2018届虹口区高考英语二模

虹口区2017 学年度第二学期期终教学质量监控测试

高三英语试卷2018.04

考生注意：

1. 考试时间120 分钟，试卷满分140 分。

2. 本考试设试卷和答题纸两部分。所有答題必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。

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第I 卷(共100 分)

I. Listening Comprehension

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; f or the other blanks, use one word that best f its each blank.

Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?

Book lovers, most of them, will tell you(21)_________ a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to the friend the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of ; the travel book that made you feel (22) _________you yourself w ere on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users w ere to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could buy a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn't lend it out.

But now, with the Nock, the US book chain Barnes and Noble's response to Amazon's Kind le, electronic readers will be ab le to have their latest literary enthusiasm(23) _________ (press) on their friends, just like readers of physical books can, You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, (24) _________ (use) any device with the Barnes& Noble e-book reader software. It's a big improvement from previous e-book readers.

The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen. just like with Kind le. The difference is (25) _________on the lower part of the device there's a colour touch screen,(26) _________allow s you to browse through a book or a magazine , but goes black when you're not using it so that you save power.

(27) _________exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection (28) _________ (read) whole e-books at Barnes& Noble for hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes& Noble’s competitors can come close to this.

But the Nook, ironically,(29) _________ (turn out) to be a money-loser for Barnes& Noble, or at least a job- loser for Barnes& Noble's employees. According to Marian Moniker at The Big Money Website,(30) _________the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.

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.

Foreign Giants Target Chinese Milk Market

European dairy products giant Arla Foods has chosen a leading Chinese milk manufacture as a business partner for its (31)________ in China – a clear sign that overseas companies are starting to cultivate huge China’s dairy market by tying up with local players.

Arla signed the cooperation (32) ________, which comes into effect this month, with Mengniu Dairy at the end of August to set up a milk-pow der joint venture in Hohhot, capital of North Chin a’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The deal between Arle Foods and Mengniu can be seen as a new (33) ________for Multinational’s re-entry into the sector.

Many foreign giants have found it difficult to create ( 34) ________profits in domestic milk market, especially the liquid-m ilk sector, which is followed closely by price wars and dominated by local (35) ________---companies like Danone, Kraft and Friesland Coberco have quitted dairy production in China.

A few have been successful ---Nestle, Inter, Bristo-Myers Squibb and Wyeth have (36) ________ the high-end milk-formula market in China.

“We will watc h the market closely and re-invest here in a(n) (37) ________ time,” an official of the Dutch firm Friesland said w hen it (38) its investment in its Tianjin joint venture last year after eight years.

The company has (39) ________its Chinese partner to continue using its Dutch lady brand and also sells its imported Friso infant foods, Dutch Lady milk pow der and Dutch lady Calcimex in the Chinese market through its (40) ________ company in Hong Kong.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four word s or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

Our modern working lives are ruled by the concept of competence(能力). The idea that lies behind competence is quite simple: that one can state what people should do in behavioral terms, and then _____41____ whether a person has succeeded in meeting that task or not. We rarely have a second thought about whether the idea of measuring and achieving competence is a good one or not. _____42____ , it is a debatable one.

Humans do not learn or work in ways that can be measured by the _____43____ of competence.

Take the example of a barista who is being trained to make coffee. The job title of “barista” ____44_____ a degree of skill in making coffee. However, baristas in large coffee chains are usually trained through_____45____ qualifications. One part of these qualifications is to produce a cup of coffee to meet a(n)