上海市浦东新区区2017-2018学年度高三第一学期期末质量监控英语试卷

上海市浦东新区区

2017-2018

学年度高 三第一学期期末

质量监控英语试卷

第

Ⅰ

卷

Ⅰ

. Listening Comprehension

（

25

分）

Section A

–

Short Conversations

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. In a gym. B. In a shoe-repair shop.

C. In a department store.

D. At a track.

2. A. $$200. B. $$400.

C. $$250.

D. $$500.

3. A. Take classes. B. Find a job.

C. Learn more.

D. Get ready for the next term.

4. A. To leave her a message with her roommate.

B. To solve a problem in his homework.

C. To talk with her roommate.

D. To ask about his homework.

5. A. He likes physics. B. His physics is the best in the class.

C. He is working hard at physics.

D. His physics is very poor in the class.

6. A. A sportsman. B. A doctor.

C. A news reporter.

D. A game designer.

7. A. Unforgettable. B. Impressive.

C. Pleasant.

D. Disappointing.

8. A. Coins and banknotes.

B. Weights and measures.

C. Shapes and areas.

D. Volumes and sizes.

9. A. It

‘

s too crowded and he can

‘

t breathe very well. B. The next stop is the terminal station.

C. The next stop is their stop.

D. A lot of people get off at the next stop.

10. A. The Parking places are very far away. B. He had no problem finding the park.

C. There is enough parking space.

D. He isn

‘

t very good at parking the car.

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 is the best answer to the

question you have heard.

Question 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

11. A. The driver took the wrong route. B. He missed his flight.

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D. His taxi got stuck in a traffic jam.

B. The plane encountered a strong

storm.

C. There was something wrong with the engine. D. The hijacker forced the captain to do

so.

13. A. He had forgotten to lock his front door.

B. He had lost his keys to the front door.

C. He had left his luggage in the taxi.

D. He had picked up the wrong suitcase.

Question 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.

14. A. Women now want to be car repairwomen instead of teachers.

B. Women tend to do jobs that are traditionally intended for men.

C. More girls are choosing fixed jobs in Scotland.

D. British women choose non-traditional jobs more than women in other countries.

15. A. Because women see many job opportunities on TV.

B. Because women feel car repairing is cool on TV.

C. Because women are influenced by their stars on TV.

D. Because women are told about job choices by career officers on TV.

16. A. Britain needs more women to do non-traditional jobs.

B. The media should call for women to do non-traditional jobs.

C. British women have taken up too many traditional jobs for men.

D. The change in men

‘

s attitudes is not important for women job choices.

Question 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

17. A. For ten years.

B. For nine years.

C. For eight years.

D. For one year.

18. A. She is more concentrated on her career.

B. She is not sure about the marriage.

C.

She

‘

s

holding

hatred

against

Frank.

D.

She

‘

s

not

comfortable

with

children

around.

19. A. Keeping persuading Claire. B. Give up and compromise.

C. Fight harder with Claire.

D. Give Claire some time.

20. A. They have just been to Hawaii for a holiday.

B. They cannot reach an agreement on having a baby.

C. They are planning to get a divorce.

D. They are trying to overcome career crisis.

C. He failed to get to the airport.

12. A. One of the wings caught fire.

Ⅱ

. Grammar and Vocabulary

（

20

分）

Section A

Directions:

Read

the

following

passage.

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.

As a young child, Ann Makosinski would spend hours experimenting with her toys and other

everyday objects around her to create her own inventions.

Now a first-year Arts student, Makosinski is a well-known inventor and entrepreneu

（

r

创业者）

.

recognizes

She

won

the

2015

Sustainable

Entrepreneurship

Award

of

Excellence,

21

innovative business solutions to social problems

—

the same recognition given to Barack Obama in

2014. Her own inventions, the Hollow Flashlight and the e-Drink, have been causing excitement

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internationally 22 their creation.

At the age of 15, Makosinski created a prototype

（原型）

for a flashlight 23

（

po wer

）

by

the

heat

of

one

‘

s

hand.

This

invention

was

the

result

of

a

ninth

grade

science

project,

but

Makosinski

‘

s goal was

2

4

（

o

ffer

）

a

practical solution to people with unlimited access to power

and electricity.

―

I

‘

m half-Filipino and half-Polish, and one of my friends from the Philippines told me that she

failed school 25 she couldn

‘

t afford electricity. She had no light to study with at night, so that

was

kind

of

the

inspiration,

‖

Makosinski explained.

―

I

‘

ve always

been

interested in

doing

science

projects, so I thought, why don

‘

t I find a way to provide her and a lot of other people with light?

‖

The Hollow Flashlight is made from Peltier tiles

（珀耳贴贴片）

that produce energy when one side

26

（

heat

）

and the other side remains cool. The flashlight can produce a steady beam of LED light

for 20 minutes,

27

（

use

）

o nly the warmth of the human hand.

Her advice to other student

innovators?

―

S

tart now. There

2

8 be nothing holding you back.

Some students at colleges or even in high school

think

?

Oh, I

‘

m a student. I just need to study.

‘

29

may think it important to make friends and be social. The truth is, you can do a lot of other things.

You can do 30 you want. Just go ahead.

‖

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. potentially

B. filmed

H. eyebrow

C. dropped

D. commonly

E. treats

J. selection

G. sensitive

I. domesticated

F. sympathy

K. confident

Puppy Dog Eyes Are for the Benefits of Humans

Dogs

make

puppy

dog

eyes

for

the

benefit

of

humans

and

rarely

use

the

pleasing

facial

expression when on their own, a new study has shown.

It

has

long

been

assumed

that

animal

facial

expressions

are

involuntary

and

dependent

on

emotional state rather than a way to communicate.

But scientists at the University

‘

s Dog Cognition Centre at Portsmouth University have found

that dogs mostly use facial expressions when humans are present, as a direct response to attention.

Puppy dog eyes, in which the

3

1 is raised to make the eyes appear wider and sadder, was found

to be the most 32 used expression in the study. Researchers do not know whether the dogs are

aware they look sadder, or have just learned that widening their eyes invites 33

a

nd

affection in

humans.

Dog cognition expert Dr Juliane Kaminski:

―

We can now be 34 that the production of

facial expressions made by dogs are dependent on the attention state of their audience and are not

just a result of dogs being excited.

‖

―

In our study they produced far more expressions when someone was watching, but seeing food

35 did not have the same effect.

‖

―

The findings appear to support evidence dogs are 36 to humans

‘

attention and that

expressions are

37 active attempts to

communicate, not simple emotional displays.

‖

The

researchers studied 24 dogs of various breeds, aged one to 12. All were family pets. Each dog was

tied by a lead a metre away from a person, and the dogs

‘

faces were 38 throughout a range

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of exchanges, from the person being oriented towards the dog, to being distracted and with her body

turned away from the dog.

They

found

that

when

a

human

was

not

watching

the

animal,

they

39

facial

expressions.

Dr Kaminski said it is possible that dogs

‘

expressions have evolved as they were 40 .

―

Domestic dogs

have a

unique history

–

they

have

lived

alongside humans for 30,000 years

and

during

that

time

selection

pressures

seem

to

have

acted

on

dogs

‘

ability

to

communicate

with

us,

‖

she said.

Ⅲ

. Reading comprehension

（

45

分）

Section A

Directions

：

For each blank in the following passages 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.

When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers.

I went at once to a shop where they sold toys for children. Being 41 with the sound of a

whistle that I had seen by the way, in the hands of another boy, I handed over all my money for one.

I then came home, and went whistling all over the house, much pleased with my whistle, but 42

all

the

family.

My

brothers

and

sisters

and

cousins,

when

I

told

of

the

43 I had made, said I had given four times as much as the whistle was worth. They put me in

mind of what good things I might have bought with the rest of the money, and laughed at me so

much

for

my

folly

that

I

cried

with

vexation(

烦

恼

).

Thinking about the

matter

gave

me

more

44 than the whistle gave me pleasure.

45 , this was afterwards of use to me, for the impression continued on my mind, so that

often, when I was

4

6 to buy something I did not need, I said to myself,

―

Don

‘

t give too much

for the whistle,

‖

and I saved my money. As I grew up, came into the world, and 47

the

actions

of men, I thought I met with many, very many, who

―

gave too much for the whistle.

‖

If I knew a miser

（

守财奴）

who

48 every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of

doing

good

to

others,

all

the

esteem

of

his

fellow

citizens

and

the

joys

of

friendship,

___49__gathering and keeping wealth---

―

Poor man,

‖

said I,

―

you pay too dear for your whistle.

‖

When I met a man of pleasure, who did not try to improve his mind or his fortune but_____devoted

himself to having a good time, perhaps neglecting his health,

―

Mistaken man, you are providing

51 for

yourself, instead of

pleasure; you

are

paying too

dear

for

your

whistle.

‖

If

I

saw

someone fond of 52 who has fine clothes, fine houses, fine furniture, fine earrings, all above

his

5

3 , and for which he had run into debt, and ends his career in a prison.

―

Alas,

‖

said I,

―

he

has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle.

‖

54 , the miseries of mankind are largely due to their

puffing a(n) 55 value on things --- to giving

―

too much for their whistle.

‖

41. A. faced

42. A. disturbing

43. A. trouble

44. A. satisfaction

45. A. Moreover

46. A. tempted

47. A. took

B. charmed

B. attracting

B. attempt

B. relief

B. Therefore

B. determined

B. observed

C. sympathized

C. entertaining

C. choice

C. annoyance

C. However

C. forced

C. admired

D. provided

D. confusing

D. bargain

D. stress

D. Indeed

D. persuaded

D. followed

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48. A. turned against

49. A. in case of

50. A. merely

51. A. inconvenience

52. A. appearance

53. A. demand

54. A. As a result

55. A. unexpected

B. gave up

B. instead of

B. similarly

B. burden

B. wealth

B. fortune

B. By contrast

B. great

C. cared about

C. for the sake of

C. strangely

C. frustration

C. comforts

C. standard

C. On average

C. false

D. relied on

D. in terms of

D. positively

D. pain

D. necessities

D. value

D. In short

D. extra

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

）

When you think about coffee alternatives, garlic is probably one of the last things that comes to

mind, but that is exactly the ingredient that one Japanese inventor used to create a drink that looks

and tastes like coffee.

74-year-old Yokitomo Shimotai, a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, Japan, claims that

his unique

―

garlic coffee

‖

is the result of a cooking blunder he made over 30 years ago, when he

burned a steak and garlic while waiting tables at the same time. Intrigued by the scorched garlic

‘

s

aroma, he mashed it up with a spoon and mixed it with hot water. The resulting drink looked and

tasted a lot like coffee. Making a mental note of his discovery, Yokimoto carried on with his job, and

only started researching garlic coffee again after he retired.

Committed

to

turning

his

weird

drink

into

a

commercial

product,

Yokitomo

Shimotai

spent

years

optimizing

the

formula,

and

about

five

years

ago,

he

finally

achieved

a

result

he

was

satisfied with. To make his dissolvable garlic grounds, he roasts the cloves in an electric oven, and,

after they

‘

ve cooled off, smashes them into fine particles and packs them in dripbags.

―

My drink is probably the world

‘

s first of its kind,

‖

the garlic coffee inventor told Kyodo News.

―

It contains no caffeine so it

‘

s good for those who would like to drink coffee at night or pregnant

women.

‖

―

The bitterness of burned garlic apparently helps create the coffee-like flavor,

‖

Shimotai adds.

He claims that, although his garlic coffee does give off an aroma of roasted garlic, it doesn

‘

t cause

bad breath, because the garlic is thoroughly cooked. And if you can get past the smell, the drink

apparently does taste a lot like actual coffee.

If decaf isn

‘

t good enough for you, and you

‘

re in the mood for something new, you can try

Yokitomo Shimotai

‘

s garlic coffee at his shop, in the city of Ninohc, Iwate Prefecture, or buy your

own dripbags for just 324 y en

（

$$2.8

）

.

56.

Which

word

is

the

closest

in

meaning

to

the

underlined

word

―

blunder

‖

in

the

second

paragraph?

A. mistake

B. show

C. mixture

D. brand

57. Who is not suitable to drink garlic coffee?

A. A woman bearing a baby.

B. A student having trouble with sleep.

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C. A cleaner working on a day shift.

D. A young lady sick of garlic.

58. Which of the following is not characteristic of garlic coffee?

A. It is caffeine-free.

B. Garlic powder dissolves in water. C.

The burnt garlic creates bitterness.

D. It is an improvement on a garlic dish.

59. Which of the following can be used to describe Yokitomo Shimotai?

A. venturous and greedy

B. innovative and perseverant

C. hardworking and cautious

D. observant and helpful

（

B

）

How an advertisement is put together

When you read an advertisement there are many factors you should consider, including:

?

target audience

?

brand names

?

slogans

?

pictures and colour

?

special offers/coupons

?

emotive/persuasive vocabulary

Target audience

Advertisers aim particular products at different groups of people according to age, sex, social class

and interests. They will often make assumptions about people and label or stereotype them.

Who do you think these products would be aimed at: nappies, diamonds, mint chocolates, sports

cars?

What kind of products

would be aimed at these

people:

teenagers,

25-year-old

single men,

40-year-old working mums?

Brand names

Brand names are chosen carefully. They can suggest particular lifestyles, values or interests and are

intended to appeal to the target audience.

Nissan Primera: this suggests quality. Primera is similar to premium and premier.

Ford Ka: the spelling of Ka suggests novelty and simplicity. It is modern and futuristic. It is also

bound to stick in your mind when you are looking for a new car!

Slogans

A slogan has to be catchy and memorable. Slogans use a range of devices: alliteration, repetition,

puns, questions, personal pronouns and humour.

Have a break. Have a Kit Kat.

Repetition

The totally tropical taste.

Alliteration

Picture and colour

All pictures try to make you feel something and most are biased, even photographs. They create a

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