浦东新区高三英语二模卷(2017.4)

2021年1月22日发(作者：卓定谋)

浦东新区
2017
年高三二模卷
































































2017.04

II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%)
Section A

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 thoug
hts, 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.
Section B
A. flexibility

F. released

B. shift

G
. secure
C. hungry
H. adapting

D. improvement

I. familiar
J. burying
E. dominated

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,
digital
progress
has
been
accomplished
through
workarounds; now we must tear apart the barriers. We must __32__

between mission and tradition: what
w
e 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__ awa
y 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
1


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
sto
ries
and
features
that
are
text
heavy.
“Too
much
of
our
daily
report
remains
__38__ by long texts.” the report 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 d
on’t offer it, or offer it only in print
-
centric forms.” the report states.
Perhaps the most interesting part 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 c
hoice of how to tell certain stories,
and some disagreement about what kind of tone the Times should embrace going forward.

III. Reading Comprehension (45%)
Section A
Have We Reached Peak Trade?

Globalization is usually defined as the free movement of pe
ople, 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 cross
-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 globalization 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
jo
b
prospects.
From
1990
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 is 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.

41.
A. political


B. cultural


C. economic


D. natural
42.
A. Otherwise


B. Hence


C. Moreover


D. Yet
43.
A. depressing


B. increasing


C. approving


D. operating
44.
A. projected


B. tracked


C. signaled


D. needed
45.
A. price



B. welfare


C. pension


D. wealth
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46.
A. ruined


47.
A. resistant


48.
A. happier


49.
A. outweigh


50.
A. materialism


51.
A. withdrawing from
52.
A. confused


53.
A. adaptable


54.
A. striven



55.
A. fear



Section B
B. helped

B. suited


B. healthier

B. balance

B. modernization
B. counting on

B. concerned

B. accessible

B. consumed

B. poverty











C. foreseen

C. exposed

C. wealthier

C. suffer


C. globalization
C. profiting from
C. optimistic

C. affordable

C. benefited

C. frustration

(A)










D. reversed
D. inaccessible
D. poorer
D. substitute
D. consumption
D. insisting on
D. curious
D. impossible
D. digested
D. embarrassment
Dear Cutie-Pie,

Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Half way 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 intereste
d.”


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.

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 care 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.

Because 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 foods 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 _____________________.
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58.


59.





A. keep the boy interested
B. know she deserves a boy’s interest

C. attract a boy willing to invest all in her
D. find a boy who can please her
According to the passage, what does the underlined word “
revel
” mean?

A. feel depressed






B. become puzzled
C. look around







D. enjoy himself
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.
(B)

Self-driving Capabilities
Sensor and camera-equipped models from Audi and
V
olkswagen, among others, don’t just automatically
brake to prevent minor accidents; they can actually
navigate
（行驶）
around
highway
traffic
and
into
garages without a human at the wheel.

Attractive Dashboards
In addition to Ford’s ne
w Sync system, which better
understands
voice
commands,
Apple
and
Google
have partnered with automakers to create
interfaces
（
界
面
）
as
user- friendly
as
the
ones
on
your
smartphone.

Smarter Headlights
Audi’s and BMW’s ultra
-bright laser headlights can
detect
oncoming
cars
and
dim
slightly
to
avoid
disturbing
their
drivers.
One
problem:
they’re
not
yet legal in the U.S.

60.






Self-parking Skills
The
new
model
of
BMW’s
all
-electric
can
find
its
own
spot
in
a
parking
lot,
then
send
signals
via
a
smart-watch app to contact its drivers.
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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