2021届上海市高考冲刺模拟英语试卷03（word考试版+答案版+听力）.zip

第 1 页 2021年高考英语冲刺模拟试卷3 （上海） 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. A. The beach was closed as planned. B. She doesnt enjoy going to the beach. C. There wasnt enough food at the barbecue. D. They didnt have the barbecue due to the weather. 2. A. The doctor can see the man this week. B. Appointments must be made two weeks in advance. C. The man should call back on Friday. D. The doctor canceled his appointments on Friday. 3. A. The woman will have enough sleep this weekend. B. The woman should type the reports in the morning. C. The woman should rest before she begins typing. D. The woman will have to work day and night. 4.A. The man missed the turn. B. They need to turn up as planned. C. She doesnt know where State Street is. D. There was no left turn at the last crossing. 5. A. He wants to recopy his notes. B. He has already seen the movie. C. He wishes he could go to the movie. D. He plans to go to the movie tomorrow. 6. A. She prefers big bills when traveling. B. Shed rather take a credit card than cash. C. Its convenient to have cash on hand. D. Credit cards dont fit in her wallet. 7. A. Professor Brown hasnt finished grading the exams. B. She doesnt think Professor Brown will give an exam. C. Exams are usually given during the last week of classes. D. Professor Brown probably wont change the exam date. 8. A. They must buy something for her brother. B. There arent many posters to choose from. C. She wants the man to see the poster she bought. D. They promised to meet her brother at the gift shop. 9. A. He takes delight in fishing. B. He gets on well with Susan. C. He loves talking with Susans father. D. He met Susans parents last weekend. 10. A. Shed like to recommend a magazine to the man. B. Shes been sitting in the waiting room too long. C. Dr. Smith isnt a good choice for the man. D. Shes never been treated by Dr. Smith. 第 2 页 Section 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 the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage. 11.A. They should leave school at the age of 18. B. They can decide whether to go to school. C. They must learn a kind of handicraft. D. They will choose to go to university. 12. A. Different forms of tests. B. Repeated practice. C. Hands-on experience. D. Storytelling skills. 13. A. Methods of learning. B. Two education experts. C. One of our current schools. D. Principles in QI school. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14.A. She translated only those she was interested in. B. She removed the Russian touch from the novels. C. She translated quickly and made some mistakes. D. She produced too many translations in her life. 15. A. Kornei Chukovsky and Joseph Brodskys. B. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskys. C. Kornei Chukovsky and Larissa Volokhonskys. D. Richard Pevear and Joseph Brodskys. 16.A. He stuck to the original. B. He lengthened the story. C. He changed some plots. D. He omitted the war. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17.A. To collect money for some medical research. B. To recover from the loss of family members. C. To realize the dream of their parents. D. To become more physically fit. 18.A. She never tried running before. B. She found a running expert to train her. C. She stopped running if it rained. D. Gradually she ran about 15 to 20 km daily. 19. A. It might distract her while running. B. It helped her perform better in a race. C. It got her to be more motivated. D. It might annoy some other friends. 20. A. It was exhausting. B. It was rewarding. C. It was disappointing. D. It was unexpected. 第 3 页 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. One Friday morning, before Michael was leaving for work he told his wife that he had finally determined to ask his boss for a salary raise. All day Michael felt nervous and anxious as he thought about the upcoming showdown. (21) _____ if Mr. Duncan refused to grant his request? Michael had worked so hard in the last 18 months and brought some great benefits to Braer and Hopkins Advertising Agency. Of course, he deserved (22) _____ wage increase. The thought of walking into Mr Duncans office left Michael weak in the knees. Late in the afternoon he was finally courageous enough (23) _____ (approach) his superior. To his delight and surprise, the ever-frugal (一惯节 省的) Rowland Duncan agreed to give Michael a raise! Michael arrived home that evening(24) _____ breaking all city and state limitsto a beautiful table set with their best china, and candles lit. His wife, Cassie, had prepared a delicate meal (25) _____ (include) his favourite dishes. Immediately he thought someone from the office (26) _____( tip) her off! Next to his plate Michael found a beautiful lettered note. It was from his wife. It read: “Congratulations, my love! I knew youd get the raise! I prepared this dinner to show just how much I love you. I am so proud of your accomplishments!” He read it and stopped to think about (27) _____ sensitive and caring Cassie was. After dinner, Michael was on his way to the kitchen to get dessert when he observed that a second card had slipped out of Cassies pocket onto the floor. He bent forward to pick it up. It read: “Dont worry about not getting the raise! You (28) _____ deserve one! You are a wonderful provider and I prepared this dinner to show you just how much I love you (29) _____ _____ you did not get the increase.” Suddenly tears swelled in Michaels eyes. Total acceptance! Cassies support for him was not conditional upon his success at work. Often the fear of rejection (30) _____ (soften) and we can undergo almost any setback or rejection when we know someone loves us regardless of our success or failure. 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. Computer programs recognise white men better than black women Software that recognises faces has bounded ahead in recent years, aroused by a boom in a form of artificial intelligence called deep learning. Several firms now offer face recognition as a commercial service, via their __31__ clouds. The ability to recognise in faces such things as an individuals sex has improved too, and this is also commercially __32__. The algorithms __33__ have, however, long been suspected of bias. Specifically, they are declared to be better at __34__ white faces than those of other people. Until now, that suspicion has been unsupported by evidence. But next week, A. involved B.accurately C. present D. arises E. existing F. accuracy G. moderate H. available I. processing J. respective K. closely 第 4 页 at Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, a conference in New York, Joy Buolamwini of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will __35__ work which suggests it is true. Ms Buolamwini and her colleague Timnit Gebru looked at three sex-recognition systems, those of IBM, Microsoft and Facebook. They tested these on a set of 1,270 photographs of parliamentarians(国会议员) from around the world and found that all three classified lighter faces more __36__ than darker ones. All also classified males more accurately than females. IBMs algorithm, for example, got light male faces wrong just 0.3% of the time. That compared with 34.7% of the time for dark female faces. The other two systems had similar gulfs in their performances. Probably, this bias __37__ from the sets of data the firms concerned used to train their software. Ms Buolamwini and Ms Gebru could not, however, test this because those data sets are __38__ guarded. IBM has responded quickly. It said it had retrained its system on a new data set for the past year, and that this had greatly improved its __39__. When testing the new system on an updated version of the set of politicians Ms Buolamwini and Ms Gebru had used, the firm said it now achieved an error rate of 3.46% on dark-skinned female facesa tenth of that the two researchers had found using the __40__ system. For light-skinned males the error rate also fell, to 0.25%. 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 fact that people are no longer tied to specific places for functions such as studying or learning, says William Mitchell, a professor of architecture and computer science at MIT, means that there is “a huge drop in demand for traditional, private, enclosed spaces” such as offices or classrooms, and simultaneously “a huge rise in demand for semi-public spaces that can be informally appropriated to ad-hoc(革新的) work spaces”. This shift, he thinks, amounts to the biggest change in ___41___ in this century. In the 20th century architecture was about ___42___ structuresoffices for working, cafeterias for eating, and so forth. This was necessary because workers needed to be near things such as landline phones, fax machines and filing cabinets. The new architecture, says Mr. Mitchell, will “make spaces intentionally ___43___ ”. Architects are thinking about light, air, trees and gardens, all in the service of human connections. Buildings will have much more ___44___ shapes than before. ___45___ , people working on laptops find it comforting to have their backs to a wall, so hybrid spaces may become curvier, with more nooks (角落，凹处), in order to maximize the surface area of their inner walls. This “___46___” is what separates successful spaces and cities from unsuccessful ones, says Anthony Townsend, an urban planner at the Institute for the Future, a think-tank. Almost any public space can ___47___ some of these features. For example, a not-for-profit organization in New York has ___48___ Bryant Park, a once- abandoned but charming garden in front of the citys public library, into a hybrid space popular with office workers. The parks managers noticed that a lot of visitors were using mobile phones and laptops in the park, so they installed Wi-Fi and added some chairs with fold-able lecture desks. The idea was not to distract people from the flowers but to let them ___49___ their little bit of the park. The academic name for such spaces is “third places”, a term originally coined by the sociologist Ray Oldenburg in his 1989 book, “The Great, Good Place”. At the time, long before mobile technologies became widespread, Mr. Oldenburg wanted to ___50___ between the sociological functions of peoples first places (their homes), their second 第 5 页 places (offices) and the public spaces that ___51___ safe, neutral and informal meeting points. As Mr. Oldenburg saw it, a good third place makes admission free or cheapthe price of a cup of coffee, sayoffers creature comforts, is within walking distance for a particular neighborhood and draws a group of ___52___ . As more ___63___ places pop up and spread, they also change entire cities. Just as buildings during the 20th century were specialized by ___54___ , towns were as well, says Mr. Mitchell. Suburbs were for living, downtowns for ___55___ and other areas for playing. But urban nomadism makes districts, like buildings, multifunctional. Parts of town that were monocultures, he says, gradually become “fine-grained mixed-use neighborhoods” more similar in human terms to pre-industrial villages than to modern suburbs. 41. A. developmentB. architectureC. technologyD. purpose 42 A. specialized B. detailedC. outstandingD. unusual 43. A. attractive B. cooperativeC. multifunctionalD. agreeable 44. A. variedB. dynamicC. artificialD. patterned 45. A. In addition B. For instanceC. On the contraryD. Meanwhile 46. A. orientation B. divisionC. flexibilityD. simplicity 47. A. justifyB. convertC. ruinD. assume 48. A. manufacturedB. transformedC. introducedD. expanded 49. A. customize B. overlookC. superviseD. review 50. A. judgeB. balanceC. chooseD. distinguish 51. A. serve asB. originate fromC. differ fromD. integrate into 52. A. third-parties B. architectsC. competitorsD. regulars 53. A. leisureB. publicC. appealingD. third 54. A. functionB. interestC. organizationD. block 55. A. entertaining B. workingC. socializingD. gathering 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) Teresa Freding met Annie virtually through way of Facebook. She was in the midst of opening up a new local preschool, but was set back after discovering she had to install a very expensive fire alarm system. “She Annie learned of this and without ever even meeting me, she said, Were going to get through this! I was so moved by the attitude of we in her words,” says Freding. Thanks to KidsCycle, $1,000 was raised that went to the preschools fire alarm system. Another time, a KidsCycle member reached out that a friend lost everything in a fire. The KidsCycle community sprung into immediate action. “The children were the same size as mine and I started filling bags with clothes and toys,” says Crysdale. “My 5-year- old daughter asked what I was doing, and when I explained what it would be like if we had a fire, she started collecting items too and asking if I thought the baby would like this.” 第 6 页 Recently, a family posted that their young son was diagnosed with leukemia. The boy was no longer able to share a bed with his sibling because of his weakened immune system. The family mentioned that they were looking to purchase a new bed. “Within an hour, the page was filled with hundreds of comments from members donating beds, bedding, clothes, money for medical bills, etc,” says Kristin Belkofer. “The family was overwhelmed with gratitude.” Its small, simple acts like these that speak for KidsCycles generous and kind spirit. Most of the time its strangers helping other