上海市2019-2020学年上海中学高三英语11月周测

高三英语练习九

2019.11.19

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. She's weighing the man's luggage B. She's checking the man's luggage

C. She's browsing the man's books. D. She's searching the man's trunk

2. A. She's spoilt her appetite B. She is not feeling well.

C. She is very hungry. D. She has eaten too much

3. A. He wants to have his car repaired B. He wants to find the nearest car-park

C. He wants to hire D. He wants to look round in a taxi.

4. A. At a butcher shop. B. In a McDonalds.

C. In a grocery. D. At a buffet.

5. A. Young lovers B. Bride and bridegroom

C. A married coupe. D. Divorced parents

6. A. His jacket doesn't match his pants

B. He is wearing a dark jacket.

C. His jacket doesn't fit him well

D. He has gone to work in a jacket

7. A. The critic has a very funny comment on the musical

B. The woman agrees with the man's opinion of the musical

C. The woman has a very positive comment on the musical

D. The man and the woman differ in their opinion of the musical

8. A. He no longer buys souvenirs like toys for his children

B. He doesn't send cards to his children as he did before

C. He still sends cards to all his children except Tod.

D. Toys are still his children's favorites though they are grown up

9. A. The book reports can be handed in after November 13.

B. November 13 is the deadline for handing in the book reports.

C. The book reports can be handed in any time they are finished

D. November 13 is the date when the book reports are handed in

10. A. He became the club champion though his leg muscles tightened

B. He lost to the club champion because his leg muscles badly hurt

C. He failed to win the club championship for his leg muscle pain

D. He had to quit the match because of sudden pain in his leg muscles.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. 20 hours B. 22 hours C. 24 hours D. 18 hours

12. A. People can live in New York's most attractive residential area.

B. It serves as a transport system from Roosevelt to Manhattan.

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C. Roosevelt Islanders now can have a view of Manhattans skylines

D. The cable car has created more jobs for Roosevelt Islanders

13. A. It ferries just across the East River every 15 minutes

B. It carries Roosevelt Islanders to Manhattan every 15 minutes

C. It ferries to and fro between Roosevelt Island and Manhattan.

D. It operates only in moming and evening rush hours.

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage

14. A. It can identify different flowers through its built-in sensors

B. It can record various smells digitally and reproduce then

C. It can make sweet smells by mixing flowers with vapour

D. It can create smells and give them off to any scenes.

15. A. It helps shoppers locate the right brand of perfume

B. It helps shoppers check out the perfumes before they buy

C. It helps make sure that perfumes are truly genuine

D. It can recommend right perfumes to shoppers

16. A. The device is made small enough to be easily carried.

B. The device is sensitive to any smell the human nose can detect

C. Smells are programmed to accompany movie scenes.

D. The device has recreated the smells of fish and gasoline.

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. Men's good manners on public occasions.

B. Traditional views of married life

C. The equality of husband and wife

D. The dictionary definition of equality

18. A. Sharing housework B. Keeping house

C. Earning money. D. Waiting on husband.

19. A. A woman should support her family financially after marriage

B. Women should be treated politely on all social occasions

C. Men should have more household responsibilities than women

D. Men should treat women like babies in their family life

20. A. Men should observe the rule of lady first strictly

B. Husband and wife should pay their own way.

C. Man's and woman's roles are different in a family.

D. Husband should treat his wife like a good friend.

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

thanks

with

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.

There seems never (21) ((be)a civilization without toys, but when and how they

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developed is unknown. They probably came about just to give children something to do

In

the

ancient

world,

as

is

today,

most

boys

(22) (play)with

some

kinds

of

toys

and

most

girls

with

others.

In

societies

(23) social

roles

are

rigidly

determined,

boys pattern their play after the activities of their fathers and girls (24)

(prepare), even in play, to step into the roles and responsibilities of the adult world.

(25) is remarkable about the history of toys is not so much how they

changed over the centuries but how much they have remained the same. The changes have been

mostly (26) craftsmanship, mechanics, and technology

It is the universality (

普遍性

) of toys with regard to their development in all parts

of the world and their persistence to the present (27) is amazing. In Egypt,

America, China, Japan and among the Arctic (ti8)people, generally the same kinds of toys

appeared.

Variations depended on local

customs

and ways of

life(28) toys imitate

their

surroundings.

Nearly

every

civilization

had

dolls,

little

weapons,

toy

soldiers,

tiny

animas and vehicles

Because toys (29) be generally regarded as a kind of art form, they have not

been

subject

to

technological

leaps

that

characterize

inventions

for

adult

use.

The

progress

from the wheel to the cart to the automobile is a direct line of ways up. The progress from

a rattle (

拨浪鼓

) used by a baby in 3, 000 BC to(30) used by an infant today,

however, is not characterized by inventiveness (

独创性

). Each rattle is the product of the

artistic tastes of the times and subject to the limitations of available materials

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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. fancy B. dump C. normally D delicacy E. possession AB. equally

AC. associate AD. Stick AD. Turn BC. shower BD. prie

People become quite illogical when they try to decide what can be eaten and what cannot

be

eaten.

If

you

lived

in

the

Mediterranean,

for

instance,

you

would

consider

octopus

a

great

(31) You would not be able to understand why some people find it repulsive. On

the other hand,

your stomach

would (32) at the idea

of

frying potatoes in animal fat

-the (33) accepted practice in many northern countries. The sad truth is that most

of us have been brought up to eat certain foods and we (34) them all our lives.

No creature has received more praise and abuse than the common garden snail. Cooked in

wine snails are a great luxury in various parts of the world. There are countless people

who,

ever

since

their

early

years,

have

learned

to

(35) snails

with

food.

My

friend,

Robert, lives in a country where snails are despised. As his flat is in a large town, he

has no garden of his own. For years he has been asking me to collect snails from my harden

and take them to him. The idea never appealed to me very much, but one day, after a heavy

(36) I happened to be walking in my garden when I noticed a huge number of snails

taking a stroll on some of my- plants. Acting on a sudden impulse, collected several dozen,

put them in a paper bag, and took them to Robert. Robert was delighted to see me and

(38) pleased with my little gift. I left the bag in the hall and Robert and I went

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into the living room where we talked for a couple of hours. I had forgotten all about the

snails when Robert suddenly said that I must stay to dinner. Snails would, of course, be

the main dish. i did not the idea and I reluctantly followed Robert out of the room, To our

dismay, we saw that there were snails everywhere: they had escaped from the paper bag and

had taken complete (40) of the hall

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.

Americans no longer expect public figures, whether in speech or in writing, to command

the

English

language

with

skill

and

gift.

Nor

do

they

aspire

to

such

(41) themselves.

In his latest book, Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We

Should, Like Care, John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and

conservative views

sees

the triumph of 1960s counter-culture(

反主流文化

) as an

explanation

for the (42) of formal English.

Blaming the permissive(

放任的

)1960s is nothing new, but this is not yet another

(43) against the decline in education. Mr. McWhorter's academic speciality is

language history and change, and he sees the gradual disappearance of

to be natural and no more (45) than the loss of the case-endings(

词尾变格

) of old

English.

But the

enthusiasm for

the authentic and the personal,

the

death

of

formal

speech,

prose,

poetry

and

music.

While

even

the

modestly

educated

sought

a(n) (46) tone when they put pen to paper before the 1960s, even the most well

regarded prose since then has sought to capture_47_ English on the page. 48, in poetry, the

highly personal, performative genre is the only form that could claim real liveliness. In

both oral and written English, talking or spontaneity((

自然流露

)is49 speaking or craft

Illustrated

with

an

entertaining

series

of

examples

from

both

high

and

low

culture,

the

trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is (50) . But it is less clear, to take the

question

of

his

subtitle,

why

we

should,

like,

care.

As

a

linguist,

he

acknowledges

that

all

varieties

of

human

language,

including

non-standard

ones

like

Black

Enghish,

can

be

extremely

(51) there exists no language or dialect in the world that cannot convey complex

ideas. He is not arguing, as many do, that we can no longer (52) because we do not

talk proper.

Russians

have

a

deep

love

for

their

own

language

and

carry

large

quantities

of

memorized

poetry in their heads, while Italian politicians tend to elaborate speech that would seem

old-fashioned

to most English-speakers, Mr. McWhorter acknowledges that formal language

is

not

strictly

(53) ,

and

proposes

no

radical

education

reforms-he

is

really

(54) the

loss

of

something

beautiful

more

than

useful.

We

now

take

our

English

paper

plates

instead

of china.

41. A. persistence B. command C. life D. perspective

42. A. decline B. distinction C. disappearance D. development

43. A. threat B. criticism C. warning D. campaign

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44. A. as a result B. on the other hand C. in particular D. for example

45. A. advisable B. noticeable C. regrettable D. debatable

46. A. elevated B. authoritative C. personal D. mild

47. A. class B. written C. original D. spoken

48. A. Equally B. Obviously C. Nevertheless D. Specifically

49. A. turning against B triumphing over C. yielding to D. succeeding to

50. A. unchallenged B. unbiased C. undesirable D. unmistakable

51. A. inclusive B. expressive C. impressive D. comprehensive

52. A. excel academically B. behave well C. develop efficiently D. think straight

53. A. necessary B. technical C. outdated D. beneficial

54. A. protesting against B. dwelling on C. grieving over D. making for

55. A. confusing B. evolving C. heartfelt D. inevitable

Section B

Directions:

Read

the

following

three

passages.

Each

passage

is

followed

by

several

questions.

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)

If

you

intend

to

use

humor

in

your

talk

to

make

people

smile,

you

must

know

how

to

identify

shared

experiences

and

problems.

Your

humor

must

be

relevant

to

the

audience

and

should

help

to

show

them

that

you

are

one

of

them

or

that

you

understand

their

situation

and

are

in

sympathy

with

their

point

of

view.

Depending

on

whom

you

are

addressing,

the

problems

will

be

different.

If

you

are

talking

to

a

group

of

managers,

you

may

refer

to

the

disorganized

methods

of

their

secretaries

alternatively

if

you

are

addressing

secretaries,

you

may

want

to

comment

on

their

disorganized bosses

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which works well

Because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is

being shown around

My Struggle runs to almost 1,200 pages, and Paul Auster's most recent novel 4321 is almost

as

long

as

his

previous

three

books

put

together.

The

approving

may

credit

mastery

of

material.

The unimpressed blame growing authorial

One reason can be the misguided sense that volume equals value for money. Another is

the odd association between physical weight and artistic or intellectual merit-

is a compliment,

certain size, though that was not the original intent

That may be partly the legacy of doorstop classics: Moby Dick, Middlemarch, and Crime

and

Punishment.

(It's

not

a

purely

western

phenomenon:

China's

beloved

The

Story

of

the

Stone

runs

to

120

chapters).

Ulysses

needs

all

of

its

700-plus

pages

to

capture

a

single

day,

while

War and Peace, at over 1,200, ranges over 15 years, five families, domestic drama and grand

historical

events.

Readers

gallop

through

Elena

Ferrante's

Neapolitan

quartet

(

四

部

曲

)(regarded

by

its

author

as

a

single

novel)

while

short

books

don't

always

keep

their

readers;

A

Brief

History

of

Time,

despite

living

up

to

its

titular

promise,

was

bought

much

more

than

read. But Persuasion, one of Jane Austen's shorter novels, is arguably her best. Virginia

Woolf's groundbreaking Mrs Dalloway is not much over 200 pages. The long and short of it

is that authors must earn their length.

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59. Most readers have the same feeling with the judges of the Man Booker Prize that.

A. The

Overstory

has proved to be attractive to readers

B. some long- winded books can be more readable if shorter

C. thinner books should be given more intensive attention

D.

60. Val McDermid may believe that .

A. books shifting to digital formats tend to be lengthier

B. editors should be held responsible for book inflation

C. writers nowadays have better mastery of material

D. writers writing long books are too confident of themselves

61. Which statement is Not true about the reasons behind

A. It is believed that long books can bring financial gains

B. Short books are considered of less artistic value

C. The Great American Novel refers to the best novels

D. Doorstop classics are more often than not long books

62. We can conclude from the last paragraph that .

A. long books tend to leave more legacy than short books

B. most doorstop classics are historical novels

C. authors decide book length based on readers' preference

D. it is not book length but artistic value that really matters

(C)

The

European

Commission's

proposed

tax

on

digital

services

is

intended

to

make

companies

such as Google and Uber pay more. The idea is that such firms are gaming the rules at the

expense

of

other

taxpayers.

The

issue

is

real

and

needs

to

be

addressed

-but

the

answer

under

discussion breaks with both established international practice and plain common sense.

Formal talks on the plan are due to start this week. The commission is calling for a

3 percent tax on the turnover(

营业额

) of large digital enterprises- those with EU digital

revenues over 50 million euros and total global revenues of over 750 million euros. About

half the companies affected would be American, the EU estimates.

The commission says

it

has been

left with little choice. The value

generated

by

digital

companies

doesn't

require

a

physical

presence,

making

them

harder

to

tax.

Digital

businesses

arrange

their

affairs

to

exploit

this:

They

transfer

income

to

low-tax

regions

and,

according

to officials, end up paying an effective tax of roughly 10 percent of profits, less than

half of the burden carried by traditional businesses

Officials

acknowledge

that

the

right

solution

is

a

thorough

reform

of

the

corporate

tax

code especially as it affects international firms selling digital services- and that this

should be done not merely by themselves but in cooperation with other countries, notably

the U.S. Efforts are in fact underway, but progress has been slow, and EU officials have

chosen to do something, anything, as soon as possible.

Doing nothing would be better than this. For a start, the plan wouldn't raise much

revenue-a mere 5 billion euros each year. And this supposedly fairer tax would create many

unexpected

situations.

For

instance,

companies

such

as

Uber

that

don't

make

money

will

have

a new cost to absorb; highly profitable firms with market power, such as Facebook, will be

able to pass the tax on to their consumers. Small startups will be free from the new tax

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