2018年上海高考英语试卷
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. M:Good morning. Can Ihelp you?
W:Yes, this dress is too long. Would you plea shorten it for me?
Q :Where doesthe conversation most probably take place?
2. W: Jack, you look tired.
M:Yes, I got piles of work to do. But it gives me a great n of achievement.
Q:What can we learn about the man?
3. W:John, what's up? Why are you standing on the desk?
M:The lights suddenly went off. The bulb must have burnt out.
Q: What is the man most probably doing?
4. W:I will take this room, how muchis the rent?
M:Well,two hundred pounds each month. You need to pay three months rent inadvance, plus a deposit of 100 pounds.
Q:Accordingto the man, how much should the woman pay in total?
5. W:I'll take an interview for a part time librarian tomorrow.
M:Don't worry. Others stand no chance, if you take the interview.
Q:How does the man feel about the woman's chance of getting the job?
6. M :I couldn't sleep at all last night. The bed isnot comfortable.
W:Don't blame the bed. You should stop drinking wine.
Q: What does the woman imply?
7. W:Andy, I bought a shirt for you.
M:Thank you. I hope you kept the receipt. I've put on some weight.
Q:What does the man imply?
8. W:I'm terribly sorry, but your flight has been canceled.
N:What? In that ca, I hope you will put meup somewhere tonight.
Q: What does the man expect a woman to do for him?
9. W:A new hotel is looking for workers. They need three hundred new workers. But over
4,000 people showed up .
M:Yes, I saw the news onTV. Istill have my job, thank goodness.
Q:What are the speakers talking about?
10. W:Professor smith explained the physics problem very clearly.
M:Did he? Unfortunately, it is still all Greek to me.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation, after each passage or conversation, you will be asked veral questions, the passage andthe conversation will be read twice,but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear
a question, read the four possible answers on yourpaper and decide which one is the
best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are bad on the following talk.
With a fascinating past and more than four centuries of history, St. Augustine is one of the
nation's oldest cities and an American treasure. Located on Florida’s Atlantic coast, i t is home to many fine examples of European architecture and wild scenic views. In 1513, while looking for the storied fountain of youth, an explorer found this land and called it
La Florida, and claimed it for Spain, then in 1565, a Spanish conquer established a ttlement there and named it St. Augustine, except fora twenty year period of English rule. Floridaremained under Spanish ruleuntil the United States took control in 1821. In
the years after its founding, the city of St. Augustinewas attacked by the French and English and by native Americans, you are said to have shot flaming arrowsat the city's defensive building, tting it on fire. More recently, nature has stricken the regionwith hurricanes, Matthew on 2016 and Irma in 2017. Still.St Augustine endures.
As the region recovers, visitors shouldn't overlook it. St. Augustinehas suffered muchin its
long history. Hopefully, visitors will come andp erhapssupport theFlorida’s coast recovery, while discovering its centuries of history and miles of coastal beauty.
Questions:
11. Which country first governed Florida in history?
12. Which of the following statements is true of Saint Augustine?
13. What is the passage mainly about?
P.S. La Florida--佛罗里达的西班牙语名词
Questions 14 through 16 are bad on the following talk.
Transport for London has a lost property office which collects the items left behind aspeople flow through the city's transport system each day. It is the biggest lost property
office in Europe, beaten globally only by Tokyo's. Sixty five staff sort through hundreds
of thousands of lostand forgotten items each at the office, which is run by Paul Cowan.
alt with over three hundred thousand items in Accordingto the latest data, Cowan’s team de
the first quarter of the year. Asthe data reveals, very feware claimed. For example, of the
nearly 13,000 keys handed into lost property last year, just under 1,400 were returned to
their owners, saysCowan. Overall, twenty percent of stock is claimed within three month.
After that time, stock becomes the propertyof transport forLondon. Andit's not necessarily
theitems you'd expect. A wander through the three bament floors that make up the lost
property office gives us an idea of whatwevalue enough to recover and what we're happy
to let go. Cowan has discovered something interesting about the complexity of lost
shoes. He said, if you have oneshoe, youare more likely to go looking forthe other. If you
lo twoshoes, well,it's slightly out of sight, out of mind. He guess many people regard
loss as anopportunity to treat themlves to something new.
Questions:
14. What isthe passage mainly about?
15. Which of the followingis true of the lost items?
16.According to Cowan, why don't somepeople get their lost shoes back?
Questions 17 through 20 are bad on the following conversation.
W: I have a goodfeeling about this hou.
M: If you like the outside, you're going to really love the inside.
W: What abeautiful home!And I likethe way thewindow screengives you privacy from the
street.
M: Follow me into the kitchen. Youwill love it.
W: Wow! They put a wine storage area in the kitchen. I love it! The best part is the bedroom and attached bathroom. I
love the relaxing colorsof the wall and floor covering. I'd like to makean offer on this hou.
M: As yourhouagent, I'm here to take care of this process. How much were you planning
on offering?
W: I really like the hou and will pay the full asking price of 380,000 do llars.
M:We’d better leave ourlves some bargaining room.Let's offer 350,000 dollars.
W: That soundsgood. But I don't want this hou to get away from me.
M: The market is fairly down right now. So the offer is a realistic one.
W: When will we know if the y’ll accept the offer?
M: The owners usually respond to an offer within a few days?
W: Should Ibe contacting mybank in the meantime?
M:You're already pre-qualifiedfor your loan. So you're in good shape.
Questions:
17. What isthe woman mostprobably doing?
18. What does the woman like best in the kitchen?
19. What does the woman think of the man’s offer on the hou at first?
20. Which of the followingis true according to the passage?
标题语法：标题S&A’s plan tofight theft
大致内容：就是一个商店推行一个叫 Justice 的系统抓商店扒窃(shoplifting)，还有一些小偷窃就自己放课程让小
毛贼学习学习。
10 道题考了谓语动词 2 题，非谓语 3 题，从句 4 题，介词 1 题。
谓语动词：
① Earlier this summer, .. employees ____ (hire) 【目测填：were hired】
② many efforts ____(rai) concerns【目测填：have raid】
非谓语动词：
① ____ (ea) …burden,…【目测填：Toea】
② the most frequently ____ (visit) stop【目测填：visited】
③… be accud of overcharging or fally ____ (nd) so-called shoplifters to prison【目测填：nding】
从句：
① a thief ____ name is not in the police databa【目测填：who】
cours are as helpful a s…【目测填：whether】
②... it’s unclear _____…
③ There are signs ____ …【目测填：that】
【目测填：even if ④ ____ ____ …extra employees, S&A still remain difficult to cure…
/ even though】
介词：
educate the lawbreakers ____ involving the police【目测填：without】
十一选十原文：
词汇：标题 Some Very “American” Words Come from Chine
大致内容：介绍了从中文引入到英文的三个词：kowtow（磕头）、gung-ho（工合）、typhoon（台风）。
的备选的 11 个词分别是：
committed, compared, contact, delegation, destructive, humble
negotiate, respelled, similar, superiors, witnesd
完形填空：
大致内容：为什么现在青少年比以前要晚熟一些【我自己肯定做过】
关键人名：Quattro Musr ，JeanTwenge
完形及部分填词
rather/adulthood/decreas/options/majorities/missing/interested in/surroundings/opposite
ca/dias/riously/carefully/slower/educated/postponement/cau
When 17-year-old Quattro Musr hangs out with friends, they don't drink beer or crui
around in cars with their dates. Rather, they stick toG-rated activities such as rock-climbing or talking about books.
They are in good company, according to a new study showing that teenagers are increasinglydelaying activities that had long been en as rites of passage into adulthood. Thestudy, published Tuesday in the journal Child Development, found that the percentage
of adolescents in the U.S. who have a driver's licen, who havetried alcohol, whodate, and who work for payhas plummeted since 1976,with the most precipitous decreas in the
past decade.
The declines appeared across race, geographic, and socioeconomic lines, and in rural, urban, and suburban areas. To be sure, more than half of teens still engage in the activities, but the majorities have slimmed considerably.
Between 1976 and 1979, 86 percent of high school niors had gone on a date; between
2010 and 2015 only 63 percent had, the study found. "People say, 'Oh, it's becau teenagers are more responsible, or more lazy, or more boring,' but they're missing the larger trend," said Jean Twenge, lead author of the study, whichdrew on ven large time-lag surveys of Americans. Rather, she said, kids may be less interested in activitiessuch as dating, driving or getting jobsbecauin today's society, they no longer need to.
Accordingto an evolutionary psychology theory that a person's "life strategy" slows down
or speeds up depending on his or her surroundings, exposure to a "harsh and unpredictable" environment leads tofaster development, while a more resource-rich and cure environment has the opposite effect,the study said. In the first scenario, "You'd have a lot of kids and be in survival mode, start havingkidsyoung, expect your kids will have kids young, and expect that there will be more dias and fewer resources," said Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who is the author of "iGen:
Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing UpLess Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy - and Completely Unprepared forAdulthood."
Acenturyago, when life expectancywas lower andcollege education less prevalent, "the goal back then was survival, not violin lessons by 5," Twenge said.
Inthat model a teenage boy might be thinking more riously about marriage, and driving
acar and working for pay would be important for "establishing mate value bad on procurement of resources," the study said. But America is shifting more toward the slower
model, and the change is apparent across the socioeconomic spectrum, Twenge said. "Even in families who parents didn't have a families are smaller, and
the idea thatchildren need to be carefully nurtured has reallysunk in."
The postponement of "adult activities" could not be attributed to more homework or extracurricular activities, the study said, noting that teens today spend fewer hours on homework and the same amount of time on extracurriculars as they did in the 1990s (with
the exception of community rvice, which has rin slightly). Nor could the us e of smartphones and the Internet be entirely the cau, thereport said, since thedecline began before they were widely available.
读阅读 A
大致内容：Mataila 这个地方还在用 shell 当钱使用。
其中要猜一个词是：mint（铸币厂），应该上下文蛮好猜滴！
题源：/money/personal-finance/blogs/malaita-islands-shell-money
原文：On the island of Malaita, shells are money
每段大意：
1. 银行是现代发明，不久前----物物交换
2. 过去---不同形式的货币：金银、烟草、贝壳
3. 现在---M岛屿还在用贝壳作货币
4. Justlike a mint, 在此岛屿上只有一个地方做那种很值钱的贝壳货币
5. 岛上人储蓄贝壳货币与储存美元也没两样
由以下文章改编：
Apparently, the idea of money that's not tied to a specific bank — or a specific country — is appealing to many. But it's worth remembering that the banking system that
we now all live with is just that: A modern invention.Not so long ago, money was almost
always created and ud locally, and bartering was common. (In fact, it still iscommon among many online local networks, like the Buy NothingProject.).
Inthe past, money's makeup varied from place to place, depending on what was considered valuable there. So while some of the world's first coins were made from a naturally occurring hybrid of gold and silver called electrum, objects other than coins have rved
as currency, including beads, ivory, livestock, and cowrie shells. In West Africa, bracelets
of bronze or copper were ud as cash, especially if the transaction was associated with the slave trade there. Throughout the colonial period, tobacco was ud in lieu of coins or
paper bills in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, even though it was ud elwhere
in the colonies and extensively throughout Europe and the U.K.
Today, on an island in the Pacific, a specific type of shell still rves as currency — and some people there are even hoarding it, just like Bitcoin moguls, convinced that one day,
it will make them wealthy beyond imagination.
On Malaita, the most-populated island that's part of the Solomon Islands, shells areaccepted at most places in exchange for goods.
"How much tunayou canget for your shells depends on their color and shape,"Mary Bruno,
a shop owner from the small town of Auki, on Malaita, told Vice. "One stripofdarker
