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浦东复旦附中分校
2020
届三月质量检测英语试卷
2020
年
3
月
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Joaquin Phoenix
took home the best-
actor Oscar on
Sunday night for his role in “Joker.” In the
following
lengthy and wide-ranging
speech, the actor, 45, tackled issues of equality
and nature preservation.
I’m full of so
much gratitude right now. And I do not feel
elevated above any of my fellow
nominees
(
被提名
者
) or anyone
in this room (21)______ we share the same love,
the love of film.
But I think the
greatest gift it’s given me, and many
of us in this room, (22)______(be) the opportunity
to use
our voice for the voiceless. And
this form of expression has given me the most
extraordinary life. I don’t know
what
I’d be (23)
______ it.
I’ve
been thinking a lot about some of the
(24)
______ (distress) issues that we
are facing collectively. I think
at
times we're made (25)______(feel), that we
champion different causes. But for me, I see
commonality. I think,
(26)______
we're talking about gender inequality
or racism or animal rights, we’re
talki
ng about the fight against
injustice. We’re talking about the
fight against the belief that one nation, one
race, or one gender or one species
has
the right to dominate, control and exploit
(27)______ without punishment.
I
think that we’ve become
very
disc
onnected from
the
natural world, and (28)______
we’re
guilty of is
a
self-centered
world view that we're the center of the universe.
And I think we fear the idea of
personal change because we think that we have to
sacrifice something, but
human
beings,
at
our
best,
are
so
inventive
and
creative
and
original.
And
I
think
that
when
we
use
love
and
compassion as our
guiding principles, we can create, and implement
systems of change (29)______ are beneficial
to all emotional beings and to the
environment.
Now,
I have
been, I have been a villain in my life. I’ve been
selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work
with, and I’m grateful that I
(30)
______ (give) a second chance
because of the many of you in this room.
Section B
A.
attention
B.
coined
C. blessed
D. stimulated
E. marvelous
F. cost
K.
referred
G. miracle
H.
concentration
I. intense
J. point
Art
occurs
in
many
forms:
music,
dance,
painting,
architecture,
sculpture,
cinema,
and
literature,
among
others. Works of art can make people
feel moved, even to the ___31___ of tears. In the
case of Stendhal syndrome,
however,
this
feeling
is
so
___32___
that
a
person
can
experience
a
rapid
heartbeat,
dizziness,
sweating,
or
fainting.
It
may
even
require
hospitalization.
In
the
Italian
city
of
Florence,
numerous
visitors
viewing
the
___33___
Renaissance
art
there
have
experienced
this
and
have
required
medical
___34___.
Though
not
professionally recognized, this
condition -- now ___35___ to as Stendhal syndrome
-- does exist.
While great art is found
in every civilization,
Florence has
been especially
___36___. A small city
with a
historical center, it is
internationally admired for its amazing ___37___
of Renaissance art. Florence in the 15th
and 16th centuries attracted the talent
of many geniuses: artists, scientists, and authors
were welcomed here. Some
of the
greatest Western works of art can be found in
Florence, such as the statue of David by
Michelangelo, The
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Birth
of
Venus
by
Botticelli,
and
the
frescoes
(
壁画
)
by
Giotto
in
the
Basilica
of
Santa
Croce.
In
addition,
Leonardo da Vinci
left works here. Galileo Galilei and Niccolo
Machiavelli are buried here.
The
syndrome
is
named
after
Stendhal,
a
French
author
who
visited
Florence
in
1817.
He
described
his
experience of being fascinated by the
historic and artistic power of the city in one of
his books. Though the term
Stendhal
syndrome
was
not
___38___
until
1979
by
Italian
psychiatrist
Graziella
Magherini,
the
illness
had
already had a long history. Patients
usually recover within days of their attacks
without any ___39___ drug other
than
rest
and
quiet.
For
them,
the
___40___
of
viewing
the
power
and
beauty
of
Florence
is
a
brief
trip
to
a
hospital.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
If you examine the
birth certificate of every soccer per in the last
World Cup tournament, you will most likely
find the excellent players were born in
the earlier months of the year. If you then
examine the European national
youth
teams that feed the World Cup, you will find this
phenomenon even more ___41___.
What
might account for this strange phenomenon? Some
guess a certain
astrological
sign
(
星座
)
___42___
superior
soccer
skills;
others
maintain
that
winter-born
babies
have
higher
oxygen
capacity,
which
increases
soccer
stamina
(
耐力
).
But
Anderson
Ericsson,
a
58-year-old
professor
who
is
called
the
expert
on
experts,
believes in
neither. His first experiment, nearly 30 years
ago, involved
___43___ training a
person to hear and
repeat a random
series of numbers. “With the first subject, after
20 hours of training, his digital span rose to
20”,
Ericsson recalls, “and after about
200 hours of training he could repeat up to 80
numbers.”
This success,
coupled with later research showing memory itself
is not ___44___ determined, led Ericsson to
conclude that the act of memorizing is
a cognitive exercise, which means whatever inborn
differences two people
may exhibit in
their abilities to memorize, those differences are
___45___ by how well each person encodes the
information. And the best way to
learn how to encode
information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was
a
process known as ___46___
practice. It involves more than simply repeating a
task -- playing a C-minor scale 100
times, ___47___, or hitting tennis
serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket.
___48___, it involves stepping
outside
your
comfort
zone,
setting
specific
and
well-defined
goals,
focusing
on
___49___
areas
of
expertise,
obtaining
immediate feedback from professionals and
concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.
Ericsson
and
his
colleagues
have
thus
taken
to
studying
high
achievers
in
a
wide
range
of
___50___,
including
soccer,
golf,
chess,
piano
playing
and
darts.
They
gather
all
the
data
they
can
and
make
a
rather
shocking statement:
the trait we commonly call talent is highly
___51___. And yes, expert performers are nearly
always made.
Ericsson’s
formula seems appealing to many tiger parents:
“practice makes perfect” is
naturally
___52___ to
genetic
determination.
By
___53___
innate
ability
as
insignificant,
many
are
confident
they
can
make
a
concert-level pianist or
an Olympic figure skater of their kids as long as
they push them hard enough. Ericsson,
___54___, believes what parents should
learn
from the science of
expertise is not the effect of logging thousands
of hours, but how to get kids to
___55___ the importance and challenge of effective
practice.
41. A.
understandable
B.
misleading
C.
appealing
D.
noticeable
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42.
A. promises
43. A. numbers
B. improves
B. subjects
B.
genetically
B. demonstrated
B. deliberate
B.
Nevertheless
B. occupations
B. inferior
B. lacking
B. practice
C. compromises
C. memory
D. masters
D. practice
D. psychologically
D.
produced
D. persistent
D. in
particular
D. Rather
D.
minor
D. assumptions
D.
demanding
D. beneficial
D.
highlighting
D. however
D.
embrace
44. A. physically
45. A. overshadowed
46. A.
enormous
48. A. Besides
49.
A. various
50. A. pursuits
52. A. equal
54.
A. likewise
55. A. study
Section B
47. A. on
average
C. fundamentally
C. strengthened
C. desperate
C.
for instance
C. Therefore
C. targeted
C. flexible
C. performances
C. preferable
C.
recognizing
C. besides
C. reflect
B. more importantly
B.
comprehensive
51. A.
underestimated
B. overrated
53. A. dismissing
B. therefore
A
Last July, Angela Peters, 36, rolled
her wheelchair into a nail salon located at the
Walmart shopping center in
Burton,
Michigan, with the idea of painting her nails. But
Peters, who has
cerebral
palsy
(
脑瘫
), was
turned away.
The salon (which is not
owned by Walmart), she says, told her that they
were afraid it would be too difficult to
properly do the job given that her
hands shook. What was meant to be a day of beauty
bliss for Peters was now a
disappointment.
Watching the
interaction from a few feet away was a Walmart
cashier about to go on her break. Ebony Harris,
40, recognized Peters as a Walmart
regular. Now what she recognized in Peters was
a kindred spirit
. “She’s
just
like you, me, my daughter,
anybody,” Harris told ABC News, “She wants to look
pretty. So why can’t she?”
Harris approached Peters. “Do you want
me to do your nails?” she asked. A smile spread
across Peters’ face.
“Yeah!” Having
found a table for two, Harris gently took Peter’s
hand into hers and carefully began painting her
nails.
“I was a little
nervous and was shaking because I didn’t want to
mess her nails up,” Harris admitted. “I told
her she’s
a
blessing
to anybody, not
just me. She makes me look at life and appreciate
it much more than I have.”
Watching it all with amazement and
admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. What
struck her most
was the ease and
gentleness displayed by Harris as she painted
Peters’ nails, all the while chatting as if they
were
old friends. Smith was so taken by
the scene that she wrote about
it on
Facebook. “They were so patient with her,”
she wrote. “Thanks to the Walmart
worker for making this beautiful girl’s
day!”
Peters, who runs a
poetry website, harbors no bitterness toward the
nail salon that turned her away. “When
people do us wrong,
we must
forgive,” Peters wrote on Facebook. “I just want
to educate people that those with
different challenges, like being in a
wheelchair, can have our own business and get our
nails done like anyone
else.”
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56. Why was Peters declined when she
wanted to have her nails painted?
A.
She insisted on sitting in a wheelchair.
B. She was not a regular customer of
the salon.
C. Her hands shook
involuntarily due to disability.
D.
There was no need for her to have nails painted.
57.
It can be inferred from
“
a kindred spirit
” in
Paragraph 2 that
________.
A. Peters was in high spirits just like
others around her
B. Peters was
approached with special attention and care
C. Peters was more tolerant of the
denial than normal people
D. Peters was
no different from the people around her
58.
In Paragraph 4, Harris
referred to Angela Peters as “
a
blessing
” because
________.
A. Peters deserved to be happy and be
treated kindly
B. Harris was reminded
why she should be grateful
C. Harris
felt obliged to offer her a hand on a voluntary
basis
D. Peters got her nails done
despite the previous rejection
59.
What may well be Angela Peters’ guiding
principle in life?
A. Beauty
is about having a pretty mind, a pretty soul, as
well as pretty poetry.
B. Forgive
others who have wronged us, and we are likely to
enjoy our life more.
C. Being grateful
is a way to sing for our life which comes just
from our love and hope.
D. Life is a
mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what
he thinks into it.
B
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