【英语】上海市崇明区2019届高三第一次高考模拟考试英语试题

) is roughly a tenth of what it costs to cope with them when

they hit. In 2012, a call was issued for an annual billion- dollar U.S. commitment to

the development of a

universal flu vaccine. Six years later, the search for a universal vaccine remained seri

ously underfunded.

The

simple

reason

lies

in

our

collective

satisfaction.

As

soon

as

headlines

about

the

flu

are

going

hospitals

are

emptied

of

flu

patients,

and

school

and

workplace

absence

rates

de

clines,

we

go

back

to

business as usual.

Leading scientists and public health officials have the capability to keep us much sa

fer from flu. They

need your quick and decisive support to succeed. Your action today may be a matte

r of life and death for

you and your loved ones.

56. The problem of the current flu vaccines is that __________.

A. they are not available every year

B. most Americans are not allowed to get them

C. not everyone is qualified for them

D. many people still catch flu after getting them

57. What does the author mean by

“continued

foot drag

ging”

in Paragraph 4?

A. Hospitals cannot meet the needs of patients during flu outbreaks.

B. The leaders continue to drag the feet of the patients infected with flu

C. Individuals

aren’t

alert enough to the underinvestment in flu prevention.

D. Flu will certainly become a severe widespread disease in near future.

58. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. Science is currently not so developed as to keep us safer from flu.

B. The death from flu is much higher than that from other diseases.

C. The general public is partially to blame for the neglect of flu prevention.

D. Developing a universal flu vaccine will cost more than dealing with flu.

59. The author wrote the passage mainly to _______-.

A. teach people more effective ways to fight against flu

B. call on people to take flu outbreaks far more seriously

C. encourage medical scientists to develop more flu vaccines

D. urge the government to publicize the risks of widespread flu.

(B)

How to get your tax refund

At the store

Get a Global Blue Tax Free Form. If you do not have a SHOP TAX FREE Car

d,

see”

How to fill

in your Tax Free

Forms.”

Make sure your Tax Free Form is filled in before arriving at the point of depa

rture.

Remember no refund without:

Completed

Form

Receipts

attached

Customs

validation(

验证

)

At the point of departure

For non-EU residents only

Goods carried in checked-in luggage.

1. Check your luggage in at the check- in counter; tell the check-in clerk you need it

back for Customs

purposes.

2. Take the labelled luggage to Customs, show the goods, and have your Tax Free Fo

rms stamped.

3. Cash in your stamped Form at the appropriate refund service provider.

_____________________ _______________________________________________

_________

Goods carried in hand luggage:

1. Go to Customs after passport control, show the goods, and have your Tax Free F

orms stamped. Please

note: Customs clearance of goods in hand luggage can only take place at the last E

U airport before you

finally leave the EU.

2. Cash in your stamped Form at the appropriate bank counter or post it to the appr

opriate refund service

provider.

___ __________________________________________________ _______________

__________

Allow time for the refund process. Go to Customs before or after check-in, s

ee Refund Office

list. Present your completed Tax Free Forms, receipts , passport , and purc

hased items to get

a stamp.

标

Go to a Refund Office displaying the Global Blue logo(

识

). Receive your refund paid to

your credit card within five days or in cash.

In a rush? Mail your stamped and completed Tax Free Forms and receipts

back to us in the

envelope provided and get your refund paid to your credit card within thre

e weeks.

EU: European Union.

60. Whom is the above information intended for?

A. EU residents who want to get their tax refunded.

B. Non-EU residents who are going to travel in EU.

C. EU residents who have Global Blue Tax Free Forms

D. Non-EU residents who are leaving EU after purchase.

61. To get your tax refund , you need to ________ after having your luggage checked

in if

you’ve

put your purchased goods in your check-in luggage.

A. show your purchased goods to the check-in clerk

B. cash in your stamped Form at the check-in counter

C. take back your luggage to the Customs to get a stamp

D. go to the Customs to fill in a form without the luggage.

62. What can be learned from the passage?

A.

It’s

a must to attach the receipts to the form to get your tax refund

B.

It’s

unnecessary to show your passport to the Customs for a stamp

C. You can get your refund in cash after posting your form if in a hurry

D. You can get your refund by credit card at once at the appropriate counter.

(C)

A portrait created by artificial intelligence, or AI, made a h

istoric

appearance on the auction(

拍

卖

) block at

Christie’s

in New York City. It is the first artwork created by an

algorithm(

算法

) to be offered for auction in the world of fine art.

The odd-looking painting of a fictitious man in a dark frockcoat left the auction blo

ck at

Christie’s

for

a whopping US$$432,500 on Oct. 25 in New York City.

The portrait

—

designed in the

“Old

Master”

style reminiscent of European fine arti

sts from centuries

ago

—

only partially fills the canvas, leaving empty space around the central figure. It a

ppears to represent

a man with a blurred face, dressed in clothing similar to that worn by subjects painted

by the Dutch artist

Rembrandt van Rijn in the 17th century.

Of course, a computer

didn’t

automatically pick up a brush and become an artist. T

he AI that created

the

image

had

human

programmers ---a

Parisian

art collective

called

Obvious,

Christi

e’s

reported.

Their

cooperation, titled

“Portrait

of Edmond De Belamy,

”

is part of a series of paintings of th

e fictional Belamy

family and was expected to fetch $$7,000 to $$10,000, according to

Christie’s.

To create the portrait, the Obvious team first fed the network a diet of 15,000 image

s painted between

the 14

th

and 20

th

centuries, to train it to recognize visual elements in fine art, Obvious arti

sts Hugo Caselles-

Dupre’

told

Christie’s.

The algorithm that eventually created an original image had two

parts that worked

against

each

other,

called

the

Generator

(that

makes

the

art)

and

a

Discriminator(th

at

tries

to

spot

the

difference between human-created and AI-created images), Caselles-

Dupre’

explained:

they called this AI

“generate

adversarial

network”(GAN),

Casells-

Dupre’

explained.

GAN’s

final image was then printed and framed, according to Obvious. At the bott

ome of the portrait

is a mathematical formula(

公

式

) representing the algorithm that created it, a nod to the relationship between

the Generator and the Discriminator, Obvious artists wrote on the

collective’s

website.

The

goal of

the

painting

and

of

Obvious,

also

co- founded

by Hugo

Caselles-D

upre

and

Gauthier

Vernier,

was

to

prove

“artificial

intelligence

can

do

more

than

operate

driverless

cars

or

transform

manufacturing---it can be

creative,”

Consumer News and Business Channel reported.

Portraiture

is

a

tough

task

for

AI

to

take

on,

according

to

Christie’s,

“since

humans

are

highly

accustomed to the curves and complexities of a face in a way that a machine cannot

be.”

This difficulty was

part of

Obvious’

thinking when they created the portrait.

“

Edmond de

Belamy”

is one of eleven AI paintings made by Obvious.

63. It can be learned from the passage that the portrait

“Edmond

de

Belamy”____

____.

A. was sold at an unexpected high price

C. is a painting created by means of brush

B. was the first artwork sold at an auction

D. is a man who once appeared at the auction

64. To create a portrait, AI needs to ________.

A. learn from plenty of images

C. work against human painters

B. use an algorithm with many parts

D. recognize its human programmers

65. What can be conclude from the passage?

A. The mathematical formula at the bottom of the portrait is meaningless.

B. The portrait was made to prove algorithms are able to imitate creativity

C. It is more difficult for AI to operate driverless cars than to paint a portrait.

D. AI is better at painting the curves and complexities of a face than a human

66. The passage mainly tells us that ________.

A. AI will soon replace man in some fields

B. an AI-created portrait sells high at an auction

C. a proper algorithm is the key for AI to create art

D. AI-created paintings are better received at auctions

Section C

A.

It’s

that long-term exposure that experts find most worrisome.

B. Car manufacturers are unaware of standards regulating air quality inside new cars.

C. This is when components are still unstable and tend towards what is called off- gassi

ng.

D. Just reading a list of the substances is scary enough, and the danger of exposure is sc

arier still.

E. The source of the smell so many buyers find appealing is in the various substances u

sed in car

construction.

F. Fortunately, high concentrations of these compounds gradually disappear just a fe

w months

after manufacture.

Is

New-car

Smell

Bad

for

Your

Health?

The smell of a new car can be appealing in showrooms, for which

there’s

a good rea

son. That new car

smell comes from a mixture of chemicals, some of which can be highly poisonous.

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性

_____________. Many of these contain volatile(

的

) organic compounds(VOCs), some of which

can be deadly in sufficient quantities. Others are just bad for you.

“It’s

a

chemical

cocktail

made

up

of

lots

of

poisonous

substances,”

said

Jeff

Gearhart,

Research

Director of the Ecology Center in the US state of Michigan. The Ecology Center has

been monitoring and

testing chemical levels in the inside of the car for years, and has noted some impro

vement. But Gearhart

says there is still work to be done.

“There

are over 200 chemical compounds found in vehicles

,”

he said.

“Since

these

chemicals are not

regulated, consumers have no way of knowing the dangers they

face.”

___________

Immediate

symptoms

can

range

from

a

sore

throat

to

headach

es,

dizziness,

etc.,

depending on the sensitivity of an individual.

According to the US environmental Protection Agency, continued exposure to som

e of these can lead

to

reproductive

impacts

and

damage

to

some

organs

and

central

nervous

system ----or

even

cancer.___________.

The danger is the greatest when the car is new, and the new car smell is most noti

ceable._________

It is the release of chemical vapours, which leads to the smell. Heat from a vehicle left i

n the sun can make

matters worse, and speed up the chemical reaction. The danger is reduced over time, a

nd experts say the

worst is usually within about six months.

Experts advise the best thing that buyers can do to limit exposure is to keep the in

side of the car well

v entilated(

通

风

的

), especially during the first months of ownership. Park in the shade with the windo

ws

open when

it’s

safe to do so, or at least try to air it out before getting inside---- especially

on hot days.

IV.

Summary

Writing

Take

Care

of

Your

Spine

(

脊柱

)

The spine stands at the center of your health, providing your body with structure a

nd support. It also

contains your spinal cord, a massive collection of nerves that sends electric signals fro

m the rest of your

body to your brain. Therefore,

it’s

important to take care of it.

Maintaining your good posture is one of the most important things you can do to keep

your spine healthy.

Proper posture means standing or sitting while keeping your spine straight, except for

its natural curves.

Posture comes into play even when

you’re

asleep. Sleeping on your side puts less stress

on your spine than

most other positions. Having a comfortable bed is also very important as sleeping in a

position that

isn’t

comfortable can leave your back feeling sore the next day.

Exercise is also an important factor in the health of your spine. Staying still for too l

ong---even if your

posture is good---can be hard on your back. Especially if you work at a desk most of the

day,

it’s

important

to get up and stretch periodically. Stretches can help the muscles around your spine rela

x and allow bones

to shift into better positions. Strength exercise with light weights or bodyweight exercise

s like pushups can

also

by

strengthening

the

muscles

around

your

spine.

However,

don’t

overdo

the

ex

ercise,

as

repeated

motions can hurt the muscles around your spine.

Your diet also affects the health of your spine because many vitamins are necessary for

bones and nerves.

In particular, B vitamins help keep nerves healthy, so you may want to consider taking

a supplement(

补充

物

). Another important factor is vitamin D, which is essential for strong bones, but

it’s

also absorbed from

sunlight, so it may help to do some of those back exercises outside.

V. Translation

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the

brackets.

72.

科学家们惊叹于这些植物对城市环境的快速适应。（

adapt ion

）

73.

我妹妹的课堂笔记一向一目了 然，值得学习。（

enough

）

74.

那些源自中国古代文学的角色 在这个网络游戏里获得了新生。

(originate)

75.

经济全球化是经济发展的必然 趋势，它是不以人类意志力为转移的。

（

independen t

）

VI. Guided Writing

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instru

ctions given below in

Chinese.

76.

中华中学为了进一步规范学校的社团建设，提高社团活动的品质，向广大师

生征求意见。假设

你是该学校学生王敏，写一封电子邮件给 负责社团的林老师，就你所了解

的

1-2

个学校社团发表意

见。你的邮件需包括：

1.

你所了解的学校社团的现状（亮点和不足）及其原因。

2.

提出你对改进学校社团的建设的建议

注：

文中不得提及你的真实姓名或学校

2. D

12. D

崇明区

2019

届第一次高考模拟考试

英

语

参考答案及评分标准

I.

Listening

Comprehension

（共

25

分

。

第

1

至

10

小

题< /p>

，

每

题

1

分

；

第

11

至

20

小

题< /p>

，

每

题

1.5

分。）

1. B

11. A

3. D

13. A

4. B

14. B

5. C

15. C

6. C

16. D

7. A

17. D

8. A

18. A

9. B

19. B

10. A

20. C

II.

Grammar

and

Vocabulary

（共

20

分。每小题

1

分。）

21. faster

22. Although/Though/While

23. for

24. meant

25. can

26. to earn

27. because/as/since

28. being caught

29. which

30. that

31. I

32. E