浦东新区 2020 学年度第二学期高中教学质量检测

高三英语试卷
{满分：150（本卷不含口试 10 分） 完卷时间：120 分钟}
第 一 卷（90 分）
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A （10 分）
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. Teacher and student. B. Doctor and patient.
C. Travel agent and customer. D. Manager and office worker.
2. A. A college campus. B. A beautiful park.
C. An art museum. D. An architectural exhibition.
3. A. $10,000. B. $30,000. C. $20,000. D. $5,000.
4. A. Delivery man. B. Postman. C. Secretary. D. Salesman.
5. A. The man hates to lend his tools to other people.
B. The man hasn’t finished working on the bookshelf.
C. The tools have already been returned to the woman.
D. The tools the man borrowed from the woman are missing.
6. A. He’s been to Seattle many times. B. He has chaired a lot of conferences.
C. He holds a high position in his company. D. He lived in Seattle for many years.
7. A. She knows the guy who will give the lecture.
B. She thinks the lecture might be informative.
C. She wants to add something to her lecture.
D. She’ll finish her report this weekend.
8. A. The man agrees to his daughter’s choice.
B. The man doesn’t think his daughter will succeed.
C. The man insists that his daughter should pursue her studies in science.
D. The man advises his daughter to think carefully.
9. A. The cinema is some distance away from where they are.
B. He would like to read the film review in the newspaper.
C. They should wait to see the movie at a later time.
D. He’ll find his way to the cinema.
10. A. Mike has forgotten his books a million times.
B. Mike should give her a dollar each time he lost something.

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 C. Mike was lying about why he didn’t go over his lessons.
D. Mike should have taken his notebook home.
Section B （15 分）
Directions: In Section B, you will hear a short passage and a longer conversation, and you will be
asked several questions on each of them. The passage and the 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. Because they track human activities through the agency of sound.
B. Because sound helps them locate food and avoid danger.
C. Because they use sound to stay away from offshore construction.
D. Because they take advantage of sound to find living creatures.
12. A. Noise pollution. B. Plastics. C. Overfishing. D. Light pollution.
13. A. Humans are making oceans too noisy.
B. Masking is a helpful to the existence of marine animals.
C. Sound travels very far underwater.
D. Noise from humans threatens marine animals.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. The rewards of taking care of living things.
B. The chances to develop new farming technologies.
C. The opportunities to have another source of income.
D. The experience of a harsh and unsettling winter.
15. A. Mushrooms. B. Windows. C. Tomatoes. D. Growing lights.
16. A. Because some of its employees came down with Covid-19.
B. Because planting on social medial has gone viral.
C. Because the growing demands for seeds couldn’t be satisfied.
D. Because the rise of indoor gardening had driven up operational costs.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. Because he was still in his younger days.
B. Because he was an amateur 50 years ago.
C. Because only the US had professional competitions.
D. Because the rules 50 years ago differed from today’s rules.
18. A. A marked zone. B. A defense zone. C. A heart. D. A key hole.
19. A. Using tactics or depending on the team.
B. Man to man or a zone defense.
C. Forcing long shots or avoiding close shots
D. Buying some books or practicing things from the books.
20. A. The team just ran to their opponents’ goal zone.

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 B. All the five players stood at the front row.
C. The five players of the team moved as a team.
D. A coach arranged for the team to play the game properly.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A (10 分)
Directions: Read the following passage. 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.

Blue Monday
Ask most people which day of the week they fear the most and the answer is likely to be
Monday. The first day of the week can make us joyless and depressed, which is (21)_______ the
feeling is described as the Monday blues. But what is it exactly (22)_______ makes us
feel down and does it affect everyone?
Apparently, (23)_______ (depressing) day of the year is the third Monday in January, when
it’s cold and dark outside. This day (24) _______ (nickname) ‘Blue Monday’ by 
psychologist Cliff Arnall in 2004. He came up with it after a holiday company asked him for a
‘scientific formula’ for the January blues.
(25)_______ _______ there was little science behind the formula, it’s probably true that the
sound of our alarm clock on any Monday morning signals the dawning of a new week and
possibly the end of our weekend of fun. Research shows our Monday mood can be based on a
direct comparison (26)_______ the day before. It’s what psychologists call an emotional shift,
and no (27)_______ part of the week has a transition like it. 
Monday means the end of weekend lie-ins – it is back to the routine and the realization that
there are five days ahead of the nine-to-five, and according to the BBC Bitesize website “If you
can’t stand your job then the Monday blues can be very real.” And your miserable Monday is
followed by trying Tuesday – the most popular day for job applications (28)_______ (send) out.
But is Monday as bad as we think? (29)_______ (feel) a bit low shouldn’t be confused with
more serious depression, caused by other factors. Writing for the BBC, author and presenter
Claudia Hammond, argues that this low feeling (30)_______ be a myth. She later found the day
that scored the lowest was in fact Wednesdays. So, when Monday comes, maybe we should give
it a second chance!

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Section B (10 分)
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.
A. critical B. disproportionately C. distancing D. gaps E. headaches
F. hugging G. typical H. remotely I. restart J. ship K. worth
Disrupted Schooling Spells Worse Results and Deeper Inequality
The first meeting between teachers in Montpelier, Vermont, before the start of the autumn
term is usually festive — 31 over breakfast and coffee. This year they had to make do with
an online video conference. After a scramble in the spring (to set up online learning, pack
lunches for poor pupils who relied on them and 32 computers to those without them), the
district plans to let younger pupils return for in-person learning on September 8th. High school
will remain partly online because the building is too small to allow enough room in between.
The young pupils who can return will need to wear masks, keep their social 33
and have temperature checks before entering school buses or buildings. Setting up these
protocols took many 60-hour weeks over the summer holidays, says Libby Bonesteel, the
superintendent.
Of the 50 largest school districts in America, 35 plan to start the coming term entirely 34 .
The opportunity to control the virus over the summer has been lost, upending( 颠覆) plans for
“hybrid” education (part-time in-person instruction). This means more than just child-care
35 for parents. The continued disruption to schooling will probably spell permanent learning
loss, 36 hurting poorer pupils.
“Achievement 37 will become great achievement differences,” warns Robin Lake,
director of the Centre on Reinventing Public Education, a research group. Analysts at McKinsey,
a consultancy, think that the 38 American pupil would suffer 6.8 months of learning loss if
in-person instruction does not 39 until January 2021 (which looks possible). This would fall
heaviest on black pupils, who would lose over ten months’ 40 of instruction, and poor ones,
who would fall behind by more than a year. Most likely, there could be 648,000 more high-
school dropouts.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A (15 分)
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.
Girls are better at reading and writing than boys as early as fourth grade, according to a
study, and the gap continues to widen until senior year.

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 Scientists generally agree that boys and girls are psychologically more alike than they are
different. But reading seems to be a(n) ____41____, with growing evidence suggesting a similar
____42____ in writing. The study, published in the journal American Psychologist, provided
further ____43____ to support this view.
David Reilly, lead author of the study, said the study ____44____ the commonly held view
that boys and girls start grade school with the same cognitive abilities. “It appears that the gender
gap for writing tasks has been greatly ____45____, and despite our best efforts with changes in
teaching methods, that does not appear to be ____46____ over time, he said.
Factors explaining the results could include learning ____47____ being more prevalent
among boys; the pressure to conform to masculine ideals and the idea of reading and language
being ____48____; and slight differences in how boys and girls use their brain hemispheres （半
球）, the authors believe.
To investigate how ____49____ levels differed between boys and girls in the U.S., the team
studied data collected over three decades in the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
This database of test scores on over 3 million students in the fourth, eighth, and twelfth grades
____50____ national and state performances in a range of subjects, and considered such
variables such as disabilities or whether children were English learners. Reading and writing was
___51____ according to children’s understanding of a range of different passages and genres.
____52____, girls were found to perform significantly better in reading and writing tests by
fourth grade when compared with boys of the same age. As children progressed to eighth and
twelfth grades, girls continued to ____53____ boys, but the difference was more noticeable in
writing than reading. But what caused this difference in abilities? Evidence suggests
____54____ problems, such as being disruptive in class or being aggressive could be linked to
neurological conditions. What is known as lateralization( 偏侧化) could also play a role. Boys
are believed to use one hemisphere when reading or writing, while girls appear to use both. The
data did not, however, provide evidence to argue ____55____ the two genders having different
learning styles.

41. A. distinction B. exception C. objection D. limitation

42. A. pattern B. standard C. circumstance D. feature
43. A. strategy B. signal C. sign D. evidence
44. A. confirmed B. represented C. questioned D. introduced
45. A. underestimated B. overemphasized C. underrepresented D. justified
46. A. increasing B. promoting C. accepting D. reducing
47. A. objectives B. drills C. difficulties D. advantages
48. A. innovative B. feminine C. challenging D. fictional

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49. A. literacy B. literary C. academic D. cognitive
50. A. pulled down B. settled down C. turned down D. broke down
51. A. granted B. measured C. designed D. engineered
52. A. Likewise B. Overall C. However D. Besides
53. A. overtake B. discourage C. parallel D. distinguish
54. A. psychological B. emotional C. behavioral D. mental
55. A. in line with B. at the mercy of C. on account of D. in favor of
Section B (22 分)
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)
Have you ever been on social media and seen your favorite celebrity talking about a
product? These promotions might not be totally random, and are actually seen as a vital part of
the marketing process. The question is: How do social media influencers ‘influence’ what you
buy?
Human desire for status and making friends, combined with our need to belong to a group,
makes us receptive to being ‘socially influenced’. Companies often use that desire to have a
similar lifestyle to a celebrity we admire to hawk or launch a product. So, what do these
promotions actually do?
Firstly, they can be used to build brand awareness. A social media influencer should have a
strong understanding of the platform they operate on, and therefore can create engaging content
that not only sticks to the brand image, but sparks their followers’ interests in a product they
might never have seen before.
Secondly, influencers can improve a company or product’s relationship with their customer
base. According to InMoment’s 2018 US Retail CX Trends Report on customer loyalty, 77% of
buyers have been brand loyal for more than ten years. This is also true of 60% of millennials. A
popular celebrity can target key demographics （顾客族群）and talk or blog about a product,
which can create an instant and lasting bond with the consumer.
Lastly, influencers can improve customer buying habits with seemingly ‘unbiased
opinions’. We are more likely to respond to ‘peer recommendation’ than traditional ads, meaning
the fact we see an influencer as a ‘friend’ can make us less likely to be doubtful about what we
are seeing.
So, the next time you see a celebrity talking about a product, you might want to consider
that this could be a carefully crafted marketing strategy designed to target your core needs. If
you find yourself examining a product you’ve seen on social media, you may well have been
influenced.

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56. Why do companies invite celebrities to launch products?
A. Because celebrities can improve the companies' public images.
B. Because celebrities want to make more money.
C. Because consumers like to share similarity with celebrities.
D. Because consumers can make friends with celebrities.
57. According to the passage, which strategy is often used by influencers?
A. Setting up operation platforms.
B. Sending gifts to customers.
C. Taking advantage of their popularity.
D. Recommending products to their friends.
58. What does the underlined word unbiased probably mean in the passage?
A. aggressive B. objective C. subjective D. supportive
59. The passage is mainly about __________.
A. how social media make ads
B. how social media influence our lifestyle
C. how celebrities earn fame
D. how social influencers affect our buying
(B)
PAGE ONE
Water Supply of the World
The Antarctic Icecap is the largest supply of fresh water, nearly 2 % of the world’s total of
fresh and salt water. As can be seen from the table below, the amount of water in our atmosphere
is over ten times as large as the water in all the rivers taken together. The fresh water actually
available for human use in lakes and rivers and the accessible ground water amounts to only
about one third of one percent of the world’s total water supply.
Surface area Volume Percentage of
(square miles) (cubic miles) total
Salt Water
The oceans 139,500,000 317,000,000 97.2
Inland seas and saline lakes 270,000 25,000 0.008
Fresh Water
Fresh water lakes 330,000 30,000 0.009
All rivers (average level) -- 300 0.0001
Antarctic Icecap 6,000,000 6,300,000 1.9
Arctic Icecap and glaciers 900,000 680,000 0.21
Water in the atmosphere 197,000,000 3,100 0.001
...... ...... ...... ......
Total (rounded) 326,000,000 100.00

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 PAGE TWO
Top Eight Most Visited National Park Sites, (2019)
Rank Name and Location number of visitors
1 Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia - North Carolina 19,030,550
2 Golden Gate National Recreation Area, California 14,046,600
3 Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee 9,989,000
4 Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada - Arizona 8,788,055
5 Gateway National Recreation Area, New York - New Jersey 7,134,022
6 George Washington Memorial Parkway, Virginia - Maryland - DC 6,584,801
7 Natchez Trace Parkway, Mississippi - Alabama -Tennessee 5,803,094
8 Statue of Liberty National Monument, New York - New Jersey 5,200,633
60. According to the information on Page One, ________ provide(s) us with the largest quantity
of fresh water.
A. the Atlantic Icecap B. the Arctic Icecap and glaciers
C. the water in the atmosphere D. the Antarctic Icecap
61. According to Page One, we are pretty sure that ________ account for the lowest level of the
total water supply on the earth.
A. glaciers B. fresh water lakes
C. rivers D. inland seas and saline lakes
62. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to Page Two?
A. Page Two is a list of some of the most popular national waterways in the U.S.A.
B. The annual visitors to Blue Ridge Parkway are almost a third of the number of visitors to
George Washington Memorial Parkway.
C. California is the only state that does not share national park with other states.
D. Lake Mead National Recreation Area and Statue of Liberty National Monument are
located in the same state.

(C)
A MAGICAL PLACE
Theme parks? I just love them. In a month or so, the UK’s finest will throw their gates open
for the new season to thrill us with their engineered delights. As usual, I will be the first person
inside. Yes, I may be a digital enthusiast, but to me there is nothing as irresistible or as thrilling
as the full-on experience of spending a day in someone else’s imagination.
Dr. Carissa Baker, assistant professor in theme parks and storytelling at the University of
Central Florida, argued in 2018 that theme parks are gatherers and tellers of stories. Their
distinct narratives start before you enter the park, are played out in what you experience there,
and continue after you’ve left. How do they do it? Some believe it’s down to creative direction

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and narrative system design. But I call it like I see it: they use all the psychological tricks in my
social psychology textbooks to get us to feel and act in the way that the people behind the scenes
foretell.
Everything in theme parks is manipulated(操纵). Everything is accounted for. Whereas in
the digital world, designers infer what we feel, these theme parks digest these emotions. A
famous example is Disneyland’s Main Street USA, which you walk down on first entering the
park: the sets have been designed with forced perspective so the buildings appear taller and
grander than they really are. Techniques like this are everywhere to be seen in the squares of
Renaissance Italy and Georgian England to make the buildings seem bigger than they were. The
mythical Main Street is made to feel larger and more impressive, which gets visitors excited
when they enter the park—we are the hero of Disneyland’s narrative. Now that’s a powerful
trick.
The digital world is nowhere near as magical as these places are. Yes, digital designers can
create something out of nothing with mathematics and electricity, but their best attempts are only
shortcuts in two-dimensional space. All they have in their toolboxes are sight and sound. But in
theme parks, digital is out of place. Yes, behind the scenes there are data machines that are
trying to track us to make our experiences better and more personal. Except for one or two
notable examples, digital tech isn’t being used to enhance our time at the park in any practical
way. It just gets in the way. And perhaps that is why I love theme parks. Because when I’m
there, I want to be propelled(推动) by someone else’s vision, and give over to the feeling.
The next killer app isn’t on your device. It’s in the places that thrill us and compel us to
keep our phones in our pockets so we can truly experience them.

63.From the first paragraph we can conclude that __________________.

A. engineers in the UK are full of imagination
B. the writer is enthusiastic about digital devices
C. the writer finds theme parks charming and exciting
D. it takes much imagination to guess visitors’ preferences
64.The writer fancies going to theme parks in that ___________________.
A. the experience in theme parks helps him to let out emotions
B. they provide a designed setting in which he is easily absorbed
C. the digital effect makes theme parks a wonderland full of magic
D. the psychological tricks they use make him feel manipulated
65.What can be inferred from the passage?
A. It is advisable to put down your phone and get a taste of what theme parks bring you.

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 B. Nowhere else can you find a place as magical as the digital world.
C. The huge constructions in theme parks are designed to appeal to more visitors.
D. Digital tech plays an irreplaceable role in keeping theme parks running smoothly.
66.What does the article mainly talk about?
A. The distinct properties that theme parks and digital devices have.
B. The thrilling and irresistible experiences the writer has in theme parks.
C. Digital devices meant to create a magic world with simple techniques.
D. Clever techniques used by theme parks to make your visit memorable.

Section C (8 分)
Directions: Read the following passage and choose the most suitable statement from A-F for
each blank. There are two extra statements, which you do not need.
A. For voice commands, those means fell to four and three seconds respectively.
B. Dr. Kinnear and his colleagues have urged vehicle-safety bodies to impose standards that
limit the use of overly distracting tasks on a car’s touchscreen.
C. To discover how badly touchscreens distract drivers, Neale Kinnear and his colleagues
arranged a series of experiments.
D. Or else, you can turn to voice control.
E. On the second trip they had to do the same, but using only the car’s voice-activated controls
instead.
F. As they expected, drivers using touchscreens took longer to respond to the flashing bar than
did those using voice controls.

Step inside most modern cars and instead of all the dials and switches that used to clutter
the dashboard(仪器板) you are likely to find it dominated by a touchscreen. Often there is more
than one screen, and some are bigger than those on a laptop. But, though convenient,
touchscreens can also be dangerous distractions.
67 They recruited two groups of 20 drivers. One consisted of regular users of Google's
Android Auto while the others were supporters of Apple CarPlay. Each participant completed
three 15-minute journeys along a set virtual route using the laboratory's sophisticated driving
simulator. On one of these trips they had to carry out tasks using only the touchscreen, which
included navigating to a restaurant, playing a particular song on Spotify (a music service),

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changing radio channels, getting the system to read out a text message, and making a "hands-
free" telephone call. 68 The third journey was a control, with no assigned tasks.
Whenever a red bar flashed on the windscreen the researchers measured how long it took a
driver to react by pulling the indicator stalk( 柄) to flash the car's lights. 69 Though the
difference might be less than a second, at motorway speeds this would result in an increased
stopping distance of up to 25 metres.
Dr. Kinnear was, however, surprised by the amount of time drivers' attention was diverted
by the series of glances needed to operate the screen. Among the worst outcomes were a mean of
20 seconds of cumulative glances using Android Auto to play a song on Spotify, and of 16
seconds to set up the route to a restaurant with CarPlay. 70 The researchers thus believe
voice-activation is a safer alternative that should be encouraged, though the software needs to be
improved.

第二卷 (50 分)
IV. Summary Writing (10 分)
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.
71.
Why Take a Gap Year
When you’ve finished your studies at school and college, do you feel like a well-earned
rest? If you’re about to embark on a course at university, you’ll want to recharge your
batteries, relax and have some fun. But how long should you do that for? Now the idea of taking
a year off before you move into further education seems to be the thing to do.
A year off – also called a gap year – is not a new concept, but there’s now a focus on
making the most of this break from academic life. Long gone are the days of just hanging out on
a beach or backpacking round the world. A gap year is now more about gaining skills that will
help you in later life. A student, called Meg, said “I always want to spend a year doing
something productive and something that would just be good fun.”
Doing something productive is exactly what students are being encouraged to do because
doing more purposeful things like work experience or charity work helps them acquire skills to
use when competing for a place at university. It looks good on their CV and ultimately makes
them more employable. Chris Rea, a Higher Education Services Manager, thinks “the experience
of the gap year has become actually much more practical, partly to do with university
participation and employability skills development.”
While the benefits of taking a gap year are clear to see, some students worry they can’t
afford it. Another student, Tom, thought a gap year was an ‘alien concept’. He said “it would
have been far too expensive and it's not something that I would have been able to rely on my
parents for.”

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 For those who do have the funds, a combination of working, volunteering and travelling is
undoubtedly an amazing opportunity. It increases confidence and independence, gives you a
chance to learn new crafts, and gives you time to contemplate whether university is right for you.
V. Translation (15 分)
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the
brackets.

72．你有考虑过找一份兼职工作吗？（consider）
73．司机驾车远行之前把油箱加满十分明智。（sense）
74．新颁布的这项政策旨在抑制一路攀升的房价，实现教育公平。（intend）
75．打赢脱贫攻坚战不仅成为中国的奇迹，而且还为全球消除极度贫困带来启发。（Not
only）

VI. Guided Writing (25 分)

Directions: Write an English composition in about 120~150 words according to the instructions
given below in Chinese.
76.
某校针对高一新生进行了“拓展课”（extensive courses）的问卷调查。下面是拓展课
选课原因的比例分布图。请简要描述图表，并结合自己选课经历（1-2 门拓展课），说明
选择的原因。
(注意：不要出现学校名字)

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