2025-2026学年上海市徐汇区徐汇中学高二上学期12月月考英语试题（时间90分钟, 满分100分）
I. Listening Comprehension
Section A （10分）
Directions: In 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. At 1:00 pm. B. At 1:30 pm. C. At 2:00 pm. D. At 2:30 pm.
2. A. Cousins. B. Classmates. C. Colleagues. D. Twins.
3 A. At an exchanging office. B. At a shoe store.
C. In a clothing store. D. In a bank.
4. A. A reporter. B. A programmer. C. A writer. D. An operator.
5. A. Drive the woman to the station. B. Walk to the station.
C. Take a lift to the station. D. Take a walk with the woman.
6. A. He missed it. B. He watched it.
C. He disliked it. D. He would see it again.
7. A. The woman is satisfied with her body shape.
B. A relative will move in to live with them.
C. The woman is expecting a baby.
D. The woman is trying to lose weight.
8. A. Come back again to apply for the job.
B. Think about whether to quit the job.
C. Get some training before quitting the job.
D. Apply for another part-time job.
9. A. Tony talks too fast. B. Tony likes to use idioms.
C. Tony doesn’t come to the point. D. Tony likes to show off.
10. A. He was an interesting person.
B. He deserved the title.
C. He was very lucky to win the honour.
D. His life was different from others’.
Section B
Directions： In Section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked questions on each of them. The passages and 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 would be the best answer to the question you have heard.
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
11. A. Interesting. B. Tiring. C. Boring. D. Challenging.
12. A. Because of a bet with his girlfriend.
B. Because of a TV programme.
C. Because of a marathon competition.
D. Because of a serious joke.
13. A. To run a marathon every day.
B. To complete 370 marathons.
C. To run to the North Pole.
D. To get up at 3:30 am to run before work.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A. To help them focus on their creative work.
B. To inspire more people to be artists and writers.
C. To recognise their creative works.
D. To select more talented people.
15. A. A set of the applicant’s creative work.
B. A personal statement of the applicant.
C. An outline of the applicant’s future.
D. A description of the applicant’s future goals.
16. A. The selected writers and artists will receive salaries for one year.
B. The selected ten writers and artists will share the amount of 16,000 euros.
C. Estonia follows the trend by paying writers and artists salaries.
D. It is common for writers and artists to receive salaries in many countries.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. At 5:00 pm May 1st. B. At 5:00 pm, May 31st.
C. A. At 6:00 pm, May 1st. D. A. At 6:00 pm, May 31st.
18. A. 22. B. 3. C. 2. D. 6.
19. A. Just his name. B. His name and phone number.
C. Just his phone number. D. His e-mail address.
20. A. Cut down the price. B. Look over the menu.
C. Decide on the rooms. D. Ask for advice.
II. 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 fits each blank.
Hungry Students Get Healthy Choices
It is a well-known scientific fact that teenagers eat 50 percent more than the average person. Well, actually three meals a day just isn’t enough ____1____ (satisfy) their endless hunger.
Recently Tongji University has decided to keep its canteens open till 11 p.m. and to serve healthy meals at affordable prices. When Fu Qinjun, the director of the university’s food services, ____2____ (interview), he said “Students are usually hungry after studying late into the night, but our canteens used to stop service after 7 p.m. That’s ____3____ students turned to outside sellers, but the quality and safety of the food is not good enough. We expected that this move ____4____ (improve) the situation.”
This is good news for the students who now have healthy late-night choices for their diet instead of ____5____ (rely) on fast food and the snacks available at convenience stores. ____6____ those foods tend to create pleasure in our brains, they are basically unhealthy when eaten in excess and can make us fat.
If you’re a boarding student, you probably know about fat because it’s likely that you ____7____ (put) on a little weight since you started school. In North America, this phenomenon is called the “Freshman Fifteen”. It refers to the fact that many students gain up to fifteen pounds during the first year they are away from home. ____8____ mum’s care, they tend to eat more than they should.
For young people, though, having a healthy appetite is a good thing. However, it’s important to learn how to eat well. So, thanks to Tongji University for helping students fill their bottomless holes with ____9____ (healthy) food. And now maybe the university will keep its gym open late at night _____10_____ _____11_____ students can walk off some of those extra calories!
Section B
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. damaged B. historic C. reminisce D. reminding E. occasion F. personal G. vast H. addressing I. ritual J. center K. theme
In many countries, festive holidays are celebrated with special TV programs. In the US, the NFL schedules special games for Thanksgiving. In China, watching the CCTV gala is a part of New Year celebrations. In the UK, TV screens are graced by a somewhat less exciting but highly valued _____12_____on Christmas Day — a speech by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
In 2015 alone, the Queen's message pulled in 7.5 million viewers in total beating Downton Abbey’s (唐顿庄园) 6.9 million. The _____13_____majority across the UK and the Commonwealth are drawn to it not only because of the Queen's comforting words, but also because of the symbolic significance of the event itself, which is rooted in _____14_____ meaning.
In 1932, George V delivered the first Christmas message to his subjects of the British Empire by radio. Many were excited as they gathered round their wireless sets to listen to their king _____15_____them as part of one vast imperial family, but doing so in the privacy of their own homes. Since then, it has become the tradition for the monarch (君主) to deliver messages which _____16_____around the major global, national and personal issues of the past year and embody the spirit of Christmas by appealing for a harmonious society.
Queen Elizabeth II delivered her first Christmas message in 1952. But far from being a message that is scripted by governmental advisers, the Queen’s message is a(n)_____17_____one written by the Queen herself. Thus, it is a rare _____18_____on which the public can hear of their queen's own views, experiences and concerns. It is also an opportunity for the Queen to speak directly to her subjects. Last year, the Queen’s message was recorded in the restored Windsor Castle once _____19_____ in the big fire, and in her speech, the Queen recalled the famous Apollo 11 mission 50 years ago, _____20_____the whole nation that “giant leaps often start with small steps”.
By joining together and listening to the Queen deliver her Christmas broadcast, audiences across the globe not only confirm their loyalty to the Queen, but also _____21_____about the past, cherish their families and give thanks to their neighbors. For many, the Queen’s message is more than just a televised speech; it is part of the national culture, symbolizing their national unity.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A （15分）
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.
Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies (药房). Some ____22____ doctors because of the high cost of medical care, especially if they lack health insurance. Or they may stay away because they find it ____23____ to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. ____24____ may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of ____25____ experiences in the past. ____26____, playing doctor can also be a dangerous game.
Every day, more than six million Americans ____27____ the Internet for medical answers — most of them ____28____ what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those ____29____ believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn’t. ____30____ “headache”, and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, ____31____ a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as “high quality”. Recent studies found faulty ____32____ about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to ____33____ that a large amount of information is given ____34____ or incompletely and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.
The problem is that most people don’t know the safe way to surf the Web. “They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion ____35____ and start clicking. But that’s____36____, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative, so it’s hard to know if what you’re reading is reasonable or not,” says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute.
22. A. avoid B. distrust C. disobey D. hate
23. A. impractical B. disappointing C. impossible D. embarrassing
24 A. Researchers B. Physicians C. Patients D. Doctors
25. A. fortunate B. pleasant C. mysterious D. negative
26. A. In short B. Therefore C. However D. Meanwhile
27. A. put up B. turn to C. make up D. take over
28. A. doubt B. deny C. accept D. reject
29. A. treated B. surveyed C. cheated D. recommended
30. A. Look up B. Deal with C. Get rid of D. Make up
31. A. interested in B. contrary to C. relevant to D. free from
32. A. facts B. prices C. devices D. websites
33. A. oppose B. warn C. doubt D. suspect
34. A. illegally B. impersonally C. informally D. inaccurately
35. A. choices B. surveys C. patterns D. applications
36. A. useless B. beneficial C. risky D. unbelievable
Section B （22分）
Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.
A
Most students in the UK leave high school at the age of 18 and go to study for three years in a university, but in recent years many students have chosen to take a one-year break between finishing school and starting university.
This period is called a gap year and is a time when British students can broaden their horizons by visiting foreign countries.
Tens of thousands of gap year travellers leave Britain every year, with Australia as the most popular destination. While some of them do charity work in developing countries, others will enurism. Many other gap year travellers try their hand at teaching English to the people in the countries they visit. Students who take a gap year often say the experiences help them get a better view on the world and broaden their cultural horizons. The most important part of any gap year is learning about the customs and cultures of other peoples.
Developments in communications technology mean it is easier than ever to keep in touch with friends and family at home. Many gap year students keep a travel blog or upload their pictures to photo-sharing websites so that others can see their adventures.
37. A gap year refers to a time when many students _________ after graduating from high school.
A. stay at home B. travel abroad
C. work in a foreign country D. continue to study in a foreign country
38. Most of British gap year travellers go to _________ every year.
A. America B. China C. Australia D. France
39. To many gap year travellers, the most important thing is _________ when travelling.
A. to do charity work B. to enurism
C. to teach English D. to learn about other cultures
40. In which way do gap year travellers share their experiences with their friends
A. By writing letters. B. By sending e-mails.
C. By sending short messages. D. By keeping a travel blog.
B
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A. come together in order to form an organization
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C. eat together to celebrate their success or victory
D. work together for the purpose of business or trade
42. If you register both the VIEW qualification course and the Forum at the same
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A. encourage more people to attend the Forum in time
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C. call on the people in the north of the USA to go south for holidays
D. introduce some new activities and topics of the Forum
C
You’re walking down a quiet street and suddenly you hear some footsteps. Undoubtedly, it means that there’s someone around. But have you ever wondered why it occurs to us that it’s someone else’s footsteps, not ours
According to a new study published in the journal Nature in September, this phenomenon arises from a function in our brain to ignore the noise we make ourselves.
In order to explore how our brain does this, a group of scientists carried out an experiment with mice at Duke University. The research entered on an intuition-that we are usually unaware of the sound of our own footsteps-as a vehicle for understanding larger neural phenomena; how this behavior reveals the ability to monitor, recognize, and remember the sound of one’s own movements in relation to those of their larger environments.
In the experiment, research controlled the sounds of a group of mice could hear, reported Science Daily. During the first several days, the mice would hear the same sound each time they took a step. This was just like “running on a tiny piano with each key playing exactly the same note”, senior study author Richard Mooney, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University, told Live Science.
Scientists found that their auditory cortex (听觉皮层) – the area of the brain that processes sound –became active at first but decreased its response to the sound after two or three minutes when the mice became familiar with it.
“ It’s almost like they were wearing special headphones that could filter (过滤) out the sound of their own movements.” David Schneider, an assistant professor at the Center for Neutral Science at New York University, told HuffPost.
But once the sound changed, their auditory cortex became active again. This suggests that the “sensory filter” in a mouse’s brain could help it detect new sounds or abnormal noise in the environment easily after tuning out familiar sounds.
“For mice this is really important,” said Schneider. “They are prey animals, so they really need to be able to listen for a cat creeping up on them, even when they’re walking and making noise.
Being able to ignore the sounds of one’s own movements is likely important for humans as well. But the ability to predict the sounds of our own actions is also important for more complex human behaviors such as speaking or playing an instrument.
“When we learn to speak or to play music, we predict what sounds we are going to hear – such as when we prepare to strike keys on a piano – and we compare this to what we actually hear, “explains Schneider. “We use mismatches between expectation and experience to change how we play – and we get better over time because our brain is trying to minimize these errors.”
44. What can be discovered about mice in the experiment
A. Their brain responds inactively to the familiar sounds
B. They are able to detect sounds other animals don’t notice.
C. They cannot identify different sounds except their own footsteps.
D. Different areas of their brain are responsible for different sounds.
45. What’s the function of the sensory filter
A. Ignoring the sounds made by our companions.
B. Getting used to abnormal or unfamiliar sounds.
C. Identifying the sounds from a larger environment.
D. Being sensitive to the sounds of our own movement.
46. Why can a good symphony conductor immediately recognize it when a wrong note is played
A. He has the ability to match the wrong note with the instrument player.
B. He has an intuition that he should ignore the sound of his own movement.
C. He has a low expectation and knows where players are likely to make errors.
D. He has a good prediction of how each note should be played in the orchestra.
47. What can be inferred from the passage
A. Noise-filtering ability ensures us a quiet and undisturbed environment.
B. The ability to ignore familiar noises helps to detect potential dangers.
C The activeness of auditory cortex determines our activity performance.
D. Sound-predicting ability seems not so important for humans as for animals.
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.
Being invited to dinner is a big treat for Americans, but as a new comer who happens to feel sorry for American food, I find it a painful assignment. First, I cannot get used to eating sweet and salty thongs together. Second, terrible-tasting food must be praised to the skies.Third, it is not filling, you have to make yourself another meal after going home.
One time, a colleague said to my husband, “My father is a good cook and invites you two to have a taste of his culinary skill this weekend.”____48____ The meal turned out to be canned chicken with vegetables and rice, which tasted funny. Following this dish was a dessert of cored apples, stuffed with plum jam and coated in sugar. Eating it made me feel like vomiting, but I had to say, “Delicious! Delicious!”____49____
Often when we were invited to dinner by Americans I felt that they were not inviting us to eat but to look at the tableware. They do not use rice bowls. At the beginning of the meal the table is set with three plates, for each person, three glasses, a knife, a fork, a big spoon and a little spoon. The big spoon is seldom used, however, for they do not drink soup but lots of cold water, so the glasses see much service.____50____ After that some strange-looking and odd-tasting little dishes are served while people eat and talk. Then comes the main course, usually a piece of chicken or steak or a slice of ham, with a few fried potatoes and some peas, or whatever, boiled to a pulp. When this is finished, dessert is served, fruit pie or ice cream, and cake, which is murder to eat,for it is tasteless. Last comes coffee or tea.American tea is a bag of tea-leaves in a cup of hot water, at which point, the dinner is considered over.____51____ The Americans talk and laugh, and we do not understand what is being said. It is really unbearably painful. That is why I find eating American meals most troublesome.
A. One of the nicest things you can do is to cook a Chinese dish and take it with you.
B. Then you are invited into the living room to talk for two or three hours.
C. It was unspeakably painful.
D. It would have been embarrassing to refuse, so we had to accept it.
E. It is completely unnecessary to take a gift with you when you are invited to dinner.
F. The first course is usually raw salad or fruit salad, followed by bread and butter.
IV. Translation:
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.
52. 在这个班级里，学生的作业质量因人而异。 （vary）(汉译英)
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53. 在成人仪式之后，毕业生们需要学会承担责任，尊重他人。（respect n.）(汉译英)
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54. 对我来说，在正式场合做一次关于公民践行意识的演讲是一种挑战。（occasion）（汉译英）
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55. 随着返校节庆典越来越受欢迎，在校学生参与了各类主题活动，从返校节王室选举到乐队游行，应有尽有。（involve）（汉译英）
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