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月第一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月第一次阶段性教学质量评估试卷　答案 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 1. came 2. to be explored 3. was discovered 4. until 5. where 6. which 7. creating 8. to/toward 9. a 10. made Section B 11. J 12. K 13. D 14. A 15. F 16. G 17. C 18. H 19. B 20. E II. Reading Comprehension Section A 21. B 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. C 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. D 30. D 31. A 32. B 33. B 34. C 35. A Section B 36. C 37. A 38. A 39. D 40.B 41.B 42.A 43.D 44.A 45.B 46.A Section C 47. C 48. B 49. F 50. D III. Summary Writing 51. Silk has been popular for almost 5000 years, during which its production hasn’t changed much. It is made from cocoons, protective shells created by silkworms. China used to be the only country that produced silk and Silk Road was the route through which silk was transported to other countries. Two monks took it to Europe in the 6 century. IV. Translation 52. I have been practising diving in the past three years. 53. Curiously, the spare battery of the camera is nowhere to be found. 54. In response to the online reports of this food poisoning incident, the restaurant released its latest test results. 55. In order to find an apartment within his budget, Xiao Wang visited almost all the house agencies in the neighbourhood, but got none. V. Guided Writing 56. Dear Editor, I am writing in response to your recent article concerning teenagers' mental state, and I wholeheartedly agree with the author's viewpoint that adolescents today are less happy than those of 20 years ago. First and foremost, contemporary teenagers are confronted with unprecedented academic and social pressures. The relentless pursuit of academic excellence often leaves them physically exhausted and mentally overwhelmed. Secondly, the pervasive influence of social media is a primary catalyst for this unhappiness. Constant exposure to curated and idealized online content triggers severe social comparison and anxiety, making teenagers feel inadequate about their own lives. In conclusion, the combination of intense peer pressure and digital toxicity has significantly eroded the well-being of today's youth. It is high time that society, parents, and educators took joint actions to alleviate their burdens and prioritize their psychological health. Yours sincerely, Li Ming 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. Cave of Secrets A team of scientists and cave experts stand at the entrance of Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave. Hidden deep in the dense mountain jungle of central Vietnam, the cave 1          (come) into being millions of years ago when rock under the mountain was eroded by river water. The weakened rock eventually collapsed, making up a massive underworld now waiting 2          (explore). Hang Son Doong, which means "mountain river cave", 3          (discover) in 1991. However, it wasn't 4          2009 that a group of British cavers explored it for the first time. The cavers had to stop after four kilometers because a great wall blocked their way. But now, a year later, they have returned to climb past the wall and find out 5          the cave ends. Deeper in the cave, the team members fight to keep their balance as they walk slowly through an underground river. Then they make their way through a field of huge rocks, some of 6          are about the size of houses. The team reaches an area where the cave's roof has fallen in, 7          (create) two spectacular natural skylights. An explorer says "watch out for dinosaurs" as his partner walks into the light. In this dreamy place, prehistoric reptiles (爬行动物) seem likely to appear at any moment. The team climbs around wet, slippery rock formations as they try to make their way 8          the second skylight. They walk carefully here because 9          wrong step can lead to a fall of over 30 meters. The second, larger hole in the ceiling has brought down some of the jungle with it. Monkeys, snakes, and birds live in this part of the cave jungle. Further inside, the team walks through a thick, muddy trench (沟). The team's final obstacle is its toughest challenge they climb up a sticky 60meter cliff 10         , (make) of hard minerals. After a two-day climb, they literally see light at the end of the tunnel as they reach the cave's exit. Satisfied with the adventure through the world's largest cave, the team climbs out into the sunlight. They have become the first people to explore the entire length of the cave. 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. complicated B. concern C. disruptions D. eventually E. frequent F. healing G. holding H. reminders I. representatively J. vocalizing K. zero Secrets are bad for your health I grew up in a Midwestern town where the popular wisdom was to only talk about what was pleasant and to keep secrets, if necessary, to make that happen. This meant staying silent when someone offended you, rarely_11          negative feelings and smiling a little more than is necessary. It also meant_12          room for airing any sort of dirty laundry, especially not the kinds of personal secrets that keep people up at night. Many of us like to believe that sweeping unpleasant truths under the rug might make them 13          go away. Instead, keeping secrets--especially heavy ones--can spin an even more_14          web of isolation and deception. So why do we do it? The truth can hurt. But in many situations, it's better to get it out and let the_15         _start, rather than allowing it to become more dangerous. The burden of_16         _in the truth doesn't just disappear. It hides itself in the back of your mind and can cause a number of_17         to your life and health. "If the situations in your daily life are regular 18          of the secret, and you find it stressful to keep it, then yes, it can have emotional and physical consequences," says Dr. Dean McKay. "Some people also find keeping secrets stressful out of a general_19         that they will 'slip'. This 20          and recurring thought of the secret can in itself be stressful." 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. When you're shopping at the grocery store, you probably expect that olive oil you see came from olives, and that the organic vegetables were never exposed to poisonous chemicals. Increasingly, however, there's a chance you might be 21         . In recent years, there has been an increase in reports of so-called food fraud, or attempts by various entities--including storage workers, suppliers and distributors--to alter products and_22         _customer and food companies alike for financial gain (though occasionally the companies are complicit (同伙)). Among the more recent_23         :"natural" honey that's been laced with antibiotics (抗生素) and Italian companies selling "Italian olive oil" from a mixture of oils that did not originate from Italy. How can this 24         ? In the U.S., the Pure Food and Drug Act has prevented the "manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or harmful foods" since 1906, and similar laws exist in other countries. But most global food regulators, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, aren't equipped to25          them effectively. For the most part, they _26          safety standards--ensuring that foods don't contain bacteria or viruses--and rely on companies to police the quality of their own ingredients, lest they face consumer opposition. But now that food manufacturing has become globalized, supply chains are _27         ,creating more opportunities for bad actors to mess around. "Anyone who can 28         substituting cheap ingredients for more expensive ones is going to try," says Marion Nestle, who teaches nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. Governments are starting to _29         . In 2014, the U.K. created a food-crime unit that collects reports of food fraud. The Institute for Global Food Security lab in Belfast tests_30         _sent in by people worried about fraud-a process that's easier than ever, thanks to advances in technology. And there are efforts in the U.K,, the U.S. and China, among other nations, to increase the punishments for companies that get caught selling shady foods. But in order to31         fraud in the first place, the food industry needs to get better at safeguarding its own production network. So the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)--a trade group consisting of officials from more than 300 food manufacturers--will this year start_32          its members' supply chains, from field to table, to identify fraud. Meanwhile, dozens of other food-industry experts recently teamed up with academics from Michigan State University to launch the Food Fraud Initiative (FFI), a group that studies fraudsters-33         , how they avoid safeguards-and then advises food companies on how to keep them away. "There are plenty of_34          out there who are going to wake up and look for some opportunity for fraud," says John Spink, director of the FFI. "We just need to make ourselves a harder _35         ." 21. A. lucky B. wrong C. curious D. illegal 22. A. mislead B. astonish C. misunderstand D. assemble 23. A. booms B. examples C. recoveries D. trends 24. A. cease B. last C. happen D. progress 25. A. reveal B. follow C. enforce D. forget 26. A. agree with B. respond to C. substitute for D. focus on 27. A. longer B. riskier C. more stable D. more selective 28. A. hold on to B. look down on C. get away with D. make up for 29. A. take off B. keep up C. set aside D. fight back 30. A. attempts B. reports C. nutrients D. products 31. A. prevent B. cover C. suspect D. charge 32. A. affecting B. inspecting C. combining D. supporting 33. A. symbolically B. specifically C. respectively D. resourcefully 34. A. institutions B. consumers C. criminals D. sponsors 35. A. target B. issue C. choice D. technique 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） There are still many things that Peter Cooke would like to try his hand at--paper-making and feather-work are on his list. For the moment though, he will stick to the skill that he has been delighted to perfect over the past ten years: making delicate and unusual objects out of shells. "Tell me if I am boring you, 'he says, as he leads me round his apartment showing me his work. There is a fine line between being a bore and being an enthusiast, but Cooke need not worry: he fits into the latter category, helped both by his charm and by the beauty of the things he makes. He points to a pair of shell-covered ornaments (装饰品) above a fireplace. 'I shan't be at all bothered if people don't buy them because I have got so used to them, and to me they're adorable. I never meant to sell my work commercially. Some friends came to see me about five years ago and said, "You must have an exhibition--people ought to see these. We'll talk to a man who owns an art gallery"' The result was an exhibition in London, at which 70 per cent of the objects were sold. His second exhibition opened at the gallery yesterday. Considering the enormous prices the pieces command -around £2,000 for the ornaments--an empty space above the fireplace would seem a small sacrifice for Cooke to make. There are 86 pieces in the exhibition, with prices starting at £225 for a shell-flower in a crystal vase. Cooke insists that he has nothing to do with the prices and is cheerily open about their level: he claims there is nobody else in the world who produces work like his, and, as the gallery-owner told him, 'Well, you're going to stop one day and everybody will want your pieces because there won't be any more" Cooke has created his own method and uses materials as and when he finds them. He uses the cardboard sent back with laundered shirts for his flower bases, a nameless glue bought from a sailmaker ('If it runs out, I don't know what I will do!') and washing-up liquid to wash the shells. 'I have an idea of what I want to do, and it just does itself,' he says of his working method, yet the attention to detail, colour gradations and symmetry (对称) he achieves look far from accidental. 36. What can be learned about Peter Cooke from the first paragraph? A. He has produced objects with different materials. B. He was praised for his shell objects many years ago. C. He hopes to work with other materials in the future. D. He has written about his love for shell objects. 37. When looking round his apartment, the writer A. is attracted by Cooke's personality B. realises he finds Cooke's work boring C. feels uncertain about giving Cooke his opinion D. senses that Cooke wants his products to be admired 38. The "small sacrifice" in paragraph 3 refers to_ A. the loss of Cooke's ornaments B. the display of Cooke's ornaments C. the cost of keeping Cooke's ornaments D. the space required to store Cooke's ornaments 39. When talking about the artist's working method, the writer implies that Cooke A. is unaware of the unique quality his work has B. accepts that he sometimes makes mistakes C. undervalues the materials that he uses D. underrates his creative contribution （B） A scientist's guide to Spring Cleaning It depends on how much you care about the effects that cleaning can have. We've done research into this. In one study, people completed tasks in tidy or untidy rooms, then had the option to donate to charity. We found that those in tidy room were more likely to donate. Cleaning seems to make you more likely to act in a way that is more upstanding and consistent with social norms. Can I still get psychological benefits of cleaning if I pay someone else to do it? Absolutely. You don't have to be the person that does all the tidying in order for your behaviour to change. A neat house can have an effect on everyone in the household. My teenage daughter argues that she can't help being messy. Should I let her off tidying her room? Some people are habitually messy, but that's not always a bad thing. In another study, we had our subjects sit in clean or messy rooms while dreaming up new uses for ping pong balls. We found that people from the messy rooms were more creative and innovative with their ideas. Now I have an excuse for the state of my house. But when should I worry that things are too messy? Speaking from a personal perspective, you should start to worry if the mess is preventing you from getting things done in an efficient manner. There's a concept called 'household chaos'. Suppose your two shoes are never in the same place. If you have to run around and find the missing shoe, it could cause problems in your everyday life. That's when things start to get too messy. If you find you've thrown things away that you later realise you need, or if being too tidy gets in the way of enjoying social interactions. I remember going to a colleague's house that was spotless, with white carpets and a white couch, and I found that I just couldn't relax. Try 'cleaning purgatory' Before I throw out anything that I think I may regret, I put in a holding bin. It sits there for a month. If I don't get back to it then it has to go. 40. Some headings are missing in the passage. Match the following headings with the proper paragraphs. Note there is one more than you need. a. How do I know what to get rid of? b. Should I bother with the spring cleaning? c. How do I know I'm too tidy? d. What do you think of being too tidy? A. 1-a 2-c 3-d B. 1-b 2-c 3-d C. 1-b 2-c 3-a D. 1-a 2-d 3-b 41. What effect does cleaning have on people? A. It inspires people's creativity. B. It makes people more generous. C. It costs people too much time. D. It gets people to work less efficiently. 42. What suggestion is given in the passage? A. Don't let the mess take over. B. Associate cleanliness and order with morality. C. Help young children develop a habit of tidiness. D. Better not ask anyone else to do the cleaning for you. （C） Leaning Morse code, with its tappity-tap rhythms of dots and dashes, could take far less effort - and attention - than one might think. The trick is a wearable computer that engages the sensory powers of touch, according to a recent pilot study. Ph.D. student Caitlyn Seim and computer science professor Thad Starner of the Georgia Institute of Technology study haptics (触觉感知). Last September at the 20th International Symposium on Wearable Computers in Heidelberg, Germany, they announced that they had programmed Google Glass to passively teach its wearers Morse code - with some signs of success. For the study, 12 participants wore the smart glasses while playing an online game on a Pc. During multiple hour-long sessions (一节课), half the players heard Google Glass's built-in speaker repeatedly spelling out words and felt taps behind the right ear for the dots and dashes corresponding to each letter. The other six participants heard only the audio, without the corresponding vibrations (震动). After each run of game playing, all the players were asked to tap out letters in Morse code using a finger on the touch pad of the smart glasses; for example, if they tapped "dot-dot," an "i" would pop up on the visual display. The brief testing essentially encouraged them to try to learn the code. After four one-hour sessions, the group that had received tactile cues could tap a pangram (a sentence using the entire alphabet) with 94 percent accuracy. The audio-only group eventually achieved 47 percent accuracy, learning solely from their trial-and-error inputs. The work shows that "it is possible to teach a system of typing without the user paying much attention to it," Starner says. Passive haptic learning could help users quickly master new text-entry methods for accessory keyboards or an eyes-free. Morse code-like system of taps on a smart watch, he adds, notings:"That might really change how people use mobile and wearable devices." The results agree with other effects of passive haptic learning that the researchers have found in past studies, Seim says. For example, the group has developed computing gloves that deliver vibrations to the fingers to teach the "muscle memories" for playing a piano song or typing Braille. Although it was small scale, the experiment demonstrates how wearable computers could permit users to "go about your daily business - and while you do that, you can get information to actually learn things," says Paul Lukowicz of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, who was not involved in the study. Now if only listening to Spanish in your sleep could impart fluency. 43. What can be learned about the participants of Caitlyn Seim and Thad Starner's study? A. None of them knew beforehand what they would do. B. Some of them had already learned Morse Code. C. All of them were experienced PC game players. D. Half of them could only hear words spelt out. 44. The "tactile cues" (in paragraph 4) refer to "________". A. the taps that the players felt B. the testing that the players had C. the letters that the players knew D. the glasses that the player wore 45. What can be inferred from Caitlyn Seim and Thad Starner’s study? A. A new system of typing is on the way. B. People can learn some manual skills subconsciously. C. It is possible for Morse Code to serve as a learning tool. D. Vibrations do nothing to help maintain muscle memories. 46. According to Starner, in what way is their study important? A. It may offer an innovative way to use wearable devices. B. It may draw people's attention to alternative learning materials. C. It may inspire researchers to care more about the sense of touch. D. It may advance the technology of mobile devices to a new stage. 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. A Brief History of Silk Comfortable to wear whether the weather is hot or cold, silk is as popular today as it was 5,000 years ago when it was first manufactured. However, the history of silk has not always been as smooth as the fabric (织物) itself. Today's basic silk-production process has changed very little since it first began. The fabric comes from silkworms which, although tiny when born, grow rapidly in size. Indeed, on a strict diet of mulberry leaves, it is estimated that they increase in weight by 10,000% over the first six weeks of their life. When they are fully grown, the silkworms create a cocoon—a protective shell made of silk. They then crawl inside in order to prepare for their next stage of development. However, for commercial silk production, these cocoons are then boiled, killing the worm inside, to ensure that the silk is not damaged. After this, the silk is gathered and prepared. A single cocoon can produce between 300 and 900 metres of silk thread. Although today silk is both grown and worn worldwide, the original production of silk was restricted to China. Later, in the sixth century, two monks managed to take some eggs all the way back to their native Byzantium (modern-day Istanbul, in Turkey). This was an event of great importance, since Europe was from that point able to manufacture its own silk. Before the monks' success in bringing the silkworms out of China, Europeans were dependent on merchants bringing the fabric from East Asia across the mountain roads of Central Asia and the Middle East. Indeed, so much silk was transported that this trade route became known as Silk Road. Although man-made fibres (纤维) are cheaper and easier to manufacture, the beauty of silk is difficult to match, and there is always likely to be a large international market. IV. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 近三年来，我一直在练习潜水。(practise) 53. 奇怪的是，照相机的备用电池找不到了。(nowhere) 54. 作为对于这起食物中毒事件网络报道的回应，这家饭店发布了最新检验结果。(response) 55. 为了找到一间在自己预算范围的公寓，小王几乎走遍了这个街区所有的房产中介，但一无所获。(In order to) 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，最近在一本英语杂志上读到一篇关于青少年心理状态的文章，文中提出与 20 年前的青少年相比，如今的青少年更不快乐。你对此观点很感兴趣，写一篇文章给该杂志 "读者来信" 专栏，内容须包括: 1) 你是否赞同这一观点； 2) 你的理由。 第 1 页 / 共 1 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $