2020年上海高考英语二模---崇明区

2020

年上海高考英语二模

---

英

语

2020.5

（考试时间

120

分钟，满分

140

分。请将答案填写在答题纸上）

I.

Listening Comprehension

Section A

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. A physicist.

B. An operator.

C. A surgeon.

D. A psychologist.

2.A. In a college.

B. In a bank.

a property agency.

D. In an accounting office.

3.A. Go home.

B. Go travelling.

C. Help in a lab.

D. Help in a travel agency.

4.A. Leave the exhibition.

B. Ignore what the man says.

D. Help the man understand art.

C. See more of the exhibition.

5.A. The time to close student accounts.

B. The application procedures of student accounts.

C. The limits on student loans.

D. The application deadline of student loans.

6.A. The woman is better at writing reports.

B. He is unqualified to write the report.

C. The woman should have told him earlier.

D. He should have made last-minute preparations.

7.A. The man seldom eats in the cafeteria.

B. The woman prefers canned vegetables.

C. The spring roll contains more vegetables.

D. The cafeteria usually uses canned vegetables.

8.A. She warned the man previously.

B. She thinks the chemistry class is difficult.

C. The man should have got up earlier.

D. The man needs to be more attentive in class.

9.A. Only take morning classes.

C. Get used to skipping lunch.

10.A. The data need to be collected soon.

questions haven’t been designed yet.

man will help the woman interview people.

woman hasn’t decided on the theme of the paper.

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B. Make time for lunch in her schedule.

D. Change her schedule after she has lunch.

Section B

Directions:

In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you

will be asked several questions on each of them. 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11.A. Charging its visitors.

B. Meeting its overnight tourists’ requirements.

C. Restricting its access.

D. Monitoring individuals arriving in private cars.

B. To prevent visitors staying overnight.

D. To add a tax on services.

B. Venice is accessible in all directions.

D. It may make tourism less aggressive.

12.A. To help hotels earn more.

C. To support some services.

13.A. Transport companies disapprove of it.

C. The fee is too high for most tourists.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14.A. To earn more e-sports scholarships.

B. To arouse girls’ interest in STEM.

C. To attract a greater range of gamers.

D. To provide college opportunities for girls.

15.A. The general education.

C. Lack of appropriate e-games.

16.A. The choice of games.

C. The wealth of players.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17.A. The way to pay for vacations.

C. The budget limit of a vacation.

18.A. By car.

B. By ship.

B. The time to spend vacations.

D. The choice of holiday destinations.

C. By train.

D. By plane.

B. Low reputation of role models.

D. The assumption that girls aren’t fit.

B. The gender of players

D. The competition environment.

19.A. It can change his view on budgeting.

C. It offers a chance to read more books.

20.A. The man is afraid to take a plane.

C. The woman earns more than the man.

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B. It is fun to enjoy the scenery on the way.

D. It is joyful to listen to music while driving.

B. The man prefers a debt-free holiday.

D. The woman uses her credit card at will.

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.

Sneakers (

运动鞋

) Made from Old Chewing Gum

Dutch fashion and shoe label Explicit Wear is hoping to solve one of life’s sticky situations—

the

annoyance

of

stepping

in

waste

chewing

gum

on

the

pavement—while

helping

to

keep

Amsterdam’s

city

streets

clean.

The

brand

has

partnered

with

local

marketing

organization

Iamsterdam

and

sustainability

firm

Gumdrop

(21)_______(create)

a

limited

edition

sneaker

for

adults made from recycled gum collected from the city’s pavements.

Chewing gum causes an incredibly serious ecological problem, (22) _______it is made from

plastics that do not biodegrade (

生物降解

). It’s also the second (23)_______ (common) form of

roadside litter, after cigarette ends. An incredible 3.3 million pounds of gum are incorrectly thrown

away

on

the

sidewalks

each

year,

(24)_______

(cost)

the

city

millions

of

dollars

to

clean

up.

Gumdrop plans to collect waste gum from the streets of Amsterdam, clean them, and turn them into

Gum-Tec, the material that forms the base of the shoe.

The waste gum will be put

to good use to make stylish kicks, (25) _______will also raise

awareness for the anti-littering cause. (26)_______ (price) at around $$332, the shoes will come into

the market sometime next month.

Available for preorder now, the new Gumshoe sneakers—offered in both a bubblegum pink

and a black/red colorway—(27)_______ (feature) long-lasting rubber outsoles (

鞋子外底

)

shaped

from recyclable compounds produced by Gumdrop, 20 percent of which are made from gum.

Nearly 2.2 pounds of gum (28)_______ (use) in every four pairs of shoes. A map of Amsterdam

is made into the bottom of

the soles to remind people of the littering problem. Even better, the

sneakers actually still smell like bubblegum, (29) _______ the annoying stickiness. Just as good as

any sneaker with a rubber sole, the Gumshoes help

get chewing gum off our streets and keep the

dangerously non-biodegradable substance out of our eco-system.

To help spread their sustainability message, (30) _______Gumshoe’s creators are hoping to do

is to expand their project to other major cities around the world.

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Section B

Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box.

Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. documentary

B. categorize

C. sense

D. claimed

E. rid

F. outlook

G. ballooned

H. former

I. determined

J. romantic

K. drive

Former World’s Fattest Man Finds Love

He was once the world’s fattest man weighing in at an incredible 980 pounds and consuming

20,000 calories (

卡路里

) a day. But it seems that after losing 672 pounds following a surgery, it’s

not just Paul Mason’s health that has a more promising (31)_______—his weight loss may have

also promoted his love life.

Mr. Mason has only known his new girlfriend Rebecca for a month and the pair are yet to meet,

but already the 52-year old has (32)_______that Rebecca is the love of his life. The pair met online

last month when Rebecca saw a television (33)_______ about Mr. Mason’s extreme fatness—the

result of overeating when a previous relationship ended. She was so touched by his situation as to

get in touch, keen to help Mr. Mason get the NHS (National Health Service) to pay for a second

operation to (34) _______ him of layers of extra skin.

Mr. Mason said: “She didn’t really think of anything (35) _______at the beginning. It wasn’t

until the second conversation that I realised there was more there than just friends. She felt the same

and brought up the idea of us being boyfriend and girlfriend.”

Mr.

Mason

says

that

he

doesn’t

go

for

looks

and

finds

Rebecca’s

(36)

_______

attitude

particularly attractive. “It is her personality, her (37) _______ and passion that has made me fall for

her. We share the same ideas and interests and she has made me look at life in a new way. For a long

time I couldn’t really see light at the end of the tunnel, but since Rebecca’s been in my life I’ve got

a whole new (38) _______of worth and excitement.”

Mr. Mason (39) _______ to his incredible size by eating ten times the amount needed by a

normal man due to a compulsive eating disorder. As his weight rose sharply he was left unable to

stand or walk before finally becoming bed-ridden and being looked after full time by carers.

Firefighters had to knock down the front wall of his (40)

home so they could use a fork lift

truck to lift him out and put him into an ambulance when he needed an operation in 2002.

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III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions:

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.

High school students who take music courses score significantly better on math, science and

English exams than their non-musical peers, according to a new study published in the Journal of

Educational Psychology.

School administrators needing to cut budgets often look first to music courses, because the

general belief is that students who devote time to music rather than math, science and English, will

__41__ in those disciplines.

“Our research proved this belief __42__ and found the more the students engage with music,

the better they do in those subjects,” said UBC (University of British Columbia) education professor

and

the

study’s

principal

investigator,

Peter

Gouzouasis.

“The

students

who

learned

to

play

a

musical instrument in elementary and __43__ playing in high school not only score significantly

higher, but were about one academic year ahead of their non- music peers with

regard to

their

English, mathematics and

science skills, as measured

by their exam grades,

__44__ their socioeconomic background, race, previous learning in mathematics and English, and

gender.”

Gouzouasis and his team __45__ data from all students in public schools in British Columbia

who finished Grade 12 between 2012 and 2015. The data __46__, made up of more than 112,000

students,

included

those

who

completed

at

least

one

standardized

exam

for

math,

science

and

English.

Students

who

studied

at

least

one

instrumental

music

course

in

the

regular

curriculum

counted as students __47__ music.

The

researchers

found

the

__48__

relationships

between

music

education

and

academic

achievement were more pronounced for those who took instrumental music rather than vocal (

发声

的

) music. The findings suggest skills learned in instrumental music __49__ very broadly to the

students’ learning in school.

“Learning to play a musical instrument and playing in a band is very __50__ ,” said the study’s

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co-investigator Martin Guhn, an assistant professor in UBC’s school of population and public health.

“A student has to learn to read musical notes, develop eye-hand-mind coordination (

协调

), develop

keen listening skills, develop __51__ skills for playing in a band and develop discipline to practice.

All those learning experiences, and more, play a role in __52__ the learner’s cognitive capacities

(

认知能力

), executive functions, and motivation to learn in school.”

The researchers hope that their findings will be brought to the __53__ of students, parents,

teachers and administrative decision-makers in education, as many school districts over the years

have

emphasized

mathematics

and

literacy

__54__

other

areas

of

learning,

particularly

music.

“However, the amusing aspect is that __55__ education can be the very thing that improves all-

around academic achievement,” said Gouzouasis.

41. A. overbalance

B. underperform

42. A. fantastic

B. strategic

C. overwork

D. underplay

C. embarrassing

D. wrong

43. A. resisted

B. delayed

C. deserted

D. continued

44. A. thanks to

45. A. examined

B. in contrast to

C. regardless of

D. by means of

B. published

C. stored

D. exchanged

46. A. report

B. sample

C. analysis

D. center

47. A. taking

B. composing

C. sharing

48. A. casual

B. symbolic

D. performing

C. predictive

D. changeable

D. limit

D. demanding

49. A. transfer

B. decline

C. attach

50. A. attractive

B. distinct

C. independent

51. A. life

B. literacy

C. team

D. survival

52. A. altering

53. A. attention

B. enhancing

C. distracting

D. labeling

B. question

C. edge

D. glory

C. in case of

D. at the cost of

D. school

54. A. in terms of

B. as a result of

55. A. health

B. music

C. science

Section 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.

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(A)

A growing number of American states are requiring schools to teach students “media literacy”

skills. California is the latest state to pass such a requirement. Media literacy, also known as news

literacy, is the ability to use critical thinking skills to recognize differences between real and “fake”

news.

The new law requires California’s Department of Education to provide materials related to

media literacy on its website. Its goal is to give students a set of effective tools to “enable them to

make informed decisions”.

The media literacy efforts were based on a Stanford University study from 2016. It found that

80 percent of U.S. middle school students failed to recognize an advertisement that looked like a

real

news

story.

The

researchers

also

found

that

high

school

students

had

trouble

telling

the

difference between a real and a fake news website.

The study called for more efforts to help students recognize false information on the internet.

It said that young people also need the skills to find out where news stories come from, and to be

able to judge the trustworthiness of sources and writers.

Carolyn

Edy

is

a

professor

of

communication

at

Appalachian

State

University

in

North

Carolina. She said she has seen a clear change in her students’ abilities to judge news sources. Edy

said that when students used to read printed newspapers, it was easier for them to recognize fact

from opinion. Now, it’s necessary to teach students how to fully examine websites.

One of Edy’s goals is to teach students how to research the news organizations responsible for

the stories they are reading. One way to do this is for students to ask a series of questions. One

example is, “What is the overall mission of the organization?”

Edy said young people also need to judge whether news organizations identify any possible

conflicts of interest. Another question to ask is, “What do they do when they get a story wrong?”

Responsible and trustworthy news organizations issue corrections if something is falsely reported,

she said.

Edy added that one good thing to come out of the rise of misinformation and fake news is that

it has made many people seek out good reporting.

new law passed in California mainly aims at __________.

A. helping students identify fake news

B. improving students’ critical thinking skills

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C. offering students real information

D. enabling students to make quick decisions

does the author mention the Stanford University study?

A. To present the details of the law.

B. To provide a set of tools for the law.

C. To show the reason behind the law.

D. To indicate the efforts based on the law.

is a way suggested by Carolyn Edy for students to judge the trustworthiness of a news

organization?

A. Identifying the conflicts of interest in it.

B. Correcting its falsely reported news stories.

C. Learning about its background information.

D. Asking a series of questions about its news.

passage mainly tells us that media literacy ____________.

A. can contribute to the rise of good news reporting

becoming much more important with the law passed

C. can improve American students’ understanding of news

increasingly recognized as essential for students in the US

(B)

PAssionArts Festival

PAssionArts Festival this year will run from 6 July to 25 August, bringing community arts to 250,000

residents across Singapore. The festival theme, “Our Home, Our HeARTs”, invites residents to use

arts to express our love for our community and for Singapore.

Our aim is to bring residents together to experience and appreciate creativity. Look forward to

over

500 arts activities and programmes, including visual art displays and performing arts

co-created by residents and artists. The following are some of them.

ARTS PARTY @ TELOK BLANGAH

TIME:

14 July (9:00 AM

—

12:00 AM)

PLACE:

Talok Blangah Mall

Art

can

happen

in

so

many

ways

and

for

so

many

people

—

and

that

is

what

Arts

Party

@

Telok

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