上海市华东师范大学附属东昌中学学年高三上学期阶段测试英语试题学生版.docx

1、上海市华东师范大学附属东昌中学学年高三上学期阶段测试英语试题学生版华东师范大学附属东昌中学2020学年第一学期高三年级12月阶段测试I. Listening Comprehension (共25分；1-10每题1分；11-20每题1.5分)Section A1. A. Excited. B. Dissatisfied. C. Bored. D. Exhausted.2. A. 7:00. B. 7:10. C. 9:00. D. 9:10.3. A. A cook. B. A shop assistant. C. A saleswoman. D. A waitress.4. A. At a g

2、as station. B. In a workshop.C. At an art gallery. D. In a department store.5. A. He hasnt had a chance to meet Kathy yet. B. Kathy had already told him the news.C. He didnt know that Kathy was being moved.D. His new office will be located in New York.6. A. The woman wants to go to Toronto. B. The m

3、an wants to go to Vancouver.C. There are no flights to Toronto. D. There are two direct flights to Toronto.7. A. She should do more careful work. B. She is not concerned about Georges remarks.C. George does not care about her. D. George shouldnt have said much about her.8. A. She cant afford that mu

4、ch for a trip. B. She is fortunate to have made a lot of money.C. She doesnt think 15,000 dollars is enough for the trip.D. She considers 15,000 dollars only a small sum of money.9. A. Playing tennis. B. Writing a term paper.C. Gathering materials. D. Holding a meeting.10. A. The man was seriously i

5、njured in the car accident.B. The man had poor imagination because of the car accident.C. The man wasnt wearing the seat belt when the accident happened.D. The mans daughter advised him to wear the seat belt before he left home.Section BQuestions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11.

6、A. Future researchers. B. College students.C. Company employees. D. Successful artists.12. A. To teach the listeners how to work hard.B. To enable the listeners to get better salaries.C. To prepare the listeners for their future life.D. To encourage the listeners to seize opportunities.13. A. Kindne

7、ss. B. Diligence. C. Willingness. D. Interest.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. The benefits of walking. B. The importance of keeping fit.C. The way of forming a habit. D. The possibility of excising regularly.15. A. Because it needs much thinking. B. Because people c

8、an improve their memory.C. Because it is suitable for everyone. D. Because people neednt concentrate on it.16. A. It is the easiest way to lose weight. B. It can be made part of peoples life.C. It can make peoples hearts stronger. D. It prevents people suffering from cancers.Questions 17 through 20

9、are based on the following conversation.17. A. He has just been back from South America. B. He has been burnt for a few hours.C. He has been surfing the Internet for long. D. He has been doing school work all night.18. A. To look for something interesting for pleasure.B. To meet new friends in the n

10、et chatroom.C. To release pressure from heavy work. D. To look for information for his project.19. A. Quite a few sites are just old event calendars.B. Its a waste of time to surf the Internet.C. A lot of information can be found. D. A lot of friends can be made on the Internet.20. A. People spend m

11、uch time talking about other interests.B. It takes long to find things because of many useless sites.C It is hard to start chatting with others in the chatroom.D. Its hardly the best source of information available.II. Grammar and Vocabulary (共20分，每题1分)Section A Directions: After reading the passage

12、 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.Taking a shower is relaxing. You can hum a song, daydream or th

13、ink about nothing, leaving the real world behind you. But do you know that showering _1_ also benefit your mind?A research by Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist from Yale University in the US interviewed over 3,000 people around the world. _2_ turned out that nearly two-thirds of the interviewees s

14、aid they experienced new ideas in the shower and were more likely to have them in the shower than at work. So why does a simple shower have such magic power? Science can explain it.Showering can help to raise our level of dopamine, a hormone _3_(relate) to our creativity. “People _4_(vary) in terms

15、of their level of creativity according to the activity of dopamine”, explained Alice Flaherty, a famous American neuroscientist. “Taking a warm shower can make us feel relaxed and therefore make the dopamine level rise and bring Aha! moment to us.”_5_ the chemical changes, showering may give you a b

16、reak from what you feel you have been stuck with. Especially when you _6_(think) hard all day about a problem, jumping into the shower can keep you from the outside world so that you can focus on your inner feelings and memories. In this way, according to American psychologist Shelley H. Carson, aut

17、hor of Your Creative Brain, “a showering hour may turn into an incubation (孵化) period for your ideas.”Compared with sitting in front of a computer, taking a shower is something we do _7_(frequently) in our daily life. When showering, we get a fresh experience with the change of location, temperature

18、 and humidity. “New and unexpected experiences can lead to positive changes in thinking,” explained Kaufman. “Getting off the couch and jumping in the shower may create a distance and force you to think from a new perspective.”Showering allows us to enjoy the creative juices of our minds, but it nee

19、dnt just be in the bathroom that you get your inspiration. For instance, Gertrude Stein, _8_ female American writer and poet, got new ideas by driving around a farm and stopping at different cows _9_ she found the one that most inspired her. So try to create your own way to free your mind, _10_ its

20、a walk near the ocean, a country drive or reading a book at home.Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. scaleB. uniqueC. costD. distanceE demonstrateF. intrudeG. diagnosesH

21、. alarmingI. threatenJ. falseK. crucialThe human face is a remarkable piece of work. The astonishing variety of facial features helps people recognize each other and is _11_ to the formation of complex societies. So is the faces ability to send emotional signals, whether through an involuntary yawn

22、or a(n) _12_ smile. People spend much of their waking lives reading faces. Technology is rapidly catching up. In America facial recognition is used by churches to track worshippers attendance. In 2017, Welsh police used it to arrest a suspect outside a football game.Although faces are _13_ to indivi

23、duals, they are also public, so technology does not, at first sight, _14_ on something that is private. And yet the ability to record, store and analyze images of faces cheaply, quickly and on a vast _15_ promises one day to bring about fundamental changes to notions of privacy, fairness and trust.S

24、tart with privacy. One big difference between faces and other biological data, such as fingerprints, is that they work at a(n) _16_. Anyone with a phone can take a picture for facial-recognition programs to use. Photographs of half of Americas adult population are stored in databases that can be use

25、d by the FBI to track criminals, but at enormous potential _17_ to citizens privacy.The face is not just a name-tag. It displays a lot of other information and machines can read that, too. Again, that promises benefits. Some firms are analyzing faces to provide automated _18_ of rare genetic disorde

26、rs far earlier than would otherwise be possible. But the technology also threatens. Researchers at Stanford University _19_ that, when shown pictures of one gay man, and one straight man, the system could identify their sexuality correctly 81% of the time. Humans managed only 61%. In countries where

27、 homosexuality is a crime, software which promises to infer sexuality from a face is a(n) _20_ prospect.III. Reading ComprehensionSection APlacebos（安慰剂）Prove PowerfulMany doctors know the story of “Mr. Wright”. In 1957 he was diagnosed with cancer, and given only days to live. He had tumours（肿瘤）the

28、size of oranges. He heard that scientists had discovered a new medication, Krebiozen, that was _21_ against cancer, and he begged the doctor to give it to him. His physician, Dr Phillip West, finally agreed. After Mr. Wright had been given an injection on a Friday afternoon, the _22_doctor found his

29、 patient out of his “death bed”, joking with the nurses the following Monday. “The tumours”, the doctor wrote later, “had _23_ like snow balls on a hot stove.”Two months later, Wright read medical reports that the medication was fake. His condition immediately got worse again. “Dont _24_ what you re

30、ad in papers,” the doctor told Wright. Then he injected him with what he said was “a new super-refined double strength” version of the drug. _25_,there was no drug, just a mix of salt and water, but again it worked. Wright was the picture of health for another two months until he read an official re

31、port saying that Krebiozen was _26_. He died two days later.This story has been _27_ by doctors for a long time, dismissed as one of those strange tales that medicine cannot explain. The idea that a patients _28_ can make a fatal disease go away has been thought of as too strange. But now scientists

32、 are discovering that the placebo effect is more powerful than anyone had ever thought. They are also beginning to discover how such miraculous results are _29_. Through new techniques of brain imagery, it can be shown that a thought, a belief or a desire can cause chemical processes in the brain which can have powerful effects on the _30_. Scientists are