届上海奉贤区高三英语调研测试含答案.docx

1、届上海奉贤区高三英语调研测试含答案2019学年奉贤区学科教学质量调研 高三英语试卷 （2020.05） （满分140分，考试时间120分钟） I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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 que

2、stions 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. Supermarket. B. Tailors shop. C. Department store. D. Convenience store. 2. A. 200 poun

3、ds. B. 600 pounds. C. 300 pounds. D. 700 pounds.3. A. Call the ticket office later. B. Order the tickets online. C. Not to buy the ticket on the Internet. D. Order the tickets when its not busy.4. A. Borrowing money from a business company. B. Lending some money to a student. C. Asking for some fina

4、ncial aid. D. Reading students application.5. A. The bed is to blame for his not falling asleep. B. He can fall asleep if he stops drinking. C. He can drink more to fall asleep easily. D. Drinking is good for sleeping.6. A. He is satisfied with the content. B. He feels sorry for it.C. He thinks it i

5、s valueless. D. He thinks it is valuable.7. A. Professor Smith spoke Greek when he explained the maths problem. B. The woman still didnt understand the maths problem. C. Unfortunately, she didnt hear Professor Smiths explanation. D. Professor Smith didnt explain the problem clearly.8. A. Collectpape

6、rsfortheman. B. Dothetypingonceagain. C.Checkthepaperfortypingerrors. D. Readthewholenewspaper.9. A. Proceed in his own way. B. Stick to the original plan. C. Negotiate with his colleague. D. Try to change his colleagues mind.10. A. Hisprojectprovedtobeunsuccessful. B. Hewasunabletogetsufficientmone

7、y. C. Lackoflandpreventedhissuccess. D. Hewassuccessfulwithhisproject.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s

8、) 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 talk.11. A. To guide and help childrens

9、play. B. To give children an opportunity to play.C. To make children excited. D. To keep children company. 12. A. It determines the standard a child can reach. B. It is the happiest period during ones life.C. It is the most important time to shape ones character.D. It is the best time for children t

10、o learn new things. 13. A. The relationship between play and learning.B. The way to help children develop both physically and mentally.C. The importance of childrens play.D. Different stages of childrens development.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. It tends to wander

11、 towards unpleasant experiences.B. It wanders for almost half of their waking time.C. It has trouble concentrating after a brain injury.D. It tends to be affected by their negative feelings.15. A. To find how happiness relates to daydreaming.B. To observe how ones mind affects ones behavior.C. To se

12、e why daydreaming impacts what one is doing.D. To study the relation between health and daydreaming.16. A. Participants with clear goals in mind outperformed those without clear goals.B. The difference in performance between the two groups was insignificant.C. Non-daydreamers were more confused on t

13、heir tasks than daydreamers.D. Daydreamers did better than non-daydreamersin task performance.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Theiraveragelifespanwaslessthan50years.B.Itwasverycommonforthemtohave12children.C. Theyretiredfromworkmuchearlierthantoday. D. Theywer

14、equiteoptimisticabouttheirfuture.18. A.Getreadyforecologicalchanges. B. Adapttothenewenvironment. C.Learntousenewtechnology. D.Explorewaystostayyoung.19. A.Whenallwomengoouttowork.B. Whenfamilyplanningisenforced.C. Whenaworldgovernmentissetup.D. Whenallpeoplebecomewealthier.20. A.Eliminatepovertyand

15、injustice. B.Migratetootherplanets. C.Controltheenvironment. D.Findinexhaustibleresources.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: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 wit

16、h the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Plants Scream in the Face of StressFor the first time, researchers appear to have evidence that like animals, those plants deprived of water or (21) _(force) to endure bodily harm can let out their pai

17、n. The study, (22) _ has yet to be published in a scientific Journal, adds another dimension to scientists (23) _ (grow) understanding of how plants detect and interact with their surroundings. In recent years, it has become very clear that plants are more sensitive than researchers (24) _ (think).

18、They respond when touched by insects and turn toward sources of light. “Plants are not just robotic stimulus-response devices,” said Frantisek Baluska of the University of Bonn in Germany. “Theyre living organisms which have their own problems.” Actually making their suffering hearable, however, is

19、another matter entirely. (25) _ (test) that possibility, a team led by Itzhak Khait, a plant scientist at Tel Aviv University in Israel, placed microphones capable of detecting ultrasonic frequencies (超声波频率) four inches from tomato and tobacco plants. The researcher then either stopped watering them

20、 or cut their stems. Measuring in the range of 20 to 150 kilohertz (千赫), the researchers found that even happy, healthy plants made the occasional noise. But when cut, tobacco plants emitted (26) _ average of 15 sounds within an hour of being cut, (27) _ tomato plants produced 25 sounds. (28) _ rese

21、archers arent yet sure how plants produce these sounds, Khait and his colleagues proposed one possibility in their paper (29) _ as water travels through the plants tubes, air bubbles will form and explode, producing small vibrations. All this “screaming” caused by stress wasnt in a range detectable

22、by human ears. But organisms that can hear ultrasonic frequencies-like mice, bats or perhaps other plants-(30) _ possibly hear the plants cries from as far away as 15 feet.Section BDirections:Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there

23、is one word more than you need.A. essentiallyB. round C.stuckD. spiritsE.encouragingF. desperatelyG. strengthsH. frustratingI. spillingJ. collectiveK.sealedItalians find “Moments of Joy in this Moment of Anxiety”It started with the national anthem. Then came the piano chords, trumpet blasts, violin

24、serenades (小夜曲) and even the clanging of pots and pans-all of it (31) _ from peoples homes, out of windows and from balconies, and resounding across rooftops.Finally, on Saturday afternoon, a nationwide (32) _ of applause broke out for the doctors on the medical front lines fighting the spread of Eu

25、ropes worst coronavirus outbreak.Italians remain (33) _ under house arrest as the nation, the European front in the global fight against the coronavirus, has ordered extraordinary restrictions on their movement to prevent infection.But the music and noise erupting over the streets, from people (34)

26、_ in their homes, reflects the spirit, resilience and humor of a nation facing its worst national emergency since the Second World War.To the extent that this is a virus that tries peoples souls, it has also demonstrated the (35) _ of those national characters.In China, patriotic truck drivers riske

27、d infection to bring (36) _ needed food to the people of Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak. In Iran, videos show doctors in full combat dress and masks dancing to keep (37) _ up. And in Italy, the gestures of gratitude and music ring out above the countrys empty streets, while social media feeds

28、fill with (38) _, sentimental and humorous web videos.Images of nurses collapsed from exhaustion or their faces bruised(使受瘀伤) from tightly (39) _ masks have also spread across the web in recent days. Parents posted pictures of unicorns and rainbows drawn by young children with the title “It will all

29、 be OK.”“Were Italians, and loving singing is part of our culture,” said Giorgio Albertini, 51, an archaeology professor who clapped from his apartment balcony in the university district of Milan, calling it a way “to feel a community, and to have the (40) _ grief.”III. Reading ComprehensionSection

30、ADirections: 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.Making choices is hard. That would be why researcher Moran Cerf has (41) _ it from his life. As a rule, he always chooses t

31、he second menu item at a restaurant. This is (42) _ by his research in neuroeconomics(神经经济学) (a somewhat new, divisive field) at Northwestern University. As Business Insider describes, Cerf has extended his ideas-which draw on some controversial ideas in psychology, including ego depletion out-into a piece of advice that, to (43) _ happiness, people should build a life that requires (44) _ decisions by surrounding