2017上海市杨浦区高三二模英语试题及答案
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杨浦区2016学年第二学期高三模拟质量调研
英语学科试卷
2017.4
II .Grammar and
Vocabulary
Section A
I was standing in
the checkout line behind a woman who looked to be
in __21__ 60s. When it
was her turn to pay,
the cashier greeted her by name and asked her how
she was doing.
The woman looked down,
___22___（shake）her head and said:“Not so good.”My
husband just
lost his job and my son is up to
his old tricks again. The truth is, I don’t know
how I’m going to get
through the holidays.‖
Then she gave the cashier food stamps.
My heart ached. I wanted to help but didn’t know
how.（23）______I offer to pay for her
groceries
or ask for her husband’s resume?
As I
walked into the parking lot, I saw the women
___（24）（return）her shopping cart. I
remembered
something in my purse（25）________I thought could
help her. It wasn’t a handful of
cash or an
offer of a job for her husband, but maybe it would
make her life better.
My heart pounded as I
approached the woman.
“Excuse me,”I said, my
voice trembling a bit.“I couldn’t help overhearing
what you said to the
cashier. It sounds like
you’re going through a really hard time right now.
I’m so sorry. I’d like to give
you something.”
I handed her the small card from my purse.
When the woman read the card’s only two
words, she began to cry. And through her tears,
she
said：“You have no idea（26）_______ this
means to me.”
I was a little startled by
her reply.（27）________（not do）anything like this
before, I didn’t know
what kind of reaction I
might receive. All left for me
(28)_______（say）was：“Oh. Would it be OK
to
give you a hug?”
（29）________we embraced, I
walked back to my car --and began to cry, too.
The words on the card?
“You Matter.”
A
few weeks earlier, a colleague gave me a similar
card（30）____ encouragement for a project
I was
working on. When I read the card, I felt a warm
glow spread inside of me. Deeply touched, I
came home and ordered my own box of You Matter
card and started sharing them.
Section B
A. technology B. contemporary C. stretched
D. hidden E. recognized
F. discovery G.
updated H. extensive I. countless J.
estimated K. definition
Most of us learn
at primary school that there are seven continents,
but the next generation of kids
may be adding
one more to that list.
According to a
recent paper published in the Geological Society
of American Journal by a group
of
researchers,“Zealandia” is a new continent that’s
___31___ beneath the ocean.
Zealandia is
___32___ to be five million sq km. Most of this
massive area is covered by water,
but its
highest mountains already have their own name：New
Zealand.
The small country is the only part
of Zealandia that isn’t underwater, but the
paper’s authors
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want the
huge landmass to be ___33___ worldwide as its own
continent.
“The scientific value of
classifying Zealandia as a continent is much more
than just an extra
name on a list,”the
researchers wrote in their paper.
Scientists
discovered Zealandia all the way back in 1995,
then started ___34___ research on the
area
using underwater and satellite mapping ___35___.
After completing their work, they were
finally
able to write a report suggesting that Zealandia
be named a continent.
But who decides on what
is a continent and what isn’t? There is, in fact,
no official organization
that does. Some
countries’ schools teach that there are six or
even five continents. This changes
depending
on where in the world school is.
Due to their
__36__ as a “continuous expanse of land”,some
classify Europe and Asia as the
same continent
-- known as Eurasia. Schools in Russia and parts
of Eastern Europe teach this.
And to make
things even more confusing, France and Greece, as
well as other countries,
classify North
America and South America as simply America.
This argument over how land is defined has
even ___37___ into outer space. In 2006, the
International Astronomical Union（IAU）decided
that Pluto was no longer a planet, 76 years after
its
___38___ in 1930. Experts argued that it
no longer met the requirements needed to be called
a planet
alongside the eight others in our
solar system. It was therefore renamed a “dwarf
planet（矮行星）”，
meaning that ___39___ books,
models and museum exhibits all over the world had
to be ___40___.
But will the world take the
same notice of Zealandia? The best way to tell is
to keep an eye on
our textbooks.
Ⅲ.Reading Comprehension
Section A
Good news for awkward teenagers around the world.
As time goes by, you could ___41___ up
like a
completely different person.
This comes
from the longest running personality study ever
___42__ by scientist. According to
researchers
from the University of Edinburgh in the UK, our
personality changes so much from
youth to old
age that most people’s personalities in older age
are barely ___43___ compared to their
younger
selves.
The researchers analyzed results
from a study in 1947, which gathered 1,208
teenagers in
Scotland aged 14 and asked their
teachers to ___44___ their personalities based on
six traits（特
征） .
Now, more than six
decades later, the University of Edinburgh team
has managed to contact 635
of the ___45___
students, and 174 agreed to have their
personalities tested once more.
At an
average age of 76.7 years old, the group were
asked to ___46___ themselves on the same
six
personality traits, then pick a close friend or
family member to do the same.
By ___47___
the then-and-now test results, the researchers
found that there is hardly any
relationship
between traits people had as teenagers and those
in their older years.
It was “as if the
second tests had been given to ___48___
people,”the study’s researchers wrote
in their
report, which was published in journal Psychology
and Aging.
The results were a surprise
because research in the past found personality
___49___ in people
tested from childhood to
middle-age, and from middle-age to older age.
As the team explained, our personality appears
stable over short intervals -- ___50___ so
throughout adulthood. ___51___, the longer the
interval between two tests of personality, the
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___52___ the
relationship between the two tends to be.
It’s clear that more studies are needed to find
out what’s going on here. But it could be the
first
___53___ that it’s not just our cells
that are being ___54___ throughout life – the way
we think, feel
and behave might no be as
___55___ as we once thought.
41. A. hold
B. wake C. end D. cheer
42. A.
carried out B. applied to C. participated
in D. made up
43. A. incredible B.
accessible C. changeable D. recognizable
44. A. assemble B. assess C. assume D.
access
45. A. alternative B. individual C.
original D. separate
46. A. score B.
rate C. comment D. remark
47. A. comparing
B. reviewing C. presenting D. observing
48.
A. young B. similar C. amateur D. different
49. A. combination B. stability C.
transformation D. flexibility
50. A.
increasingly B. strangely C. subsequently D.
obviously
51. A. Therefore B. Moreover C.
However D. Otherwise
52. A. stronger B.
closer C. further D. weaker
53. A. option
B. sign C. symptom D. cause
54. A. replaced
B. exposed C. divided D. cultivated
55. A.
stuck in mud B. buried in sand C. lost in thought
D. set in stone
Section B
（A）
One way people are responding to food safety
concerns is by growing their own food. However,
not everyone lives on property with enough
space for a private plot. One solution is
community
gardens, which have become popular
worldwide, numbering 18,000 in North America
alone. In
addition to providing low-cost,
delicious food, these public spaces offer cities a
range of other
benefits.
Community
gardens are located in a town or city and tended
by local residents. Often, the land is
on a
vacant lot owned by the city. The site is divided
into manageable plots, which may be tended by
individuals or by the garden’s members
collectively. Since the land is usually publicly
owned, the
cost for gardeners to lease it is
minimal. In fact, New York City, which is home to
more than 750
community gardens tended by more
than 20,000 members, charges people just $$1 a year
to lease a
plot. Other costs involve soil,
tools, seeds, fencing , and so on. However,
because they’re shared by
many people,
individual gardeners pay very little.
A
community garden can quickly pay off, in terms of
delicious fruits and vegetables, in addition
to beautiful flowers. Excess produce can be
sold for a profit at farmers markets. But a
garden’s
benefit don’t stop there. They also
beautify cities, foster strong relationships among
residents, and
lower an area’s crime rate.
Award-winning spaces like London’s Culpeper
Community Garden even
attract tourists.
Beautiful and affordable, community gardens are
often described as oases in
crowded cities.
56. Community gardens are designed for
those who ___.
A. are concerned about food
safety
B. live in a house with a private
plot
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C. can’t afford
to buy organic food
D. don’t have their own
property
57. New York City _____.
A. is
owned by 20,000 individual gardeners
B.
charges residents a lot to lease tools and fencing
C. contains more than 750 community gardens
D. is tended by professional gardeners and
local residents
58. What’s the benefit of
community gardens?
A. People can enjoy safe
and delicious vegetables and animal meat.
B. Residents are more familiar and related with
each other.
C. The neighborhood is becoming
safer but of lower taste.
D. People can
make some profits from the visiting tourists.
59. The underlined word“oases”is closest
in meaning to ____.
A. cultural and art
centers B. popular platforms for exchanges
C. peaceful and safe lands D. commercial
and prosperous places
（B）
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60.
Which is a determining factor in choosing a Safari
camp?
A. Means of transport. B.
Accommodation.
C. Weather patterns.
D. Game guides.
61. John is planning to
have an African Safari in August 2018. He should
book it in ______.
A. July 2018 B.
January 2018
C. July 2017 D. October
2017
62. Which of the following is FALSE about
African Safari?
A. You can have a good
price but same experience if you travel in low
season.
B. If you visit different camps in
remote areas, flights may be unavoidable.
C. The more money you pay, the better experience
you’ll get.
D. Not all the parks have the
same species of animals.
（C）
A
busy brain can mean a hungry body. We often seek
food after focused mental activity, like
preparing for an exam. Researchers think that
heavy bouts of thinking drain energy from the
brain,
whose capacity to store fuel is very
limited.
So the brain, sensing that it may
soon require more calories（卡路里）to keep going,
apparently
stimulates bodily hunger, and even
though there has been little in the way of
physical movement
bodily hunger, and even
though there has been little in the way of
physical movement or calorie
consumption, we
eat. This process may partly account for the
weight gain so commonly seen in
college
students.
Scientists at the University of
Alabama at Birmingham and another institution
recently
experimented with exercise to counter
such immoderately post - - study food consumption.
Gary Hunter, an exercise physiologist at
U.A.B., oversaw the study. Hunter notes that tough
activity both increases the amount of blood
sugar and lactate（乳酸盐）—
circulating in the
blood
and increases blood flow to the head.
Because the brain uses sugar and lactate as fuel,
researchers wondered if the increased flow of
fuel-rich blood during exercise could feed
an
exhausted brain and reduce the urge to overeat.
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Thirty - - eight
healthy college students were invited to U.A.B.’s
exercise lab to
report what their favorite
pizza was. At a later date, the volunteers
returned and spent 20
minutes dealing with
selections from college and graduate - - school
entrance exams.
Next, half the students sat
quietly for 15 minutes, before being given pizza.
The rest of
the volunteers spent those 15
minutes doing intervals on a treadmill: two
minutes of
hard running followed by about one
minute of walking, repeated five times. Hunter
says,
that should stimulate the release of
sugar and lactate into the bloodstream. These
students were then allowed to gorge on pizza,
too. But by and large, they did not overeat.
In fact, the non-exercisers, however, consumed
about 100 calories more.
The study has
limitations, of course. We only looked at lunch.
Hunter says；the
researchers do not know if the
runners consumed extra calories at dinner. They
also
cannot tell whether other types of
exercise would have the same effect as running,
although Hunter says they suspect that if an
activity causes someone to break into a
sweat,
it should also increase blood sugar and lactate,
feeding the brain and weakening
hunger’s call.
63. According to the passage, ______ may
cause many college students to overeat and
gain weight.
A. a lot of energy-
consuming mental activities
B. numerous
physical movements or calorie burning
C.
failure to resist the temptation of delicious food
D. bodily hunger caused by physical growth
64. The underlined word“counter”is
closest in meaning to _____.
A. stimulate
B. maximize C. balance D. prevent
65. What
can be inferred from the passage?
A.
Running is more beneficial than walking.
B.
Sweating in exercise can make people hungrier.
C. The amount of blood sugar and lactate can
affect people’s appetite.
D. When the brain
feels exhausted, people tend to do exercise for
relaxation.
66. Which of the following
statements is FALSE?
A. Mental activities can
make people feel hungry.
B. Physical exercise
can make people refreshed and stay hungry.
C.
Sugar and lactate can help energize and restore
people’s brain.
D. It’s uncertain what types
of exercise can effectively feed the brain.
Section C
Directions : Complete
the following passage by using the sentences given
below . each
sentence can be used only once.
Note that there are two more sentences than you
need.
A. When something comes from
within you ,you always try your best to analyze it
in a
scientific way .
B.
Psychologists call this private speech
----language that is spoken loud but directed at
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yourself
C. So
words to the self , spoken silently or loud , are
so much more than just chatter
D. We
keep the private speech we use as children inside
------but we never truly put away the
out=loud
version .
E. According to he well-known
saying , talking to yourself is the first sign of
madness.
F. Self-talk is efficient
because when we are vocal about our thoughts , it
makes a larger
impact on our brain.
Self-talk helps us all
Talking
to yourself may seem a little shameful . If you’ve
ever been overheard criticizing
yourself for a
foolish mistake or practicing a speech , you’ll
know the social problems it can
cause.________67__________
But there’s no
need for embarrassment . Talking to ourselves ,
whether out loud or silently in our
heads, is
valuable . Far from being a sign of insanity ,
self-talk allows us to plan what we are going
to do , manage our activities and control our
emotions.
For example , take a trip to any
preschool and watch a small girl playing with her
toys . You are
very likely to hear her talking
to herself : offering herself directions and
talking about her problems.
________________68_______________We do a lot
of it when we are young.
As children
,according to the Russian Psychologist Lev
Vygotsky , we use private speech to
control
our actions in the same way that we use public
speech to control the behavior of others. As
we grow older , we keep this system inside.
Psychological experiments have shown that this
so-called inner speech can improve our
performance in tasks like telling what other
people are thinking . Our words give us an
interesting
view of our actions . One recent
study suggested that self-talk is most effective
when we talk to
ourselves in the second person
: as ―you‖ rather than
―I‖_____________69___________________If
you
want proof , turn to a sports channel . You’re
sure to see an athlete shouting at himself or
herself .
Talking to ourselves seems to be
a very good way of solving problems and working
through
ideas. Hearing different points of
view means our thoughts can end up in different
place , just like a
regular dialogue , and
might turn out to be one of the keys to human
creativity.
Both kinds of self-talk
-----silent and out loud ----seem to bring many
different benefits to our
thinking
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Summary
Writing
Directions Read the following
passage . Summarize in more than 60 words the main
idea of the
passage and how it is illustrated
. Use your own words as far as possible.
For thousands of years , people have sailed
across the oceans to trade , explore and transport
goods .
However , not every ship arrives at
its port of destination . Weather ,war ,
navigation mistakes and
bad luck have caused
many ships to sink to the bottom of the ocean.
These shipwrecks , which are
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estimated to number more than three
million , have long fascinated us . In addition to
being
historically important , they sometimes
contain great riches.
Historical research is a
key motivator for shipwreck hunters . Ships
carrying documents and artifact
can teach us
about ancient civilizations and important events .
For instance , in 1997 the Pandora ,
which
sank in 791, was discovered off the coast of
Australia . The findings from the ship helped us
understand the events surrounding the famous
mutiny (暴动) on another ship ----- the Bounty .
Another important discovery off the US coast
in 1996 is widely believed to be the Queen Ann’s
Revenge , the flagship of the private
Blackbeard.
Profit is another motive for
shipwreck exploration ,as companies use advanced
sonar , robots and
retrieval equipment to find
treasure ships . One such firm is Odyssey Marine
Exploration . The
company has found hundreds
of ships , including , in 2007 , a Spanish sailing
ship containing
500,000 silver coins. The ship
, which sank 200 years ago in the Atlantic Ocean ,
carried a treasure
estimated to be worth $$500
million . Soon after the discovery , a long legal
battle over ownership
rights took place
between the company and the Spanish government .
Cases like these are part of an
ongoing debate
about protecting historically important ships from
treasure hunters.
Translation
Directions Translate the following sentences
into English ,using the words given in the
brackets.
1， 新颁布的禁烟令得到了广大市民的支持。（ban ）
2, 出乎我的意料， 年轻人对中国古诗词显示出了极大的热情。（passion）
3,共享单车不仅解决了最后一里路的问题，而且还有助于改善空气质量。（Not
only）
4,一考定终身的日子已经一去不复返了，
但不可否认的是考试越多，学生压力越大。（denying ）
Guided
Writing
Directions : Writing an English
composition in 120-150 words according to the
instructions given
below in Chinese.
请根据下面的图片，结合你个人的经历 ，谈谈你的想法。
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答案
21 ， her 22 , shook 23,
Should 24, returning 25, that 26, what , 27
Not having
done 28, to say , 29 After 30.
As
31-40 DJEHA KCFIG
41-55
CADBC BADBA CDBAD
56-59 ACBC
60-62 DCA
63-66 ADCB
67-70 EBDC
Summary writing
Historical
importance and profit are the two main driving
forces for shipwreck explorations .
Key
information about ancient civilizations and
important events can be obtained from the
wreckage . Besides , huge treasures can also
be found by using advanced equipment . However ,
the
finding of the treasure sometimes sparks
legal debate over ownership .
翻译
1，
The newly-issued ban on smoking has been supported
by most citizens.
2, Beyond my
expectation , young people showed tremendous
passion for ancient Chinese
poetry .
3, Not only do shared bicycles solve the last-
mile problem but also they help improve air
quality.
4. Gone are the day when one
examination could determine students’ fate , but
there is no
denying that the more examinations
they have , the more stressful they will feel.
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