14 2017届上海市浦东区高三英语二模试卷(作文有范文)

2021年1月22日发(作者：关琦明)
浦东新区
2016
学年度第二学期教学质量检测

高三英语试卷













2017.4


说 明：
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I. Listening Comprehension (25%)
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. In a supermarket.

2. A. 20 minutes.

C. 25 minutes.
























B. In a drug store.

D. In a car repair shop.
B. 45 minutes.
D. 65 minutes.
B. Director and actor.
D. Hostess and guest.



C. In a department store.

3. A. Professor and student.



C. Writer and advertiser.



B. She can help the man out.
4. A. She picked up the book from the bus stop.


C. She’s also in need of a chemistry textbook.



D. She will help the man to find the right person.
5. A. Take the test in three weeks.



B. Call to make inquiries about the test results.


C. Be patient and wait for the test results.

D. Inquire about the date when the results will be released.
6. A. He set fire to the building.


B. He parked his car beside the building.


C. He was trying to clear the road with the help of some other people.


D. He found out what was going on.
7. A. He’s going to the theatre.



C. He’s just visited his tailor.

8. A. Registering for courses.


C. Buying literature books.












B. He’s just returned from a job interview.

D. He’s dr
essed up to have his photo taken.
B. Studying engineering and art history.
D. Going to the registry office.
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9. A. The Jenkins made a wise investment.


B. It is not sensible to make such an investment.


C. The Jenkins should buy the stocks later.


D. It is essential that the Jenkins should move out.
10. A. It is not a good timing to build it.




C. She is curious about this plan.

Section B
Directions:
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. 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 passage.
11. A. South Korean Women.
12. A. High premature deaths.



B. Overweight citizens.



C. A lack of public health care.



D. A shortage in new medical technologies.

13. A. More facilities should be established.



B. Additional pressure should be put on pensions.



C. People should retire at an earlier age.



D. People should be provided with more payments.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. Because of the security of the job.







B. For a promotion to the Executive Director.



C. To inspire the folks in the community.




D. To enrich others and her own lives.
15. A. The speaker graduated in law and used to earn generous salaries.



B. Spelman is a non- profit institute which turns out social workers.



C. The audiences are regarded as beautiful because they all belong to Spelman.



D. Public service is rewarding both in a spiritual and material sense.
16. A. Urging classmates to get involved in public service.



B. Expressing gratitude to the audience for their volunteer work.



C. Delivering a speech to the graduates from Spelman College.



D. Illustrating how to help others as one climbs his career ladder.
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B. It should have been built earlier.
D. She doubts how long the plan will take.





B. American citizens.
D. People with economic improvements.



C. People in industrialized countries.
Questions 17 through 18 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. May 19
th
.

B. May 20
th
.



C. May 23
rd
.


D. May 16
th
.
18. A. Three meals a day.




B. Train fare.



C. Competition entrance fee.



D. Floor space.
19. A. The entrance fee is 16 euros this year.



B. College basket teams abroad can enter for the game by phone.



C. It is the 80
th
anniversary of the Tampere Student Game.



D. The game will end with a ceremony in the last evening.
20. A. Students can enjoy a reduced rate during that period.



B. All the basketball teams live in that hotel.
C. It will provide three meals to the players living there.
D. It is close to where all the matches are held.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)
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.
Over the past sixteen years of my life, I have grown to be a very independent person. This
can be both good and bad in the sense that I am able to do things (21)______ my own, yet at
times struggle with taking advice from others. Sometimes, hearing what other people have to say
can be one of the hardest things to do. However, getting advice from (22)______ cares about you
can impact your life in great ways. Because of this, I began realizing that my mom’s guidance
throughout my life has never steered me wrong. This is why I believe you (23)______ always
listen to your mother.
This belief has not been easy (24)______(realize). It has taken endless amounts of time in
which I decided to go against what my mom had to say, and later discovered that she was right. I
think we can all agree that (25)______ (admit) your mom was right is always a hard thing to do.
But what else are you supposed to say (26)______ you are standing outside in the freezing cold,
shaking because you did not wear that extra jacket you (27)______ (tell) to wear?

When I was twelve years old, I had the experience of a lifetime. However, I would have
missed
out
if
it
hadn
’
t
been
for
my
mom.
She
had
been
planning
a
trip
to
Turkey
for
work,
(28)______
(offer)
to
bring
my
sister
and
me
along
with
her.
When
I
first
heard
about
this
opportunity, I was terrified. Never had I been out of the country before. I thought to (29)______,
“Is she crazy?” My mom then began to say, “(
30)______ is known to all, one needs to step out
of his comfort zone and try something new in order to encounter larger-than-
life ideas.” After
going back and forth with my own thoughts, I decided to go on the trip. And boy, she was right.
Going to Turkey will forever be one of my greatest memories and I am thankful I got to visit that
amazing country.

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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. flexibility


B. shift




C. hungry




D. improvement


E. dominated
F. released




G. secure


H. adapting



I. familiar







J. burying


K. distinguish


The New York Times has changed a lot in the past 10 years, embracing digital subscriptions
and
growing
into
online
video
and
specialty
areas
like
cooking.
It
has
not
been
enough
to
prepare
the
company
for
the
future,
according
to
the
paper’s
own
2020
report
__31__
on
Tuesday.
“While the past two years have been a time of significant innovation, the pace must speed
up,”
the
authors
wrote
in
the
opening
of
the
report.
“Too
often,
d
igital
progress
has
been
accomplished
through
workarounds;
now
we
must
tear
apart
the
barriers.
We
must
__32__
between mission and tradition: what we do because it’s essential to our values and what we do
because we’ve always done it.”

The report indicates how far the paper has come in __33__ itself to the digital age while also
pointing out what needs to be done.

The
areas
that
need
__34__
are
focused
on
the
newsroom,
particularly
in
the
tools
and
internal structures that journalists must deal with to produce their work.

Many
of
the
report’s
recommendations
are
__35__
to
anyone
who
closely
follows
the
Times
or
newspapers
in
general:
A(n)
__36__
away
from
print’s
outsized
importance
on
the
newsroom’s
operations,
better
ways
to
include
multimedia
in
stories

and
a
renewed
effort
at
creating a more diverse newsroom with a variety of skills.
The
paper
has
an
ongoing
goal
that
started
in
2016
of
doubling
digital
revenue
to
$$800
million
by
2020.
“To

__37__
our
future,
we
need
to
expand
considerably
our
number
of
subscribers by 2020.”

The
report
also
calls
into
question
the
formats
on
which
the
Times
—

and
most
other
newspapers
—

rely, namely a mix of news stories and features that are text heavy. “Too much of
our daily report remains __38__
by long texts.” the rep
ort states.
The
report
stresses
that
the
Times
should
do
more
to
educate
readers.
“Our
readers
are
__39__
for advice from The Times. Too often, we don’t offer it, or offer it only in print
-centric
forms.” the report states. Perhaps the most interesting par
t of the report comes at the very bottom
in the form of comments from the paper’s own journalists. Reporters said they would like to see
__40__ in choice of how to tell certain stories, and some disagreement about what kind of tone
the Times should embrace going forward.


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III. Reading Comprehension (45%)
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.

Have We Reached Peak Trade?
Globalization
is
usually
defined
as
the
free
movement
of
people,
goods
and
capital.
It’s
been the most important ___41___ force of modernity. Until the financial crisis of 2008, global
trade grew twice as fast as the global economy itself. ___42___, thanks to both economics and
politics, globalization as we have known it is developing fast.
The
question
is:
Have
we
reached
peak
trade?
If
you
think
of
it
in
terms
of
the
flow
of
digital data and ideas, no
—

it’s actually ___43___.” Indeed, the cros
s-border flow of digital data
—
e-commerce, web searches, online video, machine- to-machine interactions
—
has grown 45
times larger since 2005 and is ___44___ to grow much faster than the global economy over the
next few years.
There’s no doubt globalizati
on has increased wealth at both global and national levels. But
free trade can also widen the ___45___ gap within countries, in part by creating concentrated
groups of economic losers. Free trade has made goods and services cheaper for Americans
—

think of all the inexpensive Chinese-made goods at Walmart
—

but it hasn’t always ___46___
their
job
prospects.
From1990
to
2008,
the
areas
most
___47___
to
foreign
competition
saw
almost no net new jobs created. That’s one reason the new generation of Americans i
s on track to
be ___48___ than their parents.
The gains of free trade do not always ___49___ the losses. This realization that the tide of
___50___
doesn’t
raise
all
boats
has
fed
into
the
anti
-free
trade
movement.
And
companies
themselves are ___51___ globalization.

Nevertheless,
there
is
one
reason
to
be
___52___
about
the
future
of
globalization
—

at
least, the new information-based kind. McKinsey data estimate that the companies responsible
for
the
jump
in
flows
of
digital
goods,
services
and
information
will
include
a
much
higher
proportion
of
small
businesses
than
in
the
past.
An
estimated
86%
of
tech-based
startups
surveyed by McKinsey now do some cross-border business
—
___53___ before the arrival of
the Internet, when globalization was dominated by super powers. That means that more of the
wealth
generated
by
globalization
could
flow
down
to
the
80%
of
the
population
that
hasn’t
___54___ as much as it should have.

If those individuals feel they are being empowered by open borders and freer trade, it could
help
swing
the
political
pendulum(
钟摆
)

back
toward
globalization
in
some
form.
Despite
its
laws, it has been an economic force that has lifted more people out of ___55___ than anything
else the world has ever known.

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41.

A. political
















B. cultural

B. Hence

B. tracked

B. welfare
B. helped
B. suited


B. balance




















C. economic

C. Moreover

C. approving

C. signaled


C. pension


C. foreseen

C. exposed



C. wealthier


C. suffer











D. natural

D. Yet
D. operating
D. needed


D. wealth

D. reversed

D. inaccessible


D. poorer
D. substitute




D. consumption


D. insisting on

D. curious

D. impossible

D. digested

D. embarrassment


42.

A. Otherwise


43.

A. depressing

44.

A. projected
45.

A. price

46.

A. ruined

47.

A. resistant
48.

A. happier






B. increasing





B. healthier


49.

A. outweigh


50.

A. materialism
52.

A. confused


53.

A. adaptable
54.

A. striven
55.

A. fear

Section B




B. modernization


B. counting on

B. concerned

B. accessible

B. consumed

B. poverty


C. globalization


C. profiting from


C. optimistic

C. affordable

C. benefited


C. frustration





51.

A. withdrawing from

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)
Dear Cutie-Pie,
Recently,
your
mother
and
I
were
searching
for
an
answer
on
Google.
Halfway
through
entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. At the top
of the list was “How to keep him interested.”

It surprised
me a lot. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sexy and
sexual, when to bring him a beer versus a sandwich, and the ways to make him feel smart and
superior.
And I got angry.
Little One, it is not, has never been, and never will be your job to “keep him interested.”

Little One, your only task is to know deeply in your soul
—

in that unshakeable place that
isn’t upset by rejection and loss
—

that you are worthy of interest.

If you can trust your worth in this way, you will be attractive in the most important sense of
the world: you will attract a boy who is both capable of interest and who wants to spend his one
life investing all of his interest in you.
Little One, I want to tell you about the boy who doesn’t need to be kept interested, because
he knows you are interesting.
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I don’t care if he can’t play a bit of golf with me
—

as long as he can play with the children
you give him and
revel
in all the glorious and frustrating ways they are just like you.
I don’t care
if he doesn’t follow his wallet
—

as long as he follows his heart and it always leads him back to
you.
I don’t care if he is strong
—

as long as he gives you the space to exercise the strength that
is in your heart.
I couldn’t care less how he votes
—

as long as he wakes up every morning and
daily elects you to a place of honor in your home and a place of respect in his heart.
I don’t ca
re
about the color of his skin. I don’t care if he was raised in this religion or that religion or no
religion

Little One, if you come across a man like that and he and I have nothing else in common, we
will have the most important thing in common: You.
B
ecause in the end, Little One, the only thing you should have to do to “keep him interested”
is to be you.
Your eternally interested guy,
Daddy

56. What shocked Daddy when he was surfing on the Internet?
A. Girls’ knowing nothing about trusting themselves
.
B. Girls’ giving priority to finding ways to please boys.

C. Girls’ bringing food
s and drinks to boys from time to time.
D. Girls’
being upset by being rejected constantly.

57. Father thinks what is of primary importance to his daughter is to ______________________.
A. keep the boy interested
B. know she deserves a boy
’
interest

C. attract a boy willing to invest all in her
D. find a boy who can please her

58. According to the passage, what does the underlined word
“
revel
”

mean?

A. feel depressed

59.
What’s the main purpose of this letter?

A. To advise his daughter to trust her worth.
B. To inform his daughter how to keep others interested.
C. To show his daughter how to find her true love.
D. To help his daughter find someone with common interests.


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B. become puzzled






D. enjoy himself
C. look around




(B)


Self-driving Capabilities

Attractive Dashboards

Sensor
and
camera-equipped
models
from
In addition to
Ford’s new Sync system,
which
Audi and V
olkswagen, among others, don’t
better understands voice commands, Apple and
just
automatically
brake
to
prevent
minor
Google
have
partnered
w8ith
automakers
to
accidents; they can actually
navigate
(
行驶
)
create
interfaces(
界面
)

as
user- friendly
as
the
around
highway
traffic
and
into
garages
ones on your smartphone.

without a human at the wheel.


Smarter Headlights
Self-parking Skills

Audi’s
and
BMW’s
ultra
-bright
laser
The
new
model
of
BMW’s
all
-electric
i3
can
headlights
can
detect
oncoming
cars
and
find
its
own
spot
in
a
parking
lot,
then
send
dim
slightly
to
avoid
disturbing
their
signals
via
a
smart- watch
app
to
contact
its
drivers. One problem: they’re not yet legal
drivers.

in the U.S.


60. In terms of Self-driving Capabilities, what makes Audi and V
olkswagen stand out?
A. Braking when sensing red lights
B. Going into garages without a driver
C. Stopping other cars on highway
D. Taking photos with a camera


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61. Which of the cars can adjust the headlights in order not to upset drivers in oncoming cars?
A. Ford and V
olkswagen
B. Audi and BMW
C. Audi and V
olkswagen
D. BMW and Ford

62. In which section of a car magazine does the article most probably appear?
A. First Drive
B. Cars For Rent
C. Instrumental Tests
D. Smart Tech.

(C)

On the occasional clear-frost autumn night, I was hiking through the dark forest with my
GMO
wolf.
Yes,
my
best
friend
is
a
genetically
modified
organism(
转基因生物
)
;
deliberate
selection has produced the blunt-toothed, small-pawed wonder that walks by my side.

Our world is changing rapidly. In the last five decades, global population has fully doubled,
with 3.7 billion hungry mouths added to our planet. During this same time span, the amount of
land suitable for agriculture has increased by only 5%. Miraculously, this did not result in the
great global famine(
饥荒
) one might have predicted.

How do scientists modify a plant so that it makes more food than its parents did? We could
treat each harvest like a litter of wolf pups and select only plants bearing the fattest, richest seeds
for the next season. This was the method our ancestors used to engineer rice, corn and wheat
from the wild grasses they encountered.
During my childhood, advances in genetic technologies allowed scientists to identify and
clone the genes responsible for repressing stem growth, leading to shorter, stronger stalks that
could bear more seed
—
the high-yield crops that feed us today. The 21st century has brought
with
it
a
marvelous
new
set
of
high-tech
tools
with
which
to
further
quicken
the
process
of
artificial selection. Plant geneticists can now directly edit out or edit in sections of DNA using
molecular scissors. We can minimize a plant’s weaknesses while adding to its strengths, and we
don’t have to wait for seasons to pass to test the result.

It is the transformative potential of these techniques to quickly supply the next-generation
crops required for upcoming climate change that has led me to believe in the safety and function
of GMO plants in agricultural products. We need more GMO research to feed the world that we
are creating.

I
love
the
quiet
forest
that
stands
between
my
lab
and
my
home.
But
I
know
that
as
a
scientist, I am responsible first to humanity. We must feed, shelter and nurture one another as our
first priority, and to do so, we must take advantage of our best technologies, which have always
included some type of genetic modification. We must continue as before, nourishing the future
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as
we
feed
ourselves,
and
each
year
plant
only
the
very
best
of
what
we
have
collectively
engineered. I keep the faith of my ancestors each night when I walk through the forest to my lab,
and my GMO wolf does the same when she guards my way home.

63. Why does the author mention the wolf in the 1st paragraph?
A. To advise people to keep wolves as pets
B. To persuade readers to welcome the new technology

C. To change people
’s attitude towards wolves

D. To introduce a technology used to human
s’ advantage


64. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the passage?
A. GMO technology will help weatherproof future crops.

B. With GMO technology, famine has been eliminated.

C. Artificial selections make high-yield plants possible.

D. The author believes technology should contribute to future generations.


65. What can be learned about modifying a plant?
A. It takes scientists seasons to know whether their selection is correct.

B. One way for ancestors to change a plant was to clone some genes.

C. Modern techniques help speed up the artificial selection by altering DNA.

D. The general public show strong faith in GMO plants.


66. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. GMO Technology
—

Turning Wolves into the Best Pets
B. Engineered Food
—

Feeding Future Generations
C. Engineered Food
—

To Be or Not To Be
D. GMO Technology
—

A Driving Force in World Peace


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.

B.

C.

D.

E.

F.

What accounts for this culture of generosity?
This belief is central to the national character.

How can a sense of generosity be cultivated?
Americans
’ generosity is rooted in selfless behavior.

America’s philanthropic nature is not restricted to the rich.

The formal practice of philanthropy traces its origin to a Founding Father.

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Charity
—

Humanity’s most kind and generous desire

—
is a timeless and borderless virtue,
dating at least
to the dawn
of religious teaching.
Philanthropy(
慈善行为
)
as we understand it
today, however, is a distinctly American phenomenon, inseparable from the nation that shaped it.
From colonial leaders to modern billionaires like Buffett, Gates and Zuckerberg, the tradition of
giving is woven into the national DNA.
67. ________ Benjamin Franklin, an icon of individual industry and
frugality(
节俭
)
even in
his
own
day,
understood
that
with
the
privilege
of
doing
well
came
the
price
of
doing
good.
When he died in 1790, Franklin thought to future generations, leaving in trust two gifts of 1,000
lb.
of
sterling
silver
—

one
to
the
city
of
Boston,
the
other
to
Philadelphia. According
to
his
instruction, a portion of the money could not be used for 200 years.
While Franklin’s gifts lay in wait, the tradition he established evolved alongside the young
nation.
68.________
Often
far
less
famed
men
and
women
have
played
a
critical
role
in
philanthropy’s evolution. One of my personal heroes is Julius Rosenwald, who helped construct
more than 5,300 schools across the
segregated(
种族隔离
)
South and opened classroom doors to
a generation of African- American students.
69. ________ The answer is not just to benefit others. Tax reduction, for one, encourages
the rich people to give. And philanthropy has long helped improve the public image of everyone
from
immoral
capitalists
to
the
new
tech
elite.
More
troubling,
however,
are
the
foundational
problems that make philanthropy so necessary. Just before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
wrote, “Philanthropy is praise
-worthy, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the
circumstances of economic inj
ustice which make philanthropy necessary.”

Franklin’s gifts represent a broader principle. We are guardians of a public trust, even if our
capital
came
from
private
enterprise,
and
our
most
important
obligation
is
ensuring
that
the
system works more equally and more justly for more people. 70.
________ America’s greatest
strength is not the fact of perfection, but rather the act of perfecting.

IV. 71. Summary Writing (10%)

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.
Every
year,
more
and
more
parents
complain
to
their
children’s
schools
about
PE.
They
believe that their children shouldn’t have to participate in physical activity if they don’t want to.
Supporters of PE, however, believe that it is a crucial
element of all-round schooling and our
society’s well
-being. They insist PE in schools remains one of the few places by which the youth
can be forced to participate in aerobic exercise.
Firstly, they believe that participation in sport promotes health. In fact physical education is
a springboard for involvement in sport and physical activities throughout life. Government is, or
should be, concerned with the health of its citizens. Encouraging physical activity in the young
through
compulsory
PE
fights
child
obesity
and
contributes
to
forming
lifelong
habits
of
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