2020年高考英语试卷（上海）（秋考）（解析卷）

1/48 2020 年上海市高考英语试卷 Listening Comprehension Section A Directions Section A ， you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation ， a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a conversation and the question about it， read the four possible answers on your paper， and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 1．A.In a bus. B.In a restaurant. C.In a hairdressing shop. D.In a shopping center. 2．A.The coffee shop. B.The dining hall. C.The library. D.The dormitory building. 3．A.Her credit card. B.Her handbag. C.Her passport. D.Her new shoes. 4．A.The man enjoyed the lecture much. B.The man missed the lecture because of falling sleep. C.The man has enjoyed the lecture and couldn't enjoy it. D.The man couldn't fall asleep when enjoying the lecture. 5．A.He thinks it's too cold to go out. B.He has no interested in shopping and eating. C.He is satisfied with any choice that the woman makes. D.It's boring for him to talk with the woman. 6．A.It's a waste of time reading them. B.Too many false advertisements cheat consumers. C.The advertisement is beneficial to us.D.The advertisement is a two edged sword. ﹣ 2/48 7．A.He feels regretful about it. B.In spite of lacking time to wander，it is colorful. C.Compared with his expectation，it is disappointing. D.He is very satisfied with it. 8．A.He couldn't attend her birthday party for the school charity sale. B.He will come to dinner in time in the next Saturday. C.He wants to invite the woman to the school charity sale. D.He has no money to buy a birthday gift for the woman. 9．A.He thinks the pill is useless for his cough. B.He couldn't find any pill in his home. C.He is complaining the woman of her bad suggestion. D.He will take some pills right now. 10．A.His mom has waited for one hour to talk with him. B.He and his mom have nothing to talk about it. C.He spends long time chatting on the phone to his mom. D.He rarely talks to his mom for a long time. Section B Directions ： In Section B ， you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation， and you will be asked several questions on each of the short passages and the longer conversation. The short passages and the longer conversation will be read twice， but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question， read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard. 11．（1）A.Their price is too high to afford for the poor. B.The local residents can grow vegetables and fruits by themselves. C.They are not nutritious and very hard to prepare. D.They are not pretty enough to be displayed on store shelves. （2）A.The company collects pretty fruits and vegetables to earn more money. B.The company collects ugly foods and sells them to local residents at a discount. C.The company thinks that the ugly foods are not as healthy as the fresh foods.D.The company owns a lot of chain supermarkets and carry ugly foods. 3/48 （3）A.Refusing food wasting and call for environmental protection. B.Giving some help to poor farmers. D.Store's address choosing and price fixing for chain supermarkets. D.The importance of display. 12．（1）A.1 million. B.1 billion. C.10 million. D.10 billion. （2）A.Planting a tree for every man，woman，and child. B.Planting new woodland to provide more green areas. C.Engaging people in their natural environment and implanting trees. D.Bringing existing woodland into management. （3）A.Making natural environments keep pace with economic developments. B.Making air pollution reduced and protecting against noise pollution. C.Reducing the urban heat island effect and flooding. D.Providing benefits to health and reducing stress. 13．（1）A.It was stolen this morning. B.It has broken down for three days. C.It was damaged because of a traffic accident. D.It was moved away due to wrong parking. （2）A.It was in behind of NO.1 classroom building. B.Students can park their cars at random in campus when in emergency. C.Student parking there will receive a parking fine and pay for the storage fee. D.If this man wants to park here，he needs to bring his student card along. （3）A.To the campus traffic office. B.To the classroom building. C.To the administration building. D.To the stadium. （4）A. 5.B. 25. ﹩ ﹩ C. 20. ﹩ 4/48 D. 55. ﹩ Grammar and Vocabulary Section A 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 fit s each blank. 14． Introduction to English as a Second Language Teacher's Book One of the earliest known inventions is the bow and arrow ﹣ ，which is still used throughout the world today，15，000 years （1） it was first invented.Of course，these days， the bow and arrow （2） （use） mainly in sporting events，but in some places it is still a means of killing animals for food. In western Asia，another extremely important invention was born the ability to produce ﹣ pots.As long as 6500 years ago ，people were producing pottery ，mostly plain and without designs，but the technique has changed little since. Some people say that the wheel is the single most important invention.Early examples from about 5000 years ago have been found in the forests of Europe.Around 1500 years later ，the Phoenicians used sand，limestone and sodium carbonate to produce （3） else which we would be lost without glass. ﹣ How many things do you lock with a key every day？Doors，cupboards？The car？We really don't think much about them，（4） we？Well，the first example of a lock and key dates back to 2750 years ago，in Assyria.This is a lock on a large wooden door in the palace of Sargon . Ⅱ Another amazing invention，which we probably take for granted these days，is the skill of knitting（5） first appeared in the Roman Empire，some 1700 years ago.The （6） （early） examples are knitted socks! Eye glasses developed from just one lens in a frame，like a simple magnifying glass，way back in the 13th century.In about 1290，the idea to put two lenses in a frame to sit on the nose was developed in Florence.And，believe it or not，the modern contact lens is 120 years old!Time flies and we spend a lot of time（7） （check）how much time we have left!This would be impossible （8） clocks and watches，（9） are all 5/48 around us：on walls，on our wrists，on our PCs，and even on our mobiles and iPod's.The first pocket watch was invented by Thomas Tompion（1639 1714 ﹣ ）in England 330 years ago， and his watch face design ﹣ ，with two（and sometimes three） hands moving around a single dial， （10） （remain） largely unchanged in all that time. Section B Directions： Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. 15． A.empowers B.hands C.innovative D.mean E.prints F.notes G.shaving H.store I.tip J.traceable K.uneconomic The health food chain Tossed has just opened the UK's firstcashless cafe.It's another step towards the death of cash. This is nothing （1） .Money is tech.The casting of coins made shells，whales' teeth and other such primitive forms of money redundant（多余的）.The printing press did the same for precious metals：we started using paper （2） instead.Electronic banking put paid to the cheque.Contactless payment is now doing the same to cash，which is becoming less and less convenient.In the marketplace convenience usually wins. In a world without cash ，every payment you make will be （3） .Do you want governments （which are not always benevolent ），banks or payment processors to have potential access to that information？The power this（4） them is enormous and the potential scope for Orwellian levels of