上海市南洋模范中学2021-2022学年高三上学期9月考英语试卷.docx

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1、2021-2022学年南洋模范中学高三上9月考IL.Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections： Fill in the blanks to make the passages 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 blankThe

2、re*s no doubt that in todays digital world, computer games are extremely sophisticated and capable of creating virtual reality experiences that were beyond imagination only a few years ago.So I am interested to see that the simplistic games I grew up with 21 (make) a comeback. But why?In the 1970s,

3、the original place to play a computer game was at an arcade, 22 youand your mates could try out the new big names in games such as Space Invaders and Pacman. It was the only affordable way to play them and because of the technology 23(involve), the gaming machines were too big to fit into your house

4、.But the 1980s and 90s saw gaming arrive in our homes, 24 (absorb) people like me. The sound of beeping became a familiar sound coming from bedrooms across the land! Names such as Tetris, Sonic and Street Fighter became popular language in the playground, and 25 once became household names are now b

5、eing talked about and played again.One ofthe reasons is the low cost. Newer consoles (游戏机)and their games are expensive, and how 26 anyone justify 50 to 60 for a game they might not enjoy ? ”Simplicity might be another reason.The graphics on old games may not compare with the detail and high definit

6、ion of modern games but they are fun and easy to use by children and adults alike.And of course, nostalgia (怀旧)plays its part. Some people want to relive their childhood 27 for others, it is a chance to show their children the computer games they grew upwith.Technology journalist， KG Orphanides , sa

7、ys we should have admiration for this old-technology. He says its important to recognize 28 well-designed many of/thoseclassic games are.In early days, such limited technology did the developers master 29 anold game cartridge (卡带)had a maximum capacity of just 4MB and limited graphics and sound capa

8、bilities.This compares to an average capacity of 40GB in todays games.”This craze for using retro hardware is certainly catching on. For people not sure about downgrading the gaming experience, it may be very soon 30 manufacturers bring backsome of their older consoles in new style casing.So it seem

9、s like its not game over1 for old-school technology!Section BA.suspendB. mobility C. defeatist D.light E.essentiallyF.promotedG.break H.secure I. emerged J.nonviolent K.movementYoung Chinese are rebelling against society through a simple act of resistance： lying down. Examples of the tangping, orHly

10、ing flat, nway of life include not getting married, not buying a house and refusing to work extra hours to 71 a job at all.Tangping has 72 over the last few months as the protest of Chinese millennials whohave had enough of the rat race.Some call this behavior a form of 73 resistance againstconsumer

11、ism.Supporters portray it as a rejection of struggle and endless striving.Critics say it is 74.Observers hold that 75 tangping is a reflection of Chinas middle class, faced withunsatisfactory wages in increasingly expensive and competitive cities.People realize there is no upward 76.“said Yicheng Wa

12、ng, a PhD student in political science. Its a negative acceptance： My life is like this. It will always be like this.The term developed after an April post on the Tieba forum where the author, unemployed for the last two years, described a low-effort, low-cost lifestyle that consisted of working jus

13、t a few months out of the year.Lying flat is my sophistic 77 J he wrote, referring to the Greekphilosopher Diogenes, who was known for living in a barrel.But as tangping gained popularity, it also drew a level of criticism from state media.The Global Times made 78 of it, describing lying flat as “no

14、t a serious philosophy.” TheCommunist Youth League pointed out that young medical workers on the front lines during the pandemic never chose to lie down. Experts say tangping is also a rejection of the attitude and behaviors-working and consuming- 79 by the government to keep the Chinese economyrunn

15、ing.However, for some people, lying flat is not about giving up or withdrawing from society.Its more an expression of our demands from society.We want systems to be better and for workers to get more protection, “she said. The philosophy is also about giving oneself a 80. On Douban, the social netwo

16、rking website, new groups have emerged that support lying down and then standing up.”Cloze againDirections： 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.While the concept of a dictio

17、nary dates back to ancient civilizations, the first English dictionary was published by Robert Cawdrey in 16o4.In the centuries that followed, many more dictionaries were written by 81 authors who chose what to include or exclude.They not only defined words, but also openly showed their creators opi

18、nions.After theirauthors* deaths, many of these dictionaries quickly became outdated. But one 19th century dictionary had a.different 82.In 1828, American lawyer and author Noah Webster 834 American Dictionary ofthe English Languagen with a lofty goal： to give the United States its own version of th

19、e English language.He believed that as a new nation, the United States needed its 84 version ofEnglish to assert its independence from Britain.In his dictionary, Webster sought to describe and 85 the way Americans spoke.Most dictionaries in WebsterHs time were prescriptive： they dictated how words s

20、hould be used, rather than 86 the way people actually used language in daily life.When Websterbroke this convention and included slang words in his dictionary, critics accused him of 87 the English language.But he argued that these words captured local 88 of languagea vital part of whatmade American

21、 English unique.He also believed spelling rules were 89 complex, andthat we should write the way we speak as much as possible. 90, Websters own opinionsinfluenced the words he included and the way he defined them.He excluded slang words from Black communities because he didnt consider them proper.An

22、d when he defined woman”，he added that women are soft, mild, and 91Today, the6Merriam-Webster Dictionary“ begins to 92 a conflict in Webstersgoal： he wanted to represent an entire nation.but he based his work on just one persons opinion： his own.Since Webstefs death, each new edition of the dictiona

23、ry has been created by a group of language experts rather than by a single authority.The current criteria for including a word in the dictionary are that it has“widespread, sustained, and meaningful use.Dictionaries don*t just add new wordsthey also redefine old words to reflect 93 attitudes and usa

24、ge.One 1736 dictionary defined wife asHamarried woman whose will is 94 the will of her husband： for which reason a wife issaid to have no will.* Today, nwifenis defined simply as“a female partner in a marriage.So, who decides what*s in the dictionary? More than ever before the answer is： we do.All o

25、f us 95 language every day.When we collectively embrace one word or redefine another,eventually, those words and meanings are reflected in our dictionaries.B.mysteriousB.fateB.redefinedB.politicalB.imitateB.liberatingC.humbleC.functionC.operatedC.distinctC.officializeC.cultivatingD.individual0.distr

26、ibutionD.justifiedD.successiveD.imposeD.prioritizing87 .A.misunderstanding B.polluting C.confusing88 . A.affectionB.publicityC.imagination89 .A.unnecessarilyB.naturallyC.exclusively90 .A.Thus B.Still C.InsteadB.aggressiveB.evaluateB.superior. A.intermediate91 .A.addressC.powerfulC.criticizeC.objecti

27、veD.limitingD. variationD.contrarilyD.MoreoverD.pitifulD. foreseeD.permanent94 . A.concerned about B.subject toC.obsessed withD.exposed to.A.extend B.revolutionize C.proposeD.shape2021-2022学年南洋模范中学高三上9月考答案:1-10 DABCC CCDDB11-25 DDD ABD BDBA21. are making/ have made 22. where 23.involved 24.absorbing

28、 25. what26. can27.while28. how 29. that 30. before31-40AB ABC B D BC C BD AD A AC41-55BACBCABCDA DBACD56-59CBDA60-62 CBD 63-66 BCCD 67-70 CFAE71-80 H I JCEBKDFG81-95 DBACCABDAB DAABDDirections： Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box.Each word can only be used once.Note that there

29、 is one word more than you need.A. launchB.floodC boundD.strikinglyAB properties AC.worthlessAD.solutionBC.relatedBD absent CD.inventive ABC.criticallyRhinoceros horns （犀牛角）are big business.Traditional Chinese medicine uses them to treat rheumatism and gout, even though they have no actual medical 3

30、1 beyond placebo （安慰剂）.And craftsmen carve them into dagger handles. A kilogram can thus command as much as $60, 000, so poachers have always been drawn to hunting the animals.Since almost all rhinoceros populations are endangered, several 32 threatened, this is a serious problem.Some conservationis

31、ts therefore suggest that a way to reduce pressure on the animals might be to 33 market with fakes. This, they hope, would reduce the value of real horns andconsequently the drive to hunt rhinos.That would require the fakes to be good. But Fritz Vollrath, a zoologist at Oxford University, thinks his

32、 skills as a forger （伪造者）are up to the challenge. As he writes in Scientific Reports, he and his colleagues from Fudan University, in Shanghai, have come up with a cheap and easy-to-make fake 34 similar to the real thing.The main ingredient of Dr.Vollrath forged horns is horsehair. Despite their dif

33、fering appearances, horses and rhinos are reasonably 35 . Horses do not have horns, of course.But, technically, neither do rhinos.Thehornsnof rhinoceros are composed of hairs 36 tightly together using a mixture of dead cells.Examination under a microscope showed that hairs collected from horses* tai

34、ls had similar features to those found in the horns of rhinos except that horse hairs had a special layer 37 in those of the rhino, but the researchers were able to remove this with a 38of lithium bromide.They bundled the treated horse hairs as tightly as they could using a special glue, and then le

35、ft them in an oven to dry. The result was a material that, with some polishing, looked like rhino horn.Whether to 39 these fakes onto the rhinoceros-horn market would truly reduce pricesand demand remains to be tested.But it might.lt is an old trick in warfare to leave the enemy with forged, 40 mone

36、y. Something similar may yet help save the rhino.III.Reading Comprehension （45%）Section ADirections： 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.When Neil Armstrong and Buzz.Aldrin r

37、eturned from the moon, their cargo included nearly fifty pounds of rock and soil, which were packed in an aluminum box with seals designed to maintain the 41 surfaces low-pressure environment.But back at Johnson Space Center,in Houston, scientists discovered that the seals had been 42 by moon dust.L

38、unar dust is fine, like a powder, 43 it cuts like glass. It s formed when shootingstars crash on the moons surface, heating its rocks and dirt and 44 them to fine particles.Since theres no wind or water to smooth 45 edges, the tiny grains are sharp anduneven, and cling to nearly everything.The intru

39、ding 46 of lunar dust represents a more challenging engineering designissue, as well as a(n)47 issue for settlers, than does radiation,wrote Harrison Schmitt,an Apollo7 astronaut, in his 2006 book, Return to the Moon.The dust damaged spacesuits and ate away layers of moon boots.Over the 48 of six Ap

40、ollo missions, not one rock box49 its vacuum seal.Dust followed the astronauts back into their ships, too. According toSchmitt, it smelled like gunpowder and made breathing difficult, No one knows precisely what the extremely small particles do to human lungs.The dust not only 50 the moons surface,

41、but floats up to sixty miles above itas anouter part of its atmosphere, where particles are bound to the moon by gravity, but are so thin that they 51 collide. In the 1960s, Surveyor probes filmed a glowing cloud floating justabove the lunar surface during sunrise. Later, Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Ce

42、rnan, while orbiting the moon, recorded a 52 phenomenon at the sharp line where lunar day meets night. Cernansketched a series of pictures 53 the changing scene； streams of particles 54the ground and hovered, and the resulting cloud came into shaiper focus as the astronauts1 orbiter approached dayli

43、ght. 55 theres no wind to form and sustain the clouds, their origin issomething of a mystery. It s presumed that theyre made of dust, but no one fully understands how or why they do their thing.41. A.solarB.lunarC.dustyD.mysteriousB.survivedC.changedD.redesignedB.howeverC.butD.soB.reducing.C.tailori

44、ngD.shapingB.hardC.roughD.flatB.speedC.degreeD.troopsB.heal thC.fundD.future.B.situationC.courseD.programB.lostC.foundD.maintainedB. affectsC. protectsD.spoilsB. violentlyC.gentlyD.rarelyB.similarC.commonD.differentB.examiningC.leavingD.acting54.A.get underB.lay onC.popped offD.fell toB. WhereverC.U

45、nlessD.SinceSection BDirections： 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

46、)Once when I was facing a decision that involved high risk, I went to a friend.He looked at me for a moment, and then wrote a sentence containing the best advice Ive ever had： Be bold and brave and mighty forces will come to your aid.Those words made me see clearly that when I had fallen short in th

47、e past, it was seldom because I had tried and failed.lt was usually because I had let fear of failure stop me from trying at all. On the other hand, whenever I had plunged into deep water, forced by courage or circumstance, I had always been able to swim until I got my feet on the ground again.Boldn

48、ess means a decision to bite off more than you arc sure you can eat.And there is nothing mysterious about the mighty forces.They are potential powers we possess： energy, skill, sound judgment, creative ideaseven physical strength greater than most of us realize.Admittedly, those mighty forces are spiritual ones.But they are more important than physical ones.A college classmate of mine, Tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the aver