上海市杨浦区2017届高三第二学期4月模拟质量调研英语试题
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2017.4
II .Grammar and
Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After
reading the passages 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.
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
Directions: 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. 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
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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
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
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.
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 ___52___ the relationship
between the two tends to be.
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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
Directions: 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 just read.
（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
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
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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.
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
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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
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.
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Both kinds of self-talk
-----silent and out loud ----seem to bring many
different benefits to our
thinking
._____________70_______-
Ⅳ.Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage.
Summarize in no 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 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.
V. 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 ）
VI 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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