2017年晋元高中高三第一次月考试卷

上海市晋元高级中学2017学年第一学期

高三英语阶段练习

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，所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一律不得分。

3，答题前，务必在答题纸上填涂8为学号和姓名。

I. Listening Comprehension （略）

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 from of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

_____21______amazes the public in construction is that skyscrapers has been springing up around China in recent years on an unprecedented scale with more in the making, and the country is expected to host six of the world’s 10 tallest buildings by 2020, reports Wu Yiyao in Shanghai. With the 632-meter Shanghai Tower _____22_____(become) China's tallest building, it is also the world's second-tallest after the 828-meter Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai. _____23_____(Locat) in Lujiazui, Shanghai's financial zone, the skyscraper, to be completed in 2015, will not hold the title for long. Zhongnan Center, in Suzhou in Jiangsu province, ____24______( plan) to be more than 700 meters high, according to the city's urban planning department.

In Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province in Central China, a 1,000-meter-tall twin tower has been designed and, _____25___ approved by the government, will be erected in 2018. "_____26____there is no end to the competition for the tallest building has not been known. For many developers and investors, it is a game of the taller _____27____(good)," said Zhang Yuanzhi, project agent in Shanghai." A tall building embodies power - both architectural and financial."

By 2020, China should have six of the world's top 10 skyscrapers, according to the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, a nonprofit organization____28_____ focuses on the planning, design, construction and operation of tall buildings. China_____29___ (dominate) global super-tall building development in the next five years. Its number of such buildings - more than 200 meters high and with more than 40 stories - will account ____30______ 70 percent of world's total, according to a report by realty service provider CBRE Inc.

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.

There are few ________31________of pure American culture more powerful than the Disney theme parks. To walk down Main Streets, US. is to walk through a particular vision of America’s collective memory. It’s small-town values. It’s optimism. It’s energy. It’s innovation. It’s a certain kind of innocence. It is by design, the story of the “American Way” ------and one that has played a ____32______role in shaping the collective memory of American history. That is, Disney theme parks have made great ______33_______to American culture.

Though Disney Parks today are well-______34____cultural-icons. The Walt Disney Company’s start as an interpreter of American history and ideals began long before it opened the gates of Disney land. It is ________35_____process. From its creation in 1923, the Disney operation was was producing films that echoed Americans’ ideal version of themselves.

Often _______36______in a glorified 19the century rural American heartland, these animations featured a hero—usually the indomitable(不屈不挠的) Mickey Mouse—whose strong work ethic (勤于工作的态度) and bravery in the face of risk always found the “ little guy” and “ common man” triumphant over this for（敌人）. Such optimistic sentiment held great appeal in the country’s great Depression years(大萧条时期), and most certainly led Mickey and company to become household names.

This narrative of upholding American values continued at the brand’s theme parks, where Walt Disney translated it into a physical experience using American folk history. “Disneyland,”he said at the park’s grand opening, “is_______37_____ to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America.”

Visitors are made to feel as if they are stepping into moments of history, ones chosen to fit a tidy narrative that highlights the nation’s past and future commitment to life, _____38_____, and the pursuit of happiness.

By World War II, the company was cementing(巩固) its association with the “American Way” by producing propaganda films and war-related goods that served the U.S. cause. Disney characters appeared on war bonds, posters and on more than a thousand military unit insignia. They also appeared in short patriotic cartoons:

To be sure, Disney’s unique ability to _____39_____appropriate and transform American history in its own nostalgia-tinged(带有怀旧气息的) image—what has come to be called “Disneyfication”— has drawn significant criticism. But when it is _______40________to collective memory, it must be noted that the past can be remembered one way and exist factually in another , and that many different versions can have their place in the American mind. Even as characters change and Tomorrowland becomes an artifact (人工制品) of yesterday, Disneyland continues to be a touchstone of American collective memory.

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.

It is officially known as the Swiss Re Tower, or 30 St Mary Axe. As a

typical example of green architecture, what is most remarkable about

the building is its energy-efficiency. __41__ its artful design and some

fancy technology, it is expected to consume up to 40% less energy than

a comparable conventional office building. Green architecture is

__42__ the way buildings are designed, built and run.

Supporters of green architecture argue that the approach has many __43__. In the case of large office, for example, the __44__ of green design techniques and clever technology can not only reduce energy consumption and environmental impact, but also reduce running costs, create a more __45_ working environment, improve employee’s health and productivity, reduce legal liability, and __46__ property values and rental returns.

Going green saves money by reducing long-term energy costs: a survey of 99 green buildings in America found that on average, they use 30% less energy than conventional buildings. So any additional building costs can be __47__ quickly. The traditional approach of trying to minimize construction costs, __48__, can lead to higher energy bills and wasted materials.

Green buildings can also have less obvious __49__ benefits. The use of natural daylight in office buildings, for example, besides reducing energy costs, also seems to make workers more productive. Lockheed Martin, an aerospace firm, found that absenteeism(缺勤) __50__ by 14 after it moved 2,400 employees into a new green building in Sunnyvale, California. __51__, the use of daylight in shopping complexes appears to increase __52__. It also found that students in naturally lit classrooms performed up to 20% better. The __53__ in productivity paid for the building’s higher construction costs within a year. Despite its benefits and its growing popularity, green architecture is still not as popular as expected. The main __54__ is co-ordination(协调), for green buildings require much more planning by architects, engineers, builders and developers than traditional buildings. But, without doubt, green architecture will __55__ to reshape the construction industry over the next five years, with ever more innovative, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly buildings. “No one is doing this for fun,” he says. “There’s too much at risk.”

41. A. In place of B. Thanks to C. In spite of D. In addition to

42. A. giving B. discovering C. changing D. paving

43. A. benefits B. factors C. techniques D. impacts

44. A. contrast B. completion C. manufacture D. combination

44. A. tense B. pleasant C. fierce D. temporary

46. A. involved B. enhanced C. shared D. showed

47. A. recovered B. gained C. counted D. valued

48. A. in return B. for instance C. by contrast D. in general

49. A. environmental B. psychological C. academic D. economic

50. A. multiplied B. estimated C. recorded D. dropped

51. A. Similarly B. Contrarily C. Consequently D. Necessarily

52. A. visits B. relations C. sales D. satisfaction

53. A. performance B. confidence C. increase D. equal

54. A. interest B. progress C. solution D. problem

55. A. deserve B. help C. work D. afford

Section B

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)

Many of us mistakenly believe that it’s wrong to think we have any good qualities. We may spend a lot of time blaming ourselves for our negative qualities, thinking that self criticism is the key to improving our performance. However, a constant focus on our supposed shortcomings can stop our efforts to make friends with other people. How can we believe that others could like us if we believe our inner being is flawed?

If someone seems to dislike you, the reason for that dislike might have little or nothing to do with you. The person who doesn’t like you might be fearful, or shallow or busy or shy. Perhaps you and that person are simply a mismatch for each other at this particular time.

Don’t take yourself out of the game by deciding that your flaws are bigger than your good qualities. In fact, some of the very qualities you consider to be flaws may be irresistible to someone else. Although some factors that might cause one person to reject you, there are at least many factors that will work in your favor.

You might be thirty pounds over your ideal weight, but you may have a wonderful laugh and a real enthusiasm for life. There are many people who don’t mind your extra pounds. You may drive a shabby car, but you might be a great dancer and a loyal friend. There are people out there looking for loyalty, or fun, or sweetness, or wisdom, and the package it comes in is not important. If you are worried that you are not beautiful enough to attract friends, keep in mind that not everyone is looking for physical beauty in their friends. You can decide to feel inferior because you don’t have much money and you don’t drive a nice car. You can believe that this is the reason that you don’t have many friends in your life. On the other hand, if you are very wealthy you may be suspicious that everyone is after your money and that nobody really likes you as a person.

The point is that you can focus on just about anything and believe it’s the reason you do not have friends and cannot make any.

56. According to the passage,__________plays an important role in making friends. A．admitting your shortcomings B．self criticism

C．modesty D．confidence

57. If you are not liked by a person,______________________________.

A．you should find the reason in yourself

B．you’d better talk with the person face to face

C．you may not be the one to be blamed

D．you and that person misunderstand each other

58. Which of the following is TRUE according to the author?

A．It is important to lose weight.

B．It is easier for a wealthy person to make friends.

C．Inner qualities are more important than physical appearance.

D．If you are not beautiful enough, try to improve your physical beauty.

59. What do you think the author is most likely to suggest if he continues to write?

A．How to find your good qualities.B．How to make friends.

C．How to make self criticism.D．How to keep fit.

(B)

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(C)

What are feelings for? Most nonscientists will find it a strange question. Feelings justify themselves. Emotions give meaning and depth to life. They exist without serving any other purposes. On the other hand, many evolutionary biologists acknowledge some emotions primarily for their survival function. For both animals and humans, fear motivates the avoidance of danger, love is necessary to care for the young, and anger prepares one to hold ground. But the fact that a behavior functions to serve survival need not mean that. Other scientists have regarded the same behavior as conditioning and learned responses. Certainly reflexes(反射) and fixed action patterns can occur without feeling or conscious thought. A baby seagull pecks(啄) at a red spot on the bill(喙) of its

parent. The seagull parent feeds its baby when pecked on the bill and the baby gets fed. The interaction need have no emotional content.

At the same time, there is no reason why such actions cannot have emotional content. In mammals that have given birth including humans, milk is often released automatically when a new baby cries. This is not under intended control but it is reflex. Yet this does not mean that feeding a new baby is exclusively reflex and expresses no feeling like love. Humans have feelings about their behavior even if it is conditioned or reflexive. Yet since reflexes exist and conditioned behavior is widespread, measurable, and observable, most scientists try to explain animal behavior by using only these concepts. It is simpler.

Preferring to explain behavior in ways that fit science's methods most easily, scientists have refused to consider any causes for animal behavior other than reflexive and conditioned ones. Scientific orthodoxy (正统) holds that what cannot be readily measured or tested cannot exist, or is unworthy of serious attention. But emotional explanations for animal behavior need not be impossibly complex or unstable. They are just more difficult for the scientific method to check on in the usual ways, so cleverer and more skillful approaches are called for. Most branches of science are more willing to make successive evaluation of what may prove ultimately unknowable, rather than ignoring it altogether.

63. The example of the baby seagull pecking the parent’s bill is used to support that ______.

A. it is an inborn ability for adults to look after the young

B. behaviors can be learned and involve no emotions

C. emotions are of great importance for survival

D. it takes time for animals to be conditioned

64. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A. Breast-feeding a baby is conditioned or reflective but have no emotional connection.

B. Reflexes and conditioning will lead to a better understanding of animal emotions.

C. Scientists usually apply reflexes and conditioning in explaining animal behaviors.

D. Many evolutionary biologists believe that emotions are to some degree for survival.

65. To study animal emotions, scientists should ______.

A. analyze human emotions

B. distinguish what is emotional

C. set up improved experiments

D. learn from animal behaviorists

66. What is the author’s main purpose of writing this passage?

A. To illustrate that emotions are worth our attention.

B. To compare human emotions with animal emotions.

C. To discuss the importance and usefulness of emotions.

D. To explain what reflexive and conditioned behaviors are

Section C

Directions:Read the passage carefully. 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.

Roger Federer: From Boy to Man

Many players and analysts have called Roger Federer the greatest and most courteous (谦虚的) tennis player of all time , but he once described himself as a “ hothead(性急的人)。”

Roger Federer was born on August 8, 1981, in Basel, Switzerland. Roger and his elder sister grew up in the town of Munchenstein, just outside the city of Basel.

Tennis was a family passion in the Federer home, though neither Roger’s parents nor his sister any special aptitude(才能) for the game._____________67_____________

Roger’s first sports hero was Boris Becker, the young German who won Wimbledon in 1985. Roger recalls watching Becker play Stefan Edberg in the 1988 Wimbledon final. He cried when his idol lost. Controlling his temper was a problem that would plague Roger throughout his childhood.

His game already showed signs of genius, but like many kids of his age, he was often out of control on the court. He erupted (爆发) after hitting dumb shots and rarely went through a day without hurling his racket against the fence. His parents were ashamed when they saw their son’s behavior during tournaments. Roger could not understand this. ___________68_____________His anger was reserved for himself. The Federers refuse to speak to him after one of his episodes, frustrating him even more.

Enter Peter Carter. He, a tough player from Australia, had learned how to make a little talent go a long way. From the age of 10 to 14, Roger spent more time with Carter than his own parents. The coach taught Roger flawless technique on his ground strokes and serve （发球）, and watched him grow into his body and start dominating opponents,.___________69__________Carter was eventually able to get Roger to see how much energy he wasted during his outbursts, and over the next few years, the incidents lessened considerably.

_________70___________They also have endeared (使受到钟爱)him to tennis fans both on and off the court. They say there may not be a nicer guy on the tour.

IV. Summary Writing

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century,

Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books.

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, almost nothing was written about the contributions of women during the colonial period and the early history of the newly formed United States. Lacking the right to vote and absent from the seats of power, women were not considered an important force in history. Anne Bradstreet wrote some significant poetry in the seventeenth century, Mercy Otis Warren produced the best contemporary history of the American Revolution, and Abigail Adams penned important letters showing she exercised great political influence over her husband, John, the second President of the United States. But little or no notice was taken of these contributions. During these centuries, women remained invisible in history books.

Despite the gathering of more information about ordinary women during the nineteenth century, most of the writing about women conformed to the "great women" theory of history, just as much of mainstream American history concentrated on "great men." To demonstrate that women were making significant contributions to American life, female authors singled out women leaders and wrote biographies, or else important women produced their autobiographies. Most of these leaders were involved in public life as reformers, activists working for women's right to vote, or authors, and were not representative at all of the great of ordinary woman. The lives of ordinary people continued, generally, to be untold in the American histories being published.

V. Translation

Direction: Translate the following sentences into English ,using the words given in the brackets.

72. 我已经制定了这学期的学习计划，现在必须将其付诸实践。（put …….into practice）

73. 我们是否重新设计这座桥梁明天会议上有待于讨论。（remain）

74. 对癌症起因的研究正在进行，也正是这些研究给我们的生活带来了巨大的变化。（under , it）

75. 人们担心的是随着经济的快速发展，环境污染问题越来越严重。（concern）

II. Guided Writing

请你向友人介绍一个你所喜欢的中国著名的建筑物，要求如下：

1. 简要描述一下这个建筑物的外形。

2. 简述你之所以喜欢它的原因。（至少二点原因）

参考答案：

21. What 22. becoming 23. located 24. is planned 25. if 26. Whether 27. the better 28. which/that 29. will dominate 30. for

31-35 JHDAE 36-40 BCKIF

41-55 BCADB BACDD ACCDB

56-59 DCCA

60-62 DAD

63-66 BCCA

67-70 EACF