2027届高考上海名校高三一模英语预测卷-第一次英语模拟考试

上海名校高三一模英语预测卷-2026-2027学年上海高三年级第一次英语模拟考试

（考试时间：120分钟　试卷满分：115分）

I. Grammar and Vocabulary（每题1分；共20分）

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.

The Return of the Handwritten Letter

    In an age of instant messaging, the handwritten letter has become an endangered species. Yet across Britain, a quiet revival is underway. Stationery shops report ____1____ (steady) rising sales of fountain pens and sealing wax. The Royal Mail has launched a campaign ____2____ (encourage) people to write to someone they love. Even schools, ____3____ handwriting was once dismissed as outdated, are reintroducing penmanship lessons.

    Why the nostalgia? Part of the answer lies in ____4____ digital communication lacks: permanence. A text message vanishes into the scroll; a letter sits in a drawer, ____5____ (wait) to be rediscovered. “When my grandmother died, I found a box of letters she had written to my grandfather during the war,” says Emma Clarke, a 34-year-old teacher from Bristol. “I had never known her as a young woman. Those letters gave me a version of her that no photograph ____6____.”

    Psychologists suggest that the act of writing by hand engages the brain differently from typing. The physical effort of forming letters slows us down, ____7____ (allow) more reflection. Studies have shown that students who take notes by hand retain concepts better than ____8____ who type. The reason is simple: you cannot write everything down, so you must decide what matters.

    There is also the question of ____9____ the letter is for. A handwritten note carries an implicit message: “You were worth the time.” In a world where attention is the scarcest resource, that message may be ____10____ (valuable) than ever.

1．________ 2．________ 3．________ 4．________ 5．________

6．________ 7．________ 8．________ 9．________ 10．________

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.

The Attention Economy’s Quiet Rebels

For ____11____, the prevailing wisdom held that more information was always better. The internet promised infinite knowledge at our fingertips. Social media offered connection without boundaries. Smartphones put the world in our pockets. But a growing number of people are ____12____ pushing back.   

The term “attention economy” describes a system in which human focus is a scarce commodity, bought and sold by platforms designed to maximize engagement. The consequences are well documented: ____13____ attention spans, rising anxiety, and a pervasive sense of time slipping away. What is new is the ____14____ to accept this as inevitable.

    “Digital minimalism” is one response. Its adherents ____15____ their use of social media, delete apps, and set strict boundaries around screen time. They report feeling ____16____ more present in their daily lives—not because they have ____17____ to a pre-digital past, but because they have chosen what deserves their attention.

    Critics argue that such movements are a luxury available only to the privileged, who can afford to disconnect. For gig workers, delivery drivers, and parents juggling multiple jobs, the smartphone is not a distraction but a lifeline. This criticism has merit. Yet it misses a deeper point: the problem is not technology itself, but the ____18____ design choices that make some technologies deliberately habit-forming.

    Some governments are beginning to act. Several countries have banned smartphones in schools. Others are considering legislation that would require platforms to offer “attention-friendly” modes by default. Whether these measures will ____19____ make a difference remains uncertain. But the conversation has shifted. The question is no longer whether we should ____20____ to the attention economy, but on what terms.

11．________ 12．________ 13．________ 14．________ 15．________

16．________ 17．________ 18．________ 19．________ 20．________

II. Reading Comprehension（共45分。21-35每题1分；36-50每题2分）

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.

    In 2026, the world’s first commercial nuclear clock moved from laboratory curiosity to engineering reality. The announcement, made jointly by research teams in China and Europe, marked a milestone that few outside the physics community had anticipated so soon. Unlike atomic clocks, which rely on electrons orbiting a nucleus, nuclear clocks measure energy transitions ____21____ the nucleus itself. The practical implication is ____22____: a clock that loses less than one second over billions of years, immune to the electromagnetic interference that ____23____ even the best atomic clocks.

    The race to build such a device has been ____24____ for years. What changed in 2026 was not a single breakthrough but a ____25____ of advances: more efficient vacuum ultraviolet lasers, better crystal materials, and a deeper understanding of how to ____26____ the fragile nuclear state. “We are no longer asking whether this can work,” one researcher noted. “We are asking how to make it ____27____.”

    The applications are ____28____. A clock this precise could detect subtle shifts in gravity, enabling navigation systems that work without satellites. It could ____29____ geological changes preceding earthquakes. It could even test fundamental physics—whether the constants of nature are truly ____30____.

    Yet the transition from laboratory to real world is ____31____ with challenges. The current prototypes occupy entire rooms and require conditions that would be ____32____ in a factory or a satellite. Miniaturization is the next frontier. The teams involved are ____33____ that the timeline is measured in years, not decades. But they have been wrong before about how quickly physics translates into technology.

    What makes the nuclear clock story ____34____ is not just its technical achievement. It is a reminder that the most transformative technologies often arrive quietly, ____35____ from public view, until one day they are everywhere.