2024年4月8日发(作者：)

2021

年上海闵行区高三二模英语试卷

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学生用卷

一、语法填空（本大题共

10

小题）

1、【来源】 2021年上海闵行区高三二模第21~30题

Everywhere I look outside my home I see people busy on their high-tech devices, while driving,

walking, shopping, even sitting in toilets.

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connected electronically, they are

away from physical reality.

People

2

(influence) to become technology addicted. One survey

reported that "addicted" was the word most commonly used by

people

3

(describe) their relationship to iPad and similar devices. One study

found that people had a harder time

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(resist) the temptation of social media

than they did for sleep, cigarettes and alcohol.

The main goal of technology companies is to get people to spend more money and time on their

products, not to actually improve our quality of life. They have successfully created a cultural disease. I see

people

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(trap) in a pathological

（病态的）

relationship with time-consuming

technology,

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they serve technology more than technology serves them. I call

this technology servitude

（奴役）

. I am referring to a loss of personal freedom and

independence

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uncontrolled consumption of many kinds of devices that eat

up time and money.

What is a healthy use of technology devices? That is the vital question. Who is really in charge of my

life? That is what we need to ask

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if we are to have any chance of breaking

up false beliefs about the use of technology. When we can live happily without using so much technology

for a day or a week, then we can regain control and personal freedom, become the master of technology

and discover what there is to enjoy in life free of technology. Mae West is famous for the wisdom that "too

much of a good thing is wonderful."

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it's time to discover that it does not

work for technology.

Richard Fernandez, an executive coach at Google acknowledged that "we can be swept away by our

technologies." To break the grand digital connection, people must

consider

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life long ago could be fantastic without today's overused

technology.

二、选词填空（本大题共

10

小题）

2、【来源】 2021年上海闵行区高三二模第31~40题

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Celebrity

（名人）

has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to

be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption on the interest of

celebrity

1

to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost

abandoned the

2

of putting models on the cover because they don't sell nearly

as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful

market

3

, moving from advertising for others' products to developing their own.

Celebrity clothing lines aren't a completely new phenomenon, but in the past, they were typically

aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they're started by first

—

class

stars whose products enjoy

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fame with some world top brands. The most

successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more

and more experienced at the market, they try to

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their production scale

rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.

However, for every success story, there's a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his

consumer

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. No matter how famous the product's origin is, if it fails to impress

consumers with its own qualities, it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And

once the

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attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty

returning to tried

—

and

—

true labels.

Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop

—

cultural circle might be bigger

than ever, but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep is likely

to

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to reduce a celebrity's shelf life and the same newspaper or magazine that

once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego's

（自我的）

potential for expansion is

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. Having already achieved great wealth

and public

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, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered.

As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only

a short time, but fashion

—

like celebrity

—

has always been temporary.

三、完形填空（本大题共

15

小题）

3、【来源】 2021年上海闵行区高三二模第41~55题

Many things happen when people are ageing. Apart from the greying hair and wrinkled skin, there is

a(n)

1

change which comes with older age. When humans reach their later

years, they favour more long-term

2

and their social circle is reduced.

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Now, for what appears to be the first time, scientists have seen the

same

3

in another species. Twenty years of observations of chimpanzees

（猩

猩）

reveal that older males choose to keep contact with their

4

friends at the

expense of other relationships.

The researchers studied 78, 000 hours of observations made between 1996 and 2016 that followed the

social

5

of 21 male chimpanzees between the ages of 15 and 58 years old.

They classified the chimps'

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depending on the amount of time they sat with

others and groomed

（梳毛）

them. They then rated

（分类）

the various pairings as mutual

（相互的）

friendships, where both chimps seemed to enjoy the relationship;

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friendships,

where one chimp was more keen to be friends than the other; and non-friendships, where neither chimp

showed

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the other.

When the scientists looked at the

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of friendships, they found that the

older chimps had more mutual friendships and fewer one-sided friendships than younger chimps.

Another

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seen in older humans was also spotted in the chimps. As the males

got older, their levels of

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gradually become less, meaning they started fewer

fights and tended to threaten others in their group less often.

The observations have left the researchers

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. According to an idea in

psychology known as socio-emotional selectivity theory, older humans prefer

more

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relationships because they are aware that time is running out.

However, many animal experts argue that chimpanzees

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the human sense of

mortality

（死亡）

, suggesting something else is driving the behaviour.

Robin Dunbar, a professor of evolutionary psychology at the University of Oxford, said in humans,

the

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social circles with age is due to declining social motivation to get out

and meet people combined by lack of opportunity. In chimpanzees, as older males compete less for mates,

they may focus on close, reciprocal

（互惠的）

relationships with trusted partners, he said.

A. physicalB. intellectualC. emotionalD. functional

A. habitsB. friendsC. tasksD. ideas

A. problemB. obstacleC. struggleD. behaviour

A. establishedB. respectiveC. experiencedD. thoughtful

A. skillsB. reputationsC. interactionsD. positions

A. intelligenceB. relationshipsC. popularityD. performances

A. easy-goingB. warm-heartedC. self-relyingD. one-sided

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A. respect forB. courage toC. interest inD. loyalty to

A. patternsB. importanceC. meaningsD. development

A. instinctB. disadvantageC. featureD. belief

A. responsibilityB. aggressionC. reliabilityD. advancement

A. delightedB. amusedC. relivedD. puzzled

A. unknownB. positiveC. insecureD. senseless

A. lackB. obtainC. imitateD. abandon

A. absence fromB. isolation fromC. decrease inD. distinction in

四、阅读理解（本大题共

11

小题）

4、【来源】 2021年上海闵行区高三二模第56~59题

Each day, 10-year-old Seth asked his mom for more and more lunch money. Yet he seemed skinnier

than ever and came home from school hungry. It turned out that Seth was handing his lunch money to fifth

grader, who was threatening to beat him up if he didn't pay.

Most kids have been teased by a brother or a friend at some point. And it's not usually harmful when

done in a playful and friendly way, and both kids find it funny. But when teasing becomes hurtful, unkind,

and constant, it crosses the line into bullying and needs to be stopped.

Bullying is intentional torment

（折磨）

in physical or psychological ways. It can range from hitting,

name-calling and threats to blackmailing

（勒索）

money and possessions. Some kids bully others by

deliberately separating them and spreading rumours about them. Others use social media or electronic

messaging to make fun of others or hurt their feelings.

It's important to take bullying seriously and not just brush it off as something that kids have to tolerate.

The effects can be serious and affect kids' sense of safety and self-worth. In severe cases, bullying has

contributed to tragedies, such as suicides and school shootings.

Kids bully for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they pick on kids because they need a victim

—

someone who seems emotionally or physically weaker, or just acts or appears different in some way

—

to

feel more important, popular, or in control. Although some bullies are bigger or stronger than their victims,

that's not always the case.

Sometimes kids bully others because that's the way they've been treated. They may think their

behavior is normal because they come from families or other settings where everyone regularly gets angry

and shouts or calls each other names.

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Unless your child tells you about bullying

—

or has visible injuries

—

it can be difficult to figure out if

it's happening.

(1) What is the author's purpose of telling Seth's story?

A. To introduce the topic of bullying.

B. To seek help for the victims of bullying.

C. To analyze the cause of bullying.

D. To display the effects of bullying on kids.

(2) What does the phrase "brush it off" (in paragraph 4) probably mean?

A. Remove bullying.

B. Ignore bullying.

C. Avoid bullying.

D. Punish bullying.

(3) According to the passage, which of the following about bullying is NOT true?

A. Bullying is accidental behaviors.

B. Those who bully get emotional satisfaction.

C. The weak are easy to be bullied.

D. The experience of being bullied can lead to bullying.

(4) What will the following paragraph most probably talk about?

A. Problems of bullying.

B. Cause and effect of bullying.

C. Signs of bullying.

D. Psychological reasons of bullying.

5、【来源】 2021年上海闵行区高三二模第60~62题

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(1) Which of the following phrases can be put in the blank (in the 4th line)?

A. Just Opposite My Opinion

B. Joy of Missing Out

C. Jump off Mental Obstacle

D. Justify Our Main Objective

(2) According to the passage, which of the following is a state of JOMO?

A. You are busy with a report, so you don't have to attend a staff meeting.

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B. You are not feeling well, so you are allowed to leave the work earlier.

C. You received a dinner party invitation, but you preferred to stay home.

D. You were tired out after work, but you heard your favorite song on the radio.

(3) The word "zeitgeist" (in the last paragraph) probably refers to

.

A. a mixed or unfavorable feeling toward technology

B. a trend to use new words related to technology

C. the fear of negative influence of technology on people

D. the lack of ability to use technology properly

6、【来源】 2021年上海闵行区高三二模第63~66题

Once upon a time, science fiction was just a style among other styles. There were crime stories, there

were horror stories, there was literary fiction, and there was science fiction. But today science themes

dominate these other styles. It's difficult to think of much modern crime, horror or "serious" fiction that

doesn't involve science.

And it's not just books. With every second movie and computer game having a sci-fi element, science

fiction seems to have controlled our entire entertainment culture. It's clear that if we want to define science

fiction, we should relate it to the role that science plays in our lives.

Although some experts have claimed to be able to trace sci-fi back to ancient times, it is more

reasonable to find it in initial form in the 19th century, when industrial societies arose. One of the features

that set industrial societies apart from other kinds was the increasing part that science played in everyday

life. Factories with vast machines turned out huge quantities of goods, which were transported by trains,

motor vehicles and ships all over the world. Cities were built on the back of technology, with electricity in

homes and hospitals helping everyone to lead healthier, more convenient lives. All of these changes had

great effects not only on people's real lives, but on their imaginative ones.

Writers began to describe these changing physical and mental landscapes, eventually giving science

fiction a large and devoted fan base of especially young readers, who found that it spoke to their curiosity

about the future that science would create.

But sci-fiction reflected fears about science more than it did hopes. These typical early science fiction

novels might be a UK novel like H. G. Wells'

The War of the Worlds

(1897). With great skill, Wells

played upon the fears of technology by imagining Earth under threat by a civilization

—

that of men from

Mars.

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