2018年上海市宝山区高考英语二模试卷
2018年上海市宝山区高考英语二模试卷Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions： After reading the passage below，fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.1．(★)How Much of the Jetsons' World Has Become a Reality？For most of our readers， The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name． However， for many American born in or before the 1980s， it is a name we fondly remember． The Jetsons was a popular cartoon that featured a family living in an advanced world （21） people settle in houses built in the sky， work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flying saucers． While sky-high houses and three-day workweeks don't appear to be on the horizon， other visions of the future （22）（turn）into practical realities．Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades． They are part of a typical imaging of the future fast-paced and luxurious，（23）（allow）us to speed through the skies． As （24）（see）in The Sky's No longer the Limit， this flight of fancy may soon be a reality in Dubai． Aiming （25）（become）the world's most advanced city， Dubai is currently testing the first-ever flying taxi．（26） money still exists in its current cash-based form in The Jetsons，people today are looking toward a world where even cash is out-of-date． Bitcoin is a type of digital money that has taken the world by storm． Since its introduction，the money's price （27）（increase）to rates as high as US﹩19，000． This，however， may not predict well for the future of digital currency， as experts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and （28） crash soon． It's possible that some dreams of the future may still be （29） our reach．Other more probable technologies already exist， for example， future flying eye hospitals in A Hospital with Wings， unusual-engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population of endangered corals（珊瑚）in Lab-Bred Coral to the Rescue， etc． All these show （30） humans are already capable of． So，what else could the future have in store for us？Section B Directions：After reading the passage below， fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.2．(★★★★) Computer reads brain activity to find out the music each person is listening to In the experiment， six volunteers heard 40pieces of classical music，rock， pop， jazz， and others． The Neural（神经的）fingerprint of each song onparticipants' brain was （31） by the Magnetic Resonance（MR）machine while a computer was learning to identify the brain patterns drawn out by each musical piece． Musical （32） such as tone， volume， rhythm and beat were takenin account by the computer．After that， researchers expected that the computer would be able to do the （33）way： identify which song participants were listening to， based on their brain activity -a technique known as brain decoding． When faced two options， the computer showed up to 85% （34） in identifying the correct song， which is a great performance， comparing to previous studies．Researchers then pushed the test even （35） by providing not two but10options（e．g． one correct and nine wrong）to the computer． In this situation，the computer correctly identified the song in 74% of the decisions．In the future， studies on brain decoding and machine learning will create possibilities of communication （36） any kind of written or spoken language．"Machines will be able to translate our musical thoughts into songs，"says Sebastian Hoefle， researcher from D'Or Institute and PhD student fromFederal University of Rio de Janeiro， Brazil． The study is a result of a （37）between Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Germany， Finland and India．According to Hoefle， brain decoding researches provide （38） to understand neural functioning and interact with it using artificialintelligence． In the future， he experts to find answers for （39）like"what musical characteristics make some people love a song while others don't？Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections：For each blank in the following passages 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.3．(★★)Having a clear picture in mind of what their future will look like can motivate students to keep going despite the challenges of college life． This （41）seems to be particularly effective for female students from relatively low socioeconomic status（SES）backgrounds says Mesmin Destin of NorthwesternUniversity in the US． College is a time of great opportunity for some， but can be （42） for others． It is often the first time that many students are away from the regular and familiar support of their family and friends． Weak students from lower SES backgrounds often encounter greater financial and psychological challenges than others， and this can lead to （43） and even withdrawal from difficult situations， such as when interacting with their lecturers or taking tests and exams．Destin and his colleagues wanted to understand if students' （44） to academic challenges improve when they look forward to the future． This idea isbuilt around the theory of identity-based motivation． It holds that people can take positive action during times of unfavorable conditions when they （45）a successful future for themselves．"The theory of identity-based motivation proposes that stimulating a focus on a successful future identity may be especially （46） in motivating students who are weak during challenging academic situations to develop a sense of action readiness，"explains Destin． This involves feeling ready and able to take appropriate action when （47） difficulty．In two almost identical laboratory experiments-one involving 93female students，the other 185students（including 101women）-- participants were first asked either to write about their past or their future （48）． After their deep thoughts， the participants were filmed during an limited interview with a so-called lecturer， and then had to （49） a difficult academic test． The research team noted whether participants' body language was bold and confident，and measured the amount of effort participants' （50） the academic test．The results were in agreement with the theory of identity - basedmotivation． Destin and his team found that having a successful future identity can prevent especially female students from lower SES backgrounds from （51）during challenging academic situations． Specially， lower SES women who wrote about their future identities displayed greater action （52） compared to those who considered their past． They showed more confident body language． It helped them to make more effort to tackle the test， and had an indirect effect on their （53）．"Simulating imagined successful future identities appears to provide a （54）pathway to enable weak students to effectively navigate everyday stressors，"says Destin．"The findings（55） suggest that certain students may benefit from strategies that remind them to image their successful futures before any difficult and important task that they might otherwise be likely to avoid．"41． A． instruction B． strategy C． challenge D． psychology42． A． disgraceful B． shameful C． harmful D． stressful43． A． hesitation B． intention C． depression D． decision44． A． willingness B． options C． responses D． applications45． A． destroy B． imagine C． abandon D． substitute46． A． powerful B． upright C． unique D． ambitious47． A． avoiding B． overcoming C． surrendering D． encountering48． A． experience B． suffering C． success D． failure49． A． design B． complete C． comment D． revise50． A． put away B． put on C． put out D． put into51． A． withdrawing B． transforming C． advancing D． engaging52． A． quantity B． dullness C． readiness D． inability53． A． fascination B． ignorance C． dilemma D． performance54． A． tolerable B． potential C． straight D． academic55． A． therefore B． however C． otherwise D． meanwhileSection 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.4．(★★★)I believe in getting lost． Lost in the text of the novel that is particular to your thoughts and feelings that you consider special． The song that reminds you of your childhood summers， where you close your eyes and lose yourself reliving a memory； feeling the warm wind brushing against your arm， the smell of the dusty sand that you stir up as you ride your bicycle， murmuring the tune of that song． Like the unprepared Sunday Drive， with no destination． You're free to wander， take paths that you've never noticed， discover places you haven't been． Then falling off on the path to lead you back home， leaving you to test directions and alertly absorb your surroundings in order to find your way back；that kind of lost．I get lost daily， whether it's in thought， or the unplanned drive I just decided to go on． Getting lost is an adventurous learning experience that trains you howto be more aware of your surroundings． A few of my most favorite memories involve physically getting lost． That one late night trip back to Ludington from Grand Rapids I took with a few friends． We finally realized we were going the wrong way when we hit South Haven， almost three hours out of our way． There was also the time where I got lost in the De Vos Place in Grand Rapids after the President'sBall and then the parking garage for a solid two hours． I felt like my life was that one scene of an American television situation comedy， minus the air conditioner． At the time， these are nervous experiences that get your anxiety pumping． You're fearful that you won't be safe， but it always works itself out in the end． Physically losing yourself prepares you for how you manage when you emotionally or mentally lose yourself．You don't always have to be lost in a literal sense to"get lost"and some of the time， losing yourself may not be a positive experience． There are times where I lose sight of who I am． While lost， I test our metaphorical paths and sometimes they turn out to be the right direction and other times they were a wrong turn． I make note of these wrong turns， so I can avoid them further on up the road of finding my way back to who I am．In Walden， Henry David Thoreau wrote"Not till we are lost， in other words nottill we have lost the world， do we begin to find ourselves， and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations．"Getting lost fuels my curiosity and teaches me lessons on finding my way back to the right track． I believe in getting lost through day dreams， a misplacement， adventures， and difficult times where you make discoveries about yourself and the atmosphere around you． In order totruly find yourself， I believe that you should put down the map and getwonderfully lost．56． In the first paragraph， the author mainly expresses that ．A． lost in a novel is a special feelingB． songs remind us of past experiencesC． wandering is a wonderful discoveryD． getting lost brings us benefits57． The author mentions the experiences of physically getting lost（in paragraph 2）in order to say ．A． physically getting lost is most difficult to deal withB． we can enjoy trips while physically getting lostC． people are easy to get physically lost in our daily lifeD． we realize our surroundings while physically getting lost58． Words from Henry David Thoreau（in the last paragraph）imply that gettinglost ．A． enables us to look within and to see outwardB． pulls people back into the previous momentC． enables us to remind ourselves of adventuresD． helps us enjoy ourselves wherever we are59． Which of the following might be the best title of the passage？A． I Once Was LostB． Wonderfully LostC． Physically Getting LostD． Mentally Getting Lost5．(★★★)Two in three Americans shower once a day or more， according to a YouGov poll． Here's why you might be better off showering less frequently（andhere are other ways you might be showering wrong）60． What's the whole passage mainly about？A． Reasons you can probably get away with showering less．B． Advice you can take on how to shower more and better．C． Harmful effects made on you through showering less．D． Benefits you can get from showering on a daily basis．61． This passage provides us with the following further detailed informationExcept ．A． the best time of day to showerB． the proper temperature for your showerC． the other ways you shower wrongD． the other ways to cut your water bill62． Which of the following is Not a reason why you should shower less？A． Showering gets rid of good bacteria．B． You're absolutely as dirty as you think．C． Towel drying causes damage to your skin．D． You only really need to wash your smelly parts．①Daily showers are best for people with physically demanding jobs，those who live in hot， damp climates． But if you don'tsweat that often，you could probably go two to three days wiihout stepping into the shower， skin doctor Monika G． Kiripolsky， MD told [Men′s Health]． Use these [quick morning hacks lo freshen up without showering]．②Drying off with a towel can further make your delicate birthday suit becomeworse． It′s best lo air diy， according to HowStuffWorks．com， but if that takes too long or you don′t like leaving wet foot printsall over the house， use a soft towel and gently pat your skin dry instead of vigorously rubbing it． Check out these other [mistakes everyone makes in the showgr．]③If the thought of showering every other day or a few times a week makes yourskin crawl， consider a mini cleaning．Rub your chest ，armpits ，and outer sex organs with a washcloth and a mild cleaner，Men′s Health advies．④Right now， your skin is teeming with good bacteria，but showering launches these microbes into ihe air． They′ll repopular， butthrre's no good reason to get rid of them on a daily basis， according to this blog post on PLOS．org． Find out what the healthiest [temperature for yourshower is]．⑤Showers are typically the third largest water consumer in the average home（after toilets and clothes washers）． The averageAmerican shower uses 17.2 gallons and lasts for 8.2 minutes at average flow rate of 2.1 gallons per minute， according to [Home Water Works]． part of the Alliance for Water Efficiency． Cut back to thhree or four showers a week from seven （per person in your home!）and that could make a decent cut in your water bill． To make those four showers count． learn what science says is the [best time of day to shower]．6．(★★)Social norms of right and wrong are vital to a well-functioning society． However， such moral standards are changeable and the psychological mechanisms（机制）driving this change are unknown． Now， researchers at Karolinska Institutet report that our view of selfish and unselfish behaviors changes depending on how common they are．The results are based on a combination of behavioral experiments， mathematical models and computer simulations． In the experiments， the participants first observed other people's behavior in a so-called"public goods game，"in which players receive a sum of money and then choose either to invest it to varying degrees so that it benefits everyone in the group， or to keep it for themselves． After every round， the participants were asked to judge the different choices as morally right or wrong， and whether the choices ought to be punished with a reduction in how much the players gained．Unselfish behavior was considered more morally right than selfish， but both behaviors were judged to be more moral and less deserving of punishment if the majority exhibited them than if they were uncommon． The commonness of the selfish behavior also affected the participants' willingness to themselves pay to punish selfishness．"Tolerance of selfish behavior increased when the majority of the players kept the money for themselves， which surprised me，"says principal investigator Andreas Olsson， senior lecturer at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience．"The fact that a behavior is common doesn't automatically mean thatit's right - this idea is based on faulty logic that confuses facts with moral values．"The study shows our view of what is morally right and wrong has strong similarities with social comformity， in that we tend to adapt ourselves to the people around us and how they behave． This means that changes in our social environment can quickly alter our moral compass．"This is interesting from several angles， and could explain why moral attitudes change over time， such as those towards public goods or legality，"says Bjorn Lindstrom， postdoc at University of Zurich and Karolinska Institutet's Departmentof Clinical Neuroscience．63． According to Andreas Olsson's analysis， if people accept selfish behavior，they actually ．A． get facts and moral values mixed upB． misunderstand social mechanismsC． follow the logic of their ownD． consider it correct and reasonable64． It can be concluded that the participants in the experiments are punishedif ．A． they can't play"public goods game"B． invest the money to benefit group membersC． they behave differently from the majorityD． they keep the money for themselves65． According to the passage， what is morally right or wrong is shaped by the following Except ．A． the way people around us behaveB． changes in our social environmentC． personal standards of values and attitudesD． how widespread a particular behavior is66． Which of the following might be the best title of the passage？A． The psychological mechanisms behind attitude changeB． Behavior is considered more moral the more common it isC． Our view of selfish and unselfish behaviorsD． Moral standards of selfish and unselfish behaviorsSection C Directions：Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box. Each sentences can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.7．(★★)It is widely believed that seeking feedback from colleagues， managers， friends and family enhances employees' creativity． But is this always the case？ No， a positive effect depends on the work， environment． This is the conclusion of newjoint research study led by UvA work and organizational psychologist Roy Sijbom．（67） For example， managers are encouraged to engage customers in order to confirm whether their business model is workable and scholars attend conferences to obtain feedback on their research results． A definite assumption is that individuals who have obtained feedback will also actually（be able to）use it．"The idea is simple： seeking feedback from different sources - also known as feedback source variety - benefits one's creativity since it leads to a greater diversity of viewpoints"，says Sijbom．"And the more diverse the viewpoints， the more it benefits one's creativity because by combing all the different viewpoints new perspectives will emerge that in turn will result in more creativity．（68）"The researchers examined how specific characteristics of the immediate work environment influence the relationship between feedback source variety and creative performance．（69） One is the recognized rate of change of performance standards． The other is the extent to which employees feel they have sufficient time to develop creative ideas at work（experienced creative time pressure）．"We discovered a growing relationship between the search for input from a variety of feedback sources and creativity， but only when performance standards within an organization are changing and when a relatively low creative time pressure is experienced"，says Sijbom．Sijbom offers several recommendations．" （70） In a more concrete sense，organizations can， for example， consider using feedback workshops in which employees are encouraged to reflect on diverse feedback and equipped with techniques and strategies on how to absorb feedback in their daily work． In addition， managers should not only stimulate their employees to actively cultivate relationships with potential feedback sources within and outside the organization，but also provide sufficient time to process the feedback obtained from these relationships．"Summary Writing8．(★★★)Directions： Read the following passage． Summarize the main idea and the main point（s） of the passage in no more than 60 words． Use your own words as far as possible．Screen-addicted teens are unhappyA new study explored the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screen time． Researchers found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices - playing computer games， using social media， texting and video chatting -were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports，reading newspapers and magazines， and face-to-face social interaction．Total screen avoidance doesn't lead to happiness either． The greater unhappiness among those with no screen exposure could be due to several factors，Twenge， the leading researcher said．"It could be that they are left out of thesocial scene of high school， that it's very difficult to carry on friendships in high school these days without texting at all or being on social media．"It is also possible that those kids are outliers， Twenge said -teens with special needs or in special education， or those whose screens have been taken away from them by parents．The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use． The happiest teens used digital media a little less than an hour per day． But after a daily hour of screen time， unhappiness rises steadily along with increasing screen time， the researchers report in the journal Emotion．"Make effort to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media， and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face andexercising-two activities reliably linked to greater happiness．"Twenge said．"By far the largest change in teen's lives between 2012 and 2016 was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media， and the following decline in in-person social activities and sleep，" the leading researcher said．"The arrival of the smartphone is the most reasonable explanation for the sudden decrease in teens' psychological well-being．"TranslationDirections： Translate the following sentences into English， using the words given in the brackets.9．(★★★)我对这场比赛的结果抱乐观态度．（optimistic）10．(★★)许多人把迟到看作是一个小问题，其实不然．（think）11．(★★★)无人驾驶技术解决了人们的困惑，使开车打电话成为可能．（…it…）12．(★★★)人生中最可怕的不是你即使努力了仍一事无成，而是碌碌无为却以平凡可贵安慰自己．（…not…but…）Guided Writing13．(★★)Directions： Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the picture below．当你走进教室，发现黑板上画着一幅形象丑陋的漫画，旁边还写着你的名字．你当时是愤怒谴责还是一笑了之？请你写一篇短文，内容包括：根据你的想象简述漫画的内容及此漫画的心情；你当时是选择上述哪一种解决方式并比较说明你选择这种解决方式的理由．。
2018年上海各区高三英语二模——语法填空
【2018-宝山区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.How Much of the Jetsons' World Has Become a Reality?For most of our readers, The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name. However, for many Americans born in or before the 1980s, it is a name we fondly remember. The Jestsons was a popular cartoon that featured a family living in an advanced world (21)______people settle in houses built in the sky, work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flying saucers. While sky-high houses and three-day workweeks don’t appear to be on the horizon, other visions of the future (22)______(turn) into practical realities.Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades. They are part of a typical imaging of the future fast-paced and luxurious, (23)______(allow) us to speed through the skies. As (24)______ (see) in The Sky’s No longer the Limit, this flight of fancy may soon be a reality in Dubai. Aiming (25)______ (become) the world’s most advanced city, Dubai is currently testing the first-ever flying taxi.(26)______ money still exists in its current cash-based form in The Jetsons, people today are looking toward a world where even cash is out-of-date. Bitcoin is a type of digital money that has taken the world by storm. Since its introduction, the money’s price (27)______ (increase) to rates as high as US$ 19,000. This, however, may not predict well for the future of digital currency, as experts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and (28)______ crash soon. It’s possible that some dreams of the future may still be (29)______ ______ our reach.Other more probable technologies already exist, for example, future flying eye hospitals in A Hospital with Wings, unusual-engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population ofendangered corals(珊瑚) in Lab-are already capable of. So, what else could the future have in store for us?21 where22 have been/are /are being turned23 allowing24. seen/is seen27. has increased28may/might/can/could 25.to become26While/Though/Although29 out of30. what【2018-崇明区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.China’s Good Samaritan Law (见见见见见) Takes EffectChina’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in danger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people (21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed (见见) later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade (22)_____ people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and 18 people passed by (23)_____ offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____ (accuse) of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when (25)_____ (face) with demands for a large sum of money.These cases (26)_____ (arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years. “If you don’t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely (27)_____ (hurt) by the people you help. It is really a difficult choice,” one netizen said on Sina Weibo.(28)_____ there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed ahead with such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.However, some experts are concerned (29)_____ there could be some danger from a nationwide Good Samaritan Law. “Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people in critical conditions,” said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of China. He hoped the government (30)_____ introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.21. hesitating22. where23. without24. was accused25. faced 26. have aroused27. to be hurt28. Although/Though/While29. that30. could【2018-奉贤区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Time to End LonelinessUS author Henry Rollins once wrote: “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” Indeed, in the eyes of artists, loneliness never seems to go out of style. There are paintings that portray loneliness, songs that (21)_______ (inspire) by loneliness, and many works of literature that center around this theme.In the eyes of UK economist Rachel Reeves, however, loneliness is far from romantic. Instead, it’s a “giant evil” that’s become a serious problem in the country.On Jan 17, UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed politician Tracey Crouch as the country’s very first “Minister for Loneliness”. Her job is (22)_______ (deal) with the loneliness that the country’s been feeling — a problem which, according to UK government research, is affecting more than 9 million people in the country, and (23) ________ be more harmful to one’s physical and mental health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.Back in 2014, the UK was given the title of the “loneliness capital of Europe” by The Telegraph. A survey carried out by the newspaper found that British people were (24)________ (likely) to get to know their neighbours or build strong relationships with people than those from other European countries.But this doesn’t mean it is the problem (25)________ (affect) Britons only. In fact, we’re all suffering from loneliness now more than ever, in spite of most of the world now being linked to the internet, (26) ________ has enabled us to be more connected than ever.(27)________ we need, according to Kim Leadbetter, sister of the late UK politician Jo Cox, is to have “proper human connections”.“Our lives nowadays are so busy. We spend the vast majority of our time on our phones, on our laptops. (28)________ ________ ________ busy we are, we need to press pause on that and actually sit down and speak to human beings,” Leadbetter said at an event last year.But the first steps toward (29)________ (fight) this problem are to accept its existence and not be ashamed or frightened by it. After all, (30)________ loneliness, many beautiful paintings, songs, and literary works wouldn’t even exist. Whether it is “evil” or not, being lonely is simply part of the experience of being human.21. are inspired22.to deal23.can/may24. less likely25. affecting26. which27. what28. No matter how29. fighting30. without【2018-虹口区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?Booklovers, most of them, will tell you (21)______ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend – the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel (22)____ ____ you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn’t lend it out.But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to have their latest literary enthusiasm (23)_____ (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can. You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, (24)______ (use) any device with the Barnes & Noble e-book reader software. It’s a big improvement from previous e-book readers.The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is (25)______ on the lower part of the device there’s a color touchscreen, (26)______ allows you to browse through a book or magazine, but goes black when you’re not using it so that you save power.(27)______ exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection (28)______ (read) whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s competitors can come close to this.But the Nook, ironically, (29)______ (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes and Noble, or at least a job-loser for Barnes and Noble’s employees. According to Marian Maneker at The Big Money Website, (30)______ the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.21. what22. as if/though23. pressed24. using25. that26. which27. Another28.to read29. has turned out (turns out) 30. if【2018-黄浦区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Wildlife Secrets of Nigeria’s Last WildernessResearchers from Chester Zoo, working with the Nigeria National Park Service, surveyed over 1,000 square kilometres of the national park. Known (21) _____ its mountain rainforests and rolling grasslands, it is home to some of West Africa’s most threatened animals.The cameras (22) _____ (spot) some animals that have never been recorded before in the area and others, like chimps（黑猩猩）, (23)_____ are rarely seen. Stuart Nixon, the Africa Field Programme Co-ordinator at Chester Zoo, said confirmation of the locations of chimps was an important discovery. “Gashaka’s been regarded for many years as (24) _____ (have) the biggest population of this Nigeria-Cameroon chimp,” he said. “We consider it the most important population—that’s really (25) _____ we need to count it and see what the status of the chimp is right now—that will eventually affect what we know about this subspecies elsewhere.”The chimp (26) _____ (endanger) across its range in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its total population is down to fewer than 9,000 individuals, of which about 1,000 are thought (27) _____ (live) within the borders of the national park. “It’s an amazing tool to use these camera traps and toreveal that this park—which is a (28) _____ (forget) wilderness, really, for Nigeria—still has a really important store of important species for Nigeria and Africa in general,” said Stuart Nixon.Chester Zoo is funding guards for the rangers and providing training in wildlife monitoring and protection. “This work is helping us learn more about the secrets of one of our last wilderness areas and we must continue to work together to ensure (29) _____ survival for future generations,” said Stuart Nixon, “(30) _____ all this beauty were lost, it would be a terrible tragedy for all.”21. for22. spotted23. which24. having25. why 26. is endangered27. to live28. forgotten29. its30. If【2018-嘉定区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Stephen Hawking: Science’s Brightest StarHis family released a statement in the early hours of Wednesday morning confirming his deathat his home in Cambridge.Hawking’s children, Lucy, Robert and Tim, said in a statement: “We are deeply saddened thatour beloved father passed away today. He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man (21)______ work and legacy will live on for many years.”For fellow scientists and loved ones, it was Hawking’s intuition and wicked sense of humor (22)______ marked him out as much as the fierce intellect that, coupled with his illness, came to symbolize (23)______ unbounded possibilities of the human mind.Hawking was driven to Wagner, but not the bottle, when he (24)______ (diagnose) with motor neurone disease in 1963 at the age of 21. Doctors expected him (25)______ (live) for only two more years. But Hawking had a form of the disease that progressed more slowly than usual. He survivedfor more than half a century.Hawking once estimated he worked only 1,000 hours during his three undergraduate years at Oxford. In his finals, he came close (26) ______ a first-and second-class degree. (27)______ (convince) that he was seen as a difficult student, he told his examiners that if they gave him a firsthe would move to Cambridge to pursue his PhD. Award a second and he threatened to stay. They opted for a first.Those who live in the shadow of death are often those who live most. For Hawking, the early diagnosis of his terminal disease, and (28) ______ (witness) the death from leukemia of a boy he knew in hospital, aroused a fresh sense of purpose. “(29) ______ there was a cloud hanging over my future, I found, to my surprise, that I was enjoying life in the present more than before. I began to make progress with my research,” he once said. Taking up his career in earnest, he declared: “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is (30)______ it is and why it exists at all.”21.whose22. that23. the24. was diagnosed25. to live 26. between27. Convinced28. witnessing29.Although/ though/While30. what/as【2018-金山区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.I was eighteen, summer fading, when my parents drove me to my university apartment. It wasmy first apartment. ___21___ (walk) my parents solemnly back to their car, I noticed that my mother had tears in her eyes. I ___22___ (struggle) to hold back my own. Such a strong woman wasshe ___23___ it was rare to see such a show of emotion. At the time, I was rather surprised. Beingthe youngest of five children, I thought that my parents were accustomed to ___24___ (let) go. But maybe it’s something that never gets any easier, ___25___ _______ _______ many practice swingsyou get. As my parents drove off, I realized that they would return to an empty home, ___26___ allof their children leaving to pursue dreams and lives of their own. Their nest, full of love and joy forso long, was now empty. Relishing ( 憧憬) my new-found freedom, I concentrated on my college life. My parents did their best to give me space to learn and grow, even if I neglected to call or visit.It was a time of “firsts,” and a taste of first “lasts.”I have recently been playing Travel Frog, a mobile game that has me emotionally ___27___ (influence). In the game you gather resources, send your frog on his adventures and your payoff is,*drum roll please* ... postcards. That’s right, postcards. I thought it was a silly, overly-simplistic game at first, but then it started to bring back memories from long ago.While the game lacks the narrative detail or the interactivity of other games, you have a lesson___28___ (learn) from your itinerant ( 四处奔波的) “Frog Son”. You do not control when hesets off on his adventures, ___ 29___ can you be sure that your hard work will land you a coveted ( 梦寐以求的) postcard. This game, however, has emotionally affected many players. They ___30___ (remind) of their parents who restlessly await their return home, their familiar voices, their love. Parents sacrifice a large part of themselves for their children. It is a sacrifice that can only be paid back with love.21. Walking22. struggled23. that24. letting28. to learn25. no matter how26. with27. influenced29. nor30. are reminded / have been reminded【2018-静安区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutionsto junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason why a lot ofour bad habits are so hard to break – they get （21）______(wire) into our brains."Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting against the power of an immediate reward," says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and an authority on the brain's pleasure pathway."We all as creatures are behaving that way, to give greater value to an immediate reward as opposed to (22)______ is delayed," V olkow says.How this bit of happiness turns into a habit involves a pleasure-sensing chemical named dopamine. It causes the brain (23)______(pursue) that reward again and again strengthening the connection each time – especially when it gets the right hint from your environment.People tend to overestimate their ability to resist temptations around them, thus (24)______(destroy) attempts to give up bad habits. Even scientists who recognize it (25)______ showweakness. "I know popcorns are not healthy. But every time I go to the cinema, I have to eat it,"V olkow says，"It's fascinating."A movement to pay people for behavior changes may exploit that connection, as some companies offer employees outright payments or insurance reduction for adopting better habits.(26)______well paying for behavior plays out, researchers say there are still some steps that may help fight your brain's hold (27)______ newly-established habits:Repeat, repeat, repeat the new behavior – the same routine at the same time of day. You decide to exercise. Doing it at the same time of the morning, rather than fitting it in casually, (28)______ (make) the striatum(终脑皮层)recognize the habit. Therefore, if you don’t keep doing it, you will feel frustrated.Exercise itself raises dopamine levels, so eventually your brain will get a feel-good hit (29)______ ______ your muscles protest.Besides, try to reward yourself with (30)______ that you really desire. For instance, if you exercise all week or stick to your diet, you could try a fancy restaurant - safer perhaps than a box of cookies because the price inhibits the quantity.21-wired 22. what 23. to pursue 24. destroying 25. can 26. However 27. on 28. makes 29. even if/even though 30. something【2018-闵行区，松江区-二模】Directions: 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.Aunt Jane is now well over seventy, but she is still a great cinema-goer. The cinema in our town closed down years ago and sometimes she has to travel twenty miles or more to see a good film. And once a month at least she goes up to London to see (21)________(late) foreign films. Of course she could see most of these films on television, but the idea does not attract her. “It isn’t the same,” she says. “For one thing, the screen’s too small. Besides, I like going to the cinema!”However, one thing which has always puzzled us is that (22)________ Aunt Jane has lots of friends and enjoys company, she always goes to the cinema alone. We discovered the reason for this only recently—from Mother. “It may surprise you to learn that Aunt Jane wanted to be an actress when she was young,” she told us. “She used to wait outside film studios all day, just(23)________(appear) in crowd scenes. Your aunt has probably appeared in dozens of films. Sometimes she did not even know the name of the film they (24)________(make). Therefore, she couldn’t go to see (25)________ in the film at the cinema!“All the time, of course, she was looking for a small part in a film. Her big chance came (26)________ they started to make a film in our town. Jane managed to meet the director at a party and he offered her (27)________ role as a shopkeeper. It really was a very small part, but it was an important moment for Jane. Before the great event, she rehearsed for days. In fact, she turned the sitting-room into a shop! We all had to help, going to and out of the shop (28)_______ she could remember her words perfectly. And (29)________ the actual day she was marvelous. Jane thought that this was the beginning of her film career!“Unfortunately, in the end, they did not include the shop scene in the film. But nobody told Jane! When the film first appeared in London, she took all her friends to see it. And of course she wasn’t in it! It was a terrible blow! She stopped (30)________(go) to film studios and gave up the idea of becoming an actress. She still loves the cinema, as you all know, but from that day she has always gone alone!”21. the latest22. though23. to appear24. were making25. herself26. when27. a28. until29. on30. going【2018-浦东区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into the London Zoo that a wild puma (21)______(spot) forty miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts decided to investigate.The hunt (22)______ the puma began in a small village where a woman (23)______(pick) blackberries saw “a large cat” only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being (24)______ it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at (25)______ place twenty miles away in the evening. (26)______ it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Several people complained of “cat-like noises” at night and a businessman on a (27)______(fish) trip saw the puma up a tree.The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, (28)______ where had it come from? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one (29)______ have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks,but the puma was not caught.It is disturbing (30)______(think) a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.21. had been spotted22. for23. picking24. unless26. Wherever27. fishing28. but29. must30. to think【2018-普陀区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Jim ThompsonJim Thompson’s life story is one of success, achievement, and finally mystery because no one knows how it ended.Thompson was born in Delaware (21) _____ the east coast of the United States in 1906. After finishing high school, Thompson went to Princeton University and later studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, Jim Thompson worked as an architect in New York City until 1940. Not long after this, he volunteered (22) _____ (serve) in the U.S. Army. During World War II, Thompson gathered intelligence for the army in Thailand. It was this first taste of life in the Far East (23) _____ changed Thompson’s life. He saw opportunities to develop tourism there, becoming (24) _____ (involve) in an ambitious scheme to restore the Oriental Hotel.While the hotel plan fell through, by that time Thompson had hit upon another scheme that would eventually make him a millionaire. While traveling around Thailand, he came across (25) _____ he considered exquisite (精美的) samples of handwoven Thai silk, a product that (26) _____ (become) rare. He persuaded the weavers to work with him and marketed the silk in New York, (27) _____ it became very popular. As a consequence, the Thai silk industry was revived (复兴) and the business made Thompson and some of the weavers very wealthy.With his success in the silk business, Jim Thompson continued his original interest in architecture on the side. He found six traditional Thai houses and had (28) _____ brought to Bangkok and reassembled there as one magnificent house. Today, not only is it a beautiful house inside and out, (29) _____ it is also filled with the works of art Thompson collected.In 1967 during a holiday in Malaysia, he went for a walk in the Jungle and disappeared forever. To this day, no clues (30) _____ (find) as to what happened to this wealthy American businessman who is credited with single–handedly reviving the Thai silk industry.21. on22. to serve23. that24. involved25. what26. had become 27. where 28. them 29. but 30. have been found【2018-青浦区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.The kindness of Kiwi Lotto (乐透彩票) winnersWe’ve all dreamed of winning the Lotto but what actually happens when our numbers come up? The answer is rather heart-warming. New research out today from Lotto New Zealand reveals three-quarters of Powerball winners think of sharing (21) ______ spending.One lucky Powerball winner from Tauranga was even thinking of others before his numbers came up. “A week before I won Lotto, I saw an ambulance (22) ______ side bore the name of the donor, and I thought, ‘if I ever win Lotto, that’s what I will do’ and then 10 days’ later I won,” he said. Having won $5.5 million dollars, he’s now spending a part of the money on two ambulances for his local hospital. “They’re going to say ‘(23) ______ (donate) by a Lotto winner’ on the side. I hope that it will inspire others to pay it forward if they ever find (24) ______ in a fortunate position like I have.”“My life (25) ______ (save) many years ago by a St John ambulance and it’s a marvellous feeling repaying back that kindness.” It was this kind of behaviour (26) ______ led to Lotto NZ’s inspiring true story of a Kiwi man who won $15 million and, honouring a promise made long ago, went halves with his mate.2017 was the (27) ______ (lucky) year on record for Powerball winners. “Last year, there were 19 different Powerball winners — (28) ______ most of them had in common was the desire to share their good fortune.” said Emilia Mazur, General Manager Corporate Communications.“Another Tauranga man won $10 million with Powerball in July and once he got over the shock of winning, his first thought was his community and he has since shared some of his winnings to upgrade its facilities.”Group players are natural sharers — not only (29) ______ they share the winnings among themselves but they also then want to help outothers.“Everyone is just so happy, it’s created an amazing sense of freedom.” said one of the group leaders Tina. “For me personally, (30) ______ (know) how much of a significant difference you have made to your family and your circle of friends, I have a feeling that I have never experienced. It’s an unquantifiable feeling — it’s magic.”。
2018届上海市各区高三英语二模试卷题型分类专题汇编--语法填空--学生版(已经校对)
II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?Booklovers, most of them, will tell you (21)______ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend – the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel (22)____ ____ you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn’t lend it out.But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to have their latest literary enthusiasm (23)_____ (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can. You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, (24)______ (use) any device with the Barnes & Noble e-book reader software. It’s a big improvement from previous e-book readers.The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is (25)______ on the lower part of the device there’s a color touch screen, (26)______ allows you to browse through a book or magazine, but goes black when you’re not using it so that you save power.(27)______ exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection (28)______ (read) whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s competitors can come close to this.But the Nook, ironically, (29)______ (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes and Noble, or at least a job-loser for Barnes and Noble’s employees. According to Marian Maneker at The Big Money Website, (30)______ the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.Ⅱ. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Wildlife secrets of Nigeria's last wildernessResearchers from Chester Zoo, working with the Nigeria National Park Service, surveyed over 1,000 square kilometres of the national park. Known （21）__ __ its mountain rainforests, savannah woodlands and rolling grasslands, it is home to some of West Africa's most endangered animals.The cameras (22) (spot) some animals that have never been recorded before in the area and others, like chimps, (23) are rarely seen. Stuart Nixon, the Africa Field Programme Co-ordinator at Chester Zoo, said confirmation of the locations of chimps was an important discovery." Gashaka's been regarded for many years as (24)_____ (have) the biggest population of this Nigeria-Cameroon chimp, which is the rarest chimp subspecies," he said." We consider it the most important population - that's really (25)_______we need to count it and see what the status of the chimp is right now - that will ultimately affect what we know about this subspecies elsewhere."The chimp (26)_______(endanger) across its range in Cameroon and Nigeria. Its total population is down to fewer than 9,000 individuals, of which about 1,000 are thought (27)________(live) to live within the borders of the national park. "It's an incredible tool to use these camera traps and to reveal that this park - which is a (28)______(forget)forgotten wilderness, really, for Nigeria - still has a really important reservoir of important species for Nigeria and Africa in general," said Stuart Nixon.Chester Zoo is funding guards for the rangers and providing training in wildlife monitoring and protection. "This work is helping us learn more about the secrets of one of our last wilderness areas and we must continue to work together to ensure (29)________survival for future generations. "(30)_________ all this beauty were lost it would be a terrible tragedy for all."II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into the London Zoo that a wild puma (21)_______ (spot) forty miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts decided to investigate.The hunt (22)_______ the puma began in a small village where a woman (23)_______ (pick) blackberries saw “a large cat” only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being (24)________ it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at (25)_______ place twenty miles away in the evening. (26)_______ it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Several people complained of “cat-like noises” at night and a businessman on a (27)_______ (fish) trip saw the puma up a tree.The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, (28)_______ where had it come from?As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one (29)_______ have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing (30)_______(think) a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.Ⅱ. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.A Great FriendshipThomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776. Could it have been any other year? Theyworked together and started to further American Revolution and later to shape the official new plan of the government.(21)_______ (develop) a close friendship, which lasted for 50 years. There were(22)_______ (share) purposes and a common end on both sides. Four and a half months(23)_______ he died, when he was ill and worried about his family, Jefferson wrote to his longtime friend. His words and Madison's reply remind us that friends are friends till death."The friendship which (24)________ (exist)between us for half a century, the harmony of our political principles an pursuits have been sources of constant happiness to me through that long period. it's also been a great comfort to me (25)_______ (believe)that you are engaged in vindicating(证实)to the younger generation the course that we've pursued for preserving to them. If ever the earth has noticed a system of administration conducted with (26)_______ single and keen eye to the general interest and happiness of those committed to, it must be the system protected by truth, to (27)_______ our lives have been devoted. To myself, you have been a great supporter throughout life. Take care of me when dead and be assured that I should leave with you my last affections.”A week later, Madison replied.“You cannot look back (28)_______ the long period of our private friendship and political harmony with more affecting recollections than I do. (29)_______ they are a source of pleasure to you, they are the same to me. We cannot be deprived(失去)of the happy consciousness of the pure devotion to the public good and I have confidence (30)_______ sufficient evidence will find its way to another generation to ensure, after we are gone, whatever of justice may be withheld while we are here.”II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Traveling Frog Stimulates ReflectionA free mobile game about a traveling frog has become a hit in China, (21)________ being available only in Japanese.Called “Tabikaeru: Travel Frog”, the main characte r of the game is a frog that goes on adventures around Japan. Players collect clovers(四叶草) that grow in the frog’s garden (22)________ ________ they can use them to buy supplies for the frog’s journeys. In turn, the frog sends players souvenirs and snapshots from its travels. Users cannot control when the frog chooses to go on its adventures.While news of the game’s appeal among mobile phone users on the mainland was first reported on by local media outlets last week, its popularity hasn’t decreased in any way since: “Travel Frog” on Monday was still ranked first on a list of the most (23)__________(download) games from Apple’s app store in China. It is being widely discussed on social media, (24)__________ users post photos of their frogs’ adventures.Behind the craze is Japanese game developer Hit-Point, which was previously best-known for creating the popular cat-collecting game “Neko Atsume”. Even though (25)__________ is difficult to pinpoint what has driven interest among mainland users in “Travel Frog”, local media outlets reported that the game’s slow natur e was part of its charm.The game was popular as it “tapped the trend among younger generations in China to search out ‘Zen-like’ activities”, China Daily said, (26)_________(add) that those users were taken with its “Buddha-style gameplay”.But not everyone is thrilled about “Travel Frog”. In a post on social media platform Weibo last week, the state-run People’s Daily suggested that people (27)__________ aim to enrich themselves and “avoid being a lonely frog-raising youth”.As an indication of the popularity of the “Travel Frog”, Apple has already had to remove from its store an app that appeared to be the Chinese version of the original, the South China Morning Post reported. That version of the game, which (28)__________(create) by a developer called Song Yang, charged users 30 yuan ($4.74) to download the game. On Monday, another free-to-download app available on the app store claimed it offered strategies and guides in Chinese that players could adopt (29)___________(improve) gameplay.While Hit-Point has not responded to inquiries about (30)_________ it intends to develop versions of the game in other languages or not, the company did put out an English update for “Neko Atsume” in 2015.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Aunt Jane is now well over seventy, but she is still a great cinema-goer. The cinema in our town closed down years ago and sometimes she has to travel twenty miles or more to see a good film. And once a month at least she goes up to London to see (21)________ (late) foreign films. Of course she could see most of these films on television, but the idea does not attract her. "It isn't the same," she says. "For one thing, the screen's too small. Besides, I like going to the cinema!"However, one thing which has always puzzled us is that (22)________ Aunt Jane has lots of friends and enjoys company, she always goes to the cinema alone. We discovered the reason for this only recently-from Mother. "It may surprise you to lean that Aunt Jane wanted to be an actress when she was young, "she told us. "She used to wait outside film studios all day, just (23)__________ (appear)in crowd scenes. Your aunt has probably appeared in dozens of films. Sometimes she did not even know the name of the film they(24)__________ (make). Therefore, she couldn't go to see(25)__________ in the film at the cinema!"All the time, of course, she was looking for a small part in a film. Her big chance came (26)_________ they started to make a film in our town. Jane managed to meet the director at a party and he offered her (27)__________ role as a shopkeeper. It really was a very small part, but it was an important moment for Jane. Before the great event, she rehearsed for days. In fact, she turned the sitting-room into a shop! We all had to help, going to and out of the shop (28)__________ she could remember her words perfectly And(29)__________ the actual day she was marvelous. Jane thought that this was the beginning of her film career!"Unfortunately, in the end, they did not include the shop scene in the film. But nobody told Jane! When the film first appeared in London, she took all her friends to see it. And of course she wasn't in it! It was a terrible blow! She stopped (30)_________ (go)to film studios and gave up the idea of becoming an actress. She still loves the cinema, as you all know, but from that day she hasalways gone alone!"II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Time to End LonelinessUS author Henry Rollins once wrote: "Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better. Indeed, in the eyes of artists, loneliness never seems to go out of style. There are paintings that portray loneliness, songs that (21)_______ (inspire) by loneliness, and many works of literature that center around this theme.In the eyes of UK economist Rachel Reeves, however, loneliness is far from romantic. Instead, it's a "giant evil" that's become a serious problem in the country.On Jan 17, UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed politician Tracey Crouch as the country’s very first "Minister for Loneliness". Her job is(22)______ (deal) with the loneliness that the country's been feeling—a problem which, according to UK government research, is affecting more than 9 million people in the country, and (23)______be more harmful to one's physical and mental health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.Back in 2014, the UK was given the title of the "loneliness capital of Europe" by The Telegraph. A survey carried out by the newspaper found that British people were (24)______ (likely) to get to know their neighbors or build strong relationships with people than those from other European countries.But this doesn't mean it is the problem (25)_____ (affect) Britons only. In fact, were all suffering from loneliness now more than ever, in spite of most of the world now being linked to the internet, (26)______ has enabled us to be more connected than ever.(27)________ we need, according to Kim Leadbetter, sister of the late UK politician Jo Cox, is to have "proper human connections"."Our lives nowadays are so busy. We spend the vast majority of our time on our phones, on our laptops. (28)_______ _______ _______ busy we are, we need to press pause on that andactually sit down and speak to human beings," Leadbetter said at an event last year.But the first steps toward (29)_______ (fight) this problem are to accept its existence and not be ashamed or frightened by it. After all, (30)______ loneliness, many beautiful paintings, songs, and literary works wouldn't even exist. Whether it is "evil" or not, being lonely is simply part of the experience of being human.II. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.Uh-oh, the new year's just begun and already you're finding it hard to keep those resolutions to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There's a biological reason why a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break – they get (21)_______ (wire) into our brains."Why are bad habits stronger? You're fighting against the power of an immediate reward," says Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and an authority on the brain's pleasure pathway."We all as creatures are hard-wired that way, to give greater value to an immediate reward as opposed to (22)________ is delayed," Volkow says.How this bit of happiness turns into a habit involves a pleasure-sensing chemical named dopamine. It causes the brain (23)_______ (pursue) that reward again and again strengthening the connection each time – especially when it gets the right cue from your environment.People tend to overestimate their ability to resist temptations around them, thus (24)________ (destroy) attempts to shed bad habits. Even scientists who recognize it (25)_______ show weakness. "I know popcorns are not healthy. But every time I go to the cinema, I have to eat it," Volkow says. "It's fascinating."A movement to pay people for behavior changes may exploit that connection, as some companies offer employees outright payments or insurance rebates for adopting better habits.(26)______ well paying for behavior plays out, researchers say there are still some steps thatmay help fight your brain's hold (27)_______ newly-established habits:Repeat, repeat, repeat the new behavior –the same routine at the same time of day. You decide to exercise. Doing it at the same time of the morning, rather than fitting it in casually, (28)_______(make) the striatum(终脑皮层) recognize the habit, "if you don't keep doing it, you will feel frustrated.Exercise itself raises dopamine levels, so eventually your brain will get a feel-good hit (29)_______ your muscles protest。
2018届上海市各区高三英语二模试题汇编：阅读理解A篇（带答案已经校对）
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 just read.(A)William Herschel was born on November 15th, 1738 in Hanover in a family of musicians. In 1757, he fled to England and began earning a living as an organist and later composer and conductor. In 1772, he convinced his sister Caroline to join him as a singer. In their spare time the brother-sister team became occupied in astronomy. William died at his home in Slough, near Windsor on August 25th,1822, and Caroline on September 1st,1848.Herschel’s first major discoveries were to show that Mars and Jupiter exhibit axialrotation (绕轴自转). Herschel struck fame in 1781, when on March 13th, he discovered the planet Uranus (天王星) while engaged in work aimed at determining stellar parallax (恒星视差). This being the first new planet discovered since ancient times, Herschel, until then a mere amateur astronomer relatively unknown even in England, became world-famous. Adopting a historically proven strategy, Herschel named the new planet Georgium Sidum, in honor of the then ruling English king George III. The trick worked once again, as King George III gave William and Caroline the titles of ―The King’s Astronomer‖ and ―Assistant to the King’s Astronomer‖, an honor which came with a life’s pension for both. In 1782 they moved to Bath, and shortly thereafter to S lough, and from this point on William and Caroline could devote themselves entirely to astronomy. The Herschels went on to discover two moons of Uranus in 1787.While Caroline became increasingly occupied with the search for comets at which she was quite s uccessful, William became for a time interested in the Sun. Inspired by Wilson’s 1774 work, he put forth the theory of sunspot, an opinion that continued to exist well into the nineteenth century. In 1800, he became interested in the solar spectrum (太阳光谱), and uncovered the first evidence for solar energy output outside of the visible spectrum, in what is now known as the infrared(红外线). In 1801, he published two papers that effectively started the field of solar influences on Earth’s weather.56.Herschel made himself known to the world mainly by __________.A. discovering the planet UranusB. determining stellar parallaxC. discovering two moons of UranusD. uncovering the evidence for the infrared57. It can be inferred from the passage that George III __________.A. liked science and technologyB. liked Herschel’s naming of the new planetC. was interested in astronomyD. gave Herschel a lot of useful suggestions58. What do we know about Caroline from the passage?A. She was successful in music.B. She was titled ―The King’s Astronomer‖.C. She died later than her brother.D. She published two papers.59. This passage mainly tells readers .A. some information about Herschel and his sisterB. how Herschel and his sister discovered the planet UranusC. Herschel and Caroline got along well with each otherD. Herschel and Caroline’s major scientific publicationsKeys: 56-59: A B C ASection 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 just read.(A)The cold northern wind here in the streets of Petersburg strengthens my nerves and fills me with delight. I cannot think of the Pole as cold and empty;in my imagination it is a region of beauty and delight. Who knows what strange landscapes and creatures we may find there. I shall satisfy my curiosity with the sight of an unknown part of the world-and walk where no man has before.Thinking of it, I feel the same joy a child feels when he sails his little boat on a voyage ofdiscovery up his native river.This voyage was the favorite dream of my early years. My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading. Uncle Thomas's library contained only books about exploration, which I read day and night. Finally my thoughts comes to the idea of making a voyage of discovery.Six years have passed since I decided on the present voyage. I can, even now, remember the hour when I committed myself to this great enterprise. I began by making my body used to hardship. I went on whale hunting voyages to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, hunger, thirst, and lack of sleep. I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day. Then, at nights, I studied mathematics, the theory of medicine,and sciences of practical importance for a seagoing adventurer. Twice I took jobs as an officer on a Greenland whaling ship. I felt a little proud when my captain asked me to remain with the ship, so valuable did he consider my services. And now, do I not deserve to achieve some great task? My life might have been passed in ease and comfort, but I preferred glory to every pleasure that wealth placed in my path.56.What does the author think of the Pole?A.It reminds him of his childhood.B. It must be a region full of surprises.C. It would fulfil his dream to be an adventurer.D. It's too cold a destination with almost nothing.57. To realize his childhood dream, the author got _______.A. physically prepared by experiencing great sufferingB. spiritually prepared by gaining captain's recognitionC. academically prepared by reading books on explorationD. financially prepared by serving on a whale hunting ship.58. According to the passage, the author is definitely a person full of _______.A. curiosityB. fancyC. perseveranceD.prideKeys:56-58: CACSection CDirections：Read the passage carefully. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.(A)In 1982, I had responsibility for Stephen Hawking’s third academic book for the Press, Superspace and Supergravity. This was a messy collection of papers from a technical workshop on how to devise a new theory of gravity. While that book was in production, I suggested he try something easier: a popular book about the nature of the Universe, suitable for the general market.Stephen hesitated over my suggestion. He already had an international reputation as a brilliant theoretical physicist working on rotating black holes and theories of gravity. And he had concerns about financial matters: importantly, it was impossible for him to obtain any form of life insurance to protect his family in the event of his death or becoming totally dependent on nursing care. So, he took precious time out from his research to prepare the rough draft of a book.At the time, several bestselling physics authors had already published non-technical books on the early Universe and black holes. Stephen decided to write a more personal approach, by explaining his own research in cosmology and quantum theory.One afternoon, in the 1980s, he invited me to take a look at the first draft, but first he wanted to discuss cash. He told me he had spent considerable time away from his research, and that he expected advances and royalties(定金和版税) to be large. When I pressed him on the market that he foresaw, he insisted that it be on sale, up front, at all airport bookshops in the UK and the US. I told that was a tough call for a university press. Then I thumbed the typescript. To my dismay, the text was far too technical for a general reader.A few weeks later he showed me a revision, much improved. Eventually, he decided to place it with a mass market publisher rather than a university press. Bantam published A Brief History of Time in March 1988. Sales took off like a rocket, and it ranked as a bestseller for at least five years. The book’s impact on the popularization of science has been incalculable.56. What suggestion did the writer give to Stephen Hawking?A. Simplifying Superspace and Supergravity.B. Formulating a new theory of gravity.C. Writing a popular book on the nature of the universe.D. Revising a book based on a new theory.57. Which of the following was Stephen Hawking most concerned about?A. Financial returns.B. Other competitors.C. Publishing houses.D. His family’s life insurance.58. The underlined word ―thumbed‖ is closest in meaning to _______.A. praisedB. typedC. confirmedD. browsed59. The greatest contribution of the book A Brief History of Time lies in _______.A. bringing him overnight fame in the scientific worldB. keeping up the living standard of his familyC. making popular science available to the general publicD. creating the rocketing sales of a technical bookKeys:56-59 CADCSection 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 just read.(A)Warning from ExpertsA growing amount of human- made orbital debris(太空轨道残骸)---from rocket stages and out-of-date satellites---- is circling the Earth. Scientists say the orbital debris, better known as space junk, poses an increasing threat to space activities. ―This is a growing environmental problem,‖said Nicholas Johnson, the chief scientist and program manager for orbital debris at NASA(美国航空航天局) in Houston, Texas.Johnson and his team have developed a computer model capable of simulating past and future amounts of space junk. The model predicts that even without future rocket or satellite launches, the amount of debris in low orbit around Earth will steady through 2055, after which it will increase. While current efforts have focused on limiting future space junk, these scientists say removing large pieces of old space junk will soon be necessary.Since the first launch of satellite in 1957, humans have been generating space junk. The U.S. Space Surveillance Network is currently tracking over 13,000 human-made objects larger than tencentimeters in diameter orbiting the Earth. ―Of the 13,000 objects, over 40 percent came from breakups of both spacecraft and rocket bodies,‖ Johnson said. In addition, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller objects in space. These include everything from pieces of plastic to bits of paint. Much of this smaller junk has come from exploding rocket stages. Stages are sections of a rocket that have their own fuel or engines.These objects travel at speeds over 35,000 kilometers an hour. At such high speed, even small junk can tear holes in a spacecraft or disable a satellite by causing electrical shorts that result from clouds of superheated gas.Johnson believes it may be time to think about how to remove junk from space. Previous proposals range from sending up spacecrafts to grab junk and bring it down to using lasers to slow an objects orbit to cause it to fall back to Earth more quickly. Given current technology, those proposals appear neither technically nor economically practical, ―Space j unk is like any environmental problem,‖ Johnson admits. ―I t’s growing. If you don’t deal with it now, it will only become worse, and the solutions in the future are going to be even more costly.‖56. What is this passage mainly talking about?A. Advanced technology is used to remove space junk.B. NASA is responsible for the environmental problem.C. Cleaning up the space junk is greatly needed.D. Human activities generate much orbital debris.57. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?A. Rocket launches produce more debris than satellite launches.B. Space junk is endangering human beings' space activities.C.It's necessary to clean up the large pieces of old space junk.D. Even a tiny piece of space junk can destroy a spacecraft58. What does John think of the previous proposals to grab space junk and bring it down to the earth?A. Reasonable.B. Unbelievable.C. Reliable.D. Impractical.Keys:56-58 CADSection 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 just read.(A)Have you ever had the experience of talking to someoneand you think they are lying?Well, you are not alone. We’veall had that feeling. But did you know that there are severalthings you can look for to see if you are being lied to?Sometimes you can tell if a person is lying by observing what they do with their body. When people are lying they tend not to move their arms, hands or legs very far from their body. They don’t want to take up very much space because they don’t want to be no ticed. Sometimes a person who is lying will not look you in the eyes. Other times people wholie try to look at you in a strong way because they want to convince you they are tellingthe truth.Liars also use deflection. For example, if you ask a liar the question ―Did you steal Fatima’s bag?‖, they may answer with something like ―Fatima is my friend. Why would Ido that?‖ In this situation the person is telling the truth, but they are also not answeringthe question. They are trying to deflect your attention. Liars may also give too many details. They may try to over-explain things. They do this because they want to convinceyou of what they are saying.Often when a person is lying, they do not want to continue talking about their lie. Ifyou think someone is lying, quickly change the subject. If the person is lying, they will appear more comfortable because they are not talking about their lie any longer. A little later, change the subject back to what you were talking about before. If the person seems uncomfortable again, they may be lying.It’s very hard for a liar to avoid filling silence created by you. He or she wants you to believe the lies being woven; silence gives no feedback on whether or not you’ve boughtthe story. If you’re a good listener, you’ll already be avoiding interruptions, which initself is a great technique to let the story unfold.Just because a person is showing these behaviors, it does not mean they are lying.They might be shy or nervous. But, if you think someone is lying, you might want to usesome of these techniques. Hopefully, you won’t need to very often.56. By saying ―Liars also use deflection‖, the writer means that liars may __________.A. tell great storiesB. change tone of voiceC. ask a question in replyD. avoid direct answers57. According to the passage, a person could be lying if he or she ____________.A. offers more information than necessaryB. appears to be shy or nervousC. changes the subject of the conversationD. speaks very fast and vaguely58. Whichof the following can be learned from the passage?A. Liars always try to avoid direct eye contact when they tell lies.B. We can make people lie by changing the subject in a conversation.C. Liars are often expansive in hand and arm movements while talking.D. We make liars uncomfortable by giving no feedback in a conversation.59. The passage mainly talks about __________.A. who deceives usB. why people tell liesC. how to detect liesD. what to do with liarsKeys:56-59 DADCSection 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 just read.AIf a diver surfaces too quickly, he may suffer the bends. Nitrogen(氦)dissolved in his blood is suddenly liberated by the reduction of pressure. The consequence, if the bubbles accumulate(累积) In a joint,, is sharp pain and a bent body—thus the name. If the bubbles form in his lungs or his brain, the consequence can be death.Other air-breathing animals also suffer this decompression (减压) sickness if they surface too fast: whales, for example. And so, long ago, did ichthyosaurs(鱼龙).That these ancient sea animals got the bends can be seen from their bones. If bubbles of nitrogen form inside the bone they can cut off its blood supply. This kills the cells in the bone, and consequently weakens it, sometimes to the point of collapse. Fossil bones that have caved in on themselves are thus a sign that the animal once had the bends.Bruce Rothschild of the University of Kansas knew all this when he began a study of ichthyosaur bones to find out how widespread the problem was in the past. What he particularly wanted to investigate was how ichthyosaurs adapted to the problem of decompression over the 150 million years. To this end, he and his colleagues traveled the world's natural-history museums, looking at hundreds of ichthyosaurs from the Triassic period and from the later Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.When he started, he assumed that signs of the bends would be rarer in younger fossils, reflecting their gradual evolution of measures to deal with decompression. Instead, he was astonished to discover the opposite. More than 15% of Jurassic and Cretaceous ichthyosaurs had suffered the bends before they died, but not a single Triassic specimen(标本)showed evidence of that sort of injury.If ichthyosaurs did evolve an anti-decompression means, they clearly did so quickly-and, most strangely, they lost it afterwards. But that is not what Dr. Rothschild thinks happened. He suspects it was evolution in other animals that caused the change.Whales that suffer the bends often do so because they have surfaced to escape a predator (掠食性动物) such as a large shark. One of the features of Jurassic oceans was an abundance of large sharks and crocodiles, both of which were fond of ichthyosaur lunches. Triassic oceans, by contrast, were mercifully shark and crocodile-free. In the Triassic, then, ichthyosaurs were top of the food chain. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous, they were prey (猎物)as well as predator—and often had to make a speedy exit as a result.56. Which of the following is a typical symptom of the bends?A. A twisted bodyB. A gradual decrease in blood supply.C. A sudden release of nitrogen in blood.D. A drop in blood pressure57. The purpose of Rothschild's study is to see___.A. how often ichthyosaurs caught the bendsB. how ichthyosaurs adapted to decompressionC. why ichthyosaurs bent their bodiesD. when ichthyosaurs broke their bones58. Rothschild's finding stated in Paragraph 4_____.A. confirmed his assumptionB. speeded up his research processC. disagreed with his assumptionD. changed his research objectives59. Rothschild might have concluded that ichthyosaurs_______.A. failed to evolve an anti-decompression meansB. gradually developed measures against the bendsC. died out because of large sharks and crocodilesD. evolved an anti-decompression means but soon lost itKeys: 56-59 ABCASection 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 just read.AOne Friday morning, before Michael was leaving for work he told his wife that he had finally determined to ask his boss for a salary raise. All day Michael felt nervous and anxious as he thought about the upcoming showdown. What if Mr.Duncan refused to grant his request? Michael had worked so hard in the last 18 months and brought some great benefits to Braer and Hopkins Advertising Agency. Of course, he deserved a wage increase.The thought of walking into Mr. Duncan's office left Michael weak in the knees. Late in the afternoon he was finally courageous enough to approach his superior. To his delight and surprise, the ever- frugal (一惯节省的) Rowland Duncan agreed to give Michael a raise!Michael arrived home that evening-despite breaking all city and state limits-to a beautiful table set with their best china, and candles lit. His wife, Cassie, had prepared a delicate mealincluding his favourite dishes. Immediately he thought someone from the office had tipped her off!Next to his plate Michael found a beautiful lettered note. It was from his wife. It read: "Congratulations, my love! I knew you'd get the raise! I prepared this dinner to show just how much I love you. I am so proud of your accomplishments!" He read it and stopped to think about how sensitive and caring Cassie was.After dinner, Michael was on his way to the kitchen to get dessert when he observed that a second card had slipped out of Cassie's pocket onto the floor. He bent forward to pick it up. It read: "Don't worry about not getting the raise! You do deserve one! You are a wonderful provider and I prepared this dinner to show you just how much I love you even though you did not get the increase."Suddenly tears swelled in Michael's eyes. Total acceptance! Cassie's support for him was not conditional upon his success at work.The fear of rejection is often softened and we can undergo almost any setback or rejection when we know someone loves us regardless of our success or failure.56. What was Michaels plan that Friday?A. To find a job with the Braer and Hopkins Advertising Agency.B. To ask for a wage increase from his boss.C. To celebrate his success.D. To ask his boss to come for dinner.57. On his way back home, Michael______.A. felt weak in the kneesB. was punished by the traffic policemanC. was too anxious to share the news with his wifeD. couldn't wait to enjoy a meal58. Which of the following statements about the story is FALSE?A. Michael was afraid that his request would lead to a disaster.B. Michael had worked very hard and done his part for the company.C. Michael's boss agreed to his request.D. One of Michael's colleagues had told his wife the good news.59. According to the passage, which of the following can best describe Michael's wife, Cassie?A. Passionate, thoughtful and talented.B. Considerate, generous and reliable.C. Decisive, optimistic and energetic.D. Caring, tolerant and supportive.Keys: 56-59 BCDDSection CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.(A)Last October, I was on a diving holid ay in the Philippines with with seven other advanced divers. I dived off the boat, slowly sinking to about 20m.After nearly 45 minutes, the sound of my breathing was drowned out by a low rumble like an engine, and I felt deep, powerful vibrations(震动), as if a big boat with a propeller was passing overhead. The dive instructor's eyes were wide with confusion too. We both swam next to each other, staying close to the side of the reef(礁石). The situation felt sinister.Then we were enveloped by clouds of white sand that mushroomed up around us, Could it be an underwater bomb? A giant turtle raced past us and into the deep; they are normally slow movers, so this was very weird behaviour. The vibration became so intense that I could feel it in my bones, and the sound turned into a deafening roar. Suddenly, a few meters below us, breaks began forming and the sand was sucked down. That's when I realized it was an earthquake. The noise was the sound of the Earth splintering open and grinding against itself.The instructor and I held hands and looked into each other's eyes; I felt comforted by his presence. I was numb(麻木的)for terror but clear-headed. My body went on high alert, ready to react. But I have no power over whatever this is. The only option is to stay very still and let it do whatever it's going to do.It took enormous willpower to resist the urge to swim to the surface, which is not sensible as situation on the surface at that time was ambiguous with potential threats pending. Soon we saw other divers.The sound and vibration lasted only two or three minutes and when they stopped I heard the swoosh of sand falling over the seabed. We all held hands before resurfacing to avoid decompression sickness, which can be fatal. When up,It was a huge relief to see all the divers and we all shared incredulous looksbefore pulling out our breathing apparatus and shouting, "What was that?"Back on the boat, we rushed to check the news and discovered we had witnessed a huge earthquake, measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale. It released more energy than 30 Hiroshima bombs, though it seemed that we were not at at the epicentre(震中). I was high and felt lucky surprisingly not because of my recent survival miracle, but to have experienced nature at its most stunning and its most frightening.56. How did the author realize that they met with an earthquake?A. By feeling the violent shake under the sea.B. By witnessing a normally-slow turtle quickly moving by.C. By seeing the seafloor crack.D. By checking the news and be informed of the event.57. Why didn’t the author rise to the surface before the vibration stopped?A. Because the instructor gestured him not to rise.B. Because he was numb in body.C. Because he could sense the unclear water situation.D. Because he tried to avoid unexpected danger above.58. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. At the beginning of the event, a big boat passed by causing big vibration.B. All the divers used the reef as the protection against the violent vibration.C. I felt relieved as the instructor was experience in handling situations like this.D. Powerless to fight nature, I was tame when under the water.59. Why did the author feel fortunate on the boat?A. Because he was not at the epicenter of the earthquake.B. Because he finally survived a huge earthquake.C. Because he could witness a rare natural phenomenon.D. Because he didn’t suffer from decompression sickness.Keys: 56-59 CCDCSection 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 just read.(A)In the world of higher education in the United States, competition seems more common than schools working together. Every college and university competes for students, as well as the best teachers and money for research programs.But one thing almost every school has in common is the difficulty they face in serving low-income students. The National Center for Education Statistics reports that low-income college students are less likely to complete their study programs than other students.It was only natural that the leaders of Michigan State University and ten other universities discussed this issue when they met in 2014. The 11 schools are spread across the United Sates and serve different populations and needs. But their leaders all saw improving graduation rates for all students as the biggest problem facing American higher education.So the group created an organization called the University Innovation Alliance or UIA for sharing information related to this problem. Its main goal is to get 68,000 more students at the member schools to graduate by 2025, with at least half of those studentsbeing low-income. The 11 schools now say their number of graduates has increased by over 7,200 in just three years. This includes an almost 25 percent increase in the number of low-income graduates.How were they able to make this happen? It began with each university looking at its own situation and finding out what it had been doing right and what it had been doing wrong.For example, before joining the UIA, academic advising at Michigan State mostly involved reacting to problems students faced after the problems had already arisen. Then school officials heard about a computer program that fellow UIA member Georgia State University was using. This computer program follows decisions students make about their classes and the progress they are making in their studies. It then sends academic advisors messages whenever a student shows signs that they are making mistakes or facingdifficulties. Hat way the advisors can try to help students before the problems become too serious. Michigan State began using the computer program and it has meant a world of difference.Michigan States has not only received useful。
2018上海各区高三英语二模——Summary
【2018-宝山区-二模】IV. Summary Writing71. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Screen-addicted teens are unhappyA new study explored the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screen time. Researchers found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices -- playing computer games, using social media, texting and video chatting -- were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports, reading newspapers and magazines, and face-to-face social interaction.Total screen avoidance doesn't lead to happiness either. The greater unhappiness among those with no screen exposure could be due to several factors, Twenge, the leading researcher said. “It could be that they are left out of the social scene of high school, that it’s very difficult to carry on friendships in high school these days without texting at all or being on social media.” It is also possible that those kids are outliers, Twenge said — teens with special needs or in special education, or those whose screens have been taken away from them by parents.The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use. The happiest teens used digital media a little less than an hour per day. But after a daily hour of screen time, unhappiness rises steadily along with increasing screen time, the researchers report in the journal Emotion."Make effort to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media, and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face and exercising --two activities reliably linked to greater happiness." Twenge said."By far the largest change in teens' lives between 2012 and 2016 was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media, and the following decline in in-person social activities and sleep," the leading researcher said. "The arrival of the smartphone is the most reasonable explanation for the sudden decrease in teens' psychological well-being."Researchers found Teens who spent less time in front of screens and more time in non-screen activities were happier. But totally avoiding/breaking away from screens can be unpleasant. Limited use of digital media along with non-screen activities works better. The arrival of smartphones brings about teens’ negative psychological effects.【2018-崇明区-二模】IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do Smartphones Make Us Smarter?Should teachers allow cellphones in a classroom? A recent study on the way smartphones disturb learning might help explain the issue. Researchers published findings showing how students were affected by their phones in the classroom. They explored the differences in student performance in four situations: open phone use allowed, phones allowed in the classroom but could not be used, no phones in the classroom and a no-instruction control group. After watching a 20-minute video, students took a short quiz. The result was that the students in a room without any cellphones performed significantly better on the test. Scientists believe the way we attach ourselves to our phones could be the problem.Smartphones have become so strongly established in society that many people are lost without them. We are now in an age when many people can’t imagine life without a phone. There is even a name for the anxiety caused by not having one—nomophobia, which is the powerful feeling people get when they don’t have signal, their battery is about to die, or they are separated from their phones. Their fear of missing out on important information or connections can have a controlling effect on their lives and can divide their attention from other important things like learning.So does information technology help or block the way we think? In the past, people relied heavily on specific knowledge and knew who in their circle of friends would be most likely to know things in different subjects. Now, our friend with all the information is the Internet. Indications are that people don’t remember information as well if they know they can use a computer or phone to recall it quickly. So it may be more difficult to move information from the Internet into our long-term memory.But the impact of being exposed to so much information isn’t all bad. Reports show that frequent Internet use can strengthen fast-paced problem solving and can speed up the ability to spot patterns in a lot of data.Researchers recently found smartphones influenced learning. For one thing, smartphones have become an essential part of life, without which people feel at a loss, thus distracting their attention from learning. For another, people rely so heavily on smartphones that their long-term memory can be affected. However, having access to a large amount of information also benefits people in some aspects. (60 words)【2018-奉贤区-二模】IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.The sharing economy has grown in recent years to include everything from apartment sharing to car sharing to community tool sharing.Since 2009, a new form of the sharing economy has been emerging in neighbourhoods throughout the US and around the world – Little Free Libraries. The libraries are boxes put in neighbourhoods from which local people can take out and put in books. Little Free Libraries come in all shapes and sizes. Some libraries also have themes, focusing on books for children, adults or tour guides.In 2009, Tod Bol built the first Little Free Library in the Mississippi River town of Hudson,Wisconsin, to honour his mother, who loved reading. When he saw the people of his community gathering around it, exchanging conversation as well as books, he knew he wanted to take his simple idea further.Since then, his idea has become a movement, spreading from state to state and country to country. According to , there are now 18,000 of the little boxes around the world, found in each of the 50 US states and 70 countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.The Internet has helped to spread Little Free Libraries. But an Atlantic article said that they are something different in a world of e-reader downloads. The little wooden boxes are refreshingly physical and human. When you open the door of the box, chance and your neighbours’ tastes determine what you’ll find. You might find a graphic novel, a cookbook or a tour guidebook.For many people, this sense of discovery is Little Free Libraries’ main appeal. “A girl walking home from school might pick up a graphic novel that gets her excited about reading; a man on his way to the bus stop might find a book of poetry that changes his view on life,” said The Atlantic article. “Every book is a potential source of inspiration.”71.Little Free Libraries, composed of all sizes of boxeswith various themes, have sprung up in neighborhoods across the world. Tod Bol established the first one to honor his mother fond ofbooks inside the wooden boxes can make readers excited or change their views etc. by inspiring them.【虹口区-高三英语-二模】IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.71. Clearly if we are to participate in the society in which we live, we must communicate with other people. A great deal of communicating is performed on a person-to-person basis by the simple means of speech. If we travel in buses, buy things in shops, or eat in restaurants, we arelikely to have conversations where we give information or opinions, receive news or comment and very likely have our views challenged by other members of society.Face-to face contact is by no means the only form of communication and during the last two hundred years the art of mass communication has become one of the dominating factors of current society. Two things, above others, have caused the enormous growth of the communication industry. Firstly, inventiveness has led to advances in printing, telecommunications, photography, radio and television. Secondly, speed has revolutionized the transmission and reception of communications so that local news often takes a back seat to national news, which itself is often almost eclipsed (失去优势) by international news.No longer is the possession of information restricted to a wealthy minority. In the last century the wealthy man with his own library was indeed fortunate, but today there are public libraries. Forty years ago, people used to go to the cinema, but now far more people sit at home and turn on the TV to watch a program that is being channeled into millions of homes.Communication is no longer merely concerned with the transmission of information. The modern communication influences the way people live in society and broadens their horizons by allowing access to information, education and entertainment. The printing, broadcasting and advertising industries are all involved with informing, educating and entertaining.The passage talks about some changes of communication. First, the art of mass communicationcommunication. Second, the possession of information belongs to the masses, not wealthy minority only. Third, modern communication is crucial to people’s lifestyle and broadens people’s horizons. (59ws)【2018-黄浦区-高三二模】IV．Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.The Dangerous Downsides of PerfectionismIn one of my earliest memories, I’m drawing. I don’t remember what the picture is supposed to be, but I remember the mistake. My marker slips, an unintentional line appears and my lip trembles. The picture has long since disappeared. But that feeling of deep frustration, even shame, stays with me.That’s the thing about perfectionism, a crucially self-defeating way to move through the world. It makes you better at your career and relationships and life in general. Culturally, we often see perfectionism as a positive.But the disadvantage of perfectionism isn’t just that it holds you back from being your most successful, productive-self. Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to a long list of clinical issues: depression, social anxiety disorder, eating disorders, and most damaging of all, suicide (自杀).“Based upon the 60-odd studies that we’ve done, the higher the perfectionism is, the more psychological disorders you’re going to suffer,” says York St John University’s Hill. “Factors often labeled ‘healthy’ perfectionism, like striving for excellence, aren’t actually perfectionism at all. They’re just conscientiousness (尽职尽责)—which explains why people with those tendencies often have different results in studies. Perfectionism isn’t interpreted by working hard or setting high goals. It’s that critical inner voice.”Take the student who works hard and gets a poor mark. If she tells herself, “I’m disappointed, but it’s okay; I’m still a good person overall,” that’s healthy. If the message is, “I’m a failure. I’m not good enough,” that’s perfectionism.Perfectionists can make smooth sailing into a storm, a brief ill wind into a category-five hurricane.Eventually, the behaviours perfectionists adapt, actually, do make them more likely to fail.Many of us believe perfectionism is a positive. But researchers are finding that it is nothing short of dangerous, leading to a long list of health problems and failure in study or life. Besides, perfectionism is different from conscientiousness in that the former is connected with being particular about oneself.(50 words)【2018-嘉定区-高三二模】Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.The Conflict of the OrdersThe types of people who served as officials in the Roman government changed over time. These changes stemmed from the attempts of common people to more rights. The struggles became known as the Conflict of the Orders.In the early republic, Romans were divided into two classes of people: patricians and plebeians. Patricians were powerful landowners who controlled the government. As nobles, they inherited their power. Plebeians, who made up most of the population, were mainly farmers and workers. For many years, plebeians had few rights. They could vote, but they were barred from holding most public offices. Plebeians could not even know Roman laws because laws were not written down. In court, a judge stated and applied the law, but only patricians served as judges.Over time, plebeians increased their power through demand and strikes. They gained the right to join the army, hold government office, form their own assembly, and elect leaders. In one of their greatest victories, they forced the government to write down the laws of the Roman Republic. In about 450,B.C. the Romans engraved their laws on tablets called the Twelve Tables. The laws were placed in the Forum, the chief public square, for all to view.The first plebeians were appointed to the government in the late 400s B.C. After 342 B.C., a plebeian always held one of the consul positions. By about 300 B.C. many plebeians had become so powerful and wealthy themselves that they joined with patricians to form the Roman nobility. From that time on, the distinction between patricians and plebeians was not as important. Membership in the nobility was still very important, however, since government officials were not paid a salary, only wealthy nobles could afford to hold office. Thus, the nobles still controlled the republic.Romans was made up of two classes: patricians and plebeians. Patricians, the nobles, inherited power and controlled the government while plebeians, the common people, who used to have few rights, gradually gained various rights through struggles. From 300 B.C., the distinction between them was less obvious as many plebeians became nobles, and Rome was still controlled by nobles.【2018-金山区-高三二模】Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.As technology grows, many university instructors are finding ways to guide online learning platforms into their classrooms. Programs such as Blackboard, WebCT and Moodle allow teachers to post reading assignments, PowerPoint presentations, lecture notes and quizzes for students to complete outside of class. While posting lessons online can be friendly to students' communication styles and easily accessible, they also cause disadvantages.One disadvantage is that it may encourage students to depend on technology in the classroom. Instead of physical textbooks, many now bring cellphones to access materials during class discussions. While electronic devices can be valuable learning tools, they also can lead to distractions from learning, such as social networking and online games. It is extremely difficult for students being exposed to multiple electronic tasks to focus or remember key information.A second disadvantage is that online lessons open up potential for cheating. Many instructors require students to complete quizzes, post within discussion groups or submit major assignments online. As a result, there are some students having someone else complete their assignments. A contributing factor is that online assignments are best suitable for those self-motivated, self-directed students. Students who struggle with organization and completing assignments may find it easy to cheat online.In spite of these disadvantages, educators can take steps to make sure students use online lessons responsibly. If instructors are uncomfortable with electronic devices in the classroom, they can require students to print out assignments and readings to reference during sessions. To prevent cheating, teachers can use online assignments as a supplement to traditional in-class work, or create open-ended assignments rather than using assignments like multiple-choice quizzes that have only one right answer. Being familiar with what the platform looks like from a student perspective also can help instructors avoid potential pitfalls.Introducing online learning platform to university classrooms has two disadvantages: students’ dependence on technology in the classroom and possibility for cheating. However, educators can find solutions to the problems. Furthermore, students can be asked to take paper files in class and be given supplementary online homework or open-ended assignment. Teachers’ familiarity with the platform is helpful. (56words)【2018-静安区-二模】Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.African elephants are in trouble. Their numbers have fallen violently from as many as ten million a hundred years ago to as few as 400,000 today. Losses are largely from poaching（偷猎）for the illegal ivory trade, and also because of the smaller living space for elephants, as people open up land for farming and development.Killing some elephants to help save the species is one suggested strategy for preserving them. Here’s the thinking:Invite rich hunters to pay generous fees to shoot specified numbers of elephants, and use that money as sources for various conservations.Some people claim that trophy hunting can provide generous financial support for people to conserve and restore wild elephant numbers, protect wildlife from poaching, and to help give local communities a boost in economy. Doing that, the theory goes, poor villagers won’t need to poach elephants to feed their families.To look into the new business closely, the trophy hunting industry does not provide significant benefits to the communities where it occurs. Across Africa, there are only about 15,000 hunting-related jobs created by the business—a tiny number, especially considering that the six main game-hunting countries alone have a population of nearly 150 million.Besides that, it is true the total income from trophy hunting is substantial. Take an unnamed area for example, the total income to wild conservancies from trophy hunting, amounted to $165,000. Six years later, this is expected to increase almost tenfold to $1,330,000. Yet after various kinds of processing fees and expenses are reduced, the local communities make an average of only ten cents a hectare (25 cents an acre) from trophy hunting. The return is so small that it justly explains locals’ lack of interest in preserving hunting areas and their continued poaching.African elephants are endangered with greatly reduced numbers due to unlawful poaching and shrinking habitat. Trophy hunting, legal elephant shooting for conservation fund, is considered a solution. According to some, it helps maintain elephant population and benefits local economy. However, it turns out the business employs few people and hunt fee trickling down to local villagers and communities is minimal.【2018-闵行松江区-二模】IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main points of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Quiet Virtue: The ConscientiousThe everyday signs of conscientiousness (认真尽责)—being punctual, careful in doing work, self-disciplined, and scrupulous (一丝不苟的) in attending to responsibilities—are typical characteristics of the model organizational citizen, the people who keep things running as they should. They follow the rules, help out, and are concerned about the people they work with. It’s the conscientious worker who helps newcomers or updates people who return after an absence, who gets to work on time and never abuses sick leaves, who always gets things done on deadline.Conscientiousness is a key to success in any field. In studies of job performance, outstanding effectiveness for almost all jobs, from semi-skilled labor to sales and management, depends on conscientiousness. Among sales representatives for a large American car manufacturer, those who were most conscientious had the largest volume of sales.Conscientiousness also offers a buffer (缓冲) against the threat of job loss in today’s constantly changing market, because employees with this quality are among the most valued. For the sales representatives, their level of conscientiousness mattered almost as much as their sales in determining who stayed on.But conscientiousness in the absence of social skills can lead to problems. Since conscientious people demand so much of themselves, they can hold other people to their own standards, and so be overly judgmental when others don’t show the same high levels of model behavior. Factory workers who were extremely conscientious, for example, tended to criticize co-workers even about failures that seemed unimportant to those they criticized, which damaged their relationships.When conscientiousness takes the form of living up to expectations, it can discourage creativity. Success in creative professions like art or advertising calls for a balance between wild ideas and conscientiousness. Without enough conscientiousness to follow through, people become mere dreamers, with nothing to show for their imaginativeness.Conscientiousness is the feature of model organizational employees and keeps the company functioning successfully.Conscientiousness has both advantages and disadvantages.With conscientiousness, employees give outstanding performance, so they are less likely to be jobless.Meanwhile, conscientious people without social skills tend to have tense relationships with their fellow workers and conscientiousness can also damage creativity.【2018-浦东区-高三二模】Ⅳ. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Every time there is a mass shooting, the debate surrounding guns tends to flare up in America. The abuse of guns has been a serious problem in the US all along, but why doesn’t the US government just dismiss owning guns privately?The right to own a gun and defend oneself is central to American society. As early as the 1600s, when the first Europeans set foot on the continent of North America, they had to face a lot of dangers. They could only rely on themselves. Therefore, guns played a significant role in self-defense. Guns were also important in America’s Independent War and the Civil War.Secondly, the American founding fathers believed that gun ownership was necessary for a truly free country. If the government distrusts the people and disarms them, then that government no longer represents the people. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution specifies that the American people cannot be deprived of the“right to keep and bear arms.”So the sale and purchase of firearms are legal in the United States according to law.The importance of guns is also derived from the role of hunting in American culture. In the nation’s early years, hunting was essential for food and shelter. Today, guns are a vital part of hunting, which remains very popular as both a sport and a way of life in many parts of the country. People spend time with friends, sharing the pleasure that the sport brings.For those reasons, when critics say guns mean violence, they miss a large part of the picture, and they misrepresent the complex nature of America’s diverse gun culture. Most people who own guns privately, are actually part of the gun culture. They have rational and thoughtful reasons to own and use guns.The US government doesn’t ban guns for the following reasons. Firstly, guns serve as a means of self-defense. Besides, the possession of a gun is a symbol of freedom. Finally, guns are important because hunting is still popular in people’s life as a sport. Despite the disputes,Americans are entitled to the use of guns.【2018-普陀区-二模】IV. Summary Writing 10%Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Better Memory Causes BoredomA new study shows that the better your short-term memory, the faster you feel fed up and decide you’ve had enough. The findings appear in the Journal of Consumer Research.Noelle Nelson, assistant professor of marketing and consumer behavior at the University of Kansas School of Business. She and her colleague Joseph Redden at the University of Minnesota tried to think outside the lunch box. “Something that was interesting to me is that some people get tired of things at very different rates. When you think about pop songs on the radio, some people must still be enjoying them and requesting them even after hearing them a lot. But a lot of other people are really sick of those same songs.” The difference, the researchers supposed, might have to do with memories of past consumption.The researchers tested the memory capacity of undergraduates. The students then viewed a repeating series of three classic paintings…like The Starry Night, American Gothic, and The Scream…or listened and re-listened to a series of three pop songs…or three pieces of classical music. Throughout the test, the participants were asked to rate their experience on a scale of zero to ten. And the better a participant scored in the memory test, the faster they got bored.“We found that people with larger capacities remembered more about the music or art, which led to them getting tired of the music or art more quickly. So remembering more details actually made the participants feel like they’d experienced the music or art more often.” The findings suggest that marketers could cope with our desire for their products by figuring out ways to distract us and keep us from fully remembering our experiences. We could also trick ourselves into eating less junk food by recalling the experience of a previous snack. As for kids easily bored, just tell them to forget about it—it might help them have more fun.A study shows if a person has a good short-term memory he is likely to feel bored quickly. Assuming memories of past experience may influence the different rates at which some people feel fed up, two researchers conducted a test, relating students’ memory capacity to their performance, and got the result. The findings may apply to marketing, self-controlling and educating.【2018-青浦区-二模】IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Ban the Bag!Standing in line at the grocery store last week, I watched the woman in front of me buy a tube of toothpaste. As the clerk placed her purchase in a plastic bag, I couldn’t help wondering how long it would take for that bag to end up in the trash.Then I noticed the big purse the woman was carrying and wondered why she had needed a plastic bag at all.People have come to rely on plastic bags as everything from shopping bags for groceries to trash-can bags. Although plastic bags can be recycled, only about one percent of those used in the United States are. Instead, after helping people transport items from one place to another, most are thrown away. They end up in landfills, where it can take a plastic bag up to a thousand years to decay. Some bags end up elsewhere in the environment, sticking to trees and fences, blocking rivers and oceans, or floating along city sidewalks.Plastic bags harm the environment in several ways. First, they break down into particles that pollute our soil and water. Because most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, a product derived from crude oil (原油) or natural gas, they waste nonrenewable resources. Plastic bags can also harm animals. Scientists estimate that more than one million sea animals, including whales, seabirds, and turtles, die each year from intaking or becoming stranded in plastic.People all over the world are starting to recognize the problems associated with plastic bags.Countries such as China, South Africa, Switzerland, and Uganda are taking action and banning the bags. Other nations, including Italy and Ireland, have been trying to restrict the use of plastic bags by taxing them. In the United States more and more communities are ridding themselves of plastic bags. Now more and more people are also purchasing inexpensive, reusable bags and using them when they shop.If we all take this simple step, we can be a part of a “green” revolution.Plastic bags are widely applied in day-to-day deals, but very few of them are properly recycled, harming the environment greatly. They could pollute or waste resources and cause harm to animals. Thankfully, many countries have become aware of the seriousness, limiting or banning the use of them. More individuals are joining in the campaign for an environmentally-friendly。
2018年上海各区高三英语二模——语法填空
【2018-宝山区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.How Much of the Jetsons' World Has Become a Reality?For most of our readers, The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name. However, for manyAmericans born in or before the 1980s, it is a name we fondly remember. The Jestsons was apopular cartoon that featured a family living in an advanced world (21)______people settle inhouses built in the sky, work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flyingsaucers. While sky-high houses and three-day workweeks don‘ｔappear to be on the horizon, othervisions of the future (22)______(turn) into practical realities.Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades. They are part of atypical imaging of the future fast-paced and luxurious, (23)______(allow) us to speed through theskies. As (24)______ (see) in The Sky‘s No longer the Limit, this flight of fancy may soon be areality in Dubai. Aiming (25)______ (become) the world‘s most advanced city, Dubai is currently testing the first-ever flying taxi.(26)______ money still exists in its current cash-based form in The Jetsons, people today arelooking toward a world where even cash is out-of-date. Bitcoin is a type of digital money that hastaken the world by storm. Since its introduction, the money‘s price (27)______ (increase) to rates ashigh as US$ 19,000. This, however, may not predict well for the future of digital currency, asexperts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and (28)______ crash soon. It‘s possible that some dreams the future may still be (29)______ ______ our reach.Other more probable technologies already exist, for example, future flying eye hospitals in AHospital with Wings, unusual-engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population ofendangered corals(珊瑚) in Lab-Bred Coral to the Rescue, etc. All these show (30)______humansare already capable of. So, what else could the future have in store for us?21 where 22 have been/are /are being turned 23 allowing 24. seen/is seen27. has increased 28may/might/can/could25.to become 26While/Though/Although29 out of 30. what【2018-崇明区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.China‘s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法) Takes EffectChina‘s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, orwho they believe to be, injured, ill or in danger, will not have civil responsibility in the event ofharm to the victims.The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people(21)_____ (hesitate) to help fallen senior citizens due to concern that they might be blackmailed(讹诈) later.There has been no shortage of cases over the past decade (22)_____ people hesitated to offer assistance to those who are in need. And some good Samaritans have been blackmailed for charitable acts. In 2011, a two-year-old girl known as Xiao Yueyue was run over by two cars, and18 people passed by (23)_____ offering emergency help. The girl died after days of medical treatment. In 2014, a man from Guangdong Province aided a senior citizen, but (24)_____ (accuse)of knocking him down. The man committed suicide when (25)_____ (face) with demands for alarge sum of money.These cases (26)_____ (arouse) debate about morality and heroism in China in recent years.don‘t provide help, you will blame yourself, but if you do help, you are likely (27)_____ (hurt) bythe people you help. It is really a difficult choice,‖ one netizen said on Sina Weibo.(28)_____ there had been calls for a national Good Samaritan law, only a few cities pushed aheadwith such laws before the nationwide law came into effect.However, some experts are concerned (29)_____ there could be some danger from a nationwideGood Samaritan Law. ―Rescuers who know little about first aid could bring serious harm to people. He hopedin critical conditions,‖ said Yang Lixin, a professor at the Renmin University of Chinathe government (30)_____ introduce details of the policy soon while encouraging people to voluntarily offer assistance.21. hesitating 22. where 23. without 24. was accused 25. faced 26. have aroused 27. to be hurt 28. Although/Though/While 29. that 30. could【2018-奉贤区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Time to End LonelinessUS author Henry Rollins once wrote: ―Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn onss never seems to gosunsets and makes night air smell better.‖ Indeed, in the eyes of artists, lonelineout of style. There are paintings that portray loneliness, songs that (21)_______ (inspire) byloneliness, and many works of literature that center around this theme.In the eyes of UK economist Rachel Reeves, however, loneliness is fa r from romantic. Instead, it‘sa ―giant evil‖ that‘s become a serious problem in the country.On Jan 17, UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed politician Tracey Crouch as the countryHer job is (22)_______ (deal) with the loneliness that thevery first ―Minister for Loneliness‖.a problem which, according to UK government research, is affectingcountry‘s been feeling —more than 9 million people in the country, and (23) ________ be more harmful to one‘s phys and mental health than smoking 15 cigarettes a day.Back in 2014, the UK was given the title of the ―loneliness capital of Europe‖ by The Teleg survey carried out by the newspaper found that British people were (24)________ (likely) to get toknow their neighbours or build strong relationships with people than those from other Europeancountries.mean it is the problem (25)________ (affect) Britons only. In fact, we‘re allBut this doesn‘tsuffering from loneliness now more than ever, in spite of most of the world now being linked to theinternet, (26) ________ has enabled us to be more connected than ever.(27)________ we need, according to Kim Leadbetter, sister of the late UK politician Jo Cox, is tohave ―proper human connections‖．―Our lives nowadays are so busy. We spend the vast major ity of our time on our phones, on ourlaptops. (28)________ ________ ________ busy we are, we need to press pause on that andactually sit down and speak to human beings,‖ Leadbetter said at an event last year.But the first steps toward (29)________ (fight) this problem are to accept its existence and not beashamed or frightened by it. After all, (30)________ loneliness, many beautiful paintings, songs,and literary works wouldn‘t even exist. Whether it is ―evil‖ or not, being lonely is simply part of experience of being human.21. are inspired 22.to deal 23.can/may 24. less likely 25. affecting26. which 27. what 28. No matter how 29. fighting 30. without【2018-虹口区-二模】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent andgrammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form ofthe given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?Booklovers, most of them, will tell you (21)______ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to afriend – the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel(22)____ ____ you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-bookusers were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine foryour reading device, but you couldn‘t lend it out.But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble‘s response to Amazon‘s Kin electronic readers will be able to have their latest literary enthusiasm (23)_____ (press) on theirfriends, just like readers of physical books can. You simply email the book from your Nook andyour friend can read it for two weeks, (24)______ (use) any device with the Barnes & Noble e-book-book readers.reader software. It‘s a big improvement from previous eThe Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just likewith Kindle. The difference is (25)______ on the lower part of the device there‘s a color touch。
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宝山区2017学年第二学期期末高三年级英语学科教学质量监测试卷注意：1．本试卷包括试题纸和答题纸两部分．2．在试题纸上答题无效，必须在答题纸上的规定位置按照要求答题．3．本试卷满分140分，考试时间120分钟．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 a 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.It goes with her shoes. B.The color suits her.C.The style doesn’t fit her well.D.It is a little bit expensive.2.A.It was well organized. B.It was clean.C.It was messed up.D.It was tidy.3.A.He has been hiding lately.B.He has been back home.C.He has to work hard for travelling expenses.D.He has been busy preparing his trip.4.A.On the telephone. B.On the Internet.C.In an office.D.At the woman’s home.5.A.He agrees with the woman.B.He hasn’t been to the play recently.C.He doesn’t know much about basketball.D.He doesn’t think the team has been playing well.6.A.One. B.Two. C.Three. D.Four.7.A.Finish his term paper. B.Hand in the paper.C.Read it to the woman.D.Correct the errors in the paper.8.A.She prefers to exercise in the afternoon.B.The man should continue with his exercise.C.It is important to make warming-up exercise.D.The man should start to exercise one month later.9.A.He regrets having taken up much of the professor’s time.B.He has trouble getting along with the professor.C.He knows the professor has run into trouble.D.He knows the professor has been busy.10.A.The plane is full. B.The flight is cancelled.C.The plane is late.D.The plane has broken down.Section BDirections:In Section B,you will hear two passages and one longer conversation.After each passage or conversation,you will be asked several questions.The passages and conversation 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions11through13are based on the following passage.11.A.16years old. B.11years old. C.5years old. D.6years old.12.A.The life in London during World War II.B.Figuring out how to cry on cue(暗示).C.Changing his Australian accent.D.Working with the famous actors13.A.The possibilities that acting provides.B.The excitement that playing guitar brings.C.The life of being accompanied by his mother.D.The applause he is getting from the audience.Questions14through16are based on the following passage.14.A.A digital image B.A detailed mapC.A developed filmD.A useful Facebook15.A.Public security puter softwareC.Special offersD.Customers’needs16.A.It will be impossible. B.It will be popular.C.It will be out of date.D.It will raise concerns.Questions17through20are based on the following conversation.17.A.The man speaker feels guilty. B.The woman speaker feels harmful.C.Both speakers think it funny.D.Many students dislike the post.18.A.Unhappy. B.Calm. C.Content. D.Pleased.19.A.He treated Sam kindly. B.He made fun of Sam.C.He learned to live with it.D.He pushed Sam downstairs.20.A.Bullying is uncommon in the school.B.The man speaker will apologize to Bill about what he posted about Bill.C.The man speaker was fully convinced by the woman speaker.D.The woman speaker thinks bullying does students harm in grades.II.Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections:After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.How Much of the Jetsons'World Has Become a Reality?For most of our readers,The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name.However,for many Americans born in or before the 1980s,it is a name we fondly remember.The Jestsons was a popular cartoon that featured a family living in an advanced world(21)______people settle in houses built in the sky,work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flying saucers.While sky-high houses and three-day workweeks don’t appear to be on the horizon,other visions of the future(22)______(turn)into practical realities.Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades.They are part of a typical imaging of the future fast-paced and luxurious,(23)______(allow)us to speed through the skies.As(24)______(see)in The Sky’s No longer the Limit,this flight of fancy may soon be a reality in Dubai.Aiming(25)______(become)the world’s most advanced city,Dubai is currently testing the first-ever flying taxi.(26)______money still exists in its current cash-based form in The Jetsons,people today are looking toward a world where even cash is out-of-date.Bitcoin is a type of digital money that has taken the world by storm.Since its introduction, the money’s price(27)______(increase)to rates as high as US$19,000.This,however,may not predict well for the future of digital currency,as experts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and(28)______crash soon.It’s possible that some dreams of the future may still be(29)____________our reach.Other more probable technologies already exist,for example,future flying eye hospitals in A Hospital with Wings, unusual-engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population of endangered corals(珊瑚)in Lab-Bred Coral to the Rescue,etc.All these show(30)______humans are already capable of.So,what else could the future have in store for us?Section BComputer reads brain activity to find out the music each person is listening toIn the experiment,six volunteers heard40pieces of classical music,rock,pop,jazz,and others.The neural(神 的) fingerprint of each song on participants'brain was___31___by the Magnetic Resonance(MR)machine while a computer was learning to identify the brain patterns drawn out by each musical piece.Musical___32___such as tone,volume, rhythm and beat were taken into account by the computer.After that,researchers expected that the computer would be able to do the___33___way:identify which song participants were listening to,based on their brain activity--a technique known as brain decoding.When faced with two options,the computer showed up to85%___34___in identifying the correct song,which is a great performance,comparing to previous studies.Researchers then pushed the test even___35___by providing not two but10options(e.g.one correct and nine wrong) to the computer.In this situation,the computer correctly identified the song in74%of the decisions.In the future,studies on brain decoding and machine learning will create possibilities of communication___36___any kind of written or spoken language."Machines will be able to translate our musical thoughts into songs,"says Sebastian Hoefle,researcher from D'Or Institute and PhD student from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,Brazil.The study is a result of a___37___between Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Germany,Finland and India.According to Hoefle,brain decoding researches provide___38___to understand neural functioning and interact with it using artificial intelligence.In the future,he expects to find answers for___39___like"what musical characteristics make some people love a song while others don't?Is our brain___40___to prefer a specific kind of music?"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.Having a clear picture in mind of what their future will look like can motivate students to keep going despite the challenges of college life.This___41___seems to be particularly effective for female students from relatively low socioeconomic status(SES)backgrounds says Mesmin Destin of Northwestern University in the US.College is a time of great opportunity for some,but can be___42___for others.It is often the first time that many students are away from the regular and familiar support of their family and friends.Weak students from lower SES backgrounds often encounter greater financial and psychological challenges than others,and this can lead to___43___and even withdrawal from difficult situations,such as when interacting with their lecturers or taking tests and exams.Destin and his colleagues wanted to understand if students'___44___to academic challenges improve when they look forward to the future.This idea is built around the theory of identity-based motivation.It holds that people can take positive action during times of unfavorable conditions when they___45___a successful future for themselves."The theory of identity-based motivation proposes that stimulating a focus on a successful future identity may be especially___46___in motivating students who are weak during challenging academic situations to develop a sense of action readiness,"explains Destin."This involves feeling ready and able to take appropriate action when___47___ difficulty.In two almost identical laboratory experiments--one involving93female students,the other185students(including 101women)--participants were first asked either to write about their past or their future___48___.After their deep thoughts,the participants were filmed during an imitated interview with a so-called lecturer,and then had to___49___adifficult academic test.The research team noted whether participants'body language was bold and confident,and measured the amount of effort participants'___50___the academic test.The results were in agreement with the theory of identity-based motivation.Destin and his team found that having a successful future identity can prevent especially female students from lower SES backgrounds from___51___during challenging academic situations.Specifically,lower SES women who wrote about their future identities displayed greater action___52___compared to those who considered their past.They showed more confident body language.It helped them to make more effort to tackle the test,and had an indirect effect on their___53___."Stimulating imagined successful future identities appears to provide a___54___pathway to enable weak students to effectively navigate everyday stressors,"says Destin."The findings___55___suggest that certain students may benefit from strategies that remind them to image their successful futures before any difficult and important task that they might otherwise be likely to avoid."41.A.instruction B.strategy C.challenge D.psychology42.A.disgraceful B.shameful C.harmful D.stressful43.A.hesitation B.intention C.depression D.decision44.A.willingness B.options C.responses D.applications45.A.destroy B.imagine C.abandon D.substitute46.A.powerful B.upright C.unique D.ambitious47.A.avoiding B.overcoming C.surrendering D.encountering48.A.experience B.suffering C.success D.failure49.A.design plete ment D.revise50.A.put away B.put on C.put out D.put into51.A.withdrawing B.transforming C.advancing D.engaging52.A.quantity B.dullness C.readiness D.inability53.A.fascination B.ignorance C.dilemma D.performance54.A.tolerable B.potential C.straight D.academic55.A.therefore B.however C.otherwise D.meanwhileSection 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 just read.(A)I believe in getting lost.Lost in the text of the novel that is particular to your thoughts and feelings that you consider special.The song that reminds you of your childhood summers,where you close your eyes and lose yourself reliving a memory;feeling the warm wind brushing against your arm,the smell of the dusty sand that you stir up as you ride your bicycle,murmuring the tune of that song.Like the unprepared Sunday Drive,with no destination.You’re free to wander, take paths that you’ve never noticed,discover places you haven’t been.Then falling off on the path to lead you back home, leaving you to test directions and alertly absorb your surroundings in order to find your way back;that kind of lost.I get lost daily;whether it’s in thought,or the unplanned drive I just decided to go on.Getting lost is an adventurous learning experience that trains you how to be more aware of your surroundings.A few of my most favorite memories involve physically getting lost.That one late night trip back to Ludington from Grand Rapids I took with a few friends.We finally realized we were going the wrong way when we hit South Haven,almost three hours out of our way.There was also the time where I got lost in the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids after the President’s Ball and then the parking garage for a solid two hours.I felt like my life was that one scene of an American television situation comedy,minus the air conditioner. At the time,these are nervous experiences that get your anxiety pumping.You’re fearful that you won’t be safe,but it always works itself out in the end.Physically losing yourself prepares you for how you manage when you emotionally or mentally lose yourself.You don’t always have to be lost in a literal sense to“get lost”and some of the time,losing yourself may not be a positive experience.There are times where I lose sight of who I am.While lost,I test out metaphorical paths and sometimes they turn out to be the right direction and other times they were a wrong turn.I make note of these wrong turns,so I can avoid them further on up the road of finding my way back to who I am.In Walden,Henry David Thoreau wrote“Not till we are lost,in other words not till we have lost the world,do we begin to find ourselves,and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”Getting lost fuels my curiosity and teaches me lessons on finding my way back to the right track.I believe in getting lost through day dreams,a misplacement, adventures,and difficult times where you make discoveries about yourself and the atmosphere around you.In order to truly find yourself,I believe that you should put down the map and get wonderfully lost.56.In the first paragraph,the author mainly expresses that______.A.lost in a novel is a special feelingB.songs remind us of past experiencesC.wandering is a wonderful discoveryD.getting lost brings us benefits57.The author mentions the experiences of physically getting lost(in paragraph2)in order to say_____.A.physically getting lost is most difficult to deal withB.we can enjoy trips while physically getting lostC.people are easy to get physically lost in our daily lifeD.we realize our surroundings while physically getting lost58.Words from Henry David Thoreau(in the last paragraph)imply that getting lost________.A.enables us to look within and to see outwardB.pulls people back into the previous momentC.enables us to remind ourselves of adventuresD.helps us enjoy ourselves wherever we are59.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A.I Once Was LostB.Wonderfully LostC.Physically Getting LostD.Mentally Getting Lost(B)Two in three Americans shower once a day or more,according to a YouGov poll.Here’s why you might be better off showering less frequently(and here are other ways you might be showering wrong1Daily showers are best for people with physically demandingjobs,those who live in hot,damp climates.But if you don’t sweat thatoften,you could probably go two to three days without stepping intothe shower,skin doctor Monika G.Kiripolsky,MD,told Men's Health.Use these quick morning hacks to freshen up without showering.2Drying off with a towel can further make your delicate birthdaysuit become worse.It’s best to air dry,according to,but if that takes too long or you don’t likeleaving wet foot prints all over the house,use a soft towel and gentlypat your skin dry instead of vigorously rubbing it.Check out theseother mistakes everyone makes in the shower.4Right now,your skin is teeming with good bacteria,butshowering launches these microbes into the air.They’ll repopulate,butthere’s no good reason to get rid of them on a daily basis,according tothis blog post on .Find out what the healthiest temperaturefor your shower is.5Showers are typically the third largest water consumer in theaverage home(after toilets and clothes washers).The averageAmerican shower uses17.2gallons and lasts for8.2minutes at averageflow rate of2.1gallons per minute,according to Home Water Works,part of the Alliance for Water Efficiency.Cut back to three or fourshowers a week from seven(per person in your home!)and that could make a decent cut in yourwater bill.To make those four showers count,learn what science says is the best time of day toshower.60.What’s the whole passage mainly about?A.Reasons you can probably get away with showering more.B.Advice you can take on how to shower more and better.C.Harmful effects made on you through showering less.D.Benefits you can get from showering on a daily basis.61.This passage provides us with the following further detailed information Except___________.A.the best time of day to showerB.the proper temperature for your showerC.the other ways you shower wrongD.the other ways to cut your water bill62.Which of the following is Not a reason why you should shower less?A.Showering gets rid of good bacteria.B.You're absolutely as dirty as you think.C.Towel drying causes damage to your skin.D.You only really need to wash your smelly parts.(C)Social norms of right and wrong are vital to a well-functioning society.However,such moral standards are changeable and the psychological mechanisms(机制)driving this change are unknown.Now,researchers at Karolinska Institutet report that our view of selfish and unselfish behaviors changes depending on how common they are.The results are based on a combination of behavioral experiments,mathematical models and computer simulations.In the experiments,the participants first observed other people's behavior in a so-called"public goods game,"in which players receive a sum of money and then choose either to invest it to varying degrees so that it benefits everyone in the group,or to keep it for themselves.After every round,the participants were asked to judge the different choices as morally right or wrong,and whether the choices ought to be punished with a reduction in how much the players gained.Unselfish behavior was considered more morally right than selfish,but both behaviors were judged to be more moral and less deserving of punishment if the majority exhibited them than if they were uncommon.The commonness of the selfish behavior also affected the participants'willingness to themselves pay to punish selfishness."Tolerance of selfish behavior increased when the majority of the players kept the money for themselves,which surprised me,"says principal investigator Andreas Olsson,senior lecturer at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience."The fact that a behavior is common doesn't automatically mean that it's right--this idea is based on faulty logic that confuses facts with moral values."The study shows our view of what is morally right and wrong has strong similarities with social conformity,in that we tend to adapt ourselves to the people around us and how they behave.This means that changes in our social environment can quickly alter our moral compass."This is interesting from several angles,and could explain why moral attitudes change over time,such as those towards public goods or legality,"says Björn Lindström,postdoc at University of Zürich and Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience.63.According to Andreas Olsson’s analysis,if people accept selfish behavior,they actually_____.A.get facts and moral values mixed upB.misunderstand social mechanismsC.follow the logic of their ownD.consider it correct and reasonable64.It can be concluded that the participants in the experiments are punished if_________.A.they can’t play"public goods game"B.invest the money to benefit group membersC.they behave differently from the majorityD.they keep the money for themselves65.According to the passage,what is morally right or wrong is shaped by the following Except__.A.the way people around us behaveB.changes in our social environmentC.personal standards of values and attitudesD.how widespread a particular behavior is66.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A.The psychological mechanisms behind attitude changeB.Behavior is considered more moral the more common it isC.Our view of selfish and unselfish behaviorsD.Moral standards of selfish and unselfish behaviorsSection CDirections:Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box.Each sentence can only be used once.Notethat there are two sentences more than you need.A.They thus focused on two elements that are typical for contemporary work environments.B.The researchers used online questionnaires to obtain data.C.The notion that obtaining external feedback about one's ideas is essential for increasingcreativity is deeply rooted in society.D.The most important is that when an organization stimulates feedback seeking,it needs toensure that the work environment is excellent enough to use the benefits of feedback.E.The question,however,is whether these beneficial effects always occur.F.The creative achievements were assessed by their direct managers.Seeking feedback not always sufficient for stimulating creativityIt is widely believed that seeking feedback from colleagues,managers,friends and family enhances employees' creativity.But is this always the case?No,a positive effect depends on the work environment.This is the conclusion of new joint research study led by UvA work and organizational psychologist Roy Sijbom.(67)________For example,managers are encouraged to engage customers in order to confirm whether their business model is workable and scholars attend conferences to obtain feedback on their research results.A definite assumption is that individuals who have obtained feedback will also actually(be able to)use it.“The idea is simple:seeking feedback from different sources-also known as feedback source variety--benefits one's creativity since it leads to a greater diversity of viewpoints”,says Sijbom.“And the more diverse the viewpoints,the more it benefits one's creativity because by combining all the different viewpoints new perspectives will emerge that in turn will result in more creativity.(68)________”The researchers examined how specific characteristics of the immediate work environment influence the relationship between feedback source variety and creative performance.(69)________One is the recognized rate of change of performance standards.The other is the extent to which employees feel they have sufficient time to develop creative ideas at work(experienced creative time pressure).“We discovered a growing relationship between the search for input from a variety of feedback sources and creativity,but only when performance standards within an organization are changing and when a relatively low creative time pressure is experienced”,says Sijbom.Sijbom offers several recommendations:“(70)________In a more concrete sense,organizations can,for example, consider using feedback workshops in which employees are encouraged to reflect on diverse feedback and equipped with techniques and strategies on how to absorb feedback in their daily work.In addition,managers should not only stimulate their employees to actively cultivate relationships with potential feedback sources within and outside the organization,but also provide sufficient time to process the feedback obtained from these relationships.”IV.Summary Writing71.Directions:Read the following passage.Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than e your own words as far as possible.Screen-addicted teens are unhappyA new study explored the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screen time.Researchers found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices--playing computer games,using social media,texting and video chatting--were less happy than those who invested more time in non-screen activities like sports,reading newspapers and magazines,and face-to-face social interaction.Total screen avoidance doesn't lead to happiness either.The greater unhappiness among those with no screen exposure could be due to several factors,Twenge,the leading researcher said.“It could be that they are left out of the social scene of high school,that it’s very difficult to carry on friendships in high school these days without texting at all or being on social media.”It is also possible that those kids are outliers,Twenge said—teens with special needs or in special education,or those whose screens have been taken away from them by parents.The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use.The happiest teens used digital media a little less than an hour per day.But after a daily hour of screen time,unhappiness rises steadily along with increasing screen time,the researchers report in the journal Emotion."Make effort to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media,and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face-to-face and exercising--two activities reliably linked to greater happiness."Twenge said."By far the largest change in teens'lives between2012and2016was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media,and the following decline in in-person social activities and sleep,"the leading researcher said."The arrival of the smartphone is the most reasonable explanation for the sudden decrease in teens'psychological well-being."V.TranslationDirections:Translate the following sentences into English,using the words given in the brackets.72.我对这场比赛的结果抱乐观态度。
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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 a restaurant. B. In a bookstore. C. At a bus stop. D. In a library.2.A. Guest and receptionist. B. Passenger and air hostess.C. Customer and shop assistant.D. Consumer and waitress.3.A. Writing his term paper. B. Having a coffee break.C. Playing computer games.D. Attending an online school.4.A. It’s quite dear. B. It’s not good.C. It’s very cheap.D. She doesn’t like it.5.A. Work in a restaurant. B. Look for a full-time job.C. Travel around Hainan Island.D. Make a plan for a trip.6.A. He’s too busy to serve her. B. He’s sorry for there being no enough cash.C. She should open a new savings account.D. She has to go to the manager’s desk.7.A. He works as a gardener. B. He is too busy at work to play.C. He prefers sports to gardening.D. He lives in the countryside.8.A. 60 MPH. B. 50MPH. C. 40MPH. D. 10MPH.9.A. The man could not wait to see Susan. B. Susan is eager to pass on information.C. Susan is waiting for the latest news.D. The man knows the latest news in town.10.A. Risks may exist when they chase high profits in a short time.B. It’s feasible for people to be after large short-term profits.C. No one can avoid being victims of financial tricks.D. Every one is likely to make large short-term profits.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation 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 passage.11. A. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays. B. On Tuesdays and Thursdays.C. On Wednesdays and Thursdays.D. On Tuesdays and Fridays.12. A. Once a week. B. Twice a week. C. Once a month. D. Twice a month.13. A. Classroom tests. B. Attendance rate.C. Research papers.D. Final exam.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Parents. B. Teachers. C. Experts. D. Businessmen.15. A. Maintain a savings account. B. Visit the bank regularly.C. Hire a personal accountant.D. Manage his own money.16. A. The current economic situation has a negative influence on America.B. Parent-child communication on financial matters must be open.C. Teens should learn to handle money matters well on their own.D. Financial managers are most needed during the economic crisis.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. March. B. April. C. May. D. September.18. A. Inform the director of student housing in a letter.B. Deposit some money in the bank.C. Go to the housing office to make a dorm deposit.D. Maintain a high grade average.19. A. There are too many freshmen. B. It costs too much.C. The rooms are too small.D. It is too noisy.20. A. Where to live the following year. B. When to move.C. How much time to spend at home.D. Whose house to visit.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 a fruit store B. In a gym C. At a restaurant D. At a watch shop2. A. 4:30 B. 5:00 C. 5:10 D. 5:153. A. Boss and secretary B. Nurse and patientC. Salesman and customerD. Teacher and student4. A. The tickets are more expensive B. The tickets told online are cheaperC. It is difficult to get tickets on the spotD. It’s better to buy tickets offline5. A. He wants to be a musician in the futureB. He shows more interest in English learningC. He displays great music talent in the exhibitionD. He doesn’t make enough efforts in English learning6. A. He wants to get some sleep B. He needs time to write a paperC. He has a literature class to attendD. He is troubled by his sleep problem7. A. It looks old B. It looks newC. It doesn’t need paintingD. It doesn’t run well8. A. Extremely dull B. Hard to understandC. Lacking a good storyD. Not worth seeing twice9. A. Plan his budget carefully B. Buy a gift for his motherC. Ask someone else for adviceD. Give her more information10. A. She didn’t like telling jokes B. She went to school after 9 a.m.C. She may not have gone to school todayD. She may have been late for schoolSection BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation 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 dialogue11. A. He found his TV was broken B. He missed a good TVC. He felt bored with the TV programD. He lost his meal tickets in the cafeteria12. A. He lost fifty dollars B. His time was wastedC. His brain wasn’t very activeD. He watched just one program13. A. Part of the brain is not in useB. Part of the brain becomes more passiveC. It takes longer to process visual informationD. It processes complex information less activelyQuestions 14 through 17 are based on the following dialogue14. A. From the newspaper B. From her classmateC. From her friendsD. From the man15. A. Plant more trees in the school yard B. Organize a picnic on ThursdayC. Build a parking lot for studentsD. Protect the natural beauty on campus16. A. Attend a meeting B. Attend a classC. Visit her friendsD. Go to the parking lot17. A. Lend her pen to the man B. Go to the administrationC. Support the students action unionD. Give out the handoutsQuestions 18 through 20 are based on the following dialogue18. A.There are numerous languages in the existenceB. Most public languages are essentially vagueC. People differ greatly in their ability to communicateD. Big gaps exist between private and public languages19. A. It is a sign of human intelligence B. It improves with constant practiceC. It is something we are born withD. It varies from person to person20. A. How various languages are related to each otherB. How children learn to use language in particular waysC. How private languages are developed from public onesD. How people of different ages create their own languagesI. 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. Challenges. B. Hobbies. C. Jobs. D. Experiences.2. A. Interesting. B. Boring. C. Difficult. D. Amazing.3. A. Watching TV and videos. B. Replacing videos with TV.C. Parents’ involvement.D. Having baby sitters.4. A. A policeman. B. An accountant. C. A salesman. D. A bank teller.5. A. 7:40. B. 7:15. C. 7:20. D. 7:45.6. A. He will get someone to do it. B. She should do it herself.C. They don’t have to do it.D. He will clean the desk right away.7. A. By bus. B. By subway. C. By taxi. D. By car.8. A. He is not a good mechanic. B. He doesn’t keep his word.C. He spends his spare time doing repairs.D. He is always ready to offer help to others.9. A. She has been having a sad day. B. She needs to take a day off.C. She wants to play basketball, too.D. She has been annoyed by the noise.10. A. The man isn’t sure about the rehearsal.B. It’s better for the woman to wear a costume.C. The woman would regret it if she wore a costume.D. It wouldn’t make any difference if the woman did it.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation 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 dialogue11. A. He qualified as a teacher. B. He became a student.C. He became a government researcher.D. He conducted a research on Zimbabwe.12. A. Children’s minds are not used to the full.B. It is a great drain on children’s time and energy.C. It highlights the flexibility o f children’s minds.D. It prevents children from seeking answers by themselves.13. A. To teach people to understand the worldB. To instruct people how to raise good questions.C. To encourage people to study as they get older.D. To inform people of problems in foreign countries.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. To serve as a time killer.B. To cultivate people’s reading killsC. To promote the sales of some books.D. To encourage people to take public transportation15. A. The stories are the short edition of some website articles.B. Users can choose the length and type of the stories.C. The stories are obtained by simply pressing a button.D. Users don’t need to pay for the short stories.16. A. From the boring travel experience. B. From the love for short stories.C. From the positive feedbackD. From the snack vending machine.Qusions17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. 5. B. 7. C. 8. D. 10.18. A. Because his friends don’t get off work till 5 p.m.B. Because there will be more friends to go to the cinema on Friday.C. Because the film will be more popular than the Wednesday’s.D. Because there are not enough tickets left for the 9 p.m. showing.19. A. Paying a deposit. B. E-ordering in advance.C. Paying right away.D. Collecting tickets one day ahead.20. A. The film. B. The date C. The seating. D. The viewers.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. He is angry. B. He is exhausted. C. He is hungry. D. He is disappointed.2. A. Go over his lessons B. Attend the partC. Eat out with friendsD. Take the final exam3. A. She is most likely to be arrested. B. She has forgotten to call the police.C. She may have lost her driving license.D. She is lying to the police officer.4. A. Bill broke his promise. B. Mum will probably reward Bill.C. Bill failed in the testD. Mum is worried about Bill’s work.5. A. Make a recovery plan. B. Go back to work.C. Drop out of school.D. Quit her present job.6. A. She gave him a lift home again. B. She offered him an extra room.C. She treated him well at her home.D. She spared much time for him.7. A. She doesn't have time to find a new flat.B. She has not paid enough rent in advance.C. She is unlikely to give up the nice flat.D. She wants to decorate the flat during the holiday.8. A. Extreme sports. B. Travel insurance. C. Bungee jumping. D. Diving safety.9. A. She likes Phillips singing very much.B. She appreciates other kinds of musicals.C. She enjoys the changes of his musicalsD. She admires other singers more than Phillips.10. A. American students are too talkative in class.B. It is hard to learn a lot in an American school.C. One can join in schooling in different ways.D. Active participation is greatly encouraged.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s) 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. One should wait for things to happen before leaving.B. One should remain silent when things are getting hard.C. One should try to take control of the difficult situationD. One should turn to other people for instant help12. A. By motivating himself to take action. B. By seeking help from his friend.C. By thinking of the meaning of lifeD. By taking good care of himself.13. A. Life is not always peaceful and it is full of terrible accidents.B. Keep a positive attitude and focus on survival whatever happensC. Advanced equipment is the essential factor in surviving crisesD. Be ready to get immediate assistance when lost in the jungleQuestions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. In 1969. B. In 2012. C. In 1976. D. In2016.15. A. Suggested creating a university of science and technology in Egypt.B. Helped many Egyptian scientists to be awarded the Nobel Prize.C. Developed cooperation with the University of California in the U.S.D. Provided excellent Egyptian students with more financial support.16. A. For his relationship with Egyptian President.B. For his academic performance in technology.C. For his good service in the Egyptian Army.D. For his outstanding contributions to Egypt.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. It offers different opinions on old age.B. It is about how to keep healthy in old age.C. It investigates the causes of the aging problem.D. It reveals the secrets of living longer.18. A. The old are thought to be healthy but lonely.B. The old are reported to be poor but happy.C. The old are regarded as an unattractive group.D. The old are considered dangerous to the society.19. A. They are easy to fall down with serious illness.B. They enjoy traveling and getting new experiences.C. They are difficult to be recognized due to the changes.D. They have no more mental problems than the middle-aged.20. A. Raise people's awareness of caring for the old.B. Help people take their responsibilities for the old.C. Change people’s attitude towards the aged group.D. Ease people's fear and anxiety about growing old.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. Worried and frightened. B. Relaxed and happy.C. Quite embarrassed.D. Deeply ashamed.2. A. Bill has never used a calculator. B. Bill can work better without a calculator.C. Bill is working with a calculator.D. Bill needs a calculator for this work.3. A. To cut his jeans short. B. To go on a diet.C. To wear fitted clothes.D. To buy a pair of jeans.4. A. Having an interview. B. Filling out a form.C. Talking with a friend.D. Asking for information.5. A. Put her report on his desk. B. Read some papers he recommended.C. Mail her report to the publisher.D. Improve some parts of her paper.6. A. Make some coffee. B. Meet the woman at the library.C. Continue to read.D. Go out with some friends.7. A. The man should buy a different meal ticket every month.B. Buying the meal ticket won’t save the man any money.C. It is better for the man to pay for each meal separately.D. The price of a meal may vary from month to month.8. A. She’s upset that she missed the television program.B. She doesn’t think the tel evision program was funny.C. She doesn’t like talking about television programs.D. She watched the television program at a friend’s house.9. A. He doubts the woman’s words. B. He hasn’t read the novel yet.C. He enjoyed reading the novel a lot.D. He is not interested in the novel at all.10. A. The talks haven’t started yet. B. They have come to a general agreement.C. The talks haven’t achieved much.D. The talks broke down and went no further.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation 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 passage.11. A. They learn singing and dancing. B. They attend outdoor music festivals.C. They work on the farm for charity.D. They volunteer to work for others.12. A. On the beach. B. In a park. C. On a farm. D. In a stadium.13. A. It is run on a profit-making basis. B. It has achieved growing success.C. Fans can have free lunch there.D. Only superstars are invited to perform.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. The number of refugees is increasing sharply.B. Most refugees cannot get necessary services.C. Many refugee children cannot receive education.D. More children cannot afford to go to university.15. A. No host nations want to change education systems.B. It is impossible to find so many extra teachers.C. Parents can’t afford to se nd their kids to school.D. The refugee population grows but there’s not enough money.16. A. The necessity of education.B. The prohibition of child labor.C. The victims of armed conflicts.D. The living conditions of the poor.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. It has started a week-long promotion campaign.B. It has just launched its annual anniversary sales.C. It offers regular weekend sales all the year round.D. It specializes in the sale of men’s suits.18. A. Price reductions for its frequent customers.B. Gift cards for customers with any purchases.C. Free delivery of purchases for senior customers.D. Price adjustments within seven days of purchase.19. A. Mail a gift card to her. B. Allow her to buy on credit.C. Credit it to her account.D. Give her cash directly.20. A. It has already been sold out. B. It will be sent to the woman by mail.C. It is not available for the moment.D. It is one of the items on sale.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. He will review 2 more lessons. B. He will study the other 20 lessons.C. He will go over the 13 lessons.D. He will study all the 15 lessons.2.A. His injury kept him at home. B. He didn’t think it necessary.C. He was too weak to see the doctor.D. He failed to make an appointment.3.A. The post office. B. Monroe Street.C. The courthouse.D. Fourth Avenue.4.A. Disappointed. B. Approving. C. Concerned. D. Doubtful.5.A. He played his part quite well. B. He was not dramatic enough.C. He performed better than the secretary.D. He exaggerated his part.6.A. He wrote a book about great restaurants.B. He always makes reservations for dinner.C. He read a book while he was eating dinner.D. He always finds good places to eat.7.A. He is afraid he won’t be chosen for the trip.B. The boss has not decided where to go.C. Such a trip is necessary for the company.D. It’s not certain whether the trip will take place.8.A. It’s too expensive to get the apartment furnished.B. The furniture he bought was very cheap.C. The apartment was provided with some old furniture.D. It’s hard to find proper furniture for his apartment.9.A. She is intended to work for the school newspaper.B. The man can spare some time reading school newspaper.C. The man has a very tight schedule.D. The man should have taken more than five classes.10.A. Whether the meeting is certainly to be held on Monday.B. What bad news will be talked about at the meeting.C. What they are going to discuss at the meeting.D. Where the meeting is to be held.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will heartwo passages and a longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear aquestion, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Appropriateness of the programs. B. The operation of national programs.C. The incomes of the corporation.D. The welfare of the staff.12. A. By donations from the public. B. By selling its programs.C. By selling broadcasting devices.D. By getting support from the royals.13. A. Its humorous styles. B. The richness of its programs.C. Famous news announcers.D. Its neutral views on news.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Social progress and individual development.B. Human behaviors and social changes.C. General concepts about psychology and sociology.D. Relationship between cultures and human behaviors.15. A. What is the role of religion or art in a society?B. What is the main reason for revolution in a society?C. What are the causes of antisocial behavior?D. Why does one society progress more rapidly than another?16. A. Both psychology and sociology study human behavior.B. Mental problems should be dealt with by a sociologist.C. Sociology is the study of group behavior.D. Psychology pays more attention to individuals than to groups.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. It looks into opinions that people hold about old age.B. It is about how to keep healthy in old age.C. It investigates causes of old people’s unhappiness.D. It reveals the secret of living longer.18. A. Arise people’s awareness of caring for the old.B. Encourage people to be more responsible for the old.C. Help people change their feelings about old age.D. Ease people’s fear and anxiety about mental illness of the old.19. A. They are mostly among the 60-70 age group.B. They are mostly abandoned by their families.C. People do not become more lonely because of old age.D. People among any age group are not lonely at all.20. A. They are changing suddenly and completely at a particular age.B. It’s hard to recognize a person when he is turning old.C. Old people can’t deal with events and problems properly.D. People do not change in old age a lot more than in middle age.I. Listening ComprehensionSection A Short ConversationsDirections: 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. At an airport B. In a hotel C. At a police station. D. At a restaurant2. A. At4:20 B. At4:40 C. At4:50. D. At4:303. A. Its price B. Its location C. Its comfort D. Its facilities4. A Employer and employ B. Husband and wifeC. Teacher and studentD. Patient and doctor5. A. To cancel his trip. B. To go to bed earlyC. To catch the later flightD. To ask for a morning call.6. A. Cathy already knows about the exhibit. B. Cathy has to act in a play.C. He did show her one of the signs.D. There will be an exhibit in the theatre.7. A. The critic has a very funny comment on the musicalB The woman agrees with the mans opinion of the musical.C. The woman has a very positive comment on the musical.D. The man and the woman differ in their opinion of the musical.8. A. David never likes to play tennis. B. David's unable to play tennis with them.C. David isn't a very good tennis player.D. David is in town for a game of tennis.9. A. Satisfied. B. Impatient. C. Exhausted. D. Amused.10. A. He wants to get a new job. B. He is asking the woman for help.C. He has left the woman a good impression. D He enjoys letter writing.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked questions on each of them. The passages and conversation 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 passage.11. A. She wanted to have a garden similar to their neighbour's.B. Her husband would like to have a beautiful backyard.C. She was going to make the rented house her own home.D. The community required them to keep the backyard lovely.12. A. By getting involved in doing voluntary work.B. By picking up mails for their neighbours.C. By keeping an eye on their neighbours' children.D. By planting trees along the street with others.13. A. Her husband volunteered to work in the neighbourhood.B. They took on new responsibilities for their neighbours.C. She was planning to plant a new garden in the backyard.D. She enjoyed the relationship they built with the community.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.。
英语_2018年上海市宝山区高考英语二模试卷含答案
2018年上海市宝山区高考英语二模试卷Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions： After reading the passage below， fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.1.How Much of the Jetsons' World Has Become a Reality？For most of our readers， The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name． However， for many American born in or before the 1980s， it is a name we fondly remember． The Jetsons was a popular cartoon that featured a family living in an advanced world （21）________ people settle in houses built in the sky， work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flying saucers． While sky﹣high houses and three﹣day workweeks don't appear to be on the horizon， other visions of the future （22）________（turn）into practical realities．Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades． They are part of a typical imaging of the future fast﹣paced and luxurious，（23）________（allow）us to speed through the skies． As （24）________（see）in The Sky's No longer the Limit， this flight of fancy may soon be a reality in Dubai． Aiming （25）________（become）the world's most advanced city， Dubai is currently testing the first﹣ever flying taxi．（26）________ money still exists in its current cash﹣based form in The Jetsons， people today are looking toward a world where even cash is out﹣of﹣date． Bitcoin is a type of digital money that has taken the world by storm． Since its introduction， the money's price （27）________（increase）to rates as high as US﹩19，000． This， however， may not predict well for the future of digital currency， as experts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and （28）________ crash soon． It's possible that some dreams of the future may still be （29）________ our reach．Other more probable technologies already exist， for example， future flying eye hospitals in A Hospital with Wings， unusual﹣engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population of endangered corals（珊瑚）in Lab﹣Bred Coral to the Rescue， etc． All these show （30）________ humans are already capable of． So， what else could the future have in store for us？Section B Directions：After reading the passage below， fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.2.Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.In the experiment, six volunteers heard 40 pieces of classical music, rock, pop, jazz, andothers. The Neural（神经的）fingerprint of each song on participants' brain was（1）______ by the Magnetic Resonance（MR）machine while a computer was learning to identify the brain patterns drawn out by each musical piece. Musical（2）______ such as tone, volume, rhythm and beat were taken in account by the computer.After that, researchers expected that the computer would be able to do the（3）______ way: identify which song participants were listening to, based on their brain activity—a technique known as brain decoding. When faced two options, the computer showed up to 85%（4）______ in identifying the correct song, which is a great performance, comparing to previous studies. Researchers then pushed the test even（5）______ by providing not two but 10 options（e.g. one correct and nine wrong）to the computer. In this situation, the computer correctly identified the song in 74% of the decisions.In the future, studies on brain decoding and machine learning will create possibilities of communication（6）______ any kind of written or spoken language. "Machines will be able to translate our musical thoughts into songs," says Sebastian Hoefle, researcher from D'Or Institute and PhD student from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The study is a result of a（7）______ between Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Germany, Finland and India.According to Hoefle, brain decoding researches provide（8）______ to understand neural functioning and interact with it using artificial intelligence. In the future, he experts to find answers for（9）______ like "what musical characteristics make some people love a song while others don't? Is our brain（10）______ to prefer a specific kind of music?"Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections：For each blank in the following passages 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.3.Having a clear picture in mind of what their future will look like can motivate students to keep going despite the challenges of college life. This（1）______ seems to be particularly effective for female students from relatively low socioeconomic status（SES）backgrounds says Mesmin Destin of Northwestern University in the US. College is a time of great opportunity for some, but can be（2）______ for others. It is often the first time that many students are away from the regular and familiar support of their family and friends. Weak students from lower SES backgrounds often encounter greater financial and psychological challenges than others, and this can lead to（3）______ and even withdrawal from difficult situations, such as when interacting with their lecturers or taking tests and exams.Destin and his colleagues wanted to understand if students'（4）______ to academic challenges improve when they look forward to the future. This idea is built around the theory of identity-based motivation. It holds that people can take positive action during times of unfavorable conditions when they（5）______ a successful future for themselves. "The theory of identity-based motivation proposes that stimulating a focus on a successful future identity may be especially（6）______ in motivating students who are weak during challenging academic situations to develop a sense of action readiness," explains Destin. This involves feeling ready and able to take appropriate action when（7）______ difficulty.In two almost identical laboratory experiments—one involving 93 female students, the other 185 students（including 101 women）—participants were first asked either to write about their past or their future（8）______. After their deep thoughts, the participants were filmed during an limited interview with a so-called lecturer, and then had to（9）______ a difficult academic test. The research team noted whether participants' body language was bold and confident, and measured the amount of effort participants'（10）______ the academic test. The results were in agreement with the theory of identity-based motivation. Destin and his team found that having a successful future identity can prevent especially female students from lower SES backgrounds from（11）______ during challenging academic situations. Specially, lower SES women who wrote about their future identities displayed greater action （12）______ compared to those who considered their past. They showed more confident body language. It helped them to make more effort to tackle the test, and had an indirect effect on their（13）______."Simulating imagined successful future identities appears to provide a（14）______ pathway to enable weak students to effectively navigate everyday stressors, "says Destin." The findings（15）______ suggest that certain students may benefit from strategies that remind them to image their successful futures before any difficult and important task that they might otherwise be likely to avoid."（1）A instructionB strategyC challengeD psychology（2）A disgracefulB shamefulC harmfulD stressful（3）A hesitationB intentionC depressionD decision（4）A willingnessB optionsC responsesD applications（5）A destroyB imagineC abandonD substitute（6）A powerfulB uprightC uniqueD ambitious（7）A avoidingB overcomingC surrenderingD encountering（8）A experienceB sufferingC successD failure（9）A designB completeC commentD revise（10）A put awayB put onC put outD put into（11）A withdrawingB transformingC advancingD engaging（12）A quantityB dullnessC readinessD inability（13）A fascinationB ignoranceC dilemmaD performance（14）A tolerableB potentialC straightD academic（15）A thereforeB howeverC otherwiseD meanwhileSection 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.4. I believe in getting lost． Lost in the text of the novel that is particular to your thoughts and feelings that you consider special． The song that reminds you of your childhood summers, where you close your eyes and lose yourself reliving a memory; feeling the warm wind brushing against your arm, the smell of the dusty sand that you stir up as you ride yourbicycle, murmuring the tune of that song． Like the unprepared Sunday Drive, with no destination． You're free to wander, take paths that you've never noticed, discover places you haven't been． Then falling off on the path to lead you back home, leaving you to test directions and alertly absorb your surroundings in order to find your way back; that kind of lost．I get lost daily, whether it's in thought, or the unplanned drive I just decided to go on． Getting lost is an adventurous learning experience that trains you how to be more aware of your surroundings． A few of my most favorite memories involve physically getting lost． That one late night trip back to Ludington from Grand Rapids I took with a few friends． We finally realized we were going the wrong way when we hit SouthHaven, almost three hours out of our way． There was also the time where I got lost in the De Vos Place in Grand Rapids after the President's Ball and then the parking garage for a solid two hours． I felt like my life was that one scene of an American television situation comedy, minus the air conditioner． At the time, these are nervous experiences that get your anxiety pumping． You're fearful that you won't be safe, but it always works itself out in the end． Physically losing yourself prepares you for how you manage when you emotionally or mentally lose yourself．You don't always have to be lost in a literal sense to"get lost"and some of the time, losing yourself may not be a positive experience． There are times where I lose sight of who I am． While lost, I test our metaphorical paths and sometimes they turn out to be the right direction and other times they were a wrong turn． I make note of these wrong turns, so I can avoid them further on up the road of finding my way back to who I am．In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote"Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations．"Getting lost fuels my curiosity and teaches me lessons on finding my way back to the right track． I believe in getting lost through day dreams, a misplacement, adventures, and difficult times where you make discoveries about yourself and the atmosphere around you． In order to truly find yourself, I believe that you should put down the map and get wonderfully lost．（1） In the first paragraph， the author mainly expresses that________．A lost in a novel is a special feeling ．B songs remind us of pastexperiences． C wandering is a wonderful discovery ． D getting lost brings us benefits．（2） The author mentions the experiences of physically getting lost（in paragraph 2）in order to say________．A physically getting lost is most difficult to deal with．B we can enjoy trips while physically getting lost．C people are easy to get physically lost in our dailylife． D we realize our surroundings while physically getting lost．（3） Words from Henry David Thoreau（in the last paragraph）imply that gettinglost________．A enables us to look within and to see outward．B pulls people back into the previousmoment． C enables us to remind ourselves of adventures． D helps us enjoy ourselves wherever we are．（4） Which of the following might be the best title of the passage？________A I Once Was Lost ．B Wonderfully Lost．C Physically GettingLost ． D Mentally Getting Lost．5. Two in three Americans shower once a day or more, according to a YouGov poll． Here's why you might be better off showering less frequently（and here are other ways you might be showering wrong）（1） What's the whole passage mainly about？________A Reasons you can probably get away with showering less．B Advice you can take on how to shower more and better．C Harmful effects made on you through showering less．D Benefits you can get from showering on a daily basis．（2） This passage provides us with the following further detailed informationExcept________．A the best time of day to shower．B the proper temperature for yourshower． C the other ways you shower wrong． D the other ways to cut your water bill．（3） Which of the following is Not a reason why you should shower less？________A Showering gets rid of good bacteria．B You're absolutely as dirty as youthink． C Towel drying causes damage to your skin． D You only really need to wash your smelly parts．6. Social norms of right and wrong are vital to a well﹣functioningsociety． However, such moral standards are changeable and the psychological mechanisms （机制）driving this change are unknown． Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet report that our view of selfish and unselfish behaviors changes depending on how common they are．The results are based on a combination of behavioral experiments, mathematical models and computer simulations． In the experiments, the participants first observed other people's behavior in a so﹣called"public goods game, "in which players receive a sum of money and then choose either to invest it to varying degrees so that it benefits everyone in the group, or to keep it for themselves． After every round, the participants were asked to judge the different choices as morally right or wrong, and whether the choices ought to be punished with a reduction in how much the players gained．Unselfish behavior was considered more morally right than selfish, but both behaviors were judged to be more moral and less deserving of punishment if the majority exhibited them than if they were uncommon． The commonness of the selfish behavior also affected the participants' willingness to themselves pay to punish selfishness．"Tolerance of selfish behavior increased when the majority of the players kept the money for themselves, which surprised me, "says principal investigator Andreas Olsson, senior lecturer at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience．"The fact that a behavior is common doesn't automatically mean that it's right ﹣ this idea is based on faulty logic that confuses facts with moral values．"The study shows our view of what is morally right and wrong has strong similarities with social comformity, in that we tend to adapt ourselves to the people around us and how they behave． This means that changes in our social environment can quickly alter our moral compass．"This is interesting from several angles, and could explain why moral attitudes change over time, such as those towards public goods or legality, "says Bjorn Lindstrom, postdoc at University of Zurich and Karolinska Institutet's Department of Clinical Neuroscience．（1） According to Andreas Olsson's analysis， if people accept selfish behavior， they actually________．A get facts and moral values mixed up ．B misunderstand socialmechanisms． C follow the logic of their own ． D consider it correct and reasonable．（2） It can be concluded that the participants in the experiments are punished if________．A they can't play"public goods game"． B invest the money to benefit group members． C they behave differently from the majority． D they keep the money for themselves．（3） According to the passage， what is morally right or wrong is shaped by the following Except________．A the way people around us behave ．B changes in our socialenvironment． C personal standards of values and attitudes ． D how widespread a particular behavior is．（4） Which of the following might be the best title of the passage？________A The psychological mechanisms behind attitude change．B Behavior is considered more moral the more common it is．C Our view of selfish and unselfish behaviors．D Moral standards of selfish and unselfish behaviors．Section C Directions：Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box. Each sentences can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.7.Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box. Each sentences can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.It is widely believed that seeking feedback from colleagues, managers, friends and family enhances employees' creativity. But is this always the case? No, a positive effect depends on the work, environment. This is the conclusion of new joint research study led by UvA work and organizational psychologist Roy Sijbom.（1）______ For example, managers are encouraged to engage customers in order to confirm whether their business model is workable and scholars attend conferences to obtain feedback on their research results. A definite assumption is that individuals who have obtained feedback will also actually（be able to）use it."The idea is simple: seeking feedback from different sources—also known as feedback source variety—benefits one's creativity since it leads to a greater diversity of viewpoints", says Sijbom. "And the more diverse the viewpoints, the more it benefits one's creativity because by combing all the different viewpoints new perspectives will emerge that in turn will result in more creativity.（2）______"The researchers examined how specific characteristics of the immediate work environment influence the relationship between feedback source variety and creative performance.（3）______ One is the recognized rate of change of performance standards. The other is the extent to which employees feel they have sufficient time to develop creative ideas at work （experienced creative time pressure）. "We discovered a growing relationship between the search for input from a variety of feedback sources and creativity, but only when performance standards within an organization are changing and when a relatively low creative time pressure is experienced", says Sijbom.Sijbom offers several recommendations: "（4）______ In a more concrete sense, organizations can, for example, consider using feedback workshops in which employees are encouraged to reflect on diverse feedback and equipped with techniques and strategies on how to absorb feedback in their daily work. In addition, managers should not only stimulate their employees to actively cultivate relationships with potential feedback sources within and outside the organization, but also provide sufficient time to process the feedback obtained from these relationships."Summary Writing8. Directions： Read the following passage． Summarize the main idea and the main point （s） of the passage in no more than 60 words． Use your own words as far as possible．Screen﹣addicted teens are unhappyA new study explored the link between adolescent life satisfaction and screentime． Researchers found that teens who spent more time in front of screen devices ﹣playing computer games， using social media， texting and video chatting ﹣were less happy than those who invested more time in non﹣screen activities like sports， reading newspapers and magazines， and face﹣to﹣face social interaction．Total screen avoidance doesn't lead to happiness either． The greater unhappiness among those with no screen exposure could be due to several factors， Twenge， the leading researcher said．"It could be that they are left out of the social scene of high school， thatit's very difficult to carry on friendships in high school these days without texting at all or being on social media．"It is also possible that those kids are outliers， Twenge said ﹣teens with special needs or in special education， or those whose screens have been taken away from them by parents．The key to digital media use and happiness is limited use． The happiest teens used digital media a little less than an hour per day． But after a daily hour of screen time，unhappiness rises steadily along with increasing screen time， the researchers report in the journal Emotion．"Make effort to spend no more than two hours a day on digital media， and try to increase the amount of time you spend seeing friends face﹣to﹣face and exercising﹣two activities reliably linked to greater happiness．"Twenge said．"By far the largest change in teen's lives between 2012 and 2016 was the increase in the amount of time they spent on digital media， and the following decline in in﹣person social activities and sleep，" the leading researcher said．"The arrival of the smartphone is the most reasonable explanation for the sudden decrease in teens' psychological well﹣being．"________TranslationDirections： Translate the following sentences into English， using the words given in the brackets.9. Translate the following sentences into English， using the words given in the brackets. （1）我对这场比赛的结果抱乐观态度。
2018届上海市各区高三英语二模试卷题型分类专题试题汇编--中英翻译--学生版
One【2018届上海市虹口区高三英语二模试题】V. TranslationDirections:T ranslate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.应该采取措施阻止新病毒的蔓延。
(stop)73.在澳大利亚期间，他养成了每天和父母视频通话的习惯。
(habit)74.与成年人相比，年轻人更容易犯错误是因为他们不够成熟，缺少经验。
(likely)75.近年来，电子白板系统应高效灵活地运用于课堂教学的想法已被广泛接受，难道不是吗?(idea)Two【2018届上海市黄浦区高三英语二模试题】V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.他一直提醒自己不要对他人太苛刻。
(hard)73.正如歌中所唱，没有人可以随随便便成功。
(reason)74.在业余时间，汤姆通过替在外出差的人遛狗来赚取零用钱。
(spend)75.这家以牛排为特色的饭店很受欢迎，你至少要提前两周订座。
(feature)Three【2018届上海市浦东新区高三英语二模试题】V. TranslationDirections：Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets)72.我们常常忍不住秒回刚收到的信息。
(can’t help73.当地政府不打算把音乐厅拆了，而是重新修复一下。
(instead of)74.学生在英语写作中词不达意的现象值得每位英语教师关注。
(worth)75.这部关于四代学生追寻爱情、志趣和梦想的电影如此感人，老老少少都想一睹为快。
2018上海高考英语二模-翻译部分
1.我对这场比赛的结果抱乐观态度。
（optimistic）I am optimistic about the result of the game.2.许多人把迟到看作是一个小问题，其实不然。
（think）Many people think of being late as a small problem, but in fact it’s not.3.无人驾驶技术解决了人们的困惑，使开车打电话成为可能。
（…it…）Driverless tenology solves people’s confusion and makes it possible to make a phone call while driving.4.人生中最可怕的不是你即使努力仍一事无成，而是碌碌无为却以平凡可贵安慰自己。
（…not…but…）The most horrible thing that can happen in your life is not that you achieve nothing even though you try, but that you give up and tell yourself it is precious to be just ordinary.1.他在会议上提出的建议值得三思。
（worth）The suggestion he put forward at the meeting is worth giving a second thinking.2.法律和政策应该适应我们社会不断发展的需求。
（adapt）Laws and policies should adapt to the developing needs of our society.3.绝不能任由困难打倒你，因为你永远不知道你离成功有多近。
（account）On no account can you let any difficulties beat you，for you can never tell how close you may be to the success.4.父母竭力庇护孩子免受问题的困扰，甚至代替他们做重要的决定，这将不利于孩子的健康成长。