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复旦大学附属中学2024学年第一学期 高三年级英语学科12月第一次阶段性教学质量评估试卷 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. We're in this together During lockdown, Joe Wicks's online fitness classes were a huge hit. In fact, they have been viewed more than 70 million times. For many young people and adults, the fitness instructor's videos filled a gap when it was not possible to do organised team sports because of 1          is called lockdown. 2          it's possible to take part in team sports again, it's a good time to understand how they can improve wellbeing. What is a team sport? A team sport is an activity that requires individuals to play as a team, 3          (compete) against another team. Well-known team sports include basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and rugby. There are others too, like ultimate frisbee and even quidditch. Research by Sport England has found that team sports are the most popular organised activity 4          (enjoy) by under-16s. What are the benefits of playing a team sport? Playing a team sport can help you to develop self-confidence, as well as teaching you how 5          (work) alongside others. Emma Barnes is Football Development Manager at the Surrey Football Association (SFA), 6          organises junior football in the country of Surrey, in England. She said, "The teamwork skills you develop help a young person to interact with different people and also celebrate the achievements of teammates." Barnes also says losing a match can be good for you, "Learning to lose gracefully 7          (be) an important lesson." Another benefit of team sports is the relationships you build with teammates and coaches. You might develop a social circle outside of school, or form stronger friendships with schoolmates, 8          of which can be really positive. What if I prefer activities 9          my own? Some people prefer individual sports, such as cycling, swimming and dancing. If that's you, don't worry. Individual sports are a great form of exercise and are good for helps you to be active, reduces the risk of major illnesses and releases feel-good chemicals. However, it's worth 10          (keep) an open mind because you might want to try a team activity alongside your individual sport. 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. accomplished B. count C. encounter D. engage E. focus F. interactions G. reactions H. recommended I. represented J. self-serving K. takeaways Feel Happier Today When I learned that the most popular course in the history of Yale University--a psychology class designed to teach students how to become happier--was available online to anyone who wanted to take it, I was curious to see what Yale professor Laurie Santos 11         . Santos's online course consists of 19 hours of video lectures and I spent three months digesting what she had to offer. Here are two of my favorite 12         . Increase social connections. Reconnecting with a friend can boost happiness, but so can a meaningful 13          with a stranger. "One of the most complex things we can 14          with is another person's mind," says Juliana Schroeder, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the researchers cited in the course. I love chatting with waiters, and I have been doing it even more since we learned about the benefits of such 15         . Tim Bono, who teaches his own course on happiness at Washington University in St Louis, offers this warning: Online friends don't 16         . In fact, many studies have found that the more you use social media, the less happy you are. Bono argues this is because social media showcases things others have that we don't, making us want more and appreciate less. Santos supports this idea in her course. She warns of ways our minds trick us into feeling less happy, such as by comparing ourselves with others who seem richer or more 17         . Perform acts of kindness. Volunteering to help someone or buying a coffee for the person behind you in line can make you happier than doing things like getting a massage. "You just feel good about yourself as a person," says Sonja Lyubomirsky of the University of California, Riverside, another of Santos's sources. I held doors open for people and helped colleagues solve computer problems. The 18          I got made me feel better about myself, and they didn't cost me anything, unlike a massage. Kindness brings other happiness benefits, too, says Raj Raghunathan, author of If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Happy? Helping others takes the 19          away from our own worries and problems, which can boost happiness. And because it doesn't result in the guilt that more 20          behaviors can, being generous won't increase levels of the stress hormone (荷尔蒙) cortisol. Perhaps surprisingly, kindness improves overall physical health. 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. I decided to retire my personal social website account. It all began with a detailed review of my own Instagram account. I worked out that more than 80 per cent of the photos I had posted featured my 21         . In some ways this seemed 22         . If social websites are for a simple game of showing off, these two are clearly my pride. Next, however, I examined my husband's post for 23         . In real life, he loves the kids no less than I do. Yet between his two social website accounts, they featured in only about 25 per cent of his photos. The 24          was split between a) kitchens he had designed and b) vinyl (黑胶) records he had purchased (the former being his job, the latter his addiction). We divide our time between work and childcare in comparable proportions. Yet the 25          suggested by our online selves was quite different. According to Katrin Tidenberg, associate professor of social media and visual culture at Tallinn University, who is publishing a forthcoming book called Sex and Social Media, this is because men and women often have different 26          for sharing information on social media. When my husband posted a photo of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska on vinyl, his aim was 27         , my conversation with Tiidenberg implied. As the words on his post suggested, he mainly wanted the world to know that the 1982 album is: "so good". When I posted a photo of our daughter eating fish fingers in fancy dress, sure, I was 28         . She looked amazing. I was hoping that her star quality might reflect, just a little, on me. But according to Tidenberg: "Women tend to use social media as a tool to maintain their social 29         . They take those into account when they post and when deciding how they post." A photo of a five-year-old in fancy-dress, 30         , doesn't just say: "so good". It can, meanwhile, say: "Hello godmother, who we feel guilty for cancelling on the other day", "Hello cousins, who are now in Australia and feel a little disconnected..." Tiidenberg is careful to stress that she's "not making any essentialist argument" about women and men's 31          for either type of content. Instead, she argues, women have always been trained to take responsibility for cultivating and managing social networks: "They're told it's what they're 32         ." In the distant pre-digital past, women were 33          guardians of the family photo album. And even today, says Tidenberg, a division of 34          labour endures within many families in our offline worlds: "Who remembers people's birthdays, sends your mother a card and buys the Christmas presents?" The knowledge that I had also 35          responsibility for the online equivalent made me feel angry. 21. A. children B. work C. addiction D. hobbies 22. A. strange B. unnecessary C. possible D. natural 23. A. information B. development C. consideration D. comparison 24. A. reality B. remainder C. knowledge D. visibility 25. A. direction B. balance C. reason D. manner 26. A. techniques B. requirements C. procedures D. motivations 27. A. true B. correct C. simple D. vague 28. A. showing off B. taking on C. setting out D. looking aside 29. A. positions B. services C. ties D. aims 30. A. at the beginning B. in other words C. on the whole D. by contrast 31. A. preferences B. demands C. support D. search 32. A. unaware of B. afraid of C. present at D. good at 33. A. unusually B. doubtfully C. typically D. contrarily 34. A. emotional B. casual C. domestic D. physical 35. A. denied B. shifted C. assumed D. stressed 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） In Auckland, the largest city in New Zealand, public-transport fares have been cut in half. In London politicians leave passive-aggressive notes on civil servants' desks telling them to turn up for work and beg people to start going back to the office. Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, has asked bank bosses to set an example by riding the subway. None of it seems to be working. The subway is only two-thirds as busy as it was before covid-19. Auckland's bus system was half as busy in April as it was three years earlier. People have not given up public transport for the private kind. They are simply moving around less. Although travel is likely to recover a little further, a return to the pre-pandemic pattern seems impossible. One clue is that not all journeys have declined. Parisians made more shopping trips last summer than they did before covid appeared. In New York Sunday travel has held up better than weekday travel. What has collapsed is rush-hour commuting, particularly among well-paid workers in the knowledge economy. That suggests the change in behaviour is caused not by fear of infection-which might be expected to diminish over time--but by a fundamental resetting of work habits. Rich countries should accept this new reality, and start building transport systems to match. Big cities particularly are rooted in the idea that urban travel is like an asterisk, with people squeezing onto radial (放射状) roads and railway lines. Travel is now more like a spiderweb. People take fewer, often shorter journeys along thinner routes; they move to the side, as well as in and out. That explains why buses, which are often used for short journeys, have emptied out less drastically than commuter trains (通勤列车). Now that people travel less predictably, there is a stronger case for innovations such as on-demand buses and "mobility as a service" which weaves together public transport and personal modes such as taxis and hired bikes. These make better use of the existing infrastructure, and come closer to the convenience of cars. British cities need to do something more basic, by integrating their public-transport networks. Outside London, they tend to have many bus companies, some railway lines and perhaps a tram system, all doing their own thing. The result is confusion and often greater cost for the public. 36. Paragraph 1 is intended to A. publicize the public transport in major cities B. reveal the trouble the public transport faces C. introduce the ways to save the public transport D. compare the effectiveness of different measures 37. Why is public transport used less than before? A. People prefer to drive to their workplaces. B. People are losing interest in travelling around. C. 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What must a first-time diver know if he wants to book this trip? A. He must get his certification first. B. He has to finish a two-day training course. C. A second dive is definitely available. D. The training session is free of charge. 42. If a 28-year-old certified diver, who had his last dive two years ago, has booked this full-day diving trip and hopes to dive at some advanced dive sites, he needs to pay at least____. A. $398 B. $450 C. $548 D. $598 （C） The human sense of smell is weaker than sight. And the relative weakness of smell extends to language, too. Humans have no difficulty putting names to colours but are bad at putting names to odours (气味). Some people suggest it is very likely a consequence of the tendency of languages to contain words useful to their speakers. A study by Asifa Majid at Radboud University in the Netherlands supports this. Dr Majid knew from previous work she had done that the Jahai, a group of hunter-gatherers who live in western Malaysia, are remarkably good at naming odours. For example, when she asked some Jahai, and also a comparable group of American volunteers, to name colours and odours they were presented with, the Americans generally agreed with one another when it came to naming colours but agreed much less when putting names to odours. Jahai answers, in contrast, were in equal agreement about both odours and colours. Dr Majid suggested that it might, in part, be because the Jahai have a dozen words dedicated to describing different sorts of smells in the abstract. To test how important someone's way of life is to his or her use of abstract words for smells, Dr Majid looked at how two other groups of people used terms for colours and odours. These were the Semaq Beri, who also hunt and gather for a living, and the Semelai, who cultivate rice. Crucially, although these two peoples make their livings in different ways, their languages are closely related and they both live in the rainforest. Dr Majid asked 20 Semaq Beri and 21 Semelai to name odours and colours presented to them at random. The colours were on 80 differently coloured cards; the odours on 16 variously scented (有香味的) sticks. The researcher found that the Semaq Beri used abstract terms for odours 85% of the time—about as often as they did for colours, which was 80%. The Semelai also used abstract colour descriptions at a similar rate, namely 78% of the time. But when it came to describing odours they relied on abstraction on only 44% of occasions, while resorting to analogies, such as "banana-like" and "chocolate-like", 56% of the time. Moreover, as with Dr Majid's earlier study with the Jahai, the Semaq Beri more frequently agreed with one another about naming odours than did the Semelai. Given these findings, Dr Majid argues that it is the hunting-and-gathering way of life, rather than the use of a particular language, that is crucial to applying abstract names to odours. The business of surviving by eating what the forest has to offer requires more use of the nose than is needed for farming. 43. What does the pronoun "this" (in the last sentence of paragraph 1) refer to? A. More words should be coined to name odours. B. Human beings have a weaker sense of smell than sight. C. Languages tend to contain fewer words unrelated to culture. D. As smells matter little, most languages have few words for them. 44. It can be inferred from paragraph 2 that the Americans agreed less on the names of odours partly because A. they had not been given proper training before the test B. colours are in most cases easier to tell apart than odours C. there are not many English words distinctively for odours D. they were too sensitive to odours to name them correctly 45. What can be learned about the Semaq Beri and the Semelai concerning their performance in the study? A. The former used fewer terms for odours than for colours. B. The latter often turned to other items to describe odours precisely. C. The former seldom agreed with each other about naming odours. D. The latter revealed a less advanced language system. 46. What is the conclusion that Dr Majid drew from her research involving the Semaq Beri and the Semelai? A. The use of abstract terms for odours is related to people's lifestyle. B. Living in the forest requires more use of the nose than living on the farm. C. The business of surviving varies greatly from one tribe to another. D. It is people's way of life that decide what language they speak. 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. The good news is that when that happens, we pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off, and get back to work. B. Scientific theories are not perfect reflection of reality. C. One popular move is to insist that science is right and that once we discover the truth about the world, that's it. D. A popular move is that you can't build trust if the things you are saying are not trustworthy. E. But we can never actually agree on what that method is. F. However, are scientific methods really scientific? Is Science Actually "Right"? The Covid crisis has led many scientists to take up arms (or at least keyboards) to defend their enterprise--and to be sure, science needs defenders these days. But while fighting back against science denial, some scientists say things that just aren't true. 47          We are done. Anyone who denies such truths is stupid or ignorant. Well, no. Even a modest familiarity with the history of science offers many examples of matters that scientists thought they had resolved, only to discover that they needed to be reconsidered. Some familiar examples are Earth as the center of the universe, the absolute nature of time and space, and the stability of continents. Another popular move is to say scientific findings are true because scientists use "the scientific method." 48          Some will say it is empiricism: observation and description of the world. Others will say it is the experimental method: the use of experience and experiment to test hypothesis (假设). (This is cast sometimes as the hypothetico-deductive 演绎的) method, in which the experiment must be framed as a deduction from theory, and sometimes as falsification, where the point of observation and experiment is to prove these theories false.) In my view, the biggest mistake scientists make is to claim that this is all somehow simple and therefore to imply that anyone who doesn't get it is dumb. Yet science is not simple, and neither is the natural world; therein lies the greatest challenge of science communication. What we do is both hard and, often, hard to explain. Our efforts to understand and characterize the natural world are just that: efforts. Because we're human, we often fall flat. 49          Understanding the beautiful, complex world we live in, and using that knowledge to do useful things, is its own reward. 50          However, we have good reason to believe that they capture significant elements of it. And experience reminds us that when we ignore reality, it sooner or later comes back to bite us. III. Summary Writing 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. Is the "Real" You Real? We all want others to appreciate us for who we really are. In striving to achieve such relationships, we typically assume there is a "real me". But how do we actually know who we are? It may seem simple -we are a product of our life experiences, which are easily accessible through our memories of the past. But it turns out that identity is often not a truthful representation of who we are even if we have a good memory. When creating personal narratives, we rely on a psychological screening mechanism, which labels certain mental concepts which are rather vivid and rich in detail and emotion as memories, but not others. Remembering is unlike playing a video from the past in your mind; instead, it is a highly reconstructive process depending on knowledge, self-image, needs, and goals. Memories are therefore malleable- they can be twisted and changed easily. For example, Jean Piaget, a famous developmental psychologist, remembered an event in which he was kidnapped with his nanny-she often told him about it. After many years, she confessed to having made up the story. At that point, Piaget stopped believing in the memory, but it nevertheless remained as vivid as it was before. Is all this an unfavorable thing? There are heated discussions about how people suffering from depression tend to remember routine events. Some self-help books therefore make suggestions about how to obtain a more accurate sense of self. For example, we could try to get feedback from others. But it is essential to be cautious that they may have false memories about us, too. Crucially, there are upsides to our malleable memory. Picking and choosing memories is actually guided by self-enhancing biases (偏向) leading us to rewrite our past so it resembles what we feel and believe now. Inaccurate memories are necessary, resulting from the need to maintain a positive, up-to-date sense of self. IV. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 这个病人似乎无法公开表达自己的情绪。(difficulty) 53. 我要去图书馆找一本引人入胜的小说，以便在假期里阅读。(in search) 54. 美术馆自豪地展示了各种各样的雕塑，这些雕塑在形式和材料上都各不相同。(vary) 55. 从舞蹈服饰到中国舞文化知识，这位舞蹈老师给澳大利亚的学生带来了耳目一新的舞蹈文化体验。(bring) V. Guided Writing Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese. 56. 假设你是明启中学高三学生李明，最近收到好友王磊的邮件。在邮件中，王磊提到了最近遇到的困惑：一直以来他都想选择英语作为大学的主修专业，但是身边的朋友和家长对他的这一想法表示反对，原因主要是选择英语专业可能以后就业比较困难。回复王磊一份邮件，内容须包括：1)你对他这一想法的态度； 2)你的理由。 第 1 页 / 共 1 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 复旦大学附属中学2024学年第一学期 高三年级英语学科12月第一次阶段性教学质量评估试卷　答案 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 1. what 2. Now that 3. competing 4. enjoyed 5. to work 6. which 7. is 8. both 9. on 10. keeping Section B 11. H 12. K 13. C 14. D 15. F 16. B 17. A 18. G 19. E 20. J II. Reading Comprehension Section A 21. A 22. D 23. D 24. B 25. B 26. D 27. C 28. A 29. C 30. B 31. A 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. C Section B 36. B 37. D 38. C 39. C 40. C 41. B 42. C 43. D 44. C 45. B 46. A Section C 47. C 48. E 49. A 50. B III. Summary Writing 51. Memory and identity are not fixed; they are reconstructive and influenced by self-enhancing preferences. While some inaccuracies exist, they help maintain a positive self-image. Seeking feedback for self-awareness is crucial, but it must be taken with care due to potential false memories in others. IV. Translation 52. This patient seems to have difficulty in expressing her emotions openly. 53. I’m heading to the library in search of an absorbing novel to read during my vacation. 54. The art gallery proudly displayed a diverse collection of sculptures, which vary in form and material. 55. From dance costumes to knowledge of Chinese dance culture, this dance teacher brought a refreshing dance cultural experience to Australian students. V. Guided Writing 56. Dear Wang Lei, I am writing in response to your recent email regarding your dilemma over college major selection. I can completely understand your confusion. However, I firmly believe that you should follow your passion and choose English as your major, despite the practical concerns raised by your parents and friends. First and foremost, genuine interest serves as a powerful catalyst for academic excellence. If you study what you truly love, you will be highly motivated, which will undoubtedly lead to outstanding academic performance and long-term career advancement. Furthermore, the alleged grim job market for English majors is actually a misconception. With the accelerating pace of globalization, English is no longer merely a subject but a crucial bridge to diverse fields. Proficiency in English, combined with knowledge in other areas like international trade or technology, will make you highly competitive. Therefore, I encourage you to communicate your determination calmly with your parents. As long as you are well-prepared and equipped with versatile skills, you will definitely carve out a fulfilling path for yourself. Yours, Li Ming 第 1 页 / 共 1 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $