上海市宝山区2016学年度第一学期质量监控试卷 高三英语
(满分140分，考试时间120分钟)
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. Husband and wife. B. Guests and hostess. C. Customer and waitress. D. Boss and employee. 2. A. Watch the program on TV. B. Look for cats at the man. C. Meet the man at the cat exhibition. D. In an office. 3. A. Borrow the typewriter. B. Visit the woman. C. Go home soon. D. Read the woman?s paper. 4. A. The man. B. Both. C. The woman. D. Neither.
5. A. The books there are too expansive.
B. She won?t be able to get the book before the class. C. The textbook she need isn?t in yet.
D. She hopes to get a good deal on some second-hand book.
6. A. Take the bus to the airport. B. Meet the Browns at the airport.
C. Make a phone call to the Browns.D. Accompany the Browns to the airport. 7. A. The man will have a test
B. The man will probably go to the movie. C. The man will have to sit for a exam.
D. The woman wishes she could go to the class with the man.
8. A. The result hasn?t come yet. B. The results were checked again last night
C. The woman needs another test tomorrow. D. The doctor hasn?t come back from the lab. 9. A.Most neighbors are as noisy as the woman.
B. Talking to the neighbors politely might be the best way. C. He?d like to know why the woman is angry. D. The woman is too polite for her neighbors
10. A. He needs to but another umbrella. B. It will rain much later in the week. C. It will probably rain tomorrow D. The weather forecast almost never agree. 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. They used to be unable to listen to public debates. B. They were more patient and sociable than people now. C. They learned from political speeches. D. They used to think in terms of a printed text.
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12. A. It makes people get ideas from images, not from written words B. It has made the public less interested in politics C. The quality of television programming has declined D. Political programs on TV are too complex 13. A. The environmental effects of consumerism
B. How consumer culture has made people unreasonable C. How television has affected people?s thinking ability D. Television?s damage to the environment
Questions 14 through 17 are based on the following passage. 14. A. Some children already know how to do it
B. Some children find it more enjoyable than they expected to C. Some children refuse to take part
D. Some children prefer to swim or play the table-tennis 15. A. They seem grateful to their experience here
B. They complain if they cannot phone their parents C. They miss meal times with their parents
D. The youngest ones find it hard to be away from home 16. A. They should visit their children instead of phoning them
B. They shouldn?t allow their children to bring phones to camps C. They don?t need to keep phoning the camp D. They need to be reminded to phone their children
Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.
17. A. Five years B. Three years C. Four years D. Six years 18. A. The person who has the strong will B. The person who has attended the adult school
C. The person who can work at computers quickly after a two-day training D. The person who can pass the test of arithmetic 19. A. The man?s education
B. A new chance for everyone to be promoted C. The man?s pay raise
D. A career promotion for the man
20. A. The man is eager to attend the training B. The person is not very interested in this chance for promotion C. The man has been training for computer work since last year
D. The man is not confident in his chance to be promoted to the Grade 7 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. My life on an Island
we live on the island of Hale. it's about four kilometers long and two kilometers wide at its broadest point, and it is joined to the mainland by a causeway (21) _______(call) Stand---a narrow road built across the mouth of the river (22) ________ separates us from the rest of the country. Most of the time you wouldn?t know we are on an island because the river mouth between us and the mainland is just a vast stretch of tall grasses and brown mud. But when there is high tide and the water rises a half meter or so above the road and nothing can pass (23) _________the tide goes
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out again a few hours later, then you know it?s an island.
We were on our way back (24) _________ the mainland. My older brother, Dominic, had just finished his first in university in a town 150km away. Dominic?s train was due in at five and he?d asked for a lift back from the station. Now, Dad normally hates being disturbed when he (25) __________ (write) (which is just about all the time), and he also hates having to go anywhere, but despite the typical sighs and moans --- why can?t he get a taxi? What?s wrong with the bus? ----I could tell by the flash in the eyes that he was really looking forward to (26) ________ (see) Dominic.
So, anyway, Dad and I had driven to the mainland and picked up Dominic from the station. He had been talking non-stop from the moment he?d get in to the car. University this, university that, writers, books, parties, people, money…….. I didn?t like the way he spoke and waved his hands around (27) ________he was some kind of scholar or something. It was embarrassing. It made me feel uncomfortable----that kind of discomfort you feel when someone you like, someone close to you, suddenly starts acting like a complete idiot. And I didn?t like the way he was ignoring me, either. For all the attention I was getting I (28) _________ as well not have been there. I felt a stranger.
We were about half across when I saw a boy. My first thought was how odd it was (29) _________(see) someone walking on the Strand. You don?t often see people walking around there. As we drew (30) _______(close) , he became clearer. He was actually a young man rather than a boy.
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. resistantB. concentratingC. recognitionD. resemblingE. essential F. distinct G. revealed H. approachI. appreciate J. creativityK. viewed In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on developing stronger science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) curriculum(课程) and programs, as these discipline are widely ___31____ as the means to help innovation and support national economies.
This trend reflects a shift in how school discipline are being looked at; schools are ____32____ on subject that have traditionally been isolated from each other -----science, mathematics, and art --- in favor of deeper, interdisciplinary learning. K-12 education leaders are pioneering new methods for combing the arts with STEMS activities, ____33____ the ways in which subjects naturally connect in the real world. While this new movement is being discussed almost clearly and directly in an education context, its roots are planted across nearly every industry. In many ways, technology is the connective tissue. Similarly, engineering new transportation technologies requires artful design. The growing ___34____ of the important unions between different skills is paving that way for STEAM in schools.
Some doubts of this movement have dismissed_____35_____ as a mere fashion driven by artists who are concerned their profession is losing critical support in an increasingly technology-focused society. However, the Hilburn Academy argues that STEAM is not just a contemporary program of learning, but an important life philosophy----____36_____ for higher education and career success. Schools should provide students plentiful opportunities ____37_____the complexities and complicated layers that indicate concrete knowledge. Early examples of STEAM learning include teaching students how mathematical concepts such as geometry(几何学) are rooted in artworks.
While the rise of STEAM learning is relatively new, there are already figures that prove the integration of these seemingly ____38_____ disciplines is supporting student performance at school. A study conducted by the University of Florida _____39_____ that students who are engaged in music class do better in math. For example, female high school students enrolled in music appreciation class scored 42points higher on the math section of their SATs. Formal experience with the arts is proven to cultivate innovative thinking, adaptability and other problem- solving skills that are necessary for mastering STEM abilities. in other words, _____40______ is a pioneer for students to understand, use, and apply technologies in new ways. III. ReadingComprehension SectionA
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Directions: ForeachblankinthefollowingpassagetherearefourwordsorphrasesmarkedA, B, CandD. Fillineachblankwiththewordorphrasethatbestfitsthecontext.
Anxiety disorders-- defined by extreme fear,restlessness,and muscle tension --are carefully considering,disabling,and can increase the risk for
_____41_____and self-murder. They are some of the most common mental health conditions around the world, _____42_____around four out of every 100 people and costing the health care system and job employers over US $42billion each year.
People with anxiety are more likely to miss days from work and are less____43_____.Young people with anxiety are also less likely to enter school and complete it--leading to fewer life____44____.Even though this evidence points to anxiety disorders as being important mental health issues, insufficient _____45_____is being given to them by researchers, clinicians, and policy makers.
My team and I at the University of Cambridge wanted to find out who is most affected by anxiety disorders.
To do this, we conducted a systematic ____46____of studies that reported on the proportion of people with anxiety in a variety of contexts around the world, used accurate methods to keep the highest quality studies.
Our results showed women are almost twice as likely to _____47____anxiety as men, and people living in Europe and North America are disproportionately affected. So why are women more____48____?
It could be because of differences in brain chemistry and hormone(荷尔蒙)variations. Reproductive events across a woman?s life are_____49_____with hormonal changes, which have been linked to anxiety. The rise in oestrogens(雌激素) that occurs during pregnancy can ____50_____ the risk for uncontrollable disorder.
This is _____51____ by disturbing and repetitive thoughts, impulses and addictions that are upsetting and less effective. But in addition to biological mechanisms, women and men seem to experience and react to events in their life _____52___. Women when faced with stressful situations, women and men which can increase their anxiety. Also , when faced with stressful situations ,women and men tend to use different coping ____53_____.Women faced with life stressors are more likely to think about them seriously,which can increase their anxiety , ___54____men engage more in active, problem-focused coping.
Other studies suggest that women are more likely to ____55____physical and mental mistreatment than men, and this behavior has been linked to the development of anxiety disorders. A.symptom B. depression C. misery D. frightening A. infecting B. stimulating C. capturing D. affecting A. productive B.progressive C. positive D. Passive A.adventures B.insurances C.chances D.programs A. conclusion B.attention C. solution D.contribution A.ignorance B.outlook C.discovery D.review A.suffer from B. deal with C. fight against D. result from A.superior B.inferior C.probable D.enormous A.interacted B.associated C.disconnected D.inherited A.challenge B. decline C. eliminate D. increase A. characterized B. confused C.performed D.offended
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A.equally B.similarly C.differently D.terribly A.shortcuts B.strategies C. standards D. samples A.because B. unless C. if D.while A.experience B.respond C.ignore D.persist 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 read. (A)
It dawned on me recently that I was the only one in my family who doesn?t benefit from having a mother in the house.
This was not the only case for me, but for a large number of fellow countrymen, including one friend who felt so bad one night that she got out of her bed and cleaned her house in case the medical examiner had to come. (He didn?t)
“I want my mommy” indeed could be read throughout the cold, snowy descriptions of winter?s Facebook, where many middle-aged women are known to go for comfort.
This translates as: “I want a constant supply of homemade soup without asking for it.”
Also: “I want someone who put her hand on my forehead and know within a degree what my temperature is.”
More than anything, the desire for mommy translates into a longing for selfless constancy, for the all-knowing, all-knowing mother with a cold cloth in her hand, who never leaves the beside except to go to the bathroom.
The image of a mother nurse at the sick bed- think Gone With the Wind’s Melanie in the Civil War hospitals- is one of a perfect, warmhearted wisdom soldier?s holy person and medicine woman, a la Joan of Acr, Mother Teresa and Pocahontas rolled into one. She is a supernatural being who knows, without the help of Google, when her patient should go to the doctor and when she should stay in bed, which illness needs a warm bath and which needs a warm shower……
Now, to be fair, let me say that my good friend made soup for me-twice-while I was ill. My goddaughter, a nurse practitioner, texted every day, several times a day, from several states away. My husband often came home from work in the middle of the day to check on me. One night, which so happened to be an outlet celebration, when I was at my most miserable and convinced it was time for the emergency room, my family gathered on the bed with red beans and rice.
There?s nothing quite like a mother in situations like these. Literature knows it. History knows it. Even current studies show that mothers are still 10 times more likely than their husbands to leave work to tend to sick children and five times more likely to take the sick child to the doctor, says the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Alas, there is no mother in the house for me- unless you count the mama cat. And she?s more like a child than a mother these days, continuously circling my sick bed, meowing for food while I suffer in pile of cough drop wrappers.
There is hope: I asked my primary care provider, who is a woman and a mother, at my office visit midway through my illness, if she would be my mommy.
She threw her head back and laughed.
56. What does the underlined word “She” refer to in Paragraph7?
A. Melaine
B. Ia Joan of Arc C. Mother Teresa
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