上海市虹口区2021-2022学年高三上学期期终学生能力诊断测试（一模）英语试题
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一、用单词的适当形式完成短文
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.
Something to Boast about
Are your information data safe and reliable?
In an ideal world such data, however informative and exploratory they are, ____1____a scientific study is based on should be, if not publicly available, then at least available to other researchers. Sadly, this is not always the case.
Many scientists are still quite unwilling to have their data revealed though attitudes are changing. This attitude, ____2____selfish, is understandable.
But sometimes it can cover a darker secret. The statistics presented in a paper may have been controlled to achieve a desired result. The author may, in other words, have cheated. If he releases the data, that cheating will be obvious.
Now Sean Wilner and his colleagues ____3____(come) up with a way of reconstructing all the possible data sets that could have given rise to that result, which includes  ____4____ (release) the data. And they call the way CORVIDS (Complete Recovery of Values in Diophantine Systems).
____5____ (simplify) the task of spotting abnormal data, CORVIDS turns the possible data sets into a three-dimensional (三维的) chart. This makes any unusual patterns apparent. For example, every ____6____(reconstruct) data set may be missing values at one end of the scale. That might make sense occasionally. Generally, though, such a gap would be a red flag. It would suggest either that the statistics were reported incorrectly or
____7____there were problems with the fundamental data.
CORVIDS is likely to be ____8____immediate value to editors and reviewers at academic journals, who will be able to spot problems with papers early, and so discuss them with the authors. If an unresolvable problem ____9____show up, then the technique can be applied to previous work by the author in question, to see if anything systematic is going on.
But its speed makes it a useful first step. If the data sets ____10____finds do not show any strange patterns, CORVIDS is unlikely to show oddness, either.
Anyway, the trustworthiness of scientific papers will take a step up with CORVIDS.
二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文
understandable
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．genuinely    B．pocket    C．mass-produced    D．seemingly    E. inspiration
F. familiarize    G. group    H. encounter    I. customary    J. symbolic    K. motivation
A Deeper Meaning behind Souvenirs“Nobody sits us down and tells us to collect objects when we’re young,” writes Rolf Potts, “it’s just something we do, as a way to____11____ourselves with the world, its possibilities, and our place in it.”
Few of us would call ourselves collectors, but most travelers ____12____a seashell from a vacation, or bring a keychain. As Mr. Potts notes in a book called “Souvenir,” there is more to this ____13____simple practice than meets the eye. For one thing, it can date back to the oldest described journeys, so it’s a____14____practice that goes back thousands of years. And academic researchers have classified souvenirs -- even____15____items like “I Love New York” T-shirts and plastic miniatures of Michelangelo’s David -- into various categories, likely unknown to many travelers.
Which categories do the things we’ve bought or found in our travels fall into? Further, what’s ____16____behind our need to bring home souvenirs?
Over time, intellectual curiosity became the driving____17____for personal travel. Yet even as travelers began collecting historical and scientific souvenirs, not just religious ite
ms, the things they brought home stood for feelings for holy objects.
Scholars____18____these souvenirs into different buckets, including “markers” (location branded items like T-shirts and teacups), “pictorial images” (postcards and posters), and “____19____landmarks” (for example, Statue of Liberty key chains), with the latter two categories symbolizing, though not exclusive to, mass tourism.
In the end, “Souvenir” suggests that its meaning is not fixed because its importance to the owner can change over time and that its significance is closely related to the traveler’s identity. Mr. Potts himself has had plenty of souvenirs, things that remind him not merely of the places he’s been and the extraordinary _____20_____between him and local people, but of former life phases. “When we collect souvenirs,” he writes, “we do so not to evaluate the world, but to tell the self.”

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