2019年上海市普陀区高考英语一模试卷

2019年上海市普陀区高考英语一模试卷

I. Listening Comprehension (略)II. Grammar and vocabularySection A 10% 1.(10分)

The Best Book I've Ever Read

Frankly, I have read nearly all of the great works of literature, but no book has ever impressed me as deeply or directly (1) Joel Stein's Man Made: A Stupid Quest for Masendinity.

Haven't we all, on some level, been Jewish boys in New Jersey in (2) 1970s with only female friends, an Easy﹣Bake oven and a strong preference for show tunes? Haven't we all had a panic attack (3) learning we're going to have a son, since that means we're going to have to figure out how to throw footballs, watch other people throw footballs and decide (4) to be happy or sad about the results of football throwing? Haven't we all then tried to correct our lack of maleness by becoming a man, fighting fires with firefighters, (5) (drive) a Lamborghini and doing three days of Army training camp? I know I have.

The only parts I didn't fully enjoy were (26) in which the author suffered horribly. After just three hours of training camp, he fainted weakly into the arms of a soldier. The film rights to Man Made have already been sold to Fox, and I hope it gets (27) (turn) into a movie with George Clooney playing the Stein role, since they remind me so much of each other.

(8) this is only Stein's first book, I would already consider him as someone like David Sedaris, Dave Barry, James Thurber, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln. I (9) (recommend) Man Made not just to all my friends and family but also to strangers on Twitter over and over again. My one fear is (10) after this great achievement, Stein will lose his ability to be a cruel critic of our shallow times.

II. Grammar and VocabularySection A (10分)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.

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2.(10分)

A. generated B. furniture C. fame D. resulting E. suggestions F. developed G. eventually H. completed I. fixed J. commercial

K. softly The Father of JD Printing

About twenty years ago, the surgeons at the Wilford Hull medical center working to separate a pair of conjoined(连体的) twins thought that only one would be able to walk after the operation. After a model of the girls' bone structure was (1) using 3D printing, however, they found a shared upper leg bone to be bigger than expected and split it successfully, (2) in both twins being able to walk. Now eighty and still working as chief technology officer of 3D Systems. Chuck Hull is enjoying some minor (3) 31 years after he first printed a small black eye﹣wash cup using a new method of manufacturing known as 3D printing.

At the time, he was working for a company that used UV light to put thin layers of plastic coats on tabletops and (4) . He had an idea that if he could place thousands of thin layers of plastic on top of each other and then cut their shape using light, he would be able to form three dimensional objects. After a year, he (5) a system where light was shone into a bottle of photopolymer ﹣ a material which changes from liquid to plastic﹣like solid when light shines on it ﹣ and traces the shape of one level of the object. Subsequent layers are then printed until it is (6) .

After patenting the invention, he set up 3D Systems, (7) getting $6m (£3.5m) from a Canadian investor. The first (8) product came out in 1988and proved a hit among car manufacturers, in the aerospace sector and for companies designing medical equipment. The possibilities appear endless ﹣ from home﹣printed food and medicine to (9) that pictures of objects be able to be taken in shops and then recreated using plans downloaded from the Internet Although deliberate in his responses, there is one moment when the (10) spoken Chuck Hull tells of his surprise about what exactly his creation was capable of achieving.

III. Reading ComprehensionSection A (15分)Directions: For each blank in the following

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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. 3.(15分)

Words to Turn a Conversation Around

It's not what you say, but it's how you say it ﹣ isn't it? According to a language expert, we may have this wrong. \than we (1) ,\, professor of social interaction at Loughborough University. Stoke and her colleagues have (2) thousands of hours of recorded conversations, from customer services to mediation(调解) hotlines and police crisis (3) . They discovered that certain words or phrases have the power to change the course of a conversation.

Some of these words are surprising, and (4) what we've been taught to believe. For example, in a study of conversations between doctors and patients, evidence showed that doctors who (5) options rather than recommended best solutions, got a better response, despite the suggestion from hospital guidelines to talk about the best interests of the patient. But, from conversation experts such as Stoke to FBI negotiators and communication coaches, we're learning which words are likely to (6) or persuade us.

Stoke found that people who had already responded (7) when asked if they would like to attend mediation seemed to change their minds when the mediator used the phrase. \?\‘willing' was used, people would say: ‘Oh, yes, definitely'﹣they would actually (8) the sentence to agree.\: with business﹣to﹣business cold callers; with doctors trying to (9) people to go to a weight﹣loss class. She also looked at phrases such as \in\. \(10) , but ‘willing' was the one that got people to agree more rapidly and with more enthusiasm.\

\(11) of a conversation,\. \‘first movers' ﹣ people who say something really (12) ,\

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