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2019届高三上海宝山区高考英语二模试题
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Ⅱ. Grammar and Vocabulary
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.
Curiosity is part of human nature. Children are famous for wanting answers ___21___ tons of questions. People keep reading or watching ___22___ they want to find out what happens. But curiosity also provides many practical benefits.
Learning is easiest if you have a genuine desire for knowledge. Curiosity can create that desire when you have a question.
Many of history greatest discoveries ___23___（make）by curious people. People wondered ___24___ processes worked or how certain tasks could be done more effectively. Thanks to their curiosity, people now know far more about the world and have useful technology ___25___（help）them.
Even if you don’t plan to be an inventor of researcher, curiosity can still help you in the classroom. If you develop the joy of learning, classes will become more fun. And you’ll excel because you will be fully engaged in the process of learning. Even if you’re no longer a student, curiosity will make you better ___26___（inform）and thus a more capable worker.
What do you do if you’re not already curious? Fortunately, curiosity is a skill that can be improved. If you act like you’re curious, you’ll quickly start to actually feel curious. Often, the more you learn about a topic the ___27___（interesting）it becomes.
As you learn about a topic, gather information from as many sources as possible. Read a variety of books, watch or listen to lectures and ask questions. Don’t always get your information from the same source. Instead, learn to appreciate facts that different people know and the different opinions ___28___ they express.
Ask a lot of questions, Remember, everyone knows ___29___ that you don’t. Find out what that is, and ask about it. This lets you learn something and makes the other person happy by letting them show off their knowledge.
In the classroom or out of it, ___30___（develop）curiosity is sure to be worthwhile.
Section B
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. A. accessing B. nonessential C. apparent D. technology E. assigned F. contact G. particularly H. addiction I. associated J. automatically K. contributing When was the last time that you dialed a phone number from memory? It probably depends on how long you’ve been using ___31___ like a cellphone. While some generations can recall the days of memorizing phone numbers, it’s possible that members of Generation Z have never had to remember a single ___32___. Why is this?
Because smartphones offer quick and convenient ways for storing and ___33___ information. There is no need to memorize anything. But this isn’t without consequence. As digital devices develop, more and more users’ heavy reliance on them may be having disabling effects.“Digital dementia（失智）”is the term being used by medical professionals to identify some of these effects.
Some professionals like Jim Kwik, an expert in memory improvement and optimal brain performance, are taking a closer look at this effect. Kwik describes digital dementia like this:“...we’re ___34___ our brains to our smart devices. We’re so reliant on our smartphones that our smartphones are making us stupid. As medical studies chart the decline in memory and cognitive skills among smartphone users, a connection is made between symptoms ___35___ with dementia.”
The seriousness of overuse becomes ___36___ when you consider just how young smartphone users are becoming. Author and speaker Simon Sinek points out that young minds“Are not ready for it! Their minds cannot cope with the dopamine（多巴胺）.”Consequently, the overstimulation of screens and sounds lead to ___37___ more often than not. So now parents, teachers and managers are asking how to handle the influx（汇集）of young people with this kind of addiction.
? First, monitor your cellphone use. Keep downloading applications like Forest or Checky. Then cut back on
any ___38___ usage. Set a specific goal of how much you think you should use your phone.
? Determine ___39___ areas for cellphone use. For example, while you’re at home, only allow yourself to
check your phone somewhere like a home office. This way, the time in between tasks isn’t ___40___ filled with staring at your screen.
Ⅲ. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions：For each blank in the following passages 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.
Serendipity - an unexpected delight – is the word that comes to mind when describing the seven-day hike my wife and I recently did in the wild and undeveloped northwest coast of Galicia, Spain.
Simply ___41___, anyone who is adventurous, loves traveling to Europe and is fit enough to do 10-mile hikes should seriously consider doing this hike.
Before this experience, I had never heard about On Foot Holidays programs that allow hikers to go at their own pace, with maps and detailed hiking ___42___, but without a guide or other travelers, while still enjoying a high level of local support.
What ___43___ caught my attention was an announcement about On Foot Holidays’ newest hike, the Lighthouse Way, which they described as a journey along“the last ___44___ coast of Europe.”This particular hike sounded both challenging and rewarding enough to ___45___ a try.
On Foot Holidays booked our lodging each night and ___46___ a taxi to take our baggage to the next destination, so we just had to carry our daypack essentials. Each day we ___47___ or spoke with the company’s local expert who was available ___48___ emergency, but whose main function was to keep us informed about the daily weather forecast and to make special taxi arrangements when we decided to ___49___ a couple of 14-mile hikes to less than 10 miles.
The ___50___ of the trails and scenery made every hike a delight. One of our hikes followed a narrow trail along a steep, rocky cliff ___51___ the steel-blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean that thrash against jagged rocks hundreds of feet below us. We stopped to picnic and watch the only living things we saw that whole day: a herd of goats above us, and a group of dolphins jumping in the waves below. In the distance, many of mountain peaks ___52___ sparkling wind turbines（涡轮机）like candles on a cake.
Silence and loneliness were the features of each day’s accommodation. The only sounds we heard were birds singing, the wind blowing through trees or the waves breaking against the shoreline. The air was clean and the