上海市延安中学2020-2021学年第一学期期中考试
上海市延安中学2020-2021学年第一学期期中考试
高三年级英语试卷
(考试时间:120分钟满分:140分)
I. Listening Comprehension(25分
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you'll hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. On a car display. B. At a garage.
C. In an underground parking. In a shopping mall.
2. . At about 7: 10. B. At about 8: 00. C. At about 7: 50 D. At about 7:30.
3. A. Become a doctor. B. Inspect a famous hospital.
C. Calm down a bit.
D. Get some medical advice.
4. A. Instructor. B. Physician. C. Weatherman. D. Psychologist.
5. A. She is mute. B. She can not hear well.
C. She has become poor.
D. She is tired of the children.
6. A. The man shows disappointment at what the woman will do.
B. The man would like to join them.
C. The man suggests the woman should reconsider her plan.
D. The man tries to persuade the woman not to go with Jerry.
7. A. The pieces of cloth are made out of fake materials.
B. He wants the part of each cloth.
C. He can't tear either piece off cloth.
D. The pieces of cloth seem identical to him.
8. A. To tell him they are busy. B. To call off an appointment.
C. To invite him to go to a concert.
D. To ask him about a party.
9. A. The rain is not expected to last much longer.
B. The next few days are supposed to be sunny and warm.
C. Clouds and cold weather are expected.
D. It will be much better than it already is.
10. A. She likes what he prepares for her.
B. He gives her many gifts.
C. He offers to take her home as soon as possible.
D. She has been a visitor at his home.
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passage. The passages will be read twice but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Optimistic. B. Imaginative. C. Ambitious. D. Unrealistic.
12. A. Discovery of the news value of his stories. B. Financial support.
C. Help in finding issues.
D. Improvement of his good ideas.
13. A. They should keep their best reporters by providing as much help as possible.
B. They should give more freedom to their reporters in writing stories.
C. They should make stricter rules to standardize their reporters' working styles.
D. They should be less pushy and reduce their reporters' mental stress.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14.A. His being unable to catch fish. B. His father's not being patient with him.
C. His father's failing to teach him fishing.
D. His father's refusing to answer his questions.
15. A. In deep water under waterside trees. B. In deep water on rainy days.
C. In shallow water on sunny days.
D. In shallow water on overcast days.
16. A. He found it easy to think like a customer.
B.He found it difficult to sell services to poor people.
C. He found his boss's sales ideas reasonable.
D.He found his father’s fishing advice inspiring.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following passage.
17.A. Because she didn't work hard at the report.
B. Because she didn't get a satisfactory result despite her effort.
C. Because she failed to hand in her report on time.
D. Because the professor didn't give her another chance.
18. A. September 3rd. B. September 5th. C. September 16th. D. September 30th
19. A. The time when the Chinese space industry started.
B. The road which the Chinese space industry went through
C. The astronauts who contributed greatly to the Chinese space industry.
D. The future that the Chinese space industry may have.
20. A. To do more research and write another report of a new topic
B. To find some important information and rewrite the report.
C. To improve her attitude towards study and work harder.
D. To stop thinking about the unsatisfactory result of the report.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20)
Section A
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.
The Durable Satisfaction of Life
For educated men, what are the sources of the solid and durable satisfactions of life? I hope you are all aiming at the solid, durable satisfactions of life, not primarily the gratifications of this moment or of tomorrow, but the satisfactions that are going to last and grow.
21)______ ______ ______ as I have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life--health. A young man(22)_______ be clean, wholesome, vigorous animal. That is the foundation for everything else, and I hope you will all be that, if you are nothing more. We have to build everything in this world of domestic joy and professional success, everything of a useful, honorable career, (23)_________ bodily wholesomeness and vitality. To be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal (24)_________ (involve)a good deal. One must stay energetic and avoid drunkenness, gluttony(暴食)and getting into dirt of any kind. Nevertheless, (25)_____ of you would be content with this achievement as the total outcome of your lives. It is indeed a happy thing to enjoy all through life sports and bodily exercise, but, if (26)______ (make)the main object of life, they tire and cease to be a source of durable satisfaction.
What is the next thing, then, (27)________we want in order to make sure of durable satisfactions in life? We need a strong mental grip, a wholesome capacity for hard work. It is intellectual power and aims that we need. In all the professions---learned, scientific, or industrial----large mental enjoyments should come to educated men. (28)_______ distinguishes the privileged class that has opportunity for prolonged education from the larger class that has not that opportunity is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers and gets therefore much (29)________ (great) enjoyment out of life than those who earn a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here, therefore, the trained capacity for mental labor, rapid intense and sustained. That is the great thing for you (30) _______ (get) in college. Get it now. Get it in the years of college life. It is the main achievement of college to win this mental force, this capacity for keen observation and sustained thought, for everything that we mean by the reasoning power of man. That capacity will be the main source of intellectual joys and of happiness and content throughout a long and busy life.
Section B
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only
If you think about it, work-life balance is a strange aspiration for fulfilling life. Balance is about stasis(静止): if our lives were ever in balance----parents happy, kids taken care of, work working then our thought would be to shout "Nobody move!" and pray all would stay perfect forever. This (31) _______ hope is made worse by the implication that work is bad, and life is good; we lose ourselves in work but find ourselves in life; we survive work, but live life. And so the challenge, we
are told, is to balance the heaviness of work with the lightness of life.
Yet work is not the (32)_______of life. It is instead a part of life just as family is, as are friends and hobbies. All of these aspects of living have their share of wonderful, uplifting moments and their share of (33)______ moments that drag us down. The same is true of work, yet when we think of it as something bad in need of a counterweight, we lose sight of the (34)________ for better.
It seems more useful, then, to not try to balance the unbalanceable, but to treat work the same way you do life: (35)_____ what you love. Think of your life's many different activities as threads. Some are black, some are grey and some are white. But some of these activities contain all the signs of love : before you do them, you find yourselves looking forward to them; while you're doing them, time speeds up and you find yourself involved ; and after you've done them, you feel (36)________.These are your red threads, and our research reveals that 73% of us claim that we have the freedom to modify our job to fit our strengths better, but that only 18% of us do so. Your (37)________, then, is to use your red threads to (38)________ change, over time, the content of your job, so that it contains more things that you love doing and fewer that you’re aching(渴望) to (39)_______.
The most helpful categories for us are not “work” and "life". We should not struggle to balance the two. Instead, the best categories are “love” and loathe(憎恨)”. Our goal should be to, little by little, week by week, intentionally (40)_______ all aspects of our work toward the former and away from the latter. Not simply to make us feel better, but so that our colleagues, our friends and our family can all benefit from us at our very best. We can't always do only what we love. But we can always find the love in what we do.
III. Reading Comprehension (45)
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
Do you remember how you felt the first time you rode bike? What about your first heartbreak? 41_________ moments and the emotions they arouse can resonate in our minds for decades, powerfully shaping who we are as individuals. But for those who experience severe trauma(创伤), such painful memories can leave people with life-changing mental conditions. So, what if traumatic memories did not have to cause so much 42_______ ? For now, the work is happening in mice.
Neuroscientists usually define a singular memory as an engram---a physical change in brain tissue 43________ a particular recollection. While at MIT in 2013, Steve Ramirez of Boston University and his research partner Xu Liu had a breakthrough: They were able to target the cells that 44_______ one engram in a mouse's brain and then implant a false memory. In their work, mice 45_____ in fear to a particular stimulus even when they had not been conditioned in advance.
In their current work, Ramirez and his colleagues are investigating whether 46______ memories can be “overwritten” by positive ones. In their experiments, positive memories are created by putting male mice in cages with female ones for an hour, and negative memories are created by putting the mice in cages that deliver brief foot shocks. After a surgical operation on the mice, the researchers find that 47_______ positive memories while mouse is in a cage makes it less fearful. They think that this memory “retraining"may be helping to 48______ some of the mouse's trauma. 49_______ , it is unclear whether those original fear memories are completely lost or just suppressed(抑制).
50_____ Ramirez’s team stresses that their work in mice is preliminary(初步的), they see
treatment potential for humans down the road. Those suffering from PTSD or depression could have their memories 51_______ , for instance, so that they don't have a strong 52______ response to painful recollections.
If it’s one day possible to alter human memory, who should be allowed to receive that treatment? And would the 53_______ system be at a disadvantage if key witnesses and victims cannot remember a crime? These are questions New York University bioethicist Arthur Caplan says are worth thinking about before the technology is ready for human clinical settings.
As neuroscientists progress with their research, they say these 54_______ issues are being taken into account. Ramirez sees the idea of 55______ memories as neither good nor bad. Like water, it just depends on how you use it.
41. A. Forgettable B.Memorable C. Sustainable D.Believable
42. A.fruit B. difference C. pain D.movement
43. A. associated with B. exchanged for C. sentenced to D. deprived of
44. A. put off B.pick up C. turn on D. make up
45. A. reacted B.hurried C.stunned D. resolved
46. A. short-term B. negative C. enjoyable D. reliable
47.A.deleting B. decreasing C.activating D. pausing
48.A. recreate B. eliminate C.liberate D. memorize
49.A.Therefore B.Besides C.Indeed D. However
50.A.Since B.Unless C.Until D. While
51.A.removed B.strengthened C.altered D. stimulated
52. A. emotional B. physical C. controversial D. mechanical
53.A. immune B.justice C. medical D. commerce
54. .A. mental B. ethical C. criminal D. equality
55.A.killing B. multiplying C. controlling D.justifying
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Imagine having master key for your life, a key that gives access to your home, your diary,your computer, your phone, your car, your safe deposit Would you go around making copies of that key and giving them to strangers? Probably not the wisest idea---it would be only a matter of time before someone abused it, right ? So why are you willing to give up your personal data to pretty much
anyone who asks for it?
Privacy is the key that unlocks the aspects of yourself that are most intimate and personal, that make you most you, and most vulnerable. When you give that key, your privacy, to someone who loves you, it will allow you to enjoy closeness and they will use it to benefit you. However, not everyone will use access to your personal life in your interest. Fraudsters might use your date of birth to impersonate you while they commit a crime; hackers are eager to get hold of sensitive information or images so they can blackmail you. Companies want to know how best to distract you and want you to spend your money on them. They also get to other people through you by asking you for access to your contacts. Moreover, all sorts of agents would like to use your voice as their mouthpiece on social media and beyond.
By now, most people are aware that their data is worth money. But your data is not valuable only because it can be sold. Facebook doesn't technically sell your data, for instance. They sell the power to influence you and the power to predict your behavior. Google and Facebook are not really in the business of data----- they are in the business of power. Even more than monetary gain, personal data bestows power on those who collect and analyze it, and that is what makes it so coveted. The more that someone knows about us, the more they can anticipate our every move. Power over others' privacy is the quintessential kind of power in the digital age. An example of power shaping preferences today includes when tech uses research about how dopamine（多巴胺）works to make you addicted to an app.
Refraining from using tech altogether is unrealistic for most people, but there is much more you can do short of that. Respect other people's privacy. Don't expose ordinary citizens online. Don't film or photograph people without their consent, and certainly don't share such images online. When downloading apps and buying products, choose ones that are better for privacy. Tum your phone's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and locations services off when you don't need them. Use the legal tools at your disposal to ask companies for the data they have on you and ask them to delete the data. Change your social media settings to protect your privacy.
Don't make the mistake of thinking you are safe from privacy harms, maybe because you are young, optimistic and healthy. But you might not be as healthy as you think you are, and you will not be young forever. Privacy is important because it gives power to the people. Protect it.
56. It can be learned from the 2nd paragraph that___________.
A. privacy is like a person's master key, which should be protected from anyone else.
B. people who don't care about your interest will exploit your data to their advantage.
C. criminals will deceive your friends into committing crimes by accessing your contacts.
D. customers under threat from advertising agents are forced to advertise products.
57. According to the context, the underlined word “coveted"is closest in meaning to____.
A. desired
B. addicted
C. contained
D.overwhelmed
58. What is the real motive for digital companies' obtaining people's personal data?
A. To make short-term profits by selling the obtained data to their competitors
B. To control people's dopamine and prevent them from getting addicted to apps
C. To keep people's data safe from fraudsters and hackers and ensure their life quality
D. To gain the power of manipulating people's behaviors by analyzing the data
59. Which of the following is NOT advisable concerning people's privacy safety?
A. Closing locations services when they are not needed.
B. Resorting to laws for personal data protection.
C. Allowing strangers to browse your WeChat Moments.
D. Not sharing friends' images online without their approval.
(B)
Scenery along the"sky road"
For centuries, Tibet has not been explored as much by the outside world due to its remote location, extreme climate and geographic environment. Dubbed the “sky road”, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has become the most popular and convenient way to connect Tibet to the rest of China. This 1,956-kilometer-long world-renowned railway begins in Xining and ends in Lhasa. The stunning scenery along the railway offers not only a feast for the eyes, but also a journey for the soul.
Qinghai Lake: A paradise for birdwatchers and cyclists
Dazzling like a crystal-clear gem, Qinghai Lake is the largest inland lake as well as saline lake in China. Be it the blue sky and water, the green grassland or mesmerizing landscapes---Qinghai Lake boasts great charms that are worth exploring.
Qinghai Lake is definitely a paradise for bird lovers as many different kinds of birds would fly here to breed in May and June due to the mild weather. Meanwhile, for cyclists, cycling around the lake not only allows them to enjoy the beauty of the lake view, but also while away the time. Tips:
The best time to visit the Qinghai Lake is from April to August as numerous Cole flowers blossom along the lake during that time, forming breathtaking scenery for visitors. In addition, May and June is the best season for bird lovers.
Kunlun Mountains: More than just mountains
As the train keeps moving up, a picturesque view of Kunlun Mountains appears before you. Reputed as the holy mountains, Kunlun Mountains extend west from the Pamirs with a length of 2,500 kilometers. The 6,178-meter Yuzhu Peak is the highest of the Kunlun Mountains in Qinghai. The high peaks of the mountains are covered with snow and mist all year round, creating must-see view along the Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
It's worth mentioning that the Yuzhu Peak is the first sightseeing station for passengers, which allows them to get off the train and take photos outside. For climbing beginners, this peak is considered to be the ideal destination as its route requires less technique.
Hoh Xil Nature Reserve: 'Forbidden zone for humans
Hoh Xil, which means" green mountains"in Mongolian, is a plateau between the Kunlun and Tanggula mountain ranges, with an average altitude of 5,000 meters. Home to many wild animals, including the Tibetan antelope and the wild yak(牦牛), the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve is undoubtedly a desolate region in the northwestern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in China.
The extensive area of alpine mountains is situated more than 4,500 meters above sea level,
where sub-zero average temperatures prevail all year round. The geographic and harsh climatic conditions have made this place become the"forbidden zone for humans". This is probably one of the few places left on Earth where one could get off the beaten track and find inner peace.
Tips:
As there are no signs in the Hoh Xil Nature Reserve, visitors often get lost here. Remember to bring a local herdsman with you or rent car to travel.
Lhasa: The start of the journey to Tibet
The final destination of the Qinghai-Tibet train trip-Lhasa, offers almost every aspect of Tibetan culture. If one must pick a name card for Lhasa, then Potala Palace is very likely to be the answer for that. No one can really say that he/she has visited Lhasa unless they have been to Potala Palace. To start a journey in Lhasa, the Potala Palace is must-see destination for travelers from home and abroad.
60. If you are a person desiring for an inner state of tranquility （安宁），which of the destinations is a must-see one along the“sky road”?
A. Qinghai Lake
B. Kunlun Moutains
C. Hoh Xil Nature Reserve
D. Lhasa
61. Qinghai Lake is an ideal place to appreciate the following scenery EXCEPT ______.
A. green grassland
B. snow-capped mountains
C. blossoming flowers
D. breeding birds
62. Which of the following descriptions is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Railway passengers can take photos near the Yuzhu Peak, but are forbidden to go mountain-climbing.
B. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway stretches more than 2,000 kilometers beginning in Xining and ending in Rikaze.
C. Some road signs are available in Hoh Xil Nature Reserve for tourists to find their exact location.
D. As a representative place for Lhasa, Potala Palace enjoys a world-wide reputation among travelers.
(C)
As every mobile-phone owner knows, after a year or so the battery starts to fade and the beast needs recharging more frequently. That is a nuisance, but a phone's batteries can be replaced fairly cheaply or the whole handset traded in for the latest model. An electric car, however, is a much bigger investment. Batteries are its priciest component, representing around 30% of an average of mid-size vehicle. Apart from increasing the risk of running out of juice and leaving a driver stranded, a deteriorating battery quickly destroys a car's second-hand value.
To provide buyers with some peace of mind, car makers guarantee their batteries, typically for eight years or around 200,000 km. Producers are now, though, planning to go much further than that, with the launch of “million-mile” (1.6km-kilometre) batteries. Elon Musk has hinted that Tesla has a million-mile battery in the works. And over in Detroit, General Motors (GM) is in the final stages of developing an advanced battery which it says has similar longevity.
“It’s a great catchphrase; the million-mile battery," says George Crabtree, director of the Joint Centre for Energy Storage Research at Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago. "But the fact that you can drive a million miles may not be the most relevant parameter to look at. "Regular fast-
charging reduces battery life, as do overcharging and deep discharging. Driving in extremely hot or cold weather doesn’t help either. And battery life will diminish even if you just leave the car in the garage. The real point of a million-mile battery is that the technological advances required to make it possible will deal with these things as well.
The lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries which power electric cars age in two ways: with time and with use. Battery-makers- call time-dependent ageing “calendar ageing”. It is consequence of the gradual degradation of some of the materials employed in battery construction, which reduces a battery's ability to hold a charge. Leaving a car with a fully rather than partly charged battery, for example, can increase the rate of calendar ageing. Use-dependent ageing is a consequence of the number of discharge--recharge cycles a battery goes through. It is caused by the complex chemical reactions that take place when a battery is operating. Some of these are essential to a battery's job of storing and releasing energy.
Battery technology is improving all the time. As a consequence, so are calendar and use-dependent lifetimes. Getting direct experience of how electric cars are used is helping researchers come up with ways to mitigate（缓和）some of the side reactions, says Tim Grewe, the head of GM's' electrification strategy. The company employs remote "telematic" monitoring to keep track of how batteries are performing in its cars, and also takes back some batteries from high-mileage drivers and those living in extreme environments, such as deserts and mountainous regions, for analysis.
Dealing with impurities that get into batteries helps to extend their lives. Water, for example, reacts with salts in the electrolyte to form an acid, which attacks the electrodes. To prevent this, GM has developed an addictive made from a type of material called a zeolite. Zeolites are molecular sponges. GM ‘s version serves to mop up any moisture which enters a battery cell.
Adding a little aluminium to a nickelcobalt-manganese cathode, a type that is widely used in Li-ion batteries, save on cobalt, the most expensive ingredient in a battery. But the aluminium delivers other benefits as well. It boosts the battery's energy density, meaning a car can travel farther on a single charge. It also make the battery last longer.
As a marketing device, the million-mile battery will give electric-car buyers more confidence that their batteries are robust. And by no means are million-mile batteries the limit of engineers' aspirations. The next objective is to replace Li-ions' liquid electrolytes with solid ones. That would keep the ions under stricter control and allow even longer driving ranges. This could make a two million-mile battery a feasible objective. If that day comes, the tables would have been turned. From being the first part of a car to fail, its battery will have come the last.
63. What does the underlined sentence in the first paragraph mean?
A. It is more profitable to invest in an electric car than in a mobile phone.v
B. Spending more money on an electric car can increase its second hand value.
C. It’s much more costly to replace the failed batteries of an electric car with new ones.
D. Compared with electric cars, batteries are of less importance to mobile phones.
64. According to the passage, which of the following is the least likely to reduce an electric car's battery life?
A. Unplugging an electric car once it's fully charged.
B. Often charging the car in"fast" mode to save time.
C. Driving an electric car on sweltering summer days.
D. Leaving the car in the parking lot for a long time.
65. Which of the following is FALSE regarding the measures researchers take to prolong a battery's lifetime?
A. Monitoring and studying batteries' performance in long-distance traveling.
B. Adding zeolite to encourage the acidifying chemical reaction in the battery.
C. Using aluminium to improve the battery's performance enabling the car to travel farther.
D. Keeping the battery partly charged to reduce its rate of"calendar ageing".
66. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that__________.
A. The current technology enables an electric car to drive a million miles on a single charge.
B. Electric car engineers are always on the go to develop batteries with greater longevity.
C. Policies on the choice of battery materials will be tightened to control the traveling range.
D. Drivers of future electric cars will no longer be worried about battery failure.
Section C
Directions: Fill in each blank in the article with a proper sentence given below. Each sentence can
Dolphins learn special foraging(捕食) techniques from their mothers-and it's' now clear that they can learn from their buddies as well. 67_________ It turns out that they learn this skill by watching their pals do the job. The discovery, reported in the journal Current Biology, helps reveal how groups of wild animals can transmit learned behaviors and develop their own distinct cultures.
"Dolphins are indeed very clever animals. So it makes sense that they are able to learn from others," says Sonja Wild, a researcher at the University of Konstanz in Germany. 68_______ This study, however, shows that dolphins are also motivated to learn from their peers in addition to mimicking their mothers.
The bottle-nose dolphins that live in Shark Bay, Western Australia, have been studied for decades, and scientists have identified over a thousand individuals by looking at the unique shape and markings of their dorsal fins. Researchers know what families the dolphins belong to, and keep track of their close associates.
Wild and her colleagues have closely examined how dolphins learn particular strategy for catching fish---one that involves using the empty shells of large sea snails. A dolphin will chase a fish to one of these shells, and then they insert their beak into the shell, bring the whole thing up to the face. After that, they shake it up above the water surface to drain the water out of the shell until the fish basically falls into their open mouth.
Whether or not dolphins caught fish in this way didn't seem to be explained by how many
shells were lying around their hunting area, nor whether a dolphin was genetically related to another dolphin that knew how to do it. 69__________ Previously, it's been shown that humpback whales seem to learn hunting techniques from their peers in a similar way.
The new observations of wild dolphins learning from their peers is "exciting, "says Diana Reiss, a dolphin cognition researcher at Hunter College, CUNY, "It tells us about the source of some these behaviors. It seems like they're not relying on just leaming from mom when they're out there. They seem to be observing others, watching what they're doing and acquiring it from others in their social group."
Being able to learn from peers may help animal populations survive in a changing environment. 70__________ "In unstable environments that are changing, it's more beneficial to kind of look around and see what others are doing" says Wild, "and maybe adopt their behavioral innovations that may be more adaptive to the new environmental conditions."
Summary Writing(10分)
Directions:Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible
One Person/ Multiple Careers
In an art show at a gallery, Gedvile Bunikyte is among the crowd, introducing her latest works on exhibit. However, her talents extend to far more than her beautifully geometric(几何图形的)artworks. Bunikyte is what is known as---someone who has multiple talents, which she has turned into professional careers, each separated by a"slash" in her job title.
It has become common for people to have a hard time describing what they do for a living, with an increasing number of work- related labels attached to each individual. The slasher culture has infiltrated(渗透) every industry. The "lawyer/ fashion blogger' combination may seem contradictory to some, but makes perfect sense to multi-passionate millennials（千禧一代）. Slash careers are an interesting concept when it comes to work-life balance and satisfaction, which has little to do with time spent in areas, but more to do with fulfillment across various areas that make up feelings of balance in one's life.
Slash careers can also make you more desirable to an employer. They give you greater creativity and a broader skill set. Companies are always looking for self-starters and innovators on their teams to help them get to the next level. People who have taken the initiative to develop a slash career are more likely to bring those qualities into their office.
Furthermore, it's no secret that millennnials are struggling with money. Americans aged between 18 and 34 had higher rates of being late with mortgage payments, overdrawing checking accounts,and having trouble with medical costs. A slash career might not help with the financial literacy, but it could help pay some of those bills.
The possibilities of slash career options are truly limitless. However, it's better to deeply immerse oneself in a particular career, and then layer in another slash. Personally, when I look back on my own slash career, I find this to be true as well. I began as a mental health counselor, which led to consulting opportunities. Eventually, I made money from my blog and became a social media influencer.
V. Translation(15分3+3+4+5)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
72.今年的第一季度,疫情引起的不确定性导致许多广告商削减预算。(lead)
73.气候变化不仅会使极端森林大火的天数翻倍,它还会增加雷击的危险。(Not only)
74.疫苗的安全性和有效性是公众日益关注的所以要经过反复的评估才能大范围开启试验。(concern v.)
75.人们理所当然地认为冲动购物,尤其在艰难时期能减缓压力并带来即时的愉悦,这就是为什么在每年的购物狂欢节,消费者总是有许多不必要的开销。(it)
Ⅵ.76. Guided Writing(25分)
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
为积极倡导“绿色低碳生活”,学校英语杂志社正在举办题为“Go Green with Low-Carbon-Life”的征文活动。请你参加该征文,结合实际谈谈你的想法,投稿内容必须包括:
1.你对“绿色低碳生活”的理解
2.你如何践行该理念(行动及理由)
注:文中不得透露个人真实姓名和学校名称。