2021年高考英语试卷（上海）（秋考）（空白卷）

1/14 2021 年上海市高考英语试卷 Listening Comprehension Section A 1．A.She is a policewoman. B.She is a shop assistant. C.She is a teacher. D.She is a doctor. 2．A.He lives near the East Lake. B.He is not interested in that school. C.He has not decided what major to choose. D.He wants to apply to East Lake College. 3．A.Comfort the man. B.Find the man a job. C.Keep the man company. D.Evaluate the man's work. 4．A.The title of a painter. B.A catalogue. C.The history of the 18th century. D.A work of art. 5．A.She will go to work on foot. B.She will get off at her office. C.She will take another means of transport. D.She will wait for the man at the next crossroads. 6．A.Prepare for the test on Chapter 9. B.Read aloud Chapter 9. C.Explain the assignment of Chapter 9. D.Talk about Chapter 9. 7．A.He will call off the next conference. B.He can't contact the woman by email. C.He will have his computer fixed tomorrow.D.He can't decide on the date for the conference. 2/14 8．A.She has put away the boy's shoes. B.She will wash the boy's shoes. C.The boy needn't go to school today. D.The boy can't get to school on time. 9．A.Pack the free pizzas. B.Prepare lunch by herself. C.Work at Pizza Kitchen. D.Go to a health club to lose weight. 10．A.He will get the reservation done. B.No twin room is available in March. C.He will call the woman at a later time. D.The woman should change her schedule. Section B 11．（1）A.Workers explore flexible approaches to fighting sleepiness at work. B.Companies need more facilities for their workers' on site napping. ﹣ C.Companies encourage their workers to nap on the job. D.Workers demand more care about their sleep quality. （2）A.Go home for a 20 minute nap. ﹣ B.Take a 10 minute nap at 3 p.m. ﹣ C.Do sports with personal trainers. D.Sleep in a room with a bed and pillows. （3）A.Taking a nap improves his work efficiency. B.Using a calculator prevents him making mistakes. C.He works longer than any other employee in the firm. D.He works as an account ant in a consulting company. 12．（1）A.A search engine developed by a library. B.An introduction to the Pearl Library. C.A person to person information service. ﹣﹣ D.Changes that search engines bring to us.（2）A.It may give you a large number of results. B.It may cause your computer to break down. 3/14 C.It will provide unreliable information. D.It will take a long time to show the answers. （3）A.It recommends what to read when you miss key information. B.It offers a satisfactory answer even to a vague question. C.It teaches you how to look for information. D.It is accessible for 9 hours 7 days a week. 13．（1）A.What benefits summer jobs have. B.How the woman can find a summer job. C.Which summer camp suits the woman. D.How they can succeed in an interview. （2）A.It will give her useful experience. B.It will be a better paid job. ﹣ C.It will enable her to keep in contact with him. D.It will secure a full time job for her. ﹣ （3）A.It is held every week. B.It opens for 9 hours. C.Participants shouldn't dress casually. D.Participants needn't carry their resumes. （4）A.She is going to be a teacher. B.She wants to be a top student. C.She is confident of her future. D.She takes interest in camp life. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 14． The Spread of Disease Traveling from one city to another can lead to the spread of disease.When people arrive in a new place，they may bring in bacteria that （1） （not be） present in the past.The people there have no natural protection （2） these new bacteria，so they catch the disease more easily.（3） it is unfamiliar，health workers may not identify it or stop it from spreading.People with the disease may continue to have contact with 4/14 others.In this way，the bacteria travel from person to person through the population.This was （4） happened，for example，when soldiers travelled back home at the end of the First World War.These soldiers brought with them the Spanish flu，and （5） cost millions of lives. Heating and cooling systems in buildings can also be a source of disease.Take old air conditioners in windows as an example.They tend to collect dirt and water，which makes it easy for bacteria （6 ） （grow ）.Then when the air conditioner （7 ） （turn） on，the bacteria will be blown into the home or office and make people sick.Bacteria grow fast in the water of the cooling towers.They are then sent throughout the building with the air conditioning and can affect anyone in the building.Scientists first recognized this problem in July 1976，by （8） time 221 people had become seriously ill. Pollution of the oceans can also be a factor in spreading disease.The pollution may be caused by fertilizers that wash into rivers and then into the ocean ，or by human waste （9 ） （dump ）directly into the ocean with no processing.These pollutants result in the increased growth of tiny plants that are called algae.They can form a thick mass in the water ，（10） （provide）a perfect environment for cholera，a fatal disease. Section B 15． A.allow B.bothering C.gap D.inaccessible E.inefficient F.jumped G.personalized H.place I.purchase J.skipping K.strategies Grocery shopping in person or online：Which is better？ Karen Spade knows how to collect coupons（优惠券） and price match.She runs her own savings website to teach others to shop and save as she does. Yet when a nearby grocery store started offering online shopping about month ago ，Spade （1） at the chance to try it.She didn't even care there was a delivery fee and the store did not （2） paper coupons or price matching for online orders.Why would a power shopper be willing to give up some of her favorite savings （3） to shop online？"For shoppers （4 ） to collect coupons and price match ，shopping in store will bring bigger ﹣ savings，"Spade explained."But many people are never going to do that and ，for them online 4/14 shopping is another way to save，because you can keep an eye on your running total as you shop to 5/14 stick to your budget." So Spade took the plunge and managed to （5） her first order."I went to the store afterwards to test out what the price （6） would have been，she said，"and I found everything ordered was the same price at the store." So if this is the case，then it's all about whether you can make back the delivery fee.Stores charge between 7.95 and 12.95 to deliver your groceries ﹩ ﹩ ，depending on the size of your （7） . You offset （抵消） little of that money right away because you do not have to pay for gas，but the biggest benefit is the time saved by （8） the trip.Shopping online saves time in another way.Even on your very first online shopping trip ，if you enter your loyalty card number，all the products you've bought before at the store should pop up as a（n）（9） shopping list.Just click the ones you'd like to buy again and you're done.No （10 ） wandering in the store. Reading Comprehension Section A 16． People believe that having pets is overall a good thing for children.But does this belief hold up to （1） ？The new field of human animal interaction aims to find out. ﹣ Ten years ago ，when psychologist Joan Smith reviewed the literature on child animal ﹣ relationships，she reported that interacting with animals led young children to better understand biology than pet less children.Kindergarteners who had cared for goldfish were more ﹣ （2） when responding to questions like"does a goldfish have a heart？"They also more easily（3） biological information from one species to another，inferring that baby frogs get bigger just like goldfish do.She also reports that those kids who turned to their pets for emotional support were less（4） than these who didn't. The past ten years have seen some advances，but literature on the topic is still rather（5） .A recent paper by researcher Meg Brown at Lakeside University （6） some important information to the discussion. She turned to a dataset that includes information from 7 ，000