上海复旦大学附属中学2025-2026学年第一学期高三年级英语学科10月第一次阶段性教学质量评估试卷

复旦大学附属中学2025学年第一学期 高三年级英语学科10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. Should the Star Wars films be watched in story order? The debate over the best order in which to watch the Star Wars films is not a new one among fans. Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, was asked the order in 1          he would watch the films and replied, "I always think the way they were released," which means starting with Episode IV--A New Hope, 2          (release) in 1977. On the other hand, George Lucas, the creator of Star Wars, has said that he thinks following the story 3          (be) the best way to watch the films, which would mean starting with 1999's Episode I--The Phantom Menace. So should the films be watched in story order? Yes--start at the beginning of the story. The Star Wars universe is massive, and there's a lot 4          (keep) up with. Watching them in story order, starting with Episode I--The Phantom Menace, is the best way to avoid getting confused. We all read a book from beginning to end, so why wouldn't you follow a film series the same way? Today, lots of young people 5          (introduce) to the Star Wars universe through the release of the newer films; watching all of them in story order is the easiest way to get up to speed beforehand. Best of all, Episode I--The Phantom Menace, 6          criticised by some adult fans, is the most child-friendly of the lot and makes a good starting point for younger viewers. No--you'll miss out on clever references. Anyone 7          (plan) to watch all the Star Wars films and get up to "light speed" with Star Wars should begin with the first three films. 8          made the series what it is today. If you start with 1999's Episode I--The Phantom Menace, you'll miss lots of clever references 9          the original films because you haven't watched them in the order they were created. By starting with the original 1977 films you're seeing the true progression of Star Wars, from early models and costumes to today's CGI (computer-generated imagery) magic. Besides, watching them in date order was probably 10          your parents viewed the series. If you watch them in the same order, that's something you can share together. 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. broadened B. completely C. comprehensive D. concerned E. consistent F. expansion G. involved H. limitation I. predicted J. sociality K. ultimately Sea Smarts Killer whales have group-specific dialects, sperm whales babysit one another's young and bottlenose dolphins cooperate with other species. These social skills are all closely linked with their brain sizes, according to a recent study. Scientists first proposed a relation between social living and brain 11          nearly three decades ago, when they observed that primate (灵长类) species with larger brains typically lived in bigger groups. This theory was later 12          to associate brain size with other social characteristics, such as resolving conflicts and distributing food. Michael Muthukrishna, an economic psychologist at the London School of Economics, and his colleagues went searching for a similar link between big brains and 13          in cetaceans (鲸目动物). They collected a(n) 14          data set of cetacean brain and body mass, group size and social characteristics. The team's analyses, which covered 90 species, revealed that brain size was best 15          by a score based on various social behaviors such as cooperation with other species, group hunting and complex vocalizations. Bigger brains were also linked to other factors, including dietary richness and geographical range. The authors say these results are 16          with theories that cetaceans developed large brains to deal with the challenges of living in information-rich social environments. Yet Muthukrishna notes that his study's main 17          is the lack of available research on many cetacean species. Discovering more about whales and dolphins could reveal that other factors—such as life span and the duration of the young-age phase—might also be 18          in brain size, he adds. Understanding how cetaceans developed such big brains could 19          help us piece together humanity's own evolutionary history. Because these animals occupy a(n) 20          different environment than people do, Muthukrishna says, "they provide us with a useful control group for testing hypotheses (假设) about human evolution." 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. It was 2011. I was in New Zealand for the first time, speaking at a literary festival about my most recent book. I was nervous. I was hungry for something 21         . Something to make being this far away feel okay. I 22          the recently launched app, Google Now, on my phone. It read my location, the weather and time. It 23          that information with what it knew I liked based on past searches, and predicted what it thought I might like, based on search results of people similar to me. When I arrived at the 24          cafe, it was exactly in my comfort zone: exposed brickwork, lots of greenery, bare wood tables, Edison bulbs. I had to wait for a table, so I dived into a 25          that I'd brought along for the ride. Immediately, I started chatting about the book with the person next to me. He and his girlfriend had read it, and wasn't it great, and where are you from... Soon, we discovered we knew the same person back in London. Small world, eh? You could enjoy the 26          of humans, or the determination of people to discover commonality. You might take another view, and think it's 27         , that there's nowhere to escape the mobile middle classes. Or, you could say that I was a pioneer in a new land, 28          by geography. Author Kyle Chayka calls it the land of AirSpace. Chayka is a Brooklyn resident who made his first foray into AirSpace around the same time as I did, when he stayed in an apartment in the heart of Copenhagen that was advertised on Airbnb as 'Brooklyn-style'. He could've 29          somewhere else, but as he told me recently in an episode called Gentrification for BBC Radio 4's Digital Human, he didn't. And he thought it was 30          that he could stay in a Brooklyn-style apartment in Stockholm, and drink coffee in cafes that looked the same--complete with cookie--but he did it. I do it. Maybe you do it too. While shifts in design are a thousand years old, Kyle argues that trends are now being distributed 31          in dramatic ways, thanks to the importance we place on posting and sharing our surroundings on apps like Facebook, Pinterest, Foursquare and Instagram. The apps' algorithms (算法) 32          what we see, and so we all end up liking, desiring and sharing the same things. 33          isn't rewarded in AirSpace. While all this homogeneity (同质性) is not great if you're looking for traditional tea pagodas in Tokyo, it's 34          for those who spend much of their time on the road and just want fast internet, strong coffee and other luxuries of home. But no algorithm could've 35          that I'd make a programme about AirSpace, nine years after I first visited it... 21. A. concrete B. unusual C. serious D. familiar 22. A. loaded up B. made for C. set aside D. took in 23. A. shared B. compared C. accepted D. ended 24. A. maintained B. self-styled C. suggested D. well-managed 25. A. book B. cafe C. zone D. thought 26. A. preference B. evolution C. connectedness D. influence 27. A. important B. terrible C. impossible D. reasonable 28. A. protected B. divided C. identified D. unlimited 29. A. departed B. appeared C. worked D. chosen 30. A. natural B. ridiculous C. necessary D. straightforward 31. A. globally B. randomly C. locally D. inclusively 32. A. decide B. realize C. impress D. misinterpret 33. A. Standardization B. Uniqueness C. Determination D. Similarity 34. A. embarrassing B. progressive C. comforting D. distinctive 35. A. forgotten B. claimed C. explained D. predicted 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） The student arrived early, sat front and center, and stood out in my classroom in more ways than one. I'd say that he had about 40 years on his classmates in my undergraduate communications class at California State University, Los Angeles. He eagerly jumped into class discussions, with his humor and wisdom of experience. And he was always respectful of the other students' perspectives, as if each of them were a teacher. Jerry Valencia walked in with a smile-and he left with one too. "These students gave me the confidence that I didn't need to feel bad about my age," Valencia says. One day, I spotted Valencia on campus. He said he would have to stop taking classes that semester and reapply for next year. By then, he hoped to have earned enough money from construction jobs and have his student-loan papers in order. But he said he was still coming to campus to attend events or see friends. He asked whether he could still sit in on my communications class. Sure, I said. But he wouldn't get any credit. No problem, he said. Soon there he was again--a 63-year-old Cal State LA junior with as much energy and curiosity as any of the youngsters in class. For an assignment on changing neighborhoods, Valencia wrote about a favorite local chain restaurant that was "unceremoniously closed". He called it a theft of childhood. "It is almost as if someone has stolen that childhood and replaced it with a slippery hill where everything they cherish will slide away," he wrote. A lot of Valencia's classmates apparently knew he couldn't afford that semester's tuition but was still doing the homework. "Here he is, willingly taking a class for the joy of it and benefit of learning," says Jessica Espinosa, a 25-year-old junior. "You don't see that in our generation." Valencia showed up and took the final exam too. Afterward, students were chatting, and I overheard Valencia say he wanted to stay in school until he earned a master's degree, but it had taken him 12 years to finish community college, so he had a long way to go. Twelve years? He was in and out of school, he said, subject to his work schedule and whether he had money for classes. He had earned his associate of arts degree over the summer, then transferred to Cal State LA to start on his bachelor's. I needed to hear more. 36. What can be learned about Jerry Valencia from the first paragraph? A. He thought too highly of himself. B. He was inactive in class discussions. C. He took great delight in taking classes. D. He felt embarrassed about his age in class. 37. Why did Valencia have to quit school this semester? A. He was too old to apply. B. He didn't have enough time. C. He couldn't afford the tuition. D. He failed to catch up with his lessons. 38. What does Jessica Espinosa say about Valencia? A. He is eager for a higher degree. B. He is passionate about learning. C. He is worried about his exam results. D. He is as enthusiastic as her generation. 39. What is the writer most likely to write about in the paragraph following the passage? A. Valencia's past success. B. Valencia's summer plan. C. Valencia's financial status. D. Valencia's academic pursuit. （B） Michael Blastland's new book, The Hidden Half, looks at how our urge to constantly find order affects science, politics, business and economics, with sometimes terrible results. What's The Hidden Half all about? It's a book of mysteries and errors that reflect the fact that our knowledge is much weaker and less reliable than we think it is. I've tried to tell some of the stories which actually show us that we don't and possibly never will have secure knowledge of some of the causal processes in our lives. That's an uncomfortable thought... There are clearly some instances in which uncertainty is actually a good thing. The question is, can we talk about uncertainty in ways that people find acceptable for the tricky questions about what's going on in the world? Because people fear that if they admit uncertainty they'll lose their authority. There's research being done by the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication. They tell you in different ways how many tigers there are in the world. Then they ask you if you trust the information, and whether you trust the person telling you two separate questions. They say, "There are X thousand tigers. What do you say to that, and do you trust me?" Then they say, "We think there are X thousand tigers, but we're not quite sure. Now how well do you trust the information and how well do you trust me?" And the third one: "We think there are X thousand tigers, but we're pretty confident that the answer is within a thousand more or a thousand fewer." The last of those achieves the highest level of trust. People lose confidence in the number a bit, which they should, because we're not that sure about the number. But they gain confidence in the person giving them the information. So we can present information in ways that admit real, unavoidable uncertainty and gain credibility. What practical tips should we take from the book? You can still make any decision you like. You just have to acknowledge the uncertainties, because that might change the kind of decision that you make. You can recognise that your policy that has been demonstrated in a few schools in the West Midlands may not translate to many other schools if the sample isn't big enough. Don't expect things to generalise with perfection if you're a decision maker. There are things we don't know, but we'd do things a lot better if we were frank about our limitations. 40. According to Michael Blastland, what is his book, The Hidden Half, intended to do? A. To warn readers against any generalization. B. To encourage readers to challenge authority. C. To get readers to realize their own limitations. D. To remind readers that uncertainty is a fact of life. 41. What does the research by the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication show? A. People prefer to have a definite answer to a question. B. You may not lose authority even if you admit you are unsure. C. We can say for certain how many tigers there are in the world. D. It's important to reveal uncertainty in an unnoticeable way. 42. What suggestion does Michael Blastland give? A. Decision-makers should read his book. B. We should be careful with any translated works. C. We should be honest with what we don't know for sure. D. Decision-makers should demonstrate their policy-making processes. （C） The most distractingly unrealistic feature of most science fiction--by some margin--is how the great flying cities of the future never seem to struggle with traffic. Futurists seem confident we can sort out congestion. If hope that technology will fix traffic springs eternal, history suggests something different. Transport innovation, from railways to cars, reshaped cities and drove economic advance. But it also brought crowded traffic. Now, as tech firms and carmakers aim to roll out driverless cars, it is worth asking: might this time be different? Alas, artificial intelligence (AI) is unlikely to succeed where railways and cars failed. Of course, new transport technologies are not useless. Railways and highways allowed big cities to get bigger. When the New York subway extended into northern Manhattan, it became practical to live far from the dirty, expensive, crowded downtown area, while still enjoying access to the city's social and economic benefits. So the city's population rose--a lot--leaving New Yorkers once more crowded. A post-war highway-building boom in America led to explosive growth in city suburbs. Cities once again found their balance, however, as the suburban land rush led to road congestion, raising the cost of living far from employment centres. In a paper published in 2011, Gilles Duranton, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Matthew Turner, of Brown University, identified a "fundamental law of road congestion": namely, that building more highways does not reduce congestion. Rather, it attracts more residents, leads to more driving by existing residents and boosts transport-intensive economic activity, until roads are once again crowded. Driverless cars should cut traffic, other things being equal. Lower accident rates will mean fewer crash-related hold-ups, while AIs that can pilot cars more closely together will boost road capacity. But reductions in traffic will make living in currently congested areas more attractive and hence more densely populated. Miles travelled per person might also rise, since self-driving technology frees passengers to use travel time for work or sleep. And just as new highways help increase transport-intensive business, driverless vehicles could give rise to lots of new road-using activity. Where now a worker might pop into the coffee shop before going to work, for example, a coffee might soon be delivered in a driverless vehicle. The technology of driverless cars may make us safer and more productive, but not necessarily help reduce traffic. 43. The phrase "springs eternal" in paragraph 1 most probably means ______. A. gets fulfilled B. varies with the season C. becomes heated D. lasts forever 44. What can be inferred from paragraph 2? A. Living far from the downtown area means being away from the city's social benefits. B. Expanding a city proves to be an unwise way to reduce people's cost of living. C. The congestion-easing benefits of new transport technology are temporary. D. Building more highways doesn't always help a city's economy to develop. 45. According to the writer, what will happen thanks to driverless cars? A. Fewer accidents will happen. B. More people will choose to drive. C. There will be more road capacity. D. More people will live in the suburbs. 46. Which of the following statements best summarizes the writer's opinion of driverless cars? A. They can't fundamentally solve the current traffic problem. B. They will help promote the development of artificial intelligence. C. They can increase productivity by reducing people's time on the road. D. They won't increase transport-intensive business as much as highways do. 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. Is Science Actually "Right"? 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? 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. 51. Food Security Food security refers to the availability of food and one's access to it. A household is considered food-secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. According to the World Resources Institute, global per capita food production has been increasing substantially for the past several decades. Worldwide, around 852 million people are suffering from long-term starvation due to extreme poverty, while up to 2 billion people lack food security occasionally due to varying degrees of poverty (source: Food and Agriculture Organisation, 2003). As of late 2007, export restrictions and panic buying, US dollar depreciation, increased farming for use in biofuels, world oil prices at more than $100 a barrel, global population growth, climate change, and loss of agricultural land to residential and industrial development are claimed to have pushed up the price of grain. The number of people without enough food to eat on a regular basis remains high, at over 800 million, and is not falling significantly. Over 60% of the world's undernourished people live in Asia, and a quarter in Africa. The proportion of people who are hungry, however, is greater in Africa (33%) than Asia (16%). The latest FAO figures indicate that there are 22 countries, 16 of which are in Africa, in which the undernourishment rate is over 35%. In its "The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2003," FAO states that: "In general the countries that succeeded in reducing hunger were characterised by more rapid growth in their agricultural sectors." So, according to FAO, addressing agriculture and population growth is vital to achieving food security. Other organisations, and experts such as the philosopher Peter Singer, have also come to this conclusion and advocate improvements in agriculture and population control. IV. Translation Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 52. 这家咖啡馆让我想起了二十世纪五六十年代的茶馆。(remind) 53. 最大挑战可能在于如何重塑员工对公司的信心。(lie) 54. 这位教练既对孩子们要求严格，又不遗余力地呵护着他们对足球的热爱。(effort) 55. 50年前，这里还是人迹罕至的海滩，与今天的游人如此迥然不同。(contrast) 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，最近在一份英语杂志上读到一篇题为 "The jobs that will no longer exist in a decade" 的文章。你对此话题很感兴趣，写一封信给该杂志读者来信专栏，内容须包括： 1) 你认为十年内哪类工作将不复存在； 2) 你的理由。 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $ 复旦大学附属中学2025学年第一学期 高三年级英语学科10月第一次阶段性教学质量评估试卷　答案 I. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 1. which 2. released 3. is 4. to keep 5. are being introduced/are introduced 6. although 7. planning 8. They 9. to 10. how Section B 11. F 12. A 13. J 14. C 15. I 16. E 17. H 18. G 19. K 20. B II. Reading Comprehension Section A 21. D 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. D 29. D 30. B 31. A 32. A 33. B 34. C 35. D Section B 36. C 37. C 38. B 39. D 40. D 41. B 42. C 43. D 44. C 45. A 46. A Section C 47. C 48. E 49. A 50. B III. Summary Writing 51. Food security means constant availability of and access to food. Despite rising global food production, many people suffer from long-term starvation or occasional food insecurity. Asia and Africa have the largest numbers of undernourished people, but the proportion of hunger is higher in Africa. FAO and experts hold that developing agriculture and controlling population growth are vital to food security. IV. Translation 52. This cafe reminds me of the teahouses in the 1950s and 1960s. 53. The biggest challenge may lie in how to rebuild employees’ confidence in the company. 54. The coach is not only strict with the children, but also spares no effort to protect their love for football. 55. Fifty years ago, this area was a beach rarely visited by tourists, forming a sharp contrast to the present scene of so many tourists. V. Guided Writing 56. Dear Editor I recently came across an article titled "The jobs that will no longer exist in a decade" in your magazine, and I find this topic profoundly thought-provoking. In my perspective, professions intrinsically linked to traditional print media are highly susceptible to obsolescence within ten years. As digital platforms proliferate and gain unprecedented traction, an escalating number of readers gravitate towards online news sources, relegating physical newspapers and magazines to the background. As a corollary, the demand for print journalists, typesetters, and printing press operators will inevitably plummet. Furthermore, roles characterized by monotonous redundancy—such as rudimentary data entry and simplistic assembly line tasks—are also at risk of being superseded by automated systems. Such intelligent machinery can execute these operations with unparalleled precision and efficiency. To encapsulate, as technology undergoes exponential evolution, professions heavily reliant on routine manual labor are the most vulnerable and likely to be phased out in the forthcoming decade. Yours, Li Ming 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $