上海市嘉定区第一中学2020届高三下学期英语周测

嘉定一中高三英语周测

Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A（10 points）

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.

Should we allow modern building（21）_____（build）next to older ones in a historical areas of a city? In order to answer this question, we must first examine（22）_____ people really want to preserve the historic feel of an area. Not all historical buildings are attractive. However, there may be other reasons, for example, economic reasons（23）_____ they should be preserved. So, let us assume that historical buildings are both attractive and important to the majority of people.（24）______ should we do then if a new building is needed?
     In my view, new architectural styles（25）______ exist perfectly well alongside an older style. Indeed, there are many examples in my own home town of Tours where modern designs（26）_____（place）very successfully next to old buildings.（27）______ ______ ______ the building in question is pleasing and does not dominateits surroundings too much, it often improves the attractiveness of the area.
It is true that there are examples of new buildings which have spoiltthe area they are in, but the same can be said of some old buildings too. Yet people still speak against new buildings in historic areas. I think this is simply（28）______ people are naturally conservativeand do not like change.
Although we have to respect people’s feelings as fellow users of the buildings, I believe that it is the duty of the architect and planner to move things forward. If we always reproduced what was there before,we would all still be living in caves. Thus, I would argue against（29）______（copy） previous architectural styles and choose something fresh and different,（30）______ ______that might be the more risky choice.

Section B（10 points）

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.

The Australian state of Victoria is investing in a program to identify new opportunities for its food and agriculture industries. As part of this initiative the government ___31___ extensive research to identify which attributes of a good product are most important to consumers. As income levels rise and education levels improve, consumers across the world are becoming interested in more than just the price and quality of the food they eat. Indeed, some consumers are now willing to pay extra money for food with a special nutritional or health ___32___. In addition, some consumers are also choosing food based on how it was produced, including the environmental and ___33___ impact of production. Victoria’s Department of Primary Industries designed and researched a report that analyzes ___34___ for food products with“trust”attributes, specifically food safety, clean food, green food, animal welfare and ethical food production. The report also determines the relative importance of the five nominated“trust”attributes and ___35___ their importance in relation to non-trust attribute’s such as price and quality.

“Consumers are becoming increasingly insightful when making ___36___ decisions, and Victoria’s ability to demonstrate the trustworthiness of food products will be vital to maintain consumer ___37___ in priority export markets,”the report says. Between February and June 2004, the DPI interviewed 280 food industry shareholders, including retailers, wholesalers, foodservice managers, importers distributors and representatives of government, industry bodies and non-government ___38___, in 21 of Victoria’s major food markets, including France, Japan, the UK and the US.

The research found, perhaps ___39___, that price, quality and food safety were the most important factors for consumers, with each factor ___40___ as the most important by 18-20% of respondents. In fourth place, 8% of respondents felt flavor was the most important attribute of a food product for customers while 6% thought freshness was most important, and 3% thought the appearance packaging was most important. Health nutrition, brand image, and clean chemical free were each considered most important by just 1-2% of interviewees.

Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension

Section A（15 points）

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.

From Oxford’s quads to Harvard Yard and many a steel and glass palace of higher education in between, exams are given way to holidays. As students consider life after graduation, universities are ___41___ questions about their own future. The higher-education model of lecturing, cramming and examination has barely ___42___ for centuries.Now, three disruptive waves are threatening to shake established ways of teaching and learning.

On one front, a funding ___43___ has created a shortage of fund that the universities brightest brains are struggling to solve. Institutions’ costs are rising, ___44___ pricey investments in technology, teachers’ salaries and increasing administrative costs. That comes as governments conclude that they can no longer afford to subsidize（补贴）universities as ___45___ as they used to. American colleges, in particular, are under pressure: some analysts predict mass bankruptcies within two decades.

At the same time, a(n) ___46___ revolution is challenging higher education’s business model. A(n) ___47___ in online learning, much of it free, means that the knowledge once a lucky few hadexcess to has been released to anyone with a smartphone or laptop. These ___48___ and technological disruptions coincide with a third great change: whereas universities used to educate only a tiny elite, they are now ___49___ training and retraining workers throughout their careers. How will they ___50___ this storm—and what will emerge in their place if they don’t?

The universities least likely to lose out to online competitors are elite institutions with established reputations and low student-to-tutor ratios. That is ___51___ news for the Ivy League, which offer networking opportunities to students alongside a degree. Those colleges might profit from expanding the ratio of online learning to classroom teaching, lowering their costs while still offering the prize of a college education conducted partly on campus.

The most vulnerable, according to Jim Lerman of Kean University in New Jersey, are the“middle-tier institutions, which produce America’s teachers, middle managers and administrators.”They could be ___52___ in greater part by online courses, he suggests. So might weaker community colleges, although those which cultivate connections to local employers might yet prove resilient（有弹力的）.

Since the first wave of massive online courses launched in 2012, an opposition has focused on their ___53___ and commercial uncertainties. Yet if critics think they are immune to the march of the MOOC, they are almost certainly wrong. Whereas online courses can quickly ___54___ their content and delivery mechanisms, universities are up against serious cost and efficiency problems, with little chances of taking more from the public purse.

Without the personal touch, higher education could become“an icebound, petrified（石化的）cast-iron university.”That is what the new wave of high-tech courses should not become. But as a(n) ___55___ to an overstretched, expensive model of higher education, they are more likely to prosper than fade.

41. A. answering    B. facing    C. settling    D. guessing

42. A. reviewed     B. existed    C. substituted   D. changed

43. A. situation     B. trend     C. crisis     D. relief

44. A. owing to     B. apart from    C. except for    D. rather than

45. A. patiently     B. generously   C. naturally    D. ignorantly

46. A. technological    B. professional   C. educational   D. geographical

47. A. difference    B. emphasis    C. harmony    D. explosion

48. A. fundamental      B. administrative  C. financial    D. psychological

49. A. responsible for   B. eager for   C. curious about   D. enthusiastic about

50. A. observe     B. chase     C. witness    D. survive

51. A. shocking     B. good     C. annoying    D. neutral

52. A. promoted     B. replaced   C. maintained   D. marketed

53. A. failure     B. projects    C. innovation    D. progress

54. A. resist     B. release    C. adjust    D. resemble

55. A. object     B. relation    C. implication   D. alternative

Section B（22 points）

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）

 A Buffalo charter school（特许学校）, run by a for-profit company, received $7.2 million in taxpayer money last year to educate about 500 elementary and middle school students. But at the end of the year, the audit（审计）it submitted to the state only listed its expenses roughly, including $1.3 million in rent for a building the company owned, $976,000 for executive administration and $361,000 in professional fees.

Officials from the New York State teachers’ union raised the case of the school, Buffalo United, as an example of what it said was wrong with the oversight of charter schools throughout the state. The union said the case supported its view that no new charter schools should be permitted unless oversight is strengthened.

“How much is profit?” asked Andrew Pallotta, the executive vice president of New York State United Teachers.  “There is truly too much we don’t know and can’t know.”

The union’s concerns fell on mostly friendly ears at the all-day hearing, which had been called by Senator Bill Perkins of Harlem, an outspoken critic of the charter school movement. Teachers’ unions have generally opposed charter schools, which tend not to be unionized. On Thursday, the state union listed claims against charter schools that included conflict of interest and stealing. Brooklyn Charter School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, it said, had acquired, as a subsidiary（子公司）, a shop linked to the president of the school’s board. An audit of a second Buffalo charter school, Western New York Maritime, found that big-screen televisions and computer equipment had been sent to the personal addresses of employees, the union said.

“The corruption and the politicization are the Achilles’ heel of the movement,” Mr. Perkins said.

Officials responsible for authorizing and overseeing charter schools said there was room for more accountability and transparency from charter schools, but they said that the controls were already healthy.

“It is good that the bad actors have come to light,” said John B. King Jr., the senior deputy commissioner of the state Education Department. “I actually think that there is a lot of common ground here, and if we create the right conversation, there is room to both improve charters and increase the number.”

56. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

   A. Most charter schools are run by for-profit companies.

   B. A Buffalo charter school over-spent last year.

   C. Charter school should be monitored over education quality.

   D. The expense-list of a charter school was not transparent.

57. The term“Achilles’ heel”in paragraph 5 can be replaced by“_______”.

   A. weak spot    B. characteristic    C. inevitable problem    D. peak

58. What is said about officials responsible for authorization and overseeing charter school?

   A. They were determined to supervise charter schools strictly.

   B. Their words and behavior on charter schools were a paradox.

   C. They thought they put a good control on charter schools.

   D. Their supervision on charter schools was not transparent enough.

59. What is John B. King Jr.’s attitude towards authorizing more charter schools?

   A. opposed     B. concerned    C. approving      D. indifferent

（B）

Scholarship Application Tips in 2015 for college students.

* Before you apply

1. Work hard to get good grades. Don’t sweat about one bad grade, but always strive to do your best.

2. Get involved, and stay involved, in out-of-class activities. Sports, clubs, drama, bands and orchestras — these often count toward a student’s overall scholarship application evaluation. The same goes for paid (or unpaid) work experience.

3. Begin your scholarship research early — by your sophomore (大学/中学二年级学生) or junior year of high school, if possible. Make special note of application deadlines, as they can vary from late summer to late spring.

4. Apply for as many scholarships as you are eligible (符合条件的) for — several smaller scholarships can add up to a lot of money.

* During the application process

1. Read the supplementary materials that come with scholarship application forms to better understand the program’s focus (community service, subject interest). Try to answer the questions with the focus area in mind.

2. Answer questions as they are asked. Don’t go off topic.

3. If there is a financial section to the application, make sure you get accurate and complete information from all appropriate sources to ensure your eligibility.

4. Take your time. Write down everything you can think of for each question, then set the application aside for a day so you can look everything over again before you send it off.

5. Don’t wait until the last minute to complete your application, especially if you are applying online. Computer systems can get blocked with the large volume of applicants hoping to submit their qualifications during the last few days and hours before a deadline.

6. If a third party has to complete part of your application, such as providing a letter of recommendation, make sure you ask them early on and remind them as often as necessary to ensure they provide you with the necessary materials.

7. Last but not least, review your application with your parents to make sure you haven’t left out any important details.

60. Before you apply for a scholarship, it’s best to _____.

A.pay more attention to grades than to out-of-class activities

B. focus on only one scholarship application

C. get as much work experience as possible

D. begin your preparation as early as possible

61. When you are answering questions on the application form, you should ____.

A. focus on the subject you are interested in  B. answer to the point

C. list your advantages     D. prove your abilities

62. The author suggests that applicants should _____.

A. submit the application in the few days

B. double-check their application with their parents

C. complete and submit the application in one day

D. avoid submitting the application online

（C）

    A simple piece of rope hangs between some environmentally friendly Americans and their neighbors. On one side stand those who have begun to see clothes dryersas a wasteful consumers  of energy（up to 6% of total electricity）and powerful emitters of carbon dioxide（up to a ton of CO2 per household every year）. As an alternative, they are turning to clotheslines as part of what Alexander Lee, an environmentalist, calls“what-I-can- do environmentalism.”

But On the other side are people whooppose air-drying laundry outside on visual grounds. Increasingly, they have persuaded community and homeowners associations (HOAs) access the U.S. to ban outdoor clotheslines, which they say not only look unattractive but also lower surrounding property values. Those actions, in turn, have led to a right-to-dry movement that is pressing for making laws to protect the choice to use clotheslines. Only three states-Florida, Hawaii and Utah—have laws written broadly enough to protect clotheslines. Right-to-dry advocates argue that there should be more.

Matt Reck is the kind of eco-conscious guy who feeds his trees with bathwater and recycles condensation drops（冷凝水）from his air conditioners to water plants. His family also uses a clothesline. But Otto Hagen, president of Reck’s HOA in Wake Forest, N.C., notified him that a neighbor had complained about his line. The Recks ignored the warning and still dry their clothes on a rope in the yard. “Many people claim to be environmentally friendly but don’t take matters into their own hands,” says Reck. HOAs Hagen has decided to hold off taking action.“I’m not going to go crazy,”he says.“But if Matt keeps his line and more neighbors complains, I’ll have to address it again.”

North Carolina lawmakers tried and failed earlier this year to insert language into an energy bill that would expressly prevent HOAs from regulating clotheslines. But the issue remains a touchy one with HOAs and real estate agents.“Most visual restrictions are rooted, to a degree, in the belief that homogenous（统一协调的）external appearance are supportive of property value,”says Sara Stubbins, executive director of the Community Association Institute’s North. Carolina chapter. In other words, associations worry that housing prices will fall if prospective buyers think their would-be neighbors are too poor to afford dryers.

Alexander Lee dismisses the notion that clotheslines devalue property advocating that the idea“needs to change in light of global warming.”“We all have to do at least something to decrease our carbon footprint,”Alexander Lee says.

63. What is NOT mentioned as a disadvantage of using clothes dryers?

   A. Electricity consumption.      B. Air pollution.

   C. Waste of energy.        D. Ugly looking.

64. Which of the following is INCORRECT？

   A. Opposers think air-drying laundry would devalue surrounding property.

  B. Opposers consider the outdoor clothesline as an eyesore to the scenery.

  C. Right-to-dry movements led to the pass of written laws to protect clotheslines in America.

  D. Most of states in the US have no written laws to protect clotheslines.

65. In the last paragraph Alexander Lee recommends that ______.

  A. clotheslines should be banned in the community.

  B. clotheslines wouldn’t lessen the property values.

  C. the globe would become warmer and warmer.

  D. we should protect the environment in the community.

66. An appropriate title for the passage might be ________.

  A. Opinions on Environmental Protection.

  B. Opinions on Air-drying Laundry.

  C. What-I-Can-Do Environmentalism.

  D. Restrictions on Clotheslines.

Section C（8 points）

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

Educators are seriously concerned about the high rate of dropouts among the doctor of philosophy candidates and the consequent loss of talent to a nation in need of Ph.D.s. Some have placed the dropouts loss as high as 50 percent.___67___ Last week a well-rounded study was published. It was published. It was based on 22,000 questionnaires sent to former graduate students who were enrolled in 24 universities and it seemed to show many past fears to be groundless.
Discussing the study last week, Dr. Tucker said the project was initiated because of the concern frequently expressed by graduate faculties and administrators that some of the individuals who dropped out of Ph.D. programs were capable of competing the requirement for the degree. ___68___ Some people expressed the opinion that the shortage of highly trained specialists and college teachers could be reduced by persuading the dropouts to return to graduate schools to complete the Ph.D.
Nearly 75 per cent of the dropouts said there was no academic reason for their decision, but those who mentioned academic reason cited failure to pass the qualifying examination, uncompleted research and failure to pass language exams. ___69___

As an indication of how well the dropouts were doing, a chart showed 2% in humanities were receiving $20,000 and more annually while none of the Ph. D.s with that background reached this figure. The PhD’s shone in the $7,500 to $15,000 bracket with 78% at that level against 50% for the dropouts. This may also be an indication of the fact that top salaries in the academic fields, where Ph. D.s tend to rise to the highest salaries, are still lagging behind other fields.
     ___70___ The main condition which would have to prevail for at least 25 % of the dropouts who might consider returning to graduate school would be to guarantee that they would retain their present level of income and in some cases their present job.

Ⅳ. Summary Writing 10%

Directions：Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible.

Learn from mistakes

The best way to learn something is to make mistakes first. Thomas Edison, who invented the light bulb, told his colleagues:“Of the 200 light bulbs that didn’t work, every failure told me something I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.”Benjamin Franklin, the US statesman andscientist once said：“I haven’t failed. I have had 10,000 ideas that didn’t work.”

Both these people understood that failures and false starts are the condition of success. In fact, a surprising number of everyday objects had their beginnings in a mistake or a misunderstanding. Post-it notes, packets of crisps and even bread are all unexpected inventions. In 2600 BC, a tired Egyptian slave invented bread when the dough rose during his sleep. And crisps were first cooked by a chef in the USA when a customer complained that his fried potatoes were not thin enough.

In 1968 Spencer Silver was trying to develop a strong adhesive when he accidentally invented a very weak glue instead. His colleague, Art Fry, decided to use it six years later, in 1974, to hold his bookmarks in his books and the post-it note was invented.

Successful businesspeople have often made big, expensive mistakes in their past. When an employee of IBM made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. Thomas Watson, the chairman, was asked if he would fire the man.“Of course not,”he replied.“I have just spent $600,000 training him. I am not going to let another company benefit from experience.”

The important thing to remember is that you need to learn from your mistakes. If you don’t, then there is no sense in making them.

第Ⅱ 卷

Ⅰ. Translation（15 points）

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

1. 很多人看上去很忙碌，其实没有任何效果。（busy）

2. 直到20世纪晚期他才奠定了自己作为知名音乐人的地位。（Not until）

3. 医生建议我不要吃止痛片，即便这有助于缓解疼痛。（even if）

4. 在车展会上，一位经验丰富的销售员正在展示车迷们翘首以盼的新型智能轿车。（demonstrate）

Ⅱ. Guided Writing

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

近来，一系列“拍照搜题”的APP软件大受学生的欢迎，这些只要拍照就能搜到解题思路和答案的“神器”却让许多家长和老师犯了愁。某学校对于学生使用这些学习软件开展了一次调查。右图是调查结果。文章必须包括以下内容：

1. 描述图表（the bar chart）

2. 试分析该现象

3. 简要谈谈你的看法

参考答案：

21. to be built  22. whether 23. why  24. What  25. can  26.  are placed 27. As long as

28. because 29. copying 30. even though

31. H  32. C 33. K 34. A 35. B 36. I 37. E 38. F 39. G 40. J

41-45 BDCAB  46-50 ADCAD   51-55 BBACD

56. D 57.A 58.C 59.C

60. D 61. B 62. B

63. D 64. C 65. D 66. B

67. E 68. F 69. B 70. A

概要写作（略）

翻译部分：

1.  Many people seem busy , but it has no effect. 

2. Not until the late twentieth century , did he establish himself as a well-known musician.

3. The doctor suggests that I not take any pain-killer , even if it may ease me from the pain.

4. At the car exhibition, an experienced salesman was demonstrating a new smart car which the car fans were looking forward to.