1、届上海市黄浦区高三三模英语试题2019届上海市黄浦区高三三模英语试题学校:_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, u
2、se one word that best fits each blank.May Day in IndiaEach May 1, workers in India join others around the world to mark May Day, depending on local customs.Its quite appropriate that India celebrates with an official holiday in some of its 29 states and seven union territories. After all, the countr
3、y has an 1 (estimate) 522 million workers, more than the entire population of the United States.Heres a Q&A on May Day in general:Isnt May Day about dancing around a pole?You are correct dancing is involved. Thats because “May Day” actually does double duty, celebrating two different things.May Day
4、originally started out as a celebration with roots in roman traditions. By the Middle Ages, May Day also 2 (involve) the maypole, which is made of wood and covered with decorations. Those are held by dancers 3 circle around the pole.That 4 be the May Day you remember from your childhood, and thats o
5、ne of the two ways May Day is celebrated.What does that have to do with workers?This is where May Days double duty comes in.In May 1886, US activists organized a national strike 5 (seek) an eight-hour workday. In Chicagos Haymarket Square, the protest turned violent with around 11 to 15 deaths 6 pol
6、ice and participants.7 (honor) the workers in the Haymarket disturbance, the International Socialist Conference declared May 1 would be a day labeled for labor, to be called International Workers Day. The holiday 8 (establish) at a meeting in 1889 and eventually spread to many parts of the world.And
7、 thats 9 maypoles, labor parades and protests are all part of May 1.So where does India fit in with all of this?Indias first Labor Day was celebrated in 1923 in Madras, now called Chennai. Over time, the holiday spread to other parts of the country.According to H, organizations and trade unions arra
8、nge parades and “children enter contests 10 they can understand the importance of fairness for workers.”二、选用适当的单词或短语补全短文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.The Rise of the Smart CityThe
9、 information revolution is changing the way cities are run - and the lives of its residents. Cities have a way to go before they can be considered geniuses. But theyre getting smart pretty fast.In just the past few years, mayors and other officials in cities across the country have begun to draw on
10、11 - about income, traffic, fires, illnesses, parking tickets and more - to handle many of the problems of urban life. Whether its making it easier for residents to find parking places, or giving smoke alarms to the households that are most likely to suffer fatal fires, big - data technologies are b
11、eginning to 12 the way cities work.Cities have just 13 the surface in using data to improve operations, but big changes are already under way in leading smart cities, says Stephen Goldsmith, a professor of government and director of the Innovations in Government Program at the Harvard Kennedy School
12、. “In terms of city governance, we are at one of the most 14 periods in the last century,” he says.Although cities have been using data in various forms for decades, the modern practice of civic analytics（民情分析）has only begun to take off in the past few years, thanks to a host of 15 changes. Among th
13、em: the growth of cloud computing, which dramatically lowers the costs of storing information; new developments in machine learning, which put 16 analytical tools in the hand of city officials; the Internet and the rise of inexpensive sensors that can track vast amount of information such as traffic
14、 or air pollution; and the widespread use of smart phone apps and mobile devices that enable citizens and city workers alike to monitor problems and 17 information about them back to city hall.All this data collection raises understandable privacy 18. Most cities have policies designed to safeguard
15、citizen privacy and prevent the release of information that might 19 any one individual. In theory, anyway. Widespread use of sensors and video can also present privacy risks unless 20 are taken. The technology “is forcing cities to face questions of privacy that they havent had to face before,” say
16、s Ben Green, a fellow at Harvards Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and lead author of a recent report on open-data privacy.三、完形填空 In the food industry, it seems, the robot revolution is well underway, with machines mastering skilled tasks that have always been performed by people.In Bos
17、ton, robots have displaced 21 and are creating complex bowls of food for customers. In Prague, machines are 22 waiters and servers using an app. In Denver, theyre taking orders. Robots are even making the perfect loaf of bread these days, taking charge of a(n) 23 that has remained in human hands for
18、 thousands of years.Now comes Briggo, a company that has created a fully 24 , robotic coffee machine that can push out 100 cups of coffee in a single hour - equaling the 25 of three to four baristas（咖啡师）, according to the company.Using a mix of Latin American beans, the machine creates 26 cups of co
19、ffee that can be ordered via an app, giving customers control over ingredients, flavorings and temperature without any human interaction. The company says no other business in the world has applied as much 27 to “specialty coffee.”Removing the 28 element from ordering a cup of coffee is one of the c
20、ompanys primary selling points. “No more lines, no more counter confusion, no more misspelled names,” Briggos website says.Kevin Nater, Briggos president and chief executive, said the machine would best fit locations in which 29 is highly valued, like airports and office buildings, where several of
21、the machines currently operate.“Imagine youre coming into the security line at the airport, your flight is coming up, and you know that if you want a coffee youre going to stand in a long line,” said Nater. “From the security line, you can simply order your cup of coffee and pick it up at the coffee
22、 haus and make it to your flight 30 .”“Ive never found anyone who wants to stand in line a long time,” he added. “Weve just changed the 31 .”But Olive Geib, a 24-year-old barista in Annapolis, Md., remained 32 . As coffee is being made by a barista, he said, subtly（细微地）adjusting the ratio of water t
23、o coffee bean as flavor develops through refined taste tests, is a crucial part of the process. “All the numbers and data in the world cant actually tell you how the coffee 33 ,” Geib said.Asked whether he was worried about losing his job to a robot, Gerb said, “absolutely not.” He said theres a 34
24、group of people who will always seek out the slower, interactive experiences at coffee shops.“A lot of customers really appreciate watching a barista carefully pouring water or steaming the milk,” he added. “This 35 aspect, the atmosphere and the interaction with the barista, is a big part of the ex
25、perience of drinking coffee.”21Awaitresses Bbaristas Ccooks Dmachines22Areplacing Brecruiting Crestoring Dresisting23Aroom Bart Cschool Doven24Atypical Binaccessible Cchallenging Dautomatic25Aquality Boutput Ctime Dcost26Asugar-free Bfruit-flavored Ccustomized Dprofessional27Ainspiration Btechnology
26、 Ccorrection Dstrictness28Asafety Bstress Chuman Ddesign29Aservice Bpreparation Creliability Dconvenience30Aon time Bfor real Cin advance Dwithout notice31Agame Bprice Cfact Dmyth32Anervous Bsad Cannoyed Ddoubtful33Alooks Bchanges Csells Dtastes34Adistinguished Bdifficult Cloyal Dlazy35Acultural Bso
27、cial Cskillful Dmindful四、阅读选择 When we say that residents in the Chicago suburb of North Riverside, Illinois, “wrote the book” on how to be good neighbors, we are not exaggerating. The residents of North Riverside really did write a book on neighborliness that has helped make their town a remarkable
28、place.Neighbors All: Creating Community One Block at a Time is a 65 - page manual filled with friendly suggestions and inspiring stories, all designed to build “family bonds” among neighbors. Every household gets a copy, delivered by a volunteer “block captain” tasked with welcoming new arrivals, he
29、lping seniors, making sure kids play nice, and more. Its a big job, but the 90 captains across the town of 6,700 dont do it alone. They are organized by their own captain, Caro Saple, and the neighborhood Services Committee, which appoints leaders of all ages, including a team of school - age “angel
30、s”.If all this seems somewhat bureaucratic（宫僚制度的）, in practice Neighbors All has very much lived up to its title. One captain got to chatting with an elder couple who revealed that they couldnt afford to replace their broken stove. Before long, the Neighborhood Services Committee had collected enoug
31、h money to buy them a new one.Another resident, a woman from Poland, told her captain that she was having trouble sorting out the paperwork to get her citizenship. The captain told the committee, which told the mayor, who got the help of their local congressperson, and soon the womans paperwork was
32、all in order.“ I have been in North Riverside over 34 years and am very proud of the small-town caring the community demonstrates every day,” said Vera Jandacek Wilt. “Waters rising in the river, ready to flood nearby homes? Residents and officials are filling sandbags to hold back the floods. Lonely seniors have not stepped out of the house? A block captain shows up to invit
