上海市高二年级上学期期末英语复习模拟卷03

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2022-2023 学年上海市高二年级上学期期末英语复习模拟卷
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学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
评卷人 得分
一、语法填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入 1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Are People Unique?
A considerable number of people consider other species on earth are somehow inferior
to us. Throughout the history, it has always been human beings’ pride____1____ we are the
only species on the Planet that can speak and think. However, recent research casts doubt on
that common belief.
Zuberbuhler, a psychologist at St. Andrews University, and his colleagues recorded
thousands of calls made by Diana’s monkeys and noticed that the monkeys adapted their calls
to change the meaning____2____(warn) one another about different situations. For example,
they made a krack alarm call at the sight of tiger. However, when they merely repeated calls
made by other monkeys they added an “oo”.
The researchers found that the same calls ____3____(recognize) by other species, like
Campbell’s monkeys.“So they are communicating across species. And since then we have
found that hornbill birds can understand these calls and they too can understand all the
different meanings.” said Zuberbuhler.
____4____ is also surprising is that signs of intelligence have been found in birds,
____5____ small brains were long assumed to be a complete barrier to intelligence. However,
all that is changing fast. A few years ago Irene Pepperberg of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology taught a parrot to recognize and count up to six objects, ____6____couldn’t have
been achieved if birds were unable to memorize things.
Last year, that was topped by Alex Kacelnik, a professor of behavioral ecology at
Oxford, who discovered that crows (G49) are capable of using tools on complex orders. This
was the first time that such behaviour ____7____ (observe) in non-humans. In an experiment
seven crows successfully grabbed a piece of food ____8____ (place) out of reach using three
different lengths of stick. Crucially, they were able to complete the task without any special
training, ____9____(suggest) the birds were capable of a level of abstract reasoning normally
associated only with humans.
All this is powerful evidence ____10____the idea that people are unique.
评卷人 得分
二、词汇填空
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be
used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A．timidity B．refused C．set D．episode E. effect F. suffered
G. amazed H. educational I. brief J. unteachable K. performed
An Experiment in EducationThe best programme on TV last night was the first
episode of a new series about education, and it was ____11____ on a farm. But this farm is
not for animals it’s for children. The farm has been converted into a school for one class of
difficult students. And it’s the job of one man to try and teach these students something in the
two weeks they are there.
The class is a group of 16 boys and girls aged 13 and 14, who have all been expelled(被
逐)from schools at least once. Their previous teachers said that they were “____12____” and
judging by their behavior in the programme last night, it isn’t hard to see why. The teacher
who has to deal with this class is 40-year-old Philip Beadle. Before working in education, Mr.
Beadle played in a rock band. He gave up music eight years ago to become teacher. At his
first school, he helped students who ____13____ learning difficulties to get the best English
marks the school had ever seen. As a result, he was made Schoolteacher of the Year.
In the programme last night, we saw the students have their first lesson with Mr. Beadle.
He started by playing a game, where he and the students pointed at each other and said
something funny about the other person. This might not sound very ____14____ but it caught
everyone’s attention. After that Mr. Beadle took his class outside for an English lesson. At
their previous schools, most of these students ____15____ to read in front of their classmates,
so Mr. Beadle took them to a filed to read to some cows to overcome ____16____. Each
student read a(n) ____17____ quote from a Shakespeare play to them and the students
seemed to enjoy it. In the next scene, Mr. Beadle took them to another field to teach them
basic punctuation. He did this through another game where he asked the students to jump
around clap their hands and shout. “question mark!” and “semicolon!” Everyone seemed to
enjoy this strange way of learning. By the end of the ____18____ the students were indeed
starting to accept their new teacher. Some of them even said he was “all right”.
I really enjoyed this show because the teacher had such a positive ____19____ on the
students. If, like me, you are ____20____ by this experiment in education, you will want to
the whole series. Personally, I can’t wait to see what happens next!
评卷人 得分
三、完形填空
In the college admissions war, we parents are the true fighters. We’re pushing our kids to
get good grades, take SAT preparatory courses and build resumes so they can get into the
college of their first choice. I’ve twice been to the wars, and as I survey the battlefield,
something different is happening. We see our kids’ college background as a ___21___
demonstrating how well we’ve raised them. But we are ___22___ to acknowledge that our
obsession is more about us than them. So we’ve come up with various ___23___ that turn out
to be half-truth’s prejudices or myths. It actually doesn’t matter much whether Aaron and
Nicole go to Stanford.
We have a full-blown prestige(声望) panic: we worry that there won’t be enough prizes
to go around. ___24___ parents urge their children to apply to more schools than ever. Behind
the hysteria is the belief that scarce elite degrees must be highly valuable. Their graduates
must enjoy more success because they get a better education and develop better contacts. All
that is ___25___ and mostly wrong. We haven’t found any convincing evidence that
selectivity or prestige matters. Selective schools don’t systematically employ better ___26___
approaches than less selective schools. On two measures - professors’ feedback and the
number of essay exams-selective schools do slightly worse.
By some studies, selective schools do ___27___ their graduates’ lifetime earnings. The
gain is considered at 2-4% for every 100-point increase in a school’s average SAT scores. But
even this advantage is probably a statistical coincidence. ___28___, a well-known study
examined students who got into highly selective schools and then went elsewhere. They
earned just as much as graduates from higher-status schools.
___29___ count more than colleges. Getting into Yale may ____30____ intelligence,
talent and ambition. But it’s not the only indicator and its ____31____ is declining. The
reason: so many similar people go elsewhere. Getting into college is not life’s only
competition. In the next competition - the job market and graduate school - the ____32____
may change. Old-boy networks are breaking down. Princeton economist Alan Krueger
studied admissions to one top Ph. D．program. High scores on the GRE helped explain who
got in; degrees from prestigious universities didn’t.
So, parents, ____33____. The risks have been vastly exaggerated. Up to a point, we can
rationalize our pushiness. America is a ____34____ society; our kids need to adjust to that.
But too much pushiness can be destructive. The very ambition we impose on our children
may get some into Harvard but may also set them up for ____35____. One study found that
all things being equal, graduates of highly selective schools experienced more job
dissatisfaction. They may have been so conditioned to being on top that anything less
disappointing.
21．A．prize B．potential C．degree D．surprise
22．A．ready B．reluctant C．anxious D．proud
23．A．possibilities B．advantages C．promises D．excuses
24．A．Ambitious B．Pleased C．Helpful D．Fearful
25．A．acceptable B．complicated C．questionable D．terrifying
26．A．investigative B．instructional C．psychological D．scientific
27．A．enhance B．define C．guarantee D．overestimate
28．A．In addition B．For example C．On the contrary D．As a result
29．A．Families B．Abilities C．Connections D．Environments
30．A．produce B．demand C．represent D．polish
31．A．requirement B．significance C．challenge D．reputation
32．A．conflicts B．targets C．results D．contacts
33．A．lighten up B．stay back C．hold on D．carry on
34．A．democratic B．competitive C．diverse D．mobile
35．A．embarrassment B．failure C．inferiority D．disappointment
评卷人 得分
四、阅读理解
A
It’s not always easy for wealthy people to decide who (or what) to leave their money to
when they die and quite a few of them make some very unusual choices.
Due to her vast wealth, New York hotelier Leona Heimsley was able to leave $12 m to
her dog, Trouble. The money for the dog’s welfare was left in the hands of Leona’s brother,
Alvin Rosenthal. He also inherited money from his sister, but amazingly he received $2m less
than the dog! Leona isn’t an exception. According to the Mail Online newspaper, there are
roughly 1.5 million people in the UK along who plan to leave money to their pets. However,
there are other extremely rich people who have very different ideas about who they should
leave their money to.
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, is rumoured to be worth over $54b and he’s decided
to leave the vast majority of this fortune to charitable causes. Of course, like most other
parents, he could have chosen to leave his money to his children, but he hasn’t. When talking
about his children’s inheritance he said, “It will be a minuscule portion of my wealth. It will
mean they have to find their own way. They will be given an unbelievable education and that
will be paid for. And certainly anything related to health issues we will take care of. But in
terms of their income, they will have to pick a job they like and go to work.
Anita Roddick (1942-2007), founder of The Body Shop, also decided that she didn’t
need to leave her money to her two daughters because they would be fine without it. She felt
there were too many people in the world who had nothing and who needed this money far
more than they did. She once told reporters that she was enjoying her money because
whenever she wanted to, she could give away millions of pounds to human rights and
environmental groups. Her fortune was said to be somewhere in the region of $50m. Some
people thought she should have left at least some of that money to her children — she needn’t
have given it all away. But that’s just what she did. ”I told my kids they would not inherit one
penny,“ she said, and to their great credit Anita’s daughters supported their mother’s decision.
Many people would have reacted very differently.
36．The writer mentions 1.5 million people in the UK (paragraph 2) to show that ________.
A．the population of the UK is smaller than other countries’
B．pets in the UK are luckier than those in other places
C．what Leona Helmsley did was not a rare case
D．rich people have different ideas about money
37．The word “minuscule” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to ________.
A．important B．unusual C．huge D．tiny
38．Bill Gates and Anita Rod-dick are similar in ________.
A．the way they deal with their money B．what their children think of them
C．the idea they have of the world D．how they made a fortune
39．The best title of the passage might be ________.
A．Money for children B．Rich but not generous
C．You can’t take it with you D．Wealthy people, strange hobbies
B
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