2018-2019學(xué)年上海市上師大附中高三上英語期中試卷(含答案)

1、n. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections：After readi ng the passage below, fill in the bla nks to make the passage cohere nt and grammatically correct. For thebla nks with a give n word, fill in each bla nk with the proper form of the give n word; for the other bla nks, use one word that best fi

2、tseach bla nk.Many of us spe nd our lives in black, brow n, n avy, white, grey and so on. But by choos ing safe shades_ 21_a bright dress, we could be miss ing out on the health ben efits from colour.Jules Stan dish, author of How Not to Wear Black, is a style and colour con sulta nt for wome n afra

3、id of sta ndingout, and she believes 22(change)your shopping habits can boost your well-being and self-respect.“Research shows that colourscan have_23_ psychological effect,”she says.“Looking at warm, brightcolours, such as red or pink, releases dopamine(多巴胺)-_24_(know)as the feel-good hormone which

4、can improve our mood and heighten the attention span.”Here, Jules gives her suggestion on the colours_ 25_ can t be more suited.“Red and gree n 26 n ever be seen could nbe more wrong. Un expectedly, they work greatly well together. Our brainsassociate colours with temperature, so scarlet(深紅色)is at 2

5、7(hot)end of colour spectrum(色譜).Scarlet and burgundy(紫紅色)are both uni versally attractive and suit almost every skin tone and hair colour. This comb in ati on 28(think)un pleasa ntly bright,but here the gree n, or bright blue, helps to tone dow n the purple.Research also suggests that men prefer wo

6、me n in pink,_ 29_ itourto thincloseetpiok is afeminine and youthful colour, but it is more wearable than its brighter counterpart. Add touches of burgundy 30(make)it moreelegant. Pale pink can be worn well into your 60s, and works for those who don comfortable in atte nti on-grabb ing shades.Sectio

7、n BDirections:Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one wordmore tha n you n eed.A. recentlyB. estimatedC employingD. definitionE confiisLngF. updatedG. scientificH. argiuneat1. d&peuding J. dis met K. AnallyMost of us lear

8、n at primary school that there are seven continents, but the next generation of kids may be add ing one more tothat list.Accord ing to a rece nt paper published_ 31_in the Geological Society of America n Journal by a group ofresearchers,“Zeala ndia”is a new continent thate ededde n ben eath thZeala

9、ndia is32_ to be five millio n sq. km. Most of this massive area is covered by water, but its highest mountains alreadyhave their own name: New Zealand.The small country is the only part of Zealandia that isn undterwater, but the paperautshors want the huge landmass to berecognized worldwide as its

10、own continent.“The _33_ value of classifying Zealandia as a continent is much more than just an extra name on a list, the researcherswrote in their paper.Scientists discovered Zealandia all the way back in 1995, then started extensive research on the area _34_ underwater andsatellite mapping technol

11、ogy. After completing their work, they were _35_ able to write a report suggesting that Zealandia benamed a continent.But who decides on what is a continent and what isnt? Theries, in fact, no official organization that does. Some countriesschools teach that there are six or even five continents. Th

12、is changes _36_ on where in the world school is.Due to their _37_ as a“continuous expanse of land”, some classify Europe and Asia as the same contine-known as Eurasia. Schools in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe teach this.And to make things even more _38_, France and Greece, as well as other coun

13、tries, classify North America and SouthAmerica as simply America.This _39_ over how land is defined has even stretched into outer space. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union（IAU）decided that Pluto was no longer a planet, 76 years after its discovery in 1930. Experts argued that it no longer

14、 met the requirementsneeded to be called a planet alongside the eight others in our solar system. It was therefore renamed a“d矮行星anWt, meaningthat countless books, models and museumexhibits all over the world had to be _40_.But will the world take the same notice of Zealandia? The best way to tell i

15、s to keep an eye on our textbooks.川.Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections：For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C, and D. Fill in each blank withthe word or phrase that best fits the context.Since 1960, considerable scientific researches have been d

16、one on chimps in their natural habitats. Astonishingly, scientists havefound out that the social _41_ of chimps are very similar to humans. Chimps will _42_ in certain ways, like gathering in warparties to protect their territory. But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have littl

17、e instinct to _43_ oneanother. Chimps in the wild seek food for themselves. Even chimp mothers regularly _44_ to share food with their children. Whoare able from a young age to gather their own food?In the laboratory, chimps dont _45_ share food either. If a ch i mn pa i scapguet iwhere he can pull

18、in oneplate of food for himself or, with no greater effort, a plate that also provides food for a neighbor to the next cage, he will pull_46_- he just doesnt care whether his neighbor gets fed or not. Chimps are trulyisshe.lfHuman children, _47_, are extremely cooperative. From the earliest ages, th

19、ey decide to help others, to share informationand to participate in achieving common goals. The psychologist Michael Tomasello has studied this _48_ in a series ofexperiments with very young children. He finds that if babies aged 18 months see a worried adult with hands full trying to open a door,al

20、most all will immediately try to help.There are several reasons to believe that the urges to help, inform and share are not taught, but naturally _49_ in youngchildren. One is that these _50_ appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train their children to behave_51_. Another i

21、s that the helping behaviors are not improved if the children are rewarded. A third reason is that socialintelligence _52_ in children before their general cognitive skills, at least when compared with chimps. In tests conducted byTomasello, the human children did no better than the chimps on the _5

22、3_ world tests but were considerably better atunderstanding the social world.The core of what childrens minds have and chimpsdont what Tomasello calls shared intentionality. Part this ability is thatthey can _54_ what others know or are thinking. But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose.They actively seek to be part of a“we”，a group that intends to work toward a(n) _55_ goal.41. A. structuresB. policiesC. b