D. By accessing new iPad and good Wi-Fi.
65. In the article, UC-Irvine research functions as . A. a personal account that illustrates an idea about social life B. a restatement of the author’s main argument
C. historical context to allow the reader to understand the article’s setting D. evidence to support a point made by Nicolas Carr
66. Which of the following statement will the author probably agree to?
A. people should not rely simply on the Internet to provide them with news and other information B. people can have meaningful vacations only if they leave all electronic devices at home
C. although the Internet is often useful, it can become addictive and prevent human interaction D. even though there are some good things about the Internet, overall it has affected civilization for the worse
Section C
Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need. A. Watling Street’s origins are lost in prehistory. B. But Shakespeare can still be connected to the road. C. In fact, it is hard to find a character from the British imagination who cannot be linked to Watling Street in some way. D. It is one of the few permanent fixtures of this island and one of the first lines on the map. E. Here characters including Sherlock Holmes and Batman have been brought to life. F. It is Watling Street — and there is no road in the English-speaking world more steeped in stories. The road that led to 1,000 stories
In his new book Watling Street, John Higgs explores one of Britain’s oldest roads — and how it inspired countless stories, from the Canterbury Tales to Great Expectations to Star Wars.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, written in the late 14th Century, tells the story of a group of medieval pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury. Six hundred years later, the Star Wars movies were filmed on the same road. 67 . We now think of Watling Street as the A2 and the A5 motorways, which run across Britain from Anglesey in north-west Wales to Dover in south-east England in a way that joins two opposite sides at an angle. But the road has existed throughout all of British history. 68 . It has been a Neolithic (新 石器时代的）pathway, a Roman road, one of the four medieval (中世纪的）royal highways, a main road in the age of coach travel and a road today usually with
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traffic jams.
It is a place that reflects its own history, always being rewritten. 69 . James Bond drives along the road in Ian Fleming’s novel Moonraker. Doctor Who appears suddenly at different points along it in different historical eras. It is part of Robin Hood’s plans in the medieval narrative poem A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny. Miss Havisham’s decaying Gothic house in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is based on Restoration House in Rochester, which stands just yards from Watling Street. In the 12th-Century Histories of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth tells how a young Merlin released the dragons that caused King Vortigem’s tower to fall. This was at Dinas Emrys in Snowdonia, on the route of the original, pre-Roman road through Wales.
For many years it was believed that William Shakespeare wrote a play called The Widow of Watling Street', it was included in early collections of his work. It is now thought that the real author of that play was Thomas Middleton. 70 .Before the Romans bridged the Thames, the original route of Watling Street crossed the river where Westminster Palace now stands. The route would have run close to where Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in Southwark later stood.
IV. Summary Writing
Directions: Read the following passage. Summarize the main idea and the main point(s) of the passage in no more than 60 words. Use your own words as far as possible. Reading the world in 195 boobs
In 2012, I set myself the challenge of trying to read a book from every country of all 195 UN- recognized states in a year. With no idea how to find publications, I decided to ask the planet’s readers for help. I created a blog called A Year of Reading the World and put out an appeal for suggestions of titles that I could read in English.
The response was amazing. Before I knew it, people all over the planet were getting in touch with ideas and offers of help. Some posted me books. Others did hours of research on my behalf. In addition, several writers, like Turkmenistan’s Ak Welsapar and Panama’s Juan David Morgan, sent me unpublished translations of their novels. Even with such an extraordinary team behind me, however, sourcing books was no easy task.
But the effort was worth it. As I made my way through the planet’s literary landscapes, extraordinary things started to happen. Far from simply armchair travelling, I found I was inhabiting the mental space of the storytellers. I discovered, book packing offered something that a physical traveller could hope to experience only rarely: it took me inside the thoughts of individuals living far away and showed me the world through their eyes. More powerful than a thousand news reports, these stories not only opened my mind to basic information of life in other places, but opened my heart to the way people there might feel. And that in turn changed my thinking. Through reading the stories shared with me by bookish strangers around the globe, I realized I was not an isolated person, but part of a network that stretched all over the planet.
One by one, the country names on the list that had begun as an intellectual exercise transformed
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into places filled with laughter, love, anger, hope and fear. Lands that had once seemed foreign and remote became close and familiar to me — places I could identify with. At its best, I learned, fiction makes the world real.
V. Translation
Directions: Translate the following sentences into English, using the words given in the brackets. 72.这位专家应对变化的能力令人赞不绝口。（compliment)
73.手机支付在我们的日常生活中越来越重要，现在我们出门无需带现金了。（save)
74.如果杂志社的编辑能真正理解这位摄影师所面对的困难，就不会对他所做的事吹毛求疵了。 (critical)
75.正是因为有高度的责任感和丰富的实践经验，这位乡村老师才培养出了一批批优秀的学生。 (It is...)
VI. Guided Writing
Directions: Write an English composition in 120-150 words according to the instructions given below in Chinese.
你应邀在英语课上的“每日一谈”环节中发表自己对《中国诗词大会》（The Chinese Poetry Competition)、《国家宝藏》(National Treasure)等以传统文化为主题的电视节目热播现象的看法。
你的发言稿必须包括： ?简单介绍一个此类节目； ?分析此类节目热播的原因。
(注：文中不得出现真实的姓名及学校名称。文章的开头已为你写好。）
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青浦区2017学年第一学期高三年级期终学业质量调研测试
英语学科 听力文字稿及参考答案
Q2017.12
Listening Comprehension Section A
1. W: I really like living here, because there are so many interesting places and it is near town centre. M: That’s true. But it gets really noisy with so many vehicles. Q: What does the man complain about? (A)
2. M: How much does a meal with beef cost in the restaurant?
W: If you eat before 5 pm, you have to pay 8 pounds. After that, you need to pay 10 pounds. Q: How much does the man have to pay if he eats at 7 pm? (D) 3. W: Could you have my car ready at four o’clock. M: Sure. The damage is minor and it won’t take long. Q: Where does the conversation take place? (C)
4. M: The photos I took at the conference should be ready today.
W: I can’t wait to see them. I don’t know whether they are as good as I thought. Q: What’s the woman anxious to know? (D)
5. W: Hotel rooms overlooking the beach must be very expensive. M: So it was several months ago, but not now, because it is not in season. Q: What does the man mean about the hotel now? (B)
6. W: I think it is high time we turned our attention to the danger of drunk driving. M: Can’t agree with you more. Innocent people lose their lives because of drunk drivers. Q: What does the woman mean? (D)
7. W: I haven’t been feeling well, but I don’t know what’s wrong. I have been in bed for days.
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M: You should see a doctor. There’s a clinic nearby, but it does not sell medicine, you have to buy them at a drugstore.
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do first? (B) 8. M: Are you still online now? It’s time for the TV series.
W: Just a minute. I’m looking at a fashion site. I’m looking for a new dress for my sister. Q: What’s the woman doing right now? (A)
9. M: You’re not a millionaire. Why do you donate so much money for the Hope Project?
W: From a TV program I saw kids unable to afford books. I felt so sorry for them that I have to do something. Q: What can be learnt about the woman from the conversation? (C)
10. M: I’m considering dropping my dancing class because I’ve not made any progress. W: If I were you, I’d stick with it. It’s definitely worth the time and money. Q: What does the woman imply? (C)
Section B
Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.
Every day millions of people in offices, supermarkets, and factories worldwide hear the sounds of Muzak, a company which is a best-known supplier of background music. The sound track has been carefully made to direct behavior — to improve employee performance by reducing job stress, boredom, and tiredness or to control consumers’ shopping habits.
Background music can help or hurt business, concludes Ronald Milliman, a marketing professor at Loyola University. “Very few stores that play music play it for any particular purpose,” he says. “But walking into an environment where music is playing apparently makes a difference.”
Milliman measured the effects of fast and slow music on a supermarket’s traffic flow and sales. Fast music hardly affected sales when compared with no music, he reported in the Journal of Marketing, but pieces played slowly made shoppers slower and increased sales 38 percent above what they had been when fast music was playing.
Restaurants can also use music to help, he found. In the evening, slow-paced music results in longer meals and increases the patience of waiting customers, while lively music during lunch time helps to shorten the dinning time. Now listen again, please. Questions:
11. How does background music affect employees? (B) 12. What kind of music could speed up diners’ lunch pace? (A) 13. What does the passage mainly talk about? (D) Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.
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