英语（上海卷）-2023年高考英语考前押题密卷（考试版）A4

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2023年高考考前押题密卷（上海卷）

英 语

1. Listening Comprehension （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分）

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. This afternoon.  B. This morning.  C. Tomorrow.  D. Next week.
2. A. A waiter.   B. A shop assistant.  C. A cashier.  D. A postman.
3. A. 11.    B. 3.     C. 7.    D. 8.
4. A. At a cinema.  B. At an airport.  C. At a hotel.  D. At a railway station.
5. A. They had better not go out.    B. To get some yogurt is a good idea.

C. It’s too cold to walk in the snow.   D. He prefers milk to yogurt.

6. A. She asks the man to open the window.  B. It is cold inside.

C. She doesn’t want to open the window.  D. She prefers the fresh air.

7. A. Mom doesn’t like wine.     B. They’ve already got plenty of wine.

C. They are going to buy what they need.  D. They’ve got enough food for the party.

8. A. The boy doesn’t have to clean the screen of his computer.

B. There’s not enough time for the boy to clean both.

C. The desk is such a mess and needs cleaning.

D. The boy’s mother will do the cleaning for him.

9. A. Touched.   B. Amused.   C. Annoyed.  D. Bored.
10. A. They can’t speak English.     B. The microphone doesn’t work well.

C. They are not familiar with his topic.   D. The speaker is speaking too fast.

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 short passages and the longer conversation. The short passages and the longer 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. In the 1690s.  B. In the 1860s.  C. In the 1890s. D. In the 1960s.
12. A. To be paid more than their male colleagues.

B. To be given the same chance to succeed.

C. To win respect from their male colleagues.

D. To get promoted more quickly than their male colleagues.

13. A. Women’s ability to do important jobs.

B. How to have more freedom.

C. Concrete issues as well as attitudes and beliefs.

D. How to contribute to the communities.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. To recall his own childhood.

B. To help his children become more mature.

C. To spoil them on purpose.

D. To make up for his pity that he didn’t have it in his childhood.

15. A. They take possessions and support from their peers for granted.

B. They are responsible for building the life that their parents desire.

C. They are willing to support their peers if necessary.

D. They become more mature and responsible.

16. A. To love and provide for children.

B. To help children become kind and responsible.

C. To help children get what they need.

D. To help children meet their goals.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. He is confirming his flight reservation.

 B. He is booking a hotel for next week.

 C. He is making a reservation for a flight.

 D. He is changing his flight schedule.

18. A. To cut losses.       B. To save money.

 C. To have a window seat     D. To have the ticket mailed.

19. A. On May 19th.  B. On May 15th.  C. On May 20th.  D. On May 21st.
20. A. He saved about fifty dollars on the ticket.

B. He will pick up the ticket by himself.

C. He can get the ticket at three o’clock.

D. His seat is by the window.

2. Grammar and Vocabulary   （每题1分；共20分）

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.

A newly discovered tea plant is caffeine-free

The world loves tea and some 3m tons of tea are consumed every year. Tea can be good for health, as it contains compounds that help to lower cholesterol(胆固醇)and reduce the risk of heart disease. But there is a downside. Tea contains caffeine which, ___21___ it improves mental alertness, can also cause anxiety, insomnia and other problems.

___22___ would be agreeable is that a tea plant that provides all the taste and goodness but with little or ___23___ of the caffeine has been found. Liang Chen and Ji-Qiang Jin of the Tea Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences have discovered just such a plant ___24___(grow) wild in a remote area in Fujian province, southern China. ___25___ they report in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, not only is the tea plant naturally caffeine-free but it also contains a number of unique medicinal compounds that, the locals believe, offer considerable health benefits.

___26___(know) locally as Hongyacha, the newly discovered plant grows only between 700 and 1,000 metres ___27___ sea level around a handful of Chinese villages.

Now the researchers ___28___(explore) methods to protect Hongyacha in its natural habitat while further studies are carried out. It can take time – and sometimes it does not work – for new plant varieties ___29___(breed) for commercial use. A pair of naturally caffeine-free coffee plants were discovered in 2003, but little progress ____30____(report) Tea enthusiasts will be watching Hongyacha with interest. And others will wonder what else is out there.

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.

                          New Path to Plastics

A crucial component could come from existing carbon sources. Ethylene(Z烯)is the world's most popular industrial chemical. Consumers and industry demand l5o million tons every year, and most of it goes into countless plastic products. from electronics to textiles. T get ethylene, energy companies crack hydrocarbons from natural gas in a process that requires a lot of heat and energy, 31________ to climate change-causing emissions.

Scientists recently made ethylene by combining carbon dioxide gas, water and organic molecules on the surface of a copper catalyst inside an electrolyzer -- a device that uses electricity to drive a chemical reaction. The 32________, described last November online in Nature, could point the way toward using carbon dioxide as feedstock for chemicals and potentially fuels, helping to reduce 33 ________on fossil fuels and to put a dent in industrial carbon emissions
         The discovery grows out of work published last year by University of Toronto engineer Ted Sargent. describing a similar process that used more electricity and was less 34 ________overall. So Sargent says he 35________ out researchers at the California Institute of Technology who are "black belts in molecular design and synthesis"
         Caltech chemists Jonas Peters and Theodor Agapie and their colleagues experimented with organic molecules to add to the copper catalyst. An arylpyridinum salt turned out to be the Goldilocks molecule. Sargent says: It formed a water insoluble film on the copper that 36________ the carbon dioxide so its molecules reacted most efficiently with one another, without slowing down the reaction. The result was more ethylene, with fewer by-products such as methane and hydrogen.
        Still. the process must become even more efficient before it can be commercially 37________ and use carbon scrubbed or captured from facilities such as coal-or gas-burning power plants.  Lower energy costs. already 38________ with renewable energy sources such as wind, could also help make it more 39 ________.

This is a(n) 40 ________breakthrough," says Randy Cortright, a senior research adviser at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo. , who was not involved in the study. This result, he says. is "something that a lot of people are going to pay attention to, and they're going to be able to build on"

3. 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

Most forms of conventional advertising — print, radio and broadcast television — have been losing ground to online ads for years; only billboards, dating back to the 1800s, and TV ads are holding their own. Such out-of-home advertising, as it is known, is expected to____41____ by 3.4% in 2022, and digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising, which includes the LCD screens found in airports and shopping malls, by 16%. Such ads draw viewers5 attention from phones and cannot be skipped or ____42____, unlike ads online.

Billboard owners are also ____43____ the location data that are pouring off people’s smartphones. Information about their owners’ locations and online browsing gets collected and sold to media owners. They then use these data to work out when different groups — “business travellers”, say — walk by their ads. That____44____ is added to insights into traffic, weather and other external data to produce highly relevant ads. DOOH ____45____ can deliver ads for coffee when it is cold and iced drinks when it is warm.

Such ____46____ works particularly well when it is accompanied by “programmatic” advertising methods, a term that describes the use of data to automate and improve ads. In the past year billboard owners such as Clear Channel and jcDecaux have ____47____ programmatic platforms which allow brands and media buyers to select, purchase and place ads in minutes, rather than days or weeks. It is said that outdoor ads will increasingly be bought like online ones, based on audience and views as well as____48____.

That is possible because billboard owners claim to be able to ____49____ how well their ads are working, even though no “click-through” rates are involved. Data firms can tell advertisers how many people walk past individual advertisements at particular times of the day. Advertisers can estimate how many individuals ____50____ to an ad for a handbag then go on to visit a nearby shop (or website) and buy the product. Such metrics make outdoor ads more____51____ -driven, automated and measurable, argues Michael Provenzano, co-founder of Vistar Media, an ad-tech firm in New York.

However, the outdoor-ad revolution is not ____52____ -free. The collection of mobile-phone data raises privacy concerns. And ____53____ of the online-ad business for being vague, and occasionally dishonest, may also be targeted at the OOH business as it becomes bigger and more complex. The industry is ready to____54____ such concerns, says Jean-Christophe Conti, chief executive of VIOOH, a media-buying platform. One of the____55____ of following the online-ad pioneers, he notes, is learning from their mistakes.

41．A．shrink B．grow C．disappear D．emerge

42．A．obtained B．blocked C．separated D．arranged

43．A．making progress in B．getting engaged in 

C．becoming part of D．taking advantage of

44．A．value B．record C．knowledge D．feeling

45．A．opponents B．providers C．learners D．instructors

46．A．adding B．collecting C．targeting D．producing

47．A．changed B．forbidden C．cleared D．launched

48．A．marketing B．evolution C．location D．branding

49．A．measure B．wonder C．notice D．forget

50．A．devoted B．opposed C．related D．exposed

51．A．concept B．data C．customer D．research

52．A．stress B．conflict C．injury D．problem

53．A．aspects B．demands C．criticisms D．details

54．A．address B．share C．reflect D．emphasize

55．A．benefits B．difficulties C．challenges D．conditions

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)

MY GARDEN IS MY REFUGE. I find reflective isolation in it. I have seven children, so our house is a scene of lively confusion. For a long time, I guarded this place of peace and quiet. When the children followed me into the garden, I would hand out chores. “Here: you weed the beans, you water the onions.” Soon they would be hot or their backs would hurt from bending over, and they would leave me to myself.

Then one day, I was trying to prepare the soil, and I honestly wasn’t enjoying my time of peace and loneliness. My 13-year-old son, Josiah, picked up a spare spade and began helping. Working as a team, we had the pea patch dug up and fertilized in no time at all. I thanked Josiah, realizing that l had enjoyed his company.

The same thing happened with picking up rocks and planting the seeds —one or two of the children would appear to watch and then participate. Each time, I would feel surprised to find the work was lighter for their help, and their laughter made time pass faster. So I stopped resenting their company and instead I began to share my gardening secrets. As spring became summer and the real work began, I expected the children to disappear, but no, there they were, watering, pulling weeds and checking for insects.

One day I slipped out by myself to the garden, feeling a little bit guilty. I had a suspicion that the sugar snap peas were ripe, and I wanted a taste. As I walked along the row, a little voice piped up behind me. “What are you eating, Mama?”

Abby’s big blue eyes sparkled as I showed her how to pull the strings off and pop (剥出) the peas into her mouth. She just loved how tasty they were. Then my sweet seven-year-old girl put me to shame. “Mama, I’ve got to pick a bunch. Won’t the others love them? I can’t wait to share.”

I realized how selfish I had been. I’d tried to keep the joys of gardening to myself, and here was a child who couldn’t wait to share with her brothers and sisters. I held back tears and said, “Sure, honey, let’s pick some and I’ll show you how to prepare them. We’ll make the most wonderful supper.”

56．Why did the writer ask her children to do chores whenever they were in the garden?

A．She didn’t want to do all the work on her own.

B．She intended to show the hard labor of gardening.

C．She didn’t want them to get hurt or get too tired.

D．She was determined to keep the garden to herself.

57．What were the children like?

① loud ② lively ③ guilty ④ loving ⑤ strong

A．①②③④ B．①②④ C．①②③ D．④⑤

58．The underlined word “resent” probably means________.

A．dislike B．expect C．keep D．sacrifice

59．What did the writer try to tell the readers with this story?

A．The best way to communicate with children is by working together.

B．The golden rule of gardening is that many hands make light work.

C．Everything feels better when shared with your family or your friend.

D．Parents should spend as much time with their children as possible.

 (B)

Information for Visitors.

For large print versions and access information, ask at the Information Desk in the Great Court call +44 (0) 30 7323 8299, or visit britishmuseum.org

Opening times

Great Court

Saturday - Thursday  09:00 - 18:00

Friday             09:00 - 20:30

Galleries and special exhibitions

Saturday - Thursday  10:00 - 17:30

Friday             10:00 - 20:30

Please note that galleries start closing 10 minutes before the published closing times.

For a list of late openings, visit britishmuseum.org or contact the Information Desk

by calling +44 (0) 20 7323 8299

The Museum is closed on 1 January, Good Friday and 24026 December.

Access

Most galleries, events and facilities at the British Museum have level access including all the cafes and the restaurant. The locations of level access toilets are shown on the map, and lifts in the Great Court provide access to all adjacent floor levels. Wheelchairs can be borrowed free of charge from both entrances or booked in advance from the Information Desk.

Temporary exhibitions are regularly accompanied with tactile images and Braille. Audio description is provided for some temporary exhibitions. All major temporary exhibitions have large print information available for use.

Touch Tours are available for the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery (Room 4) and the Parthenon Introductory Gallery (Room 18), which has Bale labels and plaster cast reliefs of the Parthenon sculptures. Request a pack from the Information Desk.

Magnifying glasses are available to borrow from the Information Desk. The Museumj regularly programmes curatorial - led handling sessions for blind and partially - sighted visitors. For further details, contact the Learning, volunteers and Audiences Department at +44 (0) 20 7323 8510 / 8850 or learning@britishmuseum.org.

British Sign Language - interpreted gallery talks take place every month. For details, see the Museum’s bi-monthly guide, What’s On, or contact the information Desk.

A Multimedia guide with signed video commentaries for over 200 highlight objects of the Museum is available from the Multimedia Guide Desk.

A Sound Enhancement System with portable induction loops is available for most gallery talks and to support sign - interpreted tours.

Family activities

Family events are regularly held at weekends and during school holidays. For more details, pick up a Families leaflet. Family backpacks and trails are available from the families Desk in the Great Court at weekends and every day during school holidays. A family souvenir guide book. Explore the British Museum, and Children’s Multimedia Guide are also available.

Events programme

The events programme includes a wide range of lectures, films, special events and courses, including adult learning, family activities and more. For full details, pick up What’s On from the Information Desk in the Great Court.

Regulations for visitors

To heop everyone enjoy the Museum, please:

Keep mobiles in silent mode and don’t take calls in gallery spaces

Don’t touch the objects (you can handle selected objects at the Hands - On desks -- ask at the Information Desk for details)

Don’t smoke on the premises

Don’t eat or drink in the galleries

Sketching with pencil in the galleries is allowed. Photography is permitted in selected galleries, for non-commercial uses. CCTV is in operation at all times in the British Museum.

Facilities

Cloakrooms

The main cloakroom is to the left of the Main entrance, a second cloakroom is located by the Montague Place entrance. The cloakrooms do not accept large luggage (maximum dimensions: 40 × 40 × 50 cm).

(Copyright 2002, 2007 and 2008 the Trustees of the British Museum. Printed in Italy.)

60．Where can you probably find this information?

A．The official website of the British Museum.

B．The map with color plans and visitor information of the British Museum.

C．A leaflet distributed on the streets near the British Museum.

D．The notice board at the entrance of the British Museum.

61．If a family with two adults and three teenagers from the Untied States want to take part in the family activities of the Museum, they should pay attention to the following information EXCEPT that _________.

A．the Museum is closed at Christmas and on New Year’s Day and Good Friday but not on school holiday

B．all the backpacks and luggage including the large ones should be deposited in the cloakrooms before entering

C．families are allowed to touch the selected objects at the Hands - On desks in the museum

D．teenagers an sketch with pencil and take photos in selected galleries for their schoolwork

62．Which of the following statements is true about access to the Museum?

A．Wheelchairs can be borrowed and booked in advance with a deposit.

B．Some major temporary exhibitions don’t provide large print information but audio description is available.

C．The Museum provides curatorial - led handling sessions for blind and partially - sighted visitors if required.

D．Visitors can borrow a Multimedia Guide and a sound enhancement system is available to support sign - interpreted tours.

 (C)

Ask the new artificial intelligence (AI) tool ChatGPT to write an essay about the cause of the American Civil War and you can watch it produce a persuasive term paper in a matter of seconds that has even be enable to pass school exams. That’s one reason why New York City school officials this week started blocking the impressive but controversial writing tool that can generate paragraphs of human-like text. The free tool has been around for just five weeks but is already raising tough questions about the future of AI in education, the tech industry and a host of professions.

ChatGPT was launched on Nov. 30 and is part of a new generation of AI systems that can chat, generate readable text on demand and even produce novel images and video based on what they’ve learned from a vast database of digital books, online writings and other media. But unlike previous models of so-called “large language models”, such as Open AI’s GPT-3, launched in 2020, the ChatGPT tool is available to anyone with an Internet connection for free and designed to be more user-friendly. It works like a written dialogue between the AI system and the person asking it questions.

Millions of people have played with it over the past month, using it to write silly poems or songs, trying to trick it into making mistakes, or for more practical purposes such as helping compose an email.

As with similar systems, ChatGPT can generate convincing prose, but that doesn't mean what it says is factual or logical. Its launch came with little guidance on how to use it, other than a promise that ChatGPT will admit when it's wrong.

Many school districts are still struggling to figure out how to set policies on whether and how it can be used. “While the tool may be able to provide quick and easy answers to questions, it does not build critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are essential for academic and lifelong success,” said a school’s spokesperson Jenna Lyle from NYC． But there's no stopping a student from accessing ChatGPT from a personal phone or computer at home.

63．What can we learn about the term paper from paragraph 1?

A．It is a result of the improvement of education. B．It can be rated as passing by schoolteachers.

C．It has caught the attention of the public. D．It acts as a model for students to follow.

64．What makes Chat GPT different from GPT-3?

A．ChatGPT can create text. B．ChatGPT can edit digital books.

C．ChatGPT is free of charge to all. D．ChatGPT can ask its users questions.

65．What is Jenna's attitude towards students’ use of Chat GPT?

A．Favourable. B．Tolerant. C．Uncaring. D．Disapproving.

66．What is the best title for the text?

A．How Are Schools Handling Chat GPT?

B．You Can Check When ChatGPT’s Telling the Truth

C．What Is ChatGPT and Why Are Schools Blocking It?

D．Students Are Using ChatGPT to Do Their Homework

Section C

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need.

Life is not easy when you are looking for something worthwhile and ready to learn from the best experiences. ____67____ Here are some life lessons which people will learn the hard way in majority of cases.

___68___ However, people usually get discouraged when it takes more time than they thought it would. At this time, people refer only to people who have already achieved what they want to do. Look at any successful person and you’ll notice one thing common in all of them: they took time to learn and mastered their skill like no one else. There is no elevator to success and you have to take the stairs.

Be brave to take the road less traveled. In our whole life, we always want to follow the same path that everyone suggests, do the same thing everyone does, take the same career path everyone takes, wear the same clothes everyone wears, and hang out with the same people we work with. Why? Because we are scared to fail. But when you get bored of life, you realize that you are not meant to do what everyone does and that your destiny is different from anyone else’s out there in the world. ___69___

You don’t have to live your life in a way society wants you to.___70___Parents sometimes force their children to select a career they don’t want because other children have selected that career.Worst of all, people follow them without even asking.There is no harm in believing in old beliefs but when you pursue them before your interest, sooner or later you’ll realize that you should first do what you think is right.

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.

These days, its not unusual to see middle-aged men collecting Star Wars action figures，office workers wearing Hello Kitty accessories, or celebrities like David Beckham playing with Lego bricks, it's becoming more and more common to see adult taking an interest in toys, comic books and the activities that are traditionally associated with children. This phenomenon has given rise to a new word: kidult.

What lies behind the phenomenon? One is about adults' nostalgia（怀旧）for the carefree days of childhood, and this is especially true with today's fast-paced, stressful lifestyles. Another is about a societal change in recent decades where people are starting families later. As a result, they have more time and money to spend on themselves. Some adults could only window-shop for their dream toys when they were kids, but now they can afford that radio-controlled car or high-priced doll they have always wanted.

Society traditionally disapproves of adults who refuse to put aside childhood interests, viewing the refusal as a sign of social immaturity （不成熟） and irresponsibility. Those who agree with this view sometimes claim that kidults are suffering from the pop-psychology concept known as Peter Pan Syndrome, an anomaly（异常）that people remain emotionally at the level of teenagers.

From the standpoint of kidults, though, this phenomenon is seen as nothing but harmless fun. Kidults insist that having youthful interests keeps them young, happy and creative, and their refusal to conform to society's acccptable tastes shows independent thinking. Besides, they argue that being part of the social trend of delayed adulthood is not purely a personal choice. The real causes include expensive housing, increased educational requirements for employment and poor work opportunities.

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V.Translation (共15分。第1小题和第2小题,每题3分;第3题4分;第4题5分。)

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

72．你能帮我转发这条消息到班级群吗？非常急！(favor)

73．我外婆眼力不济了，看不了太小的字，需要一部适合老年人的手机。（suitable）

74．几乎所有的语言都会有一些意思非常具体的词汇，它们根本无法翻译。(whose)

75．只有提前了解所申请学校的要求，且充分做准备，你才有可能在面试中脱颖而出。（Only）

VI.Guided Writing  (共25分)

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

2023届高三学生都参加了综合素质评价中的志愿者服务活动， 请以某一次志愿者活动中所出现的困难为内容，谈谈自己的看法，文章必须包括：

1. 描述这次困难及问题。

2. 解释困难出现的原因。

3. 介绍解决困难的方法。

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