上海市长宁、嘉定区2017届高三“一模”考试 英语

上海市嘉定区

2016

学年度第一学期质量监控 试卷

高三英语

(

满分

140

分，考试时间

120

分钟）

2016.12.27

I. Listening Comprehension

Section A

Directions

In

Section

A,

you

will

hear

ten

short

conversations

between

two

speaers.

At

the

end

of

each

conversation,

a

question

will

be

ased

about

what

was

said.

The

conversations

and

the

questions

will

be

spoen 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. Fascinating.

B. Useful.

C. Difficult.

D. Boring.

2. A. In a restaurant.

B. In a factory.

C. In a department store.

D. In an office.

3.

A. A librarian.

B. A psychologist.

C. A Publisher.

D. A teacher.

4. A. He prefers to join the woman later.

B. He intends to eat out tonight.

C. He wants to watch the basetball game.

D. He hates to lose the championship.

5. A. It was quite delightful.

B. It was not well organied.

C. Careful preparations had been done.

D. People made a mess on the ground.

6. A. He is quite unhappy with the woman.

B. He is eager to now the woman's reply.

C. The woman should mae full use of her time.

D. The woman doesn't have to be in a hurry.

7. A. Go on smoing

B. Cry out his heart.

C. Tal with the doctor.

D. Carry on with eercise.

8. A. Boss and shop assistant.

B. House agent and client,

C. Interviewer and job hunter.

D. Manager and customer.

9. A. She had better stay up late tonight.

B. She has to get more sleep at night.

C. She should avoid distractions in class.

D. She must improve her grades gradually.

10. man only filled his tan half full.

B. The man can't read the instrument.

C. The car is breaing down on the way

D. The car has run out of gasoline.

Section B

Directions

In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be ased three questions on each of

the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoen 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.

11. A. purchasing less epensive objects available.

B. Buying only essentials and a treat on occasion.

C. Learning to coo for yourself at home.

D. Living on less money than you earn.

12. A. To have a better health

B. To eep their promises.

C. To avoid being hurt easily.

D. To gain a desired friendship.

13. A. Life sills needed to be learnt at an early age.

B. Great ways of saving money in the early years.

C. Practical sills to coo nutritious food at home.

D. Methods of gathering wisdom instead of bitterness.

Questions 14 through 17 are based on the following passage.

14. A. To wor on the rented land peacefully.

get used to the terribly cold weather.

C. To tell his ids stories every night.

D. To brea the poverty cycle of his family.

15. wored in the dairy with his mother.

learned to mend his own clothes.

C. He had a strong passion for words.

got well educated at school.

16. A. 25.

B. 27.

C. 28.

D. 37.

17. A. He was considerably influenced by his mother.

B. Farm wor turned out to be quite easy for him.

C. He had already become famous before his father passed away.

D. people in Scotland regarded him as a successful farmer singer.

Questions 18 through 20 are based on the following conversation.

18. A. Harbin is her favorite city.

B. She doesn't lie places in the south.

C. Russia is a beautiful country.

D. She can't stand the heat in summer.

19. A. Driving a car by themselves in the local country.

B. Getting a group of ten people traveling together.

C. Flying at the weeend with special fare ticets.

D. Inviting more friends to share the happiness.

20. A. Not nowing any local people.

B. Unable to find a fellow traveller.

C. unable to spea Russian.

D. Not having any interpreter ·

II. Grammar and Vocabulary

Section A

Directions

After reading the passage below, fill in the blans to mae the passage coherent and grammatically

correct. For the blans with a given word, fill in each blan with the proper form of the given word; for the

other blans, use one word that best fits each blan.

Is sport always fun ?

One

afternoon

in

the

last

wee

of

term,

I

saw

three

children

form

my

son’s

school

in

tears

being

comforted

by

teachers.

That

morning,

my

11-year

-old

had

stomach

pains

and

(21)

______(throw

)

up

several

times

when

I

noticed

his

sicness.

Taling

to

other

mothers,

I

heard

about

other

children

with

stomachache or difficulty sleeping the night before.

What caused so much suffering ? Sports day

---- not sports day at a highly competitive independent

school, but at a large village primary. (22) ______ it causes no problem to the children who can fly (23)

_____ the wind, for those who are poorly coordinated (

动作协调

), overweight or just not good at sport, it is

terrible.

Even

for

those

who

enjoy

(24)

______(run

)

but

who

fall

halfway

down

the

trac

in

front

of

the

entire school and their parents, it can prove a disaster.

As for the reason (25) ______ we put our children through this annual suffering, some May say that

competition

is

character-buliding

or

it

is

a

tradition

of

school

life;

some

may

assume

(26)

______

really

matters is taing part not winning. I just felt pity for those children in tears or in pain.

Team games at the end of the “sport” were fun (27) ______ (watch) because they produced some close

races,

enormous

enthusiasm

and

lots

of

shouting.

More

importantly

,

(28)

______(hide

)

a

little

form

everyone’s gae, the children who were not so fast or so quic at passing the ball had the ecitement of being

on the winning side.

I

wish

that

sports

day

could

(29)________(abandon)

and

replaced

with

some

other

summer

event.

perhaps

an

afternoon

of

team

games,

with

a

few

races

for

those

who

want

them,

would

be

(30)

________(stressful )for the children and a lot more fun for the spectators.

Section B

Directions

Fill in each blan with a proper word chosen from the bo. Each word can be used only once. Note

that there is one word more than you need.

A. attached

B. commercially

C. epectations

D. managed

E. obstacles

F. personal

G. positive

H. relatively

I. samples

J. sensitive

. shelved

This invention, commonly used in offices and households throughout the world, came about as a result

of a series of accidents. In 1968 Spencer Silver, who was woring for a company called 3M at the time, was

trying to produce super-strong adhesive, a substance maing things sticy together, to be used in the building

of planes. This, however, wasn’t successful and instead he succeeded in creating an etremely wea adhesive

that was

31

to pressure. This new adhesive had two advantages it could be removed from surfaces quite

easily and it could be reused. In spite of these two

32

features, nobody could see any practical use for

it. In the end, the invention was

33

.

A few years later, Art Fry, a product development engineer woring for 3M, decided to use this adhesive

for

34

use.

He

stuc

strips

of

paper

in

a

boo

as

page

marer

and

a

whole

new

concept

was

born.

However, the idea still wasn’t without

35

. The challenge was to mae the glue stay on the sticy note

itself,

rather

than

peeling

off

and

staying

on

the

surface

it

was

36

to.

Two more 3M employees were brought in and set the tas of producing a coating for the adhesive so that it

wouldn’t come off and

they

37

just that. Unfortunately, 3M bosses still believed that this invention

wasn’t going to be

38

successful and people would continue to use crap paper(

小纸条

) for their notes

rather than sticy notes. This is why sticy notes were only tested within the company, where they became

etremely popular. It wasn’t until many years later that 3M bosses finally decided to give out a vast amount

of free

39

to other companies to see if anyone would be interested in buying them. To their surprise,

90 per

cent of the companies approached went on to order more sticy notes. This went beyond anybody’s

40

.

Nowadays,

sticy

notes

come

in

a

variety

of

shapes

and

colours

and

are

sold

in

more

than

100

countries.

III. Reading Comprehension

Section A

Directions

For each blan in the following passage there are four words or phrases mared A, B, C and D. Fill in

each blan with the word or phrase that best fits the contet.

About five years ago, when the first generation of wearable fitness tracers became popular, they were

announced as the dawn of a revolution. Health eperts and busniesspeople alie said that giving people access to

real- time

calorie

(

卡路里

)-

burning

and step-count data would inspire them

to lose weight, eat better and

-most important-

____41____

more. But even as the U.S. maret for ___42____ devices hits $$7 billion this

year, there’s evidence that their

promise isn’t quite paying off.

The U.S. has an eercise problem, with 28% of Americans ages 50 and over considered wholly ___43____.

That means 31 million adults move no more than is necessary to perform the most basic functions of daily life.

Wearables, eperts ___44___, were going to change that.

But

limited

academic

research

has

been

done

to

figure

out

whether

wearables

____45____

people’s

behavior in the long term. The little research that does eist isn’t ____46____. For a recent study in the

Journal

of

the

American

Medical

Association

,

researchers

wanted

to

see

whether

activity

tracers

would

help

overweight people lose more weight over two years than if they just did a weight- loss

intervention

(

干预

)

alone.

They

didn’t.

“We

found

that

just

giving

people

a

device

doesn’t

mean

it’s

going

to

____47____

something you thin it’s going to lead to,” says John Jaicic, the author of the study, from the University

of

Pittsburgh.

“These

activity

tracers

don’t

engage

people

in

strategies

that

mae

a

___48___

in

terms

of

long-

term change”

Another new study highlighted a different challenge user ____49___. By the end of a

yearlong study

of

800

people,

just

10%

of

participants

were

still

wearing

the

tracers,

according

to,

Eric

Finelstein,

a

professor at the Due- NUS Medical School in Singap

ore. “We

didn’t find that Fitbits really have much of an

effect,” he says. This may well be because people epect tracers to do something they’re not designed to do

--

____50____, force them to change their behavior. “There’s ____51____ among people about their func

tion, a

measurement tool and an intervention,” Finelstein says. A scale counts pounds, ____52____, but won’t teach

you how to eat less. “When people put these devices on, they might interact with the

app

(

应用程序

) for the

first

few

wees,

maybe

the

first

few

mo

nths,

but

there

comes

a

point

where

that

starts

to

fall

off,”

says

Finelstein.

To

be

____53___,

some

of

the

costlier

add

higher-tech

wearables

have

features

baed

into

them

that

encourage users to move more, says Shelten Yuen, Fitbit’s vice president of

research. Among them shaing

sensors, movement reminders and social- media combination, all designed to ____54____ users to mae better

health choices every day. But more research will be needed to determine whether or not these ____55____ --

or others lie them--

measurably improve people’s health and fitness levels.

41.

A. learn

B. purchase

C. eercise

D. perform

42.

A. wearable

B. electronic

C. hi-tech

D. built-in

43.

A. misunderstood

B. inactive

C. discourage

D. unchangeable

44.

A. announced

B. determined

C. hoped

D. noticed

45.

A. limit

B. understand

C. interpret

D. change

46.

A. encouraging

B. interesting

C. pioneering

D. challenging

47.

A. benefit from

B. result in

C. add to

D. loo for

48.

A. design

B. movement

C. profit

D. difference

49.

A. reduction

B. participation

C. creation

D. epectation

50.

A. namely

B. therefore

C. however

D. shortly

51.

A. argument

52.

A. by the way

53.

A. fair

54.

A. persuade

55.

A. concepts

Section B

B. popularity

B. in other words

B. cute

B. motivate

B. sensors

C. confusion

C. of course

C. accessible

C. follow

C. scales

D. interaction

D. for eample

D. technical

D. teach

D. features

Directions

Read the following three passages. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished

statements.

For

each

of

them

there

are

four

choices

mared

A, B, C

and D. Choose

the

one

that

fits

best

according to the information given in the passage you have read.

(A)

In Michael Morpurgo’s novel

War Horse

, the horse is not only the principal character,he is the teller of

his own story.

Set in England and France 100 years ago

War Horse

tells the story of Joey, a handsome young horse

who stries up a close relationship with Albert, the teenage son of Joey’s war breas out and they

are separated and plunged into the horrors of the war in survive and are finally reunited after a

remarable series of events seen through the eyes of the splendid war horse, Joey.

The

following

cutting

comes

from

near

the

beginning

of

the

boo

after

Albert,

much

to

his

father’s

surprise, has succeeded in training Joey to pull the

plough.

was some

months

later, one the

way

bac from cutting the

grass

in Great

Fiel

d

It

that Albert first taled to us about the war. His whistling stopped in mid- tune.

“

Mother

says there

’

s liely to be a war,

”

he said softly.

“

I d

on

’

t now what It is about

—

something

about some ol

d < /p>

due(

公爵

)

that

’

s been shot at somewhere. Can

’

t thin why that shoul

d

matter to anyone, but she says we will be in it all the same. But it will not affect us, not

d

own here. We will go on just the same. At fifteen I am too young to go,anyway

—

well,

that

’

s what she said. But I tell you, Joey, if there is a war I

’

d want to go. I thin I

’

d mae a

good soldier, d

on

’

t you? Loo fine in a uniform, wouldn

’

t I? And I have always wanted to

march to the beat of a you imagine that, Joey? Come to that,you

’

d mae a good

war horse yourself, wouldn

’

t you. If you ride as well as you pull, and I now you will. God

help the Germans if they ever have to fight the two of us.

”

One hot summer evening, after a long and dusty day in the fields, I was having my

dinner, with Albert still rubbing me down with straw and taling on about the pl

enty of

good straw they

’

d have for the winter months when I heard his father

’

s heavy steps

coming across the yard towards us.

“

Mother,

< br>”

he shouted.

“

Mother, come out, Mother.

It is war, Mother. I have just heard it in the village. Postman came in this afternoon with

news.

”

56. What amaed Albert’s father was that Joey could_______.