届上海市奉贤区学科教学质量调研高三英语试题12页.docx

1、届上海市奉贤区学科教学质量调研高三英语试题12页2020届上海市奉贤区学科教学质量调研高三英语试题 英语试卷（2020.05）（满分140分，考试时间120分钟）. 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 an

2、d 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. Supermarket. B. Tailors shop. C. Department store. D. Convenience store.2. A. 2

3、00 pounds. 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

4、financial 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. Collect papers

6、 for the man. B. Do the typing once again.C. Check the paper for typing errors. D. Read the whole newspaper.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. His project proved to be unsuccessful.B. He was unable to

7、 get sufficient money.C. Lack of land prevented his success.D. He was successful with his project.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 conve

8、rsation(s) and the passage(s) 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.

9、To guide and help childrens 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 th

10、e best time for children to 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,

11、14. A. It tends to wander 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 affec

12、ts ones behavior.C. To see 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-daydreamer

13、s were more confused on their tasks than daydreamers.D. Daydreamers did better than non-daydreamers in task performance.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the fallowing conversation.17. A. Their average lifespan was less than 50 years.B. It was very common for them to have 12 children.C. They reti

14、red from work much earlier than today.D. They were quite optimistic about their future.18. A. Get ready for ecological changes.B. Adapt to the new environment.C. Learn to use new technology.D. Explore ways to stay young.19. A. When all women go out to work.B. When family planning is enforced.C. When

15、 a world government is set up.D. When all people become wealthier.20. A. Eliminate poverty and injustice.B. Migrate to other planets.C. Control the environment.D. Find inexhaustible resources. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the

16、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.Plants Scream in the Face of StressFor the first time, researchers appear to have evidence that like a

17、nimals, those plants deprived of water or (21) (force) to endure bodily harm can let out their pain. The study. (22) has yet to be publishedin a scientific Journal, adds another dimension to scientists (23) (grow) understanding of how plants detect and interact with their surroundings.In recent year

18、s, it has become very clear that plants are more sensitive than researchers (24) (think). 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

19、 which have their own problems/Actually making their suffering hearable, however, is another matter entirely. (25) (test) thatpossibility, 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

20、 from tomato and tobacco plants. The researcher then either stopped watering them 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 soundswithi

21、n an hour of being cut. (27) tomato plants produced 25 sounds.(28) researchers arent yet sure how plants produce these sounds. Khait and his colleaguesproposed one possibility in their paper (29) as water travels through the plants tubes, air bubbles willform and explode, producing small vibrations.

22、All this screaming” caused by stress wasnt in a range detectable by human ears. But organisms that can hear ultrasonic frequencieslike mice, bats or perhaps other plants(30) possibly hear the plants criesfrom as far away as 15 feet.Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen fr

23、om the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. essentially B. round C. stuck D. spirits E. encouraging F. desperatelyG. strengths H. frustrating I. spilling J. collective K. sealedItalians find Moments of Joy in this Moment of Anxiety It started with t

24、he national anthem. Then came the piano chords, trumpet blasts, violin serenades (小夜曲) and even the clanging of pots and pansall 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 fo

25、r the doctors on themedical front lines fighting the spread of Europes worst coronavirus outbreak.Italians remain (33) under house arrest as the nation, the European front in the global fightagainst the coronavirus, has ordered extraordinary restrictions on their movement to prevent infection.But th

26、e music and noise erupting over the streets, from people (34) in their homes, reflects thespirit, resilience and humor of a nation facing its worst national emergency since the Second World WarTo the extent that this is a virus that tries peoples souls, it has also demonstrated the (35) of thosenati

27、onal characters.In China, patriotic truck drivers risked 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

28、 countrys empty streets, while social media feeds 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

29、 by young children with the title It will all 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) g

30、riefIII. Reading ComprehensionSection 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

31、life. As arule, he always chooses the second menu item at a restaurant.This is (42) by his research in neuroeconomics(神经经济学)(a somewhat new. divisive field) atNorthwestern University. As Business Insider describes, Cerf has extended his ideaswhich draw on some controversial ideas in psychology, incl

32、uding ego depletion out-into a piece of advice that, to (43) happiness, people should build a life that requires (44) decisions by surrounding themselves with people who possess traits they prefer.On an instinctive level, Cerfs idea (45) : Many choices people make are the product of socialpressures and the inputs of (46) people around them. One example Cerf furnishes is that. (47) consist