2020届上海市徐汇区高三二模英语试题
（满分140分，考试时间120分钟）2020.5
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. To answer the door. B. To fix the doorbell.
C. To get a job.
D. To ask for instructions.
2. A. At the airport. B. In a restaurant.
C. In a booking office.
D. At the hotel reception.
3. A. She has lost a lot of weight. B. She lost some money last year.
C. She spent a lot on cosmetic surgery.
D. She is having health problems.
4. A. Taking photographs. B. Downloading images.
C. Fixing cameras.
D. Painting pictures.
5. A. The woman is going to hold a party tomorrow.
ps老照片修复B. The man asks the woman not to attend the party.
C. The woman doesn’t know how to get to the party.
D. The man offers to drive the woman to the party.
6. A. Tokyo is a city with a short history.
B. He can provide little uful information.
C. He can show the woman around the city.
D. He has lived in Tokyo for a long time.
快乐跳跳跳7. A. She will meet the man in his office.
B. She has an appointment with the man.
C. She had a traffic accident that morning.
D. She can’t finish making the jam before 9.
8. A. Play some music. B. Remove the power plug.
C. Repair the sound box.
D. Start the car engine.
9. A. She can’t stand the hot weather. B. The beach resort is a better choice.十大名牌手表排名榜
C. She enjoys visiting the art muums.
D. The man should develop a taste for art.
10. A. He is satisfied with his new job. B. He wants his workload to be shared.
C. He doesn’t like his new office.
D. He gets pressure from his new position.
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.
Questions 11 through 13 are bad on the following passage.
11. A. A promotion of outdoor clothes. B. An introduction of West Virginia.
C. A weekend vacation to a famous resort.
D. A free trip to an unknown destination.
12. A. Regretful. B.Frustrating. C. Worthwhile. D. Comfortable.
13. A. Mystery trips. B. Outdoor adventures. C. Social media. D. Travel destinations.
Questions 14 through 16 are bad on the following passage.
14. A. Goods are scarce and hard to get for ordinary consumers.
B. People aim for social distinction through what they own.
C. Manufacturers make more money by mass production.
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D. Growth of consumerism is restricted by artificial products.
15. A. To cut down on labour costs by reducing working hours.
B. To make customers feel they own something rare.
C. To increa their coffee price without losing customers.
D. To focus more on quality and customer satisfaction.
16. A. Consumer awareness. B. Social distinction.
C. Artificial scarcity.
D. Mass production.
Questions 17 through 20 are bad on the following conversation.巨大的同义词
17. A. In the gym. B. At a bookstore. C. At the library. D. In the classroom.
18. A. Wait for a month. B. Keep the receipt.
C. Mark on the book.
D. Accept a discount.
19. A. The man doesn’t need the book now.B. He’s afraid he might damage the book.
C. The book costs too much for him.
D. He prefers the edition with footnotes.
20. A. Bargain with the woman. B. Go to another bookstore.
C. Wrap his book.
D. Surf the Internet.
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.
Discovering a Lost Brother
Kieron Graham always knew he had an elder brother named Vincent. His adoption papers, (21)
_______ (sign) when he was three months old, listed a brother named Vincent but no last name. Though Kieron spent years thinking about Vincent, he could never track him down.
test as a That changed in December 2017, when Kieron’s adoptive parents gave him an DNA Christmas gift. When his results came back, he was surprid (22) _______ (find) he had a lot of
DNA matches for relatives who had also taken the test. Most were distant connections, but one
His name w as Vincent Ghant. match was so strong that it (23) _______ (label) “clo family.”
Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection.
When they connected, it was (24) _______ _______ they had known each other their whole
lives. As they talked, the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other. (25)
_______(surprisingly), they attended the same university and majored and minored in the same
subjects.
Vincent was nine when Kieron was born and remembers caring for his baby brother. But times
were tough, and Shawn, who worked 15-plus hours a day as a nur, decided that (26)
_______(place) Kieron for adoption would give him the best chance to succeed.
“She was very emotional about that time, to the point (27) _______ it was hard for her to put
into words anything about what happened,
” Vi ncent says. Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time. They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week. One of Vincent ’s concerns was that Kieron (28) _______ hate his birth family for placing him for adoption. He was relieved Kieron didn ’t, and (29) _______ he ’d grown up in a
loving family. After that first meeting, the brothers played football together and celebrated Christmas
with their families.
“We ’ll keep growing our relationship (30) _______ it ’s time to leave this says Vincent. That shouldn ’t be hard. As Kieron says, “We ’ve got years and years to catch up on.Section B
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Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be
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ud once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Why Humpback Whales (座头鲸) Protect Other Species from Killer Whales
Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist, describes an encounter he witnesd in Antarctica in 2009.
A group of killer whales were attacking a Weddell al. The al swam
31 toward a pair of humpbacks that had inrted themlves into the action. One of the humpbacks rolled over on its back, and the al was
32 onto its chest, between the whale ’s massive flippers (鳍). “That incident 33 me,” he says. “Tho humpbacks were doing something we couldn
’t explain.” Pitman started asking other rearchers and whale watchers to nd him similar 34 . Soon
he was reading through obrvations of 115 encounters between humpbacks and killer whales,
recorded over 62 years. “There are some pretty astonishing videos of humpbacks
35 killer whales,” he says.In a 2016 article in Marine Mammal Science , a famous scientific journal, Pitman and his
co-authors describe this behaviour and confirm that such acts of do-gooding are widespread. But
knowing that something is happening and understanding why it
’s happening are two different things. Pitman and his co-authors openly reflected on the meaning of the
encounters. “Why,” they wrote, “would humpbacks
36 interfere with attacking killer whales, spending time and energy on a potentially
37 activity, especially when the killer whales … were attacking other species of
prey?”
Interestingly, humpbacks don ’t just hit on killer -whale attacks. They race toward them like
firefighters into burning buildings. And like tho rescue workers, humpba
cks don ’t know who is in danger until they get there. That ’s becau the sound that 38 them to an attack isn ’t the sad A. motive
B. deliberately
C. convinced
D. injurious
E. alerts
F. desperately
G. swept H. accounts I. unconscious J. prerving K. charging
voice of the victim. It’s the excited calls of the killer whales. Pitman believes humpbacks have one
simple instruction: “When you hear killer whales attacking, go break it up.”
I wonder what humpback whales care deeply enough about to actively swim into battle with
killer whales. When I ask Pitman, he tells me that, it still comes down to lfishly 39 their own
kind. He believes that their occasional rescues of humpback calves (后代) create a strong enough
40 for them to rush in to help, even if it means they end up saving sunfish, a lions, dolphins
every now and then.
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.
The true purpo of a business, Peter Drucker said, is to create and keep customers. “has veral definitions. I u the 41 to mean the total lifetime value of a company’s
value”
customer ba. Companies can increa this value by 42 more customers, earning more
business from existing ones, keeping them longer, making their experience simpler through digital
improvements and so on. 43 leaders have long understood the importance of concentrating on
customer value rather than pursuing short-term profits or quarterly earnings, and they’ve
become
-leading
enduring customer loyalty leaders in the process. It’s worth noting that a number of loyalty
companies are able to 44 shareholder pressure, or avoid it altogether, becau they are
founder-led, customer-owned, or not publicly traded.
Companies can 45 customer value in a variety of ways: To increa 46 , enterpri
software companies sometimes charge corporate customers change fees that can rai the total cost
of ownership to as much as three times the original price. To reduce operating costs, restaurant
chains sometimes 47 frozen and precooked ingredients in place of fresh and made-to-order洛阳盆地
food. The resulting profits may look good on the income statement. Such strategies may even lead to
short-term earnings growth. But they also 48 potential customers and encourage disloyalty.
Given the importance of customer value, leaders should track it as much as they track other key
asts (资产), such as buildings, machinery, and marketable curities. They also should reveal it in
their quarterly and annual earnings releas so that investors can make 49 judgments about
company performance and how it compares with that of industry peers. But most companies 50
believe that measuring customer value is too difficult or costly. They continue to rely on a
centuries-old accounting tradition that emphasizes physical and financial asts, and neither income
statements nor balance sheets offer much 51 into the value of a company’s customers.
As investors wake up to the importance of customer value, however, many growth-stage
52 in growing the value of their customer ba.
companies now direct investors’ attention to
Some public companies increasingly report various types of customer value metrics (指标). One of
the UK’s top energy suppliers E.ON, 53 , reports year-over-year customer counts in its financial
E.ON noted, “we e customer value as crucial to our
report. “As a customer-focud company,”
success.”
This is a start, but becau there are no customer-value reporting standards or requirements,
investors still have a(n) 54 picture. The minority of companies that do provide customer value
information decide for themlves what to disclo. 55 , firms may calculate customer metrics
differently or change them to tell a desired story, or simply stop reporting them if they fail to go with
the company’s preferred narrative.
41. A. item B. version C. term D. definition
42. A. persuading B. consulting C. acquiring D. inspecting
43. A. Considerate B. Visionary C. Determined D. Powerful
44. A. resist B. relieve C. intensify D. maintain
45. A. rai B. adopt C. calculate D. destroy
46. A. income B. experience C. productivity D. demand
47. A. parate B. substitute C. forbid D. combine
48. A. appeal to B. rely on C. put down D. scare off
49. A. informed B. subjective C. definitive D. independent
50. A. fully B. hardly C. readily D. wrongly
51. A. suspicion B. extension C. literacy D. visibility
52. A. sacrifice B. success C. prejudice D. expen
53. A. as a result B. for example C. on the contrary D. in general
54. A. incomplete B. depressing C. convincing D. vivid
55. A. Instead B. Further C. Otherwi D. Therefore
Section B
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by veral questions or
unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choo the
one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
(A)
Aristotle thought the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two thousand years pasd, and facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to
feelings, irrespective of age, x and culture. A raid eyebrow suggests
judge other people’s
confusion. A smile indicates happiness.
Or do they? An analysis of hundreds of rearch papers that examined the relationship between
facial expressions and underlying emotions has uncovered a surprising conclusion: there is no good
scientific evidence to suggest that there are such things as recognizable facial expressions for basic
emotions which are universal across cultures. Just becau a person is not smiling, the rearchers
found, does not mean that person is unhappy.
This may rai questions about the efforts of information-technology companies to develop
artificial-intelligence algorithms(算法) which can recognize facial expressions and work out a
person’s
i s able to
underlying emotional state. Microsoft, for example, claims its “Emotion A PI”
detect what people are feeling by examining video footage of them. Another of the study’s however, expresd scepticism. Aleix Martinez, a computer engineer at Ohio State University, said
that companies attempting to obtain emotions from images of faces have failed to understand the
importance of context.
For a start, facial expression is but one of a number of non-verbal ways，such as body posture,
that people u to communicate with each other. Machine recognition of emotion needs to take
account of the as well. But context can reach further than that. Dr Martinez mentioned an
experiment in which participants were shown a clo-up picture of a man’s face, which was bright
