1、徐汇区高三英语 本卷共 10 页 第 1 页 徐汇区 2019 学年第二学期学习能力诊断卷 高三英语 试卷 （满分（满分 140 分，考试时间分，考试时间 120 分钟）分钟） 2020.5 I. Listening Comprehension 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. Th
2、e 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. To answer the door. B. To fix the doorbell. C. To get a job
3、. D. To ask for instructions. 2. A. At the airport. B. In a restaurant. C. In a booking office. D. At the hotel reception. 3. A. She has lost a lot of weight. B. She lost some money last year. C. She spent a lot on cosmetic surgery. D. She is having health problems. 4. A. Taking photographs. B. Down
4、loading images. C. Fixing cameras. D. Painting pictures. 5. A. The woman is going to hold a party tomorrow. B. The man asks the woman not to attend the party. C. The woman doesnt know how to get to the party. D. The man offers to drive the woman to the party. 6. A. Tokyo is a city with a short histo
5、ry. B. He can provide little useful information. C. He can show the woman around the city. D. He has lived in Tokyo for a long time. 7. A. She will meet the man in his office. B. She has an appointment with the man. C. She had a traffic accident that morning. D. She cant finish making the jam before
6、 9. 8. A. Play some music. B. Remove the power plug. C. Repair the sound box. D. Start the car engine. 9. A. She cant stand the hot weather. B. The beach resort is a better choice. C. She enjoys visiting the art museums. D. The man should develop a taste for art. 10. A. He is satisfied with his new
7、job. B. He wants his workload to be shared. C. He doesnt like his new office. D. He gets pressure from his new position. 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 conversat
8、ion. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a 徐汇区高三英语 本卷共 10 页 第 2 页 question, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have heard. Questions 11 through 13 a
9、re based on the following passage. 11. A. A promotion of outdoor clothes. B. An introduction of West Virginia. C. A weekend vacation to a famous resort. D. A free trip to an unknown destination. 12. A. Regretful. B. Frustrating. C. Worthwhile. D. Comfortable. 13. A. Mystery trips. B. Outdoor adventu
10、res. C. Social media. D. Travel destinations. Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Goods are scarce and hard to get for ordinary consumers. B. People aim for social distinction through what they own. C. Manufacturers make more money by mass production. D. Growth of cons
11、umerism is restricted by artificial products. 15. A. To cut down on labour costs by reducing working hours. B. To make customers feel they own something rare. C. To increase their coffee price without losing customers. D. To focus more on quality and customer satisfaction. 16. A. Consumer awareness.
12、 B. Social distinction. C. Artificial scarcity. D. Mass production. Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. In the gym. B. At a bookstore. C. At the library. D. In the classroom. 18. A. Wait for a month. B. Keep the receipt. C. Mark on the book. D. Accept a discount.
13、19. A. The man doesnt need the book now. B. Hes afraid he might damage the book. C. The book costs too much for him. D. He prefers the edition with footnotes. 20. A. Bargain with the woman. B. Go to another bookstore. C. Wrap his book. D. Surf the Internet. II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Direc
14、tions: 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. Discovering a Lost Brother Kie
15、ron Graham always knew he had an elder brother named Vincent. His adoption papers, (21) _ (sign) when he was three months old, listed a brother named Vincent but no last name. Though Kieron spent years thinking about Vincent, he could never track him down. That changed in December 2017, when Kierons
16、 adoptive parents gave him an DNA test as a Christmas gift. When his results came back, he was surprised (22) _ (find) he had a lot of DNA matches for relatives who had also taken the test. Most were distant connections, but one match was so strong that it (23) _ (label) “close family.” His name was
17、 Vincent Ghant. Kieron looked for him on Facebook and soon made a possible connection. 徐汇区高三英语 本卷共 10 页 第 3 页 When they connected, it was (24) _ _ they had known each other their whole lives. As they talked, the brothers realized they lived about 20 minutes from each other. (25) _(surprisingly), the
18、y attended the same university and majored and minored in the same subjects. Vincent was nine when Kieron was born and remembers caring for his baby brother. But times were tough, and Shawn, who worked 15-plus hours a day as a nurse, decided that (26) _(place) Kieron for adoption would give him the
19、best chance to succeed. “She was very emotional about that time, to the point (27) _ it was hard for her to put into words anything about what happened,” Vincent says. Now the brothers had the chance to make up for lost time. They decided to meet at a local tea shop that week. One of Vincents concer
20、ns was that Kieron (28) _ hate his birth family for placing him for adoption. He was relieved Kieron didnt, and (29) _ hed grown up in a loving family. After that first meeting, the brothers played football together and celebrated Christmas with their families. “Well keep growing our relationship (3
21、0) _ its time to leave this planet,” says Vincent. That shouldnt be hard. As Kieron says, “Weve got years and years to catch up on.” Section B Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. Wh
22、y Humpback Whales (座头鲸) Protect Other Species from Killer Whales Robert Pitman, a marine ecologist, describes an encounter he witnessed in Antarctica in 2009. A group of killer whales were attacking a Weddell seal. The seal swam 31 toward a pair of humpbacks that had inserted themselves into the act
23、ion. One of the humpbacks rolled over on its back, and the seal was 32 onto its chest, between the whales massive flippers (鳍). “That incident 33 me,” he says. “Those humpbacks were doing something we couldnt explain.” Pitman started asking other researchers and whale watchers to send him similar 34
24、 . Soon he was reading through observations of 115 encounters between humpbacks and killer whales, recorded over 62 years. “There are some pretty astonishing videos of humpbacks 35 killer whales,” he says. In a 2016 article in Marine Mammal Science, a famous scientific journal, Pitman and his co-aut
25、hors describe this behaviour and confirm that such acts of do-gooding are widespread. But knowing that something is happening and understanding why its happening are two different things. Pitman and his co-authors openly reflected on the meaning of these encounters. “Why,” they wrote, “would humpbac
26、ks 36 interfere with attacking killer whales, spending time and energy on a potentially 37 activity, especially when the killer whales were attacking other species of prey?” Interestingly, humpbacks dont just hit on killer-whale attacks. They race toward them like firefighters into burning buildings
27、. And like those rescue workers, humpbacks dont know who is in danger until they get there. Thats because the sound that 38 them to an attack isnt the sad A. motive B. deliberately C. convinced D. injurious E. alerts F. desperately G. swept H. accounts I. unconscious J. preserving K. charging 徐汇区高三英
28、语 本卷共 10 页 第 4 页 voice of the victim. Its the excited calls of the killer whales. Pitman believes humpbacks have one simple instruction: “When you hear killer whales attacking, go break it up.” I wonder what humpback whales care deeply enough about to actively swim into battle with killer whales. Wh
29、en I ask Pitman, he tells me that, it still comes down to selfishly 39 their own kind. He believes that their occasional rescues of humpback calves (后代) create a strong enough 40 for them to rush in to help, even if it means they end up saving sunfish, sea lions, dolphins every now and then. III. Re
30、ading 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. The true purpose of a business, Peter Drucker said, is to create and keep customers. “Custome
31、r value” has several definitions. I use the 41 to mean the total lifetime value of a companys customer base. Companies can increase this value by 42 more customers, earning more business from existing ones, keeping them longer, making their experience simpler through digital improvements and so on.
32、43 leaders have long understood the importance of concentrating on customer value rather than pursuing short-term profits or quarterly earnings, and theyve become enduring customer loyalty leaders in the process. Its worth noting that a number of loyalty-leading companies are able to 44 shareholder
33、pressure, or avoid it altogether, because they are founder-led, customer-owned, or not publicly traded. Companies can 45 customer value in a variety of ways: To increase 46 , enterprise software companies sometimes charge corporate customers change fees that can raise the total cost of ownership to
34、as much as three times the original price. To reduce operating costs, restaurant chains sometimes 47 frozen and precooked ingredients in place of fresh and made-to-order food. The resulting profits may look good on the income statement. Such strategies may even lead to short-term earnings growth. Bu
35、t they also 48 potential customers and encourage disloyalty. Given the importance of customer value, leaders should track it as much as they track other key assets (资产), such as buildings, machinery, and marketable securities. They also should reveal it in their quarterly and annual earnings release
36、s so that investors can make 49 judgments about company performance and how it compares with that of industry peers. But most companies 50 believe that measuring customer value is too difficult or costly. They continue to rely on a centuries-old accounting tradition that emphasizes physical and fina
37、ncial assets, and neither income statements nor balance sheets offer much 51 into the value of a companys customers. As investors wake up to the importance of customer value, however, many growth-stage companies now direct investors attention to 52 in growing the value of their customer base. Some p
38、ublic companies increasingly report various types of customer value metrics (指标). One of the UKs top energy suppliers E.ON, 53 , reports year-over-year customer counts in its financial report. “As a customer-focused company,” E.ON noted, “we see customer value as crucial to our success.” This is a s
39、tart, but because there are no customer-value reporting standards or requirements, investors still have a(n) 54 picture. The minority of companies that do provide customer value 徐汇区高三英语 本卷共 10 页 第 5 页 information decide for themselves what to disclose. 55 , firms may calculate customer metrics diffe
40、rently or change them to tell a desired story, or simply stop reporting them if they fail to go with the companys preferred narrative. 41. A. item B. version C. term D. definition 42. A. persuading B. consulting C. acquiring D. inspecting 43. A. Considerate B. Visionary C. Determined D. Powerful 44.
41、 A. resist B. relieve C. intensify D. maintain 45. A. raise B. adopt C. calculate D. destroy 46. A. income B. experience C. productivity D. demand 47. A. separate B. substitute C. forbid D. combine 48. A. appeal to B. rely on C. put down D. scare off 49. A. informed B. subjective C. definitive D. in
42、dependent 50. A. fully B. hardly C. readily D. wrongly 51. A. suspicion B. extension C. literacy D. visibility 52. A. sacrifice B. success C. prejudice D. expense 53. A. as a result B. for example C. on the contrary D. in general 54. A. incomplete B. depressing C. convincing D. vivid 55. A. Instead
43、B. Further C. Otherwise D. Therefore 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
44、passage you have just read. (A) Aristotle thought the face was a window onto a persons mind. Cicero agreed. Two thousand years passed, and facial expressions are still commonly thought to be a universally valid way to judge other peoples feelings, irrespective of age, sex and culture. A raised eyebr
45、ow suggests confusion. A smile indicates happiness. Or do they? An analysis of hundreds of research papers that examined the relationship between facial expressions and underlying emotions has uncovered a surprising conclusion: there is no good scientific evidence to suggest that there are such thin
46、gs as recognizable facial expressions for basic emotions which are universal across cultures. Just because a person is not smiling, the researchers found, does not mean that person is unhappy. This may raise questions about the efforts of information-technology companies to develop artificial-intell
47、igence algorithms (算法) which can recognize facial expressions and work out a persons underlying emotional state. Microsoft, for example, claims its “Emotion API” is able to detect what people are feeling by examining video footage of them. Another of the studys authors, however, expressed scepticism
48、. Aleix Martinez, a computer engineer at Ohio State University, said that companies attempting to obtain emotions from images of faces have failed to understand the importance of context. For a start, facial expression is but one of a number of non-verbal ways，such as body posture, that people use t
49、o communicate with each other. Machine recognition of emotion needs to take account of these as well. But context can reach further than that. Dr Martinez mentioned an experiment in which participants were shown a close-up picture of a mans face, which was bright 徐汇区高三英语 本卷共 10 页 第 6 页 red with his mouth open in a scream. Based on this alone, most participants
