Updated; continued
6. My roommate ______ always ______ my laptop without asking, which drives me crazy — especially when I’m in the middle of something urgent.
A. is; borrowing B. has; borrowed
C. was; borrowing D. has; been borrowing
7. ______ the initial investment was substantial, the long-term savings on energy costs made the solar project financially viable.
A. While B. Despite C. However D. As
8. Just as I was about to present my carefully prepared proposal to the client, my laptop ______ freeze, forcing me to rely entirely on memory and notes.
A. must B. might C. would D. could
9. The last person ______ the office should remember to turn off all the lights and computers.
A. leaves B. left C. leaving D. to leave
10. Never ______ such a heartwarming story about friendship and courage as I read yesterday.
A. I had read B. have I read C. I read D. did I read
11. It is essential that every employee ______ the updated safety protocols before operating the new machinery.
A. reviews B. review C. reviewed D. has reviewed
12. The ancient manuscripts, ______ origins remain a mystery to historians, were discovered in a remote cave last summer.
A. whose B. which C. of which D. that
13. Don’t hesitate to turn to your teachers or classmates for answers to ______ problems you encounter in your study.
A. whenever B. whatever C. no matter what D. whichever
14. This is the very novel ______ I have been looking for these days.
A. which B. what C. that D. where
15. Without your timely encouragement and support, I ______ so much progress in my spoken English.
A. won’t have made B. shouldn’t have made
C. needn’t have made D. couldn’t have made
16. The historian argued that any researcher ______ to understand the true significance of the newly unearthed artifacts ______ first examine the cultural context in which they were created, ______ is often overlooked by modern scholars.
A. wanting; must; which B. who wants; could; which
C who wants; can; as D. wanted; might; what
Section B (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
When you scroll through social media, do you find yourself thinking you’ve somehow fallen behind in life Whether it’s a friend’s exciting vacation, a family member’s professional milestones or an influencer’s flawless image, comparison is easy to fall into. But ___17___ it might feel normal to measure how you’re doing against others, comparisons can drain you ___18___ mental strength, chip away at your confidence, and take a toll on your well-being.
Social media platforms aren’t innocently showing you other people’s lives—they’re intentionally designed to amplify comparison. Algorithms prioritize posts that are most likely to grab your attention, which often means showing content that sparks envy or admiration. If left ___19___ (uncheck), those comparison contents can steer us away from our own goals and values and leave us feeling stuck and resentful.
On top of that, people tend to post their happiest moments and ___20___ (polish) images. Rarely do you see the sleepless nights, the financial stress, and the fighting couples ___21___ make up real life. Even the rare honest post about failure often comes with a triumphant comeback story, reinforcing the idea that success ___22___ quickly follow any setback.
Fortunately, once you recognize it’s become a problem, you can learn to break free and regain your confidence. Here are science-backed strategies to help:
1 Create Your Definition of Success
It’s hard to compare ___23___ to someone else if you’re crystal clear on what matters most to you. Create your own definition of success based on your values and goals.
Write down what success looks like for you. When you feel the urge to compare, ___24___ (revisit) this definition to remind yourself that you’re running your own race—not someone else’s.
2 See Others as Sources of Inspiration, Not Competition
When someone achieves something you want, resist the urge to frame them as a competitor. Instead, shift your perspective and view them as an “opinion holder” you might learn from. Remember, someone else’s success doesn’t diminish your own.
3 Be Selective About Social Media
Social media can be both a blessing and a curse, depending on ___25___ you engage with it. Pay attention to the accounts you follow.
Remember, someone else’s success doesn’t diminish your own. Take steps today ____26____ (invest) in your mental strength and don’t let comparison steal your time and confidence.
III. Vocabulary (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.
A. friendless B.means C.hospitality D. readily E. astonishingly F.charge G. please H. ventured I. self-imposed J.virtues K. passage
Travel: You can go your own way
In 1608 Thomas Coryat, regarded as “the world’s first backpacker”, embarked on a Grand Tour of Europe. On foot and ___27___, Coryat discovered foreign delicacies and innovative technologies. Over the following centuries, young people have long ___28___ abroad in search of inspiration and excitement.
Four centuries later, nomads move faster and farther than Coryat did, for cheap flights and mobile phones have made things more straightforward. Yet many are following his lead and appreciate the emotional ___29___ of setting off alone. In Britain the share of travellers going on holiday by themselves has nearly tripled, says the Association of British Travel Agents, from 6% in 2011 to 17% in 2024.
Why are so many people going it alone Just as Grand Tour became a rite (宗教仪式，典礼) of ___30___ for young noblemen, solo travel today is less about finding far-distant places than finding yourself. Hilton Hotels & Resorts, a ___31___ company, calls the trend “me-mooning” (as opposed to “honeymooning”). Travel bloggers attest that on white-sand beaches in Bali or Belize you can “become a truer version of yourself”. Solo travellers describe the thrill of doing whatever they want, whenever they want. Research has shown that ___32___ solitude can boost creativity and well-being.
Millennials and Gen Z are particularly keen on travelling; they spend a larger share of their income on trips than their older peers do, says McKinsey, a consultancy. Many are deferring getting married and having children, so have the flexibility to head off on excursions when they ___33___. On TikTok, influencers advocate the ___34___ of independent excursions: “Stop waiting for someone to join you.”
Women, in particular, are embracing that idea: by one estimate, 84% of solo travellers are female. A century ago etiquette books warned women not to travel without a male companion; today many say they are not afraid to travel unaccompanied (though safety tips are ___35___ available online). Much as Coryat did 400 years ago, women today have the ____36____, and the time, to follow their feet.
II. Reading Comprehension (45)
Section A (15)
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.
You want to spend less time on your phone. The latest method to go viral promises a ___37___ solution: youngsters are turning to the Brick, an app-blocking device. To use it, you choose the apps you would like to ___38___ and touch your phone to the “brick”.
The Brick has ___39___ a following, especially among people aged 20-35. Downloads of the Brick app in January were up nearly 600% year on year, estimates a research film. The device is part of a broader trend: the rise of anti-tech tech. There is a surplus of tools designed to remove digital temptations, which offer gamitted experiences: on Forest, the longer you stay off your phone the more virtual trees grow, and when you ___40___ enough, the firm will plant a real sapling (树苗) in Africa. Some people are ___41___ fancy phones entirely: “dumb” phones without touchscreens, once a symbol of elderly tech ignoramuses, are now seen as a cool, wise choice.
Many are experiencing what researchers call “digital ___42___”. There is a feeling that you must “always be ___43___, always be connected”. Most American adults under 30 say their phone is the first and last thing they look at every day. There are even specific terms to ___44___ how bad this feels: phone ___45___ are said to “doomscroll” and suffer from “brainrot”.
Concerns about data privacy and misinformation are also becoming more common. Those seeking digital detoxes (戒毒) are worried about information leaks and rampant harmful content. Therefore, people are ____46____ data detoxes to get rid of “data bloat” (unwanted information about them online).
Therefore, there is a “big ____47____ to disconnect”, says Ilya Kneppelhout of the Offline Club, which hosts hangouts where phones are forbidden. Devices are also locked away at ____48____ restaurants and on “digital detox” retreats. ____49____, there is a paradox at the heart of the current trend. Gen Z may have declared 2026 “the year of screen-free”, but they have done this on TikTok. The Brick has gone viral on social media; the Offline Club communicates largely through social media, and anti-screen time influencers make their money on screens.
Perhaps that is why most digital detoxes fail: people are quickly ____50____ back to screens. However, many say the Brick is the best tool they have tried yet. The secret is to place “distractions out of ____51____”, says the company’s co-founder. “Temptation is sidelined until you physically return to the Brick.” In a digital world, this bricks-and-mortar approach has merits.
37. A. abstract B. concrete C. virtual D. theoretical
38. A. disable B. activate C. evaluate D. register
39. A. given up B. built up C. set up D. taken up
40. A. adopt B. miss C. neglect D. nurture
41. A. quitting B. adopting C. promoting D. designing
42. A. overload B. overreaction C. overwork D. overexposure
43. A. acceptable B. reliable C. reachable D. applicable
44. A. centralize B. create C. consider D. capture
45. A. genius B. nerds C. addicts D. developer
46. A. applying for B. opting for C. asking for D. substituting for
47. A. chance B. urge C. tendency D. ambition
48. A. uncharged B. unauthorized C. unlocked D. unplugged
49. A. However B. Instead C. In addition D. Therefore
50. A. pushed B. forced C. drawn D. guided
51. A. reach B. power C. control D. order
Section B (22)
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)
Once a year Ursula Bannister climbs to High Rock Lookout, a viewpoint near Ashford, Washington, where she scattered her mother’s ashes 23 years ago. She usually hikes with someone along the 3.2-mile trail. Last August, Bannister, then 79, went off on her own, figuring she’d be fine because she’s an experienced hiker.
She arrived at the trail at around 11 a.m. and made her way to the lookout. As she headed back down, her foot got caught in a hole in the ground. She fell forward.
“By the time I sat up, my foot was pointing the wrong way. I knew right away I had broken my leg.” Bannister says. She cried out for help, and before long, a stranger approached and called 911. They were told a search and rescue team would arrive in five hours.
“It wasn’t very encouraging.” Bannister says. “I asked this man to please ask anybody if they had painkillers, because at that point the pain was pretty substantial.”
No one in the vicinity did. But two young men came over to see what was going on. When they saw Bannister on the ground in agony, they made an offer. They could carry the injured woman to the bottom of the trail.
Troy May, an Air Force airman stationed at Joint Base Lewis McChord, had hiked up to the lookout that day with his friend Layton Allen. “I know I was capable of carrying her down,” says May, then 20. “I really didn’t make much of a decision; I just know I needed to carry her down if I could.”
May eased Bannister onto his back and started hiking downward. He carried her for most of the nearly three-hour journey, and Allen carried her for the rest.
Others pitched in as well: Shortly into the hike May, who was wearing cowboy boots, got blisters on the bottom of one foot. A man on the trail saw the situation and gave May his shoes, then continued on in his socks. “That was just one kindness,” says Bannister.
A couple hiking that day also lent a hand. One, a physical therapist, bandaged Bannister’s foot and built a makeshift splint for her leg out of wooden scraps. The other, an occupational therapist, did breathing exercises with her to help calm her. “I was just overwhelmed with gratitude that these people literally came out of the woods to help me,” she says. During the long hike down, her rescuers shared stories and asked Bannister about her own life to distract her from the mounting pain. Their efforts to distract her worked, Bannister says. “If I didn’t focus on my pain, I didn’t scream quite as loudly,” she says.
Once they reached the parking lot, Allen drove Bannister to the Tacoma General Hospital, about two hours away, and May followed them in his car. At the hospital, Bannister learned that she had broken her leg in three places — tibia, fibula and heel bone.
“The emergency team was very impressed by the splint that the therapist had built,” says Bannister, adding that doctors told her the damage likely would have been worse had she waited longer to get medical attention.
She arrived home that night at 1 a.m. with crutches and had to wait a week for the swelling to go down before she could undergo surgery.
During her recovery, the people who helped her down from High Rock Lookout have checked in several times. “I think we’ll be friends for a really long time,” Bannister says.
52. What directly led to Ursula Bannister needing rescue during her hike
A. Severe weather conditions on the mountain trail.
B. A fall caused by her foot trapped in a ground hole.
C. Losing her way while descending alone.
D. Exhaustion from the steep and lengthy climb.
53. How did the occupational therapist contribute to Bannister’s rescue
A. By carrying her down the mountain when others grew tired.
B. By constructing a splint from wooden scraps for her leg.
C. By alleviating her suffering with breathing exercises.
D. By driving her to the hospital for immediate surgery.
54. The underlined sentence “...these people literally came out of the woods to help me” implies that the helpers______.
A. were wildlife experts familiar with forest terrain.
B. unexpectedly appeared from remote areas of the trail.
C. required navigation through dense vegetation to reach her.
D. intentionally hid in the woods before offering assistance.
55. What is the primary theme of the story
A. The necessity of professional medical training in wilderness emergencies.
B. The risks elderly individuals face when engaging in strenuous outdoor activities.
C. The profound impact of collective kindness from strangers in crises.
D. The importance of advanced planning for solo hiking expeditions.
(B)
56. According to the advertisement, which book challenges a widely accepted concept
A. Voices of Reason: Calming the Conflicts in Political Discussions
B. Circle’s True Pi Value Equals the Square Root of Ten
C. Out with Joy: Making a physician from a canoe guide
D. Shining Through: My Journey with Incontinentia Pigmenti
57. It can be inferred from the advertisement that the three publishing platforms (AuthorHouse, Universe, Xlibris) primarily cater to______.
A. academic researchers exclusively focused on STEM subjects.
B. mainstream commercial publishers seeking best-selling authors.
C. authors from diverse genres who wish to self-publish their works.
D. children’s book authors specializing in stories about medical conditions.
58 Which of the following statements best captures a key similarity and a key difference among the books featured in the advertisement
A. All books are non-fiction, but only one challenges a scientific concept.
B. All books are self-published, but only one is a personal memoir.
C. All books are written by academics, but only one is an autobiographical work.
D. All books involve personal struggle and resilience, but they cover entirely distinct subject matters.
(C)
For centuries, people have noticed that when the sky darkens during a solar eclipse, some animals behave strangely. Records from the 16th century mention birds ceasing to sing and even falling to the ground during eclipses. But until recently, scientific studies that provided quantitative information about how eclipses affect animals were few and far between.
The total solar eclipses that crossed North America in August 2017 and April 2024 gave biologists a rare chance to examine how eclipses affect animal behavior.
On average, a total solar eclipse happens somewhere on Earth every 18 months, but a given spot on the globe will be in a total eclipse’s path just a few times in a millennium. The proximity of the 2017 and 2024 eclipses, in time and in place, was a boon (益处) to scientists hoping to build datasets and replicate experiments. In both eclipses, Andrew Farnsworth, a visiting scientist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, used weather surveillance radar to track broad patterns in the movement of animals through the atmosphere. “The biological activity definitely dipped,” he says. His team observed birds and insects “descending from the sky as if night was approaching”. However, they didn’t see nocturnal behaviors, like nighttime migrations, switch on. “The eclipse was enough to shut down the daytime behaviors on these broad scales, but it wasn’t enough to initiate the classic nocturnal ones,” Farnsworth says. Jennifer Tsuruda, an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, studied the behavior of honeybees during the 2017 and 2024 eclipses. Her team removed bees from their hives and tracked how quickly they returned home before, during, and after each eclipse. While the male drones made a beeline for their hives during the 2017 totality, the female workers were “actually a little bit more hesitant” Tsuruda says, and “slower to return” home. In 2017, she also found that honeybees were less likely to leave their hives during an eclipse, but in hives with lots of young that needed to be fed, the workers still ventured out.
Future studies might examine what about an eclipse actually affects animals’ behavior. “It’s not Just the amount of light that changes” Tsuruda says—the animals might be responding to changes in temperature or humidity.
Adam Hartstone-Rose, a professor at North Carolina State University, found another potential factor in some animals’ eclipse behavior: the humans around them. He studied zoo animals during the 2017 and 2024 eclipses. During the 2017 eclipse, he found that some animals headed to their enclosures as if it were nighttime, but others, like a giraffe galloping around its paddock, showed signs of anxiety. In 2024, his team observed giraffes again, and found that “the giraffes really seem to be reacting not to the eclipse itself, but to the people’s reaction to the eclipse.” Hartstone-Rose says. Crowds of exuberant eclipse-watchers, rather than changes in the sky, seemed to put the giraffes on edge. While total eclipses are a relatively rare occurrence, studying them “does have a place in the big picture,” Farnsworth says. “Anytime you can study animal behavior at big scales and see the impact of some kind of stimulus on their behavior, I think it’s important to add something to our understanding.”
59. Based on Andrew Farnsworth’s radar observations, what can be inferred about animals’ response to eclipses
A. They immediately activated full nocturnal migration patterns.
B Their biological activities ceased completely during totality.
C. Daytime behaviors were suppressed without triggering typical night behaviors.
D. Insect populations suffered irreversible declines post-eclipse.
60. What distinct behavior did male honeybees exhibit compared to female workers during the 2017 eclipse
A. They abandoned their hives permanently when darkness fell.
B. They significantly increased food-seeking activity for young bees.
C. They returned to hives more directly and rapidly.
D. They displayed heightened aggression toward researchers.
61. Hartstone-Rose’s 2024 zoo study suggests that giraffes’ anxiety during eclipses primarily resulted from:
A. physiological discomfort caused by sudden temperature drops.
B. disruption to their circadian rhythms due to darkness.
C. scientists’ invasive data collection methods.
D. human observers’ excited reactions rather than celestial changes.
62. What central concept do the researchers emphasize regarding eclipse behavior studies
A. Their limited applicability due to eclipses’ rarity at fixed locations.
B. The necessity to prioritize light-based explanations over other variables.
C. The potential to predict species-specific extinction risks.
D. Their value in revealing how stimuli influence large-scale animal behavior.
Section C (8)
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.
Last year marked the third year in a row that Indonesia’s bleak rate of deforestation has slowed in pace. One reason for the turnaround may be the country’s antipoverty program.
In 2007, Indonesia started phasing in a program that gives money to its poorest residents under certain conditions, such as requiring people to keep kids in school or get regular medical care. ___63___ They’re already used in dozens of countries worldwide. In Indonesia, the program has provided enough food and medicine to substantially reduce severe growth problems among children.
But CCT programs don’t generally consider effects on the environment. In fact, poverty alleviation and environmental protection are often viewed as conflicting goals, says Paul Ferraro, an economist at Johns Hopkins University. That’s because economic growth can be correlated with environmental degradation, while protecting the environment is sometimes correlated with greater poverty.
___64___ Ferraro wanted to see if Indonesia’s poverty-alleviation program was easing deforestation. Indonesia has the third-largest area of tropical forest in the world and one of the highest deforestation rates.
Ferraro analyzed satellite data showing annual forest loss from 2008 to 2012 — including during Indonesia’s phase-in of the antipoverty program — in 7,468 forested villages across 15 provinces. ___65___
That’s likely because the rural poor are using the money as makeshift insurance policies against inclement weather Ferraro says. Typically, if rains are delayed, people may clear land to plant more rice to supplement their harvests. With the CCTs, individuals instead can use the money to supplement their harvests.
Whether this research translates elsewhere is anybody’s guess. ___66___ And regardless of transferability, the study shows that what’s good for people may also be good for the environment.
A. Ferraro suggests the results may transfer to other parts of Asia, due to commonalities such as the importance of growing rice and market access.
B. Called conditional cash transfers or CCTs, these social assistance programs are designed to reduce inequality and break the cycle of poverty.
C. “We see that the program is associated with a 30 percent reduction in deforestation,” Ferraro says.
D. Ferraro says, “the value of the avoided deforestation just for carbon dioxide emissions alone is more than the program costs.”
E. A previous study, based on an area in Mexico that had instituted CCTs, supported this traditional view.
F. Such programs do not have to negatively affect the environment though.
IV. Summary Writing (10)
67. 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.
Memory Breakdown: A False Crisis
A “memory breakdown” is often said to be the major cognitive problem of our time. In a recent piece in The Chronicle Review, Daniel Mercer argued that “students can’t remember even simple facts without checking their phones”, and many schools have quietly lowered expectations for memorizing dates, formulas and vocabulary.
Yet complaints about weak memory are hardly new. In the late 19th century, British educator Henry Latham worried that cheap printed books would destroy students’ power to remember, because they no longer needed to keep long passages in their minds. Over the decades, similar criticism has returned each time a new tool has entered classrooms.
Mercer suggests that rather than a simple loss of ability, we may be seeing a shift in how people choose to use their memory. Many students now treat their phones as an “external brain”, much as earlier generations treated the family bookshelf. At the same time, the use of digital calendars, search engines and cloud storage continue to rise. This points to a change not in whether people can remember, but in what they believe is worth remembering. “Students can still memorize,” Mercer wrote. “They’re just deciding to memorize different things.”
In classic “change blindness” experiments, people fail to notice that a stranger they are speaking to has been secretly replaced by another person, because their attention is on the task, not the face. It seems that relying on external cues and context is not always a weakness; it may reflect a different way of managing limited mental resources.
Could today’s young people be developing useful memory strategies that we have not yet learned to value What about their skill at searching huge databases in seconds, or at linking ideas across videos, chats and online documents These new habits of remembering challenge us to reconsider — with the history of past “memory breakdown” in mind — how we might understand and support human memory in more flexible, forward-looking ways.
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第II卷 (共32分)
I. Spelling (5)
Directions: Write out the words according to the relevant definitions. The first letter is given to you.
68. r ______ adj. hesitating before doing something because you do not want to do it or because you are not sure that it is the right thing to do
69. p ______ adj. belonging to a very simple society with no industry, etc.
70. p ______ n. something that you own or have with you; the state of having or owning something
71. f ______ n. disagreement or a lack of friendship among people who have different opinions about something
72. t ______ adj. lasting only for a short time; not permanent
73. s ______ n. a period of time that is spent doing a particular activity
74. r ______ n. the normal order and way in which you regularly do things
75. u ______ adj. continuing all the time
76. r ______ v. to make somebody feel less tired or less hot
77. t ______ v. to make a determined effort to deal with a difficult problem or situation
II. Recitation (6)
Directions: Fill in each blank with one missing word according to the text.
(U2 Cultural Focus)
Directions: Fill in each blank with one missing word according to the text.
·The British Museum has a well-earned ___78___ as an “encyclopaedic” museum, with a global story told through eight million objects.
·Indeed, this was the vision of its founder, Sir Hans Sloane, who tried setting up cross-cultural ___79___ in his original collection in 1753.
·The British Museum is a place ___80___ to international understanding, and the advantages of an encyclopaedic museum are clear to see: “..., how people ___81___ their relationship to each other ... and (to) see human history as an ongoing joint project,” explains MacGregor.
·So as you admire the ___82___ objects on display at the museum, think about their heritage. Remember to ask yourself: Does the ___83___ justify the means Is taking an object for a museum different from theft And shouldn’t important objects be exhibited where they were originally made
(U3 Reading)
Directions: Fill in each blank with one missing word according to the text.
·Tai chi is a series of postures and motions that develops one’s strength and ___84___ through careful, flowing movements and focused breathing. Each posture slowly transforms into another, and we gradually need to shift our ___85___ to maintain balance.
·There is often no need to be ___86___ or attack a problem head-on; we can often attain our goals and achieve more through indirect methods. Tai chi is often compared to water, which is able to change its shape and flow past any___87___, and I believe this approach is useful whenever we are faced with difficulties. Water also instantly finds its equilibrium wherever it lands, no matter how ___88___ or hard a surface is; and tai chi is a method of achieving a similar level of physical and mental balance, regardless of what the ___89___ circumstances are.
III. Phrases (6)
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the proper form of the phrase given in the box.
at the heart of; opt out; root out; be reluctant to; be faced with; at random; get rid of; stocks of;
90. Having been troubled by the outdated equipment for months, the factory finally managed to ______ it, installing a new assembly line which greatly increased efficiency.
91. Although the majority of the students were in favor of the field trip, Tom, whose parents were concerned about his safety, decided to ______.
92. Last year, even the most experienced engineers ______ take the lead, fearing that a single mistake might cause a significant delay.
93. The effective communication, which involves both speaking and listening, is ______ a successful international negotiation.
94. ______ a severe financial crisis, the CEO, determined to save it, decided to sell off some less profitable branches.
95. For the final draw, the host will pick several tickets ______ from the massive box, and the owners of the selected tickets, who have been waiting anxiously, will win the grand prize.
IV. Translation (15)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
96. 太极拳深深植根于中国哲学，它不仅要求动作流畅，更注重意念与呼吸的和谐统一。(root)(英译汉)
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97. 这位强迫性囤积者用旧报纸塞满了自己的公寓，拒绝扔掉任何东西，即使他已经没有地方放东西了。(run) (英译汉)
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98. 直到花光了他们攒下的所有钱，这些年轻人才意识到，单靠梦想在这个城市立足几乎是不可能的。(Not) (英译汉)
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99. 为了通过文物对话古今，上海博物馆举办了一场名为“寻古今”的特展，这吸引了许多学生，他们希望能从中找到传统文化与现代生活的共同点。(ground) (汉译英)
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