上海市奉贤区2020届高三下学期英语二模考试卷 15页

‎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 Comprehension Section A Directions: 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 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. Tailor’s shop. C. Department store. D. Convenience store. ‎ 2. A. 200 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 it’s not busy.‎ 4. A. Borrowing money from a business company.‎ ‎ B. Lending some money to a student.‎ ‎ C. Asking for some 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 is valueless. D. He thinks it is valuable.‎ ‎7. A. Professor Smith spoke Greek when he explained the maths problem. B. The woman still didn’t understand the maths problem. C. Unfortunately, she didn’t hear Professor Smith’s explanation. D. Professor Smith didn’t explain the problem clearly.‎ 8. A. Collect papers 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 colleague’s mind.‎ 10. ‎ A. His project proved to be unsuccessful.‎ ‎ B. He was unable to get sufficient money.‎ ‎ C. Lack of land prevented his success.‎ ‎ D. He was successful with his project.‎ Section B Directions: 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) 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.‎ 8. A. To guide and help children’s play. B. To give children an opportunity to play.‎ C. To make children excited. D. To keep children company. ‎ 9. A. It determines the standard a child can reach. ‎ B. It is the happiest period during one’s life.‎ C. It is the most important time to shape one’s character.‎ D. It is the best time for children to learn new things. ‎ 10. A. The relationship between play and learning.‎ B. The way to help children develop both physically and mentally.‎ C. The importance of children’s play.‎ D. Different stages of children’s development.‎ Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.‎ 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 one’s mind affects one’s 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-daydreamers 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 following conversation. ‎ 17. ‎ A. Their average lifespan was less than 50 years. ‎ B. It was very common for them to have 12 children.  ‎ C. They retired 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 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.‎ II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: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 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 Stress For 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 pain. 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). 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. “They’re living organisms which have their own problems.” ‎ Actually making their suffering hearable, however, is 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 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) ______ researchers aren't 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 wasn’t in a range detectable 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 B Directions:Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from 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. desperately G. strengths H. frustrating I. spilling J. collective K.sealed Italians find “Moments of Joy in this Moment of Anxiety”‎ It started with the national anthem. Then came the piano chords, trumpet blasts, violin serenades (小夜曲) and even the clanging of pots and pans--all of it (31) ______ from people’s 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 Europe’s 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) ______ 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 people’s souls, it has also demonstrated the (35) ______ of those national 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 country’s 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 by young children with the title “It will all be OK.”‎ ‎“We’re 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 Comprehension Section A Directions: 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 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) 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 themselves with people who possess traits they prefer. ‎ On an instinctive level, Cerf’s idea (45) ______: Many choices people make are the product of social pressures and the inputs of (46) ______ people around them. One example Cerf furnishes is that, (47) ______ consistently ordering the second menu item, he never picks where to eat. Rather, he (48) ______ his decision ‎ to his dining partner--which friend he plans to eat with, probably one he trusts--and always lets them pick. ‎ While it's (49) ______ what, if any, scientific principles underlie those pieces of advice, there is no shortage of research showing that choices can sometimes feel more (50) ______ than liberating. An example from Quanta poits (假设) : If you have a clear love of Snickers(士力架), choosing that over an Almond Joy(杏仁巧克力) or a Milky Way(牛奶巧克力) should be a (51) ______. And, as an experiment conducted by neuroscientist Paul Glimcher at NYU shows, most of the time it is, (52) _______ you introduce more choices. When the participants were offered three candy bars (Snickers, Milky Way, and Almond Joy) they had no problem picking their favorite, but when they were given the option of one among 20, including Snickers, they would sometimes drift away from their (53) ______. When the choices were taken away in later trials, the participants would wonder what caused them to make such a bad decision.‎ As Quanta details, according to a model called "divisive normalization(分裂归一化), which has gained some popularity, the way the brain encodes choices has a lot to do with how it values all its options. So, if you have two things that are clearly (54) ______, brain areas involved in decision-making fire in a pattern that makes the decision clear. When the choices are comparable, the brain does its best to focus on the distinctions between the two, but more choices (55) ______ that ability out.‎ ‎41. A. relieved B. released C. eliminated D. liberated ‎42. A. influenced B. inherited C. implemented D. informed ‎43. A. maximize B. balance C. cherish D. seek ‎44. A. safer B. fewer C. better D. sounder ‎45. A. stands out B. comes into force C. makes sense D. plays a part ‎46. A. distinguished B. trusted C. authorized D. honored ‎47. A. in addition to B. instead of C. in spite of D. regardless of ‎48. A. conveys B. relates C. submits D. limits ‎49. A. evident B. unclear C. critical D. inevitable ‎50. A. confusing B. inspiring C. worrying D. appealing ‎51. A. stressor B. no-brainer C. challenge D. headache ‎52. A. after B. before C. when D. until ‎53. A. preference B. struggle C. status D. direction ‎54. A. impressive B. insignificant C. unique D. distinct ‎55. A. crowd B. figure C. sort D. put Section B Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. ‎ ‎(A)‎ One spring day, once the flowers have begun to open, a bee will hover (盘旋) and zip through your yard and dive-bomb your picnic table. While you're thinking about avoiding an attack, that bee is focused on something else entirely: me.‎ A honeybee has about six weeks to live. Today, like most days, her task is to fly as many as three miles from home, stick her long, straw-like tongue into a hundred or so flowers. When the bee has had her fill, she’ll fly home. There the bee will deposit what she has got into the mouth of one of her co-workers, who will relay it to another, and so on for about 20 minutes, until the mixture is ready to be placed into the comb. Then she ‎ and her 50,000 or so mates will hover in the dark all night every night, flapping their wings to create hot, breezy conditions to remove the water from the mixture. Several sunrises later, they will seal me off in a golden cell of beeswax. In her lifetime, our bee may visit 4,000 flowers, and yet will produce only one-twelfth of a tea spoon of me.‎ The average American consumes nearly a pound and a half of me every year, in tea, on toast, and beyond. If I do say so myself, I am a timeless treasure. Literally--I never go bad.‎ Unfortunately, my good health is not guaranteed. The problem lies in the growth of industrial agriculture and the use of pest control chemicals, as well as changes in weather patterns, all of which reduce the number of flowers bees have to visit. I'd appreciate your letting your own garden grow just a little wild. My future depends on all of us fostering spring and summers wild flowers, thus helping the bees, who give so much--to you, to me--without ever asking for anything in return.‎ ‎56. What does “me” refer to in the passage?‎ A. The flower. B. The bee. C. Water. D. Honey.‎ ‎57. What is the 2nd paragraph mainly about?‎ A. Bees' special talent. B. Bees' hard work.‎ C. Bees' living environment. D. Bees' social behavior.‎ ‎58. Which one of the following is true according to the passage?‎ A. A bee will always prioritize attacking picnic lovers.‎ B. Before “me” is sealed off in beeswax, the drying process can take a few nights.‎ C. The lifework of a bee satisfies the average demand of an American consumer annually.‎ D. Bees are more likely to visit those deliberately pest-controlled gardens.‎ ‎59. What is the purpose of the passage?‎ A. To appeal for help for honeybees.‎ B. To talk about the history of a treasure.‎ C. To put forward techniques for gardeners.‎ D. To argue against the control of chemicals.‎ ‎(B)‎ Get Your Unlimited Card at Cineworld Cinemas Enjoy Unlimited Films Watch all the films you want at any Cineworld for just one monthly price. Being an Unlimited card holder gives you access to all the 2D films you can handle for one monthly price. Watch what you want, when you want, as many times as you want. Plus, save money when watching films in 3D and others. After you've been with us for more than 1 year we'll upgrade you to a Premium Card and you'll get into 3D films completely free too! 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This passage is probably written to ______.‎ A. secure the loyalty of potential customers B. introduce the latest movies and discounts C. promote the popularity of Cineworld cinemas D. give away movie cards to readers for free ‎(C)‎ A rare hole has opened up in the ozone layer above the Arctic, in what scientists say is the result of unusually low temperatures in the atmosphere above the north pole.‎ The hole, which has been tracked from space and the ground over the past few days, has reached record dimensions, but is not expected to pose any danger to humans unless it moves further south. If it extends further south overpopulated areas, such as southern Greenland, people would be at increased risk of sunburn. However, on current trends the hole is expected to disappear altogether in a few weeks.‎ Low temperatures in the northern polar regions led to an unusual stable polar vortex(极地漩涡), and the presence of ozone-destroying chemicals such as chlorine(氯) in the atmosphere – from human activities – ‎ caused the hole to form.‎ ‎ “The hole is principally a geophysical curiosity,” said Vincent-Henri Peuch, director ofthe Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service. “We monitored unusual dynamic(动态的) conditions, which drive the process of chemical depletion of ozone. Those dynamics allowed for lower temperatures and a more stable vortex than usual over the Arctic, which then triggered the formation of polar stratospheric(平流层的) clouds and the catalytic(催化的) destruction of ozone.”‎ The hole is not related to the Covid-19 shutdowns that have dramatically cut air pollution and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. It is also too early to say whether the unusually stable Arctic polar vortex conditions are linked with the climate crisis, or part of normal stratospheric weather variability.‎ Peuch said there were no direct implications for the climate crisis. Temperatures in the region are already increasing, slowing the depletion of ozone, and the hole will start to recover as polar air mixes with ozone-rich air from lower latitudes. The last time similar conditions were observed was in spring 2011.‎ While a hole over the Arctic is a rare event, the much larger hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic has been a major cause for concern for more than four decades. The production of ozone-depleting chemicals has been dramatically reduced, under the 1987 Montreal Protocol(蒙特利尔协议), but some sources appear still to be functioning--in 2018, unauthorized emissions were detected from some areas .‎ New sources of ozone-depleting chemicals were not a factor in the hole observed in the Arctic, said Peuch. “However, this is a reminder that one should not take the Montreal Protocol measures for granted, and that observations from the ground and from satellites are central to avoid a situation where the ozone-destroying chemical level in the stratosphere could increase again.”‎ 63. What is the possible meaning of the underlined word “depletion”?‎ A. replacement B. consumption C. increase D. production 64. According to the passage, scientists are concerned about the hole because ______.‎ A. it is expected to be a threat to the mankind B. the new hole is caused by air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions C. it may encourage further scientific research and environmental awareness D. it warns us of an oncoming climate crisis 65. What can be learned from the last two paragraphs?‎ A. The hole over the Arctic shares the same causes as the one over the Antarctic.‎ B. Human activities are highly responsible for producing ozone-destroying chemicals.‎ C. The Montreal Protocolhas successfully prevented new emissions.‎ D. Some new illegal emissions are to blame for the hole over the Arctic.‎ 66. The best title for the passage is probably ______.‎ A. Record-size Hole Opens in Ozone Layer above the Arctic B. Actions Urgently Neededfora New Hole in Ozone Layer C. Environmental Disaster and International Cooperation D. How a Hole in Ozone Affects our Life on Earth Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each ‎ sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. ‎ A. Taking selfies is definitely one experience that many people like doing and sharing with the online world.‎ B. People who post group selfies also show a need for popularity and a need to belong to a group.‎ C. Narcissists are people who think very highly of themselves, especially how they look.‎ D. That was the old way of “clicking like”.‎ E. The drive to take selfies can nevertheless do some good to society as a whole.‎ F. But men who post selfies showed more of a need to be seen as popular than women did.‎ People like to post their selfies(自拍照) on social media. To know more about it, scientists at Syracuse University in New York recently did a research and came up with some surprising findings.‎ People who post selfies and use editing software to make themselves look better show behaviors connected to narcissism, the researchers said. (67) _______ Makana Chock, a professor from Syracuse University, said because social media is mostly used by people to share unimportant information about their lives, it is a good place for people to “work towards satisfying their own vanity.” Those “likes” under their Facebook selfies make them feel good. ‎ ‎(68) ________ Some people feel “peer pressure” to post selfies and some follow the popular belief that if there is no picture of an event or experience, it did not really happen. “Anyway, it shouldn’t be seen as negative. People get sense of satisfaction especially when they get likes. And it does no harm,” Chock said. ‎ Other findings from the study include: There are no major differences on how often men and women post selfies and how often they use editing software. (69) ________‎ Chock said posting selfies on social media is not all that different from what people have done for many years. On trips and special events, our parents and grandparents used cameras instead of phones to take photos. They would bring back photos to show friends and family. You had no choice but to look at them. You probably commented about how nice everyone in the photos looked, especially children and the person showing the photos. They were happy to hear your comments. (70) _______ On social media, however, people can decide not to look at photos --even if they click “like”.‎ IV. Summary Writing Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible. ‎ It’s natural to feel the need to control something when everything around you feels out of control, and you feel helpless.When a friend of mine first heard about the coronavirus outbreak, she got down on her hands and knees and cleaned her kitchen floor. She told me,“My floor wasn’t even dirty, but doing something constructive made me feel in control and that I was holding on to my power, despite the desperatecircumstances.”‎ Your most powerful weapon against uncertainty is your perspective because nobody and no situation can take that from you unless you give it away. Your perspective can victimize or empower you. When you look for the upside in a downside situation and figure out what you can control and what you can't, it’s easier to accept whatever is beyond your control. ‎ Small gestures during hard times gentle worry and concern. Often during emergencies and crises, people start performing acts of kindness at random. Helping others through a crisis by performing good deeds can ‎ make you feel in control. The obvious benefit when you reach out to help someone else is that you get a break from your own worries for a while. Contributing, giving, volunteering, donating and performing kind acts, no matter how small or brief, connect you to other people (and animals) in a deeply meaningful, humane way. So practice doing small gestures for others and yourself.‎ ‎ Positive action is supposed to be taken to ensure you a sense of control.Make “cans”out of “cannots”and focus on what you can control.Take advantage of this restrictive time to clear clutter out of your basement, pull weeds in the garden, organize drawers, closets, and bookshelves, or get caught up on fun hobbies you've neglected for a while. Focus on a thought, person, pet, or object that stir hope and positivity within you. Hope always exists alongside of despair. ‎ V. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.‎ 72. 我们从来没有像现在这么渴望去学校上课！（Never）‎ 73. 既然只能宅在家里，何不做点自己喜欢做但平时又没时间做的事情呢？（Why not）‎ 74. 在欧洲许多作为理想社交场所的咖啡店不得不关门谢客来应对这场公共卫生危机。（serve）‎ 75. 事实证明当我们的国家在面临困难时，每个中国人, 不管在国内还是国外，都愿意为自己的祖国做 出贡献。（It）‎ VI. Guided Writing Directions:Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. ‎ 请简要描述图片内容,并结合生活或学习中的例子谈谈你对该图的理解。‎ ‎2019学年奉贤区学科教学质量调研高三英语听力 Listening Comprehension Section A Directions: 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 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. M: Good morning! Can I help you ?‎ ‎ W：Yes! The dress is too long. Would you please shorten that for me ?‎ ‎ Q: Where does this conversation probably take place?‎ 2. W: I’ll take the room. How much is the rent?‎ ‎ M: Well, it’s 200 pounds each month. You need to pay 3 months rents in advance. Plus deposit of 100 ‎ pounds.‎ ‎ Q: How much should the women pay in total? ‎ 3. M: I’m so sick of calling the ticket office. The line is always busy.‎ ‎ W: Why don’t you order through the Internet?‎ ‎ Q: What does the women suggest the man do?‎ 4. W: Tom, do you have any idea where Sally is?‎ M: Yes, I saw her in the business office. She was applying for a student loan.‎ Q: what was Sally doing?‎ 5. M: I couldn’t sleep at all last night. The bed is not comfortable.‎ ‎ W: Don’t blame the bed. You should stop drinking wine.‎ ‎ Q: What does the woman imply? ‎ 6. M: Just look at today's paper. Nothing but accidents or gossip.‎ ‎ W: Right. Nothing is worth reading.‎ ‎ Q: What is the speaker's attitude towards today's paper?‎ 7. M: Professor Smith explained the maths problem clearly.‎ ‎ W: Did he? Unfortunately, it is still all Greek to me.‎ ‎ Q: What can we learn from the conversation?‎ 8. M: Are you sure you've corrected all the typing errors in this paper? W: Perhaps I'd better read it through again.‎ ‎ Q: What's the woman going to do?‎ 9. M: The biological project is now in trouble. You know my colleague and I have completely different ideas ‎ ‎ about how to proceed.‎ ‎ W: Why don’t you talk about it? Try to make it a win-win situation for you both.‎ ‎ Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?‎ 5. M: How did Mr. Graves projects turn out? I heard he had trouble with the financing and he then couldn’t ‎ ‎ get the land he wanted.‎ ‎ W: It’s true! He did have difficulties but all in all it couldn’t have turned out better.‎ ‎ Q: What did you learn about Mr. Graves?‎ Section B Directions: 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) 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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard. ‎ Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following talk.‎ Play is the principal business of children, and in recent years more and more research have shown the great importance of play in the development of a human being. From earliest infancy, every child needs an opportunity and the right materials for play, and the main tools of play are toys. Their main function is to suggest, encourage and assist play. Therefore, it is important to choose suitable toys for different stages of a child’s development. Some research in recent years on infant development has shown the standard a child is likely to reach is largely determined in the first three years of his life. So a baby’s ability to profit from the right play materials should not be underestimated. A baby who is encouraged and stimulated, talked to and shown things and played with, has the best chance of growing up successfully. The next stage, from three to five years old, curiosity knows no bounds. Every type of suitable toy should be made available to the child, for trying out, experimenting and learning, for discovering his own particular ability. By the third stage of play development-- from five to seven or eight years the child is at school. But for a few more years play is still the best way of learning, at home or at school. It is easier now to see which type of toys the child most enjoys. ‎ Now listen again, please.‎ ‎11. What is the main function of toys? ‎ ‎12. Why is it said the first three years of one's life is important? ‎ ‎13. What does the passage mainly discuss? ‎ Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.‎ In 2014, one in sixteen Americans visited the hospital emergency room for home injuries. One of the main causes of these accidents? A wandering mind!  By one estimate, people daydream through nearly half of their waking hours. ‎ Psychologists have recently focused on the tendency to think about something other than the task one is doing. For one experiment, researchers developed an app to analyze the relationship between daydreaming and happiness. They found that the average person’s mind wandered most frequently about 65% of the time during personal activities, such as brushing their teeth and combing their hair. Respondents’ minds tended to wander more when they felt upset rather than happy. They were more likely to wander toward pleasant topics than unpleasant ones. ‎ How do daydreams affect daydreamers? A wandering mind leaves us vulnerable when driving. In one study, researchers interviewed 955 people involved in traffic accidents, the majority of them reported having ‎ daydream just before the accident. ‎ Yet other research suggests that daydreaming has benefits. Researchers have found that it gives us a chance to think about our goals and it also seems to increase creativity. In one experiment, 145 undergraduates completed four “unusual uses” tasks, each requiring them to list as many uses as possible for an everyday object. After the first pair of tasks was completed, one group of participants was assigned an undemanding activity intended to cause their minds to wander. When all the participants proceeded to the second pair of tasks, the daydreamers performed 40% better than the others.‎ Now listen again, please. ‎ 14. What does the passage say about people’s mind? ‎ 15. For what purpose did the researchers develop the new app? ‎ 16. What was the finding of the experiment with 145 undergraduates? ‎ Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. ‎ W: Hi, Professor Smith. I hear you've written a book titled Visions. ‎ M: Yes. It explains how science will revolutionize in the future. ‎ W: Could I ask you some questions concerning the book?‎ M: Sure. ‎ W: Are you optimistic about the future? M: Generally, yeah. If we go back to the year of 1900, most Americans didn't live beyond the age of 50.‎ Since then, we've had improvements in health care and technology.‎ W: Are we ready for the changes that will come?‎ M: Changes are already happening. The future is here now. We have DNA, microchips and the Internet. Some people's reaction is to say, “We are too old; we don’t understand new technology.” ‎ ‎ My reaction is to say, “We must educate people to use new technology now.”‎ W: Is world population going to be a big problem?‎ M: Yes, and no. I think that world population will stop increasing as we all get richer. If you are a part of the ‎ middle class, you don’t want or need 12 children.‎ W: Will there be a world government? M: Very probably. We will have to manage the world and its resources on a global level because countries ‎ alone are too small.‎ W: Will we have control of everything? M: I think we'll learn to control the weather, volcanoes and earthquakes. Illness won’t exist. We'll grow new ‎ ‎ livers, kidneys, hearts, and lungs like spare parts of a car. People will live to about 130 or 150.For 2 000 years, we have tried to understand our environment. Now we'll begin to control it. ‎ Now listen again, please.‎ ‎17. What does Professor Smith say about most Americans around the year of 1900?‎ ‎18. What does Professor Smith advise we do? ‎ ‎19. When will the world population stop growing according to Professor Smith? ‎ ‎20. What does Professor Smith think human beings will be able to do? ‎ ‎ 奉贤区高三英语调研测试 (试卷参考答案)‎ I. Listening Comprehension ‎ Section A ‎1-5 BDBCB 6-10 CBCCD Section B ‎11-13 AAC 14-16 BAD ‎17-20 ACDC II. Grammar and Vocabulary ‎ Section A 21. forced 22. which 23. growing 24. thought 25. To test 26. an 27. while 28. Although/While/Though 29. that ‎ ‎30. could/can Section B ‎31-40 IBACG FDEKJ III. Reading Comprehension ‎ Section A ‎ ‎41-55 CDABC BADBA BDADA Section B ‎ ‎56-59 DBBA ‎60-62 CDA ‎63-66 BCBA Section C ‎ ‎67-70 CBFD ‎ ‎ IV. Summary Writing ‎ For reference:‎ Strengthening or retrieving a sense of control is a natural demand. First, good perspective is of the greatest help, for evaluating the situation properly brings a clearer picture. Second, kind behaviors during tough times can secure you a sense of control as well. Third, actions and thoughts of positivity also help as they may create hope and optimism.‎ It’s essential to feel you can control something in a crisis or emergency. Positive perspective is the most important, since it will ensure you confidence and power to pull through the difficult situation. Then doing small good deeds can free you from worry temporarily by helping others. Lastly, take some positive action to arouse the hope within you.‎ V. Translation ‎72.Never before have we been so eager /keen to go to school as we are now.‎ ‎73. Why not do something you love but don't have time to do since you can only stay at home?‎ ‎74. In Europe many coffee houses which serve as ideal places for social interaction have to close their stores to respond to the public health crisis. ‎ ‎75. It turns out that when our country is facing difficulties, every Chinese, whether athome or abroad, is willing to make contributions to their motherland.‎ ‎ ‎