英语阶段测·基础强化（一）
- 定位：基础强化期的跨章半套卷——检验词汇（高频核心词 Unit01-40 + 中频词已学单元）、长难句拆解与阅读入门三板斧在同一张卷子里的协同。不追求冲刺难度，目标是暴露"单词都认识、句子拆不动"或"句子能拆、选项选错"的断层
- 结构：完形填空 1 篇（10 题）+ 阅读理解 2 篇（每篇 3 题，共 6 题）+ 长难句翻译 3 句，共 19 题。建议 60 分钟。本卷语言难度对标真题，但篇幅减半
- 要求：全部文章与题目为模拟题（自编，按真题风格命制，非历年真题）。答案与解析在答案页，做完再对；翻译务必先手写再核对
- 考后动作：错题按错因分类（词义 / 搭配 / 句法 / 定位偏差 / 干扰项误选）回写错题本；完形与阅读中不认识的词当场查词汇库并登记
一、完形填空（10 题）
The notion that employees who work from home are less productive has been 1 challenged by a growing body of research. A three-year study of 1,600 workers found that remote employees completed tasks faster and took fewer sick days. 2, companies remain reluctant to embrace flexible arrangements. The resistance is partly cultural: many managers still 3 visibility with commitment, assuming that workers they cannot see are workers they cannot trust. This assumption, 4 evidence suggests, is outdated. When output is measured by results 5 by hours logged, remote workers consistently outperform their office-based peers. The transition, however, is not without 6. Isolation, blurred boundaries between work and home, and the 7 of spontaneous collaboration are real costs that must be managed rather than dismissed. Firms that succeed treat remote work not as a temporary 8 but as a design problem: they schedule deliberate overlap hours, invest in 9 tools, and train managers to evaluate performance at a distance. The lesson is straightforward—flexibility is not a threat to productivity; 10 management is.
1. A. increasingly B. scarcely C. accidentally D. permanently
2. A. Therefore B. Nevertheless C. Likewise D. Meanwhile
3. A. confuse B. combine C. compare D. confirm
4. A. as far as B. now that C. even if D. so long as
5. A. other than B. rather than C. more than D. less than
6. A. benefits B. disputes C. drawbacks D. precedents
7. A. surplus B. erosion C. approval D. illusion
8. A. concession B. convention C. compensation D. conclusion
9. A. sophisticated B. redundant C. obsolete D. hostile
10. A. careless B. rigid C. poor D. hasty
二、阅读理解（6 题）
Passage 1
Most discussions of artificial intelligence in the workplace begin with a question of substitution: which jobs will machines eliminate? This framing, however, misses a pattern that has repeated since the industrial revolution. New technologies rarely destroy occupations outright; they restructure them. The ATM did not eliminate bank tellers—in the decades after its introduction, the number of tellers in the United States actually rose, as branches became cheaper to open and tellers shifted from cash counting to customer relationships. What technology eliminates is not the worker but the task. The economists who documented this pattern call it "task displacement," and its consequences depend on one variable: whether the displaced tasks are the low-skill or high-skill portion of a job. When machines absorb the routine component of work, humans are pushed toward judgment, persuasion, and creativity—precisely the skills that are hardest to automate. When the reverse happens, and technology targets the judgment-heavy component first, the remaining work becomes more monotonous, and the occupation degrades. The lesson for policy is that the direction of displacement is not fixed by the technology itself; it is shaped by how firms choose to deploy it. A tool that automates drudgery under one business model may automate expertise under another.
11. The author mentions the ATM and bank tellers primarily to __.
A. prove that predictions about job losses have always been exaggerated B. illustrate that technology restructures occupations rather than eliminating them C. suggest that banks benefited more from technology than their employees did D. challenge the view that customer relationships matter more than efficiency
12. According to the passage, "task displacement" affects an occupation differently depending on __.
A. the speed at which the new technology is adopted B. the skill level of the tasks that machines take over C. the number of workers involved in the occupation D. the willingness of firms to retrain their employees
13. It can be inferred from the last two sentences that __.
A. the direction of task displacement is determined solely by technology B. business models play no role in how automation reshapes work C. the same technology can produce opposite effects under different deployments D. policymakers should slow down the deployment of automation
Passage 2
Peer review is often described as the quality-control system of science, but the description deserves more scrutiny than it usually receives. Reviewers are unpaid, overburdened, and typically anonymous—a combination that incentivizes neither speed nor generosity. Studies of reviewer agreement find that two referees evaluating the same manuscript frequently reach different verdicts, which suggests that acceptance decisions rest partly on chance. Defenders of the system respond that the alternative—no review at all—would be far worse, and they are probably right. But the choice is not between peer review and chaos. Since the 1990s, some journals have experimented with open review, in which reports are signed and published alongside the paper. Early evidence is cautiously encouraging: signed reviews tend to be more courteous, and reviewers who know their names will appear are less likely to dismiss unconventional methods without argument. The deeper problem, however, is that peer review was designed for a scarcity that no longer exists. When journals were the only way to reach an audience, gatekeeping performed an editorial function. In an era when a paper can circulate globally within hours of posting, the gate has moved: community review, replication attempts, and citation patterns now perform much of the filtering that editors once monopolized. The institutions of science have not yet caught up with this shift.
14. The author mentions "two referees reaching different verdicts" to suggest that __.
A. most published research is unreliable B. the peer-review process contains an element of randomness C. journals should hire more reviewers for each manuscript D. anonymity encourages reviewers to be careless
15. According to the passage, open review differs from traditional review in that it __.
A. eliminates the need for editorial gatekeeping entirely B. makes reviewers' identities and comments publicly visible C. guarantees faster publication of manuscripts D. discourages reviewers from approving unconventional methods
16. The author's attitude toward the future of peer review is best described as __.
A. dismissive B. alarmed C. cautiously critical D. enthusiastic
三、长难句翻译（3 句）
17. The resistance is partly cultural: many managers still equate visibility with commitment, assuming that workers they cannot see are workers they cannot trust.
18. What technology eliminates is not the worker but the task, and the consequences depend on whether the displaced tasks constitute the low-skill or high-skill portion of a job.
19. In an era when a paper can circulate globally within hours of posting, the gate has moved: community review, replication attempts, and citation patterns now perform much of the filtering that editors once monopolized.