2020-2021学年上海市杨浦区高考模拟质量调研英语试题及答案
音乐节海报-家长通知书
第二学期高三模拟质量调研
英语学科试卷
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 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 ___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
D. made up 42. A. carried
out B. applied to C. participated in
43. A. incredible
44. A. assemble
45. A. alternative
46. A. score
B. accessible C. changeable D.
recognizable
B. assess C. assume D. access
D. separate
D. remark
D. observing
D. different
B. individual
B. rate
C. original
C. comment
C.
presenting
C. amateur
47. A. comparing
48. A. young
B. reviewing
B.
similar
B. stability
B. strangely
49. A. combination
50. A.
increasingly
51. A. Therefore
52. A.
stronger
53. A. option
54. A. replaced
C. transformation D.
flexibility
C. subsequently
C. However
C. further
D. obviously
D.
Otherwise
D. weaker
D. cause
B.
Moreover
B. closer
B. sign
C. symptom
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
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
（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.
61. John is planning to have an African
Safari in August 2018. He should book it in
______.
A. July 2018
B. January 2018
D. October 2017
D. Game guides.
C. July 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
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?
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
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.
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 ._____________70_______-
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 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。
答案
21 ， her
22 , shook 23, Should
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
24, returning 25, that 26, what , 27 Not
having done
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.