上海奉贤区曙光中学2026-2027学年高二上学期英语10月月考英语试题(无答案)

高二英语练习

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 Art of Persuasion

Persuasion is the art of influencing others’ thoughts, feelings and actions. It’s about convincing people to see things from your perspective, adopt your ideas or take specific actions.    1    you’re negotiating a business deal, advocating a cause or $imply trying to get your point across persuasion plays a crucial role.

Employers place a great value on employees    2    (possess) persuasion skills because they can impact several aspects of job performance. Besides, teamwork and leadership rely heavily on the power of persuasion to get things done    3    persuasion skills, employees may not be as committed to    4    makes an organization’s vision valuable, or convinced of its long-term mission. Effective use of persuasion skills will not only help get your coworkers excited about your ideas, it’ll also help you motivate them to achieve a common goal.

In order to learn the art of persuasion at the workplace, you need to understand the situations    5    conflicts arise and how to reach agreements. Good communication is the first step in effective persuasion, but equally important is the capacity    6    (ground) in logic and reasoning. Before you can get somebody on-board with your goal, you should help them understand why they should pursue it. Using visual aids to back up your ideas    7    (prove) effective in helping illustrate your ideas better.

Successful persuasion skills are based on your ability to have positive interactions and maintain meaningful relationships with people. In order to sustain those relationships, you must be able to work in their best interests as well. Your coworkers are    8    (likely) to disagree with you when they succeed alongside. The more they achieve and the greater progress they make, the more they trust your judgement and strength.

We persuade and get persuaded every day. A vast majority of people favour cooperation and teamwork over traditional organizational structures; no one likes to be told what to do or    9    (push) around. Therefore, organizations and leaders    10    adopt powerful persuasion skills to bring about necessary changes.

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. alert     B. connected   C. correspond   D. dismiss E. embarrassed   F. invaluable   G. judgement    H. divided I. respectful    J. urge    K. well-being

Are you listening? But are you really listening?

You’d think we’d be very good at listening, but do we deeply listen? Sometimes we quickly    11    another’s opinion if it doesn’t fit neatly with our own. The British Council has launched a project, Crossing

Divides, aimed to train young people to listen and understand other people with very different perspectives.

Practicing deep listening means tuning into empathy, resisting the    12    to judge people who are distinct from oneself. It develops important skills that will make anyone a better listener: empathy, silence and becoming aware of our    13    .

The project was piloted in Lebanon where it helped local people find common ground with each other, in a society    14    , by bitter years of conflict. People taking part in the project said they felt that they were being heard, helping them to feel recognized and understood, which opened communication between communities. All the participants greatly improved their listening skills, which proved    15    in their working and personal lives.

They have also had a chance to be listened to and heard, which research shows can improve    16    . This is because we all feel accepted, valued and more    17    to others when we sense that we are being truly listened to, and the person listening to us doesn’t have to agree with us for those benefits to be enjoyed.

The project is also an opportunity for participants to feel the benefit of stepping outside their own “echo chamber（回声室）”. Echo chambers are created by our natural tendency to seek out people and opinions, in person and online, that we agree with, so we mainly see and hear information and opinions that    18    to our own. Not surprisingly this leads us to think our views are definitively correct, so we become    19    or even angry when we encounter perspectives that our worldview suggests are wrong, because they don’t agree with our own echo chamber.

So, training young people with deep listening skills can encourage many more people to take part in challenging and    20    conversations. Scott McDonald, the organization’s CEO said: “The deep listening training gets to the heart of what we do by providing opportunities for people to step out of their echo chambers, to cross divides, and build trust and understanding.”

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.

Getting More Education Can Help You Live Longer

Eating healthier foods, getting more sleep, and reducing stress can all help you live longer. But researchers say that there’s another healthy    21    that we shouldn’t forget: getting an education.

Analyzing data from hundreds of studies of people in 59 countries, the scientists studied the relationship between how many years of education people received and mortality. They found that people with more    22    tended to die later than those who had less. Every additional year of education reduced mortality by 2%.

That    23    a 34% lower risk of dying early for people who complete high school and college (compared to those who don’t. That’s about as    24    against early death as eating the recommended daily amounts of vegetables.    25    having very little schooling increases mortality as much as drinking five or more drinks a day or smoking 10 cigarettes a day for 10 years. The impact of education does seem to be    26    to some of the bigger health factors like diet, smoking and excessive drinking.

And the more years spent in school, the better. The researchers were surprised to see that the benefit of each year of education did not    27    . Previous research has suggested that after a certain point, the impact of education on health outcomes may stay at a steady level, with each additional year having    28    or no increased benefit. The researchers didn’t find that in the analysis.

Because it was a meta-analysis of previous studies, the researchers were not able to look at the    29    of education - only the amount of schooling people had received. They also did not know when people received their education, so these results don’t say anything about optimal    30    for school.

    31    , the findings quantify how critical education can be for longevity. The exact mechanism by which education operates with mortality is    32    . It affects employment, income, the neighborhoods in which you live, and the types of resources you have available for diet and a healthy lifestyle. You can imagine that affects every aspect of your life and    33    for the rest of one’s life once you complete it.

That’s why the findings strongly suggest that focusing on education could be a reasonable—and powerful—way to change    34    outcomes of a population over the long term. If you really wanted to change the health profile of a country decades from now, what this study shows is that investments in education are likely to yield massive    35    in the future.

21. A. behavior    B. habit     C. image    D. routine

22. A. schooling    B. relaxation    C. motivation   D. exercise

23. A. adds to    B. amounts to   C. translates to   D. objects to

24. A. protective    B. effective    C. productive    D. sensitive

25. A. In fact     B. For example   C. In other words   D. On the contrary

26. A. relevant    B. comparable   C. contrary    D. adequate

27. A. increase    B. maintain    C. weaken    D. multiply

28. A. bigger     B. more obvious   C. less practical   D. smaller

29. A. quantity    B. quality    C. impact    D. requirement

30. A. duration    B. setting    C. length    D. timing

31. A. Still     B. Instead    C. Consequently   D. Furthermore

32. A. simple     B. significant    C. complex    D. confusing

33. A. extends    B. assesses    C. varies    D. operates

34. A. health     B. mental    C. education    D. financial

35. A. influences    B. products    C. schemes    D. benefits

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)

In winter, Harnmerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering. It is on the edge of the world, the northernmost town in Europe, as far from