上外版（2020）高中英语必修二Unit 3 Food 单元素养评估测试卷

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.

Social robots are going to become a lot more common in the next few years, in the home or the workplace. Social robots are about to bring technology to the everyday world in a more humanized way, said Cynthia Breazeal, chief scientist at the robot company Jibo.

household robots today do the normal housework, social robots will be much more like companions than mere tools. For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad. This allows them (respond) more appropriately to the user.

The Jibo robot, (arrange) to ship later this year, is designed to be a personalized assistant. You can talk to the robot, ask it questions, and make requests for it to perform different tasks. The robot doesn't just deliver general answers to questions; it responds based on it learns about each individual in the household. It can do things such as reminding an elderly family member to take medicine or taking family photos.

Social robots are not just finding their way into the home. They have potential applications everything from education to health care and are already finding their way into some of these spaces.

Fellow Robots is one company (bring) social robots to the market. The company's "Oshbot" robot is built to assist customers in a store, can help the customers find items and help guide them to the product's location in the store. It can also speak different languages and make recommendations for different items based on what the customer is shopping for.

The more interaction the robot has with humans, (much) it learns. But Oshbot, like other social robots, (not intend) to replace workers, but to work alongside other employees. "We have technologies to train social robots to do things not for us, but with us," said Breazeal.

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Corporate scandals (丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. This is where executives can start reestablishing their 1 —or deepen the damage.

Since they were forced to 2 one of the biggest frauds (欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at Volkswagen have offered 3 and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). But they haven't explained who ordered, 4and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting 5 on the road. Nor has Volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel 6 and clean.

On October 8, German prosecutors broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. Meanwhile, Matthias Muller, the 7 appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, Martin Winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew 8. "Do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?" he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some

9 shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to 10 regulators and customers around the world.

If Mr. Winterkorn was not responsible, who was? Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have 11 this scheme without any support. Hans-Dieter Potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier this month, saying it would take time before Volkswagen could make 12 the findings of its internal investigations. "We must overcome the crisis," he explained, "but we must also ensure that Volkswagen continues to grow." That seems to miss the point that Volkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some 13 answers and explanations.

Even if they manage to fix millions of cars, Volkswagen executives will still face an enormous 14 from lawsuits, lost sales and the 15 to Volkswagen's reputation. There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. Apologizing is just the easy part.

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To take the apple as forbidden fruit is the most unlikely story the Christians (基督徒) have ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil. So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be Eden, everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion. Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.

What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that thought to have come from Hell. What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits. Though the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population considered them one and the same, too terrible to touch.

Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the Western people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the "introduction of this wonderful new fruit — or is it a vegetable?" As late as the twentieth century some writers still classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an "evil fruit".

But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead. "What are you afraid of?" he shouted. "I'll show you fools that these things are good to eat!" Then he bit into the tomato. Some people fainted. But he survived and, according to a local story set up a tomato-canning factory.

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What's better than a video game that your kids can play over and over again? A membership to one of the many exciting places in Seattle that your kids visit over and over again (for a year at least). Click to join us and read on for our top picks.

Woodland Park Zoo

The Park Zoo was the most highly sought after membership by families in the Seattle area, and for good reason: there's something for everyone! In addition to the hundreds of animals found throughout the 92 acres, there are plenty of outdoor spaces to run around (including playgrounds).

Tel: 206-5428-2500

Online: zoo.org

Annual Membership: $69/Flexible Guest Adult; $49/Named Adult; $19/Child; Under 2 Free

Point Defiance Zoo

Point Defiance Zoo is the only combined zoo and aquarium in the Pacific Northwest spread out over 29 acres. Your kids will enjoy getting up close and personal to the live sharks, riding a camel and exploring the interactive Kids' Zone.

Tel: 253-591-5337

Online: pdza.org

Annual Membership: $124/Household; $105/Two adults; $24/Child

Seattle Aquarium

The Aquarium is particularly great for any budding environmentalists in your family who want to learn more about conservation efforts that affect the waters in the Pacific Northwest.

Tel: 206-386-4300

Online: seattleaquarium.org

Annual Membership: $189/Family Plus (2 adults, 5 children, 1 guest); $149/Family (2 adults, 5 children)

Museum of Flight

The Museum is the perfect indoor place to free your kids to dream big about the wide world. With all sorts of planes that you can see, touch and climb inside, this museum fulfills your flight dream.

Tel: 206-764-5700

Online: museumofflight.org

Annual Membership: $100/Family; $75/Two Adults

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In recent years, 3D printers have mostly been used to create small, specialized items. This includes parts for automobiles, airplanes and medical devices. Many consumer products can also be 3D printed as well, from clothes to foods. Now, an increasing number of startup(新创办的)companies are using 3D printing to build entire homes. Since the technology is still developing, not many have yet been built. However, the top companies plan to greatly increase production in the coming years.

The startup company Icon, based in Austin, Texas, made news in 2018 by completing the first permitted 3D printed home in the U. S. At the time, it said the home had been built in just a day. Since then, the company says it has been developing new technologies in robotics, software and manufacturing materials. It designed its own 3D printer and said the robot-powered machine could create structures up to 185 square meters. The printing process uses a cement-based mixture that Icon says is stronger and saves more money than traditional building materials.

To date, Icon has completed 24 3D printed homes in the U. S. and Mexico. Among them was a community of 3D printed homes in a poor neighborhood in Mexico. The company has also completed a series of structures for homeless people in Austin. And it says it plans to open America's first housing development of 3D printed homes this summer.

A New York company, SQ4D, also uses 3D printing technology to build homes. In February, the company showed off a 130-square-meter model home to demonstrate (证明) its printer'sabilities. SQ4D plans to sell its homes starting at $299,000. The company has even started listing the homes on the Internet selling site Zillow. Kirk Andersen is SQ4D's director of operations. He told Reuters the 3D printer will permit buyers to easily create their own home design, room by room.

While 3 D printing as a home building method is just getting started, Andersen said others in the construction industry need to get prepared for big changes. "This is the beginning. This is just scratching the surface," he said.

Directions: Read the following passages. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

It doesn't seem that US singer Bob Dylan has much in common with literary mavens like Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Elliot. .This year's prize makes Dylan the first American since Toni Morrison in 1993 to win the title. At the same time, the surprise announcement has also ignited a firestorm of discussion around the globe.

Influential US writer Jodi Picoult joked that she might now deserve a Grammy. And well-known British-Indian novelist Hari Kunzru lamented on social media by saying: "This feels like the lamest Nobel win since they gave it to Obama for not being Bush."

Dylan's new status — a musician awarded the Nobel Prize for literature–to a degree defies convention. However, this is by no means his first prize for his writing talents. Back in 2008, the Pulitzer Prize jury awarded Dylan a special citation "for his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power". .

. Protest songs like Blowin in the Wind (1962) were the anthems of anti-war and civil rights movements in 1960s US. Densely poetic and image-rich songs such as Mr. Tambourine Man (1965) pushed the folk-rock movement. And even today, many of Dylan's songs are still relevant and streamed regularly by people all over the world.

In a speech during the MusiCares pre-Grammy honors in 2015, Dylan revealed how he uses lyrics to document American culture and create an American songbook of his own. "I learned lyrics and how to write them from listening to folk songs," said Dylan. "And I played them, and I met other people that played them, back when nobody was doing it."

. "From Orpheus to Faiz, song & poetry have been closely linked," Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist also thought to have been a candidate for the prize, told The New York Times. "Dylan is the brilliant inheritor of the bardic tradition," Rushdie added. "Great choice."

A. There is nothing more honorable to win praise from one's competitors.

B. In this sense, it could be argued that what the Nobel Committee is doing is simply reinforcing Dylan's unshakable standing in the world of literature.

C. Dylan's competitors questioned his winning the Nobel Prize for literature.

D. But, last week, these three figures became forever bonded by the Nobel Prize for literature.

E. Therefore, the Nobel committee just holds a different opinion from that of Pulitzer Prize jury.

F. The words behind Dylan's songs address social issues and have been transmitted from generation to generation.

今晚有场音乐会以表彰将要退休的教师。（honor）

地震对居民造成的损害很小，这使当地政府十分宽慰。(relief)

我相信，在双方的共同努力和密切合作下，我们会找到有关问题的妥善解决方法。(convince)

直到最近几年病人才能很便捷地下载他们的医疗记录以获取如检测结果之类的信息。(access)