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静安区
2015
学年第二学期高三年级教学质量
检测
英语试卷
2016.
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考生注意：
1.
< br>考试时间
120
分钟，试卷满分
150
分。
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I
卷（第
1-11
页）和第
II
卷（第
12
页）
，
全卷共
12
页。所有答题必须涂（选择题）或写（非选
择题）在答题纸上，做在试卷上一
律不得分。
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第
I
卷
（共
103
分）
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.
The traffic is too heavy.
B. He can’t get up that
early.
C. There is no bus
that early.
D.
He is always late.
2.
A. In
her office.
B. At home.
C. In a call box.
D. In a supermarket.
3.
A. Swimming.
B. Tennis.
C.
Skiing.
D.
Running.
4.
A. Tuesday
morning.
B. Tuesday afternoon.
C. Wednesday morning.
D. Wednesday afternoon.
5.
A. They will meet Mike on the way
.
B. They will have an early
start.
C. Mike is usually
late.
D. Mike may not come
tomorrow.
6.
A. He enjoyed
food there.
B. The place was beautiful.
C. He saw fireworks.
D.
He met an old friend.
7.
A.
To call Sam.
B. To make her
address book tidy.
C. To
buy a new mobile phone.
D. To go out with the man.
8.
A. Jane is going to be an
accountant.
B. Jane is
eager to go home for the vacation.
C. Jane won’t spend the summer at
home.
D. Jane is already on
her way home.
9.
A. The
neighbor
shouldn’t decorate the
house.
B. The
neighbor shouldn’t slee
p early.
C. The neighbor should not
make noises at night.
D.
The neighbor should move out.
10.
A. Things in France are really cheap.
B. Things in
France are not cheap as are expected.
C. Things in France are the most
expensive in the world.
D. Things in
France are cheaper than in US.
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. She sat back and relaxed.
B.
She decided to retire.
C.
She entered university.
D. She worked out a new
English program.
12.
A.
Bring a great deal of useful experience to the
university.
B. Improve
human relationships in the university.
C. Bring a fear of aging among young
students on the campus.
D.
Improve the reputation of the university.
13.
A. English and drama.
B. How to make sound judgments.
C. How to teach minority
students.
D. To
observe, not to judge.
Questions 14 through 16 are based on
the following news.
14.
A. A natural disaster.
B.
A power failure.
C.
Homeless farmers.
D. A serious
accident.
15.
A. Jews and
some Arabs.
B. Arabs and North Africans.
C. Jews and North Africans.
D.
North Americans and some Arabs.
16.
A. Exchange them for banks.
B. Save them
for travelers.
C. Collect
them for poor children.
D. Spend them on duty-free goods.
Section C
Directions:
In Section C,
you will hear two longer conversations. The
conversations will be read
twice. After
you hear each conversation, you are required to
fill in the numbered blanks with the
information you have heard. Write your
answers on your answer sheet.
Blanks l7 through 20 are
based on the following conversation.
Complete the form. Write
ONE
WORD
for each answer.
Summers with Father
The
boy’s opinion on the summers with his
__17__.
father:
The
cause
of
the
boy’s
taking
summer
Their
father thought he __18__ the part of
courses:
their education.
The boy’s summer courses
included:
The goal of the
boy’s voyage:
__19__history
and navigation.
Towards an __20__.
Blanks 21 through 24 are based on the
following conversation
.
Complete the form. Write
NO
MORE THAN THREE WORDS
for each answer.
What’s
the
probable
relationship
between
__21__.
the two speakers?
What does Mrs. Sutton inquire about?
__22__ in England.
What does
Mr. Shaw advise Mrs. Sutton to
To find
a family doctor and __23__ him or
do
first?
her.
How
far
is
Dr.
Jones’s
health
center
from
__24__.
their
place?
II.
Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
After reading
the passages below, fill in the blanks to make the
passages 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.
( A )
Is It Safe to Fly With
an Infant on Your Lap?
Federal (
联邦的
)
transportation safety officials are using the
deadly crash of an overloaded
plane
in
Montana
to
restore
(25)
______________
long-standing
debate
about
whether
small
children should be allowed to travel on
the laps (
大腿部
) of adults.
The
10-seater
plane
crashed
as
it
(26)
______________(
land
)
in
Butte
in
March
2009,
killing all 14 people aboard, including
seven children. Investigators say that several of
the children
were found far from the
plane, suggesting that they weren’t
properl
y restrained.
The
National
Transportation
Safety
Board
is
asking
regulators
to
require
all
passengers
to
have
their
own
seats
and
seat
belts,
including
children
under
the
age
of
2,who(27)
______________
( allow ) to sit on an adult’s lap
now.
The
crash
was
so
severe
that
it’s
unlikely
anybody
would
have
survived
even
with
proper
restraints, (28) ______________
the “accident renews the NTSB’s
longstanding concerns” about
the
restraints, the recommendation reads.
The FAA (
联邦航空局
)
agrees that the safest place for a child on a
flight is in a seat using
an(29)
______________
( approve ) child
restraint and not on an adult’s lap.
But the FAA won’t
make it a
requirement because the
agency believes
many families with small children
wouldn’t
pay the cost of an extra
ticket, and instead would travel by highway, which
statistically is much
more dangerous
than air travel.
Last
decade,
the
FAA
considered(30)
______________(
change
)
the
rule,
but
decided
against
it,
(31)
______________
(
refer
)
to
statistics
(
统计数字
)
from
2004
showing
nearly
43,000 people died on
U.S. highways, compared to 13 on commercial
flights.
“What we found was
(32) ______________ there were some parents who
would be sensitive
to price and they
would choose to drive instead of fly,” FAA
spokeswoman Alison Duquette said.
“We
would be forcing them into automobiles, which are
less safe.”
( B )
Computers and Girls
The girls in this sixth grade class in
East Palo Alto, California, all have the same
access to
computers as boys. But
researchers say, by the time they get to high
school, they are victims of (33)
______________ the researchers call a
major new gender gap in technology. Janice Weinman
of
the
American
Association
of
University
Women
says,
“Girls
tend
to
be
(34)
______________
( comfortable
) than boys with the computer. They use it more
for word processing rather than for
problem solving, rather than to
discover new ways in which (35) ______________(
understand)
i
nformation.”
After
re-examining
a
thousand
studies,
the
American
Association
of
University
Women
researchers
found
that
girls
make
up
only
a
small
percentage
of
students
in
computer
science
classes. Girls constantly rate (36)
______________ significantly lower than boys in
their ability
and
confidence
in
using
computers.
And
they
use
computers
less
often
than
boys
(37)
______________ the
classroom.
The
instructor
of
this
computer
lab
says
he’s
already
noticed
some
differences.
Charles
Cheadle of Cesar Chav
ez
School says, “Boys are not so afraid
that they might do something that
will
harm the computer, (38) ______________girls are
afraid they might break it somehow.”
The software company Purple Moon says
it has found what girls want
---
characters they can
r
elate
to
and
story
lines
relative
to
what’s
going
on
in
their
own
lives.
Karen
Gould
of
Purple
Moon Software says, “What we
have definitely found from girls is that there is
no essential reason
(39) ______________
they wouldn’t want to play on a computer; it was
just a content thing.”
The
sponsor
of
the
study
says
it
all
boils
down
to
this
---
the
technology
gender
gap
that
separates
the
girls
from
the
boys
(40)
______________
be
closed
if
women
are
to
compete
effectively with men in the 21st
century.
Section B
Directions:
Complete the
following passage by using the words in the box.
Each word can only
be used once. Note
that there is one word more than you need.
A. immeasurably
B. replaced
F. potential
G
. minor
Scientific
breakthroughs
mean
that
life
expectancy
continues
to
rise
every
year.
But
the
medical advances which now make it
possible to think about living to a very great age
---
if not
forever
---
also
raise profound practical and ethical issues.
Is immortality
(
永生
)
a
realistic
__41__
?
Not for the
foreseeable future. In last year’s
Reith
lectures, the gerontologist
(
老年病学家
)
Professor
Tom Kirkwood firmly quashed
(
打消
) the idea that genetic
engineering might result in
s
ome kind of “fountain of
youth”
. Considering how __42__slow the
battles against cancer, heart
disease
and strokes have been, he said, it is fanciful to
imagine that we could conquer death. On
the other hand, scientists do now
understand more about why we age, and what can be
done to
slow down the
process. “
Our ancestral genes placed
limited __43__on long-term maintenance and
rep
air,”
says
Kirkwood
. “
Ageing comes
about through the gradual build-up of __44__
faults in the
cells
and
tissues
of
our
bodies,
not
as
the
result
of
some
active
mechanism
for
death
and
C.
priority
H. trick
D. failing
E. frustratingly
I. unrepaired
J. prospect
K. wiring
destruction.”
The __45__ ,
then, is to help the body repair the damage done
by wear and tear.
How can
that be done?
In many different ways, some of which
are already pretty common. Organ transplants from
pigs
and
monkeys
are
now
old
news
---
the
American
politician
Jesse
Helms
has
just
had
a
ten-year-old pig valve
(
瓣膜
) in his heart __46__.
Doctors have succeeded in __47__computerized
implants directly to nerve fibres,
allowing the deaf to hear, and there is hope that
electrodes (
电极
)
planted in the brain may soon offer
hope for the blind to see. But the real __48__at
the moment
lies
in
the
field
of
stem
cells
---
special
cells
that
allow
lizards
(
蜥蜴
)
to
grow
new
tails
and
humans
to grow new skin over __49__cuts. If scientists
can learn how to control these cells, they
could be used to reproduce parts of the
body that are __50__.
III.
Reading Comprehension
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.
Since Alzheimer’s disease
(
阿尔茨海默病
)
and
Pa
rkinson’s disease
(
帕金森病
) are common
and many notable people have developed
them, they have received more public attention.
Alzheimer’s Disease
Many
people
imagine
that
Alzheimer’s
disease,
the
degenerative
(
退化的
)
disorder
that
eventually leaves sufferers with total
memory loss, is an inevitable result of aging.
This is not so.
While the risks of
contracting the disease increase with age, there
are many elderly people whose
memories
are perfect. Most of us are so ill
-__
51
__
about all
forms of memory loss that we label
everything as “Alzheimer’s ”.
Alzheimer’s disease itself can affect people as
young as 30 and can
progress
either
quickly
or
slowly.
It
can
also
__52__
the
blame
for
other
non-degenerative
conditions
such
as
deep
depression.
__53__,
only
an
examination
of
the
brain
tissue
during
an
autopsy
(
解剖
) can produce an accurate
__54__ of the disease.
The
causes of Alzheimer’s
are
unknown. They
may
be
either
__55__
or
environmental.
A
study in 1996 of 13,000
people whose parents or siblings had the disease
showed they had five
times __56__
chance of passing away by the age of 80 than those
with no family history of the
problem.
__57__, there are other
factors. In a study of identical twins, it was
found that only about half
of the twin
pairs developed Alzhe
imer’s and, when
both twins
__58__ it, they did so as
much as
15 years apart. The possibility
that environment plays a part was boosted by
another 1996 study,
this time of two
groups of elderly Japanese men. One group lived in
Hawaii, the other group in
Japan. The
Hawaiian group had a much higher incidence of the
disease.
Aluminum
(
铝
)
has been
blamed for the development of Alzheimer’s. This is
because a high
level aluminum has been
found in the brains of sufferers. The disease was
first diagnosed at the
beginning of the
20
th
century. It was at this
time that aluminum was becoming widely __59__ for
use in cooking pots.
Memory loss, __60__ in performing
familiar tasks, and problems with abstract
thinking are
all
indicators
of
the
beginning
of
the
disease.
One
unusual
feature
is
its
impact
on
language.
It
attacks nouns first, then verbs.
Grammar is one of the last things to go.
Parkinson’s Disease
Parkinson’s
disease
(PD)
is
a
progressive
disorder
of
the
central
nervous
system
which
__61__ more
than one million Americans. Individuals with PD
lack the substance dopamine
(
多巴
胺
),
which
is
__62__
for
the
central
nervous
system’s
control
of
muscle
activity.
Parkinson’s
Disease
is
often
characterized
by
shake,
inflexibility
in
limbs
and
joints,
speech
disability
and
difficulty in __63__ physical movement.
Late in the course of the disease, some patients
develop
dementia
(
痴呆症
)
and
eventually Alzheimer’s disease.
__64__,
some Alzheimer patients develop
symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Medications such as levodopa
(
左多巴
), which changes itself
into dopamine once inside the brain,
which prevents degeneration of dopamine-containing
neurons
(
神经细胞
),
are used to improve diminished or __65__ motor
symptoms in PD patients, but do
not
correct the mental changes that occur.
51.
A. judged
B. equipped
C. informed
D. advised
52.
A. take
B. put
C.
lay
D. hold
53.
A. On
the other hand
B. For example
C. After all
D. In the end
54.
A. description
B. demonstration
C. diagnosis
D. illustration
55.
A. natural
B. instinctual
C. genetic
D. internal
56.
A. slighter
B. fainter
C. less
D. more
57.
A. Therefore
B. However
C. Instead
D. Finally
58.
A.
came up with
B. did away
with
C. went down with
D. put up with
59.
A. available
B. valuable
C. memorable
D. inaccessible
60.
A. complaint
B. difficulty
C. ease
D. complexity
61.
A. touch
B. influence
C. concern
D. affect
62.
A. important
B. unimportant
C. priceless
D. worthless
63.
A. stopping
B. changing
C. initiating
D. controlling
64.
A. Additionally
B. Contrarily
C. Consequently
D. Particularly
65.
A. treated
B. showed
C. released
D. reduced
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 just
read.
( A )
The
stylistic
innovation
in
paint
ing
known
as
Impressionism
began
in
the
1870’s.
The
Impressionists wanted to depict
(
描绘
) what they saw in
nature, but they were inspired to portray
incomplete moments by the increasingly
fast pace of modern life. They concentrated on the
play
of light over objects, people, and
nature, breaking up seemingly solid surfaces,
stressing vivid
contrast
between
colors
in
sunlight
and
shade,
and
depiction
reflected
light
in
all
of
its
possibilities.
Unlike
earlier artists,
they
did
not
want
to
observe
the
world
from
indoors. They
abandoned the
studio, painting in the open air and recording
spontaneous
（自然的）
impressions
of
their
subjects
instead
of
making
outside
sketches
and
then
moving
indoors
to
complete
the
work
from memory.
Some of the
impressionists’ painting methods were affected by
technological advances. Fo
r
example,
the
shift
from
the
studio
to
the
open
air
was
made
possible
in
part
by
the
arrival
of
cheap
rail travel, which permitted easy and quick access
to the countryside or seashore, as well as
by newly developed chemical dyes and
oils that led to folding paint tubes, which
enabled artists
to finish their
paintings on the spot.
Impressionism
acquired
its
name
not
from
supporters
but
from
angry
art
lovers
who
felt
threatened by the new painting. The
term “Impressionism” was born in 1874,
when a group of
artists who had been
working together organized an exhibition of their
paintings in order to draw
public
attention to their work. Reaction from the public
and press was immediate, and derisive
(
嘲笑的
).
Among
the
165
paintings
exhibited
was
one
called
Impression:
Sunrise,
by
Claude
Monet
(1840-1926).Viewed through hostile eyes,
Monet’s painting of a rising sun over a
misty,
watery
scene
seemed
messy,
hurried,
and
an
insult
to
good
taste. Borrowing
Monet’s
title,
art
critics extended the term
“Impressionism” to
the entire exhibit.
In response, Monet and his 29
fellow
artists in the exhibit adopted the same name as a
symbol of their unity, despite individual
differences. From then until 1886
Impressionism had all the enthusiasm for
a “church”, as the
painter
Renoir
put
it.
Monet
was
faithful
to
the
Impressionist
belief
until
his
death,
although
many of the others
moved on to new styles.
66.
Which of the following was one of the
distinguishing characteristics of Impressionist
painting
according to the passage?
A.
The emphasis on people
rather than nature scenes.
B.
The way the subjects were presented
from multiple angles.
C.
The focus on small solid
objects.
D.
The depiction
of the effects of light and color.
67.
The
exhibition
of
paintings
organized
in
1874
resulted
in
all
of
the
following
EXCEPT
___________.
A.
attracting attention
from the public
B.
a negative
reaction from the press
C.
an immediate demand for the paintings exhibited
D.
creating a name for a
new style of painting
68.
Which of the following
caused the rejection of the impressionist
exhibition?
A.
The small
number of paintings on display.
B.
Lack of interest in exhibitions by
young artists.
C.
The
similarity between all the paintings exhibited.
D.
Anger about
seemingly poorly painted art.
69.
What aspect of painting
in the nineteenth century does the passage mainly
discuss?
A.
The
impact of some artists’ resistance to the fast
pace of life.
B.
The differences between two major styles of art.
C.
A technological advance
in the materials used by artists.
D.
A group of artists with a new
technique and approach to art.
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