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黄浦区
2016
学年
第二学期期中
高三年级英语学科教学质量监测试卷
I. Listening Comprehension
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions:
Read the
following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make
the passage coherent. For
the blanks
with a given word, fill in each blank with the
proper form of the given word. For the
other
blanks,
fill
in
each
blank
with
one
proper
word.
Make
sure
that
your
answers
are
grammatically correct.
Should Children Ban Their
Parents from Social Media ?
It
might
be
taken
for
granted
–
but
no
previous
generation
of
children
will
have
had
the
expenence
of
having their entire childhoods
intensively and publicly documented in this way .
But the very first people to have
had
some of their childhood picture s
_____21____(post) online are not always happy
about their formative years
being
preserved in digital world .
Parents
may not realize it , but by posting photos and
videos of their online , they are creating an
identity
for their children
____22_____might not be welcomed . Lucy is a good
example . She said she had asked her dad
to de-
tag her from “stuff
that doesn?t necessary represent
___
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_____I am now . That?s
not something I?d want to
remember
every time
I log on to Facebook
--------
It isn?t the best
memories , which is the way
you ?d like
to
reveal ___24
_____on
social media .”
Stones
about
online
privacy
are
often
about
children
and
teenagers
being
warmed
of
the
dangers
of
publishing too much personal
information online. But in this case it?s their
parents who are in the spotlight . For
some parents , ____25_____(safe) option
is avoiding social media altogether .
Kasia Kurowaska from Newcastle is
expecting her first child in June and has agreed
with her partner Lee
to impose a
blanket ban _____26____her children are old enough
to make their own decision about social media .
But
she
has
two
big
concerns
about
her
plan .
Firstly
,
it
will
be
difficult
____27_____(
impose) .”When
their
auntie comes round and
takes a picture , we?re going to have to be like
paparazzi police , saying , please don?t put
these on Facebook . And secondly , the
child might dislike _____28_____(not own ) an
oline presence , especially
if all of
their friends do . But I
_____29
_____(keep ) a digital record of
them . It just won?t have been shared on a
platform ____30____the masses.
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. criticize
B. desperately
C.
establish
D. feature
E. focus
F. gratitude
G
. hearfelt
H. humanity
I . influence
J. present
K. touch
letters Brought Back to Life
Letters as a way of communication have
long given way to phone calls and WeChat
messages . But a TV
shows , Letters Alive , is helping
bring this old way to keep in touch back into the
___31___.
Letters
Alive
took
it
idea
from
a
UK
program
with
a
similar
name
,
Letters
Live
.
Both
shows
1
_____32__-famous actors and
actresses , but there is no gossip , no
eye-
catching visual effects. Instead ,
it?s just
one person walking up to a
microphone and reading a letter .
But
these
are
not
just
any
letters
.
They
vary
greatly
in
time
and
subjects .
There
is
,
for
example
, a
passionate letter that famous painter
Huang Youngyu wrote to playwright Cao Yu 30 years
ago to ____33____
his
lack
of
creativity .
There
is
also
a(n)
____34_____note
from
Spring
and
Autumn
Period
written
by
two
ordinary
young soldiers to their elder brother
to report their lives in the war zone.
Compared to published texts , letters
also come with a personal ____35____.
One
example
from
Letters
live
was
a
note
of
____36_____from
the
mother
of
a
dying
child
to
JK
Rowling , author of the
Harry Potter books . It reads :? Mrs Rowling
,cancer threatened to take everything from
my daughter , and your books turned out
to be the castle we so ___37
_____needed
to hide in .”
According to
Guan Zhengwen , the director of Letter Alive , it
is this kind of ____38_____behind every letter
that
strikes a harmony with the
audience .? It?s a thing of the past that
entertainment shows
_____
39____themselves
only
with pretty face. “ Guan told Sohu News ,”
Entertainmen
t industry is starting to
switch to a(n) __40_____on
wisdom and
intelligence .”
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.
Being Bigger isn’t Necessarily
Considered Better
The film ,
which famously started life in 1939, has now
declared a new age , that of
smaller start-up . By
2014,
when
Ms
Whitman
announced
HP?s
decision
to
separate
i
ts
computer
and
printer
business
from
its
corporate
hardware
and
services
operations
,
the
company
had
grown
into
a
clumsy
____41____Its
fortunes
started to ____42_____with a series of
expensive and much criticized purchase. By 2012 it
had lost its position as
the World ?s
leading supplier of PCs to Lenovo . The dramatic
____
43____was aimed at helping the firm
adapt to
the
new
age
of
mobile
and
online
computing
,
responding
to
shareholder
demands
for
more
aggressive
______44_____.
“ I would go from laser
jet
printing to our big enterprise services
contracts where we were running the
back end of IT for many big companies
and organizations . These two things are not like
each other . So the ability
to focus
and engage with customers on a(n)_____45_____set
of objectives and business outcomes . I can
already
see
the
differences.”
Ms
Whitmannn
,who
now
heads
the
new
spin
-off .
Hewlett
Packard
Enterprise
(
HPE)
selling servers and services, says the
change has already ___46
______her
performance . “ One big chang
e is it
_____47_____each of the divisions to
pursue the strategy that is right for them.
____48
_____, there is ?no way
? printer and PC company HP Inc?s
decision last year to by Samsung?s printing
business for $$1 bn would have
happened
when it was part of
the larger firm .
So it?s that ability to drive your own program ,
not ____
49___by
other
businesses that don?t have the same
characteristics .” Ms Whitman is so convinced her
strategy is working
that she?s
____
50_____HPE futher , spinning off
both its business services division and its
software business into
separate
companies last year.
Her assumption
that bigger doesn?t always mean better seems
____
51____. After all , a larger
company
should find it easier to
dominate the market it operates in . But the rapid
rise of much small start-up s , competing
and often overtaking these established
powerful companies means the accepted wisdom that
____52_____equals
success is being
challenged .____53______in 2014, eBay carved
PayPal , the electronic payments arm it bought
in 2001, off from the main online sale
business .
2
Box
, a cloud storage company , is another case in
point. Founder Aaron Levie says ,” Whether Uber ,
Airbnb ,those same lessons
_____54
____, which is if you can build
something that?s cheaper , faste
r and
more
scalable
and delivers a far better customer
experience than what the traditional sellers were
able to do , then you
can be extremely
___55_____.
41.
A. appearance
B.
construction
C. giant
D. possession
42.
A. decline
B. increase
C.
stay
D. vary
43.
A. adventure
B. combination
C. development
D. split
44.
A. behavior
B. growth
C. markets
D. policies
45.
A. ambitious
B. complex
C.
narrow
D.
overall
46.
A. delivered
B.
improved
C. measured
D. standardized
47.
A. allows
B. employs
C.
reminds
ens
48.
A. All in all
B. For example
C.
On the contrary
D. What?s more
49.
A. held back
B.
kept on
C. looked over
D.
taken down
50.
A. dissolved
B. expanded
C. operated
C. shrunk
51.
A. fundamental
B. reasonable
C. surprising
D. widespread
52.
A. diligence
B. discipline
C. profit
D. size
53.
A. Comparatively
B. Generally
C. Similarly
D. Unexpectedly
54.
A. apply
B. fail
C.
hide
D. increase
55.
A. friendly
B.
miserable
C.
motivated
D.
troublesome
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)
Born in 1823 in Wales ,
Alfred Russel Wallace was a man of modest means ,
but he had a passion for nature
and he
chose to follow it . He started out collecting
insects as a hobby , but eventually his longing
for adventure
led him to explore the
world .
Luckily for Wallace , Victorian
Britain was discovering an interest in weird and
wonderful insets ,so the
demand from
museums and private collections for these bests
was growing . Wallace was able to make a living
doing what he loved : collecting
beetles and other insects .
But
his
first
trip
of
exploring
the
world
ended
in
disaster .
Wallace
proceeded
to
the
Amazon
in
South
America . Its giant forests promised a
wealth of new species , sure to put him on the
scientific map . The trip took
6 weeks
and involved every mode of transport in existence
at the time . After four years Wallace had to
watch in
despair as his samples went up
in flames ----including live animals he was
bringing home that were trying to jump
free of the flames . But he did not let
it stop him .
In 1854, Wallace set off
on another adventure , this time to the Malay
Archipelago . Wallace found himself
humbled by the new and exciting things
he saw. He later recalled : “ As I lie listening
to these interesting sounds ,
I think
how many besides myself have longed to see with
their own eyes the many wonderful and beautiful
things
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which I
am daily encountering .”
In
1858,
Wallace
wrote
what
became
as
the
?Temate
essay
“:
a
piece
of
writing
that
was
to
change
our
understanding of life forever . In his
essay , Wallace argued that a species would only
turn into another species if it
was
struggling for existence . Henry W. Bates was one
of many scientists delighted by the idea of
evolution by
natural selection . In a
letter to Wallace , he wrote :” The idea is like
truth itself , so simple and obvious that those
who read and un
derstand it
will be stuck by its simplicity , and yet it is
perfectly original .”
56.
__________finally caused Wallace to
explore the world ?
A. His strong
affection for nature
B. His life-long devotion
to beasts
C. His deep love
for adventure
D. Increasing
demand for insects
of the
following is True about Wallace?s first strip
?
A. It took him six weeks
to explore the Amazon with all kinds of
transportation
B. He made a
scientific study of a fairly limited number of
insects .
C. The f
ire cost
him his four years? collection of animals
D. His passion cooled after
the disaster
58. Wallace
felt _________on the Malay Archipelago .
A. fearless
B. lucky
C. challenged
D.
risky
59.
Wallace?s idea on evolution
of natural selection
___________.
A. made no sense at that time
B. built up a new concept of life
C. was too simple to be
true
D. revealed the
origin of nature
B
Virtual reality
Probably the most exciting
tech development of recent times , virtual reality
(VR) has arrived , with sufficient
options available to the consumer who
?s searching for an extra
amount of high
-tech fun .
The cheapest way to
get a high-end VR
experience
comes courtesy of Sony . Its
Play Station VR doesn?t require a
tricked
-out PC or
expensive
phone-it works with the Playstation 4 control
board and comes with a few great games in its
library .
There is a some equipment you
can purchase to enhance the exper
ience
, but if you ?ve already got a PS4 you can
enter the world of VR for just $$400.
Other high
–
end offerings
like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift ,
as well as
mobile options
like Samsung?s Gear VR, will get your head in the
game .
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