2018届上海市奉贤区高三二模英语试题(word版)

1. Listening Comprehension

Section A Short Conversations

Directions:

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 restaurant

2. A. At4:20

B. At4:40

C. At4:50.

D. At4:30

3. A. Its price

B. Its location

C. Its comfort

D. Its facilities

4. A Employer and employ

B. Husband and wife

C. Teacher and student

D. Patient and doctor

5. A. To cancel his trip.

B. To go to bed early

C. To catch the later flight

D. 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 musical

B 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 B

Directions:

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.

14. A. To find out what covers the Earth.

B. To list all living things on Earth.

C. To work out the number of birds.

D. To save the existing plants.

15. A. It is run by school students.

B. It focuses on different types of grass.

C. It provides different levels of information.

D. It allows non-scientists to review its data.

16. A. We may know just a small part of all the living creatures of Earth.

B. We have learnt most of the living creatures on Earth.

C. Only scientists can help to make the Encyclopedia of Life.

D. It won't be long before scientists collect all the data they need.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. It is a club for people from different countries to socialize.

B. It is a club for British people to socialize in Washington.

C. It is a club for people from different countries to discuss business.

D. It is a club which arranges for people from different countries to do sports together.

18. A. Monday.

B. Tuesday.

C. Wednesday.

D. Thursday.

19. A. She can study and practise German free of charge.

B. She can have a meal in a restaurant with anyone from different countries.

C. She can communicate with all the sixty members at the moment.

D. She doesn't need to pay for her first month in the club.

20. A No activity is organized by International Friends Club on Wednesday.

B. The woman came to America three months ago.

C. International Friends Club organizes sports events for its members.

D. If one wants to join in International Friends Club, he should fill in a form.

II. 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.

Time to End Loneliness

US author Henry Rollins once wrote:

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

evil

On Jan 17, UK Prime Minister Theresa May appointed politician Tracey Crouch as the country’s very first

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

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,

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

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,

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

Section B

Direction:

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.

A. analyzing

B. maintain

C. designed

D. covered

E. capable

F. figures

G. recently

H. weighing

I. undoubtedly

J. release K. posts

Robots Writing Newspapers

Whether it's robots working as hotel receptionists or artificial intelligence creating poetry, it's becoming more

and more common to read about technology doing the jobs of humans. And now, it seems that software is even

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of writing news stories

—

such as the very one you're reading.

BBC

News

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reported

that

the

Press

Association(PA),

a

UK

news

service,

has

created

a

computer

program that's competent to create articles that are almost impossible to tell apart from those written by human

journalists. Called

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thousands of news

stories

written

by

humans.

The

PA's

software

is

already

so

advanced

that

many

UK

newspapers

and

websites

publish articles created by it.

According

to

the

Reuters

Institute

of

Journalism,

many

publishers

are

using

robo-journalism

to

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interesting

information

quickly,

from

election

results

to

official

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on

social

issues.

For

example,

US

news

organization The Washington Post has its own robo-journalism software, Heliograf.

According to tech website Digiday, Heliograf

media

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.So what does this mean for regular journalists?

could

replace

human

beings.

Fredrick

Kunkle,

a

Washington

Post

reporter,

told

Wired.

this

technology

seems to have taken over only some of the work that nobody else wants to do.

Indeed, it appears that robo-journalism software is

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to help humans, rather than take away their jobs.

the

future,

Heliograf

could

do

things

like

searching

the

web

to

see

what

people

are

talking

about,

checking The Washington Post to see if that story is being

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, and, if not, alerting editors or just writing the

piece itself, Wired reporter Joe Keoha wrote.

However, Joshua Benton at Harvard university's Nieman Journalism Lab believes that while robo-journalism

is

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going to become more present in newsrooms, nothing can replace traditional human creativity.

told BBC news.

really

difficult

part

of

what

professional

journalists

do

—

carefully

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information

and

presenting

balanced, contextualized(

全景式的

) stones

—

will be very hard for machines to master.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Direction:

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.

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard

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: keeping a moderate diet,

engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of

personalities

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longer

lives?

A

new

study

in

the

Journal

of

the

American

Geriatrics

Society

looked

at

this

question by

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the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing more

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and less neurotic (

神经质的

)

than other people, long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a(n)

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life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: Those

who like to make friends and help others can gather enough

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to make it through tough times.

Interestingly,

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, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether

study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined,

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, were no more likely

to live to be very old. Also, being

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to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all

those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.

Whether you can successfully change your

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as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological

debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should

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to be as outgoing as possible.

Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mothers personality may also help

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your longevity.

That

study

looked

at

nearly

28,

000

Norwegian

mothers

and

found

that

those

moms

who

were

more

anxious,

depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids

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diets, Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to

break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

Personality

isn't

destin(

命运

),

and

everyone

knows

that

individuals

can

learn

to

change.

But

both

studies

show that long life isn't just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health. Therefore, it might be

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to form those personality traits contributing to longevity through health- related behaviours, stress reduction and

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to the challenging problems.

41. A. statements

42. A. result from

B. definitions

B. lead to

C. applications

C. rely on

D. explanations

D. consist of

43. A. assessing

44. A. active

45. A. agreeable

46. A. resources

47. A. therefore

B. interviewing

B. extensive

B. normal

C. examining

C. persuasive

C. changeable

C. procedures

C. furthermore

C. in addition

C. blind

D. diagnosing

D. sensitive

D. formal

D. interactions

D. otherwise

D. for instance

D. alert

D. philosophy

D. oppose

D. determine

D. moderate

D. enjoyable

D. objection

B. associations

B. however

B. as usual

B. open

B. ambition

B. strive

B. restrict

48. A. in other words

49. A. resistant

50. A. perspective

51. A. reject

52. A. extend

53. A. unhealthy

C. personality

C. claim

C. shorten

C. adequate

B. nutritious

B. advisable

B. introduction

54. A. predictable

55. A. temptation

Section B

C. sustainable

C. adaptation

Directions:

Read

the

following

three

passages.

Each

passage

is

followed

by

several

questions

or

unfinished

statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according

to the information given in the passage you have just read.

A

One 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

meal

including

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:

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