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金山区2016学年第一学期期末质量调研II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.Rail-life adventures of two generationsWhen I was 17, I decided to go InterRailing with my friend Bella for a week in summer. Both of us had chosen to study German at university and we decided that train travel in Germany would be the ideal way (21) ______ (practice) the language.(22) ______ ______ ______ I told my mum, she began to give me tips (23) ______ (base) on her own InterRail experience in the 1970s.I would, she insisted, need (24) ______ extra-thick sleeping b ag “for when you sleep outside”.I would need to pack oatmeal, raisins and nuts and dried soup. She even suggested a camping stove.As she told tales of sleeping on train floors, on platforms, and even once in a barn, I began to get a little worried. (25) _______ had I let myself in for?In fact, my InterRail experience was quite different. Bella and I googled youth hostels. They were pretty basic—six people to a room, stale cereal for breakfast, no curtains—but fine. We never slept on a train once.My Int erRail trip was certainly not as economical as my mother’s. My ticket (26) ______ (cost) £187(1,954 yuan), and I spent £30 a day on cheap food and extra ticket supplements.But I met some (27) ______ (amaze) people on the trains, and practiced my German with everyone (28) ______ businessmen to artists.In my mother’s eyes I (29) ______ not have had a “real” InterRail experience—but I still had an adventure. I learned about other countries, other people and about myself.Bella and I argued over lost luggage, complained about each other --- and ended up even (30) ______ (good) friends than we had before.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.NINE people died and 43 were injured in two rear-end crashes on Shanghai’s S32 Expressway that occurred during heavy fog yesterday morning.Two were 31 dead at the scene in one of the accidents, and five were found dead in the other. Two more people died in hospital, police said.Police first received a report at 5:54 am that 32 vehicles had crashed on the S32, near a ramp of S2. The S32 links Shanghai with Zhejinag Province’s Jiaxing and Huzhou.Two people were killed after getting out of their vehicle to see what was causing congestion ahead. They were hit by an out of control tanker, police said.When police arrived at that scene, they found a further five people had been killed when a construction vehicle was crushed by two large vehicles from both front and back. The crash was about three kilometers away from the accident that killed the two people on the expressway. The injured were sent to local hospitals.Some drivers reported that the road was very 33 and braking had led to vehicles losing control.“The fog was very heavy,” an unidentified driver told Shangh ai Television Station. “When I saw the accident ahead, I wanted to slow down and 34 . But once I hit the brake, the vehicle went out of control.”Zhoupu Hospital treated 12 people. “One of the 35 died on the road to the hospital,” Ding Fuhao, a doctor with the hospital, told the television s t a t i o n.“T h r e e w e r e36 injured.”The city’s meteorological authority 37 an orange alert on heavy fog at 6:06 am, meaning 38 would be lower than 200 meters in some areas.The dense fog hit coastal areas in particular, including Chongming Island, Pudong New Area, Baoshan and Fengxian districts. The alert was 39 at 9:44am. This was Shanghai’s first orange alert of heavy fog since th e arrival of autumn.Several expressways in the city were closed or subject to speed limits yesterday morning.Pudong International Airport was also affected by the bad weather. The airport’s traffic was about 60 percent less than normal in the morning but picked up the 40 after the orange alert was canceled, the city’s television station said.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.A new idea called ‘business at the speed of thought’ is quite popular in business world. It makes quick marketing progress, but it also presents a 41 way to run a company. Here’re the main 42 : The businesses today that will succeed are those able to jump around in high spirits. Chances must be seized immediately and decisions made quickly. Everyone needs more immediate answers,and the window of expected 43 to any questions has dropped from weeks to days even to hours.The problem with this way of thinking is that too often such quickness comesat the expense of 44 understanding the details of a situation. Sure, the networked society allows us to gather information within a short time, but doesit really 45 up our ability to make better decisions? How do you balance the 46 for speed with sharp and correct thinking? That’s the 47 on the minds of a lot of people these days, including Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler, who studies the idea in our cover story. It’s also a 48 of a new studyby Kepner Tregoe. It reports that 77 percent of managers believe that during the past three years the number of decisions they made each workday has increased.But 85 percent of those same people say the time given to making those decisionshas either 49 or stayed the same. Result: Speed kills. Different opinionsare not shared. Other choices are 50 too easily. Aims never seem to be clear.51 , good records aren’t kept about how successful decisions are made. If your company really does well, the Kepner report suggests 52 the decision-making process and figuring out what you did right. Study your successes, as well as your failures.Fast decision-making is a necessity sometimes-no question about that．But decisions are only as good as the 53 go into them. By that measure, manyof today’s decisions are weak and could 54 some companies at the knees. Business may be keeping the quickness of 55 , but it’s going to be tornto pieces if managers are not thinking with great care and patience.41. A. numerous B. clear C. dangerous D.bright42. A. points B. matters C. solution D.barriers43. A. response B. rejection C. acceptance D. methods44. A. rapidly B. properly C. timely D. widely45. A. arouse B. cultivate C. decline D. speed46. A. technique B. thirst C. passion D. need47. A. idea B. thought C. doubt D. puzzle48. A. subject B. aim C. project D. discovery49. A. decreased B. changed C. increased D. lengthened50. A. made B. accepted C. dismissed D. discussed51. A. Otherwise B. On the contrary C. For example D. Therefore52. A. setting aside B. breaking out C. turning out D. taking apart53. A. questions B. thoughts C. eyes D. brains54. A. cut up B. cut off C. turn down D. turn off55. A. expanding B. running C. thought D. explorationSection B(A)We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. That’s what I learnt from my new and special friend. On the first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t know.I looked around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady with a smile. She said, “Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” She gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in college at such a young innocent age?” I asked jokingly. “I alwa ys dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she replied. After class we walked to the Students Union building and shared a chocolate milkshake there. We became instant friends.Every day of the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends whenever she went. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football dinner. I’ll never forget what she taught us.“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunities in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets．”She concluded her speech by courageously singing The Song of Rose. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics（歌词）and live them out in our daily life. At the year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.56. What happened to the author on the first day of school?A．He joined the Student Union. B．He got to know an old professor.C．He made the acquaintance of an old lady. D．He had to share a milkshake with others.57. In the author’s eyes, __________.A．Rose was silent and skilled. B．Rose was talented and hardworking.C．Rose was innocent and generous. D．Rose was courageous and her words were inspiring.58. Which saying might Rose possibly support?A．Rome was not built in a day. B．One is never too old to learn.C．It is no use crying over spilt milk. D．Great minds think alike.(B)Become an Atlantis Jr. Aquarist and spend 3 days working with marine life! Food prepping to feeding the animals to snorkeling and learning about coral reefs, it’s a week of marine adventure!59. All the information is included in the advertisement EXCEPT________.A. camp hoursB. camp priceC. things to bringD. daily schedules60. The underlined phrase “subject to” is closest in meaning to ________.A. related toB. due toC. likely toD. depending on61. All the activities are included in the camp schedule EXCEPT ________.A. feeding marine lifeB. preparing food for animalsC. playing with sharksD. learning about coral reefs62. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?A. All attendees will check in and have a welcome dinner on the first day.B. All attendees must check out on the last day.C. The price covers all the expenses including accommodation.D. You can have a 5-day experience working with marine life in the camp.(C)Scientists have invented a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.“You’re wha t you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.While the U.S. diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S.. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair is equivalent to about two months.Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly equivalent to the movement of rain systems.“It’s not good for pinpointing（精确定位）, ” Cerling said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”Told Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said,“But it narrows its way down for me.”63. What is the scientists’ new discovery?A. One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.B. Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.C. A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.D. The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.64. What does the author mean by “You’re what you eat and drink.” in Para.3?A. Food and drink leave traces in one’s body tissues.B. Food and drink preferences vary with individuals.C. Food and drink affect one’s personality development.D. Food and drink are similar to one’s existence.65. What is said about the rainfall in American’s West?A. There is much more rainfall in California than in Utah.B. The water it delivers becomes lighter when it moves inland.C. Its chemical composition is less stable than in other areas.D. It gathers more light isotopes as it moves eastward.66. What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?A. It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.B. It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.C. It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.D. It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.Section CDirections: 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.What Is a Dream?For centuries, people have wondered about the strange things that they dream about. Some psychologists say that this nighttime activity of the mind has no special meaning. Others, however, think that dreams are an important part of our lives. In fact, many experts believe that dreams can tell us about a person's mind and emotions.Before modern times, many people thought that dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams in a scientific way.The Austrian psychologist, Sigmund Freud, was probably the first person to study dreams scientifically. In his famous book, The interpretation of Dreams (1900), Freud wrote that dreams are an expression of a person's wishes. He believed that (67) ___________The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was once a student of Freud's. Jung, however, had a different idea about dreams. Jung believed that the purpose of a dream was to communicate a message to the dreamer. (68) ___________ For example, people who dream about falling may learn that they have too high an opinion of themselves. On the other hand, people who dream about being heroes may learn that they think too little of themselves.Modern-day psychologists continue to develop theories about dreams. For example, psychologist William Domhoff from the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes that dreams are tightly linked to a person's daily life, thoughts, and behavior. (69) ___________Domhoff believes that there is a connection between dreams and age. His research shows that children do not dream as much as adults. According to Domhoff, dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop.He has also found a link between dreams and gender. His studies show that the dreams of men and women are different. For example, the people in men's dreams are often other men, and the dreams often involve fighting. This is not true of women's dreams. Domhoff found this gender difference in the dreams of people from 11 cultures around the world, including both modern and traditional ones.Can dreams help us understand ourselves? Psychologists continue to try to answer this question in different ways. (70) ___________ The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that some terrible event will actually take place. It's important to remember that the world of dreams is not the real world.IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage with no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do you find getting up in t he morning so difficult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract（对抗）your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If our energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam (鼓起干劲) and work better at your low point.Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.V. TranslationDirections:Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.她经常在周末带她儿子去音乐会，让他受到艺术的熏陶。

金山区高三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

第一部分听力（共两节，满分30分）做题时，先将答案标在试卷上。

录音内容结束后，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到答题卡上。

第一节（共5小题；每小题1．5分，满分7．5分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1． How's the weather when they are talking?A． It's sunny． B．It's rainy． C．It's Snowy．2． What are they talking about?A． Time． B．Work． C．Study．3． What does the woman think of her job?A． Interesting． B． Challenging C．Boring4． Where are they most probably talking ?A． At a restaurant． B．In their office． C．In the classroom ．5． How long does it take the woman to get to the museum on foot?A． About 5 minutes． B．A bout 15 minu tes． C．About 50 minures．第二节（共15小题；每小题1．5分，满分22．5分）听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话读两遍．听第6段材料，回答第6、7题。

6．Who can play tennis?A． The man． B． The woman ． C． Brenda and Jessica．7． What will they play this weekend?A． Golf． B． Soccer． C．Tennis．听第7段材料，回答第8、9题8． Who's the man calling for?A． The girl herself． B． The girl's father．C． The girl's mother．9． What's the man's phone number?A．589 7248． B．597 8284． C．588 7294．听第8段材料，回答第1 0至1 3题．10． Why does the man have to go shopping?A． Because his son needs a sports suit．B． Because he has nothing to eat at homeC． Because he wants to keep himself busy．11．When will Little Johnny have a basketball game?A． This afternoon. B． This weekend. C．Next month.12． What is Little Johnny traveling to Toronto for?[A． A sightseeing．B． Shopping. C．A game.13． What is the relationship between the two speakers?A． Husband and wife. B． Waiter and customer. C． Two friends.听第9段材料，回答第14至1 6题14． How does the man go to work?A． By bus． B．On foot． C．By car．15．Who bakes something at the weekend?A． The man． B．The woman． C．The woman’s husband．16．Where's the woman?A． At her own home． B． At the man's home． C． At her parents' home．听第10段材料，回答第1 7至20题17． Where i s the speech made?A．At the airport． B． On the bus． C． At a scenic spot．18． Where are they going?A． To the seaside． B． To a restaurant． C．To a hotel．19．What is against the law according to the speaker?A．Eating on the bus．B．Gcrting drunk in public．C．Swimming in the ocean．20．Who is the speaker?A．A hotel manager．B．A TV host（ess）．C．A tourist guide．第二部分英语知识运用（共两节，满分45分）第一节单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分, 满分l5分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项．并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

金山区2016届高三上学期期末考试英语期末(一模)试卷

金山区2015学年第一学期期末考试高三英语试卷I.Listening ComprehensionII.II. Grammar and VocabularySection A( A )Playing a violin with three stringsOn Nov.18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. The audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) ________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.The orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity (27) ________ they had never heard before.Of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. He s miled, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he said in a quiet, sacred tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with (30) ________ you have left.”This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.He has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings (31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) ________ (make) before.( B )Emoji — a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications, are everywhere. The little illustrated characters that are on Smartphone keyboards (33) ________ (take) over the world now. There are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending.A s emoji spreads into our culture, I’ve actually heard the following question：Is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?To find out, I communicated by iMessage using only emoji for five days. That meant (34) ________ ________ someone sent me a text or I wanted to send a text, I could only use the popular tiny picture characters (35) ________ (respond) to or start a conversation.I wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the convers ation to Facebook or Twitter, etc., but I could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; I could not encourage the phone call myself. I wanted to see if it was (36) ________ (easy) than I expected it to be, yes, but I also wanted to see if I could influence (37) ________ I wascommunicating with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) ________ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than I expected. There were people who were annoyed with me. There were people who gave up after a few back-and –forths. There were missed messages, (39) ________ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. There were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) ________ (move) faster. And there was my mother who doesn’t have an iPhone and texts me often.Section Bmorning, and it’s even worse when there’s(41) ________ no reason for it. There’s a lot of interesting science behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitting in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. The way we merge (合并) causes problemsWhether you’re merging from the left or the right, (42) ________ are good that you’re doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. When most people see that they need to merge, their first (43) ________ is to do it right away. They brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. According to the Minnesota d epartment of Transportation, that’s completely wrong. Sudden (44) ________ causes traffic to back up, a problem that’s made worse by sudden lane changes and other cars braking to (45) ________ the merging traffic.So what should you do? Exactly what you probably blame drivers for doing: waiting until the last minute. If you do that, traffic will fall into a more natural pattern called a “zipper merge”,meaning there are no surprises, no sudden braking, and a smoother transition from one lane to another, which cuts down on backups. This does, of course, rely on other drivers to let you in at the last minute and be polite enough not to cut you off, which causes all sorts of other problems.2. You are causing the traffic Jams you hateTraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46) ________ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavy traffic can (47) ________ smoothly if people maintain a (48) ________ speed. The problem is that we can’t. Researchers have found that just one person even slightly stepping on their brakes can have a terrible effect on the traffic around them.On even (49) ________ busy road, it can be only a few minutes for traffic to a complete halt behind someone who (50) ________ their brakes to let another driver merge. The standstill usually occurs several minutes after the braking, well after the person that causes the problem in the first place has gone on his way.III.Reading ComprehensionSection ACorporate scandals(丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. This is where executives can start reestablishing their (51) ________ --or deepen the damage.Since they were forced to (52) ________ one of the biggest frauds(欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at V olkswagen have offered (53) ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). But they haven’t explained who ordered, (54) ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting (55) ________ on the road. Nor has Volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel (56) ________ and clean.On October 8, German prosecutors (检察官) broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. Meanwhile, Matthias Muller, the (57) ________ appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, Martin Winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew (58) ________. “Do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?” he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some (59) ________ shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to (60) ________ regulators and customers around the world.If Mr. Winterkorn was not responsible, who was? Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have (61) ________ this scheme without any support. Hans-Dieter Potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier this month, saying it would take time before V olkswagen could make (62) ________ the findings of its internal investigations. “We must overcome the crisis,” he explained, “but we must also ensure that V olkswagen continues to grow.” That seems to miss the point that V olkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some (63) ________ answers and explanations.Even if they manage to fix millions of cars, Volkswagen executives will still face an enormous (64) ________ from lawsuits, lost sales and the (65) ________ to V olkswagen’s reputation. There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. Apologizing is just the easy part.51. A. reputation B. revenge C. responsibility D. revolution52. A. commit B. recognize C. admit D. revise53. A. gratitude B. apologies C. guidance D. authorities54. A. approved B. chose C. withdrew D. undertook55. A. light B. ashes C. smell D. pollutants56. A. effective B. efficient C. extinct D. essential57. A. officially B. voluntarily C. temporarily D. newly58. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything59. A. minor B. major C. inferior D. superior60. A. conceal B. confuse C. attract D. deceive61. A. held on B. got rid of C. carried out D. made up62. A. clear B. public C. possible D. convenient63. A. convincing B. likely C. factual D. solid64. A. conflict B. opportunities C. competitions D. challenges65. A. response B. blow C. solution D. keySection B( A )Poor bears comes to the UK, bringing only a red hat, a suitcase, a sandwich, and jars of marmalade(果酱) with him. Heading straight to a major London train station, he sits on his suitcase and stops passers-by from time to time in the hope of finding a free home.This is how Paddington Bear, the main character of the UK animated movie Paddington, is introduced to audiences. On March 3, during Prince William’s visit to China, he attended the Chinese premiere (首演) of the film in Shanghai.“Many Britons were raised on tales of Paddington, the second-best-known bear in fiction after Winnie the Pooh,” the Economist noted. While Winnie the Pooh reminds people of the innocence and simplicity of the past, “the well- meaning Paddington always causes chaos when he goes through cultural misunderstandings.”The movie, described as “a total delight, as warm and welcome as a hot pair of socks on a winter morning” by the Telegraph, tells the story of the bear, who is sent to London by his family, after an earthquake destroys their home in Peru. At Paddington station, he meets Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown and their two kids. The Brown family name him Paddington, because they can’t say his Peruvian name. After the f uzzy (毛茸茸的) stranger enters the Browns’ home, he teaches everyone how to laugh and love. In the end, Mr. Brown says that “even if he’s from a different species, he’s still family.”As Phoenix magazine put it, “The story shows British sympathy and kindness” as the refugee Paddington is given a new home and a loving family in London.Released at a time when immigration is a hot topic in the UK, “Paddington has a very clear message: welcome the other into your home”, the Philadelphia Inquirer noted.And Paddington Bear is also a great example of the traditional politeness that British people are well known for. For example, Paddington Bear calls people “Mr.”, “Mrs.” and “Miss”, rarely using their first name. he also loves making small talk with people. For instance, Paddington often has polite conversations about unimportant things with people like his housekeeper.66. Which of the following statements about Paddington Bear is true?A. He is saved by the Brown family from an earthquake in Peru.B. With the help of the Brown family, he learns how to laugh and love.C. He is traditional and prefers to greet strangers using their first name.D. As an immigrant to the UK, he experiences many cultural misunderstandings.67. Which of the following words best describe the qualities of Paddington bear?A. kind and polite.B. innocent and unintelligent.C. humorous and optimistic.D. honest and straightforward.68. We can infer from the article that _________________.A. the tales of Paddington have reminded British people to be kind to those who immigrate tothe UKB. at the time when the Paddington stories were released, immigrants were not welcomed in theUKC. the Paddington stories once encouraged a large number of Germans to go to the UKD. Paddington’s British habit of making “small talk” helped to enrich the German language69. According to the last paragraph, “small talk” probably means _____________.A. polite greetings to unfamiliar peopleB. conversation about unimportant thingsC. conversations about other people’s private livesD. Arguments between close friends( B )4 Hotels That Will Make Your Life EasierBY JOHN BRANDONFor the business traveler who is all about efficiency: Check out these hotels that will get you in and out with a minimum of trouble.When you are pressed for time on a business trip, nothing can infuriate you more than a slow hotel check-in process. On your next trip, try these hotels that offer a speedier check-in process.1. Yotel New YorkThe self-service kiosks at this high-tech New York hotel work just like the ones you’d see at an airport. There are just five-steps to register and obtain your card key. There is even a robotic luggage bellboy. You tap in the number of bags you are carrying and sizes, then wait for a robot arm to swing down and store your luggage in a locker (say, for a day trip). This also speeds up the check-in process if the first thing you need to do, like me, is head to a series of meetings.2. Marriott Detroit AirportAnother option for business travelers in a hurry: Marriott is rolling out its mobile check-in app to 325 hotels this year, including the Marriott Detroit Airport hotel. (I’ve tested the app itself but not for a real visit quite yet.) Here is the basic idea: you download the iphone or Android app. The night before, you can “check-in” virtually. When you arrive, you get an alert that the room is ready and your key, which is already tied to your reservation, is waiting for you at the desk.3. Hyatt Regency MinneapolisI happened to stay at this hotel recently and liked how fast the kiosk check-in works. Like the Yotel, the kiosk asks you to insert your credit card, similar to an airport terminal. The whole process took about three minutes, when I left, I was equally impressed with the fast check-out. An agent meets you in the lobby with an ipad and asks for an email to use for a receipt. The big advantage: you never have to wait in line.4. Radisson: LaCrosseThe Radisson is trying to make the kiosk process even faster, at a few select hotels like the Radisson Lacrosse in Wisconsin, you use a mobile app to register and then receive a barcode by70. What does the word “infuriate” in paragraph 2 most mean?A. annoy.B. remind.C. amuse. D impress.71. Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to check in?A.Yotel New York and Marriott Detroit Airport.B.Marriott Detroit Airport and Radisson: LaCrosse.C.Marriott Detroit Airport. and Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis and Radisson: LaCrosse.72. Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?A.Yotel New York.B.Marriott Detroit Airport.C.Radisson: LaCrosse.D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.73. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.At Yotel New York, a robot will help you with all the check-in process.B.With its check-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a key.C.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis is close to an airport terminal.D.The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast check-in.( C )Scriptwriters love to complain. They are disrespected by producers, regarded dispensable (可有可无的) by directors, not duly credited by critics, treated like employees by actors – although few complain about being historically and chronically overpaid. Another thing they don’t complain about is “the exhaustion of narrative”, though it weighs very much on their minds. For scriptwriters to complain about the insufficiency of original ideas would be like a salesman complaining about a lack of inventory. It’s not good for business.Writers have always known there are a limited number of storylines. And it is increasingly difficult to get out in front of a viewer’s expectations. Almost every possible subject has not only been covered but covered exhaustively. How many hours of serial killer plot has the average viewer seen? Fifty? A hundred? This becomes painfully clear to any writer who attempts to orally tell his story (scriptwriter is closer to the oral tradition than it is to literature). Originality has always been in short supply. Does the proliferation (泛滥) of media mean that it is harder to be original today than it was 50 years ago? Well, yea. Today’s viewers live in a biosphere of narrative. Twenty-four-seven, multimedia, all the time. When a storyteller competes for a viewer’s attention, he not only competes with simultaneously occurring narratives, he competes with the variations of his own narrative. That’s real competition. This exhaustion of narrative is behind the rise of recent “counter-narrative” entertainments, such as:1. Reality TV. Any regular viewer knows that reality television follows its own scripted formulas, but the appearance of being unscripted is essential to its appeal. Weary of so much predicable plot, the jaded viewer turns to reality.2. Anecdotal narrative. The attraction of films such as Slacker and its mumblecore progeny (呢喃类) is the enjoyment of watching behavior impeded by the artifice of plot. It is not “fake”, not “designed” (although of course it is).3. Reenactment drama. Whether based on famous events or lesser-known ones, reenactment entertainment sells the premise that these events actually happened and were not cooked up by a staff of writers (though, again, if not actually cooked up, they were seasoned and served by writers).4. Video games. The ability of the viewer to participate in the storytelling process creates an illusion of non-plan.5. Mini-mini drama. Part of the appeal of three-to five-minute stories created for cellphones, YouTube and original programming is the illusion of not being crafted narratives. Just bits of life.6. Documentaries. A staple of filmed entertainment since its beginnings, documentaries, historically the poor cousins of commercial cinema, have grown in number and viewership, an increase owed in part to the desire of viewers to look beyond predictable narratives.Storytelling began as ceremony and evolved into ritual. It was commercialized in the medieval times, became big business in the 19th century and international industry in the 20th. The traditional concept of movies, a projected image in a dark room of viewers, feels increasingly old. Narrative will mutate(变异) and endure. Audio-visual entertainment is changing and narrative will change with it.74. According to the author, scriptwriters seldom complain of having ____________.A. been looked down upon by producersB. suffered the exhaustion of narrativeC. been considered unimportant by directorsD. been badly treated by actors and actresses75. In which of the following entertainment forms can the viewers take part in its narrativeprocess?A. Reenactment.B. Video games.C. Mini-mini drama.D. Documentaries.76. Which of the following statements is TRUE to the fact?A. Narrative became commercialized in the middle age.B. Storytelling became commercialized after the Middle Ages.C. Narrative became a worldwide industry in the 19th century.D. Storytelling grew into large business in the 20th century.77. Which of the following statements is NOT in agreement with the author’s ideas?A. Scriptwriting is nearer to the oral tradition than it is to literature.B. Narrative exhaustion is responsible for the rise of anti-narrative entertainment.C. It is less difficult to be original today than it was half a century ago.D. The appearance of being unscripted is important to the appeal of Reality TV.Section CPlans kick off soonFor years, Chinese soccer fans have rarely had the chance to cheer for a triumph from the national team. However, hope for Chinese soccer has been ignited(点燃) recently, as the government released an overall reform plan to boost the development of soccer in China on march 16.By 2025, 50000 elementary and middle schools will include soccer in the curriculum. According to the plan, students will be given textbooks that teach the positions of players and soccer tactics(战术). They will also be encouraged to form soccer teams and participate in competitions regularly. The extraordinary young players will be enrolled into local leagues and training camps, helping to build up a large soccer talent pool.Chinese soccer, with the national team currently ranked at No 83 in the world, has been lagging behind many other countries for a long time. Critics say the biggest reason is a lack of a well-built youth training system, which is the key to creating a strong soccer culture, according to the BBC.Take Spain, a team that has dominated the world of soccer for a long time, as an example. It has the world’s best soccer school, La Masia. This FC Barcelona youth academy is widely known for producing skillful and creative soccer talents. Teams in the academy are divided into 12 levels, from U8(for players under 8 years old) to U19. Its talent scouts (星探) are stationed around the world, always looking for boys who show outstanding potential for soccer. Studying there is free of charge. A talented 10-year-old boy can walk into La Masia and come out eight years later as a superstar.The rising soccer giant Germany also knows the importance of youth training. Germany scored only one goal at the 2000 European Championships, which started a national discussion over why the country could no longer produce good, young players. So in 2001, the German Football League required that all Bundesliga (甲级联赛) clubs set up academies with youth teams from U12 to U23. The clubs now spend over 100 million on youth development each year. And they have successfully raised the standards of young German players.In 26-year-old midfielder Thomas Muwller, 25 year-old midfielder Toni Kroos and 33-year-old full back Philipp Lah m, for instance, the world has witnessed Bayern’s youth work paying off handsomely.“Youth is the key to China’s soccer, as late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said” but it takes time to gain results,” said President Xi Jinping in 2014, “China’s soccer dream looks far away, but we cannot stop.”(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 13 WORDS) 78. What is the detail of China’s soccer reform plan?79. According to critics, why has Chinese soccer been left behind many other countries?80. La Masia in Barcelona is well famous for____________________________ .81. _________________________ has raised the young German players.第Ⅱ卷I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1．和外国友人进餐时, 带上一份小礼物是有礼貌的。

上海市奉贤区2016届高三英语上学期期末调研试题

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第Ⅰ卷（共103分）I. Listening Comprehension(略)II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.(A)Have you ever heard the story of the four-minute mile? For years people believed that it is impossible for a human being to run a mile inless than four minutes until Roger Banister proved it wrong in 1954．Within one year,37 runners broke the belief barrier．And the year after that, 300 other runners did the same thing．What happens if you put an animal in a pond? Any animal, big or small, will swim its way through．What happens __25__ someone, who does not know how to swim, falls in deep waters? You drown．If an animal who has not learned swimming could escape by swimming, why not you? Because you believe you will drown __26__ the animal does not．These cases show the power of beliefs．There is no other__27__(powerful) force in directing human behavior than belief．Our beliefs have the power to create and to destroy．In a way it is our beliefs __28__ determine how much we’ll be abl e to realize our potential．So pay attention to some of your beliefs．Do you believe you are weak in mathematics? Do you believe that other people dislike you? Do you believe life is full of problems?Belief is not mysterious, however, it's nothing but the generalizationof a past incident．As a kid, if a dog bit you, you believed all dogs to be dangerous．__29__(change) certain behavior, identify the beliefs__30__(associate) with it．Change those beliefs and a new pattern__31__(create)．(B)While getting ready for school today, my 16-year-old daughter cameinto my room to give me a big hug and kiss. I asked her, “What do you want?” She said, “Nothing Mum, you always tell us to have a good day before we leave the house, but I was thinking about who tells you to have a good day and lets you know how much you are loved.”I am so touched by the capacity of love and understanding __32__ comes from my children.My 15-year-old son asked me last night __33__ there was a way for him to get a summer job this year in order to help us to pay our bills. Unfortunately, in our area, he __34__ be 16.__35__ of my children depend on me so much because I am a single parent, but just when I pay the bills that I will not be able to provide for them, they come up with ways __36__(help out). I completely understand that I will still have to find a way to pay the bills as I do not want my children to take up anything. But for now the fact __37__ they have stepped up and offered to help without anyone asking __38__(touch) me.When my daughter was two, I remember rushing to get to work, getting to the front door and asking her to hurry up and come. Then she appeared at the door __39__ a bag that she was holding open. I said, “We don’t have time for this.” She stopped me and said, “Fill it with love, Mum.”I fell to my knees and hugged her and then kissed her. From then on she would bring the bag and I would bring the love to the door before__40__(leave) for school and work.Section BDirections: 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.Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said on Thursday that it will create another online shopping event in the next two months to tap further into rural consumption.The e-commerce giant, which generated a gross merchandise volume of 91.2 billion yuan ($14.3 billion) in the 24-hour sales event on Wednesday, said it will hold a similar festival to __41__ with the upcoming Spring Festival in February.Zhang Yong, chief executive officer of Alibaba, said like urban residents, many rural consumers have also become online shopping__42__. “The soon-to-be-launched shopping event will better serve rural consumers and bring more __43__ products to the dining tables of urban consumers," he said.The Hangzhou-based firm said the Spring Festival event will be launched by its customer-to-customer site Taobao and its Rural Taobao business unit, which is __44__ to online shoppers in rural areas.Sun Lijun, vice-president of Alibaba who is in charge of Rural Taobao, said the Spring Festival shopping gala will help __45__ the gap between urban and rural consumers."We want villagers to celebrate Lunar Chinese New Year with seafood from New Zealand and wine from France. That said, we also want urban residents to enjoy high-quality fresh produce __46__ directly to their doorsteps," he said.Alibaba has made globalization and going-rural its top __47__ for further development. Last year, it said it will invest 10 billion yuan over the next three to five years to provide e-commerce services in about 100,000 villages.Rural shoppers proved their buying power by __48__ more than 10 million yuan in the first eight minutes of the Nov 11 online shopping festival. People in 8,000 villages participated in the 24-hour __49__ on Wednesday. The most expensive order of the day was an order for a Porsche at about 500,000 yuan.Alibaba didn't disclose the specific __50__ made by rural shoppers, but said that items such as TV sets, air conditioners, shampoos and oil were very popular in villages.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each blank in the following passages 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.While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater lifesatisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer nations report having greater meaning in life.These findings, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological science, suggest that meaning in life may be higher in poorer nations __51__ greater religiosity(笃信宗教). As countries become richer, religion becomes less __52__ to people’s lives and they lose a sense of meaning in life.“Thus far, the wealth of nations has been almost always __53__ longevity, health, happiness or life satisfaction,” explains psychological scientist Shigehiro Oishi of the University of Virginia. “Given that meaning in life is an important aspect of overall well-being, we wanted to look more carefully at differential __54__, correlates(相关物), and predictors for meaning in life.”Oishi and colleague Ed Diener of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign __55__ life satisfaction, meaning, and well-being by examining data from the 20XX年Gallup World Poll, a __56__ survey of over 140,000 participants from 132 countries. __57__ answering a basic life satisfaction question, participants were asked: “Do you feel your life has an important __58__ or meaning?” and “Is religion an important part of your daily life?”The data revealed some unexpected __59__:“Among Americans, those who are high in life satisfaction are also high in me aning in life,” says Oishi. “But when we looked at the societallevel of analysis, we found a completely __60__ pattern of the association between meaning in life and life satisfaction.”When looking across many countries, Oishi and Diener found that people in wealthier nations were more educated, had fewer children, and expressed more individualistic attitudes compared to those in poorer countries C all factors that were associated with higher life satisfaction but a __61__ lower sense of meaning in li fe.”The data suggest that religiosity may play an important role: Residents of wealthier nations, where religiosity is lower, reported __62__ meaning in life and had higher suicide rates than poorer countries.According to the researchers, religion may provide meaning to life to the extent that it __63__ people to overcome personal difficulty and cope with the struggles of working to survive in poor economic conditions: Oishi and Diener hope to reproduce these findings using more comprehensive measures of meaning and religiosity, and are interested in __64__ countries over time to track whether economic __65__ gives rise to less religiosity and less meaning in life.51. A. by means of B. as a result of C. for the sake of D. with regard to52. A. central B. ideal C. formal D. superior53. A. related with B. combined with C. associated with D. represented with54. A. models B. styles C. designs D. patterns55. A. investigated B. diagnosed C. explored D.exploited56. A. nationwide B. thorough C. complete D. large-scale57. A. Except for B. Instead of C. Rather than D. In addition to58. A. opportunity B. temptation C. purpose D.definition59. A. trends B. practices C. outlooks D. currents60. A. precious B. similar C. relevant D. different61. A. exactly B. significantly C. adequately D.partially62. A. better B. less C. more D. fewer63. A. allows B. requests C. reminds D. helps64. A. following B. chasing C. pursuing D. predicting65. A. priority B. profit C. prosperity D. potentialSection BDirections: 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.ASome people say the traditional calendar of 180 days no longer meets the needs of American society. They point out that students in most otherindustrial countries are in school more hours a day and more days a year. Critics also say a long summer vacation causes students to forget much of what they learned. Schools are under pressure to raise test scores. Some have changed their calendars to try to improve student performance. They have lengthened the school day or added days to the year or both. This can be costly if schools need air conditioning on hot days and school employees need to be paid for the extra time.Some schools have a year-round schedule. The school year is extended over twelve months. Instead of a long vacation, there are many short ones. Local businesses may object to a longer school year because students are unable to work as long at summer jobs. Some parts of the country had year-round programs in the nineteenth century, mostly for economic reasons. They felt it wasted money to use school buildings for only part of the year. Year-round programs can also reduce crowding in schools. In one version, students attend school for nine weeks and then have three weeks off. The students are in groups that are not all in school at the same time.Another year-round calendar has all students in school together for nine weeks and off for three. This is meant to provide the continuous learning that can be lost over a long break. But year-round schooling has opponents. They say it can cause problems for families when they want to make summer plans. And they say it interferes with activities outsideschool -- including summer employment.Some experts say no really good studies have been done to measure the effect of school calendars on performance. But some educators think year-round schooling especially helps students from poor families that lack educational support at home.66. The best title for the passage seems to be ______.A. Debating upon Year-round SchoolingB. Advantages of Year-round EducationC. Disadvantages of a Long Summer VacationD. Different Types of School Calendars67. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that schools should extend school days?A. The traditional calendar is out of date.B. Long holidays cause students to forget much of what they learned.C. Schools face pressure to raise test marks.D. Schools in other countries urge them to do so.68. Those against year-round schooling argue that ______.A. it does little to help improve students’ performance at school.B. it may cause learning tiredness.C. it will not have much educational value.D. i t affects students’ activities outside school.69. 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If you care a lot about the service, but have a tight budget, which hotel will you choose?A. Luxor Hotel and CasinoB. Venetian Resort Hotel CasinoC. Circus Circus Hotel and CasinoD. Palace Station HotelCPretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with t he colour, yet it is widespread in our young girls’ lives. It is not that pink inherently(内在地) bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly blends girls’ identity to appeara nce. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the extreme lack of imagination about girls’ lives and interests.Girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it's not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. What's more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses. When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a delicate version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations(暗示) of the Virgin Mary(圣母玛利亚), constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity(女性化). It was not until the mid-1980s, when enlarged age and sex differences became a dominant children's marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls,part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years.I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends influenced our perception of what is natural to relatives, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Taking the toddler as an example, I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into children's behaviour: wrong. It turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularized as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s.Trade publications counseled(劝告) department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a "third stepping stone" between infant wear and older kids' clothes. It was only after "toddler"(学步的小孩) became common shoppers' term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever-tinier categories has proved a safe way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to cut up a market is to magnify gender differences C or invent them where they did not previously exist.73. By saying "it is ... the rainbow"(line 3, Para 1), the author means pink _______.A. should not be the sole representation of girlhoodB. should not be associated with girls' innocenceC. cannot explain girls' lack of imaginationD. cannot influence girls' lives and interests74. What does the word “encode” in Para. 2 refer to?A. discoveredB. programmedC. markedD. sealed75. The author suggests that our perception of children's psychological development was much influenced by_____.A. the marketing of products for childrenB. the observation of children's natureC. researches into children's behaviorD. studies of childhood consumption76. We may learn from Paragraph 4 that department stores were advised to _____.A. focus on infant wear and older kids' clothesB. attach equal importance to different gendersC. classify consumers into smaller groupsD. create some common shoppers' terms77. It can be concluded that girls' attraction to pink seems to be ____.A. clearly explained by their inborn tendencyB. fully understood by clothing manufacturersC. mainly imposed by profit-driven businessmenD. well interpreted by psychological expertsSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.Some of the world’s most significant problems never hit headlines. One example comes from agriculture. Food riots(暴乱) and hunger make news. But the trend lying behind these matters is rarely talked about. This is the decline in the growth in yields(产量) of some of the world’s major crops. A new study by the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal looks at where, and how far, this decline is occurring.The authors take a vast number of data points for the four most important crops: rice, wheat corn and soybeans. They find that on between 24% and 39% of all harvested areas, the improvement in yields that took place before the 1980s slowed down in the 1990s and 20XX年s.There are two worrying features of the slowdown. One is that it has been particularly sharp in the world’s most populous countries, India and China. Their ability to feed themselves has been an important source of relative stability both within the countries and on world food markets. That self-sufficiency cannot be taken for granted if yields continue to slow down or reverse.Second, yield growth has been lower in wheat and rice than in corn and soybeans. This is problematic because wheat and rice are more important as foods, accounting for around half of all calories consumed. Corn and soybeans are more important as feed grains. The authors note that “we have preferentially focused our crop improvement efforts on feeding animals and cars rather than on crops that feed people and arethe basis of food security in much of the world.”The report qualifies the more optimistic findings of another new paper which suggests that the world will not have to dig up a lot more land for farming in order to feed 9 billion people in 2050, as the Food and Agriculture Organization has argued.Instead, it says, thanks to slowing population growth, land currently ploughed up for crops might be able to revert to forest or wilderness. This could happen. The trouble is that the forecast assumes continued improvements in yields, which may not actually happen.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TWELVE WORDS.)78. The trend lying behind food riot and hunger is___________________________.79. Why does the author mention India and China in particular?80. According to the new study, what’s the problem of the recent crop improvement efforts?81. What is the author’s attitude to the argument of the Fo od and Agriculture Organization?第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1. 你真周到，帮我预先订好了票子。

金山区2016学年第一学期期末质量调研

金山区2016学年第一学期期末质量调研高三语文试卷（时间150分钟，分值150分）2016年12月第一部分积累应用（10分）一、填空（5分）1．(1)多情自古伤离别，。

（柳永《》）(2) ，官盛则近谀。

（韩愈《师说》）2．杜甫的《月夜》诗中与“遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人”这种从对面入笔，曲折地表达情感的手法相似的一句是，。

二、选择（5分）3．在网购中，“草”字通常可以理解为长势很凶猛的购买欲。

而网络语言“拔草”意指把心痒痒的购买欲给“拔”除了。

很多吟咏小草的古诗可以形成有趣类比，如：“，”，表达出购物欲也是随季节变迁，每到换季时节总会悄然萌生；“，”，流露出在满眼广告的世界里，到处都有你心仪的东西，随时激发你的购物欲；“，”，则是真切地呈现了购物欲总是挥之不去，不管别人劝阻还是自我放弃，隔几天又会浮上心头的情形。

将以下诗句依次填入上文空白处，正确的一项是( )A．离离原上草，一岁一枯荣/ 天涯何处无芳草，墙里秋千墙外道/ 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生B．离离原上草，一岁一枯荣/ 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生/ 天涯何处无芳草，墙里秋千墙外道C．野火烧不尽，春风吹又生/天涯何处无芳草，墙里秋千墙外道/ 离离原上草，一岁一枯荣D．天涯何处无芳草，墙里秋千墙外道/ 离离原上草，一岁一枯荣/ 野火烧不尽，春风吹又生4．在下面的情景中，最合乎情理的表述是( )小红利用暑假到一家公司打工，她拿着人生第一笔工作获得的酬劳，回家激动又兴奋，自豪地说：A．爸爸，周末我跟你去看电影。

B．我带你去看电影，就这个周末，爸爸。

C．爸爸，周末我带你去看电影。

D．我们一起去看电影，就这个周末，爸爸。

第二部分阅读（70分）一、阅读下文，完成5-9题。

（16分）中国画的生命“线”①世界上任何门类的艺术，都有其特定的表现方法。

从原始的洞窟壁画到后期成熟的绘画，线条渐渐成为造型艺术的重要词汇，被世界各国的艺术家们广泛采用。

以线条为主要表现手段的笔墨法造型，是中国画的突出特点。

高三英语月考试题及答案-上海市青浦区2016届高三上学期期末质量调研

青浦区2015学年第一学期高三年级期末学业质量调研测试英语试卷（时间120分钟，满分150分）2016.01考生注意：1．本试卷分为第Ⅰ卷（第1-13页）和第II卷（第14页）两部分。

全卷共14页。

满分150分。

考试时间120分钟。

2．答题前，考生务必在答题卡（纸）上用钢笔或水笔清楚填写姓名、准考证号，并用铅笔正确涂写准考证号。

3．答案必须全部涂写在答题卡（纸）上。

第Ⅰ卷（1-16小题，41-77小题）由机器阅卷，考生应将代表正确答案的小方格用铅笔涂黑。

注意试题题号和答题纸编号一一对应，不能错位。

答案需要更改时，必须将原选项擦去，重新选择。

答案不能涂写在试卷上，涂写在试卷上一律不给分。

第Ⅰ卷中的第17-40小题，78-81小题和第II卷的试题，其答案用钢笔或水笔写在答题纸上，如用铅笔答题，或写在试卷上也一律不给分。

第I卷（共103分）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. 9:40. B. 9:50. C. 10:30. D. 10:40.2. A. Leave right away. B. Stay for dinner.C. Catch a train.D. Wait for Eason.3. A. It will be fine. B. It will not rain at all.C. It will stop raining.D. It will rain heavily.4. A. Great. B. Moved. C. Disappointed. D. Sad.5. A. She is eager to have lunch. B. She is unwilling to go for lunch now.C. She is ready for the meeting.D. She is leaving right now.6. A. The driver will stop the bus immediately.B. The guy by the door will help the man.C. The man should check the map.D. She will tell the man when to get off.7. A. She dislikes fireworks. B. She has plans for the evening.C. She doesn’t feel like going out.D. She has to get theatre tickets.8. A. Surfing on the Internet. B. Mailing some documents.C. Sending a document via email.D. Writing an attachment.9. A. To make a tour of Chicago. B. To visit some friends.C. To attend a conference.D. To take language courses.10. A. She liked to go outing nearby. B. She studied very hard at school.C. She won the champion recently.D. She was in her third year in the university. Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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. How to read a book. B. How to make a list.C. How to form a habit.D. How to make friends.12. A. They are smart people. B. They are good examples of all people.C. They make a list for you.D. They help you cultivate good habits.13. A. Always have a book. B. Keep a “To-Do” list.C. Get more intellectual friends.D. Put down what you will learn.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. An adult native speaker. B. A professional American actor.C. A beginner of English learning.D. An English expert.15. A. Reading and listening. B. Listening and speaking.C. Writing and reading.D. Reading and speaking.16. A. Fun and efficiency in enjoying reading masterpieces.B. The recall of all the good memories of your childhood.C. The true pleasure of the world’s language.D. The improvement of reading and listening abilities.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.II. Grammar and vocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.(A)250 Drive-Thru（汽车穿梭）Customers Pay It Forward at McDonald’s In Florida, one McDonald’s customer started a pay-it-forward chain that inspired other 249 customers to be generous and do the same. ABC News reports that (25)__________ spirit of giving is in the air as 250 drive-thru customers at a local McDonald’s paid for the meals of the people next to them. A Lakeland customer, Torie Keene (26)__________ (pay) for her food on Wednesday morning when she decided to pay for the meal of the car next to her.Keene then purposely told McDonald’s cashier Marisabel Figueroa (27)__________ (greet) the other customer “Merry Christmas” and not “Happy Holidays.” The next customer was moved when Figueroa said her food was already paid by the previous car. Th at’s when she thought that she would love to do the same.It kept going and going. Figueroa, (28)__________ worked from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, said that the chain reaction almost lasted for her entire shift. “I just kept(29)__________(give) everyo ne the same message, and they were all so surprised and so happy,” she continued. “One lady even paid for the meals of the next three cars (30)__________ her.”While people were amazed by how generous they could get, Figueroa said she had the (31)__________ (unforgettable) Christmas experience in her 12 years of working for McDonald’s. “I feel very (32)__________ (bless) to have been a part of all that,” the cashier said. And Keene said that she was surprised by the number of people who continued her good deed when she was “only trying to brighten someone’s day.”(B)It was Wayne’s wedding day.Mrs. Ker (33)__________（relieve）finally. Wayne wanted to cancel the wedding again couple of days ago. She kept asking him (34)__________ and then she was told tha t he heard Susan’s name.Mrs. Ker said to Wayne in a serious tone, “You were both young then. You didn’t know anything about love! What’s going to happen (35)__________ __________ she has come back? She might have lots of children now! How can you still be dreaming about dating her? She has disappeared for such a long time. Don’t you see (36)__________ a cruel girl she is?”Under his parent’s pressure, Wayne couldn’t cancel the wedding. Before the ceremony, hekept reminding himself of his bride’s name. He was afraid he (37)__________ say Susan’s name. He said to himself that he needed to give his parents, his bride a perfect wedding.When he was kissing his bride, he thought to himself, “How nice it could be if my bride is Susan!”But (38)__________ could go back any more.Their relationship ended 15 years ago.His pain was only a recall of yesterday.Mrs. Ker nodded her head at her son at the wedding, (39)__________ (feel) satisfied. She checked around among the guests. Suddenly, she saw a boy holding a bouquet in the hall. Everybody was sitting but him, (40)__________ he looked pretty outstanding.She was really shocked when she saw the boy. She gave her husband a slight push, “Baldwin, look at that boy!”Mr. Ker followed her direction and saw the boy too.“Doesn’t he look a younger version of our son?” Mrs. Ker said in a curious voice.Mr. Ker nodded.(To be continued) Section BDirections: 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.43 efficiency, but has further improved productivity. Through cloud computing, virtual offices are being operated almost everywhere around the globe. All it takes is the click of a button! As for companies, it is vital for them to hire professionals from all over the world.For businesses that rely greatly on customer satisfaction and approvals, 44 on their services is very important. Customers in particular are able to 45 with the staff on the other end, and provide their feedback as to the quality of services that they have received. The role of most knowledge managers is to ensure that information is kept current, accurate and 46 . Significant developments in the database management systems have made it easier to achieve this goal, and there can only be so much to look forward to as we 47 into the future.At the moment, 48 information that passes through these systems can be run through different forms. There was a time when such information was 49 document-based. Today however, reports and other relevant information can be presented to the seeker through different media.The most efficient knowledge base management systems in the market at the moment are built with the 50 to handle all kinds of information. One of the other things that we cannot forget to mention is the mobile functionality of these programs. They are compatible（兼容的）with users across all platforms, and this makes them even more convenient than before.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.psychologists say that physical punishment is so offensive that it can lead to severe consequence. It fills the minds and hearts of children with fear,56 and anxiety.Children are like inexhaustible sources of energy. They can run, jump, scream and fool around all day long. So we should lead the m to use their negative energy in a proper manner. It’s 57 important to find developmental activities and keep your child engaged as much as possible. Let them play games and exercise 58 they want — physical activity is good for their health. Don’t forget to encourage your child and present them with candies or stickers. If your child is fond of singing or dancing, then give them an opportunity to open up and perform like a star.Communication is vital for you and your kids. Every child needs 59socialization and communication with parents and their peers. Your words and pieces of advice help them become stronger and find the right path in life. It’s a good chance to avoid generation gap and build a relationship 60 trust. Lack of contact and communication usually make children too 61 and cultivate antisocial personality in future.Remember to arm yourself with patience, for patience is the main 62 for many parents who deal with children’s bad temper. Every mother knows that it’s hard to preserve unchanged calmness and remain indifferent to children’s cries and tears. Increase the strength of your mind and fill your heart with hope and 63 , because parenting is the hardest job in the world.I think that the 64 of the problem is not children, but their parents. I hope these useful pieces of advice will help you 65 to your child’s bad temper. What other ways to deal with a child’s bad temper? Share your point of view!51. A. abilities B. principles C. hints D. virtues52. A. create B. indicate C. impose D. diagnose53. A. controls B. disciplines C. emotions D. spirits54. A. In return B. After all C. No wonder D. For instance55. A. Moreover B. Otherwise C. However D. Therefore56. A. hatred B. boredom C. carelessness D. shyness57. A. roughly B. extremely C. slightly D. subconsciously58. A. as well as B. as soon as C. as long as D. as far as59. A. gradual B. acceptable C. complete D. feasible60. A. leaving out B. addicted to C. going beyond D. based on61. A. curious B. courageous C. nervous D. generous62. A. priority B. responsibility C. potential D. possession63. A. dignity B. wisdom C. bravery D. diligence64. A. resource B. instruction C. source D. assessment65. A. adapt B. devote C. refer D. respondSection BDirections: 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)①The past year, which is fast becoming just a memory, is the year I drove through the car wash at fifty miles an hour. At least, it felt like fifty miles an hour.②That day I followed the attendant’s instructions, drove to one of those do-it-yourself car washes. I forgot that my car was a bit moody. I’d been meaning to have it checked, but it didn’t happen often enough to rush me to the garage. Anyway, then unexpectedly, suddenly we picked up speed before the astonished eyes of the attendant. The car shot through the wash cycle, the wax （蜡）cycle, and the dry cycle at a ridiculous rate of speed, and then aimed for the street at the end of the tunnel. We shot through the tunnel with what seemed like the speed of sound and rushed out into the street while I was relieved to see that no cars were approaching. The water and the wax had not yet dried — the car looked as if it had caught some terrible disease.③“What happened then?” Bobbie asked after I had told my family the story at an evening meal.④“Nothing,” I said.⑤“Didn’t you go back to the car wash?”⑥“Of course not,” I replied.⑦“I don’t blame you,” Peter said. “They might have arrested you for speeding in a car wash.”⑧We all laughed. It was a nice moment. We were relaxing after the dishes had been taken away, the pleasant smell of coffee filling the air. We had been talking about the past year and,without pausing to think of the possible consequences, I had told them about my experience with the car wash.⑨The story delighted the children — who are no longer children. Peter and Bobbie are married, in fact, and I realized I had given them a sort of philosophy of life for the future. I could imagine them, years from now, when they gather together and one of them will say, “Remember the time Dad drove through that car wash …?”⑩Other things happened last year, too, because each year has its events, the good and the bad, the sweet and the sorrowful, the ordinary and the terrific. The milestones and the small incidents stand side by side, fundamentally different in quality or kind, perhaps, but making a sweet kind of harmony.66. The description of the second paragraph brings up images of _______.A. disorderB. diseasesC. stormsD. conflict67. Which of the following is NOT included in Paragraph 8?A. The subject of the discussion.B. The atmosphere of the family talk.C. The time when the talk occurred.D. The reason for the car to lose control.68. Which of the following can serve as the title of the passage?A. A reflection on car tradeB. A memory of the past yearC. A lesson on driving carsD. A car accident at a car wash(B)The J. Paul Getty MuseumWith two locations, the Getty Villa in Malibu and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the J. Paul Getty Museum serves a wide variety of audiences through its expanded range of exhibitions and programming in the visual arts.Parking informationParking is $15; $10 after 4:00 p.m. Pay once, park twice on the same day. And get same-day parking at both the Getty Center and the Getty Villa for one $15 fee.69. Mr. Larry drove to the Getty Center and the Getty Villa on December 23 (Wednesday), 2015,and enjoyed a wonderful tour there. He paid the parking fee _______ altogether.A. $10B. $15C. $20D. $3070. Which of the following statements is NOT true?A. The J. Paul Getty Museum is an art museum housed on two sites.B. The Getty Villa is closed on the same holidays as the Getty Center.C. The sale of alcohol is forbidden to people in the J. Paul Getty Museum.D. Timed tickets must be obtained in advance in the Getty Villa.71. In 2015, at least _______ was/were a good time for enjoying all the art works in the J.Paul Getty Museum in one day.A. all MondaysB. all TuesdaysC. New Year holidaysD. January 2 (Thursday)72. People who go to the Getty Villa may _______.A. enjoy the views overlooking Los AngelesB. conduct the visit any time because the tickets are freeC. appreciate the arts and cultures of ancient Greece and ancient RomeD. have lunches they bring with them anywhere inside the exhibition area(C)When a patient calls for help at Seton Medical Center, “Hi, Mr. Rogers, can I help you?” says a nurse; it’s never a problem finding the nurse. It’s because they all wear locator tags that are part of a wireless system that tracks their movements on the flo or. “You can even tell when they are walking down the hallway.” says James Hattori.This system made by Hill-Rom uses infrared（红外线的）signals to detect when nurses enter a room to answer a call. The Hill-Rom devices look like a mini computer mouse. Some hospitals are putting them in nurses’ kitchens. Staff can talk and listen through a wall unit to nurses or even to patients in other rooms. “We can put the time we were spending hunting staff down, trying to find and locate them to much better use,” says a st aff member from Seton. Hill-Rom says it has systems installed in more than 850 U.S. hospitals.Some nurses worry that the devices will be used to listen in on conversations and scrutinize their movements. “I’m not wearing mine. I will still meet my patient’s needs but I will not wear this badge.” Annette Bearden is among dozens of nurses at Eden Medical Center who staged an active protest two months ago and hid their badges though they were later recovered. “You know it makes me not feel like a professional. It makes me feel like that someone has to watch me to make sure I am doing my job.”“The biggest reason we installed this technology is because our old call system is about 25 years old,” says a hospital manager. For hospitals this is a case of technol ogy allowing, perhaps forcing people to better make use of their time. Officials at Eden don’t deny they monitor how long it takes nurses to respond to calls but say their main concern is patient care. “I think it is one tool that we can use in measuring overall performance but by itself it is not a valid disciplinary tool,” says an Eden spokesperson.Eden is expanding its system with hopes the nurse will eventually accept the new technology, but back at Seton where it’s been in place for about two years, there is no uneasiness. “Once the staff actually find out how advantageous it can be for them and the patients, well, actually it became very popular.”In Castro Valley, California, the Eden Medical Center spent almost three hundred thousand dollars to install the Hill-Rom systems on two floors. Eden hopes to get more of the systems for other floors.73. Why is it easy to find a nurse at Seton Medical Center?A. The nurses are on television.B. The nurses wear locator badges.C. Every patient has his/her own nurse.D. Each room has a telephone.74. How can the staff talk to their patients when they are not in the same room?A. With hand signals.B. Through microphones in the pocket.C. Through a wall unit.D. With infrared signals on the doors.75. According to the passage, the underlined word “scrutinize” (paragraph 3) probably means_______.A. watch closelyB. see insideC. scan word by wordD. make right76. How did the nurses at Eden Medical Center react to the badges?A. The nurses really liked the badges.B. They threw the locator badges away.C. They refused to work.D. They protested and concealed the badges.77. According to the administrators of the hospital, Eden Medical Center, the application of theHill-Rom devices mainly aims at _______.A. introducing modern technologyB. adding a tool for disciplineC. replacing the old call systemD. improving the service for patientsSection CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.It was early in the afternoon of May 10, 1996. I hadn’t slept in 57 hours. The only food I had been able to force down over the proceeding three days was a bowel of soup. Weeks of violent coughing had made ordinary breathing a bitter process. At 29,028 feet up in the troposphere（气体对流）, so little oxygen was reaching my brain that my mental capacity was that of a slow child. Under the circumstances, I was incapable of feeling much of anything except cold and tired.I’d arrived on the summit a few minutes after Anatoli Boukreev, a Russian climbing guide working for an American commercial expedition, and just ahead of Andy Harris, a guide on the New Zealand-based team to which I belonged. Although I just met Boukreev, I had come to know and like Harris well during the proceeding six weeks. I snapped four quick photos of Harris and Boukreev striking summit poses, then turned and headed down. My watch r ead 1:17 p.m. I’d spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world.A moment later, I paused to take another photo, this one looking down the Southeast Eidge, the route we had chosen to go up. Training my lens（镜头）on a pair of climbers approaching the summit, I noticed something that until that moment had escaped my attention. To the south, where the sky had been perfectly clear just an hour earlier, a blanket of clouds now hid the peakssurrounding Everest. Later, after six bodies had been located, after a search for two others had been abandoned, after surgeons had removed the rotten right hand of my teammate Beck Weathers, people would ask why, if the weather had begun to worsen, had climbers on the upper mountain not observed the signs? Why did experienced Himalayan guides keep moving upward, leading a gang of relatively inexperienced amateurs — each of whom had paid as much as $65,000 to be taken safely up Everest — into an apparent death trap?Nobody can speak for the leaders of the two guided groups involved, because both men are dead. But I can assure that nothing I saw early on the afternoon of May 10th suggested that a murderous storm was bearing down. To my oxygen-exhausted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm（西库姆冰斗）looked so friendly and innocent in the brilliant midday sun, not different from the harmless puffs（喷烟）that rose from the valley almost every afternoon.As I began my descent I was extremely anxious, but my concern had little to do with the weather: a check of the meter on my oxygen tank had revealed that it was almost empty. I needed to get down, fast.(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN EIGHT WORDS.)78. Where were the three climbers mentioned in the second paragraph from?______________________________________________________________________79. Besides the change of the weather, what else led to the expedition team’s falling into a death trap?_______________________________________________________________________80. The underlined phrase “the harmless puffs” in paragraph 4 refers to _____________________________________________________________________________________.81. The author spent less than five minutes on the roof of the world and climbed down fast because _______________________________________________________________.第II卷（共47分）I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.1．如今，生态旅游已受到不同年龄旅游者的青睐。

高中英语真题-2016届高三英语上学期期末考试试题_3

2016届高三英语上学期期末考试试题2016．1本试卷分第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分。

共150分，考试时间120分钟。

注意事项：1．答题前，考生务必用0.5毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名．班级．准考证号．座号填写在答题卡和试卷规定的位置上．2．第I卷每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。

3．第II卷必须用0.5毫米黑色签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡上各题目指定区域内相应的位置，不能写在试卷上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不能使用涂改液．胶带纸．修正带。

不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

第I卷(共100分)第一部分：听力(共两节，满分30分)该部分分为第一、第二两节。

注意：回答听力部分时，请先将答案标在试卷上。

听力部分结束前，你将有两分钟的时间将试卷上的答案转涂到客观题答题卡上。

第一节(共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分)听下面5段对话。

每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A．B．C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。

听完每段对话后，你都有l0秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

1．How does the man feel?A．Surprised． B．Stressed out． C．Relaxed．2．What does the woman suggest the man buy?A．A dress． B．A purse． C．A jacket.3．When does the man want to go to the library?A．On Saturday． B．On Sunday． C．On Monday．4．What will the man do on Friday ?A．Go camping． B．Go shopping． C．Go climbing．5．How does the woman respond to the man?A．She is disappointed． B．She thinks highly of him．C．She laughs at him．第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)听下面五段对话。

金山区2016英语一模答案

金山区2016英语一模答案【篇一：2016年金山区高三英语一模试卷(精准校对完整版)】=txt>高三英语试卷（满分：150分考试时间：120分钟）2016.01第Ⅰ卷 (共103分)i. listening comprehensionsection adirections: 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. in a library. b. in a bookstore.c. in the classroom.d. in a department store.2. a. its price. b. its location.c. its comfort.d. its facilities.3. a. he is just a passer-by like the woman.b. he is unwilling to tell the woman anything.c. he doesn’t know where the closest bookstore is.d. he can’t understand the woman’s question thoroughly.4. a. he would rather have american food.b. he has always liked american food.c. he is accustomed to eating american food.d. he ate american food more in the past.5. a. five minutes. b. fifty minutes.c. forty-five minutes.d. fifteen minutes.6. a. the man has left a good impression on her family.b. the man can dress casually for the occasion.c. the man should buy himself a new suit.d. the man’s jeans and t-shirts are stylish.7. a. grey pants made from pure cotton. b. fashionable pants in bright colors.c. 100% cotton pants in dark blue.8. a. they’d better not go riding.c. they can go riding half an hour later.9. a. peter hasn’t found mr. johnson’s hat yet.b. peter didn’t go to mr. johnson’s class.c. peter lost a hat in mr. johnson’s class.d. peter found a hat in mr. johnson’s class.10. a. by car.b. by bus.d. something to match her brown pants. b. it’s not good riding in the rain. d. riding a bike is a great idea. c. by train.d. on foot. section bdirections: in section b, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. the passages 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. near the entrance of a park. b. in his building’s parking lot.c. at a parking meter.d. at a street corner.12. a. it had been taken by the police.b. it had been moved to the next block.c. it had been stolen by someone.d. it had been parked at a wrong place.13. a. at the greenville center. b. at a public parking lot.c. in a neighboring town.d. in the city garage.questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. a. you will buy his meal. b. you are expected to pay for your own meal.c. you’ll treat someone.d. you’ll be paid for the meal by someone.15. a. you will be in holland. b. you will hear dutch for a second time.c. you will be in trouble.d. you will find it hard to communicate.16. a. people hated the german as much as the dutch.b. people made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning.c. people made a joke about the german.d. the german immigrants insisted that they were dutch.section cdirections: in section c, you will hear two longer conversations. the conversations will be read twice. after you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. ii. grammar and vocabularysection adirections: after reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.( a )playing a violin with three stringson nov.18, 1995, itzhak perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. the audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. but this time, something went wrong. just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. we thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) ________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.the orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity(27) ________ they had never heard before.of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with justthree strings. i know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night itzhak perlman refused to know that. when he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. and then people rose and cheered. he smiled, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he said in a q uiet, sacred tone, ―you know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with(30) ________ you have left.‖this powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since i heard it. and who knows? perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.he has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings(31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) ________ (make) before.( b )emoji — a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications, are everywhere. the little illustrated characters that are on smartphone keyboards (33) ________ (take) over the world now. there are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of en ding. as emoji spreads into our culture, i’ve actually heard the following question：is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?to find out, i communicated by imessage using only emoji for five days. that meant(34) ________ ________ someone sent me a text or i wanted to send a text, i could only use the popular tiny picture characters(35) ________ (respond) to or start a conversation.i wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to facebook or twitter, etc., but i could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; i could not encourage the phone call myself. i wanted to see if it was (36) ________ (easy) than i expected it to be, yes, but i also wanted to see if i could influence (37) ________ i was communicating with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) ________ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than i expected. there were people who were annoyed with me. there were people who gave up after a few back-and –forths. there were missed messages, (39) ________ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. there were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) ________ (move) faster. and there was my mother w ho doesn’t have an iphone and texts me often.section bdirections: 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’s nothing that will ruin your day faster than being stuck in a traffic jam all morning, and it’s even worse when there’s (41) ________ no reason for it. there’s a lot of interesting science behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitting in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. the way we merge (合并) causes problemswhether you’re merging from the left or the right, (42)________ are good that you’re doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. when most people see that they need to merge, their first (43) ________ is to do it right away. they brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. according to the minnesota department of transportation, that’s completely wrong. sud den (44) ________ causes traffic to back up, a problem that’s made worse by sudden lane changes and other cars braking to (45) ________ the merging traffic.2. you are causing the traffic jams you hatetraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46)________ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavy traffic can (47) ________ smoothly if people maintain a (48) ________ speed. the problem is that we can’t. researchers have found that just one person even slightly stepping on their brakes can have a terrible effect on the traffic around them.on even (49) ________ busy road, it can be only a few minutes for traffic to a complete halt behind someone who (50)________ their brakes to let another driver merge. the standstill usually occurs several minutes after the braking, well after the person that causes the problem in the first place has gone on his way.iii. reading comprehensionsection adirections: 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.corporate scandals (丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. this is where executives can start reestablishing their (51) ________ --or deepen the damage.since they were forced to (52) ________ one of the biggest frauds (欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at volkswagen have offered (53) ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). but they haven’t explained who ordered, (54) ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting (55)________ on the road. nor has volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they【篇二：2016届金山区高三一模英语卷(官方版)】s=txt>高三英语试卷（满分：150分考试时间：120分钟） 2016.01第Ⅰ卷 (共103分)i. listening comprehensionsection adirections: 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. in a library. b. in a bookstore.c. in the classroom.d. in a department store.2. a. its price. b. its location.c. its comfort.d. its facilities.3. a. he is just a passer-by like the woman.b. he is unwilling to tell the woman anything.c. he doesn’t know where the closest bookstore is.d. he can’t understand the woman’s question thoroughly.4. a. he would rather have american food.b. he has always liked american food.c. he is accustomed to eating american food.d. he ate american food more in the past.5. a. five minutes. b. fifty minutes.c. forty-five minutes.d. fifteen minutes.6. a. the man has left a good impression on her family.b. the man can dress casually for the occasion.c. the man should buy himself a new suit.d. the man’s jeans and t-shirts are stylish.7. a. grey pants made from pure cotton. b. fashionable pants in bright colors.c. 100% cotton pants in dark blue.d. something to match her brown pants.8. a. they’d better not go riding. b. it’s not good riding in the rain.c. they can go riding half an hour later.d. riding a bike is a great idea.9. a. peter hasn’t found mr. johnson’s hat yet.b. peter didn’t go to mr. johnson’s class.c. peter lost a hat in mr. johnson’s class.d. peter found a hat in mr. johnson’s class.10. a. by car.b. by bus.c. by train.d. on foot.section bdirections: in section b, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. the passages 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. near the entrance of a park. b. in his building’s parking lot.c. at a parking meter.d. at a street corner.12. a. it had been taken by the police.b. it had been moved to the next block.c. it had been stolen by someone.d. it had been parked at a wrong place.13. a. at the greenville center. b. at a public parking lot.c. in a neighboring town.d. in the city garage.questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. a. you will buy his meal. b. you are expected to pay for your own meal.c. you’ll treat someone.d. you’ll be paid for the meal by someone.15. a. you will be in holland. b. you will hear dutch for a second time.c. you will be in trouble.d. you will find it hard to communicate.16. a. people hated the german as much as the dutch.b. people made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning.c. people made a joke about the german.d. the german immigrants insisted that they were dutch.section cdirections: in section c, you will hear two longer conversations. the conversations will be read twice. after you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation. ii. grammar and vocabularysection adirections: after reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.( a )playing a violin with three stringson nov.18, 1995, itzhak perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. the audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. but this time, something went wrong. just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. we thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) ________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.the orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity(27) ________ they had never heard before.of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with just three strings. i know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night itzhak perlman refused to know that. when he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. and then people rose and cheered. he smiled, wipedthe sweat from his brow and then he said in a quiet, sacred tone, ―you know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with (30) ________ you have left.‖this powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since i heard it. and who knows? perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.he has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings(31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that(32) ________ (make) before.( b )emoji — a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications, are everywhere. the little illustrated characters that are on smartphone keyboards (33) ________ (take) over the world now. there are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending. as emoj i spreads into our culture, i’ve actually heard the following question：is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?to find out, i communicated by imessage using only emoji for five days. that meant(34) ________ ________ someone sent me a text or i wanted to send a text, i could only use the popular tiny picture characters(35) ________ (respond) to or start a conversation.i wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to facebook or twitter, etc., but i could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; i could not encourage the phone call myself. i wanted to see if it was (36) ________ (easy) than i expected it to be, yes, but i also wanted to see if i could influence (37) ________ i was communicating with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) ________ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than i expected. there were people who were annoyed with me. there were people who gave up after a few back-and –forths. there were missed messages, (39) ________ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. there were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) ________ (move) faster. and there was my mother who doesn’t have an iphone and texts me often.section bdirections: 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’s (41) ________ no reason for it. there’s a lot of interesting science behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitting in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. the way we merge (合并) causes problemswhether you’re merging from the left or the right, (42)________ are good that you’re doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. when most people see that they need to merge, their first (43) ________ is to do it right away. they brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. according to the minnesota department of transportation, that’s completely wrong. sudden (44) ________ causes traffic to back up, a problem that’s made worse by sudden lane changes and other cars braking to (45) ________ the merging traffic.so what should you do? exactly what you probably blame drivers for doing: waiting until the last minute. if you do that, traffic will fall into a more natural pattern called a ―zipper merge‖, meaning there are no surprises, no sudden braking, and a smoother transition from one lane to another, which cuts down on backups. this does, of course, rely on other drivers to let you in at the last minute and be polite enough not to cut you off, which causes all sorts of other problems.2. you are causing the traffic jams you hatetraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46)________ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavy traffic can (47) ________ smoothly if people maintain a (48) ________ speed. the problem is that we can’t. researchers have found that just one person even slightly stepping on their brakes can have a terrible effect on the traffic around them.on even (49) ________ busy road, it can be only a few minutes for traffic to a complete halt behind someone who (50)________ their brakes to let another driver merge. the standstill usually occurs several minutes after the braking, well after the person that causes the problem in the first place has gone on his way.iii. reading comprehensionsection adirections: 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.corporate scandals (丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. this is where executives can start reestablishing their (51) ________ --or deepen the damage.since they were forced to (52) ________ one of the biggest frauds (欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at volkswagen have offered (53) ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). but they haven’t explained who ordered, (54) ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting (55)________ on the road. nor has volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel (56) ________ and clean.on october 8, german prosecutors (检察官) broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. meanwhile, matthias muller, the (57) ________ appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, martin winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew (58)________. ―do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?‖ he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some(59) ________ shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to (60) ________ regulators and customers around the world.if mr. winterkorn was not responsible, who was? nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have (61)________ this scheme without any support. hans-dieter potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier thismonth, saying it would take time before volkswagen could make (62) ________ the findings of its internalinvestigations. ―we must overcome the crisis,‖ he explained, ―but we must also ensure that volkswagen continues to grow.‖ that seems to miss the point that volkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some(63) ________ answers and explanations.even if they manage to fix millions of cars, volkswagen executives will still face an enormous (64) ________ from lawsuits, lost sales and the (65) ________ to volkswagen’s reputation. there is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. apologizing is just the easy part.51. a. reputationb. revengec. responsibility d. revolution52. a. commit b. recognizec. admit d. revise53. a. gratitudeb. apologies c. guidanced. authorities54. a. approvedb. chose c. withdrewd. undertook55. a. light b. ashes c. smell d. pollutants56. a. effectiveb. efficientc. extinct d. essential57. a. officiallyb. voluntarilyc. temporarilyd. newly58. a. anythingb. somethingc. nothingd. everything59. a. minor b. major c. inferiord. superior60. a. conceal b. confusec. attract d. deceive61. a. held on b. got rid ofc. carried outd. made up62. a. clear b. public c. possibled. convenient63. a. convincingb. likely c. factual d. solid64. a. conflict b. opportunities c. competitions d. challenges65. a. responseb. blow c. solutiond. keysection bdirections: 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 informationgiven in the passage you have just read.( a )poor bears comes to the uk, bringing only a red hat, a suitcase, a sandwich, and jars of marmalade (果酱) with him. heading straight to a major london train station, he sits on his suitcase and stops passers-by from time to time in the hope of finding a free home.this is how paddington bear, the main character of the uk animated movie paddington, is introduced to audiences. on march 3, during prince william’s visit to china, he attended the chinese premiere (首演) of the film in shanghai.―many britons were raised on tales of paddington, the second-best-known bear in fiction after winnie the pooh,‖ the economist noted. while winnie the pooh reminds people of the innocence and simplicity of the past, ―the well- meaning paddington always causes chaos when he goes through cultural misunderstandings.‖the movie, described as ―a total delight, as warm and welcome as a hot pair of socks on a winter morning‖ by the telegraph, tells the story of the bear, who is sent to london by his family, after an earthquake destroys their home in peru. at paddington station, he meets mr. brown, mrs. brown and their two kids. the brown family name him paddington, because they can’t say his peruvian name. after the fuzzy (毛茸茸的) stranger enters the browns’ home, he teaches everyone how to laugh and love. in the end, mr. brown says that ―even if he’s from a different species, he’s still family.‖as phoenix magazine put it, ―the story shows british sympathy and kindness‖ as the refugee pad dington is given a new home and a loving family in london.released at a time when immigration is a hot topic in theuk, ―paddington has a very clear message: welcome the other into your home‖, the philadelphia inquirer noted.and paddington bear is also a great example of the traditional politeness that british people are well known for. for example, paddington bear calls people ―mr.‖, ―mrs.‖ and ―miss‖, rarely using their first name. he also loves making small talk with people. for instance, paddington often has polite conversations about unimportant things with people like his housekeeper.66. which of the following statements about paddington bear is true?a. he is saved by the brown family from an earthquake in peru.b. with the help of the brown family, he learns how to laugh and love.c. he is traditional and prefers to greet strangers using their first name.d. as an immigrant to the uk, he experiences many cultural misunderstandings.【篇三：金山区2016届高三上学期期末考试英语期末(一模)试卷】s=txt>高三英语试卷 i. listening comprehensionii. ii. grammar and vocabularysection a( a )playing a violin with three stringson nov.18, 1995, itzhak perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. the audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. but this time, something went wrong. just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. we thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) ________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.the orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity(27) ________ they had never heard before.of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with just three strings. i know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night itzhak perlman refused to know that. when he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. and then people rose and cheered. he smiled, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he said in a quiet, sacred tone, ―you know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with (30) ________ you have left.‖this powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since i heard it. and who knows? perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.he has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings(31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) ________ (make) before.。

2017上海金山区高三一模英语精彩试题及问题详解

金山区2016学年第一学期期末质量调研高三英语试卷（满分：140分考试时间：120分钟）I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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 the airport. B. At the hotel.C. At the restaurant.D. At the railway station.2. A. On TV. B. On the Internet.C. From the newspaper.D. From a friend.3. A. Husband and wife. B. Policeman and driver.C. Passenger and bus conductor.D. Boss and secretary.4. A. At 1:00 pm. B. At 1:30 pm.C. At 2:00 pm.D. At 2:30 pm.5. A. She found it very interesting.B. She found it very boring.C. She found it enjoyable during the first 30 minutes.D. She found it enjoyable after the first 30 minutes.6. A. Make a recovery plan. B. Find a full-time job.C. Drop out of school.D. Resign from her present job.7. A. Shopping with his son. B. Promoting a new product.C. Buying a gift for a kid.D. Bargaining with a salesgirl.8. A. He is always late for work.B. He is having some financial problems.C. He is not careful enough with his work.D. He loses his temper easily.9. A. It is too hot in the room.B. She wants to avoid meeting people.C. She wants to smoke a cigarette outside.D. She doesn’t like the smell of smoke inside.10. A. Everyone in the company likes Mr. Dale.B. Mr. Dale has become director of the department.C. Mr. Dale gets on very well with his colleague.D. Mr. Dale is the focus of people’s attention.Section BDirections: In section B, you will hear two short passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you will be asked several questions. 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 in your paper and decide which one would be the best answer to the question you have ever heard.Questions 11 through13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Art history class is taught in the lecture hall.B. Mentally disabled children are taught outside the classroom.C. Professors teach through real world experiences.D. Students appreciate classroom learning.12. A. To praise the professor. B. To support his point of view.C. To praise his friend.D. To advise us to study psychology.13. A. Learning through firsthand experience is important.B. Students learn a lot from textbooks.C. Students develop their creativity through textbooks.D. Students get firsthand information from textbooks.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Consumers find TV advertisements too dull.B. Consumers travel more now than ever before.C. Out-of-home ads are more beautifully made.D. Out-of-home ads are easier to understand.15. A. Quick to update. B. Pleasant to look at.C. Easy to remember.D. Convenient to obtain.16. A. Comparison of different kinds of advertising.B. New forms of effective advertising.C. The disadvantages of traditional advertising.D. Effective ways to do effective advertisements.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. Her story of completing a task. B. Her experience of being lost.C. Her trip abroad.D. Her success in career.18. A. Met his friends. B. Attended a lecture.C. Gave a performance.D. Had a trip.19. A. By following a man. B. By looking at a map.C. By asking an old woman.D. By asking the policeman for help.20. A. He cannot stand the noise in the bar. B. He has a poor memory.C. He doesn’t speak German.D. He doesn’t like to wear T-shirts.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Read the following passage. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct.Rail-life adventures of two generationsWhen I was 17, I decided to go InterRailing with my friend Bella for a week in summer. Both of us had chosen to study German at university and we decided that train travel in Germany would be the ideal way (21) ______ (practice) the language.(22) ______ ______ ______ I told my mum, she began to give me tips (23) ______ (base) on her own InterRail experience in the 1970s.I would, she insisted, need (24) ______ extra-thick sleeping bag “for when you sleep outside”.I would need to pack oatmeal, raisins and nuts and dried soup. She even suggested a camping stove.As she told tales of sleeping on train floors, on platforms, and even once in a barn, I began to get a little worried. (25) _______ had I let myself in for?In fact, my InterRail experience was quite different. Bella and I googled youth hostels. They were pretty basic—six people to a room, stale cereal for breakfast, no curtains—but fine. We never slept on a train once.My InterRail trip was certainly not as economical as my mother’s. My ticket (26) ______ (cost) £187(1,954 yuan), and I spent £30 a day on cheap food and extra ticket supplements.But I met some (27) ______ (amaze) people on the trains, and practiced my German with everyone (28) ______ businessmen to artists.In my mother’s eyes I (29) ______ not have had a “real” InterRail experience—but I still had an adventure. I learned about other countries, other people and about myself.Bella and I argued over lost luggage, complained about each other --- and ended up even (30) ______ (good) friends than we had before.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.Expressway that occurred during heavy fog yesterday morning.Two were 31 dead at the scene in one of the accidents, and five were found dead in the other. Two more people died in hospital, police said.Police first received a report at 5:54 am that 32 vehicles had crashed on the S32, near a ramp of S2. The S32 links Shanghai with Zhejinag Province’s Jiaxing and Huzhou.Two people were killed after getting out of their vehicle to see what was causing congestion ahead. They were hit by an out of control tanker, police said.When police arrived at that scene, they found a further five people had been killed when a construction vehicle was crushed by two large vehicles from both front and back. The crash was about three kilometers away from the accident that killed the two people on the expressway. The injured were sent to local hospitals.Some drivers reported that the road was very 33 and braking had led to vehicles losing control.“The fog was very heavy,” an unidentified driver told Shanghai Television Station. “When I saw the accident ahead, I wanted to slow down and 34 . But once I hit the brake, the vehicle went out of control.”Zhoupu Hospital treated 12 people. “One of the 35 died on the road to the hospital,” Ding Fuhao, a doctor with the hospital, told the television station. “Three were36 injured.”The city’s meteorological authority 37 an orange alert on heavy fog at 6:06 am, meaning 38 would be lower than 200 meters in some areas.The dense fog hit coastal areas in particular, including Chongming Island, Pudong New Area, Baoshan and Fengxian districts. The alert was 39 at 9:44am. This was Shanghai’s first orange alert of heavy fog since the arrival of autumn.Several expressways in the city were closed or subject to speed limits yesterday morning.Pudong International Airport was also affected by the bad weather. The airport’s traffic was about 60 percent less than normal in the morning but picked up the 40 after the orange alert was canceled, the city’s television station said.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.A new idea ca lled ‘business at the speed of thought’ is quite popular in business world. It makes quick marketing progress, but it also presents a 41 way to run a company. Here’re the main 42 : The businesses today that will succeed are those able to jump around in high spirits. Chances must be seized immediately and decisions made quickly. Everyone needs more immediate answers, and the window of expected 43 to any questions has dropped from weeks to days even to hours.The problem with this way of thinking is that too often such quickness comes at the expense of 44 understanding the details of a situation. Sure, the networked society allows us to gather information within a short time, but does it really 45 up our ability to make better decisions? How do you balance the 46 for speed with sharp and correct thinking? That’s the 47 on the minds of a lot of people these days, including Future Shock author, Alvin Toffler, who studies the idea in our cover story. It’s also a 48 of a new study by Kepner Tregoe. It reports that 77 percent of managers believe that during the past three years the number of decisions they made each workday has increased. But 85 percent of those same people say the time given to making those decisions has either 49 or stayed the same. Result: Speed kills. Different opinions are not shared. Other choices are 50 too easily. Aims never seem to be clear. 51 , good records aren’t kept about how successful decisions are made. If your company really does well, the Kepner report suggests 52 the decision-making process and figuring out what you did right. Study your successes, as well as your failures.Fast decision-making is a necessity sometimes-no question about that．But decisions are only as good as the 53 go into them. By that measure, many of today’s decisions are weak and could 54 some companies at the knees. Business may be keeping the quickness of 55 , but it’s going to be torn to pieces if managers are not thinking with great care and patience.41. A. numerous B. clear C. dangerous D. bright42. A. points B. matters C. solution D. barriers43. A. response B. rejection C. acceptance D. methods44. A. rapidly B. properly C. timely D. widely45. A. arouse B. cultivate C. decline D. speed46. A. technique B. thirst C. passion D. need47. A. idea B. thought C. doubt D. puzzle48. A. subject B. aim C. project D. discovery49. A. decreased B. changed C. increased D. lengthened50. A. made B. accepted C. dismissed D. discussed51. A. Otherwise B. On the contrary C. For example D. Therefore52. A. setting aside B. breaking out C. turning out D. taking apart53. A. questions B. thoughts C. eyes D. brains54. A. cut up B. cut off C. turn down D. turn off55. A. expanding B. running C. thought D. explorationSection BDirections: 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)We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old be cause we stop playing. That’s what I learnt from my new and special friend. On the first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t know.I looked around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled,little old lady with a smile. She said, “Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” She gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in college at such a young innocent age?” I asked jokingly. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she replied. After class we walked to the Students Union building and shared a chocolate milkshake there. We became instant friends.Every day of the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends whenever she went. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football dinner. I’ll never forget what she taught us.“There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. Anybody can grow old. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunities in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets．”She concluded her speech by courageously singing The Song of Rose. She challenged each of us to study the lyrics（歌词）and live them out in our daily life. At the year’s end, Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.56. What happened to the author on the first day of school?A．He joined the Student Union.B．He got to know an old professor.C．He made the acquaintance of an old lady.57. In the author’s eyes, __________.A．Rose was silent and skilled.B．Rose was talented and hardworking.C．Rose was innocent and generous.D．Rose was courageous and her words were inspiring.58. Which saying might Rose possibly support?A．Rome was not built in a day.B．One is never too old to learn.C．It is no use crying over spilt milk.D．Great minds think alike.(B)Become an Atlantis Jr. Aquarist and spend 3 days working with marine life! Food prepping to feeding the animals to snorkeling and learning about coral reefs, it’s a week of marine adventure!A. camp hoursB. camp priceC. things to bringD. daily schedules60. The underlined phrase “subject to” is closest in meaning to ________.A. related toB. due toC. likely toD. depending on61. All the activities are included in the camp schedule EXCEPT ________.A. feeding marine lifeB. preparing food for animalsC. playing with sharksD. learning about coral reefs62. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?A. All attendees will check in and have a welcome dinner on the first day.B. All attendees must check out on the last day.C. The price covers all the expenses including accommodation.D. You can have a 5-day experience working with marine life in the camp.(C)Scientists have invented a way to determine roughly where a person has lived using a strand of hair, a technique that could help track the movements of criminal suspects or unidentified murder victims.The method relies on measuring how chemical variations in drinking water show up in people’s hair.“You’re wha t you eat and drink, and that’s recorded in your hair,” said Thure Cerling, a geologist at the University of Utah.While the U.S. diet is relatively identical, water supplies vary. The differences result from weather patterns. The chemical composition of rainfall changes slightly as rain clouds move.Most hydrogen and oxygen atoms in water are stable, but traces of both elements are also present as heavier isotopes (同位素). The heaviest rain falls first. As a result, storms that form over the Pacific deliver heavier water to California than to Utah.Similar patterns exist throughout the U.S.. By measuring the proportion of heavier hydrogen and oxygen isotopes along a strand of hair, scientists can construct a geographic timeline. Each inch of hair is equivalent to about two months.Cerling’s team collected tap water samples from 600 cities and constructed a map of the regional differences. They checked the accuracy of the map by testing 200 hair samples collected from 65 barber shops.They were able to accurately place the hair samples in broad regions roughly equivalent to the movement of rain systems.“It’s not good for pinpointing（精确定位）, ” Cerling said. “It’s good for eliminating many possibilities.”Told Park, a local detective, said the method has helped him learn more about an unidentified woman whose skeleton was found near Great Salt Lake.The woman was 5 feet tall. Police recovered 26 bones, a T-shirt and several strands of hair.When Park heard about the research, he gave the hair samples to the researchers. Chemical testing showed that over the two years before her death, she moved about every two months.She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.“It’s still a substantial area,” Park said,“But it narrows its way down for me.”63. What is the scientists’ new discovery?A. One’s hair growth has to do with the amount of water they drink.B. Hair analysis accurately identifies criminal suspects.C. A person’s hair may reveal where they have lived.D. The chemical composition of hair varies from person to person.64. What does the autho r mean by “You’re what you eat and drink.” in Para.3?A. Food and drink leave traces in one’s body tissues.B. Food and drink preferences vary with individuals.C. Food and drink affect one’s personality development.D. Food and drink are similar t o one’s existence.65. What is said about the rainfall in American’s West?A. There is much more rainfall in California than in Utah.B. The water it delivers becomes lighter when it moves inland.C. Its chemical composition is less stable than in other areas.D. It gathers more light isotopes as it moves eastward.66. What is the practical value of Cerling’s research?A. It helps analyze the quality of water in different regions.B. It helps the police determine where a crime is committed.C. It helps identify the drinking habits of the person under investigation.D. It helps the police narrow down possibilities in detective work.Section CDirections: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box.For centuries, people have wondered about the strange things that they dream about. Some psychologists say that this nighttime activity of the mind has no special meaning. Others, however, think that dreams are an important part of our lives. In fact, many experts believe that dreams can tell us about a person's mind and emotions.Before modern times, many people thought that dreams contained messages from God. It was only in the twentieth century that people started to study dreams in a scientific way.The Austrian psychologist, Sigmund Freud, was probably the first person to study dreams scientifically. In his famous book, The interpretation of Dreams (1900), Freud wrote that dreams are an expression of a person's wishes. He believed that (67) ___________The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was once a student of Freud's. Jung, however, had a different idea about dreams. Jung believed that the purpose of a dream was to communicate a message to the dreamer. (68) ___________ For example, people who dream about falling maylearn that they have too high an opinion of themselves. On the other hand, people who dream about being heroes may learn that they think too little of themselves.Modern-day psychologists continue to develop theories about dreams. For example, psychologist William Domhoff from the University of California, Santa Cruz, believes that dreams are tightly linked to a person's daily life, thoughts, and behavior. (69) ___________ Domhoff believes that there is a connection between dreams and age. His research shows that children do not dream as much as adults. According to Domhoff, dreaming is a mental skill that needs time to develop.He has also found a link between dreams and gender. His studies show that the dreams of men and women are different. For example, the people in men's dreams are often other men, and the dreams often involve fighting. This is not true of women's dreams. Domhoff found this gender difference in the dreams of people from 11 cultures around the world, including both modern and traditional ones.Can dreams help us understand ourselves? Psychologists continue to try to answer this question in different ways. (70) ___________ The dream may have meaning, but it does not mean that some terrible event will actually take place. It's important to remember that the world of dreams is not the real world.IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage with no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do you find getting up in the morning so diff icult that it’s painful? This might be called laziness, but Dr. Kleitman has a new explanation. He has proved that everyone has a daily energy cycle.During the hours when you labor through your work you may say that you’re “hot”. That’s true. The time of day when you feel most energetic is when your cycle of body temperature is at its peak. For some people the peak comes during the forenoon. For others it comes in the afternoon or evening. No one has discovered why this is so, but it leads to such familiar monologues (自言自语) as: “Get up, John! You’ll be late for work again!” The possible explanation to the trouble is that John is at his temperature-and-energy peak in the evening. Much family quarrelling ends when husbands and wives realize what these energy cycles mean, and which cycle each member of the family has.You can’t change your energy cycle, but you can learn to make your life fit it better. Habit can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening but feel you must stay up late anyway. Counteract（对抗）your cycle to some extent by habitually staying up later than you want to. If our energy is low in the morning but you have an important job to do early in the day, rise before your usual hour. This won’t change your cycle, but you’ll get up steam (鼓起干劲) and work better at your low point.Get off to a slow start which saves your energy. Get up with a leisurely yawn and stretch. Sit on the edge of the bed a minute before putting your feet on the floor. Avoid the troublesome search for clean clothes by laying them out the night before. Whenever possible, do routine work in the afternoon and save tasks requiring more energy or concentration for your sharper hours.V. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets.72.她经常在周末带她儿子去音乐会，让他受到艺术的熏陶。

上海市金山区2016届高三上学期期末考试英语试题 Word版含答案.doc

金山区2015学年第一学期期末考试高三英语试卷（满分：150分考试时间：120分钟）2016.01第Ⅰ卷(共103分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. In a library. B. In a bookstore.C. In the classroom.D. In a department store.2. A. Its price. B. Its location.C. Its comfort.D. Its facilities.3. A. He is just a passer-by like the woman.B. He is unwilling to tell the woman anything.C. He doesn’t know where the closest bookstore is.D. He can’t understand the woman’s question thoroughly.4. A. He would rather have American food.B. He has always liked American food.C. He is accustomed to eating American food.D. He ate American food more in the past.5. A. Five minutes. B. Fifty minutes.C. Forty-five minutes.D. Fifteen minutes.6. A. The man has left a good impression on her family.B. The man can dress casually for the occasion.C. The man should buy himself a new suit.D. The man’s jeans and T-shirts are stylish.7. A. Grey pants made from pure cotton. B. Fashionable pants in bright colors.C. 100% cotton pants in dark blue.D. Something to match her brown pants.8. A. They’d better not go riding. B. It’s not good riding in the rain.C. They can go riding half an hour later.D. Riding a bike is a great idea.9. A. Peter hasn’t found Mr. Johnson’s hat yet.B. Peter didn’t go to Mr. Johnson’s class.C. P eter lost a hat in Mr. Johnson’s class.D. Peter found a hat in Mr. Johnson’s class.10. A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train. D. On foot.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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. Near the entrance of a park. B. In his building’s parking lot.C. At a parking meter.D. At a street corner.12. A. It had been taken by the police. B. It had been moved to the next block.C. It had been stolen by someone.D. It had been parked at a wrong place.13. A. At the Greenville center. B. At a public parking lot.C. In a neighboring town.D. In the city garage.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. You will buy his meal. B. You are expected to pay for your own meal.C. You’ll treat someone.D. You’ll be paid for the meal by someone.15. A. You will be in Holland. B. You will hear Dutch for a second time.C. You will be in trouble.D. You will find it hard to communicate.16. A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch.B. People made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning.C. People made a joke about the German.D. The German immigrants insisted that they were Dutch.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.( A )Playing a violin with three stringsOn Nov.18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. The audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) ________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.The orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity (27) ________ they had never heard before.Of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose andcheered. He smile d, wiped the sweat from his brow and then he said in a quiet, sacred tone, ―You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with (30) ________ you have left.‖This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.He has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings (31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) ________ (make) before.( B )Emoji — a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications, are everywhere. The little illustrated characters that are on Smartphone keyboards (33) ________ (take) over the world now. There are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending.A s emoji spreads into our culture, I’ve actually heard the following question：Is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?To find out, I communicated by iMessage using only emoji for five days. That meant (34) ________ ________ someone sent me a text or I wanted to send a text, I could only use the popular tiny picture characters (35) ________ (respond) to or start a conversation.I wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the conversatio n to Facebook or Twitter, etc., but I could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; I could not encourage the phone call myself. I wanted to see if it was (36) ________ (easy) than I expected it to be, yes, but I also wanted to see if I could influence (37) ________ I was communicating with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) ________ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than I expected. There were people who were annoyed with me. There were people who gave up after a few back-and –forths. There were missed messages, (39) ________ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. There were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) ________ (move) faster. And there was my mother who doesn’t have an iPhone and texts me often.Section BDirections: 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’s nothing that will ruin your day faster than being stuck in a traffic jam all m orning, and it’s even worse when there’s(41) ________ no reason for it. There’s a lot of interesting science behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitting in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. The way we merge (合并) causes problemsWhether you’re merging from the left or the right, (42) ________ are good that you’re doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. When most people see that they need to merge, their first (43) ________ is to do it right away. They brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. According to the Minnesota department of Transportation, that’s completely wrong. Sudden (44) ________ causes traffic to back up, a p roblem that’s made worse by sudden lane changes and other cars braking to (45) ________ the merging traffic.So what should you do? Exactly what you probably blame drivers for doing: waiting until the last minute. If you do that, traffic will fall into a m ore natural pattern called a ―zipper merge‖, meaning there are no surprises, no sudden braking, and a smoother transition from one lane to another, which cuts down on backups. This does, of course, rely on other drivers to let you in at the last minute and be polite enough not to cut you off, which causes all sorts of other problems.2. You are causing the traffic Jams you hateTraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46) ________ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavy traffic can (47) ________ smoothly if people maintain a (48) ________ speed. The problem is that we can’t. Researchers have found that just one person even slightly stepping on their brakes can have a terrible effect on the traffic around them.On even (49) ________ busy road, it can be only a few minutes for traffic to a complete halt behind someone who (50) ________ their brakes to let another driver merge. The standstill usuallyoccurs several minutes after the braking, well after the person that causes the problem in the first place has gone on his way.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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.Corporate scandals (丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. This is where executives can start reestablishing their (51) ________ --or deepen the damage.Since they were forced to (52) ________ one of the biggest frauds (欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at V olkswagen have offered (53) ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). But they haven’t explained who ordered, (54) ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting (55) ________ on the road. Nor has Volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel (56) ________ and clean.On October 8, German prosecutors (检察官) broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. Meanwhile, Matthias Muller, the (57) ________ appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, Martin Winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew (58) ________. ―Do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?‖ he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some (59) ________ shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to (60) ________ regulators and customers around the world.If Mr. Winterkorn was not responsible, who was? Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have (61) ________ this scheme without any support. Hans-Dieter Potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier this month, saying it would take time before V olkswagen could make (62) ________ the findings of its internal investigations. ―We must overcome the crisis,‖ he explained, ―but we must also ensure that Volkswagen continues to grow.‖ That seems to miss the point that V olkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless itcan instantly produce some (63) ________ answers and explanations.Even if they manage to fix millions of cars, V olkswagen executives will still face an enormous (64) ________ from lawsuits, lost sales and the (65) ________ to V olkswagen’s reputation. There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. Apologizing is just the easy part.51. A. reputation B. revenge C. responsibility D. revolution52. A. commit B. recognize C. admit D. revise53. A. gratitude B. apologies C. guidance D. authorities54. A. approved B. chose C. withdrew D. undertook55. A. light B. ashes C. smell D. pollutants56. A. effective B. efficient C. extinct D. essential57. A. officially B. voluntarily C. temporarily D. newly58. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything59. A. minor B. major C. inferior D. superior60. A. conceal B. confuse C. attract D. deceive61. A. held on B. got rid of C. carried out D. made up62. A. clear B. public C. possible D. convenient63. A. convincing B. likely C. factual D. solid64. A. conflict B. opportunities C. competitions D. challenges65. A. response B. blow C. solution D. keySection BDirections: 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 )Poor bears comes to the UK, bringing only a red hat, a suitcase, a sandwich, and jars of marmalade (果酱) with him. Heading straight to a major London train station, he sits on his suitcase and stops passers-by from time to time in the hope of finding a free home.This is how Paddington Bear, the main character of the UK animated movie Paddington, is introduced to audiences. On March 3, during Prince William’s visit to China, he attended the Chinese premiere (首演) of the film in Shanghai.―Many Britons were raised on tales of Paddington, the second-best-known bear in fiction after Winnie the Pooh,‖ the Economist noted. While Winnie the Pooh reminds people of the innocence and simplicity of the past, ―the well- meaning Paddington always causes chaos when he goes through cultural misunderstandings.‖The movie, described as ―a total delight, as warm and welcome as a hot pair of socks on a winter morning‖ by the Telegraph, tells the story of the bear, who is sent to London by his family, after an earthquake destroys their home in Peru. At Paddington station, he meets Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown and their two kids. The Brown family name him Paddington, because they can’t say his Peruvian name. After the fuzzy (毛茸茸的) stranger enters the Browns’ home, he teaches everyone how to laugh and love. In the end, Mr. Brown says that ―even if he’s from a differe nt species, he’s still family.‖As Phoenix magazine put it, ―The story shows British sympathy and kindness‖ as the refugee Paddington is given a new home and a loving family in London.Released at a time when immigration is a hot topic in the UK, ―Paddingt on has a very clear message: welcome the other into your home‖, the Philadelphia Inquirer noted.And Paddington Bear is also a great example of the traditional politeness that British people are well known for. For example, Paddington Bear calls people ―Mr.‖, ―Mrs.‖ and ―Miss‖, rarely using their first name. he also loves making small talk with people. For instance, Paddington often has polite conversations about unimportant things with people like his housekeeper.66. Which of the following statements about Paddington Bear is true?A. He is saved by the Brown family from an earthquake in Peru.B. With the help of the Brown family, he learns how to laugh and love.C. He is traditional and prefers to greet strangers using their first name.D. As an immigrant to the UK, he experiences many cultural misunderstandings.67. Which of the following words best describe the qualities of Paddington bear?A. kind and polite.B. innocent and unintelligent.C. humorous and optimistic.D. honest and straightforward.68. We can infer from the article that _________________.A. the tales of Paddington have reminded British people to be kind to those who immigrate tothe UKB. at the time when the Paddington stories were released, immigrants were not welcomed in theUKC. the Paddington stories once encouraged a large number of Germans to go to the UKD. Paddington’s British habit of making ―small talk‖ helped to enrich the German language69. According to the last paragraph, ―small talk‖ probably means _____________.A. polite greetings to unfamiliar peopleB. conversation about unimportant thingsC. conversations about other people’s private livesD. Arguments between close friends( B )70. What does the word ―infuriate‖ in paragraph 2 most mea n?A. annoy.B. remind.C. amuse. D impress.71. Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to check in?A.Yotel New York and Marriott Detroit Airport.B.Marriott Detroit Airport and Radisson: LaCrosse.C.Marriott Detroit Airport. and Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis and Radisson: LaCrosse.72. Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?A.Yotel New York.B.Marriott Detroit Airport.C.Radisson: LaCrosse.D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.73. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.At Yotel New York, a robot will help you with all the check-in process.B.With its check-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a key.C.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis is close to an airport terminal.D.The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast check-in.( C )Scriptwriters love to complain. They are disrespected by producers, regarded dispensable (可有可无的) by directors, not duly credited by critics, treated like employees by actors – although few complain about b eing historically and chronically overpaid. Another thing they don’t complain about is ―the exhaustion of narrative‖, though it weighs very much on their minds. For scriptwriters to complain about the insufficiency of original ideas would be like a salesman complaining about a lack of inventory. It’s not good for business.Writers have always known there are a limited number of storylines. And it is increasingly difficult to get out in front of a viewer’s expectations. Almost every possible subject has not only been covered but covered exhaustively. How many hours of serial killer plot has the average viewer seen? Fifty? A hundred? This becomes painfully clear to any writer who attempts to orally tell his story (scriptwriter is closer to the oral tradition than it is to literature). Originality has always been in short supply. Does the proliferation (泛滥) of media mean that it is harder to be original today than it was 50 years ago? Well, yea. Today’s viewers live in a biosphere of narrative. Twenty-four-seven, multimedia, all the time. When a storyteller competes for a viewer’s attention, he not only competes with simultaneously occurring narratives, he competes with the variations of his own narrative. That’s real competition. This exhaustion of narrative is behind the rise of recent ―counter-narrative‖ entertainments, such as:1. Reality TV. Any regular viewer knows that reality television follows its own scripted formulas, but the appearance of being unscripted is essential to its appeal. Weary of so much predicable plot, the jaded viewer turns to reality.2. Anecdotal narrative. The attraction of films such as Slacker and its mumblecore progeny (呢喃类) is the enjoyment of watching behavior impeded by the artifice of plot. It is not ―fake‖, not ―designed‖ (although of course it is).3. Reenactment drama. Whether based on famous events or lesser-known ones, reenactment entertainment sells the premise that these events actually happened and were not cooked up by a staff of writers (though, again, if not actually cooked up, they were seasoned and served by writers).4. Video games. The ability of the viewer to participate in the storytelling process creates an illusion of non-plan.5. Mini-mini drama. Part of the appeal of three-to five-minute stories created for cellphones, YouTube and original programming is the illusion of not being crafted narratives. Just bits of life.6. Documentaries. A staple of filmed entertainment since its beginnings, documentaries, historically the poor cousins of commercial cinema, have grown in number and viewership, an increase owed in part to the desire of viewers to look beyond predictable narratives.Storytelling began as ceremony and evolved into ritual. It was commercialized in the medieval times, became big business in the 19th century and international industry in the 20th. The traditional concept of movies, a projected image in a dark room of viewers, feels increasingly old. Narrative will mutate (变异) and endure. Audio-visual entertainment is changing and narrative will change with it.74. According to the author, scriptwriters seldom complain of having ____________.A. been looked down upon by producersB. suffered the exhaustion of narrativeC. been considered unimportant by directorsD. been badly treated by actors and actresses75. In which of the following entertainment forms can the viewers take part in its narrativeprocess?A. Reenactment.B. Video games.C. Mini-mini drama.D. Documentaries.76. Which of the following statements is TRUE to the fact?A. Narrative became commercialized in the middle age.B. Storytelling became commercialized after the Middle Ages.C. Narrative became a worldwide industry in the 19th century.D. Storytelling grew into large business in the 20th century.77. Which of the following statements is NOT in agreement with the author’s ideas?A. Scriptwriting is nearer to the oral tradition than it is to literature.B. Narrative exhaustion is responsible for the rise of anti-narrative entertainment.C. It is less difficult to be original today than it was half a century ago.D. The appearance of being unscripted is important to the appeal of Reality TV.Section CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.Plans kick off soonFor years, Chinese soccer fans have rarely had the chance to cheer for a triumph from the national team. However, hope for Chinese soccer has been ignited (点燃) recently, as the government released an overall reform plan to boost the development of soccer in China on march 16.By 2025, 50000 elementary and middle schools will include soccer in the curriculum. According to the plan, students will be given textbooks that teach the positions of players and soccer tactics (战术). They will also be encouraged to form soccer teams and participate in competitions regularly. The extraordinary young players will be enrolled into local leagues and training camps, helping to build up a large soccer talent pool.Chinese soccer, with the national team currently ranked at No 83 in the world, has been lagging behind many other countries for a long time. Critics say the biggest reason is a lack of a well-built youth training system, which is the key to creating a strong soccer culture, according to the BBC.Take Spain, a team that has dominated the world of soccer for a long time, as an example. It has the world’s best soccer school, La Masia. This FC Barcelona youth academy is widely known for producing skillful and creative soccer talents. Teams in the academy are divided into 12 levels, from U8(for players under 8 years old) to U19. Its talent scouts (星探) are stationed around the world, always looking for boys who show outstanding potential for soccer. Studying there is free of charge. A talented 10-year-old boy can walk into La Masia and come out eight years later as a superstar.The rising soccer giant Germany also knows the importance of youth training. Germany scored only one goal at the 2000 European Championships, which started a national discussion over why the country could no longer produce good, young players. So in 2001, the German Football League required that all Bundesliga (甲级联赛) clubs set up academies with youth teamsfrom U12 to U23. The clubs now spend over 100 million on youth development each year. And they have successfully raised the standards of young German players.In 26-year-old midfielder Thomas Muwller, 25 year-old midfielder Toni Kroos and 33-year-old full back Philipp Lahm, for instance, the world has witnessed Bayern’s youth work paying off handsomely.―Youth is the key to China’s soccer, as late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said‖ but it takes time to gain results,‖ said President Xi Jinping in 2014, ―China’s soccer dream looks far away, but we cannot stop.‖(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 13 WORDS)78. What is the detail of China’s soccer reform plan?79. According to critics, why has Chinese soccer been left behind many other countries?80. La Masia in Barcelona is well famous for____________________________ .81. _________________________ has raised the young German players.第Ⅱ卷(共47分)I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1．和外国友人进餐时, 带上一份小礼物是有礼貌的。

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金山区2015学年第一学期期末调研考试高三英语试卷（满分：150分考试时间：120分钟）第Ⅰ卷(共103分)I. Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: 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. In a library. B. In a bookstore.C. In the classroom.D. In a department store.2. A. Its price. B. Its location.C. Its comfort.D. Its facilities.3. A. He is just a passer-by like the woman.B. He is unwilling to tell the woman anything.C. He doesn’t know where the closest bookstore is.D. He can’t understand the woman’s question thoroughly.4. A. He would rather have American food.B. He has always liked American food.C. He is accustomed to eating American food.D. He ate American food more in the past.5. A. Five minutes. B. Fifty minutes.C. Forty-five minutes.D. Fifteen minutes.6. A. The man has left a good impression on her family.B. The man can dress casually for the occasion.C. The man should buy himself a new suit.D. The man’s jeans and T-shirts are stylish.7. A. Grey pants made from pure cotton. B. Fashionable pants in bright colors.C. 100% cotton pants in dark blue.D. Something to match her brown pants.8. A. They’d better not go riding. B. It’s not good riding in the rain.C. They can go riding half an hour later.D. Riding a bike is a great idea.9. A. Peter hasn’t found Mr. Johnson’s hat yet.B. Peter didn’t go to Mr. Johnson’s class.C. Peter lost a hat in Mr. Johnson’s class.D. Peter found a hat in Mr. Johnson’s class.10. A. By car. B. By bus. C. By train. D. On foot.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages 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 whichone would be the best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Near the entrance of a park. B. In his building’s parking lot.C. At a parking meter.D. At a street corner.12. A. It had been taken by the police. B. It had been moved to the next block.C. It had been stolen by someone.D. It had been parked at a wrong place.13. A. At the Greenville center. B. At a public parking lot.C. In a neighboring town.D. In the city garage.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. You will buy his meal. B. You are expected to pay for your own meal.C. You’ll treat someone.D. You’ll be paid for the meal by someone.15. A. You will be in Holland. B. You will hear Dutch for a second time.C. You will be in trouble.D. You will find it hard to communicate.16. A. People hated the German as much as the Dutch.B. People made a mistake in pronunciation at the beginning.C. People made a joke about the German.D. The German immigrants insisted that they were Dutch.Section CDirections:In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections:After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages 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.( A )Playing a violin with three stringsOn Nov.18, 1995, Itzhak Perlman, the violinist, came on stage to give a concert. The audience sat quietly while he made his way across the stage to his chair and began his play. But this time, something went wrong. Just as he finished the first few bars, one of the strings on his violin broke. We thought that he would have to stop the concert. (25) ________ everyone’s expectation, he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled (26) ________ conductor to begin again.The orchestra began and he played with such passion and such power and such purity (27) ________ they had never heard before.Of course, anyone knows that no one (28) ________ play a harmonious work with just three strings. I know that, and you know that, (29) ________ that night Itzhak Perlman refused to know that. When he finished, there was an awesome silence in the room. And then people rose and cheered. He smiled, wiped the swe at from his brow and then he said in a quiet, sacred tone, ―You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to find out how much music you can still make with (30) ________ you have left.‖This powerful line has stayed in my mind ever since I heard it. And who knows? Perhaps that is the definition of life –not just for artists but for all of us.He has prepared all his life to make music on a violin of four strings, but all of a sudden, in the middle of a concert, he finds himself with only three strings; so it is with three strings (31) ________ he makes music, and the music he made that night with just three strings was more memorable than any that (32) ________ (make) before.( B )Emoji — a small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications, are everywhere. The little illustrated characters that are on Smartphone keyboards (33) ________ (take) over the world now. There are shoes with emoji on them, pants with emoji on them, emoji stickers, emoji yoga, and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending.A s emoji spreads into our culture, I’ve actually heard the following question：Is emoji moving to replace the written word in communication?To find out, I communicated by iMessage using only emoji for five days. That meant (34) ________ ________ someone sent me a text or I wanted to send a text, I could only use the popular tiny picture characters (35) ________ (respond) to or start a conversation.I wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to Facebook or Twitter, etc., but I could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they should call me instead; I could not encourage the phone call myself. I wanted to see if it was (36) ________ (easy) than I expected it to be, yes, but I also wanted to see if I could influence (37) ________ I wascommunicating with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me.(38) ________ (communicate) with emoji was a way more difficult than I expected. There were people who were annoyed with me. There were people who gave up after a few back-and –forths. There were missed messages, (39) ________ (mix) messages, and messed up plans. There were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation (40) ________ (move) faster. And there was my mother who doesn’t have an iPhone and texts me often.Section BDirections: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.and it’s even worse when there’s(41) ________ no reason for it. There’s a lot of interesting science behind traffic, though, and while understanding it might not make sitting in it any better, it can teach you how to avoid some of the mistakes we all make behind the wheel.1. The way we merge (合并) causes problemsWhether you’re merging from the left or the right, (42) ________ ar e good that you’re doing it wrong and causing all sorts of problems. When most people see that they need to merge, their first (43) ________ is to do it right away. They brake, slow down, speed up, and change lanes in between oncoming traffic. According to the Minnesota department of Transportation, that’s completely wrong. Sudden (44) ________ causes traffic to back up, a problem that’s made worse by sudden lane changes and other cars braking to (45) ________ the merging traffic.So what should you do? Exactly what you probably blame drivers for doing: waiting until the last minute. If you do that, traffic will fall into a more natural pattern called a ―zipper merge‖, meaning there are no surprises, no sudden braking, and a smoother transition from one lane to another, which cuts down on backups. This does, of course, rely on other drivers to let you in at the last minute and be polite enough not to cut you off, which causes all sorts of other problems.2. You are causing the traffic Jams you hateTraffic jams have long been chalked up to (取决于) the (46) ________ of traffic on the roads, but it turns out that even heavy traffic can (47) ________ smoothly if people maintain a (48) ________ speed. The problem is that we can’t. Researchers have found that just o ne person even slightly stepping on their brakes can have a terrible effect on the traffic around them.On even (49) ________ busy road, it can be only a few minutes for traffic to a complete halt behind someone who (50) ________ their brakes to let another driver merge. The standstill usually occurs several minutes after the braking, well after the person that causes the problem in the first place has gone on his way.III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: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.Corporate scandals(丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and thenmove inevitably into who-knew-what stage. This is where executives can start reestablishing their (51) ________ --or deepen the damage.Since they were forced to (52) ________ one of the biggest frauds(欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at V olkswagen have offered (53) ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). But they haven’t explained who ordered, (54) ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting (55) ________ on the road. Nor has V olkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel (56) ________ and clean.On October 8, German prosecutors (检察官) broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. Meanwhile, Matthias Muller, the (57) ________ appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, Martin Winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew (58) ________. ―Do you really think that a chief exec utive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?‖ he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some (59) ________ shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to (60) ________ regulators and customers around the world.If Mr. Winterkorn was not responsible, who was? Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have (61) ________ this scheme without any support. Hans-Dieter Potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier this month, saying it would take time befo re Volkswagen could make (62) ________ the findings of its internal investigations. ―We must overcome the crisis,‖ he explained, ―but we must also ensure that V olkswagen continues to grow.‖ That seems to miss the point that V olkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some (63) ________ answers and explanations.Even if they manage to fix millions of cars, Volkswagen executives will still face an enormous (64) ________ from lawsuits, lost sales and the (65) ________ t o V olkswagen’s reputation. There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. Apologizing is just the easy part.51. A. reputation B. revenge C. responsibility D. revolution52. A. commit B. recognize C. admit D. revise53. A. gratitude B. apologies C. guidance D. authorities54. A. approved B. chose C. withdrew D. undertook55. A. light B. ashes C. smell D. pollutants56. A. effective B. efficient C. extinct D. essential57. A. officially B. voluntarily C. temporarily D. newly58. A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything59. A. minor B. major C. inferior D. superior60. A. conceal B. confuse C. attract D. deceive61. A. held on B. got rid of C. carried out D. made up62. A. clear B. public C. possible D. convenient63. A. convincing B. likely C. factual D. solid64. A. conflict B. opportunities C. competitions D. challenges65. A. response B. blow C. solution D. keySection BDirections: 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 )Poor bears comes to the UK, bringing only a red hat, a suitcase, a sandwich, and jars of marmalade(果酱) with him. Heading straight to a major London train station, he sits on his suitcase and stops passers-by from time to time in the hope of finding a free home.This is how Paddington Bear, the main character of the UK animated movie Paddington, is introduced to audiences. On March 3, during Prince William’s visit to China, he attended the Chinese premiere (首演) of the film in Shanghai.―Many Britons were raised on tales of Paddington, the second-best-known bear in fiction after Winnie the Pooh,‖ the Economist noted. While Winnie the Pooh reminds people of the innocence and simplicity of the past, ―the well- meaning Paddington always causes chaos when he goes through cultural misunderstandings.‖The movie, described as ―a total delight, as warm and welcome as a hot pair of socks on a winter morning‖ by the Telegraph, tells the story of the bear, who is sent to London b y his family, after an earthquake destroys their home in Peru. At Paddington station, he meets Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown and their two kids. The Brown family name him Paddington, because they can’t say his Peruvian name. After the f uzzy (毛茸茸的) stranger enters the Browns’ home, he teaches everyone how to laugh and love. In the end, Mr. Brown says that ―even if he’s from a different species, he’s still family.‖As Phoenix magazine put it, ―The story shows British sympathy and kindness‖ as the refugee Paddington is given a new home and a loving family in London.Released at a time when immigration is a hot topic in the UK, ―Paddington has a very clear message: welcome the other into your home‖, the Philadelphia Inquirer noted.And Paddington Bear is also a great example of the traditional politeness that British people are well known for. For example, Paddington Bear calls people ―Mr.‖, ―Mrs.‖ and ―Miss‖, rarely using their first name. he also loves making small talk with people. For instance, Paddington often has polite conversations about unimportant things with people like his housekeeper.66. Which of the following statements about Paddington Bear is true?A. He is saved by the Brown family from an earthquake in Peru.B. With the help of the Brown family, he learns how to laugh and love.C. He is traditional and prefers to greet strangers using their first name.D. As an immigrant to the UK, he experiences many cultural misunderstandings.67. Which of the following words best describe the qualities of Paddington bear?A. kind and polite.B. innocent and unintelligent.C. humorous and optimistic.D. honest and straightforward.68. We can infer from the article that _________________.A. the tales of Paddington have reminded British people to be kind to those who immigrate tothe UKB. at the time when the Paddington stories were released, immigrants were not welcomed in theUKC. the Paddington stories once encouraged a large number of Germans to go to the UKD. Paddington’s British habit of making ―small talk‖ helped to enrich the German language69. According to the last paragraph, ―small talk‖ probably means _____________.A. polite greetings to unfamiliar peopleB. conversation about unimportant thingsC. conversations about other people’s private liv esD. Arguments between close friends1. Yotel New YorkThe self-service kiosks at this high-tech New York hotel work just like the ones you’d see at an airport. There are just five-steps to register and obtain your card key. There is even a robotic luggage bellboy. You tap in the number of bags you are carrying and sizes, then wait for a robot arm to swing down and store your luggage in a locker (say, for a day trip). This also speeds up the check-in process if the first thing you need to do, like me, is head to a series of meetings.2. Marriott Detroit AirportAnother option for business travelers in a hurry: Marriott is rolling out its mobile check-in app to 325 hotels this year, including the Marriott Detroit Airport hotel. (I’ve tested the app itself but not for a real visit quite yet.) Here is the basic idea: you download the iphone or Android app.70. What does the word ―infuriate‖ in paragraph 2 most mean?A. annoy.B. remind.C. amuse. D impress.71. Which two hotels offer a mobile app for customers to check in?A.Yotel New York and Marriott Detroit Airport.B.Marriott Detroit Airport and Radisson: LaCrosse.C.Marriott Detroit Airport. and Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis and Radisson: LaCrosse.72. Which hotel will send you a receipt by email?A.Yotel New York.B.Marriott Detroit Airport.C.Radisson: LaCrosse.D.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis.73. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.At Yotel New York, a robot will help you with all the check-in process.B.With its check-in app, you may enter your room in Marriott without a key.C.Hyatt Regency Minneapolis is close to an airport terminal.D.The barcode you receive from Radisson contributes to the fast check-in.( C )Scriptwriters love to complain. They are disrespected by producers, regarded dispensable (可有可无的) by directors, not duly credited by critics, treated like employees by actors – although few complain about being historically and chronically overpaid. Another thing they don’t complain about is ―the exhaustion of narrative‖, though it weighs very much on their minds. For scriptwriters to complain about the insufficiency of original ideas would be like a salesman complaining about a lack of inventory. It’s not good for business.Writers have always known there are a limited number of storylines. And it is increasingly difficult to get out in front of a viewer’s expectations. Almost every possible subject has not only been covered but covered exhaustively. How many hours of serial killer plot has the average viewer seen? Fifty? A hundred? This becomes painfully clear to any writer who attempts to orally tell his story (scriptwriter is closer to the oral tradition than it is to literature). Originality has always been in short supply. Does the proliferation (泛滥) of media mean that it is harder to beori ginal today than it was 50 years ago? Well, yea. Today’s viewers live in a biosphere of narrative. Twenty-four-seven, multimedia, all the time. When a storyteller competes for a viewer’s attention, he not only competes with simultaneously occurring narratives, he competes with the variations of his own narrative. That’s real competition. This exhaustion of narrative is behind the rise of recent ―counter-narrative‖ entertainments, such as:1. Reality TV. Any regular viewer knows that reality television follows its own scripted formulas, but the appearance of being unscripted is essential to its appeal. Weary of so much predicable plot, the jaded viewer turns to reality.2. Anecdotal narrative. The attraction of films such as Slacker and its mumblecore progeny (呢喃类) is the enjoyment of watching behavior impeded by the artifice of plot. It is not ―fake‖, not ―designed‖ (although of course it is).3. Reenactment drama. Whether based on famous events or lesser-known ones, reenactment entertainment sells the premise that these events actually happened and were not cooked up by a staff of writers (though, again, if not actually cooked up, they were seasoned and served by writers).4. Video games. The ability of the viewer to participate in the storytelling process creates an illusion of non-plan.5. Mini-mini drama. Part of the appeal of three-to five-minute stories created for cellphones, YouTube and original programming is the illusion of not being crafted narratives. Just bits of life.6. Documentaries. A staple of filmed entertainment since its beginnings, documentaries, historically the poor cousins of commercial cinema, have grown in number and viewership, an increase owed in part to the desire of viewers to look beyond predictable narratives.Storytelling began as ceremony and evolved into ritual. It was commercialized in the medieval times, became big business in the 19th century and international industry in the 20th. The traditional concept of movies, a projected image in a dark room of viewers, feels increasingly old. Narrative will mutate(变异) and endure. Audio-visual entertainment is changing and narrative will change with it.74. According to the author, scriptwriters seldom complain of having ____________.A. been looked down upon by producersB. suffered the exhaustion of narrativeC. been considered unimportant by directorsD. been badly treated by actors and actresses75. In which of the following entertainment forms can the viewers take part in its narrativeprocess?A. Reenactment.B. Video games.C. Mini-mini drama.D. Documentaries.76. Which of the following statements is TRUE to the fact?A. Narrative became commercialized in the middle age.B. Storytelling became commercialized after the Middle Ages.C. Narrative became a worldwide industry in the 19th century.D. Storytelling grew into large business in the 20th century.77. Which of the following statements is NOT in agreement with the author’s ideas?A. Scriptwriting is nearer to the oral tradition than it is to literature.B. Narrative exhaustion is responsible for the rise of anti-narrative entertainment.C. It is less difficult to be original today than it was half a century ago.D. The appearance of being unscripted is important to the appeal of Reality TV.Section CDirections: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.Plans kick off soonFor years, Chinese soccer fans have rarely had the chance to cheer for a triumph from the national team. However, hope for Chinese soccer has been ignited(点燃) recently, as the government released an overall reform plan to boost the development of soccer in China on march 16.By 2025, 50000 elementary and middle schools will include soccer in the curriculum. According to the plan, students will be given textbooks that teach the positions of players and soccer tactics(战术). They will also be encouraged to form soccer teams and participate in competitions regularly. The extraordinary young players will be enrolled into local leagues and training camps, helping to build up a large soccer talent pool.Chinese soccer, with the national team currently ranked at No 83 in the world, has been lagging behind many other countries for a long time. Critics say the biggest reason is a lack of a well-built youth training system, which is the key to creating a strong soccer culture, according to the BBC.Take Spain, a team that has dominated the world of soccer for a long time, as an example. It has the world’s best soccer school, La Masia. This FC Barcelona youth academy is w idely known for producing skillful and creative soccer talents. Teams in the academy are divided into 12 levels, from U8(for players under 8 years old) to U19. Its talent scouts (星探) are stationed around the world, always looking for boys who show outstanding potential for soccer. Studying there is free of charge. A talented 10-year-old boy can walk into La Masia and come out eight years later as a superstar.The rising soccer giant Germany also knows the importance of youth training. Germany scored only one goal at the 2000 European Championships, which started a national discussion over why the country could no longer produce good, young players. So in 2001, the German Football League required that all Bundesliga (甲级联赛) clubs set up academies with youth teams from U12 to U23. The clubs now spend over 100 million on youth development each year. And they have successfully raised the standards of young German players.In 26-year-old midfielder Thomas Muwller, 25 year-old midfielder Toni Kroos and 33-year-old full back Philipp Lahm, for instance, the world has witnessed Bayern’s youth work paying off handsomely.―Youth is the key to China’s soccer, as late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping said‖ but it takes time to gain res ults,‖ said President Xi Jinping in 2014, ―China’s soccer dream looks far awa y, but we cannot stop.‖(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN 13 WORDS)78. What is the detail of China’s soccer reform plan?79. According to critics, why has Chinese soccer been left behind many other countries?80. La Masia in Barcelona is well famous for____________________________ .81. _________________________ has raised the young German players.第Ⅱ卷(共47分)I. TranslationDirections: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 1．和外国友人进餐时, 带上一份小礼物是有礼貌的。