2018年七宝中学高三下英语月考测试卷

2018年七宝中学高三下英语月考测试卷

2018.3

满分：150分命题：杜丽华审题：马霄燕

第I卷

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A 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. Impatient. B. Confused. C. Sincere. D. Comfortable.

2. A. In a restaurant. B. In a hotel. C. In a café. D. In a snack bar.

3. A. American literature. B. Elementary education.

C. Children’s literature.

D. Art history.

4. A. She will continue her work on vacation.

B. Papers piled while she was on vacation.

C. She has too much work to do.

D. She has made her vacation plans.

5. A. The man can only make a local call.

B. The man can’t use her telephone.

C. The man can call any person in the world.

D. The man can be her guest at any time.

6. A. Because the working hours were not suitable.

B. Because the job was quite difficult.

C. Because he had to do a lot of travelling.

D. Because the job was not well paid.

7. A. Finish checking his reference. B. Complete the research.

C. Put the material in order.

D. Finish typing the paper.

8. A. He’ll ask Steve to go to the beach with them.

B. He wants to make sure the weather is clear.

C. He doesn’t know if they can have a room.

D. He isn’t sure whether there’ll be space for Steve.

9. A. Go on a trip. B. Take a long sail. C. Run a restaurant. D. Prepare a meal.

10. A. She only read the contents of the book.

B. She didn’t omit a single detail.

C. She scanned the whole book.

D. She read only some chapters of the book.

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and the passage(s) 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 is the best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. The U.S. is not one of the happiest countries in the world.

B. The U. S experienced a decline in happiness only from 2005 to 2007.

C. The U. S. is not included in the top 10 happiest countries.

D. The U. S. is among the 47 countries experiencing a decline in happiness.

12. A. Greece. B. Burundi. C. Denmark. D. Australia.

13. A. Quality education. B. Safety from crime. C. Good health. D. Wealth.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Snowy. B. Cloudy. C. Smoggy. D. Rainy.

15. A. Red. B. Orange. C. Yellow. D. Blue.

16. A. Snow and rain have already brought an end to the heavy smog.

B. Beijing has gone through two red alerts for smog.

C. Beijing’s PM2.5 levels became worse in 2015.

D. Winter months are the most polluted because of the increased use of cars.

Questions 17 and 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. In the woman’s hometown. B. In the man’s hometown.

C. Outside their hometown.

D. In a small town.

18. A. Choose whichever friend can give the best toast.

B. Choose whichever friend can plan the reception.

C. Choose whichever friend knows all their in-laws.

D. Choose whichever friend can plan the rehearsal dinner.

19. A. The bride’s family. B. A wedding planner.

C. The groom’s family.

D. The new couple.

20. A. She doesn’t think it is a tradition.

B. She thinks it will cost too much to have a wedding planner.

C. She thinks her mother-in-law can plan the wedding well.

D. She doesn’t want a stranger to plan their wedding.

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, used one word that best fits each blank.

In bringing up children, every parent watches eagerly the child's acquisition of each new skill – the first spoken words, the first independent steps, or the beginning of reading and writing. It is often tempting to hurry the child (21) ________ his natural learning rate, but this can set up dangerous feelings of failure and states of worry in the child. This might happen at any stage. A baby might be forced to use a toilet too early, and a young child might be encouraged to learn to read before he knows the meaning of the words he reads. On the other hand, though, if (22) ________ (leave) alone too much, or without any learning opportunities, a child loses his natural enthusiasm for life and his desire (23) ________ (find) out new things for himself.

Parents vary greatly in their degree of strictness towards their children. Some may be especially strict in money matters; (24) ________ are severe over time of coming home at night or punctuality for meals. In general, the controls imposed (25) ________ (represent) the needs of the parents and the values of the community as much as the child's own happiness.

As regards the development of moral standards in the growing child, consistency is very important in parental teaching. To forbid a thing one day and excuse it (26) ________ next is no foundation for morality. Also, parents should realize that "example is better than precept(训诫)". If they are not sincere and do not practise (27) ________ they preach(说教), their children may grow confused, and emotionally insecure when they grow old enough to think for (28) ________, and realize they (29) ________ (fool) to some extent.

A sudden awareness of a marked difference between their parents' principles and their morals

(30)_______ be a dangerous disappointment.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

For more than three centuries, the American colonies and later, the United States have been a place for many “have-nots” to make the “American Dream” come true for themselves and to become “haves.” And the optimism that people have, knowing that this ____31____ will always happen, has grown out of some key elements in the history of the nation, a nation that has differed pronouncedly from every other country in the world. The economic ____32___ of the nation will also be very much tied to these success stories. Three characteristics have contributed to such attainments.

First, the United States had natural resources undreamed of in other parts of the world. For farmers and ranchers there was land, often to be had cheaply or even for free. There were endless forests to supply lumber and rich ____33____ of coal, oil, silver, copper and gold. Besides, critical to the development of these resources was a population of both native-born Americans and immigrants who were connected by their common work ethic. This ethic held that industry and

thrift should be ____34____ with ---- as Benjamin Franklin says ---- “a State of Affluence and some Degree of Reputation in the World.” T hese Americans believed in self improvement as well as in the nobility of all kinds of work. They also, if somewhat ___35_____, often linked material success with spiritual movement. Next, by and large, America was characterized by a(n) ____36____ class structure. In contrast to England and other European countries with their history of aristocrats, this country was filled by numerous communities in which family connections or ____37____ money counted for little.

However, the pursuit of American Dream sometimes also proved to be a source of tension and strain. At the beginning of the 20th century, writers like Jack London and F. Scott Fitzgerald depicted a lot of “have-not” characters whose fate is not a matter of free will. They are ____38____ by forces beyond their control. Often, in their works, children or young people are victimized b y poverty that prevents them from ____39____ themselves. Convinced that a person’s destiny is the result of his or her heredity interacting with the environment, they employ many _____40____ details to explore the oppressive world in which their characters are trapped. Analyzing characters’ assumptions and values continued to illuminate the American experience.

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.

Many years ago I was on a bicycle trip through some exceedingly picturesque(如画的) countryside. Suddenly, dark clouds piled up overhead and rain began to fall, but ____41____ to relate, several hundred yards ahead of me the sun shone brilliantly. Riding, however, as rapidly as I could, I found it ___42___ to get into the clear. The clouds with their rain kept advancing faster than I could race forward. I continued this unequal contest for an exhausting half hour, before realizing that I could not win my way to the bright area ahead of me.

Then it dawned upon me that I was ____43____ my strength in unimportant hurry, while paying no attention whatsoever to the landscape ___44___ which I was making the trip. The storm could not last forever and the discomfort was not unendurable. Indeed, there was much to look at which might ___45___ have escaped me. As I gazed about with sharpened ___46___, I sawcolours and lines and shapes that would have appeared differently under brilliant light. The rain mists (薄雾) which now ___47___ the wooded hills and the fresh clearness of the different greens were entrancing(迷人的). My annoyance at the rain was gone and my eagerness to ___48___ it disappeared. It had provided me with a new view and helped me understand that the ___49___ of beauty and satisfaction may be found close at hand within the ___50___ of one’s own sensibilities.

It made me think, then and later, about other matters to which this incident was related. It helped me realize that there is no sense in my ___51___ ever to flee from circumstances and

conditions which cannot be avoided but which I might bravely ___52___ and frequently mend and often turn to good account. I know that half the battle is won if I can face trouble with courage, __53__ with spirit, and triumph with humility. It has become ever clearer to me that danger is far from disaster, that defeat may be the forerunner of final ___54___, and that, in the last analysis, all achievement is dangerously weak unless ____55____ enduring principles of moral conduct.

41. A. unfamiliar B. strange C. dangerous D. natural

42. A. easy B. likely C. impossible D. comfortable

43. A. wasting B. gathering C. recovering D. losing

44. A. in front of B. regardless of C. for the sake of D. at the convenience of

45. A. therefore B. consequently C. accordingly D. otherwise

46. A. puzzle B. appreciation C. satisfaction D. shock

47. A. crowned B. covered C. swept D. floated

48. A. enjoy B. embrace C. surround D. escape

49. A. resources B. sources C. causes D. courses

50. A. comprehension B. distance C. range D. help

51. A. requesting B. waiting C. attempting D. expecting

52. A. meet B. avoid C. decline D. change

53. A. happiness B. optimism C. disappointment D. surprise

54. A. failure B. victory C. relief D. decision

55. A. substituted for B. exposed to C. separated from D. based on Section B

Directions:Read the following 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

Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human,”with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance(不满，不平). But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.

The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food readily. Above all, like their female human counte rparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan’s and Dr. de Waal’s study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However,