上海市建青实验学校2024-2025学年高三上学期期中教学质量检测英语试卷（含答案）

2024-2025学年第一学期上海市建青实验学校 高三年级英语期中教学质量检测卷 (考试时间105分钟；满分115分) I. Grammar and Vocabulary (20’) Section A(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. 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 (1)_____(spend) up to 19 additional working days per year just reading papers. These statistics.(2) _____ (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 (3)_____ are not fluent in English. "It is the first step for the scientific community (4) _____(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 8 countries (5)_____ English is generally poor spent 29.8 percent more time writing papers than native English speakers; (6)_____ 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 (7) _____ native English speakers. At conferences, even those who overcome obstacles face difficulties in presenting their work in English. Germana Barata, a researcher who (8)_____ (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 (9) _____(give) the same amount of time to present, but all that we can say in 10 minutes is different from (10)_____ a native speaker can say,"she points out. Section B(10’) Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need. A. accidentally B. challenge C. controlled D. crucial E. currently F. evolved G. extinction H. minimize I. preserved J. tourism K warning The Antarctic: Key to Planet Earth The first people to reach the South Pole-in modern times, anyway-were Ronald Amundsen and the Norwegian Antarctic expedition(探险队), in December 1911. Explorers had been trying to reach the Antarctic for over a hundred years because it represented the serious 11 : the coldest and windiest continent in the world. Nowadays, scientists from over 27 countries work in the Antarctic all year round and there is even a small amount of 12 in the summer months. Since the 1960 ... ...