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1、杨浦区2019学年度第一学期高三模拟质量调研英语学科试卷2019. 12考生注意：.考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。.本次考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择 题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。.务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码贴在指定位置上。I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversati

2、on, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and 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.A. At a bakery

3、.B.At a cheese market.C. At a restaurant.D.At a salad counter.A. Packing her stuff.B.Sorting out her clothes.C. Cleaning her suitcase.D.Saving closet space.A. He was involved ina hit-and-run accident.He was needed in an accident investigation.He witnessed the police giving a statement.He got stuck i

4、n traffic due to an accident.A. He misses the old times when he could go to the pubs after work.He thinks he is lucky to enjoy the advantages of the living arrangement.He thinks it difficult for him to get used to the life in the countryside.He actually prefers relaxation in the country to excitemen

5、t in the city.A. $15.B. $24.C. $27.D. $30.A. He forgot to put up the“Wet Floor sign.He spilled something and didn t clean it up.He slipped on the floor and injured himself.He failed to explain the cause of the accident.A. Doctor and patient.B. Teacher and student.C. Trainer and athlete.D. Father and

6、 daughter.A. Neil and his wife had a big fight last weekend.Neil s wife was good at tidying up the house.Neil enjoyed organizing his books on the shelves.Neil felt unhappy about seeing efforts wasted.A. The course will be more difficult than was expected.It is important to keep thinking about the co

7、urse.Every accounting student will be awarded a certificate.The certificate will make all the hard work worthwhile.A. He counts on his relatives to get him a good gift.The Harry Potter glasses are not really what he wanted.Good Christmas gifts take much thought to prepare.His aunt is a considerate a

8、nd thoughtful lady.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once.

9、When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.A. Most of the electronic headbands sold online had turned out fakes.The headband was too exp

10、ensive for the ordinary household.Complaints had been received that the headbands caused headaches.There had been a mixed reaction among different parties involved.A. Its hidden device functions to keep students relaxed.It informs teachers and parents of students study scores.It changes color based

11、on the focus level of its wearers.It helps determine the wearer s overall intellectual capability.A. Unauthorized access to students private data.Lack of accuracy of the gathered information.The psychological burden upon the family.Negative impact on students physicabw.Questions 14 through 16 are ba

12、sed on the following passage.A. Criminal investigation.B. Marine biology.C. Underwater landscaping.D. Shipwreck Analysis.A. He managed to identify all the crews killed in the wreck.He worked with the police to track down the dishonest businessman.He produced the evidence that the ship had been bombe

13、d on purpose.He proved that one of the crew had planted a bomb on the ship.A. He worked briefly with the Navy before becoming a shipwreck hunter.The first shipwreck he located was a British battleship called HMS Hood.Every life lost in the shipwreck was marked with a tablet by him and his team.His h

14、unger for fame inspired him to follow the path of wreck-hunting. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.A. Incorrect number of delivered items.Substandard quality of the bought goods.Limited supplies of marketed goods.Delayed delivery of the purchased silver.A. She listened

15、to a radio program.B. She visited the British Museum.C. She conducted a related survey.D. She worked at Customer Service.A. Most of the customer complaints are related to tourist industry.Telecommunication is generally underfunded and understaffed.The majority of dissatisfied customers complain by p

16、hone or by letter.Putting a complaint on social media doesn t help solve the problem.A. He is embarrassed that so many British are complaining.He is doubtful whether we should complain on social media.He will seriously consider making a complaint if he has to.He is unlikely to complain even if he ge

17、ts bad service at a restaurant. II. Grammar and vocabulary Section ADirections: After reading the passagebelow, 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

18、, use one word that best fits each blank.Killer RabbitsYou dnever think of rabbits as dreadful, destructive creatures, would you? Rabbits are cute and loveable. However, Australians discovered (21)harm these cute creatures can do the hard way.Rabbits were introduced to Australia in 1788 as food anim

19、als. By 1827, they were running around large estates,and in 1859, disaster struck. A man released12 wild rabbits onto his property for hunting and he (22)have thought that was harmless fun. But Australia has nopredators(捕食者)(23)(adapt) to killing rabbits and none of the diseases that kept their popu

20、lations (24)control in Europe. The loose rabbits bred like, well, rabbits, and began to take over the countryside. Within a few decades,there were millions. By 1950, there were 600 million rabbits in Australia.Six hundred million hungry rabbits could do real harm. They caused more damage than any ot

21、her species introduced to the continent. They ate native plant species (25)they disappeared.They competed for food and shelter with native animals. They caused the extinction or endangerment of numerous plant and animal species. And they were a nightmare for cattle and sheep farmers, (26) animals co

22、uldnt get enough grass to eat and starved.The rabbits did some good, of course. They provided food for poor families. They supported fur industries. But their impact on the environment and major livestock economy was too negative (27) (ignore). People tried trappingthem. They even built a huge wall

23、against them. But (28) (effective)weapon was a virus.9) (test) multiple times, the deadly myxoma virus was released onAustralias rabbits in 1950. The virus had been developed very carefully to affect only rabbits. Nearly 100 percent of the rabbits who caught the disease (30)(die). Populations fell.

24、It was a huge success. Cattle and sheep farming recovered gradually, and threatened plants were better protected. Eventually, rabbits became resistant to the virus.Section BDirections: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one

25、word more than you need.A. string B. contained C. representing D. detailing E. scientificF. currents G. recovered H. encountered I. estimated J. instructionsK. decorationBottle Found at Sea Used for Scientific PurposeCombing the beach for shells, sea glass, or colorful rocks is a leisure activity en

26、joyed by many. Some even use metal detectors to find buried treasure or other objects. Only the lucky few have 31 a message in a bottle that was dropped offby the tide. The tradition of putting a letter to an unknown recipient into a bottle and throwing it into the ocean has an interesting past. An

27、early 32 use for thepractice was revealed when the oldest recorded messagein a bottle was found by Tonya on a beach near Wedge Island, Australia.Tonya was on a family outing when she noticed the antique glass bottle in the sand and thought it would make a nice 33. While she was cleaning the sandygin

28、 bottle, a rolled up paper tied with a 34 fell out. The damp page was amessage written in German and dated June 12, 1886. According to official documents from the German sailing vessels, Paula, a crew member tossed the bottle overboard a(n) 35 950 km off the coast of Western Australia. Further resea

29、rch authenticated (验证)the letter, which had been sent afloat 132 years ago and is the oldest message in a bottle ever 36.Historians confirm that thousands of similar bottles were cast overboard by German ships between 1864 and 1933. And 37 inside were official documentswritten by the captain of the

30、ship, 38 routes, coordinates, and other information. These early messages in a bottle were an attempt by the German Naval Observatory to map ocean 39 around the world.On the back of the notes were 40 to write the time and place the bottleswere found and return them to the German Naval Observatory in

31、 Hamburg or the nearest German authorities. Using this information for reference was an early system of studying patterns in nature and the vast ocean in particular.III. Reading Comprehension Section ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C

32、and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.A star athlete stopped by my office and she was eaten up by self-criticism after committing a few errors during a weekend match. “ I m at pe41k and I practise hard. How is this happening? ” This student, like many I teach,

33、believes she should beable to _42_ the outcomes of her life by virtue of her hard work.I study and write about resilience （复原力）,and I moticing a（n） _43_ increase in studentslike this athlete. When they win, they feel powerful and smart. When they fall short of what they imagine they should 44, howev

34、er, they arecrushed by self-blame.We talk often about young adults struggling with failure becausetheir parents have protected them from 45. But there is something else at play among themost advantaged in particular: a 46 promise that they can achieve anything ifthey are willing to work for it.Psych

35、ologists have sourced this phenomenon to a misapplication of-s etnn indresearch, which has found that praising children for 47 will increase academicperformance. Developed by Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, mind-set education has spread across classrooms worldwide. But a 2018 analysis found that

36、while praising hard work over ability may benefit economically disadvantaged students, it does not 48 help everyone.One possible explanation comes from Nina Kumar, who argued in a research paper last year that for teens in wealthy, pressure-cookercommunities, “ Itis not a 49of motivation and perseve

37、rancethat is the big problem.50, it isunhealthy perfectionism and difficulty with backing off when they should, when the fierce drive for achievements is over the top. This can 51 physical andemotional stress. In a 2007 study, psychologists Gregory Miller determined that adolescent girls who refused

38、 to give up the 52 goals showed elevated levels ofCRP, a protein that serves as a marker of systemic inflammation （炎症） linked to diabetes, heart disease and other medical conditions.The cruel reality is that you can do everything in your power and still fail. This knowledge comes early to underrepre

39、sented minorities whose experience of discrimination （歧视）and inequality teaches them to 53 what is, for now,largely beyond their control to change. Yet for others, the belief that success is always within their grasp is a setup. Instead of allowing our kids to beat themselves up when things don t go

40、 theiayy we should all question a culture that has taught them that how they perform for others is more important than what 54 inspires them andthat where they go to college matters more than the kind of person they are. We should be wise to remind our kids that life has a way of disappointing us wh

41、en weleast 55 it. Itthe fastest. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49.s often the people who learn to say“stuff happensA. coolnessB. fitnessC. goodnessD. readinessA. controlB. changeC. adjustD. celebrateA. amusingB. inspiringC. troublingD. touchingA. applyB. approveC. appreciateD. accomplishA. disbeli

42、efB. disagreementC. discoveryD. discomfortA. brightB. falseC. generalD. flexibleA. virtueB. abilityC. effortD. statusA. originallyB. obviouslyC. necessarilyD. regularlyA. choiceB. commandC. displayD. lackwhoA. InsteadA. result fromA. immoralA. challengeA. plainlyA. exhibit Section BB. OtherwiseB. ap

43、ply forB. impersonalB. acceptB. probablyexpectThereforeC. associate withC. impossibleC. assessC. immediatelyestablishD. Howeverlead toD. impoliteD. inquireD. actuallyD. recognizeDirections: Read the following three passages. Each passage isfollowed by several questions or unfinished statements. For

44、each of them there are four choices marked A,C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)David Miles, an Australian inventor has been accused of cheating desperate farmers by charging up to $50,000 Australian dollars for delivering r

45、ain on demand without so much as explaining the technology behind his business.On the official Miles Research website, Miles explains that in the 1990 berealized that it was possible to influence weather patterns by creating a bridgebetween the present andfature eveatin the physipcaalfce-time contin

46、uum.He found that by applying small amounts of energy intelligently, even a large, messy weather system approaching from the future could be eased.While somewhat fascinating, Miles explanation does little to explain how he is able to bring rainfall to the lands of farmers. He makes references to fam

47、ous but debatable concepts like “thdbutterfly effect ” ”.Wewere advised against patenting because it s basically exposing how it works. There are a lot of big companies that invest in hunting out patents, Miles said. “understand the doubts, the only other way is to fully prove up our science and phy

48、sics. If we did that, we ll lose it, it witaken up as a national security interest and it ll then be weaponized. ”Miles claims raised suspicions for obvious reasons, including a since-deleted section of his company website, which claimed that his technology used electromagnetic scalar waves ” , whic

49、h scientists say don t even exist.The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has warned people against doing business with him, but the Australian inventor claims the ACCC is only trying to defame him and his company, as in reality they are success base d if it doesn t rain, they don

50、t get paid.Consumers signed the agreement tmaby the end of June they receive 100mm, they pay $50,000, if they only receive 50mm, they would only pay $25,000. Anything under half, we don t want to be paid, Miles said of a handful of Wimmera farmers who agreed to take him up on his offer to deliver ra

51、in.Believe it or not, one of the farmers who paid David Miles for his so-called rain-making capabilities told ABC Radio that he was quite happy with the results. 56. David Miles claims to be capable of.influencing the weather systempredicting the future eventsreducing the atmospheric temperatureD. e

52、asing the gravitational energyACCC issued warning against doing business with Miles because.he charged too much for the services providedthere was no solid science to back up his technologyhis practice was a threat to national security interesthe didn t officially patent his technology with ACCCAcco

53、rding to Miles, how much will he be paid if the farmers receive 15mm of rain?A. $50,000.B. $25,000.C. $12,500. D. $0.What can be inferred from the passage?Miles needed safer facilities for his business.Miles brought about good crops as expected.Miles wasn t discouraged by the critics.Miles was arres

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