2019年上海高考英语试题(精校版)

2019年上海高考英语试题(精校版)

普通高等学校招生全国统一考试

上海 英语试卷

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.

In the prence of animals

A professor of public health at UCLA says that pet ownership might provide a new form of health care.

As far back as the 1790s, the elderly at a nior citizens’ home in England 21 (encourage) to

spend time with farm animals. This would help patients’ mental state more than the cruel therapies

22_______ (u) on the mentally ill at the time. In recent years, scientists have finally begun to find

proofs 23 contact with animals to increa a sick person’s chance of survival and have

shown 24 (lower) heart rate, calm upt children, and get people to start a conversation.

Scientists think that animals’ companionship is beneficial 25 animals are accepting and

attentive, and they don’t criticize or give orders. Animals have the unique ability to be more social.

For example, visitors to nursing homes get more social respons from patients when they come

with animal companions.

Not only do people em 26 (anxious) when animals are nearby, but they may also

live longer. Studies show that a year 27 heart surgery, survival rates for heart patients were

higher for tho with pets in their homes than tho without pets. Elderly people with pets make

fewer trips to doctors than tho without animal companions, possibly becau animals relieve

loneliness. Staying with animals is believed to create a peaceful state of mind, 28 (result) in

a favorable environment for everyone.

Rearch confirms that the findings concerning nior citizens can be applied to restless

children. They are more easy-going when there are animals around, with 29 company they

tend to calm down more easily. They involve 30 in playing with animals and the prence

of animals conforms them greatly.

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.

A. suspected B. fortunately C. invasions D. inevitable E. accustomed F. unreliable

G. features H. acknowledged I. inclusion J. transferred K. instantly

The iPhone X, Apple’s new smart phone, is equipped with facial recognition. 31 , its

scanner can unlock the system. It requires no buttons to be presd, being always ready to read your

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face. Android urs can expect similar 32 as well.

For the millions of people who will soon depend on facial recognition to check their email, nd a

text or make a call, it will be quick, easy and pretty “cool” to u. However, as we grow 33 to

the technology, we cannot become numb to the problems that come with it.

Facial recognition is already ud everywhere. In China, police u the technology to identify people

who jaywalk (乱穿马路). In the United State, more than half of all adults are in a facial recognition

databa that can be ud for criminal investigation. Governments, however, are not the only urs of

facial recognition. Retailers (零售商) u the technology in their stores to identify 34 shoplifters.

One social media app in Russia allows strangers to find out who you are just by taking a photo of you.

However, different urs of facial recognition produce different levels of accuracy. Camera

distance, lighting, facial po all affect the accuracy. Officials at the New York Police Department,

for example, have 35 at least five misidentifications by their facial recognition system. If the

iPhone’s new system is similarly 36 , no one will consider it to be acceptable curity for our

personal information. 37 , it probably won’t be. But for many of the systems elwhere, mistakes

and 38 of privacy might be unavoidable.

As the smart phone of choice for many urs, the iPhone’s 39 of facial recognition may

encourage consumers to accept the technology elwhere. However, even as we choo to explore

the convenience facial recognition might offer, we should also be suspicious of the many ways it

can be ud. Facial recognition may well be 40 . Its risks need not be!

III. Reading Comprehension (45%)

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.

Famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you

love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, 41 a huge amount of dull work.

Anyone who want to master a skill must run through the cycle of practice, 42 feedback,

modification, and increasing improvement again, again and again. Some people em able to

concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and take pleasure in their gradual

improvement. Yet others find this kind of focud, time-intensive work to be 43 or boring.

Why?

The difference may turn on the ability to enter into a state of “flow,” the feeling of being

completely 44 in what you are doing. Whether you call it being “in the zone,” or something

el, a flow state is a special experience. Since Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi developed the 45 of

flow in the 1970’s, it has been a mainstay of positive-psychology rearch. Flow states can happen

in the cour of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well-defined goals and is

at a(n) 46 skill level, and where the individual is able to 47 their performance to clear

and immediate feedback.

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Csikszentmihalyi suggested that tho who most 48 entered into flow states had an

“autotelic personality (自带目的性人格)” a disposition to ek out challenges and get into a

state of flow. While tho without such a personality e difficulties, autotelic individuals e

opportunities to build skills. Autotelic individuals are receptive and open to new challenges. They

are also 49 and have low levels of lf-centeredness. Such people, with their capacity for

“disinterested interest” have a great 50 over others in developing their innate abilities.

Fortunately for tho of us who aren’t 51 blesd with an autotelic personalily, there is

evidence that flow states can be 52 by environmental factors. 53 , the learning

framework prescribed by Montessori schools ems to encourage flow states.

While there isn’t (yet) a pill that can turn mundane practice into a thrilling activity for anyone, it

is heartening that we em, at least to some 54 , to be able to nudge ourlves toward flow

states. By giving ourlves unstructured, open-ended time, minimal 55 , and a task t at a

moderate level of difficulty, we may be able to love what we’re doing while we put in the hard work

practicing the things we loving doing.

41. A. inquires B. requires C. acquires D. gains

42. A. preventable C. sustainable D. critical B. maintainable

43. A. frustrating C. concerning D. instructing B. encouraging

44. A. improved C. involved D. inspired B. indicated

45. A. concept C. reception D. condition B. receipt

46. A. alternative D. sufficient B. appropriate C. approximate

47. A. make C. adapt D. adjust B. adopt

48. A. fully C. readily D. accidentally B. really

50. A. addict D. admire B. advance C. advantage

D. resistant 49. A. generous B. persistent C. courageous

D. occasionally 51. A. necessarily B. obviously C. gradually

D. facilitated 52. A. forbidden B. functioned C. fastened

D. extension 54. A. intention B. degree C. purpo

D. distractions 55. A. temptation C. attractions B. charming

comparison 53. A. In particular B. For example C. In conclusion

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, D. Choo the one

that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have read.

(A)

The adaptation of books to the big screen is nothing new to our society. Books have become

well-respected tools for creating a better Hollywood. However, films should be just as respected for

their ability to create better writers.

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The main skill films help writers develop is attention to progress. Most directors and

screenwriters know that the majority of people are not willing to sit through a five-hour film. Thus,

every scene must have a purpo. This is a vital objective to keep in mind when writing a novel or

short story. With most writing cours placing emphasis on literary techniques, it is easy to become

more invested in diction than with actually moving the plot forward. Films remind the writer that

while a novel ought to have some degree of literary complexity, the goal at the end of each chapter,

page, or ntence is simple: keep the story moving. Films not only help writers develop a plot, but

also help writers develop specific moments within their stories. Although writing a means of

expression, not all things are easy to express in writing, especially facial expressions and emotions.

Films allow writers to study the bodily and emotional actions that make characters read more

realistically and make stories more tempting.

Lastly, sometimes it takes a film to bring about a story idea in the first place. Stop using a

horribly specific or extremely uninteresting prompt. A pleasing theme or aesthetic can be enough to

inspire a character or tting. As writers, whether fiction or independent, our works often ari from

the things we e around us or the things we wish we could e. Nonetheless, our works also ari

from the visuals that have been created for us. As literature continues to enter the film industry,

perhaps we should make u of film techniques in our literature.

56. Reminded by films, a writer can move the plot forward by .

A. keeping in mind that every word should mean something.

B. providing a description of as many details as possible.

C. paying attention to further enhancing literary complexity.

D. choosing the perfect word to go with his/her thought.

57. According to the postage, films help writers develop in many aspects except .

A. getting an improved expressiveness B. focusing on keeping the story moving.

C. complicating their thinking and life. D. bringing in inspiration for new works.

A. a reason to write. B. a topic to start from.

D. an element to attract relationship. C. an excu to put off working.

58. The word “prompt” (paragraph 4) probably means .

59. Which of the following statements best reprents the author’s thoughts in this passage?

A. book writers are the ones promoting the growth of the film industry.

B. directors and screenwriters are more respected than fiction writers.

C. writers should spend more time on wording rather than on other things.

D. filmmaking technique could help book writers to improve themlves.

(B)

American Airlines

Date of Issue: 233 JAN 10

Ping Luo:

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Thank you for choosing American Airlines/American Eagle, a member of the one world

TM

Alliance. Below is your journey plan for the ticket(s) purchad. Plea print and keep posssion of

this document for u throughout your trip.

Record locator: HPMDLH

You may check in and obtain your boarding pass for U.S. domestic electronic tickets within 24

hours of your flight time online at AA. Come by using / checkin or at a Self-Service

Check-In machine at the airport. For faster check-in at the airport, scan the barcode at any AA

Self-Service machine.

Effective February 1, American Airlines will be cashless onboard all flights. For in-flight

RRR

/A Advantage○ MasterCard○ and other major credit or debit purchas, we will accept Citi○

cards only. Cashless cabins will not be implemented onboard American Eagle and American

Connection flights … only cash will continue to be accepted onboard tho flights.

eTicket

Carrier

Flight

number

4290 NASHVILLE 12:40 PM Q

City Date & time City Time

Departing Arriving Booking

11:05 AM OHARE

Economy Ping Luo Seats 9C Food for Purcha

CHICAGO SUN 31 JAN

OHARE 2:40 TM

Code

SUN, 31 JAN CHICAGO

American

Airlines OPERATED BY AMERICAN EAGLE

Q 4131 MADISON 3:25 PM

American

Airline OPERATED BY AMERICAN EAGLE

Ping Luo Economy Seats 17C Food for Purcha

A. evidence of booked tickets. B. explanations of check-in policies.

D. an airline ticket and its confirmation. C. a reminder of airline regulations.

60. The above document rves as _______.

A. fly non-stop to his destination.

B. arrive in Chicago in the late afternoon of the same day.

C. have to stay at CHICAGO OHARE airport for two hours.

D. reach his final destination on the next day.

62. According to the document, in order to check in at the airport faster, a pasnger may .

A. arrive at the airport far ahead of time. B. choo the at in advance.

C. u a lf-rvice machine. D. contact the record locator online.

61. During his journey, Ping Luo will .

(C)

There are class for the mothers of babies, but there’s no helping with your mum and dad

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growing old.

Old people’s wards are hell for old people. Geriatric wards are bedlam and bonkers. A toothless

woman screaming when left alone, a cry that reaches the high hospital ceiling. A woman effing and

blinding — the polite curtain will not protect her from the indignity of a happy change. A woman

who lives the same moment in repeat, dresd up for going home in a bright red, over the dressing

grown, asking for the key to her hou, saying over and over: “Am I going home today?”

And though my mum, by the time she was relead, knew that her life was charmed compared

with the lives of the world’s refugees. It ems to me as if the plight (困境) of old people, while not

as horrible as the plight of refugees, shares some of the horror. Just as we live in a society that

hasn’t caught up with technology, the kind of moral choices it gives people, we also live in a world

that hasn’t kept up with its ageing population. We have the advances in medical science and

technology that have kept people alive longer, but not the advances in how to treat our ageing

population. Society is lagging behind the old, failing and falling.

There are certain small but piercing similarities between the treatment of the old and the

treatment of refugees. The old are often displaced from their homes, moved out against their will;

decisions are often made for them that they have no say over. Often, they are treated as fools or

halfwits, crowded together in one place, given clothes that don’t belong to them, treated as a fallen

tribe, incapable of any individuality. Nobody imagined my mother was a cretary of the Scottish

peace movement, a primary teacher, a lifelong socialist, a witty woman. Out of hospital, my

85-year-old mum said: “going into hospital at my age puts years on you. God save from old

people’s wards. You never think of yourlf as old. You look across the ward and think, am I like

that?”

63. The treatment of the old is compared of that of the refugees in order to .

A. prove they have a lot in common B. show the terrible status of the old

C. display their similarities and differences D. indicate that old people have to leave their home

64. What can be interred from the passage?

A. Refugees lead a better life than old male patients.

B. Old people are ill-treated due to their loss of individuality.

C. The author’s mom is capable of teaching and being a socialist in the meanwhile.

D. The treatment of the ageing population doesn’t develop as science advances.

65. The author’s mom felt that life in the hospital .

A. made her much older. B. created her a mature woman.

D. let her full of gratitude to children. C. enable her to look back at life.

B. social responsibility to old women. A. the life of refugees and old people.

D. preparing for ageing parents. C. improper treatment of old people.

66. The passage mainly discusd .

Section C

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Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper ntence given in the box.

Each ntence can he ud only once. Note that there are two more ntences than you need.

A. Clear solutions already exist for reducing greenhou gas emissions.

B. Despite this, how our dietary choices affect climate change is often underestimated.

C. Food, especially livestock, also lakes up a lot of room

D. In developed countries, vegetarianism would bring all sorts of environmental and health benefits.

E. No matter how much their carnivorous friends might deny it, vegetarians have a point: cutting

out meat delivers multiple benefits.

F. Though a relatively small increa in agricultural land, this would more than make up for the loss

of meat.

What would happen if the world suddenly went vegetarian?

People become vegetarians for a variety of reasons. Some do it to make animal suffering, others

becau they want to pursue a healthier lifestyle. Still others are fans of sustainability or wish to

reduce greenhou gas emissions. 67 And the more who make the switch, the more tho

perks would manifest on a global scale.

Jarvis and other experts at Colombia’s International Centre for Tropical Agriculture carried out

rearches to e what might happen if meat dropped off the planet’s menu overnight.

First they examined climate change. Food production accounts for one-quarter to one-third of all

greenhou gas emissions from human activities worldwide, and the worst of responsibility for

tho numbers falls to the livestock industry. 68 In the US, for example, an average family of

four emits more greenhou gas becau of the meat they eat than from driving two cars but it

is cars, not steaks, that regularly come up in discussions about global warming.

69 Of the world’s approximately 12 billion acres of agricultural land, 68% is ud for

livestock. Should we all go vegetarian, ideally we would give at least 80% of that pastureland (牧场)

to the restoration of grasslands and forests, which would capture carbon and further alleviate

climate change.

The remaining 10 to 20% of former pastureland could be ud for growing more crops to fill

gaps in the food supply. 70 That’s becau one-third of the land currently ud for crops is

dedicated to producing food for livestock not for humans.

Summary Writing:

Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the

passage in no more than 60 words. U your own words as far as possible.

Learning by Rote in the Digital Age

Rote learning has become en as an outdated method of teaching. The dictionary defines

learning ‘by rote’ as: ‘from memory, without thought of the meaning: in a mechanical way’.

The decline of rote learning has been quickened by technology. No one needs to memorize

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friends’ phone numbers or email address becau such data is conveniently stored and accessible

electronically. And why remember when and where World War Two broke out when you can find

the answer on the Internet in about 6 conds? But now there are voices for a need to return to rote

learning.

In fact, memorizing key data is esntial to learning any skill. Doctoring requires knowledge of

medicine and lawyering requires knowledge of cas and laws. Of cour, being able to recall

things will not further your understanding of tho things, but without memorizing the foundation

elements, you cannot progress to a deeper understanding of a subject.

While the Internet and computers have weakened the need for us 10 remember things, it may

well be that mobile learning can help bring this style of learning back to life by making it more

convenient and more fun.

Drilling yourlf with flashcards or by repetition is usually hard and boring work, which is why

most people need their multiplication tables to be drilled into them by teachers or parents. Rote

learning without a willing third party can be a battle of discipline and motivation. But mobile

learning can make tho flashcards and drills more appropriate to individual study; our digital

devices can challenge and inform us at the same time and also keep us motivated, whether through

game-like structures or recording our progress.

Once you’ve acquired the esntials of a subject by rote learning, you will find it easier to go

deeper in the application of knowledge which is important.

V. Translation

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

1. 李雷宁愿受罚也不愿说谎。（would rather）

2. 在投资项目的过程中出现了一些问题。 （ari）

3. 在过去三年中，他一直致力于研究信息的传播速度和人们生活节奏的关系。(commit)

4. 有人声称这个减肥丸效果显著，立竿见影，且对身体无害。但事实远非如此。(It)

VI. Guided Writing:

Direction: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given

below in Chine.

你是※※中学的※※，你校学生会组织一次徒步活动，已在校园网发布方案，征求师生

的修改意见。你需要写一封邮件，包括以下两点：

1. 提出你觉得需要改进的地方； 2. 需要改进的原因。

主题 发现上海

时间 5月1日（周日）下午3点

路线

从人民广场出发，途径南京东路，到达外滩(the Bund),全程徒步，之后再徒步原路返

回人民广场。

参考答案

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