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6月试卷

复旦大学附属中学2024学年第二学期 高二年级英语学科6月第一次阶段性教学质量评估试卷　答案 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 1. were participating 2. were spent 3. driving 4. because 5. in 6. whoever 7. theirs 8. not allowed 9. which 10. to try Section B 11. K 12. C 13. F 14. H 15. E 16. I 17. D 18. G 19. A 20. B II. Reading Comprehension Section A 21. C 22. A 23. D 24. A 25. B 26. B 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. A 31. D 32. C 33. B 34. B 35. D Section B 36. B 37. B 38. C 39. C 40. B 41. C 42. C 43. A 44. C 45. D 46. D Section C 47. B 48. F 49. C 50. D III. Summary Writing 51. April 22, 1970, was the first Earth Day, advertised by New York Times. April 22, 2020 marked its fiftieth anniversary. Although today’s environmental problems are not the same as those of fifty years ago, humans are still to blame. Just like what the ad of 50 years ago achieved, humans are called for to take action for a better future. IV. Translation 52. This fitness center is seen as an inviting part of the community. 53. It’s hard to imagine this well-known restaurant should be located in the deep mountain. 54. The tourists who go straight from the capital to the coast by plane are sure to miss the beautiful scenes in this valley. 55. The students noted, for the first time, how often other people pulled out their phones in the middle of a face-to-face conversation. V. Guided Writing 56. Volunteer Recruitment Notice In order to raise funds for underprivileged children and promote a spirit of social responsibility, our school is scheduled to hold a charity bazaar next Friday. We are now actively recruiting dedicated volunteers to assist with the organization of this meaningful event. The theme of the bazaar is "Passing on Love," and all the proceeds will be donated to rural schools. We aim to provide essential learning materials and improve the educational conditions for children in need. To ensure the smooth operation of the event, we plan to recruit 30 volunteers, who will be assigned various responsibilities. Their primary duties include setting up the stalls, organizing the donated items, maintaining order during the event, and distributing promotional leaflets to participants. We warmly welcome all students who are compassionate and highly motivated to join our team. By volunteering, you will not only contribute to a noble cause but also enhance your organizational and interpersonal skills. Please sign up at the Student Union office before next Wednesday. 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6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. Your Turn: Should Risky Sports Be Banned? A team of mountain climbers wanted to be the first to climb a particular mountain in the winter. Then they had to be rescued by army helicopters. Nearly a hundred sailboats 1 ______ (participate) in an ocean race when a severe storm occured. Two sailors and one rescue worker died during the rescue mission. Adventurer Richard Branson tried to fly a balloon around the world and crashed several times. Millions of dollars 2 ______ (spend) to search for him and bring him home safely. We asked our readers for their opinions. Paulo: What, exactly, is a risky sport? People have died while swimming, playing soccer, or even walking, but no one says those sports are dangerous. I could get in an accident while 3 ______ (drive) to my office. You can't ban all risky sports 4 ______ people have different definitions of "risky". Jackie: Yes, they should be banned! Why should these risk takers put other people's lives 5 ______ danger? And why should citizens pay all that tax money for rescue operations? Public money should not be used to help 6 ______ takes any risks without planning ahead for rescue. Matt: It is a personal choice to put your life at risk. We should not allow the government to put limits on your lives. If you are an adult, it should be your decision, not the government's! And if rescuers have decided to take a dangerous job, the choice was 7 ______ too. The world would be very boring if people never took risks. Lisa: All people need a challenge. Some people really enjoy taking risks, and if 8 ______ (not allow) to take high-risk sports, they will feel unhappy and look for risky adventures in other areas, like business or politics, or their personal life, 9 ______ would cause a lot more problems in the world. Ramesh: They should be banned, and journalists should stop writing and talking about the things that these crazy people do. All this publicity gives a lot of bad ideas to teenagers and encourages them 10 ______ (try) dangerous things. 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. bunch B. closeness C. confused D. disrupted E. encounters F. heavily G. recomposed H. reserved I. unconsciously J. unrecognisable K. valuable Relationship in the Digital Age People from our past whom we no longer directly communicate with but who are active on social networks can "occupy 11 space in your mind, and you think about them instead of about your close friends," said Carlin Flora, the author of "Friendfluence: The Surprising Ways Friends Make Us Who We are." "If my high school friend posts frequently about her life, it's almost like it's celebrity gossip, or it seems as if I am watching a reality show about her," Ms. Flora said. "Our brains get 12 about whether we know celebrities; if we see someone a lot, our brain thinks we know them." Ms. Schiller, the Iowa graduate, goes out often with friends at night but also lives on a digital diet of texting (13 enough that she recently hurt her thumb), Google chat and social media. As with many young people, talking on the phone was never a big part of her routine and is now 14 for the rarest of occasions. There are physiological benefits to face-to-face 15, however, that doesn't belong to digital interactions or the phone. "Your blood pressure goes down, and you imitate your friend's gesture 16," Ms. Flora said. "It's a kind of harmony humans have developed over thousands of years, and you don't get that when you only follow someone on social media." But now it's common for the synchrony (同步性) to be 17 in person, thanks to smartphones. Imagine Edward Hopper's 1942 painting "Nighthawks" (right) 18 today, with the three late-night diners and counterman all gazing at screens. "If there's a(n) 19 of guys at a bar together and they're all on their phones," Ms. Flora said, "they're not doing much to stimulate the body system to create the sense of 20." 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. "Every technology has improved over the years except batteries! Why can't someone invent a better battery?" These are the words we often hear from technology fans. In fact, though, the average technology fan is (21) ______ two huge points about batteries. First point: The batteries you probably (22) ______ most are the ones in your phone or laptop. But you could argue—and many scientists do—that batteries are the keys to handling much, much bigger problems, like energy, transportation and climate change. (23) ______ today electric cars represent only about 1 percent of U.S. new car sales. One reason is they cost more than gas-powered cars. Another is (24) ______ anxiety—consumers' fear they'll run out of charge far from home. The (25) ______ higher-capacity batteries now under development aim to solve both those problems. Then there's the grid (输电网). Electric utilities (电力公司) spend their days coping with swings in energy (26) ______. There's almost no demand at night, when everyone's asleep, and then tremendous increase at 5 p.m., when people get home from work. Utilities actually (27) ______ expensive, inefficient, occasionally used backup power plants just to handle demand increase, as occurs during heat waves. Batteries connected to the grid could even out those strange swings. Maybe even more important, grid batteries could capture solar power while the sun's shining—and wind power when it's blowing—for use when we really (28) ______ it. Thus far we haven't been able to make the sun and wind respect our lifestyle (29) ______. The other important point: Batteries have been getting better over the decades. The reason why we don't (30) ______ it is that our devices have been getting faster, more powerful and more power-hungry at the same time. If you could put a (31) ______ iPhone battery into a 1995 phone, it'd probably go a year on a single charge. Other great things are (32) ______. Materials scientist Mike Zimmerman has succeeded in replacing the liquid electrolyte (液体电解质), which can burn easily, with a single piece of special plastic film. That is, batteries (33) ______ exploding. And because it's unblowuppable, Zimmerman can use lithium metal, which has a much higher energy density but is considered too (34) ______ to use with today's liquid-electrolyte batteries. That is: batteries with a longer life. So if you do want to complain about your batteries, get it out now. It won't be long before they have a much better (35) ______. 21. A. solving B. following C. missing D. weighing 22. A. think about B. take up C. get across D. see through 23. A. In summary B. In addition C. By contrast D. For example 24. A. range B. power C. state D. stress 25. A. stronger B. cheaper C. safer D. cleaner 26. A. price B. demand C. stock D. control 27. A. maintain B. evaluate C. abandon D. identify 28. A. emphasize B. stop C. neglect D. need 29. A. varieties B. directions C. schedules D. purposes 30. A. notice B. doubt C. support D. ignore 31. A. charged B. used C. dead D. modern 32. A. at a loss B. in the darkness C. on the way D. with a question 33. A. inconvenient for B. incapable of C. sensitive to D. different from 34. A. popular B. dangerous C. common D. economical 35. A. comparison B. opportunity C. understanding D. reputation 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） Skateboarder Tom was 23 when he set off on an epic journey: to skateboard across the whole of Australia. The trip would cover more than 5,000 kilometres. He had no team backing him, no big sponsors, just his skateboard, his backpack and a lot of determination. Tom's idea started one evening when he was watching documentaries about long-distance adventures. "I thought, why not me?" he recalls. Most cross-Australia travellers use cars or bikes. Hardly anyone attempts the journey on a skateboard. People told him he was crazy. Friends warned about extreme heat, dangerous wildlife and long empty stretches of road. Tom did some basic training. He built up his leg muscles by skateboarding for hours each day. He also read survival guides. Still, nothing could fully prepare him for what lay ahead. The first few weeks were physically exhausting. His legs ached constantly. He suffered terrible sunburn. Water was hard to find. Sometimes he would go many hours without seeing another human being. At night he slept in his tent beside the highway. There were good moments too. Strangers would stop their cars to give him food and water. He met many interesting people. The landscape changed dramatically as he travelled. But the journey was not without setbacks. At one point, his skateboard was badly cracked. He had to wait for days in a small town while a local workshop fixed it for free. "That kindness meant everything to me," he says. After 147 days, Tom finally reached his destination. He had lost 12 kilograms but gained a new understanding of life. "I learned that you don't need to be perfectly prepared to start something. You just need to take the first step," he says. "And I learned that people are generally kind and willing to help." 36. What made Tom decide to skate across Australia? A. Pressure from his friends. B. Watching adventure documentaries. C. Wish to win sponsorship. D. Desire to set a new sports record. 37. What difficulty did Tom meet on his journey? A. He had no tent for sleeping. B. He suffered from sore legs and sunburn. C. Local people refused to offer him supplies. D. Dangerous animals attacked him several times. 38. What saved Tom's journey when his skateboard was badly cracked? A. A brand-new skateboard from a sponsor. B. Survival skills he learned from books. C. Free repair service from a local workshop. D. Help from other cross-Australia travellers. 39. What lesson did Tom learn from the journey? A. Perfect preparation guarantees success. B. Travelling alone is the best way to build confidence. C. One should dare to begin despite imperfect conditions. D. Long-distance travel requires a professional team. （B） Researcher A The young athletes interviewed seemed emotionally resilient and able to cope with the pressures of the training and performance environments. In this they appeared helped by their family environment and parental interest, with very few of them experiencing persistent tension or anxiety about the prospect of training or competing. Furthermore, the rate of self-reported psychological illness was lower among these athletes than in the general population, which must relate to the cohesion which is an obvious characteristic of athletic families. Researcher B My findings suggest that intensive training had a significant effect on the young athlete and his or her family where leisure time and friendships were concerned. These youngsters devoted a considerable amount of free time to training, but not to the extent that it affected their ability to make and maintain key relationships. Training was seen as a positive aspect of their lives rather than increasing their stress levels. Unfortunately, because of the cost of accessing sports programmes, it appeared that the positive gains were not equally open to all classes and family types. However, young athletes considered their families to be more supportive and more willing to accept change than youngsters who were not participating in sport. Researcher C Rates of emotional and behavioural problems within a population of young athletes and a group of control youngsters were compared in our survey. Over two-thirds described their daily health as above average, with few actually experiencing poor health. One could go as far as to say that young athletes have more resilience to illness and infection than those who are non-participants; it is however not known whether this is because of the social incentives and reinforcement practices of the coach or parent involved, or because intense sporting activity in fact affords a measure of protection from illness. Researcher D As we sampled our sports group, we found that very few appeared to experience poor health during the study. Most interestingly, many young athletes reported a minimal amount of anxiety during training. Those who had this reaction experienced only the mildest of symptoms, usually characterised by feelings of restlessness. Additionally, the close family environment played a role in protection against psychological illness. However, some concern was felt about athletes' siblings, who occasionally struggle to accept the success of a successful athlete within the family and may even on occasion feel neglected by parents. 40. What are the four researchers mainly talking about? A. The research on how to cultivate young athletes. B. The positive effects of taking up sports while young. C. The support that young athletes get from their families. D. The potential problems that young athletes may meet with. 41. The word "resilient" most probably means ______. A. hard to adjust B. not long forgotten C. not easily damaged D. certain to remember 42. Which of the following statements is true of the four researchers? A. Researcher A finds that athletic families are less harmonious than other families. B. Researcher B finds that young athletes are more open to change. C. Researcher C finds that intense sporting activity protects young athletes from illness. D. Researcher D finds that young athletes are very likely to feel stressed. （C） Public health emergencies are a fact of life in a world as interconnected as ours. In just the past five years we have witnessed unexpected outbreaks of fatal diseases—Ebola, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika—each of which has spread far beyond its historical geographical range. No one can say what the next large-scale emergency will be, whom it will affect or when it will strike, but we do know that it is inevitable. Yet the U.S. is unprepared to meet this threat because it does not set aside money to beat back an outbreak before it can spread. The U.S. used to have a national public health emergency fund, first created in the 1980s, but its balance has since decreased to $57,000—enough to buy a few thousand first aid kits but not much else. What we need is more on the order of several hundred million to $1 billion in new funding that is always and immediately available and is refilled whenever it becomes drained. A mechanism is already in place to deal with natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is pre-authorized to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to pay for debris (碎片) removal, for example, when state or local budgets become stressed by a weather emergency. Creating a similar "rainy day" fund—and providing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with permission to use it in advance, without needing to go to the Congress—could save lives and money, both at home and overseas. The idea behind an emergency fund is not to displace efforts to fight infectious disease but to increase them to meet a crushing temporary need. During an outbreak the CDC can call on many doctors and nurses to work without pay, but the costs of transportation, medical supplies and protective equipment still have to be covered. The increase in patients typically increases the need for laboratory testing—extra requirements that can be met by short-term contracts with commercial companies. 43. According to the author, what does today's interconnectedness lead to? A. Fatal diseases spread farther than they used to. B. Better preparations are made to fight diseases. C. There are more disease outbreaks than before. D. We can predict when the next emergency will strike. 44. What does the author imply about the U.S.'s national public health emergency fund? A. It was created too late. B. It has worked well before. C. It can't meet today's needs. D. It can't deal with natural disease. 45. Which statement about a "rainy day" fund is the author most likely to agree with? A. The fund can save more lives at home than abroad during an emergency. B. Efforts to fight fatal diseases have been displaced due to the misuse of the fund. C. Most infectious diseases could have been prevented if the fund had been in place. D. CDC can decide how to use the fund for emergencies without further permission. 46. What is the passage mainly about? A. What can be achieved with a pre-weather emergency fund. B. Why it is almost impossible to avoid future disease outbreaks. C. Why it is especially important to fight infectious diseases now. D. What can be done to minimize the danger of disease outbreaks. 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. What if Turks can afford organic tea? B. A good thing, then, that there is tea, around which all can unite. C. In the second half of the 19th century, when tea arrived in the Ottoman empire, the economy was in decline. D. Price is just as important today. E. Tea wasn't Turks' favourite until recently. F. The state tea company, Caykur, the country's largest producer, will turn entirely to organic farming by 2023. Tea for Two Times the Price There is so little Turks agree on these days that even settling on the country's national drink is hard. Secularists pick raki, a wine best had with baked fish and music. Religious conservatives, including President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, insist on a milky and non-alcoholic drink called ayran. (47) ______ An average Turk gets through about 3.5kg of tea every year, or almost four glasses a day, ahead of every other country including Britain, India, China and Russia. Turkey is also the world's sixth-biggest producer of the leaf. No one has ever entered a house or a government office in Turkey without being offered a glass. (Cups are for coffee, or for tourists.) Now change is taking place in an ancient industry. The government is offering subsidies (补贴) to tea farmers who go organic, hoping that foreigners will then pay more for Turkish tea. (48) ______ At one of the company's factories near Rize, a drab city bordered on one side by the sea and by mountains covered in green carpets of tea on the other, the manager, Koksal Kasapoglu, says the policy has already worked. Organic production at Caykur has shot up from under 100 acres a decade ago to about 10,000 today, about 5% of the total area under cultivation, he says. Tea owes its popularity in Turkey largely to price. (49) ______ Many Turks chose the new drink over coffee, which they had been drinking for centuries, but which had become hard to afford. (50) ______ Partly because organically grown tea requires more land to produce the same amount of crop, it costs roughly twice as much as the standard kind. Taxpayers' cash can no doubt persuade many farmers to go organic. But with the economy declining, convincing Turkish tea-drinkers to buy the stuff will be harder. 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. Two New York Times Ads Call Millions To Action On January 18, 1970, The New York Times ran a full-page ad announcing a day of environmental action. This day, which was first named publicly in this ad, became the very first Earth Day. "On April 22 we start to reclaim the environment we have wrecked," the ad stated. "Earth Day is a commitment to make life better, not just bigger and faster. To provide real rather than rhetorical solutions... it is a day for looking beyond tomorrow. April 22 seeks a future worth living." Fifty years later, almost to the date, Earth Day Network is running another full-page ad in The New York Times, this one announcing Earth Day's 50th anniversary on April 22, 2020. The ad ran in The New York Times on Sunday, February 2, to subscribers in the United States, with digital ads running on nytimes.com through the month of February. Though today's environmental crisis—climate change—differs from the destructive pollution problem that spurred the first Earth Day, its root cause remains the same: humans. "A disease has infected our country," begins the 1970 ad. "It has brought smog to Yosemite, dumped garbage in the Hudson, sprayed DDT in our food, and left our cities in decay. Its carrier is man." To fight today's manmade crisis, we once again need people taking to the streets. Like the first ad, the February 2020 ad is a call to action for our planet. If the first Earth Day helped launch the modern environmental movement, the 50th Earth Day must launch a new era of environmentalism and mark a moment when inaction turns to action. "For the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, we need everyone participating," said Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network. "In 1970, Earth Day mobilized 20 million Americans. Today, Earth Day is global, and every nation on Earth is participating." IV. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 这家健身中心被誉为这个社区的加分项。(see) 53. 很难想象这家声名远播的饭店竟然坐落在深山里。(locate) 54. 从首都直接乘飞机到海滩的游客一定会错过这个山谷的美丽景色。(sure) 55. 这些学生首次注意到其他人在面对面交流过程中拿出手机这个动作有多频繁。(note) 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，你校将于下个月举办一次慈善义卖，计划招募部分学生作为志愿者参与本次义卖的组织工作。作为学校宣传部的成员，你需要为志愿者招募写一份说明，内容须包括： 1)对这次义卖的简单介绍（如主题、时间、目的等）； 2)计划招募多少名志愿者以及他们的责任。 第 1 页 / 共 1 页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $