2011_上海高考英语_浦东新区高考英语二模卷1

1. Over several thousand years of development, Chinese medicine has attracted great attention

its unique and marvelous effects.

A. to

B. in

C. on

D. for

2. To know more about the British Museum, one can use the Internet or go to the library, or

.

A. neither

B. some

C. all

D. both

3.

—

Will you attend the ceremony tomorrow?

—

What ceremony? I

informed of anything about it.

A. wasn

?

t

B. haven

?

t been

C. hadn

?

t been

D. won

?

t be

4. No conclusion

about whether to tear down the old buildings for a theme park until

several discussions have been made.

A. will be reached

B. is reached

C. is being reached

D. had been reached

5. Talking on the phone for over 30 minutes

be as harmful as listening to music at high

volume through headphones for over an hour.

A. must

B. shall

C. can

D. should

6. The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but

every

mouthful sweeter.

A. making

B. make

C. made

D. to make

7.

in extra-curricular activities gives students many priceless lifelong skills that will be

valuable to them forever.

A. Being involved

B. Involving

C. To involve

D. Involve

8. Some 350,000 people have reportedly been left homeless and are staying in shelters, anxiously

news of friends and relatives.

A. await

B. awaiting

C. awaited

D. having awaited

9.

with necessary knowledge and skills, the

young man went to the job market with

much confidence.

A. To be equipped

B. Equipping

C. Equipped

D. Being equipped

10. Don

?

t set yourself up for failure. Your chances of achieving your goals are much better

They

?

re realistic.

A. since

B. unless

C. if

D. as

11.

not all school subjects can be applied directly to your job in the future, they may

have indirect value.

A. Although

B. As

C. When

D. As though

12. As we all know, the start of a new year is the perfect time to think about

you want

to accomplish.

A. that

B. which

C. what

D. how

13.

—

It

?

s reported that a new underground line has been completed.

—

Yes, but it has

n?

t been made clear

it

?

s to be open to traffic.

A. that

B. when

C. what

D. who

14. People hold the view that life is 10% what happens to us and 90%

we respond to it.

A. why

B. how

C. when

D. what

15. The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Only when we are no longer afraid

to live.

A. we are beginning

B. begin we

C. do we begin

D. we begin

16. Raising children is said to be a job

parents receive the least formal training.

A. in which

B. for which

C. where

D. that

A. dislike

B. satisfy

C. center

D. familiar

E. understanding

F. role

G. honoring

H. frightened

I. improved

J. strict

Art

museums

are

places

where

people

can

learn

about

various

cultures.

The

increasingly

popular

“

design

museum

”

that

are

opening

today,

however,

perform

quite

a

different

1

.

Unlike most art museums, the design museum shows objects that are easily found by the general

public. These museums sometimes even place things like fridges and washing machines in the

2

of the hall.

People have argued that design museums are often made use of as advertisements for new

industrial technology. But their role is not simply a matter of sales

—

It is the

3

of excellently

invented products. The difference between the window of a department store and the showcase in

a design museum is that the first tries to sell you something, while the second tells you the success

of a sale.

One advantage of design museums is that they are places where people feel

4

with the

exhibits. Unlike the average art museum visitors, design museum visitors seldom feel

5

or

puzzled.

This

is

partly

because

design

museums

clearly

show

how

and

why

mass-produced

products work, and how design has

6

the quality of our lives. Art museum exhibits, on the

other hand, would most probably fill visitors with a feeling that there is something beyond their

7

.

In

recent

years,

several

new

design

museums

have

opened

their

doors.

Each

of

these

museums has tried to

8

the public

?

s growing interest in the field with new ideas. London

?

s

Design Museum, for example, show a collection of mass- produced objects from Zippo lighters to

electric typewriters to a group of Italian fish-tins. The choices open to design museum seem far

less

9

than those to art museum.

III. Reading Comprehension

If you want your child to have perfect pitch(

音高

) like musical masters Mozart and Chopin,

then start them early on Mandarin(

普通话

) or Vietnamese lessons. The possibility of developing

perfect pitch seems to be strongly

1

to the language people speak, confirming that children

can

2

the ability when they are very young.

Estimates suggest that perfect pitch is very

3

in the US and Europe, with only about 1

in 10,000 people being

4

to hear a single tone and identify it as middle C,

5

. But it is

slightly more common in people who start musical straining under five.

Also, a 2008 study by psychologist Diana Deutsch of the University of California, San Diego,

showed

that

perfect

pitch

is

6

is

Chinese

music

students

who

speak

Mandarin.

Mandarin,

like

Cantonese

and

Vietnamese,

is

a

tonal

language(

声调语言

)

in

which

the

pitch

of

a

spoken

word is essential to its meaning.

“

In my experience, musicians in China don

?

t regard perfect pitch

as anything

7

because it

?

s very common,

”

says Deutsch.

To

find

out

if

Chinese

people

have

a

genetic

8

,Deutsch

?

s

team

tested

203

music

students for perfect pitch --- they had to identify all 36 notes(

音调

) from three octaves(

八度音阶

)

played

in

9

order.

Those

tested

included

27

ethnic

Chinese

and

Vietnamese

students

who

had

10

levels of fluency in the tonal language learned from their parents.

It

11

that the Asian students scored no better than white students

12

they weren

?

t

fluent in their parents

?

language. But very fluent students scored highly, getting about 90 percent

of the notes correct on average.

“

They did incredibly well. It was overwhelming,

”

says Deutsch.

This suggests that

13

a tonal language plays a far greater role in perfect pitch than

14

.

“

Is

really

looks

as

though

infants

should

15

perfect

pitch

if

they

are

given

the

opportunity to attach verbal labels to musical notes at the age when they learn speech,

”

concludes

Deutsch.

1. A. exposed

B. linked

C. devoted

D. accustomed

2. A. use up

B. take up

C. pick up

D. bring up

3. A. normal

B. different

C. obvious

D. rare

4. A. ready

B. anxious

C. able

D. curious

5. A. for example

B. by the way

C. as well

D. in addition

6. A. important

B. common

C. impossible

D. practical

7. A. remarkable

B. mysterious

C. intelligent

D. productive

8. A. reverse

B. random

C. logical

D. correct

9. A. different

B. similar

C. high

D. average

10. A. figured out

B. turned out

C. made out

D. found out

11. A. because

B. unless

C. if

D. though

12. A. learning

B. comparing

C. teaching

D. processing

13. A. ages

B. nationalities

C. genes

D. races

14. A. prefer

B. manage

C. overcome

D. acquire

(A)

Heading off to college this year? Here are some fashion tips from our experts you should

keep in mind:

Dress to impress: Stylist and business consultant Daniela Smith says,

“

Girls should keep in

mind that your college professors will often be the bridge that connects you to your future career

and your classmates will become your professional network. You don

?

t need to dress like you

?

re

going to the office, but you should display an ability to properly present yourself with appropriate

maturity and confidence, and look put together.

”

Logo m ania(

标志狂热

)

：

Wearing the logos of brands aimed at younger customers physically

identifies you as part of that age group, so consider the targeted age group of the stores you shop

at. It

?

s tempting to load up on logos, especially well-known logos that signify high-end brands.

But consider this: college is a time of self-discovery, a chance to develop your own personal style.

Instead of wearing logos head to toe,

“

walking advertisement

”

style, why not express who you

really are?

Wear real pants! The combination of leggings(

紧身裤

) and baggy shirts is all too common on

college campuses. Smith point out that leggings, yoga pants, and sweatpants are entirely

unacceptable in public unless you

?

re exercising, Although leggings worn as pants are a common

trend among high school and college girls, they are not an appropriate choice for daywear. As a

young woman, your style choice should begin to reflect your maturity level. So, get rid of leggings

and wear real pants!

Keep the cute factor to a minimum: Stay away from sweaters and T-shirts with smiling

animals, cartoon characters, or Hello Kitty on them. Sure, kittens might be cute, but they

?

re not

doing you any favors in the style department. Dressing too cutesy(

故意讨人喜爱的

) can take

years off your look, and not necessarily in a good way!

1. The second paragraph indicates the importance of

.

A. impressing professors

B. getting on well with classmates

C. creating a professional image

D. dressing appropriately

2. The author recommends wearing real pants because

.

A. leggings are too common

B. yoga pants and sweatpants are not comfortable

C. real pants can present you with appropriate maturity

D. people like real pants better than the other pants

3. What

?

s the writer

?

s attitude towards sweaters with animals on them?

A. They make people look lovely.

B. They are fashionable.

C. They will show you

?

re an animal lover.

D. They are not suitable for college- aged students.

4. In which magazine are you most likely to find this passage?

A. Business Week.

B. Parenting.

C. In style.

D. Travel&Leisure.

(B)

One of the unsung benefits of our wired world is that for years, the most famous universities

have been posting complete courses on the Web, tuition free. We have access to lectures,

syllabuses(

课程提纲

)< /p>

，

exams, charts, diagrams, whole textbooks even-all in the name of the Open

Course Ware movement that took off in the United States when the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology began uploading classroom materials without charge in 2002. Now you practically

need a full-time course adviser to help you with the choices. That

?

s where we come in. Our writer,

David Hochman, spent thirty days learning all he could through on-line lectures. Here are a few of

his favorite teachers and his picks from the courses they teach.

Marian C. Diamond,

UC Berkeley,

General Human Anatomy: The Human Brain and

Muscular System.

Says Hochman,

“

I stayed up past midnight absorbed in Diamond

?

s simple yet

amazing descriptions of what body parts do.

“

This mass weights only three pounds,

?

she says,

holding a human brain,

?

yet it can imagine a universe a billion light-years across. Now is

n?

t that

extraordinary?

?

My brain certainly thought so.

”

Paul Bloom,

Yale University,

Introduction to Psychology; Evolution, Emotion, and Reason;

Emotions, Part I.

What do your dreams mean? Can apes learn sign language? Why can

?

t we tickle

ourselves? According to Open Yale Courses, this course tries to answer these questions and many

others, providing a comprehensive description of the scientific study of thought and behavior.

Michael Sandel, Harvard University, The Morality of Murder: (Part 1) The Moral Side of

Murder, (Part 2) The Case For Cannibalism. A thousand students regularly pack themselves into a

lecture Hall at Harvard to hear Sandel

?

s course on justice, one of the most popular in the school

?

s

history. In this lecture, Sandel looks at difficult moral dilemmas(

困境

) involving choices we might

one day make about life and death.

Richard Feynman, Cornell University, Law of Gravitation. Says Hochman,

“

Maybe it

?

s his

cheerful New York accent, but the physicist makes the great principles of motion, energy, and,

indeed, quantum mechanics(

量子力学

) seem down-to earth.

?

Even the artists appreciate the

sunsets and the ocean waves and the march of the stars across the heavens,

?

he says before