上海市部分区2023-2024学年高三上学期期末（一模）英语汇编：完形填空

上海市部分区2023-2024学年高三上学期期末（一模）英语试题分类汇编 完形填空 2024届上海市金山区高三上学期一模英语试卷 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. Mathematics has an image problem: far too many people are put off by it and conclude that the subject just isn’t for them. But one of the biggest problems is how maths is ___41___, as cold and dry. I have a different approach which is to relate abstract maths to questions of politics and social justice. I have taught fairly maths-phobic (恐惧) art students in this way and have seen their attitudes ___42___. They now believe maths is ___43___ them and can genuinely help them. At a basic level, maths is founded on logic, so when I am teaching logic, I use examples from ___44___ events rather than the old-fashioned type of problem. Instead of studying the logic of a statement like “all dogs have four legs”, I might discuss the statement “all immigrants are illegal”. But I do this with specific mathematical structures, too. ___45___, I teach a type of structure called an ordered set, which is subject to an order relation such as “is less than”. We then study and ask which functions are “order-preserving”. A typical example might be the function that takes a(n) ___46___ number and maps it to the number obtained from multiplying by 2. We would then say that if x < y then also 2x < 2y, so the function is order-preserving. ___47___, rather than sticking to this type of dry mathematical example, I introduce issues like privilege and wealth. If we think of one ordered set with people ordered by status, we can make a function to another set where the people are now ordered by ___48___ instead. If someone has a higher status, are they automatically wealthier? We can also ask about working hours and ___49___: if someone works more hours, do they ___50___ earn more? The answer there is clearly not. My approach is controve