英语(上海卷A卷)-2023年高考第二模拟考试卷(考试版).docx

学易金卷：2023年高考第二模拟考试卷 （上海A卷）

I.Listening Comprehension Section A （第1-10题, 每题1分；第11-20题，每题1.5分；共25分）
Section A
Directions: In Section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
1. A. At5:15. B.At5:45. C.At6:00. D.At7:00.
2. A. Unconcerned. B. Surprised. C. Doubtful. D. Delighted.
3. A. He is rather disappointed.
B. He doesn’t care for a promotion.
C. He can’t accept the result.
D. He knows his own limitation.
4. A. She wants to get some sleep.
B. She is to prepare a presentation.
C. She is to attend a chemistry class.
D. She is troubled by her sleep problem.
5. A. Get more food and drinks.
B. Invite more people.
C. Tidy up the place.
D. Prepare for a party.
6. A. Lawyer. B. Policeman. C. Doctor. D. Professor.
7. A. He wants to return the bookshelf.
B. He likes the design of his window.
C. He wants to get another solution.
D. He is reluctant to move the desk away.
8. A. Their play is hard to understand and perform.
B. Their play is inappropriate for the ceremony.
C. Something was wrong with the leading actress.
D. They had no intention of putting it on stage.
9. A. The plan for their holiday trip. B. The feelings about their trip.
C. The weather of Hawaii. D. Their wishes and dreams.
10. A. The program suits the woman best.
B. Long-distance calls will add cost to the charge.
C. The woman can make 200 free calls per month.
D. The program covers international phone calls.

Section B
Directions: In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questions on each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. It is the most unlucky day in a year.
B. It is the busiest shopping day now.
C. It is the day after Thanksgiving.
D. It is the day before Christmas.
12. A. They check out the latest price reductions online.
B. They look round for items in physical stores.
C. They order the products from online stores.
D. They wait in queue outside stores overnight.
13. A. 670 million dollars. B. 100 million dollars.
C. 25 billion dollars. D. 20 billion dollars.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. All services will be personalized.
B. More information will be available.
C. Technology will revolutionize all sectors of industry.
D. A multitude of knowledge-intensive jobs will be replaced.
15. A. They charge high prices.
B. They need lots of training.
C. They cater to the needs of young people.
D. They focus on customers' specific needs.
16. A. The rising demand in education and healthcare in the next 20 years.
B. The disruption caused by technology in traditionally well-paid jobs.
C. The tremendous changes new technology will bring to people's lives.
D. The amazing amount of personal attention people would like to have.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. All students pay the same amount per year.
B. Some students can get free meals at the cafeteria.
C. Students can get money back for meals that they don’t eat.
D. Students choose how many meals a week they will pay for.
18. A. They can help decide what will be on the menu.
B. They receive cards that allow them to be served first.
C. They can invite guests to have meals at a reduced price.
D. They pay less per meal than those who don't always eat there.
19. A. Breakfast and dinner each weekday. B. Lunch and supper each weekday.
C. Breakfast and lunch each weekend. D. Lunch and dinner each weekend.
20. A. By paying for meals one at a time. B. By borrowing a student’s meal card.
C. By ordering their meals in advance. D. By buying a weekend meal card.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary （每题1分；共20分）
Section A
Directions: 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 the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
For parents who send their kids off to college saying, “These will be the best years of your life,” it would be very appropriate to add, “ ____21____ you can handle the stress of college life.”
Freshmen are showing up already stressed out, according to the latest research study ____22____ reported students’ emotional health levels at their lowest since the survey started in 1985. While in school, more students are working part-time and near-full-time jobs. At graduation, only 29 percent of seniors ____23____ (offer) jobs.
Pressure to excel often creates stress, and many students are not learning how to effectively handle this stress. Let me show five facts that I believe every college student ____24____ know about stress.
First, stress can make smart people do stupid things. Stress causes ____25____ brain researchers call “cortical inhibition (皮层抑制).” In simple terms, stress prevents a part of the brain responsible for decision-making and reaction time and can negatively affect other mental abilities as well.
Second, the human body doesn’t discriminate between a big stressful event and a little one. Any stressful experience will create about 1,400 biochemical events in your body. If any amount of stress is left ____26____ (uncheck), many things can occur within the body, including premature aging and energy drain.
Third, stress can become your new pattern. When you regularly experience negative feelings and high amounts of stress, your brain recognizes this ____27____ your normal state. This then becomes the new norm (常态) for your emotional state.
Fourth, stress can be controlled. Countless studies demonstrate that people can restructure their emotional state using emotion refocusing techniques. One technique ____28____ (involve) slowing your thoughts, breathing slowly, and focusing on the positive feeling that you receive.
Finally, _29____ (draw) to what you study can lessen stress. Barbara Frederickson, a leading international authority on the importance of positive emotions, says humans are genetically programmed _____30_____ (seek) positive emotions such as love and joy. It’s suggested that you should choose a major or career path you love and enjoy. Otherwise, you could end up fighting against your own biology.

Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that
there is one word more than you need.
A． professional    B．exclude     C．consider     D．restlessness     E. incredible     
 F. composition  G. relatively      H. assumption   I. distraction    J. hindered    K. literally
Do you ever draw? Most of us don’t, and the reason we usually leave drawing to the artists is because we’re not very good at it. Who wants to do something they’re bad at? But maybe we should rethink this ____31____, especially since drawing has so many benefits, whether you are an artist or not.We should ____32____ this idea: What if drawing was just a low-stakes thing we did because we enjoyed it and it helped us see the world better?
“We have missed the significance of drawing because we see it as a ____33____ skill instead of a personal capacity,” writes design historian D．B．Dowd in his book, “Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice.” “This essential confusion has ____34____ our understanding of drawing and kept it from being seen as a tool for learning above all else.”
Here’s an example: You might enjoy eating at a restaurant that boasts an ____35____ chef, and you may also enjoy a great pasta dish you make at home. One doesn’t ____36____ the other; you can appreciate a meticulously assembled meal as much as a homemade one-they’re just different. The same is true for drawing.
Sitting (or standing!) with a pad and pencil, drawing something you see or imagine requires focus and a ____37____ quiet mind, something many of us are looking to cultivate. The first few minutes into the ____38____ might be a bit frustrating and distracting, but keep going. I’ve found that once I settle into it, I get better at the actual drawing part, and it’s more enjoyable. But especially if you aren’t used to drawing, you might be itching to run away and do something-anything-else at the start. To deal with your ____39____, give yourself a time limit. Set a timer for 20 minutes; that should give you enough time to put in a genuine effort and get to the point where your mind will quiet down. You can always keep going if you want, but that timer will at the very least allow you to take your mind off outside _____40_____.

III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: 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.
Human beings have somehow managed to engineer the night to receive us by filling it with light. This kind of control is no different from the feat ( 壮 举 ) of damming a river. Its benefits come with____41____ — called light pollution — whose effects scientists are only now beginning to study. Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design. ____42____ lighting washes out the darkness of night, altering light levels and light rhythms to which many forms of life, including ourselves, have____43____. Wherever man-made light spills into the natural world, some aspects of life-migration, reproduction, feeding-is affected.
For most human history, the phrase “light pollution” would have____44____. Imagine walking towards London on a moonlit night around 1800, when it was Earth’s most populous city. Nearly a million people lived there, ____45____ candles, torches and lanterns, as they always had. Only a few houses were lit by gas, and there would be no public gaslights in the streets or squares for another seven years. From a few miles away, you would have been more likely to____46____ London than to see its dim collective glow.
We’ve lit up the night as if it were a(n) ____47____ country. As a matter of fact, among mammals (哺乳动物) alone, the number of species active at night is astonishing. Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet attracting them to it. The effect is so powerful that scientists speak of songbirds and seabirds being____48____ by searchlights on land or by the light from gas flares on marine oil platforms, circling and circling in the thousands until they drop.
It was once thought that light pollution only affected astronomers, who need to see the night sky in all its glorious clarity. Unlike astronomers, most of us may not need a____49____ view of the night sky for our work. _____50_____, like most other creatures, we do need darkness. _____51_____ darkness is pointless. It is as essential to maintaining our biological welfare as_____52_____ itself; the price of modifying our internal clockwork means it doesn’t operate as it should, causing various physical discomforts. So fundamental are the regular rhythms of waking and sleep to our being that_____53_____ them is similar to altering our center of gravity.
In a very real sense, light pollution causes us to_____54_____ our true place in the universe, to forget the scale of our being, which is best_____55_____ against the dimensions of a deep night with the Milky Way — the edge of our galaxy — arching overhead.
41．A．consequences B．achievements C．agreements D．circumstances
42．A．Randomly-designed B．Well-designed
C．Poorly-designed D．Economically-designed
43．A．appealed B．adapted C．objected D．amounted
44．A．come under criticism B．made no difference
C．come into effect D．made no sense
45．A．making do with B．fed up with
C．identifying with D．overflowing with
46．A．visit B．greet C．feel D．smell
47．A．independent B．disconnected C．unoccupied D．excluded
48．A．exposed B．captured C．dismissed D．frustrated
49．A．clear B．comprehensive C．traditional D．critical
50．A．Subsequently B．However C．Therefore D．Similarly
51．A．Reviewing B．Embracing C．Denying D．Regulating
52．A．light B．rhythm C．status D．dawn
53．A．emerging from B．withdrawing from C．messing with D．coinciding with
54．A．keep track of B．lose sight of C．catch hold of D．let go of
55．A．measured B．neutralized C．undergone D．supervised

Section B
Directions: 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
Trust me — I am expedition doctor
Ever since I was a young child, I’ve had a taste for adventure, but I never imagined I’d be able to satisfy this passion at regular intervals because of my chosen career.
My work as an expedition (探险队) doctor has taken me all over the world. However, my favourite trips, and the ones in which I now specialize, are those involving mountains. Never do I feel more inspired by nature than when I look up at their towering peaks and begin to prepare myself mentally for the challenges ahead.
I trained as a doctor in the UK, but there was little in that training to prepare me for binding up a broken leg during a storm on the side of a mountain! In fact, I’d say that medical skills come some way down the list of job requirements, after endurance, flexibility, problem-solving and communication.
This kind of medicine is a million miles away from the controlled, germ-free environment of a hospital, and your medical kit basically consists of whatever you can carry, so you sometimes have to be prepared to improvise (即兴做). For example, I’ve learned that some drugs can be used for several conditions, and I’ve even had to resort to cutting branches off a small tree to make a stick to support a broken arm.
That isn’t to say that you can’t train to be an expedition doctor; on the contrary, there are some excellent courses available. Not only do they teach medical techniques, but also practical skills such as carrying out risk assessments, crossing rivers safely and using satellite phones. The first course I did included a session on expedition dentistry, though I must admit I still don’t like the idea of pulling out someone’s tooth!
I do most of my work for adventure holiday comp