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金山区
2017
学年第一学期质量监控
高三英语试卷
（时
间
120
分钟，分值
140
分）
2017
年
12
月
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. At home.
B.
In a hotel.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
Section B
Directions:
In
Section B, you will hear two short passages and
one longer conversation, and you will be asked
several questions on each of the
passages and the conversation. The passages and
the conversation 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.
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C. In a library.
A.
Librarian and reader.
C. Boss and
secretary.
A. Tuesday.
C.
Friday.
A. The museum schedule.
C. A part-time job.
A. Stop
the bus.
C. Cross the street.
A. Reasonable.
C. Serious.
A. Move to a neat dormitory.
C. Clean the room with the roommate.
A. He talks too fast.
C. He
likes to use big words.
D. At a bank.
B. Teacher and student.
D.
Shop-assistant and customer.
B.
Thursday.
D. Saturday.
B.
Library hours.
D. School hours.
B. Walk to the zoo.
D. Call
the police.
B. Bright.
D.
Ridiculous.
B. Find a person to share
their apartment.
D. Write an article
about their roommate.
B. He seldom
talks.
D. He
doesn
’
t speak in a direct
way.
A. The
girl’s
favorite sweets are
chocolates and candies.
B. The girl
should go to the supermarket with him together.
C. It
’
s time for
the girl to try something sweet.
D. The
girl
’
s teeth are in bad
condition.
A. Smith will keep the
surprise party a secret.
B. Lucy
hasn
’
t got any promise from
Smith.
C. They
shouldn
’
t have told Lucy
about the party.
D.
There
’
s no secret between
Smith and Lucy.
11.
A.
Morris Michtom.
B. President Roosevelt.
D.
One of Roosevelt
’
s friends.
C. A newspaper artist.
12.
A. Because he
didn
’
t want to please his
friends.
B. Because he wanted an
artist to draw a picture for the bear.
C.
Because he thought shooting a bear tied to a tree
was unfair.
D. Because he thought it
was uninteresting.
13.
A.
The biography of Teddy Roosevelt.
C. The experience of a newspaper
artist.
Questions 14
through 16 are based on the following passage.
14.
A. At least 20% of the
population is at least 65 years old.
B.
There are fewer working-age people to replace the
retired ones.
C. The older workers are
more than the younger ones.
D.
Aging population changes are taking place quickly.
15.
A. Aging will increase
the household savings rates.
B.
Aging will reduce the household savings rates.
C. Aging will balance the household
investment rates.
D. Aging will
increase the household investment rates.
16.
A. The problem of aging
population in the world.
B. The
increasing population around the world.
C. The situation of labour market in
Europe.
D. The discussion about the
retiring age in Asia.
Questions 17 through 20 are based on
the following conversation.
17.
A. To fix his broken
cellphone.
B. To buy a
spare battery for his cellphone.
D. To
change his cellphone.
B. He likes its
color display.
D. He
can
’
t afford it.
C.
To get a brand-new cellphone.
18.
A. He thinks it has
fewer functions.
C. He thinks
its price is suitable.
B. The founding
history of a toy store.
D.
The origin of Teddy Bears.
19.
A. She thinks Haier model is much
better than the man thought.
B.
She thinks Nokia model is good enough for the man.
C. She is not satisfied with Haier
model.
D. She thinks Haier model is of low
quality.
20.
A. $$2420.
B.
$$2300.
C. $$2010.
D. $$1890.
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 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.
At
first
glance,
these
impressive
images
look
like
moment
captured
by
a
talented
photographer.
But
you
cannot
always
believe
what
you
see.
These
pictures,
with
their
incredible
photographic
details,
are
in
fact
the
creations ____21___
(draw) by Scottish hyper-realist Paul Cadden.
With often nothing more than a pencil
in hand, the 47-year-old artist produces elaborate
drawings that could
easily ___22___
(mistake) for the work of any modern digital
camera. From the wrinkles on a
woman
’
s face and
beads of water, to a breath of smoke
from a cigarette, Cadden is able to capture
___23___ (complicated) features
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of his subjects in such painstaking
detail that the images look astonishingly real.
Cadden
said
he
began
drawing
at
a
very
young
age
and
has
always
been
interested
in
art.
With
some
experience
in
animation
and
graphic
design,
he
moves
into
hyper-realism
___24___
he
has
a
special
gift
for
capturing details.
His
creations reflect his love for details, with a
single image __25_____ (take) up to six weeks to
produce.
Working with pencil, graphite
and white chalk, Cadden is able to create seven
poster-size pieces a year, ___26__
sell
for up to $$5,000 each.
The
artist
explained
that
he
does
not
want
people
to
focus
completely
on
the
techniques
involved
in
his
pieces.
“I
want them to think about
the work and ___27____
I’
m
actually drawing,
”
he said,
“I
prefer to study the
internal aspect of the subject ___28___
_______ focus solely on the external
part.
”
Now,
Cadden
is
planning
to
take
his
pieces
to
more
foreign
countries,
and
to
hold
exhibitions
in
China,
Cuba
and Brazil. He hopes to get established enough
__29____ (make) a living from his work.
“
I want to be
doing lots of exhibitions in five
years
’
time. To have a
successful solo show is a long-cherished dream of
mine,
”
he said.
“
It
’
s
such a fantastic feeling ___30___ somebody buys
your paintings and you know the paintings are
sitting somewhere in their
houses.
”
Section B
Directions:
Fill
in each blank with a proper word chosen from the
box. Each word can be used only once. Note
that there is one word more than you
need.
A. established
B. cultural
C. freely
D. introduce
E.
official
F. release
G
. extremely
H. attraction
I. drew
J. unexpectedly
K. mystery
A
large-scale cultural exploration
program
National
Treasure
《
国家宝藏》
made its first show on CCTV
on Sunday night . In the first episode,
the Palace Museum in Beijing showcased three
treasures.
As a ___31___ variety show,
the
National
Treasure
aims to showcase
the background stories of national
treasures and ___32___ various art
forms. In the show,
people will present
treasures, telling their stories with the
collections and interpreting the historical
___33___.
The show aims to inspire the
ancient Chinese civilization and make the national
treasures
This
is
not
the
first
time
for
the
Palace
Museum
in
Beijing
to
be
___34___
welcomed
online
in
China,
thanks to its efforts in cultural
products and self-promotion in recent years.
Last
year, the
museum ___35___ so much attention
because of the huge success of the three-episode
TV
documentary,
Masters in the Forbidden
City
and a movie with the
same name. Over the last few years, the
museum has ___36___ 495 signposts and
1,400 new chairs have been provided. In addition,
the Palace Museum
opened
a
(an)
___37___
online
store
on
e-commerce
platform
Taobao,
selling
related
products.
It
also
started
their self-promotion through new media,
publishing articles to promote the culture of the
museum. It ___38___
swept
the
Internet
by
its
humorous
style
and
interesting
content.
At
the
same
time,
the
Palace
Museum
has
published several mobile apps, one of
which saw over 200,000 downloads just two weeks
after its ___39___ in
2013. Its self-
promotion has achieved great results. In 2012, the
museum saw 15 million visitors. And it received
16 million visitors last year.
The museum is also a popular ___40___
among foreign leaders. For example, US President
Donald Trump
and his wife visited the
Palace Museum on Nov 8.
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
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in each blank with the word or phrase
that best fits the context.
Alp
haGo has
struck again, defeating Ke Jie, the world’s number
one Go player,
3-0. After his defeat,
the
young Chinese prodigy said AlphaGo
sees the ___41___ of Go while he could only see a
small area around him.
This
win,
coupled
with
last
year’s
victory
ove
r
Lee
Se-dol,
shines
a
light
on
the
awe-
inspiring
___42___
of
technology and places AlphaGo among the
greatest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems
created to date.
The
AI
industry
is
certainly
making
great
advancements,
constantly
surprising
the
public
with
new
and
interesting tools and making life
___43___. Twenty years ago, just connecting to the
Internet was a ___44___.
Now, we can do
just about anything on our phones, from online
banking to ___45___ shows. The shifting sands
of technology have placed so many paths
in front of humanity that it is hard to ___46___
even the immediate
future.
We may talk about how AI can make our
lives better, but we also consider the risks. Many
stories and films
___47___ around the
theme of AI vs. human. One that comes to my mind
now is The Terminator. The film is
about an AI system called Skynet, which
was ___48___ to protect humans. What the
programmers did not expect
was that
Skynet began to think. It came to the conclusion
that humans were a danger to its existence, so it
started
a global nuclear war and tried
to “___
4
9___”
humanity.
AlphaGo’s recent
achievements highlight the ___
50___
that technology and AI can bring about. They also
serve
to
remind
us
of
the
___51___
and
risks
we
may
not
have
had
time
to
think
about.
Some
of
us
used
to
___5
2___ the possibility of
creating an actual “thinking” AI system, or
believe that humans will always be able to
___5
3___ an AI system, but
certain facts have now been placed in front of us.
All that’s left
to be done is to
___54___ th
e actual
“thinking” part of advanced AI systems like
AlphaGo
to more fields. Once that
happens,
human beings will be pretty
much ___55___. If we do not fully understand the
risks of AI systems, we might be
flying
too close to the “sun”, and like Icarus in
Greek mythology, we will fall.
41. A. fun
B. secret
B. slower
B.
instant
B. frame
B. reverse
B. isolate
C. universe
C. risks
C. harder
C.
loss
D.
potential
D. threats
D.
faster
D. leisure
D. direct
D. encounter
D. revolve
D. developed
D. investigate
D. incident
D. disasters
D. preview
D. overtake
D. control
D. outdated
42. A. intelligence
43. A. easier
44. A. mess
45. A. live
46. A. tell
B. advancements
B. headache
C. immediate
C.
predict
C. resolve
47. A. reveal
48. A. processed
49. A. help
50. A. benefits
51. A. questions
52. A.
analyze
53. A. outsmart
54.
A. adopt
55. A. intelligent
Section B
B.
modified
B. possibilities
B. tragedies
B. develop
B. shrink
B. overhead
B. powerful
C. introduced
C.
terminate
C. signals
C. treasures
C.
doubt
C. adapt
C. patriotic
C.
outnumber
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.
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(A)
In many countries of the
world, people can confidently tell you the meaning
of their town or city, but most
people
who live in Manchester, Oxford or Birmingham would
not be able to explain what the name of their city
means. The name of every British town
and city, however, has a long history.
Two thousand years ago, most people
living in Britain were Celts. Even the word
“
Britain
”
is
Celtic. Then
the Romans arrived and
built camps which became cities called
“
castra
”
. This is
why there are so many place
names in
England which end in
“
-chest
er
”
or
“
-caster
”
–
Manchester, for example.
The Romans never reached Wales or
Scotland, and many place names there are Celtic.
For example, Welsh
place names that
begin with
“
Llan
”
come from the Celtic word for church.
After the Romans left Britain, it was
attacked by tribes called the Anglo-Saxons who
were from the area of
Europe
that
is
now
Germany
and
Holland.
Without
the
Roman
army,
it
was
impossible
to
protect
the
country
from these people.
The names of their villages often ended in
“
-ham
”
or
“
-ton
”
< br>. Some got their name from the
leader of the village, so Birmingham,
for example, means
“
Beormund
’
s
village
”
.
The
Anglo-Saxons were farmers and the landscape was
very important to them, so we have villages called
Upton (
“
village
on a hill
”
–
a good place to build a
village) and Moreton
(
“
village by
lake
”
, where floods could
make
life
tough).
Place
names
that
end
in
“
-ford
”
(a
place
where
you
could
cross
a
river)
also
describe
the
location of Anglo-Saxon villages.
Twelve
hundred
years
ago,
the
Vikings
came
to
England
from
Scandinavia.
They
traded
with
the
Anglo-Saxons but lived in their own
villages. These often ended in
“
-by
”
or
“
-thorpe
”
. The name
“
Kirkby
”
means
“
a
village with a church
”
and
Scunthorpe was the village of a man called Skuma.
Finally, in 1066, England became Norman
–
the Normans gave us the
place name
“
grange
”
, which means
farm.
And how about London? Experts cannot
agree. The Romans called the city Londinium, but
they were not
the first inhabitants.
People once believed that the United
Kingdom
’
s capital city got
its name from the castle of a
King
called
Lud,
but
this
is
very
unlikely.
Our
best
guess
today
is
that
the
name
comes
from
a
Celtic
word
meaning a fastflowing river. Like a
number of British place names, its history is lost
in time.
56. The origin of
British place names are unfamiliar to many local
people because of _______.
A. the death of the
country
’
s ancient languages.
B. the long
lost history of the names.
C. their lack of interest in the names.
D. the frequent
changes to the names.
57. According to
the article, Stratford-upon-Avon is most likely a
town _______.
A. on a hill
B. near a castle
C. built beside a river
D. with a
church
58. Which of the following shows
the correct order of the arrival of inhabitants in
Britain?
A. The
Celts
–
The Romans
–
The Vikings
–
The Normans
–
The Anglo Saxons
B. The Romans
–
The Celts
–
The Vikings
–
The Anglo
Saxons
–
The Normans
C. The Celts
–
The Romans
–
The Anglo
Saxons
–
The Vikings
–
The Normans
D. The Romans
–
The Anglo
Saxons
–
The Celts
–
The Normans
–
The Vikings
59.
According to the text, where did the name for
London come from?
A. It is puzzling and hard to confirm
for sure.
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B. It comes
from the term for a fast-flowing river.
C. The name is
short for Londinium.
D. The name is from the castle of a
King.
(B)
Metropolitan North Georgia Water
Planning District
2016 High School
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Here’s the Scoop on Pet
Waste!
Submission Deadline
July 27, 2016.
Eligibility
Ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth
grade students that
Cobb, Coweta,
DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Fulton, Forsyth,
Judging
Submissions
will
be
judged
based
?
Incorporation
of
the
“Here’s
the
attend
schools
located
in
Bartow,
Cherokee,
Clayton,
on the following
criteria:
Gwinnett,
Hall,
Henry,
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and
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counties
Scoop
on
Pet
Waste’’
message.
Use
the
are invited to participate in the video
contest. Entries can
the
Scoop
on
Pet
Waste’’
be a team or
individual effort.
Guidelines
video’s YouTube
link must
be included in the
entry/release
form.
?
Team members must be from
the same school.
?
The
video
must
be
between
30-60
seconds
in
length.
?
No
professional
assistance
or
use
of
copyright
material is allowed, including
background music.
?
Each
student
participating
in
the
contest
or
appearing
in
the
video
must
fill
out
a
form.
For
teams,
submit
an entry/release form for each team member.
?
One video per team or
individual.
received by Friday, July
27, 2016.
Email:
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Mail: 2015 Water Video Contest
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messaging
fact
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for
background
information on
the issue.
?
Composition
（
length,
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?
Entertainment value.
?
Accuracy of information.
?
Creativity.
Prizes
?
1st Place
?
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?
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$$1500
$$1000
$$500
?
Each
video
must
be
uploaded
to
YouTube.
The
construction, audio
quality
）
.
50%
of
the
prize
money
will
go
to
the
individual
or
team
who
submits
the
video
and
50%
to
the
high
school
they
?
All
entry/release
forms
must
be
postmarked
or
attend. Winners will be notified
directly.
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60
. What does
the underlined word “Eligibility” probably
mean?
A. Age.
B. Qualification.
C. Location.
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D. Grade.
61.
When entering the contest, ________.
A.
one must ask his or her teacher to sign the entry
form.
B. winners can earn at least $$750
as a prize.
C. one can invite friends
from other schools to act in the video.
D. participants had better add some
humor and fun to the video.
62. Where
should the participants upload their videos?
A. participants
’
school websites.
C.
YouTube.
(C)
For many years, humans have tried to
find the secret to staying young. Although it has
yet to be discovered,
we may be closer
than ever to finding a way that can slow down the
aging process.
A
recent
study
by
researchers
from
Duke
University
in
the
US
found
that
cutting
one
’
s
daily
intake
of
calories could slow down biological
aging, which means you might be able to hang on to
your youthful looks a
little longer.
Previous research has shown that
calorie restrictions slow aging in worms, flies
and mice. So researchers
wondered if it
could have the same effect on people.
To find out, Daniel Belsky and her team
examined data from a study by the National
Institute on Aging,
based in the US,
which involved 220 people. During the two-year
study, 145 people in the restriction group cut
their calorie intake by 25 percent.
Meanwhile, 75 people in the control group
maintained their normal diets.
At the
start of the study, the two groups had no
difference in biological age. The average
participant was 38
years old, with a
biological age of 37. However, after each 12-month
period, participants in the restriction group
saw an increase in biological age by an
average of 0.11years. Meanwhile, those in the
control group saw a rise by
an average
of 0.71 years.
The researchers believe
the difference between these groups shows that
cutting calories does slow biological
aging.
Although
they
didn
’
t
explain
the
reason
behind
this,
researchers
at
Brigham
Young
University
in
the
US
provided an explanation
after they carried out a similar study on mice.
They believe fewer calories slow down a
mechanism in cells called the ribosome
(
核糖体
), at least in mice.
The mechanism is responsible for making
vital proteins in cells, but with fewer calories
it slows down, giving it
more time to
repair itself.
The ribosome is complex
like a car, and it needs to replace the parts that
wear out the fastest from time to
time,
according to John Price, a biochemistry professor
at Brigham Young University.
“
When tires wear out, you
don’t
throw the whole car
away and buy new ones. It
’
s
easier to replace the
tires,
”
Price
told VOA.
But this
doesn
’
t mean that people who
want to look younger should start skipping meals,
especially given
the
study
’
s early stage. Proper
nutrition is important, Price explained.
“
Food
isn
’
t just material to be
burned
–
it
’
s
a signal that tells our body and cells how to
respond,
”
he told
Science Daily.
63. The purpose of the research was to
_________.
A.
find the most efficient way to control calorie
intake.
B.
explain why people have to maintain a normal diet.
C. test the
influence of calorie restrictions on aging.
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B. .
D.
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