上海市格致中学2025-2026学年高三上学期10月月考英语试卷

高三年级 英语试卷(共11页) (测试105分钟内完成，总分115分，试后交答题卷) 友情提示：昨天，你既然经历了艰苦的学习，今天，你必将赢得可喜的收获! 祝你：诚实守信，沉着冷静，细致踏实，自信自强，去迎接胜利! I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 语法填空 New way of detecting oxygen on exoplanets could help find life The search for oxygen on other planets outside of our solar system, called exoplanets, is thought to be an aid in the search for life outside of Earth. Now, astronomers ___1___ (develop) a new method for detecting oxygen on exoplanets, according to a new study published Monday. The scientists believe their new method could speed up the search for life by making ___2___ easier to tell if individual exoplanets could host life on their surfaces by looking at their atmospheres. For example, if an alien species was searching for life outside of their planet, one of the ways they ___3___ tell Earth hosted life is because of the presence of biosignatures, such as oxygen. Individual organisms like plants on Earth produce oxygen ___4___ photosynthesis. The new method will rely on detecting the strong signal ___5___ (create) when oxygen molecules collide in the atmospheres of exoplanets. The method will be used by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ___6___ will be able to peer into the atmospheres of exoplanets and search for this signal. The telescope will launch later and take a closer look at mysterious exoplanet targets already identified by previous planet-hunting missions such as NASA’s Kepler and TESS. This unique signal produced by oxygen molecule collisions could actually help astronomers decide ___7___ the planet hosts life or not. Once this determination ___8___ (make), they can quickly move on in the search. “Before our work, oxygen at similar levels as on Earth was thought ___9___ (be) undetectable with Webb,” said Thomas Fauchez, lead study author at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “This oxygen signal is known since the early 1980s from Earth’s atmospheric studies but has never been studied for exoplanet research.” The collision of the oxygen molecules is key ___10___ they block infrared (红外线的) light from the telescope, creating patterns in the spectrum (光谱) that help determine the composition of the atmosphere. To create their method, the researchers calculated the amount of light expected to be blocked out by the collisions. 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. A. literally B. barrier C. Eventually D. find E. examines F. features G. innovations H. mean I. professional J. striking K. well-positioned The Best Company to Work For Every year, Fortune magazine published a list of the ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’. How does the magazine choose the companies? Firstly, it uses a survey: 350 employees answer 57 questions about their company. Secondly, Fortune looks at important ___11___ of companies: for example, pay, benefits, and communication between workers and management. Finally, the magazine ___12___ the results to find its Top 100. Wegmans Food Markets, which ranks No. 1 on the list, has a motto (座右铭), ‘Employees first, customers second’, and it is also one of the 50 largest private companies in the US, with annual sales of $3.6 billion, according to Forbes magazine. Apparently, being good to your employees is no ___13___ to making money. How much of Wegmans’ success is due to the company’s policies? ‘Up to a point, the success is because of the freedom they give us,’ says one employee. ‘On the other hand, no company gets rich just by not being ___14___ to its employees. Wegmans has great marketing strategies and it’s ___15___ within the community. I’ve been here for 15 years. Looking back, I’d say that the company’s ___16___ for customers, such as the Shoppers’ Club electronic discount programme in the 1990s, have been just as important as the benefits to staff. ’ But the employee benefits are ___17___. Fundamentally, Wegmans believes in ___18___ development. As well as scholarships, the company gives its employees business opportunities. For years, one employee made delicious cookies for her colleagues. ___19___, she started selling the cookies in Wegmans. ‘I just asked the manager,’ she says. ‘While looking back, I think should have asked earlier. I could have made more money!’ The staff’s freedom to make decisions is another thing you won’t ____20____ everywhere. Essentially, Wegmans wants its workers to do almost anything to please the customers. Believe it or not, an employee once cooked a Thanksgiving turkey in the store for a customer because the woman’s turkey, bought in Wegmans, was too big for her oven. 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. “Britain moves closer to a self-driving revolution,” said a message from the Department for Transport that popped into my inbox on Wednesday morning. The purpose of the message was to let us know that the government is changing the Highway Code to “____21____ the first self-driving vehicles are introduced safely on UK roads” and to “clarify drivers’ responsibilities in self-driving vehicles, including when a driver must be ready to ____22____ control”. The changes will specify that while travelling in self-driving mode, motorists must be ready to resume control ____23____ if they are prompted to, such as when they approach motorway exits. They also signal a puzzling ____24____ to current regulations, allowing drivers “to view content that is not related to driving on built-in display screens while the self-driving vehicle is in control”. Reassuringly, ___25___ , it will still be illegal to use mobile phones in self-driving mode, “given the greater risk they pose in distracting drivers as shown in research”. As usual, the announcement comes coated in ____26____ optimism. It claims selfless-driving is all happening “while boosting economic growth across the nation and securing Britain’s place as a global science superpower”. But what ____27____ is this self-driving capability that is being enabled by our local superpower? Turns out it’s ALKS, which is an acronym (首字母缩略词) for “automated lane keeping systems”, an interesting technology that “enables a vehicle to drive itself in a single lane, up to 37 mph, while ____28____ the ability to return control easily and safely to the driver when required”. Wow! Now for a(n) ____29____ check. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) defines six levels of driving automation, ranging from 0 (fully ____30____) to 5 (fully autonomous). Level 1 is where the car has a single system for driver assistance. Adaptive cruise control, where the vehicle is kept at a safe distance behind the next car, is a(n) ____31____, because the human driver monitors the other aspects of driving, such as steering and braking. Level 2 is “____32____ driving automation”. The car can control both steering and accelerating/decelerating. But it ____33____ self-driving because a human sits in the driver’s seat and can take control of the car at any time. So what the government calls ALKS is actually a slightly ____34____ version of Level 2 automation, because it’s confined to speeds of 37 mph or less. But to talk about this Level 2 automation as “self-driving” is quite a stretch, even for the Johnson government. We may one day get to Level 5 — to vehicles that do not require ____35____ and won’t even have steering wheels or acceleration/braking pedals. But it won’t happen just yet. 21. A. deny B. ensure C. argue D. prove 22. A. hand over B. rely on C. take back D. give up 23. A. in a timely way B. on a regular basis C. by a useful means D. at a long interval 24. A. limit B. solution C. approach D. shift 25 A. however B. otherwise C. therefore D. besides 26. A. cautious B. renewed C. false D. considerable 27. A. seemingly B. potentially C. exactly D. theoretically 28. A. abandoning B. enhancing C. maintaining D. questioning 29. A. reality B. performance C. endurance D. risk 30. A. manual B. automatic C. equipped D. grown 31. A. exception B. downside C. example D. outcome 32. A. partial B. full C. gradual D. virtual 33. A. comes up with B. lives up to C. falls short of D. zeros in on 34. A. updated B. initial C. standard D. degraded 35. A. regular maintenance B. human attention C. autonomous operation D. great intelligence Section B Directions: Read the following two 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) Visitors to HENN-NA, a restaurant outside Nagasaki, Japan, are greeted by an odd sight: their food being prepared by a row of humanoid robots that look like the Terminator. H. I. S., the company that runs the restaurant, as well as a nearby hotel where robots check guests into their rooms and help with their luggage, turned to automation partly out of necessity. Japan’s population is shrinking, and its economy is booming; the unemployment rate is only 2.8 percent. “Using robots makes a lot of sense in a country like Japan,” said CEO Hideo Sawada. Sawada predicts that 70 percent of the jobs at Japan’s hotels will be automated in the next five years. “It takes about a year to two to get your money back,” he said. “But since you can work them 24 hours a day, and they don’t need vacation, eventually it’s more cost-efficient to use the robot.” This may seem like a vision of the future best suited—perhaps only suited—to Japan. But according to Michael Chui, a partner at the McKinsey Global Institute, many tasks in the food-service and accommodation industry are exactly the kind that are easily automated. Chui’s latest research estimates that 54 percent of the tasks workers perform in American restaurants and hotels could be automated using currently available technologies. The robots, in fact, are already here. Chowbotics, a company in Redwood City, California, manufactures Sally, a boxy robot that prepares salads ordered on a touch screen. Botlr, a robot butler, now brings guests extra towels and toiletries in dozens of hotels around the country. This seems to be worrying. America’s economy isn’t developing nearly as smoothly as Japan’s, and one of the few bright spots in recent years has been employment in restaurants and hotels, which have added more jobs than almost any other industry. That growth, in fact, has helped dull the blow that automation has delivered to other industries. The food-service and accommodation industry now employs 13.7 million American. Since 2013, it has accounted for more jobs than manufacturing. These new positions once seemed safe from robots because they required a human touch in a way that manufacturing or mining jobs did not. When ordering a coffee or checking into a hotel, human beings want to interact with other human beings — or so we thought. The companies bringing robots into the service industry are betting that we’ll be happy to trade our relationship with human waiters or clerks for greater efficiency. They’re also confident that adding robots won’t necessarily mean cutting human jobs. 36. According to the writer, why was it partly out of necessity that H. I. S. turned to automation? A. It’s hard to find employees in Japan. B. The Japanese are used to using robots. C. Robotic technology is advanced in Japan. D. Japan’s economy develops less fast than expected. 37. According to Michael Chui which of the following statements is true? A. It is no easy job to automate tasks in the hotel industry. B. Restaurant workers can be easily replaced by robots. C. Technologies need upgrading to pave the way for robotic waiters. D. Robots now perform 54% of the tasks in American restaurants and hotels. 38. Why does the automation in American restaurants and hotels seem worrying? A. The manufacturing industry is waiting to be automated. B. America’s economy is developing at an unexpected rate. C. Automation has already had a negative effect on the service industry. D. These two industries contribute much to America’s employment rate. 39. It can be inferred that companies bringing robots into the service industry think that ________. A. the human touch may not matter that much B. profit is more important than customer satisfaction C. manufacturing or mining jobs require human interaction D. robots will rob humans of their jobs at the cost of efficiency B For large print versions and access information, please ask at the Information Desk in the Great Court call +44 (0) 30 7323 8299, or visit britishmuseum.org Opening times Great Court Saturday — Thursday 09:00 — 18:00 Friday 09:00 — 20:30 Galleries and special exhibitions Saturday — Thursday 10:00 — 17:30 Friday 10:00 — 20:30 Please note that galleries start closing 10 minutes before the published closing times. The Museum is closed on 1 January, Good Friday and 24 — 26 December. Access Most galleries, events and facilities at the British Museum have level access including all the cafes and the restaurant. The locations of level access toilets are shown on the map, and lifts in the Great Court provide access to all adjacent floor levels. 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A leaflet distributed on the streets near the British Museum. D. The notice board at the entrance of the British Museum. 41. Which of the following statements is TRUE about access to the Museum? A. Wheelchairs can be borrowed and booked in advance with a deposit. B. Some major temporary exhibitions don’t provide large print information but audio description is available. C. The Museum provides curatorial-led handling sessions for blind and partially-sighted visitors if required. D. Visitors can borrow a multimedia guide and a sound enhancement system is available to support sign-interpreted tours. 42. If a family with two adults and three teenagers from the United States want to take part in the family activities of the Museum, they should pay attention to the following information EXCEPT one misleading piece that__________. A. the Museum is closed at Christmas and on New Year’s Day and Good Friday but not on school holidays B. families are allowed to touch the selected objects at the Hands-On desks in the Museum C. teenagers can sketch with pencil and take photos in selected galleries for their schoolwork D. all the backpacks and luggage should be deposited in the cloakrooms before entering (C) Most managers can identify the major trends of the day. But in the course of conducting research in a number of industries and working directly with companies, we have discovered that managers often fail to recognize the less obvious but profound ways these trends are influencing consumers’ aspirations, attitudes, and behaviors. This is especially true of trends that managers view as peripheral to their core markets. Experts from Harvard Business School give some advice to managers. One strategy known as ‘infuse and augment’, is to design a product or service that keeps most of the attributes and functions of existing products in the category but adds others that address the needs and desires unleashed by a major trend. A case in point is the Poppy range of handbags, which the firm Coach created in response to the economic downturn of 2008. The Coach brand had been a symbol of wealth and luxury for nearly 70 years, and the most obvious reaction to the downturn would have been to lower prices. However, that would have risked cheapening the brand’s image. Instead, they initiated a consumer-research project which revealed that customers were eager to lift themselves and the country out of tough times. Using these insights, Coach launched the lower-priced Poppy handbags, which were in bright colors, and looked more youthful and playful than conventional Coach products. Creating the sub-brand allowed Coach to avoid an across-the-board price cut. In contrast to the many companies that responded to the recession by cutting prices, Coach saw the new consumer mindset as an opportunity for innovation and renewal. A more radical strategy is ‘combine and transcend’. This involves combining aspects of the product’s existing value proposition with attributes addressing changes arising from a trend, to create a novel experience - one that may land the company in an entirely new market space. At first glance, spending resources to incorporate elements of a seemingly irrelevant trend into one’s core offerings sounds like it’s hardly worthwhile. But consider Nike’s move to integrate the digital revolution into its reputation for high-performance athletic footwear. In 2006, they teamed up with technology company Apple to launch Nike+, a digital sports kit comprising a sensor that attaches to the running shoe and a wireless receiver that connects to the user’s iPod. By combining Nike’s original value proposition for amateur athletes with one for digital consumers, the Nike+ sports kit and web interface moved the company from a focus on athletic apparel to a new plane of engagement with its customers. Once you have gained perspective on how trend-related changes in consumer opinions and behaviors impact on your category, you can determine which of our innovation strategies to pursue. Trends -- technological, economic, environmental, social, or political — that affect how people perceive the world around them and shape what they expect from products and services present firms with unique opportunities for growth. 43. The underlined word “peripheral” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to __________. A. marginal B. important C. subject D. relevant 44. According to the second paragraph, Coach was anxious to ________. A. follow what some of its competitors were doing B. maintain its prices throughout its range C. safeguard its reputation as a manufacturer of luxury goods D. modify the entire look of its brand to suit the economic climate 45. What does the writer suggest about Nike’s strategy? A. It was an extremely risky strategy at the time. B. it was a strategy that only a major company could afford to follow. C. It was the type of strategy that would not have been possible in the past. D. It was the kind of strategy that might appear to have few obvious benefits. 46. The best title for the passage is probably ______. A. Knowing more about your customers B. Making the most of trends C. Eyes on strategies D. Following the advice Section C Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences listed below. Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need. Chemical Waste Can Be Recycled into a Range of Drugs and Fertilizers More than 300 ways to convert widely available chemical waste into a range of drugs and fertilizers have been identified by a software program. The researchers behind the tool believe it will optimize the chemical industry and allow the recycling of by-products that would otherwise need to be stored. Bartosz Grzybowski at US software and chemistry company Allchemy and his colleagues used their software, also known as Allchemy, to look for useful products from 189 small molecules that are regularly created as by-products of large-scale industrial processes around the world. ___47___ The software created a vast database of all the possible combinations of chemicals and the processes that could be used to combine them. Running on a single high-end server, the program took about a month to calculate the hundreds of billions of combinations. These were then narrowed down to only those processes that led to the creation of drugs, fertilizers or other useful molecules. Grzybowski says that all of the discovered processes could eventually have been found by humans, but the vast scale of possible processes made them incredibly hard to spot. ___48___ However, Grzybowski says that his favorite result was an antibiotic that can be produced from lactate, which comes from waste plastic bottles, and phenol, a by-product of coalmining. “I was hoping to find aspirin or something, but it’s actually much more interesting than that,” he says. “It actually solves the problem of circular chemistry, pretty much in an exhaustive way.” ___49___ He says that this software works in the other direction: it takes a list of available resources and finds all the possible uses for them. “This chemistry is pretty straightforward. The difficulty is in spotting the opportunity.” he says. “The building blocks are very simple, but when you start talking about 200 waste molecules, within one step of combinations you have 40,000 options.” Grzybowski says he hopes that Allchemy will eventually lead to a “Tinder for molecules”. Chemical companies could put in details of all of their available waste products, other companies could list molecules they would like to have synthesized for a specific purpose, and third parties could bid to perform the waste-to-drug synthesis. ___50___ A. Among the discovered molecules were drugs to treat leprosy and heart disease. B. But something that’s developed in the lab needs to be translated in a profitable way into a large pilot scale. C. An additional 56 molecules that are commonly created from chemical waste during recycling processes were also included. D. Identifying uses for chemical waste in the lab is useful, but scaling up that process may be more difficult. E. Grzybowski had previously worked on projects to create new methods to synthesize specific molecules. F. This would reduce waste from the global chemical supply chain and perhaps also lower the cost of drugs and other products. IV. Summary writing 51. Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s)of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible. Fluido, a Texas-based analytics company, recently released its new product, called FluidoPlus for free. It connects retailers (零售商) to a cloud-based analytics service using WiFi. They then collect information about customers behaviour by monitoring the media access code (MAC) in every smart phone that enters the stores. This means that stores will be able to implement an analytics package to receive information that could help guide their marketing. With the information , store managers can measure the number of people who walk past the store and the number who come through the front door. Also, this information includes whether or not these people come in immediately or are convinced to do so by the shop front. Fluido Plus has received a lot of criticism from consumers concerned about their privacy being invaded. But Fluido assures that the MAC data is scrambled, which means that no personally identifiable information is collected. The company also points to the fact that Fluido is a part of the group that initiated the Mobile Location Analytics code of conduct. These sets of rules require companies to receive customers’ agreement before they can collect any personal information. Emily Carrless, a senior director at the NO Watching Please Co., believes that this technology ignores customers’ privacy. “This is a clear example of profit outweighing privacy, she said. “The use of tracking technology by shops in order to provide a better or more personal service seems totally disproportionate,” Carrless also stressed the importance of customer awareness. She said that while tracking technology was still developing, there was an obvious goal in mind to identify individuals. Companies like Fluido won’t stop at the general information like the number of customers who walk into stores. The long game is about identifying individuals, and this technologies is very close to enabling Fluido to do that. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ V. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 有时候，奖惩的发生与人为干预基本无关。(independent)(汉译英) ____________________________________________________________________________ 53. 这个三岁的小女孩把自己想象成大人，以照顾洋娃娃为乐。(imagine) 54. 对敬业的老师来说，没有什么比看到学生取得进步更让人欣慰的了。(there)(汉译英) ____________________________________________________________________________ 55. 笑声背后是泪水，影片既歌颂为理想而牺牲的精神，也致敬在现实中默默付出的普通人。(Behind)(汉译英) ____________________________________________________________________________ VI. Guided Writing 56. Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假设你是李平，高三新学期刚刚开始。请用英语给英国笔友Tom写一封信，内容包括： 1. 简述新学期学习与生活； 2. 讲述高三的学习计划或打算并说明理由； 3. 邀请对方分享近况。 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 高三年级 英语试卷(共11页) (测试105分钟内完成，总分115分，试后交答题卷) 友情提示：昨天，你既然经历了艰苦的学习，今天，你必将赢得可喜的收获! 祝你：诚实守信，沉着冷静，细致踏实，自信自强，去迎接胜利! I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 【1~10题答案】 【答案】1. have developed##are developing 2. it 3. could 4. through 5. created 6. which 7. whether 8. is made 9. to be 10. because##as##since Section B 【11~20题答案】 【答案】11. F 12. E 13. B 14. H 15. K 16. G 17. J 18. I 19. C 20. D 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. 【21~35题答案】 【答案】21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. A 26. D 27. C 28. C 29. A 30. A 31. C 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B Section B Directions: Read the following two 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) 【36~39题答案】 【答案】36. A 37. B 38. D 39. A B 【40~42题答案】 【答案】40. B 41. D 42. D (C) 【43~46题答案】 【答案】43. A 44. C 45. D 46. B Section C Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences listed below. Each sentence can only be used once. Note that there are two sentences more than you need. 【47~50题答案】 【答案】47. C 48. A 49. E 50. F IV. Summary writing 【51题答案】 【答案】Possible 1 Fluido released FluidoPlus, a product collecting information about customers by monitoring the MAC, thus helping analyzing their behavior to promote marketing. Fluido assures consumers of scrambled MAC and essential customers’ agreement. However, Carrless believes that Fuido prefers profit to privacy and it will identify individuals one day, so consumer awareness is important. Possible 2 Fuido recently released FluidoPlus, which helps retailers collect customer’s information by monitoring their MAC to guide their marketing. Additionally, managers can measure number customers and their hesitating thoughts. However, while consumer criticized their invaded privacy, Fluido assures the protection of personal information and agreement rules. Emily believes FluidoPlus ignores privacy and awareness, soon identifying individuals developing. Possible 3 FuidoPlus was invented to collect customers’ information about their behavior to help go the company’s marketing. But it has been criticized by consumers who are concerned about their privacy. Although the company assures that no personal information is collected and the restricts its collection, some people also disagree with FluidoPlus. FluidoPlus is now evolving for a further step. V. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 【52题答案】 【答案】Sometimes, reward or punishment are/is given out quite independent of human interference. 【53题答案】 【答案】The three-year-old girl imagined (herself) being an adult and took pleasure in## enjoyed taking care of dolls. 【54题答案】 【答案】For a devoted teacher, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing students make progress. 【55题答案】 【答案】Behind the laughter lies tears — the film celebrates the spirit of sacrifice for ideals, while honoring the ordinary people who give quietly in real life. VI. Guided Writing 【56题答案】 【答案】Dear Tom, How’s everything going lately? I hope you’re having a great time at school. The new semester of Senior Three has just started, and things are a bit busier than before. Every morning, I rush to class after a quick breakfast, and we have more practice papers in subjects like math and English. After school, I usually stay for an hour to review what I’ve learned, but I still make time to take a short walk to relax. For this crucial year, I’ve made a study plan. I’ll divide my time evenly between each subject — spending extra time on physics, which I’m weak in, by doing one extra exercise set every day. I also plan to read an English article every morning to improve my reading speed, since the college entrance exam requires quick and accurate understanding. How’s your school life going? I’m looking forward to your reply. Best wishes, Li Ping 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $