专题04 完形填空题-【好题汇编】备战2023-2024学年高一英语上学期期末真题分类汇编（上海专用）

专题04 完形填空题 Passage 1 （2023上·上海·高一上海交大附中校考期末）In December, 43-year-old doctoral researcher Nina Jane Patel put on a headset and entered Meta’s virtual world to see what was happening that day. “Within seconds of being there, there were three avatars (虚拟替身) near me,” she says. “Suddenly they were taking selfies … I couldn’t see at first that they were touching the avatar’s upper body … They were yelling at me, ‘Don’t 1 you don’t like it, this is what you came for.’” The incident took place in the metaverse (元宇宙) — an immersive virtual world accessed via wearable technology — in which tech groups expect us to spend a far greater proportion of time in the future, both playing and, 2 , working. When it comes to 3 , however, it is unclear what rules of engagement apply in a universal digital realm. What counts as harassment (骚扰) in the metaverse? Can an avatar be 4 against, or worse? Will national legislation protect employees or does working in the metaverse require a(n) 5 rule book altogether? The global workforce has grown far more accustomed to working 6 in the past two years because of the Covid-19 pandemic and companies have already started experimenting with virtual reality in the workplace. Hilton hotel group, for example, uses it to train staff on how to handle guests. And last year Microsoft, in its first step towards 7 the physical and digital worlds of work, began rolling out a plan to enable workers to appear on its Teams collaboration software as avatars. But the metaverse takes hybrid working a step further, and brings with it a host of tricky employment law issues. These range from practical challenges, such as how are employees paid, to more 8 ones, like whether avatars have a legal identity. The physical world of work is regulated by 9 legal frameworks. In California, for example, workers can be fired with no notice, while in Holland, employees generally cannot be sacked without 10 from the court