上海市上海中学2021届高三上学期英语9月摸底英语试题(学生版)

上海中学高三英语上

9

月测试

r and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions:Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the

blanks with a given word,fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other

blanks,fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically

correct.

Of the many factors that contribute to poor performance on standardized tests like the SAT, nerves and

exhaustion, surprisingly,

___1___

not rank very high. In fact, according to a new paper published in

Journal of

Experimental Psychology

, a little anxiety

–

not to mention fatigue

–

might actually be a very good thing.

The study was conducted by psychology professors Phillip Ackerman and Ruth Kanfer. They recruited 239

college freshmen, each

___2___

(agree) to take three different versions of the SAT reasoning test

___3___

(give) on

three consecutive Saturday mornings. The tests would take three-and-a-half hours, four- and-a-half hours and

five-and-a-half- hours, and would be administered in a random order to each of the students.

___4___

(boost) the

stress level in the students

–

who had already taken the SAT in the past and gotten into college

–

Ackerman and

Kanfer offered a cash bonus to any volunteers who

___5___

(beat) their high- school score.

___6___

the test began on each of the three Saturdays, the students filled out a questionnaire that asked them

about their fatigue level, mood and confidence. They completed the questionnaire again at a break in the middle of the

test and once more at the end. Together, all of these provided a sort of fever chart of the students’ energy and

anxiety

___7___

the experience.

When the researchers scored the results, it came as no surprise that volunteers’ fatigue and stress rose st

eadily

___8___

the test got longer.

___9___

was unexpected was their corresponding performance: as the length of the test

increased, so

___10___

the students’ scores. The average score on the three

-and-a-half-hour test was 1209 out of

1600. On the four-and-a-half-hour version it was 1222; on the five-and-a-half-hour test it was 1237.

Section B

Direction: Complete the following passages by using the words in the box. Each word can only

be used that there is one word more than you need.

（

A)

从方框里选择合适的词语的适当形式填空。

ying

ult

t

ointment

AB. undeniable

g

Germany Crashes Out of World Cup

Germany became the latest defending champion to crash out of the World Cup at the first hurdle, part of a trend

but definitely not part of the plan when Germany arrived here.

A smooth-running___11___machine when it won the Cup in 2014, Germany now appears in need of a reform

after losing,2-0,to South Korea here on Wednesday and saying goodbye to Russia about three weeks earlier than

many expected.

It has been the earliest exit for a German team at the World Cup since 1938,which seems even more

___12___when you consider Hitler was then the country's leader and only 15 teams participated.

With stars like Kroos, Mesut ?zil and Mats Hummels, Germany won every match in___13___for this World

Cup, the first German team to do so. But it could not even___14___it out of the group phase in Russia.

There seems to be a World Cup curse at___15___.Since the 1998 edition, the defending champion has been

eliminated in the group phase on four occasions: France in 2002, Italy in 2010, Spain in 2014 and now Germany.

But this team's early exit was still a(n)___16___shock, and Joachim L?

w, the German coach since 2006, used

that same word

—

“The

___17___

of being eliminated is just huge,” said L?w, who added that the team deserved to go out early.

“It turned

___18___. I must take

responsibility for this.”

A four-time World Cup winner, Germany was a finalist in 2002, third in 2006 and 2010 and the champion in

2014 after dealing the host nation of Brazil a 7-1 defeat in the semifinals, the ___19___of which still leaves many

Brazilians in pain.

The Germans certainly have historical company, however. The list of defending champions to lose very early

shows how____20____it is to maintain momentum and focus with national teams whose players practice and play

together much less frequently than they do with their clubs.

（

B)

从方框里选择合适的词语的适当形式填空。

ble

iate

ter t

y

ortation

ible

ndently

n

The New York subway system is one of the largest in the world, ferrying nearly eight and a half million people

around the city every week. Riders find more than___21___below the streets; among the dirt and the screech of the

trains,there is also subway system is like a free___22___hall,offering almost every kind of music.

You never know what you might___23___,depending on the day of the week and the particular a

subway platform below Pennsylvania station one afternoon recently,Rawl Mitchell, an immigrant from Trinidad and

Tobago,was playing the steel drums. He said he's been performing in the subway since the mid-

1990s. “The people

do___24___the music,

in the case or ___25___clap and say things like 'It's nice.' Th

ey offer me some positive feedback.”

Singer-songwriter Rosateresa, who often sings on a station at 14th Street, has been at it almost as

moved from Puerto Rico to study classical voice several decades ago.

Puerto Rican bird, which wakes up the sun,” said Rosateresa.

Mitchell and Rosateresa both perform___27___

,outside the transit authority's official

program, which sponsor 150 performances each week, by more than 200 individuals and groups.

Like Rosateresa and Mitchell,Musicians who participate in “Music Under New York

___28___only whatever

people choose to singers Tom McNichols and Patricia Vital,part of a group called“Opera Collective

they___29___performing in the subways, though it isn't lucrative.

Under New York' is definitely more about making opera ___30___ than it is about making a living,

g Comprehension

Section A

Direction:For each blank in the following passages 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.

（

A)

You can actually catch a good mood or a bad mood from your friends, according to a recent study in the journal

Royal Society Open that shouldn't stop you from___31___with pals who are down in the dumps,say the

study authors:___32___,the effect isn't large enough to push you into depression.

The new study adds to a growing body of research suggesting that happiness and sadness-as well as lifestyle and

behavioral factors like smoking,drinking,obesity,fitness habits and even the ability to

concentrate- can___33___across social networks, both online and in real while many___34___studies have

only looked at friendship data at one point in time, this is one of the few that measured social and mood changes over

time.

The new research involved groups of junior-high and high-school students who took part in___35___

screenings(

筛查）

and answered questions about their best friends, many of whom were also enrolled in the study. In

total,2,194 students were included in the___36___,which used a mathematical model to look for connections among

friend networks.

Overall,kids whose friends suffered from bad moods were more___37___to report bad moods themselves- and

they were less likely to have improved when they were screened again six months to a year later. When people had

more happy friends,___38___,their moods were more likely to improve over time.

Some symptoms related to depression- like helplessness,tiredness and loss of interest- also seemed to follow

this___39___

,which scientists call “social contagion.”But this isn't something that people need to

___40___,says

lead author Robert Eyre,a doctoral student at the University of Warwick. Rather, it's likely just a

“

___41___empathetic response that we're all familiar with, and something we recognize by common sense,

In other words,when a friend is going through a rough patch, it makes sense that you'll feel some of their

___42___,and it's certainly not a reason to stay away.

The study also found that having friends who were clinically depressed did not ___43___

participants' risk of

becoming depressed themselves. “Your

friends do not put you at risk of illness,

is simply to___44___them.

___45___-and taking other friends along to further spread those good fe

elings,too.”

31. A. keeping up

32. A. Thankfully

33. A. increase

34. A. growing

35. A. depression

36. A. assessment

37. A. willing

38. A. what's worse

39. A. prediction

40. A. worry about

41. A. social

42. A. symptoms

43. A. eliminate

44. A. enlighten

45. A. enjoy

B. making off

B. Particularly

B. generate

B. previous

B. anxiety

B. examination

B. reluctant

B. as a result

B. pattern

B. look for

B. normal

B. responses

B. conceal

B. entertain

B. understand

C. hanging out

C. Hopefully

C. delay

C. real

C. anger

C. analysis

C. able

C. on the other hand

C. report

C. rely on

C. rough

C. recognition

C. increase

C. empower

C. advise

D. getting away

D. Totally

D. spread

D. large-scale

D. friendship

D. exercise

D. likely

D. in one word

D. improvement

D. put forward

D. certain

D. pain

D. sugarcoat

D. support

D. permit

（

B)

Many of China's ancient architectural treasures crumbled to dust before Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng began

documenting them in the 1930s. The husband and wife team were by far the best-known ___46___ to operate in

___47___ have since inspired generations of people to speak out for architecture threatened by the rush

toward development.

Becoming China's first architectural historians was no easy___48___.The buildings they wanted to___49___

were centuries old, often in shambles and located in distant parts of the country. In many cases, they had to journey

through ___50___conditions in the Chinese countryside to reach them.

___51___China's outlying areas during the 1930s meant traveling muddy, poorly maintained roads by mule, or

on was a(n)___52___undertaking both for Liang,who walked with a bad limp(

跛）

after a motorcycle

accident as a young man, and Lin,who had a lung disease for years. Inns were often unimaginably dirty,food could be

tainted(

污染的）

，

and there was always ___53___ of violence from rebels,soldiers and bandits.

Their greatest discovery came on an expedition in 1937 when they dated and extremely___54___catalogued

Foguang Si, or the Temple of Buddha's Light, in Wutai County,Shanxi Province. The breathtaking wooden temple

was___55___in 857 A.D.,making it the oldest building known in China at the time. (It is now the fourth-oldest

known).

Liang and Lin crawled into the temple's most___56___areas to determine its age, including one aerie inhabited

by thousands of bats and millions of bedbugs, covered in dust and littered with dead bats. Liang wrote of

the___57___in an account included in

English-language story of their lives written by Wilma Fairbank,their close friend and correspondent.

＂

In complete darkness and amid the___58___smell, hardly breathing, with thick masks covering our noses and

mouths,we measured,drew,and photographed with flashlights for several hours,

came out to take a breath of fresh air, we found hundreds of bedbugs in our ourselves had been badly

the___60___and unexpectedness of our find made those the happiest hours of my years hunting for ancient

architecture.

46. A. architects

47. A. documents

48. A. achievement

49. A. construct

50. A. opposing

51. A. Exploring

52. A. unadvisable

53. A. tolerance

54. A. efficiently

55. A. built

56. A. untidy

57. A. crawl

58. A. unknown

59. A. at last

60. A. misery

B. historians

B. efforts

B. dream

B. develop

B. unexpected

B. Touring

B. priceless

B. accusation

B. carefully

B. ruined

B. ancient

B. experience

B. disgusting

B. in contrast

B. result

C. preservationists

C. operations

C. determination

C. announce

C. unfamiliar

C. Developing

C. demanding

C. suspicion

C. merrily

C. discovered

C. forgotten

C. prospect ion

C. hard

C. in result

C. reflection

D. travelers

D. encouragements

D. breakthrough

D. save

D. dangerous

D. Overlooking

D. worthless

D. risk

D. creatively

D. recorded

D. important

D. exploitation

D. thick

D. with effort

D. importance

Section B

Direction: Read the following passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or

unfinished statements.

For each of them in passage A,B and C, there are four choices marked A,B,C and the

one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

（

A)

Sandra Boynton, a children’s author, has in more recent years branched out into kids music. Her most recent

album

Hog Wild!

, for example, features Samuel L. Jackson as a Tyrannosaurus Rex. She talked in an interview about

how to tap into kids' imaginations and how to make scary things less threatening for them.

In your years of writing and illustrating children’s books, have y

ou noticed anything that really sparks a

child’s imagination?

I think maybe there’s no basic difference between what fascinates a

child and what fascinates the rest of us.

We’re all drawn to things that wake us u

p

things that grab our attention through our hearing or our sight or our sense

of touch. We’re curious about the world as it is, and we’re curious about what could be. Imag

ination follows curiosity

pretty naturally.

It doesn’t feel to me like it’s been a long time that I’ve been drawing and writing

things. It doesn’t feel like a

short time, either. It just feels like what I do. I make things. I’m a permanent Kindergartner, I

guess.

You often take a threatening figure like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or a monster and make him cute. Do you

have any suggestions for how to make children less afraid of things?

Actually, I think kids kind of like being afraid of things, as long as someone calm is right there with reassurance.

Hugging helps.

What have you learned about childhood from writing kids’ books?

Accessing

childhood has actually never been that hard. It’s adulthood that’s still perplexing. I would guess that

most children’s book writers are that way. I’m really writing books and making music for my own child

-

self. But I’m

certainly delighted and grateful that my books work for people other than just me. It keeps me from having to find an

actual job.

A lot of authors are worried that children spend too much time on digital devices rather than with books,

but you seem to have embraced it. Why?

When the interactive book app universe was new, I was, as a creator of things, curious. My background is

theater, and I thought it could be intere

sting to try to figure out how to create content that’s both theater

-like and

book-like. I found a superb partner in this, the insanely ingenious Loud Crow Interactive in Vancouver. We worked

intensively together for a couple of years and made five very co

ol apps. I’m proud of them. But now, having too often

,

seen very young kids sitting idly, staring at screens, I have my doubts.

61. What does Sandra Boynton think about imagination?

A. It fascinates both adults and children.

B. It can be waken up by attention to senses.

C. It can be naturally aroused out of curiosity.

D. It lasts for long in a permanent kindergartner.

62. When writ

ing children’s books, Sandra ______.

A. finds herself confused about remembering childhood

B. agrees with other book writers that writing is hard

C. puts herself in a child’s place and thinks like a child

D. is delighted that she doesn’t need to find anoth

er job

63. Sandra thinks the apps she made with her partner were cool because they were ______.

A. new ways to increase interactions between users

B. interactive by combining theatre and book

C. beneficial with the content both theatre-like and book-like

D. created by an insanely ingenious expert and friend

64

We can conclude from the interview that ______.

A. Sandra is good at making a threatening figure cute

B. kids are always calm instead of being afraid of things

C. digital devices have been embraced by most of the authors

D. there were no interactive book apps before Sandra’s apps

FOUR BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ

.

（

B)

At age 16 Lucy is a lonely orphan living with older sister

Charlotte and devoted aunt Iris in Waltham

Massachusetts. On the

Caroline

last day of school, she runs away with her 30-year-old teacher,

William, and settles in a hillside shack in rural Pennsylvania, near his

Leavitt

Cruel Beautiful World

new teaching job. Though Lucy feels increasingly isolated, William

won’t allow her any outlet. L

eavitt draws upon a real-life crime that

,

involved a girl she knew in high school. She tells her story from

multiple viewpoints, building tension and empathy for Lucy and

Charlotte as tragedy swallows them.

Price, an award- winning Canadian poet, achieves an

extraordinary achievement of Dickensian storytelling in his weighty

second novel. His hero is William Pinkerton, son of the founder of

the legendary detective agency, who finds clues in his late father’s

safe to the case of William Shade. This mythic thief had disturbed

and upset his father. William tracks a Shade accomplice

（共犯）

,

Charlotte Reckitt, to London, only to find she’s been found dead in

the Thames. Also on the scene is Adam Foole, who is obsessed with

Steven Price

By Gaslight

Charlotte, who he met while stealing De Beers diamonds from a

South African mine. Price ably arranges dozens of interlinking

plotlines as he spans three continents and several decades, from

American Civil War battlefields to Scotland Yard at the end of the

19th Century.

Beijing-based GeFei (pen name for Liu Yong) won the 2015

Mao Dun Lite

rature Prize for fiction “describing the changing spirit

of Chinese society” over the past century. The Invisibility Cloak, his

first English publication, revolves around Cui, a divorced man who

creates customized hi-

fi speakers for Beijing’s newly wealthy

and a

few intellectuals. Beijing’s rapid expansion has left Cui longing for

an invisible life away from the city. His chance comes when he

GeFei

The Invisibility Cloak

agrees to build a world-class sound system for a gangster

（黑社会

老大）

. GeFei’s nice irony, translated from the Chinese by

Canaan

Morse, should find many fans.