2016学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷 高三英语 试卷 2016. 12
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I. Listening Comprehension Section A Short Conversations
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. 6:00. B.6:30. C.7:00. D.7:30.
2. A. They are likely to have a great view. B. They will stay there for a longer time.
C. They are to enjoy ice cream in an easy way D. The ice cream store is too big to imagine.
3. A. He was involved in a traffic accident.
B. He was not able to get to work on time. C. He is seriously sick of his car. D. He had his car stolen.
4. A. The woman planned to travel by high-speed rail. B. One of the man's ears is absolutely deaf.
C. The traffic app may help them to avoid a heavy traffic. D. They are driving at a high speed as they planned.
5. A. At the bus stop of Shanghai Disney land. B. At the platform of a subway. C. At Shanghai railway station.
D. At a bus stop somewhere in Sbanghai.
6. A. Policewoman and driver. B. Nurse and patient.
C. Librarian and reader. D. Hotel manager and guest.
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7. A. They have adopted at least two kids. B. They will have more adopted kids. C. The couple are from Africa. D. They are an extended family.
8. A. Ms. Zeng is planning to raise the raw material cost due to the raised labour cost. B. The man is hesitating about whether he will buy certain products or not C. The quality of the products is really far from the man's expectation. D. The man bas made up his mind to give the negotiation a stop.
9. A. She does not approve of the man's way in describing people's speech. B. She believes that people's speaking in an elegant way is amazing. C. She doesn't believe people may speak elegantly in real life. D. She was in doubt about the man's characters in the noveL
10. A. Their wedding anniversary is coming soon.
B. They'd better find another restaurant to celebrate their wedding anniversary C. The woman should be more patient on such a big day. D. The driving is dull because of the heavy tra佑c.
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 the 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 passage.
11. A.15,000 B. 5,000 ,000 C. 15,000,000 D. 50,000,000 12. A. The Chinese people are really good at the world's most popular sport, soccer.
B. Within next decades, more than 90,000 soccer fields will be built across the country C. Chinese men have qualified for the World Cup final only once in 2002. D. In contrast to men, Chinese women soccer players are more successful. 13. A. Some billionaires in China. B. President Xi Jinping. C. Jackson Martinez. D. The Chinese people.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
14. A.lt gives students more tuue to digest what they've learned.
B. It is flexible in planning classes, social practice and personal projects.
C. Plenty of social practice frees students of worries about their future career. D. Students have more time to enjoy their life in universities.
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15. A. The length of each semester varies in the Chinese trimester.
B. All those 'Project 985\ C. Students should take as many courses as possible in summer semester. D. Taking other subjects should be off the list in summer semester. 16. A. Taking more courses in summer semester.
B. Having an efficient arrangement in studying contents. C. Taking an active part in promoting academic environment. D. Paying not attention to changes in academic schedules.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. At home. B. In a studio. C. In office. D. At school. 18. A. An English programme. B. Something annoying. C. An expression. D. A goat, called Fred. 19. A. Neil's goat is really a mad goat, a trouble maker. B. Neil really makes Feifei mad.
C. Neil's goat was really annoying to everyone. D. Neil's goat annoys Feifei due to its smell.
20. A. Your best friend told you that he's past the driving test
B. Some cars are blowing their hams when you are doing a test inside. C. You are riding a bicycle with your classmates in the street.
D. Your neighbour brings you a cake because it is her daughter's birthday
II. Grammar and vocabulary Section A
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
Please mind the silence
Despite being used by l.34 billion people each year, traveling on the Tube in London can actually be quite lonely. An unwritten rule encouraging silence, mixed with classic British reserve, means that (21) __ __ you're packed into an enclosed space with hundreds of other people, the morning commute(上下班) can leave you feeling somewhat isolated. One London resident, however, is trying to change this.
\42, an American living in London, who has, ironically, started (22)____worldwide dialogue after giving out badges (徽章) with the slogan \ London to get talking to one another. \ million, expecting many refusals and most of them (23) _______ (throw) away, but after about 24 hours it completely snowballed,\
Dunne and his \since, seeing TV interviews in Sweden, Brazil and the UK, as well as countless website, newspaper and magazine appearances.
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Although Dunne says he's received mostly positive feedback, not everyone agrees with his sentiment. Londoner Brian Wilson responded with a campaign of (25) _______own, handing out 500 badges with the words \
\work,\is the only peace and quiet some people get on their journeys to and (27) ______ work. It doesn't need to be spoiled by people coming up and chatting to you,\its seemingly antisocial set of regulations to follow, not everywhere lacks a sense of community. Does Dunne hope that some of this community spirit (28) ___________ (mirror) in the UK following his campaign? \don't, but it's been a great way to meet people you would never have normally spoken to,\says. \ (馆长) of the London Transport Museum had me over for tea.\
So if you ever end up (30) ____ (use) public transport in the West, why not say hello to the person next to you? Just make sure to check for a badge first.
Section B
Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used
only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. overtook B. promising C. likelihood D. ridicuIous E. shared F. controlled G. beliefs H. reasonable I. trend J. tracked K. demonstrated The rise in stories describing events that never happened, often involving fake people in fake places, has led to Facebook and Google's (31)______ to deal with them. But are we really so easy to fool? According to several studies, the answer is yes: even the most obvious fake news starts to become believable if it's (32) __________ enough times.
In the months running up to the US election there was a surge(大浪) in fake news. According to an analysis by Craig Silverman, a journalist, during this time the top 20 fake stories in circulation (33) _________ the top 20 stories from 19 mainstream publishers.
Paul Homer, a creative publisher of fake news, has said he believes Donald Trump was elected because of him. \sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time... His followers don't fact-check anything - they'll post everything, believe anything,\he told the Washington Post.
Silverman previously (34) ______ rumours circulating online in 2014 and found that shares and social interactions around fake news articles dwarfed C使?相形见绌） those of山e articles that exposed them. According to Silverman, fake news stories are engineered to appeal to people's hopes and fears, and aren't (35)_ by reality, which gives them the edge in creating shareable content.
You might think you're immune to falling for these lies, but a wealth of research disagrees.
Back in the 1940s, researchers found that \more a rumour is told, the more (36) ______ it sounds\currency, shift public thinking and opinion.
This false impression of truth was (37)_ practically in 1977 when researchers in the US
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quizzed college students on the actuality of statements that they were told may be true or false. The researchers found that simply repeating the statements at a later date was enough to increase the (38)_________ of the students believing them.
Last year, Lisa Fazio at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and her team found that students become more likely to believe a statement that they know must be false if it is repeated.
\if people are conscious that a headline is false, reading it multiple times will make it seem more trustworthy,\
Reassuringly, the team found that a person's knowledge has a large influence over their beliefs, but it's still a worrying (40) _________ given that falsehoods appear repeatedly in our newsfeeds every day.
III. Reading Comprehension
Section A
Directions: For each blank in the following passage there ore four words or phrases morked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
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 modem temperature record, which (42)_____ 1880, according to scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York. The six-month period from January to June was also the planet's warmest half-year on record, with a(n) (43)____ temperature l.3 degrees Celsius (2.4 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the late nineteenth century.
Five of the first six months of 2016 also (44) _____ the smallest respective monthly Arctic Sea, ice (45)_______ since regular satellite records began in 1979, according to analyses developed by 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 scientists said it is more significant that global temperature and Arctic sea ice are continuing their decades-long trends of change. Both trends are ultimately driven by rising (48) ______ of heat-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)______ 40 percent less area than it did in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Arctic sea ice extent in September, the seasonal low point in the annual cycle, has been (50) ______ at a rate of 13.4 percent per decade.
\ temperatures from October, it is the basic trend which is producing these record numbers,\ Director Gavin Schmidt said.
(52)_____ El Nino events have driven temperatures to what were then record levels, such as in 1998. But in 2016, even as the effects of the recent El Nino wear off, global temperatures have
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