2021年上海高三高考模拟英语试卷（新题型十四）-学生用卷一、填空型阅读（本大题共10小题）1、【来源】2021年上海高三高考 模 拟（新题型十四）第 2130题Delivering Food by DroneA Singapore restaurant plans to use drones（遥控飞机）to transport food and drinks from thekitchen to a wait station near customers tables.Infinium Robotics,the Singapore company that*s developing the drones for restaurant chain Timbre,has spent the past two weeks testing the technology at the restaurant before it opens eachnight 1 business and hopes to have it in place by the end of the year.But how does the drone know where to hover（盘旋）?What if someone bumps into the drone or isstanding in its way?Theres no chance at all 2 it will hit anything,saysInfinium Robotics chief executive J unyang Woon.The drones automatically charge while 3（wait）in thekitchen.4 the chef puts an order on the drone,he hits a button on a keypadand the drone automatically flies to one of two wait stations.Sense-and-avoidtechnology 5（build）into the drone wont allow it to land at the wait station ifanything is in its way.The drones are equipped with sonar（声纳系统）and an infrared sensor（红 夕 卜 线传感器），too.A waiter then removes the food or drink from the drone and hits abutton 6 sends it back to the kitchen.The drones,weighing a little over fivepounds,7 carry just over four pounds of food.Infinium Robotics is workingon a model that will carry twice as 8（much）food.HIts job is to help the waiters to reduce some of their boring tasks,n Woon said.HIf they let therobots 9（do）the job,they can concentrate on interacting with customers tobring about higher customer satisfaction and dining experience.0Since it drew recent media attention,Woon 0（hear）from resorts andrestaurants in 10 countries,including the United States.二、选词填空（本大题共10小题）2、【来源】2021年上海高三高考模拟（新题型十四）第 3140题A.continue B.schooling C.chief D.unnecessary E.manageF.closely G.specialized H.attitudes I.govern J.achieve K situationsAmericans always have different opinions in their 1 toward education.On theone hand,free and universal public education was seen as necessary in a democracy,for how else wouldcitizens lean how to 2 themselves in a responsible way?On the other hand,America was always a country that offered financial opportunities for which education was not needed onthe road from rags to riches,3 beyond the basics of reading,writing,andarithmetic was an 4 detour.Even today,it is still possible for people to 5 financial success withoutmuch education,but the number of 6 in which this is possible is decreasing.Intoday*s more complex world,the opportunities for financial successare 7 related to the need for education,especially higher education.Our society is rapidly becoming one whose 8 product is information,anddealing with this information requires more and more 9 education.In otherwords,we grow up learning more and more about fewer and fewer subjects.In the future,this trend is likely to 10.Tomorrows world will be evenmore complex than todays world,and,to manage this complexity,even more specialized education will beneeded.三、完形填空（本大题共15小题）3、【来源】2021年上海高三高考模拟（新题型十四）第 4155题Aesthetic（审美的）thought of a distinctively modem art emerged during the 18th century.Thewestern philosophers and critics of this time devoted much attention to such matters as natural beauty,thesublime,and representation-a trend 1 the central position they had given tothe philosophy of nature 2 that time,however,the philosophy of art hasbecome ever more famous and has begun to 3 the philosophy of nature.Various issues 4 to the philosophy of nature have hada（n）5 impact on the orientation of 20th-century aesthetics.Foremost amongthese are problems relating to the theory of art as form and 6 the distinctionbetween representation and expression.Still another far-reaching question has to do with the value of art.Two 7 theoretical positions have taken on this issue:one holds that art and itsappreciation are a means to some recognized moral good,8 the othermaintains that art is intrinsically（固有的）valuable and is an end in itself.Underlying this whole issue isthe concept of taste,one of the basic concerns of aesthetics.In recent years there has also been anincreasing preoccupation with art as the prime object of critical judgment.Corresponding to the trend incontemporary aesthetic thought,9 have followed either of the two approaches.In one,criticism is 10 to the analysis and interpretation of the work ofart.H,it is devoted to expressing the response to the aesthetic object and tojustifying a particular way of perceiving it.Over the years,aesthetics has developed into a broad 12 of knowledgeand inquiry.The 13 of contemporary aesthetics include such problems as thenature of style and its aesthetic significance;the relation of aesthetic judgmentto 14;the viability（可行性）of a history of art;the significance of Freudianpsychology and other forms of psychological study to criticism;and the place of aesthetic judgmentin 15 reasoning in the conduct of everyday affairs.A.m ak i n g B.ap p l y i n g C.t ak i n g D.refl ect i n gA.B efo reB.Ov erC