2023届上海市浦东新区高三下学期二模英语试题
学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、用单词的适当形式完成短文
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, us one word that best fits each blank.
Emily Dobek is a seventh-graded at East Prairie Elementary School. Recently she ___1___(win) a national prize by designing a space station for travelling to Mars.
Dobek races her interest in space and the universe back  ___2___Grade Three when she and her father watched a blood moon — a total lunar eclipse (月食)— on the roof of their house. She says that night watching the lunar eclipse awakened her passion ___3___has yet to run out of fuel.
So ___4___her teacher, Andrew Smeeton, received information about the national challenge, she immediately had one student in mind.
“I knew she would love the challenge and that she would go way beyond in her research,” Smeeton said. “When she started, bone density (骨密度) of astronauts ___5___(research) immediately to figure out how to survive on Mars.”
According to Dobek’ design, the Mars Storage Station (MSS) will be built ___6___(accommodate) the need for sufficient supplies. She explains how her spacecraft — the Adventure — will be joined to a space station before flying to the MSS to load supplies. Her design includes the Self Growing Farm, and she details ___7___it would work with elements on Mars.
Then there is physical and leisure activity for the astronauts under Dobek’s design. A simulator (模拟器) allows astronauts to choose their exercise machine and virtual reality environment. Rooms with circular ceilings allow astronauts to watch ___8___(download) shows and even see places on Earth, such as their homes.
Chief among her immediate goals, she said, is to inspire ___9___with this project. “I want to tell other kids to follow their passions,” Dobek said, “____10____they want to do, they should kind of just push for it. They should always try their best.”
二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文
Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
A．absence
B．double
C． extended
D．functions
E. fund
F. outpaced
G. prospects
H. record
I. shifted
J. steady
K. upward
Japan births fall to record low as population crisis deepensJapan saw 799,728 births in 2022, the lowest number on record. That number has nearly halved in the past 40 years; by contrast, Japan recorded more than 1.5 million births in 1982. Japan also reported a (n)
___11___high for post-war deaths last year, at more than 1.58 million. Deaths have___12___births in Japan for more than a decade, posing a growing problem for leaders of the world’s third-largest economy. They now face a ballooning elderly population, along with a shrinking workforce to___13___pensions and health care as demand from the aging population increased.
Japan’ population has been in___14___decline since its economic boom of the 1980s and stood at 125.5 million in 2021. Its death rate of 1.3 is far below the rate of 2.1 required to maintain a stable population, in the___15___of immigration.
The country also has one of the highest life expectancies in the world ; in 2020, nearly one in 1,500 people in Japan were aged 100 or older. These concerning trends resulted in a warning from Prime minister that Japan is “on the edge of not being able to maintain social___16___” and Japan “simply cannot wait any longer” in solving the problem of its low birth rate. A new government agency will be set up to focus on the issue, with Prime Minister saying that he wants the government to ___17___ its spending on child-related programs.
But money alone might not be able to solve the complex problem, with various social factors contributing to the low birth rate. Japan’s high cost of living, limited space and lack of child care support in cities make it difficult to raise children, meaning fewer couples are having kids. Urban couples are also often far from ___18___family in other regions, who could help provide support. In 2022, Japan was ranked one of the world’s most expensive places to raise a child. And yet, the country’s economy has slowed down since the early 1990s, meaning frustratingly low ages and little___19___mobility.
The average real annual household income declined from $50,600 in 1995 to $43, 300 in 2020. Attitude toward marriage and starting families have also ____20____ in recent years, with more couples putting off both during the pandemic.
三、完形填空
less is more英文理解A recent series of studies examined the role of talent in the sports world. They focused on three different sports: World Cup soccer, professional basketball, and professional baseball. The results are mixed. For soccer and basketball, the studies revealed that addin
g talented players to a team is indeed a (n) ___21___ strategy, but only up to a point. Performance ___22___ when about 70% of the players were considered top talent. Above that level, the team’s performance began to decline. Interestingly, this trend was not evident in baseball, where additional ___23___ talent continued to enhance the team’s performance. (Figure 1 and 2)

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