上海复旦大学附属中学2024-2025学年第二学期高二年级英语学科5月第二次阶段性教学质量评估试卷

复旦大学附属中学2024学年第二学期 高二年级英语学科5月第二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. The Power of Small Talk Many people underestimate the power of small talk. They regard casual chatting as meaningless gossip, 1          (waste) precious time that could be spent on important work. Yet researchers have found that small talk plays a vital role in our social life. Small talk refers to light informal conversation, 2          serves as a social bridge between strangers or acquaintances. When you chat about trivial topics like weather or sports with someone you barely know, you are not just killing time 3          building social bonds. It helps break the ice, reduce awkwardness, and create a relaxed atmosphere 4          real communication can begin. A study 5          (conduct) by Harvard Business School shows that employees who engage in proper small talk tend to have better working relationships with colleagues. People 6          are good at small talk are usually considered more approachable and cooperative. However, small talk is not equal to gossip. Gossip often focuses on other people’s private affairs, 7          may cause misunderstanding or hurt others’ feelings, while small talk sticks to safe public topics. 8          you are at a party, waiting in a queue, or in the office, mastering small talk skills can bring you unexpected benefits. You do not need to be extraordinarily humorous. What 9 ______ (matter) most is 10 ______ (show) your willingness to connect with others. 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. added B. caring C. collection D. combination E. design F. meant G. rare H. reach I. spread J. striking K. symbol Saving a City's Public Art Avoiding L.A.'s traffic jams may be impossible, but the city's colorful highway murals (壁画) can brighten even the worst journey. Paintings of famous people and historical scenes cover office buildings and highway walls all across the city. With a (n) 11          of more than 2,000 murals, Los Angeles is the unofficial mural capital of the world. But a(n) 12          of graffiti (涂鸦), pollution, and hot sun has left many L.A. murals in terrible condition. In the past, experts say, little attention was given to 13          for public art. Artists were even expected to maintain their own worksnot an easy task with cars racing by on the highway! Now the city is beginning a huge project to restore its murals. So far, 16 walls have been selected, and more may be 14          later. Until about 1960, public murals in Los Angeles were 15         . But in the '60s and '70s, young L.A. artists began to study early 20thcentury Mexican mural painting. Soon, the young artists' own murals became a(n) 16          of the city's culture. The most famous mural in the city is Judith Baca's "The Great Wall", a 13foothigh (4meterhigh) painting that runs for half a mile (0.8 kilometer) in North Hollywood. The mural represents the history of different ethnic groups (族群) in California. It took eight years to complete, with 400 teenagers painting the 17         , and is probably the longest mural in the world. One of the murals that will be restored is Kent Twitchell's "Seventh Street Altarpiece", which he painted for the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. This 18          work shows two people facing each other on opposite sides of the highway near downtown Los Angeles. "It was 19          as a kind of gateway through which the traveler to L.A. must drive," said Twitchell. "The open hands represent peace." Artists often call murals the people's art. Along a busy highway or hidden in a quiet neighborhood, murals can 20          people who might never pay money to see fine art in a museum. 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. In modern cities, it is now time as much as space that separates urban functions, as people's lives are lived not only to different timetables, but also at wildly different rates. The mass timetable of the industrial city, with 9-5 office hours and silent Sundays, has gone. In its_21          is flexitime, part-time working, Sunday shopping and the 24-hour city. European cities are_22         _these changes perhaps faster than British cities. In at least half a dozen cities in Italy, 23         , you will find the Uffici Tempi-the Offices of Time. What they do is try to reorganise time more flexibly in the city, in order to meet new needs. This is particularly relevant for Italian women, an increasing number of whom have to_24          two timetables: work and home. Usually located in the Mayor's office, the Uffici Tempi bring together transport providers, shop-owners, employers, trade unions, the police and other services to see how their efforts might be better 25         . The main aim in all this is to increase the efficiency and productivity of the city. This can mean delaying the starting times in schools, offices and factories to avoid rush hours, or having shops opening later in the day but closing later too. One further _26          is that there can be more police about in the evening, patrolling the streets when people most need them. In a number of German cities, people have been_27          whether the timetable of the future city should be 6×6 or 4×9-working hours, that is. Apparently male workers favour a four-day week, while women workers, on the other hand, favour_28          shorter working days. This would give employees more time in the afternoon to be with children or to get the shopping. The _29         _for public services to adapt to our changing lifestyles has been quite difficult for some of the staff involved._30         , who likes working evenings or Sundays? Nevertheless, many city centres are now open for shopping seven days a week, and a number of them now promote themselves as '24-hour cities', where those with money can drink, eat, dance and even shop the whole _31         . Time is flexible, but buildings aren't. The_32          between the structure of the city and its uses, over time, is a serious architectural and planning problem._33          has become the key skill. We are slowly_34         _the terms of dormitory suburbs and industrial districts, in favour of mixed-use areas, out-of-town retailing and working from home. There is no doubt that planning theory is being _35         _by the changing nature of time in the modern city. 21. A. report B. side C. place D. way 22. A. sticking to B. responding to C. objecting to D. turning to 23. A. for example B. on the other hand C. by contrast D. in the meanwhile 24. A. alter B. discuss C. understand D. balance 25. A. spared B. harmonised C. directed D. appreciated 26. A. method B. issue C. benefit D. excuse 27. A. debating B. asking C. doubting D. revealing 28. A. four B. six C. seven D. nine 29. A. need B. ambition C. pity D. reason 30. A. Above all B. On the contrary C. After all D. By all means 31. A. night B. day C. city D. area 32. A. difference B. mismatch C. communication D. relationship 33. A. Regulation B. Availability C. Adaptability D. Observation 34. A. varying B. coining C. accepting D. abandoning 35. A. presented B. proved C. established D. challenged 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） By the middle of the second day I know I'm in trouble. In front of me the land stretches up and away towards a distant hill, and into the space, between that hill and me, is crowded one of the most vivid concentrations of colour I have ever seen. It starts with the trees. The wet season is only a few weeks off and almost as if they can smell the coming rains, they have put out their leaves. They are no ordinary green and the dry grasses beneath them are shining with golds, browns and reds. I want to recreate this scene with watercolours. Although I can make a try at it with words, trying to paint it in my sketch book is another matter altogether. I've already made one attempt: a series of lines in orange and red, with bluish trees placed across them, which now lies face down in the grass beside me. I' ve put it there because the last thing I want right now is for someone else to come along and look at it. A young man called Royale walks up the hill. Royale is a sculptor, and, with several other local men, produces pieces of work in the local stone. Recently, and quite suddenly, this work, and that of several other local co-operatives, has acquired an international reputation. I certainly don't want a man capable of such things looking at my own awful painting. So I put my foot,as casually as I can, on the finished one beside me and we resume the conversation started earlier in the day. I want to talk to Royale about his life here. He, however, is only interested in what I am up to. To begin with, it seems that he considers me a fellow artist, and for a moment I find myself staring into the depths of embarrassment. But when he asks me, 'what is painting like'I realise that this professional artist has never painted anything in his life before. He just wants a go with my colours. When I signed up for this holiday, I was hoping for an experience like the one I had had four years earlier in Wales. That was my first painting holiday, and I loved it. Two things made it great. First was the teacher, a man called Robin, who showed me that what is important about drawing and painting is not the finished article but the process of completing it. The second element of that week was the place. I grew up in places like that, and I connected with it immediately. But it was stupid of me to think that I could reproduce the experience down here, deep in the Southern Hemisphere. Zimbabwe is not a part of me, nor I of it. Trying to draw it for the first time, from a standing start, is like trying to start a conversation in Swahili. 36. What problem does the writer have at the beginning of her holiday? A. The weather is not good enough for painting. B. She's brought the wrong materials with her. C. There are no animals that she can paint. D. She can't reproduce the exact colour. 37. The writer hid her work because A. she thought it would disappoint Royale B. she believed Royale painted better C. it wasn't good enough to sell D. it was only a quick sketch 38. What does the writer mean by "what I am up to" (in paragraph 3)? A. What I might do. B. What I am painting. C. What I will give him. D. What I can teach him. 39. What does the writer say about her previous painting holiday? A. The landscape was more familiar to her. B. Her technique had improved much faster. C. She preferred the teacher she had had then. D. She had been able to complete a number of paintings. （B） Can you imagine being a student at university before computers appeared? Before the technological revolution in the 1980s, if you didn't want to write by hand you had a typewriter. Curious about the history of the typewriter? Although the first writing machines were built in the 14th century, they varied in size and shape; some were as large as pianos! The first typewriter was patented in England in 1714, but typewriters as we know them didn't actually kick off as manufactured products until the late 1800s. So how does it work? First, you need keys to press. When you press a key, it makes another lever called the type hammer move up towards the paper. The type hammer has the metal bar with the letters attached to it at the end. Just before the letter hits the paper, a piece of cloth with ink on it called the ribbon moves upwards between the type and the paper. The letter then appears in ink on the piece of paper. When you take your finger off the key, a spring makes the hammer move back to where it was before. At the same time, the carriage, which is the cylinder-shaped (圆柱状的) part at the top where the paper is held, moves to the left. You can therefore continue to write the word that you want. When the carriage gets to the end of a line you hear a bell. When you hear the bell, you press the carriage return lever on the left-hand side of the typewriter, which moves the paper up, so that you can continue writing on a new line. *lever: a long bar that you use to lift or move something by pressing one end 40. Which of the following statements is true regarding the history of the typewriter? A. The typewriters were mostly as big as pianos in the 1300s. B. The year of 1980 marked the beginning of its decline. C. Its mass production didn't start until the late 1800s. D. The first one was invented in the year of 1714. 41. What is the function of the ribbon in a typewriter? A. To transfer ink onto the paper. B. To move the carriage to the left. C. To hold the paper in the correct position. D. To protect the type hammer from damage.42. What does the bell indicate? A. You have run out of ink. B. You need to start a new line. C. You need to re-load the paper. D. You have a problem with the carriage. （C） Our lives are made up of human-machine interactions - with smartphones, televisions, computers - that have the power to delight and, often, frustrate. Into this area has stepped a new class of professional: the user-experience, or UX, designer, whose job is to see a product not from an engineer's, marketer's, or legal department's perspective but from the viewpoint of the user alone. And to insist that the customer should not have to learn to speak the company's internal language. The company should learn to speak the customer's. According to a recent survey, the role of UX designers has become a fixture on those year-end "hottest job" lists. If you want to study UX, you now have the option at some three dozen institutions in the United States, including Carnegie Mellon and the University of Washington. But Ford is one of the few major industrial companies in the U.S. to put a UX expert, Jim Hackett, in charge. At present, the question facing the car industry is basically whether high-tech giants such as Tesla and Google can learn car-making technology trains faster than Ford, GM, and other carmakers can learn software and algorithms. But Hackett reflects Ford's bet that the winner won't be the best chassis (底盘) maker or software maker, but the company that nails the interaction between man and machine. "One of the things that drew me to Jim was his commitment to design thinking, which puts the human being at the center of the equation," explained Bill Ford, the company's executive chairman. Hackett retired from Steelcase, a furniture maker, in 2014 and in 2016, Bill Ford hired him to run the automaker's Smart Mobility subsidiary, which was tasked with rethinking from the ground up how cars would be driven, powered, and owned, "This is what we call the design gap," said Hackett in an interview, pointing to the space between two lines on a graph he'd drawn on a whiteboard. One line climbs up - this is a company's skill at making things, which goes up over time. Below it is a downward line, representing a company's understanding of the customer's experience. This, he said, can decline over time, as a company loses sight of the problems it's in the business of solving. The design gap may be noticeable when the job is, say, building a marginally better tailgate for the Ford F-150. But it becomes positively yawning when your industry is so thoroughly turned on its head that you're forced to ask some basic questions: Do people want to own their cars or share them? Drive them or have them driven? The flood of new technologies makes everything possible. 43. Which of the following statements best describes a UX designer's responsibility? A. He is devoted to designing innovative products. B. He is devoted to making a product satisfy users' needs. C. He is devoted to improving a company's internal language. D. He is devoted to understanding human-machine interactions. 44. What can be inferred from the passage? A. UX designers are regarded as one of those best-paid jobs. B. High-tech giants have taken the lead in car manufacturing. C. Companies are laying greater emphasis on customers' feelings. D. The UX courses provided by the US institutions are far from enough. 45. Ford hires Jim Hackett because the company believes that________. A. it is currently facing the biggest challenge that needs a new perspective B. Hackett's design thinking is quite different from other UX professionals C. customers' experience plays a decisive role in the car-making competition D. Steelcase gave Hackett enough time and experience to grow up into an expert 46. What is Jim Hackett most likely to agree with? A. For should pay less attention to new technologies. B. Ford has long been ignoring customers' experience. C. Ford is no longer a leading company in auto making skills. D. Ford has made a wrong decision to build a tailgate for the F-150. 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. But the content of the Cube is so wide that it can be a symbol of logical thinking, a way of life. B. Eventually he came up with a six-sided structure with nine interlocking cubes on each side. C. His moment of inspiration came in the spring of 1974. D. I am forced to admit that I haven't solved it yet. E. Rubik was born towards the end of the Second World War to an aircraft engineer father and a poet mother. F. The following year he was offered the chance to take his invention to a toy fair in New York. 'The Cube has his own voice' I arrive at the Szepilona Bisztro, on a leafy road on the "Buda" side of Budapest, holding a Rubik's Cube and searching for the man who had created it almost 50 years ago. I feel unworthy to have lunch with Emo Rubik, not the least reason of which is because the Cube I am holding has never been solved. Rubik arrives punctually. He's been coming to this restaurant since the late 1960s, when he was a graduate student, before he had invented one of the world's most successful puzzles - a cube with 43 quintillion combinations, only one of which is correct. 47          At that time, Rubik was living in his family's apartment on a grand avenue on the "Pest" side of the city. He was a professor of architecture, but his room was "like a child's pocket, full of marbles and treasures". In an attempt to help students understand three-dimensional problems, he tried to build a set of cubes that stayed together but could also move independently. 48          He painted each side a different colour. But after he had twisted it, he realised that he could not easily return it to its original state. "It was a more difficult task to find a system to solve it than it had been to create the thing itself," he says. In the end, it took him a month. And solving it gave him a "happy feeling of freedom", he said at the time. The Rubik's Cube was born, and to date more than 450 million have been sold, the craze reaching its peak in the early 1980s. Rubik was 29 when he "discovered" the Cube in 1974. By 1979, Rubik had sold 300,000. 49          From there, it spread across the world, with some 100 Rubik's Cubes being sold in only three years. "I can't imagine there being a higher type for it than there had been in the 80s," he says. He motions to my Cube. 50          Rubik comforts me with a Japanese slogan from the 1980s, coined for a game: "a minute to learn and a lifetime to master". 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. The Power of First Impressions When people meet for the first time, they make first impressions of one another in a few seconds. Research shows that first impressions are very important because they have a strong impact on forming relationships. Studies show that the primacy effect is an important part of first impressions. The primacy effect is the idea that the first impression is very difficult to change. After the first meeting, two people may interact again and learn more about each other, but the early impressions they formed will influence their feelings about each other in the future. For example, if a person has a good first impression of someone, he or she probably will not notice bad things about the person later. However, if that person has a bad first impression, he or she will probably notice mostly bad things in the future. Another interesting part of first impressions is that people act how others expect them to act. This is called a self-fulfilling prophecy. Research by Snyder and Swann supports this idea. In that study, partners played a game together. The partners did not know one another, so the researchers told each player about his partner. Sometimes they said positive things about a partner. Sometimes they said negative things. The result of the study showed that players acted friendly when they expected their partners to be friendly, but they acted unfriendly when they expected their partners to be unfriendly. The players' expectations influenced how they acted toward one another. A related study by Michael Sunnafrank (2004) showed that when people first meet, they quickly make predictions about what kind of relationship they will have. Sunnafrank found that these predictions had a strong impact on future relationships. In his study of 164 first-year college students, Sunnafrank found that when students predicted they could be friends, they sat closer together in class and interacted more. As a result, they actually became friends. In other words, they made their predictions come true. Clearly, first impressions are very important in forming relationships, because they influence the expectations people have of one another and how they behave toward one another. IV. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 当谈及野外探险时，勇气与谨慎缺一不可。(when it comes to) 53. 这座数百万年前形成的巨大洞穴值得我们前去一探究竟。(worth) 54. 只有当你跳出固有的思维模式，你才能想出富有创意的解决办法。(Only) 55. 这项研究揭示，财富未必能提升人欣赏平凡美好的能力，这颠覆了很多人长久以来的固有观念。(which) 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，最近看到学校英语报上正在开展主题为 "The books I have read" 的征文活动，你对此很感兴趣，有意撰文参加。写一篇文章，内容须包括: 1) 对你曾经读过的书进行分类； 2) 每一类的特点，并用具体实例进行说明。 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学年第二学期 高二年级英语学科5月第二次阶段性教学质量评估试卷　答案 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 1. wasting 2. which 3. but 4. where 5. conducted 6. who/that 7. which 8. Whether 9. matters 10. showing Section B 11. C 12. D 13. B 14. A 15. G 16. K 17. E 18. J 19. F 20. H II. Reading Comprehension Section A 21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. B 26. C 27. A 28. B 29. A 30. C 31. A 32. B 33. C 34. D 35. D Section B 36. D 37. A 38. B 39. A 40. C 41. A 42. B 43. B　44. C　45. C　46. B Section C 47.E 48.B 49.F 50.D III. Summary Writing 51. First impressions are important in terms of how the future relationship might be. Firstly, it is difficult to change the first impression. Secondly, people will do what they think others expect them to do at the first meeting. Lastly, people will predict what their relationships will be like in the future when they meet for the first time. IV. Translation 52.When it comes to wilderness exploration, both courage and caution are indispensable. 53.This massive cave formed millions of years ago is worth exploring. 54.Only when you break out of your fixed mindset can you come up with creative solutions. 55.This research reveals that wealth does not necessarily enhance people's ability to appreciate ordinary beauty, which overturns many people's long-held assumptions.V. Guided Writing 56. My Reading Universe Books are the stepping stones to human progress, and my reading journey can be broadly categorized into two main types: fictional classics and non-fiction literature. The first category is fictional classics, which are characterized by their profound philosophical insights and emotional resonance. Take The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry as a prime example. Although superficially a fairy tale, it profoundly explores universal truths about love, loneliness, and responsibility. The second category is non-fiction literature, particularly in the realms of history and science. These books are highly informative and highly logical. For instance, reading Sapiens enabled me to grasp the evolutionary trajectory of humanity and vastly expanded my cognitive boundaries. In conclusion, while fiction enriches my soul and empathy, non-fiction empowers me with rational thinking. Both types of books are indispensable treasures that continually shape my worldview. 第 1 页 / 共 1 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $