2026-2027学年上海市建平中学高三第一学期10月月考英语试卷

建平中学2026学年第一学期10月教学质量检测 高三英语试卷 说明：考试时间为 105分钟，总分 115分 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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. Computers have learned to make us jump through hoops The other day I had to log into a service I hadn’t used before. Since I was a new user, the website decided that it needed to check I wasn’t a robot and so set me a Captcha test to determine whether the user is a person or a machine. I was presented with an image of a roadside scene over which (1)________(lay) a grid (网格）. My “challenge” was to click on each cell in the grid that contained a traffic sign. I did so and then I was presented with another image and another grid — also with a request to identify road signs. (2)________a lamb, I followed the instructions, after which the website accepted my input. And then I realized what I had been doing was adding to a dataset for training the machine-learning software that guides self-driving cars. So, (3)________(gain) access to an automated service that will benefit financially from my input, I first have to do some unpaid labor to help improve the performance of autonomous vehicles. Neat, eh? But note also the delicious additional irony (4)________the Captcha is described as an “automated Turing test”. The Turing test was conceived as a way of enabling humans to determine whether a machine (5)________respond in such a way that one couldn’t tell whether it was a human or a robot. So we have wandered into a world in which machines make us do tricks to prove that we are humans! (6)________(strange) aspect of this unparalleled shift is how under-discussed it has been. The metaphor of the boiling frog comes to mind. Have we become subtly conditioned by digital technology (7)________ ________we don’t see what’s been happening to us? Have we been conditioned to accept a world governed by “smart” tech, trading convenience to the point (8)________we become a bit like machines ourselves? The answer is “yes”. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. Technology is supposed to provide tools that serve our ends. But, as the machine-learning Captcha demonstrates, a significant proportion of digital tech now sees humans as means to ends that are not (9)________. In the process, they reduce us to the status of cheery rats (10)________(run) on treadmills(踏车) designed by people who do not have our interests at heart. 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. communicate B. conservative C. divorce D. echo E. fix F. intended G. like-minded H. owed I. philosophy J. resonant K. risk Have you ever felt out of place at a party or profoundly misunderstood by a colleague, friend, or partner? This feeling of being unable to convey your ___11___ information is what psychologist Carl Jung referred to when he said that loneliness comes not from being alone, but from being “unable to ___12___ the things that seem important to you.” While such a failure to connect is sometimes ___13___ to poor social skills, there are also other reasons. The specific experience — of feeling separate and alone in one’s thoughts and experiences despite having the capacity to share them — is known as epistemic loneliness (认知型孤独). Psychologists define epistemic loneliness as the inability to share “the richer mental aspects” of one’s life. To put it another way, it strikes when a person’s unique cognitive world —formed by their specific abilities and deep intellectual interests — finds no ___14___ in others. This is the profound frustration of being mentally “all dressed up but with nowhere to go”. A musician composing a new piece, an educator polishing their teaching ___15___, or a researcher analyzing groundbreaking data all ___16___ this loneliness when their intellectual excitement is met with disinterest from those around them. The frustration of such intellectual ___17___ is profound, yet a genuine connection is possible. For instance, my conversation with an English professor proved to be ___18___and meaningful. This published poet and pianist and I discussed the idea of making complex ideas and experiences something more easily understood by our students, clients, and readers. Because we built bridges to meet one another via shared experiences and backgrounds (I am also a musician who is familiar with music theory, and we are both educators), cognitive isolation was not experienced that evening. This is not to say that being cognitively connected with others is the only ___19___ to this type of loneliness. Everyone has thoughts, stories, and experiences to share, and as both a nonprofessional and a helping professional, I am happy to hear them. But not everyone in our lives is willing or able to share their thoughts in response to ours. Therefore, a(n) ___20___ other, or someone who “gets” it or “gets” us, goes a long way toward eliminating this specific kind of loneliness. 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 World Cup paradox The theme tune of the men’s World Cup exemplifies the contest’s claim to foster global unity. Nearly half the world is expected to ___21___ over the coming weeks as the tournament moves towards its final. A viewer might come away with two conclusions. First, that entertainment culture is more ___22___ than ever. Second, that America remains the soft-power superpower at the centre of it all. Both assumptions would be ___23___. Mega-events like the World Cup still seize global attention. But the bigger picture is that entertainment is ___24___. From music to television to social media and gaming, audiences are tuning out of American content and embracing ___25___ from closer to home. There is an emerging paradox: even as the world becomes more connected, people are choosing more local forms of fun. Even as billions tune in to a single show in North America, the American-led monoculture (一元文化) is fading. This local turn is the ___26___ of what many predicted. Global entertainment platforms and the mobile-app stores give people everywhere access to the same music, video and games. The biggest winners have been a lopsidedly (不平衡地) American elite of megastars and brands. The biggest sports leagues have ___27___ in value along with them. But below the top tier, entertainment is fragmenting. Sport has always been a(n) ___28___ globaliser, because people prefer to watch their local team. America’s National Football League earns 98% of its media-rights revenue at home. Every four years the world comes together for the World Cup and the Olympics. ___29___, fans are mainly obsessed with domestic contests. Other kinds of culture have long been more globalised, often thanks to America. But now this seems to be ___30___. Music charts are becoming more local: in Brazil, an extreme case, 96 of the 100 most-streamed artists last week were Brazilian. Cheaper production and distribution have caused a ___31___ in the supply of local entertainment. Today, producing and distributing new entertainment—whether songs, videos or games—is cheap enough for it to be profitable to target much smaller niches(小众). The ___32___ has also changed. A growing global middle class has made it ___33___ for Netflix to make big-budget shows tailored to Mexican subscribers, or for the developers of “Free Fire” to devise Bollywood themes for Indian gamers. Governments will need to adapt to the changing dynamics of soft power. America’s century of ___34___ over global popular culture is over. All eyes will be on America for the World Cup final next month. But it is a(n) ___35___ force in a new game of soft power that has only just kicked off. 21. A. log in B. turn up C. tune in D. check out 22. A. commercialized B. digitized C. globalised D. standardized 23. A. interpreted B. mistaken C. confirmed D. generalized 24. A. splitting up B. taking off C. wearing off D. stepping up 25. A. innovations B. conventions C. proposals D. alternatives 26. A. similarity B. orientation C. strategy D. opposite 27. A. diversified B. collapsed C. rocketed D. fluctuated 28. A. reluctant B. ideal C. aggressive D. consistent 29. A. Likewise B. Moreover C. Therefore D. Otherwise 30. A. progressing B. reversing C. deteriorating D. mounting 31. A. transition B. boom C. gap D. drop 32. A. recreation B. location C. audience D. distribution 33. A. worthwhile B. insignificant C. accountable D. impractical 34. A. argument B. dominance C. concern D. preference 35. A. dividing B. driving C. declining D. unifying 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 read. (A) For millennia starry nights have guided navigators, confused astronomers and inspired painters. But they are becoming a rarer sight. At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe. A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year. With so many places flooded with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness. Many became starry-eyed during the pandemic. Confined to their homes, people took to gazing at the cosmos. (It helped that lockdown contributed to a drop in light pollution in lots of places.) Some turned to social media—and online communities such as “SpaceTok”—for information. Once restrictions lifted, these hobbyists planned their trips accordingly. The forecasts for companies offering “astrotourism” are anything but cloudy. In 2024 a survey by Booking.com, a travel website, found that 62% of people were interested in destinations with limited light pollution. To meet the demand for “cosmic escapism”, some hotels now provide access to telescopes and in-house astronomers. Others are offering star-bathing and moonlit meditation. Because the best stargazing requires seclusion(清净), astrotourism is a boon to remote areas that do not usually appeal to tourists. Dark Sky International, a non-profit, certifies(认证) parks and reserves with the best night-time conditions. It has seen a substantial increase in the number of applications in the past three years, growing from 16 in 2023 to 28 applications in the first half of 2026 alone. Al Ula, in the Saudi Arabian desert, is going big on astrotourism by building a state-of-the-art observatory and luxury stargazing lodges. John Barentine, an astronomer in Arizona, says there is an opportunity for rural places where industries such as mining have declined. Such trips appeal because they offer a stillness that is hard to find in much of the modern world, where “we have turned night into day in the places we live and work,” as Ruskin Hartley, Dark Sky’s director, puts it. Stargazing also encourages feelings of wonderment, which are in short supply. Studies have found that those who look up report a greater sense of well-being; feelings of awe are linked to lower stress levels and a sense of quietness. Some credit the recreation with giving them a greater sense of perspective. As Oscar Wilde once wrote: “We are all in the gutter (阴沟), but some of us are looking at the stars.” 36. What led to the rise of interest in stargazing during the pandemic? A. A dramatic drop in light pollution. B. Being confined to their houses. C. The information about stars shared on social media. D. The promotion of stargazing trips by travel agencies. 37. What does the underlined word “boon” in Paragraph 4 most probably mean? A. A good opportunity that brings great benefits. B. A campaign that promotes moonlit meditation. C. A disadvantage that restricts development. D. An industry that is subject to environment. 38. If you plan to take a stargazing trip, which spot will you most probably choose? A. A natural reserve with a great popularity for its scenery. B. A luxurious city hotel with state-of-the-art telescopes. C. A remote desert without the impact of artificial light. D. A rural place with its industrial production progressing fast. 39. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. Looking at the star is rare because people spend their days facing the harsh realities of the gutter. B. Stargazing allows people to find beauty and meaning beyond the noise of the everyday world. C. People respond to the adversity of life by seeking feelings of wonderment in various pastimes. D. The pursuit of inner peace and new perspectives drives people to look up and escape from the gutter. （B） Getting into computer science is challenging but exciting. If you like solving tech problems and creating with computers, there are great contests that can prove how good you are and help you take your computer skills to a higher level. Bebras Bebras is a computing competition where each participant gets 45 minutes to answer 15 multiple-choice questions on computational and logical thinking. Students complete the challenge at school, and they can track how their computer science skills grow over time. * Eligibility requirements: Any teacher can sign their students up for the competition and students from all backgrounds are welcome to join the competition. * Prizes: Your teacher can print certificates with your level of achievement. Congressional App Challenge In this computer science competition, individual students or groups of up to four design an app. The app can be created using any programming language and platform, and it can be on any theme or topic. * Eligibility requirements: You must be a middle or high school student in a participating district. Prizes: Winning apps are qualified to be displayed in the US Capitol. Winners are also invited to attend a reception on Capitol Hill and may be awarded additional sponsor prizes. International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) Each country sends a group of four students, who compete individually, to the two-day international competition. American students must win the USACO competition to be chosen to participate. * Eligibility requirements: You must be a secondary school student who wins your national competition. * Prizes: IOI officially only gives medals to the winners. However, the real prize is being able to write down “IOI winner” when you apply to a college, which will give you a big advantage in most top Science, Technology. Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) college programs. USA Computing Olympiad (USACO) This well-known and well-regarded competition tests skills in areas such as programming problems that can be solved using various programming languages. Following the three online contests, students advance to the national “US Open” competition. From these results, the top 24 or so scorers are invited to a training camp in the early summer. At the end of the camp, the top four participants are invited to attend IOI. * Eligibility requirements: You must be a middle school or high school student in the US. *Prizes: Top four participants go on to compete at IOI. 40. What can be learned from the passage? A. Students do not need strong programming skills to take part in most of the competitions. B. Winning a computer science competition can guarantee admission to a top STEM college. C. Students taking part in the Congressional App Challenge are encouraged to work as a team. D. The four competitions offer students certificates or medals to recognize their achievements. 41. Which of the following student is most likely to meet the requirements for the Congressional App Challenge? A. Lucy, a high school student in a participating US district who wants to develop an app with three classmates. B. Jack, a secondary school student who wants to improve an existing app with his peers. C. David, a middle school student who wants to compete individually in programming contests. D. Emma, a primary school student who wants to create an app using her favorite programming language. 42. Where can you most probably read this passage? A. In a guide to extracurricular activities for high school students. B. On a leaflet for students who are interested in computer science. C. In an academic journal on the latest developments in computer science. D. In a university brochure promoting a computer science programme. (C) Organizations and societies rely on fines and rewards to restrain people’s self-interest in the service of the common good. The threat of a ticket keeps drivers in line, and the promise of a bonus inspires high performance. But incentives(激励，刺激) can also backfire, diminishing the very behavior they’re meant to encourage. A generation ago, Richard Titmuss claimed that paying people to donate blood reduced the supply. Economists were skeptical, citing a lack of empirical evidence. But since then, new data and models have prompted a sea change in how economists think about incentives—showing, among other things, that Titmuss was right often enough that businesses should take note. Experimental economists have found that offering to pay women for donating blood decreases the number willing to donate by almost half, and that letting them contribute the payment to charity reverses the effect. Dozens of recent experiments show that rewarding self-interest with economic incentives can backfire when they undermine what Adam Smith called “the moral sentiments.” The psychology here has escaped blackboard economists, but it will be no surprise to people in business: When we take a job or buy a car, we are not only trying to get stuff—we are also trying to be a certain kind of person. People desire to be respected by others and to be seen as ethical and dignified. And they don’t want to be taken for suckers. Rewarding blood donations may backfire because it suggests that the donor is less interested in being altruistic(利他主义的) than in making a dollar. Incentives also run into trouble when they signal that the employer mistrusts the employee or is greedy. Close supervision of workers coupled with pay for performance is textbook economics—and a prescription for sullen(闷闷不乐的) employees. Perhaps most important, incentives affect what our actions signal, whether we’re being self-interested or civic-minded, manipulated or trusted, and they can imply—sometimes wrongly—what motivates us. Fines or public sharp criticism that appeals to our moral sentiments by signaling social disapproval (think of littering) can be highly effective. But incentives go wrong when they offend or diminish our ethical sensibilities. This does not mean it’s impossible to appeal to self-interested and ethical motivations at the same time—just that efforts to do so often fail. Ideally, policies support socially valued ends not only by harnessing self-interest but also by encouraging public-spiritedness. The small tax on plastic grocery bags enacted in Ireland in 2002 that resulted in their virtual elimination appears to have had such an effect. It punished offenders monetarily while conveying a moral message. 43. What can we learn from the first two paragraphs? A. People are more willing to donate blood when they are allowed to receive financial rewards. B. Titmuss’s claim about blood donation was widely accepted by economists when it was first proposed. C. Economic incentives may sometimes discourage the very behavior they are intended to promote. D. Businesses have long recognized the negative effects of economic incentives on moral behavior. 44. The small tax on plastic grocery bags in Ireland is mentioned to show that _____. A. incentive policies by the government are more effective B. monetary punishments usually have moral implications C. good policies can combine economic restrictions with moral guidance D. plastic-bag taxes have become popular environmental measures across Europe 45. The text intends to tell us that _____. A. businesses might as well put economic incentives to fuller play B. money is not everything, and instead, there is always something else C. people’s good deeds can only be motivated by moral education rather than fines D. incentives may go wrong when they are in conflict with the moral sentiments 46. Which of the following is the most suitable title for the passage? A. Economic Incentives: When Rewards and Punishments Backfire B. Moral Sentiments: The Key to Building a Better Society C. Financial Rewards: An Effective Way to Change Human Behavior D. Self-interest and Public Spirit: Two Conflicting Human Motivations Section C Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. The most notable is that editors are required to remain neutral, presenting different perspectives without judging their truth. B. As a result, Wikipedia has been criticized for being open to editing by anyone. C. Like most Utopian thinking, the idea of an amateur encyclopedia was, for many years, treated as a bit of a joke. D. Changing that is believed to be vital to the health of a project whose idealism remains undimmed. E. With over 20bn page views a month, it has become the standard reference work for anyone with an internet connection. F. Wikipedia is built on the expectation that collaboration among users will improve articles over time. Wikipedia: From Doubt to Success Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible. Wikipedia is the most popular reference site on the internet, receiving tens of millions of hits each day. ________47_________ Even now, after numerous academic studies had highlighted its reliability, Wikipedia still lacks the gravity and authority of older encyclopedias like the Encyclopedia Britannica, which are written by paid academic experts. Wikipedia may not have conquered its doubters in theory, but it has triumphed (获胜) in practice. ______________48______________ As social media sites are criticized for censorship (审查制度), “fake news” and disinformation, its reputation is higher than ever. One explanation may be deliberate decisions. Wikipedia compares well with other reference works when it comes to honest mistakes. Other reasons are structural. The site’s open nature and its popularity help ensure that errors in well-read articles are usually spotted and fixed quickly. Wikipedia’s not-for-profit structure means it can focus on the interests of readers and editors without having to consider the demands of advertisers. The site is also unusual in that it is run by humans, not algorithms. Almost all visitors may edit Wikipedia’s content, and registered users can create new articles and have their changes instantly displayed. However, it has a set of policies identifying types of information appropriate for inclusion. ___________49____________ Katherine Maher, the Wikimedia Foundation’s executive director and CEO, estimates around 80% of Wikipedia’s editors are male, and skewed (偏向的) towards North America and Europe. ______________50______________ “Our vision is a world where every single human being can share in all knowledge,” Maher says. III. 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. Take Control of Our Own Life Who’s in control of your life? Who is pulling your strings? For the majority of us, it’s other people—society, colleagues, friends, family or our religious community. We learned this way of operating when we were very young. Of course, we were brainwashed. We discovered that feeling important and feeling accepted was a nice experience and so we learned to do everything we could to make other people like us. As Oscar Wilde put it, “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” So when people tell us how wonderful we are, it makes us feel good. We long for this good feeling like a drug—we are addicted to it and seek it out wherever we can. Therefore, we are so eager for the approval of others that we live unhappy and limited lives, failing to do the things we really want to do. Just as drug addicts and alcoholics live worsened lives to keep getting their fix (一剂毒品), we worsen our own existence to get our own constant fix of approval. But just as with any drug, there is a price to pay. The price of the approval drug is freedom—the freedom to be ourselves. The truth is that we cannot control what other people think. People have their own agendas, and they come with their own beliefs and, in the end, they’re more interested in themselves than in you. Furthermore, if we try to live by the opinions of others, we will build our life on sinking sand. Everyone has a different way of thinking, and people change their opinions all the time. The person who tries to please everyone will only end up getting exhausted and probably pleasing no one in the process. So how can we take back control? I think there’s only one way—make a conscious decision to stop caring what other people think. We should guide ourselves by means of a set of values—not values imposed from the outside by others, but innate values which come from within. If we are driven by these values and not by the changing opinions and value systems of others, we will live a more authentic, effective, purposeful and happy life. IV. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 尽管遭到强烈反对，委员会仍坚持认为这项提案值得采纳。（proposal） 53. 他对科学痴迷不已，自大学毕业以来一直坚定不移地探索科学前沿。（so…that） 54. 面对突如其来的暴雨，市长没有自乱阵脚，而是有条不紊地指挥大家避险。（direct v.） 55. 其实他知道朋友们打算偷偷为他庆祝生日，但当大家突然进来时，他还是装出一副很惊讶的样子，以免扫了大家的兴。（fake v.） V. Guided writing Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 56. 假设你是海平中学高三毕业生李明，你所在的社区将在暑假开设面向小学生的日间托管服务(day care)，现招募社区高中生志愿者，要求每一位志愿者能根据自己的特长开设一门微课程。请写一封应聘信（信中请不要出现真实的个人信息），信的内容须包括： 1）你准备开设的微课程的名称和主要内容； 2）你开设这门微课程的理由。 建平中学2026学年第一学期10月教学质量检测 高三英语试卷答案 1. was laid 2. Like 3. to gain 4. that 5. could 6. The strangest 7. so that 8. where 9. ours 10. running 11-20 FAHDI KCJEG 21-35 CCBAD DCADB BCABC 36-39 BACB 40-42 ACB 43-46 CCDA 47-50 CEAD 51. 参考范文： Most of us depend on others’ approval to feel good and accepted to such an extent that we even addicted to it. Seeking continuous recognition costs us the freedom to be ourselves. Besides, since others’ opinions are constantly changing, it is pointless to try to please everyone. To regain control, we should follow our inner values rather than outside views. (60 words) 52. 尽管遭到强烈反对，委员会仍坚持认为这项提案值得采纳。（proposal） Despite strong opposition, the committee still insisted that the proposal was worth adopting/worthy of adoption/deserved to be adopted. 53. 他对科学痴迷不已，自大学毕业以来一直坚定不移地探索科学前沿。（so…that） He is so fascinated by science that he has always been determined to/ he has determined to explore the frontier(s) of science since his graduation from university. that he has been exploring the frontier(s) of science with great determination since he graduated from university. 54. 面对突如其来的暴雨，市长没有自乱阵脚，而是有条不紊地指挥大家避险。（direct） Faced with the sudden heavy rain, the mayor stayed calm /did not panic/lose his head; instead, he directed everyone to move to safety/take shelter in an orderly manner/ in an organized way. 55. 其实他知道朋友们打算偷偷为他庆祝生日，但当大家突然进来时，他还是装出一副很惊讶的样子，以免扫了大家的兴。（fake v.） He actually knew that his friends (had) planned to/were planning to secretly celebrate his birthday/planning a surprise birthday party for him, but when everyone suddenly walked/came in, he still faked surprise/a surprised look so as not to let them down/spoil the fun/be a wet blanket. for fear of disappointing them. for fear that they might/should be disappointed. in case they were/should be disappointed. 2 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $