2019年上海春考英語試卷

1、12019 年上海英語春考 年上海英語春考I. Listening ComprehensionSection A 1. W: This table is reserved for you, sir.M: It looks like a nice table, but it's too close to the kitchen door.O: Where does the conversation most probably ta

2、ke place?2. M: Isaw you on TV yesterday. You were ever so good. You didn't look nervous.W: To be frank. When it was my turn to speak, I really had my heart in my mouth.Q: What does the woman mean?3. M: Shall we go an

3、d try that snack bar around the corner?W: I can't eat anything. My headaches.Q: What can we learn about the woman?4. W: A single room is fifty pounds per night, and a double room sixty pounds per night. Stay two nigh

4、ts and you'll get another for free.M: A single room for three nights, please.Q: How much should the man pay for his room?5. W: How did you do in the writing contest?M: If only I had paid more attention to spelling.Q:

5、 Whal can we learn about the man?6. M: Hey. Joan, what's up?W: Nothing much. It's my son! It doesn't seem easy for him to get used to the new schoolQ: How does Joan most probably feel about her son?7. M: Have

6、 you heard from Mary lately? It'ssaid she is not working as a fitness coach.W: I got an email from her last week. She has been working at a school since she left our firm.Q: Who are the two speakers talking about?8.

7、W: How did the lecture go?M: Oh, you should have seen those young people. Thirsty for knowledge, drinking in my wisdom.Q: What does the man mean?9. M: Look at the menu. Everything looks great, but that's too expensiv

8、e.W: Have anything you like? Tom said it's on our boss.Q: Who will pay the bill?10. W: David, I got you a present, a solar-powered calculator.M: I don't need a calculator, Mom. I have oneQ: What does David imply?

9、Section BQuestions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.The calm waters of Rose Bay in Sydney are disturbed only when a seaplane comes into land and take off again. In some way, Rose Bay has witnessed the sur

10、prising history of flying boats, type of early seaplane. On the fifth of Julv, 1938, an empire class flying boat departed from here, Australia's first international airport. It was heading for England and mark the st

11、art of the golden age of flying boats. Over ten days, with thirty stops along the route, passengers enjoyed a first class service, including breakfasts of fruit, steak, juice and wine.But the flight didn't come cheap

12、. Tickets were far beyond the reach of most Australians at a price that was equivalent to an annual salary. The service was suspended in 1942 as war took hold and the planes were officially-used by the air force. By the

13、time normal life started again after the war,land-based aircraft had developed rapidly, 3M: I guess the professor is right now.(Now, listen again.)Questions:17: What is the conversation mainly about?18: Compared with wom

14、en's brains, what does the new research find out about men's brains?19. According to the new research, which of the following are women better at?20: What does the professor from theUniversity of Oxford think of

15、the new research findings?選自《紐約時報》（https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/08/opinion/changemaker-social-entrepreneur.html）Bill Drayton believes we’re in the middle of a necessary but painful historical transition. For millenniu

16、ms most people's lives had a certain ___31___. You went to school to learn a trade or a skill-baking, farming or accounting. Then you could go into the workforce and make a good living repeating the same skill over t

17、he course of your career.But these days machines can do pretty much anything that's ___32___. The new world requires a different sort of person. Drayton calls this new sort of personal changemaker.Changemakers are pe

18、ople who can see the patterns around them, identify the problems in any situation, figure out ways to solve the problem, organize fluid teams, lead collective action and then ___33___ adapt as situations change.For examp

19、le, Ashoka fellow Andrés Gallardo is a Mexican who lived in a high crime neighborhood. He created an app, called Haus, that allows people to ___34___ with their neighbors. The app has a panic button that ___35___ ev

20、erybody in the neighborhood when a crime is happening. It allows neighbors to organize, chat, share crime statistics and work together.To form and lead this community of communities, Gallardo had to possess what Drayton

21、calls “cognitive empathy-based living for the good of all.“ Cognitive empathy is the ability to perceive how people are feeling in ___36___ circumstances. “For the good of all“ is the capacity to build teams.It doesn'

22、;t matter if you are working in the cafeteria or the inspection line of a plant, companies will now only hire people who can ___37___ problems and organize responses.Millions of people already live with this mind-set. Bu

23、t a lot of people still inhabit the world of following rules and repetitive skills. They hear society telling them: “We don't need you. We don't need your kids, either.“ Of course, those people go into reactionar

24、y mode and strike back.The central ___38___ of our time, Drayton says, is to make everyone a changemaker. In an earlier era, he says, society realized it needed universal ___39___. Today, schools have to develop the curr

25、iculums and assessments to make the changemaking mentality universal. They have to understand this is their criteria for success.Ashoka has studied social movements to find out how this kind of ___40___ shift can be prom

26、oted. It turns out that successful movements take similar steps.DABHC IEGKF選自《衛(wèi)報》（https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/aug/04/tourism-kills-neighbourhoods-save-city-break）More people are travelling than ever before, a

27、nd lower barriers to entry and falling costs means they are doing so for ___41___ periods.A. repetitive B. continually C. alerts D. pattern E. locate F. mentalG. challenge H. network I. evolving J. re