杨浦区2019~2020年第二学期高三年级质量调研考试
高三英语2020.05
（本试卷满分140分，考试时间120分钟）
I.Listening Comprehension
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.Sell the old stuff. B.Clean the office.
C.Recycle the junk.
D.Hold a New Year Party.
2.A.Serious. B.Impatient. C.Puzzled. D.Excited.
3.A.At the railway station. B.At the police station.
C.At the backpack shop.
D.At the bus stop.
4.A.To deal with the complaint about the nois.
B.To ttle a long-standing conflict.
C.To have a word with the man's daughter.
D.To warn the band not to practice too early.
5.A.Everyone enjoys partying at the beach.
B.Weather is changeable at the beach.
C.The beach is not a good party location.
D.Swimming is dangerous for some people.
6.A.She prefers attending class to studying online.
骨膏B.She feels lonely and isolated in an online class.
C.She is not easily distracted by other people.
D.She thinks online class suit her learning style.
7.A.He is happy about the flexible working schedule.
B.He lacks a n of curity about his prent life.
C.He feels like switching to a full-time job.
D.He envies tho lf-employed people.带然的成语
8.A.He is a good leader who takes concrete action.
B.He doesn't do anything before giving a speech.
C.He talks about something without knowing much about it.
D.He is confident of his ability to make public speeches.
9.A.Jenny is concerned about her health.
B.Jenny will soon take part in a race.
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C.There is no need for Jenny to retire.
D.Jenny is wi to quit being scared.
10.A.Both of them ought to be more mindful in the future.
B.The woman is the only person troubled by memory problems.
C.The majority of office employees prefer home-cooked lunches.
D.Many people including him are just as forgetful as the woman.
Section B
Directions:In Section B,you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation,and you will be asked veral questions on each of the passages and the conversation.The passages 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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions11through13are bad on the following passage.
11.A.We are not prioritizing remembering names.
B.Remembering names calls for good memory.
C.We are born with the tendency to forget things.
D.Negative emotions cau us to forget names.
12.A.Repeating the name loud to yourlf a few times.
B.Associating one's name with a distinct feature.
C.Labelling a person as an interesting object.
D.Recalling the names at regular intervals.
13.A.Few people realize that forgetting name caus social discomfort.
B.Memorizing names is not a mental process as complicated as it ems.
C.Most people have difficulty committing new names to memory immediately.
D.Our memories are not as bad as we thought in terms of remembering names. Questions14through16are bad on the following passage.
14.A.Experiment on the future pizza.
B.Taste a specially-made pizza.
C.Travel to a future restaurant.
D.Meet with a group of futurists.
15.A.They aimed to show people how to cultivate food in a lab.
B.They wanted to highlight the role of science in sustainable living.
C.They intended to promote the environmental friendly food.qq浏览器导航
D.They were curious to know what the future would look like.
16.A.It is three times the size of a normal pizza.
B.Part of it has been3D-printed by a robot chef.
C.It is more nutritious than the traditional pizza.
D.All the ingredients come from an indoor lab.
Questions17through20are bad on the following conversation.
17.A.How to deal with emergencies in a marathon.
B.How to train effectively for a marathon.
C.How to prevent injuries in a marathon.
D.How to complete a marathon successfully.
18.A.Nervous. B.Relaxed. C.Humble. D.Surprid.
19.A.He might need to u the bathroom during the race.
B.He might not have the strength to finish the race.
C.He might feel as if he would hit a wall hard.
桅子花开D.He might not run as fast as the professionals.
20.A.Stay clear of the cheering spectators.
B.Keep up with the first-timers.
C.Buy energy bars at the rest stops.
D.Avoid taking breaks along the way.
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,u one word that best fits each blank.
A Taste of War-Foods That Were Created During War
The saying“an army marches on its stomach”tells the importance of giving soldiers tasty, nutritious foods.In some cas,foods that(21)_____（create)for soldiers or during times of war
became popular in homes as well.
Today,Fanta is a famous soda,but its beginnings were humble.The soft drink was invented in Germany to take the place of Coca Cola.When World War II began,the Coca-Cola Company's German branch(22)_____no longer receive the syrup（糖浆）ud to produce the soft drink from the United States.Thus,it created a new drink to satisfy the market and called it Fanta,short for“fantastic”(23)______German.
The beginnings of war-time foods in Asia are interesting,too.(24)______curry(咖喱）
had already existed in India,it was introduced into Japan via Britain for the purpo of restoring sailor
s'health.As the story goes,the Japane navy initially promid unlimited amounts of white rice,(25)______was considered a high-status food in Japan,as a way to attract newcomers.The problem was that white rice lacked the vital vitamin B1,and thousands of sailors fell ill after
eating rice alone.（26)______（obrve)the British navy's standard meal of curry,which contained vitamin B1-rich meat and flour,the Japane navy began to rve its sailors the same. The curry was so tasty that it soon(27)________（spread)across Japan.
The Korean War gave birth to budae jigae,or“army stew”in Korean.It was first made in US military bas near Seoul,using(28)_________ingredients were available,since food was scarce.The tasty stew typically(29)________（consist)of some kind of precooked meat such as ham,American chee and instant noodles soon caught on.
Many foods were invented at times of conflict to keep soldiers healthy.Fortunately,some of tho foods still exist to keep(30)________happy and satisfied.
Section B
Directions:Fill in each blank with a proper word chon from the box.Each word can be ud only once.Note that there is one word more than you need.
Hunting to Farming Is Not Necessarily Good
A.support
B.effectiveness
D.escape
F.questioning
G.ding J.allowed K.inferring
Shifting from hunting to farming made life50percent more difficult for humans,a study by Cambridge University suggests.Although farming(31)_______previously wandering communities to stay put and grow,it came at a huge cost.Rearcher Dr.Mark Dyble,lived with 10Agta groups and found that tho who still hunted and arched for their food spent around20 hours working in the week to live,
but tho who had(32)________to farming needed to work30 hours for the same amount of food.
For a long time,the shift from hunting to farming was assumed to reprent progress, allowing people to(33)_______a laborious and uncertain way of life,"said Dr.Dyble."But as soon as rearchers started working with hunter-gatherers they began(34)______this narrative, finding that hunters actually enjoy quite a lot of leisure time.Our data provides some of the clearest(35)______for this idea yet."The rearchers followed359people from the Agta community(36)______How much time they spent on leisure,childcare,domestic chores and out-of-camp work.As well as the overall difference in hours worked,the study also found that women living in the communities most involved in farming had half as much leisure time as tho in communities which only hunted.Co-author,Dr.Abigail Page added:"We have to be really careful when(37)_______from contemporary hunter-gatherers to different societies in pre-history."But if the first farmers really did work harder than hunters then this begs an important question-why did humans adopt agriculture?
Previous studies suggested the adoption of farming grew up to help cope with(38) _______societies,although other experts claimed that it was agriculture itlf that allowed dentary(定栖的）communities to expand,and once they(39)_____a certain size,it would
have been impossible for groups to return to a hunter-gathering lifestyle,even if they had wanted to.Dr.Page says:"The amount of leisure time that Agta enjoy is evidence to the(40)______of the hunter-gatherer way of life.This leisure time also helps to explain how the communities manage to share so many skills and so much knowledge within lifetimes and across generations."
III.Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phras marked A,B, C and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phra that best fits the context.
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Developments in artificial intelligence,robotics and nsors(传感器）are making hous and apartments smarter than ever.
IT'S6A.M.,and the alarm clock is ringing earlier than usual.It's not a malfunction:the smart clock scanned your schedule and(41)_____becau you've got that big prentation first thing in the morning.Your shower automatically turns on and warms to your preferred temperature.The electric car is(42)_____to go,charged by the solar panels.When you get home later,there's a(n)(43)_____pa突发环境应急预案
ckage waiting,delivered by drone.You open it to find cold medicine.It turns out that health nsors in your bathroom detected(44)_____of an approaching illness and placed an order automatically.
That at least is the ideal version of the smart home that exists10years out.Swedish rearch firm Berg Insight says63million American homes will(45)_____as"smart"by2022,with everything from Internet-connected light bulbs to cameras that let us spy on our pets from the office.But a decade from now,experts say,we'll move from turning the lights on and off with our voices to total engagement in the Internet of Things(IoT).(46)_____advancements in artificial intelligence,the smartest homes will be able to truly learn about their owners,eventually foretelling their(47)_____。Developments in robotics will give us machines that offer a helping hand with cleaning,cooking and more.New nsors will be(48)_____watching our well-being.
(49)_____to all of this will be the data that smart homes collect,analyze and act upon,helping to turn the hous of the future from a mere collection of devices and accessories into truly "smart"homes.
Of cour,as our homes learn more about us,keeping them(50)_____will become all the more important.Every(51)_____that's connected to the Internet is a potential target for hackers. Therefore,cybercurity will become all the more vital.
A range of technological developments will drive smart-home technology well beyond what's available on store shelves today.Innovations in artificial intelligence,（52)_____，stand to rever almost everything in our lives,including our homes.You might already be using some kind of Al-powered voice-assistant device to get the latest news or weather forecast every morning.But in the smart home of the future,tho Al platforms could rve as the brain for
