2023届上海市黄浦区高三英语一模试卷及答案

2023届上海市黄浦区高三一模

英 语 试 卷

第I卷(共100分)

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. In a coffee shop.

B. On a farm.

C. In a furniture store.

D. In a theatre.

2. A. Cleaning a house.

B. Finding things in the house.

C. Living a simple life.

D. Doing housework efficiently.

3. A. Calming the woman down.

B. Playing bridge.

C. Reading a book.

D. Reflecting on himself.

4. A. The man recommends people to speak the same language.

B. The woman thinks it unnecessary to save dying languages.

C. The woman admires those devoted to preserving dying languages.

D. The man appeals for more action to be taken to protect dying languages.

5. A. He has realized his own problem.

B. The woman is sure to get a second job.

C. He disagrees with the woman 's comments.

D. The woman should care more about money.

6. A. She has many friends to text.

B. She can't focus her mind on study.

C. She can't make long speeches.

D. She has many classes to attend.

7. A. Enjoy her college life.

B. Put off hard assignments.

C. Set a post-college goal.

D. Ease academic pressure.

8. A. It makes no sense.

B. It needs training.

C. It can't solve her problem.

D. It is worth trying.

9. A. She is a music lover.

B. She is good at asking questions.

C. She prefers art to sports.

D. She knows Brazilians well.

10. A. The specials are the man's best choice.

B. She is fully confident of the quality-steak.

C. Her house is a suitable place for having steak.

D. The man should find by himself the nicest wine.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear one longer conversation and two short passages. After each conversation or passage, you will be asked several questions. The conversation and the passages 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 14 are based on the following conversation.

11. A. Cars.

B. Computers.

C. Dollars.

D. Services.

12. A. It's the real money paid to purchase items.

B. Each Time Dollar records the value of trading stuff.

C. Different music lessons equal different Time Dollars.

D. It represents the service time you exchange with others.

13. A. To provide him with a part-time job.

B. To ensure him that he can serve others.

C. To guarantee him that he can make a living.

D. To demonstrate to him how barter is kept on.

14. A. To apply for membership.

B. To sign up for walking.

C. To use the free pass.

D. To check the time for barter.

Questions 15 through 17 are based on the following passage.

15. A. Have a whole idea of the character's look.

B. Examine the actor's or the actress' face and body.

C. Try various colors on actors' or actresses' hair.

D. Get a clear picture of the character's skin tone.

16. A. A film with a magic ending.

B. A film stimulating her creativity.

C. A film reflecting her delicacy.

D. A film with several celebrities.

17. A. They both lead the fashion.

B. They both emphasize details.

C. They both tell good stories.

D. They both require harmony.

Questions 18 through 20 are based on the following passage.

18. A. The ability to recall.

B. The invention of camera.

C. The chance of revisiting

D. The application of wi-fi.

19. A. To send us to sleep.

B. To develop technology.

C. To refresh our memory.

D. To offer us comfort.

20. A. Digital camera.

B. Fantastic daydream.

C. Memory journey.

D. Virtual reality.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passage 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.

How Reading Saved Me

During my first decade in prison, I busied myself with exercising and hanging out in the big yard. I hardly grew as 21______ person. It wasn't until I began college in prison in my 30s that I started to realize my full potential.

Through my journey in college, I became engaged in reading and writing, striving to escape prison life by expanding my mind beyond the environments I 22______ (trap) in. I became good at using concepts and terms in conversations that were previously far over my head. More importantly, I eventually better understood 23______ I had used violence to solve my problems.

Throughout the country, prison officials have rejected or tried every means 24______ (ban) books about biology, sketching, dragons and even the moon. 25______ (claim) such bans are necessary for the safety and security of prisons seems stupid. Practically every author I have encountered while in prison 26______ (play) a role in my efforts to grow and become a better person一someone who can live in society by adding to it, as opposed 27______ taking from it.

Without college and without access to books and materials 28______ expanded my mind beyond the towering concrete walls, I might still be wasting my time on the yard. My worldview would still be shaped by violence and harm. That's not who I want to be 29______ I leave this prison. It's not who I want to see 30______ (send) back into society.

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.

One Medical

On Thursday, Amazon announced its first major acquisition(收 购) under Mr. Jassy's occupation as CEO, spending $3.9 billion for One Medical, a chain of primary care clinics around the country. The deal is a sign of Amazon's health care ambitions. As the company has 31_______ from one business to another一including books, CDs, electronics, dog food and clothes 一it has had to look in less obvious spots to find opportunities that can

provide meaningful 32_______.

Health care has been 33_______ to Amazon executives who believe it is an extremely large market, filled with inefficiencies and generally lacking the kind of 34_______ approach that Amazon tries to take with its businesses. “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need 35_______,” Neil Lindsay, the senior vice president of Amazon Health Services, said in a statement announcing the deal. He also listed some of the 36_______ of modern health care: booking appointments, sitting in waiting rooms, even finding a parking spot.

Amazon wants to be the “front door" through which customers 37_______ health care. That One Medical sees about five times as many virtual visits as 38_______ appointments most likely made it attractive to Amazon. The company also has something Amazon values 39_______: data. One Medical built its own electronic medical records system, and it has 15 years' worth of medical and health-system data. While individual patient records are generally protected under federal health privacy laws, the big data skill that has 40_______ Amazon's success can be powerful in health care一for predicting costs, targeting interventions and developing products and treatments.

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.

Colleges today often operate as machines for putting too many opportunities before already advantaged people. Our educational system focuses too much on helping students take the next step. But it does not give them adequate 41_______ in thinking about the substance of the lives toward which they are advancing. Many institutions today have 42_______ that it is an essential part of education to teach the young the art of choosing, and to train them to use 43_______ to decide which efforts deserve the investment of their lives.

We spent many years teaching on a college campus, trying to help students struggling with their confusion. Eventually, we sought to address this problem 44_______ by designing a course intended to introduce the young to the art of choosing. The course begins with Plato's “Gorgias" - a messy dialogue that turns on a(n) 45_______ over whether the pursuit of virtue or of pleasure is the way to a good life. The dialogue ends 46_______; no one is satisfied. But with remarkable regularity, it 47_______ the kind of thinking that students need to better understand the choices that shape their lives.

Students' first reaction to the “Gorgias" is disbelief, sometimes even horror. It is the dialogue's 48_______ that alarms them: the idea that we can seriously argue about what represents the human good. Everything in their education has led them to believe that such arguments cannot bear fruit.

Most students are 49_______ to discover this art of choosing. Learning to reason about happiness is as delightful as discovering that one's voice can be made to sing. Why, then, do institutions 50_______ teach it? In some cases, intelligence members are encouraged to 51_______ specialized research rather than thinking about the good life. In others, they share the belief that feeling is a more 52_______ guide to happiness than the mind.

Colleges should self-consciously prioritize initiating students into a culture of 53_______ reflection on how to live. Doing so will hold them 54_______ performing their proper work: helping young people learn to give reasons for the choices that shape their lives and to 55_______ about the ends they pursue.

41. A. assistance   B. protection   C. recognition  D. treatment

42. A. forgotten   B. promised   C. repeated   D. responded

43. A. determination  B. imagination  C. memory   D. reason

44. A. controversially  B. effortlessly   C. resistantly   D. systematically

45. A. argument   B. lecture    C. performance  D. session

46. A. automatically  B. inconclusively  C. indirectly   D. unnecessarily

47. A. abuses    B. awakens   C. demonstrates  D. echoes

48. A. assumption   B. pattern   C. progress   D. variation

49. A. grateful    B. quick    C. reluctant   D. shocked

50. A. commonly   B. effectively   C. rarely    D. strictly

51. A. direct    B. emphasize   C. review    D. sponsor

52. A. detailed   B. formal    C. qualified   D. reliable

53. A. logical    B. moral    C. spiritual   D. theoretical

54. A. eager for   B. patient with  C. responsible for  D. skilled at

55. A. complain   B. experiment   C. question   D. reflect

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 read.

(A)

Julia Whelan climbed into the recording room in her home office. In preparation, she had avoided alcohol the night before, had avoided milk since waking at 6 a.m. and had run through the warm-up voice exercises.

Whelan, 38, is the calm, confident female voice behind more than 400 other audiobooks, as well as the narrated versions (叙事版本) of many articles. Once she has taken on a project, she reads through the book once or twice, deciding on themes to highlight when she gets into the recording room by using different tones and accents, and emphasizing certain words. “Narrating a book really is a performance," she said, “and it can be harder to do than acting, because I can't use my eyes or facial expressions to convey something to the audience."

As she spent time subsuming herself in the writing of others, she began to think more about her own creative ambitions. Just before the pandemic, she began “Thank You for Listening," combining her writing with the experiences she has collected as a narrator.

Writers say that Whelan has helped them understand their own work. “When I listen to Julia read my stories, it sounds like she is calling you over to tell you a great story," said Nuzzi, whose work has been narrated by Whelan. “When I write now, I try to think like that, that I am calling a reader over to tell him a great story. It has completely changed my approach." Whelan said that she also learns about her writing when she experiences it as a narrator. "There is something about it that changes when you' re performing it," she said. “I read the book out loud during every stage of its revisions but it's different when you sit down and have the microphone in front of you, when I finally am in all the characters and the story comes to life."

56. Before recording a book, Whelan ________.

A. acts out its narrated version

B. builds up strength through exercise

C. determines the focus of its subject

D. varies its emphasized words

57. The underlined phrase “subsuming herself in the writing of others" (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to ________ herself in the writing of others".

A. dismissing

B. involving

C. maintaining

D. presenting

58. How does narrating help Whelan do her own writing better?

A. It enables her to think in readers' view.

B. It inspires her to be absorbed in the story.

C. It provides her with diverse life experiences.

D. It reminds her to pursue her creative ambition.

59. What can be concluded from Whelan's experience as a narrator and writer?

A. Excellent narration is based on convincing stories.

B. Narrating is a more rewarding ambition than writing.

C. An influential writer is definitely a wonderful narrator.

D. Experiences as a narrator can change the writing approach.

(B)

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➢Collection of Personal Information

We will collect personally identifiable information from you when you knowingly provide it to us. The types of personal information we may collect, includes, but is not limited to your full name, address, email address and phone number.

In terms of your personal information, we only collect information about individuals that is necessary for us to carry on our business functions. What information we collect depends upon the nature of our dealing with you. Importantly, in some circumstances if you do not provide the information that we request, you may not be able to engage with us. For example, if you refuse to provide some personal information as may be requested on the Bundaberg website, you may not be able to use all features or services of the website.

➢Use and Disclosure of Personal Information

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We will contact you by electronic or other means to get your agreement first for any purpose other than those above, including but not limited to:

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Your personal information may be used by sub-contractors of Bundaberg for our business activities only, however, your information will not be disclosed to any other third party without your agreement, unless required to do so by law.

60. In order to be kept informed of the privacy information, you'd better _______.

A. examine the Privacy Policy regularly

B. check the official notification weekly

C. express your changing needs privately

D. evaluate the business practices critically

61. Which of the statements is TRUE about Bundaberg 's collecting users' personal information?

A. You have no knowledge of what personal information is collected.

B. Your personal information can promote Bundaberg 's business functions.

C. All the customers are required to prov ide identical personal information.

D. You may not get some services without providing requested personal information.

62. Bundaberg will use your personal information for the purpose of ________ without getting your agreement first.

A. attracting new sub-contractors

B. advertising its services

C. sending bills to you

D. letting you know about special offers

(C)

In 2020, Open AI, a research lab in San Francisco, revealed a system called GPT-3. It is what artificial intelligence researchers call a neural(神经系统的) network, after the web of neurons in the human brain. A neural network is really a mathematical system that learns skills by locating patterns in vast amounts of digital data. By analyzing thousands of cat photos, for instance, it can learn to recognize a cat. “We call it 'artificial intelligence, but a better name might be °finding statistical patterns from large data sets,"" said Dr. Gopnik, the Berkeley professor.

More recently, researchers at places like Google and Open AI began building neural networks that learned from enormous amounts of prose, including digital books and Wikipedia articles by the thousands. GPT-3 is an example. As it analyzed all that digital text, it built what you might call a mathematical map of human language-more than 175 billion data points that describe how we piece words together. Using this map, it can perform many different tasks, like penning speeches, writing computer programs and having a conversation.

But there are limitations. If you ask GPT-3 for 10 speeches in the voice of Mark Twain, it might give you five that sound remarkably like the famous writer一and five others that come nowhere close. Computer programmers use the technology to create small snippets(一小段) of code they can slip into larger programs, but more often than not they have to edit and adjust whatever it gives them.

Still, Dr. Gopnik described this kind of system as intelligent. “It is not intelligent in the way humans are. It is like an unfamiliar form of intelligence," he said. “But it still counts.

Dr. Gopnik and many others in the field are confident that they are on a path to building a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. This confidence shines through when they discuss current technologies. He admits that some AI. researchers “struggle to differentiate between reality and science fiction." But he believes these researchers still serve a valuable role. "They help us dream of the full range of the possible," he said.

Perhaps they do. But for the rest of us, these dreams can get in the way of the issues that deserve our attention.

63. Which of the following statements correctly describes GPT-3?

A. It is meant to monitor human's neuron webs.

B. It stores limitless data in its mathematical system.

C. It can identify images and employ human language.

D. It studies pictures and digital books to invent patterns.

64. In paragraph 3, the example of computer programmers is used to ________.

A. illustrate GPT-3 is far from perfect

B. warm programmers against technology

C. show the process of slipping code into program

D. explain why GPT-3 fails to find Mark Twain's speeches

65. What does Dr. Gopnik think of the mathematical system of GPT-3?

A. He finds it valuable because it maximizes the current technologies.

B. He doubts its worth though it is remarkably similar to a human brain.

C. He thinks highly of it because it plays a valuable role inA.1 research.

D. He believes it will interrupt our thinking though it differs from science fiction.

66. What's the author 's attitude towards A. I.?

A. Enthusiastic.

B. Opposed.

C. Supportive.

D. Unconcerned.

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.

How to show others you care

The idea that kindness can boost happiness is hardly new. Studies have shown that prosocial behavior - basically, voluntarily helping others - can help lower people's daily stress levels, and that simple acts of connection, like texting a friend, mean more than many of us realize. 67_______

“I have found that kindness can be a really hard sell," said Tara Cousineau, a clinical psychologist, “People desire kindness yet often feel troubled by the thought of being kind. "68_______ They may question whether their gesture or gift will be misinterpreted, or whether it will make the recipient feel pressured to pay it back.

69_______ Jennifer Oldham, who lost her 9-year old daughter Hallie in July, recently created a Facebook group-Keeping Kindness for Hallie一that encourages participants to engage in random acts of kindness. People have bought groceries and donated school supplies in Hallie's honor. “It will help your own heart, maybe even more than the recipients," said Ms. Oldham.

If you are not already in the habit of performing random kind acts, or if it does not come naturally to you, start by thinking about what you like to do. It's not about you being like, ‘Oh man, now I have to learn how to bake cookies in order to be nice'. It's about: 70_______ And how can you tum that into an offering for other people?

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.

The risk of pre-schooling

“Young children learning to read is one of the most important things primary education does. It's fundamental to children making progress in life," says Dominic Wyse, a professor of primary education a University College London, in the UK. “While learning literacy is vital to children, the way we teach it really matters.'

In a 2022 report, he states that English school system's intense focus on phonics - a method that involves matching the sound of a spoken word or letter, with individual written letters, through a process called sounding out”- could be failing some children. A reason for this is that the tests used to assess that early learning may have little to do with the skills actually needed to read and enjoy books or other meaningful texts. For example, the tests may ask pupils to "sound out" and spell nonsense words, to prevent them from simply guessing, or recognizing familiar words. Since nonsense words are not meaningful language, children may find the task difficult and puzzling. It doesn't end up being meaningful, it ends up being memorizing rather than understanding context.

Children who attend intensive preschools do not have higher academic abilities in later grades than those who did not attend such preschools, several studies now show. Early education can however have a positive impact on social development - which in turn feeds into the likelihood of graduation from school and university as well as being associated with lower crime rates. In short, attending preschool can have positive effects on later achievement in life, but not necessary on academic skills.

Too much academic pressure may even cause problems in the long run. A study published in January 2022 suggested that those who attended a preschool with a strong academic emphasis, showed lower academic achievements a few years later, compared to those who had not gained a place.

第II卷(共40分)

V. Translation

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.

72.这个问题至今已经困扰了我好几天。(puzzle)

73.要在竞争中立于不败之地，公司要不断创新。(survive)

74. 有些节食减肥十分有害，可能引发食物摄入量不足，而这是非常不健康的。(which)

75.我们也许都有无论如何努力都无法实现的梦想，但付出的努力一定不会白白浪费。(reach)

VI. Guided writing

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

假设你是明启中学学生李华，学校正在征求学生对云课堂的感受和建议。请发送-封邮件至校长信箱，你的邮件内容须包括:

1)详细描述一节云课堂以及你的感受:

2)简单阐述你对云课堂的态度和建议。

参考答案

I. Listening Comprehension

1-5 ACABC

6-10 BCAAA

11-14 DDBA

15-17 ABD

18-20 ADC

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

21. a

22. had been/ was trapped

23. why

24. to ban

25. Claiming/ To claim

26. has played

27. to

28. that / which

29. when / after

30. sent

31-35 IFCDJ

36-40 BAHEG

II. Reading Comprehension

41-45 AADDA

46-50 BBAAC

51-55 BDACD

56-59 CBAD

60-62 ADC

63-66 CACB

67-70 FBDA

IV. Summary Writing

Learning literacy is important for children, and how they learn it counts. A study shows too much phonics learning negatively affects children because passing the tests only requires meaningless pronunciation and spelling instead of understanding Although pre-schooling does good to the development of society, studies also show too much of it has nothing to do with later academic achievements.

V. Translation

72. This question has been puzzling me for a few days now.

73. In order to survive the competition, a company should keep innovating.

74. Some dieting is so harmful that people might not eat enough food, which can be quite unhealthy.

75. We may all have dreams that are out of reach whatever efforts we make, but the efforts are sure to pay off.

VI. Guided writing

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