2019-2020学年上海市高三英语一模汇编(16区)——6选4

2020宝山一模

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences in the box. Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need. A. B. C. D. E. F.

Whether you’re on social media or sending a text message, you encounter emoji (表情符 号)regularly. _____67______ . While most people’s enthusiasm for emoji increased in the smart-phone era, Japan has been crazy for emoji since 1999. Designer Shigetaka Kurita invented emoji for a Japanese phone company 20 years ago as a way to make it easier to express ideas in a short message. The word emoji can be translated as “picture character” from Japanese. After the release of Kurita’s emoji, rival phone companies in Japan began creating their own emoji. Many emoji on our digital devices today are imported from Kurita’s original set of emoji.

Japan’s love for emoji continued well into the 2000s before the rest of the world discovered them. Apple Inc. officially introduced an emoji function in their software in 2011. Soon, other phone companies from around the world made it easier for their customers to use emoji ______68________.

As you scroll (滑动）through your phone, you can see the wide selection of available emoji. More than 2,000 emoji are in existence now, with more being released each year. These numbers show the popularity and demand for emoji.

Why? Because words alone can’t convey the complete meaning of a digital message. In digital communication, emoji express a tone or mood. More than 90 percent of people online use emoji especially ones that show emotion like hearts and smileys. ________69________. For example, they might send a red heart emoji as a response that they really like something instead of writing, “I love that.”

Some emoji are also abstract enough for people to use in any way they like. You can send an emoji as an inside joke, which is only understood between you and your friend. _______70______. Nor do they belong to a specific culture. You and I give emoji meaning, because emoji is a language that belongs to all of us.

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You may find these colorful symbols unavoidable as they’ve become a language of their own People can send emoji instead of writing words to participate in a conversation No wonder emoji use is becoming more and more popular in various fields Today, emoji use is a standard feature in digital communication But not all the people show interest in emoji especially elder ones Unlike most words, there isn't a certain definition for each emoji 2020崇明一模

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. But setting up the aeroponic farm was not easy. B. The government wants to greatly expand this percentage. C. Many of the commercial aeroponic systems are relatively costly. D. Aeroponics, however, does not require traditional farm work or much land. E. Growing with aeroponics is not difficult and its benefits far outweigh any disadvantages. F. It could make a big difference in places where huge amounts of land have been made unfarmable.

Growing Food from Air in Nigeria

A group of farmers in Nigeria is using a technology-based method to grow crops from mist (水汽) in the air. The method, known as aeroponics, does not involve soil. Instead, plant roots hang in the air. The roots take in nutrients from a watery mist.

Aeroponics is not well-known in Nigeria, but farmers there are working to make the technique more popular. ______67______

Biochemist Samson Ogbole is popularly known as Nigeria's smart farmer. He and his team are growing crops without soil at the technology-based farm they started three years ago ill Abeokuta. Ogbole says they are on a campaign to end seasonal food scarcity in Nigeria. \we are the ones controlling everything that the plant requires, we are not depending on seasons. So it’s no longer seasonal farming. It is just farming anytime of the year，meaning we can plant anytime of the year, and we can harvest anytime of the year.”

________68________ It required financing of more than $180,000. And some people in

Abeokuta were very much against this non-traditional method of farming. It took a lot of effort to change peopled minds about aeroponics.

Tn Nigeria, about 30 million hectares of farmland is being used, instead of the 78.5

million hectares required for food security. In the north, only 49 percent of the land is fertile, a situation that worries traditional farmers. ________69_________ Nutrients for the plants are controlled by a recycling system, greatly increasing productivity.

Philip Ojo is director general of Nigeria's National Agricultural Seeds Council. He says

the government welcomes new farming methods. Ojo noted that with aeroponics, farmers can quickly increase planting materials. So, his group strongly supports the technology.

The agricultural industry represents about 40 percent of Nigeria’s economy.

_______70________ For now, most farmers lack the technical knowledge to increase productivity. They also need access to high-quality seeds to guarantee better harvests. Technologically skilled farmers like Samson Ogbole are offering a new way forward.

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Directions: After reading the passage below, choose the best answers from the six statements according to what you have just read. A. Stephen Hawking’s wheelchair fetched 296, 750 at a sale at Christie's in London last November. B. Yet determining potential values of such objects isn't easy. C. It was said to be from a tree planted by George Washington at Mount Vernon. D. The auction result surely drew the attention from both the business and economics worlds. E. The uniqueness of many of these objects further complicates efforts to put a value on them. F. Therefore the unique value of many objects proved the worth of collection. The price of a piece of history A fresh lemon can be purchased for less than $1. But in 2008, Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati sold a lemon blackened with age for $2,350.

What was so special about this lemon? 67 According to a handwritten note in ink attached to a partly sealed bottle containing the lemon, the fruit was picked in May 1842 by Washington's \

Two thousand dollars is a lot to pay for produce, even from the estate of a founding father. This sale, however, just might be considered a bargain compared with prices paid for other historical collectibles in recent years. 68

Collecting a piece of history, or an object associated with a famous person, is not brand new. Ordinary objects with extraordinary stories have increasingly been coming to auction and achieving high prices, says Thomas Venning, director of Christie's department of books and manuscripts in London. Prices are being driven up, he says, by collectors in the U.S. and, increasingly, in Asia. The Hawking wheelchair, for example, was purchased by a private museum in China.

69 For one thing, their history of ownership is both crucial and sometimes difficult to prove. Photographs of the famous person with the object, as well as documentation

(such as letters, diaries or recollections by acquaintances referring to the object) can also help. 70 To evaluate the value of a Picasso painting, one can look at recent prices paid for other Picasso paintings of the same period, similar size or style. Finding another recent sale of a lemon planted by George Washington is a different matter.

Katie Horstman, head of Cowan's American History department, says she could find no comparable items for the lemon as she prepared the piece for its auction. Ms. Horstman nevertheless eventually arrived at the estimated value at $3,000 to $4,000, she says, by researching auction records for objects somehow associated with Washington that had appeared on the market.

Cowans ended up estimating the value of the lemon at $3,000 to $4,000, according to description on its website. Objects associated with Washington these days, Ms. Horstman says, can sell for anywhere from 1,000 up to tens of thousands of dollars.

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2020虹口一模

Directions: Read the passage carefully. 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. But legislation（法律）won’t ban all situations in which multitasking is unwise. B. They multitask for efficiency, to fight boredom or to keep up with social media. C. Forty - eight states have banned texting while driving. D. However, texting while biking seems so undemanding as to be harmless. E. They damage driving equivalently as far as external dangers go. F. Instead of multitasking, they take more rest breaks and get a social media fix during a break. Is Multitasking Always Good?

Not only do smart-phones provide unrestricted access to information, they provide perfect opportunities to multitask. Any activity can be accompanied by music, selfies or social media updates. Of course, some people pick poor times to tweet or text, and lawmakers have steeped in. __67__ In Honolulu, it’s illegal to text or even look at your phone while crossing the street, and in the Netherlands they’ve banned texting while biking.

__68__ You need to self-regulate. Understanding how the brain multitasks and why we find multitasking so appealing will help you realize the danger or pulling out your phone.

Multitasking feels like doing two things at the same time, so it seems the danger lies in asking one mental process to do two unrelated things -- for texting drivers, watching the screen and the road.

Twenty states have instituted bans on driving using a hand - held phone while still allowing hands - free calls. Yet hands - free or hand - held makes no difference. __69__ The real problem is the switch of attention between the conversation and road, and that affects performance.

Please sense this, and when on the phone they drive slower and increase their following distance, but they are far too confident that these measures reduce risks. This overconfidence extends to other activities. A 2015 survey showed that a majority of students who use social media, text or watch TV while studying think that they can still comprehend the material they’re studying.

People don’t multitask merely because they see no harm in it; they see benefits. ___70___ Most people will still choose to multitask. But they should, at the very least , be fully aware of how that choice affects them and the potential consequences for themselves and others. They need to pay attention to how much -- or how little -- they are paying attention.

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