2023年上海高三上学期高考模拟英语试卷-学生用卷
2023年上海高三上学期高考模拟英语试卷•学生用卷一、完形填空1、【来源】2023年上海高三上学期高考模拟第1题In summarising the state of the planet-risin
2023 年上海高三上学期高考模拟英语试卷•学生用卷 、【来源】年上海高三上学期高考模拟第题 120231 一、完形填空 In summarising the state of the planet-rising population, widespread conflict, one-sixth of the planet suffering extreme poverty and hunger, global warming—Jeffrey Sachs, author of “The Common Wealth, can paint aterrible picture. However, he* san and believes that all of these problems can be overcome in relatively straightforward ways and at relatively little cost. That *s because the root causes arc interconnected and man-made. （死亡）. Take child mortality Perhaps surprisingly, the higher the child mortality rate is, the higher the birth rate. This leads to apopulation which puts agreater stress on already scarce resources, so farmers have to work harder to produce enough food for all, which means children are often put to work in the fields or at home. This, ,scops children getting the education which will allow them to learn, among other things, about better farming techniques to increase crop yields and provide more food to cat and sell. Sachs argues that the of providing every child in （疟疾） poverty with an anti-mosquito bed net is amajor first step. Malariais ahuge cause of death in children and the bed nets massively infections. The fewer children that die of malaria, the more secure parents feel about their children surviving. The more secure parents feel, the fewer children they have, and so on, revising the trend just described. However, it is acombination of measures at the same time that truly makes adifference: free school meals improve school attendance and health; supplying fertilisers to improve soil and better seeds provides even better harvests; basic health care and clean water supplies more fatal diseases. These ideas are already being implemented in over 100 African villages in underdeveloped regions. The cost of the project is just $10 per person per year, of which 50% comes from donors and the rest from amixture of local and national governments and the villagers themselves. So if it' sso ,why hasn' tit been done before? What about all the aid that has been given to Africa and the （腐 败）？ underdeveloped countries of the world? Has it been lost to corruption Sachs argues that the real problem is not corruption, but （he fact that rich governments have such alot, but actually given so little. They agreed to give 0.7% of national income in aid, but only five countries have met that .He suggests some of his products. He said some earrings were 'cheaper than asandwich, but probably wouldn' tlast as long' .Other products 【小 题】 could be sold at such low prices because they were rubbish. 2Ratner had to resign as director and shortly afterwards the company was taken over by acompetitor. In some ways, Ratner could be seen as unfortunate in that he was in asemi-private meeting with friends and 【小题 】 colleagues he was at ease with, but there happened to be ajournalist there. 3And with the rise of social media, there have been plenty of others who have been caught out by the increasingly vague boundaries between our private and public faces. For example, agroup of flight attendants made jokes about the engines on their planes （客户）. 【小题 】 failing and complained about their airline and clierns 4Unfortunately, （hey did it publicly
