上海宜川中学2025-2026学年第二学期4月阶段练高三英语试题

宜川中学2025学年第二学期阶段练 高三英语 考生注意： 1．本考试设试卷和答题纸，答案写在答题纸上，写在试卷上无效。 2．答题前，考生务必在答题纸上清楚填涂班级、姓名和准考证号。 3．本试卷共9页，考试时间120分钟，试卷满分140分。 I. Listening Comprehension Section A Short Conversations 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 tickets will sell out quickly. B. There will be extra tickets at the rock concert. C. The rock concert will probably be rescheduled. D. Each person will be allowed to buy only one ticket. 2. A. Board the train. B. Send a fax. C. Change his departure time. D. Have breakfast. 3. A. He doesn’t need a haircut. B. The woman should cut his hair again. C. The woman previously cut off too much of his hair. D. He wants the woman to cut his hair extremely short. 4. A. The man has too many keys. B. The same thing happened to her. C. The man often misplaces his keys. D. The manager took the man’s keys. 5. A. She doesn’t like seafood. B. She has to practice her speech. C. She thinks the restaurant is too expensive. D. She will accompany the man to the restaurant. 6. A. Leave the wallet where she found it. B. Try to find out who the wallet belongs to. C. Keep the wallet until someone comes looking for it. D. Get the attention of the person who dropped the wallet. 7. A. His cousin arrives on Sunday. B. The program begins on Sunday. C. He’ll meet the woman on Saturday. D. They could watch the program on Sunday. 8. A. She forgot the plate had been broken. B. She didn’t realize the plate had been broken. C. She can’t help the man look for another plate. D. She doesn’t want the man to replace the plate. 9. A. He doesn’t know where the museum is. B. The woman can take a bus to the museum. C. The woman should wait in front of the museum. D. There’s only one bus that travels down Main Street. 10. A. They won’t arrive late. B. She’d like to take a later flight. C. She isn’t afraid to travel alone. D. They should leave for the airport immediately. Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked three 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. To change students’ approach to writing. B. To point out an example of good writing. C. To give an assignment for the next class. D. To review material covered in an earlier lecture. 12. A. To correct spelling and grammar. B. To make smooth shifts between ideas. C. To add more specific details and examples. D. To improve overall effectiveness. 13. A. They will develop a negative attitude toward long papers. B. They will become more interested in keeping diaries. C. They will make a habit of revising their papers. D. They will become inspired to write poetry. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. To display newly acquired samples. B. To make use of the latest technology. C. To reflect changes in scientific theory. D. To create space for a temporary exhibit. 15. A. It had aggressive tendencies. B. It is connected to modern birds. C. It was the largest dinosaur (恐龙). D. It usually dragged its tail on the ground. 16. A. They ate only water plants. B. They are from the same time period. C. They share similar physical features. D. They lived in a hot and wet climate. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Membership in a cooperative store. B. Shopping in the supermarket. C. The benefits of health food. D. The current cost of food. 18. A. Lowering its prices. B. Changing its membership rules. C. Opening up more checkout lines. D. Selling more household necessities. 19. A. Work regularly for it. B. Avoid junk food. C. Attend monthly meetings. D. Buy cleaning supplies there. 20. A. To save money on food. B. To buy food without additives. C. To do all his shopping in one place. D. To meet other health-conscious people. 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. … And Big Leaps While traditional manufacturers slowly add semiautonomous features, Tesla, a relatively young auto-manufacturer, is taking an approach (21) ________ seems more aggressive. Last year, an update to the software in one of its models added the ability to operate (22) ________ “auto-pilot”: The car mostly drives itself, but the driver can take over if, for example, the car attempts to exit the freeway by itself — as it did during some runs soon after (23) ________ (introduce) last year. Each time a driver intervenes (干预), Tesla registers the correction in its software, which (24) ________ (share) with all the other cars. The idea is (25) ________ over time, the cars will get better at driving. Tesla’s autopilot occupies a regulatory gray area, since updates to a car’s software (26) ________ (not require) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s approval — though that could change as the agency rules catch up with technology. Ford or GM would likely never have put a system never (27) ________ (test) before into service. However, Tesla’s tech-forward customers seem willing to take the risk, (28) ________ ________ those of us who have to share the road with them would rather they didn’t. A couple of years ago, Tesla updated its software again to add a way to “summon (召唤)” your car. The car can turn (29) ________ on, open the garage door, and meet you in the driveway like an automotive butler. For now, the feature is meant (30) ________ (use) only on private property, but Tesla promises Knight Rider-style summoning in the future: Your car will greet you at the airport when you return from a trip or read your calendar and know where to pick you up after a meeting downtown. 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. appreciate B. consequences C. emotional D. habits E. hold F. outbursts G. overlooked H. quieten I. stuck J. sweet K. unfulfilling How to tell if you’re living with ‘quiet stress’ The term “quiet stress” is gathering pace among experts. According to them, it’s an often 31 form of the more widely known version, which is characterized by visible 32 swearing, shouting, and anger. “We quiet 33 our stress within: we don’t speak up about how we actually feel, because of which we become inactive. We stay in unhappy relationships and 34 jobs. We feel overwhelmed, yet ignore important tasks. Quiet stress creates a form of emotional paralysis (麻痹) that keeps us 35 in unhappy situations,” says Jillian Lavender, who runs the London Meditation Centre. Cary Cooper, a professor of psychology and health at the University of Manchester, compares the effects of quiet stress to shrapnel (散弹): “You can learn to 36 your stress responses, but eventually the stress will emerge: as well as an immune system that stops working well, you may withdraw socially, isolate yourself and begin to engage in unhealthy 37 like comfort eating or drinking too much. Despite getting a bad reputation over the years, expressing anger of frustration is far healthier than smiling 38 while feeling quietly stressed. A recent study from Stanford University in the US backs this theory up. The researchers found that seeing stress as a helpful part of dealing with life’s challenges, rather than as something to be avoided, was associated with better health, 39 wellbeing and productivity at work. “Stress isn’t always harmful,” said Kelly McGonigal, a business school lecturer at Stanford who worked on the study. “Once you fully 40 that going through stress makes you better at it, it can be easier to face each new challenge.” 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 UN’s Millennium Development Goals included the ambition that by 2015 all the world’s children would complete primary school. This has largely been 41 : nine out of ten children are now enrolled. Alas, the figure is not as 42 as it sounds. Even though most of the world’s children go to school, an awful lot of them learn pretty much nothing there. According to a recent World Bank study of seven sub-Saharan African countries, half of nine-year-olds cannot read a simple word and three-quarters cannot read a simple sentence. The reason is   43   teaching. The same study found that only 7% of teachers had the minimum knowledge needed to teach reading and writing effectively. When classrooms were 44 to see whether a teacher was present, half the time the answer was no. Several recent studies suggest ed-tech can help. It seems to bring about bigger 45 in poor countries than in rich ones. In a study of a range of measures in poor countries, like smaller class sizes and pay rise for teachers, tech had the biggest 46 . Some of the scarce resources being spent on teachers could 47 be better spent on ed-tech. That does not mean dumping computers on schools in the hope that children will understand how to use them, a foolish act on which plenty of money has been 48 . Instead, it means providing schools with software that children can use with   49   help from an adult, that gets things right more often than the teachers do, that adjusts itself to the child’s ability, and that sends teachers hints about what they are supposed to be teaching. Critics may wonder whether the 50 places have the necessary infrastructure (基建). But Africa is electrifying apace — in Kenya, electricity coverage has gone up from 27% to 55% of households in three years. Where electricity is not available, solar chargers can work. Schools do not 51 internet access. Devices can be taken to where there is a connection to upload or download the necessary information. 52 does not have to be a huge problem either. Tusome (“let’s read” in Kiswahili), one of the most successful schemes, costs around $ 4 per child per year in Kenya, where it is being rolled out across public primary schools. The biggest issue is the government’s 53 : where it is enthusiastic, the chances of success are good. Technology is not a cure for all. Good traditional teachers are not 54 , and are never likely to be. And authorities need to hold teachers to account. But ed-tech can help greatly — by monitoring pupils and teachers alike, assisting the best teachers and, most important, 55 the failings of the worst. 41. A. revealed B. forgotten C. achieved D. promoted 42. A. correct B. familiar C. typical D. impressive 43. A. effective B. terrible C. moral D. specific 44. A. inspected B. required C. blamed D. organized 45. A. withdrawals B. procedures C. improvements D. conditions 46. A. share B. chance C. effect D. price 47. A. additionally B. likewise C. namely D. therefore 48. A. raised B. wasted C. donated D. spared 49. A. minimal B. instructional C. professional D. considerable 50. A. newest B. farthest C. roughest D. poorest 51. A. limit B. need C. monitor D. doubt 52. A. Equipment B. Perception C. Demand D. Cost 53. A. commitment B. announcement C. objective D. proposal 54. A. knowledgeable B. unnecessary C. unwilling D. critical 55. A. making up for B. living up to C. sorting out D. insisting on 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) A Welsh restaurant has handed back its Michelin star, with the owners saying they rejected the award because they wanted to focus on putting family first. Stéphane Borie, Sarah Francis and Kathryn Francis, owners of the Checkers restaurant in Montgomery, Powys, announced they had returned the star rating — regarded as the pinnacle for any restaurant — before publication of the 2019 edition of the Michelin Guide on 1 October. Sarah Francis and her husband, Stéphane Borie, have three young children while Kathryn Francis has two. “I don’t know how we’ve done it for all these years,” said Sarah Francis. “It has been a joy to have the star and the most amazing news when we got it. It was great for trade and brilliant for the town. But more for us, it’s about taking the business in a new direction and putting our family first. It means we can work in the day and have our evenings to ourselves.” The restaurant will relaunch in November as Checkers Pantry, and will open for breakfast and lunch with drinks and cakes available throughout the day. Borie will continue to cook at the Checkers. The Checkers first appeared in the Michelin guide in 2011. Sarah Francis said: “We’ve loved getting it, loved keeping it and always nervous every year as to whether we were going to be in the guide. So to give it back was a big decision but the sensible one.” A top French restaurant, Le Suquet, withdrew from the listings last year, having held a three-star rating for nearly two decades. The chef (主厨) Sébastien Bras said he no longer wanted to cook at his restaurant under the “huge pressure” of being judged by the inspectors. Michelin said it was the first time a French chef had asked to be dropped from its restaurant guide in this way. In September, the British celebrity chef Marco Pierre White reportedly said he did not want to give Michelin guide inspectors permission to visit his new restaurant in Singapore. Simon Wright, restaurateur, food writer and former AA food guide editor, said decisions such as that by the Checkers were “often a reflection of the enormous pressure and additional expectation that comes with a Michelin star”. 56. The word “pinnacle” is closest in meaning to “_____”. A. valued devotion B. unexpected outcome C. least worthwhile effort D. most successful part 57. Why did the owners of the Checkers restaurant decide to return its Michelin star? A. To focus more on dessert. B. To expand its business overseas. C. To have more time with the family. D. To divide the profits between themselves. 58. What did Sarah Francis say about their decision? A. They disagreed on it. B. It was a wise decision. C. It was a wrong decision. D. They regretted it soon. 59. According to the passage, why has more than one restaurant handed back the Michelin star? A. It is stressful to get and keep it. B. The star fails to benefit them as expected. C. The inspectors are too strict. D. More and more restaurants are qualified (B) African elephants These beautiful beasts come close to imitating teen rebellion. Kids spend a decade with their mothers in female-dominated groups — and ladies stay there — but adolescent boys leave mom for noisy crews of brothers. In their 20s, they often downsize to smaller male groups. Orangutans Slow metabolisms (新陈代谢) allow them to survive food shortages — times when weather makes ripe fruit scarce. But energy efficiency comes at a cost: growth and maturation take time. Orangutan mamas nurse their young longer than any other wild creature does. Orcas Killer whales join their mother’s familial group for life. This forever-bond seems to increase a baby’s chance of survival; if mom dies, a young male (under 30) is three times more likely to die than a peer whose mother is alive. Risk of death post-mom-death rises as kids get older. Humans Why do we take so long to bake? Our big brains need up to 25 years to mature — a period that might make us more innovative. One study of teens and young adults found that youths outperformed their older generations in tasks requiring exploration and adaptation. Harp seals A harp seal’s “childhood” lasts just 12 days. A baby’s only purpose during that brief period of growing is to constantly nurse, gaining a fifth of its birth weight in blubber (鲸脂) every day. Once it’s heavy enough — its weight increasing about 25 to 80 pounds — it slides off the ice and takes on the sea. Wolf spiders Every parent knows that tired kids love to take a piggyback ride. The wolf spider straps all her youngins (40 or 50, on average) onto her back at once, carrying them until they are capable of fully functional spider-hood. But luckily she only has to carry them for a few days. 60. Which of the following are likely to live with their families for the longest time? A. African elephants. B. Orangutans. C. Orcas. D. Humans. 61. What do orangutans and humans have in common? A. Both are good at surviving food shortages. B. Both need a relatively long time to mature. C. Both get more intelligent than old generations. D. Both are able to slow down their metabolisms. 62. Which of the following statements is true of harp seals? A. Their childhood lasts even shorter than wolf spiders’. B. Their weight generally ranges from 25 to 80 pounds. C. They can gain about six pounds each day before they go to the sea. D. They usually nurse each other during the first 12 days of their life. (C) At the start of nearly every doctor’s visit, chances are you will be asked to step on a scale and get your weight measured for that day’s exam record. But many conversations around weight have become an obstacle, not a help, in the campaign to make people healthier. Higher body masses are associated with increased risk for diseases like hypertension, diabetes and coronary disease. Many studies of hundreds of thousands of patients have shown that heavier people are at higher risk for these illnesses. But the big picture is not the whole picture. Researchers have identified a subset of obese people considered to be “metabolically healthy” — meaning they do not exhibit elevated blood pressure or the diabetes indicator called insulin resistance, for example. Although the numbers vary greatly depending on the study, the “metabolically healthy” population could account for anywhere from 6 to 75 percent of obese individuals. One interesting report published in 2016 found that a higher body mass index (or BMI, the ratio of weight to height) “only moderately increased the risks for diabetes among healthy subjects” and that unhealthy thin people were twice as likely to get diabetes as healthy fat people. Clearly, there is more to the equation than weight. Despite such findings, doctors routinely recommend dieting for weight loss as a means to “treat” poor health indicators such as high cholesterol and insomnia in fat patients. Virtually no diet works in the long term. The result: 95 to 98 percent of those who attempt to lose weight fail, and up to two thirds end up heavier than when they began. Spending years trapped in a cycle of losing weight, regaining it, then losing it again is associated with poorer health outcomes. It is time that doctors give up the scale-centric health care practice and focus on behaviors that have proven positive outcomes for health. Among the more dangerous by-products of weight-centric health care are the increased shame experienced by the overweight. The well-reported anecdotal experience of innumerable fat people is that doctors often prescribe weight loss without examining them, running tests or performing other normal procedures for conditions that thin people would be screened for automatically. Research over the past two decades has shown that health professionals have negative attitudes toward fat people, as the authors of a large review paper wrote in 2013 in Current Obesity Reports. Not only that but doctors’ appointments with fat patients are shorter on average, and physicians routinely use negative words in their medical histories of such people. Such practices keep people from regular annual exams and prevent the detection of serious underlying conditions. To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors should stop relying on weight alone as an indicator of health. Instead practitioners should focus on behavioral changes to improve health outcomes. 63. By “the big picture is not the whole picture” (paragraph 2), the writer means that ______. A. there are some exceptions B. more evidence should be presented C. some health risk has been neglected D. people don’t care much about health 64. Why does the writer mention the report published in 2016? A. To call attention to those who are thin but unhealthy. B. To explain what “moderately increase” means in real life. C. To argue against BMI being used as an indicator of fatness. D. To show that weight may not be associated with poor health. 65. What can be inferred from the passage about fat people? A. Most of them worry about their weight. B. Some of them aren’t diagnosed correctly. C. They need at least one exam every half year. D. They don’t follow doctors’ recommendations. 66. What is the main idea of the passage? A. Weight-watching health care is common but may do harm. B. More care should be taken of those overweight people. C. Fat people are sometimes treated unfairly in society. D. It’s time that we should be more health-conscious. Section C Directions: Complete the following passage by using the sentences given below. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. I felt that I had taught them some big lesson about the earth. B. I grew up spending summers at my grandparents’ farm. C. I read in my wild-edible field guide that they taste like mango. D. I’ve taught my kids to do the same. E. It has been revolutionary to be outside, in the suburbs. F. It wasn’t a stretch to capitalize on my children’s instincts to explore their world and to eat from it. Where the Wild Things Are in the Suburbs I grew up spending summers at my grandparents’ farm, on the eastern shore of Maryland. I used to pick wild blackberries, catch a dinner of blue crabs, and run between the rows of the tall corn plants. I knew what wild garlic looked like; when the figs (无花果) on the fig trees were ready to eat, I ate them. 67 “They’re so sweet, Mom,” they tell me. But instead of teaching my kids about that landscape, I decided to instill in them a love of the land where they live. Suburbia is not as obviously lovable as tidewater country, but I was determined to practice PBL — place-based learning. That’s a thing in education. I looked it up. So we went to the abandoned parking lot near the dead mall and looked for dandelion (蒲公英) greens, which make a delicious bitter spring salad. We dug with sticks on the road being paved for Wegmans grocery store. My ten-year-old found some colourful rocks. They inspired him to start a rock collection. “This is cool, Mom,” he said.   68 They inherited both from early man. So I’ve been teaching them to search, the way my mother taught me and her mother taught her, all the way back to my ancestral people, the old-country mushroom hunters of Alsace. In the fall, I took my kids to stands of chestnut (栗子) trees and showed them how to get out the edible nuts. We came home with full bags, and I made sweet chestnut puree (糊), which we ate with a big spoon, like a homemade chocolate jam. 69 The beauty of it. That it, rather than supermarkets, sustains them. That they should have appreciation for all the parts of the living soil.   70 We simply walk, observe, feel the dirt under our feet, and occasionally bring home something we harvested with our own hands. The kids smiled with pride of place. IV. Summary Writing Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize in no more than 60 words the main idea of the passage and how it is illustrated. Use your own words as far as possible. A Star Is Made If you examined the birth certificates of every soccer player in a World Cup tournament, you would find an unusual tendency: expert soccer players are more likely to have been born earlier in the year than later. If you then examined the European national youth teams that supply many World Cup players, this tendency would be even more noticeable. In recent English teams, for instance, half born in January, February or March. In Germany, fifty-two were born in the first three months, with just four players born in the last three. What might account for this? Anders Ericsson, a psychology professor at Florida State University, and his colleagues therefore began studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, from soccer and surgery to piano playing and software design. They’ve come to a rather surprising conclusion: practice really does make perfect. What we call “talent” is highly overrated, as expert performances are nearly always made, not born. The research also suggests that when it comes to choosing a life path, you should do what you love. People often give up trying to do things they don’t like, telling themselves they simply don’t possess the talent. But what they really lack is the will to succeed and to put in the deliberate practice that would make them better. The insights of the researchers can explain why so many expert soccer players are born early in the year. Since youth sports are organised by age group, teams have a cut-off birth date. In the European youth soccer leagues, the cut-off date is December 31. So when a coach is assessing two players in the same age group, one born in January and the other in December, the player born in January is likely the bigger, stronger, more mature. Guess who the coach will pick. He may be mistaking maturity for ability but once chosen, those January-born players are the ones who, year after year, receive the training that will turn them into expert players. V. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72．在他看来，值得投资的是体验，而不是物品。（it） 73．事实证据越具体，论点就越有说服力。（The more …） 74．这个应用程序的开发者没有将用户的实际需求考虑在内，因此很快就无人问津了。（account） 75．借着汽车产业的发展势头，这家公司不断拓展国内外市场，但困扰也随之显现。（with which） VI. Guided Writing Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 假如你是明启中学的高三学生李华，你的朋友Jack邀请你一同制定毕业后的暑假计划，请从他提供的计划清单中选择你所心仪的一个。给他写封邮件，内容需包含： 1．你的选择 2．你的理由及如何执行该计划 ·参加山区支教志愿服务 ·去祖国各地走走 ·学习技能，如驾驶、乐器演奏、视频剪辑等 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $