2018-2019学年上海市黄浦区大同中学高三下学期英语

1 2018-2019学年上海市黄浦区大同中学高三下学期英语 第三次模拟考试试卷 (时间120分钟 ，满分140分，共10页) I. Listening Comprehension (25%) 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. At a drug store. B. At a laundry. C. At a tailor shop. D. At a cinema. 2. A. He will hand his work over to the woman. B. He enjoys doing his work. C. He feels tired of his work. D. He will finish his work soon. 3. A. Cleaning the ceiling. B. Tidying the desk. C. Dusting the bulb. D. Fixing the light. 4. A.￡100. B.￡200. C.￡600. D.￡700. 5. A. Anxious. B. Confident. C. Unconcerned. D. Curious. 6. A. Alcohol kept the man awake. B. The man should take some exercise. C. The bed is uncomfortable to sleep on. D. The light was disturbing. 7. A. He does not like the shirt. B. The shirt might not fit. C. The shirt is not worth the money. D. He is going to lose weight. 8. A. Explain the reason for the cancellation. B. Offer a full refund. C. Book another flight for tonight. D. Provide accommodation. 9. A. A new hotel. B. TV interviews. C. A news agency. D. Job opportunities. 10. A. Prof. Smith comes from Greece. B. The man couldn’t understand Greek at all. C. Prof. Smith will talk about the problem again. D. The man didn’t follow the professor’s explanation.

Section B Directions: In Section B, you will hear several longer conversation(s) and short passage(s), and you will be asked several questions on each of the conversation(s) and the passage(s). The conversation(s) and passage(s) 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 talk. 11. A. Britain. B. Spain. C. France. D. America. 12. A. It is famous for the treasures discovered there. B. The Fountain of Youth was found there in 1513. C. The English took it over in 1821. D. It has survived many sufferings. 13. A. The history of an ancient city. B. The rise and fall of Florida’s rulers. C. Sightseeing in a coastal city. D. Natural disaster in St. Augustine.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. London’s transport system. B. Cowan’s way of management. C. A lost property office. D. The items that most people lose. 2

15. A. The largest proportion of them are keys. B. Most of the unclaimed items are worthless. C. One fifth of them are claimed in three months. D. Cowan’s team collects over 300,000 items each year. 16. A. The lost ones are out of style. B. They can buy another pair instead. C. They forget where they lost them. D. The claiming policy is too complex.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. Visiting the man’s home. B. Decorating a house. C. Viewing a house. D. Consulting about the home loan. 18. A. The wine storage area. B. The relaxing colors of the wall. C. The floor covering. D. The window screen. 19. A. Fairly generous. B. Quite ridiculous. C. Very acceptable. D. A bit low. 20. A. The woman is qualified to apply for a loan. B. The woman needn’t get a loan from the bank. C. The man thinks the market is promising. D. The man suggests the woman pay the full asking price.

II. Grammar and Vocabulary (20%) Section A (10%) Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage 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.

Kazuo Ishiguro has a number of strings to his bow, or rather his guitar. (21) ________ 62-year-old is world famous as a writer of fiction, but his early dream was to be a great singer and songwriter. His friend and former publisher Robert McCrum recalls him (22) ________ (turn) up at the publishing house Faber and Faber with a bunch of his stories in one hand and a guitar over his shoulder. It was his stories that earned him the great honor. As his name indicates, Ishiguro comes from a Japanese background, although he came to Britain from Japan at the age of 5 and is a British citizen who writes in English. He (23) ________ (educate) at the University of East Anglia, a school that has become known for training writers. Ishiguro’s writing is highly restrained. His characters are often reluctant to express themselves, (24) ________ in a kind of code. This certainly gives his writing a quality in common with that of Jane Austen, an author to (25) ________ he is often compared. The best example of this is his novel The Remains of the Day, (26) ________ (adapt) later into a successful film with the same name. The central character of the book is a butler called Stevens. He is an extremely loyal servant to an English lord, and is a character who some might call repressed(压抑的). He is not willing to confess his feelings to anyone (27) ________ ________ he misses out on affection and love. The story is told by Stevens, and his style is as polite and unrevealing as his behavior. Of course, we (28) ________ ________ read between the lines to uncover the “real” story, which isn’t quite the one the butler is telling. Stevens finds it a challenge (29) ________ (communicate), and communication is often a theme in Ishiguro’s novels. In this author’s sense of the world, there is a gap between our feelings and our ability to communicate (30) ________. The Nobel Committee emphasized this theme when it talked about Ishiguro’s work. The writer has, the committee claimed, “in novels of great emotional force ... uncovered the abyss(深渊) beneath our illusory(虚幻的) sense of connection with the world”. Section B (10%)