2019-2020上海市北理科高三下英语4月月考试卷
I. Listening Comprehension
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
reaction planDirections: 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.
Be Nice -You Won't Finish Last
During the rosy years of elementary school , I enjoyed sharing my dolls and jokes, which allowed me to keep my high social status. I was the queen of the playground. Then __21__ (come) my teens and teens, and mean girls and cool kids. They rose in the ranks not by being friendly but by smoking cigarettes, breaking rules and playing jokes on others, among __22__ I soon found myself.
Popularity is a well __23__ (explore) subject in social psychology. Mitch Prinstein, a professor of clinical psychology sorts the popular __24__ two categories: the likable and the status seekers. The likables’ plays-well-with-others qualities strengthen schoolyard friendships, jump-start interpersonal skills and, when tapped early, __25__ (employ) ever after in life and work. Then there’s the kind of popularity that appears in adolescence: status born of power and even dishonorable behavior.
Enviable as the cool kids may have seemed, Dr. Prinstein’s studies show unpleasant consequences. Those who were highest in status in high school, as well as those least liked in elementary school, are “__26__ (likely) to engage in dangerous and risky behavior.”
In one study, Dr. Prinstein examined the two types of popularity in 235 adolescents, __27__ (score) the least liked, the most liked and the highest in status based on student surveys (调查研究). “We found that the least well-liked teens had become more aggressive over time toward their classmates. But so had those who were high in status. It clearly showed that __28__ likability can lead to healthy adjustment, high status has just the opposite effect on us.”
In analyzing his and other research, Dr. Prinstein came to another conclusion __29__ not only is likability related to positive life outcomes, but it is also responsible for those outcomes, too. “__30__ (like) creates opportunities for learning and for new kinds of life experiences that help somebody gain an advantage, ” he said.
 
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.
A backed B. capable C competing D. exploration E. historically F. investing
G motivation H. primarily  I private  J reusable K. transported
The Ultimate Trip
Though we have sent unmanned spacecraft to Mars and other parts of our solar system for decades, humans haven’t ventured more than 650 kilometers from Earth since 1973. However, there is increasing interest in sending new missions ----both robotic and manned ----into space. But unlike in the past, this renewed interest is not __31__ being driven by government agencies. Instead, __32__ companies are leading today’s new age of space exploration.
For example, SpaceX, a private company, sent an unmanned rocket to the International Space Station (ISS )in early 2012. Until now, astronauts and supplies from the U. S. have been __33__ by space shuttle to the ISS. SpaceX and other companies are __34__ to replace the U. S. government shuttle and become the ISS’s supply ship.
Another company called Planetary Resources ----which is __35__ by billionaires from Google ----plans to use robotic spacecraft to mine asteroids for precious metals. Robots will have to travel millions of kilometers to locate and mine asteroids, which requires technology that doesn’t exist yet. This isn’t stopping companies like Planetary Resources and others from trying,
though. They are __36__ millions into research, hoping to create tools that will make space mining possible. “This is the beginning of the new space age, "says Mason Peck, the U. S. space organization. "The energy we see now- the economic motivation to go into space -we haven’t seen that before.”
For centuries, economics has driven __37__. A thousand years ago, merchants risked the dangers of the Silk Road to reach the markets of China. In the 15th century, European ships traveled to new worlds, searching less for knowledge than for gold and spices. "__38__, the driver has always been the search for resource,” explains investor Peter Diamandis. If you want people to explore space, he says, create an economic motivation.
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX. is spending a large part of his fortune on his own space program. It will be __39__ of carrying twice the cargo of the U. S. government's space shuttle for about one-fifth the price. “Creating __40__ rockets will be extremely difficult, and most people think it's impossible, but I do not, "Musk says."If we threw away airplanes after every flight, no one would fly.”
 
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage 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.
The human brain, that extraordinary computer, is divided into two parts. Each is __41__ different skill sets. The left brain is popularly __42__ with logic and analytic thought; the right, the creativity.

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