2020届上海市徐汇区高三二模英语试题(含解析)

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2020届上海市徐汇区高三二模英语试题

（满分140分，考试时间120分钟）

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.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

A. To answer the door.

C. To get a job.

A. At the airport.

C. In a booking office.

A. She has lost a lot of weight.

C. She spent a lot on cosmetic surgery.

A. Taking photographs.

C. Fixing cameras.

B. To fix the doorbell.

D. To ask for instructions.

B. In a restaurant.

D. At the hotel reception.

B. She lost some money last year.

D. She is having health problems.

B. Downloading images.

D. Painting pictures.

2020.5

A. The woman is going to hold a party tomorrow.

B. The man asks the woman not to attend the party.

C. The woman doesn’t 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 information.

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 can’t finish making the jam before 9.

B. Remove the power plug.

D. Start the car engine.

B. The beach resort is a better choice.

D. The man should develop a taste for art.

B. He wants his workload to be shared.

D. He gets pressure from his new position.

8.

9.

A. Play some music.

C. Repair the sound box.

A. She can’t stand the hot weather.

C. She enjoys visiting the art museums.

10. A. He is satisfied with his new job.

C. He doesn

Section B

Directions:

’t like his new office.

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 would be the best

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answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. A promotion of outdoor clothes.

C. A weekend vacation to a famous resort.

12. A. Regretful.

13. A. Mystery trips.

ating.

B. An introduction of West Virginia.

D. A free trip to an unknown destination.

C. Worthwhile. D. Comfortable.

D. Travel destinations. B. Outdoor adventures. C. Social media.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on 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 reducing 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.

C. Artificial scarcity.

B. Social distinction.

D. Mass production.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. In the gym. B. At a bookstore. C. At the library.

B. Keep the receipt.

D. Accept a discount.

’t need the book now.B. He’s afraid he might damage the book.

D. He prefers the edition with footnotes.

B. Go to another bookstore.

D. Surf the Internet.

D. In the classroom.

18. A. Wait for a month.

C. Mark on the book.

19. A. The man doesn

C. The book costs too much for him.

20. A. Bargain with the woman.

C. Wrap his book.

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.

Discovering a Lost Brother

Kieron Graham always knew he had an elder brother named Vincent. His adoption papers, (21)

_______ (sign) when 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 Kieron’s adoptive parents gave him an DNA test as a

Christmas gift. When his results came back, he was surprised (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 name was Vincent Ghant. ”　

Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection.

When they connected, it was (24) _______ _______ they had known each other their whole

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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 remembers 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 anything about what happened,

shop that week. One of Vincent

ncent says. ” Vi

Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time. They decided to meet at a local tea

’s concerns was that Kieron (28) _______ hate his birth family for

placing him for adoption. He was relieved Kieron didn’t, and (29) _______ he’d grown up in a

loving family. After that first meeting, the brothers played football together and celebrated Christmas

with their families.

says Vincent. That shouldn

“We’ll keep growing our relationship (30) _______ it

’t be hard. As Kieron says, “We’ve got years and years to catch up on.

’s time to leave this

Section B

Directions: 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

F. desperately

K. charging

Why Humpback Whales (座头鲸) Protect Other Species from Killer Whales

Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist, describes an encounter he witnessed in Antarctica in 2009.

A group of killer whales were attacking a Weddell seal. The seal swam

back, and the seal was

incident 33

32

31 toward a pair of

humpbacks that had inserted themselves into the action. One of the humpbacks rolled over on its

onto its chest, between the whale’massive s flippers (鳍). “That

“Those humpbacks were doing something we couldn

34 . Soon

35 killer

’t ,” he says.

B. deliberately

G. swept

C. convinced

H. accounts

D. injurious

I. unconscious

E. alerts

J. preserving

”　

Pitman started asking other researchers and whale watchers to send him similar

recorded over 62 years. “There are some pretty astonishing videos of humpbacks

whales,” he says.

he was reading through observations of 115 encounters between humpbacks and killer whales,

In a 2016 article in Marine Mammal Science, a famous scientific journal, Pitman and his

co-authors describe this behaviour and confirm that such acts of do-gooding are widespread. But

knowing that something is happening and understanding why it

Pitman and his co-authors openly reflected on the meaning of these

“would humpbacks

potentially

prey?”

Interestingly, humpbacks don’t just hit on killer-whale attacks. They race toward them like

firefighters into burning buildings. And like those rescue workers, humpba

danger until they get there. That’s because the sound that 38

cks don’t know who is in

’t the sad them to an attack isn

37

36

’s happening are two different things.

encounters. “Why,” they wrote,

interfere with attacking killer whales, spending time and energy on a

activity, especially when the killer whales…　were attacking other species of

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voice of the victim. It’s the excited calls of the killer whales. Pitman believes humpbacks have one

simple instruction: “When you hear killer 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) create 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 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.

The true purpose of a business, Peter Drucker said, is to create and keep customers.

value”　has several definitions. I use the 41 to mean the total lifetime value of a company’s

customer base. Companies can increase this value by 42 more customers, 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 they’ve become

enduring customer loyalty leaders in the process. It’s 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 increase 46 , enterprise

software companies sometimes charge corporate customers change fees that can raise the total cost

of ownership to as much as three times the original price. To reduce operating costs, restaurant

chains sometimes 47 frozen and precooked ingredients in place of fresh and made-to-order

food. The resulting profits may look good on the income statement. Such strategies may even lead to

short-term earnings growth. But they also 48 potential customers and encourage disloyalty.

Given the importance of customer value, leaders should track it as much as they track other key

assets (资产), such as buildings, machinery, and marketable securities. They also should reveal it in

their quarterly and annual earnings releases so that investors can make 49 judgments about

company performance and how it compares with that of industry peers. But most companies 50

believe that measuring customer value is too difficult or costly. They continue to rely on a

centuries-old accounting tradition that emphasizes physical and financial assets, and neither income

statements nor balance sheets offer much 51 into the value of a company’s customers.

As investors wake up to the importance of customer value, however, many growth-stage

companies now direct investors’ attention to 52 in growing the value of their customer base.

Some public companies increasingly report various types of customer value metrics (指标). One of

the UK’s top energy suppliers , 53 , reports year-over-year customer counts in its financial

report. “As a customer-focused company,”　 noted, “we see customer value as crucial to our

success.”　

This is a start, but because there are no customer-value reporting standards or requirements,

investors still have a(n) 54 picture. The minority of companies that do provide customer value

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information decide for themselves what to disclose. 55 , firms may calculate customer metrics

differently or change them to tell a desired story, or simply stop reporting them if they fail to go with

the company’s preferred narrative.

41.A. item B. version C. term D. definition

42.A. persuading B. consulting C. acquiring D. inspecting

43.A. Considerate B. Visionary C. Determined D. Powerful

44.A. resist B. relieve C. intensify D. maintain

45.A. raise B. adopt C. calculate D. destroy

46.A. income B. experience C. productivity D. demand

47.A. separate B. substitute C. forbid D. combine

48.A. appeal to B. rely on C. put down D.

scare off

49.A. informed B. subjective C. definitive D. independent

50.A. fully B. hardly C. readily D. wrongly

51.A. suspicion B. extension C. literacy D. visibility

52.A. sacrifice B. success C. prejudice D. expense

53.A. as a result B. for example C. on the contrary D. in general

54.A. incomplete B. depressing C. convincing D. vivid

55.A. Instead B. Further C. Otherwise D. Therefore

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 the

one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.

(A)

Aristotle thought the face was a window onto a person’s mind. Cicero agreed. Two thousand

years passed, and facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to

judge other people’feelings, s irrespective of age, sex and culture. A raised eyebrow suggests

confusion. A smile indicates happiness.

Or do they? An analysis of hundreds of research papers that examined the relationship between

facial expressions and underlying emotions has uncovered a surprising conclusion: there is no good

scientific evidence to suggest that there are such things as recognizable facial expressions for basic

emotions which are universal across cultures. Just because a person is not smiling, the researchers

found, does not mean that person is unhappy.

This may raise questions about the efforts of information-technology companies to develop

artificial-intelligence algorithms(算法) which can recognize facial expressions and work out a

person’underlying s emotional state. Microsoft, for example, claims its “Emotion API”　is able to

detect what people are feeling by examining video footage of them. Another of the study

however, expressed scepticism. Aleix Martinez, a computer engineer at Ohio State University, said

that companies attempting to obtain emotions from images of faces have failed to understand the

importance of context.

For a start, facial expression is but one of a number of non-verbal ways，such as body posture,

that people use to communicate with each other. Machine recognition of emotion needs to take

account of these as well. But context can reach further than that. Dr Martinez mentioned an

experiment in which participants were shown a close-up picture of a man’s face, which was bright

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red with his mouth open in a scream. Based on this alone, most participants said the man was

extremely angry. Then the whole picture was shown. It was a football player with his arms

outstretched, celebrating a goal. His angry-looking face was, in fact, a show of pure joy.

Given that people cannot guess each other’s emotional states most of the time, Dr Martinez sees

no reason computers would be able to. “There are companies right now claiming to be able to do that

and apply this to places I find really scary and dangerous, for example, in hiring people,

“Some companies require you to present a video resume, which is analyzed by a machine-learning

system. And depending on your facial expressions, they hire you or not, which I find really

shocking.”

56. We can learn from the second paragraph that __________.

A. facial expressions are universal across cultures

B. it is hard to recognize some facial expressions

C. emotions and facial expressions may not be related

D. common facial expressions convey similar meanings

57. In the passage, the word scepticism“” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to “__________”．

A. similar interest B. fierce anger C. strong support D. great doubt

58. The experiment mentioned by Dr Martinez may prove that ___________.

A. facial expression is an important way to communicate

B. machine recognition of emotion is not reliable at all

C. facial expression is not the only way to detect feelings

D. people may misread facial expressions for lack of context

59. What does this passage mainly tell us?

A. Facial expressions are among the most universal forms of body language.

B. Computers can detect people’s mind by analyzing their facial expressions.

C. Facial expressions may not be the reliable reflection of a person’s emotions.

D. Companies can depend on machine recognition of emotion to hire people.

(B)

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