普陀区2023学年第二学期高三英语质量调研 英语试卷 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. What If You’re Not Good at English Researchers whose first language is not English can spend around twice as long reading an English scientific journal article as native speakers. For a PhD student, that can mean ___21___ (spend) up to 19 additional working days per year just reading papers. These statistics, ___22___ (publish) today in PLOS Biology, might not be shocking, researchers say, but it’s important to measure the effects of language barriers on the careers of academics ___23___ are not fluent in English. “It is the first step for the scientific community ___24___ (make) more efforts to solve this problem”, says Tatsuya Amano, a biodiversity researcher at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and a co-author of the study. The team found that among scientists who had published only one paper in English, scientists from countries ___25___ English is generally poor spent 29.8 percent more time writing papers than native English speakers; ___26___ from countries with moderate English proficiency (能力) spent 50.6% more time. Similarly, the researchers found that people from countries with low English proficiency spent an average of 90.8 percent more time reading scientific articles ___27___ native English speakers. At conferences, even those who overcome obstacles face difficulties in presenting their work in English. Germana Barata, a researcher who ___28___ (specialize) in science communication at the State University of Campinas in Brazil, says that despite being fluent in English, she still feels uncomfortable at times. “We ___29___ (give) the same amount of time to present, but all that we can say in 10 minutes is different from ____30____ a native speaker can say,” she points out. 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. empowers B. termed C. interaction D. implications E. advances F. question G. obtained H. additionally I. pressure J. currently K. defining A New Era of Creative Partnerships In a new paper in a Nature Human Behavior special issue on AI, researcher Janet Rafner from Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and Center for Hybrid Intelligence at Aarhus University and Prof. Jacob Sherson, director of the Center for Hybrid Intelligence, together with international partners, discuss research and societal ___31___ of creativity and AI. The team of researchers argue that we should direct our attention to understanding and developing co-creativity, the interaction between humans and machines towards what is ___32___ a human-centered AI ... ...
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