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One【20172虹口区】 III. Reading Comprehension Section A
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.
Throughout history, many lives have been lost at the hands of severe weather. Meteorologists (气象学家) and scientists alike are always investigating new ways to increase the warning time for storms, with the hope of reducing the __41__ of lives. In the past few decades, local weather radar advancements have been made, which allow for better accuracy in __42__ the paths of storms.
Meteorologists and scientists have been able to successfully track severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes by using an advanced tracking system called NEXRAD (Next-Generation Radar). NEXRAD is a tracking network __43__ 158 Doppler weather radars. And during a storm this high-resolution computerized __44__ takes readings on the amount of precipitation (降水) in the air, the movements in the clouds, and the wind speeds.
These __45__ are bounced back to a local weather computer, and a colorful image appears on the screen, giving meteorologists a clear picture of what kind of weather is on the horizon. This final image is what you see when the meteorologist breaks in with severe weather reports and warnings. __46__, on your television screen you will see a computer animated image of the approaching storm.
If the storm is severe enough, then the National Weather Service (NWS) will __47__ severe weather reports of severe thunderstorm warnings for your area. __48__, the storm captured on the radar will have produced strong readable winds, detectable lightning, and some hail (冰雹). Paying attention to the weather map is __49__ when severe weather is around.
On the television screen you will see several colors on the precipitation map, __50__ from blue (the lightest) to black (the heaviest). If the colors for your __51__ area are yellow, take caution. If the colors range between orange and red, take cover immediately, as damaging winds and dangerous lightning have been reported.
When local weather radar in Atlanta, Georgia reported high winds, __52__ wind patterns and large hail earlier this year, the National Weather Service issued a tornado __53__. Meteorologists
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in the area used the collected data to predict what path the storm would take, __54__ which areas needed to be warned.
Thanks to this technology, most residents received the severe weather reports early enough to seek __55__ before the storm hit. Paying attention to your local weather source during severe weather plays a vital role in your safety.
41.A. loss 42.A. changing 43.A. faced with 44.A. structure 45.A. figures 46. A. Most likely 47.A. decide 48.A. By the way
49.A. vital 50.A. expanding 51.A. proper 52.A. straight 53.A. process 54.A. indicating 55.A. rescue
B. increase B. controlling B. exposed to
B. system B. data
B. Most evidently B. estimate B. In that case
B. reasonable B. spreading
B. specific B. unique B. threat B. recognizing B. residence
C. protection D. value C. predicting D. guiding C. involved in
D. made up of
C. mode D. style C. readings
D. statistics
C. Most interestingly D. Most importantly C. handle D. issue C. To some extent
D. On the contrary
C. normal D. available C. ranging D. extending
C. typical D. regular C. general D. circular C. warning D. sign
C. revealing
D. recommending
C. support D. shelter
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Two【20172黄浦区】 III. Reading Comprehension Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passages 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.
Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily Considered Better
The firm, which famously started life in 1939, has now declared a new age: that of smaller start-up. By 2014, when Ms Whitman announced HP’s decision to separate its computer and printer business from its corporate hardware and services operations, the company had grown into a clumsy __41__. Its fortunes started to __42__ with a series of expensive and much criticized purchases. By 2012 it had lost its position as the world’s leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo. The dramatic __43__ was aimed at helping the firm adapt to the new age of mobile and online computing, responding to shareholder demands for more aggressive __44__.
“I would go from laser jet printing to our big enterprise services contracts where we were running the back end of IT for many big companies and organizations. These two things are not like each other. So the ability to focus and engage with customers on a(n) __45__ set of objectives and business outcomes... I can already see the difference.” Ms Whitmann, who now heads the new spin-off, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) selling servers and services, says the change has already __46__ her performance. “One big change is it __47__ each of the divisions to pursue the strategy that is right for them. __48__ , there is ‘no way’ printer and PC company HP Inc’s decision last year to buy Samsung’s printing business for $1bn would have happened when it was part of the larger firm. So it’s that ability to drive your own program, not __49__ by other businesses that don’t have the same characteristics.” Ms Whitman is so convinced her strategy is working that she’s __50__ HPE further, spinning off both its business services division and its software business into separate companies last year.
Her assumption that bigger doesn’t always mean better seems __51__. After all, a larger company should find it easier to dominate the market it operates in. But the rapid rise of much smaller start-ups, competing and often overtaking these established powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that __52__ equals success is being challenged. __53__ in 2014, eBay carved
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PayPal, the electronic payments arm it bought in 2001, off from the main online sale business.
Box, a cloud storage company, is another case in point. Founder Aaron Levie says “Whether Uber, Airbnb, those same lessons __54__, which is if you can build something that’s cheaper, faster and more scalable and delivers a far better customer experience than what the traditional sellers were able to do, then you can be extremely __55__.”
41. A. appearance 42. A. decline
43. A. adventure 44. A. behavior 45. A. ambitious 46. A. delivered 47. A. allows
48. A. All in all 49. A. held back 50. A. dissolved 51. A. fundamental 52. A. diligence
53. A. Comparatively 54. A. apply
55. A. friendly
B. construction B. increase
B. combination B. growth B. complex
B. improved B. employs B. For example B. kept on
B. expanded B. reasonable B. discipline B. Generally B. fail
B. miserable
C. giant D. possession C. stay
D. vary C. development D. split C. markets
D. policies
C. narrow
D. overall C. measured D. standardized C. reminds
D. threatens
C. On the contrary D. What’s more C. looked over D. taken down C. operated
D. shrunk C. surprising D. widespread C. profit
D. size C. Similarly D. Unexpectedly C. hide
D. increase C. motivated
D. troublesome
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Three【20172浦东新区】 Ⅲ. Reading comprehension Section A
Directions：For each blank in the following passages 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.
Have We Reached Peak Trade?
Globalization is usually defined as the free movement of people, goods and capital. It’s been
the most important __41__ force of modernity. Until the financial crisis of 2008, global trade grew twice as fast as the global economy itself. __42__, thanks to both economics and politics, globalization as we have known it is developing fast.
The question is: Have we reached peak trade? If you think of it in terms of the flow of digital
data and ideas, no—it’s actually __43__. Indeed, the cross-border flow of digital data—e-commerce, web searches, online video, machine-to-machine interactions—has grown 45 times larger since 2005 and is __44__ to grow much faster than the global economy over the next few years.
There’s no doubt globalization has increased wealth at both global and national levels. But
free trade can also widen the __45__ gap within countries, in part by creating concentrated groups of economic losers. Free trade has made goods and services cheaper for Americans—think of all the inexpensive Chinese-made goods at Walmart—but it hasn’t always __46__ their job prospects. From 1990 to 2008, the areas most __47__ to foreign competition saw almost no net new jobs created. That’s one reason the new generation of Americans is on track to be _-48__ than their parents.
The gains of free trade do not always __49__ the losses. This realization that the tide of
__50__ doesn’t raise all boats has fed into the anti-free trade movement. And companies themselves are __51__ globalization.
Nevertheless, there is one reason to be __52__ about the future of globalization—at least, the
new information-based kind. McKinsey data estimate that the companies responsible for the jump in flows of digital goods, services and information will include a much higher proportion of small businesses than in the past. An estimated 86% of tech-based startups surveyed by McKinsey now do some cross-border business-- __53__ before the arrival of the Internet, when globalization was
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