2025届上海市崇明区高三二模英语试题

2024学年第二学期高三第二次模拟考试

英语

（考试时间105分钟, 满分115分。请将答案填涂在答题纸上）

I. 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.

Baby Hippo (河马) in Thailand Gets Official Song for Worldwide Fans

A baby hippo in Thailand became famous earlier this year when zoo workers published images and videos of her online. Now the pygmy hippo (侏儒河马), named Moo Deng, has an official song and video released _____1_____ several languages for her fans worldwide.

Moo Deng lives at Khao Kheow Open Zoo, southeast of the Thai capital, Bangkok. Zoo worker Atthapon Nundee _____2_____ (post) sweet moments of the animal's life for the past few months. During that time, the hippo has received widespread attention on social media. Fans of the animal have expressed _____3_____ they enjoy watching the pink-cheeked baby actively interact with her mother and other zoo workers.

Moo Deng — which means “bouncy pork” in Thai — is a kind of meatball. The name, chosen by fans on social media, is similar to _____4_____ of her two brothers: Moo Toon (stewed (炖制的) pork) and Moo Waan (sweet pork). Moo Deng’s popularity has spread internationally and she has gained the attention of some professional sports teams. Fans say her name fits her lively personality. Moo Deng likes to “deng” or bounce, and her bouncing behavior has led to countless internet memes (表情包).

The widespread publicity led a well-known Thai composer _____5_____ (write) a special song for Moo Deng. The lively 50-second song, called, naturally, Moodeng, _____6_____ (release) by one of Thailand’s biggest recording companies. GMM Music last week. A music video _____7_____ goes along with the song shows the baby hippo bouncing around, playing with her keeper, or spending time with her mother, Jona.

Moo Deng is now four months old. Officials estimated the baby hippo has brought in about 3,000 to 5,000 visitors a day on average _____8_____ it became popular online. The zoo has been selling clothes, bedding and other products based on Moo Deng. The zoo’s director, Narongwit Chodchoi, said the additional earnings from Moo Deng will help the zoo’s _____9_____ (breed) programs for many endangered animals, like the pygmy hippo,

which is threatened by illegal hunting and loss of habitat. Pygmy hippos are native to West Africa, but experts say there are only 2,000-3,000 of them ______10______ (leave) in the wild.

All four versions of the Moo Deng song are available online.

Section B

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. cultivate      B. dependence       C. generating         D. insufficient      E. learnable F. predictor      G. quitting          H. restriction          I. underlying        J. widespread K. wind

The Importance of Willpower

No matter what your goals are in life, willpower is of great importance. Willpower is also of critical importance for behavioral change. Whether you’re ___11___ a bad habit, trying to get in shape,  or struggling with procrastination (拖延症), you’ll need willpower. Of course, I’m all about using strategies to reduce our ___12___ on willpower, but you cannot remove the need for willpower entirely.

A steady, disciplined use of willpower might seem like a(n) ___13___ of personal freedom, but it is not. If ___14___ willpower leaves you a slave to bad habits and addictions, then you’re not really free. If you can’t gather the willpower to overcome procrastination and earn a better life for yourself, then you’re not really free. To ___15___ true freedom, you’ll need willpower.

Importantly, research has shown that self-control is ___16___. When researchers teach people with poor self-control the strategies used by those with high self-control, the poor self-control subjects improve. Willpower is not fixed; it can be developed through strategy and practice.

People who learn to master willpower become active agents in life, and discover that they are response-able in every situation. And this applies to their behaviors as well as their emotions. Walter Mischel described self-control as “the ‘master talent’ ___17___ emotional intelligence, essential for constructing a satisfying life.”

It’s hard to find anyone who says that willpower doesn’t matter. Yet, despite the ___18___ agreement about how important willpower is, there is very little agreement in the scientific community about how willpower actually works.

Walter Mischel is the man behind the famous “marshmallow (棉花软糖) test” and the author of a book by the

same name. His research appeared to show that young children with high self-control ___19___ up doing better as high schoolers and adults, but more recent research has proved this finding wrong, showing that the willpower levels of young children are not a good ____20____ of later success.

This makes sense because the prefrontal cortex — the area of the brain responsible for willpower — is poorly developed in young children and doesn’t finish developing until early adulthood

II. 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 daughters, but not the sons, of women who give birth at age 30 or older are more likely to experience symptoms of depression as young adults, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Tearne, a doctoral student at the University of Western Australia and lead author of the study, and her colleagues analyzed data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study. Pregnant (怀孕的) women were selected into this study, and provided psychological ___21___ . Their offspring (子女) then underwent psychological ___22___ at various ages over the next 23 years.

In this study, the researchers ___23___ self-reported levels of various symptoms of depression, anxiety and stress from 1,200 of the offspring at age 20 and compared them with the age of the mother and father at the time the children were born. Daughters whose mothers were over age 30 at the time of ___24___ had significantly higher levels of stress, depression and anxiety compared with daughters whose mothers were under age 30. However, the fathers' age at that particular time had no effect, and there was no effect found for ___25___ .

While the exact cause of this relationship is not clear, Tearne said she suspects it is not necessarily ___26___ .

“One hypothesis (假设) is that ___27___ may occur in the mother-daughter relationship because of a large age difference between the two,” said Tearne. “It may be that a 30 or more year age difference between mother and daughter leads to a significant difference in the ___28___ systems. That may cause ___29___ in the relationship, leading to stress, worry and sadness in the child, particularly during the transition to young adulthood.”

Another possible ____30____ may be that the women who gave birth over age 30 would be in their 50s at the time their children were assessed. Therefore, they are more likely to be experiencing health problems associated with ____31____ . This could also lead to higher levels of ____32____ in the children, Tearne said. Other studies