精品解析：2020届上海市浦东复旦附中分校高三3月月考英语试题(原卷版)

浦东复旦附中分校2020 届三月质量检测英语试卷
I. Listening Comprehension（25%）
Section A（10%）
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.
1. A. An art museum. B. A beautiful park. C. A college campus. D. An exhibition.
2. A. Husband and wife. B. Doctor and patient.
C. Manager and clerk.
D. Waitress and customer.
3. A. At a newsstand. B. At a car dealer’s.
C. At a newspaper office.
D. At a publishing house.
4. A. The weather forecast says it will be fine. B. The bad weather will not ruin their plan.
C. They will not do as planned in case of rain.
D. They will postpone their program if it rains.
5. A. A taxi driver. B. A passenger. C. A truck driver. D. A mechanic.
6. A. The man will probably stay at home for his vacation.
B. The man will probably go to Mexico for his vacation.
C. The man will probably leave for Canada for his vacation.
D. The man will probably wait until summer to go to Mexico.
7. A. He can speak many languages. B. He can speak French and English.
C. He can speak only a little French.
D. He can speak only English.
8. A. He has got more pages to write.
B. The woman’s report is already long enough.
C. He has already finished his report.
D. The woman will have time to finish the report.
9. A. Jonathan was well known during his childhood.
B. Jonathan was popular with young movie stars.
C. Jonathan wrote some stories about a movie star.
D. Jonathan made movies about his unusual childhood.
10. A. The woman doesn’t agree with the man.
B. Drunk driving causes many accidents on the road.
C. Most people killed in the accidents are heavy drinkers.
D. People should be careful with the traffic when crossing the road.
Section B （15%）
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. 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.
Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Its strong education system. B. Its native English-speaking population.
C.Its growing tourism industry.
D. Its high standards for exams. 12. A. All citizens receive quality English teaching. B. More money should be spent on teacher training. C. An English-speaking environment should be built. D. Tourism industry should be promoted. 13. A. Because foreign investment will increase. B. Because it will bring the economic and social benefits. C. Because the education system will be strengthened. D. Because it will improve Singapore’s ranking in English level.Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Because they were in need of clothes and food. B.Because they wanted to find honey. C. Because they wanted to take revenge. D. Because they intended to occupy the village. 15. A. Because they migrated from Africa. B. Because they are a rare group surviving on the Andamans. C. Because they store precious honey. D. Because their DNA is directly linked to human ancestors.
16. A. They want to learn local language. B. They come to see the outside world.
C. They are chasing away outsiders.
D. They need drinks and cigarettes.
Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. He is the journalist of a local newspaper.
B. He is a huge fan of international stories.
C.He is in charge of a TV program.
D. He is an advocate for environmental protection. 18. A. Current trends in economic development. B. Domestic issues of general social concern. C. International relations and foreign policies.D. Conflicts among different political parties. 19. A. By figuring out what the general public are in ignorance of. B. By interviewing people with fascinating stories that draw public attention. C. By analyzing the current social problems such as junk food. D. On the basis of meeting public expectations and the producer’s j udgment. 20. A. First-hand stories. B. Practical experience. C. Audience’s feedback. D. Educational background.II. Grammar and Vocabulary（20%）Section A（10%）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.
Joaquin Phoenix took home the best-actor Oscar on Sunday night for his role in “Joker.” In the following lengthy and wide-ranging speech, the actor, 45, tackled issues of equality and nature preservation.
I’m full of so much gratitude right now. And I do not feel elevated above any of my fellow nominees (被提名者) or anyone in this room ___1___ we share the same love, the love of film.
But I think the greatest gift it’s given me, and many of us in this room, ___2___ (be) the opportunity to use our voice for the voiceless. And this form of expression has given me the most extraordinary li fe. I don’t know what I’d be ___3___ it.
I’ve been thinking a lot about some of the ___4___ (distress) issues that we are facing collectively. I think at times we’re made ___5___ (feel), that we champion different causes. But for me, I see commonality. I think,
___6___we’re talking about gender inequality or racism or animal rights, we’re talking about the fight against
injustice. We’re talking about the fight against the belief that one nation, one race, or one gender or one sp ecies has the right to dominate, control and exploit ___7___ without punishment.
I think that we’ve become very disconnected from the natural world, and ___8___we’re guilty of is a
self-centered world view that we're the center of the universe.
And I think we fear the idea of personal change because we think that we have to sacrifice something, but human beings, at our best, are so inventive and creative and original. And I think that when we use love and compassion as our guiding principles, we can create, and implement systems of change ___9___ are beneficial to all emotional beings and to the environment.
Now, I have been, I have been a villain in my life. I’ve been selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that I _____10_____ (give) a second chance because of the many of you in this room.
Section B（10%）
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.
Art occurs in many forms: music, dance, painting, architecture, sculpture, cinema, and literature, among others. Works of art can make people feel moved, even to the ___11___ of tears. In the case of Stendhal syndrome, however, this feeling is so ___12___ that a person can experience a rapid heartbeat, dizziness, sweating, or fainting. It may even require hospitalization. In the Italian city of Florence, numerous visitors viewing the ___13___ Renaissance art there have experienced this and have required medical ___14___ Though not professionally recognized, this condition— now ___15___ to as Stendhal syndrome —does exist.
While great art is found in every civilization, Florence has been especially ___16___ A small city with a historical center, it is internationally admired for its amazing ___17___ of Renaissance art. Florence in the 15th and 16th centuries attracted the talent of many geniuses: artists, scientists, and authors were welcomed here. Some of the greatest Western works of art can be found in Florence, such as the statue of David by Michelangelo, The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, and the frescoes（壁画）by Giotto in the Basilica of Santa Croce. In addition, Leonardo da Vinci left works here. Galileo Galilei and Niccolo Machiavelli are buried here.
The syndrome is named after Stendhal, a French author who visited Florence in 1817. He described his experience of being fascinated by the historic and artistic power of the city in one of his books. Though the term Stendhal syndrome was not ___18___ until 1979 by Italian psychiatrist Graziella Magherini, the illness
had already had a long history. Patients usually recover within days of their attacks without any ___19___ drug other than rest and quiet. For them, the ____20____ of viewing the power and beauty of Florence is a brief trip to a hospital.
III. Reading Comprehension（45%）Section A（15%）
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.
If you examine the birth certificate of every soccer player in the last Word Cup tournament, you will most likely find the excellent players were born in the earlier months of the year. If you then examine the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup, you will find this phenomenon even more ___21___ .
What might account for this strange phenomenon? Some guess a certain astrological sign(星座)
____22____superior soccer skills; others maintain that winter-born babies have higher oxygen capacity which increases soccer stamina(it t ).But Anderson Ericsson, a 58-year-old professor who is called the expert on experts, believes in neither. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved ___23___ training a person to hear and repeat a random series of numbers. "With the first subject after 20 hours of training, his digital span rose to 20, Ericsson recalls, "and after about 200 hours of training he could repeat up to 80 numbers
This success, coupled with later research showing memory itself is not ___24___ determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is a cognitive( i in a) exercise, which means whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are ____25____ by how well each person encodes the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as ____26____ practice. It involves more than simply repeating a task ___27___ playing a C-minor scale 100 times hitting tennis serves until your shoulder pops out of its socket. ___28___ it involves stepping outside your comfort zone, setting specific and well-defined goals, focusing on ___29___ areas of expertise, obtaining immediate feedback from professionals and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.
Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying high achievers in a wide range of ____30____ including soccer, golf, chess, piano playing and darts. They gather all the data they can and make a rather shocking statement: the trait we commonly call talent is highly ____31____, And yes, expert performers are nearly always made.
Ericsson’s formula seems app ealing to many tiger parents: "practice makes perfect" is naturally ____32____ to genetic determinism. By____33____ innate ability as insignificant, many are confident they can make a concert-level pianist or an Olympic figure skater of their kids as long as they push them hard enough. Ericsson, ____34____ believes what parents should learn from the science of expertise is not the effect of logging thousands of hours, but how to get kids to. ____35____ the importance and challenge of effective practice
21. A. understandable B. misleading C. appealing D. noticeable
22. A. promises B. improves C. compromises D. masters
23. A. numbers B. subjects C. memory D. practice
24. A. physically B. genetically C. fundamentally D. psychologically
25. A. overshadow B. demonstrated C. strengthened D. produced
26. A. enormous B. deliberate C. desperate D. persistent
27. A. on average B. more importantly C. for instance D. in particular
28. A. Besides B. Nevertheless C. Therefore D. Rather
29. A. various B. comprehensive C. targeted D. minor
30. A. pursuits B. occupations C. performances D. assumptions
31. A. underestimate B. overrated C. flexible D. demanding
32. A. equal B. inferior C. preferable D. beneficial
33. A. dismissing B. lacking C. recognizing D. highlighting
34. A. likewise B. therefore C. besides D. however
35. A. study B. practice C. reflect D. embrace
Section B（22%）
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 the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
A
Last July, Angela Peters, 36, rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon located at the Walmart shopping center in Burton, Michigan, with the idea of painting her nails. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy（脑瘫）, was turned away. The salon (which is not owned by Walmart), she says, told her that they were afraid it would be too difficult to properly do the job given that her hands shook. What was meant to be a day of beauty bliss for Peters was now a disappointment.
Watching the interaction from a few feet away was a Walmart cashier about to go on her break. Ebony Harris, 40, recognized Peters as a Walmart regular. Now what she recognized in Peters was a kindred spirit. “She’s just like you, me, my daughter, anybody,” Harris told ABC News, “She wants to look pretty. So why can’t she?”
Harris approached Peters. “Do you want me to do your nails?” she asked. A smile spread across Peters’ face. “Yeah!” Having found a table for two, Harris gently took Peter’s hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails.
“I was a little nervous and was shaking because I didn’t want to mess her nails up,” Harris admitted. “I told her
she’s a blessing to anybody, not just me. She makes me look at life and appreciate it much more than I have.”
Watching it all with amazement and admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. What struck her most was the ease and gentleness displayed by Harris as she painted Peters’ nails, all the while chatting as if they were old friends. Smith was so taken by the scene that she wrote about it on Facebook. “They were so patient with her,” she wrote. “Thanks to the Walmart worker for making this beautiful girl’s day!”
Peters, who runs a poetry website, harbors no bitterness toward the nail salon that turned her away. “Whe n people do us wrong, we must forgive,” Peters wrote on Facebook. “I just want to educate people that those with different challenges, like being in a wheelchair, can have our own business and get our nails done like anyone else.”
36. Why was Peters declined when she wanted to have her nails painted?
A. She insisted on sitting in a wheelchair.
B. She was not a regular customer of the salon.
C. Her hands shook involuntarily due to disability.
D. There was no need for her to have nails painted.
37. It can be inferred from “a kindred spirit” in Paragraph 2 that _______.
A. Peters was in high spirits just like others around her.
B. Peters was approached with special attention and care.
C. Peters was more tolerant of the denial than normal people.
D. Peters was no different from the people around her.
38. In Paragraph 4, Harris referred to Angela Peters as “a blessing” because _______.
A. Peters deserved to be happy and be treated kindly.
B. Harris was reminded why she should be grateful.
C. Harris felt obliged to offer her a hand on a voluntary basis
D. Peters got her nails done despite the previous rejection.
39. What may well be Angela Peters’ guiding principle in life?
A. Beauty is about having a pretty mind, a pretty soul, as well as pretty poetry.
B. Forgive others who have wronged us, and we are likely to enjoy our life more.
C. Being grateful is a way to sing for our life which comes just from our love and hope.
D. Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
B
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C. It allows the user to acquire a language in a shorter time.
D. It teaches by translating the foreign language into your native language.
41. In order to know one’s progress, one has to _______.
A. call 1800-6310-1389 to consult the teacher
B. get feedback from the automated tutorials
C. complete all the 20 activities in each lesson
D. compare one’s voice with the native speaker’s
42. Which of the following skills in the program has more to do with the learner’s life experience?
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Financial regulations in Britain have imposed a rather unusual rule on the bosses of big banks. Starting next year, any guaranteed bonus of top executives could be delayed 10 years if their banks are under investigation for wrongdoing. The main purpose of this “clawback” rule is to hold bankers responsible for harmful risk-taking and to restore public trust in financial institution. Yet officials also hope for a much larger benefit: more long-term decision-making not only by banks but also by all corporations, to build a stronger economy for future generations.
“Short-termism” or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England’s top economis t, Andrew Haldane. He quotes a giant of classical economies, Alfred Marshall, in describing this financial impatience as acting like “Children who pick the strawberries out of their pudding to eat them at once” rather than putting them aside to be eaten last.
The average time for holding a stock in both the United States and Britain, he notes, has dropped from seven years to seven months in recent decades. Transient(短期的) investors, who demand high quarterly profits from companies, can hold back a firm’s eff orts to invest in long-term research or to build up customer loyalty. This has been called “quarterly capitalism”.
In addition,new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of equities( 股票), quicker use of information, and thus shortens atten tion spans in financial markets. “There seems to be an advantage of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing,” said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher o f the US Securities and Exchange Commission in speech this week.
In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to delay performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce “short-termism.” In its latest survey of CEO pay, The Wall Street Journal finds that “a substantial part” of executi ve pay is now tied to performance.
Much more could be done to encourage “long-termism,” such as changes in the tax code and quicker
disclosure(披露) of stock acquisitions. In France, shareholders who hold onto a company investment for at least two years can sometimes earn more voting rights in a company.
Within companies, the right compensation design can provide motivation for executives to think beyond their own time at the company and on behalf of all shareholders. Britain’s new rule is a reminder to banke rs that society has an interest in their performance, not just for the short term but for the long term.
43. According to Paragraph 1, one reason for imposing the new rule is the _______.
A. enhance banker’s sense of responsibility
B. help corporations achieve larger profits
C. build a new system of financial regulation
D. guarantee the bonuses of top executives
44. It is argued that the influence of transient investment on public companies can be _______.
A. indirect
B. negative
C. favorable
D. temporary
45. The US and France examples in paragraphs 5 and 6 are used to illustrate_______.
A. the obstacles to preventing “short-termism”.
B. the significance of long-term thinking.
C. the approaches to promoting “long-termism”
D. the popularity of short-term thinking.
46. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?
A. Failure of Quarterly Capitalism
B. Patience as a Corporate Virtue
C. Decisiveness Required of Top Executives
D. Frustration of Risk-taking Bankers
Section C（8%）Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below.Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Possible Limitations of Online Learning
If eLearning, however, is not based on solid instructional design theories and models it may lead to the following limitations:
1. It may be a "solo" act.
It is true that, although online learning might be convenient and flexible, it is also a solo act. It will not be easy for all of your learners to feel comfortable when participating in online discussions and engaging more actively with their online instructors or their virtual classmates. Some people absolutely need personal contact with their educators or trainers in order to learn successfully. Furthermore, some types of learning problems may be difficult to be addressed online, and some questions can be lost in a sea of requests and inquiries. ___47___
2. ___48___
However hard we try to fully transfer human communication to online platforms, however natural it seems to form relationships behind computer screens, a virtual environment is just not human. Nothing can replace human contact. Besides, using a computer or a tablet all the time can cause poor vision, strain injuries, and other physical problems. Consider sending guidelines about right sitting posture, desk height, etc. along with your eLearning course; it might be very useful to your audience.
3. It requires self-discipline.
If your eLearning audience lacks self-discipline, it is unlikely that they will be motivated to self study. Traditional learning and training have the benefit of easily tracking both progress and falling behind. ___49___
4. Possible lack of control.
However carefully you design your eLearning course, there is no guarantee that your messages will get across. You offer your learners control over their eLearning experience, but are they going to use it effectively? There is always the risk of your learners just going through the material without paying any attention. ___50___ Unless you know exactly what you’re doing with new technologies, it is very likely that you overwhelm or distract your audience.
Creating effective online learning courses requires knowledge, time, experience, commitment, great communication skills, and a true passi on for learning. If you’ve got all that, then be sure that the advantages of your online training outweigh its limitations.
A. It may be impersonal.
B. If your eLearning content is not built to make the most of the medium it will easily become disengaging.
C. This sometimes makes learners feel they lack support and reassurance.
D. It may harm your mental health.
E. Online learning requires some IT literacy, yet not every one of your learners has much experience of computers.
F. This works for many learners as well, as some people prefer their progress to be closely monitored in order to perform.
IV. Summary Writing（10%）
51.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.
Would a person born blind, who has learned to distinguish objects by touch, be able to recognize them purely by si ght if he regained the ability to see? The question, known as Molyneux’s problem, is about whether the human mind has a built-in concept of shapes that is so innate(天生的) that such a blind person could immediately recognize an object with restored vision. The alternative is that the concepts of shapes are not innate but have to be learned by exploring an object through sight, touch and other senses.
After their attempt to test it in blind children failed, Lars Chittka of Queen Mary University of London and his colleagues have taken another attempt at finding an answer, this time using another species. To test whether bumblebees can form an internal representation of objects, they first trained the insects to distinguish globes from cubes using a sugar reward. The bees were trained in the light, where they could see but not touch the objects. Then they were tested in the dark, where they could touch but not see the globes or cubes. The researchers found that the bumblebees spent more time in contact with the shape they had been trained to associate with the sugar reward, even though they had to rely on touch rather than sight to distinguish the objects.
The researchers also did the reverse test with untrained bumblebees, first teaching them with rewards in the dark and then testing them in the light. Again, the bees were able to recognize the shape associated with the sugar reward, though they had to rely on sight rather than touch in the test. In short, bees have solved Molyneux's problem because the fact suggests that they can picture object features and access them through sight or touch.
However, some experts express their warnings. Jonathan Birch, a philosopher of science, cautions that the bees may have had prior experience associating visual and tactile(触觉的) information about straight edges and curved surfaces in the context of their nests, so it is not possible to eliminate the possibility that some of the cross-sensory concept is learned rather than innate.
V. Translation（15%）
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
52. 这公司推广的新电子设备无法满足本地学生的需要。

（meet）
53. 我从未想到会有如此多的人在短时间内感染上这么严重的病毒。

（Never）
54. 无论采用何种销售策略，这个想要诓骗青少年的项目必然不攻自破。

（intend）
55. 尽管宅在家，只要营养膳食，规律作息，每日线上练习，高三学生一定能取得最终成功。

（despite）VI. Guided Writing（25%）
56.Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假设你是明启中学的李华，你在美国的朋友Chris 写信询问你和你的伙伴们是怎样度过今年特殊的春节的，
请给Chris 写一封电子邮件，邮件必须包含以下内容
1.今年的春节和往年不同的地方
2.你和你的伙伴们选择的度过方式和活动
3.你的感受
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