上海市2020届高三高考英语系列模拟卷（3）
第一部分（共20小题每，小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．The worse working conditions we are looking forward to ______ must have attracted the local government’s attention.
A．see improved B．seeing improved
C．see improving D．seeing to improve
2．At the meeting, the headmaster said that the government should prevent such things as hurt children ________again.
A．happening B．happen C．to happen D happened
3．Zhang Xuan, ______ university student from Shanghai, learns ______ art in her spare time.
A．an; / B．a; the C．a; / D．an; the
4．If the new security system ______ into effect, such accidents would never have happened.
A．would be put B．were put C．should be put D．had been put
5．If you want to go further in the new sport, the best way is to ______ and practise more frequently. A．dive in B．drop out
C．catch on D．spring up
6．—Why did you let ____ kids off this time?
—I just want to give them ____ second chance．
A．/; the B．the;/ C．the; the D．the; a
7．Enter our prize ______and win a break in a National Trust holiday cottage of your choice anywhere in the country.
A．draw B．search C．match D．collection
8．— Mum, would you please buy me an MP5 player?
— If you can help do some housework the whole vacation，you ____ have one as a reward.
A．must B．need C．would D．shall
9．At the news of the earthquake, the soldiers did what they could the victims.
A．help B．to help C．to helping D．helping
10．— David is a green hand at such things.
— But I believe he is quite ________ to the task.
A．relevant B．accessible
C．equal D．unique
11．I am sure that the girl you are going to meet is more beautiful_______ than in her pictures.
A．in nature B．in movement C．in the flesh D．in the mood
12．Being happy is a skill that can be learned, and one way to ________ ourselves to be happy is to write down the little things that cheer us up each day.
A．convey B．appeal C．train D．attempt
13．After ________________ a sandstorm warning on Sunday evening, meteorologists forecast that dusty
weather will continue in parts of the country on Monday.
A．breaking off B．calling off C．leaving off D．putting off
14．---I prefer shutting myself in and listening to music all day on Sundays.
---That’s _______ I don’t agree. You should have a more active life.
A．how B．when C．where D．what
15．— I want to learn tennis. Would you like to help me?
—. But learning tennis is no walk in the park.
A．No kidding B．No wonder C．No problem D．No way
16．public bicycles with a mobile app is more convenient for users.
A．To unlock B．Unlock C．Unlocked D．Unlocking
17．Teaching as a career is to many people owing to the long holidays.
A．popular B．familiar
C．attractive D．fantastic
18．merchant A．machine B．achieve C．stomach D．technology
19．By doing so, you can ________ more information and details about the topic, and better understand it. A．keep up with B．do away with
C．have access to D．get down to
20．He is very tired，so he needs some time ________ duty for relaxation and rest.
A．through B．on
C．with D．off
第二部分阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21．（6分）It's good to make mistakes，and here is why.
First of all，mistakes are a clear sign that we are trying new things.It's always good to try new things because when we are trying new things，we are growing.If we never try anything new，how can we improve？The simple answer is，“We can't”．
Another good thing about mistakes is that when we are making them，we are learning.Consider this—Edison failed 10,000 times before he perfected the light bulb.When asked how it felt to fail that many times，he said that he had learned 10,000 things that didn't work.
When we make a mistake，we are much closer to success.Because every time we make a mistake，we eliminate one of the things that keep us from success.
But all this doesn't mean that we should go through life without considering the consequences of a mistake.Instead，when we try something new，we have to be willing to set some reasonable limits so that in the event that it doesn't work out the way we want it to，we will be in a position to try again.We all have limited resources—in the form of time and money—so we shouldn't blow them all on one approach to a problem.It's best that we realize it probably won't be perfect for the first time and allocate these resources
appropriately so we can learn，make corrections，and try again.Only by accepting and using our mistakes in this way can we make significant advances in our lives.
There is an old saying that goes，“If you're not making mistakes，you're not trying hard enough”．So go forth and make mistakes.
1、Which can be used to replace the underlined word“eliminate”in Paragraph 4?
A．make up for B．get rid of
C．accept D．expect
2、What do we know from the fifth paragraph?
A．We should ignore the possible consequences.
B．We should accept the outcome willingly.
C．We should make some limits for our next try.
D．We should avoid making the same mistakes.
3、What is the text mainly about?
A．Dealing with mistakes.
B．Making mistakes.
C．Making progress.
D．Benefiting from mistakes.
4、What may the writer suggest we say to ourselves when making a mistake?
A．Never mind，I tried my best.
B．Great！Now I have learned something.
C．This is a waste of time.
D．Look at this mess.I should just give up.
22．（8分）In the U.S. state of Washington, a road called Interstate 90 cuts through a wild, mountainous area to reach the city of Seattle. For the area's many kinds of animals, the busy highway greatly limits their movements. Crossing 1-90—as the road is called—is a risky but sometimes necessary act. But soon, animals will have a safer choice for crossing the road. They will be able to go above it.
To help the animals, the state is finishing work on its largest-ever wildlife bridge. The 11-meter-tall,
20-meter-wide structure begins in the forest. It forms two arches above the highway, one for each direction of traffic. Workers are adding fencing and plants to help guide the animals across the bridge.
Two-meter-thick walls will help block noise from vehicles below.
The 1-90 Bridge is part of a growing number of wildlife crossings across the United States. Some are fences, some are overland bridges, and some are underpasses. They all aim to keep drivers and animals away from each other. Collisions between animals and drivers are rarely deadly to people. But they are often deadly to wildlife. In Canada's Banff National Park, studies have found that wildlife crossings reduce the area's animal-driver collisions by 80 percent.
Most of the wildlife bridges are in western states. But experts have noted many other areas that have a need for such paths. Jen Watkins, whose organization has helped campaign for animal crossings, says ftind for more crossings is "the number-one barrier."
Patty Garvey-Darda of the U.S. Forest Service has worked on the 1-90 crossing from the start of the
project. She says the $6- million bridge will one day pay for itself because the highway will not have to be fully or partly closed each time a large animal is struck. She said, 4t If you shut down Interstate 90, you shut down interstate commerce.”
1、What is the purpose of building the br idge over “Interstate 90”?
A．To reduce human deaths in crash with wildlife.
B．To prevent wildlife from being struck by vehicles.
C．To arouse public awareness of wildlife protection.
D．To provide a safer choice to cross the risky road.
2、According to Jen Watkins, what is the biggest challenge in crossing construction?
A．Finding ways to help guide animals across the bridge.
B．Collecting money to build more wildlife crossings.
C．Locating areas to construct appropriate crossings.
D．Encourage drivers to obey the regulations of traffic.
3、What do the underlined words in Paragraph 5 imply?
A．The bridge will prove to be well worth the high price.
B．Expense for building such bridges will be reduced.
C．The bridge will greatly promote trade and commerce.
D．Lives saved through the bridge are definitely beyond price.
23．（8分）Three boys were enjoying themselves in their hometown of Bovina, Mississippi. However, their lives were turned upside down when they discovered the jawbone of a Mastodon (齿乳象).
Brothers Shawn and Caid Sellers and cousin Michael Mahalitc found the prehistoric bone in a piece of earth that was recently plowed (犁、耕). “I thought it was a log,” Caid said. “I tried to pick it up and it was really heavy and I saw teeth on it.” The bone weighed about 50 po unds. They eventually got the bone to their home and fitted it in their tub (浴盆), but it took their collective strength, might and a golf cart, to carry the large Mastodon bone.
“They didn’t expect to find that,” Michael’s mom said. “Now that they have, I believe that they will be more aware of their surroundings and what they’re digging up when they are digging and playing.”
“We’ve gotten a lot of petrified (石化的) wood and Civil War relics from the area and that’s what I thought it was,” the brothers’ mother said. “This is our first set of teeth we’ve found. So we thought it was their imagination. We were quite surprised to see that it was not their imagination.”
They were exploring near the brothers’ home. Lo and behold (真想不到), they saw what they thought resembled a fossil. It was the curator of paleontology (古生物负责人) of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, George Phillips, who first identified the bone as a “very mature individual.”
The Mastodon was a mammal who lived during the prehistoric times. They had long tusks and trunks,
like elephants. They were clearly different from their modern-day counterparts, as well as woolly mammoths (猛犸).
1、How did they find the jawbone of a Mastodon?
A．With great efforts. B．By chance.
C．Instructed by an expert. D．Through imagination.
2、At first the brothers’ mother thought the jawbone was________.
A．from people who died in the Civil War B．the bone from a very mature individual
C．like a log or something D．the prehistoric bone
3、The discovery of the jawbone of a Mastodon is important mainly because it________.
A．helps people to know more about the Civil War
B．teaches kids to be more aware of their surroundings
C．promotes the research on more prehistoric creatures
D．attracts the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
4、Which of the following can be the best title for the article?
A．Prehistoric Bones Recently Found in Mississippi
B．Not Petrified Wood Nor Civil War Relics
C．First Identifying Bone as a “Very Mature Individual”
D．Unexpectedly Discovering Mastodon Jawbone
24．（8分）Andrew started his job four years ago at a job search company https://www.doczj.com/doc/ee4644439.html,, when he worked in a computer programming language called Stata. Then other programming languages appear, and he has had to continually learn new skills. He says the ever-changing universe of work requires employees to be critical thinkers and fast to adapt to the new environment.
People need to learn new technologies and apply their skills quickly and regularly. When companies hire new workers, they are not always looking for knowledge of a certain software, but soft skills like problem solving, effective communication and leadership. They also may want candidates who show a willingness to keep learning new skills.
Students may believe that studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, known as the STEM fields, will easily lead to a good first job. But employers are telling colleges: you are producing engineers, but they do not have the skills we need. That means finding new ways to solve a problem is more important than using established steps to do so.
To get students ready, some colleges and even high schools, are working on building critical thinking skills. One example of this is at the private Westminster Schools in Atlanta, Georgia. For three weeks in January, students either get jobs or go on trips. The experience gives them a better sense of what they might
do in the future.
Career offices at universities also place a lot of importance on interview skills, teaching young people more than writing an effective resume and dressing well. They have to learn how to perform best on video and phone interviews, and how to deal with new ways of being chosen for a job.
1、What does the job at https://www.doczj.com/doc/ee4644439.html, require Andrew to do?
A．To apply what he learned in college to his work.
B．To keep learning new knowledge to keep up.
C．To have a good command of several languages.
D．To keep changing jobs for different skills.
2、What quality do companies require of new workers?
A．Skills at solving problems and effective communication.
B．Willingness to stop work and go for further education.
C．Tricks at managing a whole department or research team.
D．Readiness to stay behind after work and work overtime.
3、What message do employers convey to colleges?
A．Interview skills and effective resume are necessary for students.
B．Good basic knowledge in related field is essential for students.
C．Many new ways of looking for graduate employees are popular.
D．College students should have the skills for solving problems.
4、Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?
A．New Skills Are Required of Employers
B．Traditional Education Limits Job Chances
C．Tomorrow’s Jobs Require Soft Skills
D．What You Learn Today Decides Y our Future
25．（10分）We are obsessed (迷恋)with ourselves. We study our history, our psychology, our philosophy. Much of our knowledge revolves (使旋转)around humankind itself, as if we were the most important thing in the universe.
But in the course of the centuries we have come to realize just how many wrong ideas we’ve had. We have learned of the existence of black holes, waves of space, and of the extraordinary molecular structures in every cell of our bodies.
The more we discover, the more we understand that what we don’t yet know is greater than what we know. The more powerful our telescopes, the stranger and more unexpected are the heavens we see. The closer we look at the minute detail of matter, the more we discover of its profound structure.
In a famous story told by Plato in the seventh book of The Republic, some men are chained at the bottom of a dark cave and see only shadows cast upon a wall by a fire behind them. They think that this is reality. One of them frees himself, leaves the cave and discovers the light of the sun and the wider world. At first the light, to which his eyes are unaccustomed, stuns and confuses him. But eventually he can see and returns excitedly to his companions to tell them what he has seen. They find it hard to believe.
We are all in the depths of a cave, chained by our ignorance, our prejudices, and our weak senses reveal only shadows. If we try to see further, we are confused: we are unaccustomed. But we try. This is science. Scientific thinking explores and redraws the world, gradually offering us better and better images of it, teaching us to think in ever more effective ways. Its strength is its capacity to demolish (推翻)old ideas, to reveal new regions of reality, and to construct new, more effective images of the world. This adventure rests upon the entirety of past knowledge, but at its heart is change.
The incompleteness and the uncertainty of our knowledge, hung over the abyss (深渊) of what we don’t know, does not make life meaningless: it makes it interesting and precious.
1、What does the author want to tell us in the first three paragraphs?
A．The new discoveries of the universe prove to be wrong.
B．Man has created splendid cultures in the course of centuries.
C．Our knowledge of the universe is incomplete and uncertain.
D．The existing technologies are enough for further exploration.
2、The story told by Plato is meant to .
A．make us aware of the cruelty of reality
B．encourage us to explore the unknown world
C．applaud the heroic deeds of chasing freedom
D．justify our ignorance and prejudice about the world
3、What does the author want to stress in the passage?
A．Exploring the universe makes our life meaningful.
B．Leaving things as they are makes our life perfect.
C．New discoveries of the universe will cause confusion.
D．Past knowledge prevents us constructing a new world.
第三部分语言知识运用（共两节）第一节（每小题1.5分，满分30分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．
26．（30分）“Look down, Elsa,” my father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place 1 you want to go by one road, try another.”
In the years that followed, I often remembered the words my father 2 me. I know where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be a fashion 3 . And on the way to my first small success I found the
road blocked. What could I do? Accept the roadblocks and fail? Or use imagination and intelligence to find another road to my 4 .
I came to Paris, the center of the world of 5 , with my works. But none of the famous fashion designers seemed interested in buying them. Then one day I met a friend 6 a very beautiful sweater. It was simple in color, but it had an 7 knitting way.
I suddenly 8 a bold design knitted into such a sweater. I 9 a clear black and white butterfly pattern and took it to Mrs. Vidian. She 10 a sweater. The result, I thought, was 11 . Then came the test. I 12 the sweater to a luncheon (formal lunch) which people in the fashion business would attend. To my 13 , the sweater was 14 . In fact, the representative of a large New York store wanted 40 sweaters to be 15 in two weeks. I accepted the 16 and walked out on a cloud of happiness.
My cloud 17 , however, when I stood in front of Mrs. Vidian. “But it took me almost a week to knit that sweater,” she said. “Forty sweaters in two weeks? It is 18 .”
I was pressed to be so close to success and then to be blocked! 19 I walked away. All at once I stopped short. There must be 20 way. This knitting way did take special skill, but surely there must be someone else in Paris who know how to do it.
1、A．which B．when C．where D．why
2、A．rewarded B．begged C．persuaded D．taught
3、A．designer B．partner C．lawyer D．reporter
4、A．journey B．apartment C．goal D．stage
5、A．finance B．fashion C．jewel D．wildlife
6、A．on B．by C．over D．in
7、A．brief B．unusual C．ancient D．regular
8、A．selected B．downloaded C．pictured D．solved
9、A．drew B．wove C．spotted D．mixed
10、A．dressed up in B．focused on C．took apart D．knitted it into
11、A．puzzling B．wonderful C．slight D．contrary
12、A．impressed B．wiped C．wore D．permitted
13、A．pleasure B．regret C．failure D．anger
14、A．commented B．preserve C．exported D．noticed
15、A．content B．ready C．curious D．worthwhile
16、A．order B．appointment C．material D．pressure
17、A．poured B．flashed C．exposed D．disappeared
18、A．impossible B．positive C．alike D．likely
19、A．Typically B．Eventually C．Sadly D．Mentally
20、A．other B．another C．others D．one
第二节（每小题1.5分，满分15分）阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
27．（15分）Have you ever noticed that you feel happier and more relaxed after you eat bread, pasta or fruit? Do you find that you are more energetic and awake after eating yogurt or beans? These things are not accidents.
Food affect 1．we feel more than we think. Scientists researching 2．(it) effect on our moods are beginning to understand that we can influence our feelings with what we eat. Although our moods relate 3．having various foods, it is not quite as simple as choosing the foods for the right occasions. If that 4．(be) the case, athletes would not eat a lot of carbohydrates before a race.
Another chemical 5．(connect) with our mood is caffeine, which 6．(find) in coffee, chocolate and many types of tea, is perhaps 7．worst thing you can have when you are feeling stressed.
Of course,8．(enjoy)a nice meal with friends, whatever we eat, can also impact our spirits. Being with friends and family plays a big part in experiencing happiness. Most 9．(important), though, remember the following old rule: try to eat different food, 10．not too much.
第四部分写作（共两节）第一节短文改错（满分10分）
28．（10分）请修改下面这篇短文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1、每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2、只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Good morning, everyone! Now I'd like to sharing my view in reading、I think reading is one of the more beneficial and practical activities that a man can do、It is through reading which a person is able to discover new ideas, places, and people、Even though I had a heavy load of classes, I can manage to find about fortieth minutes a day to read books、I prefer to read before sleeping or while waiting a bus、As a result, you can write many good article、I can also take part in conversation with others easy、Let s read some books together and talk about them a next time!
That’s all、Thank you、46
第二节书面表达（满分25分）
29．（25分）假如你是李华，开学后你在你们班作了一个关于暑假学生生活习惯的调查，调查发现大家在暑假期间都有一些不良的生活习惯。请根据下面的要点用英语写一篇短文投稿到校报英语版。
1. 简述常见的不良习惯；
2. 产生的不良影响；
3. 提出建议并呼吁大家培养健康的生活习惯。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2.文章的开头已给出，不计入总词数。
Let’s develop a healthy habit
According to a survey among my classmates, many have bad habits in the summer holidays.
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参考答案
第一部分（共20小题每，小题1.5分，满分30分）
1．B
2．A
3．C
4．D
5．A
6．D
7．A
8．D
9．B
10．C
11．C
12．C
13．B
14．C
15．C
16．D
17．C
18．1—5 CDBAB
19．C
20．D
第二部分阅读理解（满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
21．1、B
2、C
3、D
4、B
22．1、B
2、B