1、上海市虹口区高三二模英语试题附答案虹口区2020学年度第二学期期中学生学习能力诊断测试2021.4高三英语试卷考生注意：1.考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。2.本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答题必须涂(选择题)或写(非选择题)在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。3.答题前，务必在答题纸上填写准考证号和姓名，并将核对后的条形码贴在指定位置上。I.Listening ComprehensionSection A(10分)Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. A
2、t 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 y
3、ou have heard.1.A. In the living room. B. In the bedroom. C. In the bathroom. D. In the dining room.2.A. At 8:30. B. At 9:00. C. At 9:30. D. At 10:00.3.A. To pick up the woman from the library.B. To make a copy of the schedule for his friend.C. To get a copy of the schedule for the woman.D. To find
4、out more about the topic for the conference.4.A. She doesnt think a lot about her studies.B. She has difficulty in doing her assignments.C. She doesnt understand the course she is taking.D. She has no time to deal with her assignments.5.A. Language schools are being established everywhere.B. Languag
5、e schools are more than other types of schools.C. Too many overseas Canadians are fond of teaching English.D. Teaching English is the biggest business throughout the world.6.A. He failed the exam. B. He studied very hard.C. The exam was too easy. D. The exam made him smile.7.A. The man cant find a q
6、uieter place.B. The man should consider his privacy first.C. The man had better choose a low-rent apartment.D. The man is unlikely to move out of the school dormitory.8.A. The construction lasts longer than expected. B. The man usually gets up late.C. The workers drive the man crazy. D. The construc
7、tion is really annoying.9.A. The man should apply for the job.B. The IT industry is booming very fast.C. The woman is lucky to have her present job.D. There are too many unemployed skilled workers.10.A. She refused the job to make ends meet.B. She refused the job because of the low salary.C. She acc
8、epted the job because of the convenient hours.D. She needed the job and would accept it despite the low salary.Section B (15分)Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation.
9、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 based on the following pas
10、sage.11.A. They have a short memory. B. They have language interference.C. They are lacking in language skills. D. They dont know the language patterns.12.A. All Russian words have genders.B. Russian has fewer grammar rules.C. Russian has different sentence structures.D. Russian has an obligatory ca
11、tegory for gender.13.A. Translators have language interference.B. Languages have different obligatory categories.C. Languages connect with the community that uses them.D. Translation is obviously a one-way street for any language.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14.A. Becau
12、se the sound of waves is too noisy.B. Because the experiment may pollute the water.C. Because the sound of waves may harm sea animals.D. Because the sea animals may disturb the experiment.15.A. To help track the sea animals being tested.B. To attract more sea animals to the testing site.C. To drive
13、dangerous sea animals away from the testing site.D. To determine how sea animals communicate with each other.16.A. They were frightened and distressed.B. They swam away when the speaker was turned on.C. They swam closer to the speaker when the speaker was turned off.D. They swam near the speaker whe
14、ther the speaker was turned on or off.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17.A. She wants them to lose weight, too.B. She wants them to do exercise with her.C. She wants them to stop eating unhealthy foods.D. She wants their support and help with her problems.18.A. It doe
15、s harm to ones health.B. It causes one to neglect other things.C. It doesnt help others to increase health.D. It prevents one from achieving his or her goal.19.A. They dont have practical goals.B. They dont strive hard for their goals.C. They are busy and they lose focus on their goals.D. They lose
16、focus on their goals shortly after they set them.20.A. Celebrate the success in reaching the goal.B. Set and achieve another goal of higher levels.C. Encourage close friends to set and reach their goals.D. Acknowledge the achievement and see what the next step is.II.Grammar and VocabularySection A (
17、10分)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, use one word that best fits each blank. The Year in a Word or
18、 TwoCan anybody describe a year with only one word?Each December, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) nominates (提名) a word to describe the very year (21) _ has just passed. 2020 was a very unusual year that was really worthy (22) _ (describe) with two words. Two of the obvious words the OED suggest
19、ed were “pandemic (疫情)” and “lockdown,” due to most of human activities across the globe (23) _ (bring) to a stop by the life-threatening disease. Businesses have been closed and people have had to stay in their homes for weeks or even months on end. (24) _ I would like to nominate “cooperation” and
20、 “hope” as my words of the year because it is supposed to be described in a more positive and (25) _ (helpless) way, because there was a great deal of cooperation between countries and international health organizations. China took a leading role in this effort by sending masks and protective clothi
21、ng to Canada, the United States and Europe, (26) _ to countries in the Middle East and Africa. Without this cooperation, the pandemic, bad (27) _ it has been, could have been much worse.And that brings me to my second word: hope. We are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and, with
22、a little “hope,” we will get to see the world begin to return to normal. For young people, it was the first time that they (28) _ (experience) something big, a worry that they shared with their families, friends and neighbors, and a suffering (29) _ (endure) at this moment and to be endured next few
23、 weeks. And they also learned that “hope” the belief that (30) _ you will see tomorrow will be better than today is at the heart of every human being.With “cooperation” and “hope,” 2021 should make for a wonderful year.Section B (10分)Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the
24、box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.A. mobilityB. concerningC. joblessnessD. upcomingE. unemployedF. automatedG. deliberatelyH. inequalityI. quotedJ. assumedK. significantlyWill a Robot Really Take Your Job?It is one of the most widely quoted data of
25、recent years. No report or conference presentation on the future of work is complete without it. It has been pointed to as evidence of a(n) _31_ jobs disaster by think-tanks and government agencies. The finding that 47 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being _32_ by the mid-2030s comes fr
26、om a paper written by two Oxford academics, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne. It has since been _33_ in more than 4,000 other academic articles. Such misunderstandings reflect the polarized (两级分化的) debate _34_ the nature of automation and the future of jobs.At one extreme are the negativists.
27、They warn of mass technological _35_ just around the corner. One advocate of this position, Martin Ford, has written two best-selling books on the dangers of unemployment caused by automation. He worries that middle-class jobs will disappear, economic _36_ will cease, and the richest people in a cou
28、ntry could “shut themselves away in gated communities, perhaps guarded by self-directed military robots and drones.” The _37_ masses will live on a universal basic income.At the positive end of the debate, classical economists argue that in the past, new technology has always ended up creating more
29、jobs than it has destroyed. It was several decades before industrialization led to _38_ higher wages for British workers in the early 1800s. While automation is likely to increase _39_ in the short run by pushing some people into lower-paid jobs, it eventually increases the overall size of the econo
30、mic pie.Frey is often _40_ to be in the first camp. His paper simply wanted to point out that 47 percent of the current jobs in America were more likely to be affected by automation. It got more attention than they would ever have expected. In part, this is because fear sells, particularly when it i
31、s stirred up by a misunderstanding.III.Reading ComprehensionSection 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.Is Tap Water Safe to Drink?Tap water is not witho
32、ut its problems. More recently. the Michigan City of Flint has been struggling with high lead (铅) levels in its drinking water. Over the years people have witnessed major _41_ of groundwater pollution leading to unhealthy tap water.The nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG) detected some 260 pollutants in public
