可爱的女孩名字上海市奉贤区2016届高三英语上学期期末调研试题解读

2020年12月24日发(作者：房素卿)
奉贤区2015学年度第一学期期末质量测试
高三英语
考生注意：
1．考试时间120分钟，试卷满分150分。 2016.1
2．本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。试卷分为第Ⅰ卷和第Ⅱ卷。所有答題必须涂（选 择题）或写（非选择
题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。
3．答題前，务必在答題纸上填写准考证号和姓名。

第Ⅰ卷 （共103分）
I. Listening Comprehension
(略)

II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.

(A)
Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? For years people believed that it
is impossible for a human being to run a mile in less than four minutes until Roger Banister
proved it wrong in 1954．Within one year,37 runners broke the belief barrier．And the year after
that, 300 other runners did the same thing．
What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way
through．What happens __25__ someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? You
drown．If an animal who has not learned swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because
you believe you will drown __26__ the animal does not．
These cases show the power of beliefs．There is no other __27__(powerful) force in directing
human behavior than belief．Our beliefs have the power to create and to destroy．
In a way it is our beliefs __28__ determine how much we’ll be able to realize our potential．So
pay attention to some of your beliefs．Do you believe you are weak in mathematics? Do you believe
that other people dislike you? Do you believe life is full of problems?
Belief is not mysterious, however, it's nothing but the generalization of a past incident．As
a kid, if a dog bit you, you believed all dogs to be dangerous．__29__(change) certain behavior,
identify the beliefs __30__(associate) with it． Change those beliefs and a new pattern
__31__(create)．

(B)
While getting ready for school today, my 16-year-old daughter came into my room to give
me a big hug and kiss. I asked her, “What do you want?” She said, “Nothing Mum, you always
tell us to have a good day before we leave the house, but I was thinking about who tells you
to have a good day and lets you know how much you are loved.”
I am so touched by the capacity of love and understanding __32__ comes from my children.

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My 15-year-old son asked me last night __33__ there was a way for him to get a summer job this
year in order to help us to pay our bills. Unfortunately, in our area, he __34__ be 16.
__35__ of my children depend on me so much because I am a single parent, but just when I
pay the bills that I will not be able to provide for them, they come up with ways __36__(help
out). I completely understand that I will still have to find a way to pay the bills as I do
not want my children to take up anything. But for now the fact __37__ they have stepped up and
offered to help without anyone asking __38__(touch) me.
When my daughter was two, I remember rushing to get to work, getting to the front door and
asking her to hurry up and come. Then she appeared at the door __39__ a bag that she was holding
open. I said, “We don’t have time for this.” She stopped me and said, “Fill it with love,
Mum.” I fell to my knees and hugged her and then kissed her. From then on she would bring the
bag and I would bring the love to the door before __40__(leave) for school and work.

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. purchases B. agricultural C. narrow D. pouring E. delivered F.
coincide
G. dedicated H. calculating I. enthusiasts J. sales K. priorities

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Thursday that it will create another online shopping event
in the next two months to tap further into rural consumption.
The e-commerce giant, which generated a gross merchandise volume of 91.2 billion yuan ($$14.3
billion) in the 24-hour sales event on Wednesday, said it will hold a similar festival to __41__
with the upcoming Spring Festival in February.
Zhang Yong, chief executive officer of Alibaba, said like urban residents, many rural
consumers have also become online shopping __42__. soon-to-be-launched shopping event will
better serve rural consumers and bring more __43__ products to the dining tables of urban
consumers,
The Hangzhou-based firm said the Spring Festival event will be launched by its
customer-to-customer site Taobao and its Rural Taobao business unit, which is __44__ to online
shoppers in rural areas.
Sun Lijun, vice-president of Alibaba who is in charge of Rural Taobao, said the Spring
Festival shopping gala will help __45__ the gap between urban and rural consumers.

wine from France. That said, we also want urban residents to enjoy high-quality fresh produce
__46__ directly to their doorsteps,
Alibaba has made globalization and going-rural its top __47__ for further development. Last
year, it said it will invest 10 billion yuan over the next three to five years to provide
e-commerce services in about 100,000 villages.
Rural shoppers proved their buying power by __48__ more than 10 million yuan in the first
eight minutes of the Nov 11 online shopping festival. People in 8,000 villages participated
in the 24-hour __49__ on Wednesday. The most expensive order of the day was an order for a Porsche
at about 500,000 yuan.

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Alibaba didn't disclose the specific __50__ made by rural shoppers, but said that items
such as TV sets, air conditioners, shampoos and oil were very popular in villages.

III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions:
For each blank in the following passages 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.

While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research
shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life.
These findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for
Psychological science, suggest that meaning in life may be higher in poorer nations __51__
greater religiosity(笃信宗教). As countries become richer, religion becomes less __52__ to
people’s lives and they lose a sense of meaning in life.
“Thus far, the wealth of nations has been almost always __53__ longevity, health, happiness
or life satisfaction,” explains psychological scientist Shigehiro Oishi of the University of
Virginia. “Given that meaning in life is an important aspect of overall well-being, we wanted
to look more carefully at differential __54__, correlates(相关物), and predictors for meaning
in life.”
Oishi and colleague Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign __55__ life
satisfaction, meaning, and well-being by examining data from the 2007 Gallup World Poll, a __56__
survey of over 140,000 participants from 132 countries. __57__ answering a basic life
satisfaction question, participants were asked: “Do you feel your life has an important __58__
or meaning?” and “Is religion an important part of your daily life?”
The data revealed some unexpected __59__:
“Among Americans, those who are high in life satisfaction are also high in meaning in
life,” says Oishi. “But when we looked at the societal level of analysis, we found a completely
__60__ pattern of the association between meaning in life and life satisfaction.”
When looking across many countries, Oishi and Diener found that people in wealthier nations
were more educated, had fewer children, and expressed more individualistic attitudes compared
to those in poorer countries – all factors that were associated with higher life satisfaction
but a __61__ lower sense of meaning in life.”
The data suggest that religiosity may play an important role: Residents of wealthier nations,
where religiosity is lower, reported __62__ meaning in life and had higher suicide rates than
poorer countries.
According to the researchers, religion may provide meaning to life to the extent that it
__63__ people to overcome personal difficulty and cope with the struggles of working to survive
in poor economic conditions:
Oishi and Diener hope to reproduce these findings using more comprehensive measures of
meaning and religiosity, and are interested in __64__ countries over time to track whether
economic __65__ gives rise to less religiosity and less meaning in life.

51. A. by means of B. as a result of C. for the sake of D.
with regard to

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52. A. central B. ideal C. formal D. superior
53. A. related with B. combined with C. associated with D.
represented with
54. A. models B. styles C. designs D. patterns
55. A. investigated B. diagnosed C. explored D.
exploited
56. A. nationwide B. thorough C. complete D. large-scale
57. A. Except for B. Instead of C. Rather than D. In addition to
58. A. opportunity B. temptation C. purpose D.
definition
59. A. trends B. practices C. outlooks D. currents
60. A. precious B. similar C. relevant D. different
61. A. exactly B. significantly C. adequately D.
partially
62. A. better B. less C. more D. fewer
63. A. allows B. requests C. reminds D. helps
64. A. following B. chasing C. pursuing D. predicting
65. A. priority B. profit C. prosperity D. potential

Section B
Directions:
Read the following 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
Some people say the traditional calendar of 180 days no longer meets the needs of American
society. They point out that students in most other industrial countries are in school more
hours a day and more days a year. Critics also say a long summer vacation causes students to
forget much of what they learned. Schools are under pressure to raise test scores. Some have
changed their calendars to try to improve student performance. They have lengthened the school
day or added days to the year or both. This can be costly if schools need air conditioning on
hot days and school employees need to be paid for the extra time.
Some schools have a year-round schedule. The school year is extended over twelve months. Instead
of a long vacation, there are many short ones. Local businesses may object to a longer school
year because students are unable to work as long at summer jobs. Some parts of the country had
year-round programs in the nineteenth century, mostly for economic reasons. They felt it wasted
money to use school buildings for only part of the year. Year-round programs can also reduce
crowding in schools. In one version, students attend school for nine weeks and then have three
weeks off. The students are in groups that are not all in school at the same time.
Another year-round calendar has all students in school together for nine weeks and off for
three. This is meant to provide the continuous learning that can be lost over a long break.
But year-round schooling has opponents. They say it can cause problems for families when they
want to make summer plans. And they say it interferes with activities outside school -- including
summer employment.

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Some experts say no really good studies have been done to measure the effect of school
calendars on performance. But some educators think year-round schooling especially helps
students from poor families that lack educational support at home.

66. The best title for the passage seems to be ______.
A. Debating upon Year-round Schooling
B. Advantages of Year-round Education
C. Disadvantages of a Long Summer Vacation
D. Different Types of School Calendars
67. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that schools should extend school days?
A. The traditional calendar is out of date.
B. Long holidays cause students to forget much of what they learned.
C. Schools face pressure to raise test marks.
D. Schools in other countries urge them to do so.
68. Those against year-round schooling argue that ______.
A. it does little to help improve students’ performance at school.
B. it may cause learning tiredness.
C. it will not have much educational value.
D. it affects students’ activities outside school.
69. We learn from the passage that year-round schooling _____.
A. will enable students to raise their scores.
B. is expected to get under way soon.
C. remains a controversial issue.
D. is approved by the government.

B
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Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is
widespread in our young girls’ lives. It is not that pink inherently(内在地) bad, but it is
such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also
repeatedly and firmly blends girls’ identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection,
even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence.
Looking around, I despaired at the extreme lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.
Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according
to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it's not. Children were not
colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines
all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was
to boil them. What's more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender- neutral dresses.
When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour,
a delicate version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations(暗
示) of the Virgin Mary(圣母玛利亚), constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity(女性
化). It was not until the mid-1980s, when enlarged age and sex differences became a dominant
children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem
inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first
few critical years.
I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends influenced our perception of what is
natural to relatives, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Taking
the toddler as an example, I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years
of research into children's behaviour: wrong. It turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian
of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers
in the 1930s.
Trade publications counseled(劝告) department stores that, in order to increase sales, they
should create a stepping stonebetween infant wear and older kids' clothes. It was only
after 学步的小孩) became common shoppers' term that it evolved into a broadly accepted
developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a safe
way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to cut up a market is to magnify gender
differences – or invent them where they did not previously exist.
73. By saying
A. should not be the sole representation of girlhood
B. should not be associated with girls' innocence
C. cannot explain girls' lack of imagination
D. cannot influence girls' lives and interests
74. What does the word “encode” in Para. 2 refer to?
A. discovered B. programmed C. marked D. sealed
75. The author suggests that our perception of children's psychological development was much
influenced by_____.
A. the marketing of products for children
B. the observation of children's nature
C. researches into children's behavior
D. studies of childhood consumption
76. We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to _____.

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A. focus on infant wear and older kids' clothes
B. attach equal importance to different genders
C. classify consumers into smaller groups
D. create some common shoppers' terms
77. It can be concluded that girls' attraction to pink seems to be ____.
A. clearly explained by their inborn tendency
B. fully understood by clothing manufacturers
C. mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmen
D. well interpreted by psychological experts

Section C
Directions:
Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements
in the fewest possible words.

Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from
agriculture. Food riots(暴乱) and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters
is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields(产量) of some of the world’s
major crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks
at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.
The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat
corn and soybeans. They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement
in yields that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 2000s.
There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp
in the world’s most populous countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has
been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food
markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or
reverse.
Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soybeans. This is
problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of
all calories consumed. Corn and soybeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note
that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars
rather than on crops that feed people and are the basis of food security in much of the world.”
The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that
the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people
in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organization has argued.
Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed up for crops
might be able to revert to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the
forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TWELVE WORDS.)

78. The trend lying behind food riot and hunger is ___________________________.
79. Why does the author mention India and China in particular?
80. According to the new study, what’s the problem of the recent crop improvement efforts?
81. What is the author’s attitude to the argument of the Food and Agriculture Organization?


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第II卷（共47分）
I. Translation
Directions:
Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the
brackets.


1. 你真周到，帮我预先订好了票子。 （It）

2. 我总是对那些在我失意时安慰我的人心存感激。 （grateful）

3. 许多人如此沉溺于网络购物以至于每天都要访问购物网站。 （So…）

4. 他不感激他朋友们为他所做的牺牲，把这视作是理所当然的。 （appreciate）

5. 尽管前途未卜，为了不让人生留有遗憾，他习惯尽力做好每一件事。 （Despite）


II. Guided Writing
Directions:
Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given
below in Chinese.

作为一名高中生，你认为什么品质是你最需具备的？ 请通过一个事例来说明理由。





奉贤区2016年高三英语一模答案
1-10 CCCAC DCCAB
11-16 BCD CCD
17 tired 18 energy 19store 20portabale
21 clean and repaired 22(all the) oxygen 23tie themselves to 24like feathers
25ifwhen 26while 27more powerful 28that 29To change 30associated
31will be created 33whichthat 34mustshould 35Both 36to help out
37that 38touches 39with 40living
41-50FIBGC EKDJA
51-65BACDA DDCAD BBDAC
66-77ADDC CBD ABACC
78 the growth decline in yields of some of the world’s major crops. the decline in the growth
in yields of some of the world’s major crops.
79Beaucse their self-sufficiency is important to the stability of word food e
their ability to feed themselves ensures relative stability of word food markets
80They focus on feeding animals and cars rather than feeding focus on feeding
animals and cars rather than on crops for focus more on the increase of animals

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feed than human fir growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and
soybeans
81No ul

翻译
1 It is so considerate or you to have booked ticket foe me in of hand.
2 I am always grateful to those who comfort me when I am in low spirits
3 So addicted to online shopping are many people that they will visit shopping websites everyday
4 He didn’t appreciate the sacrifice his hands had made for him ,and took it for granted.
5 Despite the unpredictable future ,he is accustomed to used to tying his best to do everything
well to leave no regrets in life.



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