1、虹口区 2015 学年度第一学期期终教学质量监控测试高三英语 试卷 2016.1第 I 卷 (共 103 分)I. Listening Comprehension Section ADirections: 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
2、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 library. B. In a theater.C. In a cinema. D. In a classroom.2. A. 40 dollars. B. 30 dollars. C. 20
3、 dollars. D. 10 dollars.3. A. Doctor and nurse. B. Cashier and customer.C. Dentist and patient. D. Conductor and passenger.4. A. The weather was miserable all day. B. The trip was really a hard one.C. They had a wet and cold trip. D. They were not caught in the rain.5. A. She is popular with childre
4、n. B. She has always been popular.C. She had a surprising party. D. She was surprised at the party.6. A. Engineering. B. Business.C. Education. D. Manufacturing.7. A. He needs some change. B. He seldom counts his money.C. He doesnt have that much cash. D. He owes the woman twenty dollars.8. A. Jack
5、is clever. B. Tom is reliable.C. Tom is honest. D. Jack is dependable.9. A. Heavy jackets are now on sale. B. She is waiting for winter to arrive.C. Its hard to get a heavy jacket. D. She needs a warm jacket.10. A. He will continue his work on vacation. B. Papers piled while he was on vacation.C. He
6、 has too much work to do. D. He has made his vacation plans.Section BDirections: In Section B, you will hear two short passages, and you will be asked three questions on each of the passages. The passages will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read
7、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. Last night. B. At the age of 20.C. At the age of 9. D. A couple of weeks ago.12. A. Because she liked it at their ag
8、e. B. Because it was a story about animals.C. Because it was a fun story. D. Because it was a Disney film.13. A. Romeo and Juliet. B. A love story between two dogs.C. Different dogs and different lives. D. Children and dogs.Questions 14 through 16 are based on the following passage.14. A. Britain. B
9、. France. C. Spain. D. Sweden. 15. A. Children were invited to meet Harry Potters magic mother.B. The book was first available to readers on the Internet.C. J. K. Rowling has had an interview on the Internet.D. The book first arrived in China in early June, 2003.16. A. To develop their love for the
10、country. B. To get ready for a military parade.C. To gain some military knowledge. D. To learn to protect themselves.Section CDirections: In Section C, you will hear two longer conversations. The conversations will be read twice. After you hear each conversation, you are required to fill in the numb
11、ered blanks with the information you have heard. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Blanks 17 through 20 are based on the following conversation. Complete the form. Write ONE WORD for each answer.Blueberry Restaurant Reservation FormName Caroline _17_Time 8:30, _18_ nightNumber of People SevenP
12、hone Number _19_Special Request _20_ dishesBlanks 21 through 24 are based on the following conversation.Complete the form. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer.Grand City FairWhat is the fair famous for? The _21_ and Flea Market.How do people feel when they are in the Flea Market? They fee
13、l they are _22_.How does the fair get most of its power supply? By producing _23_ itself.How is the business during the Christmas sale? There is an increase in both _24_.II. Grammar and VocabularySection ADirections: Read the following two passages. Fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent. F
14、or the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word. For the other blanks, fill in each blank with one proper word. Make sure that your answers are grammatically correct. (A)Accidents happen almost everywhere every day. Some accidents are not serious and some r
15、eally are. We read about such accidents nearly every day in the newspapers. And people usually think that accidents take place only on the roads or highways until they (25) _ come across accidents in their homes or even at work places. As a matter of fact, home accidents are just as common as those
16、we see and hear on the roads, some of (26) _ cause even much more serious consequences. Because very few home accidents are reported, people come to think that there are few accidents that happen in homes.There (27) _ (be) many serious cases where people fall to their deaths from high-rise flats so
17、far. In most cases, children and women often fall over while (28) _ (step) down the stairs. Old people may slip on wet floors, getting badly hurt or even killed, if they are not careful.Nowadays there are a lot of modern electrical appliances at home (29) _ _ rice cookers, micro waves and washing ma
18、chines, which make life easy for the modern housewives. These appliances can kill people (30) _ they are used in the proper way. Gas stoves used for cooking are also dangerous if they are not properly used. They may cause burns or, in more serious cases, even fires.But all such accidents (31) _ be s
19、topped if we are careful and follow simple rules of safety. For example, it is unwise for people to try repairing their own electrical appliances if they do not know how to repair them. Therefore, it is safer and more reliable (32) _ people get them repaired by an electrician.(B)A study of English l
20、earning problems was carried out among a total of 106 foreign students. It shows that nearly all these students considered (33) _ (understand) spoken English, especially in the first few weeks, to be their biggest problem on arrival. This was followed by speaking or communicating. Writing then incre
21、ased as a big problem as students discovered difficulties in writing papers that they (34) _ (expect) to hand in. And at the same time, reading remained as a significant problem.The information (35) _ (gain) helped us in determining where special attention should be paid to in our course. Although m
22、any students have chosen to join the course with a reasonable motivation, we considered it important to note (36) _ seemed to encourage interest. Nearly all the students have experienced some kind of grammar-based English teaching or teacher-centered English learning in their own country. It would b
23、e self-defeating (37) _ (use) the same method, especially if it has failed in the past or it is too complicated to follow or imitate, (38) _ it might reduce motivation and interest. Therefore a different method may help because it is different.(39) _ variety of activities was also regarded as a way
24、of maintaining or increasing motivation and interest. Several years ago we had the first timetable that operated throughout the course of English learning, but we soon found that both the students and the teachers lost interest by about half-way through the ten weeks. This led us to a major re-think
25、, and we had to explore a much (40) _ (effective) way of English learning, so finally we brought it into line with the expressed language needs of the students.Section BDirections: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one w
26、ord more than you need. A. wandered B. applications C. intellectual D. occurred E extraordinaryF. objectives G. relatively H. release I. threatening J. accomplished K. completelyJohn Nash, a Nobel Prize winner and mathematical genius whose struggle with mental illness was documented in the Oscar-win
27、ning film “A Beautiful Mind”, was killed in a car accident on Saturday. He was 86. The accident _41_ when the taxi Nash was traveling in ran into another car on the New Jersey Turnpike. Neither of the two drivers involved in the accident underwent life-_42_ injuries.At Princeton, Nash published a 27
28、-page essay about the field of game theory, which led to _43_ in economics, international politics, and evolutionary biology. His signature solution found that competition among two opponents is not necessarily governed by zero-sum logic. Two opponents can, for instance, each achieve their maximum _
29、44_ through cooperating with the other, or gain nothing at all by refusing to cooperate. This simple understanding is now regarded as one of the most important social science ideas in the 20th century, and a proof to his almost unique _45_ gifts.But in the late 1950s, Nash began a slide into mental
30、illness and each therapy failed to cure him, and for much of the next three decades, Nash _46_ freely on the Princeton campus, scratching his hands on empty blackboards and staring blankly ahead in the library. Robert Wright remembers Nash as “some math genius that went crazy” who wore colorful shoe
31、s and quietly watched people. His mental illness removed him _47_ from his work. By the time Nash was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994, he hadnt published a paper in 36 years.But like a child cured of a terrible dream by the switch of a light, Nash recovered from his illness seemingly by
32、 choosing not to be sick anymore. Five years later, the _48_ of the film “A Beautiful Mind”, based on Sylvia Nasars 1998 book of the same name, expanded Nashs _49_ life story to an international audience. He continued to work, travel, and speak at conferences for the rest of his life.Its tempting to
33、 wonder what Nash might have _50_, had mental illness not robbed him of so many productive years. “Because the ideas I had about super natural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did,” said Nash. “So I took them seriously.”III. Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections: For each
34、 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.Why girls do better at school than boys?For centuries, boys were top of the class. But these days, thats no longer the case.A new study by the O
35、ECD, a club of mostly _51_ countries in Europe and North America, examined how 15-year-old boys and girls performed at reading, mathematics and science. Boys still get somewhat better _52_ at maths and physics, and in other science courses the genders are roughly _53_. But when it comes to the stude
36、nts who really struggle and suffer at school, the difference is _54_: boys are 50% more likely than girls to fall short of basic standards in all three areas._55_, why are girls performing better at school than their male classmates?First, girls read more than boys. Reading proficiency (熟练) is the b
37、asis upon which all other learning is built. When boys dont do well in reading, their _56_ in other school subjects suffers too.Second, girls spend much more time on their homework and out-of-class learning. _57_, girls spend five and a half hours per week doing homework while boys spend a little le
38、ss than four and a half hours. Researchers suggest that doing homework _58_ by teachers is linked to better accomplishment in maths, reading and science. Boys, it appears, spend more of their free time in the _59_ world; they are 17% more likely to play cooperative online games than girls every day.
39、 They also use the internet more.Third, peer _60_ plays a role. A lot of boys decide early on that they are just too cool for school. They adopt a so-called concept of masculinity (男子气概) that includes a disregard for _61_, which means theyre more likely to be rude and noisy in class. Teachers mark t
40、hem down for this. In anonymous (匿名的 ) tests, boys perform better. In fact, the gender gap in reading _62_ by a third when teachers dont know the gender of the pupil they are marking.So what can be done to close this gap? Getting boys to do more homework and cut down on screen-time would help. And o
41、ffering boys a _63_ to read non-fiction would help too: theyre keener on comics and newspapers. But most of all, abandoning gender stereotypes (旧模式) would _64_ all students. Thus, boys in all countries with the best schools read much better than girls. As we know, girls in Shanghai, Singapore and Se
42、oul are good at mathematics, and they _65_ boys from anywhere else in the world.51. A. backward B. wealthy C. regular D. miserable52. A. scores B. directions C. guidance D. evaluation53. A. practical B. reliable C. relevant D. equal54. A. stable B. vague C. obvious D. logical55. A. However B. Theref
43、ore C. Similarly D. Instead56. A. behaviour B. comment C. preparation D. performance57. A. In brief B. On average C. On the contrary D. In addition58. A. researched B. designed C. assigned D. approved59. A. virtual B. realistic C. future D. artificial60. A. relationship B. contact C. responsibility
44、D. pressure61. A. experts B. authorities C. adults D. peers62. A. develops B. widens C. narrows D. forms63. A. chance B. task C. favour D. resource64. A. influence B. harm C. satisfy D. benefit65. A. advance B. overtake C. overcome D. challengeSection BDirections: Read the following three passages.
45、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)In job interviews, were often asked about our strengths and weak
46、nesses. And, as a matter of fact, most of us know automatically how to respond.Common wisdom tells us to use faux weaknesses, which means things that are strengths described as negatives and turned into positives. You might even be able to change your weakness into a skill for a job youre not fully
47、qualified for.In America, in a championship game you are unlikely to see athletes showing weakness. If the athletes become hurt in this game, they will hide their injuries they dont want their competitors to know their weak spots. But there is absolutely no need for us to act like this in business a
48、ffairs.At work and in business, you can have shortcomings because these can be overcome and turned into strengths. The only fatal thing is to not realize that all your weaknesses can be made strong. Of course, to make up for shortcomings, you must first be aware of what your weaknesses really are.Have you ever wondered what has happened when you interview for a job youre fully qualified for, but it goes to someone who doesnt seem to be qualified at all? How would that person get th
