上海市闵行区2021届高三下学期质量调研考试（二模）英语试卷含答案

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闵行区 2020 学年第二学期高三年级质量调研考试英语试卷

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. A bank officer. B. A policeman. C. A lawyer. D. A delivery man.

2. A. Unpleasant atmosphere. B. Terrible food.

C. Slow service. D. Unacceptable price.

3. A. Cloudy. B. Clear. C. Rainy. D. Overcast.

4. A. Work in groups. B. Give presentations.

C. Turn in their homework. D. Check their answers.

5. A. Depressed. B. Uncertain. C. Sad. D. Relived.

6. A. Make a medical appointment. B. Give the man a ride.

C. Buy the man some medicine. D. Take the man to the hospital.

7. A. To participate in a skiing race. B. To apply for a new job.

C. To begin a new career. D. To sell the house in Italy.

8. A. He’ll accept the job. B. He is busy on Sunday.

C. He will not work on Sunday. D. He will turn down the offer.

9. A. Differences in customs. B. Differences in pronunciations.

C. Differences in words. D. Differences in accents.

10. A. He knows very little about John. B. John doesn’t deserve the promotion.

C. John should earn more money. D. He doesn’t care for the news.

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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. Dogs become tired out. B. Cats are very happy.

C. Dogs feel enjoyable. D. Cats get injured easily.

12. A. They misunderstand each other. B. They are worried about their behaviors.

C. They enjoy exactly the same hobbies. D. They wave their tails too often.

13. A. Dogs are good at hunting animals. B. Dogs don’t like cats naturally.

C. Cats usually like playing with dogs. D. Dogs and cats can possibly live in harmony.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Record studios. B. Individual persons. C. Social media. D. Live concerts.

15. A. They should start their career on their own.

B. They should get advice from the talented musicians.

C. They should use online stages fully to become noticeable.

D. They should seek cooperation with recording companies.

16. A. Comparison of musicians living at different ages.

B. Advice for those who want to stand out in music career.

C. The development of music styles at present.

D. People’s different attitudes toward different musicians.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. It’s not big enough. B. It’s out of their budget.

C. There is no garden. D. The kitchen is too small.

18. A. It’s within the price range. B. It’s spacious for the family.

C. It’s in bad conditions. D. It’s ideally located.

19. A. The unacceptable rent. B. The inconvenient location.

C. The noise around. D. The incomplete equipment.

20. A. Go on looking for an apartment. B. Decorate their new apartment.

C. Move to the basement suite. D. Buy new furniture.

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.

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving, walking,

shopping, even sitting in toilets. (21) ______ connected electronically, they are away from physical reality.

People (22) ______ (influence) to become technology addicted. One survey reported that “addicted” was the

word most commonly used by people (23) ______ (describe) their relationship to iPad and similar devices.

One study found that people had a harder time

(24) ______ (resist) the temptation of social media than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their products, not

to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. I see people (25) ______

(trap) in a pathological ( 病态的) relationship with time-consuming technology, (26) ______ they serve

technology more than technology serves them. I call this technology servitude (奴役). I am referring to a loss of

personal freedom and independence (27) ______ ______ uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that

eat up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my life?

That is what we need to ask (28) ______ if we are to have any chance of breaking up false beliefs about the use of

technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology for a day or a week, then we can regain

control and personal freedom, become the master of technology and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of

technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that “too much of a good thing is wonderful.” (29) ______ it’s time to

discover that it does not work for technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that “we can be swept away by our

technologies.” To break the grand digital connection, people must consider (30) ______ life long ago could

be fantastic without today’s overused technology.

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.

A. potential B. limitless C. attached D. initial E. promotion F. appeal

G. expand H. equal I. recognition J. threaten K. practice

Celebrity (名人) has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be

crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity 31 to

any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost

abandoned the 32 of putting models on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a

result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market 33 , moving from advertising for others’

products to developing their own.

Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon, but in the past, they were typically aimed at

the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose

products enjoy 34 fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by

celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they try

to 35 their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.

However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer 36

. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities, it begins to

resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the 37 attention dies down, consumer interest

might fade, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.

Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever,

but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep is likely to

38 to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no

problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s (自我的) potential for expansion is

39 . Having already achieved great wealth and public 40 , many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be

conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last

only a short time, but fashion—like celebrity—has always been temporary.

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.

Many things happen when people are ageing. Apart from the greying hair and wrinkled skin, there is a(n) 41

change which comes with older age. When humans reach their later years, they favour more long-term 42 and

their social circle is reduced.

Now, for what appears to be the first time, scientists have seen the same 43 in another species. Twenty

years of observations of chimpanzees ( 猩猩 ) reveal that older males choose to keep contact with their 44

friends at the expense of other relationships.

The researchers studied 78,000 hours of observations made between 1996 and 2016 that followed the social

45 of 21 male chimpanzees between the ages of 15 and 58 years old. They classified the chimps ’ 46 depending

on the amount of time they sat with others and groomed (梳毛) them. They then rated (分类) the various pairings

as mutual (相互的) friendships, where both chimps seemed to enjoy the relationship; 47 friendships, where one

chimp was more keen to be friends than the other; and non-friendships, where neither chimp showed 48 the

other.

When the scientists looked at the 49 of friendships, they found that the older chimps had more mutual

friendships and fewer one-sided friendships than younger chimps. Another 50 seen in older humans was also

spotted in the chimps. As the males got older, their levels of 51 gradually become less, meaning they started

fewer fights and tended to threaten others in their group less often.

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