2016年黄浦区高三英语一模试卷(精准校对完整版)

黄浦区2015学年度第一学期高三年级期终调研测试

英语试卷

（完卷时间：120分钟满分：150分）

2016年1月5日

第I卷（共103分）

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A

Directions: 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 the bank. B. In the library.

C. In the restaurant.

D. In the supermarket.

2. A. Travel to Shanghai. B. Have a meeting.

C. Dine with Mr. Kim.

D. Discuss their program.

3. A. Salesman and customer. B. Husband and wife.

C. Manager and secretary.

D. Father and daughter.

4. A. H e didn?t want to come early. B. He carried a heavy bag.

C. He was delayed by a heavy truck.

D. He was held up in a traffic jam.

5. A. The woman will go to the airport by taxi. B. The woman is asking the man for help.

C. The woman?s car has broken down.

D. The woman really likes taking buses.

6. A. He also thinks Tina looks great. B. He thinks Tina should get a new dress.

C. He doesn?t ag ree with the woman.

D. He doesn?t like Tina?s silver dress.

7. A. She moved to Washington when she was young.

B. She can provide little useful information.

C. She will show the man around Washington.

D. She will ask someone else to help the man.

8. A. He can speak German. B. He knows both English and German.

C. He can read German books.

D. He knows nothing about German.

9. A. She couldn?t believe that the news about James was true.

B. She felt sorry for James? being caught cheating by teachers.

C. She thought James shouldn?t have cheated in the final exam.

D. She showed no interest in any news about exams at all.

10. A. He acted in the play at the last minute.

B. He decided to quit at the last minute.

C. He wasn?t supposed to take part in the play.

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D. He made up his mind to act in the play.

Section B

Directions: 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. 9:00am-8:00pm B. 5:00am-9:00pm C. 9:30am-5:30pm D. 5:30am-9:30pm

12. A. Candies. B. Cigarettes. C. Newspapers. D. Stamps.

13. A. Small stores usually have a one-hour break during lunch time.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/cb13880857.html,rge food shops stay open for more hours on Thursday and Friday.

C. Most shops are closed in the afternoon on Tuesday and Thursday.

D. It is convenient for foreign visitors to shop on Sundays.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. 50 million dollars. B. 144 million dollars.

C. 158 million dollars.

D. 160 million dollars.

15. A. It was shown for four days in many countries.

B. It was made and produced in 1973.

C. It was based on the story of wars among planets.

D. It told a story which happened not long ago.

16. A. “Revenge of the Sith” is the best in the series of six “Star Wars” movies.

B. The action in the new film is exciting and the special effects are terrific.

C. “Revenge of the Sith” is especially suitable for children to watch.

D. It has more violent actions than all the other “Star Wars” films.

Section C

Directions:In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numbered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.

Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.

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II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions: After reading the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

(A)

Chicago

Chicago is an incredible city and a key business center for the Midwest. That means that sooner or later most business travelers (25)_______(find) themselves there. This City Guide for Chicago provides business travelers with all the information they need (26)_______(plan) a successful trip to Chicago. Of course, it also help you find out how to enjoy (27)_______ while you?re there.

Unless you?re just in Chicago for the day, there?s a good chance that you?ll have some time after work to explore the sleepless city and (28)_______ you?re ready to take a break from business meetings or simply want to throw in some sightseeing after a busy week at work. (29)_______ _______ _______ help business travelers plan their free time better, we?ve created this overview of things to do in Chicago. We?ll help you feel at home in one of America?s biggest cities.

If you?re mainly going to be downtown, the buses and trains and taxis can pretty quickly move you around. To make it easy, we?ve pulled together a complete list of the transportation options for business travelers to Chicago. Of course, business travelers (30)_______ also want to compare prices on rental cars in Chicago, especially if they need transportation to the surrounding suburbs.

Chicago has a huge range of dining options. You can always get some real comfort food there, but when it comes to business lunches or dinners, it?s nice to have so mething a little (31)_______(nice).

Chicago is a wonderful city for business travelers. Hotel options range from ultra-fancy in town to cheap and convenient in the suburbs. While it?s relatively easy to move around Chicago, it?s still a good idea for business travelers to know (32)_______ they need to be during the day and to select a hotel nearby. Alternatively, you can select a hotel that?s in the heart of the downtown area.

(B)

Special Public Budget

Graffiti (涂鸦) Vandalism (故意破坏公物的行为)in Adelaide costs the public purse more than two million dollars a year, which (33)_______(reveal). Ratepayers and taxpayers foot the bill for continual cleanups of graffiti from metropolitan bus shelters, public buildings and reserves, TransAdelaide alone spends about one million dollars a year (34)_______(remove) graffiti from buses and trains. And Adelaide?s 27 metropolitan councils expect to spend at least one million dollars this financial year on graffiti clean-ups.

However, costs would be hundreds of thousands of dollars higher (35)_______ councils did not rely on volunteers or criminals serving community service orders to do the work. Glenelg Council, for example, has a Correctional Services Department team which removes graffiti from the foreshore

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area at least once a week. Other councils, (36)_______ Elizabeth, Noarlunga and Payneham, have employed special anti-graffiti officers. Salisbury is among those councils (37)_______ call on a data bank of volunteers to immediately paint out graffiti “tags”.

Despite the “tagging”of the War Memorial on North Terrace (38)_______ (follow) by the public outcry 18 months ago, several councils have reported a significant increase in graffiti attacks.

“We have budgeted $53,200 for clean-ups this year, but we will go over that. Each year the budget goes up by 15 or 20 per cent,” an Elizabeth City Council spokesman said yesterday, “It really is (39)_______ enormous social problem.”

A spokesman for Stirling Council said his council could easily spend $20,000 a year on graffiti, but could not afford $6,000 for the most offensive or obvious work. “It?s not a matter of how much graffiti you have, (40)_______ how much you can afford to clean up,” he said.

Section B

Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be

Chinese traders were recorded as making voyages to the north coast of Australia from the 1750s, but were probably visiting Australia long before. Chinese men arrived in Australia in small numbers after the 1788 British settlement as free settlers and criminals. A small population grew rapidly after 1848 under a system of indentured（契约的）labour, after China had __41__ its ports to foreign trade in 1842. They worked in rural New South Wales as cooks, farm labourers and etc.

Indentured Chinese __42__ worked in all colonies variously as station hands, plantation workers, miners, on public works, cabinet makers, personal servants and in laundries. Most came from the south-eastern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian.

Due to labour __43__ in West Australia, the Colonial Government organized Chinese contract labour between 1847 and 1898, most working as labourers, cooks and gardeners. Many Chinese people came from rural backgrounds and brought with them __44__ and water management skills. By 1885, there were 54 Chinese market gardens in Sydney. By 1901, 67% of New South Wales market gardeners were Chinese.

Gold rushes in Victoria in the 1850s and New South Wales in the 1860s significantly __45__ the population of Chinese immigrants in Australia; about 45,000 prospectors arrived in Victoria alone in 1854-58. Numbers continued to increase as gold and other __46__ were discovered in Queensland, Northern Territory and Tasmania.

When mining became less __47__, many Chinese people worked successfully to provide goods and services such as furniture making, market gardening, fishing and, particularly, store-keeping including the import and export of goods from overseas. Chinese goods, especially tea, silk, vegetables, herbs and other spices were highly sought after items of trade by non-Chinese people. Tea rooms, importing and selling many varieties of tea, were very popular. Chinese silk was turned

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into __48__ evening wear and cloaks by Chinese tailors and seamstresses.

Today there is a culturally diverse Chinese __49__ in Australia with links to south-eastern China as well as Vietnam and Hong Kong. The Chinese communities in Australia are brought together every year by __50__ of Lunar New Year.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

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

New Tech Network, a new education organization, strives to ensure all students have the skills, knowledge, and attributes they need to thrive in post-secondary education, career and civic life.

New Tech Network cooperates with district leaders, administrators, and teachers who share a common purpose: to provide an education in which students acquire knowledge and develop skills vital to __51__ in the post-secondary path of their choosing. The New Tech design is simply a blueprint, __52__ a set of core beliefs, tools, and strategies to help each school fulfill its purpose. New Tech design principles provide for an __53__ approach centered on project-based learning, a culture that enables students and teachers, and the use of technology in the classroom. Through extensive professional development, personalized coaching, and access to Echo, New Tech Network, a learning __54__ system, enables principals, teachers, and students to develop relevant and meaningful learning communities.

TEACHING THAT ENGAGES

A K-12 Pathway

Through project-based learning, internships（见习期）, dual enrollment, and other experiences in New Tech schools, students are well __55__ post-secondary pursuits.__56__, New Tech Network has worked with public school districts to redesign high schools. More recently, however, New Tech Network is partnering with several school districts to __57__ New Tech middle schools and elementary schools. In some districts, this provides students with a K-12 pathway. In elementary and middle schools, the design principles are the same—teaching that engages, culture that empowers, and technology that enables. As the elementary and middle schools mature, New Network will measure success on student __58__.

Learning __59__

The years spent in a New Tech school allow students to gain the academic and deeper learning skills necessary for success in any post-secondary option. New Tech students learn disciplinary knowledge and skills to conduct inquiry and solve real-world problems. Throughout a project, they cooperate with peers, facilitators, and experts in the field. Students __60__ their learning through effective oral and written communication for authentic audiences.

Ownership of their learning experience and engagement in relevant and challenging tasks helps students develop a sense of agency, a skill essential to success in __61__, career, and civic duty.

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Project-Based Learning

Project-based learning is at the heart of New Tech Network?s instructional approach. Students cooperate on projects, ranging in __62__ from two to eight weeks, which require critical thinking and communication. Projects often occur in integrated subject area courses, where Entry Events, the Need-to-Know (NTK) process, and skill building workshops support student-centred learning. During projects, students often engage with subject matter experts who provide feedback on real-world products. Through project-based learning, students not only master __63__ content, but also successfully apply content when solving authentic problems.

__64__ -Based Internships

New Tech students also engage in experiences designed to prepare them for success in the contemporary workplace. By cooperating with others on projects, students acquire a level of responsibility similar to a __65__ work environment. Students engage with field experts and community stakeholders(利益相关者) during projects, and final products are presented to authentic audiences. Additionally, two-thirds of New Tech high schools offer such practical activities, with nearly half of all seniors participating.

51. A. success B. rescue C. survival D. reform

52. A. owing to B. getting rid of C. depending on D. accompanied by

53. A. intermediate B. intelligent C. instructional D. informative

54. A. innovation B. requirement C. management D. negotiation

55. A. related to B. prepared for C. classified by D. compared with

56. A. Accidentally B. Accordingly C. Absolutely D. Historically

57. A. evaluate B. observe C. connect D. create

58. A. teaching B. learning C. engaging D. developing

59. A. Problems B. Outcomes C. Strategies D. Discipline

60. A. demonstrate B. promote C. highlight D. motivate

61. A. elementary schools B. middle schools

C. high schools

D. college

62. A. length B. courses C. topics D. targets

63. A. advanced B. academic C. complex D. adequate

64. A. Network B. Workshop C. Community D. College

65. A. permanent B. professional C. popular D. familiar

Section B

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

(A)

Rosalind Franklin always liked facts. She was logical and precise, and impatient with things that were otherwise. She decided to become a scientist when she was 15. She passed the examination for admission to Cambridge University in 1938, and it sparked a family crisis. Although her family

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was well-to-do and had a tradition of public service and charity, her father Array disapproved of university education for women. He refused to pay. An aunt

stepped in and said Franklin should go to school, and she would pay for it.

Franklin?s mother also took her side until her father finally gave in.

She was invited to King?s College in London to join a team of scientists.

The leader of the team assigned her to work on DNA with a graduate student.

Franklin?s assumption was that it was her own project. The laboratory?s

second-in-command, Maurice Wilkins, was on vacation at the time, and when

he returned, their relationship was puzzling. He assumed she was to assist his work; she assumed she?d be the only one working on DNA. They had powerful personality differences as well: Franklin direct, quick, decisive, and Wilkins shy, hesitant, and passive.

In 1953, Wilkins changed the course of DNA history by disclosing, without Franklin?s permission, her Photo 51 to competing scientist James Watson, who was working on his own DNA model with Francis Crick at Cambridge. Upon seeing the photograph, Watson said, “My jaw fell open and my pulse began to race,”according to author Brenda Maddox who wrote the book Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA.

The two scientists did in fact use what they saw in Photo 51 as the basis for their famous model of DNA, which they published on March 7, 1953, and for which they received a Nobel Prize in 1962. Crick and Watson were also able to take most of the credit for the finding: they included a footnote acknowledging that they were “stimulated by a general knowledge”of Franklin?s and Wilkin?s unpublished contribution, when much of their work was rooted in Franklin?s photo and findings. Franklin didn?t know that these men based their article on her research, and she didn?t complain either, likely as a result of her upbringing. Franklin “didn?t do anything that would invite criticism…(that was) bred into her,” Maddox said.

66. Wilkins? relationship with Franklin was characterized by __________.

A. unity and harmony

B. confusion and competition

C. cooperation and miscommunication

D. misunderstanding and conflict

67. What does Watson mean by saying “My jaw fell open and my pulse began to race”?

A. He was confused that Crick had not made this discovery.

B. He was surprised that Wilkins had discovered this information.

C. He was satisfied with the importance of Photo 51.

D. He was anxious about the progress Wilkins and Franklin had made.

68. What is Brenda Maddox?s main intention according to the quote in the last paragraph?

A. To re-evaluate the importance of the DNA model.

B. To criticize King?s College and Cambridge.

C. To emphasize Franklin?s importance in science.

D. To deny Watson?s and Crick?s contribution to science.

69. Franklin?s career as a scientist demonstrates _________.

A. that her work was pointing at the most difficult problem

B. that she was the only female scientist during the period

C. the importance of DNA in modern science

D. that perseverance leads to success and recognition of field scientists

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70. The reviewer admires Brian Aldiss? ability to ___________.

A. write so many novels

B. continue to be inventive in his writing

C. write disturbing plots

D. have a writing career spanning over four decades

71. Why does the setting of Jin-Shei appeal to the reviewer?

A. It is a good science of fiction setting.

B. It is mysterious.

C. It is a less common choice of setting.

D. It is very magical.

72. Terry Brook?s novel continues a series on ___________.

A. the adventures of an unsuspecting hero and his attempts to rescue his aunt

B. a quest about the High Druid of Shannara in a secret chamber in Paranor

C. the disappearance of a druid which foils the plans of the enemies

D. liberating a stranded aunt who is key to the knowledge of the Forbidding

(C)

Aisling?s mother died at midsummer. She had fallen sick so suddenly that some of the villagers wondered if the fairies had come and taken her, for she was still young and beautiful. She was buried three days later beneath the hawthorn tree(山楂树) behind the house, just as twilight was darkening the sky.

Maire Solanya, the village greenwitch, came that evening to perform the old rituals over the grave. She stood at the foot of the mound of black soil. Aisling and her father stood at the head of it, resting on the simple headstone, was the burning candle. Aisling?s father had lit it shortly after Elinor died, and it would burn all night. The gravestone was a plain piece of slate carved with her name: Elinor. Grass and tree roots would grow up around it as the years passed, until it would seem as if it had always been there.

Maire Solanya said in her low, clear voice, “Life to life, from breath to breath, we remember Elinor.” She held a round loaf of bread in her hands. She tore off a small piece and ate it, chewing deliberately, before handing the loaf to Aisling?s father. He pulled off his own piece, then passed it to his daughter. It was still warm, and it smelled like her mother?s kitchen after baking. But it hadn?t come from her mother?s hands, and that realization made a lump rise in her throat. The bread was tasteless.

Maire Solanya took the loaf from her, its crust(面包皮) gaping open, and placed it on the gravestone next to the candle. Aisling couldn?t shake the feeling that her mother had merely gone out on an errand and would come home at any moment and wonder what the three of them were doing. It didn?t seem possible that she was buried there, at the foot of the hawthorn tree, in the ground. It was easier to believe the village rumors than to sit with the ache inside herself.

She remembered those rumors now, while she stood with her father and Maire Solanya in a tense silence. Everyone had always said that Elinor had some magic in her, and everyone knew that

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fairies – if they existed – were drawn to that. So Aisling?s father had ordered all the old rituals, even though he did not believe in them, just in case. She was not entirely sure what she herself believed, but she knew that her mother would want them to do these rituals for her, and that was enough.

When the sun slipped below the horizon, the greenwitch said, “Sleep in peace, Elinor,”and scattered a gold powder over the grave to bind Elinor to the earth. On the freshly turned soil, the gold glittered like fairly dust.

73. Aisling and her family are most likely __________.

A. fairlies in disquise

B. simple village folk

C. wealthy farmers

D. experienced bakers

74. Maire Solanya performed the rituals in order to __________.

A. express thanks to the fairies

B. protect the hawthorn tree

C. respect Elinor?s wishes

D. capture Elinor?s spirit

75. Which of the following does not describe Elinor?

A. A believer in magic.

B. Practical.

C. Skilled at baking.

D. Youthful.

76. Which statement best describes Aisling?s belief in fairies?

A. She is uncertain and finds the idea unsettling.

B. She finds the idea comforting but is unsure.

C. She is certain they exist and wishes they would bring back her mother.

D. She believes strongly in the power of their rituals but not in their existence.

77. Why did Aisling find the bread “tasteless”?

A. It reminded her of her mother?s absence.

B. It was a terribly rude thing to eat at her mother?s funeral.

C. Solanya was really a poor baker in the village.

D. There had not been sufficient ingredients to make the bread.

Section C

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

How was it that an American ship came to be sunk by American mines in a port held by American forces?

Built in1931, the luxury liner SS President Coolidge was a 10-year veteran(退伍军人) of the Pacific before she was pressed into service by the military and converted to carry troops.

On October 26, 1942, towards the end of her first year of World War II service, the Coolidge hit an American mine in the east entrance of the Segond Channel on Espiritu Santo, one of the islands of

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the New Herbrides(now V anuatu), and sank in 36 meters of water.

Though all but two of the 5000 officers and men aboard were saved, the loss of the ship was a military scandal. She had escaped the Japanese during the worst part of the war in the Pacific, only to be lost because of a series of disastrous American mistakes.

The master of the Coolidge, Henry Nelson, claimed he hadn?t been warned that the harbor was mined. Worse, in terms of wartime security, neither of the two US destroyers the Coolidge had encountered had challenged her. Nor had they relayed the vital information about the mines. “The first warning was from a signal station further in the harbor telling me to stop, that we were approaching danger,” he wrote.

…I, in turn, stopped the engines and backed the engines, but with the speed we were moving, we still went too far and we struck two mines. I immediately, with the speed we had left, headed the ship to the beach, and ordered “abandon ship ”, which was done and completed in 45 minutes.?…No one mentioned to me, no one informed me, that there was a mine field in Espiritu Santo. Had there been some knowledge of mines, I never would have approached anywhere visible.?

Captain Nelson was exonerated(免罪) by a court of inquiry but those responsible did not escape blame. The port director?s office at Noumea and the inefficiency of an experienced commanding officer of a navy patrol(巡逻队) and pilot boat were blamed.

Today, the Coolidge is one of the world?s best wreck dives. Much of her original luxury decoration remains, including The Lady, perhaps the most photographed underwater icon in the world. Military equipment she was transporting can also still be seen.

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

78. The ship was “pressed into service by the military” suggests that it was ______________.

79. What caused the sinking of the ship?

80. Why did the ship still hit the mines after the captain stopped the engines?

81. Why was the sinking of this ship a “scandal”?

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第II卷（共47分）

I. Translation

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

1．成本问题在我们的决定中起着很大的作用。（play）

2．他的所做和他的所说大相径庭。（There）

3．毫无疑问，选择学校常常能反映出父母对子女的希望。(reflect)

4．经常换工作和住所的人常常没有安全感并且缺乏责任心。（who）

5．尽管他明知暴饮暴食有害健康，但他对我们要他节食的忠告却一直置若罔闻。(Although)

II. Guided Writing

Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.

假设你校英语报就“我心中的偶像(Idol in my heart)”展开征文活动，你对该话题很感兴趣，拟投稿。你的短文必须包含以下内容：

1. 谁是你心中的偶像？

2. 你为什么会崇拜他（她）？

3. 结合一个具体事例说明偶像在你成长过程中对你的影响。

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