2017年上海师大附中高考英语三模试卷
II.
Grammar
and
Vocabulary
SectionA
Directions
：
Readthefollowingtwopassages．Fillineachblankwithoneproperwordortheproperformofthegivenwordtomakethepassagecoherent．Makesurethatyouransweraregrammaticallycorrect．
21．（10分）Steven Paul Jobs was born in California USA，on Feb.24，1955．In 1974he dropped out of college to work （21） a video game designer．His initial aim was to save pretty enough money to go to India and experience Buddhism．
Back in the US in the autumn of 1974，Jobs went into business，with his high school friend，Stephen Wozniak．Jobs held the opinion （22） computers would appeal to a broad audience．Although he had long hair and dressed casually，he managed （23） （obtain） finance for his first marketable computer，the Apple II，in 1977．Apple Inc．（24） （form） and met with immediate success．Seven years later，Jobs introduced the Macintosh computer in a brilliantly designed demonstration．However，the sales of the first Macs were （25） （disappoint）．This led to such tensions in his company （26） in 1985he resigned．
In 1986，Jobs brought Pixar Animation Studios．Over the following decade he built Pixar into a large corporation （27） ，among other achievements，produced the first full﹣length film to be completely computer﹣animated，Toy Story，in 1995． In late 1996，Apple，（28） （face） with huge financial losses and on the verge of collapse，asked Jobs to come back．He accepted，and quickly engineered an award﹣winning advertising campaign and urged customers to\different\buy Macintoshes．In 1998，he introduced the iMac，an egg﹣shaped computer that offered high﹣speed processing at a reasonable price．It was （29） instant
success．Steve Jobs had saved his company and，in the process，re﹣established （30） as a master high﹣technology marketer．
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SectionB Directions：
Completethefollowingpassagebyusingthewordsinthebox．Eachwordcanonlybeusedonce．Notethatthereisonewordmorethanyouneed． 31．（10分）
A．action B．admiration C．adopted D．changed E．personal F．plain G．practicality H．published I．recognized J．unhappy
K．weird Why People Use Pseudonyms（艺名）
You can't choose the name given at birth，but in many countries you can change it legally when you reach adulthood．Of course，most people never change their names even if they feel （31） about them．However，some people do take this course of （32） ﹣particularly artists!What makes an artist want to change their name？Sometimes it's for purely （33） reasons，such as the Nobel Prize winning poet from Chile，Neftali Reyes．He didn't want his father to know he was writing poems，so he changed his name to Pablo Nenda when he was a young man．At other times the reason may appear （34） ； take the case of Portuguese poet Femando Pessoa，who wrote under 75different names．The reason？\，I always write in a different way，\．In most cases，however，people do it for social，historical，political，or cultural reasons．Here are some of the most common：
The person's name is just too long and difficult to remember．Let's be honest，Madonna Louise Ciccone is not as easy to remember as just （35） \．And short names are easier to remember．William Bradley became Brad Pitt and Edson Arantes do Nascimento became Pele．
Sometimes names are changed for marketing purpose．For example，if a name sounds too foreign，it may be changed to something that is more （36） in a market．So in the film world，Ramon Estevez （37） the name Martin Sheen．Or maybe the artist's real name doesn't sound very attractive﹣﹣﹣Chad Everett does sound a lot better than Raymond Cramton!
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Artists sometimes choose the name of someone they admire．Robert Zimmerman changed his name to Bob Dylan because of his （38） for the Welsh poet，Dylan Thomas．
Another reason may be （39） ：in the past，women found it very difficult to become a well﹣received writer．To avoid this situation，they sometimes gave themselves men's name，so the English author Mary Ann Evans consequently became George Eliot，and she did get her books （40） ! III
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ReadingComprehension
SectionA
Directions
：
ForeachblankinthefollowingpassagetherearefourwordsorphrasesmarkedA，B，CandD．Fillineachblankwiththewordorphrasethatbestfitsthecontext．
41．（30分）We've tried shopping，making money and spending it，but we're still miserable．What's missing from our lives？
Money （41） makes most of us happy．Poor people，（42） ，see their life satisfaction rise with income but for most of the population in a country as rich as ours，any jump﹣start to well﹣being from a pay rise quickly wears off．\window shopping in the south of France recently and I saw a woolly hat decorated with diamond，and I quite fancied it．\that more money isn't getting us more in terms of （43） ．
But what about health？Surely the virtual （44） of most fatal disease，rising life expectancy and falling death rates should be cheering us up？Not a bit of it．All that happens is that our expectations rise just as or even more quickly．（45） ，our health is better on almost every count，but this doesn't translate into our feeling any healthier．We are more aware of our health，so we get more （46） it．Medicine has become a victim of its own success：having massively reduced the chances of death in childbirth，for example，people are now shocked if a life is lost﹣﹣and reach for a lawyer．Death was inevitable﹣﹣﹣now it's （47） ． Like the answer to many great problems，however，the answer to the question of happiness may be quite plain：once countries and households are free of material
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need，the biggest （48） to life satisfaction seems to be a healthy set of personal relationship．The relative happiness of late teenagers and those passing middle age may relate to their spending more time on friendships．The thirty somethings，（49） on the two fronts of work and children，are the most frustrated．Those between full﹣time education and （50） may be spending more time on the activities they think will make them happy﹣﹣﹣earning and spending﹣﹣﹣than on those that （51） will：spending time with friends and family．
The friend﹣shaped gap （52） the American paradox﹣﹣﹣why the residents of the richest nation in the world are so unhappy﹣﹣﹣according to Professor Robert E．Lane at Yale University．\（53） of warm interpersonal relations，of easy﹣to﹣reach neighbors，of inclusive memberships，and of solid family life．\．
The （54） of happiness？Not money．So leave the lawn，forget your investment and call in sick tomorrow．Do yourself a favor．Phone a（n） （55） ． 41．A．by all means
B．no longer
C．as a matter of D．in no time fact
42．A．instantly 43．A．happiness 44．A．occurrence 45．A．objectively 46．A．curious about 47．A．immoral 48．A．opposition 49．A．fighting
B．reluctantly B．harmony B．stimulation B．Amazingly
C．dependently C．wealth C．elimination C．Fortunately
D．understandably D．health D．spread D．Similarly D．associated with D．continual D．contributor D．touching D．retirement D．theoretically D．worsens D．increase
B．anxious about C．satisfied with B．avoidable B．introduction B．calling
C．unacceptable C．tendency C．commenting
50．A．entertainment B．development C．practice 51．A．seemingly 52．A．explains 53．A．hope
B．hardly B．conceals B．lack
C．actually C．concludes C．change
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54．A．result 55．A．employer Section
B．advantage B．friend
C．secret C．company
D．potential D．hotline
B Directions：
Readthefollowingfourpassages．Eachpassageisfollowedbyseveralquestionsorunfinishedstatements．ForeachofthemtherearefourchoicesmarkedA，B，andC，D。Choosetheonethatfitsbestaccordingtotheinformationgiveninthepassageyouhavejustread．
56．（8分）We went to the B．T Blackstone Library，not far from Lake Michigan，once a week．You could easily miss the building if you didn't know what you were looking for．But once you were inside，you could never mistake it for anything else．We passed through two sets of heavy brass doorsto the lobby of the library．And if we turned right then，we could see an alcove with tables； this led，in turn，to a big reading room with a great and ancient globe that sat in front of the largest windows．At some time during every visit I found my way into that room to touch the globe．I liked to look at Africa，with the coded colors of the different countries like the Belgian Congo and Rhodesia，and try to remember which countries were fighting to be free just as we were struggling for civil rights．I had heard Daddy talking about the struggle，arguing with the television as someone discussed it on a news show．
On Saturday，as I wandered through the young adult section．I saw a title：Little Women，by Louisa May Alcott．I could tell from looking at the shelf that she'd written a lot of books，but I didn't know anything about her．I had learned from experience that titles weren't everything．A book that sounded great on the shelf could be dull once you got it home，and every bad book I brought home meant one less book to read until we went back in a week．So I sat in a chair near the shelves to skim the first paragraphs：
\，lying on the rug． \，looking down at her old dress．
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