1、第 1 页 / 共 15 页 宝山区 2017 学年第二学期期末高三年级英语学科教学质量监测试卷. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: 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 th
2、e other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.How Much of the Jetsons World Has Become a Reality?For most of our readers, The Jetsons may be an unfamiliar name. However, for many American born in or before the 1980s, it is a name we fondly remember. The Jetsons was a popular cartoon that fe
3、atured a family living in an advanced world _21_ people settle in houses built in the sky, work only three days a week and drive flying cars that resemble flying saucers. While sky-high houses and three-day workweeks dont appear to be on the horizon, other visions of the future _22_（turn）into practi
4、cal realities.Flying cars have been on the minds of scientists and inventors for decades. They are part of a typical imaging of the future fast-paced and luxurious, _23_（allow ）us to speed through the skies. As _24_（see）in The Skys No longer the Limit, this flight of fancy may soon be a reality in D
5、ubai. Aiming _25_（become）the worlds most advanced city, Dubai is currently testing the first-ever flying taxi._26_ money still exists in its current cash-based form in The Jetsons, people today are looking toward a world where even cash is out-of-date. Bitcoin is a type of digital money that has tak
6、en the world by storm. Since its introduction, the moneys price _27_（increase）to rates as high as US$ 19,000. This, however, may not predict well for the future of digital currency, as experts warn that Bitcoin is a bubble and _28_ crash soon. Its possible that some dreams of the future may still be
7、 _29_ _ our reach.Other more probable technologies already exist, for example, future flying eye hospitals in A Hospital with Wings, unusual-engineered folding paper in Clever Folding and the population of endangered corals（珊瑚）in Lab-Bred Coral to the Rescue, etc. All these show _30_ humans are alre
8、ady capable of. So, what else could the future have in store for us?第 2 页 / 共 15 页 Section BDirections：After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one more word than you need.A. adapted B. harder C. alte
9、rnatives D. features E. cooperation F. questionsG. accuracy H. captured I. regardless J. opposite K. analyzingComputer reads brain activity to find out the music each person is listening toIn the experiment, six volunteers heard 40 pieces of classical music, rock, pop, jazz, and others. The Neural（神
10、经的）fingerprint of each song on participants brain was _31_ by the Magnetic Resonance（MR ）machine while a computer was learning to identify the brain patterns drawn out by each musical piece. Musical _32_ such as tone, volume, rhythm and beat were taken in account by the computer.After that, research
11、ers expected that the computer would be able to do the _33_ way: identify which song participants were listening to, based on their brain activity a technique known as brain decoding. When faced two options, the computer showed up to 85% _34_ in identifying the correct song, which is a great perform
12、ance, comparing to previous studies.Researchers then pushed the test even _35_ by providing not two but 10 options（e.g. one correct and nine wrong）to the computer. In this situation, the computer correctly identified the song in 74% of the decisions.In the future, studies on brain decoding and machi
13、ne learning will create possibilities of communication _36_ any kind of written or spoken language.“Machines will be able to translate our musical thoughts into songs,”says Sebastian Hoefle, researcher from DOr Institute and PhD student from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The study is
14、 a result of a _37_ between Brazilian researchers and colleagues from Germany, Finland and India.According to Hoefle, brain decoding researches provide _38_ to understand neural functioning and interact with it using artificial intelligence. In the future, he experts to find answers for _39_ like“wh
15、at musical characteristics make some people love a song while others dont? Is our brain _40_ to prefer a specific kind of music?”. Reading Comprehension第 3 页 / 共 15 页 Section ADirections：For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blan
16、k with the word or phrase that best fits the context.Having a clear picture in mind of what their future will look like can motivate students to keep going despite the challenges of college life. This _41_ seems to be particularly effective for female students from relatively low socioeconomic statu
17、s（SES ）backgrounds says Mesmin Destin of Northwestern University in the US. College is a time of great opportunity for some, but can be _42_ for others. It is often the first time that many students are away from the regular and familiar support of their family and friends. Weak students from lower
18、SES backgrounds often encounter greater financial and psychological challenges than others, and this can lead to _43_ and even withdrawal from difficult situations, such as when interacting with their lecturers or taking tests and exams.Destin and his colleagues wanted to understand if students _44_
19、 to academic challenges improve when they look forward to the future. This idea is built around the theory of identity-based motivation. It holds that people can take positive action during times of unfavorable conditions when they _45_ a successful future for themselves.“The theory of identity-base
20、d motivation proposes that stimulating a focus on a successful future identity may be especially _46_ in motivating students who are weak during challenging academic situations to develop a sense of action readiness,”explains Destin. This involves feeling ready and able to take appropriate action wh
21、en _47_ difficulty.In two almost identical laboratory experimentsone involving 93 female students, the other 185 students（including 101 women）- participants were first asked either to write about their past or their future _48_. After their deep thoughts, the participants were filmed during an limit
22、ed interview with a so-called lecturer, and then had to _49_ a difficult academic test. The research team noted whether participants body language was bold and confident, and measured the amount of effort participants _50_ the academic test.The results were in agreement with the theory of identity b
23、ased motivation. Destin and his team found that having a successful future identity can prevent especially female students from lower SES backgrounds from _51_ during challenging academic situations. Specially, lower SES women who wrote about their future identities displayed greater action _52_ com
24、pared to those who considered their past. They showed more confident body language. It helped them to make more effort to tackle the test, and had an indirect effect on their _53_.“Simulating imagined successful future identities appears to provide a _54_ pathway to enable weak students to effective
25、ly navigate everyday stressors,”says Destin.“The findings _55_ suggest that certain students may benefit from strategies that remind them to image their 第 4 页 / 共 15 页 successful futures before any difficult and important task that they might otherwise be likely to avoid.”41. A. instruction B. strat
26、egy C. challenge D. psychology42. A. disgraceful B. shameful C. harmful D. stressful43. A. hesitation B. intention C. depression D. decision44. A. willingness B. options C. responses D. applications45. A. destroy B. imagine C. abandon D. substitute46. A. powerful B. upright C. unique D. ambitious47.
27、 A. avoiding B. overcoming C. surrendering D. encountering48. A. experience B. suffering C. success D. failure49. A. design B. complete C. comment D. revise50. A. put away B. put on C. put out D. put into51. A. withdrawing B. transforming C. advancing D. engaging52. A. quantity B. dullness C. readin
28、ess D. inability53. A. fascination B. ignorance C. dilemma D. performance54. A. tolerable B. potential C. straight D. academic55. A. therefore B. however C. otherwise D. meanwhileSection BDirections：Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statem
29、ents. 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）I believe in getting lost. Lost in the text of the novel that is particular to your thoughts and 第 5 页 / 共 15 页 feelings that you
30、 consider special. The song that reminds you of your childhood summers, where you close your eyes and lose yourself reliving a memory; feeling the warm wind brushing against your arm, the smell of the dusty sand that you stir up as you ride your bicycle, murmuring the tune of that song. Like the unp
31、repared Sunday Drive, with no destination. Youre free to wander, take paths that youve never noticed, discover places you havent been. Then falling off on the path to lead you back home, leaving you to test directions and alertly absorb your surroundings in order to find your way back; that kind of
32、lost.I get lost daily, whether its in thought, or the unplanned drive I just decided to go on. Getting lost is an adventurous learning experience that trains you how to be more aware of your surroundings. A few of my most favorite memories involve physically getting lost. That one late night trip ba
33、ck to Ludington from Grand Rapids I took with a few friends. We finally realized we were going the wrong way when we hit South Haven, almost three hours out of our way. There was also the time where I got lost in the De Vos Place in Grand Rapids after the Presidents Ball and then the parking garage
34、for a solid two hours. I felt like my life was that one scene of an American television situation comedy, minus the air conditioner. At the time, these are nervous experiences that get your anxiety pumping. Youre fearful that you wont be safe, but it always works itself out in the end. Physically lo
35、sing yourself prepares you for how you manage when you emotionally or mentally lose yourself.You dont always have to be lost in a literal sense to“get lost”and some of the time, losing yourself may not be a positive experience. There are times where I lose sight of who I am. While lost, I test our m
36、etaphorical paths and sometimes they turn out to be the right direction and other times they were a wrong turn. I make note of these wrong turns, so I can avoid them further on up the road of finding my way back to who I am.In Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote“Not till we are lost, in other words no
37、t till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.”Getting lost fuels my curiosity and teaches me lessons on finding my way back to the right track. I believe in getting lost through day dreams, a misplacement, adventures,
38、 and difficult times where you make discoveries about yourself and the atmosphere around you. In order to truly find yourself, I believe that you should put down the map and get wonderfully lost.56. In the first paragraph, the author mainly expresses that _.A. lost in a novel is a special feeling B.
39、 songs remind us of past experiencesC. wandering is a wonderful discovery D. getting lost brings us benefits57. The author mentions the experiences of physically getting lost（in paragraph 2）in order to say 第 6 页 / 共 15 页 _.A. physically getting lost is most difficult to deal withB. we can enjoy trip
40、s while physically getting lostC. people are easy to get physically lost in our daily lifeD. we realize our surroundings while physically getting lost58. Words from Henry David Thoreau（in the last paragraph）imply that getting lost _.A. enables us to look within and to see outwardB. pulls people back
41、 into the previous momentC. enables us to remind ourselves of adventuresD. helps us enjoy ourselves wherever we are59. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?A. I Once Was Lost B. Wonderfully LostC. Physically Getting Lost D. Mentally Getting Lost（B）Two in three Americans show
42、er once a day or more, according to a YouGov poll. Heres why you might be better off showering less frequently（and here are other ways you might be showering wrong）第 7 页 / 共 15 页 60. Whats the whole passage mainly about?A. Reasons you can probably get away with showering less.B. Advice you can take
43、on how to shower more and better.第 8 页 / 共 15 页 C. Harmful effects made on you through showering less.D. Benefits you can get from showering on a daily basis.61. This passage provides us with the following further detailed information Except _.A. the best time of day to shower B. the proper temperat
44、ure for your showerC. the other ways you shower wrong D. the other ways to cut your water bill62. Which of the following is Not a reason why you should shower less?A. Showering gets rid of good bacteria.B. Youre absolutely as dirty as you think.C. Towel drying causes damage to your skin.D. You only
45、really need to wash your smelly parts.（C）Social norms of right and wrong are vital to a well-functioning society. However, such moral standards are changeable and the psychological mechanisms（机制）driving this change are unknown. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet report that our view of selfis
46、h and unselfish behaviors changes depending on how common they are.The results are based on a combination of behavioral experiments, mathematical models and computer simulations. In the experiments, the participants first observed other peoples behavior in a so-called“public goods game,”in which pla
47、yers receive a sum of money and then choose either to invest it to varying degrees so that it benefits everyone in the group, or to keep it for themselves. After every round, the participants were asked to judge the different choices as morally right or wrong, and whether the choices ought to be pun
48、ished with a reduction in how much the players gained.Unselfish behavior was considered more morally right than selfish, but both behaviors were judged to be more moral and less deserving of punishment if the majority exhibited them than if they were uncommon. The commonness of the selfish behavior
49、also affected the participants willingness to themselves pay to punish selfishness.“Tolerance of selfish behavior increased when the majority of the players kept the money for themselves, which surprised me,”says principal investigator Andreas Olsson, senior lecturer at Karolinska Institutets Department of Clinical Neuroscience.“The fact that a behavior is common 第 9 页 / 共 15 页
