2023届上海市高三下学期5月英语模拟试卷（3）含答案

2023届上海市高三下学期5月英语模拟冲刺试卷（3）

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II. Grammar and Vocabulary

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.

Every object tells a story. Even the most ordinary objects can present to us powerful images.  Sometimes it is the ordinary nature of these objects that actually (21)________(make) them so extraordinary.  Such is the case with an old leather shoe in a museum in Alaska. At first glance it does not look like much. It is a woman's shoe of a style popular in the 1890s. But what is unique(独特的) about this shoe is (22)________ it was found. It was discovered on the Checkout Pass, the famous trail used by the people seeking gold in Alaska. Who it belonged to or why it was left there (23)________ (be) not known. Was it perhaps dropped by accident as the woman climbed up the 1500 stairs carved outface? Or did she throw away goods that she didn't need in order to travel (24)________(light)?     

Over 100, 000 people with "gold fever" made this trip hoping to become millionaires. Few of  them understood that on their way they would have to cross a harsh wildness. Unprepared for such a dangerous journey, many died of starvation and exposure (25)________ the cold weather.      

The Canadian government finally started requiring the gold seekers to bring one ton of supplies with them. This was thought to be enough for a person to survive for one year. They would carry their supplies in backpacks(背包) each (26)________ (weigh) up to fifty pounds; it usually took at least 40 trips to get everything to the top and over the pass. Whoever dropped the shoe must (27)________ (be) a brave and determined woman. Perhaps she was successful and made (28)________ to Alaska. Perhaps she had to turn back in defeat. No one will ever know for sure, (29) _________ what we do know is that she took part in one of (30) _______(great)adventures in the 19th century.

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. 

Why India's Pink City' is a Photographer's Heaven

The city of Jaipur is one of India's wonders. It ___31_____ some of the country's most decorative royal palaces-elegant structures designed hundreds of years ago that still attract visitors today. Largely built in the 1700s, Jaipur is surrounded by a city wall and several ____32___ castles. Considered as a commercial center, it was ahead of its time due to the use of grid iron (网格状) city planning.

A romantic dusty pink type-which has _____33____ the city since 1876, after it was painted pink towel come Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert-gives Jaipur its ___34_______ as the "Pink City". This ___35_____beauty is what first brought Hong Kong-based photographers Victor Cheng and Samantha Wong to Jaipur.

Walking in glass skyscrapers for century-old royal palaces and historic castles, the pair-who have 130,000 Instagram followers between them-said that the images they ____36_____in Jaipur received a lot of response online. "A lot of our followers hadn't seen this side of India, so we're happy we were able to show this side of the country." Cheng said.

For the photographers, one of the city's most fascinating features is the light pink coloring of its buildings. “The first gate you see when you enter are pink,” said Wong. “Once you’re through, everything around you varies in different ______37____ of the color-from bright pinks to reddish browns."

The building is a(n) _____38_____ of the City Palace, and its windows allowed royal women to observe street life without appearing in public. One of Cheng's most striking photos shows a straight front of the building and its hundreds of windows. The building's lively coloring also pushed Cheng to take a different ______39____ to editing than with images of other cities. "I toned down my usual editing process because the pink was so bright in reality," he said, "I wanted the photos to _____40__the actual color I was seeing myself and to maintain its tone."

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.

   Concerns about the harm caused bu “too much” screen time—particularly when it is spent on social media—are widespread. But working out what a “healthy”____41___might be is far from easy.

   Some negative experiences on social media—like___42____how your appearance compares to others—do affect some children. However, this does not mean that technology use in ___43___is harmful and it is difficult to make claims about how it will affect different people.

   Consider the picture painted by a UNICEF review of existing research into the effects of digital technology on children’s ___44___ comforts, including happiness, mental health and social life. Rather than stating that social media was harmful, it suggested a more ____45_____effect.

The UNICEF report highlighted a 2017 study that examined 120,000 UK 15-year-olds. Among those teenagers who were the lightest users, it was found that increasing the time spent using technology was linked to___46____ comfort—possibly because it was important for keeping up friendships. ___47____, among the heaviest users of technology, any increase in time was linked to lower levels of comfort. Overall, the UNICEF study suggested that some screen time could be good for children’s mental health.

A broader look at evidence provided by some other high quality studies again suggests the story is not ___48___. An early study in 2013 looked at how the television and video game habits of 11,000 UK five-year-old affected them two years later. It is one of few studies actually ___49___ the effects of technology over time. It suggested that, compared with children who watched one hour of television or less on a weekday, a small increase in conduct problems was seen among those who watched more than three hours each day. Playing electronic games, however, was not seen as leading to a greater ____50____ of friendship or emotional problems.

So how much time should our children spend looking at screens? It is difficult to be ___51___ as different people spend time online in such different ways. A useful comparison might be with sugar. Broadly speaking, people___52_____ that too much sugar can be bad for your health. But the effect it might have can depend on many factors, from the type of sugar to the person and the amount. We would not___53____trust anyone who claims to predict how someone is affected by consuming one gram of sugar. The same could be said for ___54___ usage: the outcomes depend on so many factors that only very____55____predictions are possible.

41. A. amount           B. comparison         C. experience         D. medium
42. A. accounting for     B. boasting of          C. commenting on     D. worrying about
43. A. general           B. particular           C. private            D. public
44. A. domestic          B. material            C. physical           D. psychological
45. A. complex          B. dramatic            C. harmless           D. predictable
46. A. improved         B. maximum           C. relative            D. small
47. A. As a rule          B. In contrast          C. On the whole       D. Worse still
48. A. convincing        B. definite             C. probable           D. true
49. A. estimating         B. experiencing        C. reducing           D. tracing
50.  A. connection      B. power             C. promotion            D. risk
51.  A. balanced        B. independent        C. precise               D. subjective
52.  A. agree           B. forget             C. object                D. remember
53.  A. equally         B. readily             C. reluctantly            D. weakly
54.  A. emotion therapy  B. social media        C. TV broadcasting        D. video game
55.  A. confident       B. optimistic           C. rough                D. wild

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)
 It’s nice to have people of like mind around. Agreeable people boost your confidence and allow you to relax and feel comfortable. Unfortunately, that comfort can hinder the very learning that can expand your company and your career.
     It’s nice to have people agree, but you need conflicting perspectives to dig out the truth. If everyone around you has similar views, your work will suffer from confirmation bias (偏颇).
     Take a look at your own network. Do your contacts share your point of view on most subjects? If yes, it’s time to shake things up. As a leader, it can be challenging to create an environment in which people will freely disagree and argue, but as the saying goes：From confrontation comes brilliance.
     It’s not easy for most people to actively seek conflict. Many spend their lives trying to avoid arguments. There’s no need to go out and find people you hate, but you need to do some self-assessment to determine where you have become stale in your thinking. You may need to start by encouraging your current network to help you identify your blind spots.
     Passionate, energetic debate does not require anger and hard feelings to be effective. But it does require moral strength. Once you have worthy opponents, set some ground rules so everyone understands responsibilities and boundaries. The objective of this debating game is not to win but to get to the truth that will allow you to move faster, farther, and better.
     Fierce debating can hurt feelings, particularly when strong personalities are involved. Make sure you check in with your opponents so that they are not carrying the emotion of the battles beyond the battlefield. Break the tension with smiles and humor to reinforce the idea that this is friendly discourse and that all are working toward a common goal.
 Reward all those involved in the debate sufficiently when the goals are reached. Let your sparring partners (拳击陪练) know how much you appreciate their contribution. The more they feel appreciated, the more they’ll be willing to get into the ring next time.

56.  What does the author suggest leaders do?
 A. Avoid arguments with business partners.  
 B. Encourage people to disagree and argue.
    C. Build a wide and strong business network.  
 D. Seek advice from their worthy competitors.
57.  What is the purpose of holding a debate?
    A. To find out the truth about an issue.      
 B. To remove misunderstandings.
    C. To build up people’s moral strength.      
 D. To look for worthy opponents.
58.  What advice does the author give to people engaged in a fierce debate?
 A. They listen carefully to their opponents’ views.
 B. They show due respect for each other’s beliefs.
 C. They present their views clearly and explicitly.
 D. They take care not to hurt each other’s feelings.
59.  How should we treat our rivals after a successful debate?
 A. Try to make peace with them.      B. Invite them to the ring next time.
 C. Try to make up the differences.        D. Acknowledge their contribution.

(B)

Micro-Enterprise Credit for Street Youth

Introduction

Although small-scale business training and credit programs have become more common throughout the world, relatively little attention has been paid to the need to direct such chances to the street youth. Over the past nine years, Street Kids International (S.K.I.) has been working with partner organizations in Africa, Latin America and India to support the economic lives of street children. The purpose of this paper is to share some of the lessons S.K.I. has learned.

Background

Typically, children end up on the streets not due to a single cause, but to a combination of factors: a lack of adequately funded(资助) schools, the demand for income at home, family breakdown and violence. The street may be attractive to children as a place to find adventurous play and money. However, it is also a place where some children are exposed, with little or no protection, to unfair employment, urban crime, and abuse. 

Street Business Partnerships

S.K.I. has worked with partner organizations in Latin America, Africa and India to develop opportunities for street children to earn income.

   *The S.K.I. Bicycle Courier Service first started in the Sudan. Participants in this enterprise were supplied with bicycles, which they used to deliver parcels and messages, but they were required to pay for it gradually from their wages.

   *The Youth Skills Enterprise plan in Zambia is a joint program with the Red Cross Society. Street youths are supported to start their own small business through life skills training and access to credit.

Lessons learned

The following lessons have been learned from the programs. 

   *It is critical for all loans(贷款) to be linked to training programs that include the development of basic business and life skills.

   *Small loans are provided at first for purchasing equipments such as bicycles, shoe shining kits.

   *All S.K.I. programs have charged interest on the loans, primarily to get the business runners used to the concept of paying interest on borrowed money. Generally the rates have been modest. 

Conclusion

There is a need to recognize the importance of access to credit for poor young people seeking to fulfill economic needs.

60.The organization, S.K.I., aims to ______.

A. provide schools and social support for street children

B. give business training and loans to street children

C. share the lessons S.K.I learned to help street children

D. draw the attention of the government to street children

61.This passage implies that with the help of S.K.I, street children may ______.

A. reject paid employment                 B. leave their families

C. set up their own business                      D. employ other children

62.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The link of all loans to training programs is crucial.

B. The youth Skills Enterprise Initiative in Zambia works with another organization.

C. Interest is charged for the loans in all S.K.I programs.

D. The S.K.I Bicycle Courier Service provides the participants with free bicycles.

(C)

All across America, students are anxiously finishing their "What I Want To Be .." college application essays, advised to focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) by experts and parents who insist that's the only way to become workforce ready. But two recent studies of workplace success contradict the traditional wisdom about "hard skills".

Google originally set its hiring systems to sort for computer science students with top grades from top science universities. In 2013, Google decided to test its hiring theory by quickly dealing with large amounts hiring, firing, and promotion data collected since the company's establishment.

Project Oxygen shocked everyone by concluding that, among the eight most important qualities of Google's top employees, STEM capability comes in dead last. The seven top characteristics of success at Google are all soft skills: being a good coach; communicating and listening well; possessing comprehension into others, being supportive of one's colleagues; being a good critical thinker and problem solver, and being able to make connections across complex ideas.

Those characteristics sound more like what one gains as an English or theater major than as a programmer. Could it be that top Google employees were succeeding despite their technical training, not because of it? After bringing in more experts to dive even deeper into the data, the company enlarged its previous hiring practices to include humanities majors, artists, and even the MBAs (Master of Business Administration).

Project Aristotle, a study released by Google this past spring, further supports the importance of soft skills even in high-tech environments. Project Aristotle analyzes data on inventive and productive teams. Google takes pride in its A-teams, assembled with top scientists, each with the most specialized knowledge and able to throw down one creative idea after another. Its data analysis revealed, however, that the company's most important and productive new ideas come from B-teams comprised of employees who don't always have to be the smartest people in the room.

Project Aristotle shows that the best teams at Google exhibit a range of soft skills: equality, generosity, curiosity toward the ideas of your teammates, understanding, and emotional intelligence. And topping the list: emotional safety. To succeed, each and every team member must feel confident speaking up and making mistakes. They must know they are being heard.

STEM skills are vital to the world we live in today, but technology alone, as Steve Jobs famously insisted, is not enough. We desperately need those who are educated to the human, cultural, and social as well as the computational.

63. The underlined word:“contradict”most probably means “_____”.

1. add to  B. back up  C. bring about  D. conflict with

64. Google conducted the studies of workplace success in order to ______.

1. determine what makes a workplace-ready student
2. check whether its hiring system serves the purpose
3. prove soft skills are more important than hard ones
4. impress its competitors with the employees’ excellence

65. What can be inferred from Project Aristotle?

1. Emotional safety enables people to express themselves freely.
2. Listening and hearing helps develop problem-solving abilities.
3. Learning from mistakes doesn’t necessarily mean improvement.
4. Those without specialized knowledge can also make inventions.

66. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?

1. STEM skills our society needs for better education
2. The principal focus students have on application essays
3. The surprising thing Google learned about its employees
4. The soft skills Google programmers lack for career growth

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.

We need to do more to help the teachers who are exhausted and stressed.

Teaching should not be one of the most stressful jobs in the US. But it is. “The only other profession that comes close to us for stress is nursing ----- and we still have the numbers... by a lot. ____67____”

“Nobody realizes how horrific working conditions are for teachers throughout the country,” “Brice-Hyde says, an experienced teacher in New York who is part of the national group Badass Teachers Association (BAT).

____68____ So they did a national study of teacher working conditions around issues like stress, work-life balance, respect, and more. The results are both surprising---and not. If you've been seeing the stories about teacher walkouts and pay inequality, you probably aren't all that shocked to see these things like: 61 percent of educators find work "always" or "often" stressful; 27 percent of educators said they've been threatened or bullied; 86 percent of educators feel disrespected by US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

Teachers are stressed out, and turnover is high. No wonder we're seeing more stories about the importance of self-care, classroom burnout, and mental health days for teachers. Yet, self-care doesn't seem to come easily for people, and this is definitely true for teachers. ____69____

We think it's time to change that, though. So in honor of World Mental Health Day, we are working to change the dialogue about teacher mental health, Below are some of the top challenges people give for not seeking therapy, or even basic self-care. along with possible solutions and workarounds for each one.

We hope you share this article widely, giving support and love to your fellow educators. ____70____ And it's pretty much guaranteed to help you do what you set out to in the first place-be a good teacher.

IV．Summary Writing

71.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. 

In one of my earliest memories, I’m drawing. I don’t remember what the picture is supposed to be, but I remember the mistake. My marker slips, an unintentional line appears and my lip trembles. The picture has long since disappeared. But that feeling of deep frustration, even shame, stays with me.

That’s the thing about perfectionism, a crucially self-defeating way to move through the world. It makes you better at your career and relationships and life in general. Culturally, we often see perfectionism as a positive.

But the disadvantage of perfectionism isn’t just that it holds you back from being your most successful, productive self. Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to a laundry list of clinical issues: depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder, eating disorders, and most damaging of all, suicide.

“Based upon the 60-odd studies that we’ve done, we think that’s a misunderstanding,” says York St John University’s Hill. “Factors often labeled ‘healthy’ perfectionism, like striving for excellence, aren’t actually perfectionism at all. They’re just conscientiousness（尽职尽责） – which explains why people with those tendencies often have different outcomes in studies. Perfectionism isn’t defined by working hard or setting high goals. It’s that critical inner voice.”

Take the student who works hard and gets a poor mark. If she tells herself: “I’m disappointed, but it’s okay; I’m still a good person overall,” that’s healthy. If the message is: “I’m a failure. I’m not good enough,” that’s perfectionism.

Perfectionists can make smooth sailing into a storm, a brief ill wind into a category-five hurricane. Eventually, the behaviours perfectionists adapt, actually, do make them more likely to fail.

V. Translation

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

72. 他一直提醒自己不要对他人太苛刻。(hard)

73. 正如歌中所唱，没有人可以随随便便成功。（reason）

74. 在业余时间，汤姆通过替在外出差的人遛狗来赚取零用钱。（spend）

75. 这家以牛排为特色的饭店很受欢迎，你至少要提前两周订座。（feature）

VI. Guided Writing

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

假如你是社区“老年之家”志愿者协会的负责人李明，近期准备组织老人们到公园踏春赏花。请就此活动写一份申请报告给社区相关负责人（申请报告不要出现真实的校名和人名）。你的申请报告需包括：

1.    此次活动的主旨和安排；
2.    需要社区提供的支持（如人员、经费等）。

参考答案

21. makes     22. where      23. is     24. lighter       25. to   26. weighing

27. have been   28. it     29.but      30.the greatest

31-40 H E F K B C J G A I       41-55 A D A D A A B B D D C A B B C

56-66 BADD   BCD  DBAC   67-70 CADF

71.Many of us believe perfectionism is a positive. But researchers are finding that it is nothing short of dangerous, leading to a long list of health problems and failure in study or life. Besides, perfectionism is different from conscientiousness in that the former is connected with being particular about oneself. (50 words)

72. He keeps reminding himself not to be (too) hard on others.

73. Just as the song goes: no one will succeed without a reason,

74. Tom spends his spare time walking dogs for those on business trips to earn pocket money.

75. The restaurant, which features steaks, is so popular that you have to reserve a table/ scat at least two weeks in advance.

76.Dear Sir/Madam,

I am from an association of young volunteers from X Middle School. Our club has always been committed to organize some activities to help those who need help badly.（高分句型一) It enjoys a good reputation on Middle School, and I am proud of being part of it.Next week, we plan to accompany some senior citizens from a rest home to enjoy beautiful flower scenes in the park. 【活动的主旨和安排】

I would appreciate it if you could provide me with the following information. （高分句型二） Firstly, If our community provides some money for the old people to buy some necessary things, It would be very wonderful. Secondly, Can our community members volunteer to accompany the old to enjoy the nature?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon, 1am grateful to your help. 【请求支持】

Yours faithfully,

Li Ming