2016~2017学年上海市金山区英语高考一模卷(含听力、答案)
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分考试吋间：120分钟） 2016.12Listening Comprehension 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 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.A. At the airport.B. At the hotel.C. At the restaurant.D. At the railway station.A. On TV.B. On the Internet.C. From the newspaper.D. From a friend.A. Husband and wife.B. Policeman and driver.C. Passenger and bus conductor.D. Boss and secretary.A. At 1:00 pm.B. At 1:30 pm.C. At 2:00 pm.D. At 2:30 pm.A. She found it very interesting.She found it very boring.She found it enjoyable during the first 30 minutes.She found it enjoyable after the first 30 minutes.A. Make a recovery plan.B. Find a full-time job.C. Drop out of school.D. Resign from her present job.A. Shopping with his son.B. Promoting a new product.C. Buying a gift for a kid.D. Bargaining with a salesgirl.A. He is always late for work.He is having some financial problems.He is not careful enough with his work.He loses his temper easily.A. It is too hot in the room.She wants to avoid meeting people.She wants to smoke a cigarette outside.She doesn’t like the smell of smoke inside.A. Everyone in the company likes Mr. Dale.Mr. Dale has become director of the department.Mr. Dale gets on very well with his colleague.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. n. A. Art history class is taught in the lecture hall.Mentally disabled children are taught outside the classroom.Professors teach through real world experiences.Students appreciate classroom learning.A. To praise the professor.B. To support his point of view.C. To praise his friend.D. To advise us to study psychology.A. Learning through firsthand experience is important.B. Students learn a lot from textbooks.Students develop their creativity through textbooks.Students get firsthand information from textbooks.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.A. Consumers find TV advertisements too dull.Consumers travel more now than ever before.Out-of-home ads are more beautifully made.Out-of-home ads are easier to understand.A. Quick to update.B. Pleasant to look at.C. Easy to remember.D. Convenient to obtain.A. Comparison of different kinds of advertising.New forms of effective advertising.The disadvantages of traditional advertising.Effective ways to do effective advertisements.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.A. Her story of completing a task.B. Her experience of being lost.C. Her trip abroad.D. Her success in career.A. Met his friends.B. Attended a lecture.C. Gave a performance.D. Had a trip.A. By following a man.B. By looking at a map.C. By asking an old woman.D. By asking the policeman for help.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 Vocabulary Section 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. 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.A. brakeB. victimsC. issuedD. confirmedE. paceF. typicallyG. multiple H. critically I. slippery J. canceled K. visibilityNINE 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 Zhe jinag 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 were 36_____ 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. ReadingComprehension Section BDirections: 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 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? That5s 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.A. numerousB. clearC. dangerousD. brightA. pointsB. mattersC. solutionD. barriersA. responseB. rejectionC. acceptanceD. methodsA. rapidlyB. properlyC. timelyD. widelyA. arouseB. cultivateC. declineD. speedA. techniqueB. thirstC. passionD. needA. ideaB. thoughtC. doubtD. puzzleA. subjectB. aimC. projectD. discoveryA. decreasedB. changedC. increasedD. lengthenedA. madeB. acceptedC. dismissedD. discussedA. OtherwiseB. On the contraryC. For exampleD. ThereforeA. setting asideB. breaking outC. turning outD. taking apartA. questionsB. thoughtsC. eyesD. brainsA. cut upB. cut offC. turn downD. turn offA. expandingB. runningC. thoughtD. 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 ^row 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 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 old er 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 daijy life. At the year’s end, Rose finished the colleg e 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)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 what 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, out 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 eliminatin g 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 yo u 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 youneed.A. Men and women dream about different things.B. A person5s dreams and the meaning of those dreams are between the person and God alone.C. A criminal, for example, might dream about crime.D. However, one thing they agree on this: If you dream that something terrible is going to occur, you shouldn't panic.E. Dreams allow people to express the feelings, thoughts, and fears that they are afraid to express in real life.F. He thought people could learn more about themselves by thinking about their dreams.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), Freudwrote 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 exampre, 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 notmean that some terrible event will actually take place. It's important to remember that the world of dreams is not the real world.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 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. Habi t can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening butfeel 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.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2017届高三一模英语卷
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。
上海市各区2016-2017年高三英语一模汇编--摘要写作(Summary Writing)--老师版(全部带答案精准校对)
IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Are You Ready for Your Exam?So, it‘s the exam time again -- have you done the necessary work to get good marks? Sleeping with the textbook under the pillow(枕头) in the hope that knowledge will be magically absorbed into your brain as you sleep doesn‘t work. The best strategy is to space your practice out, rather than cram(死记硬背) it all together. It means hit the books early!In an article in the British newspaper The Guardian, Tom Stafford, a lecturer in psychology at the University of Sheffield, UK, advises: ―If you organi ze five hours of study into one hour a day, you‘ll remember more than if you study for five hours on one day.‖Don‘t rely on memory alone -- get pen and paper and start working. Students who can test themselves in advance will be better at getting back material from their memory and learn that material in the long run. John Dunlosky, Professor of Psychology at Kent State University in the US, sugge sts that ―you start by reading a textbook using your favourite highlighter(荧光笔) and favourite colours, but then you go back and make flashcards of all the critical concepts and instead of just rereading those, you basically try to test yourselves on them.‖Good revision should give you confidence, but if you are still anxious, there‘s no harm in indulging(放任) in a personal routine. In Japan, it seems to be a tradition for students to eat Katsudon before a test. This is a warm bowl of rice topped with egg and a deep-fried pork cutlet. The name of the dish reminds people of the word ‗katsu‘, meaning ‗winning‘.For some students in South Korea, the key to success is not washing their hair before sitting an exam because they believe they could wash all the knowledge out of their head. And in different parts of the world there are always those who swear by their ‗lucky underwear‘.The bottom line is that you need to study, sleep well on the eve of the test, eat a nutritious meal, drink plenty of water and believe that your efforts will pay off. Good luck in your exam!Keys:The best strategy to achieve good results in the exam is to study books early. According to experts, time management and self-testing in advance will also do you good. Furthermore,habitual psychological hint is helpful, too. Meanwhile, other factors such as necessary preparations, good sleep, nutritious diet and self-confidence can pay off your efforts as well. (56 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Super Size MeFast food, otherwise known as junk food, is a huge passion for a large number of people across the Western world. But what would happen if you ate lots of junk food, every day? Would it seriously damage your health? These were the questions which led Morgan Spurlock, an independent film-maker, to do an experiment, which he made into a documentary film entitled Super Size Me.The main basis of his experiment was that Spurlock promised to eat three McDonald‘s meals a day, every day, for a month. He could only eat food from McDonald‘s and every time an employee asked if he would like to ―super size‖ the meal, he had to agree. ―Super sizing‖ refers to the fact that with this type of meal you get a considerable larger portion of everything.Spurlock knew that by eating three McDonald‘s meals a day, he would consume a lot of fat and a great deal of salt and sugar in each meal—much more than he needed. Although Spurlock knew he would put on a bit of weight, and that this diet was unhealthy, he wasn‘t quite prepared for just how unhealthy it turned out to be. The changes in his body were horrifying in the first week, he put on 4.5 kilos and by the end of the thirty days he had gained nearly 14 kilos, bringing his total weight to a massive 98kg.Spurlock says ―I‘d love people to walk out of the movie and say, ‘Next time I‘m not going to ―super size‖. Maybe I‘m not going have any junk food at all. I‘m going to sit down and eat dinner with my kids, with the TV off, so that we can eat healthy food, talk about what we‘re eating and have a relationship with each other.‘‖ Food for thought indeed.Keys:Spurlock made an experiment to test the damage of eating lots of junk food and made adocumentary film later. In the one-month experiment, Spurlock ate three super size McDonald‘s meals every day if required, thus causing terrible increase in his weight. Spurlock hopes the film can help people establish a healthy eating habit. (56 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections:Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Food is life. We eat it to grow, stay healthy, and have the energy to do everyday activities. The food we consume makes all of these things possible, but not all food is created equal. Studies have shown, for example, that children who eat a nutritious breakfast do better in school than those with a poor diet. The well-fed child is able to pay attention longer, remember more, and participate more actively in class. The findings, then, are clear. Because our food choices affect our health and behavior, we must do more than just eat; we must eat well. For many people today, though, making healthy food choices is not easy.We are surrounded by information telling us what‘s good for us and what isn‘t, but usually this information is more confusing than helpful. In fact, different research about the same food often produces contradictory results. In previous research on eggs, people were encouraged to limit or completely eliminate eggs from their diets to prevent dangerous diseases. Recent studies say eggs are good for you. It‘s hard to know who to believe.Shopping for food can also be challenging. During a visit to a supermarket, we often need to make many different choices. Should you buy this cereal or that one? Regular or fat-free‘ milk? Tofu or chicken? It‘s hard to know which to choose, especially when two items are very similar. Many shoppers read product labels to help them decide. Indeed, many food labels are often misleading.Making healthy food choices and eating well do not have to be difficult. Doing simple things can result in a better diet and a healthier you. Urban gardening, which is becoming popular again is one such thing. On small pieces of land, neighbors are working together to grow fruit and vegetables. What are the benefits of these gardens? People have access to more fresh fruit and vegetables, especially poorer people who are less likely to spend money on these items. The food also cost less than it would in a supermarket. There are other benefits, too. Working together in thegarden helps people to exercise. Urban gardens have also been used to teach children about food production and healthy eating.Keys:Food choices affect health and behavior.However, it‘s not easy to make healthy ones.Because confusing/contradictory food informationand misleading food labels are making shopping difficult/a challenge. Urban gardening is a good way to making healthy food choices.Urban gardening also have other benefits: getting fresh and cheap food, a way of exercise and learning food knowledge for children. (59 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.The advantages of social networkingWhy do most people sign up to social networking sites? The main reason is to stay in touch with other people. These sites also help people to find their childhood friends that they have lost touch with. Renewing these long-lost friendships is just a click away. It is very exciting to be able to catch up with friends and keep up with their news on am almost daily basis thanks to frequent updates.Keep up-to-date,however,doesn‘t have to be restricted to fr iends and acquaintances(相识的人）.What many people tend to forget is that they can also use networking sites for professional reasons. It is actually a great way of finding out about upcoming job opportunities. Friends might know about job vacancies that may not be advertised elsewhere or they can even recommend their friends for certain jobs. Even people already employed can promote their business online. This is particularly important for artists, actors and musicians who can create pages devoted to their band or theatre company, and inform fans about their gigs(现场演唱会）or latest exhibitions. In addition, the sites can be used to allow the public to give instant feedback on the artists‘ work and to interact with their favourite artist.Another great advantage of social networking sites is how easy it is to organise an event with your friends. Thanks to different settings people can organise their friends by different criteria(标准）. These criteria could be how close friends they are, common interests and hobbies or where they live. This means if a certain event takes place, for example, an open-air concert or a football match, all they have to do is invite the right group of friends to attend. Some networking sites offer a range of quizzes and games, so friends living on opposite sides of the globe can invite each other to participate and compete in a variety of games without leaving their homes.Keys:Social networking sites benefit people in several different ways. Not only do they allow people to keep in close touch with friends old or new ,but they provide potential job opportunities and encourage online business promotion plus interaction.Moreover, they facilitate the organization of various events, connecting people with similar hobbies or preferences globally.(54words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Are we born with a preference for certain kinds of faces? Or is it just something that people learn, without realizing it? To find out, psychologist Judith Langlois and her team at the University of Texas in Austin worked with young children and babies.The researchers showed each baby photos of two faces. One face was more attractive than the other. The scientists then recorded how long the infants looked at each face.Babies spent longer viewing the attractive faces than the unattractive ones. That meant they preferred the pretty faces. These findings suggest that people prefer pretty faces very early in life. However, it‘s still possible that we learn that preference. After all, Schein, who worked with Judith, points out, ―By the time we test infants, they already have experience with faces.‖That experience can make a difference. Research conducted at the University of Delaware found that babies‘ brains are better at processing faces from their own race. So infants quickly come to prefer these faces, Schein says.It‘s well-known in psychology that familiar things are more attractive, says Coren Apicella. She is a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ―Perhaps average faces aremore attractive because they seem more familiar.‖Indeed, her research backs this up. Apicella and Little worked with two groups of young adults: British and Hadza. The Hadza are hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, a nation in East Africa. Apicella chose them for her experiment because they had not been exposed to Western culture and standards of beauty.She showed people from both groups two images and asked which was more attractive. One image was an average of five British faces or five Hadza faces. The other was an average of 20 British faces or 20 Hadza faces. People of both cultures preferred the face that was more average —that is, compiled from 20 faces instead of five. The British participants found both Hadza and British faces beautiful. The Hadza, in contrast, preferred only Hadza faces.―The Hadza have little experience with European faces and probably do not know what an average European face looks like,‖ Apicella concludes. ―If they don't know what it looks like, how can they prefer it?‖Her findings show how biology and the environment work together to shape our values. ―The prefere nce for average itself is biologically based,‖ Apicella says. But people must first experience other faces to learn what an average face should look like.Keys:Babies‘ preference to attractive faces indicates people begin to prefer pretty faces at an early age. Researches show average faces are more attractive because they are more familiar to people. Meanwhile, people‘s experience with faces matters a lot. The more people experience with certain faces, the more preference they will have to the average of these faces. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. This kind of loneliness is not serious. In fact, it is quite normal. For some people, though, loneliness can last for years. Now researchers say there are three different types of loneliness, namely, temporary loneliness, situational loneliness, and chronic(长期的) loneliness.The first kind of loneliness is temporary. This is the most common type. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention. The second kind, situational loneliness, is a natural result of a particular situation - for example a family problem, the death of a loved one, or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, such as headaches and sleeplessness, it usually does not last for more than a year. The third kind of loneliness is the most severe. Unlike the second type, chronic loneliness usually lasts more than two years and has no specific cause. People who experience habitual loneliness have problems in socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many chronically lonely people think there is little or nothing they can do to improve their condition.Psychologists agree that one important factor in loneliness is a person‘s social contacts, e.g. friends, family members, co-workers, etc. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us emotional support, our parents share similar interests and activities. However, psychologists have found that, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more. They question their own popularity.Keys:There are three types of Loneliness.Temporary loneliness disappears quickly and can be neglected. Situational loneliness is caused by the change of circumstance, which may lead to problems.Chronic Loneliness lasts the longest and is harmful. The victims often feel hopeless. Loneliness is usually caused when people need more social contacts than they have. (53 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Around the world, music therapy is being used to treat different medical conditions and illnesses. Some of the ways people use music therapy are to reduce pain, such as in childbirth or during cancer treatments, or to stimulate brain activity alter an injury or money loss. Music therapy has also been successful in aiding children to overcome disabilities. Children can move their bodies with the music and stamp along to the beat.Why is music a useful therapy? Music is soothing and relaxing, but it also stimulates ourbrains. Emotionally and physically, we respond to the sounds of music. But the complexity of music provokes (激发)the biggest response. Thus, classical music is most typically used for therapies dueto complex sounds and patterns. Playing a musical instrument rather than simply listening to music can also be therapeutic for some people, helping relieve stress and anxiety.Music has been shown to reduce pain in cancer patients by increasing the release endorphin (内啡肽).Endorphins are the body‘s natural painkillers, and when we listen to music, our brains respond by releasing these natural painkillers. It has also been known to contribute to the brain development of the babies who have just been born and even babies still in the mother‘s womb. Certain types of music have also been found to lower blood pressure and slow a person's heart rate. Al present, music therapy is used in a variety of settings such as hospitals, nursing homes, day cares and schools.Although music therapy is not yet considered a mainstreamtreatment, it is recognized more and more as a useful addition to traditional treatment. Sonext time you are feeling low or stressed out, put on some relaxing music and let the music heal you.Keys:Music therapy is a useful way to treat illness. Because our brain can be stimulated by responding to music, different kinds of music have different effects. The principle of music therapy is to increase the release of endorphins to produce effects to help treatment. Although music therapy is not used widely, it is regarded as an effective additional to treatment. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Airline seats have been one-size-fits-all since the beginning. Today, those 16.5 to 18-inch wide seats are anything but.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), obesity(肥胖症)has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, more than 1.9 billion adults were overweight, and over 600 million were obese.The unchanged seat size and increase of obese passengershighlight the conflict betweenairlines‘ needs and basic passenger rights.Last month, lawyer Giorgio Destro,an Italian lawyer, sued Emirates, claiming his flight was disrupted by an obese passenger seated next to him. According to reports, Destro was not able to comfortably sit in his assigned seat, and spent much of the nine-hour flight standing or sitting in crew seats, because a 400-pound passenger took up half of his seat.Many airlines have responded to the growing obesityby insisting passengers of size buy two seats to ensure safety and comfort. Samoa Air, for example, is charging by weight (which has become known as a ―fat tax‖). At first glance, the fat tax issue sounds discriminatory (歧视的), but some argue that this is purely down to numbers. A kilo is a kilo. It has nothing to do with the condition of the weight.The heavier a plane is, the more fuel it burns through.In other words, the argument is whether it is fair that a 150-pound person is charged for their 50-pound bag, when a 300-pound person with a carry-on isn‘t charged anything extra.However, Peggy Howell of NAAFA argues that obesity is an illness, and that obese people should be entitled to having certain rights protected.―We question the legality of the discriminatory policy and whether it viol ates the Air Carrier Access Act governing the treatment of passengers with disabilities,‖ she says. ―The American Medical Association (AMA) recently declared obesity a disease, which should make fat passengers a protected class.‖Howell points out that the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) addressed this issue in 2009, and issued a ‗one-person, one-fare‘ ruling covering passengers with disabilities. Those passengers include ones who are ‗clinically obese‘ and who cannot fit into a single seat.Keys:With the increasing obesity, airline one-size-fits-all seats can‘t satisfy the needs of obese passengers. To solve the conflict between airlines‘ needs and passenger rights, many airlines ask overweight passengers to pay more to fly, because a heavier plane burns more fuel. However, objectors think the disabled, including fat passengers, should be protected instead of being charged more. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Gene Therapy―We used to think that our fate was in our stars, but now we know that, in large measure, our fate is in our genes,‖ said James Watson. Watson is a molecular(分子的) biologist and co-discoverer of DNA structure. Why? Scientists are seeing that gene therapy is revolutionizing the treatment of disease.In gene therapy, healthy genes are introduced into defective (有缺陷的) cells to prevent or cure disease. While much of the research is in the beginning stages, some successes point to the real benefit of the therapy. In Italy, doctors have recently treated one genetic disease with gene therapy. This disease most often begins to destroy the brain when children are between 1 and 2, stopping them from walking and talking. By inserting normal, healthy genetic material into a virus and then infecting the patients, scientists seem to be able to cure the disease. Although the children given the therapy still need follow-up treatments, they now lead a relatively normal life.Gene therapy has also been used to help older patients. These people suffer from a disease that causes slow movement and uncontrollable shaking because part of the brain dies. Those treated with gene therapy showed a 23.1 percent improvement when tested six months later.Gene therapy appears to be a more positive alternative to surgery or medicine and is an exciting new approach that is just making the news. Researchers hope that in the coming years, every genetic disease will have gene therapy as its treatment. But more research is needed to assure its safety.Keys:Gene therapy, which prevents or cures disease by inserting healthy genes into defective cells rather than by means of surgery or medicine, is changing the treatment of disease revolutionarily. Though in the initial phases, gene therapy has been successful in treating both children and older patients with genetic disease. However, more research is called for to ensure its security. (59 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Teaching Is “One of the Least Popular Jobs in the UK”The UK government has just published a report on the future of secondary school teaching, and the conclusion of the report is that many secondary schools now face great difficulties in finding people who want to be teachers. Since the 1980s, the number of graduates who would ―seriously consider‖ teaching as a career has fallen sharply, from 64% in 1982 to just 17% today. The report suggests that urgent action needs to be taken in order to encourage more intelligent young graduates into teaching.The main drawback（缺点）of secondary teaching, according to the report, is the low salary. Earnings in teaching are much lower than in many other jobs. Joanne Manners, 24, is a good example: ―I graduated in maths last year, and I was thinking of doing a teacher-training course to become a maths teacher---but I saw I could earn twice as much if I worked in marketing or advertising, so I decided not to become a teacher.‖It's not just about the money, however. The survey concluded that another reason why people don‘t want to be teachers is that some teenagers behave very badly in school. A lot of schools have problems with discipline, and it seems clear that children do not have the same respect for teachers as in the past. Here‘s the view of Dave Hallam, an accountant from London: ―I think parents are to blame. They should have stricter rules with their children at home and also teach their children to have more respect for teachers.‖The report is clear that the problem of teacher shortage is a very serious one. It says that the government should raise teachers‘ pay significantly, to catch up with workers in o ther professions. It also indicates that the government could launch a nationwide publicity campaign, with some advertisements on TV and in the newspapers, to show the positive sides of teaching to young people.Keys:Secondary schools in UK experienced difficulties recruiting young teachers. The reasons are low salary and kid‘s bad behavior, which push talents to business occupations with twice income. Therefore, poorly behaved students need to obey stricter rules and parents need to discipline them at home. Also, government should increase teachers‘ income and promote a teaching campaign todisplay teaching‘s bright side. (60 words)/It is reported that many secondary schools in UK have trouble enrolling young teachers due to the low salary and the bad behavior of the youth in school. To change the situation, parents should be strict with the kids to back teachers up and the government are encouraged to improve teachers‘ income and publicize the positive image of teaching. (59 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Do you find getting up in the 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.Keys:Everyone has an energy cycle, which is individually different. When your body temperature reaches the peak, you‘ll feel most energetic. Though we can‘t change the cycle, we can form some habits to make our life fit better and avoid many conflicts with people. Additionally, getting off to work with a minimum effort helps save our energy. (60 words)IV. Summary WritingDirections: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible.Now another American education icon may be disappearing: the hardbound textbook. More and more school districts are replacing traditional textbooks with electronic ones. Electronic textbooks are usually accessed either through an online server or are downloaded to student laptops.In North Texas, Plano and Irving schools are introducing e-books into a few classrooms, and Lancaster school officials also are considering them. But no local district appears to be going as far as Forney. The district most likely would be the first in the state to use e-books in every classroom for grades five to twelve.Officials point out several reasons for turning to e-books. For one, they are easier to update. Thus the publishers are able to find ways to do online textbooks and they can go back and change information. Using e-books will better prepare students for college and the workplace.Rapid district growth is another reason. The number of the students in the district is expected to double within five years. It‘s difficult to know textbook needs in advance and some students wait months for their books. But e-books can be uploaded onto a ―blank‖ laptop in a few hours.Cost may eventually be a deciding cause for choosing e-books, but here are no big savings yet. Even if they get it electronically, they still have to pay for the book because they‘re buying the instructional material. That may change as more and more districts move towards e-books.Today‘s students have little trouble adjusting to laptops and e-books, said Connie Cooley, who has taught at the Academy of Irving ISD for five years. But she said it could worry teachers.―It‘s harder for people who are right around my age and older.‖ said Ms. Cooley, 36. ―I‘m。
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我真希望自己的文章有朝一日能见报。 二十世纪末中国经济迅速发展。 为买一双运动鞋而通宵排队有意义吗？ 虽然当时我年幼，不理解这部电影的含义，但我记得我的家人都感动得落泪了。 我阿姨苦读四年之后获得了文凭，那一刻她欣喜万分。
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金山英语高考一模试卷
一、听力部分（共25小题，每小题1.5分，满分37.5分）Section A1. W: Hi, John! Are you ready for the English exam?M: Yes, I think so. I've studied hard for it.Q: What are they talking about?2. W: The weather is so hot today. Do you think we should take an umbrella?M: No, I don't think it will rain.Q: What does the man mean?3. W: I can't find my book. Do you know where it is?M: I think you left it on the table.Q: What is the woman looking for?4. W: How do you like your new job?M: It's interesting, but it's also challenging.Q: What does the man think about his new job?5. W: Have you seen my brother? He's not home yet.M: Yes, I saw him at the supermarket.Q: Where did the man see the woman's brother?Section B6. W: Can you help me with my homework?M: Sure, I can help you with it.Q: What does the man mean?7. W: I think I'll go to the gym after school.M: That's a good idea. It will help you stay healthy.Q: What does the man suggest?8. W: I can't find my phone. Do you know where it is?M: I think you left it in your bag.Q: What is the woman looking for?9. W: How was your vacation?M: It was great. I went to the beach and had a lot of fun.Q: What did the man do during his vacation?10. W: I'm going to study abroad next year.M: That's amazing. I wish I could do the same.Q: What does the man think about the woman's plan?二、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）passage 1Last year, my family decided to go on a trip to the Great Wall of China. It was my first time visiting such a famous place, and I was excited to see it with my own eyes.We arrived at the Great Wall early in the morning. The sun was rising, and the sky was filled with beautiful colors. As we walked along the wall, we could see the mountains in the distance. The view was breathtaking.The Great Wall is an amazing engineering achievement. It's said that it took thousands of workers and many years to build. We learned a lot about the history and culture of China from our guide.I was amazed by the length and height of the wall. It's so big that it can be seen from space! We also visited a watchtower, where we could see the wall from above. It was an unforgettable experience.passage 2The Internet has become an integral part of our lives. It has revolutionized the way we communicate, access information, and do business. However, with great power comes great responsibility.One of the most significant advantages of the Internet is the ease of communication. We can now connect with people from all over the world in seconds. This has greatly facilitated global cooperation and understanding.Another advantage is the access to a vast amount of information. With just a few clicks, we can find information on any topic. This has made learning and research much more efficient.However, the Internet also has its drawbacks. One of the biggest issues is cyberbullying. Many people use the anonymity of the Internet to harass and intimidate others. This can have severe consequences on the mental health of the victims.Another problem is the spread of misinformation. With the ease of sharing information, it's difficult to discern between fact and fiction. This can lead to confusion and even panic.In conclusion, the Internet is a powerful tool that can bring many benefits. However, we must be responsible users and ensure that we use it for good purposes.passage 3Exercise is essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. It not only improves physical fitness but also has numerous mental health benefits.Regular exercise can help reduce stress levels. When we exercise, our bodies release endorphins, which are natural mood lifters. This can help us feel more relaxed and happy.Exercise also helps improve our cognitive function. Studies have shown that regular physical activity can enhance memory, attention, and problem-solving skills. This is especially important for students who need to stay focused and productive.In addition to the mental health benefits, exercise is crucial for maintaining physical health. It can help prevent chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Regular exercise also strengthens bones and muscles, making us more resistant to injuries.However, it's important to choose the right type of exercise for our needs. Some people prefer cardio exercises, while others enjoy strength training or yoga. It's essential to find an activity that we enjoy and can stick to.In conclusion, exercise is a vital component of a healthy lifestyle. By incorporating regular physical activity into our daily routines, we can improve our overall well-being.三、完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）Many people believe that happiness is a goal to be achieved. However, happiness is not something that can be obtained through external means. Instead, it is an internal state that we can cultivate.The first step to cultivating happiness is to focus on the present moment. Often, we are too concerned about the future or regretting the past. By living in the present, we can appreciate the beauty of life and find joy in the small things.Another important aspect of happiness is gratitude. We often take for granted the things we have in life. By expressing gratitude, we can acknowledge the blessings we receive and appreciate them more.Additionally, practicing kindness and helping others can also contribute to our happiness. When we help others, we feel a sense of fulfillment and purpose. This can improve our self-esteem and overall well-being.However, happiness is not always easy to achieve. We may face challenges and setbacks along the way. It's important to be resilient and maintain a positive mindset. By embracing difficulties as opportunities for growth, we can learn and improve ourselves.In conclusion, happiness is a state of mind that we can cultivate through mindfulness, gratitude, kindness, and resilience. By focusing onthe present, appreciating what we have, and helping others, we can create a life filled with joy and fulfillment.四、写作部分（共1题，满分25分）Write an essay of about 150 words on the following topic: The Importance of Environmental Protection.In recent years, environmental protection has become a global concern. The rapid development of technology and industrialization has led to serious environmental problems, such as air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. As a result, it is crucial for us to take immediate action to protect our environment.Firstly, environmental protection is essential for the survival of our planet. The natural resources on Earth are finite, and if we continue to exploit them without consideration, we may face severe consequences, such as natural disasters and the loss of biodiversity.Secondly, environmental protection is closely related to our health and well-being. Air and water pollution can cause various diseases, leading to a decline in our quality of life. Therefore, we need to take responsibility for our actions and strive to reduce pollution.Lastly, environmental protection is a shared responsibility. It requires the cooperation and participation of individuals, governments, and organizations. By working together, we can create a sustainable and healthy environment for future generations.In conclusion, environmental protection is of great importance. We should all take action to protect our planet and ensure a better future for ourselves and our descendants.。
2016年金山区初三英语一模卷
2016年金山区英语一模(试卷含答案)Part 1 Listening （第一部分听力）I. Listening comprehension (听力理解) (共30 分)A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) (6 分)B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear(根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案)：(8分)7. A) By bus. B) By bike. C) By train. D) On foot.8. A) A star. B) A doctor. C) A reporter. D) A nurse.9. A) On Wednesday. B) On Thursday. C) On Friday. D) On Saturday.10. A) See the new movie. B) Go shopping.C) Go swimming. D) Read comics.11. A) The restaurant. B) The bank. C) The library. D) The photo shop.12. A) For 5 years. B) For 7 years. C) For 8 years. D) Four 15 years.13. A) Mother and son. B) Shop assistant and customer.C) Teacher and student. D) Doctor and patient.14. A) She was stuck in traffic. B) She got up later than usual.C) She left home too late. D) Her car broke down.C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的内容, 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示) (7分)15. A lot of the visitors came to the village in order to end their lives.16. If someone looked unhappy or worried, he would be watched all day by the villagers.17. One night a young woman visitor looked different and walked towards the sea.18. The villager rushed at the young woman to ask her for the key.19. The young woman lost the key to the door when she played on the seashore.20. The woman looked for the key at night because she would leave there early the next morning.D. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences（听短文，完成下列内容。
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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分考试吋间：120分钟） 2016.12Listening Comprehension 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 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.A. At the airport.B. At the hotel.C. At the restaurant.D. At the railway station.A. On TV.B. On the Internet.C. From the newspaper.D. From a friend.A. Husband and wife.B. Policeman and driver.C. Passenger and bus conductor.D. Boss and secretary.A. At 1:00 pm.B. At 1:30 pm.C. At 2:00 pm.D. At 2:30 pm.A. She found it very interesting.She found it very boring.She found it enjoyable during the first 30 minutes.She found it enjoyable after the first 30 minutes.A. Make a recovery plan.B. Find a full-time job.C. Drop out of school.D. Resign from her present job.A. Shopping with his son.B. Promoting a new product.C. Buying a gift for a kid.D. Bargaining with a salesgirl.A. He is always late for work.He is having some financial problems.He is not careful enough with his work.He loses his temper easily.A. It is too hot in the room.She wants to avoid meeting people.She wants to smoke a cigarette outside.She doesn’t like the smell of smoke inside.A. Everyone in the company likes Mr. Dale.Mr. Dale has become director of the department.Mr. Dale gets on very well with his colleague.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. n. A. Art history class is taught in the lecture hall.Mentally disabled children are taught outside the classroom.Professors teach through real world experiences.Students appreciate classroom learning.A. To praise the professor.B. To support his point of view.C. To praise his friend.D. To advise us to study psychology.A. Learning through firsthand experience is important.B. Students learn a lot from textbooks.Students develop their creativity through textbooks.Students get firsthand information from textbooks.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.A. Consumers find TV advertisements too dull.Consumers travel more now than ever before.Out-of-home ads are more beautifully made.Out-of-home ads are easier to understand.A. Quick to update.B. Pleasant to look at.C. Easy to remember.D. Convenient to obtain.A. Comparison of different kinds of advertising.New forms of effective advertising.The disadvantages of traditional advertising.Effective ways to do effective advertisements.Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.A. Her story of completing a task.B. Her experience of being lost.C. Her trip abroad.D. Her success in career.A. Met his friends.B. Attended a lecture.C. Gave a performance.D. Had a trip.A. By following a man.B. By looking at a map.C. By asking an old woman.D. By asking the policeman for help.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 Vocabulary Section 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. 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.A. brakeB. victimsC. issuedD. confirmedE. paceF. typicallyG. multiple H. critically I. slippery J. canceled K. visibilityNINE 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 Zhe jinag 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 were 36_____ 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. ReadingComprehension Section BDirections: 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 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? That5s 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.A. numerousB. clearC. dangerousD. brightA. pointsB. mattersC. solutionD. barriersA. responseB. rejectionC. acceptanceD. methodsA. rapidlyB. properlyC. timelyD. widelyA. arouseB. cultivateC. declineD. speedA. techniqueB. thirstC. passionD. needA. ideaB. thoughtC. doubtD. puzzleA. subjectB. aimC. projectD. discoveryA. decreasedB. changedC. increasedD. lengthenedA. madeB. acceptedC. dismissedD. discussedA. OtherwiseB. On the contraryC. For exampleD. ThereforeA. setting asideB. breaking outC. turning outD. taking apartA. questionsB. thoughtsC. eyesD. brainsA. cut upB. cut offC. turn downD. turn offA. expandingB. runningC. thoughtD. 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 ^row 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 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 old er 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 daijy life. At the year’s end, Rose finished the colleg e 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)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 what 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, out 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 eliminatin g 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 yo u 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 youneed.A. Men and women dream about different things.B. A person5s dreams and the meaning of those dreams are between the person and God alone.C. A criminal, for example, might dream about crime.D. However, one thing they agree on this: If you dream that something terrible is going to occur, you shouldn't panic.E. Dreams allow people to express the feelings, thoughts, and fears that they are afraid to express in real life.F. He thought people could learn more about themselves by thinking about their dreams.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), Freudwrote 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 exampre, 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 notmean that some terrible event will actually take place. It's important to remember that the world of dreams is not the real world.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 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. Habi t can help, Dr. Kleitman believes. Maybe you’re sleepy in the evening butfeel 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.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。
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2017 年普通高等学校招生全国统一考试（上海卷）英语试卷第I 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.Who has given up smoking?A. Jack.B. Frank.C. The woman.2.Why does the woman apologize to the man?3.What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?A.Salesgirl and customer.B. Passenger and driver.C. Wife and husband.4.What is the woman’ s opinion about the course?A.Too hard.B. Worth taking.C. Very easy.5.What is the woman doing?A.She is apologizing.B. She is complaining.C. She is worrying.第二节（共15 小题，每小题 1.5 分, 满分 22.5 分）听下面 5 段对话或独白。
每段对话或独白后几个小题，从题中所给的 A 、 B、 C 三个选项中选出虽佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。
听每段对话或独白前，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。
每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第 6 段材料，回答第6、 7 题。
2017届上海市金山区中考一模(即期末)英语试题及答案
金山区2017学年度第一学期期末质量抽查试卷初三英语（满分150分，完卷时间100分钟） 01考生注意：本卷有7大题，共94小题。
试题均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题卡上完成，做在试卷上不给分。
Part 1 Listening （第一部分听力）I. Listening comprehension (听力理解) (共30 分)A. Listen and choose the right picture （根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片）（6分）A B C DE F G HB. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案) （8分）7. A) Canada.B) Australia.C) England. D) America. 8.A) Juice.B) Water. C) Coffee. D) Milk. 9. A)Playing theguitar. B) Going jogging. C) Their hobbies.D) Their work. 10. A) A teacher and a student.C) A shop assistant anda customer.B) A doctor and a patient.D) A policeman and a thief.11 A)Because it ’s dull B)Because it ’s toodifficultC)Because it ’s useless. D)Becauseit ’s special.12A)Worried. B) Excited.. C) Great. D) Angry.13 . A) Two days. B) Three days.C) Five days. D) Ten days.14 A) He likes home. B) He is afraid ofstorms.C) He wants an umbrella. D) He doesn’t want togo to school.C. Listen to the passage and tell the following statements are true or false. (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示。
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.。
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One【2071虹口区】A Cashless SocietyThere is nothing worse than feeling around in your pocket trying to find some small changegood to know that new __41__ is making cash --to pay for a newspaper or a coffee. So it‘sbanknotes and coins -- a thing of the past, turning us into a cashless society.Today, many of us already use credit and debit cards for __42__ transactions(交易) sothere‘s no need to carry around huge amounts of money. And now it‘s __43__ to make contactless payments using tap-and-go cards which are regular bankcards but with a built-in chip. The cardreader __44__ a radio signal and, when you bring the card close to the reader, the chip picks upthe signal to make the payment.-- an informal name for a credit card -- can __45__money this way or spending on ―plastic‖ put you at risk of fraud (诈骗). Criminals try to steal cards, or the information on them, to make__46__ online or in shops, which, as a result, adds too much difficulty to the police‘s d30. And, if someone doeswork. __47__, contactless payment is capped -- in the UK the limit is ￡go on a crazy spending with your card, your bank covers you against the loss. Also, the __48__ ofchip and PIN technology has even been helping businesses by cutting the time people spend at thecashier‘s in shops and has led to a(n) __49__ in fraud.But, if getting your bankcard out seems like too much trouble, there‘s now a __50__ using wearable technology -- something you can wear that include computer and electronic technologies.Kenneth Cukier, economist and technology expert, says ―this is __51__ for people who don‘t to take their card out of their wallet, or use their phone, or use their watch. People are going to bemaking more purchases more of the time -- __52__ for small-valued goods.‖And, although our mobile phones are another way of making payments, BBC reporter KatereadsRussell says that when this is __53__ you can use the fingo-pay (指纹支付) system which ―the unique maps of veins under the surface of your finger.‖ The trick is remembering which finger-fashioned cash might save the day! What doyou __54__ with in the bank -- that‘s when good oldyou __55__ to use when you buy something?41. A. experiment B. evidence C. technology D. analysis42. A. financial B. equal C. economical D. moderate43. A. definite B. possible C. formal D. legal44. A. work out B. makes out C. gives out D. sends out45. A. Refunding B. Depositing C. Paying D. Withdrawing46. A. bargains B. purchases C. preparations D. troubles47. A. Similarly B. Meanwhile C. Furthermore D. However48. A. introduction B. contact C. cooperation D. extension49. A. rise B. drop C. change D. increase50. A. question B. reason C. concept D. solution51. A. reserved B. provided C. intended D. chosen52. A. particularly B. specially C. simply D. purposefully53. A. inexact B. unnecessary C. impractical D. inconvenient54. A. cancelled B. registered C. tested D. restricted55. A. attempt B. demand C. prefer D. aimKeys:41-55: CABDC BDABD CADBCTwo【20171黄浦区】Traditionally uniforms were manufactured to protect the worker. When they were firstdesigned, it is also likely that all uniforms made symbolic sense —those for the military, forexample, were originally __41__ to impress and even terrify the enemy; other uniforms indicateda distinction in __42__—chefs wore white because they worked with flour, but the main chefwore a black hat to show he inspected and supervised.The last 30 years, however, have seen an increasing __43__ on their role in mirroring theimage of an organization and in uniting the workforce, particularly in ―customer facing‖From uniforms and workwear has emerged ―__44__ clothing‖. ―The people you employ are your ambassadors (大使),‖ says Peter Griffin, managing director of a major retailer in the UK. ―they say, how they look, and how they behave is of vital importance.‖ From being a simple mean of __45__ who is a member of staff, the uniform is emerging as a new channel of marketingcommunication.Truly effective marketing through __46__ images such as uniforms is a subtle art, however.How we look sends all sorts of powerful messages to other people. Dark colours give a sense of__47__ while lighter colour shades suggest approachability. Certain dress style creates a sense ofconservatism (守旧), while others a sense of __48__ to new ideas. If the company is sellingquality, then it must have quality uniforms. If it is selling style, its uniforms must be stylish. If itwants to appear __49__, everybody can‘t look exactly the same.But turning corporate philosophies into the right combination of colour, style, degree ofbranding and uniformity is not always __50__. According to Company Clothing magazine, thereare 1000 companies supplying the workwear and corporate clothing market. Of these, 22 __51__for 85% of total sales —￡380 million in 1994.A successful uniform needs to __52__ two key sets of needs. On the one hand, no uniformwill work if staff feel uncomfortable or ugly. On the other hand, it is __53__ if the look doesn‘t express the business‘s marketing strategy. The greatest challenge in this respect is time. When itcomes to human awareness, first impressions count. Customers will assess the way staff look injust a few seconds, and that few seconds will __54__ their attitudes from then on. Those fewseconds can be so important that big companies are prepared to __55__ years, and millions ofpounds, getting them right.41. A. intended B. tended C. extended D. attended42. A. statue B. stability C. status D. statistics43. A. preference B. argument C. compliment D. emphasis44. A. cooperate B. political C. corporate D. academic45. A. exposing B. identifying C. qualifying D. requesting46. A. studio B. audio C. visual D. casual47. A. clarity B. authority C. availability D. accessibility48. A. exposure B. rejection C. reluctance D. openness49. A. stable B. uniform C. innovative D. similar50. A. smooth B. disagreeable C. objective D. complex51. A. exchange B. call C. stand D. account52. A. establish B. balance C. neglect D. desert53. A. pointless B. significant C. useful D. careless54. A. maintain B. shape C. draw D. value55. A. commit B. command C. dedicate D. investKeys:41-55 ACDCB CBDCA DBABDThree【20171浦东新区】Everybody loves to hate invasive species. The international list of invasive species—defined as those that were introduced by humans to new places, and then __41__ — runs to over 4,000. In Australia and New Zealand hot war is fought against introduced creatures like cane toads (蔗蟾蜍) and rats.Some things that are uncontroversial(无争议的) are nonetheless foolish. With a few important exceptions, campaigns to __42__ invasive species are merely a waste of money and effort — for reasons that are partly practical and partly philosophical.Start with the practical arguments. Most invasive species are neither terribly successful norvery__43__. Britons think themselves surrounded by foreign plants. __44__, Britain‘sinvasive plants are not widespread, not spreading especially quickly, and often less of a(n) __45__ than vigorous native plants. The arrival of new species almost always __46__ biological diversity (多样性) in a region; in many cases, a flood of newcomers drives no native species to extinction. One reason is that invaders tend to colonise __47__ habitats like polluted lakes and post-industrial wasteland, where little else lives. They are nature‘s opportunists.The philosophical reason for starting war on the invaders is also __48__. Elimination campaigns tend to be __49__ by the belief that it is possible to restore balance to nature —to return woods and lakes to the state before human __50__. That is misguided. Nature is an everlasting mess, with species constantly emerging, withdrawing and hybridizing (杂交). Humans have only quickened these processes. Going back to ancient habitats is becoming __51__ in any case, because of man-made climate change. Taking on the invaders is a(n) __52__ gesture, not a means to an achievable end.A reasonable attitude to invaders need not imply passivity. A few foreign species are truly__53__ and should be fought: the Nile perch – a fish, has helped drive many species of fish to extinction in Lake Victoria. It makes sense to __54__ pathogens(病菌), especially those that destroy whole native tree species, and to stop known agricultural pests from gaining a foothold. Fencing off wildlife reserves to create open-air ecological museums is fine, too. And it is a goodidea for European gardeners to destroy Japanese plants, just as they give no apace to native harmful grasses like bindweed and ground elder. You can garden in a garden. You cannot garden__55__. That is universally accepted.41. A. multiplied B. shrunk C. disappeared D. harvested42. A. conserve B. eliminate C. investigate D. prioritize43. A. healthy B. intentional C. harmful D. profitable44. A. As a result B. For example C. By contrast D. In fact45. A. attraction B. dominance C. annoyance D. substitute46. A. increases B. destroys C. reveals D. targets47. A. oppressed B. disturbed C. cultivated D. preserved48. A. acceptable B. needless C. mistaken D. convincing49. A. fuel(l)ed B. organized C. interrupted D. greeted50. A. civilization B. interference C. interaction D. maintenance51. A. tolerable B. impossible C. beneficial D. critical52. A. reluctant B. disorderly C. invalid D. unbalanced53. A. damaging B. flexible C. doubtful D. outstanding54. A. pick up B. take in C. keep out D. turn down55. A. agriculture B. vegetation C. atmosphere D. natureKeys:41—55 ABCDC ABCAB BCACDFour【20171长宁区嘉定区】About five years ago, when the first generation of wearable fitness tracker s became popular, they were announced as the dawn of a revolution. Health experts and busniesspeople alike said that giving people access to real-time calorie (卡路里)- burning and step-count data would inspire them to lose weight, eat better and -most important- ____41____ more. But even as the U.S. marketevidence that their promise isn‘tquite for ___42____ devices hits $7 billion this year, there‘spaying off.The U.S. has an exercise problem, with 28% of Americans ages 50 and over considered wholly___43____. That means 31 million adults move no more than is necessary to perform the most basicfunctions of daily life. Wearables, experts ___44___, wer e going to change that.But limited academic research has been done to figure outwhetherwearables ____45____people‘s behavior in the long term. The little research that does exist isn‘t ____46____. F study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers wanted to see whetheractivity trackers would help overweight people lose more weight over two years than if they just dida weight-loss intervention(干预) alone. They didn‘t. ―We found that just giving people adevicegoing to lead to,‖ says Johngoing to ____47____ something you think it‘sdoesn‘t mean it‘sJakicic, the author of the study, from the University of Pittsburgh. ―These activity trackers don‘t engage people in strategies that make a ___48___ in terms of long-term change‖Another new study highlighted a different challenge: user ____49___. By the end of a yearlongstudy of 800 people, just 10% of participants were still wearing the trackers, according to, EricFinkelstein, a professor at the Duke- NUS Medical School in Singap ore. ―We didn‘t find that Fitbitsreally have much of an effect,‖ he says. This may well be because people expect trackers to do-- ____50____, force them to change their behavior. ―There‘s something they‘re not designed to do____51____ among people about their function, a measurement tool and an intervention,‖ Finkelstein says. A scale counts pounds, ____52____, but won‘t teach you how to eat less.people put these devices on, they might interact with the app(应用程序) for the first few weeks,maybe the first few months, but there comes a point where that starts to fall off,‖ says Finkelste To be ____53___, some of the costlier add higher-tech wearables have features baked into themt of research. Amongthat encourage users to move more, says Shelten Yuen, Fitbit‘s vice presidenthem: shaking sensors, movement reminders and social- media combination, all designed to____54____ users to make better health choices every day. But more research will be needed todetermine whether or not these ____55____ -- or others like them--measurably improve people‘shealth and fitness levels.41. A. learn B. purchase C. exercise D. perform42. A. wearable B. electronic C. hi-tech D. built-in43. A. misunderstood B. inactive C. discourage D. unchangeable44. A. announced B. determined C. hoped D. noticed45. A. limit B. understand C. interpret D. change46. A. encouraging B. interesting C. pioneering D. challenging47. A. benefit from B. result in C. add to D. look for48. A. design B. movement C. profit D. difference49. A. reduction B. participation C. creation D. expectation50. A. namely B. therefore C. however D. shortly51. A. argument B. popularity C. confusion D. interaction52. A. by the way B. in other words C. of course D. for example53. A. fair B. cute C. accessible D. technical54. A. persuade B. motivate C. follow D. teach55. A. concepts B. sensors C. scales D. featuresKeys:41-55 CABCDABDAACDABDFive【20171徐汇区】Two key climate change indicators — global surface temperatures and Arctic sea ice extent — have broken numerous records through the first half of 2016, according to NASA analyses of ground-based observations and satellite data. Each of the first six months of 2016 set a record as the warmest (41)month globally in the modern temperature record, which (42)1880,according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-monthperiod from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, witha(n)(43)temperature 1.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the latenineteenth century.Five of the first six months of 2016 also (44)the smallest respective monthly Arcticsea ice (45)since regular satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developedby scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Maryland. The one (46)_____,March, recorded the second smallest for that month.(47)these two key climate indicators have broken records in 2016, NASA scientistssaid it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continuing theirdecades-long trends of change. Both trends are ultimately driven by rising (48)ofheat-trapping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.The extent of Arctic sea ice at the peak of the summer melt season now typically (49)40percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent inSeptember, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been (50) at a rate of 13.4percent per decade."While the El Nino event in the tropical Pacific this winter (51)thegaining globaltemperatures from October, it is the basic trend which is producing these record numbers," GISS Director Gavin Schmidt said.(52)El Nino events have driven temperatures to what were then record levels, such asin 1998. But in 2016, even as the effects of the recent El Nino wear off, global temperatures haverisen well beyond those of 18 years ago (53)the overall warming that has taken place inthat time.The global trend in rising temperatures falls behind the regional (54)in the Arctic, saidWalt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA Goddard."It has been a record year so far for global temperatures, but the record high temperatures in the Arctic over the past six months have been even more extreme," Meier said. "This warmth as well as unusual weather (55)have led to the record low sea ice extents so far this year."41.A. resistant B. respective C. resolved D. remote42. A. makes sense ofB. keeps up with C. dates back to D. goes ahead of43. A. average B. ordinary C. common D. temporary44. A. confirmed B. witnessed C. involved D. conducted45. A. standard B. content C. amount D. extent46. A. datum B. example C. month D. exception47. A. While B. When C. After D. As48. A. combinations B. reductions C. concentrations D. applications49. A. includes B. covers C. approaches D. indicates50. A. increasing B. changing C. declining D. moving51. A. ended up with B. gave rise to C. broke away from D. resulted from52. A. Frequent B. Natural C. Disastrous D. Previous53. A. in return for B. in case of C. in spite of D. because of54. A. warming B. falling C. gathering D. changing55. A. forecasts B. varieties C. patterns D. illustrationsKEYS:BCABDDACBCSix【20171闵行区】Celebrities, in other word, famous people, have become one of the most importantrepresentatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the publictends to base its consumption on the interest of celebrity attached to a specific ____41____.Besides, fashion magazines have almost ____42____ the practice of putting models on the coverbecause they don't sell nearly as well as famous faces. ____43____, celebrities have realized theirproducts tounbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others‘ developing their own.Celebrity clothing lines aren't a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they werestarted by first-class starstypically aimed at the ____44____ consumers, while today they‘rewhose products enjoy equal fame with some world top ____45____. The most successful start-upshave been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and moreexperienced at the market, they expand their production scale ____46____, covering almost all theproducts of daily life.However, for every success story, there‘sa related warning tale of a celebrity who____47____ his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product‘s origin is, if it ____48____ to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotionalmarketing. And once the initial attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, ____49____returning to labels which have proved to be reliable.Today, celebrities face even more severe ____50____. The pop-cultural circle might bebigger than ever, but its rate of turnover(逆转) has ____51____ as well. Each misstep threatens toreduce a celebrity‘sshelf life and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him____52____ has no problem severely criticizing him and taking everything from him when the(自我的) potential for ____53____ is limitless. Having alreadyopportunity appears. Still, the ego’ｓachieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see ____54____ as the nextfrontier to be conquered. As the saying goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Theirsuccess as designers might last only a short time and as a matter of fact, fashion - like celebrity -has always been ____55____. So the next time celebrities i ntroduce their lines of fashion, let‘s just wait and see how long they will stay.41. A. film B. character C. product D. magazine42. A. abandoned B. promoted C. enhanced D. developed43. A. All in all B. As a result C. Above all D. On the contrary44. A. wealthy B. famous C. special D. ordinary45. A. technologies B. brands C. studios D. producers46. A. rapidly B. moderately C. reluctantly D. carefully47. A. ignored B. disapproved C. overvalued D. estimated48. A. intends B. fails C. manages D. strengthens49. A. loyalty B. promotion C. regret D. disappointment50. A. depression B. failure C. punishment D. embarrassment51. A. slowed down B. called off C. speeded up D. faded away52. A. fame B. fortune C. trouble D. risk53. A. information B. knowledge C. reputation D. expansion54. A. audience B. fashion C. charm D. performance55. A. admirable B. productive C. temporary D. respectableKEYS:CABDB ACBAD CADBCSeven【20171奉贤区】MultitaskingWhat is the first thing you notice when you walk into a shop? The products41 at the entrance? Or the soft background music?But have you ever noticed the smell? Unless it is bad, the answer is likely to be no. But whilea shop's scent may not be outstanding 42 sights and sounds, it is certainly there. And it is providing to be an increasing powerful tool in encouraging people to 43.A brand store has become famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines. A smell may be44but it may not just be used for freshening air. One sports goods company once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers‘45to purchase increased by 80 percent.When it comes to the best shopping streets in Pairs, scent is just as important to a brands 46 as the quality of its window displays and goods on sales. That is mainly because shopping is a very47experience to what it used to be.。