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1、2020届上海市复兴中学高三下学期三月月考英语试题四、词汇（10%）A. physical B. brick C. revenue D. ready-made E. generateF. related G. capacity H. diversifying L innovation J. venturing K. abandoningIt is getting hard to go anywhere without stepping on a piece of Lego-related hype （大肆宣传）.“The Lego Movie“ is number two at the Ame

2、rican box office, after three weeks at number one. Model kits to the film are piled high in the shops. They will add to the already gigantea of Lego bits: 86 for every person on the planet. The toymaker has enjoyed ten years of spectacular growth, almost quadrupling （四倍）its2This is remarkable fbr ma

3、ny reasons. Legos home town, Billund in rural Denmark, is so small that the company had to provide it with a hotel-an elegant one, unsurprisingly. The toy business is one of the worlds trickiest: perennially faddish （反复出现地一时流行的事物）（remember Beanie Babies?） and, at the moment, energized by technologic

4、al innovation. Children are growing up ever faster, and abandoning the 3 world fbr the virtual. To cap it all, the company almost collapsed in 2003-04, having drifted for years, 4 into too many areas, producing too many products.Legos decade of success began when it appointed Jorgen Vig Knudstorp as

5、 chief executive. This was a risky move: Mr. Knudstorp was a mere 35 years old and had cut his teeth as a management consultant with McKinsey rather than running a business. But it proved to be inspired. Mr. Knudstorp decided that the company must go “back to the 5 focusing on its core products, for

6、getting about brand-stretching, and even selling its theme parks. He also brought in stricter management controls, for example reducing the number of different pieces that the company produced from 12,900 to 7,000.Under Mr. Knudstorp Lego has struck a successful balance between 6 and tradition. The

7、company has to 7 new ideas to keep its sales growing: customers need a reason to expand their stock of bricks, and to buy them from Lego rather than cheaper rivals. But at the same time, it must resist the sort of undisciplined innovation that almost ruined it. Lego produces a stream of kits with 8

8、designs, such as forts and spaceships, to provide children with templates （模板）.But it also insists that the pieces can be added to the childs collection of bricks, and reused to make all sorts of other things.Lego has got better at managing its relationships. The Lego Movie“ demonstrates how it can

9、focus on the brick while 9 into the virtual world: Warner Bros, made the film while Lego provided the models. During its years of drift, it relied too much on other firms blockbuster franchises, such as Harry Potter and Star Wars. This time its intellectual property, not someone elses, is the star o

10、f the film. It has also got better at tapping its legion of fans-particularly adult fans of Lego, or AFOLs-for new ideas.Lego is now at an inflection point （转折点），building its organizational 10 and embracing globalization, to help it find new sources of growth. The aim is twofold: to replicate in the

11、 rapidly growing east Legos success in the west; and transform a local company that happened to go global into a global company that happens to have its head office in Billund.五、完型（15%）Non-Native SpeciesThe introduction of non-native exotic species is now seen as a major threat to biodiversity. In 1

12、825, a particularly vigorous female clone of itadori （called Japanese knotweed） was introduced into Holland and later11 throughout Europe by the plant collector and nurseryman （园 丁）, Von Seybold. British gardeners loved it and by 1886 it was even found growing on cinder tips in South Wales. By the t

13、urn of the century, the plant had12 many other sites, and gardeners were advised against planting it in shrubberies. By 1994, it was almost everywhere-railways, riversides, hedgerows, cemeteries - swamping a wide range of habitats and displacing13 species. Botanists5 fears that the plant is still sp

14、reading and may yet colonize other new habitats havegenerated recent attempts to eradicate it by mechanical and chemical methods, all 14 as yet.The evidence stacked against Japanese knotweed is damning （足以定罪的）.But there is a deep15 that behind the desire to correct human ecological cook-ups （策戈tl）-

15、often manifested as a passion to save endangered species and vulnerable ecosystems - is a thinly disguised xenophobia （仇夕卜心理）；that we are simply seeing yet another form of ecological imperialism （帝国主义）which defines what is “natural“ based on human 16But whatever our reaction to problem“ or alien spe

16、cies is, it mustmoral decisions. And who shouldmake such decisions and to what 18 they are accountable must also be up for review. The conclusions of scientists and other sections of society may differ 19 about what to do about the introduced animals and plants. 20 the scheme to control rabbits in A

17、ustralia by deliberately spreading the disease myxomatosis was a success in that huge numbers of rabbits were wiped out for the greater good - the “health“ of Australian ecosystems. But would inflicting （使遭受）such a 21 slow painful death on sentient （有感知能力的） creatures win popular support if it were p

18、roposed today?Scientists of 22 are by their very nature concerned with the organization of species into systems and not necessarily with the interests and well-being of 23. particularly those that are seen as a threat to themaintenance of those systems. Yet there is a growing feeling for the democra

19、tization of decisions concerningnonhuman life. The24towards environmental values must surely involve a movement away fromimperialism and a search for a relationship withnature as it truly is, rather than aswe would design it. Then, whenour25_has/have long disappeared, wemay yet come to honor the hum

20、ble itadori.11. A. distributedB.seenC.foundD. appreciated12. A. attachedB. attractedC. colonizedD. settled13. A. rareB. abnormalC. normalD. extinct14. A. in turnB. in vainC. in needD. in all15. A. delightB. astonishmentC. dissatisfactionD. anxiety16. A. protectionB. systemC. preferencesD. invasion17

21、. A. excludeB. involveC. objectD. eliminate18. A. scopeB. intentionC. extentD. respect19. A. similarlyB. intensivelyC. slightlyD. vastly20. A. In factB. In other wordsC. For instanceD. In conclusion21. A. interestinglyB. instructivelyC. thrillinglyD. horrifically22. A. biodiversityB. naturalismC. bo

22、tanyD. species23. A. naturalistsB. regionsC. environmentsD. individuals24. A. demonstrationB. paradeC. celebrationD. campaign25. A. planet六、阅读（16%）B. lawnsC. universeD. habitatsThe case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. A school graduates ought to go, says co

23、nventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better“ people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who dont go.But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates ar

24、e attending, those who dont fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each others experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate scho

25、ol. Other find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out-often encouraged by college administrators.Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves-they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation of the students as a whole and doesn*t explain all cam

26、pus unhappiness. Othersblame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We have been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cant absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained t

27、wenty-two-year-olds, either.Some adventuresome educators and watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, it see

28、ms, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesnt make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things-may it is just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who

29、have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successful college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy （离经叛道的想法 ）to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be muc

30、h better.But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.26. According to the author,.A. people used to question the value of college educationpeople used to have full confidence in higher education C all high school graduates went to collegeD. very few high school graduates chose to go to collegeIn

31、the 2nd paragraph, nthose who dont fit the pattern refer to.A. high school graduates who arent suitable for college education.B. college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxis.C. college students who aren*t any better for their higher education D. high school graduates who failed to be ad

32、mitted to college.27. According to the passage, the problems of college education partly originate in the fact that.A. society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained graduates.B. high school graduates do not fit the pattern of college education.C. too many students have to earn their own li

33、ving.D. college administrators encourage students to drop out.28. In this passage the author argues that.A. more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduates B college education is not enough if one wants to be successfulC. college education benefits

34、only the intelligent, ambitious, and quick-learning peopleintelligent people may learn quicker if they don*t go to collegeAs recently as 15 years ago, if you wanted to catch up on the news, you could look at a handful of publications or a few nightly programs. And if you wanted to listen to music, y

35、ou could turn on MTV or fiddle with your radio. People in major cities had more options, because a large population can support specialty shops. 30.Today, as we all know, access to information has exploded. One consequence, according to Toure, a cultural critic writing in Salon, is that the ability

36、of pop culture to unify us he refers to the massive interest in Michael Jacksons Thriller, or Nirvanas Nevermindhas been eroded, probably forever. Steven Hyden, also writing in Salon, counters that whatever the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized pop-culture authority, the monoculture neve

37、r actually existed.31 Even when it supposedly existed, its content largely depended on other characteristics of your little corner of the world. In the 1992-1993 school year, I was a student at a multiracial and relatively urban junior high school in California central valley. We listened to Salt-n-

38、Pepa, Snoop Doggy Dogg, and Kris Kross, with the latter having inspired a trend in which kids wore their clothes backwards. The next year I was enrolled in a mostly white junior high school in leafy Chiago suburb. One of the houses was famous for having appeared in the 1990 film eHome Alone,; the po

39、pular bands were Nirvana, Hole and the Smashing Pumpkins; and the biggest pop- cultural event of the school year was Kurt Cobains suicide.But Toures point is about the virtues of common cultural experience. It seems he is recalling centralized media only in so far as its a distribution system that f

40、ostered （促进）that outcome.32 It doesnt matter whether a record is released by an important label or an indie （独立制片人）；if ifs online, people can usually find, forward, share and promote it. But whafs interesting and perhaps surprising, given that both Toure and Mr Hyden seem to agree that the old distr

41、ibution favored big media, is that we still have widely shared cultural experiences. Just think of Barack Obama doing the little hand gesture from Beyonces “Single Ladies “ video.33 . Its safe to say that the monoculture never really existed, and that some artists still reach a wideaudience, whether

42、 we like it or not.A. That suggests that we like pop culture partly because its a shared experience, regardless of quality.B. However, in vast areas of the world you had to work to get outside the mainstream.C. Whether you like it or not, “monoculture“ is here with us.D I think Mr Hyden is correct that the concept of a “monoculture is a bit of a myth.E. They see globalization as being the spread of a monoculture, based on western values, which is killing the cultural diversity of the world.F. And its true that the ways we now consume pop culture to some extent level the playing field.