1、2023届上海市崇明区高三下学期二模英语试卷 学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、用单词的适当形式完成短文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
2、 that best fits each blank.Tea ArtIts common to see people in coffee bars create coffee art, but its a whole different ballgame doing the same thing with tea. Han Zheming has managed to perfect the skill, creating tea art in cups, or dian cha in Chinese,_1_ used to be a ritual during the Song Dynast
3、y. Over the past six years, the 40-year-old Shanghai resident _2_ (use) tea and spoons to create nearly 200 patterns based on ancient paintings. “Its like _3_ (add) bells and whistles to tea, giving people a stronger sense of occasion, so drinking tea is more fun,” Han says. Its also his intention t
4、o bring the old ritual back to modern life and have more people _4_ (appreciate) its charm. Dian cha enhances the taste of tea, Han says. “It is similar to the foam (泡沫) on top of a cup of coffee, except _5_ it is made of tea rather than milk.”Chinese tea culture started to enjoy popularity during t
5、he Tang Dynasty and boomed throughout the Song Dynasty, _6_ tea became a necessity for almost everyone, from nobles and scholars to common people, just like other essential items, such as rice, oil and salt, as suggested by Song politician and thinker Wang Anshi.Different from the method of making t
6、ea during the Tang period, in the Song Dynasty, the popular way of having tea was through dian cha. The process begins with hot water being poured over fine _7_ (powder) tea creating a mixture. Then more hot water is added slowly _8_ the tea is constantly beaten by hand with a bamboo stick. It is be
7、lieved that this method later spread to other parts of East Asia, including Japan, where similarities _9_ be seen in the way matcha (抹茶) is prepared today.This action of pouring hot water is called dian; hence the name dian cha _10_ (list) as an intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) of Runzhou dist
8、rict, Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province, in 2019.二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.AapplicationsBconnectionsCemotionsDidentifyE. intervene
9、F. notificationsG. sacredH. sharedI. specializeJ. stressedK. technologicalAnimal CommunicationMany pet owners long to talk with their animals. After all, if pets were able to talk, people could take care of them more easily and have closer emotional _11_ to them, so a number of companies are working
10、 on devices and apps that could translate what animals say.One such app is called MeowTalk. Using voice recognition software, this app recognizes different sounds a cat makes and offers English translations of them. For example, one type of sound might mean “feed me” while another could be translate
11、d “let me outside.” The app can use machine learning to assess its translations and improve at recognizing one particular cats voice. In other words, it can _12_ in understanding your cat in particular. This is important because cats do not all have a(n) _13_ language, but individual cats frequently
12、 use particular sounds to mean certain things.In the future, MeowTalk could connect to a smart collar that would hear the cat meow and play the translation out loud. Perhaps if the cat is outside and needs to be let in, it could even send _14_ to the owners phone.For dogs, a Japanese company called
13、Inupathy has developed a harness (保护带) with a heart rate monitor and an app. The heart rate monitor is used to assess a dogs _15_. This is possible because, like humans, dogs heart rates go up when they are excited or _16_. The harness also has a light that turns red when the dog is excited, but whe
14、n the dog is relaxed, the light is blue.The most obvious use of this technology is to help pet owners _17_ with and provide for their pets better. The more owners know about their pets, the easier it is to meet their needs.There are other _18_ of technology that help us understand animals. For examp
15、le, some sheep farmers are using artificial intelligence to scan and determine if they are in pain, which helps them find out sick animals. As a result, they can _19_ more quickly to treat the animal. Anyone who interacts regularly with animals could benefit from understanding their animals better.
16、Thus these _20_ developments might transform the way we interact with the creatures around us.三、完形填空Its long been known that sugary drinks help people pack on unwanted kilograms. But new research suggests that _21_ drinks and even 100% fruit juice might raise your risk for some cancers. The study co
17、uldnt prove cause and effect, but it found that drinking as little as 90-120ml of sugary drinks each day was _22_ to an 18% rise in overall risk for cancer. The new study was led by Mathilde Touvier, research director at the University of Paris. Her team collected data on more than 100,000 French me
18、n and women, average age 42, who took part in a national _23_.The participants answered questions about how much of 3,300 different foods and drinks they consumed each day, and were _24_ for up to nine years.The study uncovered links between the consumption of sugary drinks and the risk of cancer_25
19、_, and for breast cancer specifically. The investigators found no association between sugary drinks and prostate or colon cancers (前列腺或结肠癌), but the authors stressed that too few people in the study developed these cancers to make this finding _26_. The research _27_ no links between diet sodas (无糖汽
20、水) and cancer, although more study is needed to confirm that, the authors noted.The connection between sugary drinks and cancer remained the same even after the team _28_for age, sex, educational level, family history of cancer, smoking and physical activity, the researchers said.So, why the _29_? A
21、ccording to Touviers team, high-calorie drinks may raise cancer risk because sugar helps build body fat, in addition to raising blood sugar levels and inflammation (发炎) all of which are risk _30_ for cancer. Its also possible that chemicals found in these drinks might play a part in _31_ cancer risk
22、, the researchers theorized.A group representing the drinks industry said sugary drinks can still be a part of the _32_ diet, however. In a statement, the American Beverage Association said: “Its important for people to know that all drinks either with sugar or without are _33_ to consume as part of
23、 a balanced diet. Americas leading drinks companies are working together to support consumers efforts to _34_ the sugar they consume from our drinks by providing more choices with less sugar or zero sugar, smaller package sizes and clear calorie information right up front.”Samantha Heller is a senio
24、r clinical nutritionist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City. She said she wasnt _35_ by the findings. She noted that, for decades, these drinks have been linked with diseases such as heart disease. On the other hand, “most of us should be drinking more water than we do,” Heller said.21Aic
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26、Dmounted29AresearchBsimilarityCconnectionDimpact30AbehaviorsBassessmentsCperceptionsDfactors31AexplainingBincreasingCpreventingDpredicting32AlocalBnutritionalCaverageDconventional33AsafeBimpossibleCexceptionalDeffective34AneutralizeBdigestCremoveDreduce35AannoyedBsurprisedCembarrassedDdelighted四、阅读理
27、解I was putting on my boots just now in what the novelists call “a brown study.” There was no urgent reason for putting on my boots. I was not going out, and my slippers were much more comfortable. But something had to be done. I wanted a subject for an article. Now if you are accustomed to writing a
28、rticles for a living, you will know that sometimes the difficulty is not writing the article, but choosing a subject. It is not poverty you suffer from, but an embarrassment of riches. But what has this to do with putting on my boots? It is a reasonable question and I will tell you. For an hour I ha
29、d paced my room in my slippers in search of a subject. I had looked out of the window over the sunlit valley, and watched the smoke of a distant train disappearing towards the west. I had sharpened every pencil I had on me with great care. But the more I sharpened my pencils, the more anxious I grew
30、 about the theme for an article. It was at this moment that I remembered my boots. The act of bending my body changed the current of the blood. You saw things in a new light. So I fetched my boots and sat down to put them on.The thing worked like a charm. For in my preoccupied condition I picked up
31、my right boot first. Then mechanically I put it down and seized the left boot. And then the fact flashed on me that all my life I had been putting on my left boot first. If you had asked me five minutes before which boot I put on first, I should have said that there was no first about it; yet now I
32、found I was in a habit so fixed that the attempt to put on my right boot first affected me. The thing couldnt be done. And then came into my mind that fascinating book of Samuel Butlers on Life and Habit. Yes, certainly, here was a subject that would “go.” I took out a pencil, seized some writing pa
33、per, and sat down to write on “The Force of Habit.”36By “It is not poverty you suffer from, but an embarrassment of riches.” in paragraph 1, the author means _.Asome subjects are too complicated or embarrassing to write onBpoverty is no longer a problem nowadays, but embarrassment isCpoor people don
34、t encounter as many embarrassments as the richDtherere so many subjects that its hard to decide which to choose37Why did the author sharpen his pencils with great care?ATo help himself promote thinking.BTo draw what he saw out of the window.CTo write his article more smoothly.DTo relieve himself of
35、anxiety about writing.38Putting on the boots helped the author _.Aget rid of his fixed habitBlower his blood pressureCsee things from a new angleDfree his preoccupied mind39The passage is mainly about the authors _.Apersonal attitude towards habitsBdaily routines as a professional writerCwriting pro
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