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学
年
第
二
学
期
徐
汇
区
学
< br>习
能
力
诊
断
卷
高三年级英语学科
（考试时间
120
分钟，满分
150
分）
2013.4
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
25.
Your generous donation can
make a huge difference ______ the life of those
living below the poverty line.
A.
from
B. on
C. to
D.
of
26.
I thought the journey would be simple,
but ______ could be further from the
truth.
A.
anything
B. something
C. nothing
D. any
thing
27.
Well known for their amazing strength,
ants can lift ______.
A.
heavier than 50 times their own weight
B. 50 times heavy as their own
weight
C. 50 times heavy
than their own weight
D. 50 times their
own weight
28.
Though he ______ many
times, he still had no idea of this complicated
concept.
A. had
told
B. have been
told
D. has told
C. had been
told
29.
The Guinness World Records
recognized 30-year-old Jessica Cox the first
person without arms ______ an
airplane.
A.
flying
B. flew
C.
having flown
D. to fly
30.
During my journey, I
started thinking about how difficult it ______ to
travel before cars, trains and planes
made our lives so much
easier.
A. needn‘t have
been
C. must have been
B. shouldn‘t
have been
D.
should have been
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31.
Such great progress ______ in English
so far that his friends can hardly believe
that.
A. has Jack made
B. Jack has made
D. Jack makes
C.
does Jack make
32.
Lost in Thailand
made people laugh and ______ them
without big, expensive effects.
A. entertains
B. entertained
C. was entertaining
D. had
entertained
33.
______ there is nothing
wrong with fast food, our health is more important
than our desire to finish eating
as
quickly as possible.
A.
Once
B. While
C.
As
D. Since
34.
______ of the current news,
whether it is domestic or overseas, is his daily
routine.
A.
Being informed
C.
Informing
B. Informed
D. Having been
informed
35.
The sight or even thought of snakes may
give you a horrible feeling, but there are a few
exceptions
______ prove snakes are not
always associated with horror.
A.
which
B.
where
C. to which
D. what
36.
Quantities of precious
jewelry, ______ buried deep in the earth, amazed
all the people present.
A.
was found
B.
were found
C. to be found
D.
found
37.
Around 2000 years ago, many merchants
travelled along ______ became known as the Silk
Road.
A.
where
B. what
C. that
D. which
38.
It was while Chaplin was
travelling with a group of other performers in the
USA ______ he was given a
chance to be
in a film.
A.
where
B. when
C. that
D. which
39.
There were only ten minutes
______ when they hurried to the departure gate at
the airport.
A.
remained
B. remaining
C.
to remain
D. being
remained
40.
Beijing
and
Shanghai have released their plans to gradually
allow students to take college entrance exams
______ their parents work as migrant
workers.
A.
where
B. when
C. in which
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D.
that
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.
revolutionized
F.
territory
Everyone who knows Olivia Griffiths is
impressed by her unique sense of style. Whenever
she walks into a
room, heads turn. Her
friends wonder how she managed to get the new
Mulberry handbag that no one had
thought was
41
in Australia yet.
The truth is that Olivia has never left
Australia. But with a few clicks of her computer
mouse, she can travel
to shopping
42
around the world. Online
shopping has
43
the consumer
experience. With the help of
an
increasing number of online shops overseas,
shoppers can now pick up interesting goods from
all over the
world.
The biggest advantage of
shopping on foreign websites is the wide range of
choices available. For example,
Chinese
sho
ppers are often disappointed when
Gap products are not available locally. But now
it‘s possible to
order these products
straight from the US with a credit card and a
small
44
fee. Other
benefits of online
shopping include
45
prices. When items are
bought online from other countries,
they‘re often tax
-free.
However, when you buy things from a
foreign website, things can get
46
too. So make sure you pay
extra attention to protecting your
rights.
Sometimes it can be
difficult to handle foreign websites because of
the unfamiliar language. For example,
the term ―shipped in
1
-
5 working days‖ can be
confusing for Chinese shoppers, as it doesn‘t
clarify whether this
is the time in
which the product will arrive or the time it takes
for it to be
47
.
The
method of shipping can also determine whether you
get your product at all. Unless you choose express
or
priority
shipping, which only takes a few days
to deliver but is more expensive, most
48
international
shipping
doesn‘t offer a tracking option ― w
hich
means once your products are shipped outside of
the country
there‘s no way of finding
out where they are.
The best
consumers are the most sensible ones. If you‘re
interested in expanding your shopping
49
to
foreign websites, make
sure you do your research beforehand to avoid your
money and products being lost on the
way.
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.
Starting around 1348, the
plague(
瘟疫
) hit the
continents of Europe and Asia. As a result, it
killed an
50
forty million people. This disease has
come to be known as the Black Death. Its victims
suffered a
horribly painful death
51
by
fever and dying, blackened flesh.
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3
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B. tricky
G.
standard
C.
available
H.
processed
D.
destinations
I.
appealing
E.
competitive
J.
delivery
Although they
are not certain, many historians agree that the
Black Death probably originated in China and
spread through trade
52
, carried by fleas
(
跳蚤
)found on rats. Rats are
very common in cities, so these
areas
were hit the hardest. The disease passed to humans
when the fleas would jump from the rats to a human
host.
Every social group suffered from the
Black Death---it was not a discriminating
(
有识别力的
)disease. But
those who lived in rural settings were
sometimes
53
, as were the wealthy, who had less
54
with
outsiders and could afford to move to
more remote areas in an
55
to spare
themselves.
The Black Death
had many long-term
56
. Certain areas of Europe were nearly
57
after it,
including some of
its prosperous cities. For example, Bremen,
Germany, lost almost 7,000 of its 12,000
inhabitants; Florence, Italy, lost
40,000 of its nearly 90,000; and Paris lost more
than 50,000 of its 180,000.
Major
cities had to create mass graveyards where the
dead could be buried. European population only
began to
58
again in the last decades of the 15th
century.
The Black Death
also brought about
59
changes. As large numbers
of peasants died, there was a
shortage
of labor. Peasants had
60
spent generations working
for the same family, but after the plague
hit, they began to take advantage of
the labor
61
.
Workers
62
many times their usual pay for
work and would sometimes move to a new
lord or noble who offered
63
incentives (
刺激
;
鼓励
) and
working conditions. In this way, the
Black Death caused the landowning aristocracy
(
贵族
) to lose much of their
power and social
64
.
50.
A. enormous
51.
A. characterized
52.
A.
stations
53.
A. infected
54.
A. contact
55.
A.
attraction
56.
A. consequences
57.
A. bare
58.
A. decline
59.
A. economic
60.
A. barely
61.
A. boom
62.
A. won
63.
A. higher
64.
A. post
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)
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B. evaluated
B.
reported
B. goods
B. spread
B. similarities
B. attempt
B. harms
B. populated
B.
recover
B. racial
B. usually
B. growth
B.
charged
B.
better
B. dream
C.
estimated
C.
specialized
C. routine
C. spared
C. exchange
C. effect
C. effect
C.
deserted
C.
motivate
C.
global
C. stubbornly
C. shortages
C.
offered
C. similar
C. system
D.
expected
D.
caused
D. route
D.
included
D.
trade
D.
advantage
D.
correction
D.
developed
D. grow
D. political
D. previously
D. drain
D. sped
D. changing
D.
position
The butterfly,
which is competitive swimming‘s newest
stroke(
划水
), was developed in
the mid-1930s, but
it wasn‘t
allowe
d in the Olympics until 1956. The
story of the butterfly is a good illustration of
how coaches and
swimmers are constantly
searching for ways to improve stroke
efficiency.
During the
1920s, the Japanese Olympic coaches used
underwater photography to research stroke
mechanics, and their efforts paid off
when Japanese competitors won five of the six
men‘s swimming gold
medals at the 1932
Games in Los Angeles.
It was a wake-up call to
the rest of the swimming world, and one of the top
US coaches
–
David
Armbruster
at the University of Iowa
–
began doing his own
filming.
Armbruster was
seeking to make the breaststroke faster. He knew
that the action of bringing their arms
forward underwater slowed breaststrokes
down, so he came up with a method of bringing the
arms forward over
the water. The
revised stroke (he kept the breaststroke kick)
brought great improvements in speed.
The following year, Jack Sieg, an Iowa
swimmer, developed a technique involving swimming
on his side
and beating his legs in
unison
（一致）
similar to a fish tail. As Armbruster
later explained in the book
Weissmuller
to Spitz: The History and Background of the
Olympic Games
: ―Sieg tried the same
action while
swimming face down. Sieg
synchronized his leg action with the butterfly arm
action using two leg beats to each
arm
pull.‖ But the kick was ruled illegal because the
legs moved in the vertical
(
垂直的
) plane.
Within a few years, nearly every
breaststroker was using this overarm butterfly
action without the kick. The
pure
butterfly wasn‘t legalized for some two decades,
but at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne ?the fly‘
became an
official event.
65.
The best
title of the article is _____.
A.
Why did
the coaches and swimmers improve stroke
efficiency?
B.
How did the butterfly come
into being?
C.
How did the Japanese wake
up the swimming world?
D.
When did ?the fly‘ become
an official event?
66.
The Japanese coaches use
underwater photography in order to
______.
A.
wake up the swimming world
B.
be paid
more money
C.
know how
to be a mechanic.
D.
improve stroke
efficiency.
67.
Before
the pure butterfly was officially recognized,
______ years or so had passed .
A. 15
B. 20
C. 30
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D.
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68.
According to the passage, which
statement is NOT true?
A.
The Japanese coaches
improved butterfly stroke.
B.
David
Armbruster used filming to study stroke
mechanics.
C.
Sieg came up with the idea
of beating legs like a fish tail.
D.
The
butterfly was added to the Olympics in
1956.
(B)
Singapore
National Eye Centre
―I could have lost my
vision.
SNEC restored my
sight.”
A macular hole, a
hole at the most crucial part of the retina
brought Bonny Huang who is from Hong
Kong to the Singapore National Eye
Centre for treatment. The retina is the light
sensing nerve tissue at
the back of the
eye. In no time the potentially blinding condition
was treated and his vision is now
restored.
―In
April 2008, I noticed straight lines
The best part is that when I forgot
some of the key
points he told me, he
showed no sign of resentment
started to
become distorted, and white patch
appeared in the centre of my vision. I
went to the
but instead comforted me
not to worry before he
Singapore
National Eye Centre immediately. The
went through the points again. I
underwent an
operation which lasted for
only one hour, and
ophthalmologist, a
medical doctor who
maintained a face-
down posture for three weeks.
specializes in eye care and surgery,
found a
The result was very
successful.‖
central macular
hole in my left eye.‖
The
treatment of this condition involves
delicate judgment dependent on the
experience of
the doctor. The success
of the recovery, however,
relies
largely on the face-down posture by the
patient.
―I once
consulted my Ophthalmologist during
his
lunch time, and he attended to me without
finishing his lunch. His understanding
and concern
shown towards his patients
can be scarcely found in
other medical
centres. I am very pleased to have
received timely treatment in Singapore
National
Eye Centre where the doctors
care about their
patients.‖
―The Ophthalmologist explained to me
the
operational procedures, and taught
me how to
comply with the post-surgery
face-down posture.
Singapore
National Eye Centre
??
50 senior and experienced
eye surgeons, total staff strength of
460
??
Ultra-
modern facility with state-of-the-art technology
and equipment
??
Quality assurance
programme backed by 100% clinical audit of
outcomes
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High impact research teams
leading to latest treatment strategies
??
Multi-expert approach to
treatment of complex eye conditions
??
250,000 outpatient visits,
14,000 major eye surgeries, 13,000 laser
procedures annually
Singapore
National Eye Centre
11
Third Hospital
Avenue, Singapore
168751,
International Patient Service 24-hour Hotline:
65-6100- 9393
E-mail: ips@ or visit
69.
According to this passage, the Eye
Centre is ______.
A.
a charity organization
helping people solve their eye problems
B.
an
institute focusing on eye-treatment
research
C.
a hospital specializing in eye-problem
treatment and research
D.
an international institute
treating people‘s diseases
70.
Mr.
Huang‘s case in the advertisement is intended to
______.
A.
give people advice on how to find good
doctors to treat eye diseases
B.
assure
people of high quality of SNEC
C.
explain
the consequences of neglecting eye problems
D.
tell foreigners they are
welcome to SNEC
71.
Which of the following
statements is TRUE of SNEC?
A.
Patients
outside Singapore should call SNEC on work days.
B.
Latest treatment strategies
result from multi-expert approach to treatment of
eye diseases.
C.
High impact research teams
are invited to deal with complex
conditions.
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