2021-2022学年上海市大同中学高三上学期期中考试英语试卷
I. Listening comprehension
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage 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.
Black Mamba a Legend That Will Never Die
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It's hard to believe Kobe is gone.
The NBA superstar, (21) _________ great talent and win-at-all-costs spirit made him one of t
he most distinguished athletes in history, was the rare celebrity who didn't need a last name.
Still youthful at 41, Bryant -- who died in a helicopter crash on January 26 in California -- looked (22) _________ _________ he could suit up any minute and drop 30 points on a rival(竞争对手)NBA team. It doesn't seem that long ago that he was scoring 60 points in his final NBA game.
With a higyly decorated career spanning 20 years -- all with the Lakers -- Bryant is all but (23) _________ (assure) of being a first-ballot inductee(第一候选人)into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, alongside Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett, later this year.
Bryant, (24) _________ 18-time All-Star, was famous for his astonishing scoring ability and his championship pedigree(总冠军血统). He teamed up with fellow All-Star Shaquille O'Neal (25) _________ (win) three consecutive NBA titles from 2000 to 2002, and later won two more rings, in 2009 and 2010.
Known as the "Black Mamba", Bryant finished his career with 33,643 points in the regular season, which put him at No. 3 among NBA's scoring leaders, behind only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928) (26) _________ LeBron James surpassed him just one day before Bryant's untimely death.
"Kobe was so much more than an athlete. He was a family man, which was (27) _________ we had most in common. Whenever we got together, I would hug his kids and he would embrace (28) _________." O'Neal wrote on Twitter.
"Kobe was one of the most extraordinary players in the history of our game with accomplishments that are truly legendary(传奇般的)," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "But he (29) _________ (remember) most for inspiring people around the world to pick up a basketball and compete (30) _________ the very best of their ability."
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A. valuable  B. unrecognizable  C. unconsciously  D. reserved  E. heavily
F. encounters G. disrupted H. confused I. closeness J. bunch K. recomposed
Relationship in the Digital Age
People from our past whom we no longer directly communicate with but who are active on social networks can "occupy __31__ space in your mind, and you think about them instead of about your close friends," said Carlin Flora, the author of "Friend-fluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We are."
"If my high school friend posts frequently about her life, it's almost like it's celebrity gossip, or it seems as if I am watching a reality show about her," Ms. Flora said. "Our brains get __32__ about whether we know celebrities; if we see someone a lot, our brain thinks we know them."
Ms. Schiller, the Iowa graduate, goes out often with friends at night but also lives on a digital diet of texting __33__ enough that she recently hurt her thumb), Google chat and social media. As with many young people, talking on the phone was never a big part of her routine and is now __34__ for the rarest of occasions.
There are physiological benefits to face-to-face __35__ however, that doesn't belong to digital interactions or the phone. "Your blood pressure goes down, and you imitate your friends gesture __36__." Ms. Flora said. "It's a kind of harmony humans have developed over thousands of years, and you don't get that when you only follow someone on social media."
But now it's common for the synchrony(同步性)to be __37__ in person, thanks to smartphones. Imagine Edward Hopper's 1942 painting "Nighthawks" (below) __38__ today, with the three late-night diners and counterman all gazing at screens. "If there's a(n) __39__ of guys at a bar together and they're all on their phones," Ms. Flora said, "they're not doing much to stimulate the body system to create the sense of __40__."
III. Reading Comprehensions

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