1、上海市徐汇区届高三二模英语试题2019学年第二学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷高三英语试卷（满分140分，考试时间120分钟） 2020.5I. Listening Comprehension Section ADirections: 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 questio
2、ns 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.
3、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.
4、 Painting pictures.5. A. The woman is going to hold a party tomorrow.B. The man asks the woman not to attend the party.C. The woman doesnt 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 useful inform
5、ation.C. He can show the woman around the city. D. He has lived in Tokyo for a long time.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 cant finish making the jam before 9. 8. A. Play some music. B. Remove the powe
6、r plug.C. Repair the sound box. D. Start the car engine.9. A. She cant stand the hot weather. B. The beach resort is a better choice.C. She enjoys visiting the art museums. 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
7、doesnt like his new office. D. He gets pressure from his new position.Section BDirections: 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. The passages and the conversation will be read
8、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 passage.11. A. A promotion of outdoor clothes. B.
9、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 based o
10、n 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.D. Growth of consumerism is restricted by artificial products.15. A. To cut down on labour costs by re
11、ducing working hours. B. To make customers feel they own something rare.C. To increase 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 2
12、0 are based on the following conversation.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 doesnt need the book now. B. Hes afraid he might damage the book.C. The book co
13、sts 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 VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammat
14、ically 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.Discovering a Lost BrotherKieron Graham always knew he had an elder brother named Vincent. His adoption papers, (21) _ (sign) when
15、 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. That changed in December 2017, when Kierons adoptive parents gave him an DNA test as a Christmas gift. When his results came back, he was surpri
16、sed (22) _ (find) he had a lot of DNA matches for relatives who had also taken the test. Most were distant connections, but one match was so strong that it (23) _ (label) “close family.” His name was Vincent Ghant. Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection. When they conn
17、ected, 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 remem
18、bers caring for his baby brother. But times were tough, and Shawn, who worked 15-plus hours a day as a nurse, 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 a
19、nything about what happened,” Vincent 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 Vincents concerns was that Kieron (28) _ hate his birth family for placing him for adoption. He was relieved Kieron didnt, and (29) _ hed gr
20、own up in a loving family. After that first meeting, the brothers played football together and celebrated Christmas with their families. “Well keep growing our relationship (30) _ its time to leave this planet,” says Vincent. That shouldnt be hard. As Kieron says, “Weve got years and years to catch
21、up on.”Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. motive B. deliberately C. convinced D. injurious E. alertsF. desperately G. swept H. accounts I. unconscious J. preservingK. c
22、hargingWhy Humpback Whales (座头鲸) Protect Other Species from Killer WhalesRobert Pitman, a marine ecologist, describes an encounter he witnessed in Antarctica in 2009. A group of killer whales were attacking a Weddell seal. The sealswam 31 toward a pair of humpbacks that had inserted themselves into
23、the action. One of the humpbacks rolled over on its back, and the seal was 32 onto its chest, between the whales massive flippers (鳍). “That incident 33 me,” he says. “Those humpbacks were doing something we couldnt explain.” Pitman started asking other researchers and whale watchers to send him sim
24、ilar 34 . Soon he was reading through observations 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
25、co-authors describe this behaviour and confirm that such acts of do-gooding are widespread. But knowing that something is happening and understanding why its happening are two different things. Pitman and his co-authors openly reflected on the meaning of these encounters. “Why,” they wrote, “would h
26、umpbacks 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 dont just hit on killer-whale attacks. They race toward them like firefighters into burning buil
27、dings. And like those rescue workers, humpbacks dont know who is in danger until they get there. Thats because the sound that 38 them to an attack isnt the sad voice of the victim. Its the excited calls of the killer whales. Pitman believes humpbacks have one simple instruction: “When you hear kille
28、r 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 selfishly 39 their own kind. He believes that their occasional rescues of humpback calves (后代) creat
29、e a strong enough 40 for them to rush in to help, even if it means they end up saving sunfish, sea lions, dolphins every now and then. III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with
30、the word or phrase that best fits the context.The true purpose of a business, Peter Drucker said, is to create and keep customers. “Customer value” has several definitions. I use the 41 to mean the total lifetime value of a companys customer base. Companies can increase this value by 42 more custome
31、rs, 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 theyve become enduring customer loyalty leaders in the process. Its worth noting that a number of loyalty-leading companies are able to 44 shareholder pressure, or avoid it altogether, because they are founder-led, customer-owned, or not publicly traded.Companies can 45 customer value in a variety of ways: To
