上海市七宝中学2023-2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷（原卷版+解析版 ）

上海市七宝中学2023-2024学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 （A） Directions: After reading the passage below, fil 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. Have you ridden an electric bike If not, you should probably stop reading this article and go find one. Hire one on the street. Borrow your neighbour’s. Steal one if you ____1____. Sitting on the saddle, with the help of the motor, you will magically become half as old and twice as fit. You will feel like Lance Armstrong in his prime after an appointment with his doctor. And this, ____2____ it turns out, is all about the bike. Electric cars get the hype, but in 2021, e-bikes far outsold them in the US and nearly matched battery vehicles in the UK. They democratise cycling, ____3____ (convert) those who don’t want to arrive at their destination sweaty and exhausted. On an e-bike, hills are no problem. You can carry a couple of kids as passengers and transport 150kg of cargo. Under UK law, the motor cuts out above 15.5mph, but you can still make short trips with ease. E-bikes have reinvented the wheel, in a helpful way. They break the dynamic of cyclists versus other road users, ____4____ nearly everyone can now be a cyclist. I ____5____ (convince) the main reason more people don’t ride e-bikes is that they don’t know about them. A mile on ____6____ produces fewer carbon emissions than the food required to cycle a mile on a pedal bike. But it’s not all good news. The London Fire Brigade has been called to an e-bike or e-scooter fire on average every two days this year. Tragically, in January, a 21-year-old woman became the first person ____7____ (die) in an e-bike fire in London. The rise of rental e-bikes has also annoyed pedestrians, who find them ____8____ (discard) on pavements like giant cigarette butts, obstructing buggies(童车) and wheelchairs. Also, the sector has even been problematic for investors. VanMoof a Dutch company ____9____ chic e-bikes were popular in the pandemic—went bankrupt this week, _____10_____ having proclaimed itself “the most funded e-bike company in the world” when it raised $128m in 2021. （B） Directions: After reading the passage below, fil 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. People regularly engage in “presenteeism”—going to work while ill. It’s the opposite of absenteeism. On the face of it, being sick at work might sound like ____11____ employers might favor, with some work preferable to none at all. Besides, such employees display a strong ethic, job dedication and loyalty. But research generally finds health consequences for present-but-ill employees, with higher medical costs and great ... ...