2017-2018学年奉贤区期末调研测试
高三英语试卷
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. interviewer and interviewee. B. teacher and student. C. doctor and nurse. D. boss and secretary. 2. A. 9:00. B. 9:10. C. 9:30. D. 9:35. 3. A. pass the journal. B. listen to the woman. C. repeat his request. D. take the journal himself. 4. A. exciting. B. disappointing. C. interesting. D. satisfactory. 5. A. to make a budget for her. B. to buy a gift for Mary. C. to give her mother information about Mary. D. to give some suggestions. 6. A. he wants to finish his study. B. he wants to earn a lot of money. C. he wants to finish his study. D. he wants to have a good rest. 7. A. The woman should not get involved in the situation. B. The woman should not be angry with the friends. C. he will explain to the woman what happened. D. he will talk to Sally and Mark soon. 8. A. good weather tomorrow. B. the vacation plan. C. getting up early in the morning. D. possible heavy traffic. 9. A. interested. B. fascinated. C. hostile. D. reluctant. 10. A. intelligence determines admission to college. B. highly motivated students usually do well in college. C. successful college students are usually intelligent. D. a successful college motivates its students.
Section B
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following news. 11. A. two terms. B. three terms. C. four terms. D. five terms. 12. A. because he had been a policeman. B. because he earned a law degree in a night school. C. because they had formed a good opinion of him.
D. because there was a large population of black people in Los Angeles. 13. A. they want people in Los Angeles voted. B. an introduction about Thomas Bradley, major of Los Angeles. C. the reasons why white candidates failed in the vote. D. something Thomas Bradley did for the vote.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage. 14. A. he has more than fourteen pills a day. B. he has two pills a day. C. he has four times a day. D. he has nine pills a day. 15. A. all of them. B. three kinds of medicine. C. two kinds of medicine. D. almost none. 16. A. children over twelve years old. B. older people with a fever. C. old people with heart attack. D. adults with a cold.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. 17. A. she has made an attempt to become pregnant. B. she has requested her supervisor to transfer her to another department. C. she has bought the new equipment for the laboratory. D. she has complained to the government about the issue. 18. A. because the new equipment is not available now. B. because the patient has made too many complains. C. because the hospital wants to tighten its budget. D. because the new equipment carries a health risk. 19. A. a technician in the hospital lab. B. a doctor working in the hospital. C. a teacher working in the school. D. head of hospital administration. 20. A. she will be likely to quit her job. B. she still feels at a loss as what to do. C. she will complain to the administration. D. she will fight to get her income back.
II. Grammar and Vocabulary Section A Different background shouldn’t mean less education. Fifty years ago, in a primary school classroom, two boys aged 11 took an examination called the 11-plus, (21)______ would make decisions about the rest of their lives. Paul passed and went to a “grammar school”. Baz failed the examination and went to a “secondary modern school”. They did not see each other again for years. Many grammar schools (22)______ (establish) hundreds of years ago to teach the Latin language to children who were not from rich families. They encouraged students to study (23)______ they were 18 and then to go to university. Secondary modern school students left at 16, usually with fewer qualifications than grammar school students. Baz says the secondary modern school had (24)______ (few) resources and the quality of teaching was not as good. Things have changed. In the 1960s and the 1970s “comprehensive schools” were created. Today, 90 percent children aged 11 to 16 from the same area to the same school without (25)______ (take) any entry examination. The British often disagrees about the best way (26)______ (educate) their children. Many people say that comprehensive schools help more children to succeed because they provide everybody (27)______
similar opportunities in a fairer way. Another view, though, is that more intelligent children, especially (28)______ from poor homes are better supported at grammar schools. Now, the government plans to open new grammar schools (29)______ ______ almost two million children will go to the same type of school that Paul attended. And Paul and Baz? Aged 60, they met again and compared (30)______ had happened to them. After university, Paul qualified as a teacher. Baz went to work in a factory at 16 and later became an engineer. In fact, Baz had a much higher salary than Paul – so perhaps life is fair after all.
Section B A. impressive B. movements C. eventually D. extreme E. comparison F. reverse G. unloved H. partnership I. absolutely J. mask K. applied There’s nothing more annoying than settling down to sleep and hearing the sound of a mosquito buzzing around you. The only thought most of us ever give to this noise is “I need to get rid of this insect, immediately”, but it turns out that the mosquito is actually quite a(n) __31__ creature. A term of scientists from Oxford University in the UK, in __32__ with the Royal Veterinary College in London and Chiba University in Japan, recently published a study that found some interesting facts about the world’s most __33__ insect. By placing eight cameras inside a tiny film studio, the scientists could study several mosquitoes up close. The high-tech cameras filmed the insects at 1,000 frames per second, meaning the scientists were able to study the insects’ __34__ in never-before-seen detail. However, it wasn’t always straightforward. “Recording mosquitoes during free-flight represented a huge technical challenge due to their small size, __35__ wing beat frequency, and the presence of large antennae and legs that can __36__ the view of their wings,” Simon Walker of Oxford University, co-author of the study, wrote. Published in the journal Nature, the study found that mosquitoes flap their wings around 800 times a second. As a __37__, house flies flap their wings about 200 times a second, and hummingbirds 50 times a second. Richard Bomphrey of the Royal Veterinary College, the study’s leader, believes that mosquitoes have a unique flying method that sets them apart from other flying insects. “We predicted that they must make use of clever tricks, as the wings __38__ their direction at the end of each half-stroke,” he wrote in the study. Hopefully, the discovery of the mosquito’s special abilities will be of benefit to engineers in the future. The findings could lead to better aircraft, or even improvement to tools like lenses or pumps. But the scientists hope their study can one day be __39__ to new developments in more human-focused use. “The more we know about mosquitoes, the better our chance of understanding their flight behavior, how they carry disease and __40__ how to stop them from doing so,” Walker wrote.
III. Reading Comprehension Section A Artists have long claimed alcohol and other drugs as inspiration for their creativity. But is there really a(n) __41__ between intoxication（醉酒）and inspiration? A recent study published in Consciousness and Cognition explored the effects of moderate drunkenness on people’s creativity. The authors suggest that