2023学年第二学期高三年级学业质量调研 英 语 试 卷 （时间120分钟，满分140分） II. 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. Number of Steps a Day It Takes to Cut Risk of Early Death New research suggests exactly how many steps you need to take each day to reduce the risk of heart disease and early death. If you ___21___ (fail) in your pursuit of walking 10,000 steps a day — researchers have some good news for you. They found walking up to 10,000 steps a day reduces these risks. The lowest risk of early death was ___22___ people who took 9,000 to 10,500 steps a day. When it came to avoiding heart attack, people ___23___ (manage) around 9,700 steps a day had the lowest risks. Experts have previously found people who spend a lot of time sitting while awake are more likely ___24___ (suffer) an early death and develop heart disease. It has been unclear ___25___ walking can balance out the effects of sitting down for most of the day — until now. A study, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, analysed data from 72,174 people ___26___ (age) around 61 from UK. Participants wore a device for seven days to measure their exercise levels. After a seven-year follow-up, 1,633 deaths and 6,190 cardiovascular (心脏血管的) events, such as heart attack, were recorded. The results showed any amount of daily steps above 2,200 a day were linked to lower death and heart disease —___27___ the rest of the day was spent being inactive. Julie Ward, a senior nurse in the U.K., said, “We encourage people to stay active for ___28___ heart and circulatory health by doing 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week. “This can be any activity ___29___ fits into your lifestyle, such as taking regular walking breaks away from your computer screen, going to the gym, enjoying exercise classes, or even getting off the bus one stop ___30___ (early) to get more steps in.” 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. emerge B. absorbing C. subject D. defining E. movement F. originally G. course H. universally I. happens J. constant K. corresponds How Long Is a Second The length of a second depends on how you’re measuring it. There are 24 hours in a day 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute — so surely a second is 1/86400, of a day, right Well, it turns out that ___31___ time isn’t that simple. “The second was ___32___ based on the length of the day,” Peter Whibberley, a senior scientist at the National Physical Laboratory in the U.K., told Live Science. “People observed the sun passing overhead and started measuring its ___33___ using sundials (日晷). However, sundials have a ... ...
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