上海市杨浦区2019届高三二模(含听力)英语试题(原卷word版)

杨浦区2018-2019学年度第二学期高三模拟质量调研

英语学科试卷

考生注意:

1. 考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。

2. 本次考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答題必须涂(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. 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 Comprehension Section A

Directions: 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 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 you have heard.

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, use one word that best fits each blank.

My head was so full of digital noise ___21___ it felt like my brain was about to explode. I had no greater power of concentration than a goldfish and the lifeless stare of a goldfish as well. As a writer, I was ashamed to admit that my love of books had been weakened by a brain that simply could not sit still.

So, at the start of this year I committed to restoring books to the place that they held in my life before the Internet broke my brain.

My goal was 52 books: It seemed like an impossible task. A 400-page book will take the average person around eight hours to read. Finding the time to read was a challenge but here's how I did it. Firstly, I decided to treat my mind like a child ___22___(behave) badly and lay down some ground rules. Then I decided that I ___23___(read) for an hour or two at a time ___24___ distraction each day. It was something I hadn't done in years and it was scary ___25___ difficult it was.

In his book, The Distracted Mind, Larry Rosen says that the more we practise spending time away from our electronic devices, the ___26___(calm) and more focused we become. And this is what I found. Again and again, I would gently bring myself back to the page, resisting the urge ___27___(reach) for that screen. I took inspiration from Nikki Gemmell, who describes in On Quiet, how investing in a safe to lock away her family's devices for long periods had opened up a space for deep reflection.

For me, finding that quiet time meant finding time in my day just to read. It was a date between me and my book. And it meant actively choosing to read at times ___28___ I ordinarily would reach for my phone.

I read on the tram, at the park, in bed at night and on lunch breaks.

___29___(renew) my love affair with books, I created a sacred space where I pressed pause and found inspiration, knowledge and reflection. In our modern world, reading for the sake of reading is not selfish. It is a powerful and beneficial way to slow down and be ____30____.

Section B

Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

The odds are high that you’ve seen a beauty pageant (选美比赛) or two in your life. They are among the most attended and viewed events in the world. Despite numerous different opinions, beauty pageants continue to not only ___31___ but also become more popular. Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth are known as the Big Four beauty pageants, and all of them continue to this day. These competitions ___32___ young women on their physical attractiveness, of course, but they also are judged on their personality, intelligence, talent, and responses to interview-based questions. The eventual winners receive prizes including cash, scholarships, clothes, beauty queen crowns, and of course, the title of the event for one year.

All these awards do not come cheap for the young ladies. They have duties to fulfill while holding their titles. Beauty queens often appear at functions to raise social awareness about environmental and social issues such as nature ___33___, racial or gender discrimination, and disease prevention. By projecting the image of a well-educated, respectable character ___34___ with a successful personality, every beauty pageant winner is seen as a role model, and not just for young girls alone.

Some beauty contests ___35___ men rather than women. Similar to their feminine counterparts, men enter Mister Global, Mister International, and Mister World for their looks, style, and talent. These contests should not be ___36___ with the Mister Universe contest, which is an annual bodybuilding competition. There are other strange and ___37___ pageants all over the world that celebrate everything from being old to being pregnant.

Beauty contests, whether organized with noble ___38___ or just for fun, have attracted criticism since they were first held. Some critics object to the focus on physical beauty, especially emphasis on a certain stature and body shape. Further, they point out that some participants will actually harm themselves through dieting or plastic surgery to achieve the perfect appearance. Despite these complaints, beauty may be only skin deep, but ___39___ it and competing for the glory of being the fairest of them all holds a timeless and universal ____40____. III. Reading Comprehension Section A

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.

China and India Dominate the Greening of Earth

Over the last two decades, the Earth has seen an increase in foliage (植物) around the planet, measured in average leaf area per year on plants and trees. Data from NASA satellites shows that China and India -- two ___41___ economies with the world's biggest populations -- are ___42___ the increase in greening on land. The effect comes mostly from ___43___ tree-planting programs in China and intensive agriculture in both countries. Researchers from Boston University found that global green leaf area has increased by five percent since the early 2000s, an area ___44___ to the entire Amazon rainforest. The study was also published in the journal Nature Sustainability on February 11. It revealed that at least 25 percent of the global foliage ___45___ this century came in China.

\covered in vegetation,\general idea of land degradation(退化) in populous countries from ___47___.\China's ___48___ contribution to the global greening trend came in large part from programs to conserve and expand forests, accounting for about 42 percent of the greening contribution. These programs were developed in an

effort to ___49___ the effects of air pollution, soil erosion and climate change. Another 32 percent of the greening change in China, and 82 percent in India, resulted from intensive

____50____ of food crops. The land area used to grow crops in China and India has not changed much since the early 2000s. Yet both countries have greatly increased annual total green leaf area and food production in order to ____51____ large populations. Rama Nemani, a research scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, saw a(n) ____52____ message in the new findings. \the situation around vegetation loss was not good. In the 1990s, people realized it, and today things have improved. Humans are ____53____ resilient (复原快的，适应力强的). That's what we see in the satellite data.\

____54____, the researchers rang bells as well. They pointed out that the gain in global greenness did not ____55____ make up for the loss of natural vegetation in tropical regions like Brazil and Indonesia. 41. A. emerging 42. A. imposing 43. A. fertile 44. A. distant 45. A. expansion 46. A. account for 47. A. over-reaction 48. A. considerate 49. A. forbid 50. A. cultivation 51. A. cut 52. A. secret 53. A. continuously 54. A. Moreover 55. A. necessarily

B. declining B. contributing B. extreme B. equivalent B. substitution B. take in

B. over-exploitation B. tremendous B. investigate B. demand B. employ B. brief B. incredibly B. Meanwhile B. generally

C. stimulating C. leading C. harmonious C. relevant C. innovation C. stand for C. over-generation C. magnificent C. boost C. destruction C. feed C. urgent C. initially C. However C. fortunately

D. intruding D. creating D. ambitious D. resistant D. correction D. consist of D. over-explanation D. irregular D. reduce D. supply D. treat D. positive D. obviously D. Therefore D. thoroughly

Section B

Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose