2017-2018学年上海交大附中高三上英语10月月考试卷

上海交通大学附属中学2017-2018学年度第一学期高三英语10月月考出卷人：陈宇杨珺洁审卷人：程姌（满分150分，答案一律写在网上阅卷答题纸上）I. Listening Comprehension (25’)Section 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 conversation 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. It was moving. B. It was boring.C. It was more interesting than TV programs.D. It was horrible.2. A. 85 dollars. B. 55 dollars. C. 80 dollars. D. 70 dollars.3. A. Her doctor. B. Her husband. C. Her boss. D. Her secretary.4. A. At the luggage claim area. B. At the boarding gate.C. At the reception desk.D. At the Customs.5. A. The library is generally locked on Friday afternoon.B. Something unusual happened in the library on Friday.C. The library should never be locked.D. The man doesn’t have a key to the library.6. A. He came to the meeting. B. He planned the meeting.C. He had no idea about the meeting.D. He hasn’t come to the meeting yet.7. A. Jewels. B. Books C. Shaver. D. Souvenirs.8. A. Buy a new motocycle.B. Buy a second motorcycle.C. Save money for a long time.D. Buy a used motocycle.9. A. In the apartment. B. On the phone.C. In the office.D. Out of the apartment.10. A. Alex works very hard.B. Alex’s pay will be raised next month.C. The woman is unhappy about Alex’s salary.D. Alex will get 3,100 dollars next month.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passage. The passage 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 heard.Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.11. A. Toothbrush. B. Wood. C. Peg. D. Metal.12. A. Because they could make beautiful keys.B. Because they wore some of their keys as rings.C. Because they designed locks and keys that were better at preventing thieves.D. Because they were invited by kings to design castle keys.13. A. By using smartphone apps. B. By using traditional metal keys.C. By using electronic keycards.D. By facial recognition.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. They hope to portray the coming date as the trigger of a worldwide disaster.B. They hope to hinder the nation’s $70 billion tourism industry.C. They hope to promote 2012 as the year of the tourist.D. They hope to make the rounds in their northern neighbor.15. A. Hollywood stars. B. Their northern neighbor.C. Old and wealthy Mexicans.D. Old and wealthy Americans.16. A. The Hollywood blockbuster 2012 depicts the doomsday as the spark of a global calamity.B. The Mexican government hopes that the doomsday will boost its tourism industry.C. The Mexican government has urged tourists to visit archaeological sites.D. The Mayan doomsday will bring growth and prosperity to the world.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear one longer conversation, and you will be asked four questions on it. The conversation 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.Question 17 and 20 are based on the following conversation.17. A. The Thanksgiving party. B. Gary’s farewell party.C. Eating out in a restaurant.D. Sending invitations.18. A. Oct.21st. B. Oct. 28th. C. Oct. 25th. D. Oct.26th.19. A. A book. B. Flowers. C. Dictionaries. D. A football.20. A. Gary. B. The class teacher.C. The classmates.D. The headmaster.II. Grammar and Vocabulary (30’)Section A (20*1’=20’)Directions: 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)A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he had wanted a beautiful sports car in a dealer’s showroom, and (21) __________ (know) his father could well afford it, he told him that was all he wanted.As Graduation Day came near, the young man expected signs (22) __________ his father had bought the gift. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his own study, and told him how proud he was (23) __________ (have) such a fine son and how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautifully wrapped gift box.Curious and somewhat disappointed, the young man opened the box and found a lovely leather (24) __________ (bind) Bible, with the young man’s name written in gold. Angry, he raised his voice to his father, and said, “With all your money you give me a Bible?” and stormed (25) ________ ________ the house.Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and wonderful family, (26) __________ realized his father was very old, and thought perhaps he should go to see him. However, (27) __________ he could make arrangements, he received a telegram (28) __________ (tell) him his father had passed away and willed all of his possessions to his son. When he arrived at his father’s, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to search through his father’s important papers and saw the still new gift-wrapped Bible, just as he (29) __________ (leave) it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. His father had carefully underlined a verse, Mathew 7-11, “And if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father, which is in Heaven, give to those who ask Him?”As he read those words, a car key dropped from the back of the Bible. It had a tag, which (30) __________ (read) the date of his graduation and the words: PAID IN FULL.(B)The need to feed a growing population is putting much pressure on the world's supply of water.(31) __________ 97% of the world's water too salty to be drunk or used in agriculture, the worldwide supply of water needs careful management, especially in agriculture. (32) __________ the idea of a water shortage seems strange to someone fortunate enough to live in a high rainfall country, many of the world's agricultural industries (33) __________ (experience) constant water shortages.Although dams can be built to store water for agricultural use in dry areas and dry seasons, the costs of water redistribution are very high. Not only is there the cost of the engineering itself, but there is also an environmental cost to be considered. (34) __________valleys are flooded to create dams, houses are lost and wildlife homes destroyed. Besides, water may flow easily through pipes to fields, but it cannot be transported from one side of the world to (35) ________ ________. Each country (36) __________ therefore rely on the management of its own water to supply its farming requirements.This is particularly troubling for countries with agricultural industries in areas dependent on irrigation. In Texas, farmers' overuse of irrigation water (37) __________ (result) in a 25% reduction of the water stores. In the Central Valley area of southwestern USA, a huge water engineering project provides water (38) __________ farming in dry valleys, but much of the water use is being poorly managed.Saudi Arabia's attempts (39) __________ (grow) wheat in desert areas have seen the pumping of huge quantities of irrigation water from underground reserves. Because there is no rainfall in these areas, such reserves can only decrease, and it is believed that fifty years of pumping (40) __________ (see) them run dry.Section B (10*1’=10’)Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only beA wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the victory of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Day after day my men and I struggle to 41 an epidemic of crimes. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A significant 42 is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is r esponsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences. Of the many values that hold civilization together --- honesty, kindness, and so on --- accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law --- and, ultimately, no society.My job as a police officer is to 43 accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to oblige themselves to do so. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less ef fective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.Fortunately there are still communities --- smaller towns, usually --- where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that declare: “In this family certain things are not 44 --- they simply are not done!” Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are 45 . Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you 46 him.The main cause of this breakdown is a radical shift in 47 . Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with 48 guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable home.I don’t believe it. Many others in equally 49 circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless 50 where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.III. Reading Comprehension (15’+22’+8’=45’)Section A (15*1’=15’)Directions: For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.A recent survey in the United States showed that the average family spent more money on its pets than on its children. Although this is a rather shocking statistics, it should not 51 anyone who has seen the beautiful doggy bedroom or the quiet shady groves where loved pets rest. It is possible that Americans are unique in treating their little friends in this way, but the information we have suggests that the English, too, are 52 to their pets.This can clearly be seen when we look at pet foods, which often contain more vitamins than human food or, at least, are 53 less nutritious. They certainly cost much. Last year the British public spent two hundred million pounds on pet food alone, 54 veterinary (兽医的) bills or animal furniture. It is difficult not to feel 55 with this when one considers what the same amount could do for victims of starvation and poverty, so it is 56 for me to get hot under the collar when I read an old man left all his money to his dog home.There are a variety of reasons why I find the popularity of British pets 57 . They cause physical problems. An example of this is New York where they have great difficulty getting rid of the mess that dogs leave on the streets. Many people find this funny, but in a number of large cities it is a major problem. Animals can cause disease, too. It is the threat of rabies---a disease with no known cure---that has made the English government impose strict 58 on animals coming into the United Kingdom. When the Spanish government recently 59 a number of homeless dogs as protection against the same threat, English tourist immediately wrote letters to the newspapers 60 about mass murder.Another problem is the 61 of pet owners. Most little children want a dog or a cat, and they continually pester their mothers and fathers until they get one. It is only when the sweet little thing has been brought home that the parents realize how much time and money must be spent on "Rover" or "Bonzo". Then they just 62 it. This brings me to my last point. Pets, which run free, are often not 63 at all. English farmers lose hundreds of sheep a year, killed by someone's pet and you must have read of children being hurt by some pets of their own.64 , I would only suggest that we have got our 65 wrong and that something should be done about it.51. A. alert B. surprise C. disappoint D. interest52. A. hostile B. polite C. subject D. available53. A. seldom B. far C. frequently D. totally54. A. in spite of B. regardless of C. not to mention D. rather than55. A. delighted B. patient C. concerned D. unsatisfied56. A. usual B. natural C. ridiculous D. essential57. A. inevitable B. understandable C. unacceptable D. common58. A. orders B. punishments C. treatments D. restrictions59. A. cured B. destroyed C. enclosed D. drove60. A. inquiring B. caring C. worrying D. complaining61. A. thoughtlessness B. hesitation C. expectation D. kindness62. A. isolate B. scold C. desert D. bind63. A. funny B. sweet C. precious D. loving64. A. Nevertheless B. Moreover C. Therefore D. Meanwhile65. A. mind B. behavior C. love D. prioritySection B (11*2’=22’)Directions: Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read.(A)In agrarian(农业的),pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific, "Later, at 5 or 6, you'd have a smaller supper."This comfortable cycle, in which the rhythms of the day helped shape the rhythms of the meals, gave rise to the custom of the large midday meal, eaten with the extended family, "Meals are the fou ndation of the family,” says Carole Couniban, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, "so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthen ing family ties.”Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder. With the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand. Certainly, there were benefits. Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestors.Yet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat. Take Italy. It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat. Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal. The big meal came at around 1 p.m. In between the midday meal and a late, smaller dinner came a small snack. Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway. So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together. "The evening meal carries the full burden that used to be spread over two meals" says Counihan.66.What do we learn from the passage about people in pre-industrial Europe?A.They had to work from early morning till late at night.B.They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.C.Their daily routine followed the rhythm of the natural cycle.D.Their life was much more comfortable than that of today.67.What does the underlined phrase "cultural metabolism" refer to?A.Evolutionary adaptation.B.Changes in lifestyle.C.Social progress.D.Pace of life.68. What does the author think of the food people eat today?A.Its quality is usually guaranteed.B.It is varied, abundant and nutritious.C.It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.D.Its production depends too much on technology.69.What does the author say about Italians of the old days?A.They enjoyed cooking as well as eating.B.They ate a big dinner late in the evening.C.They ate three meals regularly every day.D.They were expert at cooking meals.70. John, who is a SentosaPLAYPass holder, needn’t pay for the activities EXCEPT ______.A. Storytelling Comes AliveB. Art Excursion at SentosaC. Boogie with Captain PalawanD. Storytelling at Underwater World Singapore71. Which of the following statements is true?A. Boogie with Captain Palawan is an activity that happens daily.B. Denise Tan will share her stories at Images of Singapore Forecourt.C. Storytelling Comes Alive is recognized globally for its engaging content.D. You will win prizes if you spend at least $40 in a single receipt at Sentosa.72. On a Saturday at 2pm, Mr Smith and his family want to buy the Sentosa Play Pass. He shouldgo to ______.A. Bugis stationB. Somerset stationC. any TransitLink ticket officeD. any Sentosa ticketing office(C)I'll admit I've never quite understood the obsession (难以破除的成见) surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist opponents, GM foods are simply evil, an understudied possibly harmful tool used by big agricultural businesses to control global seed markets and crush local farmers. They argue that GM foods have never delivered on their supposed promise, that money spent on GM crops would be better channeled to organic farming and that consumers should be protected with warning labels on any products that contain genetically modified ingredients. To supporters, GM crops are a key part of the effort to sustainably provide food to meet a growing global population. But more than that, supporters see the GM opposition of many environmentalists as fundamentally anti-science, no different than those who question the basics of man-made climate change.For both sides, GM foods seem to act as a symbol: you're pro-agricultural business or anti-science. But science is exactly what we need more of when it comes to GM foods, which is why I was happy to see Nature devote a special series of articles to the GM food controversy. The conclusion: while GM crops haven't yet realized their initial promise and have been dominated by agricultural businesses, there is reason to continue to use and develop them to help meet the enormous challenge of sustainably feeding a growing planet.That doesn't mean GM crops are perfect, or a one-size-fits-all solution to global agriculture problems. But anything that can increase farming efficiency--the amount of crops we can produce per acre of land-- will be extremely useful. GM crops can and almost certainly will be part of that suite of tools, but so will traditional plant breeding, improved soil and crop management--and perhaps most important of all, better storage and transport infrastructure (基础设施), especially in the developing world. (It doesn't do much good for farmers in places like sub-Saharan Africa to produce more food if they can't get it to hungry consumers. I'd like to see more non-industry research done on GM crops--not just because we'd worry less about bias(偏见), but also because seed companies like Monsanto and Pioneer shouldn't be the only entities(实体) working to harness(掌控) genetic modification. I'd like to see GM research on less commercial crops, like corn. I don't think it's vital to label GM ingredients in food, but I also wouldn't be against it--and industry would be smart to go along with labeling, just as a way of removing fears about the。