上海市六校2017届高三3月联考英语试题

2017

届高三第二次六校联考

调研试卷

英语

Ⅱ

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Grammar and Vocabulary (

第二大题每小题

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Section

A

Direction

:

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.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, computer sales manager Michael Hingson , who is

blind , went early to his office on the 78

th

floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center to

prepare for a meeting . As Michael worked , his guide dog , a Labrador retriever _______(name)

Roselle, dozed by his feet.

At 8:46 a.m,

a tremendous boom rocked the building , eliciting

screams throughout the

floor . Michael grabbed Roselle , trusting that the dog _______(lead) out of the danger, and they

navigated their way to a stairwell.

―Forward,‖

Machael

instructed

,

and

they

descended

the

first

of

1,463

steps

to

the

lobby._______ about ten floors , the stairwell grew crowded and hot ,and the fumes from jet fuel

had made it hard to breathe. When a woman became crazy , yelling that they wouldn‘t make it.

Roselle accompanied the woman ________she finally petted the dog , calmed herself , and kept

walking down the stairs.

Around the 30

th

floor, firefighters started passing Michael on their way up . Each one stopped

to

offer

him

assistance.

He

declined

but

let

Roselle

be

petted,

_____

(provide)

many

of

the

firefighters with _______ would be their last experience of unconditional love.

After

about

45

minutes

,Michael

and

Roselle

reached

_____

booby

,and

15

minutes

later ,they emerged outside to a scene of chaos . Suddenly the police yelled for everyone to run as

the South Tower began to collapse.

Michael kept a tig

ht grip on Roselle‘s harness , using voice and hand commands, as they ran to a

street opposite the crumbling tower . The street bounced like a trampoline , and ―a deafening roar‖

like a hellish freight train filled the air.

Hours later , Michael andRoselle made it home safely .

At that moment , they thought they were _______(lucky ) in the world.

In 2004,

Roselle developed a blood disorder , ______

prevented her from guiding and

touring . She died in 2011.

― I ?ve had many other dogs ,‖ Mechael wrote ,

―but there is only one Roselle.‖

Section B

Directions:

Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used

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only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. catalog

B. barely

C. free

D. self-consciousness

E. prospects

F. compulsory

G

. dropped

H. assigned

I. certified

J. totally

K. transfer

For

thousands

of

commuting

students,

Chabot

was

our

Columbia,

Annapolis,

even

our

Sorbonne, offering courses in physics, stenography, auto mechanics, ___31___ public accounting,

foreign languages, journalism

—

name the art or science, the subject or trade, and it was probably

in the ___32___. The college had a nursing program that churned out graduates, sports teams that

funneled athletes to big- time programs, and parking for a few thousand cars

—

all ___33___, but

for the effort and the cost of used textbooks.

Classmates

included

veterans

back

from

Vietnam,

women

of

every

marital

and

maternal

status returning to school, middle-aged men wanting to improve their employment ___34___ and

paybacks. We could get our general education requirement out of the way at Chabot

—

credits we

could ___35___ to a university

—

which made those two years an invaluable head start. I was able

to

go

on

to

the

California

State

University

in

Sacramento

(at

$$95

a

semester,

just

___36___

affordable) and study no other subject but my major, theater arts. (After a year there I moved on,

enrolling in a little thing called the School of Hard Knocks, a.k.a. Life.)

―By some fluke

of the punch-

card computer era, I made Chabot‘s dean‘s list taking classes I

loved (oral interpretation), classes I hesitated (health, a requirement), classes I aced, and classes I

___37___ after the first hour (astronomy, because it was all math). I nearly failed zoology, killing

my fruit flies by neglect, but got lucky in an English course, ―The College Reading Experience.‖

The

books

of

Carlos

Castaneda

were

incomprehensible

to

me

(and

still

are),

but

my___38___

presentation

on

the

analytic

process

called

structural

dynamics

was

hailed

as

clear and

concise,

though I did nothing more than embellish the definition I had looked up in the dictionary.

A

public-speaking

class

was

unforgettable

for

a

couple

of

reasons.

First,

the

assignments

forced us to get over our ___39___. Second, another student was a stewardess, as flight attendants

called themselves in the 70‘s. She was studying communications and was gorgeous. She lived not

far from me, and when my VW threw a rod and was in the shop for a week, she offered me a lift

to class. I rode shotgun that Monday-Wednesday-Friday, ___40___ tongue-tied. Communicating

with her one-on-one was the antithesis of public speaking.

III. Reading Comprehension

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Section A

Directions:

For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A, B,

C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.

When

buying

a

smart

phone,

I

keep

my

criteria

simple.

If

the

device

can

handle

WeChat,

phone

calls

and

___41___

the

Internet,

I

pu

rchase

it.

If

it‘s

over

1,000

yuan,

I

___42___

it.

This approach to acquiring smartphones ___43___for me as I keep my needs basic. Aside from

saving myself money, I may have also saved myself from some wounds or burns had I chosen a

flawed phone. In recent news, things have been ___44___ for Samsung-literally.

Samsung's

most

recent

innovation

is

called

the

Note7.

Sadly,

it

was

discontinued

only

38

days after being made ___45___ for consumption. At first, a few customers complained that their

phones caught fire while being ___46___. Samsung, being responsible, launched an investigation

to ___47___ the cases. They issued a global recall on September 1, but it was taken merely as a

suggestion

and

not

seen

as

___48___.

Yet,

earlier

this

month,

the

tech

giant

gave

a

stronger

message to worldwide customers, saying all owners must stop using their Note 7s immediately.

Commercial

forces

encourage

tech

companies

to

push

the

envelope

and

produce

new

products every few months. Sometimes, a conflict of interests can occur. The greed for innovation

has a funny way of causing ___49___ for the basics- like safety-and the Note7's situation is just

one

example

of

this.

The

device

___50___

all

kinds

of

cool

features,

including

a

super-high-resolution

camera,

an

iris

scanner

and

an

especially

powerful

___51___.

Ideally,

manufacturers should consider all relevant aspects when creating new commodities. Samsung has

both the money and technical know-how to prevent such negligence. The Note7's ___52___ was

most likely rushed in order to make more profit, which ___53___ having the opposite effect. Time

will tell how much this oversight will cost with respect to Samsung' fame and future.

___54___,

it'

s

safe

to

assume

that

Samsung

could

eventually

come

back

over

the horizon

and restore its reputation as a manufacturer of excellent smartphones if its new models have no

major flaw. In an industry largely run by Apple and Samsung, intense competitions will only bring

more benefit to consumers. If Apple were to become the only ___55___ company, we would be

left with few options for top-of-the-line phones.

1.

A. surf

2.

A. buy

3.

A. works

B. access

B. desire

B. checks

C. launch

D. process

D. abandon

D. adapts

D. digging up

C. recommend

C. helps

4.

A. growing up

5.

A. accessible

6.

A. locked

B. bringing up

B. responsible

B. broadcast

C. blowing up

C. affordable

C. charged

C. look up

D. available

D. carried

D. look into

7.

A. look over

B. look through

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8.

A. aggressive

9.

A. neglect

10.

A. causes

11.

A. battery

B. desperate

B. need

B. boasts

B. screen

C. anxious

C. demand

C. defines

C. chip

D. urgent

D. application

D. forbids

D. frame

12.

A. campaign

13.

A. ended up

B. promotion

B. served for

B. Therefore

B. ambitious

C. invention

D. release

C. acted out

D. turned over

D. Nevertheless

14.

A. Consequently

15.

A. flexible

Section

B

C. Furthermore

C. dominant

D. feasible

Directions :

Read the following three passage , 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 just read.

(A)

F

or the first time in its history the

International Olympic Committee has

allowed a team of

refugee

to

compete

at

the

Games.

All

of

the

team‘s

members

were

forced

to

leave

their

home

countries .Now they‘ve come together to compete under the Olympic flag instead.

Making

it

to

the

Olympics

is

something

eighteen-year-old

swimmer

Yusra

has

always

dreamed of . But just last year, she was swimming for her life. She and her sister were forced to

leave their home in Syria because of the war there. They were trying to get to Greece in a rubber

dinghy with eighteen other refugees , when their boat broke down and began filing with water.

Most of the people on board couldn‘t swim so she and her sister jumped in to help push it to shore.

Three hours later , they made it to safety , and eventually to Germany as refugees. Refugees

are

people

who

have

left

their

home

country

because

their

lives

are

threatened

by

war,

bad

treatment or violence

–

often because of their race, gender or beliefs. Around the world , more than

60 million people are in this situation . And some of them , like Yuasra , are elite athletes who

have trained all their lives to compete at the highest level , only to have that chance taken away.

Now,

a

team

of

ten

,

including

swimmers,

runners

,

and

judokas

from

Syria,

South

Sudan

,Ethipia

and

Congo

have

been

given

the

chance

to

compete

at

the

Games

under

the

Olympic flag. They‘ve also been given their own coaches ,officials ,uniforms and a chef , all paid

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for by the IOC. And in the past few months they ?ve been training hard. The IOC says it wants the

team to inspire and give hope to other refugees, and draw attention to the issues millions of others

around the world are facing . And these guys say they‘ve up to the task , whether they win gold or

not.

―These

refugee

athletes

will

show

the

world

that

despite

the

unimaginable

trag

edies

that

they have faced , anyone can contribute to society through their talent ,skills and strength of the

human spirit,‖ the statement continues.

does the underlined sentence mean?

A. She trained all her life.

B. She swam for the glory of life.

C. She swam to escape being drowned

D. She swam to escape from other refugees.

do Yusra and her sister live as refugees now?

A. Syria

B. Germany

C. Congo

D. Ethiopia

of

the

following

is

not

a

reason

why

the

refugees

are

threatened

to

leave

their

country?

A. Race

B. Violence

C. Religion

D. Nationality

IOC

allowed

a

team

of

refugees

to

compete

in

the

Olympic

Games

in

order

to

________

A. help the refugees to fulfill their dreams of winning the Olympic gold medal

B. offer the refugees a chance to earn bread by themselves

C. light a candle of hope for all the refugees in the world

D. course the darkness of the society by forcing them to pay attention to the life of refugee.

(B)

As

the

MOOC

craze

continues

to

explode ,

anyone

interested

in

taking

an

online

course

faces

a

tricky

question:

Which

course

to

take?

Here

are

five

aspects

that

you

should

consider

before you start.

(1) What is your learning style?

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Many MOOCs are video-based . Other courses use presentation formats . Some also require

participation in group work. If you want to stay motivated during your course ,think about how

you enjoy learning.

Are you a visual learner , preferring to use images to understand a topic? If so , a video-based

course will work well for you . If you are a verbal learner who gains new information by speaking

and writing , try a text-based course with

lots of note-taking .Social learners ,meanwhile , will

thrive in forum discussions and project-based assessment.

(2) Are you ready to become a full-time student?

Be realistic about the time that you can commit to your online studies . Participating in an

online course can take as much time and commitment as a class-based program. Check the course

requirements and make a plan around your current schedule.

(3) Does the course really meet your needs?

Whether

you

are

interested

in

a

professional

qualification

or

want

to

take

a

personal

development

course

like

yoga

,

there

is

a

MOOC

for

you .

It‘s

easy

to

get

caught

up

in

th

e

excitement of taking lots of free courses in everything that you ever wanted to learn. Before you

start a course , think about the end goal . Is the course aimed at beginners or advanced learners?

Why do you need this qualification?

(4) Do you need a support group?

Some

people

learn

best

from

seeing

how

others

approach

the

problem..

If

you

are

such

a

leaner , you will need to supplement your online lessons with an in-person support group.

(5)What kind of certification will you get?

Take time to find out what kind of certification is available upon completion of the course ,

and how you can prove your learning to others ---for example , certificates ,transcripts or digital

badges?

kind of MOOCs does the author recommend to verbal learners?

A. A video-based course

B.

A text-based course

C. A forum-based discussion

D.

A project-based assessment

61. What kind of learners need an in-person support group?

A. Learners who prefer individual work.

B. learners who are in great need of a certificate

C. learners who learn best from seeing how others approach the problem.

D. learners who are too busy to become a full-time student

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