上海市青浦区2018届高三4月质量调研（二模）英语

“We are spending billions of pounds in preventing and curing heart diseases — if we are able to invest in creating healthy cities through small changes in the design of our neighborhoods to make them more activity-friendly and walkable, then probably, we will have significant savings in future healthcare expenses.”

To measure a neighborhood?s activity-promoting potential, researchers developed a set of index of walkability containing relevant urban elements, including residential and retail (零售) density, public transport, street-level movement, and distance to attractive destinations.

Poorly designed spaces generally reduced walking and physical activity, promoting the lifestyles of long time sitting down and not moving; and were harmful to social interactions, and as such associated with poorer mental and physical health.

Because walkability was “based on the underlying design of the city”, said Sarkar, cities could be modified or designed to encourage it. “Such investments in healthy design are likely to bring in long-term gains as they are enduring and common.”

63. By considering “invisible value of urban design”, people can _______. A. reduce the ageing population B. slow down the pace of urbanization C. promote activity-friendly and walkable cities D. invest in preventing and curing heart diseases

64. What can be inferred from the passage?

A. A set of index is essential to ensure that urban design promotes walkability. B.Walkable cities can lower blood pressure and the risk of high blood pressure. C. Chronic diseases are becoming common due to people?s neglect of their health.

D. Middle-aged women living in poor areas are less likely to benefit from increased walkability.

65.All of the following are the undesirable consequences of poorly-designed neighborhoods

EXCEPT_______. A. failing health

66. According to Dr. Chinmoy Sarkar, _______.

A. cities should encourage the residents to engage in social interactions B. the design of our neighborhoods should meet people?s needs for retail density C. money invested in creating healthy cities is money saved in future healthcare expenses D. chronic diseases will be common because of our lifestyle and the physical environment

Section C

B. unhealthy lifestyle D. fewer neighborhoods

C. fewer social interactions

Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

A. I truly express my respect for Shan and his team for their contributions. B.With regard to cultural heritage restoration, Shan said the museum opened a restoration hospital at the end of 2016. C. A total of 600 people from all walks of life, including over 100 foreign guests, participated in the activity. D. I will learn more about Chinese culture from the magnificent ancient objects. E. Our design teams often study consumer demands and create cultural items that are nice to look at and practical to use. F. Traditional craftsmanship is combined with modern methods, and the lives of ancient cultural objects will be lengthened by the so-called doctors.

Make traditional treasures come alive

The Palace Museum Director Shan Jixiang delivered a cultural heritage speech on Feb 27 in Beijing, which was co-organized by the Beijing Diplomatic Service Bureau and Beijing Housing Service Corporation for Diplomatic Missions. 67 On the theme The World of the Palace Museum and the Palace Museum of the World, the 64-year-old director shared his ideas about how to make traditional treasures come alive again.During the speech, which lasted two and a half hours, Shan touched on topics including upgrading museum infrastructure（基础设施）, restoring cultural sites, digitalizing online museums, setting up restoration hospitals, providing better visitor experiences and promoting the Palace Museum?s cultural items.

“The abundant collection of cultural objects at the Palace Museum is the inspiration for the creative souvenirs and cultural items available,” Shan said. “ 68 ”Throughout 2017, the total sales of Palace Museum?s cultural items have been more than 1 billion yuan ($158million). Explaining the huge success of Palace Museum?s cultural souvenirs, Shan said: “The museum opened a shop on the e-commerce website Taobao in 2008, but sales remained neither high nor low for years, as more than 80 percent of the souvenirs sold in stores in the past were not related to our museum.”“Therefore, I wanted to change the situation. Now, souvenirs from the Palace Museum cover almost every aspect of life. After all, what matters to a museum is not how many visitors they have, but how close they are to people?s daily lives.”

69 Around 200 “doctors” are employed to analyze, examine, detect flaws or damage in ancient objects and restore them using more than 100 pieces of specialized equipment, including 3-D printers and scanners.The restoration hospital covers 13,000 square meters and boasts the nation?s most advanced restoration workshops.

John Aquilina, Malta?s ambassador to China said that Shan?s speech showed a totally different Palace

Museum to foreign people.“China enjoys a long and profound culture and many of the national treasures have been preserved at the Palace Museum. It is no easy task to preserve them well. 70 ”

IV. 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. Use your own words as far as possible.

Ban the Bag!

Standing in line at the grocery store last week, I watched the woman in front of me buy a tube of toothpaste. As the clerk placed her purchase in a plastic bag, I couldn?t help wondering how long it would take for that bag to end up in the trash. Then I noticed the big purse the woman was carrying and wondered why she had needed a plastic bag at all.

People have come to rely on plastic bags as everything from shopping bags for groceries to trash-can bags. Although plastic bags can be recycled, only about one percent of those used in the United States are. Instead, after helping people transport items from one place to another, most are thrown away. They end up in landfills, where it can take a plastic bag up to a thousand years to decay. Some bags end up elsewhere in the environment, sticking to trees and fences, blocking rivers and oceans, or floating along city sidewalks.

Plastic bags harm the environment in several ways. First, they break down into particles that pollute our soil and water. Because most plastic bags are made of polyethylene, a product derived from crude oil (原油) or natural gas, they waste nonrenewable resources. Plastic bags can also harm animals. Scientists estimate that more than one million sea animals, including whales, seabirds, and turtles, die each year from intaking or becoming stranded in plastic.

People all over the world are starting to recognize the problems associated with plastic bags. Countries such as China, South Africa, Switzerland, and Uganda are taking action and banning the bags. Other nations, including Italy and Ireland, have been trying to restrict the use of plastic bags by taxing them. In the United States more and more communities are ridding themselves of plastic bags. Now more and more people are also purchasing inexpensive, reusable bags and using them when they shop. If we all take this simple step, we can be a part of a “green” revolution.

V. Translation

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

72．全世界掀起了一股学中文的潮流。(trend)

73．这个小伙子字写得漂亮，这让他在求职面试中脱颖而出。(enable)

74．尽管这对双胞胎天赋相近，但弟弟在语言学习上更强一些。(superior)

75．大学毕业生当保安是否是资源浪费是我昨天主持的小组辩论赛的主题。(Whether)

VI. Guided Writing

Directions:Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假如你是陈磊（Chen Lei），你的同龄笔友张敏（Zhang Min）正在筹划一次为期一天的班级春游活动，他希望活动内容具体而有意义，所以来信征求你的意见。请写封回信，内容必须包括：

?你的活动建议； ?你的理由。

（注：文中不得出现真实的姓名及学校名称。）