2020年上海市高三下学期英语二模测试卷

第二学期高三年级阶段性调研英 语 试 卷（完卷时间：120分钟 满分：140分）2020年5月 第I卷（共100分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1. A. In an art gallery.B. In a classroom.C. In a railway station.D. In a ward.2. A. 5 weeks.B. 15 weeks.C. 20 weeks.D. 25 weeks.3. A. A Chinese restaurant.B. Bills company.C. Gold Road.D. The Ground Theatre.4.A. Egg.B. Fish.C. Pork.D. Steak.5.A. What the department library offers. B. Where the man can find what he wants.C. What professional articles the man needs.D. Where general books are available.6.A. Have a job interview.B. Make an advertisement.C. Open the letter box. D. Buy a copy of Daily Mail. 7.A. He will hand it in tomorrow.B. Its a difficult job for him.C. Its about a strike.D. Hell consult his friend about it.8.A. Work with her colleagues.B. Make coffee for others.C. Stay alone in the office.D. Socialize with her co-workers.9. A. Students prefer living out of town.B. Its impossible to find an ideally located town.C. They have the flat that will satisfy the woman.D. He will make sure where the vacancies are.10.A. He often goes back home late for dinner.B. He shares some of the household duties.C. He dines out with friends from time to time.D. He cooks dinner for the family occasionally.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages. After each conversation or passage, you will be asked several questions. The conversation and the passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following conversation.11.A. To follow the popular trend.B. To enjoy relaxing atmosphere. C. To experience a different lifestyle.D. To consume a tour package.12.A. Convenience.B. Price.C. Privacy.D. Time.13.A. B & B places.B. Flats.C. Hotels.D. Youth hostels.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Cooperation skills.B. Reasoning skills.C. Searching skills.D. Surgery skills.15. A. Casual.B. Doubtful.C. Neutral.D. Supportive.16. A. Playing games in the real world.B. Concentrating on study.C. Applying game skills to work.D. Thinking about career prospects.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following passage.17.A. 12%.B. 40%.C. 72%.D. 80%.18.A. They are easy to take care of.B. They grow vigorously in gardens.C. They require specific commitment.D. They are helpful for economy.19. A. It multiplies shopping trips.B. It is a waste of energy.C. It encourages fertilizer use.D. It increases the demand for plastic.20.A. Impacts and approaches of pollution.B. Founders and missions of a community.C. Benefits and problems of houseplants.D. Studies and worries of an initiative.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: 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.Lego wants your old Legos backIf you have a box of old Lego bricks sitting unused in a garage, Lego now wants them back. In a new program, consumers in the U.S. can dump old bricks in a box, print a free shipping label, and send them off to Give Back Box, a social enterprise (21) _ will clean the toys and repackage them for Teach for America and the Boys and Girls Club of Boston.“The classic Lego brick is made from a tough material (22) _ (call) ABS, and the toys can be played with for decades without breaking. Its already fairly common, of course, that Legos (23) _ (hand) down from one child to another.” says Tim Brooks, vice president of corporate responsibility at Lego Group. The company looked for a partner that could process the used toys while (24) _ (maintain) Legos standard of quality. “We want to make sure that all kids are getting a great experience,” he says. “You shouldnt get a really inferior experience (25) _ the bricks are donated.” If the program goes well, Brooks says, it (26) _ expand.He sees it (27) _ one version of the circular economy, a system of keeping materials in use and argues that the toys themselves illustrate the idea of the circular economy. “You can build a rocket and then you can take (28) _ apart and build a ship, or a car, or a house, or (29) _ you like,” Brooks says. As toys are reused, thats another circular system. “We intend (30) _ (show) that great quality toys like Lego can be used in lots of repeating circles used, reused, donated, used, reused, donated.” Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. backup B. borderlines C. breathlessly D. connectivity E. deskboundF. divorcing G. functions H. interrupting I. presence J. reluctantly K. updateHow to work from home?There are many things that contribute to becoming a successful work-from-home employee. As more companies across nearly every industry accommodate an increasing number of employees wishing to avoid traffic jam and office cold lunch, remote work has become an increasingly easy and _31_ practical option for many who seek it. Here is a modest guide to becoming a successful remote employee. Before _32_ completely from the office, check with your corporate IT department and your manager to see if you are equipped with the programs and applications necessary to work remotely. Security first: If you connect to your companys internal systems or email through a Virtual Private Network or other secure tunnel, make sure youve tested it and that it _33_ from where you plan to work. Also, have a(n) _34_ plan in the event your connection experiences disturbance.The same advice applies to internet _35_. Make sure that if the wireless internet in your home office fails, you can still connect continuously through your smartphone, set up as a Wi-Fi hot spot. To do this, make sure you have the right wireless plan, especially if you handle large files. The ability to communicate quickly and reliably is the most priceless quality a remote employee needs to succeed. Do _36_ your manager or boss frequently. Make sure group chat service and tools are installed and you know how to use them, and make your _37_ known to your colleagues when you are available and working.Set _38_ if youre working at home by explaining to family members or children that your work area is off limits, and they should avoid _39_ unless its important. Find time to go for short walks to help inspire productivity and creativity. One of the blessings of working remotely is the opportunity to live a more active lifestyle instead of being _40_, but its important to make activity a habit. III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.Retailers (零售商) closed more than 9,000 stores in 2019. Some people call what has happened to the shopping landscape “the retail _41_.” It is easy to owe it to the rise of e-commerce, which has boomed while physical stores struggle. But this can be _42_. Online sales have grown tremendously in the last 20 years, but internet shopping still represents only 11 percent of the entire retail sales total. Collectively, three major _43_ forces have had an even bigger impact on physical retail than the internet has.To begin with, we have changed _44_ we shop away from smaller stores like those in malls and toward stand-alone “Big Box” stores, which is a greater problem for most physical stores. Also, rising income _45_ has left less of the nations money in the hands of the middle class, and the traditional retail stores that _46_ them have suffered. It is estimated that since 1970, the share of the nations income earned by families in the middle class has fallen from almost two-thirds to around 40 percent. As the _47_ of income at the top rises, overall retail suffers simply because high-income people save a much larger share of their money. The government reports _48_ for different income levels in the official Consumer Expenditure Survey. In the latest data, people in the top 10 percent of income _49_ almost a third of their income after tax, while people in the middle of the income distribution spent 100 percent of their income. _50_, as the middle class has been squeezed and more has gone to the top, it has meant higher saving rates overall.Lastly, we have spent _51_ less of income on things and more on services with every passing decade. Since 1960, we went from spending 5 percent of our income on health to almost 18 percent. We spend more on education, entertainment, business services and all sorts of other products that arent _52_ in traditional retail stores. Economists debate theories of why people have _53_ to services and away from goods, but no one questions that it has happened. It means that over time, retailers selling _54_ will have to run harder and harder just to stay in place.In short, the broad forces hitting retail are more a lesson in economics than in the power of _55_. Its a lesson all retailers will have to learn some day. 41. A. business B. disaster C. investment D. strategy42. A. advanced B. confirmed C. overstatedD. undervalued43. A. economic B. legal C. physicalD. political44. A. how B. what C. where D. why45. A. distribution B. inequality C. levelD. tax46. A. aim at B. approve ofC. compete withD. stem from47. A. concentration B. influenceC. security D. source48. A. education B. employment C. housing D. spending 49. A. concealed B. donated C. earned D. saved 50. A. Instead B. However C. Moreover D. Therefore51. A. cautiously B. intelligently C. proportionately D. prospectively52. A. available B. insufficient C. popularD. uncommon53. A. applied B. committed C. shifted D. tied54. A. ideas B. patents C. services D. things 55. A. consumption B. habit C. incomeD. technology Section BDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.( A )Katherine Johnson, winner of the presidential medal of freedom, refused to be limited by societys expectations of her gender and race while expanding the borders of humanitys reach. President Barack Obama, 2015Using little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, who died at 101, calculated the precise path that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrongs history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth. Yet throughout Mrs. Johnsons 33 years in NASAs Flight Research Division and for decades afterward, almost no one knew her name. She was just one of those unheralded women who, well before the modern feminist (女权) movement, worked as NASA mathematicians. But it was not only her gender that kept her long marginalized and long unsung: Katherine Johnson, a West Virginia native, was also African-American.But over time, the work of Mrs. Johnson and her colleagues countless calculations done mainly by hand, using slide rules, chart paper and inefficient desktop calculating machines won them a level of acceptance that for the most competitive race.“NASA was a very professional organization,” Mrs. Johnson told The Observer of Fayetteville, N.C., in 2010. “They didnt have time to be concerned about what color I was.” Nor, she said, did she. “I dont have a feeling of inferiority,” Mrs. Johnson said on at least one occasion. “Never had. Im as good as anybody, but no better.”To the end of her life, Mrs. Johnson refused praise for her role in sending astronauts into space, keeping them on course and bringing them safely home. “I was just doing my job,” Mrs. Johnson repeatedly said so. But what a job it was done, no less, by a woman born at a time when the odds were more likely that she would die before age 35 than even finish high school. 56. The underlined word “unheralded” most probably means _.A. not adequately paidB. not previously mentioned C. not officially rewardedD. not fast promoted57. It was _ put together that made Mrs. Johnson a miracle.A. her skin color, her gender and the facilities B. her gender, her intelligence and the facilitiesC. her skin color, her gender and her intelligenceD. her intelligence, her skin color and the facilities58. From Mrs. Johnsons comments on NASA and her own job, we can conclude that _.A. she was confident and modestB. NASA shows no interest in staffs racesC. She was superior to most women in her age D. NASA is professionally organized and supportive59. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?A. Woman Made Calculations B. NASA Marginalized MathematiciansC. Gender Divided OrganizationsD. 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UNICEF has helped save more childrens lives than any other humanitarian organization.l What is UNICEF USAs mission?We work for the survival, protection and development of children worldwide through fundraising, advocacy and education.l How can I volunteer for UNICEF in the field?UNICEF secures volunteers, who must have at least a Bachelors Degree and two-to-five years experience in their field of expert knowledge and skills, through the United Nations Volunteers program.If you are a citizen of the United States and meet the above standards, send your rsum to the United Nations Volunteers program at the following address for more information: United Nations Volunteers, c/o Peace Corps, 1111 20th St. N.W., Washington, DC 20526.If you are interested in volunteering within the United States,click here to learn how.l May I donate non-cash goods for emergency relief?Some have asked us about donating goods here in the U.S. for emergency relief efforts abroad. While we are grateful for the desire to help, UNICEF does not accept non-cash goods. Why?Financial donations are the fastest and most efficient way to provide assistance. Donated goods must be screened, sorted, stored and transported. UNICEF pre-positions supplies to speed up delivery and sources them locally whenever possible.A blanket donated today can take weeks, or even months, to arrive abroad.A dollar donated today, however, will be arranged tomorrow to buy lifesaving supplies.We also purchase supplies in large quantities to save money. That means your financial donation will get more supplies to more kids in need than your donation of non-cash goods.60. Which of the following statements is true of UNICEF USA?A. It no longer provides emergency fund.B. It is localized to focus on national affairs.C. It was originally created for kids education.D. It supports children growth at home and abroad.61. If you want to be a UNICEF USA volunteer, _ is NOT a must.A. required education backgroundB. related working experienceC. American nationalityD. educational program participation62. Financial donation is a better choice than non-cash goods because of _.A. the good willB. operational efficiencyC. local assistanceD. the reliable supply( C )Scientists in Antarctica have recorded, for the first time, unusually warm water beneath a glacier (冰川) the size of Florida that is already melting and contributing to a rise in sea levels.The researchers, working on the Thwaites Glacier, recorded water temperatures at the base of the ice of more than 2, above the normal freezing point. Critically, the measurements were taken at the glaciers grounding line, the area where it transforms from resting wholly on bedrock to spreading out on the sea as ice shelves. It is unclear how fast the glacier is getting worse: Studies have forecast its total collapse in a century or in a few decades. Th