上海市风华中学2025-2026学年高三上学期10月期中考试英语试题（含答案）

上海市风华中学2025学年度第一学期高三年级英语期中测试（2025.10） (满分:115分 考试时间:105分钟) 第I卷 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 10% Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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. Even moderate drinking might shrink your brain New research suggests that moderate drinking can negatively impact health. The study found a link between regular alcohol consumption – as little as one to two drinks a day – and decreased brain volume in middle-aged and older people. (1)_____ they drink or not plays a role in the brain shrinkage. The study was led by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. They analyzed data from the UK Biobank, a long-running project that (2)_____ (track) the health of more than 35,000 UK residents in the past few years. As part of the project, volunteers fill out questionnaires about their lifestyle habits, consent (同意) to having their genes studied, and high-quality brain scans. Using these scans, the team looked for any connection between (3) _____(report) alcohol use and brain structure. Our brains naturally shrink in size (4)_____ we become older, which is one of the reasons our cognitive function declines in later age. There are things that (5)_____ either accelerate or slow down this process, though, such as exercise. And even a moderate alcohol routine, the researchers concluded, seems to be in the former category. After controlling for other factors, such as age, body mass index, and head size, the scientists found a negative correlation between alcohol intake and overall brain volume, including in gray matter, the areas of the brain rich in neurons and other cells. Alcohol use was similarly linked to changes in our white matter, (6)_____ the information is relayed(传递) between different regions of the brain. “We show that the negative associations between alcohol intake and brain macrostructure and microstructure are already apparent in individuals (7)_____ (consume) an average of only one to two daily alcohol units, and become (8)_____ (strong) as alcohol intake increases,” the authors wrote in their paper, published in Nature Communications earlier this month. The authors say their large sample size is an advantage (9)_____ past studies and allows them to better understand and quantify the possible toll of regular alcohol use on the brain. Going from zero to one unit of alcohol (about half a pint) a day, the authors say, would be equivalent to half a year of brain aging in the average 50-year-old, for instance, but it jumps to two years for someone going from one to two units of alcohol (a full pint) per day. And for (10)_____ drinking four or more drinks a day, their brains may age prematurely a full decade, relative to someone who doesn ... ...