2014学年上海市建平中学高三10月月考试卷

2013-2014学年上海市建平中学月考试卷

II. Grammar and Vocabulary（24分）

Section A（15分）

Directions: Reading the following two passages .Fill in each blank with proper word or the proper form of the given word to make th e passage coherent.Male sure that your answers are grammatically correct.

A

Everyone in the UK should learn at least 1,000 words of another language, urges a new campaign.

The 1,000 Words Campaign stems from concerns____25___ the country is losing out on international trade and jobs because of poor language skills.

It aims to confront the view that only the brightest can learn a language.

"For too long people from the UK have 26 (suffer )from a reputation that we are lazy linguists" said supporter Vicky Gough of the British Council.

" 27 (Speak) another language is crucial to understanding another culture", said Ms Gough.

"So let's overturn our poor record in language learning and show that we are ready to engage with a multilingual world," she urged.

The group say a vocabulary of 1,000 words would allow a speaker to hold a simple conversation.

The challenge is part of Speak to the Future, a wider campaign 28 (back)by organizations including the British Council, the CBI, the British Academy and a range of embassies and language teaching bodies.

This year's A-level results showed a continued fall in those taking French and German, down by 10% and 11% respectively - though Spanish bucked the trend with a 4% rise in entries.

By contrast entries at GCSE for French, German and Spanish were up 16.9% on last year, reversing a long-term downward trend.

This has been put down to the introduction of the EBacc, a league table measure of pupils who achieve GCSE grades A* to C in maths, English, two sciences, a foreign language and history or geography.

However Teresa Tinsley of Speak to the Future told BBC News that because the EBacc is for pupils who achieve good grades, there is evidence that some schools are focusing their language teaching on more able students, whereas businesses need people with language skills at all levels of the workforce.

"Top managers often have language skills but in fact staff 29 jobs involve chasing invoices or buying stock abroad also need to speak another language", said Ms Tinsley.

"A worrying divide is opening up".

Campaign director Bernadette Holmes said: "The idea that everyone can learn the basics of

another language is both realistic and attainable.

"We are not expecting instant fluency. Yet 30 everyone were capable of at least 1,000 words in a new language, social attitudes and economic prospects would be significantly enhanced - young people would be better prepared for the challenges of globalization and our cultural and intellectual levels 31 .(raise)

"I urge everyone in a position of influence to join the campaign and help us achieve this aim."

Speak to the Future is funded by the British Academy and the university-based programme Routes into Languages.

B

A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, 32 （buy)a bag of cookies and found a place to sit.

She was absorbed in her book but happened to see that the man 33 (sit) beside her, as bold as could be, grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between.She tried to ignore to avoid a quarrel. 34 she munched(用力咀嚼) the cookies and watched the clock, as the gutsy cookie thief kept eating.

She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by, thinking,"If I wasn't so nice, I would blacken his eye." With each cookie she took, he took one too. When only one was left, she wondered 35 he would do.

36 a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as heate the other. She snatched it from him and thought...oooh, brother. This guy has some nerve and he's also rude. Why he didn't even show any gratitude!

She had never known when she had been so galled and sighed with relief when her flight was called. She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate, 37 (refuse) to look back at the rude thief. She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat. Then she sought her book, which was almost complete.

As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise. There was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes. If mine is here, she moaned in despair, the others were 38 , and he tried to share.

Too late to apologize, she realized with grief, 39 she was the rude one, the thief.

Section B（9）

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more that you need.

Pilot exhaustion grabbed the headlines this week when a newspaper reported two pilots on a British long-haul flight fell asleep in the cockpit, leaving the packed jet travelling 40 on autopilot.

The survey, released by BALPA, came ahead of a vote in the European Parliament on Monday on new rules which could 41 British regulations.

BALPA, a trade union for pilots, voiced concerns that these proposed changes would water down British safety 42

The rule changes would mean that pilots could work a maximum of 110 hours in a two-week period, more than the 95-hour limit under British regulations, and at night could be expected to fly for up to 11 hours, against a 43 10-hour limit.

"Tiredness is already a major challenge for pilots who are deeply concerned that unscientific new EU rules will cut UK standards and lead to 44 levels of tiredness, which has been shown to be a major contributory 45 in air accidents," BALPA General Secretary Jim McAuslan said in a statement.

British lawmakers, in a report published earlier this month, expressed concern that the new European rules set the limit for the flight duty period at night too high.

But the Association of European Airlines, which represents 31 European airlines, urged 46 for the proposals, saying they would ensure all airlines followed the same rules.

"The new rules would ensure that Europe will continue to have one of the strictest rules in the world, even stricter than today," the body's acting Secretary-General Athar Husain Khan said in a statement.

The Civil Aviation Agency, Britain's aviation regulator, 47 worries about the new rules.

"We think the new European flight time limitation regulations 48 the UK's current high safety levels, and will actually increase safety for UK passengers travelling on some other European airlines," it said in a statement.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A (15’)

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

Teachers need to be aware of the emotional, intellectual, and physical changes that young adults experience. And they also need to give serious 49 to how they can be best adapted such changes. Growing bodies need movement and 50 , but not just in ways that emphasize competition. 51 they are adjusting to their new bodies and a whole host of new intellectual and emotional challenges, teenagers are especially self conscious and need the 52 that comes from achieving success and knowing that their accomplishments are 53 by others. However, the typical teenage lifestyle is already filled with so much competition that it would be 54 to plan activities in which there are more winners than losers, 55 , publishing newsletters with many student-written book reviews, 56 student artwork, and sponsoring book discussion clubs.

A variety of small clubs can provide 57 opportunities for leadership, as well as for practice in successful 58 dynamics(互动). Making friends is extremely important to teenagers, and many shy students need the security of some kind of organization with a 59 adult visible in the background.

In these activities, it is important to remember that the young teens have 60 attention spans. A variety of activities should be organized 61 participants can remain active as long as

they want and then go on to something else without feeling guilty and without letting the other participants down.This does not mean that adults must accept irresponsibility. 62 ,they can help students acquire a sense of commitment by 63 for roles that are within their capability and their attention spans and by having clearly stated rules.

49.[A] thought [B]idea [C] opinion [D] advice

50.[A] care [B] nutrition [C] exercise [D] leisure

51.[A] If [ B] Although [C] Unless [D] Because

52.[A] assistance [B] guidance [C] confidence [D] tolerance

53.[A] claimed [B] admired [C] ignored [D] overtaken

54.[A] improper [B] risky [C] fair [D] wise

55.[A] in effect [B] as a result [C] for example [D] in a sense

56.[A] displaying [B] describing [C] creating [D] exchanging

57.[A] rare [B]reasonable [C] unique [D]multiple

58.[A] group [B] individual [C] personnel [D] corporation

59.[A] sensitive [B] supportive [C] superior [D]serious

60.[A] similar [B] long [C] different [D] short

61.[A] if only [B] now that [C] so that [D] even if

62.[A] On the contrary [B] On the average [C] On the whole [D] On the other hand

63.[A] making [B] standing [C] planning [D] taking

Section B（24）

Directions: Read the following four passages．Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements．For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D．Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read．

A

In 1993, New York State ordered stores to charge a deposit on beverage (饮料) containers. Within a year, consumers had returned millions of aluminum cans and glass and plastic bottles. Plenty of companies were eager to accept the aluminum and glass as raw materials for new products. But because few could figure out what to do with the plastic, much of it would end up buried in landfills (垃圾填埋场). The problem was not limited to New York. Unfortunately, there were too few uses for second-hand plastic.

Today, one out of five plastic soda bottles is recycled (回收利用) in the United States. The reason for the change is that now there are dozens of companies across the country buying discarded plastic soda bottles and turning them into fence posts, paint brushes, etc.

As the New York experience shows, recycling involves more than simply separating valuable materials from the rest of the rubbish. A discard remains a discard until somebody figures out how to give it a second life —— and until economic arrangements exist to give that second life value. Without adequate markets to absorb materials collected for recycling, throwaways actually depress prices for used materials.

Shrinking landfill space, and rising costs for burying and burning rubbish are forcing local governments to look more closely at recycling. In many areas, the East Coast especially, recycling is already the least expensive waste-management option. For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to saving of more than $100 per ton. Recycling also stimulates the local economy by creating jobs and trims the pollution control and energy costs of industries that make recycled products by giving them a more refined raw material.

64 What regulation was issued by New York State concerning beverage containers?

A) A fee should be charged on used containers for recycling

B) Throwaways should be collected by the state for recycling

C) Consumers had to pay for beverage containers and could get their money back on returning them

D) Beverage companies should be responsible for collecting and reusing discarded plastic soda bottles

65. The key problem in dealing with returned plastic beverage containers is ___________.

A) how to reduce their recycling costs

B) to sell them at a profitable price

C) how to turn them into used things

D) to lower the prices for used materials

66. Recycling had become the first choice for the disposal of rubbish because ____________.

A) recycling causes little pollution

B) other methods are more expensive

C) recycling has great appeal for the jobless

D) local governments find it easy to manage

67. It can be concluded from passage that _________.

A) recycling is to be recommended both economically and environmentally

B) local governments in the U.S. can expect big profits from recycling

C) rubbish is a potential remedy for the shortage of raw materials

D) landfills will still be widely used for waste disposal

(B)

Communications technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first study to compare honesty across a range of communications media has found that people are twice likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded and can come back to haunt (困扰) you — appears to be the key to the finding.

Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, asked 30 students to keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then

worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 per cent of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37 per cent of phone calls.

His results, to be presented at the conference on human-computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected e-mailers to be the biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the detachment (非直接接触) of emailing would make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face exchanges because we are most practised at that form of communication.

But Hancock says it is also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.

People are also more likely to lie in real time — in an instant message or phone call, say —than if they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are spontaneous (脱口而出的) responses to an unexpected demand, such as :“Do you like my dress?”

Hancock hopes his research will help companies work out the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium for sales where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But given his results, work assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.

68. Hancock’s study focuses on _________ .

[A] the consequences of lying in various communications media

[B] the success of communications technologies in conveying ideas

[C] people’s references in selecting communication technologies

[D] people’s honesty levels across a range of communications media

69. According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through certain media of communication?

[A] They are afraid of leaving behind traces of their lies.

[B] They believe that honesty is the best policy.

[C] They tend to be relaxed when using those media.

[D] They are most practised at those forms of communication.

70. According to Hancock, the telephone is a preferable medium for promoting sales because

_________ .

[A] salesmen can talk directly to their customers

[B] salesmen may feel less restrained to exaggerate

[C] salesmen can impress customers as being trustworthy

[D] salesmen may pass on instant messages effectively

71. It can be inferred from the passage that _________ .

[A] honesty should be encouraged in interpersonal communications

[B] more employers will use emails to communicate with their employees

[C] suitable media should be chosen for different communication purposes

[D] email is now the dominant medium of communication within a company

(C)

The question of how to deal with the growing number of retired people has recently been seen as chiefly a financial puzzle: how to pay for the leisure of those ageing layabouts. When Vibram 5 Fingers Bismarck first introduced state pensions in the 1880s, they kicked in at the age of 70, about 20 years more than the typical life span. Nowadays state and company pension schemes kick in at or before 65, almost 20 years less. But the issue is more than just a financial one: it raisesVibram Bikila social as well as economic questions, and its resolution will involve governments, employers and people.

The baby-boom generation, which started to turn 60 this year, contains the largest number of people ever voluntarily to give up work in such a short time. Because it is far larger than the generation that follows it—or any that preceded it—it casts a shadow over the companies it is set to leave behind Vibram Five Fingers Bikila (see article). Japan expects its workforce to shrink by 16% (some 10m people) over the next 25 years. Europe will see the number of workers nearing retirement grow by a quarter. Some companies are already Vibram kso complaining of a shortage of skills, even before they have started to dole out carriage clocks and fountain pens by the barrow-load.

There are several ways of dealing with a falling supply of labour: work might be shifted offshore, to take advantage of abundant cheaper workers in poorer countries; laxer immigration rules mightVibram kso trek allow in more skilled labour from abroad; new equipment could enhance the productivity of a better-educated workforce. But one of the readiest sources of skilled labour is closer to hand.

If staying on at work were up to older employees alone, many would jump at the chance. That is partly because they will no longer be able to retire in the style that they have been led to expect. Corporate pension schemes and health benefits are becoming ever less generous. Last week General Motors joined the line of revisionists with an announcement that it will cap health-care spending by its retired workers. That will not be the last cut.

Baby-boomers say they want to stay in the workforce for more than money. Many also want to carry on working beyond the standard retirement age for the mental stimulation (try that on the next bored-looking 20-year-old you meet in the lift). Their productivity may decline as they get older—although people gain in experience, their capacity for sharp thinking falls off—but the traditional pattern of retirement, in which one day an employee is in a bustling office busy as a bee and the next he is good only for the potting shed and the fireside chair does not make sense for the economy, for companies or for people.

Lastly, older workers need to adapt. In many cultures, age is related to seniority, and therefore to pay. The older the worker, the more expensive he is. Boomers will find work only if they accept that their wages will be based on what they are worth to the company—rather than their salary at the top of their career. Although a shortage of skills might well push up wages for all workers, older ones may nevertheless have to accept a relative decline in salary and status. Baby-boomers have been changing the world since the 1960s. They're about to do it again by turning the world of work upside down.

72. According to the passage, some companies are already concerned about____________.

A)the proper way of giving out retirement souvenirs

B) the growing number of employees leaving the labour force.

C) the impact of ageing employees quitting their jobs

D) the revision of retirement age and pension plans.

73. Old employees may agree to stay on at work beyond the retirement age partly

because________.

A) they can still expect a handsome salary at the top of the career.

B) they are concerned that production will decline as they retire.

C) an upper limit will be set of pension and othe retirement benefit

D) they still need physical and mental stimulation to sharpen theit thinking

74. The passage predicts that they baby-boomers are about to change the world again in

that___________.

A) a brand-new perfomance-based wage system will inevitably be introduced.

B) social productivity will remain high as it has always done.

C) they will be a complete change in training the younger workforce.

D) the current compulsory retirement system will probably cease to exist.

75.Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?

A) Potentially Productivity Ageing Workforce.

B) Social Concern over Pension Plans

C) Resolution of the Financial Puzzle

D) Baby-boomers and their Retirement life

Section C (8%)

Directions: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

Exceptional children are different in some significant ways from others of the same age. For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences.

Although we focus on the needs of exceptional children, we find ourselves describing their environment as well. While the leading actor on the stage captures our attention, we are aware of the importance of the supporting players and the scenery of the play itself. Both the family and the society in which exceptional children live are often the key to their growth and development. And it is in the public schools that we find the full expression of society's understanding - the knowledge, hopes, and fears that are passed on to the next generation.

Education in any society is a mirror of that society. In that mirror we can see the strengths, the weaknesses, the hopes, the prejudices, and the central values of the culture itself. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities.

"All men are created equal," we heard it many times, but it still has important meaning for education in a democratic society. Although the phrase was used by this country's founders to indicate equality before the law, it has also been interpreted to mean equality of opportunity. That concept implies educational opportunity for all children - the right of each child to receive help in learning to the limits of his or her capability, whether that capability is small or great. Recent court decisions have confirmed the right of all children - disabled or not - to an appropriate education, and have ordered that public schools take the necessary steps to provide that education. In

response, schools are modifying their programs, adapting instruction to children who are exceptional, to those who cannot profit substantially from regular programs.

（Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TWELVE WORDS.）

76. This passage is concerned primarily with the necessity of adapting ________________.

77. What affects the growth of exceptional children according to the author?

78. People have shown great interest in the education of exceptional children over the last three decades because they believe that ________________________________________.

79. According to the passage, what does "All men are created equal" mean to the country's founders?

第Ⅱ卷（共45分）

I. Translation (20%)

Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the word or phrase given in the brackets.

1.17年来美国政府第一次关门。（It）

2.是什么导致了游客的不文明行为值得思考。（worthy）

3.我愿借此机会对这些年来一直支持我的人表示感谢。（extend）

4.校园防火不容忽视，否则会对学生的生命和学校的财产造成巨大的损失。（neglect）

5.研究表明经常演奏乐器可以改变大脑的工作方式，从而改善记忆。（way）

II. Guided Writing (25)

Directions: Wire an English composition in 120 –150 words according the instructions given below in Chinese.

本学期，每个班级被要求创建班级博客，班级博客是展示班级风貌，促进同学交流，增强班级管理和家庭联系的网络平台，假如你是班级博客管理员，请你介绍1-2个你所设计的版块，说明各版块的具体内容以及设计的目的。

参考答案

阅读A ：64-67CCBA

阅读B ：68-71 DABC

回答问题：

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77. Their family and the society.

78. all citizens deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities

79. It means/indicates everyone/anyone is equal before the law.