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1、徐汇区高三英语本卷共 10 页第1页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）2020.5I.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 wil
2、l 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.To answer the door.B.To fix the doorbell.C.To get a job.D.To ask for instructions.2.A.At the airport.B
3、.In a restaurant.C.In a booking office.D.At the hotel reception.3.A.She has lost a lot of weight.B.She lost some money last year.C.She spent a lot on cosmetic surgery.D.She is having health problems.4.A.Taking photographs.B.Downloading images.C.Fixing cameras.D.Painting pictures.5.A.The woman is goi
4、ng 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
5、.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 9.8.A.Play some music.B.Remove the power plug.C.Repair the sound box.D.Start the car engine.9.A.She
6、can t stand the hot weather.B.The beach resort is a better choice.C.She enjoys visiting the art museums.D.The man should develop a taste for art.10.A.He is satisfied with his new job.B.He wants his workload to be shared.C.He doesn t like his new office.D.He gets pressure from his new position.Sectio
7、n B 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
8、the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best 徐汇区高三英语本卷共 10 页第2页answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11.A.A promotion of outdoor clothes.B.An introduction of West Virginia.C.A weekend vacation to a famous re
9、sort.D.A free trip to an unknown destination.12.A.Regretful.B.Frustrating.C.Worthwhile.D.Comfortable.13.A.Mystery trips.B.Outdoor adventures.C.Social media.D.Travel destinations.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14.A.Goods are scarce and hard to get for ordinary consumers.B.
10、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 coff
11、ee price without losing customers.D.To focus more on quality and customer satisfaction.16.A.Consumer awareness.B.Social distinction.C.Artificial scarcity.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.D.In the class
12、room.18.A.Wait for a month.B.Keep the receipt.C.Mark on the book.D.Accept a discount.19.A.The man doesn t need the book now.B.He s afraid he might damage the book.C.The book costs too much for him.D.He prefers the edition with footnotes.20.A.Bargain with the woman.B.Go to another bookstore.C.Wrap hi
13、s book.D.Surf the Internet.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
14、word that best fits each blank.Discovering a Lost BrotherKieron 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 h
15、im down.That changed in December 2017,when Kieron s adoptive parents gave him an DNAtest 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(2
16、3)_(label)“close family.”His 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 徐汇区高三英语本卷共 10 页第3页lives.As they talked,the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other.(
17、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
18、 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,”Vincent says.Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time.They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week.One of Vincent s
19、 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.“We ll keep growing our relationship(3
20、0)_ it s time to leave this planet,”says Vincent.That shouldn t be hard.As Kieron says,“We ve got years and years to catch up on.”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.Why Humpb
21、ack 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 31 toward a pair of humpbacks that had inserted themselves into the action.One of t
22、he humpbacks rolled over on its back,and the seal was 32 onto its chest,between the whale s massive flippers(鳍).“That incident 33 me,”he says.“Those humpbacks were doing something we couldn t explain.”Pitman started asking other researchers and whale watchers to send him similar 34.Soon he was readi
23、ng through observations of 115 encounters between humpbacks and killer whales,recorded over 62 years.“There are some pretty astonishing videos of humpbacks 35 killer whales,”he says.In a 2016 article in Marine Mammal Science,a famous scientific journal,Pitman and his co-authors describe this behavio
24、ur and confirm that such acts of do-gooding are widespread.But knowing that something is happening and understanding why it s happening are two different things.Pitman and his co-authors openly reflected on the meaning of these encounters.“Why,”they wrote,“would humpbacks 36 interfere with attacking
25、 killer whales,spending time and energy on a potentially 37 activity,especially when the killer whales were attacking other species of 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,hum
26、pbacks don t know who is in danger until they get there.That s because the sound that 38 them to an attack isn t the sad A.motive B.deliberately C.convinced D.injurious E.alerts F.desperately G.swept H.accounts I.unconscious J.preserving K.charging 徐汇区高三英语本卷共 10 页第4页voice of the victim.It s the exci
27、ted 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
28、 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 fo
29、llowing 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.“Customer value”has several definitions.I use the 41 to mean the total lifetime v
30、alue 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 val
31、ue 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
32、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 s
33、ometimes 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
34、 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 o
35、f 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 compa
36、ny 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 energ
37、y suppliers E.ON,53,reports year-over-year customer counts in its financial report.“As a customer-focused company,”E.ON 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 pict
38、ure.The minority of companies that do provide customer value 徐汇区高三英语本卷共 10 页第5页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 n
39、arrative.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.sepa
40、rate B.substitute C.forbid D.combine 48.A.appeal to B.rely on C.put down D.scare off49.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 e
41、xample 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
42、 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 w
43、ay to judge other people s feelings,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 c
44、onclusion: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 abou
45、t the efforts of information-technology companies to develop artificial-intelligence algorithms(算法)which can recognize facial expressions and work out a person s underlying emotional state.Microsoft,for example,claims its“Emotion API”is able to detect what people are feeling by examining video foota
46、ge of them.Another of the study s authors,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
47、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
48、 s face,which was bright 徐汇区高三英语本卷共 10 页第6页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 p
49、ure 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,”he says.“
50、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