上海市复兴中学2020届高三3月月考英语试题

2020届上海市复兴中学高三下学期三月月考英语试题

一、词汇 （10%）

It is getting hard to go anywhere without stepping on a piece of Lego-related hype (大肆宣传). “The Lego Movie” is number two at the American box office, after three weeks at number one. Model kits ___1___ to the film are piled high in the shops. They will add to the already gigantea of Lego bits: 86 for every person on the planet. The toymaker has enjoyed ten years of spectacular growth, almost quadrupling (四倍) its ___2___.

This is remarkable for many reasons. Lego’s home town, Billund in rural Denmark, is so small that the company had to provide it with a hotel-an elegant one, unsurprisingly. The toy business is one of the world’s trickiest: perennially faddish (反复出现地一时流行的事物) (remember Beanie Babies?) and, at the moment, energized by technological innovation. Children are growing up ever faster, and abandoning the ___3___ world for the virtual. To cap it all, the company almost collapsed in 2003-04, having drifted for years, ___4___ into too many areas, producing too many products.

Lego’s decade of success began when it appointed Jorgen Vig Knudstorp as chief executive. This was a risky move: Mr. Knudstorp was a mere 35 years old and had cut his teeth as a management consultant with McKinsey rather than running a business. But it proved to be inspired. Mr. Knudstorp decided that the company must go “back to the ___5___”: focusing on its core products, forgetting about brand-stretching, and even selling its theme parks. He also brought in stricter management controls, for example reducing the number of different pieces that the company produced from 12,900 to 7,000.

Under Mr. Knudstorp Lego has struck a successful balance between ___6___ and tradition. The company has to ___7___ new ideas to keep its sales growing: customers need a reason to expand their stock of bricks and to buy them from Lego rather than cheaper rivals. But at the same time, it must resist the sort of undisciplined innovation that almost ruined it. Lego produces a stream of kits with ___8___ designs, such as forts and spaceships, to provide children with templates (模板). But it also insists that the pieces can be added to the child’s collection of bricks, and reused to make all sorts of other things.

Lego has got better at managing its relationships. “The Lego Movie” demonstrates how it can focus on the brick while ___9___ into the virtual world: Warner Bros. made the film while Lego provided the models. During its years of drift, it relied too much on other firms’ blockbuster franchises, such as Harry Potter and Star Wars. This time its intellectual property, not someone else’s, is the star of the film. It has also got better at tapping its legion of fans-particularly adult fans of Lego, or AFOLs-for new ideas.

Lego is now at an inflection point (转折点), building its organizational ____10____ and embracing globalization, to help it find new sources of growth. The aim is twofold: to replicate in the rapidly growing east Lego’s success in the west; and transform a local company that happened to go global into a global company that happens to have its head office in Billund.

二、完型 （15%）

Non-Native Species

The introduction of non-native “exotic” species is now seen as a major threat to biodiversity. In 1825, a particularly vigorous female clone of itadori (called Japanese knotweed) was introduced  into Holland and later ___11___ throughout Europe by the plant collector and nurseryman (园丁), Von Seybold. British gardeners loved it and by 1886 it was even found growing on cinder tips in South Wales. By the turn of the century, the plant had ___12___ many other sites, and gardeners were advised against planting it in shrubberies. By 1994, it was almost everywhere-railways, riversides, hedgerows, cemeteries - swamping a wide range of habitats and displacing ___13___ species. Botanists’ fears that the plant is still spreading and may yet colonize other new habitats have generated recent attempts to eradicate it by mechanical and chemical methods, all ___14___ as yet.

The evidence stacked against Japanese knotweed is damning (足以定罪的). But there is a deep

___15___ that behind the desire to correct human ecological cook-ups (策划)- often manifested as a passion to save endangered species and vulnerable ecosystems - is a thinly disguised xenophobia (仇外心理); that we are simply seeing yet another form of ecological imperialism (帝国主义) which defines what is “natural” based on human ___16___

But whatever our reaction to “problem” or alien species is, it must ___17___ moral decisions. And who should make such decisions and to what ___18___ they are accountable must also be up for review. The conclusions of scientists and other sections of society may differ ___19___ about what to do about the introduced animals and plants. ____20____ the scheme to control rabbits in Australia by deliberately spreading the disease myxomatosis was a success in that huge numbers of rabbits were wiped out for the greater good - the “health” of Australian ecosystems. But would inflicting (使遭受) such a ____21____ slow painful death on sentient (有感知能力的) creatures win popular support if it were proposed today?

Scientists of ____22____ are by their very nature concerned with the organization of species into systems and not necessarily with the interests and well-being of ____23____ particularly those that are seen as a threat to the maintenance of those systems. Yet there is a growing feeling for the democratization of decisions concerning nonhuman life. The ____24____ towards environmental values must surely involve a movement away from imperialism and a search for a relationship with nature as it truly is, rather than as we would design it. Then, when our ____25____ has/have long disappeared, we may yet come to honor the humble itadori.

11. A. distributed B. seen C. found D. appreciated

12. A. attached B. attracted C. colonized D. settled

13. A. rare B. abnormal C. normal D. extinct

14. A. in turn B. in vain C. in need D. in all

15. A. delight B. astonishment C. dissatisfaction D. anxiety

16. A. protection B. system C. preferences D. invasion

17. A. exclude B. involve C. object D. eliminate

18. A. scope B. intention C. extent D. respect

19. A. similarly B. intensively C. slightly D. vastly

20. A. In fact B. In other words C. For instance D. In conclusion

21. A. interestingly B. instructively C. thrillingly D. horrifically

22 A. biodiversity B. naturalism C. botany D. species

23. A. naturalists B. regions C. environments D. individuals

24. A. demonstration B. parade C. celebration D. campaign

25. A. planet B. lawns C. universe D. habitats

三、阅读 （16%）

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. A school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than  those who don't go.

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other's experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Other find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out-often encouraged by college administrators.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves-they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn't explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have  been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb  an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.

Some adventuresome educators and watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things-may it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy (离经叛道的想法 ) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better.

But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.

26. According to the author, ________.

A. people used to question the value of college education

B. people used to have full confidence in higher education

C. all high school graduates went to college

D. very few high school graduates chose to go to college

27. In the 2nd paragraph, "those who don't fit the pattern" refer to ________.

A. high school graduates who aren't suitable for college education.

B. college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis.

C. college students who aren't any better for their higher education

D. high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college.

28. According to the passage, the problems of college education partly originate in the fact that ________.

A society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained graduates.

B. high school graduates do not fit the pattern of college education.

C. too many students have to earn their own living.

D. college administrators encourage students to drop out.

29. In this passage the author argues that ________.

A. more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduates

B. college education is not enough if one wants to be successful

C. college education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning people

D. intelligent people may learn quicker if they don't go to college

As recently as 15 years ago, if you wanted to catch up on the news, you could look at a handful of publications or a few nightly programs. And if you wanted to listen to music, you could turn on MTV or fiddle with your radio. People in major cities had more options, because a large population can support specialty shops. ___30___.

Today, as we all know, access to information has exploded. One consequence, according to Toure, a cultural critic writing in Salon, is that the ability of pop culture to unify us-- he refers to the massive interest in Michael Jackson’s Thriller, or Nirvana’s Nevermind--has been eroded, probably forever. Steven Hyden, also writing in Salon, counters that whatever the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized pop-culture authority, the monoculture never actually existed.

____31____ Even when it supposedly existed, its content largely depended on other characteristics of your little corner of the world. In the 1992-1993 school year, I was a student at a multiracial and relatively urban junior high school in California’s central valley. We listened to Salt-n-Pepa, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Kris Kross, with the latter having inspired a trend in which kids wore their clothes backwards. The next year I was enrolled in a mostly white junior high  school in leafy Chiago suburb. One of the houses was famous for having appeared in the 1990 film “Home Alone”; the popular bands were Nirvana, Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins; and the biggest pop-cultural event of the school year was Kurt Cobain’s suicide.

But Toure’s point is about the virtues of common cultural experience. It seems he is recalling centralized media only in so far as it’s a distribution system that fostered ( 促进) that outcome.

____32____ It doesn’t matter whether a record is released by an important label or an indie ( 独立制片人); if it’s online, people can usually find, forward, share and promote it. But what’s interesting and perhaps surprising, given that both Toure and Mr Hyden seem to agree that the old distribution favored big media, is that we still have widely shared cultural experiences. Just think of Barack Obama doing the little hand gesture from Beyonce’s “Single Ladies ” video.

____33____. It’s safe to say that the monoculture never really existed, and that some artists still reach a wide audience, whether we like it or not.

A. That suggests that we like pop culture partly because it’s a shared experience, regardless of quality.

B. However, in vast areas of the world you had to work to get outside the mainstream.

C. Whether you like it or not, “monoculture” is here with us.

D. I think Mr Hyden is correct that the concept of a “monoculture” is a bit of a myth.

E. They see globalization as being the spread of a monoculture based on western values, which is killing the cultural diversity of the world.

F. And it’s true that the ways we now consume pop culture to some extent level the playing field.

【 答 案 】 1. F 2. C 3. A 4. H 5. B 6. I 7. E 8. D 9. J 10. G

【答案】11. A 12. C 13. A 14. B 15. D 16. C 17. B 18. C 19. D

20. C 21. D 22. A 23. D 24. D 25. B

【答案】26. B 27. C 28. A 29. A

【答案】30. B 31. D 32. F 33. A