精品解析：上海市建平中学2022-2023学年高三上学期9月测评英语试卷

2022-2023学年上海市建平中学高三上学期9月测评英语试卷 I. Listening comprehension 略 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. Agree to Disagree I am old enough to remember running through the whipping rain to find a phone booth, only ____1____ (get) cut off in the middle of the call because I ran out of change. I remember having posted hand-written letters home from overseas that would take two weeks to arrive. In comparison, the world of social media is truly a miracle. Free of charge, you ____2____ contact anybody, anywhere, anytime. Social media enables us to debate with people the world over. And this is a good thing in some aspects. In the market-place of ideas, you get to try on other people’s shoes and see ____3____ the world looks like from their perspective. In the 90s, experts predicted an end to historical conflict because people would become more open-minded and tolerant. But this is sadly not turning out to be the case. As psychologist Johnathan Haidt said in his article “The Codding of the American Mind,” social media ____4____ (create) people who are addicted to conflict and is driving polarization(极端化). Because online disagreements are no longer being conducted between two people in an enclosed room, but are instead happening in a public space with thousands of onlookers, many debates have devolved into nothing more than a popularity contest—whoever walks away with the most “likes” ____5____ (crown) the winner. People often say things they don’t believe in order to get more likes. ____6____ sugar—the more likes you get, the better you feel. Meanwhile, social media algorithms (算法) reinforce an echo chamber (回音室). By ____7____ (expose) you to articles and videos similar in opinion to those you’ve cl